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OUR 1549TH ISSUE 11.01.18 I lived in Pittsburgh for nine years. I know Squirrel Hill well. It’s a storied neighborhood of big sycamores, winding streets, and lovely old houses. It’s near Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, where I used to spend a couple evenings a week teaching writing to eager and not-so-eager freshmen. It’s close to WQED, where I used to work, editing Pittsburgh, the city’s magazine. Fred Rogers worked in the same building and lived nearby. I used to drink and eat at the Squirrel Hill Cafe, aka the “Squirrel Cage,” a great old neighborhood bar.

So when the news of a shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue appeared on my laptop last Saturday morning, I didn’t have to imagine the scene; I could easily visualize it. The latest episode of the American Horror Story was playing out in one of my old haunts — just as it’s played out in Las Vegas, Charleston, Parkland, Sutherland, Texas, and 151 other American hometowns since 2016. Just as it also played out in Kentucky, last week, and in Florida, where a would-be assassin attempted to kill two former presidents and a host of other notable Democratic politicians with pipe bombs.

America is infected with hate and violence, and the disease is spreading. Most presidents, when they have seen a divide in the country, have sought to heal it. This president sees the divide and seeks to exploit it. Polarization and rage have become the new normal, and it’s coming from the top down.

Can we change course? Yes, but it’s going to take dedication and commitment and time and unrelenting activism — the kind of citizen involvement that drove the civil rights movement and stopped the Vietnam War — the kind of activism that jams the gears of power and changes the country’s direction. As Patti Smith sang, “the people have the power.” We just have to tap it.

It’s easy to be cynical, but if you doubt the power of activism, I point you to Memphis, Tennessee, where in just the past couple of years, activists have stopped the city council from letting the Memphis Zoo take over Overton Park’s Greensward for parking; brought down Confederate statues in city parks; stopped the TVA from drilling wells that would tap our precious aquifer; joined with ACLU to stop the Memphis Police Department from surveilling citizen activists; and halted (as I write this) the city council from using tax-payer funds to promote three self-serving ordinances.

That doesn’t include the women’s marches, the Black Lives Matter march on the I-40 bridge, the marches against this administration’s inhumane immigration policies, and numerous other citizen-led movements. The pot has been stirred. The people are woke. And we are a week away from judgment day — or, better said, the first judgment day, for this will not be a quick change.

I do not for a minute allow myself to believe there will be a magical “blue wave” that will transform the country’s zeitgeist next Tuesday. I do believe there will be gratifying and surprising victories, just as I believe there will also be depressing and frustrating defeats. But I am hopeful the pendulum has swung as far as it can toward “nationalism” and the open promotion of ethnic hatred and divisiveness. And I am hopeful the plague of angry male white supremacists wreaking havoc and terror on innocent Americans on a weekly basis can be stopped, or at least forced back into the sewers from whence it came.

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FOOD - 26 I believe Americans are better than the HOLIDAY EATS - 28 president thinks we are. We just have to FILM - 34 show it. Starting next week.

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Referenda, Spy Suit, & Mighty Lights Ballot questions questioned, the city spied, & new lights on the river.

R E F E R E N DA AG E N DA Last Tuesday, Memphis City Council members unveiled and quickly approved a secretly devised scheme to spend $30,000-$40,000 of taxpayer money for a campaign in support of three ballot referenda.

The referenda would lengthen term limits for Memphis council members and mayors, axe voter-approved instant runoff voting, and eliminate election Clockwise from top left, Kyle, a fake MPD Facebook account, Lime, Robertson, runoffs. a Save IRV sign, Malone, Morgan, U of M. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland disagreed with the plan but said he cannot veto it. Worth Morgan, one of N OT R EC OV E R E D three council members to vote against the campaign, said the As of 2016, Memphis hadn’t really recovered from the resolution passed to support it “was pushed forward with zero Great Recession, according to a new report from the public notice, is an improper and late attempt to make up for the Economic Innovation Group (EIG). Researchers ranked overly confusing ballot language.”

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Saying that there was “clear and convincing evidence” that the city of Memphis actively pursued covert surveillance of four local LEAG U E I S LIVE activists, U.S. District Judge Jon P. McCalla decreed last week The League, an exclusive dating app, is now live here that the ACLU of Tennessee could sue the city of Memphis for and hoping to unite “ambitious singles” looking for love. breaking a 1978 agreement prohibiting the city from conducting Company officials described The League as a “memberssuch activities. only club, but one with a killer singles scene.”

C HAM B E R TAPS R O B E RTS O N The Greater Memphis Chamber board of directors named National Civil Rights Museum leader Beverly Robertson to be the group’s interim president and CEO, the first female to hold the position. The move comes after Phil Trenary, the Chamber’s previous leader, was shot and killed last month.

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U R AN US B R EAK D OWN WMC has something to say about Uranus. Actually, they have quite a lot to say about Uranus.

In an episode of “Breakdown,” a weekly programming segment aimed at kids, meteorologist Sagay Galindo explained why conditions were perfect for looking at Uranus with or without magnification.

The online copy is written straight, but it’s a joy to read aloud: “On most nights Uranus is hard to see even with a telescope but for the rest of the month, you may be able to spot it without one or with binoculars, according to NASA. Uranus is going to be in a good place for viewing the next few days.”

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A new Memphis City Council rule would place a seven-cent tax on each plastic bag consumers take from retailers that are 2,000 square feet or larger.

Council chairman Berlin Boyd said the motive behind the move is not to make a profit, but to help sustain the environment. Specifically, Boyd wants to protect the city’s waterways, which he said are overly polluted by plastic bags.

“It’s all about protecting our waterways,” Boyd said. “Because once those bags get out in the environment and they blow around, they’re going in drainage ditches, under your car, in a tree, and in the water. It’s about protecting the aquifer.”

Scott Banbury, conservation program coordinator of the Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club agrees that the use of plastic bags should be limited, as they are contaminating waterways and causing a slew of other issues in the environment.

“Plastic bags are a primary source of microplastic pollution in our waterways, the main cause of the rejection of curbside recycling, and clog our storm water drains, contributing to local flooding problems,” Banbury said. “Short of an outright ban, a tax on bags will cause people to reconsider their use and choose reusable bags.”

However, Banbury said plastic bags are not an immediate threat to the Memphis Sand Aquifer, the source of the city’s drinking water.

“Plastic bags could lead to eventual contamination of the aquifer with microplastics, but it would take a long time — decades, or hundreds of years, depending on whether the microplastics find their way to a breach in the clay layer that protects the aquifer,” Banbury said.

Keith Cole, executive director of the Wolf River Conservancy, said it’s for that reason that his group supports the proposal, as “plastic bags are a nuisance.”

Rain and gravity often move plastic bags from the ground to a waterway, he said.

“Anyone who spends time outside in an urban area would probably agree that plastic bags are an environmental concern,” Cole said. “Unfortunately, we find them in many many places, whether it’s on the ground or wherever. Anything that ends up on the ground can end up in a river. If it ends up in the Wolf River, it ends up in the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico, and eventually out into the ocean.”

When the plastic breaks down, the particles can be consumed by fish that could ultimately be consumed by humans, Cole said. Research is showing that chemicals from plastic are starting to end up in humans’ bloodstreams.

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Defining the Divide Votes on social issues conform to party lines on the Shelby County Commission. and Commission Chair Van Turner, both Democrats, passed by a 7-4-1 vote, with the four opponents being four of the commission’s five Republicans — Brandon Morrison, Amber Mills, David Bradford, and Mark Billingsley — while the fifth GOP member, Mick Wright, abstained.

A second resolution, this one co-sponsored by Sawyer and Edmund Ford Jr., requested that the Memorandum of Understanding between four major law-enforcement branches — the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, the Memphis Police Department, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and the Shelby County District Attorney General — be amended “to include TBI’s investigation of critical injuries” resulting from law enforcement shootings.

The resolution’s essential point was to enlarge TBI oversight of such incidents. The vote was similar, another 7-4-1 vote, with Wright joining the dissenters this time and Bradford abstaining.

As Democrat Tami Sawyer (right) speaks to a no-confidence resolution on end of DOJ oversight of Juvenile Court, Republican Brandon Morrison looks on disapprovingly.

This basic divide, along party lines, is likely to continue, especially on issues of social significance.

• Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, made a stop in Memphis on Saturday at the National Civil Rights Museum for an installment of the DNC’s “Seat at the Table” tour, designed to galvanize the involvement of African-American women in the party.

In his farewell message to attendees, Perez took note of one of the major issues on the November 6th ballot — the referendum for Memphis voters on repeal of Ranked Choice Voting, a method for determining winners, sans runoffs, in multi-candidate races in which no candidate has a majority.

“I’ve spent a lot of time on that issue,” said Perez, after giving a hat-tip to Steve Mulroy, the University of Memphis law professor and former county commissioner who has been a major proponent of RCV (aka Instant Runoff Voting), scheduled to be employed in the 2019 city election, unless repealed.

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“If I were living here, I’d vote no on that referendum, because you’ve already voted for it,” said Perez, who referred to a previous referendum, in 2008, when Memphis voters approved the process by a 70 percent majority. “It forces candidates to talk to everyone, instead of just that one base. It fosters civility because you can’t ignore 70 percent of the people.”

Perez went on: “Talk to them! What a radical concept. That’s why y’all voted for it, and that’s why they don’t want it.”

• Three weeks after Mike Stewart of Nashville, the Democrats’ caucus chairman in the Tennessee House of Representatives, came to Memphis to investigate Republican House candidate Scott McCormick, Stewart returned to reveal his findings.

What he’d been looking for was the absentee record from Shelby County Schools board meetings of McCormick, who is trying to unseat Democrat Dwayne Thompson, the upset winner in 2016 of the District 96 House seat.

Back on October 10th, Stewart and fellow Democrat Marjorie Pomeroy-Wallace spent an afternoon in the county Board of Education building waiting in vain for McCormick’s attendance records.

That was then. On Monday, Stewart and Wallace were back in front of the Board of Education building — but this time with a large standing chart showing, line by line, the apparent actual record of McCormick’s attendance on the board committees he has belonged to.

The chart purported to show that McCormick had missed “at least 72 of 94 committee meetings,” which translates into an absentee rate of 76 percent. “It is a record of chronic absenteeism,” said Stewart.

“He consistently missed critical meetings

on critical subjects.” Stewart gave as an example the issue of academic performance, which has been the focus of much concern in regard to Shelby County Schools.

“Of 25 meetings on academic performance, Scott McCormick attended just five. What can we expect when he gets into the legislature and nobody’s watching?

He was AWOL and obviously should not be promoted to a new assignment. What are you going to do in Nashville when nobody’s supervising you?”

Stewart said the SCS office had not furnished him with written attendance records, but only with recordings, from which he and others had determined McCormick’s attendance record from listening to roll calls. “We had to listen laboriously to every one of them,” he said.

Asked for a reaction, McCormick said Stewart’s figures were misleading. “First of all, committee meetings on the school board aren’t like those in the legislature, which conform to a fixed, predictable schedule.” The School Board meetings were arranged around members’ convenience and availability according to ad hoc questionnaires, he said.

Moreover, said McCormick, “no action is taken at the committee meetings, nothing is voted on,” and any material developed in them is made available to board members in the monthly work sessions that precede by a week the board’s public business sessions. McCormick claimed an attendance rate of 22 out of 23 public business meetings at which votes were taken. And, he said, his attendance record at the evaluations committee, which he heads, was 100 percent.

McCormick said, in effect, that the focus on his attendance record was a red herring and that the main issue of the House race should be the matter of who best could benefit Shelby County in pushing for advances in education and economic development. He said that, as a member of the legislature’s majority party, he was better poised than Thompson to be effective in those regards.

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Indie Memphis returns with a lineup that reflects its roots — and the city it calls home.

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hen Miriam Bale came to Memphis last November to be on the jury for the 20th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival, she didn’t know it would change her life. “It was very well organized and warm,” she says.

“It was one of my best experiences at a festival. There are a lot of places that don’t have that loving vibe.”

As the festivities wound down, she found out that festival programmer Brandon Harris had been hired away by Amazon Studios. “So a window opened up, and the sun came out,” she says.

Bale is a Bay area native who has interned for legendary documentarian Les Blank, programmed film for museums and venues on the East and West Coasts, and written film criticism for The New York Times. At first, she was hesitant to apply for the job of Indie Memphis programmer, but by the time 2018 rolled around, she found herself tasked with filling up multiple screens over seven days in November.

Along with shorts programmer Brighid Wheeler, she has assembled an ambitious and inclusive lineup for what promises to be the biggest Indie Memphis yet.

Asked if she had a guiding philosophy behind her film choices, she says “It was just to do what you guys had always done, but ramp it up.

12 … The structure was already there, and so was the idealism. It’s not the

Miriam Bale Memphis Film Festival. It’s the Indie Memphis Film Festival. It’s all about independence.”

Indeed, many of the films on offer at Indie Memphis 2018 feel like a call back to the festival’s formative years, when heart was valued over polish, and unconventional voices were not only tolerated but embraced and celebrated.

Bale says working as a film critic opened her eyes to the predominantly white, male power structure that has historically dominated the mainstream film industry, shutting out the voices of women and people of color.

“As a writer, I would criticize that, but it seemed like I was writing the

same thing over and over again. So instead of criticizing, I was able to work with [Indie Memphis Executive Director] Ryan [Watt] and Brighid [Wheeler] to create a utopian version of what film not only could be, but could be really easily with just the resources we have around. We wanted to create a utopian world, and that’s what we did. … We were very adamant about the festival reflecting the city.

We’ve tried to make an effort to find programming that would appeal to everyone.”

BOOTS AND BARRY When Bale was tapped for the Indie

Memphis programming position, the first film she thought of was Sorry to Bother You. “I heard about this film when it was in grant stages,” she recalls.

“I thought it was perfect. It’s smart and political, but at the same time it’s creative and imaginative.”

Director Boots Riley struggled for years to get Sorry to Bother You made. Riley first gained attention as the founder of The Coup, a hip-hop group from Oakland, California, whose songs are stridently anti-racist and anti-capitalist in the tradition of Public Enemy and Rage Against the Machine. His debut film reflects the same concerns, but with a much more surrealist, satirical bent.

Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) is a struggling 20-something living in an Oakland that is at once familiar and hyper-real. Frustrated by his lack of opportunity and sick of living in his uncle’s garage, he applies for a job at RegalView, a telemarketing company that Green soon learns has some shady and sinister connections. He’s good at the job of selling strange stuff to random people, because he has an excellent “white voice” (dubbed by comedian David Cross), and is quickly promoted to the rank of Power Caller.

But when he is tasked with selling people on joining WorryFree, an allinclusive community that treats its members as slaves in all but name, he

Brazil

Riley will also host a screening of a film that was a major inspiration for Sorry to Bother You. Terry Gilliam’s 1985 masterpiece Brazil (November 2nd, 9 p.m., Studio on the Square) shares the theme of a somewhat timid man taking on an insane, surreal world gone mad.

In another big get for Indie Memphis, Saturday night will see the regional premiere of the highly anticipated new film by Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk (November 3rd, 6 p.m., Studio on the Square).

Jenkins, who appeared at Indie Memphis 2006 with his first film, Medicine for Melancholy, won the 2016 Best Picture Oscar with Moonlight, an unprecedented feat for an independent film with a $1.5 million budget. If Beale Street Could Talk is an adaptation of the 1974 novel by James Baldwin, which, despite the Memphis-centric name, is set in Harlem, where a pregnant young woman played by KiKi Layne must prove the innocence of her finance, played by Stephan James, who has been falsely accused of a crime.

Bale says Riley and Jenkins are perfect fits for Indie Memphis.

“To me, both of these filmmakers

represent great filmmaking, great black filmmaking, and great political filmmaking that is imaginative and creative in different ways.”

BRING THE RUKUS Indie Memphis 2018 features work from a record 112 Memphis-based filmmakers. When Brett Hanover’s first documentary short “Above God” premiered at Indie Memphis 2006, he was one of about a dozen directors competing in the Hometowner category.

The subject of “Above God” was Gene Ray, who became one of the first internet celebrities when his strange website filled with borderline nonsensical ramblings about a “Time Cube” went viral. “I was interested in internet cultures,” says Hanover, who was 16 when he made the film. “I was interested in how this one guy’s words got spread and interpreted by so many people.”

Another internet subculture that fascinated Hanover was the Furries, a small group devoted to dressing up in elaborate costumes that transformed them into anthropomorphic animals.

Back then, furries were picked out for ridicule as weirdos with an incomprehensible sexual fetish. But Hanover saw something deeper in their endless Livejournal posts and secretive conventions. That’s when a mutual friend introduced him to a person in the online furry community who called himself Rukus. “Initially, I had a lurid fascination with what he was writing, because it was really intense, personal, and raw.”

But Hanover soon discovered that Rukus was different things to different people. Little of his life story checked out, and he maintained a number of conflicting online personae.“It became an interesting mystery, to figure out what was real and what was embellished. … If he’s not telling the truth about something, that means he’s not telling the truth about it for a reason. It says something about him.”

Hanover and Rukus became online friends and even met in person after a Memphis furry convention. But eventually they drifted apart, and in 2008, Hanover got word that Rukus had committed suicide. “I became very obsessed with finding every trace of him online,” Hanover says.

In 2008, Hanover, with the help of his collaborators Alanna Stewart and Katherine Dohan, set out to make a documentary about Rukus and the online world where he had found connection. But Rukus (November 3rd, 6:30 p.m., Playhouse on the Square) could not be a conventional film. “If I’m going to make a documentary about someone else that’s really personal, I need to do the same thing with myself. continued on page 14

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comes into conflict with his girlfriend Detroit (Tessa Thompson), a politically radical artist, and Squeeze (Steven Yeun), a union organizer who leads a strike against RegalView. Things turn wildly science-fictional once Green is introduced to Steve Lift (Armie Hammer), a Silicon Valley-style entrepreneur who inspires cultlike reverence from his employees/ followers.

Sorry to Bother You debuted at Sundance, where it was quickly snatched up by Annapurna Pictures and became a surprise hit upon wide release last summer, earning $17.5 million on a $3.2 million budget. When an Indie Memphis screening with Riley in attendance was first announced for Studio on the Square at midnight on Friday, November 2nd, it quickly sold out, and the festival added a second screen to satisfy audience demand.

Earlier that day, Riley will deliver the keynote address at the first Black Creators Forum (November 1st, noon, Hattiloo Theatre), an event organized

by Bale and produced by Jason Farmer.

The highlight of the Black Creators Forum is a pitch rally where 12 African-American directors will put forth their ideas for films to be made in Memphis, with the winning pitch receiving a $10,000 grant.

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I had not done that, put myself into my other films.”

Rukus, which Hanover worked on for a decade, in which he went to college and became a teacher of film and media, mixes verité footage, recreations of actual events, and fictional scenes. “The reason it’s like that is that everyone who is in it has different personae, who are all sort of real depending on what media they’re using to communicate or who their audience is. Rukus had all these different characters that he would use.

I think now there’s more of a sense of, ‘here’s your real identity, and if you’re pretending to be something else online, that’s fake.’ Back then, it was understood that these different facets of you would be expressed through different identities.”

Hanover and Stewart co-wrote and acted in many of the staged sequences, some of which reflected the ups and downs of their own relationship.

“I think the closest you can get to capital-T Truth in a documentary is to show your perspective. Give people a sense of your own biases, of how the thing you’re watching is being framed.

Making myself into a character is a way of doing that, as opposed to saying that this is the story of Rukus. Which it’s not. It’s the story of Rukus told by this kid who was going through stuff.”

HE’S WITH THE BAND Music documentaries have traditionally been popular at Indie Memphis, and this year’s opening night film is an exceptional one.

In 1968, Ellis Haizlip was a struggling producer in New York who got an opportunity to produce a talk show on the proto-public television station NET. But this would be no ordinary Tonight Show clone. Over the next five years, Soul! would become a vital voice in the African-American community, as the first and, at that time, only hour of television devoted to shining a spotlight on black culture.

Mr. Soul! (November 1st, 6:30 p.m., Halloran Centre), directed by Ellis’ niece Melissa Haizlip, begins with an electrifying performance of “Tired

of Being Alone” by a 25-year-old Al Green. It’s just the first of the stunning array of musical guests Haizlip, who apparently knew everyone worth knowing, had on his show. Patti LaBelle, B. B. King, Wilson Pickett, Gladys Knight, Billy Preston, and Stevie Wonder all make an appearance in Mr. Soul! Many acts, including the Delphonics, Rasheed Roland Kirk, Kool and the Gang, and Earth Wind and Fire made their television debut in Haizlip’s well-appointed studio.

But the music, which serves as the hook for Mr. Soul!, was only part of the story. Haizlip was an intellectual who studied at Howard University, and despite a rough beginning as “about as bad an interviewer as you can imagine,” he booked fascinating guests, such as Harry Belafonte, Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. He put poetry and modern dance on the air when no other outlet would touch them. During one riveting sequence, Haizlip, who was gay, takes Louis Farrakhan to task for his homophobia while surrounded by uniformed cadres of the Nation of Islam.

Soul! sought to put black arts and culture on an elevated intellectual plane that it was afforded nowhere else, and Mr. Soul! is appropriately framed as a prestige documentary. But it’s equally fascinating and fun. As Haizlip says, “Place your hand on the television to feel the vibes we’re sending out to you!”

A FAMILY AFFAIR One of the unsung heroes of David Letterman’s reign on network television is Chris Elliott. The writer and performer helped create the chaotic atmosphere of ’80s-era Late Night with characters like The Guy Under the Seats, before moving onto Saturday Night Live and a career in film and television that continues to this day.

Bridey Elliott, one of Chris’ two daughters, makes her feature-directing debut with Clara’s Ghost (November 4th, 4:30 p.m., Studio on the Square) , which features the whole Elliott clan, including her mother Paula, and SNL alum Abby.

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S P O R TS B y Fr a n k M u r t a u g h

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After pulling within four points (2117) at Mizzou, the Tigers gave up four touchdowns in less than nine minutes.

A turnover played a role, but three of the Missouri scores covered at least 44 yards.

Stare at the film as long as you’d like, but I’ll summarize: Missouri players outran Memphis players, all the way to the end zone. (Let’s acknowledge the SEC-AAC gap while we’re here. However much the Memphis program has grown in recent years, a mid-level SEC program is of a different talent stripe.)

• Memphis is not a bad football team.

I’ll point you to the Tiger record book and circle recent records: 2-10 (2006), 2-10 (2009), 1-11 (2010), 2-10 (2011), 3-9 (2013). Memphis has fielded some boot-licking football teams since the turn of the century, but the 2018 bunch is not among them. With merely seven points against East Carolina, the Tigers will move into the top 10 teams in the program’s history as measured by points scored, and with at least three more full games to play. But as of today, the Tigers’ biggest win this season came over a Connecticut team that’s 1-7 and staring up from the AAC’s East Division cellar.

This must change. A win over East Carolina (2-5) would do it, but barely. Memphis needs to circle the Houston game (November 23rd) in thick, red ink.

Darrell The regular-season Henderson finale at the Liberty Bowl (the day after Thanksgiving) is the last chance the U of M will have to beat a team with real claws.

• Darrell Henderson is mortal. Proof came with a hamstring injury in the Missouri game, one that sidelined the Tigers’ star tailback after only four carries and 15 yards. Henderson’s in a virtual dead heat with Wisconsin’s Jonathan Taylor for the national lead in rushing, trailing in total yards (1,155 to 1,148) and yards per game (144.4 to 143.5). But Henderson’s yards per carry (10.1) dwarfs Taylor’s (6.4). Needless to say, Henderson faces a lighter schedule in November than does Taylor, so this will be a fun race to follow, particularly if Henderson is fully recovered from the hamstring tweak. (Coach Mike Norvell has indicated Henderson will play at East Carolina.)

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hen the Memphis Tigers take the field at East Carolina this Saturday, they will have gone 27 days without tasting a victory. That’s a long time in the course of a college football season, merely three months to separate programs with Top 25 aspirations from those happy with a mid-December bowl berth. Having lost two straight games — a heartbreaker to UCF and a thorough teeth-cleaning at Missouri — Memphis (4-4) will start its final third of the season knowing the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl may be this season’s pinnacle, in which case we’ll toss out the word “pinnacle.” What lessons can we take from the Tigers’ first eight games? Here are four.

• A soft September schedule did this team no favors. I sat in the Liberty Bowl press box on October 6th as the Tigers wiped the field with UConn Huskies and had a rather uncomfortable conversation with another reporter, one who’s been covering the Tigers even longer than I have. “Who is this team? What’s their strength? Can Brady White beat a team with premium recruits? Is the defense as bad as it looked at Tulane?”

To be asking such questions in October is scary. Those of us who watch every snap of every Tiger game felt unfamiliar with a team almost halfway through its regular season. The Missouri spanking would have been better — big picture — had it taken place in early September. Coaches need to learn what they have, too. Whatever adjustments (to scheme or personnel) defensive coordinator Chris Ball might make will come too late to impact much of the season, and way too late to impact the Tigers’ chances for reaching the American Athletic Conference title game.

• The Tigers have dropped a notch in speed. This is the easiest team-wide component to measure on a football team.

Strength and “football IQ” get lost in the mass of bodies on every play. But as one team outruns another — be it on offense or defense — games are won and lost.

And the Memphis defense is surrendering big plays as though it’s down a man.

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Bettye LaVette was 16 when she cut her first single for Atlantic: “My Man, He’s a Loving Man.” “In 1962 in Detroit, that’s just what you did,” she has since explained, describing her Motown experience as something relatively normal for the time and place. “Everybody had a record or was cutting a record,” she says. But unlike many up-and-comers, after LaVette’s record came out, she hit the road, performing her songs in a package tour headlined by Ben E. King and showcasing the talents of a young singer named Otis Redding.

LaVette’s early discography includes stunners like “Let Me Down Easy” and “He Made a Woman Out of Me,” but her husky voice sounded more like Wilson Pickett than Dionne Warwick and record labels didn’t always know what to do with that. Her Muscle Shoals-recorded Child of the Seventies LP was infamously shelved for 30 years while LaVette continued to record, tour, and find new audiences. She even spent six years on Broadway in the cast of the Tony-nominated musical Bubbling Brown Sugar. This week, the 72-year-old, Grammy-nominated soul survivor brings her act to the Halloran Centre where she’ll perform songs from Things Have Changed, a new album of Bob Dylan covers.

Things Have Changed came about after LaVette’s friend and sometimes photographer Carol Friedman pitched her on the idea of an all Dylan record. “I told her find me a record deal and I’ll do it, and, damn, if she didn’t come up with Verve Records,” LaVette says.

“I go to my keyboard player, and I sing a song the way I want to sing it,” LaVette says, describing how her distinctive arrangements come together. “He plays it that way so the band can get an indication of how I want to do the song, which usually has absolutely nothing to do with the former record.”

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Obscura A Gothic Promenade: All Souls’ Affair Growlers, 8:30 p.m. $7 Are you a little dark? A little gloomy? Then head over to Growlers to be with your people tonight. A King and Queen of the Dead will be crowned, and there will be new and old-school goth sounds.

Walk for the Animals Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County, 9 a.m.

Walk two or four miles during this fund-raiser for the Humane Society.

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Adapt a Door Howard Hall, 7 p.m., $75 Annual event during which old doors, which have been transformed into all kinds of things — furniture, art, etc. — are auctioned off.

Down by the river — Cyclocross 2018

By Chris Davis

This year, Outdoors, Inc.’s annual Cyclocross Championship race celebrates its 32nd birthday. That makes the USA Cycling-sanctioned event the longest running cyclocross race in the United States.

“Cyclocross is older than that, but other races have come and gone,” says Outdoors, Inc. owner and cycling enthusiast Joe Royer. “And we’re still here.” The Memphis tradition has attracted racers from coast to coast, including both national and world champions.

The event’s continued to grow and, according to Royer, the sport is more popular now than it’s ever been.

Cyclocross is a winter cycling sport that mixes riding with running and throws in plenty of obstacles. Sometimes racers carry their bikes. “They go over barricades. Run up hills with bikes over their shoulders. It’s the coolest thing in cycling,” Royer says. “Fans will come out with cowbells, horns, and signs.”

Not everybody who participates on race day is an elite cyclist. While some take the sport seriously, others are in it for fun.

There are kids races for children 2 to 12. There’s a B-Race for more seasoned riders, and a race for professional level riders.

Royer’s not just a casual fan. He’s been an avid cyclocross racer. More recently, he attended the world championships in Innsbruck, Austria. He bikes the Big River Crossing daily and is inspired by Memphis’ expanding, bike-friendly infrastructure. A decade ago, the race settled into its current home in Greenbelt Park in order to take advantage of the unique Downtown landscape and showcase the river.

“We’re just really proud,” Royer says. “We’ve attracted racers from Durango, Colorado, Los Angeles, Canada. Everybody knows it’s going to start on time, and it’s going to be very precise.”

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MONDAY November 5

Memphis Grilled Cheese Fest 2018 Hi-Tone, noon-6 p.m., $5 Crispy, melty, buttery — all the good stuff. Annual festival during which participants compete to create the best grilled cheese. God speed, heroes.

Downtown Dining Week Various locations and times Annual event, during which Downtown restaurants offer meal deals — $20.18 for dinner and $10.18 for lunch. Participating restaurants include: Regina’s, Rizzo’s, Bardog, Brass Door, Dirty Crow, the Rendezvous, and many more. For the full list, go to downtowndiningweek.com.

Soweto Gospel Choir Germantown Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m.

A performance by this lauded African gospel group. They are touring in celebration of Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday.

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Edgar Meyer, Béla Fleck, and Zakir Hussain (from left to right) play GPAC, Friday, November 2nd.

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MUSIC By Mark Richins

Exotic Mix

Béla Fleck brings a trio of international musicians to GPAC.

November 1-7, 2018

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ollaboration has been an essential element in the distinguished careers of master musicians Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Zakir Hussain, each of whom has achieved iconic status on his respective instrument: banjo, double bass, and tabla.

An intriguing scenario emerged when Fleck and Meyer — whose musical relationship goes back 35 years to their days on the New Acoustic Music pickin’ circuit — reached out to Hussain to help compose a triple concerto commissioned by the Nashville Symphony to commemorate the grand opening of its new home, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, in 2006. This cross-cultural dream team yielded a Grammy-nominated recording, The Melody of Rhythm: Trip Concerto & Music for Trio, in 2009, and the trio realized their collaboration was a particularly fruitful one.

“In the case of Edgar and Zakir, I feel that there is still so much left for us to do,” Fleck wrote in a response to questions sent ahead of the trio’s soldout Friday show at the Germantown Performing Arts Center. “We have not squeezed all the juice out of it.”

Hussain, the son of Alla Rakha, a longtime tabla accompanist to sitar icon Ravi Shankar, was born in Mumbai, India, and has played in famed collaborative projects such as Shakti (with Mahavishnu Orchestra guitarist John McLaughlin) and Planet Drum (with Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart). He stressed that this trio’s creative success is built on deep personal chemistry.

“We first came together as composers who were going to write this piece for a symphony orchestra to play,” he says by phone from his home in Marin County, California. “[Playing as a band] came together over a period of time. What was interesting is our relationship as friends really grew, and our families got together and socially we were hanging out together a lot, and I firmly believe that is the reason we are able to make music like we do, with such comfort and ease.”

Fleck, 60, says he became fascinated with Indian classical music and music theory during a State Department-sponsored tour of India in the 1980s with his acoustic ensemble New Grass Revival.

“It was clear that there was quite a lot that naturally could be assimilated into my musical consciousness,” he says. “The math is immediately usable to build new ideas, and also to understand the ideas I was already having.”

The trio lately has been augmented by a fourth member, Rakesh Chaurasia, who plays a bamboo flute called the bansuri that, like Hussain’s hand drums, is common to Hindustani (North Indian) classical music. His uncle, Hariprasad Chaurasia, now 80, is a renowned virtuoso on the bansuri who has recorded with Hussain and even contributed to “The Inner Light,” a 1968 Beatles track.

“Rakesh is a worthy successor to Hariprasad, and probably finest Indian flutist at the moment,” says Hussain.

“One thing about young Indian musicians today, they not only grow up learning Indian music but simultaneously learn about all music around the world.”

Fleck says the group is performing compositions that incorporate Chaurasia’s flute melodies and the plan is to record another album as a quartet. “Rakesh is the new wild card,” he says, “who will alter all of us by his contributions.”

The group setting for Friday’s GPAC show might seem unfamiliar to fans who have seen Fleck play with his futuristic jazz-fusion combo the Flecktones or who caught his 2015 Beale Street Music Festival acoustic set with wife Abigail Washburn, but he says he thrives on such variety.

“It’s like playing different games, really,” he says. “If you get tired of Monopoly, you can play Sorry. Most of the music I play has improvisation, but the improv may have different rules. It keeps your mind alive and responsive. Life will change on you whether you want it to or not, so you better be prepared to respond to the challenges!”

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MIKE DOUGHTY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH RAILGARTEN

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6LACK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND NEW DAISY THEATRE

BETTYE LAVETTE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD HALLORAN CENTRE

After Dark: Live Music Schedule November 1 - 7 Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesday, Nov. 7, 7 p.m.

Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 Thursdays-Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; Karaoke Thursdays, TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Mandi Thomas Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; The 901 Heavy Hitters Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Flyin’ Ryan Fridays, Saturdays, 2:30 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

B.B. King’s Blues Club 143 BEALE 524-KING

The King Beez Thursdays, 5 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Brimstone Jones First Saturday of every month, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; P.S. Band First Wednesday, Sunday of every month, 7 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill

Club 152 Sean Apple Thursdays, 5 p.m.; Blues Players Club Thursdays, Sundays, 8-10 p.m.; DJ Ron Fridays, 11 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

The Amazing Rhythmatics Tuesdays, Thursdays-Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

Itta Bena Nat “King” Kerr Fridays, Saturdays, 9-10 p.m.

King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille 159 BEALE

Lunch on Beale with Chris Gales Wednesdays-Sundays, noon-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/ acoustic Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Blues City Cafe

162 BEALE 521-1851

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

Silky O’Sullivan’s

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Myra Hall Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Saturday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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.

New Daisy Theatre

5255 ELVIS PRESLEY BLVD.

182 BEALE 528-0150

Open Mic Night Saturdays, 4-7 p.m.; Richard Wilson - Live Original Blues Gospel and Jazz Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

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

Walmart

Earnestine & Hazel’s

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

The Rusty Pieces Sunday, Nov. 4, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Memphis Bluesmasters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; James Jones Fridays, 4-8 p.m., Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, Nov. 3, 3:30-7:30 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Sundays, 4-8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.midnight, Saturday, Nov. 3, 8

This Is Memphis Saturday, Nov. 3, 7-10 p.m.

Shufflegrit Thursday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m.; Blackwater Trio Friday, Nov. 2, 9 p.m.; FreeWorld Saturday, Nov. 3, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Belle Tavern

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall

60 N. MAIN

Blues City Pastry Shop & Coffee Bar 153 S. MAIN 576-0010

Hi-Jivers Thursdays, 8 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays; Carma Karaoke with Carla Worth Saturdays, 9-11 p.m.

Center for Southern Folklore Hall 119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

Delta Cats, Billy Gibson & Linear Smith First Friday of every month, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

855 KENTUCKY

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

Songwriters with Roland and Friends Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299

Bettye LaVette Saturday, Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Even Odds Sunday, Nov. 4, 8-11:30 p.m.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

Dim the Lights First Saturday of every month, 10 p.m.

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

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

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

The Silly Goose DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Sleep Out Louie’s 150 PEABODY PL SUITE 111 ENTRANCE ON, S 2ND ST

Richard Wilson Friday, Nov. 2 and Saturday, Nov. 3.

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

Heath and Bobbie Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Rev Neil Down Band Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.; Katrina Burgoyne Saturday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m.

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Richard Wilson Friday, Nov. 2, 7-10 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 3, 7-10 p.m.

November 1-7, 2018

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m.midnight and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Wednesdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Baunie and Soul Sundays, 7

Eric Hughes Band Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2, 4:30-7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 3, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Regina’s

294 HERNANDO

Dirty Crow Inn

Road to the CMA Awards Live Concert featuring Kalie Shorr Tuesday, Nov. 6, 4-6 p.m.

330 BEALE 525-8981

6lack with Summer Walker Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.; Riot Ten Saturday, Nov. 3, 9 p.m.

Clayborn Temple

183 BEALE 522-9596

182 BEALE 528-0150

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

138 BEALE 526-3637

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

Rum Boogie Cafe

145 BEALE 578-3031

King’s Palace Cafe

Hillbilly Casino Thursday, Nov. 1, 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2, 9:30 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 3, 9:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 3, 5 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld

p.m.-midnight and Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

168 BEALE 576-2220

152 BEALE 544-7011

341-345 BEALE 577-1089

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

p.m.-midnight.

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JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SATURDAY, JANUARY 12

Grizz Wrestling Tee to the first 5,000 fans, plus it’s Wingsday Wrestling Night presented by Wing Guru.

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Grammy Award Winner, global superstar and Memphis native returns to FedExForum with his Man of The Woods Tour. Tickets available!

KISS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23

The Final End Of The Road Tour will rock the stage at FedExForum.

Tickets on sale Friday, November 2 at 10am!

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MERCYME FRIDAY, MARCH 29 Bringing their Imagine Nation Tour with special guest Crowder & Micah Tyler.

Tickets on sale Friday, November 2 at 11am!

After Dark: Live Music Schedule November 1 - 7

Lauren Anderson Thursday, Nov. 1; Sarah Quintana Friday, Nov. 2, 9 p.m.; Timmy’s Organism Saturday, Nov. 3; Marcella and Her Lovers Saturday, Nov. 3, 10:30 p.m.; Devil Train Monday, Nov. 5; Dave Cousar Tuesday, Nov. 6; Some Sons of Mudboy Wednesday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.

Boscos

Howard Vance Guitar Academy

Chris Gales Sunday Brunch First Sunday of every month, 12-3 p.m.

978 REDDOCH 767-6940

University of Memphis

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

1350 CONCOURSE

The Bluff

Huey’s Poplar

P&H Cafe

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Next Door Eatery Live Music Happy Hour Sundays, 3-6 p.m.

1532 MADISON 726-0906

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

535 S. HIGHLAND

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Soul Shockers Sunday, Nov. 4, 8-11:30 p.m.

Mortimer’s

Whitehaven/ Airport Rock-n-Roll Cafe 3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

Elvis Tribute feat. Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Live Entertainment Mondays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Karaoke hosted by DJ Maddy Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

Bartlett

2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

1737 MADISON 443-5232

AM Whiskey Friday, Nov. 2, 9 p.m.; MusicBoxx Saturday, Nov. 3, 9 p.m.; Area 51 Sunday, Nov. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Charlie and Juno All Star Wednesday, Nov. 7, 8 p.m.

Celtic Crossing

Shelby Forest General Store

Canvas Karaoke Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.; Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

Tony Butler and the Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Cecil Yancy Saturday, Nov. 3, 12-3 p.m.; Ballygran Sunday, Nov. 4, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Cordova

Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, Nov. 1, 8 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, Nov. 2, 9 p.m.; Short in the Sleeve Saturday, Nov. 3, 9-11 p.m.; David Collins Frog Squad Sunday, Nov. 4, 6 p.m.; The Tailored Renegades Monday, Nov. 5, 5:30 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesday, Nov. 6, 6 p.m.; Karaoke with DJ Eggroll Wednesday, Nov. 7, 9 p.m.

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

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Frayser/Millington Toni Green’s Palace 4212 HWY 51 N

Toni Green’s Palace MondaysSundays, 7 p.m.; Live DJ Thursdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.

Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Tony Manard and the BOB, Kitty Dearing, Brian Blake Thursday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m.; Obscura a Gothic Promenade: All Souls’ Affair Friday, Nov. 2, 8:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m.; The Happy Fits Saturday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m.; Reserving Dirtnaps, Kharma, Terminal Nation, Theif’s Hand Sunday, Nov. 4, 7 p.m.; Gene Micofsky Monday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

Sardonic Witchery, Process of Suffocation, Sivad Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.; DJ Zirk, Gangsta Pat, Nasty Nardo Saturday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m.; Iron Chic with Indeed, We Digress Tuesday, Nov. 6, 8 p.m.; Amasa Hines, Deep Paul Wednesday, Nov. 7, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

TooBooQoo Sunday, Nov. 4, 4-7 p.m.; The Royal Blues Band Sunday, Nov. 4, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Turnstyles Thursday, Nov. 1, 6 p.m.; Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal Thursday, Nov. 1, 9 p.m.; Memphis Funk-N-Soul Friday, Nov. 2, 6:30 p.m.; The Dantones

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain & Rakesh Chaurasia Friday, Nov. 2, 8-10 p.m.; Cocktails and Conversations: Marcella and Her Lovers Sunday, Nov. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Soweto Gospel Choir Sunday, Nov. 4, 7-9 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Natalie James and the Professor Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; “The Happening” Open Songwriter Showcase Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Gary Clark Jr. Thursday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m.; Mary Heather and the Sinners Thursday, Nov. 1, 11:30 p.m.; GlowRage Paint Party Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.; Underoath with Dance Gavin Dance, Crown the Empire, The Plot in You Saturday, Nov. 3, 6 p.m.; Wizardfest: A Harry Potter-Themed Dance Party Wednesday, Nov. 7, 7 p.m.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Scott Sharrard “Saving Grace” Album Release Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Saturday, Nov. 3, 9 p.m.; iVoted Concert feat. Mike Doughty, Negro Terror, Mark Edgar Stuart Tuesday, Nov. 6, 8 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

Juke Joint All Stars Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony Chapman, Charles Cason, and Miss Joyce Henderson Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Juke Jam Sundays, 4 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica

East Memphis

Poplar/I-240

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

Neil’s Music Room

Gold Strike Casino

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-245-7829

60 N. PERKINS EXT. 537-1483

Ukraine’s Kurbasy Saturday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m.

East of Wangs

Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

6069 PARK 763-0676

South Memphis

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

826 WALNUT 942-1622

Larry Cunningham ThursdaysSaturdays; Aislynn Rappe Sundays; Keith Kimbrough Mondays-Wednesdays.

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

Lee Gardner Fridays, 6:30-9 p.m.; Randal Toma, Solo Guitar Tuesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

Everclear Saturday, Nov. 3, 8-9:30 p.m.

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

B&J Lounge Jesse Clay Sunday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Open Mic Night and Steak Night Thursdays, 6 p.m.-midnight; Blues Jam hosted by Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

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

964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Mulan Asian Bistro 2149 YOUNG AVE 347-3965

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Bar DKDC

Friday, Nov. 2, 10 p.m.; Mighty Souls Brass Band Saturday, Nov. 3, 2 p.m.; Amber McCain Band Saturday, Nov. 3, 6:30 p.m.; Thump Daddy Saturday, Nov. 3, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Tom Lonardo Quartet Sunday, Nov. 4, 11 a.m.; Jeffrey and the Pacemakers Sunday, Nov. 4, 4 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Co. Monday, Nov. 5, 6 p.m.; The Faculty Tuesday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesday, Nov. 7, 5:30 p.m.; Jason Lee McKinney Band Wednesday, Nov. 7, 8 p.m.

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101.

DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.

NOV. 1 - 7

TH EAT E R

Hernando High School Performing Arts Center

Madagascar: A Musical Adventure Jr., join Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the Hippo, and plotting penguins for a musical adventure based on the DreamWorks animated motion picture. www.kudzuplayers. com. Thurs., Nov. 1.

805 DILWORTH LANE, HERNANDO, MS.

Mainstage Theatre (University of Memphis)

Intimate Apparel, a play by Lynn Nottage about a young AfricanAmerican woman who travels to New York in 1905 to pursue her dreams, becoming an independent woman as a seamstress of intimate apparel. (678-2576), www.memphis.edu/theatre/currentseason/ intimate.php. $20 & $25. Thurs., Nov. 1, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Fri., Nov. 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m., and Sat., Nov. 3, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

U OF M CAMPUS (678-2576).

Tennessee Shakespeare Company

Macbeth, in his horrific, poetic tragedy, Shakespeare reveals an evil not in our stars nor gods, but from the most frightening source: our own humanity. www.tnshakespeare.org. $19-$39. Thurs.-Sat., 7 p.m., and Sun., 3 p.m. Through Nov. 4.

7950 TRINITY (759-0604).

Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage at Mainstage Theatre at the U of M, November 1st-3rd

“Peaceable Kingdom” by Dr. Gopal Murti, at WKNO Studio, through Nov. 29th

highlights a balance of beauty with nature and man-made elements.

Fri., Nov. 2, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden A R T I ST R E C E PT I O N S

Art Body Soul Studio

Opening reception for “Analesa Berg, The Alphabet of Vibration®,” www.artbodysoulstudio.com. Fri., Nov. 2, 6-8 p.m.

1024 SOUTH YATES (207-4161).

L Ross Gallery

Artist reception for Leslie Barron, whose series of portraits of women

Opening reception for “Bounty,” exhibition of watercolors by Bill Branch. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Sun., Nov. 4, 2-4 p.m.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis College of Art

Opening reception for “Breathless,” exhibition powerfully chronicles the artist’s journey with heart complications, heart surgery, and recovery by Jen Holmgren. Fri., Nov. 2, 6-8 p.m.

Artist reception for “For Freedoms Exhibition: A•GEN•CY: A Home in the World,” exhibition exploring what it means to be a free person of color within the current experiment of American democracy. A Kevin Brooks film screening will run during the reception. mca.edu. Fri., Nov. 2, 6-8 p.m.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

November 1-7, 2018

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery Opening reception for work

by Beth and Pat Okeon at the Shainberg Art Gallery, located at the Memphis Jewish Community Center. (259-9230), Free. Thurs., Nov. 1, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

WKNO Studio

Artist reception for Dr. Gopal Murti, award-winning scientistturned-artist. (458-2521), Free.

Fri., Nov. 2, 2-4 p.m.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Brooks Museum League Meeting & Gallery Tour

Meeting followed by a gallery tour of the Jaume Plensa exhibit, “Talking Continents,” stainless steel to create a floating archipelago of 19 large-scale, cloud-like shapes.

Sign up by email, ermaelzy@ gmail.com. Free. Fri., Nov. 2, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (355-8160), BROOKSMUSEUMLEAGUEMEMPHIS.ORG.

Casting Demonstration

Saturdays, Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

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

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.

Gallery Talk

Museum staff speak on topics including current exhibitions and works from the permanent collection. Meet in the lobby of the main building before the talk begins. Free. Saturdays, Sundays, 2-2:30 p.m.

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

Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest

Winning authors will be honored with a $200 gift certificate to Novel. For more information, contest rules, and submission, visit website. Through Aug. 31, 2019.

WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM.

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ST. GEORGE’S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL, 3749 KIMBALL AVENUE (261-3920).

Open Late

Galleries and gardens will be open late. Free with admission.

Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m.

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

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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.

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

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

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

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“It’s About Time,” exhibition of new works by Lisa Williamson. www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through Dec. 14.

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

Crosstown Concourse

FocalPoint Art Show, exhibition of new work by Jason Miller, Robert Fairchild, Zoe Nadel, La’Donna Roberts, and Lester Jones inside FocalPoint. Through Nov. 30.

“Give a Damn! Music + Activism at Stax Records,” exhibition of artifacts, including Isaac Hayes’ 14-foot long custom-made office desk, stage clothing worn by Johnnie Taylor and Hayes, rare photos and documents, short films,

FireHouse Community Arts Center

music, and original artwork contributed by Shelby County students. www.crosstownarts. org. Through Nov. 25.

Wish Book: “Lay of the Land,” exhibition of large-scale, landscape cyanotypes on fabric photographic works by John Pearson. www.crosstownarts. org. Through Nov. 25.

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

“All of a Piece,” exhibition of paintings by Mary Sims. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Through Nov. 17.

“Paper: 45 Years,” exhibition of abstract paintings on paper by Robert Rector. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through Nov. 24.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery

“People, Places, and Things,” exhibition of works by Dennis McCann of Maumelle. www. eeac.edu. Through Nov. 2.

EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR.

Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing.

“Freedom of the Press,” exhibition of posters from progressive print shops, 1960s1990s throughout the United States and Canada addressing issues ranging from women’s rights to the anti-Apartheid movement. www.memphis. edu/fogelmangalleries/. Free.

Through Nov. 9.

“Here and Now: Printmaking and the Political Present,” exhibition of prints by Maritza Dávila, Vanessa GonzálezHernández, Nelson Gutierrez, Lawrence Matthews, Carl Moore, Joel Parsons, Jennifer Sargent, and Yancy VillaCalvo. Through Nov. 9.

3715 CENTRAL.

Germantown Performing Arts Center

“Magellan’s Medicine,” exhibition of works by Dr. Malini Gupta. www.gpacweb.com.

Nov. 1-30.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Graceland

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Edge Gallery

Folk Artists, exhibition of work by Debra Edge, John Sadowski, Nancy White, Bill Brookshire, and other folk artists. Ongoing.

509 S. MAIN (647-9242).

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Eclectic Eye

“Works on Paper”, exhibition of works by Jennifer Balink. www.eclectic-eye.com.

Through Nov. 7.

STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES COPPERHEAD ROAD 30TH ANNIVERSARY DECEMBER 14

“Hillbilly Rock,” exhibition featuring items from the Marty Stuart Collection. www. graceland.com. Ongoing.

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Through Nov. 15.

44 HULING (576-0708).

Jay Etkin Gallery

David Hall, exhibition of watercolor works on paper. www. jayetkingallery.com. Ongoing.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

“Lady Portraits — Balance,” exhibition of portraits of women by Leslie Barron, highlighting a balance of beauty with nature and manmade elements. Thurs., Nov. 1.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Marshall Arts Gallery

“Love of Art” and “Memphis,” exhibition of work by Nikki Gardner and Debra Edge by appointment only. Ongoing.

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Origami in the Garden,” exhibition of 24 museum-quality outdoor sculptures depicting origami-inspired works crafted by artists Kevin Box, Te Jui Fu, Beth Johnson, Michael G. LaFosse, and Robert Lang. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through March 24, 2019.

“Bounty,” exhibition of watercolors by Bill Branch. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Nov. 2-30.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Outings Project,” exhibition of paintings from museum walls onto the streets, creating an opportunity to discover, appreciate, and understand artwork in a new way by French artist Julien de Casabianca. Through Jan. 6, 2019.

“Arts of Global Africa,” exhibition of historic and contemporary works in a range of different media presenting an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry.

Through June 21, 2021.

“A Buck & a Half Apiece,” exhibition of photographs by Ernest Withers. Through March 20, 2019.

Rotunda Projects: Federico Uribe, exhibition of magical creatures and playful installations from everyday objects.

Through Oct. 11, 2019.

“Talking Continents,” exhibition of large-scale sculptures and installations that use language, history, literature, and psychology to draw attention to the barriers that separate and divide humanity by Jaume Plensa.

Through Jan. 26, 2019.

“About Face,” exhibition located in the Education Gallery highlighting the different ways artists interpret the connection between emotion and expression. Ongoing.

“Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis,” exhibition of works inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in

southeastern Nigeria by Victor Ekpuk. www.brooksmuseum. org. Ongoing.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Breathless,” exhibition powerfully chronicles the artist’s journey with heart complications, heart surgery, and recovery

by Jen Holmgren. Her book, Breathless: Heart Failure Illustrated, will be available. www. mca.edu. Through Nov. 4.

“For Freedoms Exhibition: A•GEN•CY: A Home in the World,” exhibition exploring what it means to be a free person of color within the current experiment of American democracy. mca.edu. Through Nov. 4.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

Exhibition of work by Beth and Pat Okeon. Thurs., Nov. 1.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

“Master Metalsmith: Lisa Gralnick,” exhibition of jewelry and sculpture in addition to previous work from the series, “Scene of the Crime.”

Shown publicly for the first time and featuring oversized jewelry as sculptural installations. www.metalmuseum.org. $6. Through Jan. 13, 2019.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

National Civil Rights Museum

“I AM A CHILD,” exhibition of photographs to shed light on the immigrant family separation at the U.S.-Mexican border. More than 30 black-and-white images. www.civilrightsmuseum.org.

Through Dec. 31.

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

Overton Park Gallery

“Loosies in New York,” exhibition of works by Jamin Carter. www.overtonparkgallery.com.

Through Nov. 2.

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

Ross Gallery

“The Death of Fear,” exhibition of work by Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton and Nelson Gutierrez. www.cbu.edu/gallery. Free. Nov. 2-Dec. 14.

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

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum

“Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. Ongoing.

826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

MGAL Juried 2018 Winter Exhibition, includes artistic works of varied styles and mediums from more than 30 artists. (7547282), www.stgchurch.org. Free.

Nov. 2-28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Talbot Heirs

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99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

Memphis Jewish Community Center

Debra Edge Art. Ongoing.

TOPS Gallery

John McIntire, exhibition of sculptures and drawings. www.topsgallery.com.

Through Nov. 10.

400 S. FRONT.

Village Frame & Art

“20th Century Memphis Photographs,” exhibition of work

by Charlie Ivey and Virginia Schoenster, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

WKNO Studio

Science to Art, exhibition of photographs and paintings by award-winning scientistturned-artist, Dr. Gopal Murti. (458-2521) Fri., Nov. 2, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., and MondaysFridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Through Nov. 29.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Ballet Memphis Fall Mix

New work by Steven McMahon paired with IMAKEMADBEATS of Unapologetic Sounds. Former Ailey II dancer Alia Kache working with Julien Baker. A reprise of Trey McIntyre’s Memphis Suite. $25 evening, $15 matinee. Thurs.Sat., 8-10 p.m., and Sun., 2-4 p.m. Through Nov. 4.

A Night of Comic Belief, Judaism as told by stand-up comedians representing the range of Jewish beliefs. (7610810), www.jccmemphis.org. $40. Sat., Nov. 3, 8-10 p.m.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

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Hot Diggity Dog

Does your dog respond fearfully to thunderstorms and loud noises? Is it anxious when left by itself? Join Bryan and Kira Bailey from Taming the Wild as they talk about canine care. Free. Sat., Nov. 3, 10 a.m.-noon.

COLLIERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 501 POPLAR VIEW PARKWAY (457-2600).

Memphis Astronomical Society presents Bill Weppner

Former Apollo Flight Controller, Bill Weppner, will tell “his Apollo story.” Fri., Nov. 2, 8 p.m.

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, SPAIN AUDITORIUM, 650 E. PARKWAY S., MEMPHISASTRO.ORG.

Positively Creative Summit

Designed especially with local creatives in mind. Sat., Nov. 3, 10 a.m.-noon.

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.MCA.EDU.

BALLET MEMPHIS, 2144 MADISON (7377322), WWW.BALLETMEMPHIS.ORG.

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

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Master Gardener William Cummins will be at the library to talk about preparing a shrub for its new home in your garden.

Free. Sat., Nov. 3, 2-3 p.m.

COLLIERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 501 POPLAR VIEW PARKWAY (457-2600).

Highland ArtPop!

Located inside an event space of Highland Strip, at 555 S. Highland, come celebrate the gift-giving season at this relaxing shopping event with 25+ vendors. Free. Sat., Nov. 3, 3-7 p.m.

This Is Memphis

Bite-Sized Tours

Order lunch from Park & Cherry, and then Dixon staff members and docents will lead a quick tour. Your lunch will be waiting for you after tour.

Thurs., 11:45 a.m.

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

The Compassion Experience

Self-guided tour immerses visitors in the lives of children.

Fri., Nov. 2, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

NEW DIRECTION CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 6120 WINCHESTER (4333871), CTS.COMPASSION.COM.

University of Memphis’ student record label will put on their 5th annual festival. $5.

Sat., Nov. 3, 7-10 p.m.

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OUTDOORS, INC., 5245 POPLAR (7676790), WWW.OUTDOORSINC.COM.

Girls Inc. of Memphis Annual Harvest Festival

Big River Crossing Half Marathon + 5K

The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will include food, games, and activities such as a bounce house and photo booth. Free. Sat., Nov. 3, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

GIRLS INC. YOUTH FARM, 1179 DELLWOOD (596-8571).

A half marathon across Big River Crossing and a 5K through Downtown benefiting Peer Power Foundation. Sat., Nov. 3, 8-11 a.m.

TOM LEE PARK, OFF RIVERSIDE DR., WWW.BIGRIVERCROSSING.COM.

GROWLERS, 1911 POPLAR (244-7904).

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TENNESSEE WELCOME CENTER, 119 RIVERSIDE (543-5300), WWW.WELCOMETOMEMPHIS.ORG.

32nd Annual OICX

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MISSISSIPPI BOULEVARD CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 70 N. BELLEVUE (323-3600), WWW.AGAPEMEANSLOVE.ORG.

In two hours you will learn history, facts, and locations you never knew about. Register online. $20-$25. Tues., Nov. 6, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

CLAYBORN TEMPLE, 294 HERNANDO, WWW.BLUETOMRECORDS.COM.

Outdoors, Inc. presents the longest-running cyclocross bicycle race in the U.S.A. Meet at Green Belt Park in Harbor Town for 8 a.m. registration before the race along the banks of the Mississippi River.

Sun., Nov. 4, 8 a.m.

Obscura a Gothic Promenade: All Souls’ Affair

Supports Agape’s mission of serving families in need in Memphis’ most underresourced communities. $25.

Fri., Nov. 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

HIGHLAND STRIP, 551 S. HIGHLAND.

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Agape HeartLight: Love Mercy featuring Dr. Tony Evans

Overton Park Night

“Lady Portraits — Balance” by Leslie Barron at L Ross Gallery, through November 24th South Memphis Glide Ride

Scenic views through South Memphis. Join us at 10:30 a.m. to get on your bike. Sat., Nov. 3, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

SOUTH MEMPHIS FARMERS MARKET, CORNER OF MISSISSIPPI BOULEVARD AND SOUTH PARKWAY EAST (726-6409), WWW.REVOLUTIONSMEMPHIS.COM.

S P E C IA L E V E N TS

“Uplift the Vote.

Everybody Should Have A Voting Story. This Is Theirs.

What Will Be Yours?”

Through Nov. 12.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, NED R. MCWHERTER LIBRARY (678-3974), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

2018 Memphis Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

$50-$100. Thurs., Nov. 1, 7 p.m.

CANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 525-1515), WWW.THECANNONCENTER.COM.

Drink beer to support Overton Park. $1 of every pint is donated to the Overton Park Conservancy, and Merrell is matching every donation up to $500. REI is buying 300 El Mero tacos for attendees. Big Barton performs. free. Thurs., Nov. 1, 6-8 p.m.

MEMPHIS MADE BREWING COMPANY, 768 S. COOPER (207-5343).

H O LI DAY EVE NTS

Haunted Maze and Hayride $5-$15. Sat., Nov. 3.

AGRICENTER SHOWPLACE ARENA, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (757-7777), WWW.MIDSOUTHMAZE.COM.

Crown the Prom King and Queen of the Dead with the best in goth, industrial, ’80s, and more. 21+ $7. Fri., Nov. 2, 8:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m.

Beers and Gears: Eastbound and Down

Open to the public. (drinks not included) No bike rentals for this ride. Free. Sat., Nov. 3, 12-5 p.m.

MEMPHIS MADE BREWING COMPANY, 768 S. COOPER (207-5343), WWW.REVOLUTIONSMEMPHIS.COM.

Memphis Grilled Cheese Fest 2018 $5. Sun., Nov. 4, 12-6 p.m.

HI-TONE, 412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE), WWW.MEMPHISGRILLEDCHEESE.COM.

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Enjoy opening night at the Halloran with Marcella & Her Lovers followed by screening of Mr. Soul, competition, and after party. For full schedule, visit website. $10 per film, $80 festival pass. Thur.-Mon., Nov. 1-5.

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and over again instead of proving that you are better than what you did tonight.”

Bone went back to work in salads.

Then came another “Orpheum night.”

Bone said, “This is not happening again.”

“I worked the dough station behind forearm. me, dessert, and salad, and worked fry, “It’s how an entire restaurant is supgrill, and helped with pasta that night.” posed to be run,” says Bone, 25, executive Later that night, Cartwright pulled chef of The Pocket, the new exclusive her aside and said, “That right there is cocktail lounge/restaurant. awesome. And if you continue to do that, Unfortunately, Bone didn’t heed that that’s what’s going to make you fucking advice at a previous restaurant job, and that good at this. All right?’” almost changed the direction of her career.

When Cartwright left Spindini, Bone She was sauté chef at Spindini when left and for the old Farmer restaurant. she decided to take a shortcut in the kitchShe liked chef/owner Mac Edwards’ en. She clocked in, checked the reservatake on Southern cooking. “It’s just simple, tion book. “This was a Wednesday night, wholesome food.” and we had two people on the book. So Bone then went to culinary school at one two-top. That was all we had.

Auguste Escoffier in Boulder, Colorado. “It “I just decided ‘I’m not prepping opened up a lot of doors for me. It made anything.’ I just got bare minimum things me think that chefs can be more than just heated up. I was hungover, and I didn’t in the kitchen. They can be the types of feel like working, didn’t want to be there. people that bring a community together.”

Rather be at home.

She returned to Mem“The next thing I know, phis and eventually went 100 people were in there. It to work for chef/owner was an Orpheum Theatre Michael Patrick at Rizzo’s night, so it was 100 people Diner. “He helped me refine who had to get in and leave a lot of things I already really fast.” knew but just needed the Joe Cartwright, who extra practice in.” was executive chef, walked Patrick told her about the in. “He bailed me out. And job at The Pocket. He said Erica then I got an ass-chewing she’d be perfect. She’d have Bone you wouldn’t believe. enough money to be com“He says, ‘What the fuck fortable and she’d have her was that?’ I was like, ‘Joe, own “creative expression.”

I just saw only two people on the books.’

She admires The Pocket general manAnd he said, ‘You just thought to show ager Charles Monger, whom she described up to work but don’t work? I’m just going as “a perfect professional.” to pay you and you don’t work?’ I said, ‘I “What, I think, charmed me was the have no excuse. I’m so sorry.’” fact he was looking for someone who is But, she says, Cartwright said, “Don’t going to take care of themselves and take apologize to me. I fully expect you to care of the business.” apologize to everyone else because the Describing her menu, which is slated fact that you couldn’t get their food out to be introduced in December, Bone says, probably affected their tips. You ruined “Seasonality. I believe in celebrating the the kitchen and the front. You messed up seasons.” the kitchen in the back, and you caused A root vegetable gratin is one of her those people anguish while they’re trying dishes. “It’s going to have turnips and parsto make money because you decided you nips and basically root vegetables that can were coming in today and not working.” be well celebrated into the end of winter.”

Cartwright didn’t fire her, but he Bone is building her farmer network. “I bumped her down to salad maker. have a goal that by this time next year, the Bone told her girlfriend she was going majority of my produce and protein will to quit, but her girlfriend said, “No, I be coming in from local farmers.” think you should stay. Joe is an important Another goal? “My idea of excitement person. He’s a sauté legend in the city. And is to walk away feeling satisfied, ‘I got all if you do that to him, that’s not a good the textures in there. I got all the different start for your career. You deserved that. mouth feels.’ I want a whole thing. I want You can either learn from that, or you can the whole experience.”

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Area 51 Ice Cream

1350 Concourse, Suite 168, (379.6228) • www.facebook.com/a51crosstown/ We truly believe that the best ingredients make the best ice cream. Ours is always made with natural, in-season produce. We work closely with small local farmers, making sure our ice cream is always fresh.

Art Bar

1350 Concourse, Suite 280 • www.crosstownarts.org Art Bar is a full-service bar serving a curated list of wines and craft beers and a menu of artful, cutting-edge cocktails. The cocktail menu features drinks made with local, fresh, and foraged ingredients from Memphis and around the world.

Bounty on Broad

2519 Broad, (410-8131) • bountyonbroad.com Bounty on Broad has dining spaces that can accommodate from 12 to 75 guests.

We also offer options for cocktail parties and can host up to 200 people in the space. Order menu items a la carte with family-style portions serving three to four people per dish for your event, or choose from a selection of heavy hors d’oeuvres.

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903 S. Cooper, (274-5151) • celticcrossingmemphis.com Book our private “Ballina Room” or reserve some tables on Memphis’ favorite heated patio. Food and beverage options are customizable to your needs, and there is always something going on for entertainment. Reserve your space today. Don’t want to plan a party? Enjoy five full hours of Happy Hour, Monday through Friday from 2 to 7 p.m. Appetizers are buy one get one half off, plus $1 off all drinks.

Cheffie’s Café

483 High Point Terrace (343-0488) 956 E. Winchester (Collierville), (221-7855) • cheffies.com Make this holiday season a healthy holiday season. Cheffie’s will cater your events both large or small with our build your own salad bar, housemade soups, and delicious sandwich trays.

Crosstown Brewing Company

1264 Concourse, (529-7611) • www.crosstownbeer.com Crosstown Brewing Company is a reflection of the neighborhood. It’s scrappy, quirky, and driven by a passion to build something amazing. Come grab a local brew any time between Wednesday and Sunday!

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1350 Concourse, Suite 163, (453-6880) • www.curbmarket901.com Curb Market is the only local whole animal butchery in the city — and we cater!

Make sure your holiday parties are something to remember, whether at home or at the office. Contact catering@curbmarket901.com today!

Elemento Neapolitan Pizza

1350 Concourse, Suite 181, (672-7527) • www.elementopizza.com Authentic Neapolitan pizza cooked for 90 seconds in a 900-degree oven and made with simple, all-natural ingredients. Experience the authentic taste of Naples, Italy, that dates back to the 1700s!

Farm Burger

1350 Concourse, Suite 175, (800-1851) • www.farmburger.com Our menu tells the story of our farmers. It changes with the seasons, with your local chef ’s creativity, when a farmer brings something special by the back door.

It is always: cooked from scratch with care, pushing culinary boundaries, sourced locally (as much as possible).

French Truck Coffee

1350 Concourse, Suite 167, (878-3383) • www.frenchtruckcoffee.com French Truck Coffee invites you to get in the holiday spirit with us for a treat and coffee tasting party on November 17th, and a raucous good time on November 30th, at Crosstown Concourse, as we light up the central atrium. Don’t miss our Fete de Noel blend and coffee gift boxes!

Global Café

1350 Concourse, Suite 157, (512-6890) • www.globalcafememphis.com Global Café, an international food hall, hosts three immigrant/refugee food entrepreneurs cooking and selling an eclectic mix of affordably priced dishes. Try authentic dishes from Sudan, Nepal, and Syria all under one roof!

Grecian Gourmet Taverna

412 S. Main, (249-6626) • thegreciangourmet.com Grecian Gourmet Taverna provides authentic Greek cuisine for your holiday entertaining, offering a variety of delicious options to make your event special and unique. Let us customize the perfect choices just for you.

I Love Juice Bar

1350 Concourse, Suite 147 • www.ilovejuicebar.com/juice-bar-crosstown/ I Love Juice Bar is overwhelmingly vegetarian, gluten-free, organic when possible, and always uses 100 percent whole fruits and vegetables. We are truly delighted to create great-tasting, super-nutritious juices, smoothies, bowls, and bites.

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Lucy J’s Bakery

1350 Concourse, Suite 151, (257-9206) • www.lucyjbakery.com Lucy J’s Bakery serves all your holiday treats such as pies, cakes, and cookies. Place an order for your special meals, or let us send cookie gift boxes to your clients and vendors.

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Maciel’s Highland

515 S. Highland, (504-4584) • info@macielstacoshop.com Maciel’s Highland features traditional recipes from the Mexican state of Michoacán.

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1350 Concourse, Suite 133, (596-6293) • www.mempops.com All natural, handcrafted fruit- and cream-based ice pops in a variety of seasonal flavors including Peppermint Fudge, Cinnamon Praline, Salted Caramel, and Egg Nog. Our gift cards and T-shirts make great stocking stuffers! continued on page 31

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Molly’s La Casita

2006 Madison, (726-1873) mollyslacasita.com Spend your holidays with the Molly’s gang as we introduce weekly specials. You can’t go wrong with our consistently winning Molly’s half and half margarita! See you soon!

Mulan

Mulan Asian Bistro East 4698 Spottswood, (609-8680) mulaneast.net Mulan offers traditional Chinese and authentic Szechuan cuisine, as well as sushi and hibachi. Now open in East Memphis, Mulan provides catering, delivery services, and a private party room available for special events.

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Next Door American Eatery 1350 Concourse, Suite 165, (779-1512) www.nextdooreatery.com/location/ crosstown/ We created Next Door as a casual, informal restaurant that could become part of people’s everyday lives. A place where they can grab a beer at the bar, stop in for a bite, and gather with family and friends.

Our dedicated party planners are ready to cater to your every need.

Old Whitten Tavern

2465 Whitten, (379-1965) oldwhittentavern.com Not your ordinary bar food. We specialize in fresh ingredients and made-from-scratch recipes. Escape your family during the holidays. Come to OWT and join ours for a great meal, adult beverages, and a good time.

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2990 Kirby Whitten (Bartlett), (372-2800) Popscomfortkitchen.com Celebrating the holidays at Pop’s is like a Southern family meal. Traditional favorites like Country Fried Steak, Catfish, Homestyle vegetables and soups. Reservations accepted. Party room is available, or have us prepare food for pick up or delivery. continued on page 32

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149 Union, (529-4000) peabodymemphis.com Celebrate the holiday season with a private party at The Peabody. Impress the office or your closest friends with a party customized just for you. From historic banquet rooms to Capriccio Grill and Chez Philippe, The Peabody has the perfect venue with unique menus for your event. For more information, call Rachel Lackey, 529-3675.

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Railgarten

2166 Central, (504-4342) • info@railgarten.com One-and-a-half acres and the first dedicated Pong bar in Memphis. Top-notch diner complete with a brand new menu with a casual yet upscale diner vibe.

Drinks? Beer, cocktails, you name it. Railgarten is big. How big? Big enough that there are several secret and not-so-secret spaces for you to host a killer shindig.

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2146 Monroe, (590-2828) • restaurantiris.com Chef Kelly English and team continue to offer the highest quality dining experience, while offering a completely reimagined space, menu, and a stunning new bar. Plan an elegant night out with family, have a holiday drink with a good friend, or rent Restaurant Iris for a holiday party.

Saucy Chicken

1350 Concourse, Suite 137, (203-3838) • www.saucychicken.net Yummy chicken done right! Here at the saucy chicken we take pride in the quality of each and every meal. We guarantee a delicious experience all the way delivered to your table.

Strano by Chef Josh

518 Perkins Ext. (275-8986) • www.stranobychefjosh.com Let Strano by Chef Josh take the worry away from holiday planning. Large private dining spaces to accommodate groups of any size. Unique fall menu options to accommodate groups of any taste.

Swanky’s Taco Shop

4770 Poplar (730-0763) 6641 Poplar Avenue (Germantown), (737-2088) • swankystacoshop.com At Swanky’s, we can cater your events large and small with our fresh and delicious taco bars, fajitas bars, and much more. Or host your gathering in the restaurant.

Let’s make this holiday season easy and memorable.

Today & Always

1350 Concourse, Suite 280, (507-8010) • www.crosstownarts.org Today & Always at Crosstown Arts serves up delicious plant-based meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Don’t miss our family brunch every Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with cocoa and cookie specials, games, and the best house-made pastries in town!

The Wing Factory

2280 Park Ave, (454-4710) The Wing Factory East • 7395 Hwy 64 Suite 103, (614-9160) www.wingfactoryeast.com\ Let The Wing Factory help with your holiday party planning. We cater small and large events, parties, and gatherings.

Young Avenue Deli

2119 Young, (278-0034) • youngavenuedeli.com Pick Young Avenue Deli for your holiday parties this season! We have pool tables, games, great food, and can accommodate large groups. Will rent out the entire restaurant. Please email tessa@youngavenuedeli.com.

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continued from page 14 comic take on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Bridey and Abby play a pair of former child stars of a show called Sweet Sisters. One of the now-grown sisters continued to have an acting career after the show ended and is now preparing for her wedding. The other sister is struggling to get by, and dating an older man as a sugar daddy.

Their mother, Clara, has retreated into alcoholism and has started seeing a mysterious woman who might be the long-dead wife of the sea captain who first built the family’s sprawling, old home in Connecticut.

Clara’s Ghost can be cuttingly comical and shockingly honest, often in the same scene. This is the kind of family who openly discusses mom’s cocaine habit around the dinner table, who waterboard each other for fun, and where the bride-to-be muses “I need to write an email to the bridesmaids with everyone’s goal weight.” Haley Joel Osment plays a weed dealer who gets drawn into the family’s drunken psychodrama and mom’s possible demonic possession.

It’s an uncompromising, but ultimately endearing portrait of a showbiz family held together with equal parts love and dysfunction.

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DIY WORLD Since the 2000 debut of Craig Brewer’s The Poor & Hungry, Indie Memphis has been a champion of the scruffy, do-ityourself digital film underground. The movement, which began in Denmark in 1998 with Thomas Vinterberg’s The Celebration, presaged both YouTube culture and the social realism of today’s prestige TV. Two very different films in Indie Memphis show the power and enduring appeal of street level digital rebels.

Korean director Sang-soo Hong is incredibly prolific, but his works are rarely seen in America. Indie Memphis is featuring four of his films that have never screened in the region for a special retrospective. Claire’s Camera (November 2nd, 7 p.m., Studio on the Square), was shot on location during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

The delicate piece is a master class of elliptical storytelling and subtle character development that begins with a young woman Jeon Manhee (Minhee Kim) losing her job as a film sales agent after her boss decides she is no longer trustworthy. The layered story plays out patiently through the eyes of Claire (Isabelle Huppert), a French woman whose photography hobby turns out to be a critical fulcrum in the

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lives of people she barely knows. The subtle story plays out in riveting long takes, and the bilingual production finds commonality in the human stories of characters who come from very different cultures.

On the other side of the world is Sepulveda (November 3rd, 10:30 a.m., Hattiloo Theatre). Directed by Brandon Wilson and Jena English, it’s a tribute to friendship and a love letter to the trashy glory of Los Angeles. Kristina Amaya, Karla Jovel, and Leslie Reyes star as three old friends trying to navigate life five years after high school graduation. One night at a house party, they spontaneously decide to go on a road trip through L.A. by driving the longest street in the city, the 73-mile long Sepulveda Boulevard. Armed with raging hangovers and a trusty red Prius, the trio tackle gentrification, growing up Hispanic in America, and the urgent task of finding a place to pee in Los Angeles.

Sepulveda echoes the pleasures of Indie Memphis classics such as Blue Citrus Hearts and Team Picture — deeply considered characterization, improvised dialogue that spins off into either hilarious riffs or profound emotional revelations, and the sheer joys of getting your friends together and turning on a camera. It’s this radical humanity, so often lacking in mainstream film, to which Indie Memphis has always been passionately devoted.

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TH E LAST WO R D by Aylen Mercado

On This Día de los Muertos

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My first memories of Día de los Muertos are of the long hallways of an elementary school over on Winchester Road. I was 12, and having never witnessed a Day of the Dead celebration of any sort before, I took my time walking down the hallways of the school. With a book in my hand, I walked and found myself stopping at each altar and studying them. There was so much information to take in all at once. I didn’t open up my book much that day.

Altars were placed up and down the hallway on tables and the floor. The ones on the floor rose high above the ground because of the tiers that were shaped by a mix of large and small cardboard boxes and covered by cloth.

Pan de muerto, sweet rolls of bread topped with sugar, sat next to collections of candy and bowls of fruit. While the types of food differed between each altar, they each had unlit wax candles or those small battery-operated candles that you find in the dollar store.

As I walked further down the hallway, I looked at each framed photo that appeared to have come from family photo albums. Some altars had images that I could recognize like famous musicians, artists, and actors. Others were prepared by organizations, and instead of having individual photos of people, they would have ofrendas that represented images of people. One table had materials that symbolized construction workers with bright orange vests, hardhats, and work boots. This altar remembered the lives of workers who died while working in construction due to unsafe work conditions.

Further down the hallway into the main lobby of the school I saw an altar by Danza Azteca Quetzalcoatl, one of the Aztec dance groups in the city. Like the other altars, it had multicolor papel picado, breads, food, and candles. It lay on the ground with incense bowls and was much larger than all other altars in the hallway. Cempazúchitl (marigold) flowers painted the white tile floors in a sea of yellow and orange.

I later learned some of the different elements and significance of Día de los Muertos. The celebration pulls aspects from Catholic Church rituals and pre-Columbian religious traditions going as far back as 3,000 years. The Aztec deity Mictecacíhuatl, or Lady of the Dead, is the protector of the dead and is more commonly referred to as La Catrina, whose image was popularized by Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada. Traditionally, the dead were honored during the month of August. Along with music and processions, altars celebrated their life with the favorite food and drink of deceased. The month of celebration was condensed to November 1st and 2nd, All Saints Day and All Souls Day, with the arrival of Spanish missionaries who, realizing a resistance in the forceful converting of Native people to Christianity, could not do away with all aspects of indigenous culture and tradition.

Today, across cities and regions in the U.S. and Mexico, the traditions of Día de los Muertos take on various interpretations. Since walking down the halls of that elementary school many years ago, my understanding of Día de los Muertos has grown along with the reach of these celebrations across Memphis. This year, there are at least four public Día de los Muertos events around our city organized by or in partnership with Mexican and Latinx people and organizations. The Memphis Day of the Dead that was once held at an elementary school and other venues will now be held for the second year at El Mercadito on Ridgeway on November 4th (1p.m.-7p.m.).

Because I didn’t grow up celebrating Día de los Muertos in my home, it took a few years of listening and observing to learn, and I continue to learn each year. Día de los Muertos has taught me to value not only the people in our life but also to honor those who have passed on from our life — to value and celebrate what they have taught us and what they continue to teach us beyond their own lived years. The lives de los muertos, the lives of the dead, that we remember on these two days in November and beyond teach us how to love and that we should extend that love to everyone.

We extend that love to our folks like the TPS Journey for Justice Caravan that visited our city. We welcome you. We extend that love to the caravan of the south, the caravan of refugees from Central America who, like many before them, are seeking asylum in Mexico and the U.S. To the people walking hundreds of miles on foot with their children and to those walking alone, we welcome you.

And following Día de los Muertos, we recognize where we have failed at the lessons of love and growing taught to us by Día de los Muertos, among its many lessons.

Of utmost importance this Día de los Muertos, we must remember all those folks who were not welcomed and loved, those who were not given the chance to live their life to the fullest and to teach and grow with us. To Roxana Hernandez, a transgender woman and asylum seeker from Honduras who died in ICE custody, one of nine people to die in ICE custody this year … we failed you. And, in the spirit of this beautiful holiday, we will hold your name and your life with us, remembering your legacy, recognizing that we need to do better. Who will you remember to honor this Día de los Muertos?

Aylen Mercado is a brown, queer, Latinx chingona and Memphian pursuing an Urban Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies degree at Rhodes College.

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