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Attention, Miserables. The season of great feasting has begun.

“The Miserables,” of course, was the name former University of Memphis Coach John Calipari gave to a contingent of Tiger fans that was seemingly never happy during his time here. They were always kvetching, always looking for gray clouds, no matter how well the team performed. Calipari always said they didn’t know how good they had it. He was probably right.

Now the Calipari years are long gone, as the Tigers begin their seventh season under Josh Pastner, but the Miserables are back and calling for the coach’s head. Pastner is on every major sports medium’s “Hot seat” list. After the program lost a couple of key players via transfer last summer, Pastner tried to downplay expectations for this year’s squad, forgoing the usual glitzy Midnight Madness with rappers and fireworks in favor of a family-friendly event in the daytime. It did not draw many folks, but the plan all along was to turn down the hype and outperform the lowered expectations. This year’s bunch would have to rely on freshmen and transfers to carry much of the load.

In preseason, Pastner revved up one of his favorite themes: That the team — and indeed, all of us — need to have an “attitude of gratitude.” Which, at its simplest level, is being grateful you’re alive; being thankful you’re playing (or watching) basketball. It could be a lot worse. You could be getting attacked by terrorists or dying of a wasting disease. It’s just basketball. Let’s enjoy the games. (This could also be called the “attitude of platitude,” but I digress.) He also not-so-subtly called out a couple of members of the local sports media for their negative attitudes.

Let’s be honest, being grateful for what you have and putting silly things like basketball games in perspective is a great way to live a happier life. It’s a simple but wise message, one that I’ve heard from ministers and Boy Scout troop leaders and motivational speakers through the years. It’s a great thought to take to heart during this Thanksgiving season. Be grateful for your blessings.

But it’s not a message you’ll hear from Nick Saban or Tom Izzo or Bobby Knight. They don’t like perspective. They hate gratitude. Unless it’s for beating the crap out of their last opponent. They realize that no one’s grateful about anything in big-time college athletics except winning. Is that a sad indictment of our culture? No doubt. Is it what may get Pastner shown the door? Possibly.

Pastner has been an absolute model human being and a near-perfect representative for the University of Memphis. He’s been generous with his time, kind to the infirm and dying, helpful with all kinds of good works N EWS & O P I N I O N LETTERS - 4 and charities. There’s no cussing, no drinkTHE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 ing, no hanky-panky. He’s a model father.

THE FLY-BY - 6 His players graduate (at least, the ones who POLITICS - 10 don’t transfer), and they stay out of trouble.

EDITORIAL - 12 His teams win 20 games a year, contend for VIEWPOINT - 13 COVER STORY conference titles every other year or so, and “WHEN BLACK FRIDAY COMES ...” often go to the NCAA tournament, though

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STE P P I N’ O UT Is that enough for him to keep his job?

WE RECOMMEND - 22 I don’t know. It would cost a fortune to MUSIC - 24 buy out his contract. But if there are many AFTER DARK - 26 more losses like the one this week to the BOOK - 31 CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 32 UT-Arlington Mavericks, the university’s FOOD - 44 gratitude for Pastner’s attitude will be FILM - 48 tested like never before.

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what is being done to hold the correct parties responsible? Have the officers involved been fired? Suspended? Anything?

As friends of Troy Goode, we were angry when he was taken from this world in such an unnecessary and violent manner.

However, we did not react violently. We did not call for retaliation. We protested peacefully and waited for answers. Now that those answers are here, we demand 5swift and fair6action.7 8 9 10 I had hoped for a proactive response from local government.

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f l y o n t h e w a l l The Takeover { NEVERENDING ELVIS “Elvis did not leave the building,” according to Lehigh Valley Live reporter Rudy Miller. “And that’s what got Herbert Stewart into trouble.” Stewart, an Elvis fan from Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania, filed an insurance claim stating that he’d been burglarized.

According to Stewart’s report, the thief took $6,900 worth of Elvis-related memorabilia, including photographs and records. When all of the allegedly missing items were later discovered in Stewart’s home, his attorney issued a report explaining that his client had multiple personalities. In this unfortunate case, the “thief personality” robbed the “victim personality” and stuffed Elvis in the closet.

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Parents and students of Sheffield Elementary protest charter school takeover.

Last week, around 50 parents and students of Sheffield Elementary filed out of their school, lined up on the sidewalk, and chanted this simple demand for the news cameras: “Leave us alone.”

Sheffield Elementary is one of five Shelby County Schools (SCS) slated for state takeover by the Achievement School District (ASD) — the staterun school district that manages schools in the bottom five percent of performance. Once a school is taken over by the ASD, it’s converted into a charter school.

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“Don’t touch the booty unless you ask you the cutie.”

That was one example of “sexual consent messaging” from Men As Peacemakers, a Minnesota-based nonprofit focused on ending violence against women and children, last week during their campus sexual assault presentation at the University of Memphis.

The Memphis Sexual Assault Kit Task Force invited Men As Peacemakers to Memphis for its quarterly community conversation series. Past meetings in the series have gathered women to discuss the rape kit backlog or focused on recruiting men’s groups as partners to end sexual assault.

Last week’s meeting honed in on youth and the issue of sexual consent.

“There’s a very high proportion of reported sexual assaults among youth ages 18 to 34,” said Deborah Clubb, president of the Memphis Area Women’s Council and a task force member. “There’s a national impetus coming out of the White House to require campuses to do more and do better to respond to these assaults. So we wanted to think about how the task force can be a part of something helpful to that age group.”

The crowd for the event inside the U of M’s University Center River Room was small and mostly made up of women, many older than college-age.

Men As Peacemakers defined consent as a “mutual, voluntary, informed decision between clear-minded, of-age participants before any and every sexual act.”

They encouraged attendees to come up with their own consent messaging using rhymes or song lyrics and then post the phrases on social media in an effort to start a viral revolution around consent.

Men As Peacemakers Program Director Sarah Curtiss shared some alarming stats — one in five college-aged women experience at least an attempt of sexual assault, and one in five college-aged men will perpetrate a sexual assault. And she warned that, too often, drunk women are blamed as “asking for it” when they’re raped by men at college parties.

“If alcohol equals “If alcohol equals consent, they need to consent, they need put that on the warning label on the bottle,” she to put that on the quipped. warning label on If sexual assault is so prevalent on college the bottle.” campuses, though, it — Sarah Curtiss doesn’t show in the crime statistics from most of the city’s colleges and universities. In 2014, the University of Memphis reported zero forcible rapes and one instance of both sexual assault with an object and forcible fondling, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s most continued on page 8

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progress would only prove detrimental to students.

“Why do people want Sheffield right now?” asked Barbara Riddle, whose two grandchildren attend the school. “Why now after the last few years of building a foundation with our new principal?”

Under Sheffield’s principal, Patricia Griggs-Merriweather, the school has made academic gains as measured by the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System. A TVAAS score of four or five would warrant the school’s removal from the ASD’s priority list. Sheffield’s gains in reading and math scores have earned them a score of three.

State Representative Raumesh Akbari sponsored the TVAAS law that currently renders Sheffield eligible for ASD takeover but joined the parents and students in asking for their progress to be left uninterrupted.

“The biggest fear is that this school will be taken out of the community’s control,” Akbari said.

“If a school is already doing the right thing, then I want to support those efforts. I don’t want those students to go through the trauma of a takeover where the principal is gone, all of the teachers have been fired, and a whole new mentality comes in.”

SCS board member Miska Clay Bibbs, also in the crowd, echoed Akbari’s concerns about the sudden disruption of a working formula.

“For me as a school board member, it’s about choice. What does true choice look like?” Bibbs asked. “If a school is already making academic gains and growing in the way that it’s growing, how can they be matched with someone who can’t compare to that same growth? That’s not choice.”

Aspire Public Schools is the charter network that has applied to take over Sheffield. No representatives from Aspire were on hand during the protest, but parents did confirm that they had heard from representatives from the network. Riddle remains unconvinced that Aspire is the best solution for the school.

“What they did was very unimpressive,” Riddle said. “They said, ‘Well, if we take over your school, your child receives a free laptop, iPad, or desktop.’ Well, I’m not impressed with that, and my children are not for sale. It made me wonder if the children’s best interests are at heart or if there’s a hidden agenda.”

In a statement released last Thursday, the ASD said parental input was welcome and encouraged via a neighborhood advisory council charged with the task of reviewing Aspire’s application.

“The criteria for ASD are clear, and since the recent passing of the TVAAS law championed by Rep. Akbari, it is now clearer than ever,” said the statement.

recent available statistics.

LeMoyne-Owen College and Southwest Tennessee Community College each reported one forcible rape in 2014, and Christian Brothers University and the Memphis College of Art reported none.

By contrast, Rhodes College reported 11 forcible rapes, five cases of forcible fondling, and one forcible sodomy in 2014.

Rhodes College communications director Ken Woodmansee said he believes Rhodes simply reports more vigorously than the other campuses.

“We make sure that people know it’s important to come forward and that we have a safe environment. It’s important for us to know about any assault. We will investigate any report,” Rhodes Title IX coordinator Claire Shapiro said.

Clubb said she thinks the fact that 75 percent of Rhodes students live on campus may also contribute to a higher number since assaults on students from other campuses may be happening off-campus.

“At Rhodes, a lot of their student body is within the fence 24 hours a day, and they’re the only campus like that here. They have them corralled, even the Greek activity,” Clubb said. “There’s just no way Rhodes has a higher proportion of [sexual assault] than other campuses.”

Better reporting on other college campuses is needed, Clubb said.

“These are young people who don’t want to be humiliated or labeled as ‘that girl’ for the next three years, and they don’t want that guy and his friends growling at her every time she crosses the campus,” Clubb said. “But it’s very frustrating for those of us who want help these college women when the women don’t want to report. Then [her attacker] is free to go and go and go, and when one [victim] finally does report, there’s no way to know there were seven others.”

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But CFGM leaders quickly saw further benefits of aggregating real data, Fockler said, such as bettereducated public servants and press corps, and “stopping bar fights.” Fockler said the sites are meant to be a single, go-to source for information definitive enough to be considered the “Guinness Book of World Records” that settles disputes about different Memphis topics.

But it can also provide real ammunition for community organizers, neighborhood associations, parent teacher associations, high school students, and others.

“It gives people on the neighborhood level access to [data] to be able to advocate for their neighborhoods in a different way,” said CFGM Vice President Sutton Mora Hayes.

Most of the information on the site is available to the public on the Internet already. But, Hayes said, “many of the sites are wonky and are hard to wade through the text and spreadsheets.”

The new CFGM sites are graphical with clickthrough functions that make it a sort of Choose Your Own Adventure book for community information.

Instead of knowing exactly what you’re looking for, the

A new website can help citizens deal with blight. site allows you to explore and find interesting facts on your own.

The City of Memphis launched a similar web dashboard in October called MEMFacts. It’s from the Office of Performance Management at Memphis City Hall and offers government information about public safety, neighborhoods, youth, economy, and government. MEMFacts’ goal is also accountability.

“Everyone wants a government that works,” the site says.

The foundation’s Where to Give website links from the Where We Live website. So, if you find information on poverty and decide you want to help, the sites help visitors connect with nonprofits organizations.

It’s hoped the site will one day be the definitive list of Memphis nonprofits that are vetted and that all of them give the same information, making it easier to compare them.

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It is easy to list the big challenges that exist in Memphis — poverty, crime, education, health, blight.

What’s harder is finding firm facts that paint accurate depictions of those challenges. How many people actually live in poverty here? Where do they live? What are their demographics?

Even more difficult to find are the group or groups working on the problems you care about. Even if you find those groups, it can be harder still to vet their reputations to ensure your donor dollars will make a real impact.

The Community Foundation of Greater Memphis (CFGM) launched two websites this week to make the answers to those questions easier to find.

One site, wherewelivemidsouth.org, is a “library of resources” that has pulled together public information from across the community and made it easy to get the real picture of what’s going on in your neighborhood, the city, and the whole Mid-South. Another site, wheretogivemidsouth.org, lets you see what organizations are working on challenges where you live.

“People want accountability,” said Bob Fockler, president of the CFGM. “We’re tired of pushing on ropes but not seeing any direct impact on what we’re trying to do.”

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Commission Broadens Reach EDGE and Shelby County Schools join Mayor Luttrell as targets of criticism.

Wade’s office is often cited by members of the county commission as a precedent for the one they intend to create. Interestingly, though, and this is where the prospect of a compromise on the county side begins to gleam, a striking analysis has been offered by Jimmie Covington, a longtime former journalist whose knowledge of city/ county affairs was voluminous enough that the public officials he reported on frequently sought his opinion on matters under contention.

In another recent op-ed for the Flyer, Covington advanced the idea that there is no actual legal basis per se for Wade’s position of city council attorney — merely an ad hoc gentlemen’s agreement between the principals of city government that has spanned almost a quarter century. A solution of that sort on the county side is not impossible; Roland has hinted privately that it, or something like it, could be the carrot in a scenario whereby the stick might be a commission challenge to Dyer’s tenure as county attorney. (“No comment” has been Dyer’s consistent response to all direct queries about the current imbroglio — which should not be taken to mean that he and Luttrell are not incubating an in-depth strategy of their own.)

So far the bipartisan majority for the commission’s power move has held — though there are clear indications that some commission members are not at home with the idea of prolonged conflict with the administration. David Reaves, who represents Bartlett, has been a dissenter on several recent votes regarding the attorney matter, though he was on the same page as fellow Republicans Roland and Shafer regarding some of the early challenges, which revolved around differences of opinion between the administration and the commission regarding the amount and disposition of a fiscal surplus.

Bipartisan coalitions are potentially unstable by their nature. The current one is Republican-led, from a base that has included five of the commission’s elected Republicans, plus Democrats Justin Ford and Eddie Jones, whose allegiance is provisional and dependent more on personal accommodations than on ideological grounds.

Largely as a result of internal machinations that denied him the chairmanship, the other elected Republican, Steve Basar, has been in de facto alliance with the commission’s Democrats on several specifically partisan matters, though his was a crucial swing vote for last week’s veto override.

From the standpoint of maintaining a bipartisan coalition versus Luttrell, the status of designated commission counsel Bolton as an African-American Democrat has been a crucial binder (though it is also the source of some of the misgivings harbored by Reaves and potentially other Republicans). In a commission meeting two weeks ago, Shafer bruited about the names of others who had been considered for commission attorney, including former GOP commissioners Charles Perkins and Buck Wellford, both of whom, she said, had declined the opportunity.

She also had mentioned in passing former Democratic Commissioner Steve Mulroy, who said this week that Shafer had contacted him as a reserve possibility if the current involvement with Bolton came unglued. (Mulroy said he had recommended instead that the commission consider an African American without any particular political bias.)

Meanwhile, even as there is a temporary lull in the matter of a commission attorney, the ad hoc commission coalition has opened up a new front with a different adversary — the Economic Development Growth Engine (EDGE) board.

• EDGE, the quasi-independent city/county agency charged with overseeing industrial recruitment and development, has often been the subject of public criticism for its decisions on payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) arrangements with businesses. It has come in for criticism on the commission for that and for the fact that the representatives on the EDGE board of the commission and the city council are ex-officio non-voting members only.

Another bone of contention is an assumption that EDGE officials are on the cusp of completing a merger with the local Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). Commissioner Basar introduced a resolution on Monday requiring EDGE to get the approval of both the commission and the city council before proceeding with a merger.

Perhaps because of its sponsorship (Basar is still persona non grata with the dominant coalition), the commission approved instead a motion to send the matter back to committee, as well as a resolution from Shafer requesting that no action be taken by EDGE and CRA until the full commission can formally review the matter at its December 7th meeting. Added Roland, ominously: “I am giving a firm warning to EDGE that if they try to sign a memorandum of understanding or go around us in any way possible, there will be a resolution from us rescinding EDGE.” Yet a third commission foil, the Shelby County Schools board got off the hook Monday when, after serious criticism from members regarding SCS officials’ inability to be specific in their reasons for requesting commission approval of reshuffling some $10 million in previously allocated funds, the approval was granted, but with warnings from Shafer, among others, that the commission would require more details and more advance knowledge before approving any future such requests.

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November 26-December 2, 2015

The Shelby County Commission, as currently constituted, is turning into a juggernaut of sorts. Chairman Terry Roland of Millington and Commissioner Heidi Shafer of East Memphis are but two of the determined commission members who have kept in working order a bipartisan majority that is perceptibly and consistently expanding its influence and authority vis-à-vis other power blocs.

For months now, the commission has been challenging the prerogatives of County Mayor Mark Luttrell’s administration and asserting its own. “We are the people,” is a frequent boast by Roland, who attributes to Luttrell and others holding executive positions not much more than a responsibility to carry out commission policy dictates.

In defense of that position, he and Shafer, along with former Commissioner Julian Bolton, the independent counsel they are attempting to hire, cite various portions of the County Charter, laying special stress on its apparent conferring on the elected commission, “all lawful authority to adopt ordinances and resolutions governing the operation of government or regulating the conduct and affairs of the residents of the county.”

As for Luttrell, Shafer defined his role this way in a recent Viewpoint article for the Flyer: “The mayor is charged with seeing that all resolutions and ordinances of the board of county commissioners are faithfully executed. He or she is to present the consolidated county budget to the commission, which has full rights to modify or amend. The mayor is also compelled to ‘take such other executive and administrative actions as are required by this charter or may be prescribed by the board of county commissioners.’”

The administration has not yet loosed its own heavy artillery, fighting things out so far on the single issue of whether the commission has the right to an independent counsel — something that neither Luttrell nor his appointed county attorney, Ross Dyer, have been willing to concede. Both claim that only the elected chief executive, Luttrell, has contractual authority under the terms of the charter and that the county attorney and all of the office’s assisting personnel are contracted employees.

In the face of advice from Dyer that Bolton’s appointment would be illegal except as a possible adjunct to Dyer’s own staff and under his supervision, the commission voted late last month to hire the former commissioner.

Mayor Luttrell subsequently vetoed the appointment, and the commission, in a special called meeting last week, found nine votes to override the veto — one more than the two-thirds majority required for an override.

Inasmuch as Luttrell has indicated he will refuse to sign a contract of employment for Bolton, the matter lies in limbo, awaiting either a legal determination, perhaps in Chancery Court, or some solution based on a compromise reached between the commission and the administration. A possible basis for the latter is the situation on the other side of Mid-America Plaza in City Hall.

There, Allan Wade has served since the 1990s as the Memphis City Council’s attorney, functioning both as a counterweight to the city attorney and an alternative 10 source of legal opinion during public meetings from the desk he occupies on the floor adjacent to the council.

Where’s Zoey? Can’t say where Waldo is, but that’s Zoey Goss sitting up there (briefly) in place of County Commissioner Mark Billingsley, who with other commissioners voted Monday to contribute $8,000 to a summer camp for Zoey and other children suffering from muscular dystrophy.

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That’s a classic, right up there with, “The Lord helps those who help themselves,” which makes the same kind of sense. The idea behind both sayings is that all good results have to be seeded in advance from somewhere, somehow. Merely consider turning those two chestnuts upside down: “It takes the absence of money to make money;” “The Lord helps those who decline to help themselves,” and you get instant nonsense.

Or at least fodder for debate.

And the same insight applies to some of the other standard proverbs.

Such as, “Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.” You gotta have the acorns to start with, of course.

This principle — call it “priming the pump” — came to mind this week when we read that the federal government is going to try to reclaim from the city of Memphis some $3.8 million that it advanced the city to build an automobile inspection station off Appling in East Memphis. That’s the amount that was advanced by the feds under an air-quality initiative to build a facility that cost a total of $6 million to construct. That’s real American money, nothing theoretical about it, and, unless our various representatives in the state and federal government can work out some swaps or pro rata reductions that will take the city wholly or partly off the hook, it will take … $3.8 million to pay the money back.

That’s dead loss, and if you start to consider some of the intangibles involved in the affair, you begin to realize that it’s more than likely that the abolition of the testing station on Appling and the others that the city used to operate will already have resulted in various damages to the

ecology and urban infrastructure in undetected air pollution, a greater incidence in traffic accidents and fatalities, and work-time lost from unanticipated glitches in people’s personal transportation.

A similar loss has afflicted the city with the departure of an estimated 300 to 400 first-responders who have resigned, due to a loss of or decrease in their health benefits as a result of budget cuts undertaken by the mayor and city council over the last couple of years.

Mayor-elect Jim Strickland made it a chief plank in his electoral platform to reinforce public safety, so as to make Memphis a desirable place to live and work, and to stabilize and stop the drain of people and resources from the area. But as councilman, Strickland had been among those advocating and voting for the cuts in benefits. Now the circle has come full and the problem is back in his mayoral lap. To which, we say, good luck, Jim! We’re not even going to get started on the abysmal cost to the state of Tennessee — hundreds of millions of dollars, plus lives lost, health ruined, and hospitals shuttered — as a result of the state government’s refusal to accept Medicaid-expansion. The sheer moral and fiscal irresponsibility of that folly continues to counter all human logic.

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The Democrats should be embracing Obama’s economic successes rather than running from them.

In the GOP primary race, the economy is the dog that has not barked. Given low unemployment, low gas prices, and low inflation, it is easy to understand the GOP’s silence. The current unemployment rate is 5.1 percent, the lowest since April 2008.

Under President Obama’s stewardship, the economy has added over 7 million private sector jobs. The Dow Jones has more than doubled, and the NASDAQ has more than tripled. The president has exceeded every promise for speedy economic recovery made by his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, in the 2012 campaign.

But now Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is drawing crowds with harsh indictments of the American economic system as unfair to the poor, the working class, and the middle class. Sanders recently described the nation as having a “rigged economy, designed by the wealthiest people in this country to benefit the wealthiest people in this country at the expense of everybody else.”

His criticism echoes that of Senator Elizabeth Warren who has blasted erstwhile Obama economic officials such as Larry Summers and Tim Geithner for being too cozy with the Wall Street banks they were supposed to be regulating.

Unions have for decades been suffering from declining membership and declining leverage at the bargaining table. That was before the president beat them and their Democratic supporters in Congress on the trade deal in question, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). He stood with the Chamber of Commerce and the GOP majority in Congress to win approval for fast-track authority pertaining to TPP. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sanders, and other top Democrats give Obama credit for leading the nation’s steady economic growth after the 2008 recession. But, as with the unions, their current focus is on income inequality and stagnant wages.

“The defining economic challenge of our time is clear,” Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, said in July. “We must raise incomes for hard-working Americans so they can afford a middle-class life.”

The president, however, prefers to emphasize how the nation has recovered from an extraordinarily deep recession, pointing out the errors of his past Republican critics. In a recent speech to the Business Roundtable, the president focused on those Republican criticisms, not the new carping from Democrats. ‘”Seven years ago today was one

of the worst days in the history of our economy,” he said, going on to note that in September 2008 “stocks had suffered their worst loss since 9/11, businesses would go bankrupt, millions of Americans would lose their jobs and their homes, and our economy would reach the brink of collapse.”

Obama then offered a contrasting picture of the current economy: “Here’s where we are today,” the president said. “Businesses have created more than 13 million new jobs over the past 66 months — the longest streak of job growth on record. The unemployment rate is lower than it’s been in over seven years.

There are more job openings right now than at any time in our history. Housing has bounced back. Household wealth is higher than it was before the recession.”

“There are more job openings right now than at any time in our history. Housing has bounced back. Household wealth is higher than it was before the recession.”

— President Obama Obama’s victory lap might also include a mention that this year’s Republican candidates have no answer for income inequality. In fact, with the exception of Donald Trump, the current Republican candidates consistently call for tax cuts for the rich that would worsen inequality by widening the wealth gap.

These are facts. They are powerful ammunition for any Democrat who wants to run on the strength of the Obama economic record in 2016. But as debates begin next month among the Democrats, you can expect that consultants will be advising the candidates that they need to distance themselves from Obama because of stagnant wages and income inequality.

In light of the actual economic facts, perhaps a winning message for Democrats would be to promise to continue and improve on the president’s record by dealing with stagnant wages as they seek “Obama’s third term.” Yet, even among Democratic candidates, that seems to be too much to ask.

My advice for President Obama?

Just bite your tongue, and let it go. A fair reading of history will show the economy came back to life on your watch.

Juan Williams is an author and political analyst for Fox News Channel.

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Black Friday

’Tis the season of joy — and dread. Thanksgiving, which once kicked off the holidays with family gathered around a groaning table loaded with turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and mincemeat pie, has been now inextricably linked to the beginning of Christmas shopping season.

The Friday after Thanksgiving, once a laid-back day of watching football, eating leftovers, and burping contentedly, has become “Black Friday,” the day when serious holiday shopping kicks off — with early-bird sales, lines of shoppers, and traffic wrapped around mall parking lots. Then there’s Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday and God knows what else.

Just go buy something, will ya?

We here at Ye Olde Flyer have decided to offer some alternative thoughts on this new manifestation of American consumerism. In the stories that follow, you’ll learn of some delightful (and delightfully uncrowded) shopping options. We’ll let you know what the best local coffees are to sustain your shopping buzz. There’s a Memphis music playlist; there are shopping suggestions for millennials, for your workout-obsessed pal, and for that geeky cousin who never comes out of the basement. There’s art! It’s a potpourri of ways to get through the weekend alive. And get your shopping done.

And, really, what else can you ask for? — Bruce VanWyngarden

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The effective Black Friday shopper wakes up early in the morning. He or she will be alert and aggressive: mobile, agile, and hostile. Multiple cups of locally roasted coffee are strongly recommended — served black for the occasion, and the darker the bean the better. All of the Memphis-roasted coffees listed in this dirty half-dozen are guaranteed to get your motor started. They’d also make welcome gifts for the java junkies on your list.

Relevant Roasters’ Italian Roast is a darkly cooked Nicaraguan bean that grinds to a chocolaty brown and tastes like a field of freshly torched hops mixed with chicory ash poured into a charred wooden barrel. It’s one smoky brew and drinking it made my my face contort like I was reading a George Will op-ed or playing a scorching hot guitar solo.

Recommended for aggressive shoppers who are unafraid of life’s little penalty boxes.

If you don’t believe in Darwin’s theory of natural selection, a shot of Dr. Bean’s El Salvador Roast will fix you right up. Dr. Bean’s promises deep chocolate flavors that “evolve into apricot with a hint of wintergreen.” And evolve they do. In the cup, El Salvador looks like molten caramel, and, without the aid of flavored syrups or additives of any kind, it does everything the good doctor said it would. This is a deceptively complex and satisfying cup of joe, and it kicks like Giorgio Petrosyan in a title fight.

Aroma is everything, and J. Brooks’ Old Country Espresso smells like a Roman cafe.

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Rich and sturdy, with a mahogany crema and a woody finish. It’s exactly everything you want from a shot of espresso and even better with a shot of grappa, as long as somebody else is driving. Recommended for shoppers who like to start the day with a shot of grappa. You know who you are.

A freshly ground bowl of Relevant Roasters’ Kimel Estate Papua New Guinea looks as rich and fertile as worm dirt. The packaging says this toasty bean dust should taste of molasses, apples, and tobacco. I don’t know about all that, but it sure would taste great with an unfiltered Lucky Strike or two. Or with a platter of country ham, home fries, and pancakes. Relevant Roasters ranks this supercharged diner brew four out of five on the darkness scale, but it’s light-bodied in the cup.

Bootleg is J. Brooks’ darkest roast. It comes out of the automatic drip coffeemaker tasting like it was just poured from some metal pot freshly lifted from a fruit-wood fire.

It’s intensely smoky without tasting burned or bitter. Consume with chocolate for a midafternoon pick-me-up. Recommended for shoppers who’ll spend Black Friday in places that smell of leather and lumber.

Reverb Coffee Company’s Tanzania Peaberry coffee is a milder-smelling brew than you might expect from beans so jet black and oily. In the cup it’s a dark, chestnut red, light-bodied but full-flavored. It’s strong stuff without being acidic or aggressive: the kind of almondy, good coffee that makes you say, “Now that’s a damn fine cup of coffee.”

Recommended for unhurried shoppers who are more interested in enjoying a day out than being first in line. — Chris Davis

Shop Your Values Love Starbucks but hate that communist red cup? Show your politics in your shopping cart this Black Friday with some apps that will tell you if the products you buy (or the companies that sell them to you) are Christian, gay-loving, Democrat, or Republican.

• Faith Driven Consumer app Here’s what you do about that red cup: Go to Dunkin’ Donuts.

That’s according to Faith Driven Consumer, the Raleigh, North Carolina, Christian group that has measured 330 brands’ “faith compatibility” for Christian consumers. The group says Christians will wield $30 billion in buying power this holiday shopping season and Faith Driven Consumer launched its #ChristmasBUYcott campaign to channel that money to the most “faith-compatible brands.”

Starbucks and its red cups are out, according to the group. Dunkin’ Donuts and its “Joy” cups are in.

And so on.

Here’s a select list from the Faith Driven Consumer “Best in Class”: Hobby Lobby, Pepsi, Cracker Barrel, Walgreens, Sprint, JetBlue, and Chick-fil-A. Just in time for the holidays, Faith Driven Consumer has packaged its list in an app for Apple and Android platforms. Users can check the database to make a battle plan before they shop, or they can check the list on the go in the Black Friday mayhem.

•Human Rights Campaign’s Buy4Equality app: Want to make sure the company you buy from treats their gay and transgendered employees with equality in the workplace?

Download Buy4Equality, an app that mobilizes the Human Rights Campaign’s

Dozens of alternatives Comes … to the Big Box madness.

The Gift of Art It is an undeniable fact that artists contribute as much to community vibrancy as do bike lanes or locally sourced food. The challenge is keeping those artists in our community, and the way you do that is by supporting them. Not through the plague of art auctions that have beset our town, where organizations ask artists to donate their merchandise for free and the artists get nothing except “exposure.” Support them by buying their products, just as you would a car or produce. What better opportunity to help keep Memphis wild and wonderful than to purchase work by local artists sold at local independent shops on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday? Here’s a roundup of some (keyword “some”) of the local shops selling local art.

You could spend an entire day walking Broad and popping into the varied embodiments of curated arts and crafts. City & State’s name is indicative of their mission. They sell the increasingly celebrated pottery by Brit McDaniel (Paper and Clay) and jewelry by the actively followed Question the Answer (Lauren Carlson) as well as by the purpose-driven business Ekata Designs, which helps refugee women in Memphis, and refurbished watches constructed by the old soul Colin Britton of Memphis Mean Time. Some of these lines will be included in the shop’s (which also serves as a craft coffee house) special edition Holiday Boxes of Awesome gift boxes.

Saunter down a block to Falling Into Place. Everything is handpicked by the owner Mary Claire White — yes, the maker of those ambrosial candles. Almost everything is art here and probably a third, if not more, local.

Can we all just say we all love Maggie Russell’s art. I remember the first time I saw it (on Facebook).

I had to shut down my computer

and breathe. White carries Russell originals as well as her cleverly inscribed prints and cards. She has abstract landscapes by Hillary Butler, florals by Amy Hartelust, including ornaments, dog paintings by Melanie Anderson, and more. I was thoroughly impressed with the cut-paper pieces by Cassie Weigman, including her map of Memphis.

One more block, and you have Bingham & Broad, which offers furniture, art, housewares, and accessories by 60 artists, 80 percent of which is locally crafted. Several of the artists work with humanitarian groups. A Way Out offers assistance to those involved in sex trafficking, and Peace of Thread sells accessories made by refugee women. And if you’re a big fan of found-object artist Kenny Hays, like I am, he now makes lamps, which are sold here.

It’s pretty much impossible to overlook Five in One. It’s a treasure trove of locally made art, including the most authentic Memphis T-shirts in Memphis, designed and printed by co-owner Michael Andrews. I send tourists there so that they can spread the Memphis gospel one T-shirt at a time. Baby Creep jewelry (I am powerless over her awesomeness), coloring books by Birdcap (Michael Roy) and Jenean Morrison, Astrid French’s jewelry, fairy-tale plaques by Michelle Duckworth, and food jewelry by Funlola Coker.

Museum shops are the best, aren’t they? The Brooks Museum offers jewelry by Lisa Butts, Kaye Brooksbank, Yuki Maguire (if you’ve ever wanted origami jewelry, now you know), Estelle Hood, Frances Cianciolo (Ancia), and Shove It (the skateboard people) and pottery by Agnes Stark, Baucum Pottery, David Johnson, and raku by Lester Jones.

Cooper-Young’s Me & Mrs. Jones, which has a second store in Germantown, offers Melissa Bridgman’s enchanting pottery and hand-lettered prints by Meriweather Adams (Hand Lettered With Love).

Diane Laurenzi, of Diane’s Art Gift & Home, has been selling local art-ware before millennials were a thing. She’s got metallic photos, pottery, hand-painted silks, and pottery you can use or hang on your wall by Niles Wallace.

South Main is becoming the new Broad. Wait, what? Stock & Belle, who’s watchword is “intentional,” focuses on local art, including paintings by Sarah Best Johnson and everyone’s favorite Grizzlies artist, the fountainhead of BIG SPAIN, Kyle Taylor. For more of his genius, head around the corner to Hoot + Louise for this year’s Grizz tee (a dream catcher) and reprints of last year’s Wear the Bear, and you can find prints by that Instagrammer @mississippipetrichor (ahem, ahem).

Two other museum shops that must be included are the 477 store in the MCA Nesin Graduate School, which sells work by MCA alums, students, faculty, and staff. Can we say Kong Wee Pang, Annabelle Meacham, Horse and Hare, and Lance Turner? And the Metal Museum store. I stop in there just about every Christmas. This year I think I might pick up some ornaments by Susan Younger and Jeannie Tomlinson Saltmarsh (the babyhead artist).

Now that you have my Christmas list, you can find me at the Flyer Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. Just drop them off at the front desk. — Lesley Young

Break Up With Black Friday Lesouque founders Gokben Yamandag and Penelope Fisher launched their online store of ethically made homewares and fashion last summer, introducing up-and-coming designers to consumers around the globe. As are most retailers, they are now promoting the start of the holiday shopping season, but in a different way: They are encouraging consumers to “Break Up With Black Friday.”

“Think about the madness of Black Friday, where you will probably buy things you might not need. The holidays are about family. Breaking up with Black Friday is saying, ‘stop and take a breather,’” Fisher explained.

This mini-campaign is an expansion of the pair’s main goal: educating consumers on the hidden costs of the items they buy. The Lesouque site features tips on how to be a conscious consumer, along with eye-opening facts on manufacturing. They encourage their customers to use the hashtag #BlackFridayBreakUp. Yamandag has witnessed firsthand how the high demand for inexpensive and massproduced goods can impact the well-being of people. Working as a textile engineer in Turkey, Yamandag saw the harsh conditions in apparel factories.

Lesouque sells handbags, scarves, mugs, platters, jewelry, and more made by artists and designers from around the world. There are three Memphis artists as well: Brit continued on page 16

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annual “Buying for Workplace Equality” list. The list ranks brands on everything from whether or not they offer benefits to domestic partners to extending workplace protections to transgendered workers.

Here’s a list of companies with perfect or near-perfect scores from the Human Rights Campaign: CVS, Bath & Body Works, Macy’s, Costco, Target, Coca-Cola, and Walt Disney Co. • BuyPartisan app: Is that big-ass TV you’re about to take home a Democrat or a Republican?

Scan it with your phone, and you can know in an instant, thanks to the BuyPartisan app from a D.C. tech start-up called Spend Consciously. The app matches the product to an constantly updated database that shows the political contributions made by the company’s board of directors, CEO, political action committee, and employees.

BuyPartisan also allows you to track a company’s spending and to compare the spending of two different companies. If a product doesn’t show up, you can manually search the app’s database. — Toby Sells

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McDaniel; Melissa Bridgman; and Kong Wee Pang.

“The fun of it is helping to market small and up-and-coming designers, some with no other place to sell, like designers from Istanbul. We build connections and relationships and have become friends with most of them. Everyone works for the same goal,” Yamandag said.

“We focus on the designers and the makers who treat their employees fairly. [Plus, the items] are all things we love,” said Fisher. — Sophorn Kuoy Lesouque.com

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There are thousands of black businesses providing various services here — some online and some with storefronts. I’ve pulled 10 dynamic businesses from Power Box, an intensive black business directory that I launched this summer. Support these homegrown entrepreneurs plus 900 others listed on Power Box this Black Friday and beyond, moving the needle on economic equality and empowerment.

• Phillip Ashley Chocolates offers gourmet chocolates with a twist, concocted and crafted in the heart of Midtown by Memphis’ own Willy Wonka, Phillip Ashley Rix. Tami’s Favorite: Posh Pralines Collection.

798 S. Cooper, phillipashleychocolates.com • Guilt Free Pastries is a 100 percent natural and vegan alternative for healthy shoppers with a sweet tooth. Tami’s Favorite: Avocado Brownies. 344 S. Main, guiltfreepastries.com • Bubble Bistro founder Andrea Johnson fills her bath and body products with love and fun. Visit the Crosstown location for the full experience. Tami’s Favorite: Power Body Oil. 425 N. Watkins, bubblebistro.com • The Candle Bakery’s hand-poured candles not only smell amazing but they are presented in the shape of your favorite desserts. Tami’s favorite: Vanilla Buttercream Cupcake candle. 2838 Hickory Hill Ext., Suite 11, thecandlebakery.com • Sheila Jay Designs is owned by local designer Sheila Jay. This collection features fly clothing for the everyday woman. Tami’s favorite: Ankara Real Wax Blazer. Online only at sheilajay.com • Quistt is full of exciting accessories to jazz up your wardrobe. Tami’s Favorite: Ankara rope necklace. Online only at etsy.com/shop/Quistt • Mo’s Bows was founded by young entrepreneur, Moziah Bridges. Mo’s Bows is a source of Memphis pride for its success and style. Tami’s Favorite: the bold Orange Gingham bowtie. Online only at mosbowsmemphis.com • Beautiful Monster is a soulful T-shirt line with numerous nods to African-American history and culture. Tami’s Favorite: Brown v. Board of Education. Online only at etsy.com/shop/Monsteez • New Tribe New Traditions designs apparel for the African-American naturalista (natural hair wearer). Tami’s favorite: gold on black Afro glitter tee. online only at etsy.com/shop/NewTribeNewTradition • MANE captures a classic in Memphis lingo perfectly with this quality apparel line.

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A Memphis Black Friday Playlist

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Insane lines, insane prices, and insane people can only mean one thing: Black Friday is upon us. Take this playlist of 10 songs by Memphis (or Memphis-related) artists with you as you hit the front lines of the Apocalypse, I mean, Black Friday.

• John Gary Williams “The Whole Damn World Is Going Crazy” (Stax Records) John Gary Williams might not have been singing about Black Friday when he sang “I believe that the whole damn world is going crazy,” but it certainly applies to this unofficial American holiday. Slam some coffee, and prepare for the worst, because anyone who goes out in the middle of the night to go shopping must be crazy.

• Useless Eaters “Panic Attack” (Tic Tac Totally Records) Some people might set alarms to make sure they are the first in line for that $400 flatscreen TV. I recommend not sleeping at all. Remember Black Friday only comes once a year. Don’t mess this up and have a panic attack.

•The Sweet Inspirations “Slipped and Tripped” (Stax Records) And don’t be the person who ends up on the local news after trampling someone on

Six Things to Do Besides Shopping National outdoors outfitter REI made headlines when its CEO Jerry Stritzke announced the company would be closed on Black Friday. They’re actually paying their 12,000 employees to take Black Friday off and go hiking or something.

“Black Friday is the perfect time to remind ourselves of the essential truth that life is richer, more connected, and complete when you choose to spend it outside,” Stritzke has said.

Maybe he’s on to something. We’ve

compiled a list of alternatives to shopping on Black Friday. Not all of them are outside or even during typical, early-bird-sale shopping hours. But hey, maybe reminding ourselves of essential life truths is less about being outside and more about sleeping in and sipping martinis.

25-cent Martinis at Felicia Suzanne’s Every Friday at lunchtime, this upscale Southern eatery serves vodka and/or gin martinis for a quarter.

That’s less than what you’ll pay the meter to park when you get there. Diners are limited to three (party poopers), and purchase of a meal is required if you want the discount.

South Main Art Trolley Tour From 6 to 9 p.m. on the last Friday of each month, shops along South Main feature local art shows.

And you can catch a free ride on one of those new buses that look like trolleys. Hey, you might even find a few works of art for the folks on your holiday list.

Starry Nights The annual drive-through, holiday light show in Shelby Farms Park features 1.5 million lights, and this year, the park is unveiling a new theme showcasing iconic Memphis places. The show is open nightly, but on Black Friday, the hours are 6 to 10 p.m. Admission is $20 per car, truck, or minivan. continued on page 18

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their way into Walmart. Nothing puts a damper on the holiday spirit quite like a lawsuit, so take it down a notch when the gates of retail hell finally open. Nose position is everything.

• New Memphis Legs “You Won’t Get Me” (Goner Records) Everyone knows the speed limit is more of a guideline than a rule on Black Friday. Blast this relatively unknown jammer by a Memphis garage band of yesteryear while you accelerate over shopping-mall speed bumps en route to the next super-sale.

• Rufus Thomas “I’ll be Your Santa Baby” (Stax Records) You’ve made it through the first round of shopping, but you still have miles to go before you sleep, so let Uncle Rufus cheer you up. Get in the zone; it’s time to blow some money.

• Three 6 Mafia “All or Nothin” (Prophet Entertainment) Your car is filling up with all kinds of stuff, half of which you didn’t even plan on buying. Don’t look in the trunk, and by all means don’t look at your bank account.

You have to buy it all, or nothing at all.

• Lost Sounds “Don’t Bother Me” (Big Neck Records) By now the masses of fellow shoppers are probably starting to get on your nerves.

Instead of going into a full-blown, coffeeinduced rampage, take a deep breath, and let Alicja Trout do the screaming for you.

• Playa Fly “Situation Critical” (Super Sigg Records) This is pretty self-explanatory. The shopping situation has reached critical mass. Either you got the deals you wanted, or you were left out in the cold. Don’t be the one (as Playa Fly so eloquently puts it) “lookin’ pitiful.”

• Little Milton “Walking the Back Streets and Crying” (Stax Records) Fear is setting in. Did you remember to hit all the places you wanted to? Surely you missed at least one sale. Dry your eyes with a Best Buy receipt and let Little Milton take the wheel.

• The Oblivians “Pill Popper” (In the Red Records) By now you’ve hopefully navigated through the trenches and made it back home. Take some aspirin and remember, this is only the beginning of your Christmas shopping experience. Happy holidaze! — Chris Shaw

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Black Friday Movie Day Classic seasonal films screen all day at the Rec Room. Catch Die Hard, Edward Scissorhands, Gremlins, Lethal Weapon, and others. Bar opens at noon.

North Mississippi Allstars The Hernando-based blues rockers play a Black Friday show with Grammy-winning bluegrass musician Jim Lauderdale and the South Memphis Allstars at Minglewood Hall at 7 p.m. — Bianca Phillips

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Those of us in the millennial generation wish you a very thrifty Christmas. We are harnessing a combination of sales, shopping apps, second-hand stores, and old-fashioned craftiness to cover our gift-giving needs. Here are three resourceful young folks willing to share their secrets.

• Kristin Jonakin Gifting: Her two kids, plus a large number of nieces and nephews, more than she could recall. Tricks of the trade: Target, the shopping app called Cartwheel, and manufacturers’ coupons.

“I shop early; I don’t wait until December,” Jonakin said. “I’m an avid Target shopper, and they price-match Amazon and Walmart. They also have an app called Cartwheel, and November through Christmas they will feature one toy that’s 50 percent off. So, combine that app with Target coupons and manufacturers’ coupons, and you’ll get toys that are normally $40 for $15 or $20.”

Jonakin is no ordinary couponer. She activates push notifications from savings apps, keeps a watchful eye on upcoming sales, and organizes her entire gift-giving duties on Excel spreadsheets.

• Amber Smith Hampton Gifting: Mainly her two kids.

Tricks of the Trade: Thrift stores, touch-up paint, pragmatic views on gift-giving.

“One year, Audrey wanted a bike, and we didn’t have the money for a new bike, so I grabbed one at Goodwill for $16. It had some paint missing, so part of the present was packing up some art supplies to go with it, and we gave it to her as a ’Decorate Your Own Bike’ present. She loved it,” Hampton said.

Like Jonakin, Hampton also encourages shopping in the months preceding the holiday season. And Hampton is a fan of thrift stores.

“My big advice is to realize that kids will be excited about anything. Most of them won’t realize or care whether or not something is brand new, because it’s new to them. So, don’t skip over the second-hand stores, because there’s a ton of good stuff out there for mega-cheap.”

• Clark McGee Gifting: An intimidating number of coworkers and acquaintances.

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“You don’t necessarily have to buy expensive vodka, because you’re altering the actual flavor of the vodka,” said McGee, who has lately been fielding requests for his homemade limoncello. “All limoncello is, is lemon zest and vodka. You let that sit for a month, and then add an equal amount of simple syrup. So, your one handle of vodka is now two handles of limoncello, and you’ll have enough to fill 10 Mason jars, and this runs you about $60.”

McGee’s messiah-like ability to make two handles of alcohol out of one means he can get almost a dozen gifts for $60. For closer friends and those who don’t drink, McGee advises watching for the annual sales at Michaels, stocking up on acrylic paints and canvases, and getting crafty with select smarmy quotes made into art-installations with light-up capabilities. — Micaela Watts

Gifts for Those Who Are Impossible to Buy For The Self-Denying Mother: This woman is always giving up sugar, and, when you ask her what she wants, she tells you that she “wants to want less.” She routinely suggests that you donate to charity instead of getting her a present. The problem is that you need something to put inside wrapping paper. So you should pull the old “stand-in present” trick, i.e. donate to a charity that

helps save Bengal tigers and draw her a picture of a happy-looking tiger to put under the tree. Or donate to a charity that fights world hunger and get her a felted throw pillow in the shape of a carrot (OK, maybe not.) But you get the picture.

The Extended Family Member Who Has Everything (and always gets you a present): This one is the worst, because it is nearly impossible to successfully gift someone who is in the habit of purchasing everything they could ever want. And they always get you exactly the thing that you want, that you might have mentioned once, in passing, way back in July. You will never win this game. The answer here is that everyone, no matter who they are and what sort of success they have had in their life, always needs a nice pair of gloves.

The Cousin Whose Hobbies You Don’t Endorse: This cousin is a member of his local citizen militia and all he loves in this world are guns and duck calls. Let’s say that you are a vegetarian pacifist and don’t know your way around a Bass Pro to save your life. You have to bank on the great unifiers of our time: alcohol, artisanal condiments, or fuzzy blankets. Maybe just go with a combo of all three.

The Rare Media Collector: You can’t buy this person what they really want, because what they really want is either ungodly expensive or impossible to find. You don’t have the energy or finances to find an original pressing of that one Talking Heads record or an author-signed first edition of “The Parisian Omnibus” or whatever. The goal here is to go for unique storage furniture in which the collector can keep their goods. A stylish book bag or an archival baseball card organizer.

The Teenage Boy Whose Only Interest Is World of Warcraft: Just get this guy a Fushigi ball. Everybody loves Fushigi balls. Or a balance board. Those are all the rage. — Eileen Townsend

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Good Spirits

By Chris Davis

Kevin Jones is an actor’s actor. Before leaving Memphis for New York, he did a little bit of everything, from Shakespeare and Shaw to Tennessee Williams and A Tuna Christmas. He wrote and performed original works, took part in holiday shows at Theatre Memphis, and even engaged in a bit of Gross Indecency at Playhouse on the Square. This week, Jones returns to Memphis to help an old friend and perform his critically acclaimed one-man version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

The old friend in question is David Foster, another of Memphis’ most prolific and prized actors. Foster is an uncommonly versatile actor best known for standout roles in musicals like Next to Normal, Ragtime, Assassins, and his award-winning dramatic turn in the Horton Foote play Dividing the Estate. Foster’s arched-eyebrow performances as Crumpet, the inappropriate elf, in David Sedaris’ SantaLand Diaries were definitive.

Only Sedaris himself does it better. On a good day. Maybe. When Foster took time away from the stage, and from his day job cutting hair, to fight a tough battle with cancer, he was determined not to let the illness define him. But Jones is hard to resist, and his proposal was a unique opportunity to help Foster help himself. Donations from this free performance all go to cover the cost of Foster’s chair rental at La Nouvelle Salon.

“I’m calling the event, ‘Put my BFF back to work,’” says Jones, describing an act of kindness that might appeal to old Scrooge both before and after his miraculous conversion. “If we can cover the chair rental, he gets to keep 100 percent of what he makes while he’s getting back on his feet.”

Jones, who often played Scrooge’s nephew Fred in Theatre Memphis’ annual Carol, is drawn to the enduring story because of its message and possibilities. His performance is lifted directly from Dickens’ own reading text, with only a few amendments.

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FRIDAY November 27 A Tuna Christmas Circuit Playhouse, 8 p.m., $22 Popular holiday show in which two actors play 20 characters — inhabitants of Tuna, Texas, who are trying to put on a production of A Christmas Carol.

Memphis Arts Collective Holiday Show and Sale 1501 Union, 6-9 p.m.

Annual market featuring photography, jewelry, prints, pottery, paintings, and more by area artists. Opening night includes a silent auction benefiting Alzheimer’s Day Services and music

by Paul Taylor.

“Disco” Circuitous Succession, 6-9 p.m.

Holiday group art show with pieces starting at $40. Featured artists include Lawrence Matthews, Tommy Foster, Juan Rojo, Alex Warble, Lauren Coulson, Pixy Liao, and more.

Tree Lighting Peabody Hotel, 11 a.m.

Day filled with holiday events — choir performances, a Santa appearance, etc. — culminating with the lighting of the tree at 5 p.m.

Delta Holiday Rock Delta Groove Yoga, 2-6 p.m.

A mineral and jewelry show with a geode cracking. Continues Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

If Scrooge Was a Brother Hattiloo Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Ekundayo Bandele’s reimagining of A Christmas Carol.

Uncle Curly’s Classroom Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 2:30 and 7 p.m., $40 Stage play about the crazy uncle everybody has, except this one is also your substitute teacher.

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By Chris Davis

To borrow a line from ’70s-era hitmakers, the Starland Vocal Band, “Everything’s a little clearer in the light of day.” Sure, burlesque shows usually don’t start bumping and grinding ’til deep in the middle of the late night, but who doesn’t look forward to a little afternoon delight now and again?

The Afternoon Delight burlesque is a benefit for the Mid-South Food Bank, showcasing the skinful talent shake-show vets Cherie Cheezcake, Mai Oui, and Vivica Noir. The complete roster reads like a who’s who of Memphis’ titillatingest titillators. The event is hosted by Memphis comic Katrina Coleman and climaxes with what is being described as a “shimmy contest.”

“Worms wiggle,” Coleman says, trying to distinguish the shimmy from jiggles and bounces. “And you shake when you’re cold. A shimmy has a point to it. A good shimmy involves eye contact, a smile, and moving what your mama gave you.” While a proper shimmy may be enhanced by fringe, feathers, beads, and other things that sparkle and catch light, Coleman doesn’t think burlesque attire is necessary to perform quality work.

“It doesn’t matter what you’re wearing,” she says, evoking the spirit of Martha and the Vandellas. “I’ve seen good shimmies performed in an oversized Tweety Bird T-shirt. If you need samples of what a good shimmy is, go to YouTube and find some of those old Motown girl bands. They did it right.”

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WinterArts 2015 766 South White Station, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Annual artists market, featuring gifts crafted in glass, wood, fiber, clay, and more. Through Christmas Eve. Jenean Morrison Open Studio/ Booksigning 893 S. Cooper, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Painter and textile artist Jenean Morrison hosts this event at her Cooper-Young studio. She’ll be signing her adult coloring books, including her latest 2016 Coloring Calendar. Guests wanting to take a break can color.

Getting to Zero: Hope and Memory Beale Street Plaza, 5 p.m.

Friends for Life hosts this event in observance of World AIDS Day. Includes music and the release of airborne wish lanterns.

Roman Holiday Malco Paradiso, 7 p.m., $13.50 Screening of this classic starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn.

Female Warriors: Armed and Delicious Brinkley Plaza Lobby, 5:30-8:30 p.m., $50 Super cool event spearheaded by Felicia Willett of Felicia Suzanne’s and Kat Gordon of Muddy’s Bake Shop to highlight all the female culinary “warriors.” There will be food by Willett, Gordon, Amy Lupo of Nothing Bundt Cakes, Collins Tuohy of Whimsy Cookie Co., Jerri Myers of St. Jude, Elizabeth Blondis of Central BBQ, Brandi Marten of Bedrock Eats & Sweets, and Bradford Williams of Curbside Casserole.

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New Breed of Southern Rock Georgia’s Kylesa return to Memphis on the heels of a new album.

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avannah, Georgia’s Kylesa came about from the demise of Damad, an enigmatic female-led band and early pioneer of the immensely heavy form of metallic hardcore distinct to a mostly Southern movement.

After all, Memphis’ own His Hero Is Gone is the rightful yardstick by which all of this music is measured. Kylesa’s first lineup was rounded out by Savannah College of Art and Design graduate Laura Pleasants (on guitar, vocal, and songwriting duties), who would become one half of Kylesa’s static core along with co-founder Phillip Cope. Like fellow Savannah exports Baroness, Mastodon and the Floor/Torche axis, Kylesa was more of a logical fit early on in regards to what is now widely known as the “Southern sludge” movement, but soon followed a creatively restless album-by-album progression away from the subgenre.

Though the band has released seven proper fulllengths (and a respectable amount of titles on smaller and compilation format) over the last 15 years, the five that appeared between 2006 and last month frame the development of a signature sound in the truest sense. Meaning, yes, this is a heavy band with a metal backbone throughout its discography, but no other band sounds anything like them. The noticeable leap forward in songwriting, serious uptick in psychedelic elements, plus a much more melodic and melancholic approach (especially Pleasant’s now-clean singing style) occurred with 2010’s Spiral Shadow, making it the band’s artistic, critical, and profile-raising game changer. Follow-up Ultraviolet (2013) has become the band’s sleeper fave amongst fans, and then there’s last month’s Exhausting Fire, an amalgam of everything that makes Kylesa a fascinating, exciting, and important band.

I recently spoke with Cope, who was generous enough to carve out a few minutes of the daily sweet spot between load-in and soundcheck (roughly 5 to 7 p.m.) during Kylesa’s first, of what will no doubt be several, touring jaunts behind the release of Exhausting Fire.

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Phillip Cope: Yeah, we tried but had some trouble finding somewhere to play for that tour. We always really liked the vibe at the Hi-Tone, but is the stage at the new location any bigger? That would be my only complaint.

Yes, it is. On that note, you’re a band that puts more thought and effort into your live sound than most. Do you prefer one playing environment over another, or was there a learning curve when festival gigs started to happen?

Being able to take advantage of such a huge sound system that does so much with your sound is a totally different experience. Just the other day a friend saw us at a bigger venue and had never heard us through a huge sound system before, and he was pretty blown away because he’d noticed all of these new things he didn’t hear at the smaller shows. It’s trying to suit yourself best to each venue or style of show.

With double drummers, it’s a different ball game.

Oh yeah, we’ve had local sound guys walk out on us once they’ve seen it being set up. They just didn’t want to deal with it.

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It’s weird because when [Ultraviolet] came out it had the reception that it had, but now people are coming up and telling me that it’s their favorite album. So maybe it was a little ahead of its time? I’ve been going at it for over 20 years, and with this band, 15, and eventually you see all kinds of things, you see the bigger picture.

At the end of the day, people are going to say what they’re going to say, and this is not me saying that critics aren’t important, because they are. It’s a thankless job, like most jobs in music, and I’m sure it’s hard to do it while you’re a fan of music and to have to keep up with everything that’s coming out all the time. At the end of the day, word of mouth is still the best thing.

The aspect of outside expectation must be a real source of stress when making a new album, but I always find it ridiculous when bands say stuff like, “We’re just doing this for ourselves, and if we’re happy with it, then it doesn’t matter what the rest of the world thinks,” or similar sentiments.

Funny you mention that because I always cringe when bands say stuff like that. If that was the only reason why you’re doing it, why go on tour? Why put out records?

I must agree with a lot of what I’ve read about “Moving Day” on the new album, though I didn’t really hear the “death-rock” or Christian Death/ Killing Joke thing professed in the Pitchfork review.

Nonetheless, it is a truly gorgeous, sad song and some timeless songwriting, if you will.

Well, thanks, I appreciate that. “Moving Day” came naturally, and when something comes naturally and happens to be different than everything else, we don’t think about it too much and just throw it out there, and what happens, happens. Though it probably seems like a weird thing to be on the album because nothing else sounds like it. So I’ve definitely been pleasantly surprised that people have caught on to that song.

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

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

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Dustin Lynch Saturday, Nov. 28, 7 p.m.

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

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall

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Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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New Daisy Theatre

Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:308:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., and Sundays, 4-9 p.m.; Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-3 a.m., and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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The Green Beetle 325 S. MAIN 527-7337

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Soul Shockers Sunday, Nov. 29, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

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The Plexx

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Riverfront Bar & Grill

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South Main Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown

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77 S. SECOND 527-2700

380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

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Sheiksgiving with the Sheiks, DJ Andrew McCalla Thursday, Nov. 26, 10:30 p.m.; Chris Milam Band Friday, Nov. 27, 10:30 p.m.; Marcella & Her Lovers Saturday, Nov. 28, 10:30 p.m.

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NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS AT MINGLEWOOD HALL The Dickinson brothers return to Minglewood Hall this Friday night, along with special guest Jim Lauderdale. With the way the show is being promoted, it’s a safe bet that Lauderdale will be joining North Mississippi Allstars onstage, in addition to playing songs from his new album, Soul Searching Vol. 1 Memphis/Vol. 2 Nashville. Recorded in Memphis, Mississippi, and Nashville with Luther and Cody Dickinson (of the North Mississippi Allstars), Soul Searching was released in September to rave reviews. Paste Magazine called the Grammy Award-winning artist’s latest album “vibrant and deceptively simple,” and other media outlets like NPR and Country Weekly have given the album their seal of approval.

With a career that spans three decades, Lauderdale has long been at the forefront of the Americana movement, working with artists like Elvis Costello, George Strait, Lee Ann Womack, and Old Crow Medicine Show in the process. The North Mississippi Allstars certainly aren’t a small-time act either, making the pairing of these two songwriting institutions an exciting match. Lauderdale was also the subject of the documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts, and hosts a critically acclaimed SiriusXM radio show with Buddy Miller, the aptly titled “Buddy & Jim Show.”

As for the North Mississippi Allstars, the band has been riding the wave created by their 2015 album Soul Food. Luther and Cody have set out on two tours so far this year, one with Anders Osborne in February, the other with The Word this past October. — Chris Shaw North Mississippi Allstars and Jim Lauderdale, Friday, November 27th at Minglewood Hall. 8 p.m. $20-$22 The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

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

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Richard James Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Friday, Nov. 27, 10 p.m.; Hope Clayburn’s Soul Scrimmage Saturday, Nov. 28, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; JJ Freeze, Johnny Young Monday, Nov. 30, 10 p.m.; Anne Schorr

Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Super T Thursday, Nov. 26, 9 p.m.; Gone to the Dogs Fest 2 Friday, Nov. 27, 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 28, 7 p.m.; Exit Glaciers, the Painters, the Odyssey Orchestra Sunday, Nov. 29, 9 p.m.; Tribute to Pet Sounds, Strong Martian, Other Stories, the Warp & the Weft, Flower Ranger, Spencer Kellum Monday, Nov. 30, 9 p.m.; Seratones, wARM Monday, Nov. 30, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Jumpin’ Chi-Chis Sunday, Nov. 29, 4-7 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Sunday, Nov. 29, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

The River Bluff Clan Saturday, Nov. 28, 11 a.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.

Midtown Crossing Grille

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Stone Rangers, Native Blood Saturday, Nov. 28; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

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

Playhouse on the Square 66 S. COOPER 726-4656

Brennan Villines CD Release Friday, Nov. 27, 8:30-11:45 p.m.

Sports Junction 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

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

Strano Sicilian Kitchen 948 S. COOPER 552-7122

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House 551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, Nov. 29, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Slap Junior Band Friday, Nov. 27, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

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

The Windjammer Restaurant

Young Avenue Deli

786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

2119 YOUNG 278-0034

James and the Ultrasounds Friday, Nov. 27, 9 p.m.; Puddin Heads Saturday, Nov. 28, 9 p.m.

Karaoke ongoing.

Poplar/I-240

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

East Tapas and Drinks

Minglewood Hall

Carlos & Adam from the Late Greats Thursdays, 7-9 p.m.; Elizabeth Wise Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.

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

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

North Mississippi Allstars Friday, Nov. 27, 7 p.m.-midnight.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Goner Presents: Nobunny Friday, Nov. 27; Back Pack Benefit Saturday, Nov. 28; Carousel, Sunfather Monday, Nov. 30; Axis, Seraph, the Light Wednesday, Dec. 2.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Kris Acklen Trio, Jack Moran Friday, Nov. 27, 8-11 p.m.; Julie Christensen, Sergio Webb, Dan Montgomery Saturday, Nov. 28, 8 p.m.

6069 PARK 767-6002

University of Memphis Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

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

East Memphis Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

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

El Toro Loco

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplethret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; R.T. Scott’s Birthday Bash and CD Release Party Saturday, Nov. 28, 8 p.m.; Benefit for the Kellys with Side Street Steppers, Sun Trio, Rodney Phillips Sunday, Nov. 29, 5 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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The Kymistry Band Sunday, Nov. 29, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

North Mississippi/ Tunica

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

The Crossing Bar & Grill

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

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Bartlett Municipal Center

Wadford’s Grill & Bar

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Bartlett

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

2951 CELA 382-1576

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Karaoke Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

7945 WINCHESTER 751-2345

6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

Tunica Roadhouse

Mugs Pub

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

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

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

4396 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 372-3556

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

Full Effect Band Saturday, Nov. 28, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

Raleigh

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

6717 AIRWAYS, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662) 772-5926

Tommy Akers Duo Sunday, Nov. 29, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

Whitehaven/ Airport

Maria’s Cantinna

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

Mesquite Chop House

Maria’s Restaurant

Winchester/ Hickory Hill

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

RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

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

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

Juno Mars Sunday, Nov. 29, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

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The Dantones Sunday, Nov. 29, 8-11:30 p.m.

Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

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

Mesquite Chop House 3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

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

Collierville

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Collierville

Frayser/Millington

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

Haystack Bar & Grill

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Jeffrey and the Pacemakers Sunday, Nov. 29, 8-11:30 p.m.

6560 HWY. 51 N. 872-0567

Karaoke Nights at The Stack Wednesdays-Fridays, Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

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

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 6565 TOWNE CENTER SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-536-2200

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

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

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

Dantone’s Band Friday, Nov. 27, 10 p.m.-2 a.m. and Saturday, Nov. 28, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

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

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

The New Backdour Bar & Grill 302 S. AVALON 596-7115

Ms. Ruby Wilson and Friends Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke with Tim Bachus Mondays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.1 a.m.

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So says Malcolm Toussaint in Leonard Pitts Jr.’s latest novel, Grant Park. Or rather, that’s what he writes as a respected columnist for the fictitious Chicago Post newspaper.

The column was not meant to be published, and, once it is, Malcolm is neither respected nor a columnist any longer.

The events that lead up to his downfall begin in Memphis in 1968 as a collegeaged Malcolm returns home from school to a city atop a powder keg. His father is a sanitation worker on strike, yet the radical Malcolm sees the “I Am a Man” placards and philosophy of nonviolence as ineffective. The present-day action is in Chicago in 2008 as Barack Obama, the nation’s first African-American president, is being elected into office.

But what happened in those 40 years?

The evolution of a radical into a person who, in effect, has become part of the establishment is explored through characters such as Malcolm and his white editor Bob Carson, who long ago fell in love with Janeka Lattimore, a black woman with whom he attended college and fought on the front lines of the civil rights movement in Mississippi. She spurned him because of race all those years ago, yet has returned during the aftermath of his prize-winning columnist imploding his own career and going missing, kidnapped by two bumbling white supremacists with much larger plans for Obama’s rally in Grant Park on election night.

The question of civil rights during those 40 years after the assassination of King was also explored at story booth last week by Pitts and moderators Terrence Tucker, coordinator of African-American Literature at the University of Memphis; and Charles McKinney, director of the Africana Studies program at Rhodes College.

Pitts is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at the Miami Herald, yet he insisted that Malcolm is a purely fictional character while allowing that “Malcolm’s frustrations are definitely mine,” and that the racist email that finally pushes Malcolm over the edge is “cobbled together from emails I’ve received.” With the white supremacist characters, particularly, Pitts said he was going for a certain sense of absurdity in the racist overtones to exemplify a day and age where things are not as rosy as they may seem just because there is a black man in the White House. “I had to explain to [New Jersey Governor] Chris Christie that ‘Black Lives Matter’ is not a terrorist movement,” he said, adding that

he gets at least one phone call a week with someone telling him, “Racism is gone if you just stop talking about it.”

Racism of today and yesterday (“There was a seriousness of purpose in the 1960s,” Pitts said. “Even hatred was of a different quality.”) is explored in his book through historical fiction.

The day after his story booth appearance, and arranged by story booth director Nat Akin, Pitts visited Northside High School to speak with students who had been given a copy of Grant Park. He was peppered with questions by eager readers and hopeful writers. Though he’d visited Memphis numerous times before, when it came to writing the book, he came with purpose to the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library to peruse newspapers from the 1960s and look at photographs and maps. He needed to envision a Beale Street and Hernando without the FedExForum to imagine how the marches for the sanitation workers might have taken place. “There are two kinds of truths,” he told the small audience gathered in the school library, “factual truth and emotional truth — a novel strives for that emotional truth. Martin Luther King came to Memphis in 1968 to lead a march, everybody knows that, but what did it feel like to be an 18-year-old in Memphis then? What did it smell like? What did it sound like?”

“There are two kinds of truths,” Pitts said.

“Factual truth and emotional truth.”

He told his own story of becoming a writer — he was first paid for writing at the age of 18 by Soul magazine and became a music critic and stringer at that point — about rejection and the fact that, though he’d been a successful journalist for years, it wasn’t until 2009 that his first novel, Before I Forget, was published.

“You’ve got to have a certain amount of discipline. … It has to be something you need to do, not what you want to do.”

As for the timing of Grant Park coming out and the real-life, present-day stories coming from places like Ferguson, Missouri, Charleston, South Carolina, and even Memphis, Pitts told the assemblage at story booth that night, “History is your story, history is your biography, and, as African Americans, we need to know our history. Our history is being swiped from us. …There’s a need for us to be more vigilant caretakers of our history.”

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Nov. 26 - Dec. 2

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

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

AIA Memphis Office

Uncle Curly’s Classroom, focuses on bullying and suicide, by playwright A.D. Smith. $40.

Sat., Nov. 28, 2:30 and 7 p.m.

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

Circuit Playhouse

A Tuna Christmas, the colorful residents of Tuna, Texas’ third-smallest town, are competing in the annual Christmas lawn display contest when a mysterious Christmas phantom wreaks havoc. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $22-$35. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Dec. 27.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Crosstown Arts

Afternoon Delight: A Memphis Burlesque Showcase, arrive early for some outdoor preshow entertainment and raffle benefiting the Mid-South Food Bank. Shimmy contest at intermission. Hosted by Katrina Coleman. www.crosstownarts. org. $10. Sun., Nov. 29, 3 p.m.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Hattiloo Theatre

If Scrooge Was a Brother, businessman Eb Scroo has a surly attitude about the world, displaying no pity on the poor. Three spirits visit Scroo.

With Scrooge as a brother, this Christmas will be like no other. www.hattiloo.org. $13-$26.

Thursdays, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, 3 p.m.

Through Dec. 20.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

November 26-December 2, 2015

Playhouse on the Square

Peter Pan, join the Darling children as they adventure to Neverland and meet Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, and Tinkerbell.

A trip to Neverland with Peter and his friends will make you feel like a kid again. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $35. Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m.

Through Jan. 10.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

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

“On the Boards: Work by Memphis Architects,” selection of digital and hand-drawn renderings featuring work currently in the design phase from AIA Memphis architectural member firms. www.aiamemphis.org. Last Friday of every month, 6 p.m.

ANF Architects

“Coming Home,” exhibition of paintings by Sally Hughes Smith. www.anfa.com.

Through Jan. 10, 2016.

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Banks House Gallery & Gift Shop

511 S. MAIN (525-3818).

Art Village Gallery

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

Ongoing.

Artist reception for Latin American Fine Art Group Exhibition, (521-0782), www. artvillagegallery.com.

Fri., Nov. 27, 6-9 p.m.

564 W. COMMERCE.

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

“Japanese Okimono: Life in Ivory,” carved ivory figures.

Through Jan. 9, 2016.

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

OTH E R A R T HA P P E N I N G S

2016 Fiction Contest Call for Entries

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

See website for more information, rules, and entry format. Through Feb. 1, 2016.

Box Gallery

“Oh, Sanctuary!,” exhibition of new work by Anna Maranise.

Through Dec. 9.

WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM/ FICTION-CONTEST-RULES/.

Art After Dark

Galleries and gardens will be open late. Featuring light refreshments, entertainment, and a cash bar. Free with admission. Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m.

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

Art Trolley Tour

Tour the local galleries and shops on South Main. Last Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN.

Call to Artists for “Secret Artwork in the Medicine Cabinet”

Seeking artwork for exhibitions held the last Friday of every month. $15 submission fee.

Ongoing.

CIRCUITOUS SUCCESSION GALLERY, 500 S. SECOND, CIRCUITOUSSUCCESSION.COM.

3715 CENTRAL.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School Call to Artists: “Mi Sur/My South”

A survey of Latino/a artists working in Memphis. See website for more information.

Through Dec. 5.

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

“Disco”

Holiday cash-and-carry sale group exhibition features the entire lineup of CSG artists and more. Enjoy refreshments, and over half the art holdings of CSG will be available for immediate purchase. Fridays, 6-9 p.m. Through Dec. 18.

CIRCUITOUS SUCCESSION GALLERY, 500 S. SECOND.

Open call for “Queer On!” Scripts New Works Competition focusing on Queer Youth

HOLIDAYS AT THE PINK PALACE • NOV 14 - DEC 31

“Disco” holiday sale at Circuitous Succession Gallery (CSG) Theatre will accept 10-minute plays/pieces for review.

For more information and submission guidelines, visit website or email carly@ playhouseonthesquare.org. $5 entry fee per submission.

Through April 30, 2016.

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

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FORMER LISA KURTS GALLERY, 766 S. WHITE STATION, WINTERARTSMEMPHIS.COM.

“People and Places: 19th Century English Drawings and Caricatures and Tennessee Maps,” exhibition from the collections of Richard Tanner and Nancy and Orion Miller. www.buckmanartscenter.com.

Through Dec. 17.

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The Annesdale Park Gallery

“A Sense of Place,” exhibition of original oil paintings by Rebecca Thompson. www. theannesdaleparkgallery.com.

Through Dec. 9.

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM) “Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha

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

“A Community Collaboration: French Fort,” exhibition of artifacts and art inspired by the French Fort by Cafe Pontotoc, City South Ventures, and local artist Elayna Scott.

Through Dec. 31.

“Exploration in Imagination,” exhibition of mixed-media works by Elayna Scott, inspired by nature and her travels.

Ongoing.

314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

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51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007).

Clough-Hanson Gallery

L Ross Gallery

“Right Brain, Left Brain,” exhibition of new acrylic paintings by Angi Cooper. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. Through Jan. 3, 2016.

“marvels and oddment[s],” exhibition of previously overlooked, rethought, and reskinned objects by Joan Livingstone. www.rhodes.edu. Through Dec. 5.

Melissa Corry, exhibition of paintings, prints, and murals influenced by the beauty of the deep South. www.krocmemphis.org. Through Dec. 5.

“Layers: Work Through the Decades,” exhibition for renowned regional abstract expressionist Anton Weiss. www.lrossgallery.com. Through Nov. 28.

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

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Collierville Library

Memphis Botanic Garden

Matthew Lee, www.colliervillelibrary.org. Dec. 1-31.

91 WALNUT (853-2333).

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

“Seasons Greetings,” exhibition of holiday woodcut artwork by Ted Faiers. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Nov. 28-Dec. 23.

“Wilderness Children,” exhibition of illustrative works in various media which call to mind a dark fairy tale or half-remembered dream by Michelle Duckworth. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through Nov. 29.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“60s Cool,” exhibition celebrating art and design from the 1960s including work by Ted Faiers, Yrjö Kukkapuro, Paul Evans, György Kepes, and Henry Easterwood. Through Jan. 17, 2016.

“Cats and Quotes,” exhibition featuring felines in paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and prints paired with famous quotes about felines from a variety of periods.

Through Jan. 3, 2016.

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

Through March 13, 2016.

“Decorative Arts Trust: 35th Anniversary,” exhibition of works for the museum’s permanent collection featuring Medieval to Modern, furniture to faïence.

Through Jan. 10, 2016.

“William Eggleston & Ernest C. Withers in Conversation,” exhibition of photographs from 19761987. Through Jan. 3, 2016.

“Wonder, Whimsy, Wild: Folk Art in America,” exhibition of American folk art from New England and the Midwest made between 1800 and 1925. www.brooksmuseum.org. Through Feb. 28, 2016.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

2015 Fall BFA Exhibition, www.mca.edu. Through Dec. 10.

“Knowing Places,” exhibition of paintings by Betsy Brackin Burch. www.mca.edu. Through Dec. 10.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

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64 FLICKER (767-3800).

Diane’s Art Gift & Home

“Family Traditions,” exhibition of new work in sculpture by Ken Woodmansee. www. dianesartgifthome.com. Through Dec. 24.

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1581 OVERTON PARK (276-7515).

Disciple Gallery

“Xmas: 10 Years of Christmas in Pencils,” exhibition of Christmas icons created out of No. 2 pencils.

Print images include snowflakes, stockings, and stars. Through Dec. 31.

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“Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection,” exhibition of private art collection based in Spartanburg, South Carolina that boasts an extensive survey of artistic activity in the American South from the late 18th century to present day.

Through Jan. 3, 2016.

Jun Kaneko, exhibition of contemporary ceramic sculptures. Through Nov. 29.

“My Own Places,” exhibition of Southern landscapes

by Martha Kelly. www.dixon.org. Through Jan. 3, 2016.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

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Eclectic Eye

“Down by the Riverside,” exhibition of acrylic, charcoal, Conté crayons, and collage on canvas inspired by views along the Mississippi River by Jill Samuels. www.eclectic-eye.com. Through Jan. 6, 2016.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

“inveterate,” exhibition of works by Toni Collums Roberts. (678-3052), memphis.edu/art.

Through Dec. 4.

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3715 CENTRAL.

Fratelli’s

“At Cross Purpose,” exhibition of film and digital photography by Erin Jennings. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Nov. 28.

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“Breaking Narratives,” exhibition of a varied body of work created by Carrington Lemons, Annie Lynne, Gil Ngolè, Ryan Steed, and Olivia Wall for the Fall 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition. www.mca.edu.

Through Dec. 12.

477 S. MAIN.

Metal Museum

“Master Metalsmith: Linda Threadgill,” exhibition of works highlighting patterns, repetition, and variation. www.metalmuseum.org. Through Dec. 6.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

NJ Woods Gallery and Design

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

Ongoing.

classic works performed by past company members. $25-$35. Sat., Nov. 28, 2:30-4:30, and 7:30-9:30 p.m.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1486), WWW.BRIDGINGSOULSPRODUCTIONS.COM.

CHERRY Burlesque

Hosted by Julie Wheeler. $10-$20.

Last Saturday of every month, 8 p.m.

EARNESTINE & HAZEL’S, 531 S. MAIN (523-9754), WWW.THEJULIEWHEELER.COM.

Dance Night

Evening of dancing with music provided by the Jim Mahannah Band or Wally and Friends. $5.

First Tuesday of every month, 7-10 p.m.

BAKER COMMUNITY CENTER, 7942 CHURCH, MILLINGTON, WWW.MILLINGTONTN.GOV.

Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker $20-$70. Fri., Nov. 27, 7 p.m.

CANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 525-1515).

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The Cove

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

2559 BROAD (730-0719).

Flirt Nightclub

Trippin on Thursday, hosted by K-97 Funnyman Prescott. Thursdays, 6 p.m.

3659 S. MENDENHALL (485-1119).

Hi-Tone

Comedy Special: Don’t Be Afraid of the Holidays, Memphis, hosted by Josh McLane featuring Ambrose Jones, Jordan Jensen, Tommy Oler, and Amanda Walker, with appearances by Mr. and Mrs. Claus, and, as always, Jared Herring. (278-8663), www. hitonememphis.com. $5. Wed., Dec. 2, 8:15 p.m.

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

Minglewood Hall

Craig Ferguson, www.minglewoodhall.com. $35$99. Sun., Nov. 29, 8 p.m.

1555 MADISON (866-609-1744).

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

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2563 BROAD.

Playhouse on the Square

“Conceptualizing Dystopia,” exhibition of pastel illustrations by Michele Noiset. www.mca.edu.

Through Jan. 10, 2016.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Ross Gallery

“Tacos or Sushi?,” exhibition of works by Annabelle Meacham. (321-3243), www.cbu.edu/gallery.

Through Dec. 10.

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

St. George’s Episcopal Church

2015 MGAL Winter Exhibition, www.mgal.org.

Through Dec. 28.

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“Stax: Visions of Soul,” exhibition of visual art celebrating songs from the iconic Stax catalog. www.staxmuseum.com. Through Dec. 31.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Sue Layman Designs

“Grace and Space,” exhibition of original oil paintings by Sue Layman Designs. www.suelaymandesigns.com.

Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Through Dec. 5.

125 G.E. PATTERSON (409-7870).

TOPS Gallery

“The Inside Circle,” exhibition of works by Guy Church. www.topsgallery.com. Through Dec. 5.

400 S. FRONT.

Wings Gallery

“Images of Healing, Images of Hope,” exhibition by past artists of the year. www. wingscancerfoundation.org. Through Nov. 30.

WEST CLINIC, 100 N. HUMPHREYS (322-2984).

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2425 S. GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

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Melting Pot: Artist Showcase, open mic night hosted by Darius “Phatmak” Clayton. $5.

Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

Strictly Hip-Hop Sunday, featuring open mic, live band, and DJ. $5, ladies free.

Sundays, 5 p.m.

341 MADISON (524-0104).

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Guest speaker in the rector’s forum between 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. services. Free. Sun., Nov. 29, 9:15-10:15 a.m.

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

Woodruff-Fontaine House Museum Ghost Tour

TO U R S

Booksigning by Ashton Lee

Downtown Murder Investigation

WOODRUFF-FONTAINE HOUSE, 680 ADAMS (864-4688), WWW. HISTORICALHAUNTSMEMPHIS.COM.

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), WWW. THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD. COM.

Special event tour on Nov. 21 features murder investigation, walking tour, and Kalila Smith, an internationally known psychic medium, who will do gallery readings during this event. $25-$45. Sat., 7:30-9:30 p.m. Through Nov. 30.

Booksigning by Barry Wolverton

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

Author discusses and signs A Cherry Cola Christmas.

Sat., Nov. 28, 2 p.m.

Author discusses and signs Seven Days with the Hypocrites.

Fri., Nov. 27, 6-9 p.m.

SOUTH MAIN BOOK JUGGLER, 548 S. MAIN (249-5370), WWW. SOUTHMAINBOOKJUGGLER.COM.

Booksigning by Mark Greaney

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Rabbi Micah Greenstein: Covenant Life With God and Neighbor

Join a Dixon docent or member of the curatorial staff on a tour of the current exhibitions. Free for members. $5 nonmembers.

Tuesdays, Sundays, 2-3 p.m.

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2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

COLLIERVILLE LIBRARY, 91 WALNUT (853-2333).

Mon. - Sat. 10:00 am - 10:00 pm | Sun. 11:00 pm - 7:00 pm

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), WWW. THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD. COM.

An experienced paranormal investigator will share the experiences, stories, and evidence with investigation equipment and possible activity during the tour. $25.

Sat., Nov. 28, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Author discusses and signs The Vanishing Island.

Mon., Nov. 30, 6 p.m.

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WinterArts 2015 at the former Lisa Kurts Gallery

CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION, 4645 WALNUT GROVE (767-6987), WWW.HOLYCOMMUNION.ORG.

Open mic nite, www. javacabanacoffeehouse.com.

Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

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Author discusses and signs Tom Clancy Commander in Chief. Tues., Dec. 1, 7 p.m.

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

Old Forest Hike

Walking tour of the region’s only urban old-growth forest. Last Sunday of every month, 10 a.m.

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

Riverwalk Tour

Free. Ongoing, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.

MUD ISLAND RIVER PARK, 125 N. FRONT (576-7241), WWW.MEMPHISRIVERFRONT.COM.

Stemmed Glass West Tennessee Winery Tours SUV Limousine The Stemmed Glass party limo will take you to West Tenn. wine venues where you can enjoy some outstanding wines and learn the creation process and history. $85.

Sat., Nov. 28, noon-6 p.m.

ART VILLAGE GALLERY, 410 S. MAIN (949-5999), WWW.STEMMEDGLASS.COM.

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8th Annual MRC Recovery Run 5K

Benefiting Memphis Recovery Centers’ Youth Program and in-house school, Transitions Learning Center. Chip timing officiated by MRTC. $30. Sat., Nov. 28, 9-11 a.m.

OVERTON PARK, E. PARKWAY PAVILION (272-7751), MEMPHISRECOVERY5K. RACESONLINE.COM/.

Baylor Watch Party Saturdays.

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

Memphis Hungry Turkey 5K

Free-$36. Thurs., Nov. 26, 9 a.m.-noon.

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

Tai Chi

Classes held near Woodland Discovery Playground. $8.

Wednesdays, 3 p.m.

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

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Meet at the temporary Visitor Center near the Woodland Discovery Playground.

Sundays, 2:30 p.m.

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

Yoga Thursdays

Vinyasa yoga class in the Schilling Gallery with Misti Rae Holton. Due to the proximity of art, no water allowed. Bring your own mat and a towel or small blanket. $12. Thursdays, 11 a.m.-noon.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Yoga Tune-Up Tuesday: “Slow Flow” Gentle Yoga $10. Tuesdays, 5:45 p.m.

QUAN AM MONASTERY, 3500 S. GOODLETT (679-4528), WWW. BUDDHISTMEMPHIS.COM.

M E ETI N G S

Cultivating Positive Relationships

Improve an existing relationship, break the cycle of picking the wrong partners, or start a new relationship off on a firm, healthy foundation.

Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m.

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

Peabody Hotel tree-lighting ceremony, this Friday

Meditation and Dharma Talk

Featuring chanting, silent “sitting meditation,” and Dharma talk with Q&A or book discussion. Fridays, 6 p.m., and Sundays, 10 a.m.

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QUAN AM MONASTERY, 3500 S. GOODLETT (679-4528), WWW. BUDDHISTMEMPHIS.COM.

FedEx Walk-In Applications

Walk-in applications accepted.

Also accepted 8:30-11:00 a.m., Mondays through Wednesdays at 2874 Airport Business Drive, Building D, Memphis, TN 38118. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

Participants for Athena Project

Research clinic for women ages 18 and over who have experienced intimate partner abuse receive a free evaluation and possible treatment of posttrauma stress. Call for more information. Ongoing.

FEDEX EXPRESS MEMPHIS WORLD HUB, 4009 AIRWAYS, WWW.FEDEXHANDLERJOBS.COM.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, PSYCHOLOGY AUDITORIUM, 3890 CENTRAL (678-3973), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

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Artbash

Perpetual Transition Meeting

Art and entertainment on the street. Sun., Nov. 29, 1-5 p.m.

Support and social group for transgender folks.

Mondays, 7-9 p.m.

FLICKER STREET STUDIO, 74 FLICKER (767-2999), WWW.FLICKERSTREETSTUDIO.COM.

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

KIDS

Christ Methodist Day School Sneak Peak and Open House For more information and reservations for November Open House, visit website.

Wed., Dec. 2, 8:30 a.m.

CHRIST METHODIST DAY SCHOOL (RASH HALL), S. GROVE PARK (6836873), WWW.CMDSMEMPHIS.ORG.

Bartlett Holiday Market

Cookies with Cookie Monster

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

Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.

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

Social Skills Class

Build the foundation for play and social interaction for children on the autism spectrum. $150 per month.

Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

ABA DEVELOPMENT, 7953 STAGE HILLS (634-8005), WWW.ABADEVELOPMENT.ORG.

One-stop shop for all of your holiday needs featuring vendors with everything from crafts, handmade items, décor, jewelry, gifts, and more. Sat., Nov. 28, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

BARTLETT STATION MUNICIPAL CENTER, 5868 STAGE.

Bartlett Lights

Tune your radio to FM 101.7 while viewing. Donations benefit local charities.

Nov. 26-Dec. 31.

BATLETT LIGHTS, 4064 SUNNY MEADOWS, WWW.BARTLETTLIGHTS.COM.

Christmas in Collierville

Children of all ages are invited to bring a Christmas wishlist to give to Santa. Bring a camera to take all the photos you want with Santa. Saturdays, 10 a.m.2 p.m. Through Dec. 19.

COLLIERVILLE TOWN SQUARE.

Christmas Remembrances Soup and Salad Lunch

Music program to follow meal. $5. Tues., Dec. 1.

THE VETERANS’ MUSEUM, 100 VETERANS’ DRIVE (731-836-7400), WWW.DYAAB.US.

Delta Holiday Rock: Mineral and Jewelry Show

Featuring rocks, fossils, minerals, geode cracking, custom jewelry, and unique one-of-a-kind and rare gifts.

Free. Fri., Nov. 27, 2-6 p.m., and Sat., Nov. 28, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

DELTA GROOVE YOGA, 2091 MADISON (490-3575).

Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees

Animated characters set in the magical snowy setting. Santa greets guests at the end of the Forest and poses for holiday

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Needed: Men with type A+ and O+ blood to support malaria research.

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Small classes in reformer, springboard and mat.

Individual, duet and group private sessions are available upon request.

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CALENDAR continued from page 39 photos. Benefiting Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. $6. Through Dec. 31.

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (6362362), WWW.LEBONHEUR.ORG.

Germantown Holiday Tree Lighting

Listen to holiday selections performed by the Germantown Chorus, roast marshmallows, and enjoy the lighting of the tree. Visit Santa Claus and enjoy refreshments. Fri., Nov. 27, 5 p.m.

GERMANTOWN MUNICIPAL PARK, 1900 S. GERMANTOWN, WWW.GERMANTOWN-TN.GOV.

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OAK COURT MALL, 4465 POPLAR (681-0642), WWW.SIMON.COM.

Holiday Store

Museum Store will be offering from one-of-a-kind jewelry to grilling skewers for the holiday gift giving. Through Jan. 3, 2016.

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

The Magic of the Holidays Light Show Residental light show. Weather permitting.

Nov. 26-Dec. 27, 5:30 p.m.

EASTHILL SUBDIVISION, KIRBY WHITTEN/ST. ELMO, WWW.THEMAGICOFTHEHOLIDAYS.COM.

Memphis Arts Collective Holiday Artist Market

Vendors with photography, jewelry, textiles, vintage collectibles, prints, paintings, pottery, and more.

Opening night silent auction reception benefits Alzheimer’s Day Services. Solstice party, Dec. 19.

Nov. 27-Dec. 24.

1501 UNION, MIDTOWN (833-9533), WWW.MEMPHISARTSCOLLECTIVE.COM.

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Mustard Seed Studio Holiday Showcase

Women artists holiday showcase featuring fiber arts, handmade textiles and jewelry, holiday decorations, and more. Handmade gifts made locally. Saturdays, 12-7 p.m., and Fridays, Sundays, 1-7 p.m.

Through Dec. 6.

MUSTARD SEED STUDIO: SEWING AND CRAFTS, 1679 JACKSON (570-0488).

Peabody Tree Lighting Ceremony

Santa and his elves arrive immediately after the 5 p.m. Duck March. Enjoy a giant gingerbread village as well as local choir performances throughout the day. Fri., Nov. 27, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

THE PEABODY HOTEL, 149 UNION (529-4000), WWW.PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

Polar Bear Holiday Skate

Small Business Saturday Shop local. Sat., Nov. 28.

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Starry Nights

Biggest holiday light show and festival in the Mid-South benefiting Shelby Farms Park and Shelby Farms Greenline. $20-$150.

Through Dec. 27.

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

Super Sat[UR]day

Meet, greet, eat, drink, shop, talk, be merry, give thanks, and, most importantly, connect with the very best of Memphis. Free admission with canned good. Sat., Nov. 28, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

ENTREMEMPHIS, 287 MADISON (562-8274), SUPERSATURDAYMEMPHIS.EVENTBRITE.COM.

Thanksgiving Day Meal

Homeless and needy can receive a holiday meal in the Fellowship Hall. Free.

Thurs., Nov. 26, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

NEW ALLEN AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 1559 S. THIRD (775-0925).

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Please bring appetizers, side dishes, and/or desserts.

Thurs., Nov. 26, 1 p.m.

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

Zoo Lights

Help flip the switch on opening night. See snow at the farm, Santa in his shop, reindeer, thousands of holiday lights, and more. $6 members, $8 nonmembers. Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Through Dec. 30.

MEMPHIS ZOO, 2000 PRENTISS PLACE IN OVERTON PARK (3336500), WWW.MEMPHISZOO.ORG.

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Afternoon Tea at the Brushmark

Dine on tea sandwiches, scones, or signature biscotti.

Drink an espresso, latte, cappuccino, or choose from an assortment of specialty teas. Call for reservations.

Wednesdays, 2-4 p.m.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Agricenter Farmers Market

Saturday, 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.5:30 p.m.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (452-2151), WWW.AGRICENTER.ORG.

Bendy Brewski Yoga

Yoga and beer pairing.

Beginner-friendly, fun yoga followed by a pint. No experience necessary. No watchasana. $15.

Thursdays, 6-8 p.m.

HIGH COTTON BREWING CO., 598 MONROE (896-9977).

www.cycfarmersmarket.org.

Saturdays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (278-6786).

Fish Fry Friday

Plates of catfish and sides benefiting Holy Community Church. $7.

Fridays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

HOLY COMMUNITY CHURCH, 602 LOONEY.

Master Taster’s Club

Sample four wines selected by the sommelier and appetizers from the Peabody chefs. For more information, call 529-4183. $25 per event, $150 for annual pass.

First Wednesday of every month, 5 p.m.

THE PEABODY HOTEL, 149 UNION (529-4000).

Memphis Farmers Market

Saturdays, 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

MEMPHIS FARMERS MARKET, PAVILION OF CENTRAL STATION, S. FRONT & G.E. PATTERSON AVE, WWW.MEMPHISFARMERSMARKET. ORG.

Wine Wednesday

Each month a different vendor is invited to present selections from a featured brand. Taste the featured wines for $2 per sampling. First Wednesday of every month, 5:30-7 p.m.

RIVERFRONT BAR & GRILL, 251 RIVERSIDE, WWW. MEMPHISRIVERFRONT.COM.

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A Poem Is a Naked Person

Part of American Quirk Film Series about the beloved singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell as filmed by documentarian Les Blank between 1972 and 1974. $9.

Wed., Dec. 2, 7 p.m.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Polar Express

A young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole when he boards the Polar Express. $11.

Through Dec. 31, 3 p.m.

CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D

Visit an extraordinary prehistoric world. Experience a year in the life of dinosaurs fighting, feeding, migrating, playing, and hunting. $9.

Through March 4, 2016.

CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW. MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Shoot & Splice: Holiday Edition

Monthly filmmaking forum.

Tues., Dec. 1, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

The Light Before Christmas

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

CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

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Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market

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Feeling saucy, but habanero sauce is too hardcore for you? Cozy Corner and The BarB-Que Shop both have killer hot sauces for their ’cue. Los Camales’ salsa verde has heat and an amazing flavor. The housemade green sauce at Casablanca is vibrant and hot, also worthy of slathering on everything. Lotus has a homemade pepper sauce that is made from a variety of dissimilar peppers. A dollop usually comes on the side of most dishes.

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Move over, pumpkin pie; make room for pot de crème.

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erhaps the only thing that I can say with certainty about pumpkin pie is that I could live on it, probably forever.

In fact, years ago when I had a seasonal pumpkin pie business, I survived on it for weeks at a time. We even made crusts, flaky, buttery, and delicious crusts that were tedious and messy to prepare. I don’t miss them one bit.

For a while I called my crust-free creations pumpkin pudding. Then I went through a pumpkin custard phase. Now I’m into pumpkin pot de crème. Or pots de crème, in the plural form.

Pumpkin pot de crème — or crustless pumpkin pie, if you wish — is a flexible and forgiving dish. It handles chocolate very well. Cocoa powder can be added to extra-sweet fillings, while chocolate chips or chunks can be added when extra sweetness is in order. Adding cracked tapioca or tapioca pearls will add suppleness to the filling. (Tapioca is my secret weapon for many fruit pies, from apple to blackberry.)

A friend recently sent me a recipe for a Southern-style pumpkin pie that contains “cocoanut.” When I asked him about that unusual word, he said it was “coconut” and apologized for his spelling. Interestingly, the Internet is full of examples of the cocoanut spelling in the South. However it’s spelled, cocoanut, like cocoa, makes a fine addition to most any pumpkin pie filling. My friend’s pie, made with a cup of shredded fresh coconut, is almost more macaroon than pie.

Since tasting that cocoanut pumpkin pie, I’ve been playing around with other coconut products, like coconut flour, coconut cream (as a partial or total replacement for cow cream), and shredded dried coconut. Shredded fresh coconut is my favorite, but you have to be OK with a little extra fiber, as it definitely changes the custardy consistency for which pumpkin pie is known.

With so many important variations to try, who has time for crust? And even if a crusted pie on the Thanksgiving table is your ultimate goal, testing your filling in pudding or pot de crème form will be a lot more efficient than making a crust for each experiment.

There is a pumpkin pot de crème recipe that I’ve practically become monogamous with since first trying it. Spiced Pumpkin Pots de Crème With Pistachios and Spiced Apples comes from the French blog “La Tartine Gourmande.” It includes the very cool trick of steaming the squash with a split vanilla pod.

Despite my fascination with this pot de crème recipe, I can’t stop experimenting.

I’ve been doubling the pumpkin/squash amount, adding coconut and tapioca, and omitting the sautéed pistachio and apple topping (which admittedly sounds good, but who has the time?).

I guess with me and pumpkin pie, monogamy isn’t really in the cards. That’s another thing I can say with certainty. But here is the recipe, anyway.

Pumpkin pot de crème

Ingredients 1 cup red kuri squash or pie pumpkin, cut into chunks (optional: double that amount, and add an extra egg) 1 vanilla pod, split, with seeds scraped out 1 cup milk 1 cup heavy cream ¼ cup sugar 2 large eggs ½ teaspoon cinnamon ¼ teaspoon ginger 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg (optional: ½ cup grated, fresh coconut) (optional: 1 tablespoon cracked tapioca) Steam the squash with the split vanilla pod. When soft, allow to cool. Puree.

Preheat oven to 320.

Beat eggs and sugar together in a bowl.

In a heavy-bottom saucepan, heat milk and cream and spices to a simmer.

Stir the pureed squash into the milk and cream. Stir the milk/cream/squash into the egg and sugar.

Pour the mixture into little cups, jars, or ramekins.

Bake creams in a covered water bath for about an hour. Let cool to room temp, and refrigerate overnight to set completely.

Serve with sliced apples and pistachios sautéed with butter and sugar or whipped cream.

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Endgame Even Jennifer Lawrence can’t save The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part 2.

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he Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part 2 is the latest in a growing series of films whose title contain both a colon and a hyphen, like The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 1. The paired punctuation has come to indicate a mangling by studio money-grubbing—one story has been split into two movies, and padding applied, to get you to shell out twice for closure.

Mockingjay completes The Hunger Games’ unlikely transition from winking high school allegory to grimdark military science fiction. Our beloved heroine, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) begins part two in a familiar setting: a hospital bed, recovering from wounds she received in battle. In this case, she was put in the hospital by her former fiancé and fellow survivor of the arena, Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), who was brainwashed into hating her by the forces of the Capitol, led by President Snow (Donald Sutherland). Sporting the thousand-yard PTSD stare she adopted in Part 1, Katniss meets with the leader of the rebels, President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore), and agrees to drop her former ethical reservations and do whatever it takes to defeat the Capitol. She is immediately thrust into battle in District 2 beside her second love interest, Gale (Liam Hemsworth), in an effort to destroy the last enemy stronghold blocking the way to an advance on the Capitol. When the post-battle evacuation of civilians threatens to turn into a riot, Katniss manages to partially defuse the situation before being shot by a loyalist refugee. After once again waking up in a hospital bed, she vows to personally kill Snow. Katniss defies the authority of Coin and her propaganda minister Plutarch Heavansbee (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose absence the filmmakers work around with fragments of dialogue and CGI) to get into the battle at the Capitol, where the rebels must fight their way through a booby-trapped city to topple Snow’s teetering regime.

There’s a core of classic sci-fi running through all of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games novels, which became best sellers in the vacuum left by the

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completion of the Harry Potter cycle. One of the interesting things about Harry Potter is its author, J.K. Rowling, offered a decidedly female take on the formerly male-dominated realm of epic fantasy, and the same dynamic is at work with Collins in the world of dystopian science fiction. Katniss is an action hero, but she’s also a reality TV star who has her own stylist. The story focuses very tightly on her character, and her two would-be boyfriends get about as much development as your typical Bond girl. The dystopia Collins paints is an artfully rendered funhouse mirror-version of contemporary America—surely, the Capitol is the most garish evil empire in film history.

Unfortunately, the film adaptations have not served Collins’ vision as well as the Harry Potter films did Rowling’s. The first film was barely competent, and the second was only an incremental improvement. The only great thing about the

franchise has been Lawrence’s muscular, multifaceted portrayal of Katniss. And if Mockingjay had been just one movie, Lawrence might have finally gotten a film worthy of her talents. Katniss has grown from scared country girl to a hardened warrior who can take a nap as the dropship flies her to the war zone. At least director Francis Lawrence has the good sense to bring the series to a close by hiring a decent editor and giving Lawrence lots of close-ups.

But like The Hobbit films, there’s just no saving the movie from the financial imperative to split the story.

There’s a solid two-hour movie buried somewhere in the 260-minute combined running time of the two Mockingjays, but, as it is, the beats just fall in all the wrong places. Part 2 builds some decent tension, particularly in a claustrophobic sequence where our heroes fight mutant attack zombies in the Capitol’s sewers, but the overall structure has been so fatally

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Saoirse Ronan is in practically every scene of Brooklyn, the story of Ellis Lacey, an immigrant from a small town in Ireland who must find her way in an unfamiliar America. The film is kind of refreshing because Ronan is not saving anyone from anything except herself from a life of unfulfilled promise.

The international production is based on a novel by Colm Tóibín and directed by John Crowley, who counts among his recent credits two episodes of True Detective’s divisive season two.

Brooklyn couldn’t be more different than that cynical, metaphysical crime drama, and that’s probably due to Nick Hornby’s finely tuned screenplay, which opens with Ellis working in a grocery store for a cruel taskmistress named Miss Kelly (Brid Brennan).

Eager to give Ellis the opportunity she never had, her sister Rose (Fiona Glascott) arranges passage to America and a place for her to stay in Brooklyn.

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The whole weight of the production is on Ronan’s shoulders, but she carries it with grace. She is expressive but restrained as she traces Ellis’ arc from naive schoolgirl to self-confident woman, making her one of the bestconstructed characters of the year, male or female.

The conflicts and characters of Brooklyn bring a gentle and humane vision of the immigrant experience in a time when foreign visitors to our shores are very much in the news. The film doesn’t offer any lofty political prescriptions; America’s welcome mat is assumed to be out, and the melting pot of the title city is taken as a universal

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If nothing else, Facebook was certainly interesting last week.

After the horrible carnage in Paris, people changed their profile pictures to the French flag or superimposed the vertical red, white, and blue stripes over their faces. We were united in solidarity with the French in their grief and anger.

Then, in the aftermath of the attack, it was discovered that one of the soulless killers had a Syrian passport and had registered as a refugee in Greece. When the topic of refugees from the Syrian civil war being resettled in this country arose, all hell broke loose.

Thus began “the great unfriending.”

Generally speaking, a new strain of xenophobia exploded onto social media. The most common sentiment was that this was all a plot for ISIS to infiltrate this country and kill Christians, and, of course, it’s Obama’s fault. The ignorance and racism on Facebook was appalling. An exact quote from my comment section said, “All you liberal lesbians and out-in-leftfield democrats can take a flying fuck. Our gutless president needs to pull his head out of the sand and to be like France.” He got unfriended. In fact, one social media critic claimed, “It was the largest unfriending week in Facebook history.”

Of course, the crassest and most repugnant remarks came from the klavern of GOP presidential candidates. Ben Carson compared the refugees to “mad dogs.”

Marco Rubio said, “We can’t background check them. You can’t pick up the phone and call Syria.” And Donald Trump out-uglied everybody.

A month ago I wrote that it was never proper to use Hitler references when discussing American politics, but Trump has gone flat-out Nazi. Saying, “we’re going to have to do things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago,” Trump favors a database to track Muslims, surveillance of mosques, warrantless wiretaps, and ID cards proving religious affiliation. A Black Lives Matter activist was beaten and kicked at a recent Trump rally. Asked if Muslims should wear some sort of identifying badge, he shrugged it off but didn’t rule it out. Obama countered with, “perhaps ignorant racists should wear special ID badges too.”

Trump’s new applause line, “I would bomb the shit out of them,” is a sentiment held by many, but not exactly what you want to hear from the potential leader of the free world. He’s still trying to find a “humane way” to round up 11 million Mexicans. I don’t know, but it sure sounds like Germany in the 1930s.

While every GOP candidate is rattling a sabre for more wars using other people’s children, Congress passed a bill that forces every refugee from Syria to be screened by the head of the FBI. Half the governors in the country, all but one a Republican, have put out the sign that says, “Syrians not welcome here.” Contrast that with the sentiments expressed by French president François Hollande. After the bloodiest terrorist attack on French soil, Hollande said it was France’s “humanitarian duty” to help refugees landing on European shores. Hollande proclaimed that France would accept 30,000 Syrian refugees and spend $53.3 million to develop housing for them. Since the United States pledged to stand with France, aren’t we fortunate to have a secretary of state who speaks the language fluently? And do you remember when John Kerry was mocked by the Republicans for being “too French?” Or the “freedom fries,” and the “cheese-eating surrender monkeys?” Germany has offered to settle 800,000 refugees.

The United States is accepting 10,000 with hysterical resistance.

Isn’t it ironic that in 70 years, Germany has transformed from Nazism into a beacon of hope for the world?

The truth is that the United States has resettled more immigrants than any other country. Since 9/11, the United States has admitted 859,629 refugees. Of that number, three were convicted of planning attacks on targets outside the United States, none of them successful. This country has one of the most thorough vetting processes for immigrants in the world, but how do you stop someone who is both suicidal and homicidal? These savages aren’t the huddled masses yearning to be free. They are wellfinanced zealots who can afford an airline ticket and a visa. They aren’t the desperate refugees who walked from a war zone in Syria all the way to Europe with their babies and grandmothers, looking for sanctuary from hell.

Before Facebook, most people kept their idiotic opinions to themselves until they were drunk. Not any more. Right-wing media spews misinformation as a business plan. You might hear some Fox News quotes from an angry uncle this very week.

Before sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner, we should be mindful of what the holiday is for and remember that, once, our forefathers were accepted as refugees into this country by the indigenous population. So just shut up about the Muslims and eat your turkey. Randy Haspel writes the “Recycled Hippies” blog, where a version of this column first appeared.

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