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OUR 1359TH / ISSUE 03.12.2015 / COVER STORY P.16 I have some big news. Really big news. After lots of cajoling and arm-twisting, I’ve managed to convince Jack Sammons (yes!) to become the Flyer’s new executive editor. Sure, I know he’s a busy man, being the CEO of the hair-product company that makes Shine ’n Jam and running the Airport Authority and helping run the FedEx St. Jude golf tournament. And I know Mayor Wharton has tapped him as the man to take over as the new city chief administrative officer (CAO), but really, who else is there in town? Sammons, as everyone knows, is “Mr. Fixit,” and we need him here at the Flyer, just like everybody else does.

As everyone knows, Sammons’ resume is second to none. He’s already been city CAO once. He’s a four-term city councilman, a former council chairman, a restaurateur, a bartender, and a man with connections. And, according to several folks quoted in Wayne Risher’s recent Commercial Appeal profile, Sammons is a “master salesman, communicator, and executor … innovative, creative, and bold.”

Whew! Sammons, as is now obvious, not only can do it all, he eventually will do it all.

The mayor has now dispatched an emissary to Nashville to convince the GOP-led legislature to overturn a pesky law that prohibits a person who’s running an aiport authority from working for that airport’s city administration. But surely that’s just a formality. Sammons, as I may have mentioned, has connections in high places. And it’s just that important that he become Memphis’ CAO. Sure, there are some nay-sayers, like county Mayor Mark Luttrell, who was quoted in Risher’s story as saying: “I just think that’s too much for one person. I think the airport needs someone who can give their unqualified attention to that situation and the city needs a CAO who can do that as well.”

Pish posh.

Sure, in other cities, there may be lots of qualified folks out there ready to step up and take things in a fresh new direction. But in Memphis, not so much. Around here, it’s pretty much Jack Sammons or nothing. We’re lucky to have him. Otherwise, we’d be screwed.

And that’s why I’m so happy he’s also going to begin running the Flyer. Sure, I could N EWS & O P I N I O N have looked around and found some perky, LETTERS - 4 young forward-thinker. Heck, there are some THE FLY-BY - 6 deserving folks on my own staff, some of them AT LARGE - 9 even female, but if you get a chance to get Jack POLITICS - 10 VIEWPOINT - 13 Sammons, you go for it, my friends. That’s just EDITORIAL - 15 the way it is.

Cover Story - “It Only Hurts When I And yes, I’ve heard the rumblings out Laugh” there — that Sammons is also going to begin

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Enough already!

Why are these Memphis nitwits even considering anything other than rehabilitating the Coliseum?

Typical Memphis ridiculousness. My teen years were spent making the twohour drive to see great music shows at the Coliseum. I stood in line for six hours to get tickets to see George Harrison. I was on the front row to see Diana Ross. The chatter at school on Mondays was always about who went to Coliseum over the weekend.

It would be nothing less than a tragedy for the Coliseum to be destroyed.

John Churchwell

On Toby Sells’ cover story, “The Coliseum” …

The issue is not whether to demolish it or save it, the issue is Memphis City government. Are we to believe that they will do anything other than what they want? Surely you must be fooling yourself if you think so. The die is cast.

The building will be demolished to make way for more ineptitude. A youth athletic center? My God, more wasted money from the bankrupt city coffers under the cry of “doing what is right.”

Instead of trying to be developers and business people, why not get back to taking care of the things city government is mandated to do, like infrastructure and crime prevention?

Whether it be the Pyramid, Beale Street Landing (aka the “Hump and Screw”), our public parks, or you name it, our leadership has proven themselves incapable.

Solution: Declare the Coliseum and the acreage around it a tax-free/

My first visit to the Coliseum was in the early ’70s. Living in Jackson, Tennessee, I came down to a Chicago concert. The whole experience was good. I moved to Memphis in 1980 and went to a few concerts. In 1985, I learned that a donation would help get U of M basketball tickets, so I had season tickets till the Pyramid was built and the team moved.

The Coliseum was used for a number of years for different events, but I only made a couple of hockey games. Then came FedExForum, with its exclusive entertainment contract, and that pretty much killed the Pyramid. I am on the bridge between tearing it down and keeping it. The only way I see keeping it is by the Forum giving up the exclusive rights to entertainment contract, otherwise we spend millions of dollars to fix it up to be used for minor events and slowly but surely degrading to where it is today.

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Sadly, this is a superpower the actual Elvis never possessed.

NEVERENDING PAYTON It turns out that Elvis isn’t Memphis’ only white-suited megastar.

Last week, the Memphis Zoo posted a video of Payton the polar bear rolling around in the snow to its Facebook page. The video quickly received nearly half a million views.

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

Ten years. $200 million. That’s what city officials say it will take to fix the city’s sidewalks.

That’s not even the city’s entire stock of 3,429 miles of sidewalks, which if lined end to end would stretch from Texas to Hawaii. The program proposed last week to the Memphis City Council would only fix about 18 percent of sidewalks, though about 33 percent require immediate repair, officials said.

Star Ritchey, the owner of Midtown running group Star Runners, said Memphis sidewalks are “absolutely dangerous.”

“Motorists often get annoyed that runners are in the road, but what they don’t realize is that many of our sidewalks are in such bad shape, you couldn’t use them if you wanted to,” Ritchey said. “The majority of the sidewalks in Midtown are a mess, either broken up due to tree roots, or construction or whatever.”

The city’s engineering department began work on a plan last year to fix sidewalks, with priorities placed on sidewalks near schools. The School Safety Action Plan, which was unveiled last week, would benefit students walking to and from school as well as to parks, community centers, and libraries.

“As the public infrastructure in the city, including sidewalks, continues to grow older, the need to be proactive in maintaining this vital transportation network remains high,” said Kyle Wagenschutz, the city’s bicycle and pedestrian coordinator.

If Memphis sidewalks last 60 years, the city should be spending $19 million each year to maintain them, according to city engineers. City leaders typically budget $100,000 each year for sidewalk maintenance and have spent $334,000 over the past 10 years for their repair. That amount

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would allow a stretch of Memphis sidewalk to be replaced every 11,000 years, engineers said.

But in Memphis, sidewalk repair is the responsibility of property owners. That fact is thanks to a city law passed in 1967 that says owners of properties abutting any public street are “required to provide and maintain adjacent to his or her property a sidewalk.” It’s the same in New Orleans, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Nashville, though all of those cities easily outspend Memphis on sidewalk repair.

Sidewalks came to the fore last year when city officials began aggressively enforcing the sidewalk repair ordinance. A complaint would be registered (typically through the city’s 311 system) and then code enforcement officials would inspect the sidewalk and issue a citation to the homeowner, who had to fix the sidewalk or be ordered to court.

Hundreds of citations were ordered in a few months until the council halted sidewalk citations altogether. Council members said the financial burden of fixing sidewalks was too great on many low-income residents.

City Engineer John Cameron unveiled a plan to help those homeowners last week. It would offer financial assistance to homeowners (not renters or owners of multiple properties) who make less than $25,000 per year, are 65 or older, or are 100-percent disabled. It would also be offered to households that fall below the federal poverty line.

Cameron said the program would cost $200,000 this fiscal year to help address the sidewalks of the 400 properties that now have outstanding citations. Next year, he projected the program would cost between $200,000 and $500,000. The total project could cost between $6 million and $9 million.

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The city has multiple neighborhood revitalization projects in the works.

Neighborhood redevelopment projects are planned to bring town centers, like the one in Soulsville, all over Memphis.

Robert Lipscomb, the city’s director of Housing and Community Development, and his team brought those plans (some of which have been in the works for years) to the Memphis City Council for review last week.

Lipscomb made the presentation to let council members know that progress is being made on some of the projects but also that his office doesn’t just work on big projects like Bass Pro at the Pyramid and the Fairgrounds

redevelopment plan.

The council saw the plan for Foote Homes and the surrounding communities. Lipscomb said his team is readying to apply for a nearly $30 million federal grant for the redevelopment, which would completely demolish and replace the city’s final public housing project.

The Foote Homes plan would be similar to the Cleaborne Pointe project that replaced the housing project there and continued on page 8

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Memphis has more sidewalks than some peer cities, but they’re in bad shape.

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NEVERENDING ELVIS A huge auction held at Graceland over Elvis’ birthday week in January resulted in the sale of the King’s first Phillips Recording Service pressing.

The record, which features “My Happiness” on one side and “That’s When your Heartache Begins” on the flipside, sold to a mystery bidder for $300,000. The bidder turned out to be none other than a rocker who has since announced that his Third Man label will make 10-inch, 78-rpm copies of the historic disc available for Record Store Day on April 18th. Of course, none of that is as important as this snuggie-like blanket I found in a store in Middle Tennessee that turns the wearer into an Elvis Wizard.

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In 2012, the Memphis City Council passed an amendment adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to a list of workplace protections for city employees. But some believe the ordinance isn’t clear enough on what happens when an employee is actually discriminated against.

A group of law students from Memphis and across the country is spending their spring break this week working on an enforcement mechanism for the ordinance during the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys Law School’s Alternative Spring Break program, in which law students offer pro bono services in various areas of civil and human rights.

“We’ll have students researching the ways in which other city’s [nondiscrimination] ordinances are actually enforced on the local level. Hopefully, we can come up with a proposal for what the legal remedies are for violation of the ordinance in Memphis,” said Sarah Smith, a second-year U of M law student and the coordinator for the Alternative Spring Break program.

Maureen Holland, a local attorney

who is representing a Memphis couple in the gay marriage case appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, will be advising the law students in the Alternative Spring Break’s LGBT Equality Legislation Track.

“You have this ordinance, which is great, but it doesn’t say what happens.

It says you can’t discriminate, but what happens if you do?” Holland asked.

Holland said the ordinance has been invoked in civil service cases.

She said city workers who have civil service protections get the benefit of having a hearing before a termination or suspension, so those workers can invoke any city policies then. But Holland said city workers who don’t have civil service protections “are left to their own creativity” when they need to file complaints of violation of the nondiscrimination ordinance.

City attorney Allen Wade said any city employee can take their discrimination complaint to the city’s human resources department, but if the department doesn’t take the employee’s desired action, that employee can file a lawsuit against the city. Holland said

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Law students work to enhance city’s non-discrimination ordinance.

that should be spelled out better within the ordinance.

“Most anti-discrimination laws have the right to a private lawsuit as a piece. The federal [non-discrimination] law does, and the state does, too,” Holland said. “But the city ordinance doesn’t have anything like that. That’s something we can look at in terms of the enforcement mechanism or in terms of the remedies.”

If the law students working on this want to see their enforcement mechanism added to the city ordinance, they would have to find a councilmember to sponsor an ordinance to adopt the changes, and it would have to be approved by the full council.

There are 10 students on the LGBT

track for the spring break program including three from out of state. The Alternative Spring Break program is in its fifth year, but the LGBT track is new.

“One area that we felt is underserved in the legal community in Memphis is the LGBT population,” Smith said.

Besides the LGBT track, 60 other law students from across the country will be working in four other civil rightsrelated tracks during this week’s spring break program. Those include helping felons restore their voting rights, assisting minors who have immigrated to the country as children gain legal status for employment and college access, working with low-income elderly people to draft wills, and helping people file divorce petitions.

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Shelby County Schools’ plan aims to get more students ready for college. their race, but the person who stands at the front of the class, so we want to make sure that we have great teachers throughout the district,” Hopson said. “We [also] want to make sure that we have great school leaders. There’s no such thing as a great school without a great leader.”

Destination 2025 will also target and improve identified “struggle schools” as well as provide continued

expansion to the ones that presently boast higher scores.

During the celebration last week, the SCS elementary students, who sported red shirts emblazoned with the words “Destination 2025,” marveled at performances from the Overton High School show choir and Whitehaven High School marching band, along with Grizz, the Memphis Grizzlies mascot.

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to know how to read.”

The Destination 2025 plan will provide students with more access to rigorous courses and expand the career pathways of youths who don’t attend college.

The plan also seeks to strengthen SCS’s development of teachers, principals, and central office supporters.

“The most important thing is not [a student’s] socio-economic background or

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Eighty percent of this year’s secondgraders will walk across the stage at their high school graduations in 2025 prepared to pursue higher education or a meaningful career if a new Shelby County Schools (SCS) strategic plan is effective.

“Destination 2025” seeks to ensure 80 percent of graduating seniors will be college- or career-ready; 90 percent of students will graduate on time; and 100 percent of college- or careerready graduates will enroll in a postsecondary education.

“The current state of the school system is solid but needs lots of sustained improvement,” said SCS Superintendent Dorsey Hopson. “If we’re able to reach the goals we set forth, it’ll change not only schools in the district but the economic outlook for Memphis and Shelby County. We did an analysis: If we have 90 percent of students graduate and going to postsecondary opportunities, it’ll generate about $5 billion in the next 10 years.”

Hopson revealed the five key priorities that will be implemented to help achieve Destination 2025’s goals during a kickoff event at Cummings School last week.

Those include strengthening early literacy; improving post-secondary readiness; developing teachers, leaders, and central office support to drive student success; expanding high-quality school options; and mobilizing family and community partners.

The dozens of elementary students who sat in pews in the Cummings School auditorium erupted in cheers after hearing the rewards that would be provided to the schools that boasted the highest increase in literacy rates.

Each student in both the elementary and middle school that has the greatest growth in literacy performance on this year’s TCAP compared to last year will win a pair of tickets to a Grizzlies game next season.

The high school with the greatest improvement in literacy performance on its End-of-Course assessment compared to last year will receive a school-wide celebration hosted by K-97 FM, along with a yet-unnamed “A-list recording artist.”

Presently, only about a third of SCS students read at grade level by the time they finish the third grade. SCS is implementing a new comprehensive literacy plan, improving pre-K classes, and seeking out more teachers who specialize in early education literacy.

“If you don’t know how to read, you’re going to be significantly hampered in life,” Hopson said. “No matter what you want to be, you have

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Noting that he didn’t want to “leave any neighborhood behind when it comes to the Fairgrounds project,” Lipscomb showed council members a town center project for the Beltline neighborhood, which sits adjacent to the Fairgrounds’ eastern border.

The plan showed improvements to streetscapes, building facades, and green space. It also included a park and garden space for residents to use and lighting for railroad underpasses there that would give safer access to the Orange Mound neighborhood.

Lipscomb showed similar plans for the Klondike/Smokey City

neighborhood, and for New Chicago, where work has already begun.

Councilmember Wanda Halbert applauded the plans, noting that so many development dollars go to downtown and Midtown while other parts of Memphis are neglected.

Councilmember Janice Fullilove asked Lipscomb what would happen to the plans if a new mayor is elected in October. Lipscomb said he doesn’t get into politics and he expected the plans to move forward.

The various neighborhood plans have been in the development phase for years. When asked when the projects may come to fruition, Lipscomb said they would get started as soon as funding is identified.

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The Natural On Jack Sammons’ return to City Hall. that I reported on the details of Jack Sammons probable return to city government. Regardless of what Mayor A C Wharton has said, this is a political appointment. Long ago, Wharton separated himself from the have-nots of this community. It’s not about initiating programs to help. It’s about what’s left of his desire, spirit, and will to carry out these programs to bring about positive change. I truly believe his tank is nearly running on empty in all those categories.

No further evidence has to be shown on that account other than his leaving out-going CAO George Little to twist slowly in the wind during the debates over pension and health-care reform for city employees. Wharton appeared content to let Little take the heat from the council and the public. If you’re Jack Sammons, it should be a signal as to what you’re getting yourself into.

If I were Sammons, I’d also ask myself why it’s taken five years for Wharton to decide to appoint me as CAO, when I effectively served in the position for five months under interim Mayor Myron Lowery and was fired by Wharton in 2009.

Sammons has always had the ability to be a “fixer” in government, similar to the role Rick Masson played during the early years of the Willie Herenton administration. And, of course, it’s going to take some legislative hoodoo to allow Sammons to retain his job as Airport Authority chairman while he serves as CAO. Tell me this doesn’t smack of an old cigar-smoke-filled backroom deal.

Why do we continue to tolerate this blatant kind of political musical chairs? If Wharton truly believes the time has come to take this city in a different direction, why not find new faces with new ideas to get us there?

Career bureaucrats, those who’ve been recycled because of their failure to meet the demands of their old jobs and political cronies need not apply. We need those people who are willing to put in the elbow grease to work for the good of the city they live in. We need to find the people who are “naturals” at what they do, and City Hall needs to give them their unmitigated support.

Les Smith is a reporter for WHBQ Fox-13.

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In all the years I’ve reported on Memphis politics, I’m convinced only Jack Sammons could rightfully hold the title of “The Natural.”

His energetic personality, his still-boyish charm, even at age 59, and his infectious belief that Memphis can still be that “shining city on a hill” are all undeniable.

So, why am I not enthusiastic over the possibility the ubiquitous businessman, former councilman, and current Memphis and Shelby County Airport Authority Board chairman could become this city’s next chief administrative officer (CAO)? I’ll tell you why, and it has nothing to do with the amiable Sammons on a personal or professional basis.

Just as teams recycle grizzled baseball managers and football coaches, we in Memphis continue to recycle the same people through the meat grinder of government. In a city of more than 640,000 people, in a county of just under 1 million people, how is it that our pool of the brightest and most innovative minds is somehow limited to the same patronage stream that has been fished in for decades?

I’ve often been asked, “Why don’t more good people step up to the plate when it comes to engaging in public service?” My usual reply is a sad rhetorical question: Why should they?

From what I’ve observed, most people who run for office or seek appointment come in with idealism. They start out truly believing that their determination and desire to serve their constituents will bring about meaningful change and right long-standing injustices. Some, like former councilman and now 29th District Tennessee state Senator Lee Harris, defiantly weathered the hypocrisy.

He fought for the people of his district even when he didn’t win, against forces that were entrenched in self-serving agendas and political grandstanding.

I also see that quiet determination to earnestly serve the public in interim Councilman Berlin Boyd. Both these men are fighting the idea that Memphis government doesn’t have to be trapped in the same stale ideologies of the past.

But, these young, bright minds are sadly the exception, and not the rule, when it comes to those participating in Memphis government.

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It bears repeating that candidates for office in the 2015 Memphis city election won’t even be able to draw qualifying petitions from the Election Commission until April 17th, but it’s fair to say that this year’s mayoral race is well underway — with most of the remaining suspense coming down to when and whether City Councilman Harold Collins will join an already full deck of aspirants, and when and whether former school board member Kenneth Whalum Jr. might do the same.

(Whalum’s case is complicated by an apparent understanding between himself and announced mayoral candidate Mike Williams that only one of them — both appealing to a growing community of the disgruntled — will actually complete the filing process and run.)

Besides Williams, the other known (or presumed) quantities so far are incumbent Mayor A C Wharton, City Councilman Jim Strickland, County Commission Chairman Justin Ford, former commission Chairman James Harvey, and former University of Memphis basketballer Detric Golden.

Other races are already attracting a crowd of hopefuls. Notable in this regard is the District 5 City Council seat being vacated by Strickland.

Candidates either announced or rumored to be about to announce include architect Charles “Chooch” Pickard; longtime activist and retired social services administrator Mary Wilder; insurance broker Worth Morgan; bank executive Dan Springer; businessman Brandon Echols; and IBEW business manager Paul Shaffer.

Several of the above are already campaigning and busy raising money.

Another possibility is former County Commissioner Mike Ritz, once a Germantown resident, who now lives in the district.

There are also distant early warnings for another mayoral race — the one for Shelby County Mayor in 2018. As far away as that seems in the calendar sense, there are already some fairly sure things among likely candidates.

GOP County Commissioner Terry Roland admits to wanting to run, and

his increasingly bipartisan profile on the commission is a telling indicator of that. Also nursing mayoral hopes for that year is two-term County Trustee David Lenoir.

The picture for potential Democratic candidates is less clear, although any of several serving county commissioners are good prospects — including Van Turner, Melvin Burgess, and, once again, Justin Ford, should the latter’s run for city mayor not pan out.

A dark horse potential candidate in that forthcoming county mayor’s race is Heidi Shafer, now in her second term as commissioner. As dedicated commission-watchers know, Shafer is, more often than not, at the helm of concerted GOP activity on the body,

A dark horse potential candidate in that forthcoming county mayor’s race is Heidi Shafer, now in her second term as commissioner. particularly if it involves issues that appeal to the party’s more conservative wing.

Shafer was the beneficiary (or victim) this week of a surprise move on Facebook to get her nominated as a candidate for Memphis mayor. On Monday, a new page went up, headed “Draft Heidi Shafer for Mayor,” the apparent handiwork of Arnold Weiner, a longtime Republican activist who is one of two candidates (the other being Mary Wagner) seeking to become chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party at the party’s convention later this month.

Though no doubt flattered, the surprised Shafer, who was on her way to New Orleans to enroll her daughter at Tulane when she got the news, lost little time in disavowing any interest in a Memphis mayoral race, acknowledging that her expertise — and interest — lay in county affairs.

Democrats, too, will be picking a new chairman — and a new 29-member executive committee — this month. Delegates to a March 28th party convention will be picked at party caucuses on March 14th, both events to be held at First Baptist Church on Broad Avenue.

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Add Jordan to the mix, and we now have a move to unify Arabs against the ISIS threat. That’s big news.

In the beginning the collaboration will probably be limited to intelligence and training. But if successful, the links will grow and these countries will actually help each other on joint missions on the ground and from the air.

Salman, al Sisi, and Abdullah need to work well together — a move to unify Arabs against the ISIS threat.

There is no other option. What they do and say will have tremendous impact on the rest of the Arab world. They can convey a sense of stability — or not. They can create a sense of mission and vision and draw people away from ISIS — or they will fail and their monarchies will be in tumult.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan all come with essential powerful and important skill sets. Saudi Arabia is the richest; Egypt is the most populous; Jordan has one of the highest adult literacy rates in the region at 97 percent.

They all have clout. The only way to defeat ISIS or to defeat Iran is if the Arabs in the neighborhood actually work together. And now. They finally see these new threats as serious challenges to their very existence — and they are now strategizing on how to confront it.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not the only Middle East leader to take a road trip recently. And despite all of the hoopla about “the speech,” his was probably not the most important message being delivered.

More important, although much less sensational and therefore much less covered by the press, was the visit of King Abdullah of Jordan to his newly crowned counterpart in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And then there was the visit, several days later, of Abdel Fatah al Sisi, the president of Egypt, who also met with Salman, the king of Saudi Arabia.

After the formalities were dispensed with, the real business at hand began.

And in each of those meetings, like Netanyahu in Washington, one important topic was under discussion: Iran. Then came ISIS. It is hugely important for the United States to understand that when it comes to these sensitive subjects, Israel does not stand alone. Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia are all also the sworn enemies of both ISIS and Iran.

These meetings — by Middle East leaders, rulers to be more specific, held in the region itself — were extremely important. Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt are all part of the coalition against ISIS. And yes, all three have strong relations with the United States.

But more than anything else, both of these two monarchs, as well as the Egyptian president, are all in the cross hairs of ISIS. They all know that ISIS wants to take over their countries. And they are keenly aware that there are already individual people and organized groups inside each of their countries who are affiliated with ISIS and with Al Qaeda. The violence is growing and it is reaching critical mass.

Each leader came with the same plan in mind. In the course of their meetings, the two kings and the president agreed to increase their cooperation against ISIS even outside the coalition. They have no choice.

They agreed to step up and strike ISIS and Al Qaeda, to support one another, and to share information. We know all of this because they chose to leak it to their domestic Arabic press.

They understand that, for them, fighting ISIS is a battle of survival.

Abdullah and Salman know very well that in order for their reigns to survive they must defeat ISIS. We also know from official sources that the Egyptian/Saudi conversation

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in such a way as to shame the bodies that theoretically represent the larger enclaves of state and nation.

Casting partisanship aside back in February, the members of the commission, among whose responsibilities it is to maintain the effectiveness of Regional One Health (aka The Med) voted 12-0 for a resolution urging the General Assembly to approve the Haslam plan, which would have brought $1.4 billion a year into Tennessee for the rescue of its financially challenged hospitals.

Although some Republicans in Nashville were ready to concur, a band of GOP ideologues on a single Senate committee prevented the plan from even getting to the floor. All hail gridlock!

More recently, the commission put itself on record this past Monday with the same degree of unanimity in opposition to voucher legislation which has already cleared the state Senate and is ready for processing by the House.

The Republicans and Democrats of the County Commission pointed out the obvious: Any money channeled into private schools will be at the expense of the state’s — and the county’s — public school systems.

The Shelby County Commission seems to have gotten the knack of seeing beyond abstract partisanship so as to do some real governing on behalf of their community. It’s an elementary habit of mind but one that seems unhappily lost to the denizens of state and local government.

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Congressional Republicans and the demoralized Democrats of the House and Senate glaring at each other across a no-man’s land of stalled or vindictive legislation.

It is much the same with the Tennessee General Assembly in Nashville, where the most obviously beneficial possibilities — think Governor Haslam’s proposed Insure Tennessee vehicle for overdue Medicaid expansion — are doomed to inevitable oblivion once the GOP super-majority there finds a way to link them to the name of President Obama.

American history — if a nation this conflicted can actually survive — will surely reflect at some future point on the ignominy of a time when an entire national party devoted itself not to the art of governing but to a grim determination not to govern. (The periodic attempt of Republicans in Congress to shut down the government is not the anomaly it is often presented as by a credulous media; preventing government would seem to be not a stratagem but an end in itself for the anarchist ideologues who control the party’s right wing.)

Luckily, though, there is one governmental unit that still seems to be functioning across party lines with the goal in mind of securing the greatest good for the greatest number. It’s the Shelby County Commission, whose seven Democrats and six Republicans have demonstrated twice in this calendar year that they not only can achieve unity of purpose, but do so

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IT ONLY HURTS WHEN HE LAUGHS The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of Mike Matthews, Memphis’ TV Watchdog.

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ike Matthews is barely 60 years old, and what is that these days but the new 45? In any case, something about this idiosyncratic marvel of a TV newsman is peculiarly and perpetually young — but not in the usual cosmetic sense.

For there’s something old about him, too. And why not? Chronically overweight and formerly prone to an unhealthy self-indulgence, he’s taken more than a few batterings in recent years — an abrupt firing from his longtime station in late 2011, and, after two years of reestablishing himself at a new television 16 address, having to endure, successively, cancer and a heart attack, followed by

a serious and unexpected circulatory problem resulting from what should have been a routine treatment.

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After a lengthy convalescence from the latter, a runaway hematoma that ravaged his body tissue and kept him hospitalized and abed (something the cancer, a scalp lymphoma since radiated into remission, couldn’t do), Matthews is ready to resume his duties and is expected back on the job at WATV, Channel 24, next week.

As longtime fans and well-wishers, we wanted to cheer him on and sat down last Saturday afternoon with the Watchdog, as he is billed on TV for his aggressive and probing oversight

of the local political and governmental universe. The venue was Celtic Crossing, the Cooper-Young establishment where Matthews has been both a fixture and a draw for the past several years. Long renowned for his tippling prowess, the Dog confined himself to a few glasses of water during our conversation, more or less on doctor’s orders. As we talked, he was continually being greeted with hearty “Welcome home!” greetings from customers and employees.

This native of the Boston area has been a Memphian since September 1997 — not quite 20 years— but in that length of time he’s become an authentic Memphian, residual New England Irish accent and all. Those who see him on TV or

follow his tweets or read his entertaining Facebook posts — and, added up together, that’s a lot of us — have learned more about Memphis and its power alleys than they thought there was to know.

And more about him, too, especially in the Facebook entries, that — unlike the tweets and the television reporting, which are faithful if distinctively nuanced reports on the body politic — are something rare indeed: obsessive blow-by-blow accounts in which the self-chronicler tells us everything that he’s doing (or that is being done to him), jot by jot, tittle by tittle, without being the least bit boring or offputting. Over and over again, he turns out to be his own most interesting subject.

Many of us, in late September 2011,

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One of his favorite targets was Willie Herenton, the alpha-male mayor who had been in office for six years when Matthews

got to town (following TV and radio stints in his native New England, and later in Columbia, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina). Herenton would serve another 12 years, during much of which time Hizzoner would often have to answer to the Watchdog.

“I always enjoyed the Herenton press conference. Some days he’d be mad at you and some days you were the greatest reporter who hit the earth,” recalled Matthews who went after the mayor hard on irregularities like those at the city’s Animal Shelter and Rape Crisis Center (both still potential problem areas under Herenton’s successor, Mayor A C Wharton).

And there was John Ford, the longtime former state senator from Memphis who was forever mired in controversy and who would eventually be convicted of bribery in the FBI’s Tennessee Waltz sting of 2005. The Watchdog gave the volatile Ford a wide berth, even while pressing him for answers.

“With somebody like him — with anybody, actually — if it got to the point where he said ‘no comment’ the third time, I would back off. He would easily get angry. I remember one day he was walking at a real fast clip. I’ve got my photographer and we’re running after him, and he won’t talk. I finally said, ‘Senator, unless you want to be responsible for me dying of a heart attack right now, you should stop and let me get in front of you. He stopped and said, ‘Okay, go ahead.

Look at me and ask your questions.’”

As that incident suggests, the relationship of Matthews with the officials on his beat is generally one of mutual respect. (He regards both Herenton and Ford, whatever their flaws, as having been capable public servants who “did the job.”)

As for Herenton, “He was fiery, but the son of a gun, when I was out of work at Channel 3, and Channel 3 didn’t renew me, and I was needing a job, the guy who hired me at Channel 24, Pete Jacobus, was out one night and saw Herenton at Houston’s and says, ‘I’m thinking of hiring Mike Matthews,’ and Herenton says, ‘You gotta hire him, he’s a great reporter.’”

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So what happened that Channel 3, for which he’d been a star performer, would let him go? Roll back through his voluminous Facebook posts, and it’s obvious that the non-renewal of his contrast blindsided him. No premonition, no warning.

“I don’t know what happened at Channel 3. I wish I did, but I don’t. I didn’t fit in with their future plans, I was told. I just don’t bad-mouth where I worked.” The station, which for years had languished at a seemingly permanent #2 to WMC-TV, Action News 5, had begun scoring number-one ratings at various time slots during his tenure there — a success rate, it should be said, that it continues to maintain.

(Top) Matthews at Celtic Crossing and (below) in his younger days.

“I was shocked. I was. Really surprised,” Matthews said of his involuntary departure. “When stuff like this happens, it makes you realize: ‘Boy, I really liked that job.’

“There’s no job protection in broadcasting, none whatsoever, particularly in Tennessee, an at-will state,” the Dog mused on his bar stool. “A contract will keep you there for a while, but not that long. There’s no protection, and radio’s even tougher.” He was doing both genres in Charlotte, his immediate pre-Memphis venue, and admits to being fired there — maybe for expressing “liberal” attitudes on the radio talk show he was doing in that conservative neck of the woods. (For a while, he did a little moonlighting in Memphis radio, too, following shock jock Thaddeus Matthews at a Flinn Broadcasting station.)

One problem at Channel 3 may have been the Watchdog’s off-duty tweets.

“Yeah, I got in trouble tweeting. A lot of double entendres. Not sophisticated humor, by any stretch. Early in the game they were borderline profane, and I was just knocking ’em out. I was told at the station, ‘Some of your tweets are in bad taste. You wouldn’t say some of that stuff on TV.’ I said, ‘I’d say it all.’ That might not have gone over well. I stopped. I really toned down.”

At Channel 24, where he landed in January 2013 after three months in broadcasting limbo, he’s once again a tweeter. “It drives people to our TV station. I try to put some personality into it still.”

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At his new station, where copyright worries caused a temporary nickname

change to “the Bulldog” (he has long since reverted to the “Watchdog” handle), Matthews enjoyed his reprieve and his return to the TV wars, and he resumed his former off-duty habits.

“Out there, drinking what you want to, eating what you want to, smoking cigars, you think you can’t be put down. You think you’re going to live forever. I did. All of a sudden, the cancer hit me in June.”

He’d developed a pimple-like bump on top of his balding scalp, one that began to grow. Channel 24 photographer Whitney Gramling, who’d had her own bout with melanoma, warned him he needed to see a doctor about it. A doctor, after watching him on TV, called in to urge him to do the same thing. Ultimately, Matthews went to see a dermatologist, who did a biopsy and confirmed the presence of a malignancy that was soon diagnosed as a lymphoma.

“They got it in stage one, which is rare for a lymphoma,” recalled the Dog. The subsequent radiation therapy “knocked me for a loop. It was really tiring. There was a little nausea, but mostly I got exhausted.” But he stayed on the job, in the meantime, sporting the wide-brimmed hat — to hide the marks drawn on his scalp to guide the radiation therapist — that has since become an on-air trademark. “There were days when it was really hard ro focus on what I was doing.

There were some days I had to take off.

But for the most part I wanted to work. It sounds crazy, but I like what I’m doing.”

Inveterate self-chronicler that he is, Matthews kept his widening audience of fans and sympathizers informed of his medical progress on a daily basis via Facebook. And he kept on working.

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learned first from his Facebook page that Matthews had been fired by WREGTV, News Channel 3, the station that, 14 years earlier, had given him the task of patrolling the local political and governmental waterfront — and that on-point nickname, The Watchdog, to go with it. The firing — actually, a non-renewal of his contract — was an astounding fact for many of us, who had long admired the Dog’s aggressive, street-smart, unabashed style of reporting.

(The Flyer’s then-media critic, Jim Hanas, fascinated, dubbed it noir journalism.)

No blow-hair studio dandy, this guy.

He had once — in his youth and early in his professional career — had more hair than all of the Kennedy brothers put together. As he put it in our chat, “I had some amazing hair. People would come from miles around to look at my hair.

Little kids wanted to crawl around in it.”

The Mike Matthews who hit Memphis TV screens in 1997 at age 42 was a balding, portly presence, however — visually more like Broderick Crawford than Matthew Broderick. Often, especially out of doors, he wore a trenchcoat. “I was gaining a little weight at the time, and I couldn’t button my coat, so I threw the stupid coat over my shoulder. People reacted, so I just kept doing it.”

Social mores, FCC codes, and TV “best practices” being what they were, he couldn’t use the fat, rolled cigars he fancied as props, but they somehow seemed to be implicit in the frames, anyhow.

Watching the Dog at a press conference was always a treat for other reporters.

Suspenders, perpetually rumpled clothes, an ever-growing pot belly, and, ultimately, a hat (more about that anon): These were all part of his costumery, as he customarily beat other reporters to the punch and barked out the first question, as often as not the first of a series, prodding at some weak point in the subject’s façade, some cover-up in the presentation. As he described his modus operandi on Saturday, it was the best way he could find of serving Memphis: “It’s a working-class city, and the people need somebody out there who’s trying to be their voice. You ask your questions for them. I always did. They don’t think the politicians give a damn about them.

They don’t think the people in power care about them. So my job is to go talk to the mayor or whoever and to approach them with respect but with a directness. Folks deserve an answer, and that’s what you got the job for. I keep reminding them they’re public servants, that’s the term, and a lot of times these folks get in and they forget that entirely. It sounds corny, but that’s what I need to be doing, and that’s what I’m going to keep doing. I get real passionate about that.“

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continued from page 17 job,” he said. “It’s what I want to do. Really, it’s all I’ve ever wanted. Memphis has been a great place for me, because it offers politics in a way you don’t see any other places. It’s a rough and tumble world, and it’s right out there for you to see, and there’s all kinds of things going on that are just underneath the surface.

“And the toughest thing was this year.

Hell, on January 16th, when I was told I was having a heart attack, [Councilman Jim] Strickland had just announced he was running for mayor, and I was thinking, ‘Oh, this is going to be great here.’ With Strickland running, and at the time I was thinking that [Councilman] Harold Collins was going to announce in a couple of weeks. I didn’t know anything yet about [County Commissioner] Justin Ford and [Memphis Police Association President] Mike Williams, I just knew this was going to be a great year.

“So I feel I’ve knocked off the cancer It’s in remission, the doctors tell me, and on January 16th, I wake up at three o’clock in the morning. I was feeling panicky. I thought it was a panic attack.” And he had what felt like an onslaught of acid reflux. His first thought was to turn on the TV to calm himself down. But, as luck would have it, his cable system wasn’t working right. If it had been, he probably would never have left his building. But he

drove down to the Walgreen’s nearest his Midtown apartment (“Walgreen’s is a very interesting place at three in the morning!”) and bought himself a little battery-powered radio to keep him early-morning company back in his apartment.

“I get in the car, with the radio. And, I don’t know what it is, but I feel strange.”

So, on impulse, he drove to Methodist Hospital, where, at that early hour, “I had the best parking space.” Inside, at the emergency room’s admissions desk, he almost apologized for being there. “I said I may be overreacting. I may be making this up. But they took my blood pressure.

It was 220 over 160, something bizarre I never heard of. They finished another test and said, ‘You’re having a heart attack right now.’”

The long and the short of it is that, after a lengthy wait, he was admitted.

The short part was that he was given a catherization. The long part is what came next, an unexpected post-catherizatron hematoma in the region of his thigh that begat complications so trying and virulent that the doctors stopped talking about his heart issue altogether.

“If this thing hadn’t happened, I’d have been in there for a day or two, tops, and out of there. But there was the hematoma, all this blood, and an infection. I had to have the dressings changed every morning. They thought of a skin graft.

Another week they did a drain. In the

third week, they did a catherization on the other side, put a stint in, and found blockage in another artery, and an aorta that was enlarged.”

In the meantime, the hematoma had destroyed muscle and nerve tissue. “I had developed this odor of decaying flesh, and there was another operation just trying to cut away two areas where there was lots of decay.”

A further complication was the fact that Matthews has Type 2 diabetes, “because I’m a fat bastard.” Once topping the scales at more than 300 pounds, he now, post-treatment, weighs in at a mere 270.

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The bottom line is that he’s out now and ready to resume his reporting duties.

His diet, both liquid and solid, is different.

“Fish and vegetables, mainly. It’s gonna kill me, because I’m Irish — a red-meatand-potatoes man. And I can’t eat any of that anymore. No cigars. No drink. Oh, once every now and then.” Never fear. He’s back to doing his teetotaling (or whatever) at Celtic Crossing and, starting March 16th — two months to the day from his heart attack — he’ll be back on the air.

Will he be the same old Watchdog?

The relish with which he discusses the forthcoming mayoral race leaves little doubt on that score. “I’ve got to get going on it. There’s a lot of work I have to do. I’m like A C [incumbent Mayor

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There’s no doubt that Matthews means it when he says, “I get my pleasure out of my job.” He told a story about the dissolution of his one and only marriage many years ago, early in his broadcasting career.

“My wife, who was fed up with my fixation on my work, asked me a hypothetical question: ‘If you had a son and a plane happened to crash on the day of your son’s first birthday party, keeping in mind he would never have another first birthday, which event would you spend your time at?” I told her, ‘I’d have to go to the plane crash. I mean, it’s a plane crash!’

She never understood.”

The couple would remain childless and would divorce after a two-year run.

There would never be a son, but there would, in a manner of speaking, be any number of “plane crashes,” especially in rowdy, working-class Memphis, which continually reminds him of the nittygritthy aspects of his native Boston.

“I like the job too well,” he says.

Reminded that he’s become an institution here, he says, “An institution?

I ought to be in an institution!”

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Last fall, the Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM) issued a call for submissions for an exhibit set for Women’s History Month. They were looking for objects brought to this country from international women now living in the Memphis and Jackson areas. The result is “What I Kept,” opening this week at AMUM. Fifty-five women from 33 countries participated, with each woman asked to include a written story about her chosen object.

The show features 21 photographs by Jason Miller (he describes it as a “life’s work” for him) as well as some of the objects. Andy Hunter’s documentary In the Middle about international women will be screened during the exhibit.

“The exhibit promotes dialogue, raises voices that may not be heard through artistic means,” says Penny Dodds Karwacz, the curator of “What I Kept.”

The objects range from the sentimental to the utilitarian. Two women — one from the Netherlands, the other from Ghana — brought mortar and pestles. There’s a cookbook, a Koran. Some brought traditional clothing items, others paintings and pictures. A few brought dolls. The youngest participant, a 3 year old from China, brought a figurine of a rabbit, bought by her adoptive parents before they had met her.

Karwacz says the objects represent different things, depending on the woman — a link back to the culture, happy memories, a sense of control, a feeling of protection.

“It’s heartwarming how emotional it is to talk about about the objects they cherish,” says Karwacz.

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A Conversation with Masta Ace Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 7 p.m., $9 Masta Ace (“The Symphony”) discusses his family’s Memphis roots, the music business, and more. A screening of Beats, Rhymes & Videotape, a documentary on the integrity in hip-hop music, follows the talk.

The Seagull Playhouse on the Square, 8 p.m., $22 An adaptation of Chekhov’s play about an aging actress dealing with jealousy and frustration. Through March 28th.

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Schlafly Beer Dinner Flying Saucer Downtown, 6:30 p.m., $30-$35 A four-course dinner paired with five Schlafly beers. Reservations: 523-8536.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Playhouse on the Square, Christopher Durang’s homage to Chekhov, held in conjunction with Playhouse’s production of The Seagull. Through March 29th.

Emissaries of Memphis Music 2015 Kroc Center, 7 p.m., $50 Honoring area women involved in the music business, presented by the Memphis Music Commission.

Among the honorees are Sandy Carroll, Yvonne and Lorraine Mitchell, and Pat Mitchell Worley.

“It’s an Art Show: A Passion for Process” Otherlands Coffee Bar, 5:30-8 p.m.

Opening reception for works in acrylic, pastel, and pencil by Melanie Pyron.

Southern Women’s Show Agricenter International, 10 a.m.8 p.m., $10 Annual expo featuring cooking demos, fashion shows, and tons of shopping. For a full schedule and more information, go to southernshows.com.

Shen Yun Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m., $50-$120 An evening of traditional Chinese music and dance.

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Carlos Mencia Fitz Casino & Hotel, 9 p.m., $25-$40 Actor and comedian Carlos Mencia performs tonight at the Fitz.

MONDAY March 16

St. Patrick’s Day Parade Beale Street, 3 p.m.

Annual St. Patrick’s Day parade and the raising of the goat at Silky O’Sullivan’s.

Irish Whisky Tasting Celtic Crossing, 5-9 p.m., $30-$75 A St. Patrick’s Day event with an Irish Seisun (music jam) and storytelling with David McDonnell.

Santana The Orpheum, 8 p.m., $95-$270 Rock legend Carlos Santana brings his Corazon Tour to Memphis.

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Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays TheatreWorks, 8 p.m., $20 A series of short pieces on the topic of gay marriage by such writers as Paul Rudnick, Moises Kaufman, and Mo Gaffney. The March 21st show benefits the Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

What We Do in the Shadows offers a fun spin on the vampire genre.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 21 10 AM – 2 PM

JAMIE KORNEGAY DISCUSSING AND SIGNING “SOIL” ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18TH, AT 6 P.M. AT STORY BOOTH (438 N. CLEVELAND), ORGANIZED BY THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD.

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Who is “the new, bold face of Southern literature”? According to a publicist who used those very words, it could be Jamie Kornegay. He runs an independent bookstore, TurnRow Book Company, in Greenwood, Mississippi, but it’s Kornegay’s debut novel, Soil (Simon & Schuster), that was the talk of the recent American Booksellers Association meeting in North Carolina. That annual meeting has become, according to a recent article in The Washington Post, “an early-warning system for the year’s most celebrated titles.” Soil was one of those titles, and Kornegay was one of the authors receiving a lot of attention.

Kornegay is in the middle of a book tour throughout the South (including a stop in Memphis on March 18th), and the landscape of the South is something the author knows full well. He’s a Southerner himself, he studied creative writing at the University of Mississippi, and he once worked as a bookseller at Square Books in Oxford. His debut novel is set in the South, too: Mississippi’s hill country, to be exact.

When Soil opens, flooding has swollen the area’s waterways and turned riverbanks knee-deep in muck. That’s nothing, though, compared to the unstable state of Jay Mize, an ecologically responsible farmer wrestling not only with the fallout from a failing marriage but with his own mounting paranoia. Now throw in a dead body discovered near Mize’s property and add in a dirty-minded deputy sheriff.

There you have the basic setup in Soil, a story that can be, by turns, violent and comic, but it’s never far removed from its setting, the Southern landscape, which can be dark and dangerous too. (Care to learn how to dismember and compost a corpse?) All of it, though, is in the tradition of Southern storytelling at its gothic best, and author Tom Franklin said it best when he described (by way of praise) Kornegay’s bold literary debut in two words: “kick-ass.”

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• Fabrics/textiles used: Jersey knit fabrics, emerald green and white, 4-way stretch cream lace, stretch sangria purple chiffon, and metallic silver, green and gold threads.

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• Proudest accomplishment: Winning 3rd place in the 2014 Memphis City Beautif Trashion Show.

• Where did you learn design: My mom t me sewing basics, but the rest is self-ta • Fabrics/textiles used: Nylon lycra, chiffo and satin.

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• Occupation: Fashion Designer and Entrepreneur • Inspirations: My faith, people, and music.

• Fabrics/textiles used: Poly-spandex blend, mesh, and woven spandex blend.

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• Where did you learn design: My dad and most recently the Memphis College of Art Continuing Ed Fashion Design Class by MFW. • My collection is elegant but easy, with a nod to traditional crafts.

• Inspirations: My biggest inspiration is Memphis itself - its people, places, culture, and uniqueness.

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• Proudest accomplishment: Graduating from University of Memphis • Fashion indulgence: One-of-a-kind garments and accessories.

• Inspirations: The Mad Max movie franchise, particularly Mad Max Fury Road • Fabrics/textiles used: Mix of linen, cotton, denim, twill and faux leather.

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Occupation: Attorney My collection is classic with a modern t Inspirations: Nature and architecture Fabrics/textiles used: Lace, wool suitin and silk.

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PHIS DESIGNER PROJECT This year’s selection of emerging Memphis designers presented by Memphis Fashion Week Story, Photography, and Layout by Sophorn Kuoy On Friday, March 27th, these 10 designers will present their custom designs at this year’s Memphis Fashion Week (MFW), after months of designing and crafting for that significant moment - a chance to share their hard work with the Memphis fashion community. The experience will also help them explore their craft and even shape how they see their future in fashion.

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• Inspirations: Nature and Old Hollywood • Fabrics/textiles used: Sateen cotton, rayon/ poly blend.

• Favorite local boutique: Muse and Hoot & Louise.

• Memphis Fashion Week is very much needed.

• Proudest accomplishment: My daughters

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• Fashion indulgence: Embellishments and leather • Memphis Fashion Week is an amazing opportunity for the growing fashion community in Memphis.

• My collection is all about the details.

• Fabrics/textiles used: Laser-cut leather, silk chiffon, stretch taffeta.

Proceeds from Memphis Fashion Week support this project by giving the selected designers the funds for materials and the one-on-one mentoring needed to navigate that process of bringing their vision to life. Here, each designer stands with a model wearing their spring/summer piece created specifically for this year’s runway.

The night of the show, the EMDP designs will be judged partially by a panel of judges and partially by Audience Choice.

The judges will be designer Pat Kerr, musician Grace Askew, and costumer Bruce Bui. First place winners for the Singles and Mini Collections each receive a scholarship to the Continuing Education Fashion Design classes at Memphis College of Art, a gift card to online retailer Spoonflower to create customprinted fabrics, and an automatic acceptance into the EMDP next year. Second place will receive a $50 gift card to online retailer Spoonflower to create custom-printed fabrics.

“Memphis Fashion Week is a wonderful opportunity for emerging and established industry professionals to share their creative insight, connect with other talented individuals,” says EMDP designer Maggie Dandridge. “It serves as a springboard for catapulting Memphis into mainstream fashion.”

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• Proudest accomplishment: Walking the New York Fashion Week runway for designer Stevie Boi • My collection is elegant with clean lines and daring fabrics.

• Fabrics/textiles used: Blue and pink jacquard for the jumpsuit and a fuchsia chiffon for the headwrap.

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• Memphis Fashion Week is an opportunity to experience fashion before I study it further. It has given me the freedom to explore a bigcity industry in my own hometown.

• My collection is an infusion of traditional Greek dress with modern influences • Inspirations: The laid-back atmosphere, architecture, and history of Mykonos, Greece.

Memphis Fashion Week is March 23rd-28th at various locations.

For more details on the designers and all events, download the MFW app or visit them online at www.memphisfashionweek.org.

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Shoot Location: Memphis Zoo. Models: Joe Schmulian, Peyton Couch, and Mckenzie Jones with AMAX Talent, and Jazzmine King. Hair and makeup by Faizah Husniyah. Sketches by EMDP designers.

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“The designers this year have a very clear vision of their design aesthetic, which has been fun to see brought to life through fabric and construction,” says MFW Director Abby Phillips about the designers mentored through this year’s Emerging Memphis Designer Project (EMDP).

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RECORD REVIEWS By Chris Shaw

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Jack O and the Sheiks — Live! From the Burgundy Ballroom (Secret Identity Records, Red Lounge Records) Think of it as the Memphis version of the Kiss album Alive!. Even though it’s not an actual live recording (the band added plenty of overdubs later), Live! represents a time in Memphis where a house on Harbert Avenue was one of the best places in town to see local music. Known to everyone but the landlord as the Burgundy Ballroom, the makeshift venue was the headquarters of the Sheiks, serving as a recording studio, sanctuary, and speakeasy.

Sometimes they slept there too.

Recorded and mixed by Toby Vest and Pete Matthews, Live! bounces around through Jack Oblivian’s solo career, blazing through 13 tracks that fans new and old will recognize.

While it’s technically an import (released on German labels Red Lounge Records and Secret Identity Records), this record is all Memphis, and the first testament of the power of Jack O with the Sheiks backing him.

Best Track: “Black Boots.”

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ith so many local bands constantly releasing new music, it’s easy to lose track of everything that’s going on. We dug up six records (one pretty new, four old, and one super old) that you should seek out. Ranging from female gangster rap to transcendental sitar recordings, there’s something for most everyone on this list.

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Aquarian Blood — Aquarian Blood Demo (Zap Records) While local music fans were sad when Moving Finger called it quits after just

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one single on Goner Records, they didn’t have to wait long to hear more creepy garage punk from JB Horrell and his wife Laurel. Months after Moving Finger stopped playing shows, the Aquarian Blood Demo surfaced. The new band began appearing around town at places like Amurica and Black Lodge Video, blazing through live versions of songs Horrell had been recording at home mostly by himself. Heavily influenced

by Father Yod and the Source Family, Aquarian Blood sound like a punk project of the Ya Ho Wa 13 tribe but with less Sky Saxon and more Charles Manson. If that sounds weird, it’s because it is. Aquarian Blood’s demo tape is nearly sold out, but a debut single is rumored to be released soon.

Best Track: “Down my Spine.”

Tori WhoDat — Krewe Dentials Mixtape (self-released) When I said these are reviews of records we might have missed, I meant it. The Krewe Dentials Mixtape was released a year ago last week, yet this is the first time we’ve written anything about it.

Krewe Dentials has almost as many different producers as it does tracks, making for a pretty diverse mixtape even though it stays within the confines of modern Southern rap. Memphis rapper Lil Wyte makes appearances on the Krewe Dentials tracks “Smoke Sum” and “Bad Bitches,” and it’s no surprise that those are the mixtape’s two strongest songs. Local MC Lucha Luciano also makes an appearance on the murderobsessed track “Hitchcock,” but “We Do This” proves Tori WhoDat can definitely handle a beat without relying on established guest artists. At 17 tracks, Krewe Dentials is a great introduction to WhoDat, DJ Crumbs, and the rest of this local hip-hop sect.

Best Track: “We Do This.”

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Naan Violence — Naan Violence (Zap Records) File under most likely to be played in Ebbo’s Spiritual Supply House. Naan Violence is the project of Arjun Kuhlharya, a sitar player from Atlanta who spends his time in Memphis when he’s not on tour. Kuhlharya calls Naan Violence “Transcendental Free-Sitar,” and that’s a pretty accurate description, with the three songs on the album going well over the 10-minute mark. Recorded by Andrew McCalla, Naan Violence features tablas, synthesizer, flute, and a whole lot of spaced-out sitar. Kuhlharya’s willingness to take his show on the road and play in places that you wouldn’t normally hear the sitar (dive bars) has sent him all over the country, and he’s currently gearing up for another summer tour. It’s limited to 400 copies, so act fast.

Best Track: “High Noon Tea at the Connected Gates.”

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Manateees — Sit and Spin (Pelican Pow Wow) Even if the local music press missed out on this release, media outlets like Pitchfork and Terminal Boredom had no problem calling Sit and Spin one of the most gruesome and grisly punk albums released last year. While their earlier singles might have dipped into the dark side of garage rock (and black metal), Sit and Spin is for the most part a melodic punk album, with front man Abe White singing instead of howling and screaming over harsh stabs of noise. Sit and Spin wound up on plenty of year-end lists in 2014, and Manateees toured all the way to the West Coast last summer on their signature brand of “1-2F-U” punk rock. After a handful of wellreceived singles, Sit and Spin is the victory lap for Manateees and proof that White has plenty more up his sleeve.

Best Track: “Cold and Rhythmic.”

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Reserving Dirtnaps — Reserving Dirtnaps EP (Self Released) When you name your band Reserving Dirtnaps, chances are you aren’t interested in showering the world with a positive message. Reserving Dirtnaps features members of Clenched Fist and Dead City, two groups who proudly waved the banner of Memphis-style hardcore.

While Clenched Fist hold the throne of the heaviest hardcore band in Memphis, Reserving Dirtnaps are becoming one of the premier hardcore bands in town, routinely getting the opening slot when similar touring bands come through. The Reserving Dirtnaps EP features five tracks of heavy modern hardcore, and while vocals and riffs are what normally stand out on hardcore albums, the drumming on Reserving Dirtnaps is also pretty incredible.

Physical copies of Reserving Dirtnaps are sold out, but the EP is still available for download online.

Best Track: “No Consent.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule March 12 - 18 Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE - 526-3637

Alfred’s 197 BEALE - 525-3711

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

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

King Beez Thursday, March 12, 5 p.m. and Tuesdays, 8 p.m.; B.B. King All Stars Thursdays, Mondays, 8 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Friday, March 13, 5 p.m. and Tuesday, March 17, 5 p.m.; Mr. Sipp Friday-Saturday, March 13-14, 10 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. and Sundays, noon; Blind Mississippi Morris Sunday, March 15, 4:30 p.m.; Preston Shannon Sundays, 7:30 p.m. and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; Memphis Jones Wednesdays, 5 p.m.

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

Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar 159 BEALE

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

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE - 529-0007

The Accidentals Thursday, March 12, 8-10 p.m.; Memphis Music Monday third Monday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Itta Bena 145 BEALE - 578-3031

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

Jerry Lee Lewis Cafe & Honky Tonk 310 BEALE - 654-5171

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

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE - 521-1851

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

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

David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., Sunday-Tuesday, March 15-17, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

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

Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mississippi Big Foot Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Delta Project Saturday, March 14, 8 p.m.midnight; Sonny Mack and the Mack 2 Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE - 522-9596

Barbara Blue Thursdays-Fridays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 59 p.m., Sundays, 4-9 p.m., and Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m.; Dueling Pianos Thursdays, 9 p.m.1 a.m., Fridays-Saturdays, 9 p.m., Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Wet Willie’s 209 BEALE - 578-5650

Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

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

Memphis Bluesmaster Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.midnight; Plantation All Stars Fridays, Saturdays, 37 p.m.; Brandon Santini Band Friday-Saturday, March 13-14, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Santana Saturday, March 14, 8-11 p.m.

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 335-0251

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

Grawemeyer’s 520 S. MAIN - 526-6751

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

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

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

The Plexx

The Green Beetle

380 E.H. CRUMP - 744-2225

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

Steve Schad Saturday, March 14, 8-11 p.m.

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“The $1 Jump Off ” featuring live hip-hop and R&B Saturdays, 8 p.m.

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

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.; The Michael Brothers Saturday, March 14, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND - 527-2700

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Bob and Susie Salley Friday, March 13; The Three Kings, Troy Petty Saturday, March 14; Open Mic Mondays; Blues Jam Tuesdays; Irish Sing-A-Long Tuesday, March 17.

303 S. MAIN - 523-0020

Dance and Salsa Night Fridays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Saturday Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.

The Silly Goose

Memphis Sounds Lounge

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

22 N. THIRD - 590-4049

Onix Restaurant & Jazz Lounge

341 MADISON - 524-0104

DJ dance music ongoing, 10 p.m.

Kudzu’s

Brinson’s

Purple Haze Nightclub

140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

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Grown Folk’s Music 7:30 p.m.

Live Music Fridays.

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The Young Epics Sunday, March 15, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

152 MADISON - 572-1813

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

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The Orpheum 203 S. MAIN - 525-3000

325 S. MAIN - 527-7337

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Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, Friday-Saturday, March 13-14, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

Double J’s Smokehouse & Saloon

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

412 S. MAIN - 552-4609

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

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Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

St. Mary’s Cathedral 700 POPLAR - 527-3361

Northeastern State University Singers Performance Tour Concert Saturday, March 14, 7-8:15 p.m.

South Main D’Edge Art & Unique Treasures 550 S. MAIN - 521-0054

Amanda Ashley Friday, March 13, 8-11 p.m.

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SWEARING AT MOTORISTS LIVE AT THE HI-TONE Ohio’s Swearing at Motorists play the Hi-Tone this Sunday night, bringing their brand of stripped-down indie rock back to Memphis. Critics have called Swearing at Motorists a “two man Who,” and the band has been compared to the Replacements and early-era Elvis Costello. Dave Doughman (vocals and guitar) has been one half of Swearing at Motorists since the mid ’90s, going through past members at a rate that would make Mark E. Smith of the Fall proud. Coming from the same Dayton, Ohio, music scene as indie giants like Guided by Voices and the Breeders, Swearing at Motorists has developed a dedicated following, even if they didn’t ever hit the big time like some of their contemporaries.

While Swearing at Motorists are known for their energetic live show, Doughman’s lyrics are what resonate the most with fans. To call his lyrical content charmingly mundane is an understatement. Doughman’s a master of the obvious, crafting off-kilter indie rock songs about non-events that occur in everyday life. Basically, anything can and will be used as subject matter in a Swearing at Motorists song.

After releasing four LPs, two EPs, and a singles compilation with prominent indie record label Secretly Canadian, Doughman decided to leave the label when his son was born in 2007. Citing the need to be a full-time father instead of a full-time musician, Doughman took a break from Swearing at Motorists before releasing the crowdfunded While Laughing, The Joker Tells the Truth in 2011. Now that his son is a bit older, Doughman is back on the road and has toured heavily over the past couple of years in both America and Europe. Two decades after their debut cassette tape was released, Swearing at Motorists is still at it, touring under the slogan “20 years and Two Million Miles under the Radar.” — Chris Shaw Swearing at Motorists, Gopes Busters, and Tweens, Sunday, March 15th at 9 p.m. at the Hi-Tone Small Room. $5

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD - 730-0719

Jazz with Jeremy & Ed Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Mr. Adams Friday, March 13, 10 p.m.1 a.m.; Poodle Brandy Saturday, March 14, 10 p.m.; Open Jam Sundays, 6 p.m.; Open Mic with Justin White Mondays, 6-10 p.m.; Death of Paris with Signs of Iris Monday, March 16, 9 p.m.; Juke Joint Blues Jam Tuesday, March 17, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place

Clay Otis Friday, March 13; CATL with Marcella & Her Lovers Saturday, March 14.

1474 MADISON - 275-8082

Bhan Thai

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

1324 PEABODY - 272-1538

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

Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON - 272-BLUE

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Merry Mobile Friday, March 13, 10:30 p.m.; Snozberry Saturday, March 14, 10:30 p.m.

Boscos Squared 2120 MADISON - 432-2222

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

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE - 278-0909

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

Camy’s 3 S. BARKSDALE - 725-1667

Live Music Fridays.

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Hi-Tone In Big Room: Whitehorse with Jadea Kelly Friday, March 13, 8 p.m.; In the small room: Berkano with Rock Eupora and Other Stories Friday, March 13, 1011:45 p.m.; Moon Duo, Dream Team, and Ana Saturday, March 14, 9 p.m.; Full Of Hell with Klaxxon and Reserving Dirtnaps Sunday, March 15, 8 p.m.; In the small room: Swearing at Motorists, Tweens, Gopes Busters Sunday, March 15, 9 p.m.; In the small room: Las Rosas with Cool Ghouls and China Gate Monday, March 16, 911:45 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Coliseum with Serif The Light and Blesser Tuesday, March 17, 9-11:45 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON - 726-4372

Le Tumulte Noir Sunday, March 15, 4-7 p.m.; Soul Shockers Sunday, March 15, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Brewer with special guest, Nancy Apple Friday, March 13, 8-10:30 p.m.; Hanna Star & the Teenage Teenagers Sundays, 1:30-3 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON - 207-5097

Shannon McNally Thursday, March 12, 6-8 p.m.; Col. Bruce Hampton Thursday, March 12, 9-11 p.m.; Deering & Down every other Friday, 6:308:30 p.m.; Soul Track Mind Friday, March 13, 10 p.m.midnight; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturday, March 14, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Anne McCue Saturday, March 14, 6:308:30 p.m.; American Fiction Saturday, March 14, 10 p.m.midnight; Joe Restivo 4 every other Sunday, 11 a.m.; Uncle Tony’s String Band Sunday, March 15, 4-6 p.m.; Songwriter’s Swap Sunday, March 15, 7-8:30 p.m.; Seratones Sunday, March 15, 8:4510:45 p.m.; Songwriter’s Swap with Nick Black, Chris Milam, and Brennan Villines Monday, March 16, 78 p.m.; The DuPont Brothers Monday, March 16, 8:30-10:30 p.m.; St. Patrick’s Day Party Tuesday, March 17, 5:30 p.m.; The RiverBluff Clan Tuesday, March 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; Big Betsy Tuesday, March 17, 810 p.m.; Dirty Dozen Brass Band Wednesday, March 18, 8-10 p.m.

Lindenwood Christian Church 2400 UNION - 458-8506

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

Madison Dance Studio 1555 MADISON

Artistik Lounge Featuring Suavo J Sunday, March 15, 7-11 p.m.

The Midtown Crossing Grill 394 WATKINS - 443-0502

Karaoke Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Zazerac every other Friday.

Java Cabana 2170 YOUNG - 272-7210

Music with Eric Brown at Java Cabana Friday, March 13, 7-8 p.m.; Music with Gann

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The Sword, Eagle Claw, the Devils Right Hand Friday, March 13, 9 p.m.; In 1884 Lounge: The Falling Out CD Release Show Saturday, March 14, 8 p.m.; Die Antwoord Wednesday, March 18, 9 p.m.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER - 278-4994

Webb Wilder, Tony Manard Friday, March 13, 8-11 p.m.; Faith Evans Ruch, the Dusty Hymnals, and Daphne and The Mystery Machines Saturday, March 14, 8-11 p.m.

P&H Cafe

Wild Bill’s

Dan McGuinness Pub

1532 MADISON - 726-0906

1580 VOLLINTINE - 207-3975

4698 SPOTTSWOOD - 761-3711

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Seratones Saturday, March 14; Open Mic with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Advetax Wednesday, March 18.

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

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER - 338-5223

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

Strano Sicilian Kitchen 948 S. COOPER - 552-7122

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

Open Mic Night with Frankie Hollie Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Acoustic with Charvey Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

551 S. MENDENHALL - 762-8200

East Memphis Booksellers Bistro THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINDS EXTD. - 374-0881

Davy Ray Bennett Saturday, March 14.

Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Thursdays, Mondays-Wednesdays, 59:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

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

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR - 682-7729

Ghost Town Blues Band Sunday, March 15, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS - 761-9321

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

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY - 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

TJ Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY - 755-2481

Mystery Machine Saturday, March 14, 9:30 p.m.1:30 a.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant 786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE - 683-9044

Karaoke ongoing.

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

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplthret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Harrison and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

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Laidback Mondays featuring Live Music and Karaoke Mondays, 7 p.m.

Club Superior 1459 ELVIS PRESLEY 503-5544

Old School and Blues Fridays, 7 p.m.; Hottest Track Show with various artists Sundays, 6 p.m.

Hawaiian Isle Bar and Grill 1542 ELVIS PRESLEY 569-3217

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Happy Hour with live DJ Thursdays, MondaysWednesdays, 4-6 p.m.

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Cordova

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

Cordova Community Center 1017 SANGA

West TN Youth Chorus/ West TN Children’s Chorus Sundays, Mondays.

Huey’s Southwind

Club Emotions 2.0

Hollywood Casino

7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

143 BRICKHOUSE DR., SLAYDEN, MS - 662-551-1522

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

Huey’s Germantown

The Crossing Bar & Grill

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS - 662-893-6242

38664 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS - 800-357-5600

Bryan Moffitt Band Thursday, March 12; White Noise Theory Friday, March 13; Wolf River Rednecks Saturday, March 14; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

The King Beez Sunday, March 15, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

The Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, March 15, 8-11:30 p.m.

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill 847 EXOCET - 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

DJ Ty Sundays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Karaoke with Buddha Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Acoustic Show Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland

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

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing.

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

Adrenaline Sunday, March 15, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub 6230 GREENLEE - 592-0344

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

Lyric Theatre

You want it?

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Bartlett

1006 VAN BUREN, OXFORD, MS - 662-234-5333

Waka Flocka Flame with Ben G Tuesday, March 17, 8 p.m.

Main Street Pizza

3663 APPLING - 385-6440

1800 Main, Southaven, MS 662-253-8451 Gary Wayne and the Mainstreet Band Saturdays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

Dukes of Dixieland Saturday, March 14, 8 p.m.

Mesquite Chop House

Hadley’s Pub

5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS - 662-890-2467

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

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

2779 WHITTEN - 266-5006

Scott and Vanessa Sudbury Unplugged Thursday, March 12, 8 p.m.-midnight; Swingin’ Leroy Friday, March 13, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; White Noise Theory Saturday, March 14, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; SUNday FUNday with the Lineup Sunday, March 15, 5:309:30 p.m.; Heath and Danny Pickin’ and Grinnin’ Wednesday, March 18, 8 p.m.midnight.

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

RockHouse Live

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

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

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

GOSSETT VOLKSWAGEN GERMANTOWN

7420 WINCHESTER ROAD • 901.388.8989 • GOSSETTVWG.COM

5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

Karaoke with Ricky Mac Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Mondays Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

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

Beat Generation Sunday, March 15, 8-11:30 p.m.

Raleigh Perignon’s Restaurant and Lounge 2818 COLEMAN - 373-9952

JROQSOL’s HOUSE PARTY Saturday, March 14, 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA - 382-1576

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

2 Mule Plow Sunday, March 15, 4-7 p.m.; Jeffrey and the Pacemakers Sunday, March 15, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Loose Goose Bar & Grill 8014 CLUB CENTER 343-0860

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

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

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

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

West Memphis

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

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

Frayser/ Millington

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

Haystack Bar & Grill 6560 HWY. 51 N. - 872-0567

Neshoba Unitarian Universalist Church 7350 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 266-2626

Germantown

Otter Creek Duo Friday, March 13, 7 p.m.

Fitz Casino & Hotel

8071 TRINITY - 756-4480

Karaoke Nights at The Stack Thursdays-Fridays, Sundays, Wednesdays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.; Reverend Edge Band Saturday, March 14, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

DJ Tree Saturdays.

Mesquite Chop House

Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER - 751-7500

The Germantown Symphony Orchestra Saturday, March 14, 7 p.m.

9087 POPLAR - 755-0092

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

North Missisippi/ Tunica Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Grill 1686 MAIN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-470-6549

Live Music Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Fridays-Saturdays, Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Live Entertainment Thursdays-Sundays, Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill 6565 TOWNE CENTER, SOUTHAVEN, MS - 662-536-2200

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

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

Razorblade Thursday, March 12, 8 p.m.; TCB Blues Band Saturday, March 14, 9 p.m.; Steve Kolbus and The Clarksdale Blues Revue Wednesday, March 18, 8 p.m.

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

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

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Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN - 379-1965

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

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

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

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

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

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March 12 - 18 Theatre Memphis

T H EAT E R

Circuit Playhouse

Winnie the Pooh, welcome to the Hundred Acre Wood where Pooh Bear is once again in search of honey. Sat., March 14, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Assassins, a (shooting) gallery of American assassins who have attempted to kill American presidents. www. playhouseonthesqare.org.

Through March 22.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

The Evergreen Theatre

A Dragnificent Fundraising Event for the historic Evergreen Theatre. www. friendsofgeorges.org. Through March 21.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Germantown Community Theatre

All My Sons, based on a true story about partners accused of selling defective airplane parts. Through March 22.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (754-2680).

Hattiloo Theatre

Jack and the Beanstalk. www. hattiloo.org. Through March 15.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Playhouse 51

The Hallelujah Girls, comedy about friends who turn an old church into Spa-Dee-Dah. Through March 15.

8077 WILKINSVILLE (872-7170).

Playhouse on the Square

The Seagull, adaptation of Chekhov play. Through March 28.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, humorous homage to Chekhov. Through March 29.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Poplar Pike Playhouse

Big Fish, musical based on the book by John August. www. ppp.org. $12-$15. Thurs.-Sat., 7 p.m. Through March 14.

The Boy from Oz, story of Peter Allen’s rise from an intro act for Judy Garland to Oscar-winning songwriter and Radio City Music Hall concert star. www.theatrememphis. org. Through March 29.

A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S

Gallery Talk for “you+me”

Crosstown Arts

Opening reception for “you+me,” exhibition of work exploring a range of relationships by Kathy Barnes, Melissa Farris, Keiko Gonzalez, Richard Lou, Lester J. Merriweather, Haley Morris-Cafiero, and others. www.crosstownarts. org. Fri., March 13, 6-9 p.m.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Metal Museum

Opening reception for “Tributaries: Vivian Beer” and “Art is an Accident.” www.metalmuseum.org. Fri., March 13, 5-7 p.m.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Otherlands Coffee Bar

Opening reception for “It’s an Art Show: A Passion for Process,” exhibition of new works in acrylic, pastel, oil pastel, and pencil by Melanie Pyron. www.otherlandscoffeebar.com.

Thurs., March 12, 5:30-8 p.m.

641 S. COOPER (278-4994).

March 12-18, 2015

GERMANTOWN HIGH SCHOOL, 7653 POPLAR PIKE (755-7775).

Fratelli’s

Metal Museum

Gallery Ten Ninety One

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

422 N. CLEVELAND.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

Artist reception for “Free Alterations,” exhibition of work by Mary Jo Karimnia. www.crosstownarts.org. Fri., March 13, 6-9 p.m.

3715 CENTRAL.

“All Things Great and Small,” exhibition by the students of the Fred Rawlinson Gallery. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Through March 25.

TheatreWorks

Crosstown Arts Gallery

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

“No Cigar,” exhibition of work

by BFA students. www.memphis.edu. March 16-April 3.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, puts a human face on a hot-button issue and delivers laughter and tears without propaganda. www.etcmemphistheater.com.

Through March 22.

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

“you+me” group exhibition opens at Crosstown on Friday.

Sat., March 14, 2 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

ONGOI NG ART

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM) Beth Van Hoesen, exhibition by artist/print-maker. www.memphis.edu.

March 14-July 2.

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center “Guitarts Gone Wild,” exhibition of “guitarts” by Nancy Apple. www.bpacc.org.

Through May 1.

3663 APPLING (385-6440).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School “Horn Island: Paint & Metal,” exhibition of new works by Richard Prillaman and Bill Nelson. www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through April 7.

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

Clough-Hanson Gallery

“Roxanne’s Rescue,” exhibition of works using a range of materials by Terri Phillips. www.rhodes.edu. Through March 28.

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

SPEND SPRING BREAK AT LICHTERMAN!

Works by Ron Lace, exhibition of works in acrylic, oil, watercolor, and mixed media. www. wkno.org. Through March 30.

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

L Ross Gallery Crosstown Arts

“you+me,” exhibition of work exploring a range of relationships.

“Free Alterations,” exhibition of work by Mary Jo Karimnia. www.crosstownarts.org. Tues.Sun., Mar. 10-15.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

David Lusk Gallery

Mary Sims, exhibition of monumental narrative paintings based on Bible stories.

Through March 13.

Tyler Hildebrand, exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and film work. Through March 14.

“Last Light,” exhibition of new works by Veda Reed. www. davidluskgallery.com.

March 17-April 18.

4540 POPLAR (767-3800).

“Water and Light: Two Visions,” exhibition for regional landscape artists Jeanne Seagle and Pam Hassler. www.lrossgallery.com. Through March 28.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden

Artists’ Link Exhibit, www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through March 26.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Artists/Activists: Marcellous Lovelace, Frank D. Robinson, and Siphne Sylve.” Through May 10.

“This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement.” Through May 10.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

4339 PARK (761-5250).

“The Original Art 2014-2015: Celebrating the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration,” exhibition from the Society of Illustrators in New York.

Through March 16.

“Excuse Me...,” exhibition of paintings by Jed Jackson. www.mca.edu. Through March 27.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

AMVETS

THIRFT STORES

“Art is an Accident,” exhibtion of an amalgamation of American imagery, toys, and other found objects by J. Fred Woell.

March 13-June 12.

“Tributaries: Vivian Beer,” exhibition of furniture combining contemporary design, craft, and sculptural aesthetics.

March 13-June 12.

“Iron and Gold,” exhibition of work by Karin Jones, Ben Dory, and Rob Jackson whose work combines the delicate and the sturdy. www.metalmuseum.org. Through April 19.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Otherlands Coffee Bar

“It’s an Art Show: A Passion for Process,” exhibition of new works in acrylic, pastel, oil pastel, and pencil by Melanie Pyron. www.otherlandscoffeebar.com. March 12-April 29.

641 S. COOPER (278-4994).

Painted Planet

Gallery Artists on View, exhibition by gallery artists. (3385223), Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11:45 a.m.-6 p.m.

1015 S. COOPER (725-0054).

Rhodes College, Buckman Hall “Cuban Détente,” exhibition of photographs by David LaFevor. www.rhodes.edu.

Through March 31.

ROOM 110.

Memphis College of Art

“Nothing Is For Ever Last,” exhibition of collage works by Lester Julian Merriweather.

Through March 29.

“Hail, Britannia! Six Centuries of British Art from the Berger Collection.” www.dixon.org.

Through April 19.

2015 MGAL Star Artist Exhibition, (921-1767), mgal.org.

Through March 30.

Ross Gallery

Bartlett Art Association, exhibition of work by Sheila Bentley, Jeanie Box, Gene Callaway, Carol Caughey, Nancy Crossett, Rita Datillo, Lynda Davison, Becky Deaux, Sandra Horton, Lyle, Becky Ross McRae, and others. Through March 26.

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

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Sandy Carroll and Michelle Prather plus Aisha DuBose and Low Society

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CALENDAR: MARCH 12 - 18 “Investigations,” exhibition of sculpture works

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Stax Museum of American Soul Music

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

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Sue Layman Designs

“Conclusion of Delusion,” exhibition of original oil paintings by Sue Layman Lightman.

Wednesdays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Work by Melanie Pryon at Otherlands

4-6 p.m.

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Shen Yun

Featuring classical Chinese dance, live orchestra, dazzling costumes, and animated backdrops. $50-$120.

Fri., March 13, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

Booksigning by Moriah McStay

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Author discusses and signs Everything That Makes You. Tues., March 17, 6 p.m.

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Edge Art, exhibition and private showing of works by Debra Edge. www.talbotheirs.com.

Through March 31.

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Unity Church of Practical Christianity Gallery in The Grove, exhibition of work

by Netta Casciano and Kevin Chasing Wolf Hutchins. www.unitymemphis.org. Through May 3.

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Booksigning by Jamie Kornegay

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Author discusses and signs SOIL. Wed., March 18, 6 p.m.

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“Woven Into Words: Tennessee Women Making History,” exhibition of documents and images from the University Libraries’ special collections and government publications in the Ned R. McWherter Library, 4th Floor. www.memphis.edu/whm. Through March 31. (678-2000).

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Author discusses and signs What Stands in a Storm. Sat., March 14, 2 p.m.

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“Dance In His Name”

Showcase and competition for the 5th annual liturgical/praise team dance festival honoring the spirit of dance worship. 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams will be named. $15. Sat., March 14,

Author discusses and signs Side Trip to Kathmandu. Sun., March 15, 2 p.m.

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Hear the stories of three women who were children directly tied to the monumental civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, 50 years ago.

Thurs., March 12, 6-8 p.m.

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A Conversation with Masta Ace

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FOOD NEWS By John Klyce Minervini

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Main Squeeze Rizzo’s Diner reopens; The Arcade now open late.

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izzo’s Diner reopened last week at its new location on South Main.

The menu at Rizzo’s is one-of-akind; crammed with the kinds of crazy juxtapositions that could only come from the twisted brain of Michael Patrick. This, after all, is a man who became a chef only after he got kicked out of high school for fighting.

Take the Lobster Pronto Pup ($14). Even the name is a provocation, combining haute cuisine (lobster) with the lowest common denominator (carnival food). All right, it’s a bit of a gimmick.

But this tempura-fried treat lives up to the hype: It is plump and buttery, with a mustard aioli that is off the hook.

The same goes for the Lamb Belly Tacos ($9) and the Chorizo Meatloaf with Green Tomato Gravy ($18). Seriously, who charges $18 for meatloaf? But take one bite, and you’ll know it’s worth it.

As for the new space, it feels like Rizzo’s has come home. For starters, it’s a lot bigger. The new kitchen is almost as big as the old diner — big enough, says Patrick, for an enthusiastic chef “to do backflips on the line.” And the décor — cherry wood, exposed brick, high ceilings, abstract canvases — feels just right for this arts district.

That’s a relief, considering how long Rizzo’s was out of commission. The old spot closed on November 1st, but a persistent, leaky roof at the new place meant that Patrick couldn’t open until late February. Especially in the food industry, three months is an eternity.

“I was always told take when you think you’re gonna open and add 30 days,” says Patrick. “But realistically, we needed to add 60 or 75.”

One other complication: Winter weather has delayed Rizzo’s liquor license, so for now, it’s BYO wine. But Patrick hopes to have booze in time for his grand

opening on March 14th. He also hopes to celebrate by hiring a dozen bagpipers. And no, he’s not kidding.

Rizzo’s Diner, 492 S. Main, 304-6985 rizzosmemphis.com The other day, I was sitting at a booth in The Arcade Restaurant. Last one on the left, by the back door. I noticed that the confetti-colored tabletop was getting pretty worn, and I thought, Gosh, that has to be from the ’50s. Why don’t they replace it?

Then I remembered: Elvis used to sit here. Hell, it was probably Elvis’ elbows that made those little marks. They’re never gonna replace that tabletop.

The Arcade, Memphis’ oldest restaurant, recently started staying open late on weekends: from 7 a.m. till 11 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

For now, they aren’t changing the menu.

But they have added a lineup of cocktails including build-your-own bloody marys and mimosas.

To me, the most promising is the “Shake it Like the King” ($9), a vanilla milkshake spiked with Bailey’s, banana rum, peanut butter, and fresh bananas.

Back in the ’50s, when Elvis was a regular, South Main was Memphis’ answer to Times Square, crowded with neon signs and clattering trolleys. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive and well, and the train station at GE Patterson was still the most reliable way to get from here to there.

That’s why The Arcade is staying open late. Because all of a sudden, there are people. There’s even a bit of a nightlife.

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performance. It’s the supporting players Ninja and Yolandi of the South African rave-rap band Die Antwoord. Using their own names, they are essentially playing themselves — or at least, they’re playing a version of their public image, which has made them international YouTube stars. Die Antwoord takes American hip-hop culture and reflects it back at us through a funhouse mirror. Their distinctive visual style is all over Chappie, from the neon-colored assault rifles to the strangely sinister beach wear Yolandi sports through most of the film. But here, like in their music videos, it’s difficult to know exactly how seriously they take themselves. And that problem translates to the film as a whole.

Ninja and Yolandi are in hock to Hippo for 10 million Rands, and they kidnap Deon and his creation, hoping to find a way to thwart the police robots and rake in enough dough in a big heist to pay off their debts. So when Deon activates his robot, which Yolandi christens “Happy Chappie,” the first people it meets are insane gangster rappers. Needless to say, Chappie gets some pretty weird ideas about life.

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ike his feature debut District 9, South African director Neill Blomkamp set his new science-fiction film Chappie in his hometown of Johannesburg. To American audiences, that lends the films an air of unfamiliarity. Some characters, such as the muscle-bound gangster Hippo (Brandon Auret), speak with such thick Afrikaans accents that they require subtitling. There are plenty of familiar aspects on the screen, such as brand names and Washington’s portrait on the American dollar bill, which shows up on a memorable pair of shorts, but they are reshuffled and reused in unfamiliar ways.

This is useful to Blomkamp’s world-building, as he uses his documentary-style camera work to make the South African capital look like a Mad Max postapocalyptic dystopia without much trouble. But it can also be problematic. Watching a Blomkamp film like Chappie must be what it’s like to watch American movies translated into other languages, and one wonders what has been lost in translation.

In the film’s not-so-far-off world of 2016, the Tetravaal Corporation, led by CEO Michelle Bradley (Sigourney Weaver), has created a line of virtually indestructible humanoid robot policemen to help maintain order in lawless Johannesburg. The robots, known as scouts, have enough artificial intelligence to perform basic functions, but that’s not enough for their lead designer Deon (Dev Patel), who spends his off hours trying to develop a truly sentient A.I. that can allow his creations to make real moral choices.

Meanwhile, rival designer Vincent (Hugh Jackman) is pushing his project, the MOOSE, a walking tank remotely controlled by a human operator. When Deon has a breakthrough, he asks his boss for permission to test out his new A.I. on one of the scout robots. But when she says no, he steals the broken chassis of an unlucky robot that has taken an RPG to the chest, intending to use it as a testbed.

The strangest thing about Chappie is not the titular robot, which is a seamless collaboration between Blomkamp, who began his career as a 3D CGI animator, and his frequent collaborator Sharlto Copley, who provides the voice and motion-capture

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with some heady concepts. When Robbie the Robot was introduced in 1956’s Forbidden Planet, the concept of a walking, talking, reasoning humanoid robot seemed like something from the distant future; in 2015, it seems like something we’ll be dealing with sooner rather than later. Like Spike Jones’ Her, Blomkamp wonders about the ethics of creating artificial intelligence. When Chappie discovers his battery is running out, he asks Deon, “Why did you just make me so I could die?” — a question philosophers have been asking the heavens since the Book of Job. Despite flashes of brilliance, Chappie’s script often resembles a list of stuff that would be cool to see in a movie rather than an actual story. The obvious nods to Paul Veerhooven’s Robocop, the go-to example of how to combine satire and action, only reinforce the sense that Chappie is an intriguing near miss.

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FILM REVIEW

Written and directed by Jemaine Clement, half of the comedy folk rock duo Flight of the Conchords, and Taika Waititi, director of the 2007 quirk comedy Eagle vs. Shark, What We Do in the Shadows is one of the rare breeds of parody that works on all levels. It is a characterbased mockumentary in the vein of This Is Spinal Tap, but it also recalls the 1992 masterpiece of minimalist black comedy Man Bites Dog. When the film opens, a crew from the New Zealand Documentary Film Board has gained exclusive access to a home where four vampires live as roommates. It’s like if The Real World was a gathering of abominations against nature — even more so than it already is, I mean. Each of the vamps is a type from history. Vladislav (Clement) is an Eastern European medieval aristocrat in the mold of Dracula. Viago (Waititi) is a Romantic French dandy like Lestat. Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), at only 185 years old, is the “young bad boy of the group,” a take on Twilight’s Edward Cullen. And Petyr, the animalistic Nosferatu (Ben Fransham) who lives in the basement tomb of their overstuffed Victorian mansion, is the elder of the bunch at 8,000 years old. Protected, we are told, by crucifixes and ironclad film contracts, the crew documents the roomies’ day-to-day activities as they prepare for the Unholy Masquerade, an annual gathering of witches, zombies, and vampires.

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What We Do in the Shadows eviscerates the vampire genre.

not some black mass but a third-rate horror fan convention.

Like Spinal Tap, there’s evident affection for the genre they’re skewering. Clement, Waititi, and Brugh clearly love getting to turn into bats and battling werewolves almost as much as they love poking fun at the absurdity of it all. Their low-key enthusiasm is infectious.

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What We Do in the Shadows doesn’t shy away from a few obvious Twilight jokes, but Clement and Waititi dig considerably deeper into horror film history. Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Dracula adaptation proves to be a particularly juicy target, and one of the funniest bits is a riff on The Lost Boys.

The verité style may look haphazard, but this is a well-constructed film where even the most seemingly offhand remark in the first act is a setup for a later payoff. The Unholy Masquerade, when it finally comes around, resembles

eternal life of a vampire in exchange for years of servitude, which includes doing errands in the sunlight, procuring victims for “dinner parties,” and cleaning up the blood and viscera afterwards. One of the victims she procures is her ex-boyfriend Nick (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer), who Petyr inadvisably turns into a vampire. Nick is a meat-headed bro who is not really clear on the concept of vampirism, like the part about not telling people you’re a vampire.

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THE RANT By Randy Haspel

Sometimes I think I get a general sense of what’s about to

happen. I’m no Edgar Cayce or anything, but I can often imagine the

effect that results from the cause. If you disregard my absolute certainty that Al Gore

THE RANT

Clinton was all but being crowned as the next Democratic presidential candidate, I wrote that two years was an eternity for another candidate to emerge to challenge the presumptive nominee, and one certainly did.

The historical inevitability of Barack Obama couldn’t be stopped, even by the ugly campaign the Clintons ran against him. Hillary’s failed campaign left a lingering resentment among certain Democrats over her scatter-shot tactics and baseless accusations. Her term as Obama’s secretary of state revived her reputation for competence, regardless of the fake “scandals” the GOP tried to lay at her feet. Hillary is probably the most-qualified, best-informed candidate to seek the presidency in decades, and polls have shown the country’s willingness to elect a female president. So let me go out on a limb and make a prediction, then two years from now, you can check back and see if I was correct. Hillary Clinton will not only fail to win the presidency, she won’t even get the Democratic nomination.

A lightning rod for controversy, Hillary can instantly become so exasperated that she unleashes a public barrage of ill-inspired quotable soundbites that only provide ammunition for her enemies. It’s been pretty much settled that the entire Benghazi witch-hunt was merely a concoction of right-wing operatives out to do her damage, but frustrated by idiotic questions over whether to call the tragedy a “terrorist attack,” or a “spontaneous protest,” Hillary spouted, “At this point, what difference does it make?” When stripped of its context, right-wing pundits found her remarks to be pure gold, and the almost defunct House Select Committee on Benghazi has become suddenly reanimated, subpoenaing thousands of her newly controversial emails.

Hillary has a history of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Remember when she said she wasn’t going to be a typical first lady, sitting home and baking cookies or “standing by her man,” as the popular song went. The accompanying outrage forced her to go out and profess her love of country music and apologize to Tammy Wynette and America’s housewives. And when the Gennifer Flowers scandal came along, she did stand by her man after all.

While in the White House, she was accused of everything from murder to drug smuggling, as well as being “secretive.” Then she did herself no favors by having her previously requested Rose Law Firm billing statements, said to be long lost, turn up one day in a White House office drawer. Hillary parlayed Bill’s inexcusable sexual betrayal into a senate seat from New York, where she learned the art of “triangulation” — taking the absolute middle ground between two opposing points of view. In this capacity, Clinton voted her approval for the Iraqi War; co-sponsored an anti-flag burning amendment, even though she’s a lawyer and knew that the Supreme Court had already ruled the act was a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment; and voted for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, opening the door for U.S. attacks on Iran. During Hillary’s senate career, every controversial vote seemed to be made with a political calculation.

This latest kerfuffle about Hillary using her private email account to conduct government business is another stinkbomb attack by her adversaries that won’t amount to much, yet she insists on making it worse for herself. Already believed in certain quarters to be someone who cuts corners or makes her own rules, Hillary set up her own private server, registered to a fictitious name and routed it back to her New York home.

She didn’t break any laws, but she bent the rules. The former secretary has announced that she is eager to turn over her emails for scrutiny, but only those pertaining to the business of the State Department. This allows her to exercise more control over physical access and furthers the perception that she has something to hide. At some point, Hillary will also have to justify accepting donations by foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of state.

It’s enough to give you a case of pre-Clinton Fatigue. Two years is a lifetime for a presumptive nominee to coast, and there are bound to be more gaffes and temper explosions.

When Hillary alienates enough members of her own party, the Democrats may be forced to turn to someone else. The GOP will likely nominate a Tea Party extremist as their candidate.

Why shouldn’t the Dems offer a true liberal and a fighter for the underdog instead of another blue-dog? Elizabeth Warren insists she’s not running for president. So did Barack Obama before he was finally convinced that his hour of destiny had arrived.

Randy Haspel writes the “Recycled Hippies” blog, where a version of this column first appeared.

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would be president in 2000, my predictions have more often been right than wrong. Even back in 2006, when Hillary

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