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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR I was on vacation last week — on the road, on a boat, in the woods — mostly off the grid, as it were. Did I miss anything?

I mean, besides the Supreme Court approving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and making gay marriage the law of the land, and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley deciding to take down the Confederate flag, and the Grizzlies making a few moves and drafting another “project.” That’s about it, right?

Oh, and President Obama singing a hymn and making one of the most powerful and beautiful speeches I’ve ever heard. That, too.

I got bits and pieces of it all on my cell phone. Traveling across Long Island with my son at the wheel, I checked CNN and saw that the ACA had survived its most serious challenge. “Wow,” I said. “The Supreme Court upheld Obamacare today.”

“That’s a big deal, right?” said my son.

“Yes, it is,” I said. “A very big deal.” Then back to vacationing we went.

It was the same sort of scenario with the SCOTUS gay-marriage decision. I learned of it on my phone in a coffee shop in Amagansett.

“That’s huge,” my son said.

“Amazing,” I said. Then back to vacationing we went: sailing, surfing, hikes in the woods, walks along secluded beaches. Our Airbnb didn’t have wi-fi and phone reception was iffy. The country was changing in monumental ways and we were barely aware of it.

Friday night, we went to hear a couple of acoustic musicians play in the local town square. It was a gorgeous evening, cool, dark, and starry, with a half-moon hanging overhead. The performers finished with a lovely version of Neil Young’s “Helpless.” Blue, blue windows behind the stars. Such peace.

As the crowd stood and shuffled, I stayed seated on the blanket and checked Facebook, as one does occasionally, even on vacation. A friend had posted a video of President Obama singing “Amazing Grace” during his eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney. I clicked on it and listened. Within seconds there were tears in my eyes. What a powerful and perfect redemptive gesture. I sat for a while, taking it in and maybe for the first time understanding the magnitude of what had transpired in my country in a few short days.

I got back to Memphis Sunday and spent hours catching up, reading newspapers, checking websites, getting N E WS & O P I N I O N opinions and reactions to all the drama.

LETTERS - 4 Justice Scalia’s get-off-my-lawn THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 THE FLY-BY - 6 dissents, citing “hippies” and other AT LARGE - 11 “jiggery-pokery” were priceless. There POLITICS - 12 was the inevitable blowback. Some GOP EDITORIAL - 14 officeholders were still trying to figure VIEWPOINT - 15 out ways to keep the tides of change at COVER STORY - “WE CAN’ T DRIVE ... I-55!” bay. The old tropes of Christian persecuBY TOBY SELLS - 16 tion and states’ rights were run up the STE P P I N’ O UT flagpole again, but even the politicians WE RECOMMEND - 20 seemed to know it was over. The KKK MUSIC - 22 announced a march in South Carolina, AFTER DARK - 24 for “heritage.” Send in the clowns.

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DOES SEX HURT?

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Are you 18 years of age or older, and have pain with intercourse or tampon insertion?

The University of Tennessee is conducting a double-blind placebo-controlled research study sponsored by the National Institute of Health to determine the effectiveness of Gabapentin compared to placebo in reducing intercourse pain. Participants will receive Gabapentin one half of the time and placebo (inactive treatment) one half of the time, study-related care at no cost, and $50 per visit, or a total of $350 if all seven visits are completed. Call Leslie Rawlinson at 901-448-1500 or email lrawlins@uthsc.edu.

the reason. The only purpose of this proposal is to score political points.

Barf Today’s ruling clearly stated that no minister was going to be forced to marry a same-sex couple if they did not choose to do so. Again, this is a way of wasting Tennesseans’ taxpayer money on frivolous bills rather than working to decrease our uninsured or create jobs, neither of which the Republican majority has shown any interest in.

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VERBATIM “They hijacked the civil rights movement and say it’s the same thing, but it’s not the same thing.” — Memphis pastor Bill Owens, founding president of the Coalition of AfricanAmerican Pastors, explaining why he opposes same-sex marriage. Owens is encouraging religious leaders to engage in civil disobedience to protest the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling. “When we sat at the counters at restaurants, we knew we were going to be arrested. You do things to get arrested, to call attention to it,” Owens said.

In related news, Charles Lee was released on probation after sending a slur-filled bomb threat to the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center and decorating his delightful missive with a German swastika.

Authorities had hoped to charged Lee with a hate crime, but charges were reduced because Tennessee’s anti-intimidation laws cover race and religion but don’t include sexual orientation.

HAIR LOSS We’ve all seen them. The flipped wig.

The tumbling tumbleweave. Memphis is a city of feral hairpieces separated from their owners and left to rot in the street like roadkill. Fly on the Wall is reaching out to readers and asking them not to ignore all this senseless hair loss. If you see a lost wig or some lonely extensions, take a picture and email it to the Fly on the Wall blog.

We’ll post it in the hopes that we can reunite some good people with their good hair. Send your photos to davis@memphisflyer.com.

Also, if you know whom this hair belongs to, contact Fly on the Wall. We’ll tell you where it was last seen but can’t guarantee a successful reunion, because we’re not touching that.

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Chris & Bradley Brower Newlyweds

Chris and Bradley Brower made local history on Friday by becoming the first same-sex couple in Shelby County to receive a marriage license.

Chris, a nurse, and Bradley, a teacher, have been together for two years, and they had held a commitment ceremony at Holy Trinity Community Church just two weeks prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. On Friday, they made their marriage official with a visit to the Shelby County Clerk’s Office.

The news of the high court’s 5-4 ruling came down Friday morning, just after 9 a.m. The ruling overturned a November Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to uphold gay marriage bans in Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, and Michigan. That court was the first federal appeals court to rule in favor of a marriage ban.

The split in decisions by appeals courts led the Supreme Court to take on the marriage issue in January, and their ruling finally came down last week.

The Flyer caught up with the Browers on Sunday afternoon at Tobey Park, where they’d just wrapped up their weekly softball game for the Bluff City Sports Association. — Bianca Phillips

Bradley and Chris Brower Flyer: So you two had a formal wedding ceremony earlier this month?

Bradley: Our commitment ceremony was June 13th. We had a rustic theme. We had Ole Miss stuff [for decoration] at the reception, and our wedding [décor] was burlap.

Chris: We wrote our vows. I had eight groomsmen. He had eight bridesmaids.

Did you plan a June wedding because you were hoping for a favorable Supreme Court decision?

Chris: We’d heard [the decision would come down] sometime in June, so we thought, well, maybe it’ll come by June 13th. It didn’t happen, but we still had the wedding and went on a honeymoon. We went on a cruise, and we were hoping they’d have a decision by the time we got back.

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The Washington Bottoms Community Garden is taking on Kroger.

All manner of flowers and vegetables are in full bloom on a piece of land that was once home to the now-demolished Court Manor nursing home on Court Avenue in Midtown. But the people behind the Washington Bottoms Community Garden are worried about the garden’s future.

Kroger is currently looking at the lot where the garden sits — 1414 Court — as a potential buy, and the garden’s advocates worry that if Kroger buys the land they’ll be forced to clear out.

The garden is run by Homeless Organizing for Power and Equality (H.OP.E.), an advocacy group for people experiencing homelessness. The group falls under the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center’s umbrella. Earlier this month, the H.O.P.E. Garden Crew launched an online petition to show Kroger their objection to being bulldozed.

Kroger recently purchased 18 acres of vacant land in Washington Bottoms, across the street from its Crosstown store, for $3.9 million. Kroger told the Memphis Business Journal in April that they had no immediate plans for that land but rather were just investing in the area in anticipation of the opening of Crosstown Concourse in 2016.

The community garden’s land was not included in that sale, but Kroger is considering buying it from Cushman & Wakefield for $585,000.

Teresa Dickerson, public affairs manager of Kroger’s Delta Division, said, if they do buy that land, the retail chain has no intention of infringing upon the community garden.

“We have no plans of taking away their garden,” Dickerson said. “Honestly, I was little surprised at the news. … We support what they’re doing with the community garden. They’re very passionate.”

Still, proponents of the garden don’t fully trust Kroger, and they worry about the retailer’s long-term plans for the land. They started an online petition to save the garden, and it has just over 300 signatures after being shared on social media. The garden crew also has been circulating a paper petition.

Jamie Young, who works with the H.O.P.E. Garden Crew, said they have been told that a provision to clear the property would be included in Kroger’s contract to buy the land, so the group is being proactive in trying to save the garden. “[Cushman & Wakefield] has every right to sell the property,” Young said. “We had their blessing, and now that we’ve been tipped off [about the potential Kroger sale], we think that’s wrong.”

Proponents of the garden have tried to get in contact with Kroger, but Young said they are waiting to hear back.

“We are not looking to build on the land right now,” Dickerson said. “It’s just a great area, and we have an investment in that area. We put over $1 million into [renovations at] our nearby Poplar and Cleveland store.”

Young said the garden’s placement has helped improve the neighborhood, especially since the lot was a hotbed of illegal activity before the garden was established in 2013.

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How did you learn of Friday’s decision?

Chris: One of [Bradley’s] friends called and woke him up out of bed. I was out seeing patients. He called me, and he said, “It passed! We can get our license now.”

So I went home.

I assumed you two were waiting outside the clerk’s office for the decision since you were the first couple to get your license.

Chris: We didn’t even try to be the first ones. I had a 9-o’clock patient, and I saw that patient. And then I was driving home when he called and said [the ruling had come down], so we went to the courthouse. They told us it’d be 2-o’clock before a decision would be made [on how the clerk’s office would be handling it], so they weren’t issuing licenses. So we ended up leaving.

And then somebody from Channel 24 [who was at the clerk’s office] called us and said they’d started issuing licenses. So we came back, and we were still number one in line at about 10:30. There were two couples coming in after us.

Bradley: If it wasn’t for Channel 24, we would have waited until Monday.

Were the clerks supportive?

Chris: They were awesome, very friendly. They made it easy for us.

Bradley: They were very respectful and willing to help.

Did they have gender-neutral forms?

Bradley: It was the same forms they use for straight couples. They said “groom” and “bride.”

Chris: He had to sign where it said “bride.” I figure they’ll correct that.

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What marriage benefits are you most excited about?

Bradley: Taxes.

Chris: I’m just glad it’s legal now. We should have the same rights as any other couple. Being married should be our right.

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How surprised were you by the ruling?

Chris: I did not expect this in my lifetime.

Bradley: I knew it would happen. Love is infallible. But we never worried about the marriage part, because [whether or not we could get legally married] it wouldn’t change anything between us.

Chris: But we are all one and equal now.

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Young said that she hopes proponents of the garden have more time for discussion with the company.

“If they’re not developing on the land, then it’s a win-win for everybody,” Young said.

“It makes the neighborhood safer.”

Proponents of the garden have even suggested working and partnering with Kroger if those communication lines are open.

“Why don’t they come out and meet us?” Young said. “I think that a lot of folks would jump at the opportunity to buy more local food. We could be part of the greenspace in their development projects. We certainly buy stuff at their stores all the time.”

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Study asks Memphians to consider what they love and dislike about their city.

The honeymoon phase is over, and it’s time for Memphians to consider their long-term relationships with the Bluff City.

That was the basis for “Let’s Stay Together, Memphis: Relationship Therapy for the City and its Citizens,” a recently released study by the University of Memphis Design Collaborative (UMDC) that asked Memphians to consider ways to improve their long-term relationship with the city.

The UMDC hosted an event in March, where the group’s members asked Memphians to write a “tough love letter” to the city. There were 140 people at the event, and an additional 52 people filled out letters online.

The UMDC then compiled and analyzed the responses, which they divided into three categories: things people love about Memphis, things that need to change in Memphis, and where Memphians see their relationship with the city going.

On the top of the love list was the city’s authenticity and character. Several respondents described this as the city’s “grit and grind,” the phrase coined about the Memphis Grizzlies.

Study respondents expressed the most frustration over civic governance. Some said the city’s bureaucracy limits the amount of influence the average person has.

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Memphians seem to have a love-hate relationship with the local transportation system.

Transportation was number three on the list of most frustrating things, due to the lack of investment in public transportation and the quality of sidewalks. However, people still found things they liked about the transit system, such as its influence on lowering automobile congestion and recent bicycle transit improvements.

“We really want to bring the idea of comprehensive planning back to Memphis. ... The idea of relationship therapy was a way for us to make it more accessible to a wider audience.”

— Charlie Santo The study was the first project for the recently launched UMDC, a collaboration between the University of Memphis Division of City and Regional Planning and the Department of Architecture. “[The UMDC] is going to focus on community challenges and urban design and community

development,” said Charlie Santo, associate professor of the Department of City and Regional Planning. “We really want to bring the idea of comprehensive planning back to Memphis. As a city we tend to take on projects one at a time in this piecemeal fashion, so we want to promote a comprehensive planning approach. But we know that’s not a language that people necessarily relate to. The idea of relationship therapy was a way for us to make it more accessible to a wider audience.”

While the turnout to the March event provided the UMDC with a lot of information, they were disappointed in the lack of neighborhood diversity represented since most respondents lived in Midtown or downtown. To get a wider range of input from people across all neighborhoods, the UMDC will be bringing the project to the streets — literally. In the coming months, UMDC members will be on-site at events in areas not yet represented in their study.

The UMDC will use all of its combined research for this project to set the agenda for graduate city planning courses in the fall.

“I think we probably will start by trying to tackle this transportation issue, having a conversation about that,” Santo said. “[The commission] is going to evolve and unfold over time, but I’m glad that we have the opportunity to tackle this, to set this.”

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“It’s my pleasure to introduce you to Mrs. and Mrs. Wallheimer,” said attorney (and former Shelby County Commissioner) Steve Mulroy, the 200 or so people gathered on the lawn of the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center (MGLCC) Friday afternoon cheered and clapped. Mulroy was referring to Jennifer and Alisha Wallheimer (formerly Jennifer Ballheimer and Alisha Wall), who married Friday on the front porch of the MGLCC. Mulroy was one of several volunteers with marriage-ordaining powers at the MGLCC’s celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in favor of same-sex marriage in all 50 states. A couple of other ministers married two additional couples in front of the gathered crowd. Before the ceremony, ministers roamed the crowd looking for anyone ready to marry.

“We actually had more ministers come out to perform weddings than we had people looking to get married,” said Tennessee Equality Project (TEP) Shelby County Committee Chair Justin Smith.

Shelby County Commissioner Reginald Milton spoke at the event. He told a story about having to go to a segregated medical clinic when he was a child, followed by the words “An injustice to anyone is an injustice to all.”

“I was too young to know the civil rights movement, but I am honored to be here today as we stand for justice for every human being in this country,” Milton said.

While the event was celebratory, TEP President and Chair Ginger Leonard cautioned that, once the celebrations were over, the community still had lots of work ahead.

“Just because we can get married doesn’t mean we are no longer going to be discriminated against in housing, jobs, getting loans from banks, or in other areas,” Leonard said.

She said TEP will begin to shift its focus on nondiscrimination ordinances with specific language addressing sexual orientation and gender identity, anti-bullying legislation, housing for LGBT homeless youth, and LGBT senior care.

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A Week of Change Dylann Roof quickly became a footnote in the book of history.

Roof, in the personal “manifesto” that surfaced after his arrest, expressed his loathing for African Americans, Latinos, and Jews. Oddly, none of his hate-filled rants targeted gays or same-sex marriage.

Not that Roof will be in a position to witness such unions, but that issue was also addressed by the Supreme Court last week, and the court struck down barriers against gay marriage instituted by state governments. The majority decision used the words “human dignity” — a number of times — to bolster its judicial opinion.

The same phrase was often used by abolitionists in arguing against the evils of slavery.

While young Mr. Roof rots in prison awaiting his likely execution, he will find plenty of the kind of seething anger and racial and sexual intolerance he had hoped to ignite by sparking a race war.

He will have plenty of time to ponder how his cowardly and pathetic actions served as a sad precursor to what became a magnificent week in American history.

I hope he will agonize about the hour he spent inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — a Judas in the House of the Lord. I hope the parishioners’ words of prayer and forgiveness that he heard while plotting his mayhem will be seared in his memory for whatever time he has left on this earth.

Mr. Roof, you picked the wrong place, the wrong time, and the wrong people. You failed.

And as long as the United States remains strong enough to tolerate dissent and disagreement, as long as “we the people” are willing to listen to opposing opinions about the issues that divide us, as long as we recognize injustice and fight to right the wrongs that befall the least of us, then people like Dylann Roof will be forgotten footnotes in the great American story.

As a nation, we are a work in progress, an ongoing saga of success and failure, where perfection will never be achieved. But last week demonstrated we’re still valiantly searching for it.

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In a week of monumental events signaling — and legally upholding — transformational change in America, my imagination was drawn to a 21-year-old man-child sitting in an isolated jail cell in Charleston, South Carolina. What must admitted mass murderer Dylann Roof be thinking, I wondered. He set out to tear apart, through one heinous and violent act, the moral fabric of this democratic republic established nearly 239 years ago. He is not the first to try — and fail — to do so, and he won’t be the last.

What Roof missed — now that he’s just another misguided, murderous idiot behind bars — was hearing the resounding echoes of social and economic triumph two United States Supreme Court rulings finally addressed in declarative fashion. What Roof missed was a president of the United States rising to oratorical heights in a speech meant to speed the healing process surrounding the pain, anger, and disillusionment Roof ’s act of racial intolerance created. He missed the inspiring words that celebrated the resiliency of our country in times of unspeakable tragedy. He missed “Amazing Grace.”

In his incarcerated absence, Roof may have been unaware of the high court’s solid majority vote upholding the legality of the Affordable Care Act. For millions of people in this country, including thousands in Tennessee, the fight to insure the poor, the elderly, and those on the borderline of a healthy existence will continue. They will have new paths toward being able to secure medical treatment for afflictions and diseases that otherwise would have sentenced them to lives of pain or unneccessarily premature death. Unfortunately, the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare by no means ends the political opposition to it, but it gives legal clarity to what is an earnest attempt to level the health-care playing field for the haves and have-nots.

The same antagonistic forces that have long opposed “Obamacare” have vowed to continue to seek a constitutional amendment overturning the court’s ruling. Word to the wise: Barring more conservative appointments to the high court, an unlikely prospect, that ship has sailed.

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As this week’s second-quarter deadline for financial disclosures approached, it was a near certainty that Mayor A C Wharton and City Councilman Jim Strickland would lead the rest of the field in funds received by a large margin. The Memphis mayoral contest could not yet be considered a two-man race, but both candidates had defining moments that set them apart.

The horrific events in Charleston, South Carolina, two weeks ago, still resonated and cried out for a dramatic response — in Memphis, no less than elsewhere in an outraged nation. To give him credit, Wharton had provided one last week when he proposed to end a long-simmering controversy and demanded the removal from what is now Health Sciences Park a statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest mounted on his warhorse, as well as the graves of the general and his wife.

The statue, which had stood in that prime downtown acreage for a century, would be remanded to the custody of the presumably still-extant Forrest Monument Association, which had originally placed it there, and the remains of the Forrests could be returned to Elmwood Cemetery, the vintage resting place from which they had long ago been disinterred and trans-

planted to the Union Avenue site.

It would not do, said Wharton, for African-American children to picnic in the shadow of a man who had been accused of numerous offenses on the wrong side of history, including pre-Civil War slave trading, an alleged massacre of black Union troops during the war, and the post-war founding of the Ku Klux Klan.

At the moment of the mayor’s announcement, he appeared resolute and forceful and, most important, sincere.

He had caught the spirit of the moment, it seemed, and there seemed to be little downside. Public reaction to the name changes of Forrest Park and two other Confederatethemed parks in 2013 had ranged from enthusiasm to acceptance, with resistance largely confined to memorial societies — such as the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which many thought had precipitated that crisis, and broken a tenuous truce with an indiscreetly bold (and unauthorized) granite sign proclaiming the name “FORREST PARK.” The mood of two years ago was nothing compared to the universal revulsion, in Memphis as everywhere else, that came in the aftermath of the horrendous murders of

nine African-American members of a bible-study class by a deluded fanatic who wrapped himself in Confederate imagery. The feeling was summed up in a single word: enough!

That African Americans, in particular, could be expected to back the mayor’s action was a given — though it would surely be wrong to suggest that dividends at the polls on October 8th constituted a significant motive.

In any case, Councilman Strickland, widely considered Wharton’s main opponent, wasted no time in conferring his approval of the mayor’s proposal. “I’m for it!” he said decisively, just before making something of a watershed speech last Thursday at Overton Square’s Zebra Lounge at a meet-and-greet that targeted black voters.

Could Strickland, well-financed and known to be strong along the Poplar Corridor and in recently annexed suburbs like Cordova, garner enough African-American votes in a majority black city to be elected?

Jerry Hall, the veteran black operative who introduced Strickland at Zebra Lounge, raised the question Wharton pressing the flesh at Democratic unity breakfast.

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And the LGBT community had its rainbow moment, basking in a second SCOTUS decision legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states, and given further mainstream momentum via the endorsement of President Obama, who, having articulated the nation’s outrage and sorrow over the horror in Charleston, was having a major moment himself.

it clear that he intended to push ahead with Insure Tennessee (though not with an immediate special legislative session) and that the state would comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage. His reluctance on the second score, however, was underscored on Monday with a statement supporting “protection” of pastors who opt out of performing same-sex ceremonies for religious reasons.

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rhetorically and then answered it: “Hell, yes!” Memphis needed to move beyond issues of race, said Hall. “We need a new direction in City Hall.”

In his speech, Strickland laid out his most detailed recipe yet for that new direction. “We have a tsunami of a challenge on the horizon,” the challenger said, and he gave it a name: population loss. Strickland promised to reverse an exodus that had accounted for a net loss of 12,000 residents in the first decade of this century, despite annexations. He would be a “strong mayor who will run an efficient and effective city government.”

Strickland proposed a three-pronged strategy for establishing and maintaining a safe, clean, and desirable place for people and businesses: 1) drastic reduction of violent crime through resurrection of Blue Crush policing of trouble spots and “zero tolerance”; 2) elimination of blight and repair of infrastructure; and 3) strictly holding officials accountable.

If all that sounded a bit abstract, Strickland floated some new specifics: a privately supported fund that would help allay the costs of expunging criminal records of citizens resuming productive lives; a residential “PILOT” program granting tax breaks for people undertaking urban infill; and publication of city administrators’ performance records.

A bit technocratic, perhaps, but it expanded on Strickland’s reputation as a budgetary maven and gave him a larger theme, of general competence, to juxtapose against Wharton’s undoubted flair in using his mayoral bully pulpit.

There was still time for other candidates — notably Councilman Harold Collins, County Commission chair Justin Ford, and Memphis Police Association head Mike Williams — to make a move, but with every passing week, the bar gets moved a little higher.

Haslam endorsed the idea of removing a bust of General Forrest from the state capitol and said he saw no impediment to Wharton’s plans for Health Sciences Park. Others noted, however, that state law seemed to contain obstacles to the removal of the graves without the express permission of the Forrest family, and state legislation passed in 2013 on behalf of war memorials may complicate any attempt to remove the general’s statue.

“We’ve got lawyers working on it,” Wharton said on Saturday when asked about such obstacles during a drop-in at a Democratic Party breakfast at the IBEW building on Madison.

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And the period leading up to this year’s observance of Independence Day has certainly provided an astonishing sequence of political fireworks.

Whatever deluded impulse provoked a young racist assassin to gun down nine innocent African Americans in a church two weeks ago in Charleston, South Carolina, his unspeakable action generated nationwide grief and outrage and an apparent determination to do away with the remaining barriers to some form of racial reconciliation in this country. That would seem to include the physical vestiges of nostalgia for the Confederacy, at least in places of official sanction. And for those among us, many good of heart, who find this thought unbearable, let us merely point to the extraordinary transitions that have occurred in recent years at the University of Mississippi, which has managed to divest itself of such outmoded symbolism with no great loss to local pride or alumni loyalty.

Simultaneous with this development has been a landmark Supreme Court decision upholding the recognition of same-sex marriage throughout the 50 states. It is fair to say that no prior ruling of the court, not even its 1954 Brown v.

Board of Education decision mandating desegregation of schools, has had the transformative effect that is implicit in Obergefell v. Hodges, with its stripping away of long-standing stigma.

And, though it was destined to be overshadowed in pyrotechnic intensity, the Supreme Court’s ruling one day earlier in the case of King v. Burwell may have long-range consequences just as lasting as any of the aforementioned by quashing a technical and pedantic challenge to the Affordable Care Act. “Obamacare Cheats Death Again” was the headline of an emailed lament to his constituents this week from state Senator Brian Kelsey of Germantown, who has been in the vanguard of the legislative effort to forestall the ACA in this state, including Insure Tennessee, the Medicaid-expansion proposal

by Governor Bill Haslam to channel billions of dollars into the state for the relief of Tennessee’s financially beleaguered hospitals.

Kelsey’s text, wherein he vowed to fight on legislatively, conceded it would do no good “to continue to file lawsuits” against the ACA. Kelsey and other opponents of the ACA such as Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, may delay the inevitable, but Obamacare would seem to be here to stay.

And that’s yet another of the several revolutions that are under way as of July 4, 2015.

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For Tennesseans, it may be especially satisfying (or galling, depending on your viewpoint) to consider that last Friday’s Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage originated in part from the Volunteer State. Swift legal currents caused a dramatic social sea change, but they also leave some key questions in their wake.

It is unquestionably a landmark case, the Brown v. Board of Education of the gay rights movement. But it should be clear what Obergefell v. Hodges does not say. It guarantees same-sex marriage rights in all 50 states, but it does not outlaw any other type of LGBT discrimination, by governments or private parties.

Will Obergefell’s “coverage” be extended to such other types of discrimination?

One obvious starting point would be state laws treating gays unequally in family areas such as adoption, foster parenting, and the like. A number of states still have such laws. Much of the language in Friday’s opinion emphasizes the liberty of homosexuals to pursue family relationships, with a separate discussion of the overriding interests of children in need of (married) parents. It would not be surprising to see anti-gay adoption/foster-parent laws struck down by federal courts trying to discern the Supreme Court’s leanings.

From there, it is more of a stretch, though not much more of a stretch, to see courts disapproving of any other kind of sexual orientation discrimination by government entities. This is because the opinion grounded its conclusions not only on the “fundamental liberty interests” of marriage under the Constitution’s Due Process Clause, but also the nondiscrimination strictures of its Equal Protection Clause. The latter potentially allows for a broader reading of Obergefell, not limited to the fundamental rights involved in forming families.

A complete unknown is how (if at all) this decision would affect state laws allowing gender identity discrimination.

The “T” in LGBT was not discussed in this opinion. Certainly, some transgender advocates can point to language in the opinion regarding the need for the state to avoid insults to the “dignity” of individuals. But good lawyers, and wary Supreme Court justices, could always formulate distinctions between sexual orientation and gender identity.

And one place courts definitely won’t take Obergefell is anywhere near private discrimination. Constitutional decisions deal with violations of individual rights by government only. In most states (including Tennessee), it is

legal for private businesses to discriminate in employment, housing, lending, etc.

The only way to prevent that would be legislation, either at the state or federal level. LGBT groups (including those in Memphis) have renewed calls for such legislation, but it’s anyone’s guess how successful such calls will be.

Yet another outer boundary to be tested is the effect of Friday’s ruling on the rights of religious groups who sincerely oppose gay rights measures on theological grounds. Conservative groups caution that such groups need protection too, and they are right. Nothing in Obergefell requires clergy or churches to recognize or perform gay marriages. As the opinion itself correctly recognizes, any attempt to do so would violate their First Amendment freedom-of-religion rights.

What about conservative churches’ tax exemptions? Could they be taken away for opposing same-sex marriages or for otherwise discriminating against homosexuals, as some conservative critics of Friday’s decision claim? This is also unlikely. The First Amendment protects any government interference in a church’s doctrines, sacraments, or ministerial hiring.

While federal laws and Supreme Court decisions do allow the IRS to cancel the tax-exempt status of a church or churchaffiliated organization which engages in some other type of racial discrimination, that power has not been extended to gender discrimination. An Orthodox Jewish synagogue which requires women to sit separately and cover their heads is in no danger from the IRS. If this is the case, despite laws on the books expressly banning sex discrimination for more than 50 years, it seems implausible to fear that LGBT discrimination will jeopardize tax exemptions (especially since there are yet not actual federal statutes explicitly outlawing such discrimination).

LGBT proponents may look with hope for the extension of Friday’s decision nondiscrimination precepts to areas outside same-sex marriage. Same-sex marriage opponents can take solace in the fact that no court can force a church, its clergy, or its adherents to recognize a same-sex union. And people who write about constitutional law can take satisfaction in knowing that there will be plenty more on this topic to write about in the years to come.

Steven Mulroy, a former two-term Shelby County Commissioner, is a professor of constitutional law and Associate Dean of the University of Memphis School of Law.

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Pretty soon, Memphis and the Mid-South will be down to one bridge over the Mississippi. At least it will if the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) gets to implement its current plan.

TDOT wants to close the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge (what most MidSoutherners call the “Old Bridge”) for nine months in 2017. Officials say the closure is necessary to expedite work on a new interchange at E.H. Crump Boulevard and Interstate 55. That new interchange is needed because the current one is unsafe and ineffective.

TDOT Commissioner John Schroer calls it “the worst interchange we have in the state of Tennessee.”

But opposition to the TDOT plan is building. TDOT has fielded calls from politicians and many in the business community who are concerned that the closure would cause traffic gridlock and negatively impact the regional economy.

So far, the most visible opposition to the plan is a change.org petition from Arkansas state Senator Keith Ingram that says the closure “will devastate local economies throughout Eastern Arkansas and will cripple emergency services in the event of an accident or natural disaster.” Sources on both sides of the bridge say Keith Ingram behind-the-scenes organizing is underway for more formal opposition to TDOT’s plan.

Schroer says he considered another plan for the project that had a five-year construction timeline and no bridge closure, but maintains the current plan is the best, safest, and most cost-effective. Schroer says the Hernando de Soto “M bridge” can handle the traffic.

Many think Schroer couldn’t be more wrong, and the idea of limiting 16 the Mid-South to one bridge over the Mississippi pushes their thoughts to worst-case-scenario territory.

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When asked what he thinks of closing the Old Bridge, Schroer says, “I hate it.”

“It certainly isn’t an option we wanted to pursue, but sometimes you have to look at all your options and pick what is the least evil of them all, the least disruptive for a duration of time, and what is the safest as well,” Schroer says.

Schroer says TDOT picked through a lot of plans, pointing to the fact that all considered plans were listed alphabetically and the plan on the table now is labeled Z-1.

Schroer says he made the final choice on the design and the closure, and they were “probably the toughest decisions I’ll have to make in eight years in office here.”

Z-1 will replace the current cloverleaf design at Crump and I-55 with a roundabout for local traffic and a long, elevated, sweeping curve to keep I-55 traffic flowing without slowing to (or below) the posted speed limit of 25 miles per hour.

The cloverleaf design was built in the mid-1960s. It was meant to handle 28,500 vehicles daily, with 8 percent truck traffic, according to the Federal Highway Adminstration [FHWA]. Today, traffic averages 60,330 vehicles daily with 26 percent trucks. By 2035, the interchange will see 84,500 vehicles per day, according to FHWA projections.

Local streets also directly intersect with I-55 at that interchange. “The project needs are to improve interstate safety and traffic operations by improving interstate speeds, managing heavy truck crashes and large traffic volumes, and reducing overall crashes,” an FHWA statement says.

Crash data specific to the Crump/I-55 interchange were not available. But data for the Tennessee stretch of I-55 show 851 total crashes between 2009-2011. Of those, there were five fatalities, 196 injuries, and 650 wrecks that yielded only property damage.

The price tag for the new interchange project has grown from $35 million when it was announced in 2010 to about $60 million now. TDOT officials say the cost rose as the project was reviewed by government and construction officials.

Those conversations changed construction methods, materials, and the overall design.

If the plan moves ahead on schedule, the contract for it will be opened for bid this winter.

John Schroer Phase 1 construction will begin March 2016 and last through February 2017. During that time, TDOT will close the ramp for

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southbound Riverside traffic, which will be routed from Riverside to Carolina Street to Florida Street to Crump. Crews will build a temporary ramp for I-55 southbound and build noise walls for the French Fort neighborhood.

The ramp for southbound Riverside traffic to the I-55 bridge will also be removed, as well as the ramp for westbound Crump traffic to the ramp for I-55 South. That traffic will also be detoured to Florida Street.

Phase 2 construction will shut down the Old Bridge from March 2017 to the end of November. TDOT will keep one lane across the bridge open for emergency vehicles only during the closure.

The timing was selected to expedite the project, TDOT officials say. “We did that so we can keep this project going during the nine-month construction season of 2017,” says Nichole Lawrence, TDOT’s community relations officer for West Tennessee. “If we start in the summer, then construction will go into the winter, and there will be some dead time.”

The decision to close the bridge was made March 13th, according to the FHWA, after the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD), the Arkansas and Tennessee Divisions of the Federal Highway Administration, and construction industry representatives met to discuss the project — with and without an interstate closure.

“Based on the review, the group determined that the project could not be built safely without the closure of I-55 for approximately nine months during the projected threeyear construction project,” a statement from FHWA says. “The basis for closure is the limited space available to safely construct the interchange while keeping the road open.”

Paul Degges, TDOT’s deputy commissioner and chief engineer, says those construction issues relate mainly to building the sweeping, elevated curve of the new I-55 ramp. Degges says the new ramp will have to be built farther from the bridge than the current ramp, and that the large construction machinery is not safe to operate around traffic.

I-55 will be closed for an 11.5-mile stretch from the I-55/I-40 split in West Memphis to the McLemore Avenue exit in South Memphis. Southbound I-55 traffic will be detoured across the Hernando de Soto Bridge and then to I-240 Midtown, then to I-55 South near the interchange at Elvis Presley Boulevard. Northbound I-55 traffic will be detoured at that same interchange to I-240, then to I-40 West across the Hernando de Soto Bridge. continued on page 18

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(above) This map shows the roundabout (in yellow) and the sweeping curve (in orange) of TDOT’s proposed interchange at E.H. Crump Boulevard and I-55; (left) trucks enter the current cloverleaf ramp to I-55, where interstate traffic must slow to 25 miles per hour; (below) French Fort neighborhood

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continued from page 17 The cloverleaf will be demolished. Riverside Drive will be closed from Crump to Carolina. Southbound Riverside traffic will be detoured to Carolina, to Florida, to Crump. Crump will be closed to westbound traffic at Third Street and be detoured north or south on Third.

Phase 3 construction will last from December 2017 to November 2018. Riverside will remain closed from Carolina to Crump. I-55 will be reopened and will be running on new southbound lanes.

Phase 4 construction will last for about three months in the spring of 2019, slated to be completed by May. The project will be “open,” according to TDOT, as crews complete final paving operations.

The total construction project is projected to last three years and two months.

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The Opposition

West Memphian Jim Russell is retired and spends a lot of time tending the irises at the Memphis Botanic Garden. But that may end soon.

“If TDOT’s going create all sorts of traffic problems, I’m not going to do that anymore,” Russell says. “I’m not going to get into that mess every day just to get to where I want to go.”

But Russell has bigger issues with the bridge closure. He has Parkinson’s disease and often has to get across one of the bridges for medical appointments. Last winter, he was stuck on the Hernando de Soto Bridge for hours after accidents stopped traffic on both bridges. Russell worries that if he needs immediate medical help he wouldn’t be able to get it, even with the promise of the emergency lane on I-55.

Concerns like Russell’s have been echoed by many on both sides of the Mississippi River since TDOT announced its plan. Those concerns are gaining momentum, as leaders consider the effects of the closure on individuals, businesses, and neighborhoods around the interchange and the potential broad economic impact on the Mid-South region — and the country.

TDOT is now working on an economic impact Jim Strickland study of the bridge closure. But Phil Trenary, president and CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber, can already put that figure in the ballpark. A post-9/11 study showed that closing all of the city’s bridges would have a negative economic impact of about $11 billion to $15 billion per year, Trenary says. The impact on business would be “significant to not only the local economy but to the national economy.”

Trenary says that closing the bridge is a recent idea, and the chamber is forming a coalition to start a formal discussion with TDOT. “We want to understand what the options are,” Trenary says. “What options can we put on the table that can achieve most of our objectives, like improving the traffic flow without closing the bridge.”

Troy Keeping, president and general manager of Southland Park Gaming and Racing, says the closure’s impact on his company could have a tax impact for Arkansas in the neighborhood of $7 million to $10.5 million. Keeping says the impact is far beyond that number, though, as he sees many Memphians shopping at the West Memphis Walmart and many from both sides of the river crossing the bridges to work and play.

TDOT’s plan is “very shortsighted,” Keeping says, and can likely be done without a closure, much like the current road project underway at the I-40/I-240 juncture. “[TDOT has] kept that [section] open during the entire construction period, and there are large amounts of traffic through there,” he says. "[TDOT has] been able to reroute the traffic, and they should do the same thing on [the I-55 interchange project].”

“It’s going to cause great inconvenience to a lot of people,” says 9th District Representative Steve Cohen. “It will create traffic problems for Memphians who use the expressway either in Midtown or going downtown. It’s going to really clog it up and make traffic difficult — unbearable — for a long time.”

Schroer told Cohen that closing the bridge was the only way forward on the project.

Cohen says he asked Schroer to at least expedite the work.

Jim Strickland, Memphis City Council member and a candidate for Memphis mayor, said he had not yet talked with TDOT as of last week but was skeptical that the bridge has to be closed. Other interstates aren’t shut down for months at a time for repairs, he says.

“At a minimum, TDOT needs to fully explain their current position,” Strickland says. “Why do we need to shut the bridge down? Is there no other way to design the interchanges? I have not heard these answers.”

The Wait-and-See Crowd

FedEx Corp. spokesman Jim McCluskey says his company is keeping an eye on the project.

“We are working with local and state officials to assess the effect of the bridge closure and evaluate alternate routing options that will lessen the impact for transportation carriers,” he said in a statement. “FedEx is focusing on and committed to providing the best level of service possible to our customers during this major infrastructure project.”

Lauren T. Crews, managing partner of City South Ventures, has been working for 18 years to transform the abandoned U.S. Marine Hospital in the French Fort neighborhood 18 into a multi-use residential and retail campus. He says he likes the interchange’s current

design, but he wishes that TDOT had not announced changes to it years ago.

“When some entity comes along and announces that they’re going to do something but they don’t do anything, it just sort of shuts you down; there’s no progress that can be made,” Crews says. “It shuts the entire community down, as far as any improvements to be made. You can’t borrow money. You’re not going to find investors who are interested if they don’t know where the road systems are going to be.”

Crews say the situation has led to a decay in the French Fort neighborhood. Blight has claimed many buildings, and property values have declined. He sees brighter days ahead for the neighborhood with the coming of the roundabout, which would connect French Fort to downtown. “When you come into this community — if you can get the roundabout done — it may not look like Beirut over here,” Crews says.

The Supporters

Memphis Mayor A C Wharton says he is satisfied TDOT has done due diligence on the project and that they’ll do everything possible to minimize the impacts of the closure.

“I am looking forward to the completion of this project, because it eliminates one of the city’s last ‘malfunction junctions’ on our interstate highways,” Wharton said in a statement. “While the closure will be inconvenient, it’s only temporary, and the benefits of this project are far-reaching and long-term.”

Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell says the closure will be inconvenient but that the project’s time has come. “It’s something that has to be done, and this is the best option we have,” Luttrell says. “To extend it over a multi-year period would be a mistake. We just need to move on with it and close it down.”

U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher says infrastructure projects have allowed Memphis to become a leader in transportation and that he commends Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam for making the investment in Memphis.

“I am confident that TDOT will do everything in its power to ensure this project is carried out as smoothly and as safely as possible,” Fincher said in a statement.

Traffic City

Tony Bologna, a Memphis architect and developer, said he dreads those nine months when the bridge is closed in 2017.

“It’s going to cause a big overload on the M Bridge if you divert everything that way,” Bologna says. “If there’s a minor accident on that bridge now, traffic is already backed up for miles.”

Transportation consultants CDM Smith studied the new interchange project and said closing the bridge will add 46,850 new vehicles daily to the Hernando de Soto Bridge, for a total of 81,220 vehicles. Along Midtown I-240, the group said the I-55 bridge closure will add around 40,000 new vehicles, increasing daily totals to around 132,000 vehicles.

But TDOT officials say I-40 and I-55 will look much different (and traffic there will run much more smoothly) on the Arkansas side by the time the Old Bridge is closed. Traffic capacity there has been reduced for years by a seismic retrofit project by the FHWA, and by I-40 improvements that led the Arkansas Times to wonder, “Will Interstate 40, between North Little Rock and West Memphis, be under construction forever?”

TDOT’s Jane Jones, director of project development, says, “We’ve been working with the ASHTD, and we’ve had assurances that their work will be completed [before the bridge is closed] and the seismic retrofit project will be completed. And we’ll have system improvements along the detour route before all that takes place.”

Where It Stands

TDOT Commissioner Schroer says the five-year plan with no closure was not as safe, not as efficient, and “financially a horrible option.” In that scenario, the bridge would be open with one-lane traffic headed in both directions. Roadblocks and temporary closures would be the norm, Schroer says, as equipment and construction materials are moved in and out of what would be an open construction site.

Schroer points to the project’s road-user cost number, a standard measurement in the road-building industry to define the cost of projects for drivers based on gasoline costs, loss of productivity, lost wages, and more.

The five-year, non-closure plan has a user-cost of $871 million, Schroer says. He says the three-year project with bridge closure will have a user-cost of $350 million.

Asked if there was anything anyone could do to change his mind on closing the bridge, Schroer says, “It’s not a case of changing my mind. It’s about making the right decisions, and, in this case, we made the right decisions.”

Schroer says he knows Memphis motorists will probably curse his name when they’re stuck in traffic but that they’ll forget all about it when the new interchange opens up.

While the decision may be a done deal for Schroer, for many others on both sides of the river the decision process is just getting started. Some are awaiting TDOT’s economic impact study for the project and will likely use it as a springboard to begin a formal opposition process.

When told that TDOT’s decision on the closure was “final,” at least in their minds, Senator Ingram remembers another Memphis road project from decades ago.

“TDOT probably didn’t think the Overton Park expressway was going to be stopped, either,” he says.

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I hereby declare Thursday, July 2nd, national “dance around a statue of a wizard” day. And, no, this has absolutely nothing to do with Nathan Bedford Forrest. I’m referring to the closing images of Georges Méliès’ groundbreaking 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon, which finds a bunch of happy Earthlings celebrating science, progress, and a narrow escape from alien bug men by dancing around a wizard fountain.

A Trip to the Moon, which gets a screening at the Brooks this week, moves at a breakneck pace. It begins with a parade of science wizards with tall pointy hats and great golden telescopes that vanish on command. They’ve assembled in a magnificent hall of science, lovely assistants in tow, to hear a fellow wizard’s plan for colonizing space. There’s dissent in the ranks, but it’s quickly squelched, and in an eyeblink, wizard robes and hats are replaced by frock coats and toppers. Factory smoke belches into the sky. An enormous gun is constructed. A hollow bullet is shot right into the eye of a smirking moon. The human payload is delivered. Cinema history is made. Visually speaking, we move from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution to the Space Race and beyond, all in about seven minutes. And that’s just the beginning.

Méliès started out as a stage magician, and he brought the mystery, drama, and wonder of a great stage show to every frame of his most famous film. He also brought a good deal of vaudeville glamor and silliness. Loosely based on Jules Verne’s science fiction novel From the Earth to the Moon, the 12-minute epic cost 10,000 francs and took four months to complete. It was only one of the 23 movies the cinematic wizard and grandfather of fantasy film and special effects would complete that year.

Animation aliens have always played a big role in computer gaming, and A Trip to the Moon is being screened in conjunction with the Brooks’ “Art of Video Games” exhibit.

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Rhythm Nation Collage Dance Collective (2497 Broad), 7 p.m., $15 The finale of this series of dance classes based on the popular dances of 1980s MTV music videos.

Whet Thursday Metal Museum, 5:30-8 p.m.

An evening at the Metal Museum, including a foundry class, free admission, and music by Chad and Jeff. There will be a cash bar, and the Stickem food truck will be there.

Patriotic Pops Concert Levitt Shell, 7:30 p.m.

A free pre-4th of July concert of patriotic favorites by the Second Presbyterian chancel choir and orchestra. There will be a guest appearance by Kallen Esperian, fireworks, and a salute to the armed forces.

Sinbad Horseshoe Tunica, 8 p.m., $14.50-$102 Actor and comedian Sinbad (First Kid, Houseguest) performs tonight at the Horseshoe.

Stars and Stripes 5K Tiger Lane, 7 p.m., $30 A nighttime run benefiting Ready Shelby, which promotes emergency preparedness. There will be hot dogs, watermelon, kids’ activities, and music from the Remedy, plus fireworks at dusk.

Memphis Redbirds AutoZone Park, 6:05 p.m., $6-$55 What’s more American than baseball? Tonight, the Redbirds take on the Oklahoma Dodgers. There will be a Friday night Block Party, and fireworks follow the game.

Space Invaders

By Chris Davis

It wasn’t your typical Tuesday morning for Memphis police officers Lamar Todd and Jerry Jeter. Around 3:30 a.m., on May 17, 1977, the two men emerged from their unmarked surveillance van to get a better look at the enormous object hovering in the dark, early-morning sky above the Pine Hill Golf Course. It was shaped like a Dorito and as big as a football field.

The two officers came in peace, but the craft took off like a shot when Jeter went back to the van to fetch his rifle with a telescopic sight. He only wanted a better look, but in the blink of an eye, the unidentified flying object was over the horizon.

The National Enquirer listed the Memphis sighting among the best UFO stories of 1977, which, being the year of Star Wars and rampant 1950s nostalgia, meant quite a lot.

Todd is just one of the many speakers scheduled to appear at Memphis’ World UFO Day Festival. He’ll be joined by UFO investigator Peter Robbins and extraterrestrial-circuit superstar Travis Walton, the American logger who was allegedly abducted in 1975. Syfy Channel magicians the Close Up Kings will also be on hand to dazzle and mystify.

“This is going to be a family event,” says event co-organizer Eddie Middleton, a college professor, UFO investigator, and director of the Tennessee chapter of the Mutual UFO Network.“We’ve got an alien costume contest and an alien pet costume contest.

“We’re hoping we break the record for attendance at a UFO conference,” Middleton says, anticipating between 1,500 and 2,000 attendees. “Everything is free except for the speakers.” And you can see all of them for $10.

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Cory Branan & Band Levitt Shell, 7:30 p.m.

A concert by singer-songwriter Cory Branan, named among the “10 Artists You Need To Know” by Rolling Stone Country.

Slice of Americana Pizza Festival Powerhouse Community Arts Center (413 S. 14th, Oxford, MS), 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., $12.50 Includes a pizza-making contest, live music, games, and more.

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Twilight Sky Terrace Party Twilight Sky Terrace, 4 p.m.-1 a.m., $20 A day-long party for adults (21 and up) with themed cocktails, a DJ, and an excellent view of the downtown fireworks.

On Location: Memphis Shorts Festival Hard Rock Café, 7-9 p.m.

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Mulherin Get Their Wings The Memphis-based R&B duo earned a coveted spot at the Red Bull Music Academy.

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emphian Marshall Mulherin will be taking his talents to Paris, France, this fall as a member of the Red Bull Music Academy. Out of over 4,500 applicants, Mulherin was one of the 61 candidates chosen for the 12-day program that offers workshops, lectures, studio time, and much more to what Red Bull considers the next wave of young, influential musicians.

Since forming Mulherin at Loyola University in New Orleans, twin brothers Marshall and Parker Mulherin have earned a loyal following, been compared to Drake and the Weeknd, and performed regional shows in addition to playing at Loyola. We caught up with Marshall to learn more about his project, what he plans to take away from the Red Bull Music Academy, and how it felt to learn his brother Parker (the other half of Mulherin) wouldn’t be making the trip.

Flyer: How did you and your brother get into making music in Memphis?

We were born and raised in Memphis, and we went to Snowden for elementary and middle school and Central for high school. Ever since third grade, I wanted to be on the drum line, and I started playing snare drum once middle school came around. In high school, my brother and I were both drum captains on the drum line, but we hadn’t really been singing.

It wasn’t until we got to Loyola that we got interested in singing together. We had never sung in front of anyone until we got to college, and around our second year at Loyola, we started making beats and singing.

and the Weeknd. I’m starting to get into D’Angelo, the low-end, darker, and more brooding stuff. But I’m not always sad. I can make some happy stuff too.

How did you find out about the Red Bull Music Academy?

I found out about it from one of my friends at school who is a producer and just a really talented musician. I knew that Red Bull does a lot of music events, sporting events, and all of that stuff, but I wasn’t too familiar with the academy. I also knew Amahl Abdul-Khaliq, a New Orleans rep for the Red Bull Music Academy. He encouraged me to apply, but he didn’t have anything to do with the decision to accept me.

So the Red Bull Academy only chose you to go, even though this project is a duo with your twin brother.

How did that work? Was your brother jealous?

That’s just a rule that they have. If they invite a band to work at the academy, they don’t want six people representing a band; they only want one. They want to benefit as many different artists and groups as possible, so they can only take one person per project. He’s going to apply again next year, and he might apply for this thing they have called bass camp. They strongly suggested that he apply again next year, but it was very bittersweet to find out that I was going and he wasn’t.

What do you hope to get out of your time spent at the Red Bull Academy?

The ultimate goal is to not have a real job in a few years.

I’ve already gotten some good solid connections with some of the people who are going to the academy, but I want to build more connections and become a better producer and a better writer. There are so many different types of people attending, and all these different people

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How would you describe the type of music you make?

The guy who wrote the bio for our Red Bull thing really captured it best. He called us “a downbeat pop and R&B-infused duo from Tennessee.” Our harmonies are inspired by the Beatles instead of something like the Beach Boys, but the production definitely pulls from the darker side of R&B, similar to Drake, Frank Ocean,

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Could you see yourself going solo after the Red Bull Music Academy experience?

I’m not really considering a solo career right now. Mulherin is a very collaborative thing that we are doing together. Making art is something that connects us more, and we haven’t experienced anything like that before.

There aren’t any solo plans for either of us; we are trying to build a career out of Mulherin at this point.

What does Mulherin have planned for the future?

We were planning on releasing an EP this summer, and we’ll be making more music and releasing singles. We haven’t really considered a full-length yet. We want to start with singles and wait to do an LP that really captures what we do.

When that happens, it will probably be a 10-song deal.

Other than that, we have a lot of shows coming up over the school year, because our whole live band goes to school with us. In the summertime, everyone goes back to New Jersey, Boston, Memphis, or wherever.

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from all of these different places, so I just want to soak it all in.

I’m also really excited about being in Paris. I took French class in college, so I’m hoping to get to try some out.

At the same time, I’m just excited to see what kind of music I’m going to make during or after this experience. It is satisfying to see your play numbers go up and your fan base go up, but to me the most satisfying thing is surprising yourself with something you’ve made. That’s the main goal.

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

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Brandon Cunning & the Hard Rocks Thursday, July 2, 7-10 p.m.; Memphis Jones Friday, July 3, 7-10 p.m.; Eric Hughes on the Patio Friday, July 3, and Saturday, July 4, 8-11 p.m.; Almost Elton John Saturday, July 4, 9-11 p.m.; Jerred Price Sunday, July 5, 6-9 p.m.; The Shift Monday, July 6, 7-9 p.m.

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

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Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Sundays, 6 p.m. and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

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

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Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mississippi BigFoot Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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.

Wet Willie’s 209 BEALE 578-5650

Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Titanium Blue 4th of July Extravaganza Saturday, July 4, 7-11 p.m.

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

Huey’s Downtown

Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays.

Brinson’s 341 MADISON 524-0104

Detective Bureau Sunday, July 5, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Memphis Sounds Lounge 22 N. THIRD 590-4049

Grown Folk’s Music Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.

NO COVER THURSDAYS

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

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

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

Purple Haze Nightclub 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.; Neo Soul Saturdays featuring Tamara Jones Monger, Carmen, Pat Register, and more first Saturday of every month, 7-10:30 p.m.

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

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

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

The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

Rumba Room

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

679 ADAMS 524-1886

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

182 BEALE 528-0150

Grawemeyer’s 520 S. MAIN 526-6751

Mollie Fontaine Lounge

182 BEALE 528-0150

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

Live Music Thursdays, 7-11 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

183 BEALE 522-9596

Blind Bear Speakeasy

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

Silky O’Sullivan’s

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

Double J Smokehouse & Saloon

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

South Main Onix 412 S. MAIN 552-4609

Neo Soul and R&B first Thursday of every month, 7-10 p.m.; Smooth Jazz Fridays first Friday of every month, 8-11 p.m.; R&B first Saturday of every month, 8-11 p.m.

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Wild Bill’s

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

2119 MADISON 207-5097

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

DJ Dropout Boogie Friday, July 3, 10:30 p.m.; Amy LaVere and Will Sexton Wednesday, July 8, 7:30 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

Loveland Duren Fridays, 7-10 p.m.; Two Peace Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.

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

Blue Monkey

The Buccaneer

2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

1368 MONROE 278-0909

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight.

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

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

Levitt Shell

East Memphis

OVERTON PARK 272-2722

Knox Hamilton Friday, July 3, 7:30 p.m.; Cory Branan Saturday, July 4, 7:30 p.m.

Minglewood Hall

Brookhaven Pub & Grill 695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 680-8118

1555 MADISON 312-6058

1474 MADISON 275-8082

Mates of State Sunday, July 5, 8 p.m.

Live Music Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Evergreen Presbyterian Church

Murphy’s

4698 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

Dru’s Place Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

613 UNIVERSITY 274-3740

First Tuesdays at 4 Concert Series: Music of Samuel Barber featuring Rhodes College music faculty first Tuesday of every month, 4 p.m.

1589 MADISON 726-4193

DJ Willow Friday, July 3; Talk Sick Brats Tuesday, July 7; Milk Dicks Wednesday, July 8.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Hi-Tone

New Artist Night Friday, July 3.

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Overton Square

Riverside Voodoo Thursday, July 2, 10 p.m.; Dawn Patrol Album Release with Klaxxon, Process of Suffocation, Cryptic Hymn Friday, July 3, 8:30 p.m.; Hope Clayburn Birthday Show with Marcella & Her Lovers and Three Kings Monday, July 6, 9 p.m.; The Convalescence with Besides the Silence Tuesday, July 7, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Versatile with Phase 1 Tuesday, July 7, 9 p.m.; Vomitface with Blackberries and Ghost Foot Wednesday, July 8, 9 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic 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.

El Toro Loco 2809 KIRBY PKWY. 759-0593

Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

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

Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Thursdays, 5-9:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Howard Vance Guitar Academy 978 REDDOCH 767-6940

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

2586 POPLAR

1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Pistol & The Queen’s Regal Rock & Roll Revue Thursday, July 2, 9 p.m.midnight.

The J-Train Sunday, July 5, 4-7 p.m.; PT 3 Sunday, July 5, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

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

MIDTOWN

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Rockhouse Live Midtown

Huey’s Midtown

Dan McGuinness Pub

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Memphis All Stars Sunday, July 5, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Strano Sicilian Kitchen 948 S. COOPER 552-7122

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

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Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538

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

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DAWN PATROL RELEASE NEW ALBUM The metal band made up of brothers Tommy and Kyle Gonzales are back with a full-length follow-up to 2014’s Police State EP. Recorded by Alan Burcham (the same producer behind Police State) at Ardent Studios and at his home, Democracy Delivered is a nine-song album that is “85 percent metal and 15 percent experimental,” according to frontman Tommy Gonzalez.

“We started mixing in elements of ska and punk on some songs, but overall it is still a metal album,” Gonzales said.

Since forming in 2012, Dawn Patrol have gained a strong local following, performed regional tours, and opened for national touring acts that found their way to Memphis. Through the help of venues like the Hi-Tone and Rock 103’s “Memphis Made” show, the band has become one of the mainstays of the “new Memphis metal scene,” alongside bands like Reserving Dirtnaps and Ritual Decay. The artwork on Democracy Delivered was created by Benjamin Velasco, and the album’s title comes from something that Gonzales saw at a concert.

“I saw someone wearing a shirt that said ‘Democracy Delivered,’ and there was this image of a plane dropping bombs from the sky,” Gonzales said.

“That image stuck with me, so when I got home that night, I wrote a song with that phrase in mind. I looked it up and there wasn’t already a band called Democracy Delivered, so we just stuck with it.”

To celebrate the release of Democracy Delivered, Dawn Patrol will play a local show at the Hi-Tone with locals Klaxxon and Process of Suffocation, along with touring act Cryptic Hymn from Louisville, Kentucky. Democracy Delivered will be available for the first time at Friday’s show. — Chris Shaw Dawn Patrol, Klaxxon, Process of Suffocation, and Cryptic Hymn at the HiTone, Friday, July 3rd, 9 p.m. Admission is $10.

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, July 3, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Smokin’ J’s Saturday, July 4, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Jam Sundays, 6 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Juke Joint Blues Jam Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Scott and Vanessa Sudbury Thursday, July 2, 6 p.m.; James and the Ultrasounds Thursday, July 2, 9 p.m.; Reba Russell Trio Friday, July 3, 6:30 p.m.; Deep Fried Five Friday, July 3, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall and Friends Saturday, July 4, 11 a.m.; Loveland Duren Saturday, July 4, 6:30 p.m.; The Bo-Keys Saturday, July 4, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.

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Mortimer’s

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

819 EXOCET 624-9060

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

Huey’s Cordova

Mesquite Chop House

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

The Chaulkies Sunday, July 5, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

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

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

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

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

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

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

786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

Karaoke ongoing.

Ground Zero

Poplar/I-240

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

Neil’s Music Room

Titanium Blue @ Ground Zero Blues Club Wednesday, July 8, 8-11 p.m.

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.; Z.I.G. Saturday, July 4, 9 p.m.; Mother Lode Sunday, July 5, 7-10 p.m.; Magnolia Road Monday, July 6, 7-11 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

Horseshoe Casino Tunica 1021 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 800-357-5600

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing.

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

Huey’s Southaven

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

7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Roy Brewer Plus Sunday, July 5, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Summer/Berclair High Point Pub

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477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Delta Joe Sanders & Friends every other Tuesday, 8-11 p.m.; Pubapalooza with Stereo Joe every other Wednesday, 8-11 p.m.

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

The Other Place Bar & Grill 4148 WALES 373-0155

Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

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Bartlett

Shelby Forest General Store

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

South Memphis

Bartlett Municipal Center

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

Grif ’s Gifts Live - Welcome to the Stage Mondays-Sundays, 6-7:30 p.m.

5868 STAGE

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Frayser/Millington

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Haystack Bar & Grill

926 E. MCLEMORE 946-2535

Stax Fresh Trax fßirst Thursday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Whitehaven/ Airport Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant 4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

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

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Charlie Belt Unplugged Thursday, July 2, 8 p.m.midnight; Grand Theft Audio Saturday, July 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

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

Cordova Bahama Breeze 2830 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 385-8744

Karaoke Mondays, 8-11 p.m.

Delta Blues Winery 6585 STEWART

Re-Wine Fridays, 7-10 p.m.

6560 HWY. 51 N. 872-0567

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

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

The Dantones Sunday, July 5, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, July 5, 8-11:30 p.m.; Hump Day Patio Party: Charvey Mac Wednesday, July 8, 5-7 p.m.

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar 9087 POPLAR 755-0092

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

North Mississippi/ Tunica The Crossing Bar & Grill 7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242

Karaoke with Buddha Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Dan McGuinness 3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Mesquite Chop House 5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

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

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

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

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

Raleigh Mugs Pub 4396 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 372-3556

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

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

July 2 - 8

The Gospel at Colonus, based on Sophocles’ Greek myth Oedipus and set in a contemporary African-American gospel church service, this production will move and thrill you with electrifying vocals. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $22-$40. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m.

Through July 12.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

TheatreWorks

The FreakEngine, variety show featuring improv comedy, performance art, dance, music, and torturous human experiments. For more information, visit www.memphisfreakengine.com. First Friday of every month.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

ART H AP P E N I N G S

Art After Dark

Galleries and gardens will be open until 8 p.m. featuring light refreshments, entertainment, and a cash bar. Free with admission. Every third Thursday.

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

The Artful Flea

The Artful Flea features art, photography, jewelry, and other items in a flea-market setting. First Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

COOPER WALKER PLACE, 1015 S. COOPER (338-5223).

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, WWW.CIRCUITOUSSUCCESSION.COM.

Cooper-Young Art Tours

Memphis Botanic Garden

For more information, featured artists, and pop-up performances, visit website.

First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

“Spirit of Havana,” exhibition of photographs by the late David Gingold. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through July 29.

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

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Minecraft Design & Build Contest

Design the most creative and imaginative art museum in Minecraft for a chance to win great prizes. To learn more about this contest and how to submit your Minecraft creation, visit website. Free.

Through July 6.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6206), WWW. BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

ONGOI NG ART

The Annesdale Park Gallery

Living Art Terrariums

by Nancy Morrow, www. theannesdaleparkgallery.net.

Through Aug. 1.

Work by Lyn Kyle at Fratelli’s Cafe

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

Beth Van Hoesen, exhibition by artist/printmaker. www. memphis.edu. Through July 2.

“What I Kept,” exhibition revolving around the objects that international women brought over from their home countries. Through July 2.

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

Ongoing.

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

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

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

Cafe Pontotoc

“A Community Collaboration: French Fort,” exhibition of 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 mixedmedia works by Elayna Scott, inspired by nature and her travels. Ongoing, 4-11 p.m.

314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

Circuitous Succession Gallery

Lawrence Matthews, Jeff Mickey, Shara Rowley Plough, and Jonas Howden Sjøvaag, exhibition of multimedia work by artists. www.circuitoussuccession.com. Through July 24.

500 S. SECOND.

Crosstown Arts

“Stories on My Back,” exhibition of a large-scale multi-media installation incorporating audio, video, digital photographs, and tamale leaves by Richard Lou. www.crosstownarts.org. Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Through July 3.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

“Summer Reading,” exhibition of work by various artists. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Through July 11.

64 FLICKER (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

Jun Kaneko, exhibition of contemporary ceramic sculptures. www.dixon.org. Through Nov. 22.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“An Artist’s Vision,” exhibition of acrylics, relief sculptures with found objects, and etchings into Plexiglass by Josie Sullivan. www.eclectic-eye. com. Through Aug. 19.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Fountain Art Gallery

“Peggy’s Farewell.” Through July 31.

3092 POPLAR, SUITE 1 (458-7100).

Fratelli’s

“Smoky Mountain Sunrise,” exhibition of oversized prints

by Lyn Kyle. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through July 29.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Gallery 1091

“The Time Catcher,” exhibition of photographs by Karen Pulfer Focht. www.wkno.org.

Through July 30.

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

L Ross Gallery

Summer Group Show, exhibition of painting and sculpture by various artists. www.lrossgallery.com. Through July 31.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Lucius E. & Elsie C. Burch Jr. Library

Jon Woodhams, exhibition of photography. Through July 31.

“Arp, Man Ray, and Matta: Surrealists,” exhibition of Surrealist artists’ books by Hans Arp, Man Ray, and Matta.

Through July 12.

“20th Century Color Woodcuts: Japonisme and Beyond,” exhibition of American and British prints. Through Sept. 8.

“The Art of Video Games,” exhibition exploring the 40year evolution of video games through painting, writing, sculpture, music, storytelling, and cinematography. Through Sept. 13.

“Buggin’ & Shruggin: A Glitched History of Gaming Culture,” exhibition of murals which riff upon popular video games, major characters, and the gamers themselves by Michael Roy. Through Sept. 13.

“Surreal Kingdoms,” exhibition combining acrylic paint and digital collage by Kenneth Wayne Alexander II. Through Sept. 13.

“British Watercolors from the Golden Age,” exhibition of watercolors from the late-18th through the early-20th centuries. Through Sept. 20.

“Play,” exhibition exploring the intersection of play and art using pieces from the permanent collection. Through Sept. 20.

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

Through Jan. 3, 2016.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

501 POPLAR VIEW, COLLIERVILLE (457-2600).

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C A L E N D A R : J U LY 2 - 8 continued from page 29 Memphis College of Art

“It Starts with Pink: A Case Study,” exhibition of photographs by Katie Benjamin. www.mca.edu. Through July 27.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

“Tributaries: Seth Gould,” exhibition of embellished hammers, axes, locks, and latches. Through Sept. 6.

“A Kind of Confession,” exhibition of critical and contemporary metalwork from both tenured and emerging African-American metal artists. www.metalmuseum.org.

Through Sept. 13.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (7746380).

Painted Planet

Exhibition by gallery artists (338-5223), Thursdays-Saturdays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 11:45 a.m.-6 p.m.

1015 S. COOPER (725-0054).

Playhouse on the Square

New paintings by Jeniffer Church, www.playhouseonthesquare.org. Through July 19.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Shady Grove Presbyterian Church

“Bring It to the Light,” exhibition of portraiture by Maggie Russell. www.shadygrovepres. org. July 7-Aug. 7.

5530 SHADY GROVE (683-7329).

Sue Layman Designs

“Conclusion of Delusion,” exhibition of original oil paintings by Sue Layman Lightman. www.facebook. com/SueLaymanDesigns.

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

TO U R S

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

Public Sightseeing Cruise

Open mic comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

PO ET RY /S PO K E N WO R D

Brinson’s

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

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.

TOPS Gallery

“Talk,” exhibition of collaborative paintings by Dana Frankfort and Jackie Gendel. www.topsgallery.com. Through Aug. 1.

400 S. FRONT.

DA N C E

341 MADISON (524-0104).

Balagan

The HUB

Theatrical circus.

Thursdays-Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Through July 12.

LoveSpeaks, Fridays, 11 p.m.2 a.m.

515 E.H. CRUMP.

Java Cabana

GOLD STRIKE CASINO, 1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS (1-888-24K-PLAY).

Shrine Tea Dance

P&H Cafe

Open mic nite, www. javacabanacoffeehouse.com.

Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

Featuring Noble Sounds Orchestra and the Bankers.

Semiformal attire. BYOB. Includes popcorn and soft drinks. $10. First Sunday of every month, 2-6 p.m.

Work by Lawrence Matthews at Circuitous Succession

AL CHYMIA SHRINE CENTER, 5770 SHELBY OAKS (377-7336), WWW. SHRINE-DANCE-MEMPHIS.COM.

C O M E DY

Flirt Nightclub

Trippin on Thursday, hosted

by K-97 Funnyman Prescott.

Thursdays, 6 p.m.

3659 S. MENDENHALL (485-1119).

FedExForum

Kevin Hart, www.forummemphis.com. $74-$328. Fri., July 3, 8 p.m.

200 S. THIRD (TICKETS, 888-HOOP).

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

Sinbad, www.horseshoetunica. com. $15-$100. Fri., July 3, 8 p.m.

1021 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS (800-357-5600).

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

LECT U R E /S P EA K E R

Music Business Forum

The legal aspects of the music industry featuring guest speakers Carlee McCullough and Michele Howard-Flynn.

Following sessions address other aspects of the music business. Free. Wed., July 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (636-6857), MEMPHISMUSIC.ORG.

JUN KANEKO Sculpture at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens

Cruises on the Island Queen will leave from Beale Street Landing for a 90-minute tour down the Mississippi River featuring live historical commentary and a cash/credit bar with snacks and drinks.

Through Oct. 31, 5 p.m.

BEALE STREET LANDING, BEALE AND RIVERSIDE, WWW.MEMPHISRIVERFRONT.COM.

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.

Tours at Two

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.

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

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Featuring antiques, silver, crystal, china, and more.

Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Sept. 28.

WOMAN’S EXCHANGE TEA ROOM, 88 RACINE (327-5681), WWW.WOMANSEXCHANGE.COM.

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May 28 – November 22, 2015

Organized by Dixon Gallery and Gardens in collaboration with Jun Kaneko Studio

July 2-8, 2015

4339 Park Avenue Memphis, TN 38117 dixon.org

SPONSORED BY Karen and Dr. Preston Dorsett Chris and Dan Richards Susan Adler Thorp in memory of Herta and Dr. Justin H. Adler Adele and Beasley Wellford The Freeman Foundation

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Jun Kaneko, Untitled, Pittsburg Head, 2007, glazed ceramics, 124 ½ x 64 x 80 inches, Outside Kaneko: Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE, Spring/Summer 2001, photo credit: Takashi Hatakeyama

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World UFO Day Festival

Enjoy a day of speakers, magic, carnival rides and family fun. See website for schedule of events.

Thurs., July 2, 8 a.m.-11:30 p.m.

PINE HILL COMMUNITY CENTER, 973 ALICE (774-7950), WWW.WORLDUFODAYMEMPHIS.ORG.

Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark

Doctor Who Trivia

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

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

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Memphis Chapter of Public Relations Society of America Accepting Entries for 22nd VOX Awards

At this dig site, fun will never go extinct, with activities, giveaways, and a special offer for young dinosaur hunters. Sat., July 4, 10 a.m.

DC Comics Days S P O RTS/ F IT N ES S

Memphis Redbirds vs. Oklahoma City Dodgers Wed.-Fri., July 1-3.

AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), WWW. MEMPHISREDBIRDS.COM.

Come in for a special offer on all DC Comics graphic novels and get a free ‘Young Gotham’ comic collection and poster while supplies last.

Wed.-Sun., July 8-12.

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

Fans of the popular BBC Doctor Who are invited to enjoy trivia, giveaways, a special offer, and more. Come dressed as your favorite character.

Fri., July 3, 7 p.m.

Communications professionals from all business sectors are invited to submit their best campaigns and tactics for consideration. Details and submission information can be found on website. Through July 13.

COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE, 2497 BROAD (800-1873), WWW.COLLAGEDANCE.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.

Walk in the Park

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.

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.

Meditation and Dharma Talk

Fans are invited to be transported to the intriguing world of bestselling author Diana Gabaldon, with trivia, giveaways, and more. Sun., July 5, 10 a.m.

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

Peabody Rooftop Party Aug. 13.

$10-$15. Thursdays, 6-11 p.m. Through

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

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.PRSAVOX.COM.

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Rhythm Nation

Learn the routines and work out to MTV videos with Josh Henry. 1980s hair and attire encouraged. $15. Thurs., July 2, 7 p.m.

Outlander: Page & Screen

YOU’L L GO T HROU THEM G H L I K E THRO B ANDS UGH D RUMM ERS.

Featuring chanting, silent “sitting meditation,” and dharma talk with Q&A or book discussion.

Fridays, 6 p.m., and Sundays, 10 a.m.

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

Meristem Women’s Book Club

Read and explore written works by women and LGBT authors. Second Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.

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

Olive Branch Genealogy Club

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Speaker Mike Worsham’s topic will be Yalobusha County records. No dues and all are welcome.

Every third Wednesday, noon-2 p.m. Through Nov. 30.

OLIVE BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY, 6619 COCKRUM (662895-4365), WWW.OBGC.LIMEWEBS.COM.

Tennessee Lyme Disease Support Group FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH OF BARTLETT, 3755 N. GERMANTOWN (386-4785), WWW.HEALTHY-LIFE.ISAGENIX.COM.

KIDS

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.

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Gramps Camp

Spend the morning with your favorite grandparent doing a special memory craft. Garden exploration and snack included. Register online or by phone. $30 per day/pair for members, $32 nonmembers. Wed.-Fri., July 8-10, 10 a.m.-noon.

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continued from page 33 Riders and Rockabilly Rally & Blues Hog BBQ and Music Festival Grassroots-based events including two motorcycle dice Freedom Runs leaving from Memphis to Jackson and festival benefiting West Tennessee Veterans Home project. See website for details. Fri.-Sun., July 3-5.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW. RIDERSANDROCKABILLY.COM.

Sounds of Memphis

Live music revue paying tribute to artists such as Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes, B.B. King, Al Green, and others who contributed to the soulful sounds of Memphis. $30. Thurs.-Sat., 2-3 and 4-5 p.m. Through July 15.

OLD DAISY THEATRE, 329 BEALE (702-772-8600).

Speaking to Heaven: Monthly Gallery

Psychic Rhonda Manning speaks to crossed-over loved ones in heaven during her mediumship gallery connecting some audience members with their loved ones. $25.

First Sunday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

LIFEVIBRATION CENTER, 2010 EXETER (324-2586), WWW.PSYCHICMEDIUMRHONDA.COM.

Throwback Thursday 1950s

Nostalgic journey and iconic moments in pop culture from the 1950s. Explore the books, toys, games, music, movies, TV, and fashion, including a hula hoop contest. Thurs., July 2, 7 p.m.

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

Trivia Thursday

Great food and friendly competition. Thursdays, 6-8 p.m.

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

Volunteer Night Out

Volunteer with A Step Ahead Foundation and help prepare materials that will ensure more members of our community are informed on effective methods of pregnancy prevention. Tues., July 7, 5:30-7 p.m.

A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION, 326 ELLSWORTH (729-7044), ASAF. EVENTBRITE.COM.

Whet Thursday

Part of a seasonal series inviting community members to enjoy the museum after hours for free. Participate in the foundry class, explore galleries, listen to live music, and more featuring a handson activity. First Thursday of every month, 5:30-8 p.m.

Through Aug. 6.

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

“Wicked Plants”

Fun, family-friendly exhibit of the world’s most diabolical botanicals inspired

by Amy Stewart’s bestselling book Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities. Through Sept. 7.

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

H O LI DAY EVE NTS

Bartlett Fireworks Extravaganza

Thurs., July 2, 6:30 p.m.

BOBBY K. FLAHERTY MUNICIPAL CENTER, HIGHWAY 79 AND APPLING.

Collierville Independence Day Celebration

Featuring live music, fun, and a fireworks show at 9:45 p.m.

Fri., July 3, 6:30 p.m.

H.W. COX PARK, 440 W. POWELL.

Cordova Fourth of July Parade The only Independence Day parade in Memphis with a judging category for “Best Decorated Float, Wagon, or Horse.” Sat., July 4, 9:30 a.m.

CORDOVA COMMUNITY CENTER, 1017 N. SANGA.

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Celebrate Independence Day with a fun-filled family event at the Memphis Riverfront.

Enjoy from anywhere along the riverfront. Visitors can enjoy the Mississippi River Museum, the Riverwalk, RiverFit, pedal boat, canoe, kayak and bicycle rentals, and kiddie rides and games. Sat., July 4, 6 p.m.

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

Fireworks Spectacular at The Fitz

Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Fireworks at dusk. Sat., July 4, 5 p.m.

THE FITZ, 711 LUCKY LANE (1-800766-LUCK), WWW.FITZGERALDSTUNICA.COM.

Flag City Freedom Celebration

Bring a picnic, cooler, and lawn chair to Navy Lake for an impressive fireworks display. Fri., July 3, 4 p.m.

NAVY LAKE, OFF KERR-ROSEMARK (872-3660).

Germantown Fireworks Extravaganza

Featuring moon bounces, games, crafts, and food for sale, with the fireworks starting at 9:10 p.m. Sat., July 4, 5 p.m.

GERMANTOWN MUNICIPAL PARK, 1900 S. GERMANTOWN.

Olive Branch Independence Day Celebration

Picnic-friendly celebration with fireworks at 9 p.m., food, vendors, and a Kids’ Zone.

Sat., July 4, 7 p.m.

OLIVE BRANCH CITY PARK, OLIVE BRANCH, MS.

Patriotic Pops Concert

Featuring Second Presbyterian chancel choir and orchestra leading patriotic favorites and traditional armed forces salute with special guest Kallen Esperian and fireworks. Free. Thurs., July 2, 7:30-9 p.m.

LEVITT SHELL, OVERTON PARK (454-0034), WWW.2PC.ORG.

Southaven July 4th Celebration

Picnics and coolers are welcome. Fireworks start at 9 p.m. Sat., July 4, 6:30 p.m.

BANKPLUS AMPHITHEATER AT SNOWDEN GROVE, 6285 SNOWDEN, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-892-2660).

C A L E N D A R : J U LY 2 - 8 Stars and Stripes 5K

The race will start and finish at Tiger Lane, featuring live music, free barbecue, and free beer for participants, and fireworks after the race. $30.

Fri., July 3, 7 p.m.

TIGER LANE, 335 SOUTH HOLLYWOOD.

Twilight Sky Terrace Party

21-and-up event offering the best views of downtown’s fireworks with a live DJ and specialty cocktails. $20. Sat., July 4, 4 p.m.

TWILIGHT SKY TERRACE, 79 MADISON (MADISON HOTEL) (333-1224).

FO O D & D R I N K EV E N TS

Agricenter Farmers Market

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

with contact information to whiteroomfilmmemphis@gmail.com. Through July 31.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.THEGARDENTHEFILM.COM.

Hidden Universe 3D

Experience stunning high-definition 3-D images of celestial structures in deep space. $9. Through Nov. 13.

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

Humpback Whales 3D

Close encounters with humpback whales and their ecological survival in the world’s oceans.

Through Nov. 13.

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

On Location: Memphis Shorts Festival

Summer Movie Series

HARD ROCK CAFE, 126 BEALE (529-0007), WWW.ONLOCATIONMEMPHIS.ORG.

BELZ MUSEUM OF ASIAN AND JUDAIC ART, 119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-2787), WWW. BELZMUSEUM.ORG.

Documentary, animation, and live-action short films will be featured, with a different one taking center stage each night. Musical performances are also scheduled. Free. Tuesdays in July, 7-9:30 p.m.

Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D

Asian and Judaic films focusing on different cultures. Visit website for a complete listing. Free with museum admission. Saturdays, Sundays, noon-5 p.m. Through Aug. 9.

Twilight Tuesday Movie Night

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.

Featuring Independence Day, Frozen, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Star Trek: The Future Begins, The Princess Bride, Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade. Visit website for more information. Free. Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. Through Aug. 4.

BEALE STREET LANDING, BEALE AND RIVERSIDE, WWW.MEMPHISRIVERFRONT.COM.

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).

CARRIAGE CROSSING, HOUSTON LEVEE & BILL MORRIS PKWY. (854-8240), WWW.SHOPCARRIAGECROSSING.COM.

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www.cycfarmersmarket.org. Saturdays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

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

Farmers’ Market at the Garden

Wednesdays, 2-6 p.m. Through Oct. 28.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

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, WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/HOLYCOMMUNITYUMC.

Food Truck Fridays

Fridays. Through Sept. 30.

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Watch a spectacular fireworks showcase light up the night sky from the Fitz front lawn.

Bring your friends, family, lawn chairs and blankets as you enjoy the biggest FREE fireworks show in the mid-south.

V I P F I R E WO R K S H OT E L PAC K AG E S Includes a room, two VIP passes to the Fireworks Spectacular, food, non-alchoholic beverages, and party favors.

Packages start at $189 for Standard rooms and $209 for Deluxe rooms.

Life of the Party

Memphis Farmers Market Saturdays, 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

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

Fridays & Saturdays

July 10 – 31 • 6pm–10pm

Public Dinner Cruise

Two-hour buffet-style barbecue dinner cruise accompanied by a live request band and a cash/ credit bar with wine, beer, liquor, and soft drinks.

Reservations recommended by phone. First Friday of every month, 7:30-9:30 p.m., and First Saturday of every month, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Through Oct. 31.

WHEN YOU WIN, SO DO YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY!

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BEALE STREET LANDING, BEALE AND RIVERSIDE (5272628), WWW.MEMPHISRIVERFRONT.COM.

Sundays in July

Pizza-making contest with live music and fun and games for the family. Join the top pizzaioli from across the United States as they compete to qualify for the World Pizza Championship. $12.50. Sat., July 4, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Beyond Video Games Film Series: A Trip to the Moon

One hundred and twelve years after its release, the Brooks screens the original hand-painted color version of Georges Méliès’ 1902 masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon. $9. Thurs., July 2, 7 p.m.

10,000 Hot Action Sunday Slot Tournaments

Slice of Americana Pizza Festival

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MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (5446200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Casting Call for White Room

Short artistic film to be shot in Memphis. Ten men and women needed as extras for a dream sequence. Should be able to play ages 20-50. Actors paid at the end of the shoot day. Email photo

FREE PARKING •

F E S T I V IT I E S B E G I N AT 5 p m • F I R E WO R K S S TA R T AT D U S K

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

POWERHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER, 413 S. 14TH ST., OXFORD, MS (662-236-6429), OXFORDFRINGEFEST. COM.

BEER GARDEN •

Must be 21 and a Key Rewards member. See Cashier • Players Club for rules. Video Poker earns half the stated amount on point multiplier days.

Management reserves the right to cancel, change and modify the promotion or tournament with notice to the Mississippi Gaming Commission where required.

Gifts available while supplies last. Photo may not be representative of actual gift. Any new member losses between $15-$55 will be reimbursed in Promo Cash, and will be mailed and redeemable on a future visit. Gaming restricted patrons prohibited. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700.

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Fridays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Through Sept. 30.

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All this from a guy who never went to culinary school.

“I started in kitchens when I was 14 years old,” remembers Casey, now 35. “And I’ve been doing it ever since. I think the best school you can get is working for good chefs.”

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TIJUANA CHIC new Mexican restaurant near the corner of Union and Front, in the old Pa Pa Pia’s space. And, folks, it’s a winner. The combination of chic design and can’t-put-itdown cuisine make it the kind of place that will quickly earn a spot on your regular restaurant rotation.

Take the Enchilada Tinga ($11). Taste a little different? Well it should. The mole is built from a base of toasted pumpkin seeds and soy sauce. It’s the kind of flavor profile you’d never associate with Mexican food — until now. Rich and tangy, loaded with lime, chili paste, and shredded chicken, it’s a dish you’ll have to guard from fellow diners. Also recommended: the Seared Sea Scallops ($15) and the Salmon Sashimi Tostada ($12.50).

Agave Maria’s other great virtue is its bar, which boasts the largest selection of tequila (100-plus varieties) in the city.

To toast the warm weather, owner Jeff Johnson and I raised a snifter of Casa Noble Añejo ($15). Grown in the Mexican lowlands and aged in oak barrels, it was silky smooth with notes of butterscotch and pear.

“Of course, we’re not above taking shots here,” says Johnson, swirling the tequila in his snifter. “But if you want to, this is a place where you can come to learn and savor.”

Johnson adds that he has plans for tequila pairing dinners and a tequila loyalty program.

Of course, the food tastes better for being served in

such stylish surroundings. The interior — olive green with fuchsia accents — is

by Graham Reese, whose inspiration was “Tijuana chic.” In practice, that means tufted leather, jewel-tone pendant lamps, and, of course, an enormous taxidermied bull. La Furia (“The Fury”) is said to have killed two matadors and injured 12 more between 1999 and 2001.

Agave Maria, 83 Union, 341-2096 agavemariacantina.com Tamp & Tap Triad inhabits the kind of sleek, industrial space you’d expect to find in downtown Chicago. For a color palette, think Oreo cookie: black and white with just a few pops of color. There’s even an egg-shaped meeting pod, walled off from the main dining area by a translucent, white curtain.

Pretty cool, right? Only it’s not in Chicago. It’s not even downtown. Tamp & Tap Triad is in East Memphis, near Poplar and I-240.

When you think about it, it fits. East Memphis has been crying out for good coffee — as far as I can tell, there’s nothing “craft” east of the interstate — and manager Maggie Swett says bringing artisanal third-wave coffee to an untapped market is a big part of her mission.

“There’s so much energy behind this cup,” Swett enthuses. “We’re talking about fair-trade beans from a single origin, and they don’t get roasted until I order them.”

Tamp & Tap Triad — an offshoot of the original Tamp & Tap downtown — sources all its beans through Metropolis Coffee in Chicago. The shot I tasted, a Redline espresso, was spicy and well-constructed. Although its license is still pending, the shop plans to offer beer and a light lunch, as well as wine, which the other location does not have.

“When I joined the project,” Swett remembers, “they didn’t have a woman on board. I told them, when I wind down after work, I want a glass of wine.”

As for the food, it’s perfect for a business lunch. I especially liked the Stanley Sandwich ($10.50), stacked with smoked turkey, fontina cheese, candied bacon, pickled red onion, and roasted artichoke aioli. The brioche, which is baked inhouse, seals the deal.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Thoroughly Modern Malcolm Dope upgrades the teen-movie genre.

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arly in Dope, Malcolm (Shameik Moore) gets roped into shuttling messages back and forth between a drug dealer named Dom (Rakim Mayers, aka A$AP Rocky) and a beautiful girl named Nakia (Zoë Kravitz). The scene sums up the protagonist’s predicament: He’s caught between worlds. An opening narration by Forest Whitaker—who also happens to be a producer—identifies Malcolm and his friends Jib (Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) as geeks. But being a brainy kid in the Bottoms neighborhood of Inglewood, California, ain’t easy. For one thing, the usual nerd nemesis, the bully, is much more heavily armed. In addition to the feuding cliques at school, there are also the Crips and Bloods to keep track of. And your carefully researched essay on pinpointing the date of Ice Cube’s “good day” is probably not enough to get you into Harvard.

In his senior year of high school, Malcolm is pretty much resigned to his geeky fate. With graduation coming up and his grades looking good, his Ivy League goals are tantalizingly close. His performance as a messenger with encyclopedic knowledge of 1990s hip-hop endears him to Dom, who invites Malcolm to his birthday party. Malcolm hesitates, but Jib and Diggy want to live a little before heading out for college, so they manage to 40 navigate the doorman and gain entrance to the coolest party any of them have ever seen. Things

are going great until a back-room drug deal goes bad. When the bullets stop flying and most of the partygoers have been hauled away to jail, Malcolm discovers that Dom stashed a bunch of MDMA and a gun in his backpack. And so he and his friends are dragged into an underworld of crime and corruption as they try to unload the dope without getting arrested, killed, or missing their SATs. With Dope, writer/director Rick Famuyiwa has given the teen-movie genre a 21st-century upgrade.

He’s wrapped a lot of different strands into the story’s DNA. The most obvious antecedent is Risky Business, Tom Cruise’s 1983 turn as a squeakyclean prep-school-kid-turned-accidental-pimp.

But that movie was set in the lily-white Chicago neighborhood of North Shore. Dope’s protagonists are a black kid named after Malcolm X, a Hispanic kid who says anscestry.com told him he was 14 percent African, and a black lesbian who slaps their white hacker friend Will (Blake Anderson) every time he says “nigga”. There’s a little bit of Pulp Fiction in the occasional time-bending flashback and the script’s gleeful wordiness, and a little bit of Spike Lee in the occasional fourth-wall breaking. But there’s much about Dope that is new and fresh. Since smartphones became ubiquitous less than a decade ago, the rules storytellers have been following since Shakespeare have had to change. Lack of communication can no longer be used as plot devices. A couple of quick text messages would have saved Romeo and Juliet from suicide, for example.

Dope is one of the first movies I’ve seen where the new realities of electronic communication, not to mention Darknet, Bitcoin, and pervasive surveillance, are seamlessly integrated into a non-sci-fi story.

Just as Risky Business made a star out of Cruise, Dope could easily make a star out of Moore. He’s in almost every scene, and he carries Malcolm’s journey from nervous geek to confident college kid with a confidence many more experienced actors would envy. Revolori, last seen as Zero in The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Clemons both nail their parts, as does A$AP Rocky, who could easily make the same leap from rapper to actor that Ludacris did after Hustle & Flow.

My only real criticism of Dope is that it is overstuffed. The opening voice-over seems unnecessary, and soon trails off. There are so many characters and overlapping story lines that some of them feel underdeveloped. But if the worst I can say about your movie is that you have too many ideas, that’s a good place to be. Dope premiered at Sundance alongside another high school movie, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which scored big at the awards ceremony. Both are fine films, but I think the Sundance voters got it wrong. Dope has the makings of a cult classic that high schoolers will be watching for years to come.

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struggles to find the plot in its third season.

In place of a social conscience, we have pop culture. It is a conversationally unobjectionable comfort, unsuited to anything but filling Hollywood coffers. Season 3 of Orange Is the New Black is very comfortable. The social ills it engages include racism, transphobia, rape, homophobia, and, most of all, the prisonindustrial complex. This makes our bingewatching feel more honest.

Looming over it all is Lost, a show whose redundant flashback structure has been imported here and grown longer in the tooth.

All character traits must be foregrounded with strange actions in the past. All plots must be delayed to tell us what we already know.

The flashbacks help continue series creator Jenji Kohan’s greatest success: her campaign to humanize all the characters in Litchfield prison, from the villains to the comic relief. It is part of the novelistic project of modern television. But in practice, it often delays the story, and tells predictable tales with an excess of melodrama.

Characters act evil because a villain is needed to drive the plot. Humorous situations don’t build into serious ones; they switch on and off the way real world physics does in action movies. A scheme to sell soiled panties online results in bitter betrayal, but it’s hard to take seriously because the situation feels like a joke. A silent character grows a cult around her saintly quietude, but when the group banishes a member, her resulting suicidal depression seems strangely hollow. It’s the shadow of another show, Kohan’s Weeds, whose narrative also suffered from unearned swerves.

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Orange is full of details expertly delivered by its murderer’s row of actors. The only false spot is newcomer Ruby Rose, an Australian model introduced to pay lip service to the concept of gender fluidity. But mostly, she’s just there to beat the show’s dead horse of a romance. Her love triangle with Piper (Taylor Schilling) and Alex (Laura Prepon) has all the dynamism of a plane stuck on the tarmac.

The best actress is Lea DeLaria as Big Boo, who is even better than Natasha Lyonne at personifying the show’s combination of Borscht Belt jokes and real-life hurt. She and Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning), a one-note villain from earlier seasons turned into a squeaky-voiced stalwart, are the season’s true stars. There’s a moment where Pennsatucky declines to sodomize someone with a broomstick that works as both low comedy and character drama. A wordless sequence devoted to the daily routine of Chang (Lori Tan Chinn), an older woman ignored by the other inmates, is also a highlight. We see Characters act evil because her mash Fritos in secret, with her feet. Unlike the flashbacks, there’s joy a villain is needed to in not knowing where it’s going. drive the plot. Humorous The other most successful subplot situations don’t build into is the acquisition of the prison by a private company that sets the serious ones; they switch on prisoners to work and cuts the and off the way guards’ hours in half. Their attempt to unionize is pitiful (their union real world phyics does in song is from Les Miz), but the show action movies. effectively stresses how corporate structures prevent real reform, because financial pressure privileges short-term gains over things like mental health care, of which prisons are our largest provider.

Against real world problems, the only hope the show offers is a swerve towards transcendence. Laverne Cox and Piper Kerman have both used it as a springboard to discuss transgender rights and prison reform. Does it matter if we can see the strings? John Oliver and Jon Stewart’s soapboxes are modern examples of comedy as a method by which actual political discussion can leak in through corporate media. Orange Is the New Black is another unsung example.

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DOWNTOWN APTS 1099 NORTH PARKWAY Spacious 2BR/1BA, stove, fridge, central heat, window a/c. Centrally located. $450/mo + dep. 378-6718

GENERAL DUPLEX DUPLEXES FOR RENT Berclair - Treadwell 3688 Rhea -2BR/1BA, C/Heat $505 Binghampton 2557 Everett - 2BR/1BA, C/Heat $425U of M3593 Clayphil - 2BR/1BA, C/H&A $565 Leco Realty, Inc. @ 3707 Macon Rd. 272-9028 Free list @ www.lecorealty.com

GENERAL HOMES FOR RENT HOMES FOR RENT Berclair - Kingsbury 3583 Mayflower - 2BR/1BA, C/H&A $525 782 Homer - 3BR., small den, C/Heat $585 1551 Stacey - 3BR/1BA, C/Heat $585 4802 McCrory - 3BR/1BA, C/H&A $635 Cherry - Kimball4207 Fredricks 3BR/1BA, C/H&A $765 Cordova 8235 Walnut Grove - 3BR/2BA,/fp, C/H&A $1375 Frayser 2703 Chatsworth 3BR/1BA, f/f heat $565S. Mphs 96 Vaal - 4BR/1BA, C/Heat $550 U of M Area 996 Walthal Circle - 2BR/1BA,

C/H&A $565 1099 S. Highland 3BR/1.5BA, gas heat, garage $635 1056 S. Highland - 3BR/1.5BA, Den, C/H&A $650 Whitehaven 880 Craigwood - 3BR/1BA, C/H&A $775 Free list @ www.lecorealty.com or come in, or call 272-9028. Leco Realty, 3707 Macon Rd.

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THE LAST WORD by Jen Clarke

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Hey Bristol, Congratulations! I read that you were expecting again! I’m not really sure why I know this, because it’s 2015 and, no offense, I expected your family to have dropped off the face of the earth by now. I thought I wouldn’t hear your name again after your mom didn’t get to be vice president in 2008. But then came summer 2009, when Sarah Palin decided she just didn’t feel like being governor of Alaska anymore. Can you believe that was six years ago? Wow. But then came the reality shows, the books, the Fox News segments, and the will-she-won’t-she in the months leading up to the 2012 presidential election. I can’t give Sarah Palin credit for much, but she sure made the most of her 15 minutes of fame. I guess that makes your family the Kardashians of politics.

Speaking of your mom, I bet she’s super-excited about the new addition! I’m sure she can’t wait to be a grandma again, especially since she is pro-life and all. I’m so sorry to hear that you’re no longer engaged to the father of your future child, but at least you’ll have the loving, nonjudgmental support of your family. You may be on your own, but you’re not alone. Believe me, that’s more than a lot of women can say.

Wait, sorry, is everything okay? Your blog post says, “This has been a huge disappointment to my family.” Ouch. That’s unfortunate.

Bristol Bristol, I know you said you’re not looking for any sympathy, but I thought I’d just let you Palin know these things happen all the time. I bet at least half the people you know are on this earth as a result of an accident, or, as we call them here in the South, “blessings.” Sometimes “surprises” or “miracles” — it really just depends on who it is, bless their hearts. Literally, every single day countless women become pregnant whether they plan to, want to, or even can afford to. Anyway, it won’t be easy to proceed with this on your own, but take comfort in the fact that we live in a free country where, as women, the choice to proceed is ours to make.

Even though I don’t know you, you’re a public figure and I know all of your business, so here’s some unsolicited advice. You don’t have to apologize for getting pregnant out of wedlock. But you should probably — no, definitely — stop lecturing people about abstinence. The good news is, Bristol, I read somewhere the average American changes careers four times. And, you know, millennials just can’t stay in the same place for very long. So you can find something else to do.

It’s hard enough to get through to young people. Giving them advice you obviously don’t follow? Now, that’s just buildin’ a bridge to nowhere. I’m sure it will be tough to give up your $262,000 salary as an “abstinence ambassador,” because that’s more than an ambassador to an actual country makes.

I’m not exactly sure what being an abstinence ambassador entails. I assume it involves you talking to teens about how much your child changed your life. “Don’t have sex or you’ll end up like me,” in other words. But how? With a cute, happy, healthy kid and a bunch of money you earned as an abstinence ambassador? That strategy sounds about as effective as abstinence-only education.

You love your child, so why would you talk about him like he’s a punishment? How do you think that makes him feel? How do you think your second child will feel when he or she is old enough to read about you apologizing for bringing him or her into the world?

You’re 24 and you’ve given in to the fact that you’re a human and having sex is a fun thing humans like to do, whether they’re married or not. Good for you. You’re an adult woman, and it’s okay to admit that. Better yet, own it. Turn your hypocrisy into an opportunity.

Abstinence didn’t work for you, but you know what probably would have? Birth control. There are a ton of options, and your doctor will help you find one that’s right for you. Some even have nonreproductive benefits and help with issues like migraines and acne. Methods like implants and IUDs last up to five years and are great for single mothers. Organizations like Planned Parenthood can point you in the right direction, just in case the whole abstinence thing falls through again. Give them a call sometime.

Who knows, they might even need an ambassador.

Jen Clarke is an unapologetic Memphian and digital marketing strategist.

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421 N. Watkins St. 278-8965 1500 sq. ft. of Vintage & Antique Jewelry. Retro Furniture and Accessories. Original Paintings, Sculpture, Pottery, Art & Antiques. We are the only store in the Mid-South that replaces stones in costume jewelry.

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Porcelain Crowns Bridges/Veneers

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Call 901.744.2225 Near Downtown

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RENTAL SPACE 250 sq. ft. of East Memphis rental space starting at $35 p/hr. Can be used as a Photography Studio, meetings, etc... and 4 more information please contact Just4u Digital Imaging at 901-205-9515.

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WaterBed Business

For Sale: Only one in Memphis area.

Turn Key Operation. Retiring Call (901) 496-0492

Paternity Test $150 Drug Test $39 CPR $45 Server Permits (ABC Card Class) $65 Call 275-8825 IONS: A GEEK GALLERY NOW OPEN

Fantasy and Super Hero Art 546 S. Main - Come check us out.