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Will a TDZ TCB? An upcoming vote in Nashville will determine the future of the Memphis Fairgrounds.

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TVA will hold an open house for public input on plans for a proposed transmission project in the Memphis area.

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The proposed project consists of 2.7 miles of new doublecircuit transmission line and other system improvements which would diversify the power flow to the Memphis metro area as well as increase power reliability in the Memphis area.

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The map shows the alternative locations of the proposed transmission routes that TVA is considering. A more detailed map and additional information can be found at www.tva.com/transmissionprojects.

TVA representatives will be available at the open house to provide information, answer questions and receive comments about the project. Large maps showing the alternative locations will also be available.

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If you cannot attend the open house but have questions or comments, please contact Todd Moore. All written comments on this proposed action should be sent to TVA at the address below no later than Sept. 4, 2018. If you have special needs, please contact Tanya Adams at the toll-free number at least five days prior to the open house.

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TVA is interested in receiving comments concerning how this project may affect the environment, historic properties or any other issues associated with this proposal. Comments will be used in reaching a decision on location of the new transmission facilities. Any written comments received, including names and addresses, will become part of the administrative record and will be available for public inspection.

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Contact Todd Moore Tennessee Valley Authority 1101 Market Street (MR 4G) Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 800-362-4355 (toll free) newtransline@tva.gov www.tva.com/power/projects

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OUR 1536TH ISSUE 08.02.18 Do you know about Uncle Rob? I didn’t until this week, when a friend sent me a link to one of his YouTube “instructional” videos. It was called “How to Listen to a Luke Bryan CD.” It begins with Uncle Rob lighting his barbecue grill, then he demonstrates how to put beer in a cooler, then he shows you how to put a Luke Bryan CD in a portable player … then it gets weird.

“Then,” Uncle Rob says, “pour gasoline in a bucket. Then, drop your CD player in the bucket.” (At this point, I should point out that the CD player is plugged in to a power cord.) “Then,” Rob continues, standing 20 feet away, “plug it in.”

Then, (Rob says “then” a lot.) there is an immensely satisfying, fiery explosion, which is replayed in slo-mo a couple of times.

“Then,” Rob says, plopping down in a lawn chair, “crack open a beer and listen to Skynyrd, like a real man.”

Then, of course, I went down the Uncle Rob wormhole on YouTube, watching a dozen of his helpful videos — “How to Clean a Litter Box,” “How to Use a Weedeater,” “Hot to Cook Hotdogs,” “How to Tailgate,” “How to Fix a Jammed Printer,” etc.

It may come as no surprise to you at this point, that all of Uncle Rob’s videos involve fiery explosions with gasoline. I particularly liked “How to Clean a Litter Box.” Then, I realized I’d never heard a Luke Bryan song (hey, it was a slow night), so I tubed my way over to his latest video, “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset.” It’s about as trite and awful as any piece of music I’ve ever heard. It involves young Luke getting hired to paint a lake house and the daughter of his employer showing up in “tank top and cut-off jeans.” After that, well, as the lyrics say, it’s just “sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat,” accompanied by visuals of pretty young white people cruising around in a boat and jumping in a lake. The melody is modern-Nashburg boilerplate; the lyrics are a bro-core Playboy fantasy.

But Uncle Rob and Luke Bryan both have millions of YouTube views, so they’ve figured out something about connecting with young people.

If only we had a way to connect with young people to convince them to vote. Yeah, that was a really clumsy segue, but I just saw the early voting numbers for Shelby County and they were really depressing. Not so much the totals, because Shelby County led the state in early voting, with 86,000 people participating in our democratic process. No, what was depressing was the fact that only around 10,000 people under 40 voted. More than 63,000 of Shelby’s early voters were over 50.

I get that many young folks are clueless about how to vote and where to vote — and why it matters. Our education and poverty levels have a lot to do with that. But there are tens of thousands of educated, non-poor people under 40 who just aren’t voting. And they don’t care because they don’t think voting makes any difference. They don’t care because they don’t think their lives have been directly affected by politicians and policy decisions. No one has taken away their health care — or they think they don’t need it. No one has taken their right to choose or their right to marry or their right to vote.

No one has shot up their high school N E WS & O P I N I O N with an AR-15.

THE FLY-BY - 4 People get active in a democracy when NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 they think issues directly affect them. Folks POLITICS - 7 who were affected by Jim Crow and reEDITORIAL - 8 strictive voting laws marched in the streets, VIEWPOINT - 9 COVER - “WILL A TDZ TCB? ” voted, and changed our segregation laws.

BY TOBY SELLS - 10 Young people affected by the draft in the WE RECOMMEND - 14 Vietnam era marched in the streets, voted, MUSIC - 16 and changed our draft laws — and got the AFTER DARK - 18 country out of a pointless war.

BEST OF MEMPHIS BALLOT - 20 What will it take to break this younger CALENDAR - 22 generation’ s apathy toward the political FOOD - 30 process?

I don’t know. Maybe Uncle Rob SPIRITS - 33 putting out a “How to Vote” video and FILM - 34 blowing up a Diebold machine?

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DAMMIT, ERRBODY Ryan Poe, the Gannett-owned Commercial Appeal reporterturned-columnist, began a recent installment of his daily 9:01 with a hearty, “good morning from Memphis, where we’re waiting with bated breath for West Memphis to open a proposed waterpark,” which, not to exaggerate, may be the fiercest act of podunkification ever committed in an opening sentence, in history.

Thankfully, if not at all fortunately, Poe followed that with, “But first …” and plowed headfirst into a column about Shelby County Mayoral hopeful David Lenoir, whose campaign sent out a color-shifted mailer featuring a darkened image of the candidate’s African-American opponent, Lee Harris, juggling a great big wad of cartoon cash.

With this column, Poe joined a growing number of public critics, including Memphis Flyer editor Bruce VanWyngarden and MLK50 organizer Wendi Thomas, when he described the altered image as “race baiting at worst,” while generously suggesting that a “mea culpa” might be the right thing to do. Rather than owning the whoopsie, Lenoir answered his various critics by describing the complaint as being, “all cooked up by Wendi Thomas,” the lone African-American journalist who’s been giving him the business on social media.

“You know how divisive she can be,” he told a bunch of dudes sitting around the Local24 news table.

Memphians who agree with his assessment of Thomas’ often provocative approach may also want to note Lenoir’s selectivity, and hegemony’s predictable resistance to criticism — particularly in areas of vulnerability.

But so much emphasis has been placed on the alleged darkening, I fear we’re running the risk of not realizing how juvenile the image is, also. Juggling cartoon $$$? Why not go ahead and black out a tooth?

A “Memphis AF” T-shirt, even?

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

Questions, Answers + Attitude Edited by Toby Sells

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By Flyer staff

UrbanArt, TVA, & One Beale A new public art strategy, closing a dirty pond, and One Beale cometh.

“HISTORIC COMMISSION” PROPOSED The Memphis City Council again held a decision last week on a vote that would reshape the guidelines governing the city’s historic overlay districts and give residents in the recently approved Speedway Terrace and Cooper-Young historic districts a chance to protest, and ultimately undo, the areas’ designation.

The full council is now set to vote on the third and final reading of an ordinance that scrubs the Memphis Landmarks Commission and replaces it with the Historic Commission in three weeks.

The council has never adopted any standards or procedures for approving historic districts; instead that has been the responsibility of the Landmarks Commission. Now the body is seeking to create a more formal process with specific criteria to designate historic zones.

The ordinance would give the council the “absolute discretion and authority” to approve or deny applications for historic districts, while also being able to regulate construction, repairs, alterations, rehabilitation, relocation, and demolition within an historic overlay district.

The newly formed Historic Commission would be comprised of nine appointed members who, with public input, will adopt a set of review guidelines for all new historic districts.

NEW STRATEGY FOR URBANART The UrbanArt Commission (UAC) presented a strategic plan for the next five years to the Memphis City Council last week.

One key goal of the UAC moving forward is to provide increased public art opportunities for Memphis artists. The goal of the commission moving forward will be for those artists to be supported in their work, while being able to further their artistic work in the city, said UAC executive director Lauren Kennedy.

TVA POND TO BE CLOSED, DRAINED The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) plans to close and drain a coal ash pond close to its now-closed Allen Fossil Plant, a TVA official said last week.

TVA told Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) officials in a letter last week that it plans to close the East Ash pond and drain it. The move is similar to those at other TVA fossil plants that have been retired, including John Sevier in East Tennessee and Widows Creek in Alabama, TVA spokesman Scott Brooks said.

“We remove the water from the pond, as it is no longer necessary for the handling and storage of the coal combustion residuals once the plant is closed,” Brooks explained.

Lead and arsenic were found in an aquifer below the pond last year. Some worried those toxins would seep into the Memphis Sand aquifer, the source of the city’s drinking water.

ONE BEALE TO RISE Construction of the skyline-changing, $225-million One Beale project is set to begin early next year and could be complete by late 2020, developers said last week.

One Beale is now planned as a multi-story hotel, a separate multi-story residential building with retail and restaurant space, and another separate office building spread over 5.5 acres situated, basically, close to the corner of Beale and Riverside.

Carlisle LLC, the project’s developer, announced Tuesday morning that it has selected its partners and will break ground on One Beale later this year.

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Greenspace clears out more Confederate artifacts from Memphis Park.

Memphis Greenspace started removing the remaining Confederate memorabilia from Memphis Park Saturday “to say goodbye to the past” and now also has full state approval to relocate the Confederate statues the nonprofit removed from two parks late last year.

On Saturday, the nonprofit began the process to temporarily relocate the Jefferson Davis statue pedestal, two additional Confederate markers, a sculpture of the Ten Commandments, the battlement cannon, the fencing around the statue pedestal, and the MPD SkyCop. The Confederate materials will eventually be moved to an undisclosed, safe location. The cannon, fence, and MPD SkyCop will also eventually be returned to the city of Memphis.

“We’re expediting our efforts to relocate current Memphis Park items because we feel the dramatic increase of positive energy flowing up and down Riverside, and we want to continue to be a part of its success,” said Van Turner, director and president of Memphis Greenspace. “There are many incredibly forward-thinking organizations in Memphis that all share a vision of a diverse, inclusive future for Downtown public space, from the Downtown Memphis Commission to Fourth Bluff and Memphis River Parks Partnership. To create that future, we need to say goodbye to the past.”

However, no similar moves are under way at

Health Sciences Park.

“For Health Sciences Park specifically, the ongoing litigation about the relocation of Confederate markers has been a roadblock,” Turner said.

The Memphis Brigade of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) said on Facebook last week that the suit is the “only reason the monsters in Memphis” haven’t removed the graves of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from Health Sciences Park. That post included a link to the nonprofit Citizens to Save Our Parks, a group organized to pay legal fees for the suit. In 2016, the group raised $31,164, according to tax documents.

“They stole the story from the park, but they can’t hide the truth,” the SCV wrote on Facebook of the news of the weekend’s removal activities at Memphis Park. “It is up to all of us to tell the story of our Confederate ancestors. THEY CANNOT SILENCE US!” In plays for donations to the legal fund, SCV wrote

The now-gone statue of Jefferson Davis in Memphis Park.

in several posts over the weekend, that “we still have a chance to preserve the Forrest Graves and historical markers there,” and that “cities destroy our history yet we patronize their restaurants, stores, and hotels,” and “by our apathy, our enemies have gained the upper hand. They don’t have to raise a finger, we are handing our heritage over to them.”

Greenspace said it has also received word from Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam’s office that it is free to solicit formal requests for the relocation of the Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest statues that were removed last year.

“We’ve already had numerous requests from many organizations willing to take the Confederate statues and other memorabilia,” Turner added. “We will entertain requests from parties interested in housing the statues, but the Memphis Greenspace board of directors will use discretion when vetting those interested.”

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POLITICS By Jackson Baker

For all the ballyhoo, emailed appeals for more cash, and intensified public rhetoric of recent days, the known world will exist in more or less its usual form after the electon results of this week are digested.

There are more election matters to be decided, for one thing: Someone will have to succeed the late state Representative Ron Lollar as the Republican nominee for state House District 99 on the November ballot. Lollar’s death occurred after the ballot was irrevocably composed, but on August 6th, a GOP caucus will meet to name a successor to run in November against Democratic nominee David Cambron.

The caucus will be made up of the members of the Shelby County Republican Committee who represent District 99. Those are current GOP chair Lee Mills, Mills’ wife Amber Mills, Becky Parsons, and Kenny Crenshaw. Among those interested in becoming the District 99 nominee are chairman Mills himself; Bartlett alderman David Parsons (husband of Becky Parsons); Lakeland Mayor Wyatt Bunker; and County Commissioner David Reaves.

For obvious arithmetical reasons, Lee Mills would seem to have an edge.

The chairman has already cleared a prospective leave of absence with FedEx, for whom he is a pilot.

• Still unresolved, too, is the matter of whether residents of three City Council districts in Memphis will have a chance to vote on replacing any of three council members who may have been elected to county positions this week. The three are Bill Morrison of District 1, candidate for Probate Court Clerk; Edmund Ford Jr. of District 6, candidate for the County Commission; and Janis Fullilove of Super District 8, Position 2, candidate for Juvenile Court Clerk.

There had been, as of this week, no definitive answer as to when any of the three, if victorious in their county races, would formally resign their council positions. They could resign immediately upon election to their new posts, but the county charter allows them to retain their current position for as long as 90 days.

If they should stay on the council for the

entirety of their allotted time, there would be no opportunity to schedule a special election on the November ballot.

What several local activists fear is that the dominant council faction, which has close ties to the city’s business elite and whose members tend to vote as a bloc, would relish the opportunity to skirt the election process and appoint the successors to any or all of the vacated positions.

Uncertainty on the point has been whetted by the claim of council Chairman Berlin Boyd, a member of the dominant faction, that the city charter does not allow for a replacement election on a November ballot. Council attorney Allan Wade apparently backs Boyd on the issue.

The activist group cites charter language specifically licensing a potential November election for the purpose, and the matter is further complicated by ambivalence as to the post-election intentions on the part of the three council members whose seats would be in question.

While continuing to keep her own counsel on the resignation matter, candidate Fullilove did choose, weekend before last, to make a public break from her council mates on another matter — the referendum scheduled by the council for November that, if successful, would repudiate an earlier 2008 referendum enabling Ranked Choice Voting (aka Instant Runoff Voting), a process that Election Administrator Linda Phillips had scheduled for the 2019 city election.

Fullilove’s statement: “Back in 2008, as a charter commission member, I voted to support Instant Runoff Voting.

I also supported it during the 2008 referendum Campaign, when 71 percent of Memphians voted for it. That was a good idea then, and it’s a good idea now. Last fall, I deferred to some of my colleagues on the city council who expressed concerns about IRV. But I have rethought my position. The people have already voted for this. We ought to give it a try. So I am … announcing my support for instant runoff voting and my opposition to any attempt at repeal. I call on my council colleagues to take both IRV referenda off the November ballot.

Thank you.”

So far, there have been no takers on Fullilove’s request, and the referendum still stands. But chalk up at least a partial victory for the activist group, Save IRV Memphis, many of whose members have doubled up on the lobby process concerning the resignation matter.

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Watergate History Lesson It was some 44 years ago, in the dog days of a humid summer, when the members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee met to consider articles of impeachment against the president of the United States, Richard M. Nixon.

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This was at a late point in the ever worsening saga that had begun with a criminal break-in of the opposition Democrats’ election headquarters, and, while hard and fast evidence of Nixon’s guilt — the so-called “smoking gun” — was not yet in hand, the president’s culpability in the series of high crimes and misdemeanors we now call Watergate had long since become obvious.

There was plenty of smoke, enough of it that several Republican members of the Judiciary Committee would forgo their partisan loyalties and join Democratic members in voting for one or more of the impeachment articles presented. But there were other GOP committee members who could not bring themselves to do so.

One of them, a Pennsylvania congressman named Charles W. Sandman, became famous (or notorious) because of his unstinting defense of Nixon during the televised Judiciary hearings and his insistence that all the evidence aggregated thus far had been circumstantial.

“Specificity!” Sandman thundered over and over, making the point that even the crime of jaywalking required some physical and irrefutable proof to justify prosecution.

The odds against the president’s survival in office were already tilted irrevocably against Nixon — Sandman himself had conceded that 37 committee votes, a clear majority, were already committed to impeachment — and yet he and a few other Republican loyalists persisted in their defense. There was something pathetic, yet oddly admirable, about their determination to go down with the ship.

And go down they did. The committee voted its judgment, and only days later, one

of the president’s surreptitiously recorded tapes surfaced publicly, and all the world heard Nixon strategize out loud about trying to subvert the FBI and the Justice Department to quell an investigation of the break-in at the Watergate.

For his pains, Sandman, who had been his party’s nominee for governor of Pennsylvania only the year before, was defeated for re-election to Congress that fall, along with other unregenerate loyalists.

The moral of that story for today’s congressional Republicans is obvious: Most of them continue to ignore the meaning of the ever multiplying facts that seem clearly to indicate improper collusion by the Trump campaign with Vladimir Putin’s Russian government during the 2016 presidential campaign and to obstruct an investigation afterward.

Demanding uncontrovertible evidence, they parrot President Trump’s mantra of “No collusion!” Presumably, they equate a forthright recognition of Trump’s guilt with the specter of their own potential defeat at the polls.

But, like Sandman, they’ve got it backwards. It was a refusal to acknowledge plain truth and a reluctance to put country before party that doomed Sandman and the others whose political careers were wrecked or ended by Watergate. Most of the Republicans who owned up to the reality of Nixon’s misprisions were able to survive; most of those who could not do so, like Sandman, were in short order eliminated from public life.

It’s not a Sophie’s Choice. Admitting the obvious is the best way Republicans can save themselves and their party.

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Stand for a Statue

Larry Finch

ner. Memphis State finished the 1968-69 season (Finch’s senior year at Melrose) 6-19, the previous season 8-17. But Finch and his Melrose running mate, Ronnie Robinson, felt they could transform a program. And with the arrival of coach Gene Bartow for Finch’s sophomore season — his first playing for the varsity, as freshmen were not then eligible to play — a program was indeed transformed.

Having gone 6-20 without Finch in 1969-70, the Tigers finished 18-8 in 1970-71, made the NIT with a 21-7 record in 1971-72, then secured the status of legends by reaching the 1973 NCAA championship game. Finch finished his playing career with a school-record of 1,869 points. The only three men currently above him on the Tiger chart needed four years to pass Finch’s total.

His career scoring average of 22.3 points per game remains a Memphis record, unlikely ever to be broken.

Finch was an assistant coach for the next Tiger team to reach the Final Four (1984-85), then coached his alma mater for 11 years, guiding the likes of Elliot Perry, Penny Hardaway, and Lorenzen Wright. He’s one of only two men to win 200 games at the Tiger helm and fell one victory short of a third Final Four in 1992.

Those are Finch’s credentials as a basketball player and coach. But he deserves a statue as much for the when of his life as the what. Finch had just completed his junior season in high school when Martin Luther King was killed at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968. The ensuing years were ugly, divisive, and painful, TIME magazine going so far as to label Memphis “a decaying Mississippi River town.”

Integration efforts felt forced, perhaps because they were. School busing proved to be a disastrous experiment.

Amid all the social discomfort, Larry Finch thrived. And a town without a major-league sports franchise found a team around which to rally, as one. Finch was as Memphis as the Mississippi River, and the life he brought this region is precisely the opposite of decaying.

How do we get Finch’s statue built?

And where does it go? The plaza at FedExForum would be a great spot, though I’ve heard nonsensical protests: “Finch never played for the Grizzlies. He never played in FedExForum.” A statue of Cool Papa Bell stands today in front of Busch Stadium in St. Louis, and Bell never played in the major leagues, let alone for the Cardinals. Might the Grizzlies step up and spearhead this movement?

They’d sell more tickets, not fewer, with a statue of Larry Finch in the background of fans’ pictures. (If not the FedExForum plaza, put the statue in front of the new Laurie-Walton Family Basketball Center, the palatial training facility for the program on the Park Avenue campus.)

As for how . . . contact your favorite Memphis booster. This remains a small town. Anyone remotely close to the Tiger program knows a booster with deep pockets. Surely enough could be collected to pay the right sculptor to bring Larry Finch (and his magnificent jump shot) to life once more. The handsome statue of blues legend Bobby “Blue” Bland that now stands on Main Street cost upwards of $50,000. This can be done. And it should be done. Memphis has cleared itself of imagery that divided for decades. Let’s create an image that will unify and inspire for decades to come.

Frank Murtaugh is managing editor of Memphis magazine.

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The year 2017 will forever be a significant year in Memphis history for a pair of statues that came down. Let’s make 2018 (or at least 2019) a significant year for a statue we erect.

I’ve been campaigning for years now to see Larry Finch in bronze, a largerthan-life Memphian we lost too soon.

(Finch died in 2011 at age 60 after being confined to a wheelchair for almost a decade following a stroke.) After years of uncomfortable and divisive debate about statues that represent a form of history to some and racial oppression to most, let’s make Memphis better by saluting one of this city’s great unifiers with the ultimate, perpetual tribute.

Larry Finch’s credentials for such an honor? After starring at Melrose High School, Finch chose to play basketball for his hometown college, then known as Memphis State University. This was not a blue-chip recruit choosing to join a win-

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Will a TDZ TCB?

August 2-8, 2018

An upcoming vote in Nashville will determine the future of the Memphis Fairgrounds.

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critical decision looms on a years-in-the-making plan that could transform one of the largest pieces of public property in Memphis.

The stakes could not be higher for the city’s plan to turn the largely fallow Memphis Fairgrounds into a youth sports tourist magnet. It’s the end of the road. There’s no appeal. There’s no review-and-update process. The city either gets the money and builds a “world class facility,” or it doesn’t get 10 the money and then, well, who knows?

The plan lives or it dies.

The city wants to create a Tourism Development Zone (TDZ) around the Fairgrounds. An increment of state sales taxes would be collected in the zone to pay for the project. The problem is that legislation approved in the Tennessee General Assembly this year deadlined consideration for any and all outstanding TDZs at December 31, 2018. And the only one left to be considered is for Memphis’ youth sports idea.

The high stakes were enough to cause city officials to hone the plan, shrinking the project in scope, size, and price tag.

Meanwhile, local grassroots advocates for the Fairgrounds and the Mid-South Coliseum have continued to beat the drum of local access to the property and for re-activiation of the building.

Through it all, developers have stayed mostly on the sidelines, waiting to see if the plan gets an up or down vote before they move in.

If the city’s plan is approved by the state, the Fairgrounds could get a brandnew, multi-million-dollar, state-of-theart indoor sports building, retail shops, a hotel, play areas, and more. It’s a play to attract out-of-towners and their sports-

playing children (and the tax dollars that come with them) to the city.

How We Got Here

The most recent moves to reanimate the Memphis Fairgrounds began in 2005, 13 years ago. Back then, the city was “eager to revitalize and re-imagine,” the Fairgrounds, as reporter Ben Popper wrote in the Flyer at the time.

“It is really the nexus between East Memphis and what is going on Downtown,” Robert Lipscomb, thendirector of the city’s Housing and Community Development (HCD)

formal TDZ request to its quiver. A 2009 Flyer headline read, “The Fairgrounds: Big, Complicated, and Leaderless.”

Come 2013, another plan — this one with a $233 million price tag — centered on (surely you guessed it by now) sports and retail. By 2014, Lipscomb was reported selling the plan to the Shelby County Commissioners in a Flyer story by Jackson Baker. Some commissioners worried the TDZ would “cannibalize” future sales tax from Cooper-Young and Overton Square and that the scheme would siphon funds (maybe $1 million to $2 million every year) from Shelby County Schools.

“But it hardly seemed to matter as Lipscomb, at his super-salesman best, seemingly had the members of a commission largely revamped by the election of 2014 treating Lipscomb’s propositions like ‘candy in the palm,’” Baker wrote.

council members he’d bring his plans to state officials in February. But public concerns crept into Lipscomb’s plans, fears that Fairgrounds neighbors and local stakeholders were being left out the conversation. Lipscomb vowed to get more people involved. That was February.

To get there, the Urban Land Institute, a third-party group of of city planning professionals, had a look at the plan. Their $184-million recommendation included sports and retail, natch, but also more improvements to Tiger Lane, a park with a lake, a surf park, a “Coliseum stage,” and more. That was in June.

In August, Lipscomb said he’d take the new plan to state officials in October. But when allegations surfaced that Lipscomb had raped a young man, his grand plan for the Fairgrounds was stalled, to say the least. Memphis Mayor Wharton fired Lipscomb immediately.

The Plan’s “New” New Era

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The city’s new plan (and just about every plan so far) aims only to “preserve” the Coliseum.

Lipscomb, who Baker described as “the city’s veteran Svengali of urban planning,” said the buildings that would rise on the Fairgrounds would be “world class,” helping to raise “a great new city right before our very eyes.”

Commissioners loved it. Van Turner congratulated Lipscomb. Terry Roland called it a “world-class deal,” and only Steve Basar and Walter Bailey seemed cautious.

That was November, but by December, commissioners shelved a vote on Lipscomb’s plan, hoping to bring a compromise plan of their own.

In January 2015, Lipscomb told city

Jim Strickland was elected Memphis mayor in October 2015. He hired Paul Young, former director of legislative affairs for Shelby County government, as director of HCD. Plans for the Fairgrounds weren’t really discussed much for two years.

In 2017, rather than starting from scratch, Young dusted off the recommendations from the Urban Land Institute panel (with youth sports and retail as the centerpiece, of course). But Young and the Strickland administration did something different this go-around. They began the conversation of the Fairgrounds’ future in public forums and actually used some options they got to shape the final plan. This was August 2017, and Young hoped to present his plan to state officials by the end of that year.

In November, Young unveiled the new $160-million Fairgrounds plan. It included an $80 million youth sports complex, retail and hotel space, a 500-space parking garage, $20 million worth of upgrades to the Liberty Bowl, upgrades to nearby Tobey Park, renovation of the Pipkin and Creative Arts buildings, basketball courts, a track, a soccer and football field, renovations to nearby Melrose High School, and new infrastructure to spur investment at Lamar and Airways.

But Young (some say on the advice of the state officials who’d vote on the plan) decided to have another look.

Earlier this month, he brought a scaledback, “workable” proposal to Memphis City Council members, who approved it. Almost everything (save for the $20 million improvements for the Liberty Bowl) was shaved. Two youth sports buildings became one. The parking garage was halved, basically. Off-site projects were cut out of the plan.

Why? “As we really dove into the specifics and saw that TDZ revenues were much continued on page 12

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division, said at the time. “I think it’s under-utilized and potentially has much greater value. Our job is maximizing that asset.”

That year, Lipscomb formed a special Fairgrounds Redevelopment Committee to envision the Fairgrounds’ future. The architectural firm Looney Ricks Kiss drew up six proposals for the site.

The group picked an option with “large green space, small-scale retail, and 40-plus acres for sports and recreation.”

The plan did not include Libertyland, the Mid-South Coliseum, or the Mid-South Fair. The committee’s selection decision came on the same day leaders decided to

close Libertyland, citing several years of financial losses.

Retail, green space, sports, and recreation. Sound familiar?

But then-Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton told the Memphis Business Journal’s Chris Sheffield at the time he wasn’t in a hurry to get anything done “given the nostalgia and fond memories and public importance of the property.

There’s nothing wrong with going through a laborious process,” Wharton said in 2006.

Laborious, indeed. Two years later, John Branston, writing for the Flyer, described the scene at the Fairgrounds this way: “The stadium and the Children’s Museum [of Memphis] still draw crowds, but the rest of the property is demolished, abandoned, or underused. Libertyland amusement park, part of its roller coaster still standing, is closed. So is the MidSouth Coliseum, home to concerts and basketball games … before giving way to The Pyramid and then FedExForum.

“Tim McCarver Stadium was demolished a few years ago,” Branston wrote in 2008, “long after it was replaced

by AutoZone Park. The annual Mid-South Fair is moving to Tunica, Mississippi, next year. Fairview Junior High School is blighted and has about 300 students. The main feature of the Fairgrounds on most days is several acres of asphalt parking lots.”

Those comments came in Branston’s story about a new group heading up a new push to, finally, finally, finally get something done at the Fairgrounds. It included a heavy-hitting bunch of names: Henry Turley, CEO of Henry Turley Co.; Bob Loeb, president of Loeb Properties; Archie Willis III, president of Community Capital; Mark Yates, now-Chief Visionary Officer of the Black Business Association of Memphis; Jason Wexler, president of business operations at Memphis Grizzlies; Elliot Perry, retired pro basketball player; and Arthur Gilliam Jr., president of Gilliam Communications.

Called “Fair Ground,” the idea was to make the Fairgrounds a common area for all Memphians to meet, play, and mingle. At its core, Fair Ground would have transformed the sleepy area “into a combination of sports complex, renovated stadium, park, and retail center.” Sound familiar? A big difference, though, was that Fair Ground also promised a “network of new public schools” good enough to rival private schools.

In 2007, the city applied for its TDZ with the state and the Salvation Army Kroc Center bought a parcel of land to build upon. But by 2009, Lipscomb was referring to the Fair Ground deal with Turley and his folks in the past tense. He said they couldn’t come to an agreement.

He pivoted quickly to a Plan B, in which Lipscomb tapped former Memphis City Council member Tom Marshall to design a plan that centered on — wait for it — sports, recreation, and retail.

That $125 million plan was ultimately panned, though the city did add that

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continued from page 11 lower than we expected them to be, it was incumbent on us to take some time and really, really hone down the plan and try to figure out what things do we have to do to make this site activated,” Young said in an interview last week.

So, now — with more than a decade of plans, dreams, opinions, and varying degrees of political will on the project — Young and his team are slated to take their plan to Nashville later this year. If the State Building Commission doesn’t give the city the money, the Fairgrounds will stay largely the same as it is today, Young said.

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At the very core of the new plan — and almost every plan proposed so far — is youth sports. That might not be what you think it is. It’s not your kid’s T-ball team sponsored by a local insurance agent. Youth sports is a big, sophisticated business. The teams the city wants to attract are called travel teams or competitive teams. The kids who play are elite (or at least seen that way). Not every kid makes the team. Those who do practice at private facilities, wear custom uniforms, carry custom equipment bags, get elite coaching, travel around the country to tournaments, and pay mightily for the privilege of doing so. Many parents see these teams as a path to help their child get a college scholarship and then, perhaps, to play in the bigs. In short, these parents often are monied and motivated.

How much money? According to WinterGreen Research, an independent organization that tracks the youth sports market, the U.S. market is worth $15.5 billion. There’s more.

“This is a nascent market, there is no end to growth in sight,” WinterGreen reported in September 2017. “Markets are expected to reach $41.2 billion by 2023.”

Young says the Memphis sports market is worth $120 million, without an indoor youth sports facility. The Rocky Top Sports World in Gatlinburg created $35.4 million in economic impact for that city last year, according

to Young’s report. A Fort Myers, Florida, venue yielded $47.7 million. Another in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, grossed a whopping $186 million.

Critics of the city’s Fairgrounds plan have said that leaders want to build an elite facility for rich kids and their rich parents.

“It’s not for them,” Young responds.

“It’s for our economy.”

Young adds that the facility would be available to locals anytime it isn’t being used for youth sports tournaments, which usually run from Thursday through Sunday.

Reviving the Roundhouse

In 2015, some Memphis folks got together and decided they wanted the Mid-South Coliseum saved and re-opened. After years of community meetings, government meetings, tours of the building, business research, creating a business plan, media interviews, three Roundhouse Revival events, and a top-to-bottom examination of the massive building, they are still at it.

They say the future of the Coliseum has never looked brighter.

“There is a wider wind in our civic sails, and we’re racking up civic win after civic win after civic win with Crosstown Concourse, the Chisca Hotel, the Levitt Shell, the Tennessee Brewery, Broad Avenue, and Clayborn Temple,” says Marvin Stockwell, co-founder of the Coliseum Coalition and a second group, the Friends of the Fairgrounds. “This seems a whole lot more possible than it did when we first started, and way more possible than it did 10 years ago.”

That enthusiasm is shared by Coliseum Coalition president Roy Barnes and Charles “Chooch” Pickard, a coalition member and preservation architect, even as the city’s new plan (and just about every plan so far) aims only to “preserve” the Coliseum. To them, preservation is at least a step away from razing the building, as Lipscomb wanted to do.

Two Saturdays ago, July 21st, hundreds of people sweated together outside the Coliseum, with 90 degrees of Memphis summer sun blasting from above and radiating back off the parking lot.

Barbecue smoke scented the air, vendors

with about 1,000-2,000 on the floor. That would make it the perfect venue for upand-coming artists and established artists who are playing their way back down the musical food chain from arena shows.

“We’ve gone to the Grizzlies and said, ‘We think there’s a market for that,’ and they said, ‘We don’t think there is, but if there is, we can accommodate those shows,’” Pickard says. “We’re the venue for that.”

While there seems to be little movement ahead for changing perceptions on the non-compete or the clause itself, the Coliseum Coalition is moving ahead, working with city officials to allow them to clean up the inside of the building and, perhaps, hold a new event inside.

They hope if the TDZ is approved and successful, funds could be found down the road to save the Coliseum.

Plan B = Status Quo

So, what if the TDZ is not approved?

Some sources the Flyer talked to said a “no” vote could be used to further punish Memphis for its removal of Confederate statues this year. Others said moderate Republicans have convinced their right-wing colleagues the deal would be an economic development win for the state. Part of that deal, too, sources said, was the satisfyingly loud outcry from Memphis Democrats over the state lawmakers’

removal of $250,000 from the city’s bicentennial celebration, which was some tasty red meat for Republicans.

In that case, political tea leaves may point to approval of a TDZ for the project.

But if it’s defeated, nothing happens.

“I think the Plan B is the status quo,” Young says. “It’s what we have today. When the mayor came in, he commented that the Fairgrounds, while we’d love to see it maximized, it’s not something that had to be done at that point in time.

“I think that opinion would still ring true. It is underutilized, but it’s not necessarily having a negative impact on the community as it sits today.”

Preservation is at least a step away from razing the building, as Lipscomb wanted to do.

That was city council members’ central argument against Elvis Presley Enterprises’ proposed $20-million arena in Whitehaven. And it’s been a central argument against re-opening the Coliseum. Barnes thinks it’s bogus.

“There’s nothing in it … that gives the Grizzlies the ability to say, ‘Sorry you can’t re-open the Coliseum,’” Barnes says. “It doesn’t give them the ability to say, ‘You can’t have events there.’”

Only certain events are blocked by the clause, Barnes says. Stockwell says that the perception that the clause blocks any new, large-ish venue from opening is “completely false.” But there is little political will to alienate the Grizzlies, a major city brand and a major corporate citizen, Barnes says.

The Coliseum, Pickard says, should be right-sized to about 4,900 fixed seats

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It was the third spin of the Coliseum Coaltion’s Roundhouse Revival event, which featured music, wrestling, food, and a few public service announcements.

“The Coliseum is in great shape,” read a flyer posted on a column. The group has used the events to garther input from community members and garner support for their cause.

“I just saw these photographs over here that show me that the building is in great shape,” said Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Craig Fitzhugh, at the event. “To me, now it’s a perfect-sized venue. It won’t compete. There’s not any competition for it. They could put a lot of different things in here — from music to wresting to whatever — roller derby. For the Grizzlies, this would be a great place to put their … developmental league team.”

Fitzhugh hit upon the No. 1 problem for re-opening the Coliseum, according to the Coliseum Coalition — the Grizzlies non-compete clause. With the clause, Grizzlies officials have a measure of control over the local entertainment market and local venues. The team is on the hook for any operating losses at the FedExForum (not the local government) and might perceive a revived Mid-South Coliseum as competition.

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“Sometimes there’s a man, well, he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there, and that’s The Dude.” — The Big Lebowski.

The Big Lebowski was not the movie for its time or place. This here story I’m about to unfold took place in 1998 — just about the time American movie fans were having a tragic love affair with Titanic. I only mention it because The Big Lebowski sank at the box office.

Coen Brothers associate Bill Robertson said it best in a 2008 interview with Rolling Stone. By following a perfectly austere, Academy Awardwinner like Fargo with a gaudy bauble like Lebowski, the brothers were like, “opera stars who sang a perfect aria – and farted as they walked offstage.” Within five years of its underwhelming release, the Coen’s marriage of gritty L.A. noir (Raymond Chandler-style) and wordy screwball comedy (Preston Sturges-style) had become a generational touchstone. In 1998, it baffled audiences and split critics down the middle. TV critic Gene Siskel described The Big Lebowski as a “big disappointment.”

As Malco prepares for a 20th anniversary screening of this late-blooming landmark, we looked back into the movie archive to see what the Flyer thought about this once-divisive, now-beloved comedy about a man and his area rug. According to reviewer Susan Ellis, “The Big Lebowski possesses none of the dark undertones that flavored [the Coens’] last big hit, Fargo. Nor does it — despite all of its sundry characters and brief plot detours (such as the dream sequences) — try to do too much, as in The Hudsucker Proxy. Rather, this film harks back to Raising Arizona, another happily goofy kidnap caper … Laugh out loud funny.”

It was a good review. And thorough. And if it makes you want to see Dude, Donny, Maude, Walter, Jesus, Bunny, The Stranger, and a whole bunch of nihilists, the Malco Paradiso theater participates in TCM’s 20th Anniversary screening of The Big Lebowski Wednesday, August 8th.

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THURSDAY August 2

FRIDAY August 3

Whet Thursday Metal Museum, 5-8 p.m.

Tonight’s theme is Dog Days of Summer. ALIVE Rescue group will be there with dogs for adoptions, and guests can bring their own dogs to have their paw prints cast in clay.

Peabody Rooftop Party The Peabody, 6-10 p.m., $10-$20 Tonight’s party features the Gary Goin Group, playing songs from the ’50s. The food spread includes sloppy joes, and for the VIPs, chicken and beef sliders.

Bring It The Orpheum, 7:30 p.m., $35 Live version of the reality series following hip-hop majorette competition.

Odidi Crosstown Arts, 7-9 p.m.

Performance and exhibition

by Nubia Yasin, Jas Marie, and Osarugue Otebele, exploring womanhood, from Eve on.

Raleigh Keegan Tin Roof, 10 p.m.

Performance by this singersongwriter.

“Shake, Rattle and Roll” L Ross Gallery, 6-9 p.m.

Group show revolving around Elvis, featuring such artists as Karen Bottle Capps, Gregg Chadwick, Alan Duckworth, Eli Gold, Annabelle Meacham, and others.

Booksigning by Kimberla Lawson Roby Barnes & Noble Wolfchase, 7 p.m.

Booksigning by Kimberla Lawson Roby of her novel, Better Late than Never, about a reverend with more than a few skeletons in his closet.

Choose 901 Back 2 School Pop-up Shop Ballet Memphis, 3-7 p.m.

Choose 901 hosts this pop-up shop with branded T-shirts, backpacks, hats, totes, and more.

“Female Form” and Awakened Space at Jay Etkin Gallery

The Awakening

By Chris Davis “Female Form,” an exhibit opening at Cooper-Young’s Jay Etkin Gallery, “explores the way the female body is glorified, fractured, obfuscated, multiplied, and rebuilt through the artist’s gaze.” It also announces the arrival of Awakened Space, an education center for young moms and moms-to-be, that Etkin’s daughter Zoe is opening inside the gallery.

After living in Los Angeles for 8 years, younger Etkin decided to return to Memphis shortly after becoming a mom herself. In L.A. she’d worked as a doula, helping women have safe, meaningful birthing experiences. She wanted to continue that same kind of work here, in a creative, welcoming environment.

“The female form has been represented in art since the beginning,” Etkin says, referencing goddess paintings, images of Mary in western religious art traditions, and the inevitable conflict and controversy images of the female body would seem to inspire. “We have both male and female artists showing,” she says, finding interest in the way various perspectives distort and obfuscate.

The artwork ranges from contemporary to traditional/tribal and showcases artists like Alla Bartoshchuk, Mary Jo Karimnia, Roy Tamboli, and Juan Rojo, among others.

Etkin’s Awakened Space specializes in childbirth education and breastfeeding support, with new mom groups and specialty workshops like an upcoming baby sleep class.

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Yellow Jack Woodruff-Fontaine House, 5-8 p.m., $15 The house is being shuttered up to ward off Yellow Fever. With cocktails to kill a fever.

TUESDAY August 7

Eddie B. Teachers Only Comedy Tour Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 8 p.m., $25 Giving a comedic voice to teachers all over the world.

Booksigning by Greg Graber Novel, 6 p.m.

Greg Graber signs and discusses his book about meditation, Slow Your Roll: Mindfulness for Fast Times. Grizzlies play-by-play guy Peter Pranica will moderate the discussion.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shelby Farms, 7:30 p.m., $10 They come from the sewers to help protect New York City.

Shoot & Splice Crosstown Arts, 6:30-9 p.m.

Memphis filmmaker Mark Jones shares his writing and filmmaking ethos in his “Filmmaking Within Your Means” presentation.

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Among the Ghosts Ben Nichols on Lucero’s new album — and the pastoral life.

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ith the release of Lucero’s first album since 2015’s All a Man Should Do this week, a new page has been turned in the band’s life. With Ben Nichols, the group’s singer and songwriter, settling into married life and fatherhood, and the band celebrating its 20th year this spring, the new songs strike out for new territory with a wistful nod to the past. As with the cover image of Among the Ghosts — a homespun church blurring into reflections of the floodwater surrounding it — the sounds of the new album are deceptively spare, but full of shadows.

Ghosts has the cinematic sweep of classic Springsteen, but it’s a cinema filled with dread and ominous foreboding. It’s no great stretch when, near the album’s end, Nichols’ voice drops out and one hears a noir-inspired monologue by actor Michael Shannon. Not unlike Harlan T. Bobo’s recent foray into fatherhood, which resulted in the darkest music of his career, Nichols turns from his new grounding in parental life to cast an eye at the broken world our children will inherit.

When Nichols called me from his home in Ohio, he contrasted the bliss of his current life with the brooding songs he’s created.

Flyer: It seems your lyrics have become more writerly. Does this grow out of being more of a dad and homebody these days?

Ben Nichols: It’s kinda like living in the witness protection program. Nobody knows me. We’re out here in the middle of nowhere. We’ve got a couple acres out in the country. It’s all dairy farms and fields, and it’s real nice. I don’t do anything, I just hang out at the house with the family.

I’m happier than I’ve ever been, but I’ve written some of the darker songs that we’ve written recently. Now the stakes are higher. I’ve got something to lose. I’ve got something I actually care about. In the past, it didn’t matter which direction the world went, but now, I’ve got a little girl.

And things matter more now than they used to. And things are scarier now than they used to be.

I love all the old Lucero songs, all the drinking songs and heartbreak songs, which pretty much came straight out of my life, but I don’t have to write those

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again. It was nice going in a slightly different direction this time. I was trying to think of the songs more as short stories. I think it fit the music as well.

What authors have you been inspired by?

For “Long Way Back Home,” which we just filmed a video for, I was definitely thinking about Larry Brown and Ron Rash. And also my little brother, Jeff Nichols, and his films, like Shotgun Stories and Mud. I wanted to capture that kind of Southern storytelling. Songs like “Everything Has Changed,” the whole idea of that song, the guilt in that song, is straight outta that Tim O’Brien story, The Things They Carried.

There’s a yearning for home that plays through the record. It’s very specific in the title track, “Among the Ghosts.” That one is most directly from my point of view: being on the road and missing my family.

But then you’ve got “To My Dearest Wife,” which is more from a soldier’s perspective.

It’s based on some Civil War letters that I found, but I didn’t wanna make it too specific.

The tracks also evoke wide open spaces, but with big guitar tones instead of horns.

We were taking a step back from what we’d done on the last three records, recorded at Ardent, which was a very Memphis-centric sound. We had the big horn section and the boogie-woogie piano that Rick Steff was playing. With this one, I was deliberately taking a step away from that. We changed studios; we went to Sam Phillips. And we changed producers; we worked with Matt Ross-Spang.

And we deliberately went in more classic rock direction. Something that was more cinematic and more melancholy.

Does touring have a more melancholy edge now?

It’s a whole new kind of heartbreak, leaving a two-year-old daughter at home. Before, you’d leave a girlfriend or your friends behind for a month or two. Leaving your little girl behind is tougher. But overall, it’s a pretty sweet setup. Come up with guitar parts at home with my daughter running around, and then go down to Memphis and record ’em in a place like Sam Phillips Studio? Yeah, you can’t beat it.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule August 2 - 8 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

The King Beez Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.

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

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

Sean Apple Thursdays, Sundays, 5 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 4 p.m., and Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m.; Live Music Thursdays-Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Blues Players Club Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; DJ Ron Fridays, 11 p.m.; Bonfire Orchestra Saturday, Aug. 4, 7-11 p.m. and Tuesday, Aug. 7, 6-10 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.; DJ Mad Efx Sundays, midnight; A.M. Whiskey Trio Mondays, 6-10 p.m.; DJ Super Brad Wednesday, Aug. 8, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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

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Chris Gales Solo Acoustic Show Mondays-Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/acoustic Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmasters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight and Monday, Aug. 6, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Fridays-Sundays, 4-8 p.m.; Little Boy Blues Friday, Aug. 3, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Cowboy Neil Saturday, Aug. 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Sunday, Aug. 5, 8 p.m.-midnight; James Jones Wednesday, Aug. 8, 8 p.m.midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chic Jones Friday, Aug. 3, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, Aug. 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-3 a.m., and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

New Daisy Theatre

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King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille

162 BEALE 521-1851

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 7 p.m.midnight and Friday, Aug. 3, 7 p.m.-midnight; Baunie and Soul Sunday, Aug. 5, 7 p.m.-midnight; Chic Jones and the Blues Express Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; North and South Band Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall

Key Glock Thursday, Aug. 2, 7 p.m.; Tory Lanez Friday, Aug. 3, 8 p.m.; Yheti Saturday, Aug. 4, 10 p.m.

Tin Roof Bailey Bigger with Drew Parker Thursday, Aug. 2, 7 p.m.

182 BEALE 528-0150

Purple Haze Nightclub

152 MADISON 572-1813

140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

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

DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.

Center for Southern Folklore Hall

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

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

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Karaoke Night Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Dan Montgomery 3+2 Friday, Aug. 3, 8 p.m.; Keith Blanchard Saturday, Aug. 4, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

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

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

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Rum Boogie Cafe Eric Hughes Band Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; FreeWorld Friday, Aug. 3, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, Aug. 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sunday, Aug. 5, 7-11 p.m.; Fuzzy Tuesday, Aug. 7, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Brass Door Irish Pub

Belle Tavern 117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

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

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

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.; The Rusty Pieces Saturday, Aug. 4, 11 p.m.-1 a.m.

Soul Shockers Sunday, Aug. 5, 8-11:30 p.m.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

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

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

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

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

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

Eric Hughes Friday, Aug. 3, 7-10 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 4, 7-10 p.m.

The Peabody Hotel 149 UNION 529-4000

Peabody Rooftop Parties Thursdays, 6-10 p.m.

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

Heath and Bobbie Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Tim Plunk Friday, Aug. 3, 8 p.m.; Rev Neil Down Saturday, Aug. 4, 8 p.m.

Your Inner Yogi 10 N. SECOND 470-344-9642

Hip-Hop Yoga with Kandace Stewart Friday, Aug. 3, 6:30-8 p.m.

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Loveland Duren Friday, Aug. 3, 7 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 4, 7 p.m.

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

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

Red Squad Record Release Saturday, Aug. 4.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Obscura: A Gothic Affair Saturday, Aug. 4; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

The Phoenix Blues Jam Tuesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Bluff City Bandits Saturday, Aug. 4; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Trouble No More Saturday, Aug. 4, 8 p.m.; Mo Boogie Sunday, Aug. 5, 6-10 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Rustenhaven Wednesday, Aug. 8, 8-midnight; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

The Brian Johnson Band Friday, Aug. 3, 9 p.m.; Animal Cracker Saturday, Aug. 4, 9 p.m.; Area 51 Sunday, Aug. 5, 5:30 p.m.; No Hits Wonder Wednesday, Aug. 8, 8 p.m.

Collierville

Celtic Crossing

Huey’s Collierville

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

Brandon Taylor & Radio Ghost Sunday, Aug. 5, 8-11:30 p.m.

The Cove

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2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

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Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, Aug. 2, 8 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, Aug. 3, 9 p.m.; Short in the Sleeve Saturday, Aug. 4, 9 p.m.; David Collins Frog Squad Sunday, Aug. 5, 6 p.m.; Timmy & the Jazz Monday, Aug. 6, 6 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesday, Aug. 7, 6 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesday, Aug. 8, 5:30 p.m.; Karaoke with DJ Eggroll Wednesday, Aug. 8, 9 p.m.

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 318-3030

Amy LaVere Band Sunday, Aug. 5, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Frayser/Millington Huey’s Millington

Crosstown Arts

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Charvey Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, Aug. 5, 6-9 p.m.

Josh Waddell presents Mt. & Valley Saturday, Aug. 4, 7-10 p.m.

Pop’s Bar & Grill

Growlers

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1911 POPLAR 244-7904

DK the Drummer and Sucré Saturday, Aug. 4, 7 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Savants of Soul Wednesday, Aug. 8, 8 p.m.

Possum Daddy or DJ Turtle Thursdays, 5-9 p.m.; CeCee Fridays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; Possum Daddy Karaoke Wednesdays, 6-10 p.m. and Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; DJ Turtle or CeCee First Sunday of every month, 5-9 p.m.

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Germantown

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Pearl Charles Thursday, Aug. 2, 9 p.m.; The Night of Shitty Musicians Friday, Aug. 3, 8 p.m.; Skindo-G and the Family, Kyle Kiser and The Eastwood’s Kaz Saturday, Aug. 4, 9 p.m.; Charlie Belle Monday, Aug. 6, 8 p.m.; Lil Ugly Mane, Tommy Wright III, Nickelus F, Reserving Dirtnaps, Negro Terror Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m.; Cave of Swimmers, Pressed, Kroil Wednesday, Aug. 8, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Fabulous Doo Vays Sunday, Aug. 5, 4-7 p.m.; Royal Blues Band Sunday, Aug. 5, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Indian Pass Raw Bar Memphis 2059 MADISON 207-7397

Paul Taylor Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.; Marcella and Her Lovers Friday, Aug. 3, 7-10 p.m.; Mighty Souls Saturday, Aug. 4, 7:30-10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Josh Cosby Sunday, Aug. 5, 12-3 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

John D. Hale Band Thursday,

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, Aug. 5, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Aug. 7, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesday, Aug. 8, 5:30 p.m.; Memphis All Stars Wednesday, Aug. 8, 8 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Pearl Saturday, Aug. 4, 8 p.m.

Rhodes College, Tuthill Performance Hall 2000 N. PARKWAY 843-3000

Masques et Bergamasques: A Tribute to Claude Debussy Saturday, Aug. 4, 4-5 p.m.

Senses Nightclub 2866 POPLAR 249-3739

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Memphis Tributes the Grateful Dead Saturday, Aug. 4, 7 p.m.

Mulan Asian Bistro 2149 YOUNG AVE 347-3965

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

Unique Saturday Saturdays, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe 663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

Live Music with DJ ALXANDR Fridays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Live Music with Coldway Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

East Memphis

Summer/Berclair Cheffie’s Cafe 483 HIGH POINT TERRACE 202-4157

Songwriter Night hosted by Leigh Ann Wilmot and Dave “The Rave” Saturdays, 5-8 p.m.

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

Rock-n-Roll Cafe

Huey’s Poplar

3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

North Mississippi/ Tunica BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove 6285 SNOWDEN, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662) 892-2660

5 Finger Death Punch Monday, Aug. 6.

Huey’s Southaven

6069 PARK 763-0676

John Paul Keith Band Sunday, Aug. 5, 8-11:30 p.m.

Memphis All Stars Sunday, Aug. 5, 8-11:30 p.m.

Whitehaven/ Airport

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

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Jamie Baker & the VIPs Sunday, Aug. 5, 8-11:30 p.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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The Evergreen Theatre

Remy: From Fate There Is No Escape, at the top of her game, Remy Silva, CEO of Silva’s Interior Designs loses all the control she once had over her life and begins to unravel as her skeletons threaten to be resurrected. (652-5761), www. innercitysouth.com. $25. Sun., 3 p.m., and Fri., Sat., 7 p.m.

Through Aug. 5.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Germantown Community Theatre

Singing in the Rain Jr., www. gctcomeplay.org. $15-$20. Sundays, 2:30 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Through Aug. 12.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).

Hattiloo Theatre

Mahalia, featuring spirituals made famous by Mahalia Jackson. A joyous celebration of the life and music of the world’s greatest gospel singer: www. hattiloo.org. $22-$35. Sundays, 3 p.m., Saturdays, 2 & 7:30 p.m., and Thursdays, Fridays, 7:30 p.m. Through Aug. 26.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

TheatreWorks

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Dependently Yours, the third and final of the trilogy of plays about the family holiday gatherings of the Stevensons, where secrets are always revealed. www.theatreworksmemphis.

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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org. $22-$35. Sundays, 3 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Through Aug. 12.

www.jayetkingallery.com. Fri., Aug. 3, 6-9 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

L Ross Gallery

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

Art Body Soul Studio

Opening reception for Becky Ross McRae, exhibition of fine art photographs and a variety of abstract macros focusing on textures and patinas. (2074161), www.artbodysoulstudio. com. Fri., Aug. 3, 6-8 p.m.

1024 YATES ( 901-336-7573).

David Lusk Gallery

Opening reception for “Daily Art,” www.davidluskgallery. com. Fri., Aug. 3, 6-8 p.m.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Java Cabana

Opening reception for “New Beginning,” exhibition of paintings by Tonya Pearce. Fri., Aug. 3, 7-9 p.m.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

Jay Etkin Gallery

Artist reception for “Female Form,” exhibition of work exploring the way the female body is glorified, fractured, obfuscated, multiplied, and rebuilt through the artist’s gaze.

Opening reception for “Shake, Rattle, and Roll” at L Ross Gallery, Friday, August 3rd, 6-9 p.m.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

Opening reception for “Shake, Rattle, and Roll,” exhibition of all things Elvis by contemporary Southern artists celebrating Elvis Week. Featuring music provided by Memphis’ DJ Leroy, tribute artists welcome. ww.lrossgallery.com. Fri., Aug. 3, 6-9 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

Opening reception for “Awakened by the Storm,” exhibition of paintings by Sarah Megan Jenkins. www.jccmemphis.org.

Thurs., Aug. 2, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

Artist reception for “Local Color,” exhibition of colorful portraits of people and animals

by Meredith Wilson, Maggie Russell, and Melanie Anderson.

(754-7282), www.stgchurch.org.

Fri., Aug. 3, 6-8 p.m.

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

WKNO Studio

Artist reception for 2018 MGAL Member Showcase and Sale, www.wkno.org. Free.

Sun., Aug. 5, 3:30 p.m.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

CALENDAR: AUGUST 2 - 8 OTH E R ART HAP P E N I N G S

Casting Demonstration

Amtgard

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

ANF Architects

Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.

The Barony of Soul’s Crossing live-action role-playing game. From arts and science competitions to battle games and quests, a family-friendly group with levels of participation for any physical level. Free.

Sundays, 1 p.m.

1372 OVERTON PARK, 1372 OVERTON PARK.

Art of the Dealer: An Evening at David Lusk Gallery

Meet David Lusk as he introduces internationally recognized DLG artists and their artistic practice. RSVP online.

Wed., Aug. 8, 6-8 p.m.

DAVID LUSK GALLERY, 97 TILLMAN (7673800), WWW.DAVIDLUSKGALLERY.COM.

Austin Blue

Art show and music video release. Fri., Aug. 3, 6-9 p.m.

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

Blue Star Museums Program

Free admission to Pink Palace Family of Museums for the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. Visit website for more information.

Through Sept. 3.

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

“The Best of the Best,” exhibition showcasing the winners of the Memphis Camera Club’s 2017 Year End Awards. www.anfa.com. Through Aug. 2.

Cooper-Young Art Tours

1500 UNION (278-6868).

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

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

Ongoing.

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

Gallery Talk

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

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

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

“Odidi”

Exhibition and performance

by Nubia Yasin, Jas Marie, and Osarugue Otebele. Thurs., Aug. 2, 7-9 p.m.

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

Photo Expo Memphis

Unique experience featuring hands-on training, keynote speakers, model shoots, and interactive trade. $100. Fri., Aug. 3, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sat., Aug. 4, 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.

GUEST HOUSE AT GRACELAND, 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY (501-2242020), WWW.BEDFORDS.COM.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“Varied Lands: New Works by Martha Kelly,” www.buckmanartscenter.com. Aug. 3-Sept. 10.

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

Resident Artist Pecha Kucha

Crosstown Arts resident artists will deliver talks in the Pecha Kucha format. With 20×20 format all presenters show 20 slides for 20 seconds each, making each presentation concise and dynamic. Mon., Aug. 6, 6-8 p.m.

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

Shoot & Splice: Filmmaking Within Your Means

Join prolific Memphis filmmaker Mark Jones as he presents his workshop and discussion sharing his writing

“Varied Lands: New Works by Martha Kelly” at Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School and filmmaking ethos. Tues., Aug. 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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

Submissions Open for MCA 68th Annual Holiday Bazaar & Fundraiser.

Visit website for more information. Through Oct. 1.

WWW.MCA.EDU.

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Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

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

Ongoing.

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

Art Village Gallery

“Somnium (Daydreams),” exhibition of 10 medium to large-scale figurative paintings on reverse canvas by Mario Henrique. www.artvillagegallery.com. Through Aug. 31.

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

Crosstown Concourse

“Number: Presents Art of the South 2018,” exhibition of works by artists from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and other Southern states. www.crosstownarts.org.

Through Sept. 2.

“Tunnel Vision,” exhibition of collaborative installation

by Frances Berry and Jenny Fine. www.crosstownarts.org.

Through Sept. 2.

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works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing.

Nadel, La’Donna Roberts, and Lester Jones inside FocalPoint.

Through Nov. 30.

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

“Daily Art,” e-Exhibition featuring 31 artists for 31 days.

Visit website to see, discuss, and purchase art from daily featured artist. www.davidluskgallery. com. Through Aug. 31.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“In the Garden,” exhibition of over 400,000 photographic objects dating back to the inception of photography as a medium. The collection explores garden imagery and humans cultivating the land. www.dixon.org. Through Sept. 20.

“Awakened by the Storm,” paintings by Sarah Megan Jenkins. www.jccmemphis.org. Aug. 2-30.

Graceland

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

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

“Eco Prints,” exhibition of prints on paper. Framed prints are $150, unframed $60. www. robinsoneditions.com. Through Aug. 31.

44 HULING (576-0708).

Java Cabana

“New Beginning,” exhibition of paintings by Tonya Pearce Aug. 3-31.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

Jay Etkin Gallery

4339 PARK (761-5250).

“Female Form,” work exploring the way the female body is glorified, fractured, obfuscated, multiplied, and rebuilt through the artist’s gaze. www.jayetkingallery. com. Aug. 3-31.

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

Eclectic Eye

“Through My Lens,” exhibition of high-resolution digital images that capture the beauty of nature in urban culture by Sabrina Turner www.eclecticeye.com. Through Sept. 19.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

“In Living Color: The Butterfly Effect,” exhibition of work by Yin and Young Soul Artistry. www.mbaafirehouse.org.

Through Oct. 20.

Mosal Morszart, exhibition of

“Shake, Rattle, and Roll,” exhibition of all things Elvis by contemporary Southern artists celebrating Elvis Week. www. lrossgallery.com. Aug. 3-31.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Leadership Memphis

“Trolley Night: Music, Messages, and Movements,” exhibition in partnership with The Withers Collection Museum & Gallery.

Through Aug. 31.

365 S. MAIN ST. (278-0016).

Marshall Arts Gallery

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

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Black Resistance: Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement,” exhibition focuses on and commemorates the 50th

Deborah Cunningham Access Awards at Crosstown Concourse, Friday, August 3rd anniversary of the events from March 27th through April 8th, 1968. Through Aug. 19.

“African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style,” exhibition of dynamic traditions of African dress featuring colorful, boldly patterned printed cloth highlighting the interplay between regional preferences and cosmopolitanism.

Through Aug. 12.

“Arts of Global Africa,” exhibition of historic and contempo-

rary works in a range of different media presenting an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry.

Through June 21, 2021.

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

“Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis,” exhibition of works inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in southeastern Nigeria by Victor Ekpuk. www.brooksmuseum. org. Ongoing.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

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“Forge,” work by 15 international metal artists whose practice has been identified as having a significant impact in the field of blacksmithing. Through Sept. 16.

“Tributaries: Venetia Dale-Next After the First in Order, Place and Time,” installations that refocus attention on overlooked support objects secondary to the items they hold up, contain, or aid. Appreciated as individual creations when removed from context and made in pewter. www.metalmuseum.org.

Through Sept. 9.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Playhouse on the Square “Larger Than Life,” larger-thanlife charcoal drawings of largerthan-life celebrities by Lucien Scott Croy. Aug. 3-Sept. 9.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum

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

826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

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“Local Color,” exhibition of colorful portraits of people and animals by Meredith Wilson, Maggie Russell, and Melanie Anderson. (754-7282), www. stgchurch.org. Aug. 6-26.

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

Talbot Heirs

Debra Edge Art. Ongoing.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

TOPS Gallery

“Screen Door,” exhibition of work by Ann Craven, Dana Frankfort, EJ Hauser, and Margaux Ogden. www.topsgallery.com. Through Sept. 8.

400 S. FRONT.

Trezevant Manor

Anne Hughes Sayle, exhibition of oil on canvas realistic landscapes and figures work and fabric art pieces. www.trezevantmanor.org. Through Aug. 10.

Booksigning by Greg Graber

Author, in conversation with Grizzlies play-by-play TV commentator Pete Pranica, discusses and signs Slow Your Roll: Mindfulness for Fast Times. Tues., Aug. 7, 6 p.m.

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (922-5526), WWW.NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.

Booksigning by Kimberla Lawson Roby Author discusses and signs Better Late Than Never.

Fri., Aug. 3, 7 p.m.

BARNES & NOBLE, 2774 N. GERMANTOWN (386-2468), WWW.BN.COM.

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“The Death Penalty’s Impact on Corrections Staff”

Town hall style event featuring Frank Thompson,

who served as Superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary (1994 - 1998). Joining for Q & A portion, retired Chaplain Jerry Welborn. Thurs., Aug. 2, 6-7 p.m.

EVERGREEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1567 OVERTON PARK (274-3740), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

Free Discussion: Deborah Manning Thomas

Panel discussion with gospel music legend Deborah Manning Thomas, who originated the role of Mahalia at Hattiloo. Thurs., Aug. 2, 6 p.m.

HATTILOO THEATRE, 37 S. COOPER (502-3486), WWW.HATTILOO.ORG.

Music Placement Symposium

Join On Location: MEMPHIS and the Tennessee Women in Film and Media discuss the ins and outs of recording, protecting, and placing music. Also, learn more about the Memphis Music Banq: Your

177 N. HIGHLAND (325-4000).

Neighborhood Music Licensing House. $15. Sat., Aug. 4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC, 926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535), WWW.ONLOCATIONMEMPHIS.ORG.

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Savor tastings at five eateries, interact with chefs and managers, and sample local flavors while strolling down Main Street and enjoying new art installations and historic landmarks. WednesdaysSaturdays, 1:30 p.m.

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“20th Century Memphis Photographs,” exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey and Virginia Schoenster, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

WKNO Studio

Saturday, August 4 • 9pm

2018 MGAL Member Showcase and Sale, www. wkno.org. Aug. 2-29.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Woman’s Exchange Art Gallery

Eighth Annual Woman’s Exchange Art Gallery Open House, exhibition of approximately 100 local and regional artists’ work in all media. (541-331-0077), www.womans-exchange.com. Through Aug. 24.

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Hip-hop majorette competition performance featuring Miss D and her Dancing Dolls, the stars of Lifetime’s hit series. $36-$105. Thurs., Aug. 2, 7:30 p.m.

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

Fantasy Burlesque: A Cosplay Event

Favorite local burlesque bombshells friends will portray favorite characters from anime, cartoons, movies, and comic books. A little funny, a little scary, but always sexy. $12. Sun., Aug. 5, 4-7 p.m.

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61 KEEL (295-0707).

Poplar-White Station Branch Library

Poetry Society of Tennessee Monthly Meeting, (361-0077). First Saturday of every month, 2-4 p.m.

5094 POPLAR (682-1616).

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Booksigning by Dr. Noel G. L. Hutchinson, Jr.

Author reads and signs From The Shepherd’s Staff: The Remix. Sat., Aug. 4, 2 p.m.

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Book Lover’s and More Marketplace Sat., Aug. 4, 12-5 p.m.

SINGLETON COMMUNITY CENTER, 7266 THIRD, BARTLETT (907-6828), WWW.YVONNEJAMES.COM.

Book Signing & More Marketplace at Wolfchase

Experience marketplace in Center Court featuring The Writers’ Block of Tennessee, home of “The Literary Pop-Up Shop” Back-to-School Weekend. Fri., Aug. 3, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat., Aug. 4, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., and Sun., Aug. 5, 12-6 p.m.

WOLFCHASE GALLERIA, 2760 N. GERMANTOWN PARKWAY (9076828), WWW.YVONNEJAMES.COM.

WHITEHAVEN COMMUNITY CENTER, 4318 GRACELAND (654-7470), WWW.WHITEHAVENKULLIYE.ORG.

Mommy & Me Baby Expo

Free health screenings plus prenatal information, breastfeeding education, prenatal yoga demonstration, games for kids and healthy snacks. Enter for a chance to win prizes. Free. Sat., Aug. 4, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

GRACE-ST. LUKE’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL, 246 S. BELVEDERE (2780200).

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Benefiting Youth Villages. Sat., Aug. 4, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1234 FINLEY (5163580), WWW.METHODISTHEALTH. ORG/BABYEXPO.

MEMPHIS METRO VOLLEYBALL, 2950 BROTHER (373-5552), WWW.YOUTHVILLAGES.ORG.

Opportunity Memphis Career Fair

Ride through the Fourth Bluff and Downtown Memphis for drinks at a nearby watering hole. Register through Eventbrite and visit Facebook link for Explore Bike Share meet-up sites. Every other Thursday, 5:30

Visit website for more information. Sat., Aug. 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

PIPKIN BUILDING, MID-SOUTH FAIRGROUNDS, WWW.OPPORTUNITYMEMPHIS.COM.

Freewheel Fourth Bluff

Kayak Memphis Downtown Opening Day at Beale Street Landing, Saturday, August 4th p.m. Through Aug. 30.

WWW.THEFOURTHBLUFF.COM.

Hip-Hop Yoga with Kandace Stewart

Experience yoga in an energetic, inspiring, and fun way to favorite hip-hop and R&B tunes. $15.

Fri., Aug. 3, 6:30-8 p.m.

YOUR INNER YOGI, 10 N. SECOND (512-4534), YOURINNERYOGI.COM.

Meritan Moonlight Classic Bike Tour

Tailgate and ride. Visit website for more information. Sat., Aug. 4, 8 p.m.

BASS PRO PYRAMID, 1 BASS PRO (291-8200), WWW.MERITAN.ORG.

Mudpie Mondays

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

Use our dishes, spoons, and nature’s decorations to make your own pie creations. Leave them to bake in the sun, and overnight they magically disappear. Mondays, 10 a.m.-noon Through Aug. 31.

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Small but Mighty Storytime

Benefiting Melanoma Research Foundation. Sat., Aug. 4, 6:45 a.m.

Read and explore written works by women and LGBT authors.

Second Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.

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

Recommended for ages 2-5 years. Free. Wednesdays, 11 a.m. Through Aug. 31.

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Yoga session in the gardens with a glass of wine nearby. Bring yoga mat and beverage. Free for members, $10 nonmembers.

Thurs., Aug. 2, 6 p.m.

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AWAKEN Space + Shop Opening

Located within the gallery, a women’s health and creativity focused space for workshops and groups. Fri., Aug. 3, 6-9 p.m.

JAY ETKIN GALLERY, 942 COOPER (550-0064), WWW.JAYETKINGALLERY.COM.

County General, State Primary, and Special Municipal Election Thurs., Aug. 2.

WWW.SHELBYVOTE.COM.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.MCIL.ORG.

National Night Out 2018: Crosstown Tues., Aug. 7, 5:30 p.m.

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National Night Out Block Party Tues., Aug. 7, 4-8 p.m.

THE HOUSE MEMPHIS, 3683 AUSTIN PEAY (386-5055), WWW.THEHOUSEMEMPHIS.ORG.

Peabody Rooftop Parties

Live music and beautiful views of the sun setting over the Mississippi River. Ladies get in free before 7 p.m. 21+ $10-$15.

Thursdays, 6-10 p.m. Through Aug. 16.

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Primary Night Watch Party

Downtown Memphis National Night Out

Watch the election results.

Free, with a $25 donation suggested for the barbecue buffet.

Thurs., Aug. 2, 6 p.m.

COURT SQUARE, AT N. MAIN AND COURT.

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Tues., Aug. 7, 6 p.m.

Help shutter the mansion and prepare for a season of mourning. A dimly lit mansion will be staged as the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic and martyrs remembered. Refreshments served. $15. Fri., Aug. 3, 5-8 p.m.

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

Intuitive Tarot Readings with Katherine Jackson Special guest tarot reader reads intuitively with the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot. $25.

Fri.-Sat., Aug. 3-4, noon-4p.m.

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

Kabaret with the Krewe Get a drink, sit down, be quiet, and let Kelly Carey and the Mystic Krewe of Pegasus entertain you with a special evening of music, comedy, and laughter. $20. Sat., Aug. 4, 7-10 p.m.

OVERTON CHAPEL CELEBRATION HALL, 2323 MONROE (567-5272).

Kayak Memphis Downtown Rentals: Opening Day

Kayak rentals launch from the historic cobblestone landing. For opening weekend, two launch specials, kayak photo contest, and kayak race. $20. Sat., Aug. 4, 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Live Election Watch Party

Thurs., Aug. 2, 7 p.m.

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Memphis Center for Independent Living: Deborah Cunningham Access Awards Benefit

Free events will include Hyde Lake Boathouse Takeover, Explore Bike Share Takeover, Happy Hour at Wiseacre Brewing, free Levitt Shell concert, and party at Loflin Yard with registration. Fri.-Sun., Aug. 3-5.

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“Remembering the Dream”

Exhibit of a chronological story of the Civil Rights Movement covered by the Ernest Withers “I Am A Man” portfolio, including MLK’s involvement in the sanitation workers’ strike. $12.75. Through Jan. 31, 2019.

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

Sense of Self Meditation & Re-Alignment with Katie Jackson This experience begins with Katie leading a guided meditation, as well as sound healing, reiki, and communication/gratitude/chanting at the end. $20. Fri., Aug. 3, 7:30-9 p.m.

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

Shelby County General Election Thurs., Aug. 2.

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Slim House Community Clean-Up Sat., Aug. 4, 8 a.m.-noon.

MEMPHIS SLIM COLLABORATORY, 1130 COLLEGE (590-4591).

Stop. Plan. Step

Learn more about A Step Ahead and the importance of planning ahead. Hosted by interns. Free food (all ages) and beer (21+ only) for the first 50 guests. Sat., Aug. 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

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$20. Fridays, 6-10 p.m.

BLUFF CITY VIRTUAL REALITY, 1026 N GERMANTOWN PKWY (585-5964).

Whet Thursday: Dog Days of Summer

Enjoy the Metal Museum & Grounds after-hours for free.

ALIVE Rescue Memphis will have adoptable dogs on-site.

Bring your well-behaved pups to Foundry for pawprints cast in clay. Enjoy food truck fare, live music, and gallery talk.

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No speeches, no agenda. Just good folks coming together benefiting the Community Legal Center. Fri., Aug. 3, 5-7 p.m.

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Flight Tour: A Taste of Memphis

Up to 16 people per bike enjoy a flight of local spirits and brew during this two-hour pubcrawl with Sprock n’ Roll’s bike bar to Old Dominick Distillery and Ghost River Brewing Tap Room. BYOB, but no glass. tour. $315 - $400. Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 12-8 p.m., and Sundays, 12-5 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

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Memphis Brew Bus Tour

Afternoon trip into the amazing Memphis craft brewing scene. Tour three local craft breweries, talk with the brewers, and drink a beer at each stop. IDs required at all stops. $49. Saturdays, 2-5:30 p.m.

Through Dec. 8.

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Film Prize: Memphis 2018

Ten short films made in Shelby County will compete for cash prize. Ticket includes all 10 films in competition and one vote for the Film Prize. $20.

Fri.-Sun., Aug. 3-5.

MALCO STUDIO ON THE SQUARE, 2105 COURT (725-7151), WWW.MEMPHISFILMPRIZE.COM.

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Room to Grow A visit to Josh Steiner’s restaurant garden.

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Steiner inherited his love of gardening from his dad, Dr. Mitchell Steiner. “My father is a gentleman farmer, if you will.

When I say ‘gentleman farmer,’ I use that term because he doesn’t grow for other people. He’ll give people vegetables, but he grows vegetables and gardens for pleasure.

“This acre garden on our farm in Germantown, that’s where I learned how to garden. What was growing there was everything from zucchini to squash, melons, tomatoes, all kinds of peppers. So, every year, there was a garden. Springtime and summertime.”

Produce from that garden went to Russo’s New York Pizzeria, a restaurant operated by Josh’s uncle, Brett Steiner.

Josh remembers when he and his mom compared tomatoes from their garden and those from the grocery store. They’d examine “how shiny and perfect” the grocery store tomatoes were. “But try a

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He also grows herbs in containers right outside his back door.

“We do this for every caprese and every margherita pizza. We literally go outside, pick it, wash it, chop it. It’s a really cool garden.”

His urban garden isn’t his only supplier of produce for the restaurant; Steiner also grows vegetables at his family’s one-acre garden in Germantown.

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“We always wanted to highlight the freshness of our garden, so we’d try not to do too much manipulation of the vegetables. When you see the fresh caprese salad, you could see the fresh tomatoes. And you could taste them.”

He even grows the watermelons for his gazpacho. “It’s a blend of bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, garlic, watermelon, cilantro, and basil. And we highlight that often. We let people know that we grew everything in it.”

In addition to providing his diners with vegetables and herbs, which, he can proudly say immediately arrive to the table right from the garden, Josh enjoys the satisfaction he gets from gardening. “It makes me feel that I’m not going to go hungry, if that makes sense.

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When his father got away from gardening to concentrate on his businesses, Josh took over the garden, which had gotten overgrown. “The farm helpers and myself got the garden back up, and it’s been going ever since.”

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they were purchased by my father over a a decade ago. Truthfully, they’re nothing too special — just a bottle of Christian Brothers brandy and a bottle of Tribuno vermouth — but they make me feel close to my dad, who died in December 2007.

My father loved to drink just about any kind of liquor, but alcoholism didn’t get him like it did others in our family; he was felled by Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma instead. He was a south-Louisiana-born airline pilot who frequently brought home beers and bottles of booze from exotic places. In the 1970s and 1980s, I remember him downing cans of Stroh’s after a day of yard work, or cutting up bowls of fruit to make homemade batches of sangria. In fact, I’m sure that’s why he’d purchased the bottle of brandy I brought back to Memphis.

Sometime in the mid-1980s, my dad discovered Frangelico, the Italian liqueur that comes in a bottle shaped like a monk.

For years, every time we had dinner guests, we’d end the evening with Frangelico Affogato served in my grandmother’s crystal. The dessert drink — a splash of Frangelico, a shot of coffee, and a scoop of vanilla ice cream — was my first taste of hazelnut, years before I enjoyed a spoonful of Nutella.

He loved discovering a liqueur or a wine and making it “his.” One of my proudest adult moments was when I uncorked a bottle of cheap Chilean wine, Concha y Toro’s Casillero del Diablo. We drank the peppery white wine with takeout barbecue from Cozy Corner, and my dad declared it so delicious that immediately after dinner, he drove to my neighborhood liquor store to purchase a case.

The Tribuno, I know, was a key ingredient in another of my dad’s favorite cocktails, the Manhattan.

The whiskey-based drink isn’t one I particularly enjoy, but the tall green bottle, which retails for well under $10, now occupies prime real estate in my home bar. Purchased in the early aughts, it’s now aged to a particularly rare vintage never intended by the distiller. It’s too precious to drink, and so the screw top stays sealed tight.

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ast weekend, a friend and I made the 420-mile drive to Gulf Shores, Alabama. We both wanted to swim, bask in some sunshine, and check out from reality for a few days, but the main reason for the trip was to visit my mother, who lives a few miles from the beach on the Bon Secour River. The weekend was full of surprises — my dog managed to lock himself in the workshop next to the garage, and on the way home, we blew a tire while driving at 70 mph — but most of the time, we relaxed regardless.

I had my first drink — a vodka and tonic — when we arrived late Thursday night, after a somewhat white-knuckled drive over the Mobile Bayway. On Friday, I hit the vodka bottle once again, immediately after the locksmith sprung the dog free for a $75 fee. Saturday night, we drank white wine on the back porch while comparing sunburns and waiting for the barbecue shrimp to come out of the oven. Sunday, I longed for a cocktail while waiting for the AAA representative to rescue us on the side of the highway outside Meridian, Mississippi, but as the driver of said vehicle, it would’ve been irresponsible to drink.

Otherwise, we enjoyed penny drinks — a Tequila Sunrise apiece for me and my friend Jenny, and a Cosmopolitan for my mom — at Ginny Lane, one of our favorite restaurants at the Wharf.

Beach traffic was a nightmare, so we skipped the blackberry mojitos at one of my favorite restaurants, the Gulf in Orange Beach.

Likewise for the margarita menu at Lulu’s. We discussed heading to the legendary Flora-Bama Lounge in Perdido Key for a round of Bushwackers, but the situation with the locksmith derailed us. Too bad — my brain could’ve benefitted from the numbing power of the frozen Bacardi, Kahlua, and coconut milkshake after that drama.

Thankfully, my mother was generous with her home bar. She even sent me home with a few unopened bottles of booze that have sat, full, since

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Short Film Mania Ten films compete for $10,000 in the 2018 Memphis Film Prize.

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emphis Film Prize Filmmaker’s Liaison David Merrill says he’s proud of what the young film festival has accomplished since it spun off the Louisiana Film Prize in 2016. “Our $10,000 annual prize has spurred the creation of more than 120 films in Shelby County,” he says. “Some of them might have happened anyway, but the Film Prize got a lot of people off the couch … We’ve given away $20,000 to Memphis filmmakers. The first year’s winner was McGhee Monteith with ‘He Could’ve Gone Pro’. Last year, it was Matteo Servante’s ‘We Go On’ with a screenplay by Corey Mesler.”

Compared to other festivals, creating a short film for the Memphis Film Prize is a more intensive process. Prospective filmmakers must register their projects with the organization, and then check in periodically during production. The films that make it to completion are then put before a panel of judges, who pick 10 films to screen at the two-day festival. The winner is determined by audience ballot, but there’s a catch: In order to vote, audience members must watch all 10 films at the festival. This prevents ballot stuffing by people who would watch their friends films, then

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leave. “With this rule, we’re trying to build in a certain sense of fairness,” says Merrill.

The program’s success can be judged by the number of returning filmmakers. “Going into the third year, we’ve got ‘Opening Night’

by Kevin Brooks. I believe this is his third year to be in the top 10. Marcus Santi is also back in the top 10 for the third time with his film ‘Jack Squat: The Trial’. Rob Rock has a film called ‘Outside Arcadia.’ All of these filmmakers have returned every year and gotten in the top 10 every year. We’ve got fresh blood — people who weren’t in the top 10 before — and we’ve got returning champions back to duke it out.”

Daniel Ferrell competed in the Memphis Film Prize last year, but didn’t make the cut. “That experience really inspired me to work hard and hone my craft so I could make it to the top 10 this year,” he says.

Ferrell’s film “Dean’s List” was the first to be called out at the announcement party. “I was jumping for joy. I couldn’t even believe it!”

The director, who started out making backyard movies with his friends, says “Dean’s List” came about almost by accident. “We were trying to make a movie about a female graffiti artist, but we couldn’t get it off the ground,” he recalls. “We had decided to shoot on April 28th, and

Mario Hoyle (Don), Ricky D. Smith (Boss), and Jalen Moffitt (in the back) we wanted to keep that date. So I got together with my friends and we quickly wrote the story about a young college kid who has to deliver a backpack to his boss, and something bad happens. It just kind of came together.”

Actor/director Donald Myers is a familiar sight on the Memphis film scene. He appeared in last year’s winner “We Go On,” written by Burke’s Book Store owner Corey Mesler. Myers says he found himself in the director’s chair when “Corey sent me the [‘Hypnotic Induction’] script and asked if I wanted to take it on.”

Myers and Mesler worked on the script over a couple of weekends to get it into filmable shape. “Corey’s a master of dialogue,” Myers says. “It’s about a bartender who has a smoking and drinking problem, and he doesn’t know how to cure it. He visits a hypnotherapist for treatment for his addictions. The encounter turns into a test of wills.”

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This year’s Memphis Film Prize festival takes place on August 3rd-4th at Studio on the Square. “The real winner is Memphis,” says Merrill. “Certainly someone is going to walk away with $10,000. But we get to see all these great films. Every year, they’re upping the ante.”

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Buses, Bikes, and Birds It’s hard to miss the new shiny toys popping up around town.

The shareable Birds and bikes are cool, and I’m sure they earn the city a few extra bucks, while making Memphis more attractive to tourists. But the real question we should be asking is: Are the new shared-mobility options equitable and accessible for Memphians that live beyond the city’s core?

The answer is — for a few reasons — probably not. Let’s start with the bikes, which, apart from a few stations located near Orange Mound and South Memphis, are concentrated in Midtown and Downtown, like most of the city’s amenities.

This wouldn’t be as much of an issue if the mission of Explore Bike Share (EBS) was not to “implement a bike-sharing program for the benefit of the general public with access to as many Memphians as possible.”

You simply can’t reach as many Memphians as possible if you’re only operating in certain neighborhoods. Next year, 300 more bikes are slated to join the fleet, and it would only make sense that these are dispersed at stations in low-access neighborhoods where residents actually need transportation, if in fact, EBS is committed to being easy, accessible, and affordable.

Even if the bikes do extend into lower-income neighborhoods, a smartphone and credit card is required to rent one.

What about the population of Memphians who don’t own those? There has to be a real effort to make these amenities truly accessible to not only the people who want them, but also to the ones who need them.

Especially in a city like Memphis, with a huge wealth gap, there should be intentionality by the people in charge to level the playing field. If the city is going to endorse new programs like bike sharing, then isn’t it also the city’s responsibility to ensure that people on both ends of the income scale can access and use them?

Adequate and reliable transportation for everyone is a key piece of equality in any city. Vehicle ownership is expensive, and to get from place to place, people without cars here are forced to rely on their own two feet and the city’s transit system, which clearly has room to grow. It is no secret that Memphis’ public transportation system is lacking in many ways and needs improvement.

If you compare the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) to systems in other cities, well, there really is no comparison. Buses in Memphis don’t come frequently enough for most people to depend on them to get to school, work, and other necessary places. People have to wait up to an hour for a bus that ideally should be coming every 15 minutes.

I will give it to Gary Rosenfeld, MATA’s CEO, though. Since he took on the role about a year ago, he’s been pushing and advocating for a better transit system. One of the main obstacles standing in the way of MATA being a high-quality system is its lack of funding. For MATA to operate at the level it needs to, an additional $35 million would be needed each year.

If MATA can secure that funding, frequency on 70 percent of its routes would increase, reducing the wait time for passengers and bringing more — and useful — frequent service in close proximity to 70,000 additional people. With additional funding, MATA could also increase the number of people with access to service by 5 percent and bring transportation service to about 100,000 jobs in the city.

Rosenfeld recently said that maximizing the effectiveness of all social initiatives and programs implemented to address poverty or unemployment in the city relies on the effectiveness of the transit system.

He’s right. Creating new jobs and opportunities here is a solid step forward, but at the same time, people have to be able to access these opportunities on a consistent basis. Most often, the people who are in need of these programs and jobs are also the ones who lack transportation.

As Rosenfeld also said, good transportation provides mobility, equality, and increases the quality of life in a community.

Whether it be buses, Birds, or bikes, access to transportation must improve in order for all Memphians to be able to live to their fullest potential. That’s for their benefit — and for the benefit of the entire community.

Maya Smith is a Flyer staff writer.

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