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Time moves in one direction, memory in another. — William Gibson This week, an old friend sent me a photo of myself, circa 1978. In the picture, I was thin, long-haired, and standing barefoot on the porch of an old farmhouse where we lived, just outside of Columbia, Missouri. It was a shock to see it. I don’t remember my friends and I taking many photographs, and I didn’t remember this moment, but there I was, captured on film, wearing a blue T-shirt and bell-bottom jeans. That long-ago moment happened, even though I had no memory of it.

Memory is a tricky thing, especially when the years pile up. I recently watched the documentary, Salinger, about the reclusive author of Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, and precious few other works. J.D. Salinger was one of my favorite authors when I got out of college. I probably read his books in that farmhouse.

I learned a lot from the documentary: how Salinger was terribly impacted by his World War II combat experience and by witnessing the Nazi death camps as the war was ending, how he thereafter fixated on young women, eventually marrying three 19-year-olds at various times in his life. According to one ex-wife, he was a selfish, obsessive jerk.

My memories of Salinger’s work were mostly about his characters’ quest for authenticity, their fascination with Buddhism and Eastern philosophy, and their abhorrence of the phony, shallow people that surrounded them. I remembered the books as being brilliant. I decided I should revisit them in light of what I’d learned about the author. Probably a bad idea.

As I reread Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, and Nine Stories, I was struck by how much of Salinger’s writing was dialogue interrupted by incessant descriptions of lighting and putting out cigarettes. It seemed dated, talky, not at all how I remembered it. What once seemed authentic and edgy no longer did.

Then memory doubled down, as the news of David Bowie’s death flooded the internet on Monday. Videos of his songs were unavoidable. On social media, everyone had a story about how his music changed them in some real way. Bowie died as he lived — on the edge, pushing boundaries. His final video, Lazarus, was haunting and thought-provoking and beautiful, everything that seems to be lacking in so much of our music and culture now.

“Phony” was Holden Caulfield’s favorite word, and phony is what we’re seeing everywhere. The line between what’s authentic and what’s noisy and meaningless has seldom been more blurred. For far too many Americans, musical talent is N E WS & O P I N I O N defined by the ability to wow the judges LETTERS - 4 of The Voice or American Idol. If there THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 are Bob Dylans or Neil Youngs or Joni THE FLY-BY - 6 POLITICS - 10 Mitchells out there now — and there EDITORIAL - 12 surely are — their road to getting heard is VIEWPOINT - 13 long and hard.

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Letters and comments from Flyer readers serious problem we had was whether the home crowd would boo Nick Calathes?

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About Kevin Lipe’s post, “Thunder 112, Grizzlies 94: Next Day Lamentations” …

The Griz are playing like the coach has no idea at all how to put together lineups that make sense in terms of maximizing results. The players are playing like they realize this, can’t do anything about it, and are resigned to it. The big question to me is: If Robert Pera decides it’s time to blow it up and start over, does he think he has the front office and coaching staff to rebuild it, or does he need to blow up the whole organization?

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I am upset that Harris would challenge Steve Cohen. Is he running to Cohen’s right? Because Harris has always sold himself as a progressive, right down to picketing with union members.

In a chamber where seniority breeds power, Cohen has delivered for Memphis. He’s a well-known national figure on the progressive wing of the party.

As for Harris saying Cohen should not bother with resolutions to rid a federal building of J. Edgar Hoover’s name, I say Hoover was committed to harming MLK and the civil rights movement. I’m proud that Cohen represents me and my values.

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V E R B AT I M Tennessee Representative Andy Holt made national headlines last week after he tweeted and deleted his support for the federal wildlife refuge-occupying Bundy militia.

His comments came from liberals and conservatives alike. Nobody described the fallout from Holt’s scandalous tweet better than Nashville Scene blogger Jeff Woods, who wrote, “For grabbing attention, it might go down in Twitter history — right there with Kourtney Kardashian’s iconic ‘do ants have dicks?’ tweet.”

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PA R A D E C R I T I C A writer for Arkansas’ Northwest Democrat Gazette was unimpressed

by Memphis’ New Year’s Day celebration on Beale. As part of his Liberty Bowl coverage, Bobby Ampezzan fired off a column titled “Fans in Memphis Find Kooky Collection in Parade.” According to Ampezzan, “The parade featured two AutoZone semi-trucks, high school marching bands from as far away as Ohio, a couple of New Orleans-style krewes, and a Chevy Camaro car club.” And things just get worse from there: “One float advertising pizza featured a few unskilled dancers plodding their way through the Cha-Cha Slide. Another for Gun Oil featured plaid-clad dudes pitching Mardi Gras beads. By the time the Razorbacks’ spirit squad and marching band came through, spectators clapped their approval because this, at least, had something to do with something.” @ M I S TA K E N I D E N T I T Y Memphis educator Pat McFadden received his 15 minutes of internet fame last week because he shares a name with a British Labour Party politician who was sacked from his Shadow Cabinet position. By virtue of having the Twitter handle @patmcfadden, the Latin teacher at St. Mary’s School was frequently tagged in heated political conversations.

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

CITY REPORTER B y To b y S e l l s

New day dawns on grassroots movements for the Mid-South Coliseum, Fairgrounds.

New plans for the Mid-South Coliseum and the Memphis Fairgrounds are being drawn on what two communityled organizations believe is a blank slate for the shuttered building and largely vacant land in the center of Memphis.

When the Coliseum Coalition was created about a year ago, momentum to raze the building and build a huge youth sports complex on the 175-acre Fairgrounds site seemed unstoppable. Heavy equipment was set to roll on East Parkway as soon as Robert Lipscomb, then the city’s director of Housing and Community Development, got state approval for the site’s Tourism Development Zone (TDZ) status, the funding mechanism required to get started. The Coalition helped stall those plans with calls and events to get more community input on the project.

Lipscomb is now out of the picture, following an alleged rape scandal. His boss, former mayor A C Wharton, is out of office. And the TDZ funding idea is seemingly off the table.

Marvin Stockwell, a founding member of the Coalition, has now founded Friends of the Fairgrounds (FOTF) to bring Memphis voices together and plan its future with the same grassroots style as the Coalition. He said it is undoubtedly a “new day for the Fairgrounds.”

“It’s always felt like there’s an overarching plan that we could only hope to alter a bit,” Stockwell said. “Now, it feels like there’s a blank slate. What’s it going to be? What would be best for Memphis?”

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Stockwell said he wants the FOTF to engage people from neighborhoods around the Fairgrounds and build a master plan “that the entire city can buy into, that is just for Memphians.”

Mike McCarthy, president of the Coalition, considers that last sentiment to be a core statement for his group and for the new push on plans for the Coliseum and the Fairgrounds.

“Whatever happens [at the Fairgrounds and the Coliseum], it’s for us. It’s not like Graceland, which is for them,” McCarthy said, referring to tourists as “them.”

As for next steps, Coalition treasurer Roy Barnes said if Mayor Jim Strickland approves the idea, a team of volunteer architects and engineers are prepared to make a preliminary assessment of the building, which was shuttered in 2006.

Next, the Coalition would form a business plan for the Coliseum to show, possibly, the cost of its renovation and its day-to-day operation. Then, the group would commission an economic impact study of an open, operating Coliseum.

What exactly would operate inside the building remains a question, Barnes said. But he and McCarthy hoped the venue could once again host concerts, many of which are now hosted in venues in North Mississippi.

They hoped the building could be active even without concerts as a home to museums for, perhaps, Memphis wrestling, rhythm and blues, and University of Memphis sports, and as a large community center.

COUNTY REPORTER

By Bianca Phillips

Shelby County launches Mental Health Court.

Shelby County General Sessions Judge Gerald Skahan often sees the same defendants time and time again in his criminal courtroom.

“They’re people who have serious, persistent mental health issues, and we see them over and over. It’s like, ‘You’re back again, Steve.’ It’s the same thing every time,” Skahan said.

Some repeat offenders suffering from mental illness are accused of serious, violent crimes, but Skahan said the majority are charged with what he calls “nuisance crimes” — shoplifting, public drunkenness, crimes associated with drug use. The court calls them “frequent fliers,” meaning they’re in and out of jail eight to 10 times per year.

Beginning this month, defendants suffering from mental illness will be given a chance to have their charges dropped in exchange for completing a year-long mental health treatment plan determined by the new Shelby County Mental Health Court.

Much like the county drug court and veterans court, the mental health court will be voluntary, and defendants will have to be referred, either by their attorney, the prosecution, or a mental health facility. Skahan will

preside over the court.

“Starting off, we don’t plan to take in anyone with violence in their past, but we will look at it on a caseby-case basis,” Skahan said. “If they have stabbing or a shooting, certainly not. But if somebody is having a psychotic episode, and an officer is trying to restrain him to get him into jail, and he fights with the cop, is that really an assault? Probably not.”

“This is a tremendous savings because it’s expensive to house [a mentally ill inmate] in jail and give them their medcine ... it can cost in the millions.”

— Gerald Skahan To qualify, the defendant must have what Skahan calls a “severe and persistent mental illness,” so someone with a mild case of depression may not qualify, but a person with debilitating depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia would likely be taken in by the court.

Once they’ve made an appearance in Skahan’s courtroom, a plan for treatment would be outlined, and

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they’d have to adhere to the plan to make it through the program. However, Skahan said, due to the nature of mental illness, he expects he’ll be giving some defendants multiple chances when they fail.

“We would be involved in their life for a year, and we’d get them set up with mental health treatment or drug and alcohol treatment, depending on what they need,” said Kim Daugherty, the mental health court coordinator.

“Some people might need inpatient care and some may not. It depends on the severity of their illness.”

Care would be paid for either through a defendant’s own insurance or through the state’s Behavioral Health Safety Net funds, Skahan said. So there’d be no additional cost to Shelby County taxpayers. The court was made possible by two state grants — one for around $80,000 and another for $125,000.

“The benefit to the community is this is a tremendous savings because it’s expensive to house somebody in jail and give them their medicine.

Studies have shown it can cost in the millions,” Skahan said. “If somebody gets arrested 40 times in the next five years, that’s going to cost thousands of dollars. The workload on jail staff for one person with mental health issues is usually the equivalent of what they do for 10 non-mental health inmates.”

The court will see its first defendant this week, and there will be a public open house celebration some time in February, but the date is yet to be determined.

“It’s vital we address the underlying reasons for criminal behavior. The mental health court will ensure the offender gets the needed assistance to reduce the chance of reoffending. This specialized court will be an effective and innovative asset to our criminal justice system,” said Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell, who was invited as First Lady Michelle Obama’s guest for the State of the Union due to his work on criminal justice reform.

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McCarthy maintains that preserving the Coliseum is about building on existing Memphis culture for current and future generations, not “recycling” it in new buildings with no history. Barnes said the Coalition is still fighting the idea that the building’s preservation is tied up with nostalgia.

“It’s a beautiful building,” Barnes said. “More than that, it’s a viable building in the center of Memphis.”

Memphis historian Jimmy Ogle will lead a walking tour around the Fairgrounds and Coliseum this Sunday at 2 p.m.

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An area clear-cut by the city without a permit.

Less than 10 days remain in a cease-and-desist order issued by the Corps of Engineers that halted the clearing of trees and underbrush from the east banks of the Wolf River Harbor.

The clearing, initiated by Mayor A C Wharton’s administration, began in December, when more than 1,000 yards of trees and underbrush were razed from the riverbank — with much of the clearing occurring on the bank below the Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid.

Shortly after, the Corps issued a cease-and-desist order to the city because they were operating without proper environmental permits.

“To me, it’s not a silly, minor issue. They need to do some serious mitigation for this,” said local environmental activist Naomi Van Tol, who noted the irony of a massive clearing she calls “unnecessary” occurring directly below a retail giant that touts conservancy as a core principle of their mission.

Van Tol and other environmentalists have several concerns about the clearing, but the potential destabilization of the riverbank stands out.

“Many of those trees are over a hundred years old.

The trees, the underbrush … that’s what was holding the bank together,” said Van Tol, who witnessed large amounts of dirt being removed from the bank and dumped in the harbor.

Should any portion of the harbor collapse and create the need for corrective action, the cost will

likely be shouldered by taxpayers, Van Tol said.

Gregg Williams, chief of the regulatory branch of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, signed off on the public notice of the cease-anddesist, but he would not speculate on potential damage.

“We’re not for or against the project.

We’ll look at the comments. We’ll look at the assessment, and then we’ll make a decision once we have all of the information we’ll need,” Williams said.

Jack Sammons, the former chief administrative officer for the city, initially authorized the clearing as part of the Bass Pro public-private partnership to redevelop the Pyramid and the surrounding area. The clearing of the trees was to provide unobstructed views for patrons of Bass Pro and to make way for a floating boat dock for Bass Pro’s planned fishing tournaments.

Van Tol is quick to point out that an unobstructed view was already available from the observation deck, and the floodwalls surrounding the Pyramid already restrict view into the harbor and river.

“There was absolutely no point in the clearing.

None,” Van Tol said.

When contacted, Bass Pro would only say that they had nothing to do with the decision to cut down trees.

“We were unaware that any trees were ordered cut down around our facility. This was conducted by the City of Memphis. This was not our decision,” Bass Pro spokesperson Jack Wlezien said.

An after-the-fact permit for continued work could be issued by the Corps, but according to Mayor Jim Strickland’s Chief Communications Officer Ursula Madden, no further clearing work is being planned at this time.

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Capitol Serendipity County Mayor Luttrell and Memphis Mayor Strickland get some useful exposure in Washington. address the county mayor delivered to a White House conference last year and one which Obama is keen to address, in light of several volatile and sometimes fatal incidents nationwide that have scarred citizen relations with police and with the legal system at large.

Prior to his elections as Shelby County sheriff and county mayor, Luttrell’s background had been in penal administration.

After the Luttrell invitation was made public, 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen evidently thought the newly inaugurated Strickland should be in on the action as well, and invited the mayor to the State of the Union address as his guest.

Strickland should not necessarily expect to get as much air time as his county counterpart Luttrell, but that prospect should not be discounted, either. There probably has not been a single State of the Union telecast since Cohen was first elected to Congress in 2006 at which the irrepressible Memphis congressman has not figured prominently, both before and after the speech itself, in proximity to the President.

Assuming that congressional Mr. Luttrell and Mr. Strickland go to Washington.

protocol allows Strickland to join Cohen on the floor of the House of Representatives, where members of both congressional chambers convene to hear the address, the Memphis mayor is sure to get his share of the limelight.

While in Washington, Strickland has also scheduled visits to the offices of Cohen and U.S. Representative Stephen Fincher (R-8th), as well as Tennessee’s two Republican Senators, Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker.

Cohen’s invitation to Strickland, while a thoughtful gesture under the circumstances, also has obvious political ramifications for both men. It gives Strickland some useful exposure beyond his own bailiwick, and it provides Cohen with a practical opportunity to cement relations with the new mayor after an election in which the congressman publicly endorsed Strickland’s major opponent, thenincumbent Mayor A C Wharton.

• Luttrell’s trip to Washington as the First Lady’s guest has already paid some specific dividends to him locally, earning the mayor both a respite from his ongoing power struggle with the Terry Roland-chaired Shelby County Commission and perhaps even a temporary truce.

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Between the time these words are written on Tuesday morning and the time they are read, Wednesday (when Flyer copies first hit the street) or thereafter, Memphis officials will have made their presence known in Washington.

This is true in both a literal and a figurative sense — literal, in that both Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell and Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland are sure to have been seen by a national audience; figurative, in that, in the nation’s capitol, in the state capitol of Nashville, and (not least) back home, the sighting(s) will create a positive vibe for various public purposes of importance to Memphis and Shelby County.

As has been well publicized, Luttrell was expressly invited to sit in the box of First Lady Michelle Obama during the State of the Union address by President Obama Tuesday night.

Luttrell’s presence was accounted for in a statement regarding all of the First Lady’s boxmates: “The guests personify President Obama’s time in office and, most importantly, they represent who we are as Americans: inclusive and compassionate, innovative, and courageous.”

In particular, Luttrell apparently was included because of his work on criminal justice reform — the subject of an

Marcy Ingram, commission administration assistant Quran Folsom, and county financial officer Mike Swift.

The details, as set forth in the letter, seemed plausible enough as a defense of the altered number as an unfortunate accident, but even this de facto apology, forthrightly stated for the most part, contained a hint of reproach: “[W]e regret that our office and your office were not working directly with each other on this matter.

Perhaps some confusion would have been eliminated.”

For all the public kumbaya of this week, the power struggle seems likely to continue.

“That alarmed us,” Luttrell said. “And then when this draft resolution came down, we said, ‘Okay, we really need to get some clarity from the state comptroller’s office. Let’s just go to the comptroller, so we’ll know where we stand.’” That accounts for the dispatching of a copy of the resolution to Nashville.

A letter last week from Kim Hackney, deputy CAO, to Roland supplies further explanation of the incident from the administration’s point of view. The letter suggests that the alteration of the amount sought for transfer occurred inadvertently as copies of the resolution were passed back and forth between deputy County Attorney

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auditorium of the Vasco Smith County Administration Building at Monday’s regularly scheduled county commission meeting to read into the record a resolution of congratulations to the mayor from Commissioner Walter Bailey, adding some gracious words of tribute of his own and thereby making a point of associating himself with Luttrell’s enhanced persona and White House honor.

It was one of the few moments of emotional unity in Shelby County government since sometime last year, when the commission, more or less as a whole, fell out with Luttrell over the administration’s fiscal accounting and what commissioners saw as an over-proprietary role vis-à-vis the commission. The resolution received unanimous approval.

The fact is that Luttrell, who had left the county building to make his plane to Washington and could not respond directly to the commission’s resolution, is not out of the woods yet. Just before he received his invitation from the First Lady and the fact was publicized, the mayor had been involved in a developing imbroglio.

Roland and the chairman’s main commission ally, Heidi Shafer, had accused the administration of doctoring a commission resolution prepared by Roland and routing the doctored version to the state comptroller’s office in Nashville by way of embarrassing the chairman.

Roland’s resolution, clearly intended as a salvo in the running argument between an apparent commission majority and the mayor, sought to have the county’s fund surplus — the amount of which has been a matter of dispute between the commission and the mayor — routed from the administration’s financial office to the commission’s contingency fund.

Such a resolution, if passed, would not only put points on the board for the commission in its contest with the mayor, it would in theory give the commission an independent set of eyes in determining just exactly what the county’s surplus for 2014-2015 had been — whether $6 million, as the administration had first reported in advising the commission against a property tax decrease, or somewhere in the neighborhood of $21 million or even higher, as commissioners came to believe on the basis of late-breaking information.

Before the resolution could be acted on by the full commission, a copy of it went to the comptroller’s office, and where there had been a blank for the amount of the imagined surplus intended for transfer, there was now entered an amount of $107,772,795.00 — which was the amount of the county’s entire fund balance!

As the comptroller’s office promptly notified all the local parties, such a transfer would be illegal and impossible, since it would deprive the county of its entire operating monies for any and all purposes.

When that response went public, Roland

cried foul, and he and Shafer suggested that nothing short of forgery could account for what he called a “blatantly altered” document.

A planned “discussion” of the matter was on the commission’s agenda for its committee sessions on Wednesday, but Roland said it was being withdrawn pending further “investigation” of the matter.

Asked for his response to the matter on Thursday, Luttrell recalled that, during a recent weekend budget summit between the administration and the commission, there had been a dispute over the issue of who should have supervision of the county’s surplus funds.

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According to advance forecasts, one of the issues to be taken up, both by the president in his address and by the legislature, when it gets down to business, concerns the increased incidence of deadly weaponry in the body politic. Obama is expected to dilate even further on the measures he took last week to secure some extremely modest curbs on the sale of firearms to certifiably mentally ill persons and on the ridiculously wide-open availability of guns that can be sold at gun shows without buyers having to undergo even minimal background checks.

As the president noted last week, there was a time when the National Rifle Association itself favored such safeguards, but the N.R.A.’s position these days is an adamant resistance and an apparent conviction that the only remedy to the violence stemming from an everincreasing supply of guns is more guns.

As it happens, the majority of members of the General Assembly in Nashville have seemed to be of that persuasion in recent years as well. As the 2015 legislature left matters, there were virtually no gun-free zones left, and there are likely to be moves to follow in the wake of nearby states such

as Arkansas and Mississippi, which have opted for open-carry laws so permissive as to basically be nonexistent. An opinion issued last year by Tennessee’s Attorney General may save the legislators the bother of having to pass new laws to catch up with our neighbors, but that won’t keep some of the gun nuts in the General Assembly from trying.

Even as the president in Washington may be boasting about the increasing numbers of Americans now covered by health insurance and medical attention fostered by the Affordable Care Act, there is a consensus that a firewall will continue to exist in Nashville against the kind of legislation, such as Governor Bill Haslam’s rejected Insure Tennessee proposal, that could secure an overdue expansion of health care in Tennessee. Nor is the General Assembly likely to consider a gasoline tax or any other form of serious revenue enhancement to tackle the task of overhauling the state’s clearly deteriorating infrastructure. That, too, will evidently be left to the feds to do something about.

Ah, but the General Assembly does have its priorities — such as the kind of restrictions on abortion and same-sex marriage that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an infinite number of times in the former case and is sure to disapprove in the latter case as well. And there is a new bill on file from Nashville state Representative Glen Casada to preempt affordable housing legislation by localities, just as previous measures succeeded in depriving cities and counties from establishing their own wage and ethics standards.

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Changing the Guard The Strickland administration has an opportunity to revamp how police work is done in Memphis.

Focusing on developing relationships in the community will minimize the alienation that is common in traditional patrols.

Those relationships also provide a “boots on the ground” intelligence to identify other societal ills that may be occurring in communities (domestic violence, child abuse or neglect, unfit housing, wage theft, and other problems people who feel forgotten may not report, because they don’t believe anything will be done about it).

These things are important for a city like Memphis that has a high rate of working poor. While the loss of decades of institutional memory may seem like a severe problem for the city, problems are really just opportunities ripe for the taking.

Positive changes are unlikely to come from within. Institutions have their own inertia and generally follow Newtonian laws of motion, meaning they will most certainly maintain their current velocity and direction unless acted upon by an external force, and even then, they’ll still resist any push to change.

The opportunity for Memphis and law enforcement in the new administration is to identify the right kind of “external force” that will move the department in the right direction and make Memphis not only safer for its citizens but also a city that places a high degree of value in a cooperative relationship between the police and the community.

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Changing the way the department polices the city is another issue to address.

Instituting a community policing program would help heal fractures and most likely lead to a real decrease in crime.

Officers in Memphis have little direct contact with the populations they’re serving unless they’re on a call. That means officers only see the people they’re serving when they’re at their worst or in a bad situation. This negatively impacts their outlook on the community and leads to more alienation.

While walking patrols may not be feasible in every neighborhood, focusing on developing relationships in the community will minimize the alienation that is common in traditional patrols. It also builds relationships between the public and police that are durable, even when things go wrong.

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It was recently announced that Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong and nearly half of his command staff are leaving the department. While there’s no question the departure of so many seasoned officers will be a huge loss, it also gives newly inaugurated Mayor Jim Strickland an opportunity to remake the department to better serve the community.

The department faces many external challenges and suffers from internal problems that have been long ignored. These challenges are unlikely to be adequately addressed by an insider.

One of the flaws that was exposed in the investigation into the officer involved in the shooting death of Darrius Stewart is the lack of consistent policy positions for officers in what would often be standard situations.

Currently, rules are written vaguely, giving officers the latitude to make judgment calls. Unfortunately, that latitude can also be used to treat different people in similar situations very differently. This ultimately undermines the relationship between law enforcement and populations that have been wrongly targeted due to circumstances that are beyond their control (race, the condition of their vehicles/residences, and the areas in which they live).

Rules that detail when passengers involved in traffic stops are to identify themselves need to be put in writing.

This will ensure people’s privacy rights are respected, and officers don’t accidentally create a situation where an arrest is thrown out due to mishandling.

Clear rules about when to call for backup need to be in place.

Finally, rules about when force, either restraining force or deadly force, is to be used need to be in line with a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court ruling which involved an unarmed, fleeing suspect and the Memphis Police Department.

That ruling states deadly force cannot be used unless the officer has “probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.”

The new police administration should actively engage the Citizen Law Enforcement Review Board (CLERB) on any new policy adopted and treat their relationship as a partnership to both inform the public of new policy and provide oversight when policy violations are reported.

For too long, relations between law enforcement and the public have been strained due to real and/or perceived wrongs committed by officers. Partnering with the CLERB will give the public the assurance that conduct issues will be dealt

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Dreamers Meet two Hispanic students who are fighting the odds — and hoping to make a difference for others in their situation.

or Frankie Paz, a 19-year-old student at Christian Brothers University, it was a day like any other: up at 3 a.m. for an eight-hour shift at Starbucks on Union, then a quick change of clothes before heading to campus for a full load of classes. He arrived home at 8 p.m. for dinner with his mother and siblings, before a few hours of sleep and a new day, with the same mix of work and school.

This typical day, however, was interrupted by an invitation to accompany CBU President John Smarrelli Jr. to the White House, where President Barack

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Obama would recognize the university’s investment in Latino youth. A couple of days later, Frankie was photographed in the Blue Room flanked by the two presidents — Smarrelli and Obama.

From Memphis to the White House and back. It’s an unlikely journey for the Honduras native who entered the United States illegally as a 3-year-old, especially given the current national political climate and Tennessee’s reluctance to facilitate the success of kids like Frankie. But Frankie’s story and the story of Jocelyn Vazquez, another thriving young Latina in Memphis, personify the struggles, resiliency, strength, and hopes of the immigrant experience here in Memphis and in pockets across the United States.

“Despite the efforts of some to vilify immigrants and refugees, a key component of our national identity is a United States that symbolizes safety and opportunity for migrants,” said David Lubell, a former Memphian and the executive director and founder of Atlantabased Welcoming America, an organization that seeks to develop inclusive communities that embrace immigrants. “The successes of hardworking young immigrants are the foundation upon which we continue to fight to preserve our reputation as a country that welcomes strivers from around the world.”

On June 15, 2012, recognizing the need for such a foundation after the hope of comprehensive immigration reform faded, President Obama signed an executive order providing for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

This executive action, signed after months of unrelenting pressure from young Latino and Latina activists, offers relief for people who as children came to or remained in the United States without proper documentation. After filing an application and passing background checks, these DACA youth are offered a renewable two-year deferred status to work, study, and live here without daily fear of deportation.

DACA, of course, is a temporary status and could be rescinded with the stroke of a pen by any future president. In fact, most of the Republican Party’s presidential candidates have pledged to “correct” President Obama’s “executive overreach.”

Meanwhile, DACA has given hundreds of thousands of people like Frankie the chance to pursue their dreams.

As a beneficiary of DACA, Frankie’s journey to the United States, and later to the White House, is harrowing but also typical. In Honduras, Frankie’s mother, immersed in poverty and with no path to a more promising future for her children there, looked North. She traveled north, crossed into the United States, and then arranged for Frankie

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and his siblings to make the overland journey to meet her.

The family reunited in Pasadena, California, and stayed there for seven years. They moved to South Carolina, then to Louisiana, and then back to South Carolina. Six years ago, they settled in Memphis. During the moves, Frankie’s mother worked as a waitress and in construction to make ends meet. For more than a decade, the American Dream proved elusive, with the family enduring periods of hunger and homelessness.

But here in Memphis, the Paz family has flourished. Frankie’s mother started her own cleaning business and saved enough to buy a home in Midtown for her family. She has always insisted that Frankie and his younger brother and sister would attend college.

During his final year at Kingsbury High School, Frankie looked at opportunities for higher education. Tennessee’s state universities were not an option because Tennessee mandates DACA students pay out-of-state tuition, which is nearly three times more expensive than in-state tuition.

Frankie considered traveling to West Memphis to attend Arkansas State University Mid-South, a school that offers tuition equity and recruits DACA students from Memphis. Frankie’s mother also thought about selling her house to help Frankie pay for college.

Then, in the fall of 2014, Frankie found an opportunity to study at Christian Brothers University. Thanks to a $3.5 million gift from an anonymous donor, the university created the Latino Student Success program, which gives DACA students who graduate from area high schools an opportunity to attend CBU at a reduced cost. Frankie was presented as a candidate to CBU through his contacts at Latino Memphis. The agency has served the Latino community for two decades and supports a program called Abriendo Puertas, or Opening Doors, which offers support to students who hope to attend college.

At the same time he began his studies at Christian Brothers, Frankie started his job at Starbucks. He works 35 hours a week, while taking six classes. During rare free moments, he plays soccer with friends.

Frankie often looks at the picture of himself with President Obama. “I told the president that thanks to DACA and CBU, my life has changed,” he says. “My dreams are being realized.

“But when I look at that picture, I don’t see me,” he says. “I see all of the people who invested in me so that I could be there. I see my mother and my teachers and my professors. A lot of people have believed in me so that I could become who I am.”

Frankie acknowledges the future is never completely predictable, but he knows one thing for certain: “I want to stay here in Memphis and give back to this community. This place has given me everything.”

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education are two things that Frankie shares with Jocelyn.

Jocelyn, a senior at Immaculate Conception Cathedral School, was looking forward to the school’s December 12th formal dance at the Peabody Hotel. The dance was just the beginning of an evening when she and her friends would meet up with their families for the late-night Our Lady of Guadalupe procession and reception at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

Despite these big plans, Jocelyn’s thoughts focused on college. Next year, she hopes to attend Rhodes College here in Memphis. Her other top choices are Davidson and Wake Forest, both in North Carolina.

Since she was a young child, Jocelyn’s parents have prioritized education. They made countless sacrifices to send her and her younger sister to Catholic schools in the city. First it was St. Therese Little Flower, then Saint Michael, followed by IC. “My parents value education. Homework always comes first. And they understand the importance of a solid education. That’s their main objective for me and my sister.”

The family’s journey out of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, to the United States was challenging. Jocelyn said her dad moved here first, arriving in South Carolina, where he quickly found work. Shortly thereafter, Jocelyn, a 4-year-old at the time, her younger sister, and her mother arrived by bus from Mexico with tourist visas. They overstayed their visas and began new lives in the United States.

“My dad walked much of the way from Potosí to the U.S. border; he arrived in South Carolina with $20 in his pocket.”

Now he is a construction manager and owns the home where the family lives, along with two rental homes. Jocelyn’s mother works cleaning houses, and Jocelyn’s sister also attends Immaculate Conception.

Jocelyn’s parents sent her to Rhodes last summer to attend a writing camp. Motivated high school students interact with college faculty, focus on building writing skills, and get some experience as to how college works. Jocelyn studied international relations with professor Steve Ceccoli, which she says inspired her. Jocelyn now wants to attend law school one day and hopes to work with Latino communities in the South. “There is a lot of change that needs to happen here,” she says.

In her sophomore year at IC, Jocelyn learned that attaining a college degree in Tennessee would be difficult due to her immigration status. She decided to meet the challenges head on and now refers to her immigration status as a “blessing in disguise, because it’s forced me to be courageous and not to give up. And to be grateful for everything.”

Jocelyn was recently selected as a Golden Door scholar — a sort of pay-it-forward program. It’s a partnership between small, private colleges such as Davidson, Oberlin, Elon, Wake Forest and private donors that offers tuition support to DACA kids, provided the recipients promise to help younger DACA students attend college. It’s an extremely competitive scholarship. The organization funds 15 students a year and typically receives more than 700 applicants.

Jocelyn is well aware of the daunting prospects for children in her circumstances.

“Only five to 10 percent of undocumented children in states that don’t support tuition equality ever achieve any type of post-secondary education,” she says.

Tennessee is one of 25 states that do not provide tuition equality to DACA students.

Tennessee is one of 25 states that do not provide tuition equality to DACA students.

Kids like Frankie and Jocelyn must pay three times the tuition rate of other in-state students at a state-supported school such as the University of Memphis. This translates to approximately $16,000 more per year, and DACA students are not eligible for federal student loans.

In the absence of a state legislative fix, private donors and programs like the ones mentioned above have emerged to support these driven young people, but there are still relatively few opportunities. Each year, thousands of kids graduate from Tennessee schools who could benefit from tuition equality.

The upcoming Tennessee legislative session in Nashville offers the chance to pass a tuition equality bill in Tennessee that would allow DACA recipients such as Frankie and Jocelyn to pay in-state tuition rates. The bill passed the state Senate last year and was one vote shy of passage in the House. State Representative Mark White (R-Memphis) has provided strong leadership to help move the bill through the legislature. Leaders in the business community, educators, and the Tennessee Board of Regents have all expressed support for the bill. Governor Bill Haslam has promised to sign the bill if it makes it to his desk, but the outcome in the House is far from clear.

Meanwhile, some 200 miles away from the governor’s office, Frankie wakes up at 3 a.m. He’ll grab his green apron and start making coffee before a long day of classes.

Across town, Jocelyn picks up her books and heads to IC, her dream of college still intact.

If, as Lubell suggests, the battle for our identity rests on the foundation laid by kids like these, then the future of our city and our nation certainly rests on solid ground.

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The Kid

In my personal Field of Dreams, Ken Griffey Jr. would be in the lineup.

So would Stubby Clapp and Bo Hart. I’d be the guy merely asking one of them to play catch a few minutes.

Griffey is just the second man younger than me to enter the Hall of Fame (after 2015 inductee Pedro Martinez). As an 18-year-old outfielder in 1988, Griffey played 17 games with the Double-A Vermont Mariners, who played their home games at Centennial Field in Burlington. The previous year, I played my last high school game — a Vermont state championship — in the same stadium, the same outfield. So I can claim one (and precisely one) baseball memory in common with Junior Griffey, the planet’s greatest player of my generation.

Here’s where Griffey’s story gets bittersweet and reflects the generational pull of our national pastime. The Kid is a middle-aged man. His Hall of Fame induction will serve as that mile-marker baseball fans use for players of “yesteryear,” the greats who had their day and have stepped aside for a current crop of sluggers, speeddemons, and flame-throwers. For me personally, his induction is a reminder of one boy’s dream not quite realized.

(I’ll give up on being a big-league player the day I draw my last breath. I have my glove at the ready; I just need a phone call.) And a reminder that no matter how skilled we might be on a baseball diamond, no matter how much we love our time on the base paths or in the outfield, there comes a time for plaques, speeches, and gentle applause. Can the Kid actually have gray hair? Impossible.

The annual Cardinals Caravan rolls into Memphis this Friday (doors open at AutoZone Park at 5:30). Among the headliners appearing will be a current St. Louis Cardinal All-Star (Michael Wacha) and one who appears to have an All-Star Game or two in his future (Stephen Piscotty). Also appearing will be a pair of former Cardinals — a different generation — who are best remembered in these parts for their exploits with the Memphis Redbirds.

Stubby Clapp (now 42) will be here, and I’m guessing for the right price he just might try a backflip. Bo Hart (now 39 and living in Memphis) will also be here, the man who succeeded Clapp at second base for the Redbirds in 2003.

Upon being promoted by the Cardinals that summer, Hart picked up 18 hits in his first 35 at-bats, a debut unmatched by any other player in major-league history (including Junior Griffey).

Hart played a total of 88 games in the big leagues, but he lived the dream, particularly for two weeks.

In my personal Field of Dreams, Ken Griffey Jr. would be in the lineup.

So would Stubby Clapp and Bo Hart.

I’d be the guy merely asking one of them to play catch a few minutes.

Baseball is indeed timeless. There will be new heroes to compare with those your parents cheered, just as your folks compared their heroes with those of your grandparents. But relish the moments provided by those of your own generation, particularly a Hall of Fame induction. Baseball may be timeless, but alas, we are not.

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’ve interviewed my share of professional baseball players over the last 15 years (most of them Memphis Redbirds). The most consistent answer I’ve heard to any regular question has been the favorite player of these men growing up: Ken Griffey Jr. Infielders, outfielders, pitchers — it doesn’t matter. Almost invariably, they made their own way on baseball diamonds with Junior — or the Kid, as he was affectionately known — as their model. And journalists loved Griffey just as much. Last week, Junior was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame with the highest percentage of the total vote — 99.3 percent — in the history of the institution. (Tom Seaver had held the record for 23 years.) Three voters were apparently napping in the press box as Griffey hit 630 home runs and won 10 Gold Gloves over a 22year career, primarily with the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds. Griffey, sadly, is just the fourth first-ballot Hall of Famer never to have played in a World Series game. (The others: Ernie Banks, Rod Carew, and Frank Thomas.) Which only proves how cruel baseball can be, for no player — including Banks — combined supreme talent with a child-like love for playing the game like Ken Griffey Jr.

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Glitter & Glamor

From Marilyn to Jean

By Chris Davis

Chuck Parr has a sense of humor about his magnificent obsessions. “My friends joke that I’m a hoarder,” he says, describing a museum-like home overflowing with vintage lamps and other mid-20th-century artifacts. “But I’m a hoarder with great stuff.”

Some of Parr’s greatest stuff will be on display at Crosstown Arts this week when the vintage collector/dealer opens “Pin-Up,” a retrospective exhibit and sale of pinup art from the 1890s through the 1980s.

Parr was 18 years old when he started going to flea markets and junk stores. His mother, a Texas beauty queen, watched as her son collected two-tiered lampshades and vintage fashion and teased him for being an old woman who died in the ’50s and was reborn in 1961. He thinks growing up with a glamorous mother is one of the things that attracted him to pinup art.

“The art of the pinup has always been really cool to me,” Parr says. “I bought my first car — a 1982 Chevy van — when I was 35 years old with the money I made selling three original Earl Morans that I bought at the Pulaski Flea Market in Pulaski, Tennessee, for $35 apiece. A week later, I sold them to a collector in Florida for $3,500.” Moran’s a superstar among pinup artists. His best-known model was Marilyn Monroe, who often credited the painter with improving on nature.

“There will be lots of Marilyn in the show,” Parr says. “I’ve been collecting her forever.”

In addition to all the antique glamor shots and calendar girls, Parr will exhibit album covers and Look, Life, and Playboy magazines from the ’60s to the ’80s. “Almost everything has a story,” he says. “I’ve got a picture of Jean Harlow that I bought from a friend of mine who was a stripper in the 1960s. She went by the name 7-foot Suzanne.”

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Science of Beer Pink Palace Museum, 6-9:30 p.m., $35, $25 designated driver Guests learn the science behind what makes beer beer. Includes mini-lectures and activities, plus local brewers will be on hand to share what they know.

Tool Box Bash Memphis Botanic Garden, 7-10 p.m., $60 Annual fund-raiser for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis with live music, food, and a whiskey tasting.

Cardinals Caravan AutoZone Park, 6:30 p.m.

The St. Louis Cardinals’ annual stop in Memphis. Among the players to attend are former Redbirds Stephen Piscotty and Michael Wacha.

Others include Stubby Clapp, Bo Hart, Jason Simontacchi, Patrick Wisdom, and Carson Kelly.

No: 10 Anniversary Show L Ross Gallery, 6-8 p.m.

Opening for this group exhibition marking L Ross Gallery’s 10th year.

Among the featured artists are Pamela Hassler, Butler Steltemeier, Anton Weiss, Eli Gold, Jeanne Seagle, Matthew Hasty, and Annabelle Meacham.

DreamFest Various locations and times A weekend of events in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Tonight kicks off with a concert with Brennan Villines, Life’s Poet, Lady Stax, Devin Crutcher, and many more at 1524 Events & Banquets Facility (1524 Madison).

On Saturday, it’s DreamFest: An Artistik Celebration with more performances, also at 1524 Events & Banquets. On Sunday, it’s Rella Remixed, a hip-hop Cinderella at the Buckman.

Dianne Reeves Germantown Performing Arts Center, 8-9:30 p.m., $38.50 and up A performance by Grammywinning jazz artist Dianne Reeves.

“Ravishing Rachmaninoff ” Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30-9:30 p.m., $15-$79 Part of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s First Tennessee Masterworks series featuring Dvorak’s Carnival Overture, Gandolfi’s Fourth Chickasaw Variations, and Rachmaninoff ’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Chelsea Tipton conducts.

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At the River I Stand Leadership Memphis (365 S. Main), 6 p.m., $5 suggested donation 901 Evolution hosts this screening of the 1993 documentary At the River I Stand about the 1968 sanitation strike.

Planting a Butterfly Garden The Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 10:30 a.m.-noon, $20 A class led by master gardener Suzy Askew covering the basics on creating a butterfly-friendly garden. Participants are asked to bring a copy of their garden plans and a photograph of the space for a consultation on where to locate the plants.

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3rd Annual Health and Wellness Expo Memphis Jewish Community Center, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Featuring vendors and exhibitors covering health and well-being, fitness, nutrition, healing arts, personal growth, and education. There will be workshops, and keynote speaker Mindy Mylrea will lead a class in Tabata.

King Day Celebration National Civil Rights Museum, 8 a.m.

A day full of events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. The museum will be open for tours all day, plus there will be kids’ activities, a voter registration drive, live music, dance, food, and more.

Fairgrounds Tour Mid-South Coliseum, 2-3 p.m.

A walking tour of the natural, cultural, architectural, and entertainment history of the Fairgrounds led

by Jimmy Ogle.

14th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Game FedExForum, 1:30 p.m., $5-$160 The Grizzlies take on the Pelicans tonight during this annual game, which includes a halftime ceremony presenting the 11th Annual Sports Legacy Award and music by R&B artist Leon Bridges.

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Thomas Cole wasn’t always a fan of popular art. The influential 19th-century landscape painter and founder of the Hudson River School was never content painting decorative or simply illustrative work. He was a great admirer of the European Romantics and an inward fan of American author James Fenimore Cooper who wanted to foster a spiritual renewal and make symbol-laden paintings that tell stories and communicate ideas about God, nature, government, and civilization. He sometimes worried that people wouldn’t get him.

“I shall take the series to England and shall endeavor to dispose of them there,” Cole wrote when the man who commissioned his allegorical “Voyage of Life” paintings died unexpectedly before the series was complete. “But I have little hope of doing so,” he continued. “The fashionable taste (if I may dignify it with such a name) is for works of another order, pictures without ideas. Mere gaudy displays.” The large canvases depicted an angel-guided river voyage that begins with the voyager’s emergence from a dark cave and ends with the promise of a heavenly reward. If he couldn’t sell the dramatically painted works abroad, he was determined to store them at home, “With the conviction that the time will come when they will be more valued.”

While Cole’s place in American art history is secure, it’s questionable as to whether or not that time he imagined ever truly arrived for “Voyage of Life,” and other allegorical landscapes. Although the images were popular and frequently reproduced, the romantic painting style became unfashionable. “Voyage of Life” exhibition opening this week at the Dixon offers viewers an opportunity to consider the grander narrative of this early American master and his best-known student, Frederic Church, by grouping all four works together, with preliminary drawings and related studies and prints, including pieces that have never been published or exhibited publically.

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important the noise that Lindsey made really was to his fans. And not just his fans in Memphis. The Reatard’s Teenage Hate album that Goner reissued in 2011 received the coveted Best New Reissue from Pitchfork, and the Lost Sounds’ Lost Lost LP was also extremely well-received on a national scale.

While Lost Sounds and the Reatards will always be the bands in bold when perusing the Jay Reatard discography, Angry Angles marks a significant change in how Lindsey would write, record, and perform for the rest of his life.

“Angry Angles was like a perfect time for Jay. It’s the beginning of him realizing he can do stuff all on his own, except it’s not as perfect as some of the solo stuff is,” Ives says.

“There is still this piece he’s working around, which is Alix being a new bass player. That’s the last time anyone worked with him. After [Angry Angles], he wrote everything himself.”

“I had only been in one band before Angry Angles, and I was still a pretty new bass player,” Brown says.

“Jay knew that I played bass, and he basically just made me play more. We wrote songs together, but he always played the drum parts first when it came time to record them. He could play an entire song on drums without listening to anything else, and I’d record the bass over the drums after that.”

With the abrupt ending of Angry Angles happening after the two broke up, Lindsey had plenty of half-baked songwriting ideas to pick and choose from, and many Angry Angles riffs or song parts wound up on his first solo album, Blood Visions.

“It’s cool, but it still is kind of haunting because the Angry Angles have always been a missing piece of the puzzle. There was always supposed to be an album from them,” Ives says.

“The Shattered single they put out was around for a while, but I never even got a copy of the third single, and a lot of people never even got the second single.”

While gathering all the Angry Angles odds and ends they could find, Ives said they came across a

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ngry Angles were one of the best-kept secrets of the mid-’00s Memphis garage-rock movement. The band featured the late Jay Reatard and Alix Brown, a couple that joined forces to start the record label Shattered Records and make some noise of their own in the process. While Shattered released some of the best records of the time period from bands like Carbonas, Final Solutions, and Destruction Unit, the duo’s greatest project was arguably the off-kilter, Devo-influenced punk they created as Angry Angles.

After releasing three singles and a few brief tours with bands like Final Solutions and the Lids (the duo’s other groups), the Angles broke up, and Jimmy Lee Lindsey started to work on his first releases as the solo artist Jay Reatard.

While the band’s singles are still floating around out there somewhere, collectors of all kinds know the value of Jay Reatard’s limited records, making them almost impossible to track down. That’s where Goner Records comes in. Just as they have given the Reatards and the Lost Sounds deluxe reissues over the years, the first Angry Angles LP will see the light of day this year.

“When I started going back through the stuff that I had pulled from [Lindsey’s] place, I came back across those [Angry Angles] tracks that I had found last spring,” says Zac Ives, co-owner of Goner Records.

“I couldn’t listen to those songs before because I was filled with so much grief, but the last time I listened to the recordings I was listening to them with fresh ears, and I began to get excited about the music, just as I had been when the band was still around. At first there was a lot of me trying to figure out what we had with those recordings, what was available, and what we could actually use. I talked to Ryan [Rousseau, the band’s drummer], and Alix, and his manager Adam Shore, and we’ve been working on it together for about nine months now.”

The fact that just about every Jay Reatard project from the past has gotten a reissue — or in this case, a compilation LP — is a testament to how

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“There’s a bunch of stuff that never came out that was done around 2005 or 2006 when he started figuring out that he could create pop songs like no one else had heard before,” Ives says.

“When you listen to those live recordings, you realize that Jay was playing three to five songs from the album Blood Visions. Songs like ‘Nightmares’ and ‘Blood Visions’ are songs that people now think of as Jay’s solo songs, but he was playing them back then with this band, and we didn’t even notice.”

As for the release date of the Angry Angles LP, the details are still being finalized, but Ives did confirm that Brown will be doing the artwork and that the label is pushing for a mid-year release.

“I guess I still get bummed out when I listen to the band. It’s still hard,” Brown says.

“I’m really excited that people will get a chance to hear the music we made together, though. I think his fans will really like it.”

Jay Reatard passed away on January 13th, 2010. He was 29 years old.

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Dreams Can Come True DreamFest Music Festival Turns Five.

DreamFest started out as a one-night showcase of local talent, put together by Catherine Evans as a way to promote artistic unity among local bands and performers that she enjoyed. The point was to get as many different types of artists to perform in a collaborative environment, and each year the festival has grown. Now in its fifth year, DreamFest starts this Friday and runs throughout the weekend, with over 30 bands and solo artists scheduled to play at 1524 Events & Banquet Facility (on Madison), the Buckman Performing Arts Center, and Madison Dance Studio.

“What we aim to do with the weekend is emphasize community, diversity, and unity,” Evans said.

“Aside from the obvious tie-ins to MLK weekend and Martin Luther King’s dream, the ‘Dream’ in DreamFest also refers to the fact that we are all pursuing our dreams.

And hopefully, DreamFest Weekend helps us all get that much closer to realizing them.”

The fest breaks down into three parts: DreamFest: The Concert, on Friday, January 15th; DreamFest: An Artistik Celebration on Saturday, January 16th; and DreamFest: “Rella Remixed” on Sunday, January 17th. The fest ends with a special edition of the monthly event “Artistik Lounge.” Here are the basics of what you need to know.

DreamFest: The Concert. Friday, January 15th.

DreamFest kicks off at 1524 Events & Banquet Facility.

Doors are at 7 p.m., and admission is $10. While this night

is meant to serve as an introduction to some of the rising stars of the Memphis music scene, seasoned veterans like Chinese Connection Dub Embassy and Brennan Villines are also scheduled to perform. Chinese Connection Dub Embassy have been a go-to band for all kinds of local festivals, and their reggae versions of classic rock songs, along with their originals, have gained the band a loyal following.

Villines also performs around town quite often, and his latest album Free was recently released. Originally from Kentucky, Villines is a skilled piano player who has received a number of different accolades for his playing, including the Herbert Herman Award for excellence in music performance from the University of Memphis.

Jay Da Skreet, Mika Genesis, Brecan Bland, Liv Green, Mac Daro, Kevin De Liban, Lady Stax, Da Ladie, Devin Crutcher, Hot House Gruv, SP, Life’s Poet, U901, and Idaly Maceano will also perform. The night will be hosted by P.A. Bomani.

DreamFest: An Artistik Celebration.

Saturday, January 16th.

The second night of DreamFest is also at 1524 Madison and serves as a reunion for artists who played the Artistik Lounge last season. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show is free (Donations are accepted). Highlights include Faith Evans Ruch and Tyke T, the

local rapper who has seen his songs get TV placement on MTV and BET over the last couple of years. His song “Stop Us Now” was recently featured on the VH1 show Black Ink Crew: Chicago. In an interview last year, Tyke T told the Flyer that he was working on a new EP called One Wednesday Night, so the chance of hearing him play new material on Saturday seems high.

Ruch also announced that new music is on its way, with “Thank You” and “Sugar” set to be released next month.

The other artists performing on Saturday night are Yung Taz, Mike Sweep, JuJu Bushman, Cameron Bethany, Sleepy J, Omega Forte, Hippy Soul, Chinese Connection Dub Embassy, Jus Bentley, Virghost, plus the Dreamer Cipher ft. Mac Daro, Crisis 901, Fridae Black, and Kina Del Mar. The evening will be hosted by TamE and Ron. There will be free food and drinks available.

“Rella Remixed.” Sunday, January 17th.

A family-friendly reinterpretation of Cinderella goes down at the Buckman Arts Center on Sunday at 2 p.m.

The production will be scored by IMAKEMADBEATS, making for a hip-hop version of this classic fairy tale.

Admission is $10.

The Artistik Lounge. Sunday, January 17th.

The grand finale of DreamFest 5 features a special edition of “Artistik Lounge,” which takes place the third Sunday of every month. The event will feature T.O. Crivens and multiple performers familiar to the “Artistik Lounge.”

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

Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cafe and Honky Tonk 310 BEALE 654-5171

Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 ongoing, 5 and 7 p.m.; The Jason James Trio FridaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Joey Trites and the Memphis Flash Saturdays, 3-7 p.m., and Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe’s Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

Mack 2 Band MondaysFridays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Jeffries & the Kings of Memphis Thursdays, 6:3010:30 p.m.; Nate Dogg and the Fellas Fridays, Saturdays, 6:3010:30 p.m.; McDaniel Band Saturdays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m., and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Chic Jones Sundays, Tuesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Wednesdays, 6:3010:30 p.m.

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

Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mississippi Bigfoot Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Chic Jones, Blues Express Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 79 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.

Double J Smokehouse & Saloon 124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

Live Music Thursdays, 7-11 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

The Chaulkies Sunday, Jan. 17, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

New Daisy Theatre

Paulette’s

330 BEALE 525-8981

Ginuwine Friday, Jan. 15, 7 p.m.; School of Rock Memphis Presents a Tribute to the Who Sunday, Jan. 17, 2 p.m.; Fall Out Boy v. My Chemical Romance Sunday, Jan. 17, 4 p.m.; Tribute to Black Sabbath Sunday, Jan. 17, 6 p.m.; All Things Jack White Sunday, Jan. 17, 8 p.m.

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

Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; 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.

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

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

Live Music Fridays.

The Plexx

Brinson’s

380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

341 MADISON 524-0104

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

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN TICKETS, 525-1515

Memphis Symphony Orchestra First Tennessee Masterworks Series: Ravishing Rachmaninoff Saturday, Jan. 16, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

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

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

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.; Neo Soul Saturdays featuring Tamara Jones Monger, Carmen, Pat Register, and more third Saturday of every month, 7-10:30 p.m.

Riverfront Bar & Grill 251 RIVERSIDE

Local Music Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

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Celtic Crossing

Minglewood Hall

Dan McGuinness Pub

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

The Cove

Murphy’s

2559 BROAD 730-0719

1589 MADISON 726-4193

Rumba Room

Boscos

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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.

2120 MADISON 432-2222

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538

Two Peace Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.

Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

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

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Hi-Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Paper Bison, Ugly Girls, Water Spaniel Thursday, Jan. 14, 9 p.m.; La Pistola, HEELS Saturday, Jan. 16, 9 p.m.; Bloodkin Sunday, Jan. 17, 9 p.m.; Torche, Jeff Carey, Day Old Man Monday, Jan. 18, 8 p.m.; Gallows Bound, Old Salt Union Tuesday, Jan. 19, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Memphis Rockabilly Trio Sunday, Jan. 17, 4-7 p.m.; The Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, Jan. 17, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Chris Johnson & Landon Moore Thursday, Jan. 14, 6 p.m.; The Steepwater Band Thursday, Jan. 14, 9 p.m.; Mason Jar Fireflies Friday, Jan. 15, 6:30 p.m.; Will Tucker Friday, Jan. 15, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturday, Jan. 16, 11 a.m.; Dead Soldiers Saturday, Jan. 16, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Johnny Mac Monday, Jan. 18, 6 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesday, Jan. 19, 5:30 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grille 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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

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.

Warn the Duke Thursday, Jan. 14; Glory Holes, Deuega Bike Friday, Jan. 15; Fujiwara Saturday, Jan. 16.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

P&H Cafe

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

1532 MADISON 726-0906

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

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.

Sports Junction

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, Jan. 17, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Strano Sicilian Kitchen

590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

Live DJ Fridays.; Live music Saturdays.; Karaoke Wednesdays.

948 S. COOPER 552-7122

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

Mortimer’s 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.

University of Memphis Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

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

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

Dantones Friday, Jan. 15, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Poplar/I-240 East Tapas and Drinks 6069 PARK 767-6002

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

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Pengea, The Fast Mothers Saturday, Jan. 16, 9 p.m.; Mo Boogie Sunday, Jan. 17, 6-10 p.m.;

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DON PERRY

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Loveland Duren Friday, Jan. 15, 10 p.m.; Bluff City Backsliders Saturday, Jan. 16, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard James Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Anne Schorr Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

TIME AND CHICKASAW MOUND AT BAR DKDC Bar DKDC serves up another great local show this Saturday when Time and Chickasaw Mound take the “stage” at the Cooper-Young hot spot. Chris Owen has been performing under the name Time for quite a while now, and though the band name is impossible to Google, he’s generated a strong local fan base made up of Memphis musicians, local music insiders, and anyone else who knows a good song when they hear one. Owen now spends the majority of his time in New York, but he’s currently in town to record an album with Keith Cooper, the house-studio engineer who will also be recording the new NOTS album this month.

One of the only bands who has made multiple appearances on the Rocket Science Audio Variety Show, Time owes equal amounts to Gram Parsons, Lee Hazlewood, Leonard Cohen, and every other acoustic guitar-wielding badass who can write catchy songs about seemingly insignificant subjects. Owen’s songwriting is honest and effortless, demanding attention with songs that will make you feel content in your misery and happy to be alive. His recorded works up to this point have all been stellar, and after coming back home with (presumably) a bag full of new tricks, the latest Time album seems already destined to be one of the first interesting local releases of the new year. Also on the bill is Chickasaw Mound, a band we’ve been telling you to go see for quite some time now. A perfect counterpart to the music of Time, Chickasaw Mound seem to get better with every performance, so if you haven’t taken our advice yet, start this year off right and get to Bar DKDC by 10 p.m. on Saturday. As for the new record from Time, it should be out this spring. — Chris Shaw Time and Chickasaw Mound at Bar DKDC, Saturday, January 16th. 10 p.m. $5

City and Colour, Greyhounds Friday, Jan. 15; Artistik Lounge Featuring Devin Crutcher every third Sunday, 7-11 p.m.

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DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule January 14 - 20

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

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.

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

Cordova Bahama Breeze 2830 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 385-8744

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Soul Shockers Sunday, Jan. 17, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Karaoke Mondays, 8-11 p.m.

Huey’s Germantown

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

The Dantones Sunday, Jan. 17, 8-11:30 p.m.

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Summer/Berclair Barbie’s Barlight Lounge 661 N. MENDENHALL

Possum Daddy’s Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

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

Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Brian Johnson Band Friday, Jan. 15, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

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

Horseshoe Casino Tunica 1021 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 800-357-5600

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing.

Huey’s Southaven 7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Terry and the Wallbangers Sunday, Jan. 17, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

2015 Hyundai Sonata

J.R.’s Bar & Grill

High Point Pub

4788 BETHEL 662-890-5612

477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Graham Road Band Saturday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

Landers Center 4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-5612

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

Tool Tuesday, Jan. 19, 7 p.m.

The Other Place Bar & Grill

Mesquite Chop House

1870 COVINGTON PIKE • 901.388.8989

4148 WALES 373-0155

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

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

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

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

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Tunica Roadhouse Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Wadford’s Grill & Bar 474 CHURCH, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5861

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

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

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

Bartlett Bartlett Municipal Center 5868 STAGE

Grif ’s Gifts Live - Welcome to the Stage Mondays-Sundays, 6-7:30 p.m.

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Steak Nite with Band of Brothers Thursday, Jan. 14, 8 p.m.-midnight; Full Circle Friday, Jan. 15, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Backstreet Crawlers Saturday, Jan. 16, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sunday Funday with the Lineup Sunday, Jan. 17, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; No Hit Wonder Wednesday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

Deering & Down Sunday, Jan. 17, 8-11:30 p.m.

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

2 Mule Plow Sunday, Jan. 17, 4-7 p.m.; JoJo & Ronnie Sunday, Jan. 17, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

Dianne Reeves Saturday, Jan. 16, 8-9:30 p.m.; Memphis Symphony Orchestra First Tennessee Masterworks: Ravishing Rachmaninoff Sunday, Jan. 17, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

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

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

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5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

Ice Bar & Grill

Dan McGuinness

4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

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

Mesquite Chop House 3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

Section 8 Band Saturday, Jan. 16, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Fillin Station Grille East

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

5960 GETWELL 662-470-5814

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

The Fillin Station

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

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

Full Effect Band Friday, Jan. 15, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

4840 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5423

Brian Johnson Band Saturday, Jan. 16, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Fitz Casino & Hotel 711 LUCKY LN., TUNICA, MS 800-766-5825

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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

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.

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

Ms. Ruby Wilson and Friends Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke with Tim Bachus Mondays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

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Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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Brothers & Sisters On stage: Byhalia, Mississippi and The Brothers Size.

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losure is for Caucasians? That’s my only real criticism of Byhalia, Mississippi, Evan Linder’s refreshingly antiromantic comedy of Southern manners.

Unfortunately, I can’t say much more on the topic without giving the whole thing away.

Byhalia, Mississippi, a winner of Playhouse on the Square’s annual new play competition, centers around Laurel and Jim, a struggling young married couple who like each other so much you can’t help but root for them.

Jim’s flings are in the past, but Laurel’s brief indiscretion is only discovered when her white trash baby is born with African-American features. Hysteria ensues from all quarters.

Laurel isn’t the world’s best mom.

She says inappropriate things and sneaks off to the roof to smoke joints and stuff. But she gets one thing exactly right: There are too many rules and too many standards for applying them. Start simple with “Love each other, and tell the truth.” Build from there.

Director John Maness assembled a strong ensemble that includes Marc Gill as a family friend who seems to have a secret of his own and Evan McCarley as Jim, Laurel’s unemployed husband. Jessica Johnson gets the most audience response as Ayesha, the status-conscious wife of the man who fathered Laurel’s baby, and Gail Black is especially effective as Celeste, Laurel’s conservative mother. Collectively these actors tell stories about growing up, grouping up, pairing up, and growing apart in a world where nobody’s racist and everything is.

Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man,” is slyly referenced throughout the show, although Jeannie C. Riley’s “Harper Valley PTA” may be the more appropriate song. Byhalia is treated like a gossipy “little Peyton Place” full of “Harper Valley hypocrites.”

Not so long ago, audiences for new work were hard to come by. Byhalia, Mississippi sold out its opening night.

This is fantastic news. Hopefully, it won’t be the last sellout for this promising young play.

Byhalia, Mississippi is at TheatreWorks through January 31st.

The Brothers Size uses West African myths and modern theater traditions

to tell an intense tale of siblings who make vastly different life choices but remain connected.

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is attracted to theater because live performance isn’t passive. Theaters are places where people go to imagine collectively. To that end, his inventive narratives are set in poetic environments. Actors turn words into scenery.

They speak stage directions, conjuring ghost communities out of breath and percussive movement. That’s why the Hattiloo’s prosaic take on McCraney’s three-character epic is a little disappointing. Ritual and naturalistic acting take turns when they should blend.

Lengthy blackouts and an unnecessary intermission wreck fluidity. A piece of theater that aspires to music becomes a run-of-the-mill play.

Donrico Webber is a terrific actor.

He was eerily convincing as Malcolm X in the Hattiloo’s short-lived production of The Meeting and is similarly real as Ogun Size, the serious-minded mechanic who hires his ex-con brother Oshoosi to keep him out of trouble.

After two years in the hole, Oshoosi, effectively played by Courtney Williams Robertson, is given a choice between two very different visions of freedom. He might pick Ogun’s monotonous prisoner-of-work vision or the more leisurely option presented

by Oshoosi’s former cellmate Elegba, a sexually ambiguous trickster played by Ronnie Bennett.

Director Brooke Sarden made Katori Hall’s idiom-rich Hurt Village soar in 2012, but can’t seem to get The Brothers Size off the ground. The spoken stage directions are treated like obstacles instead of opportunities.

Movement sequences become selfcontained bits set apart from all the regular acting.

McCraney populates his fictional Louisiana bayou town with characters who are always on the verge of bursting into song. The Hattiloo’s cast won’t be remembered for its vocal prowess, but, figuratively speaking, The Brothers Size is at its best when it sings. Webber and Robertson may butcher “Try a Little Tenderness,” but the most authentic moments happen when the actors become an air band, working out Temptations-style dance moves and playing together like kids.

Transcendent.

The Brothers Size is at the Hattiloo Theatre through February 7th.

Open call for Memphis LGBTQ Artists

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Hattiloo Theatre

Looking for artists who explore LGBTQ themes in their work to participate in a project that integrates art and outreach in LGBTQ communities. For more information, call or email rogap16-rhodes. edu. Ongoing.

The Brothers Size, pulsing with the rhythms of the Louisiana bayou, this lyrical tale of brotherly love explores the tension between fear and desire on the elusive road to freedom. www.hattiloo.org. $18-$26. ThursdaysSaturdays, 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, 3 p.m. Through Feb. 7.

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (860-304-4773), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

Open call for “Queer On!” Scripts

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

The Orpheum

New Works Competition focusing on Queer Youth Theatre will accept 10-minute plays/pieces for review. For more information and submission guidelines, visit website or email carly@playhouseonthesquare.org. $5 entry fee per submission. Through April 30.

Matilda the Musical, story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny. Based on the novel by Roald Dahl. www. orpheum-memphis.com. $25-$125. Thurs., Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Jan. 15, 8 p.m., Sat., Jan. 16, 2 and 8 p.m., and Sun., Jan. 17, 1 and 6:30 p.m.

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (726-4656), WWW. PLAYHOUSEONTHESQUARE.ORG.

Opening lecture for “The Voyage of Life”

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square 4th Annual “NewWorks @ TheWorks” Competition, two scripts will receive full productions during the 201718 season and cash prizes. See website for full details. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $15. Through May 30.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

TheatreWorks

Byhalia, Mississippi, the Parkers are faced with a challenge in racially charged Mississippi when their baby, the result of an affair, is black. Winner of NewWorks@TheWorks competition by Evan Linder. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $22-$30. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m.

Through Jan. 31.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

Dr. Paul D. Schweizer, museum director emeritus, MunsonWilliams-Proctor Arts Institute, speaks about current exhibition. Sun., Jan. 17, 2 p.m.

Reception for Shane McDermott’s “Seahorse in Sequence: Creating a Comic” at MCA this Friday.

L Ross Gallery

Opening reception for “No: 10 Anniversary Show,” paintings, sculpture, and mixed media by gallery artists. www.lrossgallery.com. Fri., Jan. 15, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis College of Art A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S

The Annesdale Park Gallery

Closing reception for “Bedford-Stuyvesant Comes to Memphis,” black and white photography by Russell Frederick documenting the rapid gentrification of the BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood and honoring displaced residents.

(208-6451), https://www. theannesdaleparkgallery.com.

Fri., Jan. 15, 6-8 p.m.

Artist reception for “Illustrators 57,” exhibition of juried work by the Society of Illustrators. Fri., Jan. 15, 6-8 p.m.

Artist reception for “Seahorse in Sequence: Creating a Comic,” exhibition of works

by Shane McDermott. www. mca.edu. Fri., Jan. 15, 6-8 p.m.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

2016 Fiction Contest Call for Entries

See website for more information, rules, and entry format.

Through Feb. 1.

WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM/ FICTION-CONTEST-RULES/.

Call to Artists for “Secret Artwork in the Medicine Cabinet”

Seeking artwork for exhibitions held the last Friday of every month. $15 submission fee. Ongoing.

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

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

‘‘Pin-Up”

Exhibition and sale of pinup art from the 1890s through the 1980s hosted by Chuck’s Retro Art and Accessories. Fri., Jan. 15, 6 p.m., and Sat., Jan. 16, 10 a.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (833-9533), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.COM.

O N G O I N G ART

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection.

Ongoing.

142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).

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Banks House Gallery & Gift Shop DeSoto Arts Council winter show, www.desotoarts.com.

Ongoing.

564 W. COMMERCE.

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

“Chinese Symbols in Art,” ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. belzmuseum.org.

Ongoing.

119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).

The Blues Foundation

“Cast of Blues,” exhibition of blues musician life casts by Sharon McConnell-Dickerson. www.blues.org.

Through April 30.

421 S. MAIN.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“Wabi Sabi: The Beauty of Imperfection in Nature,” exhibition of new works by Rachel Darnell and Lana Chu. www.buckmanartscenter.com.

Through Feb. 15.

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

Cafe Pontotoc

“Exploration in Imagination,” exhibition of mixedmedia works by Elayna Scott, inspired by nature and her travels. Ongoing.

314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

Church Health Center Wellness

Doris Gunn-Stevens, exhibition of paintings in oil and acrylic. www.memphishealthcenter.org. Through Feb. 14.

1115 UNION (761-1278).

Circuitous Succession Gallery

“The Lotus Harvest,” exhibition of mixed media works

by Sarah Ahmad. www.circuitoussuccession.com.

Through Jan. 31.

500 S. SECOND.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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.

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C A L E N DA R: JA N UA RY 1 4 - 2 0 continued from page 31 Crosstown Arts

“Extra Celestial,” exhibition of works on paper and video by 12 artists of the Creative Growth Art Center, a residency program founded in 1973 serving adult artists with developmental, mental, and physical disabilities. www.crosstownarts.org.

Through Jan. 16.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

Frame Corner Inc.

64 FLICKER (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Amalgamations,” exhibition of digital reimagining of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens permanent collection by Joshua Brinlee.

Through April 3.

“Painting American Progress: Selections from the Kattner Collection and More,” exhibition of The Nina and Keith Kattner Collection of American paintings, on long-term loan to the Dixon, offering incredible examples of American art. Through April 3.

Pinkney Herbert, exhibition of abstract paintings.

Through April 3.

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

“The Blues,” exhibition of Memphis vignettes printed in cyanotype by Jennifer Balink. www.eclectic-eye.com.

Through Feb. 24.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Michael Crespo, exhibition of watercolors. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through Jan. 31.

Byhalia, Mississippi

by Evan Linder at TheatreWorks through Jan. 31st

“The Voyage of Life,” exhibition of four allegorical landscapes by Thomas Cole (1801-1848). www.dixon.org.

Jan. 17-April 3.

Jin And John Powell, www. jccmemphis.org. Through Jan. 22, 7 a.m.-10 p.m.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

“Trophies Through the Lens: African Wildlife Safari Images 2015,” exhibition of photography by Jack Kenner and student photographers benefiting conservation efforts to prevent rhinoceros extinction in Africa. www.jackkenner. com. Through Jan. 22.

“Residence of the Heart,” jewelry using contemporary gold granulation techniques

by Douglas Harling.

Through March 6.

“Taiwan International Metal Crafts Competition,” objects and jewelry promoting the metal crafts of Taiwan. www. metalmuseum.org.

Through March 13.

5056 PARK.

Fratelli’s

“On the Ground 2,” exhibition of work by students of Fred Rawlinson Atelier. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through Jan. 19.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Hyde Gallery

“SunRise/SunSet,” exhibition of large scale models and maquettes by Zhenhai He, Bangmin Nong, Jigang Qin, and Shanwu Huang. www. mca.edu. Through Feb. 5.

“Sunset/Sunrise,” exhibition of work by artists in the Studio Nong International Collective and Residency Program. www. mca.edu. Through Feb. 5.

January 14-20, 2016

INSIDE THE MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART’S NESIN GRADUATE SCHOOL, 477 S. MAIN.

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Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“60s Cool,” exhibition celebrating art and design from the 1960s including work by Ted Faiers, Yrjö Kukkapuro, Paul Evans, György Kepes, and Henry Easterwood.

Through Jan. 17.

“Clare Leighton and Thomas W. Nason: Common Threads,” masters in the medium of wood engraving, exceptional in expressing the simplicity and integrity of rural subjects.

Through March 13.

“Families in Art,” images of family at work and play, as well as quiet depictions of the complexities of those unique human connections.

Through Feb. 21.

“Wonder, Whimsy, Wild: Folk Art in America,” exhibition of American folk art from New England and the Midwest made between 1800 and 1925. www.brooksmuseum.org.

Through Feb. 28.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Morton Museum of Collierville History

“Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation,” personal accounts, artifacts, and films from a 13,000-acre plantation in Robertson County examining the institution of slavery and its impact on the state and the nation. www.colliervillemuseum.org. Through March 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

196 MAIN, COLLIERVILLE (457-2650).

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C A L E N DA R: JA N UA RY 1 4 - 2 0 National Civil Rights Museum

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DA N C E

“Cultural Heroes,” exhibition of oversized sculpture

by Alan LeQuire. www. civilrightsmuseum.org.

Through Feb. 25.

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

NJ Woods Gallery and Design

Brooks Milongas

Members of the Argentine Tango Society give lessons and tango demonstrations in the rotunda. Included with museum admission. Third Wednesday, Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m.

Trippin on Thursday, hosted

by K-97 Funnyman Prescott.

Thursdays, 6 p.m.

3659 S. MENDENHALL (485-1119).

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF

2563 BROAD.

Playhouse on the Square

“An Exploration in 3D Printing,” exhibition of work by MCA instructor Adam Hawk. www.mca.edu.

Jan. 15-Feb. 21.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

TOPS Gallery

“Cops,” exhibition of work

by Marlous Borm, David Deutsch, Paul Edwards, Leo Fitzpatrick, Kevin Ford, Stephen Lack, Lester Merriweather, Scott Reeder, Walter Robinson, Tom of Finland, and Ernest Withers. www.topsgallery.com.

Through Feb. 6.

400 S. FRONT.

WKNO Studio

Works by members of the Bartlett Art Association, www.wkno.org.

Through Jan. 22.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Dance Night

Evening of dancing with music provided by the Jim Mahannah Band or Wally and Friends. $5. Third Tuesday of every month, 7-10 p.m.

BAKER COMMUNITY CENTER, 7942 CHURCH, MILLINGTON, WWW.MILLINGTONTN.GOV.

C O M E DY

Brinson’s

Strictly Hip-Hop Sunday, featuring open mic, live band, and DJ. $5, ladies free.

Sundays, 5 p.m.

Melting Pot: Artist Showcase, open mic night hosted by Darius “Phatmak” Clayton. $5. Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

341 MADISON (524-0104).

Cafe Eclectic

The Wiseguys Present: Storytellers Unplugged, combines fast-paced improv, guest storytellers, and scenic improv. $5. Third Saturday of every month, 10:30 p.m.

603 N. MCLEAN (725-1718).

The Cove

PO E T RY / S PO K E N WOR D

Comedy with Dagmar, open mic comedy. www.thecovememphis.com.

Sundays, 7-9 p.m.

The HUB

LoveSpeaks, Fridays, 11 p.m.-2 a.m.

Live.Seed, Third Saturday of every month, 6-8 p.m.

515 E.H. CRUMP.

Java Cabana

Open mic nite, www. javacabanacoffeehouse.com.

Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

2559 BROAD (730-0719).

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“Dog Gone It,” exhibition of work by Debra Edge.

Ongoing.

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JANUARY 17 - APRIL 3, 2016

Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood (detail), 1839-1840; Oil on canvas, 52 x 78 inches; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, Museum Purchase, 55.105.

This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities.

Sponsored by:

Foy and Bill Coolidge | Nancy and Steve Morrow | Irene and Joe Orgill Chris and Dan Richards | Barbara and Lewis Williamson

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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“Bedford-Stuyvesant Comes to Memphis” closing reception Friday at Annesdale Park Gallery

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by John Babb

Author discusses and signs Orphan Hero: A Novel of the Civil War. Thurs., Jan. 14, 11 a.m.-noon.

Guided Tour: “Wonder, Whimsy, Wild”

MORTON MUSEUM OF COLLIERVILLE HISTORY, 196 MAIN, COLLIERVILLE (457-2650), WWW.COLLIERVILLEMUSEUM.ORG.

Special tour led by Dr. Carol Crown, former art history professor at the University of Memphis, specializing in selftaught artists and their art.

Sun., Jan. 17, 2-3 p.m.

LECT U R E /S P E A K E R

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

“Beyond Shylock: Marlowe’s ‘Jew’ on the English Renaissance Stage”

Shakespeare’s contemporary, Christopher Marlowe wrote The Jew of Malta. Are Marlowe’s Jews and Moors cultural stereotypes, or shots at English prejudices? Scott Newstok will speak on “the Jew” as a 16thcentury theatrical device. Free.

Tues., Jan. 19, 7:30-9 p.m.

BETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE, 6675 HUMPHREYS (683-3591), WWW.BSHOLOM.ORG.

Munch and Learn

Bring your own lunch; sodas and water supplied. Guest speakers talk about various subjects in the Hughes Pavilion. Free with gallery admission. Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m.

Riverwalk Tour

Free. Ongoing, 11:30 a.m., 1:30, and 3:30 p.m.

MUD ISLAND RIVER PARK, 125 N. FRONT (576-7241), WWW.MEMPHISRIVERFRONT.COM.

Olive Branch Genealogy Club

Tours at Two

TO U R S

Kathryn Graehl will speak on DNA testing. All are welcome.

Wed., Jan. 20, 12-2 p.m.

OLIVE BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY, 6619 COCKRUM (662-895-4365), WWW.OBGC.LIMEWEBS.COM.

Fairgrounds Tour

by Jimmy Ogle

Walking and talking tour of the natural, cultural, architectural, and entertainment history of the Fairgrounds in the present and future with special guest, City Councilwoman Jamita Swearengen. Sun., Jan. 17, 2-3 p.m.

Join a Dixon docent or member of the curatorial staff on a tour of the current exhibitions. Free for members. $5 nonmembers. Tuesdays, Sundays, 2-3 p.m.

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

Family Fun Hike

E X POS/SA LES

Mid-South Wedding Show and Bridal School Plan the perfect wedding.

For more information, visit website. $15. Sun., Jan. 17, 1-5 p.m.

WHISPERING WOODS HOTEL AND CONVENTION CENTER, 11200 GOODMAN, OLIVE BRANCH, MS (368-6782), MIDSOUTHWEDDINGSHOW.COM.

MJCC Health and Wellness Expo

Featuring group exercise classes, local health and wellness exhibitors, and special guest and keynote presentation by Mindy Mylrea: “Every Movement Matters.”

Sun., Jan. 17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG.

S PO R TS / F IT N ES S

Baylor Watch Party Saturdays.

DOUBLE J SMOKEHOUSE & SALOON, 124 E. G.E. PATTERSON (347-2648).

Cardinals Caravan

Players and alumni will discuss the past and upcoming season during a question-and-answer session emceed by Tom Ackerman, with youth autograph opportunities to follow. Free.

Fri., Jan. 15, 5:30 p.m.

MID-SOUTH COLISEUM, 996 EARLY MAXWELL (274-3982).

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

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

SEE IT IN 3D AT THE P!NK PALACE!

Educational recreation for adults and children of all ages.

Third Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m.

SHELBY FARMS, VISITOR’S CENTER, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-7275), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Tai Chi

Classes held near Woodland Discovery Playground. $8.

Wednesdays, 3 p.m.

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

Walk in the Park

Meet at the temporary Visitor Center near the Woodland Discovery Playground.

Sundays, 2:30 p.m.

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

Yoga Thursdays

Vinyasa yoga class in the Schilling Gallery with Misti Rae Holton. Due to the proximity of art, no water allowed.

Bring your own mat and a towel or small blanket. $12.

Thursdays, 11 a.m.-noon.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Yoga Tune-Up Tuesday: “Slow Flow” Gentle Yoga $10. Tuesdays, 5:45 p.m.

QUAN AM MONASTERY, 3500 S. GOODLETT (679-4528), WWW.BUDDHISTMEMPHIS.COM.

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Community Concerns Meeting

Representatives from the city and county law enforcement, code enforcement, and mayor’s offices come to Uptown to address community concerns. Third Tuesday of every month, 1 p.m.

BRIDGES, 477 N. FIFTH, WWW.UPTOWNMEMPHIS.ORG.

Cultivating Positive Relationships

Improve an existing relationship, break the cycle of picking the wrong partners, or start a new relationship off on a firm, healthy foundation.

Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

Meditation and Dharma Talk

Featuring chanting, silent “sitting meditation,” and dharma talk with Q&A or book discussion.

Fridays, 6 p.m., and Sundays, 10 a.m.

Registration for Spring 2016 S.T.A.R.S. Program

For children ages 6 and up in a production of Willy Wonka through May 21. See website for registration and more information. $75.

Through Jan. 14.

NEW DISCOVERY CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 961 VINSON, WWW.KUDZUPLAYERS.COM.

SmART Kids

Children ages 4-5 are introduced to the Dixon through exciting art and horticulture activities enjoying science, art, literature, horticulture, and more. Snack included. Reservations required.

Free for members, $8 nonmembers.

Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.

Social Skills Class

Build the foundation for play and social interaction for children on the Autism Spectrum. $150 per month. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

ABA DEVELOPMENT, 7953 STAGE HILLS (634-8005), WWW.ABADEVELOPMENT.ORG.

S P EC IA L EVE NTS

20 Under 30 Party

Celebrate the honorees. Wed., Jan. 20, 6:30 p.m.

REC ROOM, 3000 BROAD (209-1137), WWW.MEMPHISFLYER.COM.

GenQ’s GSA Mixer

Tribute to Black Sabbath

School of Rock Memphis presents program as part of the fall performance showcase. $10.

Sun., Jan. 17, 6 p.m.

NEW DAISY THEATRE, 330 BEALE (730-4380), WWW.SCHOOLOFROCK.COM.

All college GSAs and noncollege youth (18-25) are invited to socialize and eat with each other.

Every third Friday, 7-9 p.m.

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

Karaoke Night

Free. Mondays, 8-10 p.m.

HUEY’S SOUTHAVEN, 7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-349-7097), WWW.HUEYBURGER.COM.

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

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QUAN AM MONASTERY, 3500 S. GOODLETT (679-4528), WWW.BUDDHISTMEMPHIS.COM.

Padres Comprometidos

Six-week program provides families with the tools, information, and vital tips they need to understand the importance of a higher education.

Through Feb. 17, 5:30 p.m.

LATINO MEMPHIS, 6041 MT. MORIAH EXT., SUITE 16 (366-5882), WWW.LATINOMEMPHIS.ORG.

Participants for Athena Project

Research clinic for women ages 18 and over who have experienced intimate partner abuse.

Receive a free evaluation and possible treatment of post-trauma stress. Call for more information.

Ongoing.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, PSYCHOLOGY AUDITORIUM, 3890 CENTRAL (678-3973), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

Perpetual Transition Meeting

Support and social group for transgender folks.

Mondays, 7-9 p.m.

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

Pruning Club

Work with horticulture staff aesthetically pruning trees and shrubs featuring occasional speakers and demonstrations from MBG staff and local professionals regarding pruning.

Every other Thursday, 9 a.m.-noon.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Women’s Bike Chat

Every third Sunday, 2 p.m.

REVOLUTIONS COMMUNITY BICYCLE SHOP, 1000 S. COOPER (INSIDE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH) (258-3130), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

KIDS

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All Things Jack White

School of Rock Memphis presents program as part of the fall performance showcase. $10.

Sun., Jan. 17, 8 p.m.

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Kids and kids-at-heart will enjoy cookies, free ice cream with three-bag purchase, and take pictures with Cookie Monster.

Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.

January 29 • 5pm

MAKEDA’S COOKIES DOWNTOWN, 488 S. SECOND (644-4511), WWW.MAKEDASCOOKEIS.COM.

Earn 100 points on Friday, Jan 29, from 12:01am – 6:30pm to receive a free entry.

Guest Appearance by Eric “Butterbean” Esch!

Exploring Color and Design with Paul Klee with Kerrie Rogers

Children 7 and up learn how to mix and create colors from three primary colors, an essential foundation for artistic expression. Learn about primary, secondary, complementary, and analogous colors by creating color wheels. $150.

Mondays, 4-5:30 p.m. Through Feb. 16.

FLICKER STREET STUDIO, 74 FLICKER (767-2999), FLICKERSTREETSTUDIO.COM/ADULT-ART-CLASSES.

Fall Out Boy v. My Chemical Romance

KNOCK OUT POINT VALUE

FRIDAYS, JANUARY 15 & FEBRUARY 12 5pm–7pm and 9pm–11pm All Machines Video Poker play earns half the stated amount.

School of Rock Memphis presents program as part of the fall performance showcase. $10.

Sun., Jan. 17, 4 p.m.

NEW DAISY THEATRE, 330 BEALE (730-4380), WWW.SCHOOLOFROCK.COM.

Must be 21 and a Key Rewards member. See Cashier • Players Club for rules. Management reserves the right to cancel, change and modify the event or promotion with notice to the Mississippi Gaming Commission where required. Gaming restricted patrons prohibited.

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NEW DAISY THEATRE, 330 BEALE (730-4380), WWW.SCHOOLOFROCK.COM.

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C A L E N DA R: JA N UA RY 1 4 - 2 0 continued from page 35 Morning Meditation

There will be a meditation altar set up with floor pillows and chairs or bring your own pillows, mats, or blankets.

Donations are welcome. Free.

Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

THE BROOM CLOSET, 546 S. MAIN (497-9486), WWW.THEBROOMCLOSETMEMPHIS.COM.

Name that Swan Contest

A new male swan was introduced to the Japanese Garden and has hit it off with Ziggy, the female swan. Submit an original snapshot of either of our swans and name suggestion for a prize. See website for details. Through Jan. 31.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW. MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Nature Photography Garden Cleanup

Sign in at horticulture before heading out to the garden.

Participants/volunteers should bring hand tools, (bypass pruners, loppers, handsaws) water, and a hat. For more information, email chris.obryan@memphisbotanicgarden. com. Every other Wednesday, 9 a.m.-noon.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW. MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Neighborhood Cleanup Day of service to beautify Walker and Neptune.

Mon., Jan. 18, 8:30 a.m.

ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW.ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.

Privet Pull

Help remove unwanted plants.

See website to register and complete release forms. Not suitable for ages under 12 years old. No pull on Jan. 30.

Saturdays. Through Feb. 29.

LICHTERMAN NATURE CENTER, 5992 QUINCE (767-7322), WWW. MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Tool Box Bash

Featuring live entertainment, food, dessert, and whisky tasting benefiting Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis. $60.

Fri., Jan. 15, 7-10 p.m.

H O L I DAY E V E N TS

FOOD & DR I N K E V E N TS

At the River I Stand

Screening with panel discussion including individuals from the labor rights movement of today and yesterday to follow. Sat., Jan. 16, 6 p.m.

LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS, 365 S. MAIN (278-0016).

Day of Service

Community tree planting honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sat., Jan. 16, 9-11 a.m.

King Day 2016: Speaking Truth to Power

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (322-3532), WWW.TOOLBOXBASH.COM.

Tree Recycling at The Yard

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

THE YARD, 1735 THOMAS (833-9273), MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Yoga and beer pairing.

Beginner-friendly, fun yoga followed by a pint. No experience necessary. No watchasana. $15. Thursdays, 6-8 p.m.

HIGH COTTON BREWING CO., 598 MONROE (896-9977).

Taste beer from local professional and home brewers, learn about the science behind favorite brews through activities, mini-lectures, and talking with expert brewers, and enjoy food from local vendors. 21+ event. $30-$50 members, $35$55 nonmembers. Fri., Jan. 15, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW. MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

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American Quirk Film Series: Gates of Heaven

Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market

Feature by Errol Morris about two pet cemeteries in Northern California and the people involved with them. $9.

Wed., Jan. 20, 7-8:30 p.m.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (278-6786).

Journey to Space 3D

www.cycfarmersmarket.org.

Saturdays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Service project in honor of Dr. King. Toiletry drive to benefit St. Mary’s Outreach Housing and Community. Your help is needed to pack 200 care packages with toiletry items and deliver to locations.

Mon., Jan. 18, 9 a.m.-noon.

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 155 MARKET (522-9420), WWW.MULYP.ORG.

Dine on tea sandwiches, scones, or signature biscotti.

Drink an espresso, latte, cappuccino, or choose from an assortment of specialty teas.

Call for reservations.

Wednesdays, 2-4 p.m.

Bendy Brewski Yoga

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

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MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Day of service and remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Family entertainment, youth-centered learning, museum experience, and Food Bank and Lifeblood Drives.

Mon., Jan. 18, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

Recycle your Christmas tree.

The Yard will accept your tree to be recycled into reusable materials. Mention Memphis Botanic Garden, and $5 will be donated. For more information, see website.

Through Jan. 29.

The Science of Beer

Memphis Made Pint Night

Memphis Made Brewing Company $3 pints. Keep the glass and meet the people who brew your beer. Free. Second Thursday of every month, 5-9 p.m.

CENTRAL BBQ, 147 E. BUTLER (672-7760).

Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D

Experience a year in the life of dinosaurs. $9.

Through March 4.

CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

WALL-E in 2D

A little robot designed to clean up an abandoned, wastecovered earth falls in love with another robot named Eve. $9.

Saturdays, Sundays, 4 p.m.

Through Jan. 31.

CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Women’s Movie Night

Every third Sunday, 5-7 p.m.

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Experience space flight history and the Space Shuttle program as we strap into our seats for humanity’s next stop — Mars. $9. Through March 4.

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On our birthdays, we never remind each other about our age.

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January 14-20, 2016

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Make a pact with a friend to support each other in getting regular mammograms. Then follow through.

Call 1-844-SIS-PACT or log on to sisterpact.com for more information. Ask a doctor if a mammogram is right for you.

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Stale Toast Antidote

The Antidiet Stale Toast Antidote For four slices of a good-sized loaf of bread, or the equivalent in baguette medallions, or of whatever shape the bread crumbles into, use two eggs and a quarter cup of milk, beaten together.

Skip the cinnamon and vanilla and other sweetthemed flavorings.

Very hard bread needs to be soaked at least an hour, preferably overnight, in the egg mixture, while fresh bread requires only a few minutes.

There is nothing wrong with keeping some crusty bread soaking in egg in the fridge, ready at a moment’s notice.

When the bread is ready, prepare the pan for cooking. Which is to say, cook bacon in the pan.

Breaking French toast ranks When the bacon is about half-done, add any vegetables that take a bit longer to cook, like kale or broccoli. When they are near done, push the bacon and green things to the side of the pan, add oil or butter if the bacon isn’t very fatty, and add the eggsoaked bread to the pan, along with some chopped garlic. Cook slowly on low heat.

After achieving a brown on all sides, add the faster-cooking greens like parsley or nori. I used some frozen zucchini one time that had a lot of water in it, which delayed completion as I had to wait for the water to cook off, but it wasn’t a problem — as long as the heat is low and the pan doesn’t dry out and nothing burns, the longer it cooks the better. When it’s nearly done cooking, add some cheese if desired.

Little chunks of Brie are a decadent way to stay on the French theme. But since this dish breaks ranks with virtually every other diet and theme, why keep it French? Slices of cheddar work beautifully, as do shredded Italian hard cheeses.

And since nothing is sacred anymore, I should mention that savory French toast can also be prepared without bacon.

Season with salt and pepper. Serve with something spicy, and a dollop of mayo, perhaps, with your choice of coffee or wine.

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berry jam, and whipped cream. To the surprise of pretty much nobody, he began gaining weight on the French toast diet.

Another issue we faced, familiar to many parents, was our kids’ reluctance to eat anything green. I discovered that I could slip significant amounts of parsley, seaweed, broccoli, and even kale into the French toast pan, and it would disappear along with the egged bread and bacon.

These additions can take French toast firmly out of the realm of breakfast fare and make it appropriate for any meal of the day. For nonbreakfast eaters like myself who nonetheless appreciate the traditional breakfast arts, savory French toast is a true game changer.

I shared a cabin last week with two other hunters, and none of us had time for breakfast — or a big ole greasy wad in our bellies as we charged up the mountain. Because make no mistake, were we to have made time for breakfast, it would have been big, and it would have been greasy.

By evening, with the hunting done for the day and the fire stoked, stale bread became a delivery system for protein and veggie-rich awesomeness that our bodies recognized would help them recover from a rough day. With the wind howling outside the cabin, this was extreme comfort food that went equally well with coffee or wine.

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hat to do with hard, crusty bread that is growing stale? The French have the answer, in the form of a very old dish called pain perdu.

References to this dish appear in Apicius, an ancient Roman cookbook that is one of the world’s oldest. However, you may have heard of this dish under the name French toast, a term that isn’t used in France any more than American football is used here. The French name, which means “lost bread,” hints at the utility of this dish as a way to recover bread that would otherwise be too far gone to eat. As the French and Romans were well aware, the most bulletproof chunks of expired bread, providing they aren’t moldy or rotten, can be brought back to life with a soak in a mixture of eggs and milk. When the soaked bread pieces are then pan-fried, the age and previous condition of the bread will be quickly forgotten.

As a morning meal, French toast is often dismissed as little more than a system to deliver maple syrup and berries into your mouth. But savory versions can be made as well, as can sweet and savory combinations. There is no reason why, for example, sweet French toast can’t be cooked in bacon grease and served with bacon and maple syrup. But I prefer a fully savory path, greased with bacon and finished with cheese and hot sauce or pickled peppers.

What makes these French toast variations a little more fun, in a naughty way, is that basically any permutation of French toast and bacon would get it banned from any conceivable diet plan. Sugar, fat, processed carbohydrates, and the ultimate processed meat, bacon, are all bogeyman foods these days.

French toast with bacon is not Paleo, low-carb, Atkins, South Beach, vegetarian, or vegan, and it definitely isn’t kosher.

Ironically, this antidiet dish of bacon’d French toast has been something of a health tonic to my family.

When my son’s doctor was concerned he wasn’t gaining weight fast enough, I put him on a daily regimen of French toast with bacon, maple syrup,

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very week, Jerry Wilson Jr. would go to Fino’s from the Hill for his fix and to mention to the owner, Joanne Johnson, his business plan for her — to open a location out East.

And every week, Johnson’s — maiden name Finocchiarro, hence the name Fino’s, pronounced “Fihnnoh’s” — response was a firm no.

“She was like, ‘Hell no,’” Wilson says.

For almost a decade.

Until one day she caught Wilson off guard and offered to sell him the business.

“I was like, ‘What? Really?’” Wilson says. “She was 62 years old and had a new grandkid, and she wanted to play with her grandkid.”

So on November 3, 2009, Wilson walked into the eatery on Madison not as a customer but as the owner, and he began to work on that longtime running joke about expanding eastward.

“I had a five-year payoff for my loan, and I knew I probably had no chance to do it before the five years from a cash-flow standpoint,” he says. “I would mention it to my employees, and they would roll their eyes.”

Eventually, Wilson could call himself debt-free — for 20 days, because sometime in there he saw a building for sale on Brookhaven Circle, nestled between Hog & Hominy and Brookhaven Pub & Grill, and knew his opportunity had arrived.

After months of measuring, drawing up design plans, and negotiating with the bank, Wilson is happily in debt again, and he no longer has anyone telling him no nor rolling their eyes at him.

As of December 7, 2015, there are now two Fino’s from the Hill, Fino’s Midtown at 1853 Madison and Fino’s East at 703 W. Brookhaven Circle.

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Now open: Fino’s East and Buntyn Corner Cafe.

The new location seats close to 100 and offers the same addictive menu, with its sandwiches that use fresh baguettes made from La Baguette, its homemade olive tapenade, and its tomato and onion dressing. The only difference is that the East location offers the favorite chickpea salad as a side and a cup of soup as an option.

Wilson hopes to reconfigure the smaller kitchen in Midtown so that he can offer those choices at the original location as well, and he plans on discontinuing the Italian grocery items that inspired the opening of the business in the first place.

“Joanne’s grandparents were from Sicily, and she lived in St. Louis on the Hill. When she moved to Memphis, she had nowhere to buy authentic Italian groceries, so she started Fino’s Italian Grocery and Deli 20 years ago,” Wilson says. “She started doing prepared foods, and that morphed into a deli, and we now have simple food that’s fast, inexpensive, and quality.”

Fino’s East is open Monday through Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Fino’s East, 703 W. Brookhaven Circle, 334-4454, finosmemphis.com/finos-east For the past 13 years Mike Wiggins has been driving the streets of Memphis, minding his own business, and been pulled over by other drivers, not because of road rage, but because they wanted to know if they were ever going to taste those special yeast rolls again.

“This one guy pulled me over, and I thought my truck was on fire. He told me he used to come in Buntyn Restaurant, and he loved our rolls and wanted to know if we

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were ever going to reopen,” Wiggins says.

Wiggins took over the established restaurant from his parents in 1995, who had taken it over from Wiggins’ grandfather in the ’70s, who had taken it over from Wiggins’ uncle in the ’60s, who had opened it in 1946.

He decided to move the restaurant in 2001 just before September 11th, and he was never able to recover from the financial hit. So he closed the doors in 2002 and worked on paying off his debt.

By 2013 he was debt-free again, and he kept his eyes and ears open for an opportunity to be able to answer his fellow commuters when they interrupted his driving with an appeasing yes.

What he found was a former deli in the iBank building at 5050 Poplar which he now calls Buntyn Corner Cafe.

“I renamed it to make people think before they walked in the door that it’s different,” Wiggins says. “So that when they say, ‘Give me your old fried chicken,’ they don’t get mad because I don’t have it.”

The new location is smaller, seating close to 30, and doesn’t allow space for fryers.

The other staples such as chicken and dressing, daily specials, the beef and vegetable soup, cobbler, banana pudding, and, most importantly, those yeast rolls make up for what’s missing.

Since opening his doors in early November, Wiggins has seen close to 3,000 customers come through his doors, including Memphis’ resident king, Jerry Lawler, and wellknown restaurateurs.

He’s kept much of the old decor, with photos dating back to the ’40s, the old Buntyn Restaurant sign, and a couple of mementos, including a chair decorated with a Rufus Thomas “Funky Chicken” theme.

“He used to do the Funky Chicken before he sat down,” Wiggins says.

“It’s small, but it’s a lot of fun,” he says. “I’ve always worked in the restaurant, even for my grandfather. I worked 11 years to pay off my debt so that I could find something and reopen.”

Buntyn’s hours are Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., serving breakfast and lunch.

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CHICKASAW GARDENS/ U OF M A-Tan Avenue Coffee Bella Caffe Brother Juniper’s Camy’s The Choo Derae Restaurant El Porton El Toro Loco The Farmer Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Just for Lunch La Baguette La Hacienda Los Compadres Lost Pizza Co. Lucchesi's Beer Garden Medallion Osaka Pete & Sam’s Raffe’s Deli Republic Coffee Rock’n Dough Pizza Co. RP Tracks Woman’s Exchange

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Corky’s Ribs & BBQ El Mezcal El Porton Firebirds Gus’s Fried Chicken Huey’s Jim’s Place Grille La Hacienda Mary’s German Restaurant Memphis Pizza Cafe Mulan Asian Bistro Pig-N-Whistle The Sear Shack Sekisui Silver Caboose Square Beans Coffee Whaley’s Pizza Wolf River Cafe CORDOVA Bombay House Bonefish Grill Butcher Shop Corky’s Ribs & BBQ Crazy Italians East End Grill El Mezcal El Porton Flying Saucer Fox & Hound Friday Tuna Gus’s Fried Chicken Huey’s iSushi Jim ’N Nick’s Bar-B-Q La Hacienda Pasta Italia Petra Cafe Presentation Room Sekisui Shogun Skimo’s TJ Mulligan’s DOWNTOWN Agave Maria Alcenia’s Aldo’s Pizza Pies Alfred’s The Arcade Automatic Slim’s Bangkok Alley Bardog Tavern B.B. King’s Blues Club Bedrock Eats & Sweets Belle Bistro Bleu Blind Bear Bluefin

Blue Monkey Blue Plate Cafe Blues City Cafe Bon Ton Cafe The Brass Door Burrito Blues Cafe Keough Cafe Pontotoc Capriccio Grill Central BBQ Chez Philippe City Market Cordelia’s Table Coyote Ugly Cozy Corner DeJaVu Double J Earnestine & Hazel’s Eighty3 Felicia Suzanne’s Ferraro’s Pizzeria & Pub Five Spot Flight Flying Fish Flying Saucer The Green Beetle Gus’s Fried Chicken Happy Mexican Hard Rock Cafe Huey’s Itta Bena Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Jerry Lee Lewis’ King’s Palace Cafe Kooky Canuck Little Tea Shop Local Gastropub Lunchbox Eats Maciel’s The Majestic Grille Marmalade McEwen’s Mesquite Chop House Miss Polly’s Mollie Fontaine Lounge Office at Uptown Café Onix Oshi Burger Bar Paulette’s Pearl’s Oyster House Pig on Beale Pink Diva Cupcakery Rendezvous Rizzo’s Diner Rumba Room Rum Boogie Cafe Sekisui Silky O’Sullivan’s Silly Goose South of Beale South Main Sushi Spaghetti Warehouse Spindini Tamp & Tap Texas de Brazil Tin Roof Tug’s Westy’s Yao’s Downtown China Bistro Zac’s Cafe

EAST MEMPHIS 4 Dumplings Acre Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen Another Broken Egg Cafe Asian Palace Bangkok Alley Belmont Grill The Booksellers Bistro Broadway Pizza Brookhaven Pub & Grill Buckley’s Grill Buntyn Corner Cafe Carrabba’s Italian Grill Casablanca Cheffie’s Café Ciao Bella City East Bagel & Grille Corky’s Ribs & BBQ Dan McGuinness Pub Dixie Cafe El Mezcal El Porton El Toro Loco Erling Jensen Fino’s Folk’s Folly Foozi Fox & Hound Fratelli’s The Grove Grill Gus’s Fried Chicken Half Shell Happy Mexican Hog & Hominy Houston’s Huey’s Interim Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Jim’s Place Restaurant & Bar

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

DiCaprio Unbound The Revenant puts Leo through the wringer in a quest for Oscar.

DiCaprio (top) hunts his Oscar in The Revenant.

Hardy slays as Iñárritu’s villain.

The film The Revenant reminds me of the most is Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, the 1980 Western epic that was such a disaster that its director is blamed for ending the American auteur period of the 1970s, when the director’s vision was paramount.

There are some people who, to this day, defend Heaven’s Gate as a misunderstood masterpiece.

Those people are mostly French, and they’re wrong.

But imagine a world in which Cimino was right, and Heaven’s Gate actually worked. Accompanied, as in Birdman, by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, Iñárritu captures mind-destroyingly beautiful images of the West. The young crescent moon and Venus make frequent appearances in the sky, as do the shimmering red Northern Lights. At one point, they mix a giant avalanche with a normal reaction shot, and DiCaprio doesn’t even flinch. That’s how committed DiCaprio is: avalanche committed.

Somewhere along the way of this oversized adventure, the nonstop spectacle of inhuman endurance and existential questioning becomes overwhelming. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, The Revenant is like being beaten in the head with a gold brick. It’s actually an hour shorter than Heaven’s Gate, but still about 30 minutes too long. I do not envy the editor who had to decide what to cut from the constant cavalcade of beautiful shots, but that’s why they call editing “killing your babies,” and there needed to be more of that. I admit to having a love-hate relationship with Iñárritu, but I respect his skill and passion while still believing Birdman was a better distillation of his wild aesthetic than The Revenant. But yes, let’s give Leo his Oscar, please, so he can go back to eating healthy food, and maybe get warm.

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a trapper and frontiersman who, during an 1823 expedition to what is now Montana, was mauled by a bear and left for dead by his comrades. But when he awoke to find himself not dead, he dragged himself more than 200 miles across the hostile, frozen wilderness to the nearest American settlement. In the course of Iñárritu’s epic retelling of Glass’ story, DiCaprio repeatedly dunks himself in freezing water, eats unspeakable offal, and spends at least 30 minutes of the almost three-hour movie foaming at the mouth while tied to a makeshift stretcher and being thrown through the forest by a gang of grumpy mountain men. It’s a ballsy, committed performance, and DiCaprio knows it.

Occasionally, in one of his many close-ups, he stares into the camera with a look that screams “Are you not entertained?”

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eonardo DiCaprio wants you to know that he ate an elk heart, raw.

DiCaprio is a vegetarian, but he ate that raw elk heart because Alejandro Iñárritu asked him to. DiCaprio was ACTING. Last weekend, the Hollywood Foreign Press awarded DiCaprio their Best Actor award, and The Revenant Best Picture. Given that Iñárritu’s last film, Birdman, won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, the Golden Globe wins make The Revenant the frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar. But is it the best film of 2015?

The short answer is no, but that’s mostly because 2015 was a banner year that included the stonecold masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. The longer, more interesting answer is that The Revenant is a monumental work from a filmic genius given free reign at the height of his power. And given that the film’s budget ended up ballooning from $60 million to $135 million, “free reign” seems like an accurate description.

Iñárritu’s got his Oscar, but DiCaprio does not, despite working with Steven Spielberg in Catch Me If You Can; Martin Scorsese for six films, including Gangs of New York and The Aviator; and, of course, James “King of the World!” Cameron for Best Picture winner Titanic. DiCaprio thinks it’s time he took home some hardware of his own, which brings us back to the elk heart. DiCaprio wants you to know that he will do literally anything to get that statue. So DiCaprio teamed with Iñárritu at exactly the right time.

Or possibly, from the point of view of DiCaprio’s health and well-being, exactly the wrong time.

The Revenant is based on the story of Hugh Glass,

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Magnificent Obsession Todd Haynes’ Carol beautifully pairs Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Director Todd Haynes excels at portraiture. From Julianne Moore’s terrified housewife in Safe, to his sextet of competing portrayals of Bob Dylan in I’m Not There, Haynes has proven himself among the best at drawing character through social context and subtle gesture. Early in Carol, Haynes gives us a little primer on his methods.

New York shop girl Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) is hanging out in a movie theater projection booth with her beatnik friends. She asks aspiring writer Dannie (John Magaro) why he is taking notes about the movie they’re watching.

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He replies that he’s writing down the difference between what what people say and what they really mean.

In a way, the repressed 1950s is the perfect era for Haynes’ sensibilities. He’s had great success with the setting in 2002’s Far from Heaven, but stumbled when he tried to operate in the decadent 1970s in his glam rock fantasia Velvet Goldmine. Like Far from Heaven, Carol owes a lot to Douglas Sirk, the director of 50s melodramas like Imitation of Life whose obsessively stylized images and heightened emotional landscapes earned him a sizable cult in the post-Stonewall

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Blanchett shines in Haynes’ Carol opposite Mara (below). era. But Carol, with its intense focus and and ability to address subjects that Sirk could have never gotten away with, transcends its influences.

Haynes trades Moore, with whom he collaborated on Safe and Far from Heaven, for Cate Blanchett, who gave the best Dylan in I’m Not There. Blanchett is among the best actresses working today, and Carol, the upper-class New Jersey housewife she inhabits under Haynes’ tutelage, is among her greatest creations.

Carol is the kind of North Atlantic blue blood who pronounces tomato “tommah-tow,” but by the time we meet her, she has already transgressed polite society by having an affair with her friend Abby (Sarah Paulson). Her marriage to the gray flannel-suited Harge Aird (Kyle Chandler) is kaput, but there’s the matter of custody of their 4-year-old daughter Rindy (played by twins Sadie and Kk Heim) that must be resolved before their divorce is finalized. That’s when she happens to meet Therese, who is working in Haynes’ exquisite recreation of a grand 1952 department store decorated for the Christmas season.

Carol is at her most vulnerable, looking for a romantic connection she can’t find in her sham marraige. Therese, on the other hand, is agape at life, just trying to make it through her stressful retail day so she can go out and party

with her meathead, would-be financé Richard (Jake Lacy) and their friends.

“I barely even know what to order for lunch,” she says. Carol’s assurance and status bowls Therese over in a direction she’s never felt before. Soon, they drop everything and, like a lesbian Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, hit the road.

But there’s another Eisenhower-era novel that features a pair of protagonists going on the road: Lolita. Even given the social strictures of 1953, there’s no getting around the fact that Carol is much older and more experienced than Therese, and there are layers of class and social privilege in play in the aristocrat’s courtship of the shop girl. It’s obvious, by the third act, that both women are struggling against internal forces they don’t fully understand.

Ultimately, the prevailing force is identified as love. But Haynes’ vision of love is not the conquers-all variety, but rather “we’ll muddle through, no matter the cost.” It’s a beautiful sentiment, befitting a beautifully constructed film from one of our era’s greatest filmmakers.

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TH E LAST WO R D by Tim Sampson

Dock of the Bay

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As I write this, on January 8th, 2016, it is the 48th anniversary of the release of the Otis Redding single, “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay,” recorded right here in Memphis at Stax Records.

Cowritten by Booker T. & the MG’s guitarist and music legend Steve Cropper, the song made Redding a household name and further cemented Memphis’ position as being the real music capital of the world.

The song almost instantly became a global sensation, selling more than four million copies and garnering two Grammy Awards: Best R&B Song and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.

“Dock of the Bay” was the sixth most-performed song of the 20th century, was ranked by Rolling Stone as No. 28 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and the album by the same name was named 161 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. (It was the second-highest ranking of Redding’s songs on Rolling Stone’s list.

His “Respect,” which later ushered in international success for Aretha Franklin — also from Memphis — was named No. five of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.)

Over the years, “Dock of the Bay” has been covered by the likes of Glen Campbell, Cher, Peggy Lee, Bob Dylan, Percy Sledge, Dee Clark, Sam & Dave, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Pearl Jam, and countless others. In 2013, when President and Mrs. Barack Obama hosted a special concert at the White House to honor Memphis soul, Justin Timberlake — also from Memphis (well, a suburb of Memphis) — sang it for the POTUS and guests with millions of television viewers watching.

Unfortunately, Otis Redding never got to hear the final version of the song. Shortly after recording it, with just some finishing touches left to be added, he was killed, along with most of the members of the Memphis band, the Bar-Kays, in a plane crash. Redding was just 26 years old.

You might be wondering why I’m writing about this. I’m wondering too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I work by day at the Soulsville Foundation, which operates the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Stax Music Academy, and the Soulsville Charter School, so, yeah, this is a little self-serving. I’ll take that even one step further and mention that we have our largest fund-raiser of the year, Staxtacular, on the 29th of this month. It’s hosted by Vince Carter and the Memphis Grizzlies, and you should all think about attending to help us help out the thousands of kids we work with, based on the legacy of Stax Records. We believe that if you give someone a chance to succeed, they just might succeed against all kinds of odds.

We’re in a neighborhood where virtually everyone lives at or below the poverty level, but they are, by and large, awesome people. One hundred percent of our Soulsville Charter School seniors have been accepted to college for the four years we’ve had graduating classes, all with some kind of scholarship or grant. There have been 207 seniors so far, and they’ve earned more than $30 million in scholarships and grants to schools, including Brown University, Tufts University, University of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Middle Tennessee State University, and many, yes, right here at Southwest Tennessee Community College. Since 2008, every senior enrolled at the Stax Music Academy has been accepted to college. I’m not even sure how many have been and/or are now at Berklee College of Music in Boston on full scholarships.

The Stax Museum is a beacon in the neighborhood, with visitors from every continent making the pilgrimage to Memphis and Stax and Sun Studios and Graceland every year. Yet, there are people in Memphis who know nothing about this organization.

And there are those who truly get what all this means, and they love Memphis for what it is, despite the lists of fattest, poorest, most dangerous, and that other bull-roar that rears its ugly head when Forbes or some other source lays the crap on us.

And don’t get me started on Nashville. Ugh. I don’t hate Nashville, but I would hate Memphis if it started trying to be Nashville. We are not Nashville, thank goodness. And we are not Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, or, God forbid, Austin.

We are the city where Al Green recorded “Love and Happiness” and “Take Me to the River” and “Let’s Stay Together” and where Bruno Mars recently recorded the global sensation “Uptown Funk” in the very same rooms where Green changed the music world and where Ann Peebles recorded “I Can’t Stand the Rain.” We are the city where, 48 years ago, Otis Redding recorded “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay.” Why don’t we all make a New Year’s resolution in 2016 to stand up and stake our claim?

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