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Memphis Burning The horrific lynching of Ell Persons was national news in 1917, then forgotten. Nearly 100 years later, his story is coming back to life.

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1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015: Elegant and creative.

You are timid and prefer anonymity.

You are most compatible with Boars and Rabbits, but never the Ox.

1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017: A pioneer in spirit, you are devoted to work and quest after knowledge. You are selfish and eccentric. Rabbits are trouble.

Snakes and Oxen are fine.

1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016: You are very intelligent and are able to influence people. An enthusiastic achiever, you are easily discouraged and confused.

Avoid Tigers. Seek a Dragon or a Rat.

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1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014: Popular and attractive to the opposite sex. You are often ostentatious and impatient. You need people. Marry a Tiger or a Dog early, but never a Rat.

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1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018: Loyal and honest, you work well with others. Generous, yet stubborn and often selfish.

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1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020: You are ambitious, yet honest. Prone to spend freely. Seldom make lasting friendships. Most compatible with Dragons and Monkeys.

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1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012: You are eccentric and your life complex. You have a very passionate nature and abundant health. Marry a Monkey or a Rat late in life. Avoid the Dog.

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1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013: Wise and intense with a tendency towards physical beauty.

Vain and high tempered. The Boar is your enemy. The Cock or Ox are your best signs.

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1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011: Luckiest of all signs, you are also talented and articulate. Affectionate, yet shy.

You seek peace throughout your life. Marry a Sheep or Boar. Your opposite is the Cock.

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1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010: Tiger people are aggressive, courageous, candid, and sensitive. Look to the Horse and Dog for happiness. Beware of the Monkey.

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1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009: Bright, patient, and inspiring to others. You can be happy by yourself, yet make an outstanding parent. Marry a Snake or Cock. The Sheep will bring trouble.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR • OUR 1406TH ISSUE 02.04.2016 “Nobody remembers who won second place.” — Walter Hagen That tweet came from Donald Trump a few weeks back. It returned to haunt him Monday night, when The Donald came in second to Ted Cruz in the Iowa caucuses. And once again, America was left asking the question: Why do we start this whole process in Iowa? A white, rural, fundamentalist state that was won by Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum in the previous two election cycles? It makes no sense.

But it was a weird week for everybody: An internet argument raged for days between Atlanta rapper B.o.B. and scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson over whether the earth is flat. Seriously. Apparently, the flat-earth movement is not dead, and B.o.B. isn’t buying this “the earth is round” nonsense. Actually, I suspect that if the GOP presidential candidates learned that a significant number of potential voters were flat-earthers, they’d whip out their “I’m not a scientist” line when confronted with the question.

Speaking of questionable science … Trump did the near-impossible and turned Fox News’ Megyn Kelly into a paragon of tough-minded journalism by skipping the most recent GOP debate, in which we learned that no matter the question, the answer is always: Get rid of Obamacare, kill ISIS, stop immigration, and Hillary Clinton will be a horrible president.

For example, when asked a question about Kim Davis, Chris Christie went full-9/11 and then promised he would destroy ISIS. To prevent gay marriage, I suppose? I don’t know.

We learned that soon-to-be-former-candidate Ben Carson can memorize the opening lines of the Constitution and that he stacks words like Jenga sticks. My favorite quote: “Putin is a one-horse country.”

Ted Cruz tried to make a joke about Trump, but it fell flat, and Bette Midler tweeted that he couldn’t improvise a fart at a baked bean dinner. Which was much funnier than Ted’s line. Also, Ted likes mandates. A lot.

John Kasich tried hard to bring some sense to the occasion, but he will likely soon return to his role as the other brother Daryll on Newhart.

Oh yeah, Facebook deaths this week included Joe Cocker (again), Pete Seeger (again), and Yanni, who is still alive, to the disappointment of many.

In local news, it was the week that the Grizzlies found themselves and the Tigers stayed lost. Overton Park advocates and the Memphis Zoo remained entangled in a battle over the Greensward parking issue, with the zoo showing all the grace of a tranquilized elephant running the high hurdles. Or Jeb Bush in a debate. Your call.

N EWS & O P I N I O N And Flyer reporter Toby Sells broke LETTERS - 4 the story that District Attorney Amy THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 THE FLY-BY - 6 Weirich and her assistant Stephen Jones SPORTS - 10 were being hit with a censure by the POLITICS - 12 Tennessee Supreme Court’s Board of EDITORIAL - 14 Professional Responsibility for their VIEWPOINT - 15 COVER STORY actions in the trial of Noura Jackson.

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About Richard Cohen’s Viewpoint column, “Time to Get Real” …

Bernie Sanders is a charmer, but when you come down to reality, there’s only Hillary and her “plans” who can take on the GOP. The Republicans would picture Bernie with images from the Soviet Union so fast your head would spin.

Cohen says Hillary has a lot of plans like it’s a bad thing. It’s good to have real, working plans, not just fake plans where things are free with no real way to pay for them. Bernie’s cool on a poster, but Hillary is your gal.

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About Toby Sells’ interview with Chuck Brady of the Memphis Zoo …

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About Bruce VanWyngarden’s Letter From the Editor, “Wrestling With the Truth” …

“How do you monetize the digital product at a level that pays for a decentsized news staff?” Bingo. That’s the central conundrum of the newspaper business these days. And make sure that 4staff includes 5 6a competent 7 8copy editor 9 10 or three. I’m appalled at what I see passing 15 as “final product” in so much content these days. Does anybody read this stuff?

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So what Brady’s saying is, if I’m heading downtown for an event, and I see all that greenspace in Health Sciences Park (or whatever it’s called), I can just pull onto the grass and park under the trees? After all, it is public space.

No? I can’t do that? If I do my car will be towed?

I’m so confused.

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About Michael J. LaRosa and Bryce Ashby’s cover story, “American Dreamers” …

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THE GLAMOROUS LIFE Speaking of junk, you’ve got to wonder what’s going through a person’s mind while they’re stuffing drugs into a bodily orifice. This week, Shelby County Sheriff’s deputies smelled weed when they pulled over a silver BMW with obscured license plates.

The cops found a blunt, some heroin, a little Xanax, a veritable panoply of drug paraphernalia, and, of course, a woman with her pants undone.

Sandra Bigham realized the jig was up and admitted to stuffing a contact lens case full of crack into her vagina, a.k.a. God’s crack purse.

IT’S A SIGN The Backyard Burger on Perkins near Poplar is offering Memphis diners an opportunity to savor the flavor of an upscale running shoe. YUM!!!

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A look at proposals for redeveloping Mud Island River Park.

At least 20 different uses — from a zoo to a 400-foot fountain — have been proposed for Mud Island River Park since 1910. Various visions to improve daily attendance have failed to flourish. More than $300 million have been poured into the park, but it hemorrhages $2 million in annual operational costs.

That’s why Riverfront Development Corporation (RDC) is back to the drawing board. After posting a request for qualifications, the RDC received proposals last month from five potential redevelopers with ideas for the park, ranging from a skate park to an upgraded amphitheater to a 500-room resort and spa.

RDC issued the request to “make sure the individual parties were qualified in that they had done or been materially involved in projects of this magnitude in the past,” RDC President Benny Lendermon said. ML Professional Properties, RVC Outdoor Destinations, Bass Pro Shops, Memphis Equity Brand Management, and Mansion America, LLC, now have until Feb. 24th to explain how they plan to design, develop, finance, construct, maintain, operate, and manage their proposals.

Revitalizing the underutilized Mud Island River Park is

no simple feat. Though RDC is in the preliminarily stages of choosing a firm, a hotel could take years to build, while the amphitheater might only take months to refurbish, Lendermon said. How the makeover will be funded is uncertain, but footing the bill mostly with private dollars rather than pulling from the city budget is crucial for the master plan.

“We are looking at a public/private partnership to bring new capital to Mud Island to both invigorate it and to pay for deferred maintenance issues that the city does not really have the funds to pay for currently,” Lendermon said.

“That is our hope. We will not know if any of these ideas accomplish that goal until we receive the final proposals and begin negotiations.”

Below are selected details from each of the redevelopment firm’s proposals: ML Professional Properties: • Add three new bridges, and split the lanes — one for bikers and joggers and one for walkers and sightseers. One would be designed like the Nashville entertainment and pedestrian bridge.

Q&A with Phillip Ashley Chocolatier and founder of Phillip Ashley Chocolates At the Grammy Awards on February 15th, performers, presenters, and guests will get a taste of Memphis — literally.

Everyone at the Grammys will get one of Memphis chocolatier Phillip Ashley’s golden pralines, a pyramid-shaped, 68 percent, single-origin dark chocolate praline laced with 23-karat gold leaf dust. Each golden praline retails for $79.

Ashley, who creates artful chocolates in his Cooper-Young shop, was named the official chocolatier of the Grammy Awards gift lounge. It’s not his first award show, though. Ashley’s chocolates were handed out at the Oscars in 2013.

The award shows are just one step in his plan to spread his Memphis-made chocolates across the nation. In January, Ashley began selling several of his chocolate collections through luxury brands Neiman Marcus and Horchow.

Dubbed the “real-life Willy Wonka” by Forbes magazine, Ashley creates chocolates that double as works of culinary and visual art. Each chocolate is hand-painted and boasts wild flavor combinations, such as apricot and gorgonzola dulce or bacon caramel shortbread. — Bianca Phillips Flyer: What’s the plan for the Grammys?

Phillip Ashley: We’re doing the chocolate for the gift lounge for the performers, presenters, and media. That’s February 12th through the 14th when people are coming to rehearse or media is coming to work on pre-stories.

We’re also doing the chocolates for the 30 performers’ dressing rooms. So, like, Adele is opening, and LL Cool J is the host.

We’re doing personalized gift towers for each one of those performers.

We’re doing the media room the night of the Grammys, and we’re doing 6,170 pralines for the after-party.

They’re going to build a big pyramid of our chocolates, and people will be handing them out.

And this chocolate is coated in gold?

We put flecks of gold inside the praline, and we dusted them with gold dust. We use a makeup brush, and a little dust goes a long way. It’s $160 for a gram of gold dust.

How did this happen?

They contacted me. I went to a summit in L.A. a few years ago, just another entertainer/artist event. We did chocolates there, and turns out, some of their representatives were there. They contacted me last spring, and they said they liked my stuff.

Your chocolates are now being sold through Neiman Marcus and Horchow. Are you on a quest for world domination?

The goal was always to grow our corporate gifting business, which is something we’re constantly going after and doing luxury retail from a wholesale perspective. We’re based in Memphis

• Develop an area called the River’s Edge on the west bank and model it after the River Walk in San Antonio, Texas.

• Construct a water park at the end of the River Walk. Turn it into an ice skating rink during the winter.

• Convert the museum into a mixed-use area like the City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri.

• Build a U-shaped fishing pier at the west side of the island.

• Build a dog park.

• Build a skateboard park.

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RVC Outdoor Destinations: • Create a new main, north entrance, and incorporate Greenbelt Park.

• Consider renovation or demolition of the Harbor Landing building with a focus on corporate events and weddings. Take advantage of overnight lodging.

• Get guests on the water with boat and kayak rentals, as wells as guided fishing and eco-tours.

Bass Pro Shops: • Bass Pro Shops did not submit a formal proposal to the RDC by the Jan. 15th deadline. However, they requested in a letter “to still be considered a qualified development partner and have the opportunity to submit a more defined plan in the future.”

• Should they not be chosen as the master developer, Dunham asked to have “a representative on the RDC team and have ongoing involvement in the design and development process.”

Memphis Equity Brand Management: • Build a 500-room resort hotel and spa, “which might carry the Marriott flag.”

• Construct a monorail that will stop near the hotel lobby.

• Create a parking garage to accommodate 500 spaces for the hotel and 500 EDITED BY spaces for visitors to the River Park.

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How did you get into the gourmet chocolate business?

It was kind of a crazy idea just dreaming about chocolate. I said, why isn’t anyone in real life doing what Willy Wonka did? I would have ideas for chocolates flavors, like barbecue or bleu cheese. We have a chocolate that reminds you of an orange dreamsicle that’s blood orange, vanilla bean, and tequila. I wanted to come up with imaginative combinations.

Do you ever have combinations that don’t work out?

Yeah, when you’re pushing the envelope, sometimes you have to re-work things or rein it in. I’ve worked on it long enough to be able to create a formula base so I can plug things into the equation.

Does your staff taste-test?

Oh yes, I’ll hand them a spoon and say, try the ganache. Funny enough, I taste them for balance and all those things. But once the final product is made, I never eat it.

They’re like little pieces of art.

When I started, I planned to do it the old-world way with everything hand-rolled, rustic style, hand-dipped. And then somebody asked for 1,500 pieces, and I said, that’s the last time I’m doing that.

The molded shapes and the painting came in large part from me figuring out a better way to produce at a higher rate. They’re mini-sculptures, and Golden Praline the way they looks ties into the ingredients. My dad is our head painter. He retired from being a basketball coach for 38 years. All of the chocolates that are going out, he paints. It takes someone who can be methodical and disciplined.

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The Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility (TBPR) is the investigative unit of the Tennessee Supreme Court. The board receives complaints against attorneys, reviews those complaints, and if they’re credible, the board convenes a hearing, such as a criminal court trial with evidence, witnesses, and more.

Depending on the outcome of the hearings, attorneys can face a range of discipline. They can be disbarred, suspended, or face a censure, which is a sharp, public criticism that carries little material penalty.

Jackson was convicted in 2009 of the second-degree murder of her mother Jennifer. That conviction was overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court in 2014 because of the misconduct in the trial by the SCDAG’s office. Jackson accepted a plea deal last summer and is now completing a 15-year sentence.

The board wants a censure for Weirich because she violated Jackson’s Fifth Amendment right not to testify in the trial. In her closing argument, Weirich turned to the jury and “stated in a loud tone of voice: ‘Just tell us where you were! That’s all we’re asking, Noura!’” As Weirich said this, she turned, walked toward Jackson and pointed at her.

Weirich said she was only summarizing testimony from Jackson’s aunt earlier in the trial. The TBPR found that Weirich was commenting on Jackson’s constitutional right of silence, implying that Jackson had something to hide.

The TBPR has also targeted Assistant District Attorney Stephen Jones for discipline. He argued the Jackson case with Weirich in 2009, and the TBPR said he hid evidence that could have helped Jackson’s attorneys.

The board said Jones knowingly withheld a statement from Andrew Hammack, one of Jackson’s friends who had been a suspect in the case. The defense could have used the statement to impeach Hammack and, perhaps, to further probe his role in the crime, the petition said. It was information “known to the prosecutor that tended to negate the guilt of the accused,” it said.

Jackson’s defense attorneys, Valerie Corder and Arthur Quinn, knew of Hammack’s statement during the trial

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he games must be played. However uncomfortable the next six weeks may become for the Memphis Tigers and their beleaguered head coach, at least 11 games remain on the schedule (counting at least one in the American Athletic Conference tournament). As of this writing, the Tigers are 13-8 with a 4-4 mark that has them tied for seventh place in the 11-team AAC. If the empty seats at FedExForum and calls for Josh Pastner’s job have been unsettling to this point, just wait for the reaction to a nosedive — if a nosedive occurs — while 68 other programs book tickets for next month’s Big Dance.

Last Saturday’s loss at SMU can be viewed one of two ways. Glass half full: The Mustangs are a tier above every other team in the AAC (as the standings indicate), making a loss — even a blowout — on the team’s home floor nothing worthy of teeth-grinding. Glass half empty: The dramatic gap in talent between the SMU roster and the one at Pastner’s disposal accentuates how far this program has fallen, and how large the gap has become between reality as a Memphis Tiger and the dreams of a Sweet 16 (let alone Final Four) appearance.

Forget the Tigers’ horrid record against ranked teams under Pastner.

For now, the U of M program needs to find ways to merely beat its own league’s elite: SMU, Connecticut, and Cincinnati. Since moving to the AAC from Conference USA in 2013, the Tigers are now 4-12 against this trio of league exemplars. You can’t compete for national championships unless you can compete for your conference title.

Which makes this week at FedExForum maybe the biggest two-game home stand of the 38-year-old Pastner’s career.

Sweep Connecticut (here Thursday) and Cincinnati (Saturday), and the Tigers will find themselves, at worst, tied in the loss column with the Huskies and Bearcats this time next week. Split these games or (teeth-grinding time) lose both, and we can consider the nosedive underway. This is the collateral effect of the home loss to East Carolina on January 24th. Memphis must knock off a team it’s not expected to beat. One, at the very least.

Can the Tigers sweep this week’s contests? So much must happen to counter what we’ve seen of late. Freshman star Dedric Lawson is averaging 14.4 points and 9.0 rebounds this

season, but averaged 8.5 points and 6.0 boards in the Tigers’ two narrow losses at UConn and Cincinnati last month.

Lawson must make a difference against an AAC power before we can consider him truly among the best freshmen in Tiger history.

Trahson Burrell must be the player who came an assist shy of a triple-double in the loss to ECU, and not the one who found himself benched (for disciplinary reasons) in the second half at SMU. And the Tigers simply must find offensive support for their “Big Three” of Lawson, Shaq Goodwin, and Ricky Tarrant Jr. Two starters against the Mustangs — Sam Craft and Markel Crawford — failed to score. “Organizing” the team (Craft’s specialty) and marking the opponent’s top gun (Crawford’s) are important, but Tiger opponents have taken to sagging on Lawson and Goodwin.

Points must be generated elsewhere.

The U of M program needs to find ways to merely beat its own league’s elite.

Surely the Tigers welcome turning a page on the calendar, having finished a 4-5 January highlighted only by the narrow win over Temple at home and a road beat-down of UCF. Pastner and his staff would be wise to erase (or hide) any indication of the January stumblefest. Make February a season within a season. Take the two big games this week, then focus on winning four — if not five — of the remaining six. (SMU comes to town February 25th). Six wins this month would put the team on the cusp of 20 when we next turn the calendar to March where college basketball’s elite are separated from the hoi polloi.

This team knows what’s being said about its performances to date. “I’ve been here a while,” said Goodwin after the Temple win, “and I know how they do Coach Pastner. My sophomore year, I asked him why, and he said, ‘You gotta win. You gotta win big games.’ We’ll accept that. We’ll man up on that. But we pay attention to it, and we’ll get it right once we get on a winning streak.”

If a winning streak is to happen for the 2015-16 Memphis Tigers, it will start this month. Would it be enough to erase January, to lower the temperature on Josh Pastner’s hot seat? We’ll soon have some answers.

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POLITICS By Jackson Baker

There’s an 8th District Race!

Yes, yes, in the wake of the Iowa caucuses, it would appear that the forthcoming March 1st Super Tuesday presidential primary in Tennessee is going to be hard-fought in both parties.

And the down-ballot primaries for the one local race, that of general sessions clerk, will no doubt pick up some extra votes from the overflow.

But another political contest, involving any number of prominent local politicians, came out of nowhere on Monday to loom as this year’s feature race-to-be on the August 4th state primary ballot.

The outlook for this year’s race for the 8th District congressional seat transformed itself from a ho-hum incumbency-reelection effort into what is certain to be a hard-fought, free-for-all, with the surprise announcement that incumbent Republican congressman Stephen Fincher of Frog Jump, in Crockett County, would be bowing out after completing the present term, his third.

Fincher’s stated reasons were of the sort that could certainly be taken literally, though they hinted at unsaid reasons that the state’s political class will doubtless spend a good deal of time guessing about.

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Congressional District seat this year,” the Republican congressman and well-known gospel singer said, in a prepared mid-morning news release. “I am humbled by the opportunity to serve the people of West Tennessee, but I never intended to become a career politician. The last six years have been the opportunity of a lifetime, and I am honored to have been given the chance to serve.”

But, while political observers were still scratching their heads in amazement, a small host of ambitious Republican politicians swung into action. Almost instantaneously came an announcement from radiologist/radio magnate George Flinn, who has sought the seat before, that he would be a candidate in the 8th again this year.

Flinn, a former Shelby County commissioner and frequent candidate for several other positions, suggested he had intended to challenge for the seat even before Fincher’s announcement and, by implication, might have Five hopefuls: (from l) Flinn, Kustoff, Kelsey, Leatherwood, and Basar.

influenced the incumbent’s decision: “I have been traveling in West Tennessee for the past few months and listening to citizens talk about their lives, what is happening in our community. The overwhelming facts are that Congress has not been doing enough to address our needs. I have heard all of our concerns, and I am convinced that we must act. We are headed in the wrong direction, but we can fix things. That is why I am running for U.S. Congress in the 8th District of Tennessee.”

In rapid-fire order came announcements from other hopefuls, most of them clearly ad hoc statements prepared in haste.

There was this from former U.S. Attorney David Kustoff, who had previously run for Congress in the 7th District, much of which is now in the 8th District: “I want to thank Congressman Fincher for his service to our country and for fighting for conservative values in Washington. I strongly believe our state deserves a congressman who will continue the fight for Tennessee values and principles, and that is why I will be candidate for the 8th Congressional District. “ And, not long after that, came word from Shelby County Register Tom Leatherwood, who had also previously sought election from the 7th. Said Leatherwood, who was already trying out the rudiments of a campaign speech: “I am throwing my hat into the ring

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for the 8th congressional seat. I believe I have a very strong, proven conservative record which will resonate in the district, having served two terms in the state Senate, where I helped kill a state income tax twice. I also served on the Senate Finance Committee, where we had to tell people no in order to balance the budget.

This is the type of discipline I can bring to Washington.”

Virtually back-to-back announcements then came from state Senator Brian Kelsey and Shelby County Commissioner Steve Basar that they intended to seek the 8th District seat as well.

Kelsey, who has long been expected to seek an open congressional seat, wasted no time in picking up a petition for the 8th District race at the Shelby County Election Commission and featured a photo of that act on his Twitter page. Basar, who had already floated a trial balloon for a candidacy in the 9th District against Democratic incumbent Steve Cohen, said a race in the 8th, where his domicile is, seemed a more obvious route to Congress.

Neither Flinn’s entry nor Kustoff ’s nor Leatherwood’s might have been unexpected, given their prior attempts at congressional service. Besides running in the 8th District in 2010, when he finished third in a three-way GOP primary race, Flinn ran unsuccessfully in 2012 as the GOP nominee against 9th District incumbent Cohen. He is well-known for his almost Trump-like willingness to self-fund his political races to the tune of millions.

Kustoff sought the 7th District seat in a four-way GOP primary in 2002 that also included then county commissioner, now state Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris and then City Councilman Brent Taylor. That race was won by current incumbent Marsha Blackburn.

Reapportionment after 2010 resulted in the transfer of most of the east Shelby County portion of the 7th district into the 8th, which already included a generous section of northern Shelby County.

Leatherwood pointed out that he won 62 percent of the Shelby County vote in a 2008 direct primary challenge to Blackburn and that his Senate district included Tipton and Lauderdale counties, which also are contained in or overlap the 8th District. The county register also notes that Shelby County has accounted for as much as 55 percent of the total 8th District vote since the new district lines were established after the 2010 census.

That fact, the prominence of Shelby County in the 8th District, and especially of the Republican-dominated portions of Shelby County, may well have influenced Fincher’s decision not to seek reelection this year. He might have had thought processes similar to those of Blackburn, who did well in Shelby County against

three natives of the county in the 2002 GOP primary but, as noted, lost the county to Leatherwood in 2008, and subsequently lobbied to move the western boundary of her district out of Shelby County.

Several Shelby Countians, including current Memphis City Council Chairman Kemp Conrad (who may yet be heard from this year), had in previous years thought out loud about a challenge in the 8th District, and have become a crowd, now that the district is an open seat.

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would. Not that his address wasn’t well received. The governor’s brag-bag of boasts and proposals was like a decently packed post-Christmas stocking, containing a fair number of comestibles, even if lacking in the surprise hardwares — an unexpected wristwatch, a brand-new iPhone —that can give the annual gift-giving ritual the sense of holiday-style delight.

Or, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, there was not much there. Conspicuously missing in the governor’s message was any mention of the two great issues that have been more addressed in statewide commentary and political cross talk than any others over the past year — Medicaid expansion and infrastructure repair. No Insure Tennessee pitch as with last year’s speech and no substitute proposal for accessing the billions of federal dollars still lying in wait for the state’s indigent population and struggling hospitals.

No highway tax or any other concrete proposal (pun very much intended) for dealing with Tennessee’s deteriorating highways, roads, and bridges.

There was a small revenue surplus to feel good about and a modest boost in the state rainy-day fund, but these did very little to diminish a sense of continuing austerity. Nor, given the continuing blockage of Medicaid funds, did the governor’s statements concerning a “really well-run” TennCare system raise many pulses. And his satisfied proclamations concerning the state’s plans for its diminishing real estate may have gratified the outsource lobby, but they gave the rest of us something of an empty-nest feeling.

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investment, said Haslam, of “more than 414 million in new dollars in Tennessee schools, more than $200 million of that toward increases to teacher salaries.” The boast that went with that was less edifying.

As the governor said, “we’re not investing in the same old public education system in Tennessee.” The raise in standards he claims to have achieved is disputed by many serious educators, and what he calls the “expanded education options for children” could also be described as the draining away of local responsibility for education as the state Achievement School District, unmonitored by any elected body, picks off schools, keeping them from thriving local initiatives such as the iZone program of Shelby County Schools.

State employees will come in for some pro forma (and long overdue) pay increases, although Haslam accompanied this bit of lagniappe with some coldshower rhetoric regarding “the hard work and discipline of our departments” as mediated by “the conservative fiscal strategy employed by the General Assembly, our constitutional officers, and this administration.”

The governor used much of his address to lavish praise on the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency and the state’s first responders. He did not dwell much on Tennessee Promise or his various initiatives to boost adult education in Tennessee, but he is no doubt entitled to some commendation for these efforts.

All in all, his State of the State address recalled that old line about it being “the thought that counts.” Thought is fine, but we cannot escape the feeling that a little more action would have counted more.

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Our Central Park by suing for management authority over part of the Greensward. They plan to install a parking surface, a prospect that is unacceptable to park users. The zoo clearly views Greensward parking as a permanent entitlement, not an interim measure.

The Old Forest is another wonderful Overton Park amenity. It is heavily used by runners, cyclists, and walkers; it is an educational resource; and it provides the tonic of wilderness for city dwellers. It is home to an uncommonly wide range of plant and animal species.

Sadly, the zoo has done significant harm to this ecosystem and threatens further injury. In 2008, without warning or soliciting public comment, it clear-cut four acres of rare, old-growth urban forest to make way for its Teton Trek exhibit, which was built in such a way as to expose park users to the kind of industrial views that they go to the park to escape. The zoo plans to develop an additional 17 acres of forest, again with no scheduled opportunity for public comment.

Such development would radically and permanently damage the Old Forest.

The zoo should honor its stated values: “The biodiversity of ALL [emphasis theirs] flora and fauna have value and as a zoological and botanical garden we have a responsibility to support their preservation. The destruction, degradation, or loss of functional ecosystems and the species that occupy them is unacceptable.”

Memphians are tired of the zoo management’s elitist and destructive tactics. “Save the Greensward” signs are present in hundreds of yards and businesses around town. Our elected officials have received hundreds of emails criticizing the zoo. Letters to the editor, responses to zoo board members’ editorial columns, and posts on the zoo’s own Facebook feed tilt heavily against the zoo’s heavy-handed tactics. The zoo’s characterization of its critics as a “vocal few” is demonstrably inaccurate.

The zoo is a beloved Memphis institution, but we have accommodated their selfish behavior long enough. We taxpaying Memphians want our park back. It is time for zoo leaders to solve the problem created by their failure to plan for adequate parking within their own boundaries. Whatever form this solution takes, this much is clear: All Greensward parking must end, and no additional park land can be allocated to the zoo.

Eric Gottlieb is a proud Memphian, a daily commuter through Overton Park, and a member of the Memphis Zoological Society.

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Some describe the clash over the Memphis Zoo’s frequent and unacceptable practice of parking cars on Overton Park’s Greensward as an absurd battle over a grassy lot. In fact, it is about the right of Memphians to actively craft their urban environment.

When I moved to Memphis in 1998, Overton Park’s playgrounds were in disrepair, its infrastructure was crumbling, and crime was common. Today, Overton Park is thriving, thanks to the work of the Overton Park Conservancy and the advocacy and volunteer efforts of park users. Every day, a diverse spectrum of Memphians enjoys renovated playgrounds, large picnic tables for family reunions, a weekly farmers market, fenced dog parks, and more, all without charge.

The Memphis Zoo has also grown during that period, adding four major exhibits, most recently the Zambezi River Hippo Camp, but not one additional parking spot. In response to increased parking pressure, the zoo was temporarily permitted to park cars on Overton Park’s Greensward during times of peak demand.

The Greensward is not an unused field or stretch of vacant land. It is an integral aesthetic design feature of the park, offering pastoral views created with specific scale and proportion. Parking cars there is akin to erecting a cell tower in the middle of the zoo’s beautiful China exhibit. Nevertheless, park users endured this ill-conceived stopgap measure in silence for many years.

Unfortunately, Greensward parking has increased and now occurs on virtually all weekends and holidays when the weather is nice, exactly when people want to use the park. Even when cars aren’t present, tire ruts carved in the soil make the area unsightly and unsuitable for intended uses such as walking, playing Frisbee and soccer, and kite-flying.

In response to rising calls to end Greensward parking, the zoo has sabotaged the efforts of community partners seeking alternative parking solutions. For example, the zoo actively discouraged its members from using shuttles during a trial run in 2014. They refused to partner in or contribute financially to the OPC’s expert-led, public traffic and parking study currently underway.

Recently, the zoo has become more aggressive. They uprooted 27 trees to accommodate more cars, trees that were donated to the OPC by a long-time park supporter and planted in memory of her mother. They are attempting a landgrab

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Memphis Burning

THE HORRIFIC LYNCHING OF ELL PERSONS WAS NATIONAL NEWS IN 1917, THEN FORGOTTEN. NEARLY 100 YEARS LATER, HIS STORY IS COMING BACK TO LIFE.

Last winter, with a scrawled list of the streets and landmarks mentioned in 100-year-old newspaper articles, I drove east through Memphis, past Shelby Farms, to what I believed might have been the place where a black woodchopper named Ell Persons was burned alive before thousands of spectators. I walked along the edge of the Wolf River, unsure whether this was the place. The river was narrower than I expected, and the bridge was newer than I thought it should have been.

There were no markers, no wooden crosses or makeshift memorials like I see so often marking the site of a murder or a deadly car crash. There

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The lynching of Persons is a story no one told me about my home. I never heard Persons’ name in a history class or read about the lynching in a textbook. I first encountered Persons’ story in my own reading, years after I finished high school in Memphis and moved away for college. When I went looking for the site where Persons was lynched, there was nothing to suggest whether I was in the right place.

A group of local Memphians is looking to change that. In the year since I first went looking for the site of Persons’ lynching, an as-of-yet unnamed group of ministers, professors, scholars, and churchgoers, inspired by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson’s speech at the Facing History and

Ourselves annual fund-raising dinner, found their mission: to identify and place historical markers at all lynching sites in Shelby County.

Though Persons was not the only victim of lynching in Shelby County, his murder is unique for its surviving details — the case was breathlessly reported in local news leading up to the lynching — and for its spectacle.

Thousands of people attended Persons’ lynching, which was, according to some newspaper accounts, the first to be carried out in broad daylight.

In the spring of 1917, a 16-year-old white girl named Antoinette Rappel was found raped and murdered in Memphis, near the Macon Road Bridge. Rappel had been decapitated,

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Two abutments remain the only markers at the site of Ell Persons’ 1917 lynching where the old Macon Road bridge once stood.

reported that passenger trains entering Shelby County were being searched by the armed mob. Persons was handed over to the mob when they discovered him on a Memphis-bound train.

Some speculate that the police gave up Persons in an attempt to avoid the riot that would form in Memphis if he was legally protected and granted a fair trial. But even if Persons had avoided the mob and made it to court, almost all local attorneys had refused to serve in his defense. Upon his capture, local papers announced he would be burned the next morning.

By eight o’clock on the morning of the lynching, reporters estimated that 3,000 people had gathered to watch.

Clipping from a 1917 newspaper article about Persons’ lynching (top); Randall Mullins (left) of Responding to Racism; Steve Masler, historian and manager of exhibits at the Pink Palace Museum.

Some people had been camped out at the bridge for over 24 hours. By nine o’clock that morning, the road leading to the bridge was blocked by traffic for a mile and a half. A teacher at Central High School in downtown Memphis came to class that morning to find 50 boys absent, missing class to attend the lynching with their families. Some children brought notes from home asking that they be excused early from school in order to go to the lynching.

The Memphis Press reported an old man on crutches “hobbled and bemoaned the fate that might keep him from arriving on time.” Vendors set up stands among the crowds and sold sandwiches and snacks.

Though Rappel’s mother requested that Persons be burned on the spot where they found her daughter, the mob cleared a different space, on the other side of the levee, which they argued would allow the crowd a better view. Persons was hauled to the cleared space, where containers of gasoline were poured over his body. As the fire started burning at his feet, two men ran up from the crowd and sliced off his ears. Other people rushed forward to claim souvenirs but were held back.

Some spectators complained too much gasoline had been used and Persons would burn too quickly.

Once Persons’ charred corpse had cooled, he was dismembered.

OVERTON HIGH SCHOOL’S FACING HISTORY STUDENTS COMBINE EFFORTS WITH RESPONDING TO RACISM TO MEMORIALIZE LOCAL LYNCHING SITES WITH HISTORICAL MARKERS. Members of the crowd took Persons’ head and drove with it to Beale Street in downtown Memphis, where they threw the head at a group of black pedestrians. The severed head was photographed and printed on postcards.

Though all accounts of lynchings are horrific, there is something particularly, intimately painful about a lynching in one’s own hometown. Newspaper accounts reported that none of the mob wore masks or attempted to conceal their identities. Among those thousands continued on page 18

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her body left under a bridge along the Wolf River. Suspicion fell quickly on Persons, who lived near the site of the murder. Persons was arrested twice, interrogated twice, and released twice before being captured a third time and reportedly beaten into a confession.

In anticipation of a trial — and, ostensibly, to keep him from being lynched — local law enforcement moved Persons to a Nashville jail. As it came time for his arraignment, two police officers accompanied Persons on a train bound for Memphis. An organized mob had set up roadblocks and staked out railroad stations, looking to intercept Persons as he headed back into town. A local paper

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continued from page 17 of witnesses and the few who’d actively captured a man, taken him from police custody, and burned him alive in public, no one feared punishment.

The Chicago Defender printed a photo of the charred head above a description of the horror following Persons’ lynching: “This head was taken and thrown in Beale Street, the district occupied by the business of the Race, by men who make their money off the earnings of the Race. It is the same of all America.”

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“I hope that our work will move even beyond historical markers to create spaces where we practice reverence for the victims of racial violence as well as learn and stay in touch with the facts,” Reverend Randall Mullins, retired United Church of Christ minister, said of the group’s work to memorialize lynching sites.

The project is inspired by the work of the Equal Justice Initiative, based in Montgomery, Alabama, which has identified nearly 4,000 lynchings across the South between 1877 and 1950. The Equal Justice Initiative hopes to collect samples of soil from each lynching site to be placed in a memorial to honor all victims of lynching. Twenty-one of these lynchings took place in Shelby County, but only three of the sites have been identified so far. Only one — the 1892 lynching of People’s Grocery co-owners Thomas Moss, Will Stewart, and Calvin McDowell — has been recognized with a historical marker.

Steve Masler, an anthropologist and the manager of exhibits at the Pink Palace Museum, heard about the group and contributed his research, as well as a space for biweekly meetings to research and locate the remaining lynching sites. The group will appeal to county or state historical commissions for the markers to be put in place.

“Some people think historical markers are just throwing this up in their faces,” Masler said, “but lynching is just as much a part of our history as everything else.”

The project is in its early stages. It will take time to comb through old, often unreliable, newspaper sources and locate the places these terrible events took place. Once markers are in place, the group hopes these sites will be incorporated into local education through organizations like Facing History and Ourselves. The group is also interested in creating meditative spaces at the sites, which would include sculpture or other artwork, in addition to the historical markers.

Margaret Vandiver, a retired professor of criminal justice and the author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings 18 and Legal Executions in the South, got involved with the project through

research for her book. She is interested in the legacy of lynching in the present day. “Until white people look at this and look at it hard,” she said, “we’re going to be stuck where we are.”

For Reverend Mullins, it comes down to telling the truth about our history. “I am angry,” he said, pounding his hand on the arm of his chair, “I am angry that my history teachers didn’t tell me enough of the truth.” Mullins added that he hopes this project “will reveal the tragic connections between our history and the ways systemic racism and white supremacy continue to be present in most of the institutions

of our society.”

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These tragic connections should be clear to anyone paying attention. To point to just a couple of examples, in 2015, United States police officers killed 1,138 people, and a disproportionately high number of them were black.

The NAACP reports that African Americans represent nearly 1 million of a total 2.3 million incarcerated people.

Reverend Earle Fisher, senior pastor at Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church, compared efforts to memorialize

At Overton High School, Dr. Marilyn Taylor’s Facing History students Zoëy Parker and Alexis Sledge discover the story of Persons’ lynching (top).

Tom Carlson and Randall Mullins address the Responding to Racism group at the New Olivet Baptist Church (bottom). lynching sites to the removal of the Confederate flag from government buildings. Both gestures, he said, are mostly symbolic. “And symbols are important,” he said, “but they are not the end-all, be-all.”

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A year after I first went looking for the site of Persons’ lynching, I realized I had not found the right place. So I tried again, with the help of directions provided by Steve Masler. I drove east on Summer, to the putt-putt golf course, and parked near a Twice-theIce machine. I grew up out here, just down Summer, at a little Methodist church parsonage nestled in scant woods. For the four years I lived there, I passed the site every day on the way to school, and I never knew it.

I walked along the driving range behind the putt-putt golf course, following an impression in the grass which marks the location of the old Macon Road. I walked through brambles and thorny bushes, listening to the dry grass whispering against my legs and the traffic streaming past on Summer. As I walked along the banks, I caught a glimpse of sun-bleached concrete behind me — a pair of bridge abutments, remnants of the old Macon Road bridge where Persons was killed.

I gained and lost sight of the abutments as I climbed and descended the low hills running along the riverside. When I reached the abutments, I could see they were streaked with years of rain and covered in patchy moss, with pieces of rebar sticking out at odd angles. Those worn abutments resembled old, oversized headstones, but there on the banks of the river where Persons was murdered, there are no monuments or markers.

Only a silence.

So little is known about the life Persons lived on this land, near this river — how quiet it must have been at night, how he must have known the Wolf River’s cycles by heart. I wondered if Persons ever came to the river to cool

off, cupping cool water in his palms on hot summer days. I imagined the crowds gathered there, the heat of their bodies as they jostled each other, everyone straining to catch a glimpse of a man on fire.

Standing on the banks of the Wolf River, I was struck by the disappearance of the past’s land in today’s terrain. The river has been rerouted, the old Macon Road has long been destroyed. In the decades since Persons’ lynching, it’s as if the earth has been physically recoiling from what happened here, erasing and reshaping the land and water, obscuring the story.

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I don’t think it’s possible to claim a place selectively, to cherry-pick its history. We have a responsibility to reckon with the whole history of our home places, even the stories deliberately left out of the history books, even the places left unmarked, the names we no longer know. May of 2017 will mark 100 years since Persons was killed. By then, hopefully there will be some sign for those looking to learn the stories of this particular place.

Vandiver said that the lynching of Persons “did have national repercussions,” but “in local memory, it almost disappeared.” The fact that Persons’ name is known at all, that he did not become one of many lynching victims whose names have been lost or willfully forgotten, might be thanks in part to the fact that the NAACP sent James Weldon Johnson, the writer, educator, lawyer, and civil rights activist, to Memphis as a field secretary to investigate Persons’ death. After spending 10 days in the city, talking with reporters, law enforcement officials, and locals, Johnson found there was no evidence suggesting Persons was guilty of Antoinette Rappel’s murder.

When Johnson visited the land where Persons had been lynched, the grass was still blackened and charred.

An American flag had been planted there, to mark the spot. In the years since Johnson visited Memphis to investigate Persons’ lynching, the burned patches of earth have turned to tall grass, and the American flag is long gone. After his visit to Memphis, Johnson wrote, “I tried to balance the sufferings of the miserable victim against the moral degradation of Memphis, and the truth flashed over me that in large measure the race question involves the saving of black America’s body and white America’s soul.”

Martha Park is a writer from Memphis, living in Virginia. She is the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry.

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In addition to working for more honest representations of our history, Fisher urges people to also support those who are working for the city’s present and future — organizations like the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, Manna House, Stand for Children, Grassroots Coalition, REACH, and Room in the Inn. “As much as I applaud the efforts of the group and stand in solidarity with them, we have to move beyond the symbolic to the more substantial.”

This, he said, “requires courage and commitment beyond conversation.”

Some of Memphis’ history is still hot to the touch, impossible to conceal.

Downtown, the sight of the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, still stings like a new burn. The public parks named after Confederate generals are populated by Civil War heroes on horseback, their bronze coattails waving in a preserved gust of wind, while other parts of Memphis’ history seem to be hidden.

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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is stuffed with the kind of surreal Edwardian mayhem and gallows humor one can usually only find in an Edward Gorey etching. The Tony-winning musical tells the story of Monty, a poor, down-and-out bastard who discovers he might inherit a vast fortune. The only thing standing between him and the money is the entire D’Ysquith family.

“Roles like this don’t come around that often,” says Kevin Massey, who plays Monty, the sympathetic serial killer in the Broadway tour of Gentlemen’s Guide. John Rapson, who stars as every single member of the doomed D’Ysquith family, concurs. “You need an actor who feels comfortable using everything in their tool belt every night,” he says.

Like another musical murderer, Sweeney Todd, young Monty is driven by a sense of righteousness and revenge. But Monty’s more creative than Stephen Sondheim’s famous demon barber, and a real charmer.

“Life has weighed on Monty,” Massey explains. “He’s lost his mother and is madly in love with this woman, Sibella, who also treats him like dirt. At some point, it clicks: The best way to get revenge and the fortune is to knock these people off. But he’s not Lizzie Borden.”

“Monty’s a really easy character to get behind,” Rapson adds. “He’s not stabbing people in the back or shooting them. He’s helping some real idiots who are already doing dangerous things into the next world. These are some really odious people raised with an intense set of class distinctions. The first song I sing is, ‘I don’t understand the poor,’ and that, very quickly, puts audiences in the mind of who these people are.

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First Friday Woodruff-Fontaine House, 5-8 p.m., $15 Tonight’s theme is “Gilded Courtship” and will cover courting customs and romantic gestures from the turn of the century into the 1920s.

Street Beat Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School, 7 p.m., $25 A performance by this ensemble that includes a mash of multicultural music, graffiti, theatrical lighting, urban dance, and more.

Memphis Arts Collective Valentine Extravaganza Crosstown Arts, 6-9 p.m.

A holiday market featuring metal work, glass, pottery, vintage art, and more.

Winter Plant Sale Memphis Botanic Garden, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Annual sale of indoor and outdoor plants, garden gifts, and more.

Continues Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“Blind Navigator” Crosstown Arts, 6-9 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibition of work by Clare Torina and Alex Paulus. The show includes collaborative installations.

CHEF + FARMER + MAKER 387 Pantry, 6:30 p.m., $15 A panel discussion on the state of Memphis’ culinary scene. Featured panelists include chefs Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman, Michael Hanna of Hanna Farm, Jonathan Burlison of Pigasus Cured Meats, Wilson Gardens’ Leslie Wolverton, and Marshall Bartlett of Home Place Pastures.

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Do you like to do it alone? If so, you may want to register to compete in the Air Sex Championships at the Hi-Tone this week. So what is an “air sex” competition exactly? It’s like an air-guitar contest, only instead of tickling an imaginary fretboard, competitors pleasure an imaginary partner. “We have really embraced the sex-positive nature of the show,” says Chris Trew, who founded the Air Sex competition eight years ago. “We don’t care what you look like; we don’t care what you’re into. This show celebrates sex in a way no other comedy show really can.”

Do people train for this?

Some people decide to do it the night of the show. They’ve had a few drinks, and their friends are encouraging them. Those can lead to some fun routines. But what we really want are the people who know right now that they are going to show up in this kind of costume and choreograph a routine to this song. That’s when the show really takes a leap.

Ice skating has moves like the triple Lutz and sit spin. Are there signature Air Sex moves?

We don’t usually say things like, “Oh, he went with the classic camel clutch. So many things could happen, and we like to stay in the moment. The final round has the feeling of the end of a basketball game and there’s 10 seconds on the clock and you’re down one and you have the ball. The whole thing is presented like the sex WrestleMania or Super Bowl.

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Works of Heart Memphis College of Art, 7 p.m.

Annual auction of heart-shaped works by area artists. Participating this year are Murray Riss, Tootsie Bell, John Robinette, Lester Jones, Valerie Berlin, and others.

2016 Memphis Open Racquet Club of Memphis, 10 a.m., $10-$120 The tournament kicks off today with qualifying rounds. Besides the tennis, there will be nightly entertainment, including a concert by the popular doubles duo the Bryan Brothers.

Fantastic Failures Amurica World Headquarters, 7-8:15 p.m., $10 An evening of storytelling about failures from Sean Mosley.

Cirque du CMOM Children’s Museum of Memphis, 7 p.m.-midnight, $150 The theme for this year’s party is “Havana Nights.” There will be rhumba dancing and cocktails plus a Cuban street scene with classic cars and palm trees.

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Memphis’ Mega Man Garrett Galtelli on his new project.

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arrett Galtelli’s drum and bass project Z340 appeared overnight with a 10-track album uploaded online, but that doesn’t mean the project was rushed. Galtelli, who plays bass in local screamo outfit Neev — and has floated in and out of other local bands — told the Flyer something has always been “lingering in my head that needed to be set free.” Hiding away in his Midtown apartment for the better half of 2015 resulted in a Björk-andFlying Lotus-influenced electronic record rooted in his childhood interests: jazz music, computer programming, and the Mega Man X (MMX) series.

We sat down with Galtelli to decipher the coded song titles and Mega Man references that frame his latest contribution to the Memphis music scene.

–Joshua Cannon Memphis Flyer: What sparked the idea for this project?

Garrett Galtelli: To be honest, I’ve had this idea since high school. It started when I first heard the background music on old MMX games. I loved the

astral sound and wanted to create it and share it with others. I’ve always had a passion for drums and bass and house music. I love fast-paced beats, ambient melodies, and deep bass, so I figured I’d throw it all together. It’s not exactly the music I enjoy but mainly the sounds in particular. I always loved material by artists like LTJ Bukem, E-Z Rollers, Makoto, Photek, Flying Lotus, Gold Panda, Telefon Tel Aviv, and especially Björk.

There’s this one song by Björk called “Crystalline.”

At the beginning, it’s very ambient and subtle, but what really gave me chills, goose bumps, and the thrill ride I was looking for in my own music was the unexpected ending to that song where she just explodes into the most incredible D-and-B breakbeat I think I’ve ever heard in my entire life. I think that sound has bled through into some of the tracks on the album for sure.

How long did you work on it, and why did you keep it to yourself?

I decided to keep it to myself until I was finished because my family and friends and mutual acquaintances knew me as a strings musician my entire life. I’ve been in several bands, but there was still something else lingering in my head that needed to be set free. Everybody knew me as a band musician. A year later, I finished the 10th track for the album and decided it was time to drop it without caring about judgment.

Some jazz influence bleeds through these songs, too. What age were you introduced to the genre, and how does it shape your music?

I first started learning jazz music and jazz theory when I was in the seventh grade. I got my first bass guitar in sixth grade, and I had a very wonderful teacher at my school who was very patient and made the learning process feel more “one-on-one.” Even in a fully loaded classroom, he was able to teach us individually at times. I loved stuff like Miles Davis and of course John Coltrane, as well as Dave Brubeck and several others. I was probably almost 11 years old or 12 years old at the time it started, and I just went on from there.

In what ways did your influences bleed through these songs?

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You also play in a band named Neev. How is writing music for this project different than your solo stuff?

It’s on the complete opposite spectrum. Totally different genres. The music is different because in Neev I collaborate with four other brains instead of just one, and each of them has their own level of creativity. When you put all of that together, there’s a huge sense of reward after you have a final product.

What’s the story behind the song titles? For the non-coders, what do they translate to in English?

Back in the days when coding was a big part of my life, I had to communicate to other users using a different language made up of characters instead of letters. We called this language “1337” text or “l-l@ x04” text or honestly whatever you want to call it.

It was made up of Unicode and other symbols from your typical PC character map.

I’m more passionate about the sound than I am the message. I would rather there not be a message and just have pure ear-pleasure. I don’t feel like every song needs a message behind it. As long as your ears enjoy it, nothing else really matters. Sometimes words can be misconstrued, and I didn’t want that to

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Do you have any desire to add vocals to the tracks?

The 10th track is actually the only song on the album I did vocals on. They’re taken from a nursery rhyme that was sung to put me to sleep when I was younger, and I never forgot it. With this project,

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And the Mega Man references?

Basically all of the track titles are related to the Mega Man X series since that was one of my favorite games back when I was younger. The artist image I used [for the cover], however, is of another character from the series named Zero. He’s my favorite and quite possibly the strongest character in the series.

He will always be my favorite video game character of all time, hence why I go by the name “Z340” with this project.

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Cradle of Filth Tuesday, Feb. 9, 8 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe

days, 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.

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Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursday, Feb. 4, 8 p.m.-midnight, Friday, Feb. 5, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.midnight; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Shaun Apple Monday, Feb. 8, 7-11 p.m., and Tuesday, Feb. 9, 7-11 p.m.; Little Boys Blue Wednesday, Feb. 10, 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.; Shaun Apple Friday, Feb. 5, 8 p.m.midnight, and Saturday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Mambo Combo Saturday, Feb. 6, 3-7 p.m.; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Monday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m.midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., and Sun-

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299

Howes Jazz Trio Saturday, Feb. 6, 7-9:15 p.m.

Memphis Sounds Lounge 22 N. THIRD 590-4049

Grown Folks Music first Thursday of every month, 7:30 p.m.

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

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

Dim the Lights featuring live music and DJs first Saturday of every month, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub

Paulette’s

152 MADISON 572-1813

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

Live Music Fridays.

Brinson’s 341 MADISON 524-0104

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

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

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, 5:308 p.m.

The Plexx

255 N. MAIN 576-1200

380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

Double J Smokehouse & Saloon

Purple Haze Nightclub

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

R5 Tuesday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m.

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

Earnestine & Hazel’s 531 S. MAIN 523-9754

Amber Rae Dunn Hosts: Earnestine & Hazel’s Open Mic Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

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

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.; Neo Soul Saturdays featuring Tamara Jones Monger, Carmen, Pat Register first 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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Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.;

The Johnny Go Band Thursdays, 7-11 p.m., and Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Rob Haynes & the Memphis Flash Fridays, 7-11 p.m., and first Saturday of every month, 7-11 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke

first Friday of every month, 11 p.m.-3 a.m., and Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.; The Memphis House Rockers Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m., and Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 Sundays, 3-7 p.m., and Mondays, 7-11 p.m.

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Sports Junction

1324 PEABODY 272-1538

2119 MADISON 207-5097

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Ross Rice Friday, Feb. 5; Piper Down Saturday, Feb. 6.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

BIG EYES AT THE HI-TONE Seattle, Washington’s Big Eyes stop through Memphis on their winter tour this Monday at the Hi-Tone. Currently on the road in support of their new Local Celebrity EP released by Don Giovanni Records, Big Eyes are one of the few pop-punk bands over the past five years to be able to dabble in multiple facets of the larger underground scene, winning fans over from indie rock, punk, and garage rock contingencies. Their 2012 single “Back From the Moon” (released on Richmond’s Grave Mistake Records) put the world on notice that guitarist Kait Eldridge knew her way around a hook, and the hype has been building around the band ever since.

Taking cues from the Ramones, the Descendents, and even Cheap Trick, Eldridge writes pop-punk anthems for those in their early to mid-20s, though it’s entirely possible that Big Eyes could mesh well with the Warped Tour crowd if Eldridge so desired. The band has released splits with like-minded rockers Audacity and Mean Jeans and toured the U.S. extensively over the last few years. As for Don Giovanni, the indie label seems to have a knack for finding bands similar to Big Eyes, releasing records for Screaming Females, Downtown Boys, and the Ergs!, while also serving as home to more delicate groups like Waxahatchee.

Rounding out the bill is Ryan Azada, the guitarist who is often accompanied live by 2015 breakout artist Julien Baker. Azada also played in the band Small Fires and has been a promoter behind shows at Crosstown Arts and the short-lived venue 1372 Overton Park. — Chris Shaw Big Eyes and Ryan Azada, Monday, February 8th at the Hi-Tone Small Room, 8 p.m. $10.

Rumba Room 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.

Onix 412 S. MAIN 552-4609

South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Jordan Allena EP Pre-Release Party Friday, Feb. 5, 8-11 p.m.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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.

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, Feb. 5, 9:30 p.m.; The Pistol & the Queen Saturday, Feb. 6, 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.

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

South Main Neo Soul and R&B first Thursday of every month, 710 p.m.; Smooth Jazz Fridays first Friday of every month, 8-11 p.m.; R&B first Saturday of every month, 8-11 p.m.

Southern Avenue Thursday, Feb. 4; Special Riders, Gringos Saturday, Feb. 6, 6 p.m.; Process of Suffocation, Engulfed in Blackness Saturday, Feb. 6, 9 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.; MOTO, Toy Trucks Wednesday, Feb. 10.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Maitre D’s Friday, Feb. 5, 10:30 p.m.; Deering and Down Saturday, Feb. 6, 10:30 p.m.; Steve Selvidge and Rod Norwood Wednesday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m.

Lume, Greyscale, Dying Whale, Brian Hillhouse Thursday, Feb. 4, 9 p.m.; Los Cantadores with Chickasaw Mound Friday, Feb. 5, 9 p.m.; Turkuaz, Ghost Note Friday, Feb. 5, 9 p.m.; Bob Marley Tribute Saturday, Feb. 6, 9 p.m.; Big Eyes, Ryan Azada Monday, Feb. 8, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Frank Foster Saturday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.; Madeon “Pixel Empire” Tour Sunday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.; Artistik Lounge Featuring Devin Crutcher every third Sunday, 7-11 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Show Me the Body Friday, Feb. 5; Sanguine, Spline, Chokehold Prophecy Saturday, Feb. 6.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

M.A.M.A. presents Andy Cohen Saturday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.

P&H Cafe 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

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

University of Memphis Triple S 1747 WALKER 421-6239

Fun-Filled Fridays first Friday of every month, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

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

University of Memphis, Harris Concert Hall INSIDE THE RUDI E. SCHEIDT SCHOOL OF MUSIC 678-5400

Voyage à Paris: French Art Song Recital with Kyle and Lexa Ferrill Sunday, Feb. 7, 3-4:30 p.m.

East Memphis Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School 60 N. PERKINS EXT. 537-1483

Street Beat Friday, Feb. 5, 8-10 p.m.

Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

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

El Toro Loco 2809 KIRBY PKWY. 759-0593

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

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

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Reba Russell Trio Thursday, Feb. 4, 6 p.m.; Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Muscle Theory Thursday, Feb. 4, 9 p.m.; Jo Jo Jefferies and Ronnie Caldwell Friday, Feb. 5, 6:30 p.m.; Almost Famous Friday, Feb. 5, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturday, Feb. 6, 11 a.m.; Pam & Terry Saturday, Feb. 6, 6:30 p.m.; Maitre D’s Saturday, Feb. 6, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Mardi Gras Week Feb. 8-13, 11-midnight; John Paul Keith & Friends Monday, Feb. 8, 6 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesday, Feb. 9, 5:30 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesday, Feb. 10, 5:30 p.m.

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Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House Stax Museum of American Soul Music

5868 STAGE

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

Dan McGuinness 3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

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

926 E. MCLEMORE 946-2535

Shelby Forest General Store

Stax Fresh Trax first Thursday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

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

Mesquite Chop House 3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

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

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

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

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

978 REDDOCH 767-6940

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Howard Vance Guitar Academy

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

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Hollywood Casino

First Friday at Five Coffee House Concert first Friday of every month, 5 p.m.

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

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

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

T.J. Mulligan’s

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing.

1021 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 800-357-5600

1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant Karaoke ongoing.

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

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

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

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Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

Old Whitten Tavern

Summer/Berclair Barbie’s Barlight Lounge

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

661 N. MENDENHALL

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

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

The Other Place Bar & Grill 4148 WALES 373-0155

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

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

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

2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

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

Karaoke Mondays, 8-11 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

Love Changes Everything: Kallen Esperian in Concert Saturday, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m.

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

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

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Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar 9087 POPLAR 755-0092

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

North Mississippi/ Tunica Bally’s CASINO CENTER DRIVE IN TUNICA, MS 1-800-38-BALLY

Young Pretty Thieves Friday, Feb. 5, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, Feb. 6, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

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

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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B O O KS By Richard J. Alley

Connections Read early, read often.

L

ast month, the American Library Association (ALA) announced its 2016 book award winners. Among the winners is Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña, awarded the John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature. The book is illustrated by Christian Robinson. The Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children went to Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear, illustrated by Sophie Blackall and written

by Lindsay Mattick.

Reading is an important part of childhood. It’s how we learn the language and how stories and thoughts are formed.

Many times books are our first peek into the many different cultures around the world and how relationships work and society functions.

More than a solitary endeavor, reading is how we become storytellers. Eudora Welty wrote in One Writer’s Beginnings, “Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on.”

What children want is to participate and to be included, to be made to feel like they matter and that they have something worth offering.

A week after the ALA’s medal winners were announced last month, the National Day of Service, celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, took place. In Memphis, a group of motivated teens worked with the nonprofit Memphis Challenge on the project, “Tell Me a Story: Service Through Storytelling.” The organization, founded in 1989, encourages high-achieving students of color to return to Memphis after college to help enrich the community through their newfound expertise and connections.

The project brought together high school students to write and produce specialized storybooks and poems for

children. Throughout January, they took their books to locations across the city for story hours, which included a digital presentation, book reading, and small group discussions about “how we all have gifts that we can use to serve and what service means to today’s generation.”

The program was so successful that there are plans to continue it throughout the year.

Books can be the means for us to connect to our community and to better connect with our children. The Thirty Million Words project out of the University of Chicago has shown that some children, mainly those of a lower socioeconomic status, hear 30 million fewer words by their fourth birthday than others, and that the children who hear more words sooner are better prepared by the time they enter school. The initiative emphasizes vocal interaction with young children, and certainly reading to them is a big part of that.

There are so many options out there for young readers today, from the picture books of early childhood to books on wizards and dragons and teens thrown into epic battles of life or death. The lists of titles and descriptions can become like white noise, which is why I recommend the services of a good librarian. My mother used to visit the library at the corner of McLean and Peabody in Midtown and ask the librarians there what they recommended for her kids’ age groups. She would bring home stacks of books, and, once my sisters and I had read through them or had them read to us, she’d return them for more.

No doubt the teenage storytellers of Memphis Challenge had their literary beginnings with Caldecott and Newbery awards winners and with the public library. Hopefully they’ll continue their quest to learn more and to share their stories with others, because it is in that sharing that a love for reading flourishes.

To learn more about Memphis Challenge, visit memphischallenge.org.

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o to The Other Place.

It’s not an uplifting play, this story of Dr. Juliana Smithton, a biophysicist developing drugs to treat dementia while losing her grip on reality. She has brain cancer. Or maybe she doesn’t. Her husband is screwing around. Or not. Her daughter’s dead in a ditch, or maybe she’s dropping by the family’s second home and bringing the twins. No, it’s not uplifting.

But for fans of good acting and unconventional mysteries, its arrival at Circuit Playhouse is fantastic news.

Go to The Other Place. You’ll see Kim Sanders play a woman who’s come home to drown her sorrows in wine and Chinese takeout only to find a stranger in the kitchen who wants to hug it out. This scene between Sanders and Kim Justis is funny, tense, hard to watch, impossible not to watch, and as fine a thing as anyone is likely to perform on a stage probably ever.

Go to The Other Place, where Michael Gravois vividly falls apart and pulls himself together after taking more than anybody could ever be expected to bear.

Go to The Other Place, where Kinon Keplinger shows, once again, that he’s among the most versatile character actors in town.

Go to The Other Place.

Director Dave Landis and his first-rate cast and crew have served up 90 minutes of bracing uncertainty. Good stuff, not to be missed.

At Circuit Playhouse through February 21st

People who are bored are also boring, and the junkie life is a study in redundancy.

These are just a few of the hurdles any production of American Idiot has to overcome. Playhouse on the Square’s production of the Green Day musical fails to clear any of them, though it might get some extra lift if somebody would just TURN UP THE BAND! Director Gary John La Rosa felt like much of American Idiot’s story had been lost in Broadway’s noisy assault. To correct for this, he placed the band behind the scenery and pushed it to the back of the theater. It’s a good theory, and an enormous miscalculation.

American Idiot isn’t a traditional musical. It’s a sonic screed responding to 20thcentury excess and 21st-century wars — a collage of sights and sounds that remind us of just how fractured and confusing life could be at the turn of the most-recent

century. The story — if you can call it that — revolves around three young bros from the burbs striking out on their own and making life choices that turn out badly.

Plot points related to addiction, a failing marriage, and combat are prosaically grafted to a heap of mostly catchy songs.

It ain’t rock-and-roll unless it upsets the parents, and, to the show’s credit, people got up and left when Alexis Grace (Whatsername) and Nathan McHenry (Johnny) stripped down for the big sex scene. It’s an easy way to shock, but I knew how the fleeing couples felt. I was embarrassed and wanted to leave every time an actor with no business playing guitar plunked his way through music he never should have been asked to play in the first place.

At POTS through February 14th The banter that makes The Lion in Winter such a joy when it clicks can also be the filigreed anchor that drowns the old show in its own stilted cleverness.

James Goldman’s play appears to revolve around a power struggle between King Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor, and three sons who want to replace daddy on the throne. But the play’s central conflict is raw barbarism in all out war with civilization.

Director Irene Crist’s production of Lion gets a lot right. Jack Yates’ unit set The Lion projects an air of impregin Winter nability, but his compact at Theatre castle is a subtle shape Memphis shifter and as pliable as it needs to be. Andre Bruce Ward’s costumes are the perfect mix of thick fur pelts, rough textile, metal, and fine fabric. Jeremy Allen Fisher’s lighting lacks texture, but that’s a small complaint.

It’s also one of the very best examples I’ve seen locally of using lighting to edit out all the stuff we don’t need to see. The problem is, there’s just not a lot action to frame.

There are key aspects of Henry Charles K. Hodges simply fails to communicate.

The king’s not some sage older gentleman reflecting on youthful indiscretions. He’s still able to behead rivals while bedding contessas, milkmaids, courtesans, novices, whores, gypsies, jades, and little boys.

Hodges’ Henry is too much the victim of his family tragedy and not enough the swinging dick whose preoccupations set all the bloody nonsense in motion.

Eleanor is a plum role, and Christina Wellford Scott’s head fits the crown.

At Theatre Memphis through February 7th

CALENDAR of EVENTS:

February 4 - 10

Street Beat, high-energy acrobatics, urban dance, audience participation, and percussive everyday-objects-turned-intoinstruments. www.buckmanartscenter.com. $25. Fri., Feb. 5, 8-10 p.m.

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

Circuit Playhouse

The Other Place, a successful drug company scientist finds her life falling to pieces.

Fact blurs with fiction, and the past and the present collide with devastating results. www. playhouseonthesquare.org.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Feb. 21.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

The Evergreen Theatre

Guilt, Lies, and Lust: The Stage Play, the legend of Kingston Blackmon continues in this suspenseful ride of seduction, betrayal, and scandal. Presented

by Inner City South. (5120207), innercitysouth.com. $18. Sundays, 2-4:45 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 7-9:45 p.m.

Through Feb. 14.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

First Congregational Church

Memphis Matters, audience members share personal stories of their lives and then watch as the Playback actors interpret the story through experimental theater, movement, and improvised live music. (264-0841), www. playbackmemphis.org. $12-$15.

Sat., Feb. 6, 7:30-9 p.m.

1000 S. COOPER (278-6786).

Germantown Community Theatre

Love Letters, this two-person show is one of A.R. Gurney’s most beloved works. A 50-year love affair carried out through the art of the pen. The production closes with a special Valentine’s Day performance. www. gctcomeplay.org. $24. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays,

2:30 p.m. Through Feb. 14.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (754-2680).

Pitch-Your-Peers: Centennial Celebration at the Brooks, Thurs., Feb. 4, 5-7 p.m.

Hattiloo Theatre

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.

Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m., and Sun., 3 p.m. Through Feb. 7.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

Opening reception for “Tennessee Craft — Southwest Show,” exhibition of work by participating artists in collaboration with fellow artists. www. jccmemphis.org. Sun., Feb. 7, 1-3 p.m.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

The Historic Ruffin Theater

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, join Tom and Huck and many other lovable characters in this unforgettable tale told by Mark Twain. This production is not a musical, but it is full of live bluegrass music and singing. www. officialruffintheater.com. $10.

Fri., Sat., 7-9 p.m., and Sun., 2-4 p.m. Through Feb. 7.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Shops of Saddle Creek

Opening reception for “Hearts & Flowers,” specially crafted Valentine’s Day wishes in glass, metal, fiber, and more. Sure to help cupid’s arrow find its mark. www.winterartsmemphis.com.

Fri., Feb. 5, 5-8 p.m.

POPLAR AND WEST FARMINGTON.

113 W. PLEASANT (504-8889).

WKNO Studio

National Civil Rights Museum

Frederick Douglass: The Making of an American Prophet, powerful story of Frederick Douglass, the American slave who escaped to freedom and became one of the most prominent abolitionists of his day. Q & A to follow www.civilrightsmuseum. org. Fri., Feb. 5, 5:30 p.m.

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

The Orpheum

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, the heir to a family fortune sets out to jump the line of succession by eliminating the eight relatives who stand in his way. All the while juggling his mistress, fiancée, and threat of landing behind bars. www. orpheum-memphis.com. $25$125. Feb. 9-14.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square American Idiot, follows the journey of a new generation of young Americans, lead by friends Johnny, Tunny and Will, as they struggle to find meaning in a post-9/11 world, borne along by Green Day’s electrifying score. $22-$35. Sundays,

Reception for “Trophies Through the Lens: African Wildlife Safari,” photographs by Jack Kenner and students, includes short films of African scenes and rhythms. www.wkno.org. Sat., Feb. 6, 2-6 p.m.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Work by Clare Torina and Alex Paulus in “Bland Navigator” at Crosstown Arts

King Henry II of England. www. theatrememphs.org. $25. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m. Through Feb. 7.

2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Feb. 14.

4th Annual “NewWorks @ TheWorks” competition, two scripts will receive full productions during the 2017-18 season and cash prizes. See website for full details. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $15. Through May 30.

Night Shift, cabaret and variety show featuring HEELS, Requiemma, Just Larry, Dan Castillo, and OAM Audio with hostess Katrina Coleman. (283-3814), www.theatreworks.com. $15.

Every first Friday, 11:45 p.m.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

The Lion in Winter, modern classic of historical fiction pits Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (after a decade of imprisonment for her part in a rebellion) against her husband

2 SHOWS: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 THE ORPHEUM THEATRE

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

A R T I ST R E C E PT I O N S

Circuitous Succession Gallery

Opening reception for Lawrence Jasud, www.circuitoussuccession.com. Fri., Feb. 5, 6-9 p.m.

500 S. SECOND.

Crosstown Arts Gallery

Opening reception for “Blind Navigator,” exhibition of new individual and collaborative work by New York-based artist Clare Torina and Memphisbased artist Alex Paulus. www. crosstownarts.org. Fri., Feb. 5, 6-9 p.m.

422 N. CLEVELAND.

OT H E R A R T HAP P E N I N G S

Artist Lecture: James Bockelman

Talk will highlight the artist’s most recent series of abstract paintings on paper. Sat., Feb. 6, 1-2 p.m.

Jay Etkin Gallery

SCOTTISH RITE, 825 UNION, WWW. CIRCUITOUSSUCCESSION.COM.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

Call to Artists: ArtWorks Exhibition

Artist reception for David Hall, Fri., Feb. 5, 6-9 p.m.

Memphis Botanic Garden

Opening reception for “Light and Shadows,” exhibition of painting and sculpture by Agustin Díaz and Francisco Gonzalez. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Sun., Feb. 7, 5-7 p.m.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

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Fine-craft and art disciplines only (no soap, candles, or food) for show Mar. 3-6. Exhibition fee is $250, no application fee.

Email four photos of work and a booth shot, winterarts@bellsouth.net. Through Feb. 29.

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Mon. - Fri. 9:00am - 8:00pm; Sat. 8:00am 8:00pm; Sun. 9:00am - 6:00pm.

For appointments: 901.261.4400.

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, CIRCUITOUSSUCCESSION.COM.

Civil Rights in Songs, Live!

Local artists perform and discuss music that was inspired by the civil rights movement. Free.

Tues., Feb. 9, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

COSSITT LIBRARY, 33 S. FRONT (415-2766).

Cooper-Young Art Tours For more information, featured artists, and pop-up performances, visit website. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

COOPER-YOUNG DISTRICT, CORNER OF COOPER AND YOUNG, WWW.COOPERYOUNG.COM.

DinnerStage with Hudson & Saleeby

“Remembering Our Fallen”

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

BASS PRO PYRAMID, 1 BASS PRO (291-8200), WWW.BASSPRO.COM.

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

“Winter Wonderlands”

The Blues Foundation

THE ANNESDALE PARK GALLERY, 1290 PEABODY (828-3685), GREENMANSIONSMEMPHIS.COM.

421 S. MAIN.

Traveling photo memorial of Tennessee fallen soldiers. A small ceremony will be held on opening day. Through Feb. 7.

Living art terrariums by Nancy Morrow; music by Mississippi John McDowell. Sat., Feb. 6, 2-5 p.m.

Works of Heart

Art lovers bid on over 100 works created by leading artists.

Ticket includes appetizers, wine, and beer. Big Heart Lounge features complimentary cocktails, special hors d’oeuvres, and other treats. $75-$200. Sat., Feb. 6, 7-10 p.m.

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (888-4342), MEMPHISCAC.ORG.

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

Ongoing.

“Cast of Blues,” exhibition of life casts by Sharon McConnell-Dickerson. www. blues.org. Through April 30.

Box Gallery

“Acolytes,” exhibition curated

by Holt Brasher and Trevor Simpson. Through Feb 9.

3715 CENTRAL.

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).

$40. Fri., Feb. 5, 7-9 p.m.

BARTLETT PERFORMING ARTS AND CONFERENCE CENTER, 3663 APPLING (385-6440), WWW.BPACC.ORG.

Fantastic Failures: An Evening with Sean Mosley

149 Union Avenue . Memphis, TN 38103 901.261.4400 . www.peabodymemphis.com

Storytelling about failures, because success is boring to hear about. $10. Sat., Feb. 6, 7-8:15 p.m.

AMURICA WORLD HEADQUARTERS, 410 CLEVELAND.

Gallery Talk for “Sunset/Sunrise”

Artists will speak about Studio Nong International Collective and Residency Program. Sat., Feb. 6, 3 p.m.

HYDE GALLERY, INSIDE THE MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART’S NESIN GRADUATE SCHOOL, 477 S. MAIN, WWW.MCA.EDU.

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Featuring metal work, glass, pottery, photography, textiles, jewelry, vintage art and accessories, and more. Wine and light food offered on Friday.

Fri., Feb. 5, 6-9 p.m., and Sat., Feb. 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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

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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.

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

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

Open call for “Queer On!” Scripts

“Out of Africa,” exhibition with work by Noel Jones, Kayode Karunwi, Anthony Lee, Zeinu Mudeser, Joshua Strydom, and Kiersten Williams. www. artvillagegallery.com. Through Feb. 26.

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.

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

Art Village Gallery

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

Banks House Gallery & Gift Shop

DeSoto Arts Council winter show, www.desotoarts.com.

Ongoing.

564 W. COMMERCE.

Opening for Lawrence Jasud at Circuitous Succession Friday

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).

Clough-Hanson Gallery “de|constructing home,” exhibition of multimedia work

by Brent Green and Heather

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“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.

“The Voyage of Life,” exhibition of four allegorical landscapes

by Thomas Cole (1801-1848). www.dixon.org. Through April 3.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

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

Through Feb. 24.

L Ross Gallery

10th anniversary exhibition, paintings, sculpture, and mixed media by gallery artists. www. lrossgallery.com. Through Feb. 27.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

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

Through March 13.

“Families in Art,” exhibition featuring 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.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

33rd Annual Juried Student Exhibition, exhibition featuring work by 41 University of Memphis undergraduate and graduate students. www.memphis.edu. Through Feb. 5.

“Tennessee Craft: Southwest Show,” exhibition of work by participating artists in collaboration with fellow artists. www.jccmemphis.org.

Feb. 7-28.

Morton Museum of Collierville History

“Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation,” exhibition of personal accounts, artifacts, and films from a 13,000-acre tobacco 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).

National Civil Rights Museum

“Cultural Heroes,” exhibition of oversized sculpture by Alan LeQuire. www.civilrightsmuseum.org. Through Feb. 25.

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

NJ Woods Gallery and Design

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

2563 BROAD.

Playhouse on the Square

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

Through Feb. 21.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Ross Gallery

“Interwoven,” exhibition of textiles and drawings by Jennifer Sargent. (321-3243), www.cbu. edu/gallery. Through Feb. 25.

3715 CENTRAL.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).

Fratelli’s

Metal Museum

Soulsville, USA

“Perchance 2,” exhibition of paintings by Chere Labbe Doiron. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Feb. 27.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Hyde Gallery

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

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

“Residence of the Heart,” exhibition of jewelry using contemporary gold granulation techniques by Douglas Harling. Through March 6.

“Taiwan International Metal Crafts Competition,” exhibition of objects and jewelry of Taiwan. www. metalmuseum.org. Through March 13.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

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RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3442).

Artist reception for David Hall at Jay Etkin Gallery Friday

“Frozen Landscapes,” exhibition of multi-media work by Judith Dierkes. www.soulsvillefoundation.org. Through March 31.

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Benning. www.rhodes.edu.

Through Feb. 20, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

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“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

“Trophies Through the Lens: African Wildlife Safari,” exhibition of over 50 photographs by Jack Kenner and students taken in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. www.wkno.org.

Through Feb. 29.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Love Changes Everything: Kallen Esperian in Concert

Opera Memphis welcomes back Bluff City legend Kallen Esperian for an evening of opera, musical theater, and more featuring the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and special guests. Sat., Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m.

Hi-Tone

Don’t Be Afraid of the Comedy, Memphis, an evening of comedy hosted by Josh McLane featuring Derek Sheen, Kyle Kordsmeier, Jowa Horn, and William Loden Jr. (490-0335), www.hitonememphis.com. $5. Tues., Feb. 9, 8:15 p.m.

Air Sex Championships, this is exactly what you think it is — the art of pelvic storytelling and pure imagination. www.airsexworld.com. $10.

Wed., Feb. 10, 8 p.m.

412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE).

Midtown Crossing Grill

Homeroom: Not Your Average Comedy Show, stand-up from Blacksmith Comedy and with added chaos as comedians face challenges themed around something most of us can relate — school. Free. Fri., Feb. 5, 8 p.m.

394 N. WATKINS (443-0502).

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

floor to concert hall. Candid interviews with pianists including Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Harry Connick Jr., and Marcus Roberts. Free with reservation.

Tues., Feb. 9, 7-8 p.m.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), WWW.GPACWEB.COM.

Munch and Learn

Bring your own lunch; sodas and water will be supplied. Guest speakers talk about various subjects in the Hughes Pavilion.

Free with gallery admission.

Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m.

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

Sexuality and the Christian Faith

Human sexuality is one of the most debated topics of our time. This lecture offers the opportunity to respectfully share what the Christian faith teaches concerning human sexuality.

Free. Fri., Feb. 5, 7 p.m.

GRACE EVANGELICAL CHURCH, 9750 WOLF RIVER BLVD. (756-7444), GRACEEVAN.ORG.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (257-3100), WWW.OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG.

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Open Call Dance Auditions for Dream Girls

Seeking male and female dancers ages 12 and up for jazz, modern, ballet, and hip-hop dance roles. Register online.

Sat., Feb. 6, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

BALLET ON WHEELS DANCE SCHOOL & COMPANY, 2085 MONROE, WWW.BALLETONWHEELS.ORG.

Shrine Tea Dance

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Semi-formal attire. BYOB. $10.

First Sunday of every month, 2-6 p.m.

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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).

Chuckles Comedy Club

“Works of Heart” at Memphis College of Art Saturday

“The Sixth Mass Extinction: Threats, Consequences, and Challenges”

Professor Michael Collins from Rhodes College will speak on topic including local species and system examples. Sun., Feb. 7, 1:30-3 p.m.

LOL Memphis Sketch & Improv Comedy Show, featuring improv games and sketch parodies. Cast members perform small sets throughout the show to introduce what’s coming next. (654-8594), $10. Second Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

The HUB

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

$15. Sat.-Sun., Feb. 6-7.

1700 DEXTER.

Triple S

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (576-1200), TENNCOMICCON.COM.

The Cove

Comedy with Dagmar, open mic comedy. www.thecovememphis.com. Sundays, 7-9 p.m.

2559 BROAD (730-0719).

Flirt Nightclub

Trippin on Thursday, hosted

by K-97 Funnyman Prescott.

Thursdays, 6 p.m.

3659 S. MENDENHALL (485-1119).

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

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700).

515 E.H. CRUMP.

Java Cabana

Open mic nite, www.javacabanacoffeehouse.com. Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

Fun-filled Fridays, open mic poetry, jazz music, and networking mixer. (421-6239), $5.

First Friday of every month, 8 p.m.-midnight.

1747 WALKER (421-6239).

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ArtSavvy Jazz Series: Note by Note Documentary Screening Follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand from forest

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Tours at Two

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.

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Green Your Home Winter Plant Sale

Choose from a beautiful selection of house plants, custom potting, and container arrangements (your pot or ours), unique terrariums, and specialty garden gift items. Fri.-Sat., Feb. 5-6, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

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

SPORTS / FITNESS

2016 Memphis Open

One of the longest-running American tournaments on the ATP World Tour and the only indoor ATP event contested in the United States is celebrating its 40th anniversary. $10. Feb. 6-14.

RACQUET CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 5111 SANDERLIN (765-4400), WWW. MEMPHISOPEN.COM.

Baylor Watch Party Saturdays.

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

Ping Pong Tournament For more information and registration, visit website. $20. Tue.-Wed., Feb. 9-10.

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Healing Planet Spa Night

Care for women with cancer and other catastrophic illnesses featuring dinner, massage, facials, nails, hair/ wigs, and footbaths. Free.

Second Monday of every month, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

COOPER WALKER PLACE, 1015 S. COOPER (338-5223).

Memphis Astronomical Society

Held in the Assisi Hall Science auditorium. First Friday of every month, 8 p.m.

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3335), WWW. CBU.EDU.

Meristem Women’s Book Club

Read and explore written works by women and LGBT authors. Second Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.

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

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.

KIDS

RACQUET CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 5111 SANDERLIN (765-4400), WWW. MEMPHISOPEN.COM.

AutoZone Kids Fun Day

Tai Chi

RACQUET CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 5111 SANDERLIN (765-4400), WWW. MEMPHISOPEN.COM.

Classes held near Woodland Discovery Playground. $8.

Wednesdays, 3 p.m.

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

Festival of tennis for the kids.

Sat., Feb. 6, 5-7 p.m.

Cookies with Cookie Monster

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

Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.

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

Exploring Color and Design with Paul Klee with Kerrie Rogers

Children 7 and up learn about primary, secondary, complementary, and analogous colors by creating color wheels. $150. Mondays, 4-5:30 p.m. Through Feb. 16.

Keep It Sexy!

3401 Summer Ave.

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

Moon Mouse

Bullied and picked on by the “cool” rats, Marvin the mouse is labeled as a loser and a geek. To get away from the continuous badgering, he retreats into his science books and a world of fantasy. $15$30. Fri., Feb. 5, 6:30-8:15 p.m.

THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

Saturday Storytime: Silly Wonderful You

Funny and tender love letter from a parent to a child expresses how life is so new and different and filled with love with a little one around.

Activity to follow. Free. Sat., Feb. 6, 11-11:30 a.m.

BARNES & NOBLE, 2774 N. GERMANTOWN (386-2468), STORES. BARNESANDNOBLE.COM

Tuesday Toddler Storytime: I Love You Just Like This

Hear all about the ways that Elmo loves you. Color an Elmo valentine after the story.

Free. Tues., Feb. 9, 11-11:30 a.m.

BARNES & NOBLE, 2774 N. GERMANTOWN (386-2468), STORES. BARNESANDNOBLE.COM

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Celebrate 40 years with garden docents who will be available to discuss specific highlights in the Woodland garden.

Emphasis on plants and design representative of Memphis shade garden conditions.

Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

Through Dec. 31.

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The Ultimate Big Game Viewing Party

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Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters

LAFAYETTE’S MUSIC ROOM, 2119 MADISON (207-5097).

Cirque du CMOM

Immense geological and meteorological forces shaped our planet and our world. Explore the fascinating science behind natural phenomena and their impact on human lives. $12.75. Feb. 6-May 1.

A cultural wonderland of mambo dancing and salsa kings, focusing on Cuban traditions and Havana flair.

Benefiting Children’s Museum of Memphis. $150.

Sat., Feb. 6, 7-11 p.m.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS, 2525 CENTRAL (320-3170), WWW.CMOM.COM.

First Friday: Gilded Courtship

Enjoy annual exhibition of the courting customs and romantic gestures from the turn of the century into the 1920s. Learn the history of many of the traditions we still practice today. Free for members, $15 nonmembers. Fri., Feb. 5, 5-8 p.m.

WOODRUFF-FONTAINE HOUSE, 680 ADAMS (526-1469), WWW.

Watch the game on the 12-foot HD projector and enjoy food and drink specials. Free-$25. Sun., Feb. 7, 5 p.m.

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

HOLIDAY EVENTS

Dancing Mardi Gras Party

Dance to the live New Orleans-style music of Breeze Cayolle. $15. Thurs., Feb. 4, 7-10 p.m.

RHITT’S ON REX, 5683 S REX (274-2309).

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Mardi Gras Week

Celebrate Mardi Gras with a special menu featuring NOLA classics red beans and rice, king cake, muffalettas, and hurricanes. Live music featuring Big Sam’s Funky Nation on Thursday.

Free. Feb. 8-13, 11-midnight.

Featuring Joyce Cobb and Southern Comfort Jazz Orchestra. Call for reservation. Free with reservation. Tues., Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, HARRIS CONCERT HALL, INSIDE THE RUDI E. SCHEIDT SCHOOL OF MUSIC (678-2541), WWW. MEMPHIS.EDU/MUSIC.

LAFAYETTE’S MUSIC ROOM, 2119 MADISON (207-5079).

FOOD & DRINK EVENTS

Bendy Brewski Yoga

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).

Champagne Sunday

Celebrate the opening of “Contemporary Classics,” work that has a contemporary viewpoint of a classic piece of jewelry or object, with champagne, chocolate, cupcakes, and wine.

Free. Sun., Feb. 7, 12-2 p.m.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW. METALMUSEUM.ORG.

CHEF+FARMER+MAKER

Roundtable discussion on the current state and role of our local food culture in building Memphis as a capital of culinary innovation and exploration. $15-$30. Fri., Feb. 5, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

387 PANTRY, 387 S. MAIN (734-2911).

Half Pints for Half Pints

Three-hour party featuring food, beer, and music.

Watch the Grizz game in the brewery’s new private lounge. Enjoy a silent auction benefiting Peabody Elementary. $50. Sat., Feb. 6, 7-10 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays in February • 6pm-10pm Plus a Bonus Drawing on Sunday, February 14 Having a players card is your key. Every hour, three numbers will be randomly selected. If the last three digits of your Key Rewards card matches the three selected numbers in the exact order, you win a guaranteed minimum of $500 CASH!

MEMPHIS MADE BREWING COMPANY, 768 S. COOPER (2075343), WWW.HALFPINTS.ORG.

Polar Bear Plunge and Chili Cook-off

Heat up with some chili and cool down with a plunge benefiting Special Olympics. Sat., Feb. 6, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

MUD ISLAND RIVER PARK, 125 N. FRONT (576-7241), WWW. SPECIALOLYMPICSMEM.ORG.

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FILM

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.

The Tournées French Film Festival

Opening night reception with introduction by Prof. Evelyn Perry at 6:30 p.m. See website for list of films. Tues., Wed., 7 p.m. Through Feb. 10.

RHODES COLLEGE, BUCKMAN HALL, ROOM 110.

WWW.RHODES.EDU/CONTENT/TOURNEES.

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Playback actors interpret audience members’ personal stories at First Congregational Church Saturday

Wider Angle Foreign Film Series: Amour Fou

Inspired by true events, young romantic-era Berlin lovers agree on a suicide pact. Free. Wed., Feb. 10, 6-8 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (4152726).

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Superfood An ode to the pomengranate.

Linguine con Funghi e Formaggio For two big portions: Half-pound linguine — a thick but not enormous handful.

3/4 cup mix of fresh basil, oregano, and

parsley 1/3 cup mix of freshly grated Parmesan and Romano cheeses 5 cloves garlic, mashed 2 cups mushrooms (you can use a mix of white button, crimini, portobello, morel, oyster, and shiitake) 1 tablespoon butter 3 tablespoons olive oil 1/4 cup pine nuts 1 lemon 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds Heat two quarts of water with 1/8 cup of salt. Add the pasta when boils.

While cooking the pasta, chop the herbs, grate the cheese, mash the garlic, and slice the mushrooms.

When the linguine is al dente (just a receding sliver of a dry, white center), remove noodles and toss them generously in olive oil. Set aside.

In a large skillet or wok, combine butter and 2 tablespoons olive oil on medium heat. Add pine nuts and the mashed garlic.

Toss the nuts just until they start to brown.

Don’t overbrown.

Add the mushrooms and stir/toss them in. Season with 1/4 teaspoon of fresh ground pepper and a “kiss” of salt.

When the fungus starts to brown, toss in the herbs, then the pasta, then add the lemon juice.

Transfer the fragrant mixture onto a large plate, and garnish with handfuls of pomegranate seeds, and the rest of the grated cheese. Squeeze a quarter lemon over the loaded plate, and place the remaining quarter lemon on top.

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peutic outcomes similar to what may be happening in rats, you would have to eat a lot of pomegranates and might want to consider juice. You could make your own juice by purchasing the fruit and watching videos on YouTube about how to seed them without making a colossal mess.

When buying pomegranates, look for firm fruits with rounded, rather than sunken, skins. Ultimately the best way to determine the quality or ripeness of a particular batch of fruit is to open one.

If you find a keeper, go buy some more from the same batch and store them in the fridge. The fruit’s fridge-life can be extended for months by wrapping them in paper towels and storing in a paper bag at the bottom of the fridge where there isn’t much activity. You want to leave the wrapped pomegranates unbothered, with as few vibrations as possible. Like bottles of wine, the less they’re disturbed, the better they’re preserved.

What you should never do is buy packaged pomegranate seeds, which have a relatively short shelf life and have been the source of multiple decidedly non-super outbreaks of food-borne illness.

Linguine con Funghi e Formaggio owes its magic, in part, to its garnish of pomegranate seeds. It may appear to be almost an afterthought, but it really completes the dish.

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areas that support opium poppies, like Afghanistan and Mexico, which means eating them could help steer rural economies away from the narcotics business.

Though it can be messy, it’s hardly a chore to interact with a pomegranate. The leathery pentagonal orb glitters from the inside like a crystal-filled geode when you open it. The juicy seeds, dense with flavor, sugar, and acid, are refreshing and joyful to munch on. Some people eat the arils with spoons by the bowlful. A sprinkled handful on a meal can transform it, as we will see in a moment in the recipe for Linguine con Funghi e Formaggio, or linguine with mushrooms and cheese.

But first, lest we forget, there are some truly compelling superfood-y reasons to like pomegranate. Antioxidants, vitamins, blah blah, sure.

Meanwhile, research published in 2013 suggests that pomegranates can cause dramatic improvement in rodents with Alzheimer’s. The team then set out to determine what compound or compounds in pomegranates were behind this activity. A follow-up study published in December of 2015 looked at the ability of several suspected pomegranate compounds to pass from the blood to the brain, which would be a crucial quality for an Alzheimer’s treatment.

None of the entries on their list of suspects, it turned out, were able to cross from the blood into the brain. But the team discovered that one of the suspect molecules is broken down by gut bacteria into smaller molecules called urolithins, which do pass the blood/brain barrier. Urolithins have also been shown to be anti-inflammatory, and to remove Alzheimer’s-related plaque from cultured brain cells.

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he idea that certain foods can make you smarter, faster, stronger, or even younger has led to the recent proliferation of “superfoods,” purported to do such things. This angle on health and well-being has opened big doors for marketers of food, writers of listicles, and those with the resources to pursue the superfoods lifestyle. But it’s buyer beware for consumers who wade into this $140 billion-a-year industry, because one thing many superfoods can surely do is cleanse your bank account.

The pomegranate, while often named in the company of superfoods, deserves a spot above this fray. Yes, it is a superfood, not just for the eater but for the earth, and even for humanity. And for what it’s worth, we’ve been eating them for a long time. Many Biblical scholars believe the pomegranate was the real-life inspiration for the forbidden fruit. Whether or not we owe the original sin to this original superfood, civilizations and cuisines have been built on those ruby red, fleshy arils, which is what the angular sacks that contain seeds and fruit are called.

The trees are tolerant to high heat and low precipitation, are generally easy to grow, and can produce huge crops.

The fruits can be stored for months and shipped slowly, helping to make pomegranates climate-friendly and adapted to a planet that is already heating up.

This adaptability, along with growing demand for the fruit, have caused a surge in pomegranate trees being planted.

Pomegranate orchards are replacing apple orchards in parts of India that are now too hot for apple growing. Meanwhile, pomegranate trees thrive in many of the same

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Let the Good Times Roll Mardi Gras in Memphis.

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Owen Brennan’s was one of Memphis’ original New Orleans ambassadors, taking home Best of trophies year after year. They’ll be Mardi Gras-ing it up this year with a celebratory menu of $5 small plates and drink specials. Their holiday menu will offer crawfish beignets with crawfish tails, andouille sausage, and tasso ham fried in a beignet and served with sriracha tartar sauce; Cajun calamari served with agrodolce and remoulade sauces; king cake; hurricanes; Mardi Gras Ritas; and Mardi Gras Mosas. They’ll also turn it up a notch with jazz music and a

bead throw from the indoor balcony.

Owen Brennan’s Restaurant, 6150 Poplar, 761-0990 brennansmemphis.com Lafayette’s is the new old kid on the block. After 38 years of shuttered windows, the Midtown music fixture reopened with a balcony that models those characteristic of the Big Easy.

This week, from Monday, February 8th through Saturday, February 13th, chef Jody Moyt will serve up Carnival food specials such as red beans and rice for $4 a cup; muffalettas for $12 served on authentic Gambino bread shipped in from NOLA with mortadella, salami, homemade olive relish, and roasted red peppers; and king cake, either by the slice or whole — yes, the whole ones will have babies. “We’re the Mardi Gras spot in Overton Square. We’ve got the double-decker balcony out front and a mezzanine inside. We’ll have a horn

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For the big holiday, English will be offering drink specials as well as a bread pudding baby lottery, meaning one dish of bread pudding will have a king cake baby, and the lucky diner will receive dinner for two.

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band that will get a train going through the restaurant. It will be a big party. We’ll be as close to Mardi Gras as you can get without going down South,” Moyt says.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 Madison 207-5097 lafayettes.com Chef Max Hussey at eighty3 Food & Drink at the Madison Hotel downtown says he loves Cajun cuisine and has been recognized with several awards for his gumbo. The New Orleans cuisine enthusiast added a Mardi Gras special to his menu for a limited time.

For $15, revellers can get a crawfish po’boy and a cup of traditional New Orleans-style gumbo, made with clam and seafood stock, crawfish, shrimp, okra, scallops, lobster, rice, and creole seasonings. The special menu will run from Friday, February 5th to Tuesday, February 9th. eighty3 Food & Drink, 83 Madison, 333-1224 eighty3memphis.com It’s pretty much always Fat Tuesday at the Bayou. “Our menu is already suited for it,” owner Bill Baker says.

This year on the big day they’ll have a crawfish boil as well as king cake, and the New Orleans-inspirited Mighty Souls Brass Band will carry you away to Frenchmen on their tuba, trombone, sax, et al. “It will start to pick up midafternoon, and by evening it will get crazy. We’ll have a bunch of beads.

Beads will get thrown. Laissez le bon temps roulez,” Baker says.

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he first American Mardi Gras was celebrated in 1703 in what is now Mobile. The first krewe was the Masque de la Mobile. By 1718, New Orleans was a thing, and by the ’30s (the 1730s), they were doing Mardi Gras too.

With a vengeance. In 1875, Louisiana Governor Henry Warmoth signed the Mardi Gras Act, designating Fat Tuesday as a legal holiday.

Somewhere in there the first pot of gumbo was made, and by the Great Depression, the Martin brothers threw some potatoes and roast beef gravy on French bread, and the first po’boys were served to New Orleans streetcar workers on strike.

Just as much as New Orleans is le centre Americain for all things Mardi Gras, its identity is also inseparable from its distinct cuisine.

Mardi Gras is just around the corner — Mardi, February 9th — and area restaurants are offering some traditional New Orleans dishes and signature drinks to save you the six- (or five or four-) hour trip. (And running around like an amateur.)

Chef Kelly English is synonymous with Louisiana in these parts — he’s a native — and if Mardi Gras means traditional New Orleans cuisine, it’s a party all year-round at his restaurant the Second Line. His menu of po’boys, including the O.G., short for original gangsta, short for the Martin brothers concoction of French fries and gravy; chicken and andouille gumbo; and barbecue shrimp will make you think you need to cross the neutral ground to go make some groceries.

Locality ✴ Guide

COLLIERVILLE Bangkok Alley Bonefish Grill Booyah’s Cafe Grill Cafe Piazza Ciao Baby!

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

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 Julles Posh Food Co. Las Delicias Lisa’s Lunchbox LYFE Kitchen Lynchburg Legends Mac’s Burgers Marciano Mayuri Indian Cuisine Mellow Mushroom Memphis Pizza Cafe Mi Pueblo Mortimer’s Mosa Asian Bistro Napa Cafe New Hunan Old Venice Pizza Co. One & Only BBQ Patrick’s Porcellino’s Craft Butcher Rotis Cuisine of India Sakura Sekisui Pacific Rim Skewer Soul Fish Cafe Sports Bar & Grille Swanky’s Taco Shop Tamp & Tap Triad Three Little Pigs Bar-B-Q Tokyo Grill Whole Foods Market GERMANTOWN Asian Eatery Belmont Grill Chili’s Corky’s Ribs & BBQ El Porton Germantown Commissary Las Tortugas Mellow Mushroom Memphis Pizza Cafe Mister B’s Mulan Asian Eatery New Asia Petra Cafe Royal Panda Russo’s Sakura Soul Fish Cafe Staks Swanky’s Taco Shop West Street Diner MEDICAL CENTER Arepa & Salsa Evelyn & Olive Sabrosura Trolley Stop Market MIDTOWN Abyssinia Alchemy Aldo’s Pizza Pies Alex’s Tavern Al-Rayan Bar-B-Q Shop Bar DKDC Barksdale Restaurant Bar Louie Bari Ristorante e Enoteca Bayou Bar & Grill Beauty Shop Beeker’s Belly Acres Bhan Thai Blue Monkey Blue Nile Boscos Squared Bounty on Broad Broadway Pizza The Brushmark Cafe 1912 Cafe Eclectic Cafe La Roux by DeJaVu Cafe Ole Cafe Society Casablanca Celtic Crossing Central BBQ City & State City Market The Cove The Crazy Noodle The Cupboard Dino’s Grill Ecco on Overton Park El Mezcal Fino’s from the Hill Frida’s Mexican Restaurant Fuel Cafe Golden India Hammer & Ale Haute Monde Sweet and Savory Bar Huey’s I Love Juice Bar Imagine Vegan Cafe India Palace Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Jasmine Thai

Java Cabana Kwik Chek LBOE Local Gastropub Mardi Gras Maximo’s Memphis Pizza Cafe Midtown Crossing Molly’s La Casita Muddy's Mulan Asian Bistro Murphy’s Next Door Old Zinnie’s Otherlands Payne’s P&H Cafe Peggy’s Petra Cafe Express Red Zone Relevant Roasters Restaurant Iris Robata Ramen & Yakitori Bar Saigon Le Schweinehaus Sean’s Cafe The Second Line Sekisui Side Street Grill Slider Inn Soul Fish Cafe Stone Soup Cafe Strano Sicilian Kitchen Sweet Grass Tart Tsunami Young Avenue Deli PARKWAY VILLAGE/FOX MEADOWS Blue Shoe Bar & Grill Leonard’s Pancho’s POPLAR/I-240 Amerigo Benihana Blue Plate Cafe Brooklyn Bridge Capital Grille China Dragon Fleming’s Frank Grisanti’s Heritage Tavern & Kitchen Humdingers Moe’s Southwest Grill Mosa Asian Bistro Owen Brennan’s River Oaks Salsa Seasons 52 Wang’s Mandarin House RALEIGH El 7 Mares Hideaway Restaurant & Club Los Reyes

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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 LYFE Kitchen 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

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

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Television is filled with cutting-edge work, from Adventure Time to Adult Swim. In theaters, the reign of Pixar has produced a string of masterpieces, the latest of which was last year’s Inside Out. Even though it’s been overshadowed by Pixar, and still extruding corporate product like Rise of the Guardians, DreamWorks Animation has stepped up its game after years of floundering in the Shrek doldrums, led by a panda who does kung fu.

Has there been a more obvious-only-in-hindsight film premise in recent memory than Kung Fu Panda? Once those three words were spoken in the DreamWorks executive suite sometime in the middle of the last decade, it was inevitable that they would be followed by “Get me Jack Black!” Po, the dumplingobsessed, orphan panda turned dragon warrior, is the perfect conduit for Black’s hyperkinetic charisma. It would be hard to imagine the franchise banking a billion and a half bucks without Black providing Po’s animus.

But this installment of the panda’s adventures in the stylized feudal Chinese setting of the Valley of Peace has more going for it than just Black. It seems to be one of those rare bits of corporate synergy where the right players were assembled, beginning with director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, a 43-year old Korean American whose work on Kung Fu Panda 2 made her the highest-grossing female director of all time. For this installment, Nelson shares the big chair with longtime DreamWorks animator Alessandro Carloni, and their direction keeps Kung Fu Panda 3 nimble and assured.

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The film opens in the spirit realm, where Grand Master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim), having achieved ultimate enlightenment, is chilling on a Roger Deaninspired floating rock, when he is attacked by his old enemy Kai (J.K. Simmons). The immortal bull-being wants to collect Oogway’s qi, or spiritual energy, and use it not to conquer at Scrabble (where qi is valuable because it is a “q” word you can play without a “u” in your rack, and also because its alternate spellings “ki” and “chi” are legal words), but to bring the entire world under his hoof. Any movie that starts off with a bull and turtle battling through the astral plane with magical, zero-G kung fu has my attention.

Meanwhile, back in the land of the mortal anthropomorphic animals, Po’s teacher Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) is retiring and appointing Po as his

Kung Fu Panda 3 packs a punch for DreamWorks and for fans of animation. successor at the Jade Temple kung fu school, just in time for our hero to fight off an onslaught by Kai and his pop-up army of jade zombies. Po’s worldview is further shattered by the arrival of his long-lost father, Li Shan (Bryan Cranston), who offers to take him home to the secret, Shangri-la-like village of pandas to perfect his knowledge of qi (which will get you 33 points on a Triple Word Score). Po’s adopted father Mr. Ping (legendary character actor James Hong, who achieved immortality as Lo Pan in Big Trouble in Little China) is suspicious, and tags along for the journey, leaving Po’s sidekicks the Furious Five to fight a rear-guard action against the rampaging Kai.

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They say on the internet that excessive use of sports metaphors is the sign of a weak critic. That’s why the best thing about The Finest Hours is that it allows me to unleash a torrent of nautical metaphors while retaining my final sliver of self-respect. Fortunately for everyone, sailors have many words for failure.

The Finest Hours is becalmed from the beginning, when we see Coast Guard sailor Bernie Webber (Chris Pine) meeting cute with Cape Cod hottie Miriam Pentinen (Holliday Grainger), 1952-style. The movie wants you to believe they’re instantly falling in love, but the two actors mix like oil and water, so the clumsy sequence is just the first of many slow boats to China director Craig Gillespie books us on.

Storm clouds, both real and metaphorical, start to gather about the time Miriam breaches Eisenhower-era patriarchal protocol by asking Bernie to marry her at an especially boring dance. He feeds her a line about asking permission from his commanding officer before a lucky nor’easter blows up and throws our young hero and his crew of misfits into action on the high seas.

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The film’s most compelling moments come onboard the Pendleton, a rusting hulk of a tanker run into disaster by an unseen captain who goes down with the first half of his ship. The group of scalawags trapped in the stern of the broken ship find their reticent leader in engine man Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck), whose ingenuity and resolve in keeping half a ship afloat makes him a more compelling character than our alleged hero Webber. Affleck’s performance is this imperfect storm’s sole ray of light, but Pine is the one with the functioning boat, so he gets top billing. The young, untested Bernie’s mad fight through the storm should be the story’s dramatic heart, but it turns into a repetitive slog through the dark waves. There are a few good shots, such as when the tiny boat with the catchy name CG-

Grainger gives the worst performance of the young year. Her character Miriam is a poorly written, off-theshelf “strong woman,” but Grainger walks her off the plank into harpy territory. Her lame subplot, which involves forgetting her coat and getting stuck in a snowbank, hits low tide when a single tear rolls down her face as she stares, bored, off into the middle distance. For that fleeting moment, it seems that she and the audience are in the same boat.

— CM A slow boat to boredom 36500 plunges underwater through giant, pounding waves, but director Gillespie spoils the fun by recycling them too often. For an $80 million Disney production, The Finest Hours’ effects look singularly unconvincing.

The men of the CG-36500 are clearly on a soundstage getting buckets of water thrown on them. Despite the hurricane force winds blowing blinding snow and freezing spray in their faces, they never look cold.

Nor do they take common-sense precautions like wearing goggles, or, in Pine’s case, a hat. The one thing

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TH E LAST WO R D by Susan Wilson

Tom Hardy’s Lips

Tom Hardy

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

I get Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, and Jane Eyre confused. I always remember that Heathcliff and Catherine are in Wuthering Heights because of that Monty Python sketch where they act it out in semaphore. Obviously, as problems go, this isn’t a bad one. There are just all those wailing women and wives in attics and silent, deeply disturbed men; who can keep up? I tried to watch a movie adaptation of one of these not too long ago. I don’t remember which because they’re all the same, but this had Tom Hardy in it. I couldn’t pay attention to the story because of Tom Hardy’s lips. Have you seen them? Tom Hardy is to lips as Milton Berle was to, er, uh, comedy.

Here’s the thing. For every John Irving or Henry James novel I read, I read about 10 Nora Roberts romances. I know I’m supposed to be all cool and hip and be like, oh, I only read David Foster Wallace out loud to Honduran orphans while eating organic acorn tofu in the porch chair my ironically suspendered husband carved from a fallen Appalachian birch maple — very rare — and drinking yaupon beer. Sometimes I’ll watch the movie first, then read the book. That way I can make my holier-than-thou friends’ heads explode. I’ve read some good stuff this way. I’ve also seen some bad stuff this way. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men comes to mind.

People love to rag on Nora because of her formula. There’s a meet cute, they hate each other, they acknowledge their mutual attraction but ignore it, and they end up in an adorable restored bungalow.

Like John Irving doesn’t have a formula? Kid has attachment to strange object, there’s a bear, someone is horribly mutilated or somehow disfigured, something gets blown up, and they end up in Amsterdam.

Because I love Steve Yarbrough doesn’t mean I have to hate Vince Flynn. What would we do when we’re stranded in the Charlotte airport if it weren’t for Vince Flynn? Just because I absolutely have to have a bologna sandwich with mayonnaise and Doritos on pasty white bread a couple times a year doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate Amish chicken breasts stuffed with chard and turnips in a balsamic reduction.

I think women are particularly susceptible to secret shames because of Lululemon.

First, whenever I see that name, in my head I pronounce it “Lulu Mon,” and I imagine happy steel drummers and jerk chicken. I think even my father knows what Lululemons are, and he thinks a “crack whore” means she’s good at her job.

But in case you get out even less than my father, these things I speak of are fancy, stretchy yoga pants. Except in Jackson, Mississippi, where they are fancy middleaged-woman-running-up-to-Whole-Foods pants. These yoga pants are well-made, expensive, and their size XL is a 12.

Gentlemen, you might be confused. It’s like finding a great pair of Sansabelts and they only go up to a 32. So ladies such as myself, who could really use a good yoga class or 10, can’t wear them. Did I mention they’re expensive? Less than a yard of Spandex that you can’t even put in the dryer, and they won’t make your Cow Face Pose any easier for you.

Anyway, you get your Lululemons and your mandatory copy of Eat, Pray, Love, and then you start eliminating stuff from your diet. And I’m not talking through digestion. You give up wheat, nuts, beans, rice, and start drinking green kale sludge with chia seeds sprinkled on top. Your friend, a reader of Important Books, gives you Deepak Chopra, and you’re off.

You hide your Michelob Ultra behind your organic goat’s milk.

You realize you’ve never read anything by Joyce Carol Oates, so you buy her entire oeuvre used from Amazon but act like they’re old and came from an independent book store. You start using the word “encounter” instead of “meet.”

You want cool, but let me tell you something: You will never be cool. Read what you want. Eat fast food every now and then. Preferably something with the word “poppers” in the name. You know what? If you love Red Lobster cheddar biscuits, order them! Those biscuits are delightful. If your socalled friends can’t handle the truth of you, dump them. You don’t need that kind of negativity in your life. What you need is more biscuits.

Susan Wilson also writes for yeahandanotherthing.com and likethedew.com. She and her husband Chuck have lived here long enough to know that Midtown does not start at Highland.

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