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BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN Editor SUSAN ELLIS Managing Editor JACKSON BAKER, MICHAEL FINGER Senior Editors TOBY SELLS Associate Editor CHRIS MCCOY Film and TV Editor ALEX GREENE Music Editor CHRIS DAVIS, MICHAEL DONAHUE MAYA SMITH, JOSHUA CANNON Staff Writers JESSE DAVIS Copy Editor, Calendar Editor

OUR 1550TH ISSUE 11.08.18 You want a first-world problem? Here’s one: Try writing a topical newspaper column on the day your fellow Americans are voting in one of the most significant elections of your lifetime. You have no idea how it’s going turn out. Will the tide of racial divisiveness, bigotry, science-denial, misogyny, corruption, and blatant daily lies and exaggerations as presidential policy be turned back? Or will the course we embarked upon in January 2017 continue unabated? Your call, America. Don’t screw it up.

By the time this column is being read, we will, I hope, have a pretty good idea of where America is heading. But as I write it, on this first Tuesday in November, I have no idea.

None. And only a fool would make a prediction and risk looking like, well, a fool.

So, let me tell you about my weekend.

My wife and I took the train to New Orleans last Thursday for a little getaway to the land of beignets and booze. We hopped on the City of New Orleans at 6:45 a.m. and settled in for the eight-hour ride, which, at the ticket price, comes out to around $7 for each hour of travel — quite the bargain, honestly.

The pace is slow, but it doesn’t take long until you just give in to it. You’re on the train. You can’t get off. There’s no hurry. The rhythm seduces. The spacious, comfy seats recline like a Barcalounger, replete with leg- and foot-rests. There are outlets for your electronics, and nice reading lights. The Delta slides by outside the window — swamps and forests and fields and tiny forgotten towns with names known only to the locals.

You can’t stop humming that song.

You want a drink or something to eat? You stagger up through the passenger cars to the club car and order like a boss. Stagger, because the train rocks enough to keep you grabbing passenger seat-backs on your journey down the aisle. There’s a running joke: “You been drinking?”

Every couple of hours, the train slows, and the conductor announces a stop: “This is Yazoo City.

All my smokers got five minutes, but don’t leave the platform or we will leave Riding on the City of New Orleans. you in Yazoo.” A fate worse than emphysema, no doubt.

We’ve been to New Orleans enough to know that the French Quarter at night is for amateurs and young folks — especially on a weekend when LSU is playing Alabama and the Saints are playing the Rams. Half the town is walking around in football jerseys and carrying big plastic drinks. The other half is in Day of the Dead apparel. And carrying big plastic drinks. After dark, the Quarter is a freak show of drunks, strippers, souvenir shops, and loud, awful music. Been there, done that.

But the Audubon Insectarium and Aquarium are wonderful, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art was a revelation. The food, as always, was splendid, especially in the CBD, just west of the Quarter. We tried Josephine Estelle, Memphis chefs Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman’s restaurant in the Ace Hotel, and it was aces. We also were delighted with a new-to-us Vietnamese/Southern fusion spot called Maypop. Check it out.

On Sunday, weary from power-shopping and the miles we’d walked, we headed back to the Amtrak station. It’s located near the Superdome, where the undefeated Rams were playing the beloved hometown Saints. We fought our way through numerous impromptu tailgate parties — on sidewalks, random patches of grass, parking lots, street corners. Apparently, in NOLA, when the Saints play, any spot near the stadium is fair game for tailgating, even the lawn of the train station. Who Dat! As we settled into our seats for the N E WS & O P I N I O N long ride back, I was struck again by the THE FLY-BY - 4 diversity and easy camaraderie of my NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 fellow passengers. Everyone’s friendly.

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DAM M IT, GAN N ETT It’s early Wednesday morning. After a long, ugly campaign, midterm elections are finally over. With so much hanging in the balance, Commercial Appeal subscribers picked up their newspaper looking for results and analysis only to discover there wasn’t any. How can that possibly be? According to a report in The Nashville Scene, Gannett’s editors were informed that print deadlines wouldn’t be extended to to cover elections. “As a result, Wednesday’s editions of The Tennessean, Commercial Appeal, and Knoxville News-Sentinel will not have final results for some of the most closely contested statewide races in years,” the article stated.

“We do not believe print is a vehicle for breaking news,” Tennessean vice president and editor Michael Anastasi was quoted as saying.

The Commercial Appeal has since framed the delay — a byproduct of rising print costs and early deadlines — saying, “Election Day breaking coverage will be showcased on digital.”

For 48 hours after the election, web access will be free.

Ken Doctor at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism weighed in on Gannett’s decision: “[N]ot adding any extra pages of newsprint for election results does save money … At the same time, it is those incredibly loyal print readers — the ones who have stood by newspaper companies through cut after cut in staff and in the product — who will now see that loyalty tested, again.” Doctor further explained that, as with other newspapers, a considerable percentage of Gannett’s print subscribers are over 70.

“What those numbers tell us,” Doctor writes, “is that that road to a mostly/fully digital future gets narrower month by month. Digital subscriptions are gaining ground much too slowly. Given the combination of higher prices, a lesser product, and even increasingly erratic home delivery, print subscribers may provide less of a lifeline to the digital future than Gannett and other publishers now assume in their whiteboard calculations.” Dammit.

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

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Water, Crime, & Council U of M to study water quality, violent crime is down, & Council looks to fill vacancy.

WATE R STU DY University of Memphis researchers will examine water quality issues related to the Memphis Sand Aquifer over the next five years with a new $5 million contract from Memphis Light, Gas & Water.

The contract will go, specifically, to the university’s Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research. That group will be tasked “with finding more breaches in our clay layer, subsurface mapping of the aquifer, and determining how water use patterns impact groundwater contamination around the breaches.”

TVA M E ETS Clockwise from top left, TVA, crime is down, Bill Morrison, U of M water study, The Tennessee Valley Author- 280 pounds of pot, ACLU and the MPD, and an emergency hearing on hate crimes. ity (TVA) held an openhouse-style meeting Thursday so the public could view and The council, who will ultimately decide who fills the comment on an upcoming environmental investigation of the seat, plans to vote on a candidate at its meeting on Tuesday, utility’s coal ash ponds here.

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TVA reviewed its plan for the Allen site with the public at the Thursday meeting. Scott Banbury, Conservation HATE M E ETI N G Programs Coordinator for the Tennessee Chapter of the U.S. Representative Steve Cohen asked for an emergency hearSierra Club, said little notice was given about the meeting and ing last week on hate crimes and domestic terrorism in the wake “the public was given no opportunity to express themselves.” “of recent killings by individuals with white supremacist views.”

Cohen joined Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) CRIME NUMBERS and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) in a letter to House Judiciary Memphis and Shelby County have seen declines in three Committee chairman Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to major categories of violent crime so far this year, and leaders request the hearing. say that while citizens “probably don’t yet feel or sense it,” the needle is moving in the right direction.

F R E E S P E EC H Numbers for murders, rapes, and robberies were all lower Legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Memphis and Shelby County in the first three quarters of Tennessee said last month’s ruling that the Memphis Police of 2018 compared to the same time last year, according to Department (MPD) violated a 1978 consent decree barring ponew figures released last week by the University of Memphis litical surveillance of citizens is a win for free speech nationwide.

Public Safety Institute and the Memphis Shelby Crime Thomas H. Castelli, ACLU-TN legal director, said that the Commission. However, aggravated assaults rose in both the Blanchard v. City of Memphis ruling could make Memphis a city and the county. “standard-bearer” as other cities learn to balance free speech and advancing technology.

C O U N C I L VACA N CY The Memphis City Council is looking to fill the District 1 B USTE D seat that was left vacant after Councilman Bill Morrison’s Officers discovered 280 pounds of marijuana, worth about resignation became effective last week. $840,000, in a tractor trailer during a traffic stop last week.

Candidates wishing to fill the vacancy may be nominated The arrest was made on I-40 near Canada Road by members by council members and the general public, or interested of the Multi-Agency Gang Unit and the Drug Task Force. candidates must submit an application packet to the council Fuller versions of these stories and more local news can be before Wednesday, November 14th at noon. found on The News Blog at memphisflyer.com.

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Clean Memphis volunteers clean up Soulsville.

Clean Memphis and Project Green Fork celebrate 10 years.

Project Green Fork and Clean Memphis launched 10 years ago. Now both are under the Clean Memphis umbrella.

Janet Boscarino, the group’s leader, said Memphis is cleaner and greener than it was a decade ago. But there is still more work to be done. — Toby Sells Memphis Flyer: What did Memphis look

like when Clean Memphis started?

Janet Boscarino: At the time, it felt to me that we’d lowered the bar. For the large part, there seemed to be a lack of people who seemed to be concerned about the look and feel of an area.

There was litter on the exit ramps and on the interstate. Some businesses,

too, weren’t maintaining their property.

There were weeds in the sidewalk — just lowering the bar. It reflected, to me, a

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lack of pride. We love our kind of grit and grind in Memphis in one aspect, which I think is very positive, but not in the sense of a regressive look at who we are.

MF: What did you want to do when you got started?

JB: I just wanted to create a space for people to become involved in [cleaning up Memphis]. You’d hear a lot of … people complaining about it but not necessarily going and doing it. Memphis City Beautiful and others were trying to do things, but what I felt was missing was a strategy in engagement to raise the level of awareness of how bad the problem was and to make it easy for people to enter that space.

MF: How did you get started?

JB: We began by helping neighborhoods identify what projects they wanted to work on. We had to learn how best to support neighborhoods.

There’s a fine balance between going in and saying “this is what you should do” and working with them to help understand what they want and need to do.

That’s where our heart is. How do we help support you in what you need to do and bring resources to bear? It can be very tricky.

MF: Have things changed here?

JB: We’ve improved drastically in a lot of areas. Concentrated blight is still a problem in some areas because that’s not about the attitudinal change. It’s about much more complicated issues.

There are a lot of reasons why a neighborhood might look terrible. It certainly didn’t start with people not caring about their neighborhood. You have disinvestment. You had the mortgage crisis and all the blight-related issues there. There are some behavioral things, too. And we’re trying to work on those issues.

MF: What has changed in Project Green Fork’s 10 years?

JB: What I have seen is that people are more aware whether or not a restaurant is certified by Project Green Fork.

When FedEx does catering, for example, they want a Project Green Forkcertified restaurant. It aligns with their sustainability goals.

Where we do struggle is with expansion. [Project Green Fork] is very Downtown-Midtown-East Memphiscentric. So, we’re looking at how to share this message of sustainable practices all over the city.

MF: Is Memphis cleaner now?

JB: In many places, it is much cleaner. I still think we struggle and have work to do. I think we have that with attitudinal change and behavior, too.

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Last Stop, Memphis! man Steve Cohen. An advance ad for the event had indicated that Bredesen would be there, too — a physical impossibility and not just because of the torrential downpour.

Not only was Memphis the last stop on Dean’s long and winding trail, he was scheduled also to do a poll visit or two here on Tuesday morning. Clearly, he was a believer in the enduring nature of the Democratic blue wave, which crested here unmistakably in the runup to August 2nd, when Democratic candidates performed a clean sweep in the county general election.

Bill Lee (top) and Karl Dean with Memphis supporters on Election Eve And the deluge of new voter applications since, right up to the registration deadline of October 9th, had given Shelby County Election Commission officials all they could process, and then some. Moreover, even though the great Kavanaugh/Supreme Court flap had allegedly been a spur to Republican enthusiasm as well, there was no doubt that most of the new-voter gain was going to the Democrats’ side of the voter rolls.

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To say it plainly, Monday night of this week was a challenge — for candidates who wanted one last opportunity to see and be seen; for party operatives determined, by hook or by crook, to expand the next day’s turnout for their charges; for those undecided voters who realized that their one last fleeting chance to experience specific candidates directly was at hand; for reporters whose wish was to cover the last moves of major candidates before Judgment Day on Tuesday, November 6th, and at the same time, as circumstances allowed, to check out the much-ballyhooed “Transition Report” of County Mayor Lee Harris at the FedEx Event Center (one had to wonder about the Election Eve scheduling for the event, given the competition for attention).

And complicating it all was the monsoon, a huge series of rain showers that lasted through the evening, creating flash floods and traffic jams and direly complicating all those imperative hopes and ambitions mentioned above.

Still and all, it was a major night for Shelby County. It had to mean something that former Governor Phil Bredesen sandwiched in a last visit to Shelby County, at Jim Neely’s Interstate BBQ on South Third, between events in Jackson and his home town of Nashville, site of his onetime mayoralty and his two terms as Tennessee governor.

Unfortunately for those Democrats who wanted to embrace all their heroes at once, their gubernatorial nominee, Karl Dean, who succeeded Bredesen as Nashville mayor, was holding forth under the roof of Hoskins Road Spiritual Kingdom Church, many miles away, accompanied by 9th District Congress-

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On the long campaign’s final night, most of the major candidates were working Shelby County.

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L A S T S T O P, M E M P H I S ! B y J a c k s o n B a k e r continued from page 7 dant party stars, managed a plausible optimism in his remarks to the wellwishers who had braved the storm.

Even as Dean intended to spend the night in Memphis, his opponent, Republican nominee Bill Lee, was finishing up a last statewide dash with an address to supporters at Another Broken Egg Cafe at Park Place in East Memphis. Looking around the interior of the place, Lee described it as “packed,” and he wasn’t wrong. He proceeded to deliver a valedictory on his surprisingly successful outlier campaign that sounded simultaneously like a proclamation of victory.

And, given the apparent message of such polls and other samplings that have been taken in the general election campaign, the Franklin businessman may well have been entitled to look and sound as confident about the outcome as he did, and he elaborated once more on his running theme that redoubled efforts to expand the economy and infrastructure of Shelby County would be high on his intended agenda in office and necessary ones for the state itself to proper.

In any case, there was no doubt that, with both Dean and Lee choosing to end their gubernatorial campaigns here, Memphis bore a prominence in this election and an influence on its results that seemed almost to hearken back to an earlier time, the Crump era, when the city was the undisputed pivot of the state’s political direction.

And, no doubt about it, the next governor of Tennessee was here on Election Eve. It remained to be seen whether such a statement could be made about the U.S. Senate race. Bredesen certainly made an effort to show his flag, appearing here with some frequency, even before his braving of the deluge Monday night. For

whatever reason, Republican nominee Marsha Blackburn, the Congresswoman whose 7th District at one point, before the last redistricting, took in a sizeable hunk of eastern Shelby County, was not so much in evidence locally.

But, during the course of things, she had had two marquee appearances with her party leader, President Donald Trump. One was at a Trump rally in Southaven last month; another was in Chattanooga, in east Tennessee, this past weekend.

• For all the bad weather and the other claims on people’s attention, a generous crowd turned out at the FedEx Event Center at Shelby Farms Monday night for a formal presentation of a report from the transition team of Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris.

The team, which numbered some 40 people, was chaired by former Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins and Paul Morris, president of Jack Morris Auto Glass. Danielle Inez was its executive director.

The transition report covered such areas as education, transportation and community development, criminal justice, health care, economic development, and government structure and metrics.

Coincident with the transition report, Harris and Shelby County Commission Chairman Van Turner recently announced the resolution of a matter that had bitterly divided the previous commission and former Mayor Mark Luttrell. That was the commission’s desire for its own staff attorney to represent its interests visà-vis the administration. Harris and Turner agreed on a resolution allowing Turner, as commission chair, to select an assistant county to serve the commission in that regard. That attorney will be Marcy Ingram, a longtime favorite of commission members.

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VIEWPOINT By Richard Cohen

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Trump may not be an anti-Semite, but his words spur conspiracy theories and racist tropes. talk, the media remains the enemy of the American people. It lies. It lies because it is evil. It lies because it is un-American.

Trump relies on the predicate for this belief, which was established years ago when the three television networks and some major newspapers were controlled by Jews — and if Trump does not know this, antiSemites sure do. Jews no longer control, but stereotypical “Jewishness” endures.

In the belief system of Trump and his followers, the media account for so much that is wrong with America. It is false for the sake of being false, and it is false in sneaky, underhanded ways.

This is nothing new, of course. President Richard M. Nixon went after the press in a similar way, and his vice president, Spiro Agnew, made it one of his themes. But no administration has made media-bashing a matter of policy — not merely a way of rebutting criticism but a way of governing, of disestablishing truth and facts.

The ruling party doesn’t have opponents or critics, it has enemies.

This is a kind of fascism or, the economic program aside, communism.

The ruling party doesn’t have opponents or critics, it has enemies — “enemies of the people,” in this case journalism.

The rhetoric strips the opposition of any standing, any legitimacy. It is not a party in temporary opposition. It is a party in permanent sedition.

Trump had been frank about his intention. Lesley Stahl of CBS News told an audience in May that Trump told her he wants to “discredit” and “demean” the media “so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.” But it’s far less clear that he realizes what encouragement he offers to conspiracy believers, of which anti-Semitism is the most adaptable and durable.

I don’t necessarily see the homicidal act in Pittsburgh as proof of a resurgence of American anti-Semitism. A far more certain danger is the validation Trump has offered those who believe in all sorts of conspiracy theories. In spirit and in essence, this is anti-Semitism that so far lacks only Jews. History, though, warns that the vacuum will be filled. It’s up to Trump and his morally dormant Republican Party to ensure that Pittsburgh remains a spasm of the awful past — and not a harbinger of an even worse future.

Richard Cohen writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.

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While visiting Poland in 1976, I heard about a book. It was called Anti-Semitism Without Jews: Communist Eastern Europe, and it was mentioned to me because the Jews of Poland, once numerous, had almost entirely been murdered — yet the hatred of them persisted. The title of that book popped into my head in the aftermath of the slaughter of 11 Jews in Pittsburgh by an anti-Semite. President Trump, not to mention Republicans in general, denied any connection between the shooting and the president’s rhetoric.

They are either historically ignorant or moral cowards.

First, their ignorance. They do not appreciate that, in both style and rhetoric, Trump’s anti-Semitism, like that of Eastern Europe’s, is “without Jews.” He himself lacks the prejudice. He was born and raised in the resplendently Jewish city of New York. His daughter converted to the religion, and his grandchildren are being raised as Jews. His associates — once Roy Cohn and later Michael Cohen — have been Jews, and he is supported by major Jewish donors such as Sheldon Adelson, whose wife, Miriam, lost family in the Holocaust. Trump is not a Jew hater.

But he has adopted or embraced the mind-set of an anti-Semite. He does not rebut the stereotype of the villainous rich Jew, that latter-day Rothschild, George Soros, who is seen as the deus ex machina funding the caravan of the desperate wending its way north from Honduras. In Soros’ native Hungary, where he escaped Adolf Eichmann’s roundup — more than 437,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz — Soros is literally the poster boy of all the standard anti-Semitic tropes, especially that of the amoral Jewish cosmopolite.

In the United States, the cliche of rootless amoral Jews has been replaced by a media with the same odious characteristics. Jews have long been associated with journalism — in 19th-century Vienna, the word “journalist” was analogous with Jew — and in 1941, Charles Lindbergh, a steadfast isolationist, made matters clear in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.

What he called “war agitators” consisted of three groups: “the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt administration.” These “agitators,” he added, are “only a small minority of our people; but they control a tremendous influence. Against the determination of the American people to stay out of war, they have marshaled the power of their propaganda, their money, their patronage.”

Only crackpots talk that way today.

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nfernee Hardaway is home again.

As if he ever left.

On a rainy March afternoon, inside the brand-new Laurie-Walton Family Basketball Center on the University of Memphis’ south campus, Tiger athletic director Tom Bowen introduced the greatest living Tiger of them all as the program’s new basketball coach.

First gaining legend status at Treadwell High School, then later as a Tiger and an All-NBA guard with the Orlando Magic, Penny Hardaway approached the podium, and a region-wide family reunion ensued. “It’s great to see so many familiar faces from when I played, the people who have been so supportive,” said Hardaway who, at 47, is older today than his own college coach, Larry Finch, was when he coached his last Tiger game.

“I want to see the Memphis flags waving from cars, see the T-shirts and hats.”

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“I’m ready to get into the arena,” says the coach a fan base will continue to call by his famous nickname.

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Now in the hands of a Memphis legend, how high can Tiger basketball climb?

Those shirts and hats had grown scarce at FedExForum, where attendance hit a half-century low in 2017-18, despite Tubby Smith’s second team putting up a 21-13 record and junior point guard Jeremiah Martin nearly winning the American Athletic Conference scoring title. For the better part of those two years — since Josh Pastner left for Georgia Tech — community support for Hardaway taking over at his alma mater had grown — at first gentle rumbling, then later, outright public appeals. Hardaway’s ultimate hiring became the worst-kept secret in the Mid-South, with reports leaking before Smith had the chance to coach the Tigers in the AAC tournament (where they would lose in the semifinals).

Within 30 days of his hiring, Hardaway managed to convince the top two local recruits — Alex Lomax (who helped Hardaway win three state titles at East High School) and Tyler Harris (Cordova High) — to sign with Memphis.

Hardaway announced Tennessee had been added to the schedule (the Tigers will host the Vols on December 15th) with the likes of Kentucky and Arkansas on the new coach’s radar. The reaction of ticket-buyers and sponsors has, in basketball terms, lit up the Memphis

Even with a recruiting class that jumped into the nation’s top 30 when Lomax and Harris signed, the Tigers have been picked to finish as low as eighth in the 12-team American Athletic Conference. (AAC coaches picked Memphis to finish fourth — behind UCF, Cincinnati, and Houston — in their preseason poll.) This doesn’t sit well with the rookie coach, who needs extra motivation like he needed extra vertical leap as a player, which is to say — not! “It’s realistic that we will not finish eighth,” he says. “They were thinking the freshmen can’t carry us, and they’re really not respecting the staff or the guys coming back from last year, when they finished fifth.”

What — beyond himself — can Penny sell a Tiger fan-base that all but disappeared last winter? Hardaway suggests we’ll see a different brand of basketball from the season’s opening tip-off. “I think I’m a little more up-tempo than Coach [Smith],” he says. “We really want to run, fast break. There won’t be a lot of half-court [offense]. We want to get it out. Defensively, we might press more.

We’ll be a high-energy team on defense, as well. I like to speed teams up, keep them off-balance. I want it to be a blur. By the first timeout, I want teams playing us to be gassed.”

For any team to accelerate pace as Hardaway envisions, guard play — and guard depth — will be critical. The new coach sees as many as five players who can handle point-guard duty, though in this era of “positionless” basketball (see the Golden State Warriors and count their trophies), the primary value a guard brings the Tigers will be his versatility.

“You only go as far as your guards,” says Martin, a preseason all-conference selection who will be playing for his third coach in four years. The Mitchell High School alum averaged 18.9 points and 3.8 assists last season, though he missed the Tigers’ final six games with a fracture in his right foot. Martin had hernia surgery in August, but appears to be in game

shape for a season of leadership. “I was never in bad spirits about my injury,” he says. “Everything happens for a reason.

The team’s not just about me. It’s a process, but I sat out so long, now that I’m back, I’ve got to get back right. I’m gonna keep working hard to get there.”

Martin is prepared to attack with the

Lomax and Harris grew up as friendly rivals, Lomax playing for Hardaway with Team Penny on the AAU circuit while Harris developed with Team Thad.

(Hardaway acknowledges that he tried to persuade Harris to join his team, but to no avail. Until now.) Harris is small (5’9” and 150 pounds), but can light up

ball in his hands or from the wing when the likes of Brewton (a fellow senior), Lomax, or Harris is handling the ball.

If Hardaway’s vision is realized, the ball won’t be in anyone’s hands very long. “My whole life, I’ve been on the ball some, and off the ball,” stresses Martin. “I’m just a basketball player, to be honest.”

a scoreboard. He averaged 30.3 points as a senior and was named Class AAA Mr. Basketball after becoming just the 12th Memphis high school player to score 2,500 career points. Lomax took home the Mr. Basketball award after both his sophomore and junior seasons at East. In his four years as a Mustang, the team went

122-18. Having played for Hardaway since he was in 5th grade, Lomax is more than comfortable in his role as a freshman, and he’s ready to join forces with Harris.

“Coach teaches an NBA style, so it’s not all that different,” says Lomax. “He knows what it takes; he’s been through it. He relays the message, and it’s our job to go out and put it on the court. Playing with Tyler may be one of the best things that ever happened to me. We offset each other well. He does a lot of things I don’t do. If he’s open 10 times, I’ll find him 10 times. It’s a new friendship; we talk every day now.” If you doubt Hardaway’s influence on Lomax, ask him what he’d like to contribute as a freshman: “I hope I can make an impact defensively, and I just want to win games.”

Not to be lost in the guard shuffle are Brewton and another freshman, Antwann Jones. Brewton averaged 9.1 points as a junior and part-time starter last season.

He was second only to Martin in assists and steals. “Everybody wants to play and get buckets,” notes Brewton, “but how are you gonna get buckets? You gotta play defense.” Already preaching the Hardaway philosophy, Brewton has embraced the program’s new culture.

“There’s a lot of energy,” he stresses. “It’s a family atmosphere.”

Brewton and Hardaway each see something of themselves in Jones, the 6’6” guard from Orlando and a third top-100 recruit Hardaway was able to capture.

For Brewton, it’s Jones’ ability to score, his aggressiveness with the ball, even as a rookie. As for the comparisons with Hardaway the player, consider those a means of motivation for a player aiming to seize minutes on the floor.

A slimmed-down Mike Parks (he lost 20 pounds over the offseason) and Raynere Thornton will be counted on for muscle this season. The two combined for 8.4 rebounds per game last year, a number that needs to grow if the Tigers are to minimize opponent possessions. Junior transfer Isaiah Maurice brings additional size (he’s 6’10”) and athleticism to the Tigers’ frontcourt. With Parks sidelined by a back ailment, Maurice started the exhibition game against LeMoyne-Owen and contributed 18 points and 7 rebounds in 21 minutes.

Among Tiger big men, though, track the progress of Davenport. The Georgia native averaged 13.3 points and led the Tigers with 6.1 rebounds per game last season. He’ll be a focal point this winter, according to Hardaway. “We expect a lot from Kyvon,” says Hardaway. “There are going to be some wrinkles where we get shots specifically for him. Last year, he did it off the glass, didn’t get a lot of plays run for him. We’re going to have to get him the ball; we need him to score.”

Davenport’s length and ability to run the floor are ingredients for a differencemaking finisher, one who can follow a break, receive and deliver lobs, or clean continued on page 12

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scoreboard ever since. Having sunk to a 48-year low in attendance last winter, the Tiger program may well set new highs in 2018-19, the program’s 15th season at FedExForum.

Sharpshooter David Wingett (who scored more than 2,000 points as a prep player in Nebraska) joined the recruiting class to help fill an outside-scoring void the program has suffered for four seasons. The rookies will join Martin and four other holdovers — guard Kareem Brewton and forwards Kyvon Davenport, Raynere Thornton, and Mike Parks — to write the first chapter in a new volume of Hardaway history.

“Losing is not an option in my mind,” said Hardaway at that opening press conference. “I want to hit the ground running. People are telling me to be patient, do this or that first. But I’m not built that way. I’ll go for it all or none at all.”

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up missed shots. “[Coach Hardaway] lets everyone play their own game,” emphasizes Davenport. “It’s better for everybody. You’re gonna play your role, but you’re free. No restrictions.”

And Davenport loves the pace. “We’ve been killing ourselves in practice,” he says. “When we get to a game, it’s going to be easier for us, with the timeouts.”

Davenport recognizes a sense of immediacy this season, his last as a Tiger. And he wants to make the kind of impression that lasts beyond his days in Memphis. “I want to be remembered as a great teammate,” he says, “one who helped develop the freshmen and led this team somewhere special.”

And what are we to expect from a rookie coach more famous than most of the seasoned counterparts he’ll confront?

“For the most part,” says Hardaway, “coaching is understanding who you have on your team, understanding yourself, understanding situations.” As aggressively as he attacked defenders during his playing days, it shouldn’t surprise that Hardaway isn’t timid when it comes to the new gig. “My biggest strength is in-game adjustments,” he says. “We’ll have our team prepared. But every game doesn’t go as planned, and you may have to adjust.

That’s where my strength comes into play.

The culture we’re trying to build around here is multiple efforts, toughness, playing hard when you’re on the floor.”

If anything, Hardaway will have to resist the urge to don a game uniform when the lights are turned on and 17,000 fans pack FedExForum for a show we haven’t seen in these parts in some time.

“I’m ready to get into the arena,” says the coach a fan base will continue to call by his famous nickname. “I’ve always prepared well, so practice is great. But to get into the arena . . . I want to feel the jitters. I’m anxious to get there.”

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The World Series seemed to tilt on the managers’ use of their bullpens, an area you handled well in Memphis. Any thoughts or secrets you can share on proper bullpen management?

I did it in a way that made sure the guys were ready to produce in the big leagues.

I followed those parameters and used some creativity to make sure we had enough innings [covered] every day.

Between my pitching coaches [Bryan Eversgerd in 2017, Dernier Orozco in ’18] and me, we made sure they were ready. It wasn’t necessarily who we had to throw every day, but making sure the proper workloads were there, even on back-to-back days. There was constant communication. But we let the pitchers dictate what part of the game they were good at, whether it’s middle relief or end of the game, one inning or ground-ball [specialist]. We let them dictate rather than demand something out of them.

Then we let them excel in those situations.

It’s been a long time since you’ve been in the big leagues. What kind of impact do you hope to make, starting in 2019?

Positive impact on day-do-day activities and game preparation. Any way they need me. Infield work, base-running … if they just need a pump-up session.

Whatever Shildty needs me to do, I’ll be there ready to roll and try to get some things accomplished.

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Memphis Flyer: Your name came up in discussions about managerial vacancies in the big leagues. What can you share about the process that led you to taking the coaching job in St. Louis?

Stubby Clapp: I went through three interviews with Texas and didn’t get considered for other [big-league jobs] beyond my name being thrown around.

St. Louis was up front about wanting me to be on staff if things didn’t work out on the managerial side. I feel blessed with the opportunity. To play for the Cardinals, and now bounce back and get to coach with the club, it’s a special honor.

You aced the test in Memphis, with two championships in two seasons. And you were required to use more than 60 players each year. Was there a unifying quality to the 2017 and 2018 Redbirds that led to such success?

The more I think about it, the more I think about my staff both years. We were together on things, had each others’ backs to make sure we were doing things the right way. The first thought was always, “What’s best for the player?”

Winning came second. That positive attitude translated to the players, and they grabbed hold of it. It became a culture. When you have good culture and talent, good things come to fruition.

Positive energy has a stronghold over talent. If you’re bitter and you’ve got talent, you’re always looking at what you didn’t do. I’m a big believer in a positive atmosphere and knowing that it’s okay to fail in trying to be great.

Despite all the wins and trophies, it couldn’t have been easy. Were there stumbles along the way?

There were struggles — times we had to look ourselves in the mirror. Last year, there was more [roster] movement early on, especially on the pitching side of things. Guys stepped up and did

great jobs. You just gotta believe that something [positive] is going to happen.

And go for it.

What kind of relationship do you have with Cardinals manager Mike Shildt?

We’ve developed a relationship over the last couple of years. I have a lot of respect for the way he’s made his way in the game. He’s worked hard. He’s a great story. He’s got a good idea of the way things should be run, and he’s a very good communicator. I can’t wait to help out in any way.

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tubby Clapp is headed back to the major leagues. Nearly 18 years after last donning the uniform of the St. Louis Cardinals as a player, Clapp is taking over as firstbase coach. In two years as manager of the Memphis Redbirds, Clapp won a pair of Pacific Coast League championships (and the 2018 Triple-A National Championship) and was twice named the PCL’s Manager of the Year.

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Theater professor Joy Brooke Fairfield thinks the seeds for NottageFest were planted in August 2017 when she and a group of students attended a performance of Ruined at Overton Square’s Hattiloo Theatre. Set in Mama Nadi’s bar in a battle-scarred mining town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-winning script told the story of an African Mother Courage selling comfort to soldiers, militiamen, miners, and dealers on all sides of a shapeshifting conflict.

“It was one of those shows that made me excited to live here,” Fairfield says. Flash forward to the present: Rhodes, the University of Memphis, and Southwest Community College are all producing work by Nottage, a consistently provocative storyteller with a gift for exposing dynamics that keep marginalized communities marginalized.

Dennis Darling, director of Intimate Apparel at the U of M, elaborates: “She inspires us all to challenge social norms that betray our instincts to love freely, without prejudice.

“I love how poignant, poetic, and beautifully written her stories are,” Darling says. Set in the early 20th century, Intimate Apparel revolves around an African-American seamstress who lives in a boarding house where she sews fancy underwear for a range of clients including wealthy white women and prostitutes.

Unlike Intimate Apparel, and Nottage’s memory play Crumbs from the Table of Joy, which closed November 4th at Southwest, Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine takes the form of a farce that plays out in the semi-surreal vein of Boots Riley’s film Sorry to Bother You. Directed by Memphis stage veteran Thomas King (aka Le Tekay), Fabulation follows the downward tumble of an ambitious African-American woman as she spirals uncontrollably from success to disaster.

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By Susan Ellis Sierra Miller, owner of the CRAZE Memphis Rage Room, had seen a similar concept and thought it might work well in Memphis. “Memphis needs an outlet, somewhere to let loose,” she says.

The idea behind a rage room is pretty simple: Work out your feelings of anger by breaking shit. Participants sign up online, show up, and sign a waiver. Then they get outfitted in a jumpsuit and headgear. Some of the equipment provided to smash stuff to smithereens: a hammer, tennis racquet, table leg, shovel, and crowbar. No chainsaws, btw.

While Miller provides items to break (fish tank, computer monitors, windows, TVs), you can bring your own. One couple brought a pesky laptop that never worked quite right. Sessions are 5, 15, and 30 minutes for the truly pissed off.

As far as rules go, there’s nothing too over-the-top. You must wear long pants and closed toe shoes. You have to be at least 16. You can not hit other people. Miller says so far, everyone has behaved.

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ulien Baker, the Memphisbred phenomenon behind 2015’s Sprained Ankle and 2017’s Turn Out the Lights, is touring in support of a new project with fellow indie-rock sensations Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. Bridgers’ Stranger in the Alps was released last year and features a duet with Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst as well as the enormously infectious “Motion Sickness,” and Dacus has been carving out a place for herself in the indie-rock pantheon with a duo of lyrically resonant and grunge-guitar-laden albums, 2016’s No Burden and this year’s Historian. All three artists are relatively new on the scene, with Baker’s Sprained Ankle having the oldest vintage of their solo releases, but their collaborative boygenius EP project feels, both lyrically and sonically, like something put together by artists wise beyond their years.

On the EP, the trio give the songs room to breathe, making their harmonies feel precious, like moments of connection in lives ruled by distance and grueling touring schedules. The collaboration, initially born of an email thread and shared demos, began to coalesce once the trio booked a tour together.

Baker says she knew they would team up onstage somehow. “I like to find ways to make the live set special and different. It seemed obvious to all of us that we would collaborate in some way,” Baker says. “If we’re going to write one song, we might as well write as many songs as we can.”

So the trio blocked out a week and wrote and recorded their six-song boygenius EP at Sound City Studios in L.A. The EP is set to be released on Matador Records this Friday, November 9th.

The three entertainers differ somewhat in style and genre. Dacus’ music feels more classically rock-and-roll, while Bridgers’ is the most folk-tinged of the group; she’s drawn comparisons to the

late Elliott Smith. Their differences work to their credit on the boygenius EP. The songs, with all three vocalists taking turns on lead and harmony duties, feel like something universal accessed via different routes. Unlike so many collaborations, the songwriters behind boygenius are united by common experiences and shared friendship rather than a strict adherence to any genre or a crass cash grab.

These are three friends letting down their guard with each other and writing about how it feels to be themselves, even as they discover who they want to be.

“Those are two people that, now looking back on it, are two of my earliest, closest friends from the quote, unquote ‘music industry,’” Baker says. “I don’t feel like I know the first thing about the music industry. Especially now, living in Nashville, there’s such a world of cogs and mechanisms that I’m just not privy to.”

Perhaps owing to the speed with which the project was put together, or maybe because no boygenius one in the group is really an industry insider, nothing feels calculated on the boygenius EP. “Writing with Phoebe and Lucy opened me up in a lot of ways,” Baker says. “Now that I’m engaging with music constantly, I’ve become so much more meticulous about how I create music.

And I wonder sometimes if the magic is in what’s automatic. And getting to write with them, especially in this very limited time allotment, was really amazing. It challenged me to rely more on instincts.

“I think Lucy and I are used to making records very fast, just going into the studio and grinding for a week or two weeks, but Phoebe approaches records in the ‘leave it alone’ way. [Phoebe] will not rush a song.”

There must be something to letting a composition breathe and relying on instinct, because the songs on boygenius sound like something infused with a little bit of magic. On “Ketchum, ID,” an acoustic lament about youth spent on the road on tour, one can almost hear the buzzing of fluorescent lights and echoing hallways backstage. Baker and her band mates conjure a moment of respite — with harmonies enough to bridge their distances and keep dissonance at bay.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule November 8 - 14 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.; Mem-

phis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; P.S. Band First Wednesday, Sunday of every month, 7 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill 341-345 BEALE 577-1089

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

John Paul Keith Thursday, Nov. 8, 8 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Friday, Nov. 9, 9:30 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 10, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 10, 5 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Brad Birke-

dahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

Sean Apple Thursdays, 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 10, 4-7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 11, 5-8 p.m.; Blues Players Club Thursdays, Sundays, 8-10 p.m.; Brimstone Jones Thursday, Nov. 8, 8 p.m.midnight and Friday, Nov. 9, 7-11 p.m.; DJ Ron Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.; John Paul Keith Saturday, Nov. 10, 7-11 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.; DJ Mad Efx Sundays, midnight; A.M. Whiskey Trio Mondays, Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007

Wyatt Edmonson Friday, Nov. 9, 7-10 p.m.; The Skitch Saturday, Nov. 10, 7-10 p.m.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

9:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

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 p.m.-midnight.

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

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Saturday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m.-midnight.

David Bowen Thursdays, 5:30-

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

Dirt Monkey, DMVU, SubDocta, Finn Thursday, Nov. 8, 9 p.m.; Mallory Hope Friday, Nov. 9, 6:30 p.m.; Michael Lington and Selina Albright Saturday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m.; Pauly D Sunday, Nov. 11, 9 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Eric Hughes Band Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; FreeWorld Friday, Nov. 9, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m.midnight; Dr. Herman Green Benefit Saturday, Nov. 10, 3 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

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule November 8 - 14 Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmasters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight; James Jones Fridays, 4-8 p.m., Sundays, 8 p.m.midnight and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Sundays, 4-8 p.m., Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and Friday, Nov. 9, 8 p.m.-midnight; Dr. Herman Green Benefit feat. FreeWorld Saturday, Nov. 10, 3 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

p.m.; The Po Boys Friday, Nov. 9, 8 p.m.; Vintage Saturday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m.

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Old Dominick Distillery 305 S. FRONT

Pure Memphis Music Series presents the Wealthy West Thursday, Nov. 8, 6:30-9 p.m.

Celtic Crossing

Hi-Tone

Minglewood Hall

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, Nov. 8, 8 p.m.; The Tailored Renegades Friday, Nov. 9, 8 p.m.; Whiskey Chute Smugglers Saturday, Nov. 10, 9 p.m.; David Collins Frog Squad Sunday, Nov. 11, 6 p.m.; Richard Wilson

Moon Hooch and Hippy Soul Thursday, Nov. 8, 9 p.m.; The Schisms, Cortège, Admiral Longtooth, Risky Whispers Friday, Nov. 9, 9 p.m.; Lisieux-A Benefit Show Saturday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m.; Well Kept, Geist Saturday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m.; Ty Brasel, Parris Chariz, Jarry Manna Sunday, Nov. 11, 7 p.m.; Buildings, Pressed, Hash Redactor Sunday, Nov. 11, 8 p.m.; Little Vicious, Beg Rosey Tuesday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m.

Cody Johnson, Josh Ward Thursday, Nov. 8, 7 p.m.; Courage Thru Cancer Friday, Nov. 9, 6 p.m.; Lil Yachty Saturday, Nov. 10.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

The Fast Mothers! Saturday, Nov. 10.

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Trap Jazz: 2 Year Anniversary Celebration Saturday, Nov. 10, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Poplar/I-240 Neil’s Music Room

Silky O’Sullivan’s

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Rustenhaven Thursday, Nov. 8, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Led Zeppin Saturday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m.; Reba Russell’s Brassnote Presentation feat. Wayne Russell’s Art Show and The Reba Russell Trio Sunday, Nov. 11, 4 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

183 BEALE 522-9596

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.

Belle Tavern 117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

The Rusty Pieces Sunday, Nov. 11, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Bartlett

Blues City Pastry Shop & Coffee Bar

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

153 S. MAIN 576-0010

3663 APPLING 385-6440

Hi-Jivers Thursdays, 8 p.m.

Los Lonely Boys Thursday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

Hadley’s Pub

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN TICKETS, 525-1515

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Saturday, Nov. 10, 7:30-9 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 11, 2:30-4 p.m.

Full Circle Friday, Nov. 9, 9 p.m.; The SuperFive Saturday, Nov. 10, 9 p.m.; Shotgun Billys Sunday, Nov. 11, 5:30 p.m.; The No Hit Wonders Wednesday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.

Dirty Crow Inn

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Andy Tate Thursday, Nov. 8, 7 p.m.; Rev Neil Down Band Friday, Nov. 9, 9 p.m.; Tim Lynch Saturday, Nov. 10, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and Friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

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

Regina’s 60 N. MAIN

Open Mic Night Saturdays, 4-7 p.m.; Richard Wilson Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Mark Edgar Stuart, Lucy Dawn, Rose Ragsdale and Amy Jamison Friday, Nov. 9, 7 p.m.; Memphis Songwriters Association Monthly Meeting Second Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.3 a.m.; Black Love Live Sunday, Nov. 11, 6-9:30 p.m.

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

Lottie Friday, Nov. 9, 6 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 10, 6 p.m.

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

Heath and Bobbie Thursdays, 7

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Clay Qualls Thursday, Nov. 8; Chad Pope Friday, Nov. 9; Steve Selvidge Saturday, Nov. 10; Jana Misner Album Release Sunday, Nov. 11; Devil Train Monday, Nov. 12; Dave Cousar Tuesday, Nov. 13; Some Sons of Mudboy Wednesday, Nov. 14.

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 6 p.m.; Karaoke with DJ Eggroll Wednesday, Nov. 14, 9 p.m.

Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Shame Finger with the Fabulous Minx Thursday, Nov. 8, 8 p.m.; The Eastwoods with Rodney Ryan Friday, Nov. 9, 7 p.m.; Taco Mouth Album Release with Illusionaut Saturday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m.; Stellar Circuits with Ei Sunday, Nov. 11, 7 p.m.; Cody Joe Hodges with Chris Hamlett Monday, Nov. 12, 7 p.m.; Morning Teleportation & Desert Noises with the Hollow Roots Tuesday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Bad Omens Wednesday, Nov. 14, 6:30 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room

Otherlands Coffee Bar

2119 MADISON 207-5097

641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Truck Patch Revival Thursday, Nov. 8, 6 p.m.; Red Letter Day Thursday, Nov. 8, 9 p.m.; November Friday, Nov. 9, 6:30 p.m.; Almost Elton John Friday, Nov. 9, 10 p.m.; Steve Hopper & the Wolf Island Band Saturday, Nov. 10, 2 p.m.; The Cold Stares Saturday, Nov. 10, 6:30 p.m.; Seeing Red Saturday, Nov. 10, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Memphis Ukulele Band Sunday, Nov. 11, 4 p.m.; Swingtime Explosion Sunday, Nov. 11, 8 p.m.; Memphis Knights Big Band Monday, Nov. 12, 6 p.m.; The City Fathers Tuesday, Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m.; Royal Blues Band Memphis Music Jam Tuesday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:30 p.m.; Eddie Harrison and the Shortkuts Wednesday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.

Stephen Chopek Saturday, Nov. 10, 8-11 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

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Jerrod Niemann Saturday, Nov. 10, 8-9:30 p.m.

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Freemans Dead Saturday, Nov. 10; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Last Great American Rock Band Tuesday, Nov. 13, 10 p.m.

The Price Is Right Live! Friday, Nov. 9 and Saturday, Nov. 10.

Railgarten

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Southern Avenue with Cody Dickinson, Lucky 7 Brass Band and Special Guests Friday, Nov. 9, 7 p.m.; The Reputations Saturday, Nov. 10, 9 p.m.

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

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CALENDAR of EVENTS: NOV. 8 - 14 T H E AT E R

The Evergreen Theatre Friends of George’s Theatre Company returns with a brand new show, A Fabulous Navidad. Proceeds benefit the Community Legal Center.

(550-6205), $25. Fri., Nov. 9, and Sat., Nov. 10, 8-10 p.m.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Hattiloo Theatre

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music that weaves interconnected stories of love, empowerment, struggle, and loss into a complex representation of sisterhood. Thurs.-Sun. Through Nov. 11.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Mainstage Theatre (University of Memphis)

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NottageFest: Intimate Apparel, a play by Lynn Nottage about a young African-American 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. 8, Fri., Nov. 9, and Sat., Nov. 10, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

U OF M CAMPUS (678-2576).

McCoy Theatre

NottageFest: A Celebration of the Early Plays of Lynn Nottage, performance of Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine. www.rhodes.edu/mccoy.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.

Through Nov. 17.

RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).

Playhouse 51

Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, will peace and tranquility prevail, or will Junie B. get her revenge on Tattletale May? Shows take place at the Harvell Civic Center at 8077 Wilkinson Road. $12. Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Nov. 11.

8077 WILKINSVILLE (872-7170).

Theatre Memphis

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a fastpaced and witty musical, litters the stage with letters as midpubescents (played by adults) vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime and learn that winning (and losing) isn’t everything. $35 adults, $15 student; $30 military and 62 and older. Wednesdays 11/7 and 11/14 and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. with matinees at 2 p.m. on Sundays.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

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.

Wolfchase Galleria

Cirque Italia , featuring New Gold Unit with state-of-the-art water show. www.cirqueitalia. com. $10-$50. Thur.-Sun., Nov. 8-11, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

2760 N. GERMANTOWN PARKWAY (INFO, 763-1430).

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

Eclectic Eye

“Year One,” a collection of mixed-media pieces by Jill Samuels that utilize acrylic, watercolor, maps, and embroidery thread in their creation. Fri., Nov. 9, 6-8 p.m.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Germantown Performing Arts Center

Artist reception for “Magellan’s Medicine,” exhibition of works

by Dr. Malini Gupta. www. gpacweb.com. Sat., Nov. 10, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Metal Museum

Opening Reception for Apprentice Gallery, exhibition on

The Memphis Potters Guild Show and Sale, featuring works by Agnes Stark, Nov. 16th-18th

CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 8 - 14 the first floor of library building featuring the work of current apprentices Kacy Ganley, Elizabeth Belz, and Cassandra Rebman. Light refreshments provided. (774-6380), www.metalmuseum.org. Thurs., Nov. 8, 5:30-7 p.m.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Overton Park Gallery

Opening Reception for Dorothy Northern and Jennifer Sargent. Fri., Nov. 9, 6-9 p.m.

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

Ross Gallery

Opening reception “The Death of Fear,” exhibition of work by Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton and Nelson Gutierrez. www.cbu.edu. Fri., Nov. 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

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

David Lusk Gallery

“All of a Piece,” exhibition of paintings by Mary Sims. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through Nov. 17.

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

“Understory,” exhibition of work by Maysey Craddock. Nov. 13-Dec. 22.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Eclectic Eye

“Year One,” exhibition of works by Jill Samuels that utilize acrylic, watercolor, maps, and embroidery thread in their creation. Nov. 9-Jan. 2.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

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).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

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

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

“Freedom of the Press,” posters from progressive print shops, 1960s-1990s, 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 González-Hernández, Nelson Gutierrez, Lawrence Matthews, Carl Moore, Joel Parsons, Jennifer Sargent, and Yancy Villa-Calvo. Through Nov. 9.

3715 CENTRAL.

Germantown Performing Arts Center

“Magellan’s Medicine,” exhibition of works by Dr. Malini Gupta. www.gpacweb.com. Through Nov. 30.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Graceland

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

Ongoing.

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

“Things That Happened Along the Way,” exhibition of mixed-media work by Lester Sivets and Sue Wille. www.robinsoneditions.com. Through Nov. 15.

44 HULING (576-0708).

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

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.

Meet and Mingle

A pop-up exhibition on the first floor of the library building featuring the work of current apprentices Kacy Ganley, Elizabeth Belz, and Cassi Rebman.

Thurs., Nov. 8.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest

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

WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM.

Saturday Sketch

For ages 15+. Sketch in the gardens or galleries with a special guest instructor each month. Bring a pad of paper or a sketchbook. Pencils and colored pencils only. Free with admission. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.

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

O N G O I N G ART

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

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

“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, 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, music, and original artwork contributed by Shelby County students.

Through Nov. 25.

Wish Book: “Lay of the Land,” exhibition of largescale, landscape cyanotypes on fabric photographic works by John Pearson. www.crosstownarts.org.

Through Nov. 25.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

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

N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

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

942 COOPER (550-0064).

the U.S.-Mexican border. www. civilrightsmuseum.org. Through Dec. 31.

Marshall Arts Gallery

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

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

Overton Park Gallery

Exhibition of works by Dorothy Northern and Jennifer Sargent.

Ongoing.

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

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

Through Nov. 30.

“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.

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

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

Ross Gallery

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

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

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. www.

brooksmuseum.org. Through Jan. 26, 2019.

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

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum

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

“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.

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

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

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Debra Edge Art. Ongoing.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

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), www.wkno.org/gallery1091.html. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Nov. 29.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Cordova Branch Library Spartan City Poetry Switcheroo, poetry readings hosted by the Spartan City Poetry group, with snacks and appetizers. Poems should be eight to 20 lines long, any form, and submitted on a sheet of paper without the poet’s name. RSVP via email, cora7674@att.net Sat., Nov. 10, 4-6 p.m.

8457 TRINITY (415-2764).

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Booksigning by Bill Haltom

Author reads and signs his new book, Full Court Press: How Pat Summitt, a High School Basketball Player, and a Legal Team Changed the Game (UT Press). Thurs., Nov. 8, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

BURKE’S BOOK STORE, 936 S. COOPER (278-7484).

Booksigning by Glennray Tutor

Author discusses and signs his book Portals, with a conversation with Tutor, Jay Etkin, and Greg Thompson on what is happening with art in the Mid-South. Sun., Nov. 11, 2 p.m.

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (922-5526).

L ECT U R E / S P EAK E R

Positively Creative Summit

Designed especially with local creatives in mind.

Sat., Nov. 10, 10 a.m.-noon.

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

Matching the Best in Eyewear with the Arts!

ART RECEPTION

Featuring Kirk&Kirk Eyewear NOVEMBER 15, 2018 | 5-7 PM RSVP > akerr@focalpointcrosstown.com SPACE LIMITED

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Talk About It Tuesday

Monthly panel discussion with Q & A designed to bring people from the local community together to inspire discussion about the significant impact of cultural history in movements for economic and social justice. Free. Every fourth Tuesday. Through Dec. 18.

ERNEST WITHERS COLLECTION GALLERY & MUSEUM, 333 BEALE (523-2344), WWW.WITHERSCOLLECTION.ORG.

C O N F E R E N C ES/C O N VE N TI O N S

Midsouth Autism Conference

Speakers from throughout North America share experiences and knowledge of autism treatments and research. Speakers include Jennifer Krumins, Regina Crone, and Kerry Magro. $50-$225. Thurs., Nov. 8, 8 a.m.-9 p.m., and Fri., Nov. 9, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Shop fair trade baskets, toys, scarves, home decor, holiday decor, coffee and chocolate, jewelry, gifts benefiting artisans. Fri., Nov. 9, 5-7 p.m., and Sat., Nov. 10, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

TRINITY UNITED METHODIST EDUCATIONAL CENTER, 1738 GALLOWAY (274-6895), WWW.TRINITYUMCMEMPHIS.ORG.

Community Artist Market

Artists from across the city will have their works for sale just in time for the holidays. Sun., Nov. 11, 12-5 p.m.

SNOWDEN SCHOOL, 1870 NORTH PKWY (416-4621).

S P O R TS / F IT N ES S

Family Fun Hike

Educational recreation for adults and children of all ages. Second Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m.

SHELBY FARMS, VISITOR’S CENTER, 6903 GREAT VIEW DRIVE NORTH (767-7275), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

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Saved by the Jeans Denim Drive, Tuesday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., through November 13th

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UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS HOLIDAY INN, 3700 CENTRAL (379-8827), WWW.MIDSOUTHAUTISMCONFERENCE.COM.

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CALENDAR continued from page 27 Redbirds Sell901 Trophy Tour

Fans can see and take pictures with the 2018 Pacific Coast League and Triple-A National Championship trophies. Each tour spot is scheduled to feature the chance for fans to win prizes, meet Rockey the Redbird, and more. Sat., Nov. 10, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

TIGER LANE, 335 SOUTH HOLLYWOOD, WWW.MEMPHISREDBIRDS.COM.

Shelby Farms Park 10-Miler + Buffalo 5K

Hit the trails for a chip-timed race. Please leave pets and strollers/baby joggers at home. $20-$45. Sat., Nov. 10, 8 a.m.-noon.

SHELBY FARMS, VISITOR’S CENTER, 6903 GREAT VIEW DRIVE NORTH (222-7275), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

South Memphis Glide Ride

With scenic views through South Memphis, the tour considers how to improve bicycle facilities and connectivity within the South Memphis area. Join us at 10:30 a.m. Sat., Nov. 10, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

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

Sugar Run 5K for Juvenile Diabetes

Twelfth annual Sugar Run 5K. First prize for elite runners is $1,000. Sat., Nov. 10, 9 a.m.

JOHNSON ROAD PARK, 2970 JOHNSON RD.

Superhero Distracted Driving 5K and Community Fair

Put on your super cape and attend and support the Mid-South Distracted Driving Superhero 5K Walk/ Run sponsored by the Collegiate Life Investment Foundation (CLIF). Sat., Nov. 10, 9 a.m.-noon.

AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (493-2478), WWW.MIDSOUTHDD5K.RACESONLINE.COM.

KIDS

Stax Museum Drop-in Program: Music + Activism = Craftivism

Universal Parenting Place Fall Festival

Universal Parenting Place hosts this free, kidfriendly fall festival at Perea Preschool. With snacks, raffle prizes, games, face-painting, Pickle Ball, Zumba, and more. Free. Fri., Nov. 9, 2:30-5 p.m.

(701-2343).

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Make-A-Wish Mid-South Event with Levy Dermatology and Cycle Bar

Forty-five-minute Cycle Bar Ride starting at 1 p.m.

One hundred percent of the proceeds go to Make-aWish Mid-South. Free. Sun., Nov. 11, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

LEVY DERMATOLOGY, 6254 POPLAR (624-3333).

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“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.

The 22nd Annual W. C. Handy Heritage Awards

Black-tie musical extravaganza, awards ceremony, and dinner honoring Memphis musicians. The awards will feature a special tribute to Memphis native Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul.” Sun., Nov. 11, 5:30 p.m.

GUEST HOUSE AT GRACELAND, 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY (527-3427).

90th Anniversary: Soiree in the Spotlight

Featuring food, open bar, entertainment, music and dancing, and auctions. $125. Sat., Nov. 10, 6 p.m.

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

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CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 8 - 14 continued from page 29 Boots and Black Tie Gala

This fun event is a great way to mingle with members and their guests. Fri., Nov. 9, 7 p.m.

BARTLETT AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 2969 ELMORE PARK (372-9457).

River Garden Grand Opening

Family-friendly gathering Downtown by the river. River Garden is located on Riverside Drive between Court and Jefferson. Fri., Nov. 9, 5 p.m.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER PARK (FORMERLY JEFFERSON-DAVIS PARK), OFF RIVERSIDE DRIVE.

Saved by the Jeans Denim Drive

The theme of this America Recycles Day event is based on Save by the Bell. Tues., 11 a.m.2 p.m. Through Nov. 13.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER, WWW.KEEPTNBEAUTIFUL.ORG.

Second Annual Elders and Allies Potluck

Break bread with LGBTQ people, and learn more about how we can work together to improve the lives of LGBTQ elders. Thurs., Nov. 8, 6 p.m.

OUTMEMPHIS: THE LGBTQ CENTER OF THE MID-SOUTH, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422).

Trans Awareness Week

Featuring workshops, ice cream social, service day, and

more. Nov. 14-20.

OUTMEMPHIS: THE LGBTQ CENTER OF THE MID-SOUTH, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.OUTMEMPHIS.ORG.

VOCES8

The British vocal ensemble is proud to inspire people through music and share the joy of singing. Sun., Nov. 11, 5 p.m.

CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 102 N. SECOND (525-6602).

H O LI DAY EVE NTS

Holiday Market

Vendors from the Mid-South will sell their handmade items.

Sat., Nov. 10, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

MADONNA LEARNING CENTER, 7007 POPLAR (752-5767), WWW.MADONNA-LEARNING.ORG.

Lisieux Community Holiday Social

Featuring a variety of donated items as well as hand-made cards for purchase. Light refreshments will be served. $20.

Sun., Nov. 11, 2-4 p.m.

THE CARITAS VILLAGE, 2509 HARVARD (800-8840).

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Crafts & Drafts

Shopping opportunity showcasing a curated group of 85 local artists, crafters, and makers with a variety of activities, and craft beers on tap. Free. Sat., Nov. 10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, N.

CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.MEMPHISCRAFTSANDDRAFTS.COM.

Downtown Dining Week

Special deals on lunch and dinner at Downtown restaurants. downtowndiningweek.com Through Nov. 11.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, CALL FOR INFORMATION.

Fall Garden Party

Help fund another growing season of organic veggies for those in need. Enjoy a seasonal buffet and local brews. $28.

Sat., Nov. 10, 3-6 p.m.

COMMUNITY TABLE GARDEN, 1895 MADISON (651-6734).

Monthly Wine Dinner Series

Curated by sommelier Ryan Radish. Features a specific country or region each week, five-wine, four-course meal, tasting notes, and pairing motivations. Call or visit website for reservation. $75. Second Monday of every month.

Through Dec. 10.

GRAY CANARY, 301 FRONT, WWW.GRAYCANARY.COM.

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11.10 Music + Activism = Craftivism The G.A.D. exhibition features stories of people who used music to make an impact. Here, we will recognize the power we have in our hands by using them to make art that makes a statement about something we feel passionately about.

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Time: 12 - 2pm Place: Crosstown Arts

11.11 Family Collaborative Art Afternoon Come work together at Crosstown Brewing Co. to make a collaborative mixed media art piece as a family. Price: $60 per family. Price includes all art materials, instruction, two beers, and one root beer from Crosstown Brewery. Space is limited!

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BAR REPORT By Meghan Stuthard

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Enjoy a pint on the patio and smoked wings on your plate!

here is a bar far enough away from the Highland Strip to avoid the undergrad crowd, but close enough to find a philosophy grad student boyfriend that challenges your parents’ conservative beliefs. It’s a bar free and clear of an entertainment district, but still within walking distance of Taco Bell. It’s Lucchesi’s Beer Garden, and it has some bitchin’ neighborhood bar amenities to offer.

The Beer Garden, located at 84 S. Reese, is just off Poplar behind Raffe’s Deli.

The two were once connected but are no longer affiliated. Raffe’s daughter, Basma, now owns the Beer Garden with her husband, Tony Lucchesi. The Beer Garden serves up some awesome food out of a tiny kitchen adjacent to the bar including the Big Bad Blake, a panini that holds the honor of being the most expensive sandwich on the menu, and the Triple H, which the Flyer’s own Michael Donahue proclaimed to be the best sandwich he’d had in 15 years.

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Come for the delicious grub and beer; stay for the curling and conversation.

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While we as Memphians always celebrate cheese fries and other cheesy pub Lunch Special fare, a bar menu full of falafel, hummus, and gyros is a welcome change-up.

Spend $20 or more and The amenities with a distinct and get one don’t freestop appetizer! delicious menu, either! Pinball is quickly Edamame/Gyoza/Spring Roll ascending on my list of favorite bar sports, (Limit one per table) and the Beer Garden has three pinball machines: Batman, No Fear, and The Champion Pub. I’ve never laid eyes on The Champion Pub anywhere else, and it’s just delightful. You get to fight a guy named “Knuckles O’Brien” with a ball.

If pinball and gyros don’t do it for

you, maybe the specials will. Tony has Happy Hour all day on Sunday from 3 to 10 p.m., and Fridays and Saturdays from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. He and Basma also have a Wednesday pint night and $1 off all bottles and cans on Tuesday nights.

Yeah, $1 off bottles and cans! Finally giving the omnipresent “draft night” a run for its money. Of course, the Beer Garden is a beer-only establishment, which is probably implied by the name for the more astute reader. And the beer is everywhere! It’s stacked in the corner near a sign that says “Smile, there’s beer.” It’s piled next to the record player where Tony is spinning an Elvis Costello record. They’ve curated an excellent selection, including local brews, a delicious pineapple cider, and a sour from Earthbound Brewing called “Fuzzy Pickles” that is pretty damn good.

Although the beer selection might be the selling point for someone to visit for the first time, it’s the camaraderie that keeps this place busy. Blake, the sandwich’s namesake, and Kevin are two of the bar’s regulars. Kevin started coming by when he lived in the neighborhood over 10 years ago. He says the Beer Garden is the kind of place where you can make it what you want it to be, whether you want to join in on the conversation or sit alone.

That being said, “There are no private conversations at this bar,” Kevin adds. He and Tony also told me that a lot of nights when there’s nothing else on, they watch all the eclectic sports, like professional darts and curling. For all of us who, during the Olympics, took to Twitter to express our undying love for the sport of curling, this should be welcome news. Wondering where to watch it year-round? Look no further, curling fans.

From the pinball to the food to the pineapple cider and pickle beers, The Beer Garden’s amenities offer something for everyone. Tony and Basma allow it to change with the times, too. They’ve rearranged the kitchen nearly 10 times to better accommodate the ebb and flow of orders. In 2015, they cut out indoor smoking (but still allow it on the patio). They’ll put the sound on for some games and then other times, like the night I visited, it’s the Grateful Dead that you’ll hear. The regulars embraced me, as I get the impression they’ll embrace anyone who is willing to join in on the conversation. The conversation is, after all, the most important amenity.

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never thought much about rum until about eight years ago. While writing an article about the local Delta Sailing Association, the Commodore pointed out that I couldn’t properly do the piece unless I knew how to sail. Fair point, but I suspect he was just short of crew that day.

At any rate, once you start hanging around with sailors, you start to form opinions about rum.

It was “America’s drink” long before bourbon whiskey reigned supreme.

Old Naval lore is drowning in the stuff — Churchill never made the “Rum, sodomy, and the lash” quip, but someone did. The Royal Navy didn’t officially abolish the sailor’s daily rum ration until 1971. In a boozy counter-point to American’s Whiskey Rebellion of 1791-94, Australia’s Rum Rebellion, in 1808, was more or less successful.

The triggering gripe was that the local soldiers didn’t like the governor of New South Wales, one William Bligh, because he cut off their supply of cheap rum. If the name is familiar, it’s the same William Bligh who commanded the HMS Bounty until that infamous munity in 1789, where the crew set him and a few others adrift in the south Pacific without food, water, or topsiders. The salty bastard survived somehow, so naturally he was made governor of a penal colony. In no time, the Australians hated him as much as everyone else who’d ever met the guy.

It’s worth noting that in the vast annals of business books, there is not one called Management Secrets of Captain Bligh.

Still, with stories like that floating around, what little boy, standing on white sandy beaches of Destin, hasn’t looked out on the Gulf Coast and said, “Golly, those old fellers used to get pretty gassed on something called grog.

What was that all about?”

Although it’s possible that was only me.

Like a lot of cocktails invented by the British

military-industrial complex, grog was essentially just spiked medicine. The official Royal Navy recipe was simple: half a barrel of water, half a barrel of rum, and a quart of lime juice. The rum “sterilized” (sort of) the water, provided a mild pain-killer, and helped the average jack-tar to NOT think about his grim lot in life. The quart of lime juice provided much needed Vitamin C that acted as a hedge against scurvy, thus extending the sailor’s misery.

The problem is that, if you haven’t been press-ganged into the navy, grog is actually awful. So how to make a civilian version? The first step is to lighten it up: use soda instead of still water, keep the ratio about the same: one-part water, one-part rum. Give it a good squeeze of lime, more than a twist. Use dark rum — it’s more interesting. The light stuff has too much of a tiki torch/beach party vibe and no sense of adventure.

There are some fine rums out there that aren’t getting the same attention as bourbon, tequila, or, more recently, gin.

Rhum Barbancourt 15 is regarded as one of the best in the world. Interestingly, as it’s produced in Haiti, a country not known for producing the best of anything. It will set you back about $53 and is available at various liquor stores around town. Worth every penny, yes, but too fine for grog.

For cocktails, the middle way is best. For my money, at $18.99, Gosling’s Dark Seal Rum is perfect for the job.

Mount Gay also makes a great bottle at $24.99.

Around the same price point, I have a soft spot for Flor de Caña, made in Nicaragua. While in Managua, I managed to run smack into in what they call “social unrest” down there.

The story would be a lot better if I hadn’t been using my father as interpreter — he grounded me from going to the riot.

Which is why you should never take your father on assignment.

Still, Flora de Caña always makes me a tad nostalgic.

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Queen for a Day The glossy Bohemian Rhapsody can’t live up to Freddie Mercury’s legend.

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It’s a stadium full of fans screaming adulations. It’s rock-and-roll all night and a party every day.

But then there’s the other music business. It’s writing five bad songs for every halfway listenable one. It’s practicing for weeks, and no one shows up to your big gig. It’s haggling with sharks over mechanical rights, publishing rights, masters, and synch. It smells like stale cigarettes and pee.

From the opening notes of the 20th Century Fox fanfare played in Brian May’s straight razor guitar tone to the band’s closing bow on the Wembley stage, Bohemian Rhapsody, the much anticipated biopic of ’70s stadium sovereigns Queen, lives in the former, idealized version of music.

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Music biopics are among the hardest genre of film to get right. It’s not that there’s any dearth of great material. Musicians like Johnny Cash, James Brown, and Selena were genuinely fascinating people who had incredible adventures and touched the lives of billions. But the life of a musician isn’t as cinematically interesting as, say, an athlete or a war hero. The athlete’s got the big game, where the outcome is uncertain, to build tension. War heroes have battles, which are pretty much the bread and butter of the modern blockbuster. Musicians’ successes and failures are more internal. Creating a song like “Bohemian Rhapsody” looks like a bunch of hippies arguing about harmonies. Only Craig Brewer

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Queen seems like the perfect candidate for a great music biopic. They were, as Mercury says, a bunch of misfits playing for the misfits in the back of the room.

May designed and built his own guitars. Today, he researches interplanetary dust clouds. Mercury was a Farsi refugee from Zanzibar who settled in England when he was a teenager. His family were conservative Zoroastrians living in decadent ’70s London, and, for the first 30 or so years of his life, Mercury was a closeted gay man in a homophobic industry.

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Queen’s climb to the top of the list as one of the best live acts in the world is represented by the old “names of cities flash by the screen” trope that was a cliche in the 1930s.

Queen represented the slick, commercial side of rock in the 1970s, so maybe it’s appropriate that the film about their career is heavy on flash and light on substance. But Malek’s virtuoso performance belongs in a better movie.

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The Big Game scene in music biopics is the Big Gig, and Bohemian Rhapsody uses Queen’s legendary performance at the 1985 all-star famine benefit show Live Aid as a framing device. That sequence, rendered in CGI (you didn’t think they were going to pay for 150,000 extras, did you?) finally delivers on the promise of the premise.

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THE LAST WORD by Jen Clarke

Maybe you’ve noticed more people running in your neighborhood lately. Some have always been around, but you didn’t see them because being outdoors was only bearable from about 4 to 6:15 a.m. due to the humidity. The primary reason, though, is that the St. Jude Marathon is December 1st.

Some runners are crushing 22-milers as they wind down their 16week training cycles. Others just remembered they signed up for the 10K a few months back and should probably get out there and train a little. That’s one of the many reasons the race is special: There’s room for everyone, from 5K walkers to elite marathoners.

If you’re new to Memphis, or you’ve never experienced the glorious spectacle of 25,000-plus people taking to the streets to help eradicate childhood cancer, you really should check it out. Of course, all distances besides the full marathon are sold out — so unless you casually run 40 miles a week for kicks, it’s too late to register. But there are ways you can support the runners, now and on race day.

The first, easiest way is not to drive like a jerk. In wooded neighborhoods, roots and gumballs turn sidewalks into obstacle courses. One misstep can lead to a rolled ankle or worse. In other areas, sidewalks are poorly kept or nonexistent. Sometimes running in the street is the only choice. I’m constantly surprised and terrified by how fast people drive, often while looking at phones, on the residential streets where I run. Those “Drive like your kids live here” signs don’t work so great.

Sharing the road also means respecting crosswalks, those thick white stripes you’re supposed to stop behind at red lights. If you’re at a light and a runner is crossing, please let them clear the intersection before you turn. Stop before you reach stop signs so people don’t have to wait for you to go or run behind your vehicle. Basically, just do everything you were taught in drivers’ ed.

And please don’t honk your horn at runners, unless they’re in danger. Even if your intentions are innocent, understand there’s no way to tell — especially for women runners who endure street harassment regularly. Yes, it does happen. If you see someone you know running, just tell them later you saw them. “I see you getting after it! Go on, girl!” can make someone’s day, but the sincerity doesn’t quite resonate when it’s yelled from a moving vehicle.

Please donate, if you can afford it. Fund-raising isn’t required, but it’s kind of the whole point of the race. The registration fees only cover the cost of putting on the event, which is St. Jude’s biggest single-day fund-raiser. Most runners who participate have pledged to raise money as St. Jude Heroes. When a participant commits to a Bronze, Silver, or Gold fund-raising goal, they’re on the hook for it.

That’s why your runner friends are blowing up your Facebook feed with their personal donation links. Asking people for money is extremely awkward. And if you live in Memphis, chances are everyone you know knows someone else who’s raising money, too.

When you help someone achieve their fund-raising goal, you’re helping them cruise into race day focused solely on what happens between the start line and the finish. Also, you’re literally saving lives.

Finally, please don’t be that person who complains about the road closures. They’ve been doing this thing for 16 years now. The marathon is the first Saturday in December every year. The 2019, 2020, and 2021 races are already scheduled: They’ll be on the first Saturday of December, too. The route has been changed this year to lessen the impact on traffic. Signs are posted on the affected streets.

All the local news outlets run stories about it. There’s an entire website (stjude.org/MarathonNeighbors) with all the information you could possibly need about the road closures. It’s less than one day out of the entire year. It raises more than $10 million dollars for pediatric cancer research and has a massive economic impact on the city.

People will still whine about it, though — in spite of those warnings. Please, if you live in Midtown or Downtown, just plan ahead. Find an alternate route to wherever you’re going. Make your grocery run Friday night. Crash at someone else’s house if you have to. I’ve had to make arrangements before; I know it’s inconvenient.

But you know what’s super-inconvenient? Kids getting cancer. So keep it to yourself. Figure something out, or better yet, embrace it.

Find some poster board and a folding chair and head to the nearest cheering station. Pay close attention to the names on shirts: some are angels, others still fighting. It will inspire you. I hope I see you there.

Jen Clarke is an unapologetic Memphian and a digital marketing specialist.

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