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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR So the latest season of Game of Thrones ended like most of the other seasons have ended: A seemingly essential character who everyone really liked was hideously murdered. Of course, we won’t know if Jon Snow is really dead until next season.

But if he survives getting run through with several broadswords, it will probably have to involve dark magick or be revealed as a dream sequence or some other screenwriting chestnut.

Aside from massive battles, there are really only two types of deaths in Game of Thrones (and in most fiction, truth be told): the really satisfying ones, where a loathsome, evil creep finally gets what’s coming to him, and the “Oh, no, not HER!!” deaths that just tick you off. And since GOT is set in a medieval, pre-gunpowder world, most deaths come via sword, knife, arrow, or spear — not a pleasant way to go, one assumes.

Anyway, all this bloody entertainment got me thinking about how human weaponry has shaped human culture, fictional and nonfictional. We’ve gone from knives and spears and arrows to muzzle-loaders and small cannons to machine guns and bazookas. We “progressed” to fighter planes, bombers, nuclear missiles, and, most recently, to drones and robotic weapons. And, of course, we can’t overlook chemical and biological warfare. Very efficient.

Through history, our art, literature, film, and even music have reflected our weapons: what we use to wage warfare, to enforce the law — and to just generally kill each other off. Movies and books set in the future usually feature some sort of glitzy advanced weaponry — lasers or such — but we’re still just basically shooting at each other with one thing or another.

But increasingly, modern warfare has evolved into a video-game scenario, with “soldiers” in front of computer screens carrying out deadly drone attacks on the other side of the world. For the side sending in the drones (us), this seems like a good deal, a much safer and sanitary version of warfare, with little danger to our combatants.

For the people in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in the Middle East where death comes out of the sky with no warning, it’s not such a good deal.

When we read in the morning paper that a U.S. drone attack has killed yet another al-Qaeda “second in command” or ISIS leader, we can only hope they got it right and killed a murderous creep who deserved it and avoided killing “Oh, no, not HER” innocents. But if we were honest, we’d admit that that real death on the other side of the world N E WS & O P I N I O N LETTERS - 4 affects us less than the fictional death of THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 Jon Snow. We don’t see the rubble, the THE FLY-BY - 6 blood, the body parts; we don’t deAT LARGE - 10 mand proof that our country has killed POLITICS - 12 righteously. We just hope they did. Then EDITORIAL - 14 VIEWPOINT - 15 turn to the sports page.

COVER STORY Maybe that’s why ISIS atrocities — the “EMBRACING THE BIG MUDDY” stabbings, the beheadings, the mass killBY TOBY SELLS - 16 ings with old-school weapons — horrify us so. It’s a kind of warfare that seems STE P P I N’ O UT uncalled for, ancient and medieval, WE RECOMMEND - 22 reflective of a brutal, fundamental inMUSIC - 24 humanity we can’t get our heads around AFTER DARK - 28 CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 32 — one that we prefer to restrict to HBO. FOOD - 38 Hopefully, Game of Drones won’t have a FILM - 40 surprise ending.

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Letters and comments from Flyer readers household? Is the child being raised by a grandparent? How many children are in the household? I’d be willing to bet you see some positive correlations between the household structure and positive outcomes for the child.

I believe the single most important issue is that of the family. One of the primary reasons gangs exist is because youth don’t have male role models around, so they turn to older male youths who organize in a Lord of the Flies manner and show some form of love and structure.

Please, Wendi, do an article on the topic of family structure and influence, and what can be done to change the culture that’s essentially eschewed the classic family structure.

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About Randy Haspel’s column announcing his candidacy for the GOP nomination, “Ask Not” …

Politics is nice, Haspel, but we need to bring back the Sunday church crowds. A mandatory .50-caliber machine gun in every pulpit! A 144-inch plasma screen direct link to NFL in place of the Baptist baptismal. Actual crucifixions in place of crucifixes! I’d go for that.

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Reb, how about making sure that those males have jobs that will allow them to provide for their families and keep those units together?

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V E R B AT I M Last week, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam commiserated with the strange confederation of conservative budget hawks and liberal aesthetes who were outraged by the Volunteer State’s remarkably unremarkable new logo.

“I get it,” Haslam was quoted as saying. “That’s something people can understand and say, ‘Why’d you pay $46,000 for something that I could have done at home?’” The governor went on to suggest that critics of the new logo — described by its creators as a “visual identity system” — simply don’t understand. “I think part of the idea is to have a consistent brand across state government,” Haslam continued. “There are some people who might not like that brand, but that becomes a question of choice.”

And he’s right, of course. It becomes a choice to like or not like a somewhat amateurish, relatively cheap logo that brands Tennessee as somewhat amateurish and relatively cheap on state letterhead and governmentrelated websites.

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BAD C R I M I NALS Have you ever wanted to roll up a dollar bill and snort something that wouldn’t get you high but would get persistent pet odor out of your sinus cavities? If so, Memphis entrepreneur David Stacks can help you out.

Well, when he gets out of jail anyway. Stacks was arrested outside the Westin Hotel downtown after he was apprehended not selling drugs. True, he offered cocaine to potential customers and was holding 26 baggies of white powder at the time of his arrest. But Stacks’ product turned out to be carpet freshener mixed with sugar. He was charged with manufacture and distribution of an “imitation controlled substance.”

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

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Plans are underway to extend the Wolf River Greenway from downtown to Collierville.

Over the past couple of years, more than 100 miles of bike trails, paths, and greenlines have been established all over the city. But no one linear path connects the entire county from the Mississippi River to Collierville.

That may begin to change by 2019 if the plans to extend the Wolf River Greenway go according to schedule. The Wolf River Conservancy has a goal of extending the

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existing Wolf River Greenway from Walnut Grove and Humphreys to Mud Island by 2019. That’s a total of 18.4 miles within the city limits.

Other future Wolf River Greenway proposals that fall outside the city limits would stretch the greenway east all the way to Collierville, making the path a total of 36 miles.

Currently, the existing Wolf River Greenway runs along the Wolf River near Humphreys for about seven miles. About 2.7 miles of that falls within the city limits, beginning near Walnut Grove and Humphreys. It runs to the Germantown city limits where it merges with the Germantown Greenway.

“We’ve just completed a survey of the entire 18.4 miles that’s in the city’s jurisdiction. We’ve taken four segments of that 18.4 miles, and those are currently under design,” said Chuck Flink, senior adviser at Alta Planning + Design, the design firm working on the project.

Flink, one of the nation’s leading greenway planners, has worked on numerous trail and greenspace projects in more than 200 communities across the world. He literally wrote the book on greenway design as the author of Greenways: A continued on page 8

Larry Thompson New owner of Newby’s

After years of financial struggles and legal battles over licensing fees with Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), Newby’s former owner “Too Tall Todd” Adams was forced to end the bar’s 30year reign on the Highland Strip last November as the bar went into foreclosure. But Larry Thompson, a former Newby’s bartender who is two years younger than the bar itself, announced that he will be reviving Newby’s into the beloved “college bar you never graduate from.” He plans to open Newby’s in August. — Alexandra Pusateri Flyer: Didn’t you just move back to Memphis from Boulder, Colorado?

Larry Thompson: I’ve been back in Memphis since the beginning of May. I have a chicken wing restaurant [in Boulder] that I still own. I moved out there four years ago when I quit working at Newby’s. I worked at Newby’s for three years while I was in college at the University of Memphis. [When] the opportunity for Newby’s came up, I jumped all over it.

I love that bar.

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What made you want to revive Newby’s?

The last night it was open, 200 people showed up. I don’t even think there was electricity or running water, but all these

people from its history over the 30 years showed up. At the time, I just thought to myself, ‘I don’t think there’s any other continued on page 8

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Once the Edge District project is done, Peña hopes to expand the Collabortory model elsewhere.

“I’m excited about perhaps expanding Memphis’ expectations of public art,” Peña said. “[I want] to have more projects like this where I focus on other parts of Memphis, either neighborhoods or historical sights or topics. And [we can] form another group of artists and have another year of another something and just keep moving. If it works really well here, I can apply it to other cities in the US.”

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The Edge District doesn’t exactly fit into any one Memphis neighborhood.

It’s technically downtown, but it doesn’t feel like downtown. And it’s a little too far west to be considered Midtown.

The neighborhood’s size makes it almost missable, as it only takes up about one-fourth of a mile radius around the intersection of Marshall and Monroe. As the home of Sun Studios, the prominence the Edge once held has diminished to mere memories.

But a public art resurgence, led by artist Cat Peña and sponsored by the Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC), is underway in the Edge District. Over the next few months, a team of artists will be studying the neighborhood to determine how its character can contribute to public art projects.

The DMC decided that the Edge was “the quirky little neighborhood” they wanted to focus more attention and money on partly due to the increasing economic rise of Midtown and downtown, (the two communities the Edge separates), according to Leslie Gower, vice-president of marketing and communications for the DMC. Peña approached the DMC last year with a proposal to help with their focus on the Edge. She suggested allowing a team of eight artists to embed themselves into the Edge District so they could really have time to explore. Then the artists would propose public art projects that the DMC would fund.

The DMC liked her idea, and with that, Collabortory was born. The name was chosen by Peña to show the collective nature of the project.

Phase one — the observation and research phase — is currently underway and will go through September.

During this time, the artists are learning about and exploring the area while preparing ideas for public art projects.

The DMC will select a few proposals, and in phase two, the artists will implement them.

Peña says the DMC has committed at least $40,000 for the whole project.

The goal of the artists and the DMC is to make sure the Edge area is accurately represented, and they’re hoping the format of this project will assist in that.

“Everything is grounded in so much research that more lofty ideas might be supported,” Peña said. “I’m excited about perhaps expanding Memphis’ expectations of public art. [Public art] tends to be permanent, so having temporary or ephemeral or even eventbased stuff is possible.”

Each member in the team of eight artists is focusing on different aspects of the Edge, and they hope to come

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“Paving” continued from page 6 Guide to Planning, Design and Development, and Trails for the Twenty-First Century.

Those four segments under design include the greenway’s path through Kennedy Park, through Epping Way in Raleigh, the stretch from Mud Island to Second Street, and the area from Walnut Grove to the Shelby Farms Greenline.

Additionally, the city is in charge of completing three segments — McLean to Hollywood, McLean to Chelsea, and McLean to Rodney Baber Park. Design for those segments is also underway.

“We’ve taken four segments of that 18.4 miles [of Wolf River Greenway in the city’s jurisdiction], and those are currently under design.” — Chuck Flink Keith Cole, executive director of the Wolf River Conservancy, said the group is still working on right-of-way acquisition in some areas along the proposed path, but he doesn’t expect they’ll run into problems.

“We’re not seeing a lot of pushback, and we’re not displacing anybody,” Cole said. “Most of these properties [we need to acquire] are small and uninhabited. They’re in the floodplain.”

Once complete, the Wolf River Greenway is

expected to add 1,126,000 more bicycle trips in the county per year and 4,650,000 more walking trips, according to the Wolf River Conservancy. But they expect the greenway to have residual effects on the surrounding neighborhoods, too.

“Some of these areas in North Memphis [in the greenway’s path] are somewhat blighted and historically underserved, so we’ve been challenged to look at ways in which the greenway can become catalytic as an investment to drive new business development, job growth, creation, and workforce development,” Flink said.

Cole hopes the project will further the city’s growing interest in outdoor recreation since the proposed path would improve access to the Wolf River. Parts of the path will run along areas of the river that are currently overgrown, making it difficult to access the river.

“We will improve access to the urban Wolf.

There’s a big canoeing and kayaking effort in the city today, even with the poor access that we have,” Cole said. “Increasing access to the Wolf would be part of the process.”

The total cost for construction is around $40 million, and about $7.5 million of that is expected to come from the city through its capital improvement program. The conservancy has already raised about $22 million toward the project through private funds, and Cole says they will launch a public fund-raising campaign in 2016.

“Q & A” continued from page 6 bar on the planet that would’ve happened at, where people stood around in cold weather with no electricity or running water and had a last pow-wow.’ People love that place.

When I saw that, I was thinking, ‘Man, it’d be great if we could bring it back.’ I know a whole lot of regulars that still want it back. It’s really a neighborhood bar with that Cheers environment.

Whenever you go there, you always know somebody, at least one or two people.

now owns the Hi-Tone Café], we used to always dream of owning Newby’s. I never thought the opportunity would arise.

Skinny ended up taking over the Hi-Tone.

Then Newby’s happened to be available, so I just teamed up with the right people and got a hold of them. It’s going to be a lot of fun. I think it’s every restaurant industry worker’s dream to own the establishment they work in, especially if it’s a fun college bar. I’m just lucky enough to get a chance to live that dream.

How did the deal come together?

I contacted Loeb Properties sometime last summer and asked them [if we could work something out]. I don’t really know how to explain it. It just came up, and it was available, and we went for it. It’s kind of a dream come true, you know?

Will you be making any changes to the bar?

It has its identity. I don’t want to be the guy who changes it.

We are adding draft beer — there wasn’t draft beer before.

There are going to be spanking new bathrooms. There’s going to be garage doors on the front side so that we can have some patio weather inside. It’s still going to have that same awesome music scene. I’m going to revive the kitchen too, so we can start pumping out some lunches and dinners, too.

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Imitation of Life is a movie that emotionally connects my late mother and my wife — who never had the pleasure of meeting each other. When it was — or is — on television, they both shed a trail of tears, every time.

The 1959 film is a weeper of a melodrama in which a “mulatto” child embraces the idea of “passing for white” in order to seek a better life than the one led by her black mother, Annie, a maid.

Susan Kohner, a Caucasian, gave the Oscar-nominated performance of her career, portraying the soulless and opportunistic Sara Jane, who is hellbent on disowning her mother’s black heritage in order to steal her white best friend’s unwitting boyfriend.

In the end, when her mother dies, Sara Jane’s cold heart is melted and she stages a tear-jerking meltdown at the funeral, throwing herself on her mother’s casket. Despite her histrionics at movie’s end, it never seems enough to offset the heartbreaking moment earlier in the film, when she tells her distraught mother, “If we should ever pass in the street, please don’t recognize me.”

While critically panned at the time of its debut, Imitation of Life touched a chord in the black community. For decades, “passing for white” was a whispered rite of passage for some of those who passed the “lighter than a brown paper bag” skin test, regarded as the minimum standard for attempting the racial transformation.

And, oddly, there have been a few recorded cases of people going in the opposite direction. Another earnestly produced but woefully executed film was Black Like Me, the quickly forgotten 1964 adaption of author John Howard Griffin’s experience as a minstrel-colored white man attempting to garner insight into racial prejudices. Years later, it was the subject of a memorable and hilarious Saturday Night Live skit performed by comedian Eddie Murphy.

Now, 30 years after Murphy’s biting satire, the “black like me” pretense appears to be at the heart of the controversy over the racial identity of Spokane, Washington, NAACP leader, Rachel Dolezal. In a message to her organization, the 37-year-old woman said she planned this week to address

the furor created when her parents “outed her” as falsely portraying herself as black for years.

Dolezal, an artist and noted activist in the Spokane area, tried to rebut her white parents’ claim that she is not black by birth. In a heavily covered news conference, Dolezal said, regarding her ethnicity, that “the question is not as easy as it seems.”

What’s not easy? Is it confronting the truth of your real heritage? I’ve read where Dolezal’s parents said they served as foster parents to four African-American children as their daughter grew up.

In a unique situation like that, I can see where it’s possible the desire to assimilate might happen. And I can imagine Dolezal’s artistic and activist spirit might lead her to take up causes that would lead to her becoming a member of an organization such as the NAACP, which once was seen as the primary engine for socio-economic change among African Americans.

For decades, “passing for white” was a whispered rite of passage for some of those who passed the “lighter than a brown paper bag” skin test.

However, if Dolezal had read or studied anything about the history of the NAACP, she would have known she had no reason to submerge her racial identity in order to be a member, or even a leader. In the heyday of the NAACP, its most influential work was accomplished through blacks and whites working together. From doctors to lawyers to movie stars, the NAACP accepted all the help and financial support it could garner, from every strata of society willing to give it. In Memphis, in recent years, NAACP leadership has become less diverse, more reactive than proactive, and appears to have lost touch with the frustrations and aspirations of young blacks.

But that observation is fodder for another conversation.

As for Rachel Dolezal, I hope she can find the peace to resolve her inner conflict and discover who she truly is.

She appears to be a woman of talent and drive and dedicated to the struggle for human equality. That gives her a leg up on many in this country. In the meantime, maybe she should check out some vintage Eddie Murphy.

Les Smith is a reporter for WHBQ Fox-13.

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Chism Backs Strickland for Mayor Adherents of City Councilman Jim Strickland’s campaign for mayor are certainly pleased with their guy’s ability to go fund-raising dollar-fordollar against incumbent Mayor A C Wharton (both candidates having reported $300,000-plus in their first-quarter disclosures). And they’re counting on a good showing for Strickland in both the Poplar Corridor and Cordova, where his message of public safety and budgetary austerity resonate.

But those predominantly white areas of Memphis (to call them by their right name) are probably not enough, all by themselves, to get Strickland over, especially since Wharton has his own residual strength in the corridor and with the city’s business community, where the mayor can hope to at least break even.

There is also the mayor’s advantage in being able to command free media on a plethora of governmental and ceremonial occasions.

Yes, it’s probably true that A C’s support in predominantly African-American precincts ain’t what it used to be, and it never was what you would call dominating, not this year with all the well-publicized cuts in city services.

And not with Mike Williams working the African-American community, along with Whitehaven Councilman

Harold Collins and Justin Ford, and with the Rev. Kenneth Whalum ready to grab off a huge chunk of that vote, should he make what is at this point an expected entry into the mayoral field.

Still, Strickland needs to grab a share of the black vote to have a chance to get elected. Where does he get it? Well, he’s attending African-American churches on Sunday, one of the well-worn pathways in local politics. So that will help. But probably not as much as the endorsement he got last Saturday at the annual Sidney Chism Community Picnic on Horn Lake Road from the impresario of that event.

Longtime political broker Chism early on announced his support of Strickland from the stage of the sprawling picnic grounds.

Chism and Strickland at the Community Picnic

Time may have tarnished Chism’s reputation a bit, as it did his longtime ally, former Mayor Willie Herenton (an attendee at the picnic), but the former Teamster leader, Democratic Party chairman, state senator, and county commissioner still has enough influence to have basically put Randa Spears over as Shelby County Democratic chair earlier this year. And he may have enough to give Strickland that extra boost he needs to be fully competitive. We’ll see.

Chism, as it happens, is mired in a couple of controversies at the moment. His employment as a “media specialist” by Sheriff Bill Oldham is regarded with suspicion as a political quid pro quo and pension-inflater by several Republican members of the Shelby County Commission, who at budget-crunch time are making an issue of it, along with an Oldham-provided job for former Shelby County Preparedness director Bob Nations.

And Chism may have reignited another long-smoldering situation when he used the bully pulpit of his picnic to attack an intramural Democratic Party foe, Del Gill, who was runner-up to Spears in the party chairmanship contest. Chism did so at first indirectly, on the front end of the event, while he was acknowledging from the stage the presence in the crowd of party chair Spears.

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Norris was invited in his capacity as immediate past chairman of the Council of State Governments; Harvey, along with General Sessions Judge Lee Bussart Bowles of Marshall County, represented the American Bar Association.

A sure sign that the city election season is heating up: On Thursday, June 18th, from 5 to 7 p.m., Patrice Robinson, a candidate for city council, District 3, and Mary Wilder, candidate for the council’s District 5, will be holding simultaneous fund-raisers in different parts of town.

Overlapping events of this sort, still uncommon, will at a certain point in the election cycle, become routine.

• In its latest issue, the Tennessee Journal of Nashville takes note of the Tennessee Republican Party’s concerted “Red to the Roots” campaign directed at capturing as many of the state’s county assessor positions as possible next year.

The newsletter also notes that Shelby County Assessor Cheyenne Johnson, a Democrat, will be exempt from the purge attempt, having already won reelection to a four-year term in 2014. Johnson’s being on a different cycle from other state assessors is a consequence of the county commission’s consolidating all county offices into a common election cycle via 2008 revisions to the county charter.

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all right.” Chism chose to be more explicit when he returned to the stage after a series of candidates in the city election had made their public remarks.

“I said something earlier,” Chism said. “I said there was somebody who needed running out of town, and that person, I didn’t call his name, but that person is Del Gill. …

He ain’t worth two cents. … He’s been lyin’ on me for 10 years He won’t show up and do it to my face, but he lies all the time.”

In a widely circulated email response, Gill returned fire, reminding his readers that he had taken the lead in having Chism censured by the local Democratic Party executive committee in 2014 for allegedly attempting to subvert the sheriff’s campaign of Democratic nominee Bennie Cobb in favor of Republican Oldham.

Chism used his attack on Gill as a platform from which to launch his recipe for Democratic success at the polls: “We’re not going to win any elections in Shelby County until we get into the mindset that we’ve got to get in the middle. If we get in the middle, we can elect Democrats, qualified Democrats.

“I didn’t say you’ve got to be a superintelligent magna cum laude educated person. I’m saying you ought to be smart enough to know that the people in this country are in the middle.” He urged his listeners to “vote for the right person, and he ain’t got to look like me; just act like me.”

Actually, the two Chism battlefronts — his employment battle with GOP county commissioners and the Democratic Party fireworks — are connected. Such commission critics of Chism as Heidi Shafer and David Reaves, both Republicans, have made pointed remarks in private about what they claim was Chism’s disservice to fellow Commissioner Reginald Milton, a Democrat, in intervening against Milton’s own bid for party chairmanship. And Milton, perhaps unsurprisingly, has expressed his own skepticism about the sheriff’s budget requests.

Shafer and Reaves, along with GOP Commissioner Terry Roland, are also suspicious that Oldham’s wish to have Chism (and other Chism associates) aboard is related to a potential 2018 campaign by Oldham for county mayor, an office for which Roland, for one, has essentially already announced.

Oldham has been mum on the subject of his future political intentions, if any, but it is a fact that the progression from sheriff to county mayor has been made already by several predecessors — Roy “Skip” Nixon, Bill Morris, and current County Mayor Mark Luttrell.

for a county commission seat.

Crook, who is employed as a courtroom bailiff, says his group will be making endorsements in the city election this year.

Other new Young Democrat officers: Regina Beale, first vice president; Jim Kyle Jr., 2nd vice president; Matt Pitts, treasurer; Rebekah Hart, secretary; and Justin Askew, parliamentarian.

• Two Shelby Countians, state Senator Mark Norris and attorney Al Harvey, were among three Tennesseans who were invited guests of British royalty at Monday’s ceremony in Runnymede, England, commemorating the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta there.

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Fairgrounds, after which the independent Urban Land Institute would pass on its recommendations. The administration of Mayor A C Wharton, and specifically Robert Lipscomb, the city’s director of housing and community development and its de facto planning czar, had seemed fully committed to a vision of the future Fairgrounds area that included the demolition of the vintage structure. The Tourism Development Zone proposal favored by Lipscomb proposed a basic start from scratch on much of the Fairgrounds acreage, leaving in place the newish Kroc Center, a renovated Liberty Bowl, and the Shelby County Schools administrative facility in the complex that was once Fairview Middle School. The plan envisioned a youth sports complex, a new multi-purpose athletic facility at the site of the now dormant Coliseum, along with retail facilities and a hotel. Though the Coliseum was in disrepair and needed serious renovation to be used for any kind of contemporary purpose, the real problem with the building was that its use as a performance arena for sports and concerts clashed with the terms of the non-compete clause between the city and FedExForum. That contract was the price of attracting the Grizzlies to Memphis.

But the Coliseum has deep connections to the hearts of Memphians and MidSoutherners. Elvis, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and — perhaps most memorable of all — some truly legendary performers of the ’rassling arts performed there.

Memphis’ preservationist community joined legions of fans in wanting to see the building restored, perhaps as a wrestling museum. A variety of demonstrations

made the point, and the ULI-conducted public meetings were a necessary response to the demand. The droves of citizens who turned out overwhelmingly backed the idea of preserving the Coliseum, but they also made other useful suggestions, most of them, as it turned out, consistent with the root premises of the proposed TDZ. The ULI folks listened, and they submitted recommendations to the city that made a compelling case for the Coliseum transformed into an openair structure, seating a maximum of 5,000 persons, and able to compete with other nearby arenas (Snowden Grove in Mississippi, for example) for mid-range concerts. Other recommendations were for a water park and a conservancy, whose managerial reach would extend beyond the Fairgrounds proper to Tobey Park on the north side of Central Avenue.

The ULI report made for a proposition that was probably more realistic than such features of the original TDZ proposal as the imagined hotel and large-scale big-box retailers, which were arguably too dependent on a philosophy of build-itand-they-will-come.

In any case, the ULI’s recommendations seem to have gone down well with people on both sides of the previous conflict line — those who wanted a whole new shuffle on the Fairgrounds property and those who wanted to maintain a bit more tradition.

Lipscomb says he and his team are reviewing the feasibility of a revamped TDZ proposal in line with the ULI recommendations. We hope that he sees in them the ingredients for a happy ending in which everybody can go home satisfied.

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Clinton or another a dictator’s ransom to say a few words.

A Nigerian newspaper group paid Bill Clinton $700,000 for a single speech. I’m sure it did wonders for circulation. The amounts for the Clintons are impressive indeed. Bill Clinton reported being paid more than $104 million from 2001 through 2012, just for speeches. He has become a very wealthy man, and I suppose I should say more power to him.

But while the numbers are astonishing, they are also troubling.

Unless money ain’t money no more, someone is buying and someone is selling. The question is: What? Mostly, I would think, bragging rights. The nice people at Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan Chase did not pay to hear Hillary Clinton because they were getting privileged information. (It’s rare that anyone gets any information at all out of her.) What they were buying was proximity, the chance to take a selfie with her. These are groupies in Guccis, and they go off confiding to others what Clinton has confided to them — which is what was in the morning newspapers anyway. It would be cheaper to buy the paper.

Unless money ain’t money no more, someone is buying and someone is selling. The question is: What?

There is nothing illegal in any of this. But it is troubling. The figures are so huge that one can speculate that a future president might curry favor with the awesome rich as a way of ensuring a voluptuous retirement. I mean, why make enemies out of people who will gladly pay you to say nothing much — and fly you on a private jet just to say it? It’s a nice life.

Jerry Ford also got on the boards of Shearson/American Express, Beneficial Corporation of New Jersey, and other companies and soon became rich.

I suspect no one hired him for his expertise or his business acumen, asking him about interest-rate swaps, buybacks, or, in 20th Century Fox’s case, whether to open a movie in the summer or wait for the Christmas crowd. He sold what they were buying, which was the prestige of the presidency. As a result, it has less and less.

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Gerald Ford was very briefly vice president of the United States and, following the resignation of Richard Nixon, somewhat less briefly president of the United States. He was an affable fellow, strangely guileless and yet a groundbreaker at what now gets little recognition: He was the first expresident to sell the presidency.

Within a year of leaving office (1977), Ford had earned something like $1 million. He sat on corporate boards (20th Century Fox, for instance) and made paid speeches. He was available for conventions, meetings, and, I was told, the opening of a shopping center.

A modest man of once-modest means, he soon had a home near Palm Springs and another one near Vail, where he liked to ski.

The shocking thing is how not shocking any of this now is — although Bill Clinton might be shocked at how little Ford made. Once upon a time, presidents left office and led monkish lives. They were not expected to accept outside income — except for book royalties, of course — and virtually none of them did. (Calvin Coolidge wrote a newspaper column, no way to get rich.)

Until 1958, former presidents did not even get a pension. (It’s now a bit more than $200,000 annually.) That changed when Congress took pity on Harry Truman and awarded him and Herbert Hoover pensions and funds for staff. Dwight Eisenhower left the White House with a nice nest egg. He had made a small fortune with his World War II memoir, Crusade in Europe, for which the government gave him a sweetheart tax deal.

John Kennedy followed Ike into the White House, and he, in turn, was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson.

LBJ might have been a man of elastic morality, but he pretty much kept to his ranch, wrote the required memoir, and abjured buckraking.

Richard Nixon wrote books and sold a TV interview to David Frost, but paid speeches were not his thing.

Then came Ford, and everything changed. Skipping Jimmy Carter, who adhered to the Old Way, Ronald Reagan picked up where Ford left off.

He made two speeches in Japan for $2 million. George H.W. Bush also gave paid speeches, but no one has raked it in quite like Bill Clinton and, of course, Hillary Clinton. The figures are astounding, virtual GDPs of small nations, some of which have given one

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y obituary was going to read something like this: “Village idiot Toby Sells died today in a totally unnecessary paddling trip down the Mississippi River. Sells was a Middle Tennessee transplant (read hillbilly outsider) and lacked the respect for the river and experience such a trip demanded. Sells’ two friends survived the journey and said he would have wanted them to drink the rest of his beer.”

The possibility of a watery death had passed through my mind a few times in the week leading up to our weekend trip. It’s the same type of fear that pulses through you right before you get on a rickety carnival ride at the county fair.

You’re sure it’s going to be fine, but there’s still a chance it might not be. And an overnight trip on the big river is much more involved than a five-minute spin on the Zipper.

Memphians have a binary view of the Mississippi.

They love watching the pink-and-purple sunsets over the river, but they think touching that muddy water might melt them like the Wicked Witch — or kill them instantly. For many Mid-Southerners, the river is a giant brown bogeyman whose liquid tongue slurps men into its muddy maw and tumbles them in its airless gut, never to be seen again. Whirlpools stretch in the imagination to ship-swallowing vortexes. Tree trunks launch like missiles from below to break boats and wreck lives.

Why the fear? Because people do die on the river. The fear has been needlessly exaggerated, but there are real dangers if you don’t respect the river and learn its ways.

But consider: For generations, Americans have paddled, boated, swum, and fished in the Mississippi River. It is the river of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, as quintessentially American as Samuel Clemens and David Crockett. Today, there are lots of people safely navigating the river in kayaks, canoes, pleasure boats, and Jet Skis. If you doubt it, visit the Mud Island Marina some weekend. You’ll be amazed at all

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Joe Royer knows why the Big Muddy is muddy. It’s a scientific fact that he reels off the top of his mind the way most of us cite our phone numbers.

“The soil in our area is a type of loess, which is a windblown silt of very small particles,” Royer says. “In Nashville, Chattanooga, or Little Rock, the particles of soil there are about 500 times larger.”

Water usually runs clearer in those areas, as the big, heavy soil particles settle to the bottom. But the small particles in the Wolf, Loosahatchie, and Mississippi rivers stay suspended.

“That’s why those rivers are muddy,” Royer says. “But I like to call them turbid.”

This is the long way of saying Joe Royer is familiar with the Mississippi River like few others are. He calls it, simply, “the river,” and it’s clear which one he means. He knows it intimately — how it works, how to paddle it, where to paddle, and the names of its bridges, bluffs, and islands. He’s traveled the world and always comes home to the river. He calls it our city’s biggest natural draw, our Himalayas. If the Rocky Mountains are a top-shelf margarita, he says, the river and the rolling hills of West Tennessee are a glass of fine pinot noir.

He knows many Mid-Southerners don’t feel that way. “Everybody says the river is our greatest asset. Well, I don’t think enough of us believe it,” Royer says. “It’s a pretty sunset and [people know] it’s there, but it really is undervalued.”

Royer has been getting people on the river since 1974, outfitting paddlers and campers from his business, Outdoors Inc. This weekend, he’ll oversee the 34th running of “the South’s biggest paddling event” (according to Canoe & Kayak magazine), the Outdoors Inc. Canoe & Kayak Race.

Yes, Royer has been talking up the Mississippi River for a long time — to anyone who will listen.

The Shelby Farms boat ramp is busy on a Sunday afternoon. A handful of bikers and their ladies drink beer in the shade at the top of the steep ramp. They watch with curiosity as my buddies, Brandon Dill and Will Freiman, and I get our boats and gear from the car.

Brandon is a photographer (for this very story). Will coowns the Hot Mess burrito truck. Brandon talks the bikers into letting him take a photograph. They ask how far we’re going and can’t believe it when we tell them we’re paddling to Memphis, about 17 miles. They send us off with a “Well,

by God, be careful out there.”

We load our gear — everything from tripods to toilet paper, bug spray to Gatorade — into our boats and head down the ramp. At the bottom, another group of bikers is talking and watching the river. They also ask how far we’re going and send us off with a “Holy shit! Y’all be careful out there.”

Now, there’s no turning back. My wife, who drove us to the ramp, has left. I zone out for a moment, watching my boat bob in the water. My life jacket’s on. My boat’s in good continued on page 18

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the Memphians getting out on the water.

These comforting thoughts, and others not so comforting, surge through my mind as I watch my kayak bob in the muddy Mississippi just before we push off the boat ramp at Shelby Forest. I have kayaked the Mississippi twice before, once on the same route we were about to paddle, but there's always a tingle of fear and anticipation. But after a long conversation with Joe Royer of Outdoors Inc., I was ready to set aside my fear for good and get on the river and enjoy it. As Royer says, we all need to learn to “be a good river person.”

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continued from page 17 shape. I’m healthy and a good swimmer. My friends are true. There’s plenty of daylight left.

And I’m fine with losing this boat and everything in it.

With negative and positive thoughts at some sort of appropriate balance, I turn off my brain and paddle away from the ramp and into one of the biggest rivers in the world.

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The main motivation to do an overnight on the river for this story came from a long conversation I had with Royer back in April. He fit me in for an interview between his morning paddle and a business meeting. Some people run in the morning — or lift, or swim. The 67-year-old Royer paddles a kayak, nearly every day.

Most of the time, he points his long, pointy boat north into the Mississippi’s current from the southern tip of Mud Island and paddles to the Wolf River at the north end of Greenbelt Park. The morning I met him he’d done an outand-back in the Wolf River Harbor, because he could do the the six-mile, slack-water paddle in about two hours.

You don’t really have to ask Royer many questions.

In fact, just one will do. He’ll take it from there, talking long and passionately about the river and how he came

to love it.

He grew up in Milan, Tennessee, where he learned to paddle in his father’s square stern canoe. He also began riding bicycles as a boy, another of his life-long loves.

He got a master’s in engineering from the University of Memphis and interned on the river for two summers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. During that time, Royer learned how the river works — about wing dikes, Bernoulli’s equation in fluid dynamics, channel flow, and more.

In those days, Royer wanted to be a kayaker for the U.S. Olympic team. He spent time on the World Cup circuit and eventually became “a good kayaker, not a great one.”

“When I retired from that World Cup circuit, I wanted to bring recreation to Memphis,” Royer says. “But, at the time, I was racing all over the U.S. and Europe. That and a dollar-and-a-half will get you a cup of coffee at Bluff City.” He’d fallen in love with the river, understood it from an engineer’s standpoint, and began using it as a training gym, the way Rocky Balboa used Philadelphia. Since then, he says his mission has been to call attention to the river, which is why he started the canoe and kayak race.

“The reason I’m passionate about the river is because that’s what we’ve got,” Royer says. “I don’t have the Rockies or the Smokies. I don’t have the Ozarks. I love all those, but this is what I’ve got.”

We’ve paddled about an hour from the ramp when Brandon scouts a nice-looking sandbar ahead. We pull out of the main river channel and into a shallow pass to the eastern side of the bar. My boat slides to a stop on the muddy bank, and I look up in time to see a small coyote chasing four white birds. The coyote brakes hard at the sight of us and scrabbles for a patch of scrub on top of the hill. Will finds a turtle.

Gentle waves lap the western side of the bar, and the silky sand feels smoother than anything on the Gulf Coast. I stop, close my eyes, and indeed feel like I am on a beach. Serenity

flows over me as the breeze caresses my face and …DING! Text message. It’s the boss.

Flyer editor Bruce VanWyngarden had told us he might meet us on the river, zipping up in his small boat that he keeps docked at Mud Island Marina. His text said he was on the way to our agreed-upon rendezvous at Hickman Bar, where we’d likely camp that night. We start paddling for the bar (not knowing exactly how long it would take us to get there). Apparently, it’s going to take a lot longer than we thought.

Bruce eventually finds us on the river and says we have about another 45 minutes of paddling to the sandbar. Well, that won’t do. There was beer to drink. So, we, er, I hatched a plan. He’d tow me. (I’m not saying it was a good plan.)

At first, I try to hold onto a deck cleat on the side of his boat and ride down the river Marty McFly style. I nearly tump immediately. Then, I decide to try to “ski” behind him (very slowly) holding the boat’s anchor rope. Again, I nearly tump.

“I’m just going to paddle down, man,” I say. “Otherwise, we’re going to end up on one of those ‘watch-this-dumbredneck’ videos on YouTube.”

There’s a majesty in sitting in a kayak on the Mississippi River. It swallows you up — a mile wide in parts — but it’s mostly gentle, quiet. The landscape slides easily by.

Look closely and you can spot a bald eagle or an osprey.

The current sometimes rocks you as you pass over a dike, coasting along at three to five miles per hour. But that speed brings a reality to the majesty: You have to actually paddle if you want to get anywhere.

Your torso is like a bike’s chainwheel. Your arms are the cranks. The paddle blades are the pedals. Your shoulders, hands — and butt — can get sore. But when I finally see the place where Bruce is idling his boat, the paddle seems worth the effort.

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In April, when I first spoke to Royer in his South Bluffs home, his mind was already on the third weekend in June. He plunked down a huge file folder, shaggy with sheets of paper, tabs, and Post-it Notes. At five inches thick, it landed with a thud on his kitchen counter. “This is the permit process for doing this event,” he says, leafing through the stack of staging plans, emergency plans, permits (from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, the Memphis Police Department’s Harbor Patrol, the U.S. Coast Guard), training guides for safety boat operators, and more.

The key to a successful event, he says, is a focus on the basics. Follow the rules. Bring in independent race officials. Start on time. Get the results right. Take your stuff down. Leave the landscape and river cleaner than you found it.

By the time the starting pistol fires on the race this Saturday, Royer and a staff of his employees and volunteers will have been at work for hours, the river will be closed to barge traffic, and 10 safety boats and the Coast Guard will be in place.

Royer’s race helped land Memphis on Canoe & Kayak magazine’s 2015 list of North America’s Best Paddling Towns.

Here’s what the magazine had to say: “The Big Muddy, with its intimate back channels and quiet

We crack beers and begin to scout the island we’ll call home for a night. The main river channel on the western side and a back channel on the eastern side are connected by a shallow stream running between them. Above the stream, a flat, sandy landing will be our tent city. We’ll build a fire pit into a nearby shelf of earth and sand. Bruce says the spot is one of his favorites, and footprints tell us someone has been here recently. Call it a river hot spot, the Huck Finn Inn. Soon, Bruce heads back to Memphis, and the real camping begins. Firewood is scavenged from the woods. Kayaks are secured and unloaded. Tents are poled and staked. Brandon and Will commence to making a fire with a verve that seems to be tapped from their inner 10-year-old.

We walk to the wing dike and watch a pink-and-purple sunset. Will waves to a passing barge that gives him a long, loud toot. Brandon produces a cast-iron skillet, brats, beans, and two bags of Zapp’s chips.

I produce a bag of boneless chicken wings from the Kroger deli and a tube of Pringles (salt and vinegar).

Tired and full, we settle in under the darkening sky with campfire conversations, fueled by beer and bourbon. Frogs — hundreds of them — converse all around us with a single word repeated louder and louder. REE-Yote. REE-Yote. REE-Yote. A cloud of lightning bugs illuminates the dark woods behind us like a shimmering lace pillowcase. Jupiter shines overhead.

Then Will hears something, a scurrying sound. Brandon hears it, too. I’m still laughing about something when I see my companions stand — on high alert.

Will flicks on his flashlight, and I spot something small, but not small enough for me to want to stay seated. Will follows it into the brush and finds ... a glistening, wet armadillo. We shoo the little devil until he high-tails it into woodsy terrain too technical for unsupervised drinking men.

Joe Royer started Outdoors Inc. in a one-bedroom apartment in Memphis.

It was originally called West Tennessee Whitewater Supply. A friend, Lawrence Migliara, had something similar going in his living room, so they threw in together and opened the Great Outdoors. The rent was $60 per month for a place on

Cleveland. It was open Tuesday and Thursday nights for two hours. “People would leave notes on our door, asking, ‘Are you guys ever open?’” Royer says.

They eventually opened locations in East Memphis, in Midtown, and on Germantown Parkway and shortened the name to Outdoors Inc. Royer stays happy in the outdoors business, he says, because he still rides a bike and paddles a kayak. “For outdoor businessmen who just look at sales numbers, it’s never enough,” Royer says.

“My best trait as a business person is to not underestimate Memphians. Memphians have been climbing mountains and paddling kayaks and running marathons — and they’re very skilled and very professional — for a long time. I didn’t bring that to Memphis. That was here.”

Paddling the Mississippi is about the most Memphis thing you can possibly do.

That’s what I’m thinking during our morning float, as we get closer to the city skyline and the M Bridge.

Barges pass. Cars slide noiselessly across the bridge overhead.

Though I can’t see them, I’m sure suited professionals are already hard at work in the Raymond James Tower building and tourists are eating fudge at the Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid.

And here we are, unwashed, hungover, a little wet and sunsapped. But the morning is bright and clear, the city and the river are alive. I feel like I’m part of it in a brand-new way.

We pull our boats out at Wolf River Harbor and take stock. We are unharmed, haven’t lost anything, and don’t even have sunburns or mosquito bites. We’d mixed caution and adventure and had a great outing. That’s what you want from the river.

And it made me think of something Royer told me back in April.

“The fact that the river is so big and so powerful …,” he said. “We have to embrace that.”

Indeed, we do.

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tributaries like the Wolf River, also makes Memphis a first-rate paddling town. ...

In the (Outdoors Inc. Canoe and Kayak Race’s) trademark mass start, Olympic gold medalists rub gunwales with firsttime paddlers, and everybody has a good time.”

Paddling on the Mississippi is an established part of Memphis kayak and canoe culture now, but that wasn’t always so.

“Locally, it was kind of rejected by the paddling community, at first,” Royer says.

“They said Memphis sucks. We have to go to Arkansas. We have to go to Destin. We have to go to East Tennessee.”

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Our Last Summer

Eean Cochran

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What do you get when you mix silver space suits, colorful codpieces, and sugary pop songs from the 1970s? Mamma Mia!, the ABBA musical, of course. The long-running show may be closing up shop on Broadway, but the national tours are showing no signs of slowing down. The show’s latest visit to the Orpheum brings the usual glitter and glam. It also brings Eean Cochran, a Memphis native, back to the city of his birth.

Mamma Mia! is still new to Cochran. The multiple-threat performer, who started singing at Robinhood Lane Baptist Church where his grandfather was pastor, hadn’t even been born when the Swedish band was charting its inescapable hits. He’s been touring as an understudy and ensemble player for only a month, having started the tour only two weeks after graduating from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas.

“I didn’t know how big a fan of ABBA I was until I went in and started learning all the music,” Cochran says. “I already knew the words to some of the songs, but I had no idea they were all by the same group.”

For those who’ve yet to see the show or the movie it inspired, Mamma Mia! is a mostly romantic and entirely nostalgic situation comedy set on a Greek island where the daughter of an unmarried American ex-pat has planned a big, messy surprise for her wedding party.

Sophie, who was born in the swinging, free-loving 1970s, and her mom Donna (a rock-and-roller-turned-Greek-tavern owner) have never been sure who the father was. After reading her mom’s diary, the determined young woman does a little sleuthing and hones in on the three most likely candidates: an architect, a writer, and a gay banker. Sophie, hoping she’ll solve the mystery in time to have her real dad give away the bride at her wedding, forges letters from her mother, inviting the three old boyfriends on a holiday they won’t soon forget.

“It’s like a concert on stage every night,” Cochran says of his new job. “I am loving it.”

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Cookies on Tap High Cotton Brewing, 4-7 p.m., $15 Troop 901, a group for young professional women affiliated with Girl Scouts Heart of the South, host this event pairing four beers with four Girl Scout cookies — are you hugging yourself? — including the Samoa with a Hefeweizen and the Thin Mint with the “Baller” Brown Ale. To Kill a Mockingbird Event Barnes & Noble Wolfchase, 7-8 p.m.

A discussion of the book and screen version of this Harper Lee classic in anticipation of the July release of Go Set a Watchman.

Blowout at the Brewery Memphis Made Brewery, 6-9 p.m., $75 A fund-raiser for the Beale Street Caravan featuring music from Marcella & Her Lovers and a Memphis-centric dinner created by Rizzo’s Michael Patrick. Read more on page 24.

Booksigning by Hampton Sides Booksellers at Laurelwood, 6:30 p.m.

One of the most talented writers today, Hampton Sides signs his latest book, In the Kingdom of Ice, now in paperback.

Booksigning by Robert W. Dye Burke’s Book Store, 6-7 p.m.

Historian/photographer Robert Dye signs copies of his new book, Images of America: Memphis Zoo, which traces the history of the zoo back to the very beginning when it was just one bear tied to a tree in Overton Park.

Dye also has a signing at the Booksellers at Laurelwood on Tuesday, June 23rd, 6:30 p.m.

“Summer Reading” Davd Lusk Gallery Temp (64 Flicker), 6-8 p.m.

Group show for which curator Matt Crow paired artists with a book. Participating artists include Dwayne Butcher, Nancy Cheairs, Tyler Hildebrand, Greely Myatt, and Anne Siems, and among the authors represented, Kurt Vonnegut, J.D. Salinger, Ayn Rand, Albert Camus, and Gwendolyn Brooks.

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The shark is approaching — an enormous 25-footer. We may not see it right away, but we know it’s coming, because, with only two alternating notes — E and F if you’re wondering — John Williams’ iconic score tells us that death is nipping at our heels. It begins slowly, like the pulse of a matchless predator staking out its next meal. Then a second, racing pulse is added to the mix — this is the prey. Then a third is added, the throbbing pulse of white-knuckled audience members, sitting on dry land, in the dark, watching helplessly while a killer shark wreaks bloody havoc along the coast of Amity Island, a New England resort dependent on beach tourism. Jaws was never just a horror movie.

In 1975 audiences lined up in record-breaking numbers to see an aquatic creature feature where the monster was often conspicuously absent. The “creature,” which “survived millions of years of evolution without change, without passion, and without logic,” was evoked primarily by Williams’ soundtrack and the screaming and flailing of its victims. The more immediate threats were greedy humans worried that some whistle-blower will yell “shark,” and businesses will have a panic on their hands on the Fourth of July.

Jaws was a risky proposition for Universal Studios. Producers knew the property was hot, but the creative team started out with no script, no shark, and no cast. The 27-year-old director, Steven Spielberg, had some experience with horror, having worked on episodes of TV’s Night Gallery. But his first film, Sugarland Express, had tanked at the box office. Riding the wave of an effective (and unheard of) $700,000 TV advertising campaign, this big fish story starring Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss, quickly became the highest-grossing film in box-office history. Well, until Star Wars came along two years later and the battle of the age of summer blockbusters began in earnest.

On Wednesday, June 24th, Memphis audiences will have another chance to experience the original blockbuster as it was meant be experienced — on the big screen. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Jaws is screening at 500 theaters across America. You can catch it at the Paradiso at 7 p.m. But you’re probably gonna need a bigger boat.

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An exhibit by Lance Turner, which includes mirrors, self-referential painting, and the concept of infinity to involve the viewer. Evening includes music by DJ T-Swift, the Warble, and Nots.

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Let’s raise one up for the bar that made questionable waitress attire okay. Includes commemorative beer tappings, a raffle, giveaways, and games.

Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D CTI 3D Giant Theater, 9:45 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m., $9 The other dinosaur movie, covering the lives of dinosaurs — fighting, feeding, migrating, playing, and hunting.

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or the past 19 seasons, Beale Street Caravan has broadcast a commercial-free hour of Memphis-centric music to 2.4 million listeners worldwide, on more than 400 radio stations. Hosted by Pat Mitchell Worley, the show covers local artists ranging from the Reigning Sound to Rev. John Wilkins, in addition to favorites from New Orleans, Chicago, and everywhere in between. Their annual fund-raiser always packs a punch, and this year cuisine by Chef Michael Patrick of Rizzo’s Diner will be paired with wine and beer and the music of Marcella & Her Lovers. The blowout — at Memphis Made Brewing on June 18th — also includes a silent auction featuring regional treasures of music, art, dining, and vacation getaways, in addition to vinyl grab bags and more. We sat down with Worley to learn more about the most widely distributed blues radio program in the world. — Chris Shaw

and the hosts were the Memphis Horns.

They did two seasons telling stories, and the whole thing was scripted.

After the Horns left, Joyce Cobb and Sam the Sham took over, and they were around for a while, but when they left, we didn’t know what we were going to do next. So Sid put me on for a season just to try it out. Daren Dortin joined me for a while, but once he left and we got a new producer, we wanted to change things up and so we brought Kevin Cubbins on board. Having Kevin was really refreshing, because it didn’t just feel like I was talking at people. Since then, I’ve been hosting for the past 16 years.

Where did the name Beale Street Caravan come from?

I always thought it was a combination of things. We have always featured blues musicians, and when it first started, we didn’t have hosts. It was just guys performing. Now we air pre-recorded sets and famous sets from festivals, but we started out live at B.B. King’s club.

We’d also go to blues festivals in Chicago

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Flyer: How long has Beale Street Caravan been around and when did you become host of the show?

Pat Mitchell Worley: The show is about to enter its 20th season. I’ve worked on the show since the very beginning. Originally, I was hired to be Sid Selvidge’s assistant, and I had already been working in radio. At the time, I was the blues director at a radio station, but my role at Beale Street Caravan was just to get artist clearances for Sid and things like that. After six months, I moved on to the Blues Foundation and started working on things there, but I was still doing stuff for the Caravan,

Worley, Adam Hill, & Kevin Cubbins and festivals like King Biscuit and the Waterfront in Portland. That was the precursor to what we do now. We’ve had shows that have taken place everywhere.

We even have a show from Venezuela that we air. When we first started, we were able to capture stuff from Rufus Thomas, because some of the greats were still with us.

How has the audience reach grown since the show started?

It’s always been sporadically picked up all over the world, but it’s been

picked up by a lot more networks as we’ve grown, like Armed Forces Radio, for example. Having them air our show puts us anyplace that American troops are, which is everywhere if you think about it. We are in so many places now. We didn’t used to have such a big presence in the Middle East, and we also have a lot of sessions recorded online for people to hear all over the world.

What are the criteria for the types of music you play on your show? Does it ever venture out of blues? Do you ever record in-studio?

Kevin Cubbins will record things live sometimes, depending on where he is. One of our engineers, Matt Brown, might get sent somewhere to record something. But some shows that we play are older and were recorded long ago. Other times, people just submit something they recorded themselves.

New Orleans Jazz Fest also records their festival and sends it to us. Kevin lets our audience and contributors know what he’s looking for, but most of the stuff we air stays within the region.

How is Beale Street Caravan different from something like Rocket Science Audio, Ditty TV, or the nowdefunct Live From Memphis?

I think we are a little more focused than the shows you mentioned. We promote the brand of Memphis, and we want people to listen to our show and decide to make a move to Memphis or at least come here and track down an artist. We have a focus on the region, but we’ll have acts from all over on the station. The center of [Beale Street Caravan] is always the blues-roots sound that made Memphis famous, and we like to have fun on air and show the reach that Memphis music has across the world and on other musicians. That’s why we fit within the NPR format. Our message takes people behind the scenes.

How big is the annual fund-raiser in terms of keeping Beale Street Caravan in business?

It’s our only fund-raiser. It’s changed over the years, and we’ve become bigger and bigger, but we only do one thing in terms of raising money.

Beale Street Caravan’s 19th annual fund-raiser featuring Marcella & Her Lovers, Thursday, June 18th, 6-9 p.m. at Memphis Made Brewing, 768 S. Cooper.

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As the weekend begins to officially commence on Beale Street this Friday evening, the foot traffic and oversized souvenir drinks will increase to the sound of Goner Records’ “Beale Street Takeover 2.” This is Goner’s second annual contribution to the “Memphis Jams on Beale” series of free shows held each Friday in June and July at Handy Park. Last year’s lineup was Nots, Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks, and Tyler Keith and the Apostles, and following the loose (and forward-thinking) theme of the series, these three bands are not exactly synonymous with what’s normally offered as live fare on Beale. If memory serves, the running, good-natured joke was that the bands played in front of a new audience … including the sun.

This year, Goner presents another three-band bill that kicks off with Toy Trucks, Jeremy Scott’s most recent outfit following the demise of Burning Sands.

Scott was the original bassist and backing vocalist in the Reigning Sound from 1999 to 2005 and fulfilled the same duties in the makeshift band that backed Harlan T. Bobo on the Too Much Love and Sucker albums. Steve Barnat, Dylan Cranmer, and Ryno Hanson make up the rest of Toy Trucks, and the quartet is adept at playing energetic and loud pub-rock and power-pop that owes a serious debt to mid-period Replacements.

Following Toy Trucks at 7 p.m. is just two men, but their combined body of work and decades of musical history are unmatched in volume, influence, variety, and insanity. Individually or together as a duo, Jeff Evans and Ross Johnson might need very little introduction or unpacking of their respective biographical backstories for some Flyer readers, which is good because only a fraction would fit in this feature anyway. Each has assumed countless and considerable roles during the last four decades of Memphis’ underground music. To shortlist, Evans led ’68 Comeback, Gibson Bros., C.C. Riders, and South Filthy, and Johnson’s recorded discography starts with Alex Chilton’s Like Flies on Sherbert and Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, before nurturing a sporadic solo output and collaborating with Evans in this very duo.

For a couple of decades, the two have been honing their deconstructionist, secret-history takedown of

rock, R&B, folk-blues/blues, soul, rockabilly, and you-nameit, assaulting the funny bone with a deranged interpretation of the venerable “straight-man and unhinged Ross Johnson foil” (Evans the plays Goner former, Johnson Records’ “Beale the latter) comStreet Takeover 2” edy duo dynamic on Friday. or lapsing into stream-ofconsciousness monologue, all of which inspired this writer (while MC’ing Goner Fest in 2007) to call Johnson “the Spalding Gray of garage-rock and drinking.” Evans and Ross finally released the Vanity Session full-length on vinyl last February by way of California/Austin-based Spacecase Records, where they are the perfect addition to the label’s Memphis-centric roster. The duo comes hot off of last weekend’s Rock-n-Romp performance, which somehow conjures a match that makes both perfect sense as well as absolutely none, and that’s a compliment.

Rounding out the evening’s “prolific” theme during the final 8 to 9 p.m. slot is Alicja Pop, the home-recording project of Alicja Trout, another Memphis iconoclast.

Trout has been performing as Alicja Pop since 2009, releasing two 7”s behind the moniker (both on Certified PR Records) while dedicating time and energy to, among other things, the River City Tanlines, Hannah Star, MouseRocket, and, most recently, Sweet Knives, a live project by three-fourths of the classic Lost Sounds lineup that revisits songs from Trout’s part of the back catalog. Like any endeavor with Trout at the wheel, there’s nothing “halfway” about Alicja Pop. The project belies the trappings associated with “home recording,” with variety and her distinct song-crafting applied to everything, from pensive and moody synth-dominated balladry to all-out noise-pop burners.

Rocket Science Audio will be on hand to lend their sonic golden touch to the Beale Street show — an especially beneficial (if not crucial) component, guaranteeing a good live sound in a relatively large open-air environment where such a thing can be a challenge. Apologies to them for the pre-event pressure.

Toy Trucks, Ross Johnson and Jeff Evans, and Alicja Pop, Friday, June 19, starting at 6 p.m. at W.C. Handy Park. Free admission, all ages.

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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.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

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

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

Chris Gales Thursdays-Saturdays, Tuesdays-Wednesdays, noon-8 p.m.; Karaoke ongoing, 8:30 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe’s Tap Room

Wet Willie’s

168 BEALE 576-2220

Donnie Smith Thursday, June 18, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Friday, June 19, 7-10 p.m. and Sunday, June 21, 6-9 p.m.

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145 BEALE 578-3031

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

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

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

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

Blues City Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe’s Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

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 Sun-

209 BEALE 578-5650

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

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

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall

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

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., and Sun-

The Chaulkies Sunday, June 21, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

Memphis Sounds Lounge

The Silly Goose

22 N. THIRD 590-4049

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

Grown Folk’s Music 7:30 p.m.

Mud Island Amphitheatre

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

125 N. FRONT 576-7241

182 BEALE 528-0150

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Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Yo Gotti & Friends 3rd Annual Birthday Bash Sunday, June 21, 7:30-10 p.m.

Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; David Hudson & Brad Webb Friday, June 19, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 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.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Onix Restaurant & Jazz Lounge

Paulette’s

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RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

Double J’s Smokehouse & Saloon 124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 335-0251

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

Grawemeyer’s 520 S. MAIN 526-6751

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

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

412 S. MAIN 552-4609

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

Live Music Fridays.

341 MADISON 524-0104

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

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.

The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

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

1884 Lounge 1555 MADISON 609-1744

New Orleans Suspects Friday, June 19, 8-11:45 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Jack Oblivian & the Sheiks Thursday, June 18, 10:30 p.m.; James & the Ultrasounds Friday, June 19, 10:30 p.m.; DJ Dropout Boogie Saturday, June 20, 10:30 p.m.; DJ Matty Pendleton: Mod Dance Party Sunday, June 21, 10:30 p.m.; John Paul Keith Band Wednesday, June 24, 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

days, 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.

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

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

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THREE NIGHTS OF ROCK AT BAR DKDC The tiny bar on Cooper Avenue packs a big punch with great local concerts scheduled almost every night of the week this summer. This week is no different, with James and the Ultrasounds (pictured), Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks, and DJ Dropout Boogie bringing three straight days of Memphis rock-and-roll to Karen Carrier’s latest creation. Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks will start things off on Thursday, June 18th, fresh off a weekend run to Austin, Dallas and New Orleans. This will be the only local appearance by Jack and the Sheiks before they go on an extensive tour across the eastern United States. The band released the excellent Live! album earlier this year (which I reviewed awhile back), and the record is still available from the band and local record shops around town.

James and the Ultrasounds take the “stage” at Bar DKDC on Friday, June 19th, bringing another night of ramped-up garage rock to the small venue.

James Godwin released the acclaimed Bad To Be Here album last year and recently told us that he has already begun working on new music. Godwin used to back up Jack Oblivian and did time in the Grifters offshoot the New Mary Jane, making him a driving force behind some of the most appreciated local garage rock bands of the past five years.

Rounding out the three-night extravaganza is DJ Dropout Boogie (Eric Hermeyer), who is replacing long-time running local band Impala. Instead of the instrumental stylings of the swamp boogie veterans known as “The Kings of the Track,” DJ Dropout Boogie will be spinning danceable 45’s all night long, which, after two nights of noisy garage rock, doesn’t seem like that bad of an alternative. — Chris Shaw All shows at Bar DKDC start at 10:30 p.m. and are 21 and up. Admission is $5.

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Boscos Squared 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

Town Hall Devils Thursday, June 18, 10 p.m.; Holy Gallows & Anodes Friday, June 19, 10 p.m.; Mouserocket & No Ma’am Saturday, June 20, 10 p.m.; Axons & Sox Glove Sunday, June 21, 10 p.m.; Devil

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

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Jazz with Jeremy & Ed Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Zigadoo Moneyclips Friday, June 19, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.; Bluff City Backsliders Saturday, June 20, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Jam Sundays, 6 p.m.; Jimmy Ellis Jam Sunday, June 21, 6 p.m.; Justin White Monday, June 22, 7 p.m.; Juke Joint Blues Jam Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 1760 PEABODY INFO, 458-2354

Belvedere Chamber Music Festival Saturday, June 20, 7:30-9 p.m.

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

Ancient River with Totals, Strong Martian, and Other Stories Thursday, June 18, 9 p.m.; The Kickback Thursday, June 18, 10 p.m.; Beth Israel with Toxie Friday, June 19, 10 p.m.; The Sidewayz Saturday, June 20, 10 p.m.; Cranford Hollow Sunday, June 21, 9 p.m.; Cymbals Eat Guitars with Forth Wanderers & Bent Denim Monday, June 22, 9:30 p.m.; Dizzy Wright Tuesday, June 23, 7 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; House Of Lighting with WRONG Wednesday, June 24, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Juliet and the Lonesome Romeos Sunday, June 21, 4-7 p.m.; Stoop Kids Sunday, June 21, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Java Cabana

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Matt Schofield Thursday, June 18, 7:30 p.m.; Chubby Carrier & The Bayou Swamp Band Friday, June 19, 7:30 p.m.; Gedeon Luke & The People Saturday, June 20, 7:30 p.m.; New Country Rehab Sunday, June 21, 7:30 p.m.

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Girls Night Out Friday, June 19, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.

Strano Sicilian Kitchen 948 S. COOPER 552-7122

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Dead Soldiers Friday, June 19, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Blues + Brews IV: An Evening With Alvin Youngblood Hart Saturday, June 20, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

New Orleans Suspects Friday, June 19; The Ting Tings Sunday, June 21; Artistik Lounge Featuring Devin Crutcher every third Sunday, 7-11 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Cryptics Thursday, June 18; Ghost Bones with Liquid Teens with RPLD GHSTS Friday, June 19; Jocephus & The Jonestown Massacre Saturday, June 20; Midwest State of Mind Sunday, June 21; The Hussy with Liquid Teens and DJ Ladyvomiter Monday, June 22; Arroyo Death Match Wednesday, June 24.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Bob Frank with Dan Montgomery and a surprise guest Friday, June 19.

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

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

East Memphis Brookhaven Pub & Grill 695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 680-8118

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

Dan McGuinness Pub 4698 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.

Bluesday Tuesday Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

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Hanna Star & the Teenage Teenagers Sundays, 1:30-3 p.m.

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Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

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

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

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

2 Mule Plow Sunday, June 21, 4-7 p.m.; Buckles & Boots Sunday, June 21, 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

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

Germantown The King Beez Sunday, June 21, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

The Dantones Sunday, June 21, 8-11:30 p.m.; Hump Day Patio Party: Deering & Down Wednesday, June 24, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Mesquite Chop House

5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

Huey’s Poplar

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

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Charvey Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, June 21, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

Mortimer’s

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

590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

North Mississippi/ Tunica

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

The Crossing Bar & Grill

The Windjammer Restaurant

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

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The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplthret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Uncle Tony’s String Band Sunday, June 21, 7-11 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

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Malco Summer 4 Drive-In

Winchester/ Hickory Hill LoVe Lounge 7144 WINCHESTER

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

5310 SUMMER 681-2020

Terry Prince & the Principles at the Time Warp Drive-In Saturday, June 20, 6:45-8 p.m.

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

The Other Place Bar & Grill 4148 WALES 373-0155

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

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

County Line Sunday, June 21, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

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

High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing; Trace Adkins Friday, June 19, 8 p.m.

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Charlie Belt Unplugged Thursday, June 18, 8 p.m.midnight; Cruisin’ Heavy Friday, June 19, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sunday Funday with The Lineup Sunday, June 21, 5:309:30 p.m.; Jonez’n Wednesday, June 24, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Old Whitten Tavern

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub 6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

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

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.

Shelby Forest General Store

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Youth Villages Bartlett Campus

Frayser/Millington

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

7410 MEMPHIS-ARLINGTON 252-7650

Primavera Tour with Ethan Parker Monday, June 22, 10 a.m.

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

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, June 21, 8-11:30 p.m.

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

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

Karaoke Nights at The Stack Wednesdays-Fridays, Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.; Grand Theft Audio Memphis (GTA) Back at The Stack!! Saturday, June 20, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Old Millington Winery 6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114

Winestock V featuring Jukebox Turner, the Rhythm Rockers, and More Sunday, June 21, 3-6 p.m.

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

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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

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

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June 18 - 24

Mainstage Theatre (University of Memphis)

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Landers Center (DeSoto Civic Center)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, magical, family-friendly, voodoo-inspired production. www.tnshakespeare.org. $33.

Sun., 3 p.m., and Wed.-Sat., 7 p.m. Through June 21.

The Secret Garden — based on the 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this musical version is set in the early years of the 20th century. A young English girl is born and raised in the British Raj. www.dftonline.org. $18-$30. FridaysSundays. Through June 28.

U OF M CAMPUS (678-2576).

Memphis Pink Palace Museum

Israeli Scout Caravan, program about friendship. www. memphismuseums.org. Tues., June 23, 2 p.m.

4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120).

The Evergreen Theatre

The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, new work, which asks the question, “How does society write its own history?”

Revisits the aftermath of a town regarding the murder of a student at the University of Wyoming. www.newmoontheatre.org. $20. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through June 28.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Germantown Community Theatre A Year with Frog and Toad, waking from hibernation in the spring, Frog and Toad plant gardens, swim, rake leaves, go sledding, and learn life lessons along the

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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3050 CENTRAL (636-2362).

The Orpheum

Broad Avenue’s Summer Art Stroll is Friday, June 19th. way. www.gctcomeplay.org. $10. Sundays, 2:30 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m.

Through June 28.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (754-2680).

Hattiloo Theatre

Simply Simone, electric new revue based on the turbu-

lent life and rich artistic legacy of American musical icon Nina Simone, child prodigy, jazz superstar, civil rights activist, and political exile. www.hattiloo. org. $22-$28. Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, 3 p.m. Through June 28.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Hernando High School Performing Arts Center Aristocats Kids, performance by children attending summer camp program. www.kudzuplayers.com. Fri., June 19, 7 p.m.

805 DILWORTH LANE, HERNANDO, MS.

Mamma Mia!, smashhit musical that combines ABBA’s greatest hits with an enchanting tale of love, laughter, and friendship. www. orpheum-memphis.com. $35-$95. Fri., June 19, 8-10:15 p.m., Sat., June 20, 2-4:15 and 8-10:15 p.m., and Sun., June 21, 1:30-3:45 & 7:30-9:45 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square The Gospel at Colonus, based on Sophocles’ Greek myth Oedipus and set in a contemporary African-American gospel church service, this production will move and thrill you

with electrifying vocals. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $22-$40. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Through July 12.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

Anything Goes, classic musical theater with epic tap dancing, a madcap book, and a wonderfully unexpected and romantic happy ending. www.theatrememphis.org. $25. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Through June 28.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

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

The Annesdale Park Gallery

Artist reception for Living Art Terrariums by Nancy Morrow, (828-3685), www. theannesdaleparkgallery.net.

Sat., June 20, 3 p.m.

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

Artist reception for “Summer Reading,” exhibition of work by various artists. www.davidluskgallery.com. Fri., June 19, 6-8 p.m.

64 FLICKER (767-3800).

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OTH E R ART HAP P E N I N G S

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Broad Avenue’s Summer Art

Featured artists include Willy Bearden’s exhibit at Paggio’s and Atlanta landscape artist Jeff Surace at T Clifton Art. Fri., June 19, 6-9 p.m.

BROAD AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT, BROAD AVENUE (378-4270), WWW. BROADAVEARTS.COM.

“Ink x Memory”

Tattoo art exhibition. Fri., June 19, 8 p.m.

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

Mandalas of MBG

Discover patterns and designs in nature. Gather materials to make small nature mandalas as well as one great group mandala. $2 plus garden admission. Fri., June 19, 10 a.m.

Booksigning by Robert W. Dye

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

Through July 6.

Author discusses and signs Images of America: Memphis Zoo. Thurs., June 18, 6-7 p.m.

START A MASTERS OR PHD TODAY.

BURKE’S BOOK STORE, 936 S. COOPER (278-7484), WWW. BURKESBOOKS.COM.

Graduate School

Southeast Summer Book Blast YA Tour

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

Authors Lynne Matson, Lindsay Cummings, Anne Blankman, Robin Constantine, Jaye Robin Brown, and Paula Stokes discuss and sign their books. Fri., June 19, 6:30 p.m.

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by David Bacon

BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION TO URBAN CHALLENGES BE A PARTNER WITH THE COMMUNITY

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (6839801), WWW.THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

Author discusses and signs The Right to Stay Home: How U.S. Policy Drives Mexican Migration and Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. Thurs., June 18, 6-8 p.m.

Booksigning by Robert W. Dye

Author discusses and signs Images of America: Memphis Zoo. Tues., June 23, 6:30 p.m.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), WWW. CIVILRIGHTSMUSEUM.ORG.

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (6839801), WWW.THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

Booksigning by Hampton Sides

Author discusses and signs In the Kingdom of Ice. Thurs., June 18, 6:30 p.m.

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Scandals & Scoundrels

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (6839801), WWW.THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

Elmwood’s 75,000 residents have a story to tell. Some of those stories don’t have happy endings. Join us for a look at the lives of those with the notorious stories of Memphis

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

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Artist reception for “!MEMPHIS POP!,” show and sell featuring one-of-a-kind Memphis-inspired pieces

by Kyle Taylor. Fri., June 19, 6-9 p.m.

Minecraft Design & Build Contest

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

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Carnival Street Fair

Featuring carnival games, food trucks, bouncers, music, face painting, carnival rides, and more. $10 per wristband.

Sat., June 20, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

LIBERTY BOWL MEMORIAL STADIUM, 335 S. HOLLYWOOD (300-9267).

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Boat Demo

Canoe and kayak demonstrations. Sun., June 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.OUTDOORSINC. COM.

Civitan 5K

Dedicated to celebrating and supporting children and adults with special needs.

Sat., June 20, 6:30-11 a.m.

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

Fights At Fitz

Guest appearance by Roy Jones Jr. $30-$45. Sat., June 20, 7:30 p.m.

Race

Outdoors Inc. Canoe & Kayak

Register by June 18. See website for schedule of events.

Sat., June 20, 7 a.m.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER, MEET AT THE NORTH END OF GREENBELT PARK, WWW.OUTDOORSINC.COM.

Rhythm Nation

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

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

Wings on the Wolf

Event will take place on a closed course between Kimbrough and Farmington featuring 5K run and walk, family fun ride, 3-hour bike ride, and awards ceremony benefiting Wings Cancer Foundation. $20-$50. Sat., June 20, 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

WOLF RIVER BLVD., NEAR NASHOBA PARK, WWW.WINGSCANCERFOUNDATION.ORG.

KIDS

Sesame Street Live

See website for event schedule. $30-$50. Sat.-Sun., June 20-21.

FEDEXFORUM, 200 S. THIRD (TICKETS, 888-HOOP), WWW. FORUMMEMPHIS.COM.

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Big Wig Ball 2015

Featuring silent auction, food, cocktails, and live music provided by DJ Justin Jaggers, Tori Tollison, and Silky O’Sullivan’s famous Dueling Pianos benefiting Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. $75$125. Fri., June 19, 7 p.m.

ANNESDALE MANSION, 1325 LAMAR (490-9460), WWW.LEBONHEUR.ORG.

Crushin’ Cancer with Skyosis

Microphones are raised in awareness of cancer and its devastating effects. Benefiting the fight of a 9-year-old niece of the band who was diagnosed with brain cancer.

21+ event. $5. Thurs., June 18, 7 p.m.-midnight.

ROCKHOUSE LIVE, 5709 RALEIGHLAGRANGE (870-636-3354).

CSF Unite@Nite One Mile Casual Walk

Those suffering from various disorders will participate.

Featuring bake sale, raffles, and Sheldon from RiverKings benefiting CSF chapters and research projects. Sun., June 21, 6-9 p.m.

LATIMER LAKES PARK, 5633 TULANE (488-3390 OR 281-4591), UNITENIGHT.KINTERA.ORG/ HORNLAKE.

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

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been perfectly paired with a Girl Scout cookie that brings out the flavor profile, style, and taste of the cookie-beer duo. $15. Thurs., June 18, 4-7 p.m.

SHADY GROVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 5530 SHADY GROVE (683-7329), WWW.SISTERSUPPLY.ORG.

HIGH COTTON BREWING CO., 598 MONROE (334-3458).

Live music benefiting Sister Supply. $10. Fri., June 19, 7 p.m.

Juneteenth 150th Anniversary

In celebration of the 150th anniversary, the Museum will offer $2 off admission for visitors who mention “Juneteenth” at the admissions desk.

Must be present. No coupon required. Fri., June 19, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Literary Luncheon with Bianca Phillips

Bianca Phillips will prepare and share a maincourse recipe from her cookbook, Cookin’ Crunk: Eatin’ Vegan in the Dirty South. Wed., June 24, noon.

Flying Saucer Downtown Memphis’ 18th Birthday Party

CORDOVA BRANCH LIBRARY, 8457 TRINITY (REGISTRATION, 754-8443).

Featuring commemorative beer tappings, a raffle, giveaways, and games with prizes throughout the night. Fri., June 19, 5-9 p.m.

Scrambled: Breakfast for Dinner

Featuring an eye-opener, light appetizer, and dinner benefiting Memphis College Prep Elementary School. $35. Sat., June 20, 6:30-9 p.m.

FLYING SAUCER DRAUGHT EMPORIUM, 130 PEABODY PLACE (523-8536), WWW.BEERKNURD.COM.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (5219699), WWW.CIVILRIGHTSMUSEUM.ORG.

Memphis Black Pride 2015 Sun., June 21, 5-7 p.m.

HOLIDAY INN SELECT, 2240 DEMOCRAT, WWW.MEMPHISBLACKPRIDE.ORG.

AUTOMATIC SLIM’S, 83 S. SECOND (620-6481).

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Peabody Rooftop Party Aug. 13.

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

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

Temptations Bar 30th Anniversary Reunion Sat., June 20, 7 p.m.

NEIL’S MUSIC ROOM, 5727 QUINCE (682-2300).

To Kill a Mockingbird: Page & Screen Event

Join a lively discussion comparing the classic novel and its screen version in anticipation of the July release of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman.

Thurs., June 18, 7-8 p.m.

FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

BARNES & NOBLE, 2774 N. GERMANTOWN (386-2468), WWW.STORE-LOCATOR.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM/ STORE/2822.

“Wicked Plants”

Fun family-friendly exhibit of the world’s most diabolical botanicals inspired by Amy Stewart’s bestselling book Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities. Through Sept. 7.

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

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JUNE 19 – JULY 12

H O L I DAY EVE N TS

Family Campout — Father’s Day Fun

Families can get unplugged and pitch a tent in the magical setting of My Big Backyard.

Featuring outdoor evening activities, dinner, s’mores, and breakfast. Registration required. $25 members, $35 nonmembers. Fri.-Sat., June 19-20, 6 p.m.-9 a.m.

TUES – FRI 7 PM | SAT & SUN 3 PM & 7 PM | DARK MONDAYS

Enjoy pizza from Russo’s New York Pizzeria and beverages, 30-minute ballroom dance lesson, 30-minute line dance lesson, and dance party. $10-$25. Sat., June 20, 3:30-5 p.m.

BLUE SUEDE BALLROOM, 3675 SOUTHWIND PARK COVE (758-0032), WWW.BLUESUEDEBALLROOM.COM.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS, 2525 CENTRAL (3203170), WWW.CMOM.COM.

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

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The Stemmed Glass Presents: Father’s Day Cigar and Wine Tasting

Includes an Art Village Gallery tour, wine tasting with cigar, and appetizers. An outside smoker’s tent will be provided to enjoy cigars. $35. Sun., June 21, 5-9 p.m.

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Guy’s Night Out

Just in time for Father’s Day, a night of fun just for the guys. Make squirrel feeders as a team, visit the GameTruck, make s’mores by a simulated campfire, and enter the chocolate bug-eating contest. $25. Fri., June 19, 6-9 p.m.

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The Blowout at the Brewery

Featuring food, wine, beer, live auction, and live music. Thurs., June 18, 6-9 p.m.

MEMPHIS MADE BREWING COMPANY, 768 S. COOPER (207-5343), WWW.BEALESTREETCARAVAN.COM.

Cookies on Tap

Girl Scout Troop 901 invites you to enjoy a flight of four High Cotton Brewery Co. beers that have

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CALENDAR: JUNE 18 - 24

Art & A Movie: Frida

Use pastels to create a portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo for the Brooks’ FOUND Art Project. Afterwards, enjoy the Salma Hayek guided biography of one of Mexico’s most prominent painters. $16.

Thurs., June 18, 6-9:05 p.m.

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

Casting Call for White Room

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

Through July 31.

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

Black Souls

Foreign film based on real events, a tale of violence begetting violence and complex morality inherited by each generation in rural, ancient Calabria, a real-life mafia seat in Southern Italy. $9. Sat., June 20, 2-3:45 p.m.

An ex attempts to sabotage a couple’s pending nuptials, and a too-successful deer season threatens to land a hunter in hot water. For the characters good things come — with complications. Free. Thurs., June 18, 7 p.m.

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illy Wonka once wondered, “Where is fancy bred? In the heart or in the head?”

Or, he might well have asked, in the mouth? Here in Memphis, we know the answer to that question. Lately, the Bluff City has started winning awards and considerable acclaim for its craft candy scene — which, five years ago, was limited to a single boutique chocolatier.

“I love caramel, and I love making people happy,” Shotwell Candy Co. founder Jerrod Smith confesses.

Shotwell, which opened its online store in November 2012, recently won a Southern Living 2015 Food Award for “Best Sweets.”

In the beginning, Smith worked out of his home kitchen, cooking candies late at night. Today, Shotwell operates out of a commercial kitchen, hand-making about 300 boxes of caramels each day. They have lately branched out into trail mix and toffee.

What sets Shotwell apart are the high quality of its ingredients and the scientific exactitude of its process. When devising a recipe for his caramels, he experimented with a dozen different varieties of butter — French, Amish, American, organic — which varied based on fat and salt content.

Which did he end up choosing? Well, that’s a trade secret, of course.

“When you put heat and sugar together, you get these amazing flavors,” Smith observes. “Combine that with my innate nerdiness and my desire to figure things out, and you get a business pretty quick.”

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Tennessee Toffees are not far behind. You can find Shotwell candies in about 90 stores across the Southeast, including (locally) Porcellino’s, Whole Foods, and City & State.

Shotwell Candy Co. shotwellcandy.com They say that invention is 93 percent perspiration, 6 percent electricity, 4 percent evaporation, and 2 percent butterscotch ripple. It’s a proprietary formula, one with which chef Phillip Ashley Rix is intimately familiar.

“I want to create things that no one has begun to imagine,” Rix, owner of Phillip Ashley Chocolates, says. “I’m like Willy Wonka. I want to put the whole world in a stick of bubble gum.”

Like Jerrod Smith, Rix is an autodidact. He never took a class on how to make ganache; he taught himself. Yet somehow, he has started turning out some of the tastiest — and most visually shocking — chocolates in the country.

Shocking enough to win acclaim from publications like Forbes and USA Today, not to mention celebrities like Tom Brokaw and Morgan Freeman. Have you ever tasted a truffle flavored with fig jam, goat cheese, and port wine?

SWEET HORIZONS “What Kate Spade did for handbags,” Rix says, “what Louboutin did for women’s shoes … that’s what I wanna do for chocolate.”

Rix’s latest venture is vegan chocolate, and it started with a celebrity encounter. Last month, Rix was catering an event at Pearl River Resort in Mississippi, and he was asked to bring a gift bag for country music legend Tim McGraw, who would be performing.

There was just one catch. McGraw is vegan. So Rix began experimenting, and before long he had cooked up a dairy-free truffle flavored with spicy Mexican sipping chocolate.

These confections must be seen to be believed. High-gloss hemispheres that have been painted with dancing flames, each is a little work of art. And they taste as good as they look, with a smooth, chocolaty crème and a satisfying, spicy finish. Rix says they are the first in a vegan series that will include bourbon and lavender vanilla.

Phillip Ashley Chocolates, 798 S. Cooper, 207-6259 phillipashleychocolates.com Of course, you can’t write about craft candy in Memphis without covering Dinstuhl’s Fine Candies. Family-owned since 1902, they were making cashew brittle when Smith and Rix were twinkles in their fathers’ eyes. More recently, they’ve been acclaimed by People magazine and Cooking with Paula Deen, who judged Dinstuhl’s fudge “The Best in America.”

Not too shabby. President Rebecca Dinstuhl says her company’s consistent, high quality comes from having had five generations of Dinstuhl’s in the kitchen.

“It makes us cautious with our recipes,” she confides. “We’ve got people who have been customers for 70 years, so we want to make sure it tastes as good as it did when our great-grandfather made it.”

You can taste the difference in confections like the Peanut Butter Square. Impossibly rich and creamy, it’s as though Alice Waters cooked up a Reese’s buttercup.

For summer, Dinstuhl’s is rolling out a line of chocolate-dipped fruits, including raspberries, blackberries, pineapples, and grapes. They’re actually pretty marvelous.

Before being enrobed in chocolate, they are rolled in a sugar fondant, which means that instead of a gooey filling, there’s actually a little raspberry in there.

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Rooting for the Dinosaurs Jurassic World stomps on familiar ground.

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Steven Spielberg knows this universal truth, and so in 1993, he adapted Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic Park into a classic film and used the money and clout its success brought to create his masterpiece Schindler’s List.

But Jurassic Park was a landmark film for reasons beyond the boffo box office tally. It marked the coming-of-age of CGI, even if many of the most spectacular scenes were the practical work of special effects master Phil Tippett. It introduced the world to the latest thinking in paleontology: Not all dinos were cold-blooded and slow-moving, and they were the ancestors of birds. But best of all, it was a fantastic adventure film of the kind few people besides Spielberg can actually make work.

Colin Trevorrow, director of Jurassic World, is just the latest in a long line of directors who have tried and failed to reproduce the Spielberg touch. Perhaps the director, whose last film was the low-budget time-travel indie Safety Not Guaranteed, can console himself by rolling around on Brontosaurus-sized piles of money, but he shouldn’t feel too bad. Inviting comparisons with Spielberg is a fool’s game. Jurassic World is not a misfire, just a pale reflection of Jurassic Park.

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The film opens with images of eggs hatching, a new generation of velociraptors to thrill and chill the attendees at Jurassic World, a theme park built on the site of the ill-fated original by vaguely Arabic rich guy Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan). The very existence of Jurassic World is an example of the film’s basic problem: After the extraordinary carnage inflicted on paying customers by the dinos in the first film, who in their right mind would try to do it again? How would they even get insurance?

But this is a monster movie, so even as we follow brothers Zach and Gray Mitchell (Nick Robinson and Ty Simpkins) to the park, we know the insurance companies are about to take a major bath. The kids are being sent by their divorcing parents to visit their aunt Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard), a Jurassic World executive whose emotional responses are a low priority on her daily action list. We get to experience the wonders of the family dinosauria through the kids’ eyes while Claire shows her boss the park’s newest asset: a genetically engineered super-dino named Indominous Rex.

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Reader, I know you’re wondering if we get to see Indominous fight a Tyrannosaurus. Of course we do. The thunder lizard action in Jurassic World is first-rate. There are old favorites, such as the peaceful herd of brontos that wander the volcanic island’s grassy plains. The series’ true stars, the velociraptors, are now the charges of dino whisperer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), who has successfully trained a pack of them to regard him as their leader. When corporate security head Vic Hoskins (Vincent D’Onofrio) proposes weaponizing the ’raptors, Grady, in a rare flash of common sense, tells him what a mind-numbingly stupid idea that is.

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FILM REVIEWS The rest of the human cast are either ciphers, like the two kids who serve as audience surrogates, or actively repugnant. Claire, for example, is set up early as an unlikable corporate tool, and her character seems to learn nothing as she is repeatedly saved from bloody extinction by Grady. The audience I saw Jurassic World with cheered as one character after another got eaten by the dinosaurs.

But maybe the crappy characterization is a feature, not a bug. The production design and the CGI are first-rate, and the 3D work is the best I’ve seen since Avatar, a film Jurassic World borrows a couple of gags from.

If all of the characters except Grady are intentionally drawn as insufferable jerks to make the dinosaurs more sympathetic, then bravo, mister director, you’ve succeeded. I don’t quite think that was Trevorrow’s intention, but I had fun rooting for the dinosaurs anyway. — Chris McCoy

(embodied here by Gaspard Ulliel) through the work he did rather than the stories others told about him. Instead of rehashing those inspirational triumphs against all odds that we’ve come to dread from such films, Bonello offers several isolated scenes of unexpected pithiness and power. An early split-screen montage of Saint Laurent’s influential 1968 and 1971 lines juxtaposes sleek gamines modeling his latest creations with news footage of Black Panthers and anti-war riots. Interesting times, those — one group

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Although it’s two-and-a-half hours long, Saint Laurent is, thanks to its brilliant surfaces and luxurious aimlessness, pleasurably sensuous and frustratingly sketchy. You probably won’t feel anything but boredom and relief immediately after you’ve seen it, though. But give it enough time to slink around inside your brain and caress your neural tissues and its pleasures eventually emerge.

Surprisingly, director/co-writer Bertrand Bonello’s epically mundane picture about 10 years in the life of a great fashion designer is the second Yves Saint Laurent biopic released in the last two years. Jill Lespert’s 2014 Yves Saint Laurent managed to win both the approval of Saint Laurent’s business partner and former lover Pierre Bergé and the right to use some original designs and outfits from the YSL archive. Bonello’s film is thus the “unauthorized” version of Saint Laurent’s life, but its refusal to follow the biopic’s traditional rise-and-fall sine curves more than compensates for any sartorial inaccuracies or knockoffs.

Much like Mike Leigh’s enlightening and exhausting Mr. Turner, Saint Laurent attempts to get at its subject

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At every turn, important information about Saint Laurent’s life and career trajectory is ignored, abstracted, or repeated until it loses all meaning.

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In short, Saint Laurent is like a volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time if Proust was a nearly silent figure whose genius was expressed not through long sentences but through fabrics, colors, and patterns. — Addison Engelking

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TH E LAST WO R D by Susan Wilson

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I haven’t watched morning news shows in several years, mainly because if I wanted to see two middle-aged women sitting around getting drunk, I’d invite a friend over. Also, there doesn’t seem to be any news anymore. Call me a stick-in-the-mud, but I like my morning news to tell me if we went to war with North Korea overnight or if Greece still exists. KIDDING! Seriously, the only reason I don’t watch all 17 hours of the Today show is because the TV is inconveniently located. If there’s an important news story, SVU will do a storyline about it within a few weeks.

Yesterday, I watched a feature on what to wear poolside. Now, admittedly, I might not have been the target audience for the piece. I don’t dress to be seen poolside. I dress to be invisible. The surest way to do this is to wear a swimsuit with a skirted bottom and have your coverup be something like a T-shirt from a 1991 SAE mixer. Or, in my case, any number of formerly-white peasantstyle blouses covered in paint and live-bait stains and a nylon fishing hat from Eddie Bauer.

I no longer have the time or energy to stage a fashion show to get in a pool, and certainly not a lake, but I was intrigued by the feature, because the Style Expert they had on was costumed, and the first outfit they showed involved a blazer. Maybe “costumed” isn’t a fair term. She had on a little Pucci-inspired shift and giant white glasses on her head. She looked like what you’d want to look like poolside.

She looked cool, pulled-together, color-coordinated. She looked like a woman who would not sweat while trying to haul four beach chairs, a cooler, and three toddlers down to the water’s edge. Obviously, I hated her immediately and watched the rest of the segment strictly to mock her.

So, shorts and a blazer poolside is a thing. Because you’ll be wearing a “pleat short” you won’t need jewelry, OBVIOUSLY. Jewelry with pleats? Sure, with pleated mom jeans! Okay, first? No. Second?

A BLAZER? BY THE POOL? Admittedly, her reasoning was sound: You have the shorts as a swim coverup and then you toss on the blazer for — get this— what she calls “après pool.” Just like après ski.

You know this because she says, “just like après ski.”

I don’t know what skiing has to do with being poolside in the Brooks Brothers Pool Bound Business Collection™, but I am out of the fashion loop. Nowhere was this more evident than in showing a great poolside outfit for pregnant gals. The model had on a cute maxi dress with an incredibly unfortunate print that looked like an abstract crayon resist done by an unmedicated ax murderer. The model wore a fabulous wide-brimmed sun hat. You know why? If you guessed to keep the sun off her face, you are so wrong you’re probably still wearing high-waisted sailor jeans from last summer. When you’re pregnant? No. When you “have a nice, beautiful belly to celebrate,” you’ll want to “counterbalance proportionally” with a hat. WHO KNEW? Also the maxi keeps you cool, because “it’s very breezy.

It almost creates an internal whirlwind inside.” DUH. They also showed a cute little strapless shift. I say “little” because it was from Banana Republic and their entrances are decorated with pressure-sensitive doormats, so if you weigh something ridiculous like a triple digit, this giant spring shoots up and catapults you over to the food court. But they give you a coupon to Auntie Anne’s, so there’s that.

I’m sure if I had to sit on the set and come up with three minutes worth of descriptions for swim coverups, I’d be a blithering idiot and come up with stupid phrases, but what is it with fashion people? You don’t wear pants, but a pant. It’s not a pair of shoes, it’s a statement shoe, and everything is set off by a smoky eye and a nude lip. This is why models are so thin. They’re trying to lose body parts so the descriptions are accurate. Damn you, fashionistas!

I was, however, inspired. I was at my favorite boutique (Target) yesterday, and I bought a maxi dress. I’m looking to create an internal whirlwind to keep me cool. I’m hoping my accountant will let me claim that Consumer Energy Efficiency tax credit for it. Also, I a maxi will cover my ankles, which tend to stay the size of watermelons from April to October. I am undaunted by the fact that my arms have seen neither tone nor tan since before Bill met Monica. I’ll celebrate a large, pale upper arm by counterbalancing with a chunky wedge sandal and a gimlet eye.

Susan Wilson also writes for likethedew.com and yeahandanotherthing.com. While not Memphis natives, she and her husband Chuck Elliott have lived here long enough to know Midtown does not start at Highland.

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Porcelain Crowns Bridges/Veneers

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GONER RECORDS

New/ Used LPs, 45s & CDs. We Buy Records!

2152 Young Ave 901-722-0095

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

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Mid Town Lingerie 710 S. Cox 901-425-5912

MINGLEWOOD HALL

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DACH ORIENTAL IMPORTS Largest Martial Arts Supplier Since 1979 Kung Fu DVD’s $10.00 www.dach.us 4491 Summer 901.685.3224 Tues – Sat 11:00 – 6:00

SPORTS TALK RADIO Advertising/Sponsorship Sales. Excellent part-time income. Earn up to 10,000 per year. Great Opportunity.

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