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OUR 1391ST ISSUE 10.22.2015 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Do you know about Nextdoor.com? It’s a social media site that links you with your neighbors, providing an online forum for discussing common concerns: garage sales, lost and found pets, garbage and recycling, criminal activity, references for chimney sweeps and handymen, and curb alerts, where someone announces they’re putting, say, an old couch on the curb. First come, first served.

Last Sunday, the greatest curb alert of all time was posted on the Central Gardens Nextdoor.com site. It read: Curb Alert - Ole Miss Football Season The Ole Miss football season is on the curb by the Liberty Bowl.

Frankly, it was a rare example of wit on the site. Most posts are pretty mundane and some are borderline paranoid. “Suspicious” is perhaps the most-used word on Nextdoor.com. As in, “suspicious-looking teens walking down alley behind my house on Vinton at 4:45 p.m. Be aware.” I leave it to you to guess what usually constitutes a suspicious-looking teen. But, occasional paranoia aside, the site is pretty useful.

As is a big win over that SEC team from Oxford.

I was out Friday night, listening to the City Champs at the Buccaneer. During a break, I got into a conversation with a couple of Ole Miss fans from Nashville. I could tell they were Ole Miss fans because they were dressed entirely in red and white, and they were a little drunk and a little loud. But they were raving about Memphis. Seriously.

“There’s no music like this in Nashville,” they said. “There are no little clubs like this. It’s all that country shit.” They’d just had a large time earlier in the evening in Cooper-Young, and then in Overton Square, where someone had told them that they’d hear the best music in town at the Buc. Then talk turned, as it must when talking to people dressed in garish school colors, to football. The Rebel fans conceded that Memphis had a nice offense and that Paxton Lynch was a “good college quarterback.” But, they explained, helpfully, Memphis was not ready for SEC competition. “Y’all’s defense won’t know what hit them,” they said. “SEC football N EWS & O P I N I O N LETTERS - 4 is on a different level. It might be a game THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 for a quarter or so,” they said, “but our THE FLY-BY - 6 depth will wear y’all down.”

SPORTS - 11 I blush to admit now that I sort POLITICS - 12 of agreed with them. Like most EDITORIAL - 14 VIEWPOINT - 15 Memphians, I was hoping the Tigers COVER STORY could score enough to make the game “JULIEN BAKER ARRIVES” interesting, but I had few illusions that

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Time and history will record his name, not only as a footnote as mayor, but as a kind-hearted man who loved his adopted city more than some of us who were born at John Gaston Hospital. Take your rest, Mr. Mayor. You are mighty deserving.

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Some say there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans. That may have been true at one time, but not today.

The recent debates make it clear that the two major parties occupy different planets.

Republicans are locked into guns, antigovernment and anti-abortion rhetoric, rehashing Benghazi, and trashing the president and Hillary Clinton. They show no respect for each other.

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deplore this idea of trying to make this a “colorless” election when white folks win.

White folks vote based on color, more than not, just like black folks. Heck, the Republicans “recommended” Strickland, a supposed Democrat in the election. How many times have they recommended an African-American Democrat that was running for mayor, or any position for that matter? We don’t have media outlets that 5make that clear 6 because 7 the 8 major9ones 10 are run by white folks.

Sure, I can 15handle the truth if 20 percent of African Americans crossed over to 18the white candidate. I have voted for white candidates, even white Republicans. I wouldn’t agree with their 21 reasoning in this case, but I sure could respect it. I just can’t trust the truth from 25 the bumbling idiots at the Shelby24 County Election Commission.

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October 22-28, 2015

ZOO FIGHT You’ve probably heard the stories going around, but here’s what really happened. The Memphis Zoo was trying out a new exhibit showcasing creatures from Madagascar. First, this radiated tortoise looked at the Malagasy tree boa like he was no better than a snake. Which he is obviously, but who does that? Anyway, to repay his amphibious roommate for the presumed insult, the Malagasy tree boa bit the radiated tortoise on his fool head. “You looking at me?”, he then demanded, ripping off his little snake shirt and wrapping himself around the tortoise’s neck in an attempt to constrict some sense into him. If a zookeeper hadn’t separated the two, who knows what might have happened next? And that’s why they can’t have anything nice in the Herpetarium.

NEVERENDING ELVIS Outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins appeared on the religiously themed Irish television program The Meaning of Life last week to discuss his controversial views and to make a surprise confession about Elvis Presley, who, in addition to sparking a religious fervor in fans, may have also possessed the power to work actual miracles. In his interview with show host Gay Byrne, Dawkins revealed that he had spent some small amount of time as an ardent Christian and “Elvis prophet” after coming into contact with some of Presley’s gospel records.

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A Memphis researcher examines the science behind mixing alcohol and caffeine.

Anyone jump-starting a big night out, getting turnt, or straightening up a sloppy drunk may have turned to an energy drink cocktail (Red Bull and vodka anyone?) for help.

But a local researcher thinks that’s a bad idea. And he just got a $100,000 grant from the federal government to try to prove it.

For the next two years, Dr. Alex Dopico will study the effects of consuming alcohol and caffeine together.

Rats and mice will get drunk in his lab, and Dopico will observe and measure how their brains react to various levels of caffeine.

So, what’s the big deal with drinking alcohol and caffeine together?

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Pat Kerr Tigrett, Blues Ball founder

B.B. King passed away this year, and now, after a 22-year run, the Blues Ball is going out with him.

On October 24th, the last Blues Ball will feature a lineup that includes William Bell, Will Tucker, Ruby Wilson, Susan Marshall, Jason D. Williams, Southern Halo, Memphis Jones, and others. And Lansky Brothers will be honored with an award for pioneering what Blues Ball founder and fashion designer Pat Kerr Tigrett calls “rock star styling.” The party, which is dedicated to King, starts at 7 p.m. at Gibson Guitar.

“A friend of mine said, ‘The King of the Blues and the Queen of the Ball are leaving the building together,’” Tigrett said.

Over the years, the charity ball has raised $1.5 million for the Memphis Charitable Foundation, which supports a long list of local nonprofits.

The Blues Ball was founded in 1994, at a time when Tigrett said Memphians didn’t fully appreciate the native blues sound. But today, she says Memphis music is finally getting its due. The combination of King’s passing and the enshrining of the city’s musical history in local museums led Tigrett to the decision to end the party’s run. — Bianca Phillips Flyer: How did the Blues Ball get started?

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Tigrett: I lived in London for 20 years, and during that period, I would get in a car and the driver would say to

me, “Where is that voice from?” I would say, “Memphis,” and invariably, it was like I’d given him the Holy Grail because I was from Memphis. The English really revere our musical heritage.

It was phenomenal that Memphians, at that time, were not recognizing the importance of our music industry and how it was touching others globally. I would come back to Memphis and be chairing the Symphony Ball, and everyone would ask me whom I was bringing in, like we needed to

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the stimulant effects of caffeine can mask the depressant effects of alcohol. But caffeine doesn’t actually slow the metabolism of alcohol in the liver. So, an energy drink cocktail can make you feel less drunk even while you’re getting drunker.

That opens the door to even more drinking. The CDC says those who drink energy-drink cocktails are three times more likely to binge drink than those who don’t. Binge drinkers are almost twice as likely to report being taken advantage of sexually, taking advantage of someone sexually, or riding with a driver under the influence, the CDC says.

In 2010, alcoholic energy drinks like Four Loko, Joose, and Max were on the shelves. In November of that year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the drinks posed “a public health concern” that could lead to “life-threatening situations.” The Federal Trade Commission noted that consumers might have believed the products were safe because they were sold widely.

The drinks were taken off the shelves by mid-December. But Dopcio said the trend of drinking alcohol and caffeine together is still a problem, and it’s reaching “epidemic proportions in the U.S., particularly on college campuses.”

Many studies have examined drinking alcohol and caffeine together. Most of those studies have identified and defined the drinkers: Who is more likely to drink these drinks? What are their behaviors and habits as they drink?

Dopico is interested in physiological science, and he’ll be looking at the ways alcohol and caffeine interact with arteries in the brain. Specifically, he’ll target the molecules and mechanisms in the brain that govern caffeine’s unique interaction with alcohol when the two are sipped, pounded, or shot together.

“We hope that understanding how brain arteries react to caffeine and alcohol when they are consumed together will help to inform public policy about their risky co-consumption,” Dopico said.

He’s studied the effect of alcohol on the brain for the past 20 years and is a professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, where he’s also the chair of the Department of Pharmacology. He got the grant to study caffeine with alcohol last week from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Dopico received a $3.6 million grant from the NIAAA in 2009 to support 10 years’ worth of his alcohol studies in Memphis. He hopes to develop drugs that control the changes in the body and behavior that come with getting drunk.

import other big bands from New York or Texas or Los Angeles. Finally, I was like, why are we trying to import people when we live in the middle of the mecca of American music?

I decided that I would found something exclusively for Memphis musicians.

We are the only annual ball in America that has, for 22 years, been exclusively for Memphis musicians. We’ve had as many as seven stages and 16 groups playing each year. That’s included B.B. King, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Jerry Lee Lewis, Rufus Thomas, Little Jimmy King, and Carl Perkins.

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So why are you ending the Blues Ball?

Timing is everything, and 22 years ago when we started this, just about the only [similar event] occurring in Memphis at the time was the Symphony Ball. And there was a smaller Opera Ball, but there was nothing celebrating Memphis music. Now, we have at least four wonderful museums that feature our great Memphis musicians.

What will you do with your spare time after the last Blues Ball?

I want the Blues Ball legacy to be chronicled in a documentary. We have 22 years of professional videos documenting everything. I think 50 years from now, it will be an important component of our continuum of Memphis music heritage.

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What was the first Blues Ball like?

The first year was at the Peabody in 1994. We sold it out, but I wouldn’t tell anybody who was going to play because I knew they wouldn’t buy tickets. I just told them it was a surprise, and you’ll regret it if you don’t come. But [later that night], people were standing on the tables because they were so excited about our unique Memphis sound.

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Memphis takes its musical heritage pretty seriously now. How different was it back then?

In 1977, I was living in London, and I had brought our son Kerr home [to Memphis] for his three-month check-up. I was meeting a friend of John [Tigrett] at the Pier for lunch. When I walked in, this lady asked me if I was okay. I said, “I’m not. I just heard Elvis died.” I’ll never forget it — she looked at me and said, “Who cares anything about that redneck truck driver?” That was the attitude during that time.

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The law that criminalizes drug use by pregnant women is set to expire next year.

“In a lot of spheres, addiction is seen as a health issue, as a disease. But, now if you have a woman who is pregnant, all of the sudden she’s a criminal,” said Allison Glass, the state director for Healthy and Free Tennessee, a nonprofit coalition of groups dedicated to sexual health and reproductive issues.

On October 15th, Healthy and Free Tennessee, along with several coalition partners, met at the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center to discuss their concern with the pregnancy criminalization law, as well as strategies to ensure its expiration. Memphis was one of five of the coalition’s stops across the state.

According to Glass, the law was written vaguely. Whether or not a mother is reported for her infant testing positive for illegal substances is up the discretion of the healthcare provider.

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know about the law, is unclear. Glass believes that educating the public will be key to ensuring the law expires on its sunset date of July 1, 2016.

“We’re trying to help educate folks. It’s an incredibly complex issue. What we’re saying also is that medical experts, people in public health, and people who are experts in treatment facilities … those are the people who need to come together and think about what needs to happen to solve the problem,” Glass said.

“This is not a place for our legislators to be passing a law and certainly not through the criminal justice system.”

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“Now if you have a woman who is pregnant [and addicted to drugs], ... she’s a criminal.” — Allison Glass

drugs. This means the difference between the possibility of treatment and the threat of jail lies in not only the type of drug but whether or not it was prescribed to the mother.

“We have a really imbalanced way of dealing with this issue,” Glass said. “It creates a second class of people who are pregnant.”

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For the next eight months, a coalition of women’s healthcare advocacy groups will be doing everything they can to ensure that SB 1391 — labeled the “Tennessee Pregnancy Criminalization Law” by its opponents — will ride into its sunset of expiration without any further legislative action.

The law, which allows women to be charged with assault for using illegal substances during pregnancy, was written in response to Tennessee’s rapidly increasing problem with infants born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), which causes treatable, but painful, withdrawal symptoms in infants born to mothers who have abused substances during their pregnancy.

In an unusual move for a criminal statute, the bill included a sunset provision of two years. So the law, which went into effect last July, is set to expire in July 2016. At that time, legislators can consider whether or not to pass a more permanent version of the law.

While the intention of the law may have been to discourage expecting mothers from using addictive substances, some advocates and healthcare professionals insist that the law will tear families apart and criminalize already vulnerable mothers.

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’ve got my first piece of advice for Memphis Mayor-elect Jim Strickland: Buy Justin Fuente lunch.

Matter of fact, with a little over two months until Strickland’s first term as mayor begins, he’d do well to meet the University of Memphis football coach for a weekly pow-wow. Nothing formal. No agenda. Just a conversation between leaders on the nature of overcoming formidable challenges. Because one of these men has become the personification of establishing new standards for what seemed (not that long ago) a lost cause.

Have lunch with the coach, Mr. Strickland.

And do more listening than talking.

Before I go further, let’s clarify: Running a major U.S. city is considerably harder than running a football program.

Fuente has yet to balance the cost of paving streets with those for policing those streets. And whatever budget problems the U of M athletic department may face, they pale in comparison with those of a city with a shrinking tax base and citizens largely opposed to even a hint of paying more for the services their city provides. If I were to guess, Strickland would switch jobs with Fuente long before the coach would give thought to such role reversal. (Strickland’s predecessor, it should be noted, has been far more competent at his job than was Fuente’s.)

Still, there are some lessons to be taken from the Fuente story. A program that rested at the bottom of the FBS barrel in 2011 now finds itself undefeated (60), in the Top 25, with crowds in excess of 40,000 now routine at the Liberty Bowl.

All of this under the watch of a 39-yearold man who had never held a program’s top job before moving to Memphis. How has Fuente done it? And what could a city mayor take from his formula? Here are three components — they’re not secrets — to Fuente’s success.

He didn’t listen. At Fuente’s introductory press conference, a veteran Memphis journalist noted how many men he’d seen take the Memphis job, explain a vision for success, and ultimately land, at best, in mediocrity. What made Fuente different? To the rookie coach’s credit, he said, essentially, “I don’t know.” How could he, having no baseline for his own perfor-

mance as a head coach? But Fuente had a plan. And it began with forgetting what’s happened before. Focus on what can be done moving forward, as individuals and as a program. Building and selling a football program — or a city, for that matter — requires a short memory if tough times are to be put in the past tense.

He counts small victories. Among Fuente’s opening remarks after the upset of Ole Miss last Saturday: “We’re bowl-eligible, and I’m happy about that.” Let me speak for the entire pool of reporters in that room: No one but Fuente was thinking “bowl-eligible!” We were thinking: 13 wins in a row ... Top 25 ... Can this team go undefeated? ... Is a New Year’s Six bowl game possible? Fuente doesn’t allow any big-picture projections to interfere with his team’s task at hand: winning the next game. It’s as hopelessly clichéd as it gets: “We have to go 1-0 this week.” Well, the Memphis Tigers have gone 1-0 for the equivalent of an entire season — 13 games.

Budget policy, crimefighting, better schools, talent retention ... these are major challenges for a city. Our new mayor needs to find small wins when he can, and emphasize each of those wins as steps in the direction we must go.

He got lucky. Paxton Lynch took a Memphis scholarship because Justin Florida State didn’t offer Fuente him one. Or Miami.

Or Alabama. Or Michigan or UCLA. Having thrown 13 touchdown passes (and but one interception) in his team’s six wins this season, Lynch has made a national name for himself. The junior quarterback has won 16 of his last 19 starts and is making the across-the-field throws that have NFL scouts grabbing their cell phones.

Fuente recognized the possibilities in recruiting Lynch and had the patience to redshirt him as a freshman in 2012, allowing a year of development for the raw talent.

Here’s hoping Mayor-elect Strickland can find an overlooked gem (somewhere, anywhere) who can approach problem-solving a little differently and perhaps make a throw into the corner of that metaphorical end zone a town calls prosperity. It can happen. Luck is merely where preparation meets opportunity.

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Not Over Yet Five city council positions won’t have a winner until runoff elections on November 19th.

A substantial minority of the members of the Memphis City Council — five of the 13 overall — have yet to be chosen and will be determined after the runoff elections on November 19th.

The runoff races were made necessary when no candidate achieved a majority of the votes cast in the five districts in the regular general election that ended on October 8th. The five districts, and the two top vote-getters in each, along with the percentages they received as of October 8th, are: DISTRICT 2: Frank Colvett Jr. (49.5 percent), Rachel Knox (22.5) DISTRICT 3: Patrice Robinson (48.4), Keith Williams (20.8) DISTRICT 4: Jamita Swearengen (33.0), Doris DeBerryBradshaw(24.4) DISTRICT 5: Worth Morgan (31.9), Dan Springer (23.3) DISTRICT 7: Berlin Boyd (26.5), Anthony Anderson (24.0) Going merely by the percentages, it would seem that the tightest runoff races would be in Districts 4, 5, and 7.

The one in District 5, based in Midtown and East Memphis and formerly occupied by Mayor-elect Jim

Strickland, had one of the largest fields in the regular general election, with seven candidates competing. Of those, three — John Marek, Mary Wilder, and Charles “Chooch” Pickard — were generally lumped together as appealing to Democrats and progressives, while two — Morgan and Springer — were considered to be candidates whose base was Republican or conservative.

The progressive trio finished with vote percentages of 18.55 percent for Wilder, 16.90 percent for Marek, and 6.37 percent for Pickard; Morgan and Springer got into the runoff with percentages of 31.92 percent and 23.28 percent, respectively.

No sooner had the votes been counted on the evening of October 8th than the two runoff candidates promptly began competing for the support of candidates who had been eliminated.

Here was Springer in a Facebook statement on October 9th: “I’ve made many new friends over the past several months on the campaign trail. And I know voters are grateful for the willingness of John Marek, Chooch Pickard, and Mary Wilder to not only put their names on the ballot, but also to bring to the forefront serious topics that deserve our attention. I know how hard they all worked, but I also know them well enough to know that they will remain committed to making Memphis a better place to live for all of us.

“Over the coming weeks, I look forward to sharing my clear vision about how we can address our community’s serious challenges in regards to job creation, education, and public safety, while promoting and building up all the good things about our city.”

Translation: Springer, who had gained the endorsement of the Shelby County Republican Party in the general election, thanks mainly to his yeoman’s service previously for GOP candidates and office-holders, notably for U.S. Senator Bob Corker and Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell, believed himself credible enough among moderates, independents, and Democrats to make an active pitch to the erstwhile supporters of Marek, Pickard, and Wilder.

Springer was rewarded with a statement from Wilder, the leading vote-getter among progressives, urging her supporters to consider Springer in the runoff. That was publicly hailed as a “classy” move on Wilder’s part by County Trustee David Lenoir, a Republican considered certain to be a candidate for county mayor in 2018.

For his part, Morgan won the public approval of former candidate Pickard, the third-place finisher among progressives and the fifth-place finisher overall.

In a statement that paid tribute to the previous field of candidates (“amazing people who felt the call to public service in a similar capacity as myself”), Pickard, referring

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to himself as “an architect and community leader,” said, among other things: “I want to make the public and formal endorsement of Worth Morgan. Over the 10 months we spent campaigning for the position, I was impressed with Worth’s integrity and the ethical way he ran his campaign. I believe Worth Morgan will make a great city councilman and has the ideals to best represent the diverse population of District 5 through truly listening to his constituents and making rational decisions in the best interest of our community.”

Early voting for the runoff races begins October 30th and runs throughNovember 14th, with final election-day voting taking place on November 19th.

• As a reminder, the council members elected outright on October 8th are as follows, with the winning percentages for them and their closest competitor: DISTRICT 1: Bill Morrison (incumbent), 77 percent, over Wayne Roberts, 21.88 percent.

DISTRICT 6: Edmund H. Ford Jr. (incumbent), 72.24 percent, over Perry Bond, 18.43 percent.

SUPER DISTRICT 8, POSITION 1: Joe Brown (incumbent), 69.15 percent, over Victoria Young, 20.41 percent.

SUPER DISTRICT 8, POSITION 2: Janis Fullilove (incumbent), 76.78 percent, over Isaac Wright, 12 percent.

SUPER DISTRICT 8, POSITION 3: Martavius Jones, 44.93 percent, over Mickell Lowery, 40.97 percent.

SUPER DISTRICT 9, POSITION 1: Kemp Conrad (incumbent), 70 percent, over Robin Spielberger,

16.90 percent.

SUPER DISTRICT 9, POSITION 2: Philip C. Spinosa, 47 percent, over Kenneth Twigg Whalum, 23.61 percent.

SUPER DISTRICT 9, POSITION 3: Reid Hedgepeth (incumbent), 61.23 percent, over Stephen Christian, 19.59 percent.

MEMPHIS CITY COURT CLERK: Kay Spalding Robilio, 26.35 percent, over Wanda Halbert, 24.91 percent.

It will be noted that incumbents running for reelection had easy going, and that the closest of these decided races, Jones vs. Lowery in Super District 8, Position 3, and Robilio vs. Halbert for City Court Clerk, might well have ended with different results if subjected to runoffs.

The same 1991 decision by the late federal District Judge Jerome Turner that prohibited runoff elections for mayor that year subsequently has also prohibited runoffs for the clerk’s position and for the super district council seats, all considered “at large” positions.

Turner’s ruling permitted runoffs only in regular district races. The prohibition of runoffs for mayor is credited with the victory of Willie Herenton in 1991 (with 49 percent in a three-way race) and with that of Jim Strickland (with 42 percent) in this year’s multi-candidate race.

The Shelby County Election Commission will meet to certify the October 8th vote results at noon, Friday, at the commission’s operations center at 918 Nixon in the Shelby Farms government complex.

• Of the nine applicants to succeed former Chief Justice Gary Wade on the state Supreme Court, four claim to hail from Memphis, though only three have a current address in these parts.

The ex-Memphian in the bunch is Ted Hayden, an attorney and compliance director in the state Department of General Services. Hayden now lives in

the near-Nashville suburb of Gallatin, and his wish to be considered a Memphian boils down to his having been, as he stated on his official application, “extremely active” for 24 years at Bellevue Baptist Church.

Aside from his undoubted piety, Hayden makes the claim of a Memphis connection because two of the current state justices are from the Middle Tennessee grand division, where Gallatin is (and Memphis isn’t), a fact which means that Wade’s replacement must come from either East Tennessee or West Tennessee, where Memphis is (and Gallatin isn’t).

The three real Memphians whose hats (or robes) are in the ring are: Memphis lawyer Robert D. Meyers, chairman of the Shelby County Election Commission; former state Representative Larry Scroggs, chief counsel and administrator for Shelby County Juvenile Court; and Memphis tax lawyer Matthew Cavitch, who caught the attention of the state political newsletter “The Tennessee Journal,” with this line in his letter of application: “I work alone, so I handle everything.

Unlike most tax lawyers, I actually know something about the rules of evidence and how to draft a motion in limine.”

Under the new judicial selection formula approved by the state’s voters in a 2014 referendum, the selection will be made by Governor Bill Haslam, subject to confirmation by both chambers of the General Assembly. Whoever is chosen and approved will serve for the balance of Justice Wade’s eight-year term, which concludes in 2022 and is then eligible to serve another eight-year term if approved by the voters in a retention election.

Prior to Haslam’s selection, a Council for Judicial Appointments, whose members were named previously by the governor, will interview the nine applicants next Tuesday, October 27th, in Nashville, and submit three names for Haslam to consider.

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after the near-blowout victory over Ole Miss, ranked, the commentators are saying, quite seriously, the Tigers could play in a New Year’s Day bowl. For the uninitiated, that’s when the Big Boys from the Big Conferences play their bowl games.

Now, if we can just manage to stay off the cover of Sports Illustrated — as dependable a hex as any uncovered thus far by paranormal investigators.

And beyond that, if we can manage to hold on to Justin Fuente for a season or two more.

And basketball season is right around the corner. We’ve learned, happily, during the course of the last several seasons, that we no longer need be dependent on the basketball Tigers’ pulling rabbits (and NCAA bids) out of the hat, because, hey, we’ve also got the Grizzlies, dependable title challengers in the NBA’s tough Western Conference, year after year. They’ve been on the cover of SI already — and ridden out the dependable curse the Fates always bestow on the headiness that comes with that honor. Now maybe the Grizz are immunized from any further blowback, such as the playoff loss that followed the last such cover, in 2013.

As always, a little rain must fall, however. The fact that success on the part of Josh Pastner and the basketball Tigers isn’t quite as imperative for our mental health and psychic well-being as it used to be doesn’t mean that Pastner and company get a pass, especially if this becomes another season in which

the Tigers are no longer a factor in the national rankings. We have this uncomfortable feeling — shared by many sports pundits — that it’s this year or else for Josh. Like him or not, the Svengali who preceded Pastner got Memphis sports fans spoiled in that regard.

In other ways, we seem to be, well, getting there. Against all expectations, the Bass Pro Shop version of our iconic Pyramid turned out to be just the kind of new and shiny tourist draw that we hoped it would be. Not that it helped turn things around for Mayor A C Wharton or the irredeemably tainted Robert Lipscomb, the two personages who did the most to arrange the presence of that magnetic bauble on our riverfront.

Wharton’s elected successor as mayor, the thus far likeable and citygovernment-wise Jim Strickland, will start out his term in January. Like any political honeymooner, he’ll have the community’s best wishes at his disposal — for a while, at least.

He would do well, however, to remember that his predecessor, in two city elections within the last decade, won elections with 60 to 70 percent of the vote. That number came all the way down to 22 percent on Election Day this year.

Even as we are enjoying the successes of the football Tigers and the Grizz and the hope that it will spill over into the political life of our community, it pays to remember: The scoreboard can change in a hurry. Let’s hope it doesn’t. We like the idea of being on a winning streak.

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Talk Is Cheap to her roommate in person. Instead, she ‘talks’ to her using Google Chat.

Then there’s Turkle’s own experience: how digital life affects her interactions with students. She implores them to visit her during office hours, but they won’t. Instead, they send emails. Turkle says they think email allows them to “ask the perfect question so I can give them the perfect, more valuable answer.” Face to face, Turkle’s feisty manner belies the restrained tone of her book. “What am I supposed to do,” she continues, “sit there at my machine and try to be perfect?”

She laments not only the “transactional” nature of technological communication, but the demise of conversational give-and-take — its wrong turns and discoveries that build understanding.

She also tracks more subtle effects of technology. “If I put my phone on the table,” she says, gesturing at an iPhone in front of her, “the nature of the conversation will change.”

Discussion, she says, becomes more superficial. People will shy away from serious talk. She cites a 2015 study by the Pew Research Center: 89 percent of all cell-phone users report taking out their phones during their most recent social interaction, and 82 percent of them said it detracted from their conversations. But they did it anyway.

While there’s warning in her voice, Turkle insists her book is not antitechnology. “It’s pro-conversation,” she says. And she welcomes all rebuttals. “I want to hear the positive argument for robot dolls. I want to hear the positive argument for kids who don’t have conversations with their parents.”

Which is not to say that Turkle is some cranky technophobe. “I’ll pit my iPhone against anyone else’s,” she says, allowing that she’s as susceptible to technology’s siren song as the next person. But unlike most of us, Turkle is unwilling to accept the way our devices limit our communication.

Despite the evidence she’s compiled, Turkle insists the situation is not all doom and gloom. The solution is simple, she says: Talk to each other. “It is time to make the course corrections,” she writes. “We have everything we need to begin. We have each other.”

Ethan Gilsdorf is the author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.

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“Who in this cafe is talking?”

Sherry Turkle looks around a trendy Boston coffee shop. The walls are lined with old tomes, a thematic decorative touch, but the books aren’t meant to be read. Aside from Turkle and a guest, one other couple is chatting. Most patrons are hunched over laptops and smartphones, working, texting, or watching something on a screen.

“So, we’ve got four people talking,” she sighs. “Two groups of two. That’s not very good.”

Turkle, a professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a prolific author, wants to have a conversation, about conversation — and why so few people seem interested in having it face-to-face anymore.

The crisis of conversation is at the heart of Turkle’s new book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. With it, she hopes to spark a discussion about what we lose when we settle for fleeting texts, sound bites, and status updates, instead of pursuing meaningful, nuanced human connection.

“I had a question. All these people were saying, ‘I’d rather text than talk,’” Turkle says. “What happens if in business, in education, in romance, and child-rearing, you text rather than talk?”

A sociologist and clinical psychologist, Turkle has studied the link between conversation and empathy, and how conversation supports self-reflection. In her new book, she argues that our reliance on our devices endangers our ability to cultivate friendships, raise healthy kids, nurture intimate relationships, succeed on the job, and engage in civil discourse.

“Fortunately,” she says, “there was a flood of quantitative studies that supported what I was saying.”

Turkle finished writing Reclaiming Conversation in New York while she was on sabbatical. She has written several other books that explore, as she puts it, “the intersection of technology and identity.”

Through stories of various people, Reclaiming Conversation explores technology’s insidious effects on chitchat. There’s the father who — estranged from his child — accompanies her on a school field trip, only to spend it uploading photos and status updates rather than engaging her in conversation. There’s the college sophomore who’s terrified to apologize

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Julien Baker Arrives A young Memphis songwriter is making big waves with her quiet songs.

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It’s Saturday night at Otherlands Coffee Shop. The space looks about the same as it has for the past decade of weekend concerts. A small group of people drinking lattes or craft brews sits around the eclectically shellacked tables while Julien Baker takes the makeshift stage with her baby blue electric Fender. Behind Baker, plate-glass windows are beading with rain. Brake lights from passing vehicles roll over the room, the glare catching the metal plating of her guitar.

It has been a standard evening so far, as coffee-house singer-songwriter sessions go. A folk duo has played a 16 few by-the-book ballads. People are talking quietly. But

when Baker takes the mic — her guitar affixed to her tiny frame with a rainbow strap — the atmosphere of the place changes. It’s hard to say what exactly does it. Baker is five feet tall and looks, by her own admission, to be about 12 years old, though she turned 20 in September. She wears an unremarkable blue jacket and gray t-shirt, a look she has described in interviews as “level-one RuneScape clothes.” She’s up there alone.

Baker begins her set with a single guitar note, held for a long moment before she begins, in a quiet and urgent alto — “Do you think that there’s a way this could ever get too far?” — covering the question with reverb before abandoning it. “I know I saw your hand,” she continues, “when I went out and wrapped my car around the streetlamp.” She pronounces streetlamp sweetly, drawing it out, the way you’d fixate on something you loved.

The lyric is a reference to the time, when Baker was 17, that she drove her car off the road, shattering the windshield enough so that she was unable to see as a 25-foot-tall light pole crashed towards her. The concrete post split Baker’s car cleanly in two but somehow left her entirely untouched.

“Blacktop” — which will be the first track on her debut solo album, due out October 23rd — is a lonely

song, maybe her loneliest, though it has some strong competition. When she asks, in the next verse, that some intervening divine, the same that saved her life, “come visit me in the back of an ambulance,” it is with the longing of something barely missed, rather than any certainty in her good fortune.

The feel at Otherlands, as Baker earnestly continues her set, gives definition to the phrase, “you could hear a pin drop.” If people were not paying attention before, they are now. Previously unremarkable environmental details — the rain outside and the hush of the room — seem pulled into Baker, collapsed into her intimate, pining music.

If VH1 ever makes a Behind the Music: Julien Baker, it will play out something like this: A small girl with a big voice grows up in the far suburbs of Memphis. She works a night shift through high school, spends her free time hanging out at the skatepark; she smokes cigarettes, plays hymns at her small church, and figures out an electric guitar in her dad’s living room. She forms a punk band with her friends. They call themselves “The Star Killers” and play all-ages shows in community centers and neighborhood pool houses. She gets a girlfriend, gets into drinking, gets some dumb tattoos. Starts touring when she isn’t in school. Applies herself. Makes it to state college, where she records a lonely record. The record is really good. People hear the record, share the record, and she gets signed. What’s next is history.

At least, it seems like that will be the case, if recent articles comparing Baker and her forthcoming solo album to Rilo Kiley or Natalie Prass and calling her music “equal parts agony and burgeoning wisdom” (NPR), “crushing” (Stereogum), “wise” (Vulture),“a study in contradiction, both fragile and steely at the same time”

Pending the release of “Sprained Ankle” in the next week, Baker is doing what she usually does: going to class at Middle Tennessee State University, where she is studying to be an English teacher. She started school as a recording engineering major, but quit the program after a professor told her that if he was going to teach the class one thing, it would be to “take their passion and monetize it.”

“I guess I just believe in the lyceum model of education,” she told me when we met in Murfreesboro on a weekend in early September. “I think you should educate to build your intellect, not to make money.”

In the past few months, Baker has flown to Los Angeles to shoot a music video and to Richmond, Virginia, to record at Matthew E. White’s Spacebomb Studios, the

same studio that produced Natalie Prass’ debut album.

She’s been on the radio, toured to New York, and played around 20 shows, both as Forrister and as Julien Baker. She’s currently keeping it together by drinking copious amounts of what she calls “AA-meeting coffee”, meaning the strong stuff (Baker is now sober by choice).

When we met, I noticed that her hands were marked up with scribbled English assignments and Sharpied X’s for being underage from the two gigs she’d played in Memphis that week, driving the four hours back to MTSU in the early hours of the morning.

A year and a half ago, if you’d asked Baker whether she’d be trying to balance a burgeoning career and travel schedule with her schoolwork, she would have looked at you like you were crazy. The songs that make up her album were recorded as a one-off, a side project while she was away from her band. She illustrated the album cover and released it for free on Bandcamp. She didn’t think much of it. “Whatever happened with it, I was like, oh, cool,” Baker says.

People quickly started to share the album, including a video version of her song, “Something” — shot in a Memphis parking garage by local filmmaker Breezy Lucia — but it wasn’t until Rhorer and 6131 contacted her about a three-record deal that she realized what was happening. On her new label’s advice, she took the

Downtown Murfreesboro, near Baker's favorite record shop (top); Baker in her room in Murfreesboro, where she studies literature (bottom).

record down from Bandcamp until it could be mastered and formally released.

A favorite mantra of Baker’s comes from the high school days she spent around D.I.Y. house venue and record label, Smith7. “Let’s all fail together,” she repeated, as we drove around Murfreesboro. “At least we’ll have each other.”

The Smith7 shows were put on exclusively as benefits for charity; records produced without hope of material recompense. “We called it investing in people,” says Brian Vernon, the founder and backbone of the label, which has produced locally-familiar bands like Wicker, The Holiday, and Nights Like These.

It was a scene that taught Baker to be wary of the parts of the music industry that can, as she phrases it, “put best things to meanest use.” (A quote from Paradise Lost: “O little knows / Any, but God alone, to value right / The good before him, but perverts best things / to worst abuse, or to their meanest use.”)

But Baker is quick to acknowledge how fortunate she is at the moment; how, not that long ago, even this starter level of success seemed a distant hope. “Being able to support yourself with your art — that’s the dream, you know?” Baker mused. She sounds both hesitant and excited. “It sunk in for me when I was able to hand my roommate utility and rent [money]. I was like, ‘Wow, that’s real.’”

At Otherlands, Baker introduces herself this way: “I’m Julien, and I don’t mean to bum you out. That’s just the kind of songs I write.” She smiles and pushes back her messy blonde hair from her face, a tic. “You know, you sing about it, and you exorcise it.”

A guess at why the 20-year-old’s songs are so broadly resonant: They all take place at a familiar, perhaps universal moment of surrender. People connect with it. Her surrender is manifold — laid at the feet of the audience, an ex-girlfriend who left her in a parking lot (“I should have said something,” sings Baker, “but I couldn’t find something to say”), the friend who once picked her up as a teenager, drunk and lost, from the side of a highway, or an invisible God. She always starts slow, voice drawn out over echoey guitar. As the song builds, she allows for considerable tension, enough space left between continued on page 18

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Morgan Jon Fox, the Memphis filmmaker, describes hearing Baker’s music for the first time this way: “This very gentle young woman stepped up and started playing these songs, and it was one of these moments in life that genuinely felt golden, when you see something that is so special, and so fragile, that is just on the precipice of taking off.”

Fox went on to use selections from Baker’s forthcoming album throughout his most recent project, a miniseries called Feral, and cites it as perhaps his foremost influence for the project. “I got obsessed with it,” he says. “I listened to it while I was writing and in the car while I was finding locations. It’s lyrically just very wise beyond her years.”

It is easy to talk about the precocity of Baker’s music, since she is young, but just talking about the precocity makes it seem as if Baker is a 5-year-old playing sonatas to an auditorium. The image doesn’t convey how moving songs like “Blacktop” or “Go Home” (“The side of the road in a ditch when you find me,” sings Baker, “… more whiskey than blood in my veins”) are, and how Baker’s particular talents are as much emotional as they are technical.

“I’ve never really encountered somebody who has the ability to resonate so broadly with their songs,” says Sean Rhorer, whose label, 6131 Records, will release Baker’s debut. “I posted about it on Facebook, and my mom responded to it,” he laughs. “But then, dudes in punk bands who are associated with us are all about it as well. For me personally, it’s like I’ve listened to a song of hers 200 times and on the 200th time I am just in my car weeping. She has that ability.”

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But then there always is a moment, about halfway through, where it’s as if she makes an unannounced decision that this one is all or nothing, and suddenly she is pure energy. When you see her perform, I swear there is a point when she opens her mouth — I mean really opens it — and she appears to grow three sizes. “Like one of those little styrofoam things you put in water and then they get huge,” Morgan Jon Fox laughingly agrees. This shift is her simultaneous will-to-power and an invocation for the listeners to join her. She is no longer suffering alone.

The lyrical loneliness is variously romantic and existential, sometimes within the same breath. Baker, who says she “played the worship circuit” in high school, makes music about God, but is not a Christian musician, to the extent that Christian music is a well-defined and (in my heretical opinion) musically underwhelming genre. There are Christian music labels and Christian music festivals, and Baker is not a part of that scene, though she likes Underoath and Pedro the Lion and Manchester Orchestra — bands that have, more or less explicitly, copped to their love of Jesus. She was devastated when Mike Reynolds, the guitarist for Christian metalcore unit For Today, took to Twitter and declared, “There’s no such thing as a gay Christian.”

“Sometimes, I haven’t played that song,” she told me, referring to “Rejoice”, a tour-de-force and one of the best tracks on the forthcoming album, “because I felt I needed to hide a part of myself in order to not be made fun of.”

“Rejoice” begins with Baker wandering around her neighborhood: “Jumping the fence, veins all black.

Sleep on a bench in the parking lot.” Her voice is low, almost gravelly. “Birthday,” she intones. “Call the blue

lights. Curse your name when I find I’m still awake.” She continues, emphatic, underwhelmed: “choking on smoke, singing your praise” and, without much conviction, “but I think there’s a God, and he hears either way. I rejoice. And complain. I never know what to say.”

And then she backs up and basically shouts, as desperate as anything else: “I rejoice … But then why did you let them leave and then make me stay?” Her voice would break if it weren’t so strong.

The thing about it, the thing that gets me — despite the fact that I haven’t lifted up anybody’s holy name since I was in middle school and assigning sexier worship lyrics onto particularly handsome church camp counselors — is that, per Julien Baker, this shit is real as it gets. There is no pretense, no particular evangelism, just the barefaced results of a young woman who is searching. I don’t think you have to believe in anything, or come from any specific background, to respect the search, even to feel it deeply.

If there’s a mythos to suburban teens — especially punk kids from the suburbs, who, like Baker, grew up hanging out at indoor skateparks and smoking in big box parking lots — it is that they are bored. See: the Arcade Fire anthem “The Suburbs,” the chorus to which rejoinders, “We were already bored. We were already, already bored.” There’s an attendant feel — a beautiful and washed-out-in-a-basement-romancewhile-smoking-weed-in-the-summertime sort of thing.

Baker does not seem bored or washed-out. Like her music, she comes off notably uncynical and deeply interested — in other people’s music, in workers’ justice (she uses her fluent Spanish to volunteer for

an organization that assists immigrant laborers), in literature, in elementary education, in big questions.

“Why,” she asked me offhandedly in the middle of a conversation about Faust, a leaf-eared copy of which she keeps in her room next to a hot-pink record player, “were German writers so interested in water suicide?”

For Baker, making her music and trying to fix bad things in the world are inseparable ideas, though there is no particular proselytizing in her lyrics or sound.

It is more about the hows and wheres and whos of the process. She’s a proud product of the Memphis grassroots, of the idea that you make things with your friends and do it for someone besides yourself.

And if she has a central fear about the recent attention her music has been getting, it is that she’ll have to change the way she makes music, that she won’t get to spend as much time writing with her band or crafting her own songs in basic anonymity.

“When you are in The Star Killers,” she says, “you have the liberty to do whatever you want, musically.

The biggest fear is getting what you want and having it not be what you really want.”

But at Otherlands, surrounded by a crowd that the young musician has effortlessly transfixed, it’s clear that any apprehension on Baker’ s part won’t stop people from listening. Whatever she is putting out there, people who hear it are picking up on it.

As she finishes her set, Baker seems confident, ready, and, yes, somehow wise beyond her years. Most of all, it seems clear that she’s doing precisely what she was born to do.

“When I have these great opportunities,” she says, “I have to remember they are transient. But when it comes down to it, this is the only thing that makes sense to me.”

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This Sunday at Crosstown Arts, Joel Parsons will present a performance titled “Beholding and Being Held” that is part of the sculptor’s month-long exhibition “You are the Hole.” It involves “classical ballet, social dance, endurance, the surrogate performance or emotion, emergencies of feelings, and Celine Dion.” And holes, of course.

“You Are the Hole” — Parson’s collection of awkward, orifice-shaped sculptures paired with pale peach drawings and lovingly messy assemblages — is the artist’s first major solo effort in town, though Parsons teaches art at Rhodes and is a regular curator around town. He started the work that culminated in “You are the Hole” when he began seeing his partner, the Ballet Memphis dancer and choreographer Steven McMahon. “There was this language that [McMahon] spoke that I didn’t have access to,” Parsons says. “It became clear to me that this was a good way to talk about relationships.” Parson’s attempts at understanding are realized in "You Are the Hole" explores the theater of desire, abstracted. improved pointe shoes (a halved and crumpled coke can bound by masking tape) and gauzy pink light fixtures.

Likewise, Parson’s performance, “Beholding and Being Held” will work some of the same themes as his precariously balanced artworks: vulnerability, messiness, trying to understand another person but failing time and again. Says Parsons, “Loving someone is about this attempt. This kind of blind groping in the dark toward them. Whether you really ever find them, I don’t know. But the attempt is important.”

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“Water, Bones, and Blood: NIA Artist Collective Exhibit” Hyde Gallery, Memphis College of Art Nesin Graduate School, 5-9 p.m.

Opening reception for this group show by members of the NIA Collective, created as an outlet for African-American artists. The show centers around “three elements that unify humankind.”

Friends of the Library Fall 2015 Book Sale Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Bi-annual book sale featuring hardbacks, paperbacks, CDs, magazines, DVDs, records, sheet music, and more all priced $2 or less.

Continues Saturday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

RiverArtsFest South Main, 6-9 p.m., $5 Massive arts festival featuring a juried art market, three music stages, food, demos, and more.

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Life & Death Legends from Mexico Evergreen Theatre, 8-9:30 p.m., $25 A Day of the Dead celebration led by the Cazateatro Bilingual Theater Group and featuring Danza Azteca Quetzalcoatl.

Boo! Ball Pink Palace Museum, 7:30-11:30 p.m., $60 Annual Halloween gala, featuring food and drink and witches brew(!).

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Flocktoberfest Fireworks Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid, dusk Our concert by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra held in conjunction with the World’s Hunting and Waterfowl Expo and part of Bass Pro’s Waterfowl Festival. Songs to be performed include Stravinsky’s “Firebird” Suite and Tchaikovsky’s waltz from “Swan Lake.” Fireworks follow the show.

Annual Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest The Dive Shop (999 S. Yates), noon-3 p.m.

Participants carve a pumpkin underwater. There will be “topside” carving as well. Benefiting Creative Aging.

“William Tell & the Firebird” Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m.

Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s First Tennessee Masterworks Series returns with this concert featuring Rossini’s “William Tell Overture.”

Encore performance Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Germantown Performing Arts Center.

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By Susan Ellis It was just pure luck that this weekend’s Tennessee Whiskey Festival at the South Main Artspace Lofts is happening during the annual RiverArtsFest. “I’m not really that knowledgeable about Memphis,” organizer Jay Heavilon admits.

The first Tennessee Whiskey Festival was held in 2013 in Chattanooga as a fund-raiser for HArt Gallery, which is run

by Heavilon’s wife and provides art materials and instruction to the homeless. The second Whiskey Festival is a fund-raiser for the second HArt Gallery, which will open in the Edge District next year. Proceeds will also go to Artspace.

Heavilon says he decided to go with whiskey for a festival because there was already a wine festival and a brewers festival in Chattanooga, plus he saw a rise in craft distillers in the area. The Memphis festival will feature eight craft distillers: Pyramid Vodka, American Born Moonshine, Belle Meade Bourbon, Southern Pride, Beechtree, George Dickel, Pennington’s Strawberry Rye, and Prichard’s Distillery.

Festival-goers get a passport and a souvenir glass for samples. Representatives from the distilleries will be on hand to answer questions. Water and snacks will be provided. There will be a cash bar with cocktails and High Cotton beer, too.

“It’s an acquired taste,” says Heavilon of whiskey. “We teach you how to smell, how to taste. This is really a how to taste whiskey event.”

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Squidling Brother’s Halloween Circus Sideshow The Attic Apparel, 7-10:30 p.m.

Described as a humor-filled twist on the sideshow with sword swallowing, burlesque, music, dance, and more. Guests walk up a red carpet to the event and can visit Amurica, the No Regret’s Tattoo tent, and enjoy “chilling chili from Sam’s Meltdown witch’s caldron hand-served by the witch herself.”

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Powell’s career took a dramatic turn in 2008, however, when he convinced Larry Nix to teach him the delicate art of mastering music for vinyl using the studio’s lathe.

“I had been pestering him (Nix) to teach me for years because I had such a keen interest in vinyl records, the way they were made and the way they sounded, and he kept saying no.

He just didn’t want to mess with it anymore,” Powell says.

“One day in the parking lot at Ardent while I was following him to his car talking to him about it and he was inches from a clean getaway, I told him if he taught me, I could cut records at night after he and Kevin [Nix’s son] were done for the day, and he would start seeing a check for renting me the lathe on the turntable when he came in to work in the mornings. He stopped, turned around smiling, and said, ‘OK, let’s do it.’”

And so Nix taught Powell to use the lathe, and Powell (with help

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from his trusty assistant engineer Lucas Peterson) began cutting vinyl for clients on the side of his usual recording and mixing gigs. Little by little, as consumer demand for vinyl started to rise, mastering music for vinyl started to become his primary business venture and passion.

“I really kind of stumbled into this passion for cutting vinyl records because I care so much how recorded music sounds to the listener,” says Powell. “If it’s done well, it sounds so good and makes me feel the music in a different way.”

Earlier this year, Powell made the decision to strike out on his own, and, as fate would have it, lucked into an opportunity to purchase a lathe from fellow vinyl mastering engineer Chad Kassem.

“Chad runs a huge vinyl pressing operation in Salina, Kan. called Quality Record Pressings, and they do really good work,” Powell says.

“They had pressed some things for me in the past and had always done a high-quality job. So Chad and I had a nice chat on the phone, I wished him good luck, and that was that.

The next day, I just dropped him a short email saying that it was nice to meet him and I looked forward to doing more business with him in the future. He wrote me back and said to let him know if I ever needed a lathe. I couldn’t believe it. You have to understand that there just are not any lathes for sale out there anymore.

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Just last week, Powell, Peterson, and Muth finally installed the new lathe at Phillips — which, to say the least, was no small task.

“Lucas oversaw the building of the mastering suite and did a remarkable job,” Powell says. “Again, I hired Chris, the best lathe expert there is, to come to Memphis to help put it all back together and go through every single electronic component and ball bearing on the entire machine. It wasn’t cheap, but it was worth every penny.”

And now Powell and Peterson are back doing what they do best, cutting records to vinyl for a host of eager clients and mastering a once-forgotten craft.

“The lacquers I have cut on it so far sound incredible,” Powell says. “I know a lot about cutting vinyl records, but it is a mountain to climb to know everything about the art of it, the science of it, and how to do it well and be one of the best at it. I am constantly learning as I continue to do this and striving to become one of the best.”

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a working lathe these days. I called him back immediately, and he said he had one in a church studio that he owned, that he didn’t really want to sell, but was thinking about it. He told me to give him a number. I did, and he called me back the next day and said we had a deal if I could get him the money in 10 days. I scrambled and came up with the money and wired it to him on day 10 and became the proud owner of a Neumann VMS70 lathe.”

Powell and Peterson quickly rented a 15-passenger van and headed for Kansas to retrieve the lathe — which had to be meticulously taken apart and packed for the journey to Memphis — with the help of expert lathe technician Chris Muth. Around that same time, he struck a deal with Sam Phillips Recording Services Inc. to install the lathe in the room that was once the control room to the B studio.

“It is a very fragile machine with lots of parts,” Powell says. “It took four days in all to get it back to Memphis. It was a great feeling coming across the bridge into Memphis with the lathe.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule October 22 - 28 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

Karaoke Thursdays, TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.2 a.m.; Jim Wilson Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; DJ J2 Fridays, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.5 a.m.; The 901 Heavy Hitters Fridays-Sundays, 10 p.m.2 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

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152 BEALE 544-7011

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Mondays-Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; 1st Floor: Super 5 Fridays, Saturdays, 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m.; After Dark Band Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar 159 BEALE

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

B.B. King’s Blues Club

Hard Rock Cafe

143 BEALE 524-KING

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The King Beez Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Wednesday, Oct. 28, 5-7:30 p.m.

Karaoke Unplugged Thursday, Oct. 22, 8 p.m.-midnight; Michael Edwards Saturday, Oct. 24, 8:30 p.m.-midnight; Wake the Sun Monday, Oct. 26, 7:30-9 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

Mack 2 Band Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Jeffries & the Kings of Memphis Thursdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Nate Dogg and the Fellas Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; McDaniel Band Saturdays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m., and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Chic Jones Sundays, Tuesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Wednesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

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

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

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Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mississippi Bigfoot Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Chic Jones, Blues Express Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cafe & Honky Tonk Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 ongoing, 5 p.m. and ongoing, 7 p.m.; The Jason James Trio FridaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Joey Trites and the Memphis Flash Saturdays, 3-7 p.m., and Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

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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.

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

Drive-By Truckers Friday, Oct. 23, 7-11 p.m.; Blessthefall, Stick to Your Guns, Emarosa, Oceans Ate Alaska and Cane Hill Saturday, Oct. 24, 6 p.m.-1 a.m.; Joey Bada$$ with Denzel Curry and Nyck Caution Tuesday, Oct. 27.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

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

October 22-28, 2015

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.

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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Silky O’Sullivan’s

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The Orpheum

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Live Music Fridays; 1 Last Chance Saturday, Oct. 24, 9 p.m.-midnight.

Norah Jones Monday, Oct. 26, 8-10:15 p.m.

Brinson’s

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

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

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

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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.

Memphis Symphony Orchestra First Tennessee Masterworks Series Saturday, Oct. 24, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Wet Willie’s

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

209 BEALE 578-5650

Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Eric Hughes Friday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m.; Roxi Love Sunday, Oct. 25, 7-11 p.m.

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Big & Rich Saturday, Oct. 24.

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

Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.

Paulette’s

Double J Smokehouse & Saloon 124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

The Plexx Old School Blues and Jazz Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.

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

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.

Riverfront Bar & Grill 251 RIVERSIDE

Local Music Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

The Green Beetle

Rumba Room

325 S. MAIN 527-7337

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Live Music Sundays Sundays, 8-11 p.m.

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

Huey’s Downtown

The Silly Goose

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

The Strangelove Trio Sunday, Oct. 25, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Maria Montessori School 740 HARBOR BEND 527-3444

The Maitre D’s, Jeff Evans, Ross Johnson Saturday, Oct. 24, 6-9 p.m.

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

South Main Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

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5 and Dime Recording will hold their Halloween party/show this Saturday at the Buccaneer.

5 and Dime founder Harry Koniditsiotis will play a rare show with his shoegaze band The Switchblade Kid, making them the de facto headliner of the evening’s free show. Switchblade Kid has a new single out now, and the band will hopefully have copies for purchase at the gig. Lifelong Memphian Tony Manard also joins the bill, bringing his brand of folk-ish blues music to the party. Two out-of-towners also take the stage on Saturday, serving as a testament to the reach that 5 and Dime has been able to achieve since becoming a full-fledged studio with affordable day rates that would make many a local recording-studio producer blush. Bruiser Queen from St. Louis is confirmed for the show, and they’ll bring their unique power pop to the Bucc earlier in the day-long party. Churchyard from Nashville are also on the bill, making for a homecoming for Alice Buchanan that seems long overdue. Buchanan cut her teeth with Scandaliz Vandalistz before joining the Memphis pop punch-ups Magic Kids and touring the world with her violin and knack for catchy string parts. Buchanan helped keep indie pop music alive in Memphis during the Magic Kids time at the top of the scene, and her new band Churchyard comes highly recommended.

It’s a free show, so don’t mess this up. — Chris Shaw The 5 and Dime Halloween Party, Saturday October 24th at the Buccaneer, 6:30 p.m., free.

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Sibella Folk & Jazz Friday, Oct. 23, 9 p.m.; Hope Clayburn’s Soul Scrimmage Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard James Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Anne Schorr Wednesday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Hi-Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Memphis Made Brewing Company 768 S. COOPER 207-5343

Paul Taylor Saturday, Oct. 24, 5-8 p.m.

Bar DKDC

The Buccaneer

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1368 MONROE 278-0909

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Impala Saturday, Oct. 24.

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538

Loveland Duren Fridays, 710 p.m.; Two Peace Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Twingiant/Holy Gallows/ Glorious Abhor/Dead Hawke Thursday, Oct. 22, 9 p.m.3 a.m.; 5 and Dime Recording and Memphis Mean Time Halloween Party Saturday, Oct. 24, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

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

Sports Junction

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

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Mac Miller, Gold Link, Domo Friday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m.midnight; Artistik Lounge Featuring Devin Crutcher every third Sunday, 7-11 p.m.; The Sheepdogs, Star & Micey Tuesday, Oct. 27, 7-11 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown

P&H Cafe

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Scott and Vanessa Sudbury Thursday, Oct. 22, 6 p.m.; Cary Hudson of Blue Mountain Thursday, Oct. 22, 9 p.m.; Roman/Green Friday, Oct. 23, 6:30 p.m.; American Fiction Friday, Oct. 23, 10 p.m.; RiverBluff Clan Saturday, Oct. 24, 11 a.m.; Reba Russell Trio Saturday, Oct. 24, 6:30 p.m.; Magnolia Sons Saturday, Oct. 24,

2000 N. PARKWAY

Carl Wolfe and the Little Big Band: “Happy Birthday, Pablo Picasso!” Thursday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

The International Guitar Duo Friday, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.; Short in the Sleeve, Rice Drewry, Idle & Wild Saturday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room

Rhodes College, Tuthill Performance Hall

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Murphy’s

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

Strano Sicilian Kitchen 948 S. COOPER 552-7122

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

1589 MADISON 726-4193

Insubordination Thursday, Oct. 22; Driftwood Ramblers, Trash Night Friday, Oct. 23; A Celebration of “Da Da” Saturday, Oct. 24, 5-9 p.m.; Regal Stretch, Fractured Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 p.m.; Chemical Envy Tuesday, Oct. 27.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

1927 MADISON 726-4372

Blue Monkey

2000 N. PARKWAY

Faculty Concert Series: Paul Murray Monday, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grille

Dead Soldiers, Hooten Hallers Thursday, Oct. 22, 10 p.m.; S (Jenn Ghetto), Ryan Azada Friday, Oct. 23, 9 p.m.; Devices Divide Us, What We Do in Secret Friday, Oct. 23, 9 p.m.; Sun Club Saturday, Oct. 24; The Districts, Lady Lamb, Sun Club, Movie Night Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 p.m.; Arms Aloft Sunday, Oct. 25, 9 p.m.; B.R. Lively Monday, Oct. 26, 9 p.m.; The Hotelier, Runaway Brother, Oso Oso, Spirit of the Beehive Tuesday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; The Sidewayz Wednesday, Oct. 28, 9 p.m.

YouTube Sensation Dustin Prinz Sunday, Oct. 25, 4-7 p.m.; The Lucky Losers Sunday, Oct. 25, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Rhodes College, Hardie Auditorium

1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Big City Circus’ “HOLLAween Partay” Saturday, Oct. 24, 9-10:30 p.m.; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Sing for Your Supper last Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9 p.m.

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

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

East Memphis Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

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

El Toro Loco 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 Mondays-Thursdays, 59:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

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5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

4148 WALES 373-0155

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

Huey’s Poplar

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant 786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

Karaoke ongoing.

Poplar/I-240 East Tapas and Drinks 6069 PARK 767-6002

Huey’s Cordova

Huey’s Southwind

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

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

6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

The Settlers Sunday, Oct. 25, 4-7 p.m.; Jeffrey and the Pacemakers Sunday, Oct. 25, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Mortimer’s

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland

RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

The Chaulkies Sunday, Oct. 25, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

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

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

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High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Delta Joe Sanders and 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.

Pam and Terry Wednesdays, 7-10 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 Fillin Station Grille East 5960 GETWELL 662-470-5814

Neon Velvet Band Friday, Oct. 23; Graham Road Band Saturday, Oct. 24, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

The Fillin Station

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

The Tommy Akers Duo Sunday, Oct. 25, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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Summer/Berclair Possum Daddy’s Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

Roxi Love Thursday, Oct. 22, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

Barbie’s Barlight Lounge

Memphis All-Stars Sunday, Oct. 25, 8-11:30 p.m.; Deering and Down Wednesday, Oct. 28, 5-7 p.m.

4840 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5423

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplethreat Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Pulse: A Pink Floyd Tribute Band Saturday, Oct. 24, 8 p.m.; Susan G. Komen Benefit with Reba Russell, Hope Clayburn, Rewind, and more Sunday, Oct. 25, 3-10 p.m.; Sax on Sunday: Straight-Ahead and Mainstream Jazz fourth Sunday of every month, 6:309:30 p.m.; Bauner Monday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

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

Prime Cut Sunday, Oct. 25, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

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

Winchester/ Hickory Hill LoVe Lounge 7144 WINCHESTER RD

Melodic Mondays fourth Monday of every month, 4-10 p.m.

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

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

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Ghost River Saturday, Oct. 24, 12-3 p.m.; Shelby Forest Pioneers Sunday, Oct. 25, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Hadley’s Pub

Collierville

5868 STAGE

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

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

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

Old Millington Winery 6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114

Maria Spence and the Penny Kings Sunday, Oct. 25, 3-6 p.m.

Almost Famous Friday, Oct. 23, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sunday Funday with the Lineup Sunday, Oct. 25, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Deering and Down Sunday, Oct. 25, 8-11:30 p.m.

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Germantown Performing Arts Center

Delta Blues Winery

1801 EXETER 751-7500

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.

Huey’s Collierville 2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

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

The Okee Dokee Brothers Friday, Oct. 23, 6:30 p.m.; Vienna Boys Choir Saturday, Oct. 24, 8-9:30 p.m.; Memphis Symphony Orchestra First Tennessee Masterworks Series Sunday, Oct. 25, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

2951 CELA 382-1576

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

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas Phillips Community College 1000 CAMPUS 870-338-6474

Warfield Concert: Three Mo’ Tenors Thursday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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A R T B y E i l e e n To w n s e n d

Close to Home Is loving local the wrong approach?

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October 22-28, 2015

ay back in 2013, there used to be a snarky Tumblr called “Commercially Unappealing” whose author (or authors) critiqued the Memphis art scene from behind the veil of anonymity. Though it is now defunct, the blog used to occasionally make some sharp judgments, among them, the thought that “there should be a moratorium on including the words ‘Memphis’ or ‘Southern’ in exhibition titles here.”

The post was a response to a reader-submitted question that queried, “What is the longest span of time that has elapsed in Memphis without there being an art show ABOUT HOW IT IS IN MEMPHIS? When you go to a city like, say, Denver, do you want to see a bunch of self-referential shit?”

“Memphis,” the harried reader concluded, must “find comfort in its regionalism.”

Regionalism. Ah, yes. The condition under which contemporary art made anywhere but New York, Los Angeles, London, and Paris must be qualified with some explanatory epithet. These qualifiers (he’s a Southern artist; that’s an Appalachian sculpture) serve a double purpose of both promoting a kind of exceptionalism (how folksy and real!) that protects the art from any actual contemporary critique and places it squarely beneath a kind of Mason-Dixon-y glass ceiling. Regionalism is the art world equivalent of introducing yourself as a “female writer” rather than just a “writer.” It’s a classic dilemma of people who have been treated as an underclass, who have had to craft their own narratives, failing an institutional embrace. And it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Southern arts are historically so identified not because they are lesser or greater, but because we offer something unique that is worth identifying at the outset.

It is good to acknowledge where you fit in history. But when — we female writers and Southern artists ask — does the label fail to serve?

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In the case of Southern art, the answer is that we are overdue. Seventy years ago, there was ample reason for Memphis painters to identify first and foremost as “Memphis artists,” considering that they might rarely leave the tri-state area in their lifetimes, and most of what informed their art could be found in a 50-mile radius. Not so these days. We have Wi-Fi. Reddit exists. It’s not exactly breaking news that we live in a globalized world, a world from which so-called “regional” artists are inextricable.

So when you tell me that your art show is about “Southern arts,” I expect work with a narrowed gaze. It’s not that it is artistically wrong to paint cotton fields under a mottled blue sky. It’s just that there can no longer be any pretense that landscape painters in Memphis aren’t just as inspired by Instagram as they are by the Arkansas lowlands. It would be as telling to call your show “The Art of the South(ern Users of Google Image Search).”

Emily Ballew Neff, the new Brooks director, is all for opening up the conversation.

Says Neff, “I’m a firm believer in cross-pollination, and Memphis has an ecosystem that I believe would benefit by greater exposure to international and national artists.” She maintains that a more international perspective, correctly executed, would “never be at the expense supporting our Memphis artists” but instead “will only elevate the art conversation in our city and lead to a more vibrant community artistically overall.”

Likewise, Urban Art Commission’s director Lauren Kennedy says, “I think there is a lot of room for Memphis to participate more broadly in the national arts scene. There are people making work, and big conversations are happening, but I don’t feel like we are as plugged into those conversations as we can be … I see that kind of interaction as an incredible growth opportunity for everybody.”

We can love our Memphis roots without limiting the reach of our arts. The best way to choose 901, as far as contemporary art is concerned, is to know that the sphere of creativity is not delimited by I-240.

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

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

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October 22 - 28 Hattiloo Theatre

THEATER

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

Cicada, coming-of-age ghost story set in rural Mississippi.

(726-0800), voicesofthesouth. org. $12. Sun., Oct. 25, 7-9 p.m.

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

Circuit Playhouse

Junie B. Jones, The Musical, aadaptation of Barbara Park’s best-selling books. $10. Sat., Oct. 24, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Carrie: the Musical. www. playhouseonthesquare.org.

Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Oct. 25.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

The Evergreen Theatre

Life & Death Legends from Mexico, celebrate El Dia de los Muertos with Danza Azteca Quetzalcoatl. (846-5640), www. cazateatro.org. $25. Fri.-Sat., Oct.23-24, 8-9:30 p.m.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Germantown Community Theatre

Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, musical about the Man in Black. www.gctcomeplay.org.

Sundays, 2:30 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Nov. 8.

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In the Red and Brown Water. www.hattiloo.org. $18-$26. Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m., and Sun., 3 p.m.

Through Oct. 25.

2016 Fiction Contest Call for Entries

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Through Feb. 1, 2016.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Memphis Hunt and Polo Club

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“400: The Shakespeare Feast,” dinner, drinks, and Shakespeare. www.tnshakespeare.org. $57.

Sundays, noon, and Thursdays, 6 p.m. Through Oct. 29.

Art on Fire

Food, live music, silent auction, and a roaring bonfire. $60 members, $75 nonmembers.

Sat., Oct. 24, 7-11 p.m.

650 S. SHADY GROVE (683-2783).

Theatre Memphis

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

Wait Until Dark, illegal drugs, Sam and his blind wife, Susy, and three con men. www. theatrememphis.org. $25. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.

Through Nov. 1.

“Grass Is Just Fine Over Here”

Works by Sonny Ortolano featuring DJ T-Swift and Lady LaPanto. Fri., Oct. 23, 6-10 p.m.

GLITCH, 2180 COWDEN (734-6136).

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

Open Studio with Lance Turner

TheatreWorks

Titus Andronicus, bloodthirsty drama by Shakespeare, presented by New Moon Theatre Company . (484-3467), www.newmoontheatre.org. $20.

Fridays, Saturdays, 8-10 p.m., and Sundays, 2-4 p.m. Through Nov. 8.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

Germantown Performing Arts Center “Capturing Nature,” photography by Dr. David Sloas. www. gpacweb.com. Fri., Oct. 23, 4:30 p.m.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (754-2680).

23, 5-9 p.m.

Jerre Dye’s Cicada, a coming-of-age ghost story at the Buckman Sunday

A City-Wide Harvest Celebration in the Heart of Midtown (Rain or Shine)

CROSSTOWN ARTS GALLERY, 422 N. CLEVELAND, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.

TOPS Gallery

“The Inside Circle,” work by Guy Church. Fri., Oct. 23, 6-8 p.m.

Hyde Gallery

“Water, Bones, and Blood,” presented by NIA Artist Collective featuring works from 15 artists. www.mca.edu. Fri., Oct.

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LINDENFEST Saturday, October 24 10:00 AM—4:00 PM

Crosstown Arts’ Studio Residency program artist opens his space to the public. Sat., Oct. 24, 2-5 p.m.

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Dinner, dance performances, and music by DJ Code. $45.

Fri., Oct. 23, 7-9 p.m.

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The Annesdale Park Gallery

“Western Memoir : An Artist’s Journey From Santa Fe to the Ozarks,” paintings by Diana Harvey. www.theannesdaleparkgallery.net. Through Nov. 10.

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

ANF Architects

2015 RiverArtsFest Invitational, area artists and 2015 Festival Artist, Jeanne Seagle. www. anfa.com. Through Nov. 12.

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School “Among Horses.” www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through Nov. 2.

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

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Circuitous Succession Gallery

Work by Anne J. Froning, Elizabeth Garatt, and Tommy Foster. Through Oct. 23.

“Artwork by the Homeless.” www.circuitoussuccession.com.

Through Oct. 27.

500 S. SECOND.

Crosstown Arts

“You Are the Hole,” installation works by Joel Parsons. www. crosstownarts.org. Through Oct. 31.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

“Game Day,” exhibition of all things college football. www. davidluskgallery.com. Through Oct. 24.

64 FLICKER (767-3800).

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The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

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

October 22-28, 2015

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2027 Madison Ave. 901-590-0048

“Along the Garden Path,” paintings by June Caldwell and metalwork by the late Harrison Caldwell. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Oct. 28.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“60s Cool,” exhibition celebrating art and design from the 1960s.

Through Jan. 17, 2016.

“Cats and Quotes,” exhibition featuring felines. Through Jan. 3, 2016.

“Clare Leighton and Thomas W. Nason: Common Threads,” exhibition by masters in the medium of wood engraving. org. Through March 13, 2016.

“Decorative Arts Trust: 35th Anniversary,” works for the museum’s permanent collection featuring Medieval to Modern, furniture to faïence. Through Jan. 10, 2016.

“Ofrendas: Student-made Altars,” exhibition honoring the spirits of the deceased, El Dia de los Muertos. Through Nov. 15.

“William Eggleston & Ernest C. Withers in Conversation,” exhibition of photographs from 1976-1987. www.brooksmuseum.org. Through Jan. 3, 2016.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

2491 BROAD (652-0848).

Fratelli’s

“On the Grounds,” work by students of the Fred Rawlinson Atelier. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Oct. 27.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Sueños de Costa Rica.” paintings by John Torina. Through Nov. 12.

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

Rita DeWeese, www. salavationarmymemphis.org.

Through Oct. 31.

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

Scottish Rite

“Circuitous Succession Epilogue II,” work by multiple artists. www.circuitoussuccession.com. Through Nov. 9.

825 UNION.

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“Stax: Visions of Soul,” visual art celebrating songs from Stax. www.staxmuseum.com.

Through Dec. 31.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Sue Layman Designs

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

Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Through Dec. 5.

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

Wings Gallery

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

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

WKNO Studio

WinterArts Preview Show, featuring work in glass, clay, metal, wood, fiber, and other media. www.wkno.org.

Through Oct. 30.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Memphis College of Art

Found Studio

942 COOPER (550-0064).

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Memphis Botanic Garden

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Alex Paulus, through Nov. 1.

“Grass Is Just Fine,” work by Sonny Ortolano at Glitch

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Eclectic Eye

“Classroom Daydream,” sculptured paintings by Angelina Mazzanti. www.eclectic-eye. com. Through Nov. 4.

INSTAGRAM

“Giardino Inverno,” abstract art

by Jeri Ledbetter. www.lrossgallery.com. Through Oct. 31.

“Invisible Girls” and “The Mind’s I,” two bodies of work

by Anne Harris. www.mca.edu.

Through Nov. 14.

“Symbiotic Tendencies,” sculptural collage works by Nikkila Carroll. www.mca.edu.

Through Nov. 14.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

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L Ross Gallery

“Loss and Beauty: Creating Solace in a Land of Infinite Sorrow,” photography by Keron Psillas. www.jccmemphis.org.

Through Nov. 6.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

“Master Metalsmith: Linda Threadgill.” www.metalmuseum.org. Through Dec. 6.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Ross Gallery

“Tacos or Sushi?,” works by Annabelle Meacham. (3213243), www.cbu.edu/gallery.

Through Dec. 10.

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

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ArtSavvy: Big Band Swing

Beginning swing dance lessons taught by Red Hot Lindy Hop. Free with RSVP. Tues., Oct. 27, 7-8:15 p.m.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), WWW.GPACWEB.COM.

Red Hot Lindy Dance Party

Music by Side Street Steppers followed by Rockabilly Roy Brewer. Sat., Oct. 24, 8-11 p.m.

CENTER FOR SOUTHERN FOLKLORE, 123 S. MAIN AT PEABODY TROLLEY STOP (525-3655), WWW.SOUTHERNFOLKLORE.COM.

Romeo and Juliet

Presented by Ballet Memphis. $10-$72. Through Oct. 24, 8 p.m.

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

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Swingin’ Time: A Tap Dance Extravaganza

Collierville Dairy Day

Classic jazz tap featuring Derick K. Grant, RONxII, and Emma Wylie. $35. Fri., Oct. 23, 8-9:15 p.m.

Celebrate Collierville’s dairy history. Sat., Oct. 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483), WWW.151RED.COM/PERFORMANCES.

MORTON MUSEUM OF COLLIERVILLE HISTORY, 196 MAIN, COLLIERVILLE (457-2650), WWW.CI.COLLIERVILLE.TN.US.

SOUTH MAIN, LOT NEXT TO EARNESTINE & HAZEL’S (261-5534), WWW.RIVERARTSMEMPHIS.ORG.

Lindenfest

Tennessee Whiskey Festival

P O ET RY/S PO K E N W O R D

Amurica World Headquarters

Spillit Story Slam: Toil, Trouble, and Impossibility. www.spillitmemphis.org. Fri., Oct. 23, 7 p.m.

410 CLEVELAND.

Cossitt Library

Cossitt Lounge II: Words on Fire, spoken word artists. (415-2766), www.memphislibrary.org. Free. Fri., Oct. 23, 6-8 p.m.

33 S. FRONT (415-2766).

RiverArtsFest

Family-friendly outdoor festival. Sat., Oct. 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

LINDENWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 2400 UNION (458-8506), WWW. LINDENFEST.WEEBLY.COM.

BASS PRO PYRAMID, 1 BASS PRO (291-8200), WWW.BASSPRO.COM.

More than 180 artists in juried artist market, music, and demonstration areas. Free-$5. Fri., Oct. 23, 6-9 p.m., Sat., Oct. 24, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sun., Oct. 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sample whiskey products, signature cocktails, or brews. $5-$20. Fri., Oct. 23, 6-10 p.m.

UNITED WAREHOUSE, 138 ST. PAUL, WWW.TNWHISKEYFESTIVAL. COM/.

Porktoberfest

Pork, music, football games, beer tent, bar stations, and more. $10. Fri., Oct. 23, 6 p.m., and Sat., Oct. 24, 11 a.m.

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

Benefiting the American Cancer Society. Sun., Oct. 25, 1:15-5 p.m.

LIBERTY BOWL MEMORIAL STADIUM, 335 S. HOLLYWOOD (7293586), WWW.MAKINGSTRIDESWALK.ORG.

St. Jude Ride

Solo or with teams and camping along the Mississippi River. Fri.-Sat., Oct. 23-24.

TOM LEE PARK, OFF RIVERSIDE DR., WWW.STJUDE.ORG.

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6th Annual A Pink Affair

S PO R TS / F IT N E S S

Duck Dash 5K

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

Benefiting the Wings Cancer Foundation’s programs

Proceeds to support Ducks Unlimited. $25. Sat., Oct. 24, 9 a.m.

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B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Leigh Anne Tuohy

Author discusses and signs Turn Around. Thurs., Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Linda Lee Peterson

Author discusses and signs The Spy on the Tennessee Walker. Tues., Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m.

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

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“Ancient Rome: The Legacy of Cicero” Ryan Sellers from MUS. Wed., Oct. 28, 4-5 p.m.

COLLIERVILLE LIBRARY, 91 WALNUT (853-2333), WWW.COLLIERVILLELIBRARY.ORG.

Exploring the Paranormal

The MidSouth Paranormal Society will give a presentation on the paranormal at the invitation of the Memphis Freethought Alliance. Sun., Oct. 25, 1:30-3 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (496-5349).

“Jewels of Elizabeth Gage”

Douglas Hyland gives a presentation on Elizabeth Gage, the foremost designer of fine jewelry for 50 years. Free with gallery admission. Sat., Oct. 24, 10:30 a.m.

Win a Sack Full of Cash and Promo Chips!

Score a winning hand while playing Blackjack, Craps, 3-Card Poker, Roulette, or Mississippi Stud from October 1 - 30, and receive an entry for the big Cash & Promo Chips drawing.

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

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER, 255 UNIVERSITY CENTER, PARIS THEATER, WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

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10th Annual Costume Twilight Tour

Costumed characters portraying Elmwood residents.

Last tour at 5:30 p.m. $20. Sat., Oct. 24, 4 p.m.

ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW.ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.

Woodruff-Fontaine House Museum Ghost Tour

I Want it All Promo Cash Drawings

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Harvard scholar Dr. Nicholas Watson speaks on topic. Thurs., Oct. 22, 5:30 p.m.

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Win up to one $250 prize in the 6pm-9pm drawings, and one $500 prize in the 10pm drawing.

An experienced paranormal investigator with investigation equipment. $25. Fri., Oct. 23, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

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

PLay & Earn

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The Fall Mid-South Wedding Show and Bridal School $15. Sun., Oct. 25, 1-5 p.m.

WHISPERING WOODS HOTEL AND CONVENTION CENTER, 11200 GOODMAN, OLIVE BRANCH, MS (368-6782), WWW.MIDSOUTHWEDDINGSHOW.COM.

In honor of those who have served, celebrate with us!

Every Tuesday in November

NOVEMBER 11

Friends of the Library Fall 2015 Book Sale Oct. 23-24, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700), WWW.MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG. Must be 21 and a Key Rewards member. See Cashier • Players Club for rules. Management reserves the right to cancel, change and modify the promotion or tournament with notice to the Mississippi Gaming Commission where required. Gaming restricted patrons prohibited.

Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700.

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Naseeb Shaheen Memorial Lecture: “The Word of God in the Mother Tongue or Why Most of What We Assume About the History of Bible Translation Is Wrong”

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CALENDAR: OCTOBER 22 - 28 rated trunks of cars. Sat., Oct. 24, 2-4 p.m.

ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL, 700 POPLAR (527-3361), WWW. STMARYSMEMPHIS.ORG.

Underwater Pumpkin Carving

Carve pumpkins, topside and underwater. Benefiting Creative Aging. Sat., Oct. 24, 12-3 p.m.

Spooky Nights at Shelby Farms through October 31st

THE DIVE SHOP, 999 SOUTH YATES (763-3483), WWW.CREATIVEAGINGMIDSOUTH.ORG.

FO O D & D R I N K EVE NTS

Good Food Revival 2015

Power of the Purse

Three-course meal curated by Chef Ana Gonzales of Bleu, hill-country Delta blues, and dancing. BYOB. $40. Sat., Oct. 24, 3-10 p.m.

BRIDGES, 477 N. FIFTH, WWW.APINKAFFAIR.COM.

Fun, food, and fashion. Fri., Oct. 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Blues Ball

CHICKASAW COUNTRY CLUB, 3395 GALLOWAY, WWW.WFGM.ORG.

Local Beer Dinner

continued from page 35 for medically underserved breast cancer survivors. $25.

Sat., Oct. 24, 7-11 p.m.

Honoring B.B. King and celebrating the 80th birthday of Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis. Sat., Oct. 24.

THE GIBSON BEALE STREET SHOWCASE, 145 LT. GEORGE W. LEE (544-7998 EXT. 4080), WWW.MEMPHISCHARITABLE. ORG.

Dinner on Stage

Dine on the stage where the stars perform and hear stories told by Pat Halloran. $75.

Thurs., Oct. 22, 6-9 p.m.

THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (5253000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS. COM.

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FRIDAY - OCT 30 • 7:30 SATURDAY - OCT 31 • 2:30, 5:30 & 8:30pm SUNDAY - NOV 1 • 2:30 & 5:30pm

Flocktoberfest Fireworks The Memphis Symphony Orchestra and fireworks. Fri., Oct. 23.

BASS PRO PYRAMID, 1 BASS PRO (291-8200), WWW.BASSPRO.COM.

Gandhi-King Youth Conference

Conference for 6-12 grade students inspired by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. $20.

Fri., Oct. 23, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (452-5600), WWW.BRIDGESUSA.ORG.

The Guest House at Graceland Grand Opening Celebration

CIRQUE ITALIA www.cirqueitalia.com

FREE KID’S TICKETS HERE!

Ribbon-cutting ceremony, live concerts, celebrity appearances, and red carpet VIP events.

Tues.-Fri., Oct. 27-30.

GRACELAND, 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (3323322), WWW.GRACELAND.COM.

National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award Ceremony Michael Eric Dyson hosts ceremony honoring Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, Ava Duvernay, and Ruby Bridges Hall. Also featuring Chrisette Michele. Thurs., Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m.

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

A Night to STAND for the Vulnerable

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Celebration of World Relief Memphis. $60. Fri., Oct. 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 4055 POPLAR (341-0225), WORLDRELIEFMEMPHIS.ORG/BENEFIT.

H O LI DAY EVE NTS

Boo! Ball

Halloween gala. Costumes are highly recommended. 21+ event. $60. Fri., Oct. 23, 7:3011:30 p.m.

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

Flick-or-Treat Movie Night

Family-friendly fun featuring screening of Ghostbusters. $10.

Fri., Oct. 23, 6 p.m.

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

Holiday Market

Opens at 9 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, Sunday market opens at 11 a.m. Through Oct. 25.

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

Le Bonheur Zoo Boo

$12 members, $15 nonmembers. Fridays-Sundays, 5:30 p.m. Through Oct. 31.

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

MixTape Halloween Party

Featuring cocktails from Copper & Kings. Free. Sun., Oct. 25, 8-11 p.m.

ALCHEMY, 940 S. COOPER (8284344), WWW.ALCHEMYMEMPHIS. COM.

Halloween Circus Sideshow

Squidling Brothers presents “Danger, the traveling Circus Sideshow.” Dress as your favorite Halloween freak. $20. Wed., Oct. 28, 7-11 p.m.

HOME PLACE PASTURES, 1513 HOME PLACE (482-9616), WWW. ROOTSMEMPHIS.ORG.

Four-course dinner with beer pairing. $50. Tues., Oct. 27, 7 p.m.

LOCAL, 95 S. MAIN (473-9573), WWW.LOCALGASTROPUB.COM.

“Men Who Cook: Stirring up Community Change”

Taste and vote for your favorite dishes as presented by the men of Memphis. $25. Sat., Oct. 24, 3-5 p.m.

ORANGE MOUND COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER, 2590 PARK (5767266), WWW.RCLMENWHOCOOK. EVENTBRITE.COM.

Ten ’til Ten Dinner Series: Game Night Tues., Oct. 27, 6 p.m.

THE MAJESTIC GRILLE, 145 S. MAIN (522-8555), WWW.MAJESTICGRILLE.COM.

Vine to Wine at the Garden: Spooky Spirits $25 members, $35 nonmembers. Tues., Oct. 27, 6-8 p.m.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4131), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

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The Babadook

$9. Wed., Oct. 28, 7 p.m.

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

Pack Up Your Sorrows

Documentary exploring the stigmatization of mental illnesses in our society. Sat., Oct. 24, 3 p.m.

CENTER FOR SOUTHERN FOLKLORE, 123 S. MAIN AT PEABODY TROLLEY STOP (525-3655), WWW. SOUTHERNFOLKLORE.COM.

Time Warp Drive-In: Monsterama

OVERTON SQUARE, MIDTOWN, WWW.OVERTONSQUARE.COM.

Final night of the year. $10.

Sat., Oct. 24, 7 p.m.

Spooky Nights

MALCO SUMMER 4 DRIVE-IN, 5310 SUMMER ((901)681-2020), WWW. MALCO.COM.

Haunted trail with zombies, scares, and spooks. Fri.-Sat., and Thursday, October 22, 7-10 p.m.Though Oct. 31.

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

Trunk or Treat

All kids aged 12 and under trick or treat out of the deco-

Witches brews and barbecue, wine through the night blood red and ghostly white, flickering lights and strange sights, fortunes told, original art sold, and music to rock your soul.

Spirits With The Spirits Friday, October 30, 2015 The party that’s always something else. Dig up some friends and join us, supporting the care and maintenance of the city’s most storied ground. $70 per body, $125 per couple.

RIP: elmwoodcemetery.org | 901.774.3212

Three Haunts One Location

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NOTHING COMES ALIVE LIKE A CEMETERY AT NIGHT.

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(left to right) Ultimate Cheese from Memphis Pizza Cafe, the Mega Veggie from Mellow Mushroom, and ‘Shrooms from Hog & Hominy

Free Will Your local options for gluten-free pizza.

H

as there ever been a more hated foodstuff than gluten?

The proliferation of gluten-free pizza on local menus is indicative of this ill will held by celiacs and gluten-intolerants alike. Heck, some people choose to be gluten-free (GF) just because they can! This is America after all.

When it comes to deciding who has the best gluten-free pizza in town, it’s a hard thing to judge. Andria Brown, who was diagnosed with celiac disease a couple of years ago, explains, “Non-GF people just shouldn’t eat it, and GF people’s opinions vary depending on how long it’s been since they had real pizza. In general, the thinner, crispier crusts are better because they’re not trying to be soft and chewy.”

Leigh Espy, who is gluten-intolerant, agrees. “Gluten-free crust is not the same — you don’t get that lovely chewy texture, but I’ve always preferred the thin, crispy

crust anyway.”

Of course, depending on how much you hate gluten (and how much it hates you), cross-contamination factors must be considered as well. Here’s an overview of your current options: Mellow Mushroom Annica Kreider, VP of brand development, says Mellow Mushroom began offering gluten-free crust several years ago as a result of requests from guests who were no longer able to enjoy pizza. It is celiac-safe.

“We pride ourselves on this aspect of our program. Our cooks have been trained on the importance of preventing cross-contamination,” Kreider says. The kitchen staff will wash their hands, put on fresh gloves and a fresh apron, and only use gluten-free dedicated cooking utensils and ingredients.

Everything is made to order and prepared in a separate area. A screen pan is used during the baking process so the glutenfree crust never makes direct contact with

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“While realizing that a gluten-free crust would likely never taste the same as our signature Mellow dough, our goal was to deliver a flavor profile that was just as delicious as our regular crust for the glutenfree audience,” explains Kreider.

It has totally different ingredients from the regular crust, which is thicker. “A combination of ancient grains really gives it a delicious and hearty flavor, and it crisps up very nicely. We also were able to make it vegan in the reformulation,” she says.

The crust is very popular, thanks to a dedicated marketing campaign. mellowmushroom.com Rock’n Dough Pizza Co. Amanda Denno says at Rock’n Dough they had a substantial customer demand for a gluten-free and/or low-carb option.

“Some people simply preferred to eat lowcarb, and other people needed to avoid gluten due to dietary sensitivities or gluten

allergies,” she says.

They use a pizza crust mix from local Memphis company Nourishe and prepare it in-house. The crust mix itself is 100-percent gluten-free, however, Rock’n Dough prepares this dough mix in a kitchen where flour containing gluten is heavily used. Steps they take to minimize gluten cross-contamination include storing it separately from other ingredients in a sealed container and preparing the glutenand grain-sensitive dough at different times than gluten-containing dough.

“We take care to minimize crosscontamination, but it is possible that small amounts of gluten do get incorporated. For this reason, we cannot guarantee the crust we serve in the restaurant is 100 percent gluten free,” Denno says. This pizza crust is therefore not suitable for people with severe gluten allergies or reactions. It is listed as “gluten- and grain-sensitive” on the menu, and they train their staff to discuss the possibility of cross-contamination with

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Guests are pleasantly surprised by how light and airy the crust is. pyrospizza.com Russo’s New York Pizzeria Chef Anthony Russo spent two years perfecting the recipe for his gluten-free crust.

The secret is that it is bound together with honey and a Sicilian olive oil made specifically for Russo’s.

Jackson Lewis, the franchise’s PR representative, says there is a serious need for great-tasting gluten-free options, and because of this, Russo’s offers guests an entirely gluten-free menu. Additionally, the retail version of the gluten-free pizza is sold in 3,000 grocery stores across the United States.

Local franchise owner, Brett Steiner, says to prevent cross-contamination in the Germantown store, they keep the pizza crust in a separate cooler and change their gloves prior to making the order. The crust is very popular. They sell at least 50 a week. nypizzeria.com

Pyro’s Fire Fresh Pizza Co-owner Chad Foreman says Pyro’s offers a gluten-free crust that many guests, both those with celiac disease and those just wanting to minimize gluten in their diets, really like. “Our gluten-free crust is made with rice flour, and we offer to cook it in a pan for our more sensitive guests,” he says.

However, they do not offer a 100-percent gluten-free experience. “We do not recommend any of our products for individuals that are extremely sensitive. Since we make our signature thin crust in-house everyday with flour and semolina, our restaurant has gluten particles everywhere, which makes cross-contamination virtually impossible to avoid,” Foreman explains.

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Like Ciao Bella, they use separate utensils, but it is prepared and cooked in the same station/oven as regular pies. memphispizzacafe.com Chuck E. Cheese’s Chuck E. Cheese’s has a gluten-free pizza that comes in a sealed, oven-safe bag. It isn’t opened until it gets to the table, and a one-time-use pizza cutter is provided.

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Denno says the crust tastes great. It contains nut, seed, and root vegetable flours and is naturally free from gluten, grains, and soy. It is also lower in carbohydrates than many other gluten-free products and is Paleo-diet friendly. “Nourishe specializes in great-tasting gluten-free products, and we specialize in great pizza — when you combine them, it is the best!” she says.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Bridge of Spies Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks create a masterful Cold War thriller.

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’m not sure I’m qualified to critique a Steven Spielberg film. Large parts of my definition of how to make a good film come from Spielberg, who, in turn, distilled the ideas of old masters such as Hitchcock, Kubrick, Harryhausen, and Capra into wildly popular entertainments. Of all of the extremely talented directors to come out of the 1970s — Lucas, Coppola, De Palma, etc. — Spielberg is the most prolific and populist. Only Martin Scorsese rivals his artistic batting average. Sure, Spielberg can be cheesy, but Scorsese never really tried to make a big-tent spectacle picture, while Spielberg has occasionally elevated simple monster movies to the realm of high art. Since Spielberg’s been copied six ways to Sunday, it’s easy to take him for granted. That is, until he drops an atomic bomb of greatness like Bridge of Spies.

Like Saving Private Ryan, Bridge of Spies opens with a huge, bravado sequence that sets the realm of the film’s conflict. But it’s 1957, and the Cold War is in full effect, so instead of storming the beaches at Normandy, we’re treated to an interlocking series of tracking shots of FBI agents stalking Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) through Brooklyn.

There are no dinosaurs or sharks or aliens in Bridge of Spies, but there is a giant monster looming just off-screen: nuclear war. I think it’s hard for people who didn’t spend their childhood in abstract fear of Soviet missiles raining atomic death to understand people’s motivations in spy movies of the period. Directors didn’t have to explain the

Breaking Up With Crimson Peak It’s not you, Guillermo del Toro. It’s me.

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My dearest Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), It is with heavy heart that I must inform you that I,

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ing a prisoner swap in East Berlin.

Working from an excellent screenplay by Matt Charman that was rewritten by Joel and Ethan Coen, both Hanks and Spielberg are at Hanks the top of their game. Hanks is unmannered plays a hero and charming, able to summon a laugh or in Bridge of a gasp with a raised eyebrow or tense gulp.

Spies.

Spielberg can convey in one perfect composition what it takes most contemporary directors three or four quick cuts to get across.

Even his scene transitions are things of beauty.

The most important thing about Bridge of stakes, because everybody knew that a tiny slipup could Spies is its vision of America. Early on, Donovan sums up lead to the destruction of civilization. But Spielberg, ever his philosophy by saying “It can’t look like our justice systhe effective communicator, conveys the mood of the tem tosses people on the ash heap.” To fearful 21st-century times perfectly with a single scene where his everyman America, Bridge of Spies is a rebuke that reverberates from hero James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) comforts his young Ferguson to Guantanamo Bay. Too many contemporary son Roger (Noah Schnapp) who has been traumatized by stories, from 24 to San Andreas, put sociopathic jerks in a “duck and cover” instructional film. the protagonist role and all but order you to accept them Donovan is a lawyer who distinguished himself at as heroes. But Hanks and Spielberg understand that heroes the Nuremberg war crimes tribunals, but is now living a need to behave heroically. Here, they’re putting forth a comfortable life practicing insurance law. Because of his real-life lawyer devoted to upholding America’s highest experience and integrity, he is chosen by the New York ideals, even for its enemies, as a hero to be emulated. As State Bar Association to be Abel’s attorney. His job, he is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. said, “We are what we pretend to be, so told, is to demonstrate the superiority of the American we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Donolegal system by mounting a defense of the accused spy. van might like Scotch in his Nescafé, but he represents an He earns the ire of the press and his colleagues when he America that at least pretends to be good. saves Abel from the electric chair. After an American U-2 spy plane is shot down over Russia and its pilot Bridge of Spies Francis Gary Powers is captured, Donovan is called on Now playing to defuse the potentially explosive situation by negotiatMultiple locations your wife, am leaving your ancestral home of Allerdale Hall, aka Crimson Peak, and filing for divorce. This may come as a shock to you, but I now think the dissolution of our relationship was inevitable from the start. Maybe when my mother came back from the grave as a hideous ghost and hissed “Beware of Crimson Peak!”, I should have listened to her. Maybe I should have noticed that you look and act just like the evil Norse trickster god Loki.

Maybe I missed another opportunity to avert relationship disaster when my rich father Carter Cushing (Jim Beaver)

tried to bribe you into leaving the country. But he was such a terrible actor that I was almost relieved when he died under mysterious circumstances. And besides, you needed his considerable fortune to finish the construction of your steampunk machine that will bring the red clay mines underneath your estate back to profitability.

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Maybe you could have put that money into fixing up the house instead. I mean, come on. There’s a giant hole in the roof where the rain and snow come in and cascade down into the central stairwell.

Sure, it makes for a dramatic scene, and the soft snowdrift did save my life when your sister Lucille (Jessica Chastain) tried to kill me, but it’s way past time to put a tarp on it. Between that, the walls that drip blood all the time, and the small army of ghosts that roam the halls (but never have much of an effect on the plot), my lawyer is going to have no trouble convincing the judge that you are forcing me to live in unacceptable conditions.

And then there’s your sister. Lucille is always smiling and courteous to my face, but I get the sense that she’s plotting against me. Perhaps it’s because of the similarities between our relationship and the one between Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains’ mother in the 1946 Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious, what with the poison in the tea and the purloined key and the basement full of secrets and whatnot. But the year is 1901, which means Hitch is just 2 years old and films

Mia Wasikowska in Crimson Peak with actual plots are only now being invented, so you can understand how I would have missed those particular red flags. I guess you live and learn.

I admit I share some of the blame for this fiasco. I guess I was blinded by the splendor of all those puffy-sleeved silk organza nightgowns and crushed velvet top hats. But frankly, my dear Thomas, there are so many holes in our story, I just don’t think it’s salvageable. So we must go our separate ways and hope that next time, director Guillermo del Toro can conjure up a more coherent world for us to live in.

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THE LAST WORD by Jen Clarke

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I was never too keen on Halloween as a kid. Each year our church hosted an event that featured both a haunted house and a fright-free “fun house” for the little ones who couldn’t handle it. And me. I tried to act as if I was protecting my much-younger little sister, but nobody fell for that trick.

I wore the same witch costume for at least four years until the dress was a tunic and the pointy hat’s elastic band was tight enough to cut off the circulation to my brain. I spent the next few Halloweens going doorto-door in my soccer uniform, before finally deciding I was too cool to participate in that lame kiddie stuff. October 31st was just another day until I was old enough for Adult Halloween.

Adult Halloween is a totally different holiday, one that’s more about cocktails than candy. Adult Halloween means multiple weekends of party-hopping in a costume that’s either clever, timely, skimpy, or terrifying as hell. Or all of the above. I don’t know if there’s an upper age limit for Adult Halloween, but if there is, I’m not there yet.

I usually try to come up with a Memphis-themed costume, but I haven’t managed to top Halloween 2009, when I was “The Vacated Season.” That costume consisted of a meticulously reproduced 2008 NCAA Final Four banner over a white sheet with eyeholes and a mouth hole that grew as the night progressed. I could barely breathe, let alone drink my beer without making a mess, but it was worth it.

I thought of this year’s costume on November 1st last year. Because, as we all know, that’s when all the best Halloween ideas happen. For once I actually wrote it down, instead of trying to remember it a year later.

I’ve come up with a few others since then. Halloween is fast approaching, and I know some of you are waiting until the last minute (or until someone invites you to something) to put together a costume. Consider these costume ideas my gift to the people — a public service, if you will. Bonus: you can make them using items you already own or can acquire cheaply.

Statue of Liberty Bowl: Wear a blue sheet as a toga. Carry a football under one arm. Keep a beverage in your “torch hand” at all times. Print out a picture of the exterior of the Liberty Bowl and wear it as a crown.

Bike lane: Wear a black shirt and black pants. Paint two vertical white stripes down the front of each. Find a bike lane symbol online and stencil it on the front. If you want to take it a step further and be the Madison Avenue bike lane, affix a toy bus to the front of the shirt.

The Roo: Procure a stuffed kangaroo. Wear the kangaroo on your head. Give people piggyback rides in exchange for candy.

Grindfather clock: Make a kindergarten-style paper-plate mask of a clock face. Or paint a clock on your own face, if you prefer. Just make sure you don’t paint it backwards. Mirrors can be tricky, you know. Wear a Tony Allen jersey. Make a pendulum by affixing some kind of a gold disk to a chain.

Bass Ho Shops: for those who like to slut it up on Halloween, I’ve got three words. Sexy. Bass. Pro. Wear a silver triangle bikini top and the shortest camo shorts you can find. Complete the look with some hunting boots and an iconic Bass Pro trucker hat. If you insist on accessorizing further, carry a fishing pole. Whatever you do, please leave the firearms at home.

Overton Square Parking Garage: Cut holes for your head and arms in a cardboard box. Ask people to give you three bucks. Pair up with The Roo for an easy couple costume.

The “At Least We Look Good” Ole Miss Football Fan: Here’s another potential couple costume. Wear a red dress and brown boots. No tights, no leggings, no matter the temperature. Or go with a navy blazer, white dress shirt, red tie and khakis. Loafers are a must — but no socks. (What is it with the aversion to hosiery, y’all?) Accessorize with a red Solo cup. If you’re going to a party, act like you own the place, and then leave early.

Germantown: Print out about a dozen grocery store logos. These must be high-end stores — anything with “Save” in the name is forbidden. Affix the logos to your body. Make sure they adhere to Chapter 14 of Germantown’s Code of Ordinances. Good luck with that!

I’m sure I could think of a few more ideas, but I would hate to undermine my own chances of scoring a gift certificate or a free bar tab in a costume contest. Feel free to use them, and tweet me a photo if you do.

And if you win anything, you know what to do. I accept PayPal, Venmo, and cash.

Jen Clarke is an unapologetic Memphian and digital marketing specialist.

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