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OUR 1363RD ISSUE 04.09.2015 / COVER STORY P.19 The NRA convention is coming to Nashville this weekend, so the Tennessee Legislature is trying to pass as many gun-friendly laws as possible before their overlords get here. That’s not hyperbole. Some members have actually said in public that this is a concern. The NRA must be appeased, and quickly, lest Wayne “Wackjob” LaPierre call them out from the podium as sissies. Was there ever a clearer demonstration of who these folks are actually working for? One of this bunch’s signature pieces of legislation is the “guns in parks” bill, which would override the rights of Tennessee’s cities and counties to make the rules for allowing guns in their parks. The proposed bill essentially allows guns in all local parks, no matter what the local preference might be. This is being done in response to overwhelming public demand, right? Of course, it’s not. There has been no outcry from the citizenry to allow guns in our parks. Quite the opposite. Local government and business leaders around the state have denounced the law. It’s just another dog-whistle bill to appease the NRA and the state’s gun fetishists, public opinion be damned. But they have a problem: The Senate upped the crazy a notch by adding an amendment that would allow armed handgun-carry permit holders onto the capitol grounds and into the building itself. Using their own “logic,” you could rightly ask, “What’s wrong with that?” After all, half the bozos in the legislature proudly carry guns, so you’d have plenty of responsible “good guys with guns” to take care of any responsible handgun carrier on capitol grounds who might become, er, irresponsible. Plus, there are plenty of police and security guards around. But the House doesn’t like this idea. Let’s review, shall we? A) Our noble representatives are in favor of allowing people carrying guns to walk around freely in our parks and on our playgrounds (and, for that matter, pretty much anywhere they want), despite what the local citizenry might prefer; and B) they are not in favor of allowing people carrying guns to walk around where they are — a heavily secured and protected government facility. Nope, no hypocrisy there. The lone hope for sanity lies in the hands of Governor Bill Haslam, who has, N E WS & O P I N I O N thankfully, expressed some reservations THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 about all of this. He expressed regret LETTERS - 4 that the legislature had not bothered to THE FLY-BY - 6 take testimony from local government AT LARGE - 12 POLITICS - 14 leaders. (Representative Chuck “Chuck” EDITORIAL - 16 Burpuss [R-Muletug] responded, “TesVIEWPOINT - 17 timony? We don’t need no steenkin’ testiCOVER STORY - “HIGH NOON mony.”) Well, not exactly. But close. IN MEMPHIS” Haslam, not surprisingly, was not BY JACKSON BAKER - 19 invited to speak to the NRA gathering. STE P P I N’ O UT Given his recent efforts to push through WE RECOMMEND - 24 Insure Tennessee, there appears to be a MUSIC - 26 spark of humanity and common sense in LOCAL BEAT - 28 our governor. Here’s hoping he summons AFTER DARK - 30 the courage to take on the anti-business, THEATER - 34 pro-bullet idealogues of his own party CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 36 and vetoes this bill. In so doing, he’d show FOOD - 43 the legislature who the real sissies are. FILM - 47 Bruce VanWyngarden C L AS S I F I E D S - 50 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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citizenship qualifications. But I’m glad to see that at least a few of the senator’s devotees have changed their minds and can finally let the old Birth Certificate issue drop. It is illuminating, though, isn’t it? How many years have they pursued this non-issue? And how many millions of dollars have they generated by fund-raising on the question of the president’s birthplace? Enough, perhaps, to fund the presidential campaign of a man born in Canada? Jeff About the Flyer’s cover story, “Godless in Memphis” … I’m severely disappointed that the super cool Memphis Atheists knitting circle didn’t get mentioned! You’ll talk about the Dungeons & Dragons group but not the knitting circle? Misogyny! Whitney Wood

The hypocrisy that is Ted Cruz and the Republican Party. Senator Cruz kicked off his campaign to become the GOP presidential candidate in the 2016 election at a religious university. Talking about God and faith and, in the next breath, he tells the audience he will repeal the Affordable Care Act as president, leaving 16 million Americans without health-care coverage. Other Cruz pronouncements: Global warming is a conspiracy; he would abolish the IRS (what does the business community think about this?), and no more abortion rights for women. Would a President Cruz represent you in any way, shape, or form? Ron Lowe

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CROSS PURPOSES Easter is over, and you know what that means, right? Discount Easter candy at Walgreens! Fly on the Wall recommends this special crossshaped tin of flavored jelly beans. In case the photo is too small to read, black represents “your sinful heart,” while white represents “the cleansing of my sin.” Purple represents “royalty,” which can’t possibly taste good. Red is clearly labeled “Jesus’ blood.”

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V E R B AT I M “Elvis had a lot of dignity. Elvis had a lot of class. He was a beautiful specimen of a man.” — Priscilla Presley explaining why there would be no jumpsuit-wearing, sideburnsporting tribute artists officiating at Elvis Presley’s Graceland Wedding Chapel when it opens in Las Vegas on April 23rd.

C R I M EWAR E Where are the fashion police when you need them? Last week, Fly on the Wall shared a story about a clothing store robbery on Highland where one of the perps wore a Santa hat. This week surveillance cameras at a Union Avenue Circle K captured images of a robber wearing a luxurious shoulderlength wig.

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Memphis United demands more accountability for police officers. Driving under the influence, aggravated assault, rape, and murder are among the offenses law enforcement are paid to police. Ironically, these very crimes are amid the illegal acts some Memphis officers have been arrested for since last year. In 2014, 18 officers from the Memphis Police Department (MPD) were arrested. As of April 2nd, there have been four officers apprehended this year for offenses such as sexual exploitation of a minor and driving under the influence. “We are held to a higher standard because we took an oath to protect and serve, but, by the same token, our officers are treated just like any other citizen who breaks the law,” said MPD spokeswoman Alyssa Macon-Moore. “We’re no different. When we do things that are outside of the perimeters of the law, we must suffer the consequences.” Memphis United, a coalition of local grassroots organizations and residents against structural and institutional racism, organized the “Bad Apples? FixTheBarrel” rally last Wednesday at the intersection of Lamar and Airways. People waved signs and protested in support of efforts to hold law enforcement more accountable. The primary approach to help accomplish this goal would be through an amendment of the city’s Civilian Law Enforce-

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Untapped beer garden makes a comeback. Last spring, a group of friends and business partners threw a two-month-long party in the rustic courtyard of the longvacant Tennessee Brewery with one mission (okay, two missions) — to save the threatened building from demolition (and to sell craft beer). Untapped was so successful that it’s making a comeback this week as The Revival. The beer garden will be open in the old brewery every Thursday through Sunday from April 9th to May 31st. But this go-round is less about saving the building and more about celebrating the fact that the brewery will soon see new life. Shortly after Untapped ended last year, cell phone tower developer/Shelby County Schools board member Billy Orgel stepped up and purchased the former Goldcrest 51 beer factory. He plans to renovate the building and turn it into apartments. But his son Benjamin Orgel, a Memphian who recently graduated from the University of Texas, thought there should be one last big party in the brewery before construction begins. So he enlisted the help of his friends Logan Scheidt and Paul Stephens, also recent college grads, and the three are bringing back the spring pop-up party, complete with 22 beer taps, rotating food trucks, live music, live artist demonstrations, and more. “When I got back to Memphis from Austin, I said, ‘I want to do something to help the city.’ I love Memphis and

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The Revival beer garden opens on April 9th. everything about it,” Benjamin said. “This was the perfect opportunity. Yes, it’s a business, and we’re selling beer. But more than that, this is about community.” Although The Revival will be very similar to last year’s Untapped event, Benjamin said they’ve stepped it up a bit continued on page 8

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Memphis Curling Club looks to grow sport with hands-on learning.

Roberson hopes the events (which have been hosted at the Ice House since 2012) will jump-start the curling scene in Memphis as feeders into the Memphis Curling Club. The club’s spring league begins at the end of April and the summer league will run from July to August. Roberson hopes these leagues will snowball Memphis curling into an avalanche. “The Atlanta club started with eight people four years ago and now it has more than 100 people in it,” Roberson said. The Memphis club has already drawn a broad array of locals, Roberson said, from doctors, engineers, musicians, writers, housewives, and college students. He envisions a curling scene here that includes teams from corporations, bars,

to Curl event, they get points that could earn them an extra paid day off. “Curling is an Olympic sport so it would definitely qualify for physical activity [in our program],” said Kimberly Barksdale Baker, a manager at the CHC’s Wellness Center. “We know that curling increases your strength, flexibility, and your overall endurance.” Roberson is aware that curling has a

ways to go in Memphis. But for anyone on the fence about getting started, he offered this advice: “I’d tell them to spend $15, bring a clean pair of shoes [no leather soles] and maybe a windbreaker and come on out and learn to curl,” Roberson said. “We’ll spend two hours, give you some instruction, we’ll play a short game, and you can actually get a chance to do it.”

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fraternities, sororities, universities, high schools, and more. Curling is certainly not mainstream in Memphis or the South, for that matter. But it got an acknowledgment here as a sport (or at least a healthy activity) from the Church Health Center (CHC). The clinic recently added curling to its list of approved activities for its employee wellness program. If employees go to a Learn

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Greg Roberson wants to put Memphis on ice. Curling hooked the Memphis musician a decade ago and he’s now looking to hook locals on the sport, too. Americans typically only see curling during the Winter Olympics, during which they’ll see a player slide a large, rounded stone down a long lane of bright, white ice. Then, two other players will sweep the ice in front of the stone, hoping to land it onto what looks like an archery target at the other end of the lane. “I find that people have seen it on the Olympics, but they don’t quite understand it,” said Roberson. But he’s hoping to change the minds of Mid-Southerners with a series of Learn to Curl events that get underway this weekend at the Mid-South Ice House in Olive Branch. The first two Saturday events (April 11th and 18th) have sold out. But slots are still available for Saturday, April 25th. The two-hour lessons cost $15 per person.

“Apples” continued from page 6 Memphis Police Internal Affairs department, and make disciplinary recommendations to the Memphis Police director, among other authoritative acts. The Memphis City Council’s Personnel Committee will discuss the amendment at its next meeting on April 21st. Paul Garner led the rally at the intersection of Lamar and Airways. He spoke through a bullhorn at passersby about the importance of police accountability and the need to reinstate CLERB. “There needs to be a system in place where when people file complaints, it’s tracked and available to the public, and we catch these things before something serious happens,” said Garner, organizing coordinator for the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center (MSPJC). “Some of these guys have multiple complaints filed against them, and if there was a civilian oversight body that had the power to gather that information at the time those complaints were filed, red flags would have gone up and something could have been done before we had a case of rape or sexual assault or domestic violence.” Last Tuesday, a day before the “Bad Apples” rally, a panel was held at Christian Brothers University to inform the

public of CLERB’s origin and how its modification would benefit the city. The panelists included members of CLERB and MSPJC. During the event, an attendee asked if CLERB would have the ability to demand punishment of officers who unlawfully shoot and kill civilians. Brad Watkins, executive director of the MSPJC, informed the questioner that CLERB would not investigate criminal matters and “is not the answer to our problems.” For significant progress to be made, Watkins said, in addition to CLERB, there needs to be a confidential counseling program for Memphis Police officers as well as replacement of leadership in the MPD and at City Hall. “We have to have a complete change in the culture of MPD,” Watkins said. “Not only the culture of MPD and how it relates to its citizens, but the institution of MPD and its relationship to the psychological health of the officers themselves. Without these things, we’ll only have further harassment and violence in our community. The MPD has to be accountable, open to the public, and [responsive] before there’s a murder and a protest — not constantly playing catch-up afterwards with token gestures that don’t change the reality of people’s lives.”

“Tap” continued from page 6 for round two. “Last year, the event was so successful because it was in a building that needed to be saved. People were saying, ‘Buy this building.’ So we did, and we understand that means we had to make some improvements,” Benjamin said. Those improvements include turning the courtyard beer garden into an actual garden filled with greenery from Pettit’s Lawnscapes. They’re also opening up the indoor staircase room, which was sealed off last year. In that room, which they’re calling the Atrium, artists will hold live painting demonstrations. There will also be a piano in that room that anyone can play. The iconic “Invest in Good Times” graffiti (known as Professor Catfish) on the outside of the brewery has moved inside for photo-ops, and a large window stands in its place so patrons can look out over Tennessee Street from inside the building. Perhaps, most importantly, last year’s festival-style porta-potties will be replaced with portable restroom trailers with running water. There will be two bars this year — one inside and one outside — and 22

taps, many of which will dispense local beers. Historian Kenn Flemmons, who wrote a book on the brewery’s history, has recreated Goldcrest 51 beer using the original recipe, and it will be served at the event. Memphis Made has created a specialty American Pale Ale just for Untapped: Revival called Luke McLuke. “John Schorr, who owned the brewery, also loved horseracing, and Luke McLuke was his horse that won the Belmont Stakes,” said Doug Carpenter, who is handling marketing for Untapped: Revival. Carpenter was one of four partners who put on the original Untapped last year. The other three — Taylor Berger, Andy Cates, and Michael Tauer — are not involved in this year’s event. Craig Blondis from Central BBQ is handling the food and beverage operations this year. There will be two food trucks parked inside the courtyard daily, as well as some specialty carts. To appease South Bluffs neighbors, all live music will be acoustic. Acts will be featured on Saturday and Sunday between 3 and 7 p.m. Untapped: Revival will be open Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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A battle over unpaid wages started more than eight months ago at La Shish Café in Southwind, and it finally came to a head last weekend when a protest outside the café led to a resolution for three workers. Last Saturday, more than 40 people stood in solidarity with three workers who were fighting for back wages owed to them by café owner William Summers. By the end of the demonstration, Summers made an effort to pay up. Most of the money owed is for a remodel of the café that occurred last year. Angel said he is owed more than $17,000 for remodeling the restaurant, including the demolition of the previous restaurant. Jeff claimed he is owed more than $2,000 for laying tile. Jennifer cleaned the café and says she never received $450 for her services. All three workers’ last names have been withheld per their request. The trio came to the Workers Interfaith Network (WIN) Worker’s Center in January after attempts to negotiate with Summers themselves failed. “We’ve set up meetings with him, trying to resolve it,” said Jeshua Schuster, an organizer with WIN. “Every meeting we’ve made with him has been canceled, moved back, or delayed.” According to Schuster, the organization and Summers came to an agreement on a repayment plan so that he would not have to pay the entirety of the owed wages upfront. When the due date for the first payment hit, Summers asked for an extension. The extended due date was April 3rd, the Friday before the protest. Organizers said they repeatedly stressed to Summers that if he made the first payments for the plan, the action would be called off. Summers failed to make those payments, and the protest went on as scheduled — with support from Memph15, Comunidades Unidas en Una Voz, and the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center. “Finally, he wrote the checks while we were there. That was a pretty great moment,” Schuster said, adding that Summers paid $500 to Angel and $100 for Jennifer. Summers said later that he was willing to commit to the payment plan. “I’m not disputing that I owe them,” Summers said. “I feel that could’ve been handled a lot better. They’ve got to be careful how they go about doing things. If their concern was to help the workers, suppose their protest ran me out of business. Then how would the workers get the proceeds for the work they did here? The ultimate goal should be to see if we can resolve it through a payment plan, which is what I’m trying to do.” Emilie Bowman, an organizing assistant for WIN, said that, while this action was a success, if the workers do not continue to see payments, more protests

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For years, in the early 1960s, I rode the bus to school every day, for an hour each way, back and forth. As one of the few black students living in the central Missouri countryside, most of those who endured this ordeal with me were white. It wasn’t because of some court ordered edict designed to offset segregation. It was because our junior high was 25 miles away in the community of Williamsburg. What brought me to remember those days was last week’s furor over the decision of a Durham school bus driver to stop her vehicle after some Bolton High School students began acting up on her route. She emptied the bus and gave them an expletive-ridden tongue-lashing about their conduct and how she wasn’t going to tolerate it while she was driving. As always seems to happen these days, her tirade was captured on video and went viral. Durham opted to temporarily suspend the driver, but by week’s end, public support of her actions forced the company to reinstate her as a driver, though not in the Shelby County School system. The school system vowed to take disciplinary actions against the students, who were ready to incite a fight on the bus. It may sound like I’m waxing nostalgic, but on those long bus rides with my classmates on the way to school, we actually had many meaningful conversations. My best friend, who I always sat next to, was Robbie Christensen. On a socioeconomic scale, we shouldn’t have even come close to bonding. His parents had money. Mine did not. Yet, through sharing our youthful observations of the changing world around us, a genuine friendship blossomed. As 12 year olds, we told each other of our fears about dying during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. What if a nuclear war broke out against Russia, we wondered. Who would be our allies? Robbie told me his family had already built a bomb shelter and he’d have to ask, but he was pretty sure my family could use it too if we were attacked. As school opened after the summer of 1963, the March on Washington had taken place. Robbie told me he’d heard his parents say they didn’t know what the Negro people wanted in terms of civil rights. Didn’t we have rights already? I told him I thought it meant more than

just being able to go to places we hadn’t been able to go to before. “We want to have the right to choose our own paths in life,” I said. “Whether it was to be a doctor, a lawyer, or somebody on television.” Robbie promised me that if I ever got on television he’d watch me. But when we got to our freshman year in high school, we found our friendship wasn’t immune to societal pressures. After getting off the bus, we sat together in our school’s auditorium, with black students on one side and whites on the other. For weeks, we tried to ignore the polarization. Sadly, I was the first to crack. It was the toughest and longest bus ride home I ever had. Robbie and I sat together again, but we didn’t speak. The age of our youthful innocence was over. We would see each other at school and briefly exchange pleasantries, but it wasn’t the same. Our estrangement seemed complete when my family moved into town and I stopped riding the bus.

Her words were perhaps harsher than they should have been. But, they were earnest and necessary. The fact that she felt the need to say them bespeaks the loss of common decency too many of our children display. So, who could have imagined that, years later, when I circulated a petition to become the school’s first black student body president, the first signature at the top was Robbie Christensen? When I won, he held my hand up on stage in triumph. It makes me sad to think that times have changed so much that our children can’t think of any more to do on a school bus than to be disruptive, obnoxious, and unmannerly. When that lone bus driver took her foot off the gas pedal and put it down to try to stop that unruly behavior, her words were perhaps harsher than they should have been. But, they were earnest and necessary. And the fact that she felt the need to say them at all bespeaks the loss of respect for common decency too many of our children display. I know from experience that a bus ride can offer an opportunity for meaningful discussion and growth. It’s too bad the kids in question don’t seem to know that. Les Smith is a reporter for WHBQ Fox-13.

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The Beat Goes On As the Election Commission’s April 17th date for making candidate petitions available approaches, the 2015 city election season becomes ever more clearly a case of the old making way for the new. Within the past few weeks, such core pillars of the city council as Chairman Myron Lowery and Councilmen Shea Flinn and Harold Collins have announced they will not be candidates for reelection. Flinn’s future plans remain unknown, although they are rumored to involve some sort of relationship with the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce. Another key councilman, Jim Strickland, announced back in January that he would not run for reelection and would opt instead for a mayoral race, which is now fully underway. Collins’ announcement of non-council candidacy was widely regarded as confirmation of his long-indicated plans to join the widening cast of characters in the contest for mayor. So far the dramatis personae in that race are Strickland, county commission Chairman Justin Ford, Memphis Police Association President Mike Williams, and former University of Memphis basketballer Detrick Golden. Meanwhile, the incumbent, Mayor A C Wharton, kept himself front and center over the Easter weekend with a

“coffee and chat” on Saturday morning at the Midtown IHOP on Union Avenue, followed by a number of appearances at events held in conjunction with the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination. After the IHOP event, sponsored by Shelby County Commissioners Melvin Burgess Jr. and Reginald Milton, Wharton was asked if the proliferation of opponents in the mayoral field would help or hinder his chances of reelection. “You can’t worry about that,” he answered. “I just have to keep my attention on what I’m doing.” Mayor A C Wharton at “coffee and chat” at the Midtown IHOP on Union.

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• As had been widely predicted, Flinn’s long-expected announcement of non-candidacy for his Position 2, Super-District 9 seat, opened up the possibility that candidates already announced for Strickland’s District 5 seat might effect a shift of venue into the at-large race. It may or not signal a trend, but one of the previous District 5 hopefuls has already made the passage over. That would be Joe Cooper, the ever-persistent pol who

idea of turning the Coliseum building and its parking lot over to the proprietors of the Wiseacre brewery for the creation of a “tourist attraction” that would simultaneously allow visitors to observe the beer-making process and alternately to spend time with a museum featuring the grunt-and-groaners who once rassled at the Coliseum. Oh, and the two airplanes owned by the late Elvis Presley and now scheduled for eviction by the new gods of Graceland could find a resting place in the parking lot. Another frequent political candidate, former County Commissioner

George Flinn, has thrown his name in the hat as a would-be successor to state Republican Chairman Chris DeVaney of Chattanooga, who made a surprise announcement recently that he would be departing the position to head up a hometown nonprofit. Flinn said he would seek, as chairman, to promote unity among the state’s Republicans and to promote “inclusiveness” in party membership. His most recent electoral run was as the GOP’s 2014 candidate for the state Senate seat vacated by now Chancellor Jim Kyle and won ultimately by Kyle’s wife Sara Kyle, the Democratic nominee.

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like the practiced politician that he is, he contrived to get the maximum amount of public notice for his departure and his son’s prospective advent. First came a press conference in Lowery’s City Hall office last week in which the chairman gave his own bon voyage to the attendant media, expressed gratitude for having been able to serve for so long, and predicted that there would be a spirited race to succeed him, no doubt including many candidates. Wife Mary was on hand for the occasion, and so, conspicuously, were son Mickell Lowery, his wife Chanisa, and young Milan Lowery, the councilman’s granddaughter. Asked his own intentions after the press conference, the younger Lowery indicated only that he would have “something to say” soon. When, he was asked. “It won’t be too long,” was the reply. Indeed it wasn’t. Mickell announced his own candidacy for the seat on Monday, from the steps of LeMoyne-Owen College, his alma mater, as well as his dad’s. The choice of venue, said the aspiring councilman, was symbolic in that the school represented “advancement in our community,” a quality he saw as consistent with his campaign theme, “New Leadership for a Better Memphis.” Candidate Lowery added that he wanted “to make sure that the priorities of City Hall match the priorities of the community.” He named crime reduction as one of his priorities, and may have intended to cite some more. But just then a chip off his block — his toddler daughter Milan, who nestled in granddad’s arms — made a bit of a noise, and Daddy Mickell demonstrated his quickness on the uptake with what seemed a relevant segue: “I intend to be talking with students as early as elementary school,” he said. Asked about his advantages in what might still become a competitive and well-populated race, Mickell stressed what he said were years of “hard work” for the community as a neighborhood football coach and “on various boards.” By way of further emphasizing his community work, he added, “That’s why I didn’t try to run 10 years ago, simply off my last name.” Even so, his beaming father was on hand again on this second announcement occasion, as well as Mickell’s wife and child and a decent-looking collection of friends and family.

may ultimately eclipse all existing records for the maximum number of candidacies launched during a lifetime. In the truest sense, Cooper’s campaign strategies have been out-of-the-box, and so have many of his proposals, such as his advocacy, during a race for county commissioner some years back, that the resident bison at Shelby Farms be moved out to make room for possible development on the rim of the park property. That idea backfired, drawing the wrath of every environmentalist within geographical reach. Cooper’s latest proposal is equally idiosyncratic. This week, he floated the

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proposal to accept Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — a consummation (worth some $1 billion in federal health-care funds annually) devoutly to be wished by the state’s hospital community, facing financial hard times and intolerable strains upon their emergency-room capacity. That proposal, called Insure Tennessee, was made the subject of a special session by the governor but was nipped in the bud by an adverse vote of an ad hoc Health and Welfare Committee of the state Senate, handpicked by Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey, who had gotten used in Haslam’s first term to having his way with impunity. That did not deter Haslam from encouraging a bipartisan legislative coalition from bringing Insure Tennessee back up for another go-around. The proposal made it safely through two Senate committees but was next routed by Ramsey into a Commerce Committee known to contain sworn foes of the ACA (aka “Obamacare”), where it was killed again. When all else fails, though, the GOP’s ultras in Nashville put their energies behind whatever new bill they can find that extends even further the gun lobby’s efforts to shrink what remains of local governments’ effort to control unbridled firearms use within their jurisdictions. Here again, the governor is attempting to put the brakes on. The latest gun bill gathering steam in the General Assembly would not only strike down the

prerogatives of local jurisdictions to restrict the presence of firearms in public areas — a clear assertion of the “less-government” party’s ongoing contempt for local authority — it would, as a result of a Senate amendment, allow gunpermit holders to strut around the state capitol grounds fully armed. Such is the reigning schizophrenia in Nashville that the shocking amendment was approved both by opponents of proliferating weaponry, who thought the amendment was so outrageous that it might sink the whole bill, and, at least in the Senate, by gun enthusiasts whose motto toward any extension of firearms seems to be the more, the merrier. To its credit, the state House of Representatives has thus far rejected the guns-on-capitol-grounds provision, and the bill is next due for a House-Senate conference committee, where an effort will be made to reconcile competitive versions. Once again, Haslam demurs. He has made explicit threats to veto the measure altogether and has said, sensibly enough, “This bill isn’t so much a Second Amendment issue. It’s a property issue,” and he has urged “mayors and county commissioners and park directors” to assert themselves regarding the pending measure. We’re all for this newly resolute version of our governor, and we hope he’s prepared to back up his words with the liberal use of his veto pen.

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It should be obvious to our legislative minority that when Eagle Forum operatives are suddenly their new best friends, something is rotten in the state of Tennessee. I’m talking about Ron Ramsey and his recent successful campaign using Democrats to help defeat Common Core. I know they’re outnumbered, but Tennessee Democrats are crazy to make common cause with conservatives on this issue, and the fact that they don’t understand this is troublesome. Are Democrats so desperate for a legislative rapprochement that they’ll trust partisans who claim that commie pinko liberals are trying to destroy America, one capitalist cornerstone at a time? Or are liberals simply too busy “protecting” the public teaching profession to see that they are instead, helping to destroy it? Anyone who pays the slightest attention knows that America’s public schools are not getting the job done and major reform is necessary. Standards are lax in most areas of the country and a significant number of schools are either diploma mills or dropout factories. My experience in Memphis City Schools classrooms in the late 1990s taught me that there is virtually no rigor in many public schools that serve the disadvantaged. I taught history to 8th and 12th graders, and there were far too many students who could not pick out key facts in a textbook passage. How did they get that far without being able to read and interpret language at grade level? Colleges of Education and the teaching lobby have much for which they should apologize, as do parents who can’t or won’t see that few things in life worth having are easy or fun. The conservative critique is that Common Core is “federal intrusion” into state matters and that local control is optimal. But what this is really about is best seen through Ramsey’s quote that our legislature needs to replace Common Core with “Tennessee standards based on Tennessee values.” That, my fellow liberals, is code for teaching creationism as science and stripping history texts of any facts that cast America in a less than flattering light. All this in the service of turning our public schools into religious ones, brick by ideological brick — schools that will then serve Neocon Kool-Aid with lunch. After that victory, vouchers for Christian schools (their real goal) may not even be necessary if they can use the concept of “Tennessee values” to convert public schools into shadow seminaries. On the other hand, liberals complain that Common Core’s emphasis on test-

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he 1968 murder in Memphis of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a man whom legions of people the world over regard not only as a monumental historical figure and champion of human rights but as something of a secular saint, seems to cast a larger shadow over humankind year by year. This is especially the case when, almost half a century after the foul deed, suspicions continue that the late convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, was not a lone gunman but either an innocent patsy or a cog in a still unraveled conspiracy involving (pick one) the FBI,

the Mafia, the Ku Klux Klan, or even unnamed black radicals angered at the relatively moderate positions of Dr. King. This very week, as a continuation of the solemn observances that took place on Saturday, April 4th, at the assassination site — formerly the Lorraine Motel and, since 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum — the latest conspiracy-minded author, one John Avery Emison, will appear at the Museum to discuss his new book, The Martin Luther King Congressional Cover-Up: The Railroading of James Earl Ray. There is a famous photograph, featured on the cover of this issue, of the moment in July 1968 when a trussed-up Ray, who had been apprehended in London and extradited to Memphis via an intercontinental air flight, arrived at the Shelby County jail in the company of then Sheriff William N. Morris. It was a signature moment in American history, and certainly one for Morris, whose receipt and subsequent incarceration of King’s accused killer constituted one of the highlights of a Zelig-like career in which the Mississippi sharecropper’s son rose from insignificance and bleak poverty to hold the offices of sheriff and Shelby County mayor, effecting major governmental and social change in a time of political transition and hobnobbing with presidents and other heads of state. Now 83, Morris has numerous credits to his name (see box, p. 23), but surely one of his signal achievements, one of which he is proudest today, was his handling of the pre-trial incarceration of the accused assassin. In the aforementioned picture, Morris, then 35 and serving in the second of his three two-year terms as sheriff, stands behind Ray with a firm hold on the bound arms of his captive, while Ray, head bowed and eyes cast down, is the very image of crestfallen continued on page 21

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surrender. That picture reassured a stricken world that justice might be done. In reality, as Morris recalls, the demeanor of Ray, a career criminal with a deserved reputation as an escape artist, was more sullen than abject. As the picture was snapped, he had just uttered an epithet — “Sonofabitch!” — and launched a flurry of wild kicks at Morris and Gil Michael, the local photographer who had been engaged by the sheriff to document the occasion. Eventually, Ray was ushered into his cell and became aware of just how secure his incarceration was to be — the result of extraordinary precautions on Morris’ part. Above all, the sheriff was determined that Ray would not meet the fate of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, who was famously gunned down within two days of his capture by the shadowy night-club owner Jack Ruby while being transported by Dallas police. To get a sense of just how such a lapse in security could have occurred, Morris had been to Dallas and logged time with authorities there. He had also been to Los Angeles consulting with Sheriff Peter Pitchess of that jurisdiction during the trial of Sirhan Sirhan, who was eventually convicted of murdering JFK’s brother, Senator Robert Kennedy. That second Kennedy assassination had occurred a few short weeks after the MLK assassination in Memphis, but because of the two-and-a-half months’ lag-time in capturing Ray, who had traversed America and flown to Europe on a false passport after the King assassination, Sirhan’s trial had taken place sooner. Morris had been there, observing every aspect of the process, sitting behind Sirhan in court as he would sit later in Shelby County Judge Preston Battle’s criminal courtroom behind James Earl Ray. “Until he was in the state prison system, he was my guy,” says Morris. “My job was to see he was secure, that he maintained his health, had proper legal counsel, and all the Constitution requires. Plus!” Among other things, that meant keeping a lid of total secrecy on the time — the wee hours of July 18, 1968 — and the place, the Millington Naval Air Base, of Ray’s arrival in Shelby County. “Nobody but me knew exactly what I was going to do. I had the FBI, I had everybody. I was in communication with the plane.” Morris had assembled an entourage of Shelby County deputies, Memphis policemen, and FBI agents at his then residence in Parkway Village and, at the appointed time, headed north toward Millington “by a circuitous route.” Once within the heavily secured perimeter at the air base, Morris boarded the plane with an FBI agent and with Dr. McCarthy Demere, a renowned local plastic surgeon and professor of medicine and law, who would administer a quick strip search of Ray after the sheriff

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read him his rights. Ray’s post-assassination wandering had taken him as far as London, which encouraged people to believe he must have been assisted in his crime. In reality, though, he was traveling on stick-up money and, down to his last few dollars, had bought a one-way ticket to Brussels, hoping to join up here with white mercenaries he’d heard were on their way to fight black rebels in Angola. As for his Canadian passport, bearing the name of Ramon George Sneyd, an actual Toronto

resident whose name Ray had lifted from a telephone book, it had been obtained by merely filling out a form. Morris took charge of Ray from his Justice Department retainers on the plane, and within minutes, the entire caravan was headed back to Memphis — with a smaller group including Morris, Tennessee Police Director Greg O’Rear, and a manacled Ray aboard an armored tank-like vehicle fitted especially for the occasion. continued on page 22

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“I’ll tell you. Nobody had an opportunity to see James Earl Ray in my custody except my people. The thought was, anybody you can photograph, you can shoot,” Morris says. And it is a fact that from the time Ray arrived at the Millington Naval Air Base, until eight months later, on March 10, 1969, when Morris handed him over to Tennessee troopers for delivery to a state prison, there were no cameras trained on Ray that were not under the sheriff’s direct control. Even so, some word had inevitably gotten out and, by the time the caravan arrived in Shelby County, still before daylight, news media from all over the world were clustered around the site of the Shelby County jail. “There were maybe 100 media people on the building steps. TV cameras everywhere,” Morris remembers. But they would be frustrated. The sheriff had arranged for a school bus to be pulled up to a back entrance, screening the arrival of Ray and his captors. If Ray’s passage into custody had been secure, his manner of incarceration was doubly so. “We had welded down all manhole covers within 500 feet. We went extreme,” Morris says. “We had welded metal plates across the bars in the area that included his cell, in case somebody decided to aim missiles at the general area.” An entire floor of the jail was reserved for Ray, who was rotated from cell to cell. The lights in Ray’s cell area burned 24/7. Cameras embedded in the ceiling recorded his every move. Such was the aura of perpetual scrutiny that entitled visitors, essentially limited to Ray’s counsel and family, were unnerved to the point of lying on the concrete floor and turning on the shower in an effort to prevent being overheard. There is no denyng that all of Morris’ exertion was appropriate. Even the most unregenerate Confederate-minded among us would acknowledge that the violent murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at the apex of his career and on the eve of what King himself saw as his ultimate mission, the then pending Poor People’s March on Washington, was too large a crime to escape the fullest possible accounting. Though Morris conscientiously avoided discussing with Ray or anyone else any aspect of the crime, he did spend a good deal of time with Ray. What did they talk about? “Oh, nothing much, just small talk. Nothing racial, for sure. I never saw that in him. It was actually pretty jovial,” remembers Morris. Ray, it seemed, enjoyed making fun of himself, and, for the sheriff’s benefit, rendered accounts of some of his misadventures that had landed him in this or that jail. “There was the time Ray shot himself in the foot running through an alley after he’d held up a place, and another time he forgot to shut the driver’s-side door of his getaway car and fell out into the street trying to drive away from a hold-up,” Morris recalls, chuckling. The last of his several escapes, from St. Joseph Prison in Missouri in 1967, had involved talking his fellow prisoners into loading him beneath stacked loaves in a bread truck. While he was on liberty from that escape, he zig-zagged across North America, financing his wandering with random hold-ups, traveling in used cars, junk jalopies mostly. He studied bartending at one stop and took dancing lessons at another. A good score in Toronto netted him enough money ultimately to buy the famous “white Mustang” that was seen driving away from the assassination scene. A redneck always, with redneck views on race, Ray may have let his siblings John and Jerry, known to be in touch with Klan figures and influenced by rumors of bounties for the silencing of King, egg him on to the idea of being a hero (or martyr) for the lost cause of racism. That’s another of several conjectured conspiracies, but all of them were finally deemed either unlikely or beside the point by the credulous luminaries initially drawn to Ray’s cause, including biographer William Bradford Huie and Ray’s earliest legal defenders, the Birmingham legal team of Arthur Hanes Sr. and Arthur Hanes Jr., whose place was ultimately usurped by the swaggering celebrity defense lawyer Percy Foreman.

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All the attorneys’ fees were paid by Huie, who also subsidized Ray in exchange for what he hoped would be a best-selling tell-all tome. The ultimate product was Huie’s He Slew the Dreamer, which reluctantly concluded, like the lawyers themselves, that the epochal crime had been pulled off by Ray alone, unassisted by anyone including the transparently fictitious “Raoul” dreamed up by Ray for appeal purposes. It fell to Foreman finally to make the formal plea of guilty in the court of Criminal Court Judge Preston Battle. Within minutes of that plea, Morris had James Earl Ray out the door of the courthouse. He and Ray, accompanied by deputies and shackled together for security, would shortly be at the Shelby Farm penal facilities awaiting transfer to the state. As they waited at the penal facilities᾽ firing range, Ray offered the sheriff a proposition, prompted by the yard markers located at intervals on the firing range: “Tell you what,” he said. “Just for the sport of it, let me go and give me a head start to that 25-yard mark. I’ll bet you I can make it the rest of the way.” Morris laughed and replied that, having made such a point of denying the media their 50 yards worth of proximity, he could hardly cut Ray that much slack. The transfer went off without a hitch. Today, Morris remains fascinated by the confluence of circumstances that allowed Ray to pull off the assassination of someone so closely observed as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and, “in the middle of the storm,” to remain at large for as long as he did. And he wonders today if some “collusion” was involved. If so, he says, “I strongly suspect it emanated through his brothers.” But the still extant tribe of conspiracy theorists does not interest him. “It has held no intrigue for me to listen to people with their own agenda.” Mainly, Morris had been concerned back then to do his duty. “We were under the gun to perform at the highest level of efficiency, to protect the constitutionality and the process of government in this country. Whatever you’re faced with, you man up.” J. Edgar Hoover later thanked Morris for the quality of his service in the emergency, as did the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. King’s friend and successor. Morris’ immersion in the crisis atmosphere of the time had, among other things, heightened his sense of “the dramatic disparity in the wealth and prospects of whites and blacks” and would drive him, during his later service as Shelby County mayor, to try to close that gap through such means as his path-finding “Free the Children” program. That, too, as he sees it today, involves an overdue manning up.

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Bill Morris, after his service as sheriff, went on to serve four terms as Shelby County mayor and waged a campaign for governor in 1994. His political career was terminated by the misfortune that saw his beloved wife Ann felled by a stroke, though he regards his dutiful service as her caregiver for the past 17 years as the summit of his career. That career has included, besides his political prominence, service on behalf of the Jaycee and Boy Scout organizations and numerous civic causes, as well as his major role in the transitioning of Shelby County government to its current metropolitan dimensions. Morris’ achievements resulted in a major thoroughfare, Bill Morris Parkway, being named for him in his lifetime — an honor previously accorded only the legendary political boss E. H. Crump and Morris’ friend Elvis Presley, who included him within the King’s “TCB” fraternity of privileged intimates. On Wednesday, April 15th, at Graceland Mansion, Morris will be the honoree at an event chronicling his life and achievements called “Lessons in Leadership: An Evening with Bill Morris.” Proceeds will benefit the Church Health Center Scholars Program. Featured will be testimonials from Carol Coletta, Bill Evans, Harold Ford Jr., Brad Martin, and Fred Smith, and will conclude with a conversation between former Mayor Morris and Dr. Scott Morris of the Church Health Center.

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Michael Mayes

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Michael Mayes doesn’t fit the mold of a stereotypical opera singer. The lanky baritone from Cut and Shoot, Texas, looks more like an old-time country singer when he arrives to be interviewed sporting a flat top and a vintage, powder-blue Western shirt. In fact, he is a country singer, with an ear for the classics of the genre. His taste in opera, however, trends toward the contemporary, and he prefers works with something to say. He’s in his element playing the role of Col. Jim Thompson in Glory Denied, Tom Cipullo’s opera about America’s longest-serving POW, who returned from a harrowing experience in Vietnam to something less than a hero’s welcome. Glory Denied opens this week as a part of Opera Memphis’ annual Midtown Opera Festival. “We should still perform the museum pieces,” says Mayes, who values canonical opera. He’s passionate about works like Glory Denied and the disconnect it reveals between the way America uses and subsequently treats its soldiers. “When his plane crashed, Col. Jim Thompson’s back was broken,” Mayes says. “When the Viet Cong put him in the internment camp, he was put in a [tiny] cage.” Thompson survived the experience by building his dream home in his mind. Meanwhile, faced with the economic pressures of raising a family of four alone, Thompson’s wife worked to have her husband declared dead so she could remarry. “He knew how many board feet it would take,” Mayes says of the house that was never built. “He knew exactly what it should cost.” Other festival offerings include The Breasts of Tiresias, a gender-bending surrealist opera inspired by the mythical Theban soothsayer, and Dido and Aeneas, about the queen of Carthage, the Prince of Thebes, and witches. There will also be performances and presentations by New Ballet Ensemble, Collage Dance Collective, LaVinnia London’s Cabaret, the Threepenny Theatre Company, and others.

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You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Germantown Community Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $20 An all-adult cast and an all-children’s cast alternate performances of this Broadway musical based on the Charles Schulz comic. Big Muddy Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 7 p.m., $9 A film about a grifter whose teenage son commits a horrible crime.

“Displacement: A Deconstructed Sound Journey” Cleveland Street Flea Market, 5:30-7:30 p.m. A one-night-only installation of sculptures and sound pieces inspired by artist Gil Ngole’s experiences in the Republic of Congo. Visiting Artist Lecture Memphis College of Art, 7 p.m. University of Memphis architect professor James Williamson lectures on Louis Kahn’s intuitive approach to design.

And Baby Makes Seven McCoy Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $10 Involving: two women in love, one gay best friend (and father of one of the women’s unborn child), plus three dissociative personalities. The Black Jacket Symphony Minglewood Hall, 8 p.m., $25-$30 The Black Symphony Orchestra performs an entire album with a group of musicians picked specifically for that album. Tonight, it’s Led Zeppelin IV.

Holly Springs 77th Annual Pilgrimage Tour Various locations in Holly Springs, MS Annual tour of antebellum homes. Included this year is Herndon, believed to be the oldest brick two-story house in the county. The weekend also features Civil War re-enactors, a cemetery tour, storytelling, and more. For more information visit: hollyspringspilgrimage.com. Tribes Circuit Playhouse, 8 p.m., $22 Drama about a deaf man who meets a woman who introduces him to deaf culture.

Ticket to Ride By Chris Davis Drummer Doug Cox describes the Beatles tribute show Rain — pulling into the Orpheum for a pair of shows this week — as being less like a piece of theater and more like “the concert that never happened.” Unlike Million Dollar Quartet and Jersey Boys, two of Broadway’s bigger rock biographies, Rain dispenses with plot and cuts right to the music and the nostalgia. “It takes you through the era with a lot of video that shows you just how much things changed in that time,” says Cox in a telephone interview from a Dallas club where he’s loading in for a show with his longtime Texas band A Hard Night’s Day. “That’s who I play with when I’m not with Rain,” says Cox, who’s been keeping time for Beatles tribute bands for more than 20 years. A Hard Night’s Day wasn’t content to just play the hits. “We played all the Beatles songs that none of the other Beatles bands would play,” Cox says. That love for the Fab Four’s obscure work resulted in a gig backing rockabilly singer Tony Sheridan at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg, Germany, where, in the early 1960s, the Beatles honed their skills backing none other than Tony Sheridan. In Rain, Cox sits in for Ringo Starr, whom he describes as “a killer drummer who’s finally getting his due.” “He kept such great time,” Cox says of Ringo. “Like a human metronome. And he knew when a song needed to pick up and move.”

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“Commonplace” Memphis College of Art, 6-8 p.m. Opening reception for exhibit of paintings by Marc Rouillard that are “based on a personal sense of space that has origins in [his] youthful passion for collecting butterflies, moths, and other insects.” Spot The Orpheum, 6:30 p.m., $15 Live-action, interactive show based on the children’s books.

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Fairy Garden Crafting Woodruff-Fontaine House Museum, 12:30 p.m., $50 Create a tiny garden just right for fairies. Lunch is included, as are supplies for the garden.

An Evening with Captain Richard Phillips Germantown Performing Arts Center, 6:30 p.m. Richard Phillips, portrayed by Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips, talks about his ship being hijacked by Somali pirates and the dramatic rescue that followed.

Hops into Spring Holiday Inn University of Memphis, 6 p.m., $50 A craft beer and gourmet burger festival with proceeds going to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Includes a burger contest, wine tasting, and more.

Open Crit Crosstown Arts, 5-8 p.m. New event held in partnership with ArtsMemphis in which visual artists can get feedback on their work.

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ocal musician Harry Koniditsiotis has been a staple of the underground music scene in Memphis for more than 13 years, leading punk and post-punk influenced acts like the Angel Sluts, the Switchblade Kid, Twin Pilot and the Turn-It-Offs to both general and critical acclaim. But in between all that, he’s also been running a successful recording studio, 5 and Dime Recording, mostly on the strength of his clients’ recommendations. “It’s always been word of mouth,” says Koniditsiotis. “A lot of the bands that record here have heard and like my records, or are in bands I’ve met on tour.” Until recently, however, the studio has mostly taken a backseat to Koniditsiotis’ musical pursuits — chalk it up to an insanely busy touring and personal recording schedule. But for now, he’s putting the lion’s share of his energy into 5 and Dime. “The summer is coming up and I hate the heat. I’m done with sweating my ass off playing,” Konidisiotis said. Koniditsiotis first came to Memphis back in 2002. At the time, he was a New Orleans-expat looking to relocate to Chicago. But Koniditsiotis never got farther north than the Bluff City. He quickly found a job engineering at a local studio, Cotton Row Recording, and then formed the Angel Sluts. The band would play its first show the following year. The Angel Sluts quickly attracted a loyal following on the strength of the band’s raucous live show and solid punk-pop hooks. “We were very like-minded in wanting to do a rock-and-roll-type punk band,” Koniditsiotis says. “We thought a lot of bands were just boring live. The band really started because we realized we could get free bar tabs when we played and we would just let all our friends in for free to come party. So it was that kind of thinking.” But Koniditsiotis wasn’t quite satisfied. From there, he branched out with more eclectic groups like Twin Pilot and the Turn-It-Offs and established himself as a versatile and dependable creative presence in Memphis music. In 2004, Koniditsiotis purchased a house in the Cooper-Young neighborhood with a backyard garage and quickly decided it would be a suitable space for a recording studio. By 2006, he had grown weary of playing

second banana at Cotton Row and wanted to launch his own endeavor; that endeavor would become 5 and Dime. The studio started small — Koniditsiotis initially worked primarily on his own projects and those of his friends. But the positive word-of-mouth proved to be a strong endorsement, and he found himself attracting bands from around the country looking to record albums on a modest budget. “Bands like coming to Memphis. We give them a place to stay,” Koniditsiotis says. “There’s kind of a B&B side to the studio. I’ve been told over and over by bands how it’s an incredibly relaxing recording environment. So that’s one of the attractive features for out-of-town groups. Bands generally like the gear that’s already in the studio so it makes everything super easy. Most of them will just bring in guitars and drum sticks.” Harry Koniditsiotis

“The first word that comes to mind is comfortable,” says local singersongwriter Tony Manard, who has recorded two albums at 5 and Dime. “It’s an eclectic mix of equipment and kitsch that’s a little worn around the edges and just feels right to me. 5 and Dime is a great room for recording a band together at once. There’s a collection of vintage tube amps and effects pedals. There’s also a nice drum kit, Hammond M3 and Fender Rhodes. The room is pretty live, and Harry knows where the sweet spots are.” The year 2012 saw the demise of

Koniditsiotis’ main project, the Angel Sluts (last week’s impromptu reunion show at the P&H notwithstanding), and he eventually decided to consolidate his various influences and inclinations into one unified project, the Switchblade Kid. “The bad thing about being in the Angel Sluts was being stuck with the stigma. The joke of the name ran its course long ago and I was feeling very limited music-wise by it,” he says. “At the same time, I was playing in two other bands and after a while realized playing in three original bands at the same time was just stupid. I was running myself ragged and decided to combine the three.” Not long thereafter, Koniditsiotis also married his longtime girlfriend and backing vocalist/percussionist in the Switchblade Kid, Jenny Hansom. Which brings us to the present, where the highly prolific Koniditsiotis is now “settled down” and focused on running 5 and Dime Recording as a fully fledged business. “It’s nice to be focused on one person rather than a bunch of musicians. If anything, it’s made me realize the things I really want in life and for once it’s nice to have them,” Koniditsiotis says. Koniditsiotis has registered the studio with the Cooper-Young Business Association and has taken out ads in numerous indie/punk music publications including Maximum Rock’n’Roll, Razorcake, and City Trash. He’s also made some improvements to the studio itself. “There’s always trial and error with gear, but I think I’ve got a nice Barbarella/Warhol Factory vibe now,” Koniditsiotis says. “It went through a bunch of phases to get to this point though. I gutted it a few years ago and got more gear, so it’s just been an evolution. Most of the gear is from the ’60s and ’70s, but I record to Pro Tools. I like ribbon mics. “One of the pluses is that [5 and Dime] also functions as my personal studio so everything is mic’d up and ready to go at a moment’s notice. Setup time is always a big killer for a band’s momentum so I try and keep it fast. I like to work quickly myself when I record so it’s easier to just leave everything set up and ready to go. There’s a convenience factor when you have a recording studio in your backyard that I love.” For more information on 5 and Dime Recording or Harry Koniditsiotis’ various musical projects, visit www.miss-molly-music.com.

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to play, and most of the time they say that they have a friend or family member that makes the cause near and dear to them,” Winchester said. “I always say yes to as many bands as possible that ask to play because everyone should be able to get in on MISOMI. It’s a community-builder, and what makes something like MISOMI work is everyone’s involvement.” Winchester said that he would like to see the MISOMI benefit turn into a two-night festival with multiple venues and sponsors, but that changing the way society views mental illness is higher on his agenda. “I would love for the MISOMI concerts to be that one ridiculously fun and successful show every band and musician in town wants to play,” Winchester said. “But on a broader level, I want the festival to be a representation of a wider change in how we as a society view mental illness. Memphis is already a hub for Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks play the MISOMI benefit this Friday at the Hi-Tone.

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Some of the best local bands in Memphis will get together this weekend to raise funds for the mentally ill. Since starting in 2013, the Memphians in Support of The Mentally Ill (MISOMI) benefit has given all of the proceeds to the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Memphis (NAMI Memphis), an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals with mental illness and their families. MISOMI founder and organizer Graham Winchester said that given his musical background, a concert was the most logical way to raise funds. “I wanted to start something that could directly help the community with fundraising, and I knew I wanted to use my passion of music to do it,” Winchester said. “Several years ago, I remember watching a documentary about multiple cases of horrific abuse to mental health patients at hospitals all over the world. You could probably even replace the word patients with prisoners. I was filled with anger mixed with a sense of duty to try to do something about it. On a personal level, I’ve known many people with mental illnesses and have always had a huge sensitivity to their well-being.” Started in 1985, NAMI Memphis is a grassroots organization that advocates for people with mental illness and their families by providing support, education, and resources. According to a 2013 study by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, more than 130,000 adults in Memphis and Shelby County suffer from a mental illness. Winchester said he first found out about NAMI Memphis as a child when he and his family would frequently donate to the organization. Each year the MISOMI benefit has gotten bigger (the first benefit featured six bands while this year’s features 11), and Winchester said that he received lots of requests from bands interested in joining the cause. Even if some bands had to be turned away, Saturday night’s lineup features some of the best live bands in the Memphis rock-and-roll scene, with appearances by Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks, Dead Soldiers, Devil Train, Zigadoo Moneyclips, and more. Winchester said he was amazed at all the support he got from local musicians interested in playing the benefit. “Since the first one, it has been shocking how many bands have asked

physical illness hospitals that are worldrenowned and well-run. What if we were also the central hub for mental health care? No single city is. It would generate money, jobs, respect, and most importantly, health and help for people afflicted all over the world.” As for the bands, Winchester said he’s excited about catching the debut of Doctor Brown and getting the Dead Soldiers on board for MISOMI: “A band like the Dead Soldiers could play the Hi-Tone every night of the year and make a fortune off door cover, but their joining the bill shows tremendous support for what the night is all about: the greater cause.” Additional donations for NAMI Memphis will be accepted during the show. Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks, Dead Soldiers, Devil Train, the Maitre D’s, Graham Winchester, the Merry Mobile, Zigadoo Moneyclips, Highway Hi-Fi, Doctor Brown, Friday, April 10th at The Hi-Tone, 9 p.m. $10.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule April 9 - 15 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

The King Beez Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King All Stars Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Sundays, noon and Saturdays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Preston Shannon Sundays, 7:30 p.m. and Tuesday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays; Memphis Jones Wednesdays, 5 p.m.

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

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

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Subiaco Jazz Band Friday, April 10, 7 p.m.; The Tallent Brothers Saturday, April 11, 9 p.m.; Chris Johnson Sunday, April 12, 4 p.m.; Livingstone and Jason Wednesday, April 15, 8-11:45 p.m.

Mack 2 Band Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Nate Dogg and the Fellas Thursdays, Fridays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; McDaniel Band Saturdays, 2-6 p.m.; Darrell Wilson Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m. and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Chic Jones Tuesdays, Sundays, 6:3010:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Wednesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

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

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

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David Bowen Thursdays, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., Monday, April 13, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, 5:309:30 p.m. and Wednesday, April 15, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

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Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, Friday, April 10, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, April 11, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Brandon Santini Band Monday, April 13, 8 p.m.-midnight, Tuesday, April 14, 8 p.m.-midnight and Wednesday, April 15, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall

Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Low Society Friday, April 10, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Mississippi Big Foot Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Delta Project Saturday, April 11, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sonny Mack and the Mack 2 Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Memphis Bluesmaster Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Mississippi Big Foot Friday, April 10, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, April 11, 8 p.m.-midnight; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

New Daisy Theatre

Silky O’Sullivan’s

330 BEALE 525-8981

Hear 901 Festival featuring Mary Owens, Drew Erwin, Mara Daniele, Mason Jar Fireflies, The Passport, Jeffery Jordan, Ben Callicott, and more Saturday, April 11, 8 p.m.

April 9-15, 2015

Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Mondays, 7 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe

182 BEALE 528-0150

183 BEALE 522-9596

Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., and Sundays, 4-9 p.m.; Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-3 a.m., and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Rhythm Hounds Band Saturday, April 11, 7-11 p.m.

Memphis Sounds Lounge 22 N. THIRD 590-4049

Grown Folk’s Music 7:30 p.m.

Onix Restaurant & Jazz Lounge 412 S. MAIN 552-4609

Blind Bear Speakeasy 119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays.

Neo Soul and R&B Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.; Smooth Jazz Fridays, 8-11 p.m.; Old School R&B Saturdays, 8-11 p.m.

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

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

Brinson’s

The Plexx

341 MADISON 524-0104

380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

Melting Pot: Artist Showcase Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

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

Double J’s Smokehouse & Saloon

Purple Haze Nightclub

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 335-0251

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

Grawemeyer’s 520 S. MAIN 526-6751

Evan Farris Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 6-10 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and Fridays, 6-10 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown

140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

The Pamela K. Ward Band Sunday, April 12, 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

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Spindini

Celtic Crossing

Java Cabana

383 S. MAIN 578-2767

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

2170 YOUNG 272-7210

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Marcella & Her Lovers Friday, April 10; Bluff City Backsliders Saturday, April 11.

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538

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

Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Raymond’s Last Day Friday, April 10, 10:30 p.m.; American Fiction Saturday, April 11, 10:30 p.m.

Boscos Squared 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

RULE OF THIRDS LIVE AT MURPHY’S Over the past few years, Australia has become one of the main sources of exceptional synth-driven post-punk bands. Adelaide’s Rule of Thirds sit somewhere in between fellow Aussies Total Control and Nun, combining elements of golden era UK post-punk with heavy doses of early ’80s new wave worship. The band qualifies as a super group, featuring the founder of the excellent No Patience record label on synth and members of other Adelaide bands like Young Professionals, Deep Red, and Hydromedusa. While the Rule of Thirds’ demo and EP flirted with a few different subgenres of punk music, the self-titled album is heavily influenced by Siouxsie and the Banshees, 13th Chime, Joy Division, and other bands on the more accessible side of British post-punk. I recently wrote about the Oblivians traveling to Australia for the first time, citing the fact that even a band as big as they are had to wait until the time was right for such a big trip. Through the tireless work of the Rule of Thirds’ synth player (a person affectionately known as Rat Boy), the band has booked a full US tour on the strength of just three releases, and their month long tour includes a stop at the renowned punk festival New York’s Alright in addition to multiple shows in Los Angeles. Three different labels in three different countries will release the debut Rule of Thirds album while the band is on their first US tour. Mass Media will release the self-titled LP in the US, No Patience will release the album in Australia, and Desire Records will press the record oversees. The band will have copies of their brandnew album at the show Thursday. — Chris Shaw Rule of Thirds and Gimp Teeth, Thursday, April 9th at Murphy’s, 9 p.m. $6.

Broad Avenue Art District BROAD AVENUE 378-4270

Healthy Memphis Food Festival Saturday, April 11, 9 a.m.8 p.m. and Sunday, April 12, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

Brad Boswell’s B-day Party featuring Maitre D’s Thursday, April 9, 10 p.m.; Toy Trucks Saturday, April 11, 10 p.m.; Richard James and friends Sunday, April 12, 4:30-7 p.m.; Elizabeth Wise Sunday, April 12, 10 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.; Madison/ Goner Presents: Buck Biloxi, Heavy Lids, Manatees, and more Wednesday, April 15, 9 p.m.

Camy’s 3 S. BARKSDALE 725-1667

Live Music Fridays.

DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Charvey Mack Tuesdays, 8:3011:30 p.m.

Hanna Star & the Teenage Teenagers Sundays, 1:30-3 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Ghost Town Blues Band Thursday, April 9, 9 p.m.; 2 Fer 1 Friday, April 10, 6:30 p.m.; American Fiction Friday, April 10, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturday, April 11, 11 a.m.; Devil Train Saturday, April 11, 10 p.m.; John Paul Keith Sunday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.; Suavo J ft. Mr. 88 & the Bones Monday, April 13, 8 p.m.; Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters with Mark Edgar Stuart Tuesday, April 14, 8 p.m.; Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters Wednesday, April 15, 8 p.m.

Evergreen Presbyterian Church

Lindenwood Christian Church

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Jeremy & Ed Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, April 10, 10 p.m.; The Pistol & The Queen Saturday, April 11, 10 p.m.; Open Jam Sundays, 6 p.m.; Justin White Monday, April 13, 7 p.m.; Juke Joint Blues Jam Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

613 UNIVERSITY 274-3740

An All- Mozart Evening: Rhodes MasterSingers Chorale and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra Saturday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.; Made in America: Rhodes College Orchestra and Wind Ensemble Concert Monday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.

2400 UNION 458-8506

“Wing and a Prayer” Sundays, 9:45 a.m.

The Midtown Crossing Grill 394 WATKINS 443-0502

Roger Wild Saturday, April 11, 8 p.m.; Sivella Wednesday, April 15, 8 p.m.

Hi-Tone

Minglewood Hall

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

The Howling Tongues Thursday, April 9, 911:45 p.m.; MISOMI Benefit featuring Dead Soldiers, Doctor Brown, Graham Winchester, Highway HiFi, and more Friday, April 10, 9:30-11:45 p.m.; Jupiter Stone with Mutual Live Saturday, April 11, 10-11:45 p.m.; The Acacia Strain, Vera, What We Do In Secret, and Creux Tuesday, April 14, 811:45 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Boris the Blade, Abiotic, Alterbeast, and Reaping Asmodeia Wednesday, April 15, 811:45 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Parker Card, Reba Russell Trio Sunday, April 12, 47 p.m.; The Chaulkies Sunday, April 12, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

The Black Jacket Symphony Presents Led Zepplin IV Friday, April 10, 8 p.m.; Jazmine Sullivan Saturday, April 11, 9 p.m.; An evening with Gov’t Mule Wednesday, April 15, 8 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Rule of Thirds, Gimp Teeth Thursday, April 9; Sex Snobs Friday, April 10; With Bravado and Etketera Saturday, April 11; SVU, Some Kind of Nightlyfe Sunday, April 12.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Zoo Girls, Michael Joyner Friday, April 10, 8-11 p.m.; Mark Edgar Stuart with Brett Krock Saturday, April 11, 8-11 p.m.

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Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

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Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; The Everdeens Saturday, April 11; Open Mic with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; The WeatherVanes Wednesday, April 15.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Memphis Songwriters Association Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9 p.m.

Playhouse on the Square

Young Avenue Deli

Ubee’s

66 S. COOPER 726-4656

2119 YOUNG 278-0034

521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

Midtown Opera Festival April 9-19; “Hommage a Les Six” Monday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.

Strano Sicilian Kitchen

White Animals with Walrus Friday, April 10, 10 p.m.; Benefit for Multiple Sclerosis featuring live music Saturday, April 11, 9 p.m.

University of Memphis MEMPHIS 678-2000

University Singers and Chamber Choir Sunday, April 12, 4 p.m.

948 S. COOPER 552-7122

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

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

University of Memphis

University of Memphis, Harris Concert Hall

Memphis Pink Palace Museum

INSIDE THE RUDI E. SCHEIDT SCHOOL OF MUSIC 678-5400

3050 CENTRAL 636-2362

Underground Open Mic Night Sundays, 6:307:30 p.m.

University of Memphis Jazz Ensemble II Thursday, April 9, 7:30 p.m.; New Sounds Friday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.; University of Memphis Percussion Ensemble Saturday, April 11, 5:30 p.m.

East Memphis Brookhaven Pub & Grill 695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 680-8118

Live Music Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Chez Chase Out East

F E H C R . S OU E I P U O R G S A H

450 RIVER VIEW 287-4150

John McCutcheon Saturday, April 11, 7 p.m.

Dan McGuinness Pub 4698 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

Acoustic with Charvey Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

El Toro Loco 2809 KIRBY PKWY. 759-0593

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

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

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

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Dantones Sunday, April 12, 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

Laurelwood Shopping Center

April 9-15, 2015

422 S. GROVE PARK 682-8436

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Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant 786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

Karaoke ongoing.

Poplar/I-240 Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplthret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Benefit for Semmes-Murphey Foundation and West Clinic featuring Oasis, Plaques, and Tangles Saturday, April 11, 7 p.m.; Flashback Sunday, April 12, 4-7 p.m.; Backstage Pass (Patio) Sunday, April 12, 610 p.m.; Eddie Harrison and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

After Dark: Live Music Schedule April 9 - 15 Summer/Berclair

Cordova

Frayser/Millington

High Point Pub

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill

6560 HWY 51 N. 872-0567

477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Delta Joe Sanders & Friends Every other Tuesday, 8-11 p.m.; Pubapalooza with Stereo Joe every other Wednesday, 8-11 p.m.

847 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Ice Bar & Grill

Dan McGuinness

Hollywood Casino

4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

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

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

Haystack Bar & Grill Karaoke Nights at The Stack Wednesdays-Fridays, Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Mesquite Chop House

Fitz Casino & Hotel

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

711 LUCKY LN., TUNICA, MS 800-766-5825

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

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

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

Horseshoe Casino Tunica 38664 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 800-357-5600

6439 SUMMER 356-2324

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing; Jonny Lang Friday, April 10, 8 p.m.

The Other Place Bar & Grill

7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Maria’s Restaurant Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

Huey’s Southaven Down South 78 Sunday, April 12, 8 p.m.-midnight.

4148 WALES 373-0155

Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.1 a.m. and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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Whitehaven/ Airport

Mesquite Chop House 5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

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

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

Wadford’s Grill & Bar

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

474 CHURCH, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5861

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

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

Raleigh Mugs Pub

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland

4396 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 372-3556

Karaoke Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

Perignon’s Restaurant and Lounge

6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

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

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

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

Ghost Town Trio Sunday, April 12, 4-7 p.m.; Jamie Baker and the VIPs Sunday, April 12, 8-11:30 p.m.

GOSSETT VOLKSWAGEN GERMANTOWN

7420 WINCHESTER ROAD • 901.388.8989 • GOSSETTVWG.COM Huey’s Cordova

Old Millington Winery

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114

The King Beez Sunday, April 12, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s 64 2821 N. HOUSTON LEVEE 377-9997

Bryan Moffitt Band Thursday, April 9; Nick Garrison Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11; Aer with Jez Dior and Packy Sunday, April 12, 5 p.m.; Papadosio with TAUK Tuesday, April 14, 7 p.m.

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

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

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

JoJo Jefferies and Ronnie Caldwell Sunday, April 12, 3-6 p.m.

Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 710 p.m.; Half Step Down Fridays, 7-10 p.m.

Reign Ultra Lounge

North Mississippi/ Tunica

2164 FRAYSER BLVD. 353-2800

Lil Wayne Saturday, April 11.

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

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

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

John Angotti and Common Ground Sunday, April 12, 8-11:30 p.m.

Bally’s CASINO CENTER DRIVE IN TUNICA, MS 1-800-38-BALLY

Will Graves and Soul Friday, April 10, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, April 11, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

The Crossing Bar & Grill 7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242

Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

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

Ground Zero ZERO BLUES ALLEY, CLARKSDALE, MS 662-621-9009

Phillip Carter and the Blues Underground Thursday, April 9, 8 p.m.; Stacy Mitchhart Friday, April 10, 7 p.m.; Kingfish Friday, April 10, 10 p.m.; Bill Abel Wednesday, April 15, 8 p.m.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Open Mic Blues Jam with Brad Webb Thursdays, 711 p.m.

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

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

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Bartlett

2818 COLEMAN 373-9952

Memphis Rip the Runway Fashion Extravaganza Saturday, April 11, 7-9 p.m.

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o how is free internet pornography like a GPS? And what does any of that have to do with the price of American dairy products? To find out you’ll have to go see Rapture, Blister, Burn at Theatre Memphis. Rapture, Blister, Burn is a fantastic comedy with a terrible name. It sounds like a trashy novel where the female protagonist’s late-life sexual awakening results in a loss of social standing and cruel psychological torment. And while Gina Gionfriddo’s authentically clever script does flirt with that tired conceit, it’s something altogether different and unlikely. It’s a full-fledged screwball romp through three generations of pop culture feminism that milks a few sacred cows while exploring the possibility that evolution and biological hardwiring have conspired against the easy eradication of patriarchal values. Why else might a strong, smart woman who should know better make terrible, self-defeating choices to be with a no-account stoner dude who’d rather be watching porn? Imagine a 21st-century version of Chekhov’s three sisters pining for a less heteronormative Moscow, and you’ll get the picture. Jack Yates’ detailed design overstuffs Theatre Memphis’ Next Stage with all the trappings of middle-class anxiety dressed up to look like comfort. Tony Isbell’s directorial hand is as sure as it is invisible. The show plays out like it was expressly written to showcase the considerable talents of an ensemble cast led by the always excellent Erin Shelton. Shelton plays Catherine Croll, a middle-aged academic and best-selling author in full-blown crisis mode and looking to rekindle an old flame who’s now married to her old college roommate. She’s joined on stage by the deliciously dotty Ann Sharp, a charming Steven Burke, the convincingly conflicted Tracie Hansom, and Jillian Barron, who is hilarious as the play’s lone millennial. Rapture, Blister, Burn seems to be aware of its own pretensions and limitations and chooses to keep the cultural conversation light and fairly superficial. As a result, one doesn’t have to have a degree in women’s studies to follow the dialogue. You don’t have to agree with the play’s conclusions to enjoy the ride either. Through April 19th Time has been uncommonly kind to August Wilson’s King Hedley II, a play set in the 1980s, in the moment

before crack and the subsequent War on Drugs pulverized the poorest urban communities. For all of its structural shortcomings, it’s probably a better show today than it was in 2001 when it opened on Broadway. The penultimate entry in Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle opens with an incantation. Evil omens abound. Aunt Ester, the neighborhood’s magical matriarch dies at the age of 366. Stool-Pigeon, a “Truth Sayer” (expertly portrayed by Jonathan Williams) divines the future from yesterday’s newspapers. Meanwhile, the play’s doomed title character kneels on a broken sidewalk, burying seeds in a crumbling patch of gravel and dust that he savagely defends: “This is good dirt.” It’s a picture ripped from Sophocles. It couldn’t be more modern or more contemporary American. King Hedley is portrayed by a brooding and volatile Ekundayo Bandele. King’s fresh out of jail, having spent the past seven years behind bars for burying a man who slighted him; robbing a little boy of his daddy in the process. He aims to go straight, too, after he sells enough stolen refrigerators to open a video store. Yes, a video store. And, yes, the pathos

Rapture, Blister, Burn

is thick and darkly funny, providing the audience with a nifty object lesson in the ways a play can change as it moves through time. From our perspective, Wilson’s Reagan-era story seems even more cruelly fatalistic than it was at the beginning of its theatrical life. In 2001, video shops were a declining but still-viable business. There was a faint glimmer of hope that even in this barren landscape fertilized with blood, something of lasting value might grow. Director Erma Elzy gets solid performances from her cast. But the real star of this shooting match is Bandele’s fantastically detailed set. It’s a stunning urban still life, populated with litter, wreathed in decrepitude and decay. Through April 12th

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Cracovia Danza

MAY 6, 2015 • 7 PM

Germantown Performing Arts Center

Ticket Price: $15 (Groups of 20 or more $10) Tickets online at www.gpacweb.com or call 901-751-7500. Presenting Cracovia Danza direct from Krakow! “Alla Polacca” is a spectacle by the Cracovia Danza Court Ballet which presents the world of Polish culture and customs, both folk and noble.

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Kinga Augustyn

Matthieu Cognet

MAY 9, 2015 • 7:30 PM

Buckman Performing Arts Center

Ticket Price: $15 (Groups of 20 or more $10) Tickets online at www.buckmanartscenter.com or call (901) 537 1483. This classical music concert for piano and violin featuring Kinga Augustyn, a highly praised Polish award-winning concert violinist and pianist Matthieu Cognet.

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101. DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.

April 9 - 15

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

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Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

Opening reception for “Made in Dixon,” exhibition of artwork made in the Dixon youth programs. www.dixon. org. Sat., April 11.

The Wonderbread Years, salute to the Baby Boomer generation that gracefully walks the line between stand-up and theater featuring Pat Hazell. www.bpacc.org. $25. Fri., April 10, 8 p.m.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Marshall Arts Gallery

“Heineken? F**k that Sh*t! Pabst Blue Ribbon!,” exhibition of short experimental diary films by John Ciccimarra. Sat., April 11, 6-8 p.m.

3663 APPLING (385-6440).

Circuit Playhouse

Tribes, drama about a young man born deaf and raised in a family that never bothered to learn sign language. A young woman introduces him to deaf culture and a sense of belonging. www. playhouseonthesqare.org. $30-$35. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through May 3.

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis College of Art

Artist reception for 2015 Spring BFA Exhibition: Part I. www.mca.edu. Fri., April 10, 6-8 p.m. Opening reception for “Commonplace,” exhibition of paintings by Marc Rouillard. www.mca.edu. Fri., April 10, 6-8 p.m.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Germantown Community Theatre

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, two casts present a younger perspective as well as an adult view into the themes of Charlie Brown. www.gctcomeplay.org. $20. Sundays, 2:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Thursdays, 7 p.m. Through April 26.

Scottish Rite

Opening reception for “The Dual Show Experience,” exhibition of drawings and paintings by Carl Moore. www.masoniccontemporary. org. Fri., April 10, 6-9 p.m.

Memphis College of Art’s “2015 Spring BFA Exhibition: Part I” opens Friday.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (754-2680).

Hattiloo Theatre

King Hedley II, set in 1986, drama about a man reaching for success, colliding with the limitations of the world around him, and those within himself. www.hattiloo. org. $18-$24. Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m., Sat., 2 p.m., and Sun., 3 p.m. Through April 12.

Ruth. What to do? www. rhodes.edu/mccoy. $10. Fri., April 10, 7:30 p.m., Sat., April 11, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., April 12, 2 p.m.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the “Disciples of James Dean” gather for their 20th reunion. www.newmoontheatre.org. $12-$15. Fri., Sat., 8-10 p.m., and Sun., 2-4 p.m. Through April 12.

McCoy Theatre

New Moon Theatre Company

AT THEATREWORKS, 2085 MONROE (484-3467).

Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles, multi-media experienceive featuring five musicians performing Beatles tribute concert. www.raintribute.com. $25-$75. Sat., April 11, 8 p.m., and Sun., April 12, 6:30 p.m. 203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Theatre Memphis

Rapture, Blister, Burn, comedy about two friends who, decades after college, reconnect only to discover the career academic and the housewife want the other’s life. www.theatrememphis. org. $25. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Through April 19. 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreSouth

The Awakening, play adapted from the 1899 novel by Kate Chopin. www.voicesofthesouth.org. $23. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Thurs., April 9, 8 p.m., and Sun., April 12, 4 p.m. Through April 19. INSIDE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (726-0800).

University of Memphis, University Center

University of Memphis Italian Film Festival, includes new Italian films and a documentary. Tue., Apr. 14: Song ‘e Napule (I am from Naples). Wed. Apr. 15: Oro Macht Frei (Gold Will Set You Free). 7 p.m.

ANF Architects

Opening reception for “Where They Were and Where They Are Now,” exhibition and 40th anniversary art show retrospective featuring the work of about 20 artists previously shown over the years in the gallery. www.anfa.com. Fri., April 10, 5:30-8:30 p.m. 1500 UNION (278-6868).

Clough-Hanson Gallery

Opening reception for Juried Student Exhibition, www. rhodes.edu. Fri., April 10, 6-8 p.m. RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3442).

255 UNIVERSITY CENTER, PARIS THEATER.

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Displacement: A Deconstructed Sound Journey

Interactive experience with the art-objects of Congo native, Gil Ngole, using installation and sound to facilitate social awareness on life in Central Africa. Free. Thurs., April 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m. CLEVELAND STREET FLEA MARKET, 438 CLEVELAND (276-3333), WWW.MCA.EDU.

“Gold Room”

Featuring live music by Tmrrw and Cochise, DJ Nautics, live art show, and video premiere. Thurs., April 9, 9 p.m. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

Beth Van Hoesen, exhibition by artist/printmaker. www.memphis.edu. Through July 2. “What I Kept,” exhibition revolving around the objects that international women brought over from their home countries. Through July 2. 142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).

ANF Architects

“The Collective,” exhibition of work by Jimpsie Ayres, Valerie Berlin Edwards, Anne Davey, Carol DeForest, Gwen English, Mary Norman, Peggy McKnight, Jeanne Seagle, Carol Sams Schreiber, and Lisa Tribo. www.anfa.com. Through April 9. “Where They Were and Where They Are Now,” exhibition and 40th anniversary art show retrospective featuring the work of about 20 artists previously shown over the years in the gallery. www.anfa.com. April 10-June 30. 1500 UNION (278-6868).

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

“Guitarts Gone Wild,” exhibition of “guitarts” by Nancy Apple. www.bpacc.org. Through May 1. 3663 APPLING (385-6440).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

“Chinese Symbols in Art,” exhibition of ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. www. belzmuseum.org. Ongoing. 119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).

Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library “A Growing Body of Work,” exhibition of folk art by Chris Little. Through April 30. 3030 POPLAR (415-2700).

Cleveland Street Flea Market

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“New Work,” exhibition of installation work by sculptor Mark Nowell. www.crosstownarts.org. Through April 30. 438 CLEVELAND (276-3333).

David Lusk Gallery

“Last Light,” exhibition of new works by Veda Reed. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through April 18. 4540 POPLAR (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

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4339 PARK (761-5250).

Found Studio

“Blind Date,” exhibition of new work by Alex Warble. Through April 30. 2491 BROAD (652-0848).

Fratelli’s

“Outside In,” exhibition of works by Rick Barnard. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through April 30. 750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Gallery Ten Ninety One

“Inspirations,” exhibition of works by the Wednesday Art Pals — Carolyn Moss, Daphne Stephens, Pat Hester, Wilbur Edmiston, and Christie Payne. www.wkno.org. Through April 28.

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WKNO STUDIO, 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

L Ross Gallery

“Layer and Mark,” exhibition of abstract works by Lisa Weiss and sculpture by Jan Kransberger. www.lrossgallery.com. Through April 28. 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

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“Hail, Britannia! Six Centuries of British Art from the Berger Collection,” exhibition of 50 paintings from the medieval period to the 21st century by luminaries such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Anthony van Dyck, and others. www.dixon.org. Through April 19.

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“From News to Nature,” exhibition of photography by Karen Pulfer Focht. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through April 30. 750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Art Builds Creativity,” exhibition of student work. Through May 3. “Artists/Activists: Marcellous Lovelace, Frank D. Robinson, and Siphne Sylve,” exhibition addressing a variety of social, cultural, and political issues. Through May 10. “This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement.” Through May 10. “Arp, Man Ray, and Matta: Surrealists,” exhibition of Surrealist artists’ books by Hans Arp, Man Ray, and Matta. Through July 12. “20th Century Color Woodcuts: Japonisme and Beyond,” exhibition of American and British prints. Through Sept. 8. “British Watercolors from the Golden Age,” exhibition of watercolors from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries. Through Sept. 20. “Cats and Quotes,” exhibition featuring felines in paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and prints paired with famous

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“Soul: Memphis’ Original Sound,” exhibition of photography by Thom Gilbert. www.soulsvillefoundation.org. Through June 13.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art 2015 Spring BFA Exhibition: Part I, work from more than 50 BFA candidates and includes a variety of media from painting to sculpture to digital media. www.mca.edu. Through April 20. “Commonplace,” exhibition of paintings by Marc Rouillard. www.mca.edu. Through May 9. 1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

“Iron and Gold,” exhibition of work by Karin Jones, Ben Dory, and Rob Jackson whose work combines the delicate and the sturdy. www. metalmuseum.org. Through April 19. “Art Is an Accident,” exhibtion of an amalgamation of American imagery, toys, and other found objects by J. Fred Woell. www.metalmuseum. org. Through June 12. “Tributaries: Vivian Beer,” exhibition of furniture combining contemporary design, craft, and sculptural aesthetics. www.metalmuseum.org. Through June 12. 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Sue Layman Designs

“Material Will: Force in Form,” work by Dale McNeil, at TOPS Gallery Otherlands Coffee Bar

“It’s an Art Show: A Passion for Process,” exhibition of new works in acrylic, pastel, oil pastel, and pencil by Melanie Pyron. www.otherlandscoffeebar.com. Through April 29. 641 S. COOPER (278-4994).

Painted Planet

Gallery Artists on View, exhibition by gallery artists. (338-5223), Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11:45 a.m.-6 p.m.

“Conclusion of Delusion,” exhibition of original oil paintings by Sue Layman Lightman. www.facebook. com/SueLaymanDesigns. Wednesdays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 125 G.E. PATTERSON (409-7870).

TOPS Gallery

“Material Will: Force In Form,” exhibition of new works by Memphis-based painter Dale McNeil. www.topsgallery.com. Through May 31. 400 S. FRONT.

Unity Church of Practical Christianity

Gallery in The Grove, exhibition of work by Netta Casciano and Kevin Chasing Wolf Hutchins. www.unitymemphis.org. Through May 3. 9228 WALNUT GROVE (753-1463).

1015 S. COOPER (725-0054).

Scottish Rite

“The Dual Show Experience,” exhibition of drawings and paintings by Carl Moore. www.masoniccontemporary. org. April 10-May 10. 825 UNION.

OPERA

Midtown Opera Festival

Opera Memphis will host the third annual Midtown Opera Festival featuring concerts, a play, a late-night cabaret,

Screen $50 IUDs

CHO CES

Memphis Center for Reproductive Health

1726 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38104 901/274-3550 www.memphischoices.org

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (257-3100), WWW.OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG.

Booksigning by Skyy Banks

Author Skyy Banks discusses and signs When No One Came. Sun., April 12, 3 p.m. TIGER GIFT SHOP, 549 S. HIGHLAND (324-5334)

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

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Momentum

Choreographed by University of Memphis faculty and guest artists and performed with energy and heart by talented U of M dancers. Fri., April 10, 7:30 p.m., Sat., April 11, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., April 12, 2 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, ROSE THEATRE, 470 UNIVERSITY, WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

An Evening with Captain Richard Phillips

Hear his riveting account of the hijacking of his ship, his capture, and dramatic rescue by U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six. $50. Tues., April 14, 6:30 p.m. GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), WWW.GPACWEB.COM.

Longwood Garden Lectures

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Minglewood Hall

Hannibal Buress: The Comedy Camisado Tour, www.minglewoodhall.com. $30. Mon., April 13, 7 p.m. 1555 MADISON (866-609-1744).

Join display designer Jim Sutton, and archivist Judy Stevenson from Longwood Gardens for a virtual exploration of the garden. Light refreshments served at 6:30 p.m. $8 members, $10 nonmembers. Wed., April 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW. MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

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Booksigning by Alysia Burton Steele

Author discusses and signs Delta Jewels. Thurs., April 9, 6 p.m. CLEVELAND STREET FLEA MARKET, 438 CLEVELAND (276-3333), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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“A SeaWorld of Trouble”

Tim Zimmerman, author and filmmaker, will speak about animal cruelty as well as the process of compiling a documentary. Thurs., April 9, 7 p.m. RHODES COLLEGE, MCCALLUM BALLROOM OF THE BRYAN CAMPUS LIFE CENTER, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3470), WWW.RHODES.EDU.

Visiting Artist James Williamson

University of Memphis associate professor of architecture will examine Louis Kahn’s intuitive approach to design, exploring the relationship between creativity and the unconscious. Thurs., April 9, 7 p.m. MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.MCA.EDU.

20th Annual Crawfish Festival

Benefiting Hope House of Memphis. Sat., April 11, noon-6 p.m.

For DIY brides, planners, designers, past brides, and anyone loving vintage. Vendor space available for $50, email for more information. Sun., April 12, 1-5 p.m.

Learn To Curl

Learn more about the sport of curling. Wear rubber-soled shoes (no leather soles) and warm, loose-fitting clothing. Includes instruction, equipment, and a game. $15. Sat., April 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

OVERTON SQUARE, MIDTOWN, WWW.OVERTONSQUARE.COM.

Africa in April

Featuring an inside glimpse into The Republic of Gabon through music, arts and crafts, fashions, food, education, economics, culture, and history. April 15-19.

MID-SOUTH ICE HOUSE, 10705 RIDGEWAY INDUSTRIAL RD. (881-8544), WWW.MEMPHISCURLINGCLUB.COM.

ROBERT R. CHURCH PARK, CORNER OF FOURTH AND BEALE, WWW.AFRICAINAPRIL.ORG.

Memphis Redbirds

Apr. 9-12: v. Iowa; Apr. 1316: v. Omaha; Apr. 25-28: v. Round Rock.

Crawfish, Corvettes, and Cameros

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

Featuring car show, outdoor concert, crawfish and food booths, arts and crafts, and live radio remote. Sat., April 11, noon-6 p.m. THE FITZ, 711 LUCKY LANE (1-800-766-LUCK), WWW.FITZGERALDSTUNICA.COM.

Healthy Memphis Food Festival

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Wedding Swap & Pop Up Shoppe

Spot, based on the popular children’s book series, at the Orpheum Friday

Bringing the community together and stimulating healthy eating habits and lifestyles. Sat., April 11, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., and Sun., April 12, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. BROAD AVENUE ART DISTRICT, BROAD (720-219-9095 OR 502-4048).

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Pilgrimage Home and Heritage Festival

Featuring craft beer and gourmet burger tastings. Includes local breweries, a burger contest, wine tasting, music, dancing, speed painting show, photo booth, and auctions. $50. Sat., April 11, 6 p.m.

Tour antebellum homes hosted by costumed guides, local storytellers, organ recitals in the town’s historic churches, Civil War re-enactors, luncheons, and more. $25. Fri.-Sun., Apr. 10-12.

3700 CENTRAL, WWW.STJUDE.ORG/ UOFMHOPS.

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Doubles Coed Sand Volleyball Tournament

For more information, visit or Facebook or Twitter @Volleyball. $50 per team. Sat., April 11, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. TOBEY PARK, FLICKER AT CENTRAL (734-5271), VOLLEYBALL4-11. EVENTBRITE.COM.

TONIGHT & SATURDAY: X Soul with DJ BLU until 3am!

Kids, bring a book to the Ever After House and trade it in for a “new-to-you” book to take home and enjoy. Make a bookmark using recycled materials. Free with Garden admission. Sun., April 12, 2-4 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW. MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

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From hip-hop to doo-wop to beatboxing, join us as we express our creativity through the medium of music. $8. Sat., April 11, 9:30 a.m. GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), WWW.GPACWEB.COM.

Spot

Follow Spot, the most famous and beloved dog in children’s literature, to his father’s farm where all the animals have gone missing. $15 -$25. Fri., April 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

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Wild World of Wine and Beer

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“Mad & Hungry: Firehouse Al Fresco” ArtsMemphis, Patrick Reilly, Ryan Trimm, and Jon Mikulski host an al fresco afternoon of seafood and fun featuring local entertainment and style by Hardin House Designs. $125. Sat., April 11, 3-6 p.m. ARTSMEMPHIS, 575 S. MENDENHALL (578-2787), WWW.CULINARY.ARTSMEMPHIS.ORG.

Enjoy food, wine and beer tasting, and silent auction of artwork from some of the zoo’s own animal artists benefiting conservation programs for endangered species. $50 members, $60 nonmembers. Sat., April 11, 7-10 p.m. MEMPHIS ZOO, 2000 PRENTISS PLACE IN OVERTON PARK (333-6500), WWW.MEMPHISZOO.ORG.

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Featuring beer and food trucks. Sundays, noon, and Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m. Through May 31. TENNESSEE BREWERY, 495 TENNESSEE.

18th Annual Wild Pigs Poker Run

Beloved Sisters

This foreign film depicts the unconventional 18th-century romance between two aristocratic sisters and a rebellious poet who took the European literary world by storm. $9. Sat., April 11, 2-4:15 p.m.

Big Muddy

This independant film follows grifter Martha Barlow who must come to terms with her dark past after her teenage son commits a horrible crime. $9. Thurs., April 9, 7-8:45 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

What We Do in the Shadows

This mockumentary foreign horror film chronicles the adventures of four vampire roommates trying to get by in a modern world not always hospitable to the undead. $9. Sun., April 12, 2-3:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

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

Ride starts at Side Car Cafe and commences with a BBQ, live music, and door prizes benefiting the families of fallen and injured law enforcement officers. $25 per rider, $10 per passenger. Sun., April 12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. SIDE CAR CAFE, 2194 WHITTEN (782-636-8515), WWW.WILDPIGSMEMPHIS.NET.

“Art of Fashion”

Featuring celebrity guest, model Elise Neal. $12. Sun., April 12, 5 p.m. MINGLEWOOD HALL, 1555 MADISON (866-609-1744), WWW.MEMPHISBLACKEXPO.COM.

Great Gatsby USA Dance

Glam and bling semi-formal attire requested featuring the EDD Jones Orchestra. Please bring a snack to share. $12-$15. Sat., April 11, 7-10 p.m. COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 8350 WALNUT GROVE (662-349-3720 OR 853-1413), WWW.USADANCEMEMPHIS.COM.

Ham Radio Delta Division Convention

Featuring flea market with computers, electronics, and communications equipment, ham radio networking, and discussions. Open to the public. Sat., April 11, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. BARTLETT STATION MUNICIPAL CENTER, 5868 STAGE (216-3263), MARAONLINE.ORG.

International Tabletop Day III

Get together and play favorite board and card games. Games provided and prize drawings just for attending. Held in room 320B. Free. Sun., April 12, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER

Little Milton “Think of Me” Statue and Bench Unveiling Thurs., April 9, 4 p.m.

GRAND PRIZE DRAWING APRIL 24

THE BLUES FOUNDATION, 421 S. MAIN, WWW.BLUES.ORG.

Memphis Rip the Runway Fashion Extravaganza

Methodist South Whitehaven Healthy Community Day

Featuring 5K run and walk, exercise and cooking demonstrations, health screenings, games, music, and healthy snacks. Sat., April 11, 8 a.m.-noon. METHODIST HOSPITAL SOUTH, 1300 WESLEY, WW.METHODISTHEALTH.ORG/HEALTHWALK.

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Spring Awakening A flowering of April food festivals.

Overton Square Crawfish Festival Where: Madison Avenue, Cooper to Morrison When: Saturday, April 11th, noon-6 p.m. Money can’t buy happiness. But it can buy crawfish, and — the Overton Square team assures me — that’s pretty much the same thing. Now in its 20th year, this crawfish festival has gone from humble beginnings in the parking lot of Bayou Bar & Grill to shutting down Madison Avenue. Known for its hot lineup of regional musicians, this year’s event also features booths from Memphis businesses — 46

in all — including Memphis Roller Derby, Makeda’s Butter Cookies, and Bikram yoga. Pro tip: Bring a good hat and come prepared to hula hoop. Come for: Custom cocktails made with Memphis’ own Pyramid Vodka Stay for: The Juke Joint Duo, featuring Lightnin’ Malcolm and Cedric Burnside Mid-South Food Truck Fest Where: Tiger Lane When: Saturday, April 18th, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. In a world where diners demand food that is innovative, cheap, and quick, the food truck reigns supreme. So it’s no surprise that Memphis is getting a food truck festival. What may surprise you is the sheer number of food trucks at this event: 73. They’re coming from all over the region, serving everything from Cajun to Cuban to Chinese.

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Participating trucks will compete to win prizes in five categories, including Finger Food, Sweet Treat, and People’s Choice. There will be live music and bouncy castles for the kids — but be forewarned, this is a dry event. A portion of proceeds will be donated to Literacy Mid-South, which will be handing out free children’s books. Come for: Gourmet grilled cheese from St. Louis food truck The Meltdown Stay for: Spicy beef empanadas from Jackson, TN, food truck La Cubanita continued on page 44

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Healthy Memphis Food Festival Where: Water Tower on Broad When: Saturday, April 11th, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday, April 12th, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. As a general principle, those preparing for beach vacations might be advised to avoid food festivals — but Healthy Memphis is the exception to the rule. At this two-day shindig on Broad Avenue, funnel cakes are out and grilled sweet corn is in. Healthy Memphis is transforming the Water Tower into a mini marketplace filled with healthy food, music, art, and fitness. Forget hot-dog eating contests. They’ve got yoga, reflexology, aromatherapy, acupuncture, and personal training classes. Admission is free, and if

you bring a bag of nonperishable food, you’ll be entered to win healthy prizes from participating vendors. Come for: Tasty food from local vendors like Belly Acres and Cosmic Coconut Stay for: Gospel music on Sunday, performed by East Trigg Avenue Baptist Church

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S P R I N G AWAK E N I N G continued from page 43 Memphis Brewfest Where: AutoZone Park When: Saturday, April 18th, 4 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Looking to slake your thirst after Food Truck Fest? Head on over to Memphis Brewfest, where they’re celebrating America’s great craft beers, plus exotic beers from around the world — more than 100 in all. Tickets start at $45, but a $75 VIP ticket will get you express entry, a goody bag, and access to a classy buffet. No pets or children allowed, and that’s probably a good thing. Come for: Terrapin Tree Hugger Amber Ale — light and malty Stay for: Wiseacre’s new Avast! Pirate Porter — notes of molasses and coriander Porter-Leath Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival Where: Wagner Place and Riverside When: Sunday, April 19th, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. You may not need a reason to get down with some spicy boiled crawfish, but in case you do, here’s a good one: Every dollar you spend at Rajun Cajun goes to support Memphis’ at-risk children and their families. That means field trips with foster grandparents and warm coats in winter. How’s that for enabling?

Each year, Memphis nonprofit Porter-Leath fetches 18,000 pounds of crawfish from Louisiana and serves it to about 25,000 festival attendees. This year, they’ve added an hors d’oeuvre: 2,000 pounds of spicy Gulf shrimp. Crustaceans not your thing? There will be food trucks, three stages of live music, and a gumbo cook-off. Come for: Hurricanes and margaritas made with real rum and tequila. Stay for: Memphis “swamp soul” band Marcella & Her Lovers Southern Hot Wing Festival Where: Jefferson Davis Park When: Saturday, April 25th, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. What’s the best way to get ready for a balmy summer? Load up on hot wings, obviously. At this off-the-wall competition, team names tend toward the absurd. Examples: Winga Linga Ding Dong, You Are The Ranch Beneath My Wings. But it’s all for a good cause, so we can get behind it. Each year, all proceeds are donated to Ronald McDonald House. Tickets start at $10. Come for: Blues guitarist Eric Gales on the Jack Pirtles Chicken Stage Stay for: The messy awesomeness that is the hot-wing eating contest

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jump was cool, though. LJH: Vin Diesel and The Rock seemed like the same person to me. Also the bad and guy and the dead guy. Although I did have my eyes closed a lot, so I might have missed some important character development. CM: The Rock was the one in the hospital who miraculously healed himself with the force of his man-rage and then shot up the helicopter with a handheld chain gun. LJH: He was in the hospital for like 90 minutes. CM: Speaking of which, the military was taking a pretty lackadaisical attitude toward the widespread use of heavy ordinance in downtown Los Angeles. LJH: I debated leaving and walking over to Whole Foods to drink beer in the BBQ shack. CM: Do you wish you had? LJH: No. I survived. Now that I have seen one of those movies, I can have an opinion. Which was pretty much what I thought it would be, except for my new boyfriend Ludacris. He has nice eyes. m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

looked like she smelled something bad the whole time. CM: She had one expression: constipated. LJH: Maybe she had a migraine from all that camera movement. CM: That damned stuttery video effect kicked in every time there was a fight. They wanted it to look like a Bourne movie. LJH: I spent a lot of those scenes with my eyes closed so I wouldn’t puke. CM: It was like it was trying to be a James Bond movie, too. It even had three exotic locations, like the James Bond movies of the ’70s did. This is the seventh one of these, which makes it the equivalent of Diamonds Are Forever, which seems about right, quality-wise. And they kept ripping off James Cameron movies. They had the aircraft in the tunnel thing from Terminator 2, and the Mary Elizabeth Whatshername fake drowning gag from The Abyss. LJH: Who drowned? CM: The bald white guy. LJH: Vin or The Rock? CM: He didn’t drown. Michelle Rodriguez did the “Don’t you die on me!” thing with him after he jumped his car into a helicopter. Every time he got a plan, it was pretty much “drive the car off the cliff.” That skyscraper

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fter a preview screening of Furious 7, my wife Laura Jean Hocking and I sat on our back deck and pondered what we had just watched. Neither of us had ever seen a Fast & Furious movie before. What follows is an approximate transcript of our conversation.] Laura Jean Hocking: I am now a person who has seen a Fast & Furious movie. Chris McCoy: Did it live up to your expectations? LJH: I wasn’t expecting to get a migraine, but in retrospect it was inevitable. My head hurts all over — behind my eyes, on my forehead, on top. CM: It was pretty punishing. LJH: My eyes were twitching and I kept catching whiffs of random aromas, like perfume that smelled like candy and cake. I thought I was having a stroke. CM: It was a giant commercial. Did you notice how all of the bad guys drove Mercedes, and the good guys drove domestics? Except for the time Paul Walker was driving a Subaru. LJH: And the Corona. CM: Oh god, the Corona. LJH: Why does the supposed hero of the movie drink such shitty beer? CM: It’s a class thing. LJH: At least Kurt Russell had some taste. CM: Kurt Russell was the best part of the movie. LJH: Ludacris was good. CM: He was funny. But the rest of the movie was a bunch of bald white guys punching each other. LJH: AND RUNNING THEIR CARS HEAD-ON INTO EACH OTHER! WTF? CM: Seriously, the protagonist and the antagonist were too stupid to avoid killing themselves in a game of chicken. Except that they didn’t die, because they’re dudebro superheroes. LJH: The hacker chick had no personality except for British. CM: She had an accent instead of a personality. LJH: Also, there’s no way that wifey person could have known the sex of her baby. You have to be more pregnant before you find that out. Or she was the skinniest pregnant woman ever. And Michelle Rodriguez just

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The Grumpiest Generation Ben Stiller faces 40 and failure in the Noah Baumbach comedy While We’re Young. So, Generation X is pushing middle age now. It’s okay. Our pop culture has been preparing us for it since the 1980s. The tone of Noah Baumbach’s new film While We’re Young is not that different from Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture that appropriated the name of Billy Idol’s first band and applied to us. Coupland’s cast of selfdestructive, 20-something slackers had been told all their lives that they didn’t have it as good as their parents, the Baby Boomers. Their internalized, preemptive disappointment often looked like nihilism from the outside, but from the inside, it felt like fighting back with the only tool we had: refusal. The Baby Boomers wanted to

change the world for the better, but it didn’t work out like they planned. We decided to opt out of the aspects of America we found stale and rancid. We took our characteristically defeatist motto from Nirvana: “Oh well/ Whatever/Nevermind.” If our grandparents who won World War II were the Greatest Generation, we were the Grumpiest Generation. For Ben Stiller’s character Josh, the preemptive disappointment of the 1990s has given way to the muddled malaise of the 2010s. He’s a filmmaker whose first documentary Power Elite was well received by critics but is now available only via VHS tapes for sale on eBay. He’s been working on his follow-up doc for eight years now, but it’s still six hours long, and when he tries to explain what it’s about, he can only say, “It’s about America.” His wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts) is a movie producer who works with her father, a storied documentarian from the film verité days named Leslie Breitbart (Charles Grodin). Josh’s resentment of his father-in-law’s success and his own relative obscurity means they don’t get along very well, but otherwise, he and Cornelia seem to have a pretty good life in Brooklyn. But when their friends Fletcher (The

By Chris McCoy Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in While We’re Young

Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz) and Marina (Maria Dizzia) have a baby, it brings some of their discontent bubbling to the surface. That’s when Josh meets Jamie (Adam Driver) while delivering a lecture to indifferent college students, in a scene that recalls Holly Hunter’s ill-fated speech on journalistic integrity in Broadcast News. Jamie is an up-and-coming documentarian who has actually seen Power Elite. The

two hit it off, and soon Jamie and his wife Darby (Amanda Seyfried) are hanging out with Josh and Cornelia on the regular, despite their 20-year age difference. Josh and Cornelia find themselves reinvigorated by their new friends, who have a spark of youth they seem to have lost. “They have all the stuff we threw out,” Cornelia says of their vinyl-listening, VHS-watching new besties. “It just looks so much better in their space.”

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy Baumbach’s been directing arch indie comedies about uncertain slackers since 1995’s Kicking & Screaming, but While We’re Young seems like a welcome departure for the auteur. He first collaborated with Stiller on 2010’s Greenberg, but this time around the tone is more generous and extroverted. Stiller successfully walks (and sometimes pratfalls) the line between sympathetic and jerky, but by the end he seems to have grown — something that doesn’t always happen in a Baumbach film. Watts brilliantly brings depth and charm to a character who, in lesser hands, could come across as underwritten. Crucially, she and Stiller are totally believable as a couple who’ve been together for a while, but who are still in love. Girls co-star Driver just seems to get better and better, and he is great as the younger, hungrier version of Stiller’s Josh. Grodin represents the older, more successful version of Josh, and when it becomes clear that he has more in common with the hustler Jamie than his fussy perfectionism, it only fuels Josh’s resentment and pushes him into greater, more hilarious humiliations. The most surprising perfor-

mance is by a bearded Horovitz as a wide-eyed new father. Who knew AdRock could act? But that’s the charm of While We’re Young: It starts off as a familiar comedy of postmodern manners before opening up and embracing a wider world. Cheer up, it says to Gen X. Everybody’s in the same boat. Get over yourselves.

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You can tell it’s springtime in Memphis when all the cars

turn green — and everything else for that matter. It’s not the welcome

green of seasonal renewal, but those damn fuzzy worm-like things that cling to every

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from a horror movie. When you return, your car is blanketed in a layer of dust. There’s no point washing it because it will just be filthy the next day. And it seems like it happens so all of a sudden. One day you’re outside taking your first deep breath of fresh spring air, and the next day you can’t breathe at all. It reached inside my house indirectly through my wife. She had lunch with a friend and it was such a nice day, they sat on the patio of a local eatery. Four hours later, she sounded like a lifetime whiskey-drinking, chain-smoker. I thought I was sleeping with Clint Eastwood. Then the symptoms hit hard — sore throat, burning congestion, sneezing, and a head that felt like it weighed 50 pounds. We had suffered horribly through flu season, even though we both had the shots. (Thanks, Obama!) But since my wife and I pass illnesses back and forth like hippies pass a blunt, I woke up only to find I couldn’t swallow. She said it was allergies, but how do you catch an allergy? When Melody asked on social media if anyone else was sick, her phone nearly blew up. It seems like everyone else is sick. Pardon me, I had to step away to get a hit of Afrin. I don’t care, I snort Afrin like Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet. And I insist on the menthol kind, not that lame beginners’ stuff for people with their sinuses still intact. But back to the city-wide plague — our metropolitan nightmare is pollen. There, I said the pword. Especially tree pollen from oak, birch, and willow trees. You know that song “Willow Weep For Me?” The lyrics say, “Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me.” That pretty much sums up what’s going on around here. Memphis is a city of trees, particularly oaks, which are the main culprit. Those furry green strings on your patio furniture are called oak catkins, in case you were curious. The foliage may be lovely in May, but according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation’s annual list of the 10 worst U.S. cities for allergy sufferers, Memphis ranks #8. We’re #8! We rank just lower than Knoxville and Louisville, but higher than Baton Rouge. You’d think all that Spanish Moss would have kicked them up a notch, but I’ve heard Cajuns are made of alligator hide. Memphis is the perfect incubator for pollen: lots of trees, warm temperatures, gusting winds. We should all start wearing those surgical masks like the Japanese — and Michael Jackson. Since we’ve just been sitting around wheezing, I’ve had the chance to watch a lot of television — a whole lot — and I noticed that the airwaves are filled with so many commercials for Claritin or Zyrtec, or any of the 100 more remedies on your pharmacist’s shelf, there’s hardly any room left for programming. The drug companies tell you in their ads that their concoctions will relieve the symptoms, so you know they’re bound to be right. Pardon me, I need a tissue. We’ve been going with Claritin, but the directions say to just take one pill a day. I eat a fistful of pills every day anyway. What’s some microscopic tablet going to do for me? The only thing to do is tough it out for the next two months, stay indoors and watch TV, applying periodic doses of Visine. Watch that Scientology expose on HBO. That will take your mind off of your nasal cavities. Melody also has me hooked on a show called, Chrisley Knows Best, about a Georgia family where everyone is a laugh riot. I find that watching too many news programs provokes wracking fits of violent coughing, so I’ve taken to a steady diet of Netflix revenge-fantasy movies where the protagonist hunts down and kills the people who wronged him in some grotesque way. The earthquake was interesting. Not the one along the New Madrid Fault, but the Memphis quake when Kentucky lost to Wisconsin. I haven’t seen so much schadenfreude since the Watergate hearings. The bad news is that it’s going to get worse. According to the experts over at Pollen.com, the forecast for Memphis indicates pollen levels in “the extremely high range.” This means if you’re one of the 50 million people suffering from seasonal allergies, it will be “difficult outdoors.” So bust out the Benadryl and suffer along with the rest of us. There’s lots of rain in the forecast. Some people believe that when rain pours down on the tree pollen, it somehow lessens the effects. It doesn’t. It’s allergy season and rain can’t stop it, so get used to breathing through your mouth. Buy tissues in gross since you’ll need them, and try not to shout at the TV every time Ted Cruz appears on the news. Come back outside at the end of April and enjoy the trees in bloom, shed of their fuzzy creatures. It’s been said that from tiny acorns mighty oaks grow. I think we’ve got about all the oak trees we can take. Maybe Ronald Reagan was right when he said that trees cause pollution. Those killer oak catkins are messing up the paint job on my car. You’ll have to excuse me now. It’s time for another Afrin hit. Randy Haspel writes the “Recycled Hippies” blog, where a version of this column first appeared.

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TUT-UNCOMMON ANTIQUES 421 N. Watkins St. 278-8965 1500 sq. ft. of Vintage & Antique Jewelry. Retro Furniture and Accessories. Original Paintings, Sculpture, Pottery, Art & Antiques. We are the only store in the Mid-South that replaces stones in costume jewelry.

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BUCCANEER LOUNGE since 1967 4/8: Andrew Bryant, The Gunshy, James & The Ultrasounds 4/9: Brad’s B’day party w/Maitre D’s 4/11: Millions & Millions, Toy Trucks, Dave Ray Phillip Band 4/12: 4:30-7 Richard, Elizabeth Wise, Gally Late Show

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SPT Dental Smile Clinic. Dr. Brown. Immediate Appointments. Call 901.744.2225 Near Downtown

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