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Sometimes on Tuesday morning, I stare at my laptop, looking for words. Sometimes, I say to myself, “I got nothing.”

So, what I can say about two young men who were killed in encounters with area police officers last weekend? Not enough is known about either case at this point to be able do anything but ask the obvious question: Why were trained police officers unable to subdue two unarmed men who had not committed a crime without hogtying or shooting them?

In the case of Darrius Stewart, the 19-year-old man shot by a Memphis cop who claimed he was attacked with his own handcuffs, we have the small comfort of knowing the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) is going to examine the incident rather than the district attorney’s office, which is notoriously cozy with the Memphis Police Department (MPD). The case, of course, is further inflamed by the fact that the officer involved is white and Stewart was black.

I say “small comfort” because TBI records are sealed by state law, so we won’t be privy to whom they interviewed, what the witnesses’ and officers’ testimonies were, etc. unless TBI decides to release its evidence. We can only hope they will conduct a transparent and unbiased inquiry that sheds real light on the case. That doesn’t always happen.

You may remember an incident in 2013, in which a young black man, Steven Askew, was sleeping in his car outside his girlfriend’s apartment, waiting for her to get home. Two MPD officers knocked on his car window, then shot him a couple dozen times in the back. The officers claimed they killed Askew because he pulled a gun on them. The incident was investigated by the DA’s office, which cleared the cops of wrongdoing, even though one of the officers had a lengthy and ugly history of misconduct, anger-issue counseling, and departmental reprimands. Even though the officers used very questionable police techniques.

Askew’s family filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the department and the city — which I predict they will win. This case was pre-Ferguson. If it had happened last week, I have no doubt the TBI would have been involved at an early stage rather than leaving the case for the local DA to resolve.

Meanwhile, down in Southaven, there was the case of Troy Goode, a young man who was acting erratically in a strip mall after leaving a Widespread Panic concert.

Police eventually subdued Goode, hog-tied him, and sent him to a hospital, where he died shortly after arriving. Goode was apparently asthmatic and on hallucinogens, which could have contributed to his death, but hog-tying is not a smart police technique. The city of Memphis paid several million dollars to settle a police hog-tying death a few years back.

Stewart’s family has retained counsel, and I would be very surprised if a lawsuit N EWS & O P I N I O N LETTERS - 4 isn’t filed. There’s no word yet on whether THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 Goode’s family will take legal action, but I THE FLY-BY - 6 wouldn’t bet against it.

TRUTH BE TOLD - 10 Being a police officer is a harrowPOLITICS - 12 ing and difficult job. Mistakes get made, EDITORIAL - 14 VIEWPOINT - 15 sometimes fatal ones. Anger and emotion COVER STORY spring up to fill the void of losing a loved “ROCKIN’ THE HALLS” one. Speculation and premature concluBY CHRIS DAVIS - 16 sions abound. Lawsuits get filed. Then STE P P I N’ O UT settlements happen, settlements which WE RECOMMEND - 20 often cost taxpayers millions. But the MUSIC - 22 dead are still dead.

AFTER DARK - 26 CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 30 Last weekend, two young men died; FOOD - 38 now two families are in pain. Beyond that, FILM - 40 I got nothing.

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using Jim Crow to resubjugate Southern black people after the North gave up trying to make white Southerners behave civilly, then white Southerners should, as a gesture of conciliation, give up these retrograde attempts to whitewash history.

Tell the real history, not the fake history the white citizens who erected the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1905 have concocted out of the ether.

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Just for the record: Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines who fought in the Civil War were made U.S. veterans by an act of Congress in 1957, making all Confederate veterans equal to U.S. veterans.

Additionally, under U.S. Public Law 810, approved by the 17th Congress in 1929, the War Department was directed to erect headstones and recognize Confederate gravesites as U.S. war dead gravesites. So, in essence, when you remove a Confederate statue, monument, or headstone, you are, in fact, removing a statue, monument, or headstone of a U.S. veteran.

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Don’t we have bigger fish to fry in this city than to worry about a dead man who is not doing anyone any harm right now?

If you don’t like the statue, go to another park. We have several nice ones.

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Cars are so dangerous they can kill. That’s why we require a license — not to own 5 6 7 8 9 one, but to use one. You must be age 16, get training, pass a written test, pass a road 15retested every so often for the test, and get rest of your life. And if you want to drive 18 anything bigger (trucks, buses, bulldozers, etc.), that requires a different license, one that’s more difficult to attain, again 21 22 from a state-certified system. No one has a problem with any of this.

25 26 So why don’t the same kinds of laws apply to guns? Cars kill by accident, but 28 That’s why29 guns kill by design. the police have to have serious background checks 36 and retesting, 37 and lots of practice, testing all by a state-certified system, before they are39 allowed to carry a gun. 40 41 All gun users should have to get training then a44 license. There should be small45 gun and large-gun licenses. Ammunition should be sold in quantities appropriate to 47 48 the purpose of the gun. If you think you need a 100-round magazine to shoot a 50 need more 51 practice. deer, you really Like alcohol and tobacco, firearms should be heavily58taxed, but all59gun-safety 60 devices should be tax-free.

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PIG WIZARD Poor Andy Holt seems to be unclear on the meaning of many words, including, but not limited to, “civil” and “rights.” Last week, the outspoken Tennessee State Representative, in what some are describing as a strong bid by Holt to become the next Stacey Campfield, described Nathan Bedford Forrest (a slave trader, Confederate general, and the original Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan) as being one of “the South’s first Civil Rights leaders … a man, redeemed through Christ, that fought for the rights of black West Tennesseans.” It’s helpful to remember that Holt, who’s currently being eyeballed by the feds for allegedly releasing 800,000 gallons of pig feces into fields and streams near his farming operation, once described the Humane Society as being nothing but a bunch of “fraudulent” and “reprehensibly disgusting” corporatists “intent on using animals the same way humantraffickers use 17-year-old women.”

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BLAMING VICTIMS According to a wide range of Tennessee media sources including The Commercial Appeal, The Tennessean, and Nashville Public Radio, the state of Tennessee canceled an anti-drunk-driving outreach campaign because it had been “criticized as sexist.” After reviewing slogans about poor judgment and the effect of alcohol on clingy, marginally attractive women, The Washington Post published a more accurate story headlined, “Sexist drunken driving campaign canceled on account of being really, really sexist.”

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A sneak peek into the Memphis Escape Rooms.

We’re trying to escape a serial killer’s apartment before he stops us.

I’m standing in a room, surrounded by things that aren’t my own, though it looks like someone lives here. My friend Shannon is fumbling over a combination lock, while another friend, Taylor, and I try to figure out the numbers that give us the next clue to help us make our escape.

We’re “trapped” inside one of the Memphis Escape Rooms, a new East Memphis attraction in which participants must solve puzzles and find clues to escape a room within a certain time frame. And, for added intensity, there’s a fictional serial killer on the loose. The Escape Rooms opened to the public this week.

It’s an adrenaline rush and mental puzzle, and it forces us to hone in on things we may have otherwise missed. The timer on the screen counts down from an hour, pushing us to work faster.

There is a bit of role-playing involved. We’re acting as police officers tasked with stopping the Mayflower, a serial killer who leaves an antique ship-in-a-bottle beside each of his victims.

The Escape Room team lets us know prior to letting us into this

room in the killer’s apartment that we’re there to fill in missing clues on how to apprehend him.

So we’re not just trying to escape the room. We’re figuring out the mind-set of this deranged killer, too.

In addition to the Mayflower room, Memphis Escape Rooms has another room called What’s In The Box?, where players focus on finding a key to unlock a box left behind by the wealthy and recently deceased (and fictional, of course) Mr. Merryweather. Both rooms are intricate and require cooperation, logic, and persistence from all parties.

The Memphis Escape Rooms — co-founded by Memphians Keith Edwards, Stephen Lynch, and Ryan Hoover — were modeled after similar concepts in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Nashville.

There are only the two room scenarios for now, but Memphis Escape Rooms has plans to eventually add more rooms.

Memphis Escape Rooms recommends a minimum of four people per room, but up to seven people can play. Tickets are $20 per person, and seven tickets must be sold for a group to have the room to themselves. Reservations are required and can be made online at memphisescaperooms.com. The facility is

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Proposal would fix the city’s busted, weed-choked, and incomplete sidewalks.

Walking in Memphis can be a treacherous — even dangerous — endeavor, and that’s just not because of the heat or the crime. It’s also because of the sidewalks.

Almost all of Memphis’ 3,429 miles of sidewalks need repair, with a third of them requiring immediate repair. That’s according to a report issued last week that lays out the biggest challenges for the city’s sidewalk system.

The Memphis Pedestrian and School Safety Action Plan proposes spending $200 million over 20 years to fix city sidewalks and crosswalks. The plan prioritizes projects close to schools or in high-use areas; walkways that provide access to transit hubs, businesses, and attractions; and areas that have high rates of pedestrian crashes.

“At the end of the day, we’re all pedestrians,” said Memphis Mayor A C Wharton. “The moment we get out of our cars to go in a store, take a walk to the park with our families, or step out of the

office to grab lunch at the restaurant next door, we each expose ourselves to an environment that should be welcoming and safe.”

But many Memphis sidewalks are neither welcoming nor safe. “Crumbling or uprooted sidewalk panels” create tripping hazards and limit accessibility for people with disabilities, the study says. Utility poles and street signs

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block walkways and force pedestrians to walk in the roads. Too few crosswalks cause pedestrians to cross streets mid-block.

Between 2007 and 2011, 1,725 car crashes involved pedestrians. Of those, 75 were fatalities, the study says. The pedestrian crashes occurred mainly in downtown and Midtown and frequently involved youth aged 10 to 19.

Replacing all the city’s sidewalks would cost $1.1 billion, the study says.

Just making all those “immediate repairs” would cost $363 million.

To properly maintain existing city sidewalks would cost $19 million every year indefinitely. But since 2004, the city has spent an average of $33,400 ever year on sidewalk maintenance.

“With a maintenance burden so vast, it has always been difficult to evaluate where the greatest needs for sidewalk repair or sidewalk improvements were at any given time,” said city engineer John Cameron.

To pay for the program, the study suggests partnering with organizations like the Memphis Area Transit Authority, Memphis Light Gas and Water, and the Tennessee Department of Transportation to leverage grant funds.

The first phase of the proposed projects span the city and range in scope in size. One project would fix a Frayser sidewalk that stretches one-tenth of mile at cost of about $48,000. Another would build a new sidewalk in Whitehaven at a cost of about $1.3 million.

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As for our own escape, well, we finally got out of the room — after the clock ran out. That’s when the Escape Room staff came in to walk us through what we missed. Normally, when a team fails the challenge, the staff doesn’t let the team in on missed clues, but we were so close that they felt compelled to clue us in.

We may not have completed the challenge, but nonetheless, we were proud and relieved; escaping the room is as hard as it should be.

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with Dwan Gilliom Outgoing City of Memphis Public Works director

Memphis Public Works Director Dwan Gilliom fought back tears when asked what he’ll miss the most when he leaves his position at the end of July to accept a job as the Public Works director for Shreveport, Lousiana.

“The people,” Gilliom said, pausing to stave off the waterworks. “I’ve developed great working relationships with so many people in city government and across the community over the years. Every time I think about it, I tear up.”

Gilliom enrolled in the city’s Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) in January 2013. DROP allows city employees who plan to retire in two to three years to stop contributions to the retirement plan.

Once they enroll, they must retire.

Gilliom got his start in public service as a Memphis Police officer in 1985. He went on to work for the federal government through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in Atlanta in 1999 before moving back to Memphis in 2002 to take a job heading up the Mayor’s Citizens Service Center under Mayor W.W. Herenton.

Herenton eventually convinced Gilliom to take up the helm in the solid waste division and then, in 2007, in the Division of Public Works. — Bianca Phillips

Flyer: You’ve put a lot of emphasis on fighting blight.

Gilliom: We’ve gone from cutting [overgrowth on] around 7,000 vacant lots a year to almost 40,000. We have an issue with property owners not maintaining their own property across the city, so we spend an excess of $3 million a year caring for vacant properties that we don’t own.

We send them bills, but very few pay. We collect around $300,000 each year.

We’ve increased the number of residential demolitions. I think we’re averaging now around 750 to 800 demolitions [of blighted homes] a year.

A couple years ago, the city was hit with a consent decree from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after our sewage overflows were found to be in violation of the Clean Water Act. Was that a blow?

We negotiated one of the best consent decrees across the nation. Other cities are seeing consent decrees being imposed as high as $6 billion. And ours is $250 million, which might sound like a lot, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared with what other cities are having to spend to take care of their infrastructure issues.

containers Dwan about a year Gilliom ago, and we saw our volume increase in that area alone 300 percent. And now we’re beginning to issue those containers to anyone in the city who requests one.

But your “pay as you throw” idea didn’t work out.

“Pay as you throw” means that anything outside of the recycling or garbage container must be pre-paid for, either through pre-paying for a bag or a tag. More than 6,000 cities across the United States have a “pay as you throw” program. The fact that we allow our customers to discard everything and expect it to be picked up within a week or two is outrageous.

We had coined the phrase SMART program, which stands for Save Money and Reduce Trash, and one councilmember indicated that it was the dumbest thing she’d ever heard. I couldn’t help but laugh. I sensed there was no support on the council, so we killed the idea after that meeting. I think it’ll be a long time before it comes up again. And I would advise the next person not to call it a SMART program.

You oversaw the implementation of single-stream recycling.

That’s probably one of my proudest moments, even though “pay as you throw” has been one of my darkest moments.

Our curbside recycling program had been dormant for 15 or 16 years. We had averaged around 10,000 tons a year, and we had fallen down to just over 9,000 tons.

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It was one of the worst winters that I’ve experienced as the Public Works director.

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Vintage printing press block letters, all manner of retro glassware, collectibles from the Princess Diana era, and sepia-toned photographs of nameless people who likely died years ago are among the items arranged on age-old furniture inside Dale Buckley’s Midtown antique shop.

And by December of this year, all those items and the rest of Buckley’s hodgepodge of antiques must go. After 38 years operating his shop out of a historic home at 1965 Madison near Overton Square, Buckley is calling it quits. He’s selling his inventory at halfprice through the end of the year or until it’s gone — whichever comes first.

“I will be 83 in September, and I’ve decided it’s time to close it up,” Buckley said. “I figured I’d be in a better position to close it myself than to leave it for my children to deal with. The business isn’t as profitable as it once was, and most of my kids are out of Memphis and making more money than the shop makes.”

Buckley had become known among local collectors for his focus on European antiques. In the shop’s heyday, Buckley traveled to Scotland or England yearly to purchase antiques to stock his store. He’d fill a 20-foot container with furniture, silver, and other vintage goods.

“The quality of the furniture over there was outstanding. Everything about [European antiques] was appealing — the price, the quality, the quantity — and Americans have always had a love for English and Scottish antiques,” Buckley said. “What I was buying overseas was from the early- and mid-1800s, while stuff

available in America was more 20thcentury stuff.”

After he made his purchases overseas, they’d be shipped to the States by boat. The shipments came into a New Orleans port, and then they’d have to be shipped to Memphis. The whole process would take a couple of months. Buckley said his loyal customers eagerly Dale Buckley awaited those shipments.

“It was better than Christmas when it arrived. I had customers who would call everyday and say, ‘Is it here yet? Is it here yet?’” Buckley said. “I had customers who would come in and help me unpack everything, because if they unpacked it, they got the first choice.”

Buckley’s interest in English and Scottish antiques was piqued after his family moved to Scotland in 1959.

He was doing missionary work there through his church, and he and his wife discovered that Scottish antiques were really cheap. So they furnished their home there with antiques.

“Victorian stuff was considered secondhand junk over there,” Buckley said.

His family returned home to Henderson, Tennessee, in 1962, and Buckley opened a little antique shop behind their house to supplement his teaching job at Freed-Hardeman University. Eventually, Buckley

retired from teaching and moved to Memphis, where he opened Buckley’s Antiques in 1978.

Buckley said, as far as he knows, he’s never stumbled onto an item of extraordinary value, or if he did, “I sold it and didn’t realize it.” But his favorite finds have always been the grandfather clocks.

“I’ve bought beautiful clocks of all styles and kinds and lots of great Victorian furniture,” Buckley said. “And I’ve always loved the English Staffordshire pottery dogs and such. They’re the most popular of all the decorative things that come out of England.”

As for what he’ll do after retirement, Buckley said he hopes to spend more time with his family.

“I don’t have any plans beyond just retiring,” Buckley said. “I have seven kids and 16 grandkids, so I’ll be enjoying my family and traveling out of town to see them.”

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You don’t get rich working for someone else, or so the saying goes. Connect those three points and you have a straight line between the success of local African-American entrepreneurs and the city’s financial future.

If nearly two-thirds of Memphis is shut out of the city’s economic growth, the city will always be burdened by the problems that follow poverty. Here’s where the Economic Development Growth Engine for Memphis and Shelby County (EDGE) could make difference, although I’m not optimistic. Next month, the EDGE board will vote on new policies, including diversity spending requirements for companies that receive PILOTs, the tax breaks and incentives used to lure new businesses and jobs to town.

Right now, companies are asked to make a best-faith effort to spend 25 percent of construction and controllable spending with minority- and womenowned business enterprises (MWBEs) and locally owned small businesses (LOSBs). The new guidelines would go from a “try-your-best” model to an “orelse” requirement of a 15-percent MWBE/ LOSB spend in all categories. Companies that don’t comply could have to pay back some of the tax breaks. But the change won’t translate into additional dollars for MWBEs or LOSBs, which makes it feel more like window dressing than a substantial revision.

Since 2011, EDGE has secured nearly $2 billion in projected investments. About 14 percent ($292 million) of that will go to MWBEs and LOSBs. Fourteen percent.

In a city that’s 63 percent black and 50 percent female. But if you ask EDGE’s CEO Reid Dulberger how many millions went to African-American businesses, he can’t tell you, because he doesn’t know.

EDGE doesn’t know because it lumps minority-owned, women-owned businesses, and locally owned small businesses into the same pile. This failure (refusal?) to calculate how PILOTs affect black-owned businesses is inexplicable.

We measure what matters. Does building black wealth matter much to EDGE, local government, the Chamber of Commerce, or any other agencies with a vested interest in the city’s financial future?

After white men complained that

Shelby County’s race/gender-conscious contracting program was biased against white men, the county switched to a program for locally owned businesses, defined as those with annual sales under $5 million.

To understand how thoroughly people of color are shut out economically, look at data measured by the city of Memphis.

Although white men make up around 18 percent of Memphis’ population, their businesses received nearly two-thirds of city municipal contracts.

Those most likely to dismiss the racial disparity are also those who profit most.

“Blacks are enjoined to get over it, to stop playing the victim role, take personal responsibility,” said Darrick Hamilton, associate professor of economics and urban policy at the New School.

But diligence and hard work doesn’t translate into wealth for families of color, Hamilton said last week during a webinar on racial wealth inequality sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Federal Reserve System.

Among the alarming figures he shared from 2011 federal data: An unemployed white head of household had nearly twice as much net wealth ($21,892) as a black head of household working full time ($11,649). Households headed by white high school dropouts had more wealth ($34,700) than households headed by black college graduates ($23,400).

Low-income white families had more household wealth ($60,000) than middleincome black families ($42,800).

“The source of the racial wealth gap is that some individuals have access to some seed money so that they can purchase an asset that will appreciate over their lifetime when they are young adults,” Hamilton said.

It would be easy to blame the gap on black people’s bad choices, said William Darity of Duke University, but there’s no evidence to support that theory.

“These historical and existing structural factors mean that individuals who are engaged in trying to do the right thing are actually overwhelmed by the constraints that they’re confronted with,” Darity said.

Those factors are, in short, rooted in racism — a subject that ruffles feathers for black and white people, although for different reasons. But if EDGE, local politicians, and civic leaders want something we’ve never had — economic parity — they have to do something they’ve never done. We could start by measuring what matters, unless it doesn’t really matter.

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Few Surprises in Election Filings Boyd drops out, Colvett drops in; Ford switches; more on the Cooper imbroglio. between party-affiliated entries. Colvett, president of GreenScape in Memphis, a custom design firm, is a longtime Republican activist who has served as state party treasurer and has been an active member of the Northeast Shelby Republican Club. He has already lined up backing from several GOP heavyweights.

His major opposition will probably come from newcomer Rachel Knox, who made a name for herself as an audience participant in Memphis City Council debates, especially on behalf of employees facing reductions in their benefits. Knox seems to have solid backing from Democrats, both grassroot and establishment, and is riding a wave of recent fund-raisers, but District 2 traditionally favors Republicans.

There are three other candidates in the race: Detric Golden, who switched from the mayor’s race; Jim Tomasik, who has run partisan races as both a Republican and a Libertarian, and this time is running on a de-annexationist ticket; and Marti Miller.

• Despite the up-to-the-brink aspect of it, there was no great surprise in the filing-day withdrawal of Justin Ford from the mayor’s race. Virtually from the moment of his first announcement, the youthful Shelby County Commission chairman had deported himself less like a real candidate and more like someone exploring the best way to maximize his name identification without com-

mitting himself to the serious effort of a campaign. In the vernacular of sport, Ford never made a football move.

The question is, does Ford’s switch to the race for city court clerk mean that a real race can be expected of him for that office? That race already features quite a few name players. Besides the incumbent, Thomas Long, there are Shep Wilbun, a former City Council member and Juvenile Court clerk who has kept his name active; Wanda Halbert, who is just coming off a relatively long incumbency on the council; and, in what may be the real surprise in this race, Kay Spalding Robilio, who was a Circuit Court judge for a quarter century before resigning from the bench last year.

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The probable lineups for various races in the forthcoming Memphis city election have been set for so long — most of them long before last week’s filing deadline — that it was interesting indeed to see some surprises develop before the stroke of noon on Thursday.

• There were no real surprises in the mayor’s race. It remains the case that of the 12 candidates who qualified, only four can be considered viable: incumbent Mayor A C Wharton, Councilmen Jim Strickland and Harold Collins, and Memphis Police Association head Mike Williams. Wharton and Strickland are, at this point, in the first tier all by themselves.

In any case, the four mentioned candidates, by a general consensus, seem to have been settled on as the four contestants in a series of forthcoming forum/ debate events, though all mayoral candidates and candidates in other races, for that matter, have been invited to Thursday night’s Sierra Club environmental forum at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library.

There was a genuine surprise in the council District 2 race, however: Frank Colvett’s last-minute entry after the unexpected withdrawal of incumbent Bill Boyd presents voters with a likely showdown

Rachel Knox and Frank Colvett

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remaining candidates, Tim Cook, who has some name recognition from previous races, and Lynn Moss, who is running on the same de-annexationist platform as Tomasik in District 2, can hope that lightning will strike in this winner-take-all race, which as an atlarge position, has no runoff.

Other city races will be briefly previewed next week.

Two memorial events highlighted the weekend. On Saturday, former President Bill Clinton delivered a eulogy for Circuit Court Judge D’Army Bailey before a large crowd at Mississippi Boulevard Baptist Church.

In his remarks, Clinton paid tribute to Bailey’s chief creation, the National Civil Rights Museum, as an institution whose power would never die.

Clinton concluded with these words: “This man was moving all his life. …

He moved. To the very end he moved.

And God rest his soul.”

A smaller ceremony was held Saturday at the chapel of Elmwood Cemetery for Pierre Kimsey, producer of several well-watched public affairs programs at WKNO-TV, including Behind the Headlines. One of the features of that event was the showing of several Emmy-winning feature shorts produced and directed by Kimsey.

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The clerk’s race is a winner-take-all, so even someone like the relatively unknown William Chism Jr., whose last name — a familiar one in local politics (Democrat Sidney, Republican George) — got him the Democratic nomination last year for Probate Court clerk, can hope for a lottery-like score.

• Did the district attorney general’s office stonewall a request by veteran political figure and twice-convicted felon Joe Cooper to have his citizenship rights restored in time to file for the Super District 9, Position 2 seat?

Cooper alleges that is the case, and both the D.A.’s office and the state of Tennessee seem to have corroborated their opposition officially in responses to recent court hearings.

In any case, the D.A.’s office professed not to be able to have an attorney present for a hearing on Cooper’s case before Judge Robert Childers in Circuit Court early last week, and Cooper was forced into the expedient of seeking an injunction in Chancery Court for a stay on the filing deadline that would apparently have applied to all candidates in all races.

At that Thursday hearing, not two hours before the filing deadline, Chancellor Jim Kyle told Cooper that he could not rule on the case unless Cooper had actually filed a petition that had been denied. Subsequently, Cooper paid his filing fee at the Election Commission and submitted a petition that had two signatures, 23 less than the 25 required.

It will be up to the Election Commission to rule on its admissibility.

Cooper has been campaigning, one way or another, for months. He had engaged professional consultants and had begun putting up campaign signs. To the question of why, in all this time, he hadn’t bothered to acquire at least 25 signatures on a qualifying petition, he answers to the effect that the state had advised him he could not legally do so before having his rights restored. And, for whatever reason, his court challenge on that point waited until very late in the game, indeed.

Though Cooper was talking of strategies ranging from a crash campaign to present signatures to the Election Commission to the launching of appeals to the state attorney general’s office or to the U.S. Justice Department, he acknowledges that his chances of getting anywhere, at least for this election season, seem remote.

Meanwhile, state Representative G.A. Hardaway is working on a long-range solution to problems of this sort. Hardaway, who made it clear he was not endorsing Cooper but had made himself available as a potential witness for Cooper in Circuit Court, said he would file legislation in the

2016 General Assembly that would automatically restore a convicted defendant’s citizenship rights upon completion of his sentence, putting the burden of subsequent challenge on the state. Even without Cooper, the Super District 9, Position 2 race will not lack from drama. IBEW union leader Paul Shaffer will have significant support from Democrats, while the well-funded Philip Spinosa can count on solid backing from Republicans. Two former School Board members, Stephanie Gatewood and Kenneth Whalum both have appealed to existing, somewhat diverse constituencies. And the two

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Some will wonder: Who is Terri Freeman? She may not be a household name yet, but she will be — the newest president of the National Civil Rights Museum (NCRM), succeeding such legends as Bailey, Benjamin Hooks, and Beverly Robertson. The last of Freeman’s household furnishings arrived Tuesday, the very day she addressed members of the Memphis Rotary Club with her review of the museum’s past and her vision of its — and our — future.

Freeman, whose most recent job was that of president of the Community Foundation in the D.C. area, is a veteran of capital campaign drives, but, as she pointed out on Tuesday, the NCRM’s most recent capital campaign had been completed just as she arrived. So, with a newly renovated facility at her disposal and what would appear to be a sufficient annual budget ($6 million, most of it raised from private donations), her main task would seem to be that of articulating the vision alluded to above and executing it.

And what a vision — one aspect of which is downright mindboggling, considering what most

people’s ideas of civil rights are (i.e., a struggle for human rights that took place roughly 25 to 50 years ago) and what their idea of a museum is (i.e., a place where memories and artifacts of the past are stored for inspection and inspiration).

To be sure, Freeman did not neglect the function of the National Civil Rights Museum as either a place to celebrate history or one to gather instructive and revealing exhibits. Neither duty will be shunted. But what is most thrilling about the prospectus for the NCRM that Freeman revealed was her idea for the kinds of programs that should be featured by the NCRM, which, as she envisions it, will invite the discussion of “difficult questions in a safe space.”

As she spelled out the formula, it was: “No agenda. No right. No wrong. Just a place for dialogue.”

Just imagine that formula being applied to subjects ranging from, say, the currently vexing queston of civic monuments or economic strategies that might make demands of our local power structure or schools and taxes or whatever other problems are currently confounding us.

It’s very close to what the ancient Greeks strived to do in their public forums (sometimes at great risk, as we recall the fate of Socrates), and it is an idea that evokes the very purposes of a democracy. Bring it on, Terri Freeman, and welcome to Memphis!

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Respect their hustle, and they will love you; disrespect it, and you no longer deserve to represent them. its effectiveness comes from empowering the community around them. Respect their hustle, and they will love you; disrespect it, and you no longer deserve to represent them.

If the choice were mine to make, I would remove ineffective programs like Memphis Music Monday, First Fridays Rock, Memphis Music Revealed TV, and Generation Next and reallocate those budgets (and additional operating capital) toward programs such as a music business educational initiative (monthly or quarterly); a Marketing Memphis Music campaign (a social and event-focused campaign to help support a “Memphis as a musical mecca” message); a “Gig Swap” initiative with sister music cities such as Austin, New Orleans, Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis, Oxford, and others.

I believe these simple changes could make a difference in the lives of this music community. I hope the MSCMC recognizes and embraces the hustle that’s right under their noses.

Wayne Leeloy is a former Memphian now living in Nashville. He is head of Brand Partnerships & Digital Strategy for G7 Entertainment Marketing.

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in creating awareness or revenue for local artists and music entrepreneurs? It’s going to take more than local showcases to move the needle.

I believe the commission should be an organization that: 1) works to provide meaningful and actionable insight and best practices for the business of music; 2) is a global advocate for Memphis’ creative community and music entrepreneurs; 3) is a strategic leader and business-development champion for Memphis’ creative community.

Memphis doesn’t need the commission to fix the local scene. Local musicians and music businesspeople are scrappy enough to figure things out on their own. If the commission would allocate resources to projects and initiatives that give local artists, entrepreneurs, and everyone else the opportunity to work smarter in their business and reap the benefits of a world-class marketing campaign, what a testament to the creative power of investing in a creative community that would be!

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Memphis runs deep in my blood. The city gave me a life, a career, a passionate resolve, and a school-of-hard-knocks education in music and business. I learned what it means to hustle. And I learned quickly that those with no hustle are destined to fail — talent, contacts, and pedigree be damned. In the long run, it’s the strength of your hustle that separates the meek from the mighty!

I’ve been thinking a lot about Memphis music recently and trying to figure out the best way to share my unique insight and address the issues and opportunities surrounding the Memphis & Shelby County Music Commission (MSCMC).

This not a personal attack on the staff, board, or leadership of the commission.

It is an educated opinion from someone who is passionately committed to seeing Memphis succeed.

In 2003, I was recruited to run business development and community relations for the MSCMC. It was my great honor and privilege to get asked to work on behalf of and advocate for the creative community. I was tasked with developing educational initiatives and cross-platform marketing programs to empower the community with a hands-on ethic for the business of music and to shine a light so the world could know about the second coming of Memphis music.

I don’t remember when I met Christopher Reyes, but I do recall thinking how lucky I was to have someone with that kind of award-winning creative chops, digital savvy, and passion to tell the story of Memphis’ local music scene. I recognized the artist in him early on and knew that harnessing that creative energy would take some time and finesse, but it was so worth it! In my estimation, there was not then, nor is there now, another creative force in Memphis like Reyes and the team at Live From Memphis (LFM). Their commitment to Memphis music should be seen as a model for entrepreneurial, creative, and civic engagement. Allowing LFM to shut its doors was Memphis’ biggest industry loss since Stax shut down.

(Bold statement, I know.) But, tell me, who is telling — and selling — Memphis’ musical story now? Not the MSCMC, that’s for sure.

Have you seen the MSCMC website?

Sweet placement on the MySpace link!

You either still believe that’s relevant, or you haven’t updated your site since 2006.

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John Doyle, executive director of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, stands at the top of the stairs where a glowing piano substitutes for a traditional light fixture.

Jim Dickinson’s piano

“I have gladly given my life to Memphis music, and it has given me back a hundred-fold.

It has been my fortune to know truly great men and hear the music of the spheres. May we all meet again at the end of the trail.”

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im Dickinson liked to “watch shit rot.” Those are Dickinson’s own colorful words, of course.

The storied producer, musician, Memphis Music Hall of Fame inductee, and provocateur, always placed “decomposition” at the heart of his personal aesthetic. He believed you could hear the sounds of decay in the songs he recorded with Alex Chilton and Big Star. You could see it represented visually in the paintings he labored over, then left outdoors for nature to complete.

Until very recently, visitors to Dickinson’s Zebra Ranch recording studio, were encouraged to touch a broken-down piano decomposing in the yard. In its former life, the 16 crumbling instrument, propped up on cinder blocks like some old jalopy

— Excerpted from the last words of Jim Dickinson.

and covered in filth and leaves, had belonged to the Stax recording studio.

It was in the building when Isaac Hayes and David Porter were songwriting partners cranking out hits like “Soul Man,” and “Wrap it Up.” It was there when Booker T. and the MG’s was the Stax house band, and when Otis Redding wrote “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.” Dickinson’s widow, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, says some people understood her husband’s fondness for decay. It also made a lot of people angry to see a beautiful piece of music history left out in the weather to fall apart.

John Doyle, executive director of the Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum, describes what’s left of the old Stax piano as, “Jim Dickinson’s soul.” He says it’s a perfect example of the kinds

of things a visitor can expect to find on display at the Memphis Memphis Music Hall of Fame museum, which opens for business this week at the corner of Second and Beale, in a cozy twostory space nestled between the newly relocated Hard Rock Cafe and Lansky Bros. Clothier to the King. The exhibits are primarily on the second floor, where the Lansky brothers once stored their formal wear. It’s the place where Johnny Cash was taken after he came to Bernard Lansky brandishing a Prince Albert tobacco tin, wanting to buy a black frock coat just like the prince’s.

“That may be the beginning of the ‘Man in Black,”’ Doyle speculates.

Although the two museums share administrative staff, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame isn’t Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum Jr. The latter

Smithsonian-affiliated museum, located in the FedExForum, has been telling the story of Memphis music for the past 15 years. The Memphis Music Hall of Fame has only been inducting members since 2012. Its new brick-and-mortar facility will give visitors a chance to spend some digitally interactive quality time with the legendary heroes of Memphis music.

“I asked myself, if I had the opportunity to hang out with the musicians we’re inducting each year, what would that cocktail party be like?”

Doyle says, explaining his vision for the Hall of Fame exhibit. “I’m pretty sure it would not look like the Smithsonian.

It would probably be weird. So we’re positioning the Memphis Music Hall of Fame as a museum where our exhibits are as outrageous as our inductees.”

That explains decorative touches

Ezra Wheeler arranges a case full of Isaac Hayes memorabilia.

like a ceiling hung with St. Blues guitars and the fullsized piano suspended upside down and transformed into an enormous light fixture. That’s also the philosophy behind both Dickinson’s decomposing keyboard, and a lifelike python built to accompany Larry Dodson’s costumes in the eyepopping Bar-Kays exhibit.

“In Europe, they’re protecting Rembrandts,” Doyle says. “In Memphis, we’re protecting a pink shorts set with a cape that Rufus Thomas wore at WattStax.

It is the funkiest-looking thing ever. But in Memphis it becomes an art museum treasure.”

Additional treasures collected in the Hall of Fame include an acoustic guitar that belonged to Memphis street sweeper and blues legend Furry Lewis. The well-documented guitar is on loan from a North Dakota collector, as is the original guitar case on which Lewis painted his name.

The seeds that grew into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame were planted in 2007, when Doyle asked his Rock ‘n’ Soul board to brainstorm new ways for the museum to enhance its mission to tell the Memphis music story and grow beyond the walls of the FedExForum. It was Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau President Kevin Kane who first suggested the idea of opening a hall of fame. The concept was an immediate hit, although nobody seemed to know for sure what form such an entity might take.

“It could be a chicken dinner we have every year, with special performances and trophies,” Doyle says. “It might be a public art installation somewhere downtown. Or a comprehensive website with music and pictures.”

Doyle thought a new off-site exhibit would be cost-prohibitive.

Then, about a week after the hall’s first induction ceremony, Memphis Mayor A C Wharton approached the Rock ‘n’ Soul director with news that Beale Street’s Hard Rock Cafe was moving from its original location on the eastern stretch of Beale, into the old Lansky’s building. The club, Wharton said, was looking to partner with a museum.

“As the executive director, my heart sank,” Doyle jokes.

“I could tell this was going to mean a lot of work.” With nearly six million visitors annually, Beale Street is Tennessee’s largest tourist destination, and although it’s home to the W.C. Handy House and Museum, there’s no visitor center where people can find out about the Memphis Zoo or the Stax Museum of American Soul Music or the newly opened Blues Hall of Fame on South Main or anything else.

“We felt like we could assist in doing all that by having a presence here,” Doyle says. Between the licensing appropriate music and photos and the hiring of top-notch music writers and designers, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame’s

website was costing the Rock ‘n’ Soul museum $90,000 a year.

“That’s a good-size burden for a not-for-profit museum,” Doyle says. “Fortunately, because of our relationship with the Memphis Grizzlies and because of our location at the FedExForum, we’ve been able to sustain that and grow our mission outside the walls they provide for us.”

Even in a tourist-rich zone like Beale Street, that kind of “assist” might not sound like a big deal. But Memphis music tourism is already on the rise and Elvis Presley’s Graceland Public Relations Director Kevin Kern thinks the new Hall of Fame will only help to promote that upward trend. “[It] will add to our story, while expanding the list of options for the traveler to keep them in town,” Kern says. Memphis, he adds, has finally grown into something “more than a long weekend destination.”

More than 600,000 tour Graceland annually, making it Memphis’ second largest musicrelated destination after Beale Street, and the second-mostvisited residence in America after the White House. More than 150,000 people visit Sun Studio annually, and another 60,000 tour the Rock ‘n’ Soul museum and the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.

Tim Sampson, communications director for continued on page 19

THE BLUES HALL OF FAME

MEMPHIS FLYER: MUSIC TOURISM APPEARS TO BE INCREASING CITYWIDE. HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO SEE THAT IN YOUR OPENING MONTHS? Nora J. Tucker: I can’t really quote any numbers right now. We had a huge May. June was really strong too. It’s my job to determine what marketing vehicles we need to be adding. We’re still getting along by word-of-mouth, and we have strong referrals from the other Memphis music attractions. I’m really impressed by how many people say Rock ‘n’ Soul referred them, or the Civil Rights Museum. It’s a big help that the whole community helps each other.

AFTER THE BLUES FOUNDATION SETTLED INTO 201 S. MAIN AND DECIDED TO BUILD A HALL OF FAME, THINGS SEEMED TO COME TOGETHER. REALLY QUICKLY. Once we were fund-raising with the Blues Hall of Fame in forefront, then things came together very quickly. In 2.5 years we raised our goal of $2.5 million. And like [Blues Foundation President] Jay Sieleman says, two thirds of that money came from blues fans.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COLLECTION? I think our collection is very attractive, and people say how beautiful it is once they’ve gone through the space. But the star of our exhibit is the music and our interactive touchscreens. People can spend anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours, depending on their time and their interest.

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE ARTIFACTS? If you’ve seen our billboard, we’ve used a picture of a 1969 Gretsch White Falcon electric guitar that belonged to Lowell Fulson. Lowell is sort of like Little Milton, in that neither one are household words like Ray Charles. But Lowell became Ray Charles’ guitar player and was a player in one of the first bands Ray Charles joined as a young artist.

We also have a Sears plastic suitcase that Howlin’ Wolf took on the plane whenever he was on tour. We’ve also got a belted vest that’s one of the very few personal effects of Little Walter, the harmonica player that so many harmonica players look to as the greatest. He played with Muddy Waters and died very young.

After his death his apartment was ransacked, but his sister had Little Walter’s dry cleaning and a sweater that was made in France and was given to one of his biographers. He contacted us and said Walter’s sweater was hanging in his closet and needed to be in the Blues Hall of Fame. To me, those are the touching stories.

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Another music hall of fame opened on South Main in May: the Blues Hall of Fame. The Blues Foundation wanted to create a place for fans to visit when they come to town for events such as the annual W.C. Handy Blues Awards, and the International Blues Challenge. The Blues Foundation’s innovative new space was designed by Archimania. Its blue-painted sidewalk, adorned with colorful .45 rpm records, is visible from blocks away. So too is the museum’s life-sized bronze statue of Little Milton, seated on a park bench near the entrance.

Although the Blues Hall of Fame hasn’t yet begun to tabulate attendance numbers, its curator/manager Nora J. Tucker thinks the new facility is off to a great start.

The Blues Hall of Fame is located at 421 S. Main Street, across from the National Civil Rights Museum. Hours are Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admission 17 $10. Blues.org

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the Soulsville Foundation, agrees with Kern. “Our attendance at Stax is way up,” he says. “We’ve got people here in the museum from every continent every single day.”

Sampson welcomes the new Memphis Music Hall of Fame, just as he welcomed the Blues Hall of Fame, which opened in May. He credits the recent boom in music tourism to the fact that music-related destinations are more collaborative than competitive.

He also believes that additions to the landscape such as music-related murals and an increasing number of historical markers and museums also help the Memphis tourism industry.

Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul hit 60,000 tourists annually in 2013, and had its best month ever in April. Each subsequent month has broken previous records.

Doyle thinks this is strong evidence that the stage is perfectly set for a facility like the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

“There is no other city in America that can host its own music Hall of Fame,” Doyle boasts. “Some states can. Alabama has one. Texas has one. But Memphis is the epicenter of American music.

“When we first sat down and started coming up with the names of potential inductees it was so easy,” Doyle says.

“There was Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, and on and on. In that first evening, we listed 300 well-known performers from different musical traditions — jazz, blues, rural fieldholler-type music, jug bands, rock ‘n’ roll, rockabilly, gospel, R&B, rap, hip-hop. In a very short time, our list of potential inductees became enormous.”

On the morning before his latest documentary, Best of Enemies, was scheduled to screen in Los Angeles, author and Memphis music historian Robert Gordon offered some perspective regarding the potential of a Memphis Music Hall of Fame compared to other music towns.

“Lots of cities can say they’re home to a star,” he said. “Buddy Holly’s from Lubbock, Texas, for example. And so is Waylon Jennings. So they can make a little Buddy Holly shrine in Lubbock.

But Memphis? What decade do you want to talk about? What musical genre?

“People ask how can it be possible that Carl Perkins wasn’t selected until the third year of the Memphis Hall of Fame?” says Gordon. “He’s the first guy to have a number-one record on the pop, country, and R&B charts at the same time,” Gordon says. “And that frustrates some people. It’s something we should celebrate. Our music history has been so rich that we can not induct Carl Perkins until the third year, because each year we’ve wanted to recognize our musical diversity.

“What I want to know is, when will

Booker Little get into the Hall of Fame?”

Gordon asks, rhetorically. Even though Little died young and his name isn’t a household word, his contributions were significant. It may be next year or 10 years from now, but the Manassas graduate and hard-bop trumpet innovator who performed alongside John Coltrane will eventually be enshrined alongside the better known heroes of Sun, Hi, and Stax.

The answer doesn’t matter, Gordon finally concludes, because the Hall of Fame isn’t a popularity contest.

In a telephone interview, Mary Lindsay Dickinson remembered the day the big truck with “Amro” painted on the side pulled up to the family’s Zebra

Ranch recording studio in Coldwater, Mississippi. It had come to take her late husband’s special piano to its final resting place in the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. “There are no better piano movers in the world, I don’t think,” she said. But in spite of their expert handling, the wooden portions of the once-fine instrument fell into shreds as the movers lifted it from its resting place. “It had rotted completely,” Dickinson said, unable to conceal her delight that her late husband Jim had gotten exactly what he wanted.

Spooner Oldham, the great keyboard player, known for his work with Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin, described

Dickinson’s piano as the perfect metaphor for both mortality and immortality. He told Mary Lindsay that even when the wooden bits on the outside had returned to ashes and dust, “there will still be a harp inside.”

“And a harp is what was left,” Dickinson said, reiterating Doyle’s desire to collect edgy artifacts. “The harp was left. And when it finally goes up in the hall of fame it will be the oddest, ugliest, and most unique exhibit in any museum anywhere in the world.”

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By Bianca Phillips

Whether you prefer to find inner peace while glowing in the dark, in a public park, or with a beer that’s dark (or light, but that didn’t rhyme), there’s a yoga (or hooping) event for you this week.

On Friday, July 24th, Co-Motion Studio is hosting its second annual Glo-Motion event from 7 to 10 p.m. The glowin-the-dark party will include two 30-minute yoga sessions, led by Meredith Melvin and LaurieJean Weldon, and a 30-minute hula-hooping lesson by Adrienne Holland. (Classes will be suitable for all skill levels.) Glo-Motion closes out with a post-class dance party with DJ Intuigroove. Admission is $30 at the door. Some glowsticks and body paint will be provided, but Holland is encouraging people to bring their own to make sure there’s enough to go around. Hoops and mats will be available, but those who have their own are encouraged to bring them.

“Show up glowed-up, and bring your party,” Holland says.

On Saturday, July 25th, Lululemon Athletica is hosting a free outdoor yoga class at the Levitt Shell from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. Delta Groove Yoga owner Olivia Lomax will lead the all-level vinyasa class. Sibella, a three-woman band that utilizes cello and conga drums, will provide the music, and Midtown’s soon-to-open I Love Juice bar will be handing out free juice. Mats will not be provided, so attendees should bring their own.

Every Thursday at 6 p.m., Bendy Brewski Yoga hosts 45-minute beginner classes at High Cotton’s taproom. After class, yogis cool off with a pint of craft beer. The class is $15, which can be paid through the Memphis Yoga for Beer Lovers page on meetup.com. A few yoga mats are available.

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Albert Maysles’ documentary Iris at the Brooks on Sunday.

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Kelly English takes the Farmers Market Challenge and gets into a “peach situation.” Food Feature, p. 38

THURSDAY July 23

FRIDAY July 24

SATURDAY July 25

Barbarella Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 7 p.m., $9 The Brooks screens this 1968 sci-fi send-up in conjunction with “The Art of the Video Game” exhibit.

Memphis Jams Handy Park Coca Cola Pavilion, 6-9 p.m.

Free concert featuring Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Garry Burnside.

Amy Howard Booksigning and Talk Palladio Antiques and Art, 10 a.m.-noon Furniture and homewares maker Amy Howard signs her book A Maker’s Guide, designed to help creative types achieve success.

Fright Night Double Feature: Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street The Orpheum, 7 p.m., $7 An evening with Freddy and Jason.

National Dance Day Event Overton Square Plaza, 11:30 a.m.

Ballet Memphis leads all-age and skill level community dance event.

Includes warm-up, choreography, and a flash-mob performance.

Family Night: The Art of Camping The Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 5-8 p.m.

All-ages event with camping tips, art projects, stargazing, and more.

Air Supply Horseshoe Tunica, 8 p.m., $22-$102 Making love out of nothing at all, everybody! Air Supply, hit-makers of the ’80s, perform tonight.

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By Susan Ellis

Last Saturday, Crosstown Arts hosted an all-ages zine-making workshop, and this week, they’re holding a class in zinemaking for middle school kids. Both courses culminate with Friday’s Zine Fest Fair at Story Booth.

Zines? Have they come back? Did they ever go away?

Zines encompass the true do-it-yourself spirit. Short for “fanzine,” these self-produced, underground publications are often Xeroxed and stapled affairs, though some are more sophisticated and full-color. Zines had their pop-culture heyday back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, when zines like Giant Robot and Maximum RocknRoll reached a nationwide audience. The internet and blogs then took over, but zines never really went away.

Erica Qualy, who’s helping with zine week at Crosstown, got into them about 10 years ago when she was still in high school. She and a friend saw a book about zines. “Wow!” she remembers thinking, “this is really cool.” They decided to make their own. Qualy has a couple zines, including Facts, Advice, & Things to think bbout, which she distributes to coffee shops and record stores. She says, “It’s my business card.”

At Zine Fest Fair, anyone with a zine can show and sell their wares. It will have some of the publications made during the workshop and class and other zines on display.

Qualy says the thing about zines is that anybody can do it, and she sees Friday’s event as sort of a meeting space. “There isn’t a huge zine culture here. This is to raise awareness.”

ZINE FEST FAIR AT STORY BOOTH, FRIDAY, JUNE 24TH, 4-6 P.M. CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG

TUESDAY July 28

Booksigning by Ace Atkins The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 4 p.m.

Ace Atkins signs his latest book, The Redeemers, a continuation of the Quinn Colson series.

Tuesday Comedy Show with Jamie Ward and Mo Arora Brass Door, 8-10 p.m., $5 A comedy show hosted by Doug Gillon and Kyle Kordsmeier and featuring Tommy Oler and Josh McLane.

Toad the Wet Sprocket Minglewood Hall, 8 p.m., $29.50-$79.50 A concert by Toad the Wet Sprocket, best known for their hits “Fall Down” and “All I Want.”

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Frozen in July Children’s Museum of Memphis, 9 a.m.-noon Ice-cold fun: The Snow Sisters will be there, and there will be snowman crafts and a scavenger hunt.

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Back with a Bang The New Daisy Theater on Beale Street receives major renovations.

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he legendary New Daisy Theater on Beale Street is undergoing a major transformation, and next weekend’s concert featuring the Chris Robinson Brotherhood will be the public’s first chance to see what the music venue has in store.

Since announcing that he would be taking over the New Daisy, music mogul Steve Adelman has been hard at work restoring the iconic Memphis theater.

In the midst of the major renovations, the New Daisy secured booking partnerships with Live Nation and Disco Donnie Presents, a move that Adelman hopes will bring more than 150 concerts to Beale Street annually.

From the removal of the stage backdrop to major improvements in lighting, sound, seating, and bar access, there’s a lot to look forward to at the New Daisy.

“This building had a lot of issues and needed a lot of work done to it

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The new and improved stage lighting at the New Daisy Theater

— things like issues with plumbing and air conditioning,” Adelman said.

“We fixed all of that stuff to get a base for us to work from, and then we had multiple teams of engineers and lighting people come in and assess what we needed to do.”

One of the first things concertgoers will notice at the show on Saturday will undoubtedly be the new sound system. Major scaffolding has been erected onstage to support the new speakers and lighting system, giving the venue a muchneeded updated look. By partnering with the sound company Funktion One, the New Daisy now has a sound system so modern that Adelman said the equipment isn’t available for mass production yet.

“People are definitely going to notice how much the room has changed,” Adelman said.

“It’s always been a great room, but the entire thing has gone through a major upgrade.

“I don’t know that people are used to seeing state-of-the-art stuff in this room, and I think that’s going to take

able to buy corporate boxes up there, which is another added dimension that we’re going to unveil. It’s going to be a loose membership club, but it will all be reserved seating.”

With more than 20 years in the music industry, Adelman has operated clubs in Los Angeles, New York, and Boston. While he insisted that operating clubs is a similar business no matter where they are located, Adelman did acknowledge that the New Daisy and Beale Street in general have a history that no one can deny.

“We want bands to come through Memphis and say, wow, that’s the room to play,” Adelman said.

“Live Nation is our booking partner, and they also help out with some of our marketing. But the New Daisy is an independent room with a certain history, and no one wanted to mess with that. We just wanted to expand it. We are all about being able to improve the band’s experience as well as the patron’s experience.”

The public’s first experience with the transformed New Daisy will come on July 31st when the Chris Robinson Brotherhood performs at the renovated venue.

Most notably known as the singer for the Black Crowes, Robinson’s stop at the New Daisy will be toward the end of a tour that took him through the American Southeast. Adelman said that the “sneak peek of the New Daisy” couldn’t happen during a better concert.

“When we decided to work with Live Nation, we wanted a certain vibe and a certain act to get our feet wet, and the Chris Robinson Brotherhood fit what we were trying to do perfectly,” Adelman said.

“We got lucky with Chris Robinson, but sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.”

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Friday, July 31st, at the New Daisy Theater. Doors open at 7 p.m. $20.

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a lot of people by surprise. Sound and lights are what it’s all about when it comes to today’s concert experience, and we aim to be the best.”

While the bare-bones charm of the New Daisy is still present, the seating and bar areas also received major makeovers. The venue now features three bars instead of one center bar, and a smoking lounge is being built on the side of the venue, giving patrons the option to smoke on a patio or walk out on to Beale Street.

The balcony at the New Daisy is also in the process of being renovated into a VIP area with plush seating and private boxes available. Christened the Big Star Room, the VIP balcony area will be curated with Big Star memorabilia handpicked by Big Star drummer Jody Stephens.

While the Big Star Room won’t be ready for next weekend’s concert, Adelman said that portion of the club should be open by September.

The Big Star Room will also have a private entrance from Beale Street and have its own bathrooms. A membership must be purchased to access the room, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting musicians’ health care and other charities of Stephen’s choosing.

Adelman said he expects the Big Star Room to be one of the main attractions of the New Daisy.

“The balcony here at the New Daisy is amazing. I know in a lot of places the balcony is the last place someone wants to sit, but there’s something about this room that makes the balcony just perfect,” Adelman said.

“I don’t want to give too much away, but it should be a very plush experience. Live Nation already has this type of thing in some of the Fillmores that they operate, and it works very well. Companies will be

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Despite notions to the contrary, there’s never been a shortage of great bands operating within the heavier factions of underground music on the Memphis scene. Reserving Dirtnaps, Gringos, Evil Army, Strengths, Klaxxon, and Dawn Patrol provide an incomplete list that suggests circa-rightnow to be particularly fertile when it comes to punk’s, hardcore’s, and metal’s three-decade habit of jumping into the sack together.

The hard-working Chaos Order — vocalist/lyricist Neal Bledsoe, bassist/ co-songwriter Jared Filsinger, guitarist Austin Russell, and drummer Samuel Davidson — is a quartet more than deserving of a position in that front line, incorporating a variety of influences including, but not limited to, the heavy D-beat rush of Disfear, the crust-core of early Neurosis, earlier somewhat straightforward (think pre-prog rock) Mastodon, along with some thematic similarities to the left-hand-path aesthetics of Integrity. The band’s impressive work ethic and momentum have created a productive 2015/2016.

In February, Beserker Records re-released the six-song Regulus EP on cassette. In April, two previously unused/unheard songs from the Vultures sessions were put together as Evacuating Earth, a digital and cassette release on local label Fly the Light Records. Throughout the winter Chaos Order was also focused on recording new material (at Ardent and Secret Team Headquarters with Alan Burcham) that would eventually yield the four songs that comprise the band’s newest EP, Distant Chords of Disharmony. Blasphemour Records, the California label that released the Chaos Order/Werewolf Congress split 7” in May 2014, will release the EP digitally and on cassette in August.

Two of the four EP tracks were released on Chaos Order’s Bandcamp page last month: The blazing “Yourself and All Together” and the expansive “Eternal Recurrence” are unlike anything in the quartet’s body of work.

“There wasn’t any forethought or apprehension regarding the elements that ended up making the song different, meaning the slower parts, the piano and Neal’s clean chorus and backing vocals,” Filsinger says. “In fact, all of the music was done on ‘Eternal,’ and Neal went in afterwards one night and did all of the vocal tracks by himself.”

The song kicks off with a

Chaos Order characteristically propulsive and intense riff-driven attack but soon shifts into something that recalls the more spacious and darkly melancholic tendencies of Neurosis. Bledsoe’s vocal performance combines with the forward-thinking instrumental nature of the song to make the entire presentation a positive gamechanger for the band. Far removed from the done-to-death heavy music trope of good-cop/bad-cop vocal dynamics, the singing on “Eternal Recurrence” showcases Bledsoe’s noteworthy range, from an emotive scream to a couple of melodic approaches that do the heavy lifting when it comes to setting the mood and carrying the song’s massive hook.

The uninformed would be forgiven for assuming all of it might be bolstered by guest vocals, like the shorter and thrashier “Yourself and All Together,” to which Pezz’s Ceylon Mooney contributed a clean and catchy backing chorus to similar but simpler effect.

“We love all types of music and this was just a natural progression of going where the songwriting took us. I feel like it ended up sounding like what it was: completely organic,” Bledsoe says.

Though not unidentifiable as Chaos Order compositions, this inspired move forward in songwriting and other sonic attributes nonetheless speaks to the potential of the three days the band has booked in October at Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, where they will record two songs with the studio’s legendary founder/owner/operator, Steve Albini. The songs are already written and slated for a split 7” EP with St. Louis’ Better Days. That EP will be released in early 2016 by Fly the Light and Encapsulated Records.

“It was a choice between [working with] Albini and Bill Stevenson. After writing both songs and working out logistics, the more favorable response came from Albini,” Bledsoe says. “We’re huge fans of his work with Neurosis, the Jesus Lizard, and the Pixies and of his technique in general. I could listen to 300 albums and pick out which ones he engineered.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule July 23 - 29 Club 152

Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cafe & Honky Tonk

152 BEALE 544-7011

Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

DJ Al Thursday; All Night with DJ Crumbz Friday and Saturday; Ryan Peel Friday, 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m.; Grant Garland Friday, 6-10 p.m. and Saturday, 6-10 p.m.; Super 5 Saturday, 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m.; After Dark Band Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

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

Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar

B.B. King’s Blues Club

Handy Park

143 BEALE 524-KING

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

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

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

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

159 BEALE

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

200 BEALE 526-0115

Memphis Jams concerts on Beale presents Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Garry Burnside Friday, July 24, 6-9 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007

Brandon Cunning & the Hard Rocks Thursday, July 23, 7-10 p.m.; Memphis Jones on the Patio Friday, July 24, 7-10 p.m.; Wesley Cook Friday, July 24, 9-11:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Saturday, July 25, 7-9 p.m.; Tori Tollison on the Patio Saturday, July 25, 7-9 p.m.; The Ricecookers Sunday, July 26, 8-9 p.m.

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

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 Sundays, 2-6 p.m. and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Chic Jones Sundays, Tuesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Wednesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

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

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Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Eric Hughes Band Thursday, July 23, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Gracie Curran and the High Falutin Band Friday, July 24, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, July 25, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Jeff Jensen Band Monday, July 27, 8 p.m.-midnight; Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones, Dennis Gruenling Tuesday, July 28, 8 p.m.-midnight and Wednesday, July 29, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Roxie Love Thursday, July 23, 7-11 p.m. and Sunday, July 26, 7-11 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Friday, July 24, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

182 BEALE 528-0150

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

Silky O’Sullivan’s

Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mississippi BigFoot Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Chic Jones, Blues M AY 2 8 Itta Bena Express Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

145 BEALE 578-3031 and Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midSusan Marshall night; Vince Johnson and the Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

LOGAN BRILL 8PM

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183 BEALE 522-9596

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

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Roxie Love Saturday, July 25, 7-11 p.m. and Monday, July 27, 7-11 p.m.

Harry Connick Jr. Monday, July 27, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Wet Willie’s

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

209 BEALE 578-5650

Paulette’s 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

Blind Bear Speakeasy Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub

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

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

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.

152 MADISON 572-1813

Riverfront Bar & Grill

Brinson’s

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Live Music Fridays.

341 MADISON 524-0104

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

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

251 RIVERSIDE DR.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

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

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

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Brad Boswell Benefit Saturday, July 25, 6 p.m.-3 a.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.

Cha Wa Thursday, July 23, 7:30 p.m.; Mark Edgar Stuart Sunday, July 26, 7:30 p.m.

Celtic Crossing

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Minglewood Hall Toad the Wet Sprocket, Derek Hultquist Sunday, July 26, 8 p.m.

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

Chris Johnson Thursdays, 10 p.m.; DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Charvey Mac Tuesdays, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Sleep Signals, Pray for Me, Red Tape Riot Thursday, July 23; The Bohanans Friday, July 24; River City Cadillacs Friday, July 24, 6-9 p.m.; Chain and the Gang, FR Monday, July 27.

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Snake Doctors Friday, July 24, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.; Hope Clayburn’s Soul Scrimmage Saturday, July 25, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Jam Sundays, 6 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Juke Joint Blues Jam Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

In the Round, Ben Callicott, Christian Seay, Jack Moran Friday, July 24, 8 p.m.; Mary Elise Owens, Lauren Moscato Saturday, July 25, 8 p.m.

Overton Square

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1474 MADISON 275-8082

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

Found Studio

P&H Cafe

2491 BROAD 652-0848

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Strange Wave Saturday, July 25; Terry Prince and the Principles Saturday, July 25; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.

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

Jeffrey Jordan Thursday, July 23, 9 p.m.; Chaos Order with Concrete and Lowered AD Friday, July 24, 8 p.m.; Primitive Man, Valkyrie, Reserving Dirtnaps, Gringos Monday, July 27, 9 p.m.; Psychostick with Wolfborne and Etketera Tuesday, July 28, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Maitre D’s Friday, July 24, 10:30 p.m.; Marcella & Her Lovers Saturday, July 25, 10:30 p.m.; Amy LaVere and Will Sexton Wednesday, July 29, 7:30 p.m.

2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

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

El Toro Loco 2809 KIRBY PKWY. 759-0593

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

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

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

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Strano Sicilian Kitchen

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Settlers Sunday, July 26, 4-7 p.m.; Charvey Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, July 26, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

948 S. COOPER 552-7122

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

Steve Smith and the Meteors Sunday, July 26, 4-7 p.m.; Detective Bureau Sunday, July 26, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Wild Bill’s

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

Van Duren Thursdays, 6:308:30 p.m.

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

Lafayette’s Music Room Vinyl Thief with Dinner and a Suit Thursday, July 23, 8-11:30 p.m.; Susan Marshall and Friends Saturdays, 11 a.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight.

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

2119 MADISON 207-5097

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695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 680-8118

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Mystery Machine Friday, July 24, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

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1927 MADISON 726-4372

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

East Memphis

1532 MADISON 726-0906

Zigadoo Moneyclips, The Band of Ooo, Other Stories, The Aquaducks – St. Jude Benefit Concert Friday, July 24, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown Boscos

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

Murphy’s

2559 BROAD 730-0719

Bhan Thai

Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

1589 MADISON 726-4193

The Cove

BRAD BOSWELL BENEFIT AT THE BUCCANEER The dive bar on Monroe between Cleveland and Watkins is the closest thing to Cheers that Memphis musicians have. Spend a few weekends at the piratethemed Buccaneer, and everybody knows your name. Known for their interesting take on last call and their willingness to let just about anyone perform in the tiny room next to the bar, the Buccaneer is usually the first place tourists of the Memphis bar circuit get a real taste of what late nights in this city are all about. One of the men who makes the Buccaneer a legendary stop for touring musicians and tourists alike is bartender Brad Boswell. There are two Brads at the Buccaneer, Boswell being the one with shaggy hair tucked into a St. Louis Cardinals hat.

Recently, Boswell faced very serious health problems that caused him to miss a substantial amount of work. With costly medical bills piling up for Boswell, local musicians have joined forces for an all-star night of Memphis music.

Organized by Joe Restivo, Bradley Swihart (the other Brad bartender at the Buccaneer), and Graham Winchester, the benefit starts at 6 p.m. and is $10 at the door.

AGoFundMe page has been set up for those who aren’t able to attend the benefit, and so far over $1,000 has been raised. There will also be a silent auction, and those in attendance can bid on things like private instrument lessons in addition to tons of gift cards from places like Goner Records and Trilogy Tattoos. Co-organizer Winchester said he’s been overwhelmed by the response the benefit has received.

“It’s been pretty awesome seeing so many [people] help and chime in,” Winchester said. “I think it’s a testament to the type of guy Brad is and how many connections he’s made throughout the years.”

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Poplar/I-240 Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplethret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Sax on Sunday: StraightAhead and Mainstream Jazz Fourth Sunday of every month, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and The Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Shelby Forest General Store

Bartlett Municipal Center

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

5868 STAGE

Collierville

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

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Huey’s Collierville 2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Strangelove Sunday, July 26, 8-11:30 p.m.

Huey’s Cordova

Huey’s Germantown

The Crossing Bar & Grill

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242

The Beat Daddys Sunday, July 26, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Scott and Vanessa Sudbury Unplugged Thursday, July 23,

Memphis All Stars Sunday, July 26, 8-11:30 p.m.; Hump Day Patio Party: JoJo Jeffries and Ronnie Caldwell Wednesday, July 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

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

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

Summer/Berclair

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

Maria’s Restaurant

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

6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing; Air Supply Saturday, July 25, 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

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

Starbucks 7945 WINCHESTER 751-2345

Family-friendly Poetry and Open Mic Last Saturday of every month, 8-10 p.m.

Winchester/ Hickory Hill LoVe Lounge 7144 WINCHESTER

Falling in LoVe...the club that is. Sunday, July 26, 7-11 p.m.; Melodic Mondays Fourth Monday of every month, 4-10 p.m.

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.

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Fitz Casino & Hotel

THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

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

711 LUCKY LN., TUNICA, MS 800-766-5825

Owen Brennan’s

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

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

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8 p.m.-midnight; GTA (Grand Theft Audio) Friday, July 24, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Saturday, July 25, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; The Lineup Sunday, July 26, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Bike Nite with Jonez’n Wednesday, July 29, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

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

Tony’s Trophy Room 929 W. POPLAR 457-7134

Vintage Band Friday, July 24, 7:30 p.m.

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

Karaoke Mondays, 8-11 p.m.

Delta Blues Winery 6585 STEWART

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

Karaoke Nights at The Stack Wednesdays-Fridays, Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.; Simone Landry Band Saturday, July 25, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Germantown Belmont Grill 9102 POPLAR PIKE 624-6001

Surf Turkeys Saturday, July 25, 8-11 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

The King Beez Sunday, July 26, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

The Pistol and the Queen Sunday, July 26, 8 p.m.midnight.

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

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

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

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

Mesquite Chop House

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

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

Raleigh

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

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

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

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

Kenny Chesney with Jake Owen and Chase Rice Wednesday, July 29, 7 p.m.

Mugs Pub 4396 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 372-3556

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

T H E AT E R

Artist reception for Ron Lace and Bill Bailey. Light refreshments will be served. A portion of the proceeds from each painting benefits the Salvation Army of Memphis. www.krocmemphis.org. Sun., July 26, 1:30-3 p.m.

Hernando High School Performing Arts Center

Sweeney Todd, an infamous tale about an unjustly exiled barber seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. www.kudzuplayers.com. July 24-Aug. 2.

805 DILWORTH LANE, HERNANDO, MS.

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Liberace!, featuring Gary Beard as the title character, in a tribute to the performer reliving the highs (and lows) of Liberace’s prolific life and revealing the real person behind the persona. www.theatrememphis.org. $30-$100. Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m.

Through July 26.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

Mountain View, both independent and fiercely loyal, Jokate tells the story of her kinfolk and her survival in the mountains of Appalachia. Winner of the 2013 NewWorks@TheWorks playwriting competition by Teri Feigelson. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $24.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Aug. 2.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

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

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All Memphis-based design professionals are invited to submit their most innovative recent projects for consideration. Through Aug. 20.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM.

Art After Dark

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

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

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

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

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

House

MCA Ceramic Studios Open

Opportunity to view the work in progress and speak with the artists participating in upcoming “SunRise/SunSet” 2016 exhibition. Thurs., July 23, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., and Sun., July 26, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.MCA.EDU.

Munch and Learn

Bring your own brown bag lunch, sodas and water will be supplied. Featuring guest speakers on various subjects. Free with admission.

Wednesdays, noon-1 p.m.

Through July 31.

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

Studio Residency Program Applications Accepted

Session dates will be Sept.

1-Dec. 31, 2015. Application deadline is July 31 for Crosstown Arts’ new Studio Residency program for local visual artists. See website for more information and application. Through July 31.

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

Artist Talk with Studio Nong Participants

Hear from the artists who participated in “SunRise/ SunSet: Works from Studio Nong.” Fri., July 24, 6:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.MCA.EDU.

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The Annesdale Park Gallery

Living Art Terrariums

by Nancy Morrow, www. theannesdaleparkgallery.net.

Through Aug. 1.

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

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

Ongoing.

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

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

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

Cafe Pontotoc

“A Community Collaboration: French Fort,” exhibition of artifacts and art inspired by the French Fort by Cafe Pontotoc, City South Ventures, and local artist Elayna Scott. Through Dec. 31.

“Exploration in Imagination,” exhibition of mixedmedia works by Elayna Scott, inspired by nature and her travels. Ongoing.

314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

Circuitous Succession Gallery

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

Through July 24.

500 S. SECOND.

Crosstown Arts

“Walking Eyes” exhibition, inspired by a month spent in Southeast Asia, sketches

by Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. www.crosstownarts. org. July 24-Aug. 15.

Fountain Art Gallery

“Peggy’s Farewell.” Through July 31.

3092 POPLAR, SUITE 1 (458-7100).

Fratelli’s

“Smoky Mountain Sunrise,” exhibition of oversized prints

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

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Gallery 1091

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

Through July 30.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

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

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

James Lee House

“Mash-Up,” exhibition of work in cardboard by 18 artists. www.davidluskgallery. com. Through Aug. 1.

64 FLICKER (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

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

Through Nov. 22.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

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

Chloe York, exhibition of paintings. www.mca.edu.

Through July 31.

690 ADAMS.

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The Salvation Army Kroc Center

Ron Lace and Bill Bailey, exhibition of artwork. www. krocmemphis.org. July 26Aug. 24.

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

L Ross Gallery

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

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5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

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Jon Woodhams, exhibition of photography. Through July 31.

901.410.8131 2519 Broad Avenue Memphis, TN 38112 www.bountyonbroad.com

501 POPLAR VIEW, COLLIERVILLE (457-2600).

Memphis Botanic Garden

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

Through July 29.

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750 CHERRY (636-4100).

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

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

Through Sept. 13.

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

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

“British Watercolors from the Golden Age,” exhibition of watercolors from the late18th through the early-20th centuries. Through Sept. 20.

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

“Cats and Quotes,” exhibition featuring felines in paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and prints paired with famous quotes about felines from a variety of periods. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through Jan. 3, 2016.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

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

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

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

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

Through Sept. 13.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Shady Grove Presbyterian Church

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

5530 SHADY GROVE (683-7329).

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

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

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Sue Layman Designs

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

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

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

TOPS Gallery

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

Through Aug. 1.

400 S. FRONT.

DAN C E

teaching the official National Dance Day dance, which will be performed “flash-mob style” by all participants and filmed for inclusion on the Dizzy Feet Foundation website. Sat., July 25, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

OVERTON SQUARE, MIDTOWN, WWW.BALLETMEMPHIS.ORG.

Ryssa B. “The Experience” Tour

High performance dance and theatrical production, bringing poetry alive with high energy and exciting choreographed work of professional dancers from all over the United States. $30. Fri., July 24, 8-10 p.m., Sat., July 25, 3-5 and 8-10 p.m., and Sun., July 26, 8-10 p.m.

BUCKMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (650-4955), WWW.RYSSAB.COM.

C O M E DY

Brass Door Irish Pub

Tuesday Show Comedy, hosted by Doug Gillon and Kyle Kordsmeier, show also features the comedy of Jamie Ward, Mo Arora, Tommy Oler, and Josh McLane with Ben Aviotti as the show band. $5. Tues., July 28, 8-10 p.m.

152 MADISON (572-1813).

Chuckles Comedy Club

LOL Memphis Sketch and Improv Comedy Show, featuring improv games and sketch parodies. Cast members perform small sets throughout the show to introduce what’s coming next. (654-8594), $10. Fourth Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

1700 DEXTER.

The Cove

Open Mic Comedy Night, hosted by Dagmar, Sun., July 26, 7 p.m.

2559 BROAD (730-0719).

Cherry Burlesque

Flirt Nightclub

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

3659 S. MENDENHALL (485-1119).

Hosted by Julie Wheeler. $10$20. Last Saturday of every month, 8 p.m.

National Dance Day Community Event

Groove and celebrate the joy of dance with Ballet Memphis

Trippin on Thursday, hosted

by K-97 Funnyman Prescott.

Thursdays, 6 p.m.

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

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

Melting Pot: Artist Showcase, open mic night hosted

by Darius “Phatmak” Clayton. $5. Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

341 MADISON (524-0104).

The HUB

Memphis Bike Fest 2015

Featuring “Beale to Bowl” parade, motorcycle and car shows, hot wings, kid zone, and more. Music headliners include WAR, Kris Allen, and Lil Rounds. $40. Wed.-Sun., July 22-26.

TIGER LANE, 335 S. HOLLYWOOD, WWW.MEMPHISBIKEFEST.COM.

Rock’n Wild Picnic

Eat, drink, and enjoy live music. $30. Sat., July 25, 5-8 p.m.

Memphis Redbirds v. Iowa Cubs

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July 24-27.

Insane Inflatable 5K

Race the course of the world’s largest and most extreme inflatable obstacles ever produced. Sat., July 25, 8:45 a.m.

MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, 5500 VICTORY LANE, WWW.RACEMIR.COM.

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

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Java Cabana

Zine Fest

Memphis Curling League Play: Season Two

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

CROSSTOWN STORY BOOTH, 422 N. CLEVELAND (5078030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

MID-SOUTH ICE HOUSE, 10705 RIDGEWAY INDUSTRIAL RD. (881-8544), WWW.MEMPHISCURLINGCLUB.COM.

Open mic nite, www.javacabanacoffeehouse.com.

Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

National Civil Rights Museum

July 28-31.

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

Sat., July 25, 7:30 a.m.

515 E.H. CRUMP.

All-ages event showcasing zines by local, national, and international artists. Fri., July 24, 4 p.m.

Memphis Redbirds v. Oklahoma City Dodgers

Melanoma Foundation 5K

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

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

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

Family Night: The Art of Camping

Camping tips, a look at the stars, explorer skills, and more. Free. Sat., July 25, 5-8 p.m. dixon.org.

Six-week league session. $150. Sun., July 26, 5:15-7:15 and 7:30-9:30 p.m.

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

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Open Call for Poets: “My Vote My Freedom,” young poets are invited to share creative thoughts at a poetry slam with an emphasis on voting. #MyVoteMyFreedom on Aug. 22. Mid-South poets in the 14-17, 18-25 and 26-35-year-old categories can compete for prizes. For more information and entry, visit website. www.civilrightsmuseum.org. Through Aug. 10.

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Ace Atkins

Author discusses and signs The Redeemers: A Quinn Colson Novel. Sun., July 26, 4 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Amy Howard

Author discusses and signs A Maker’s Guide.

Reservations available for free workshop. Sat., July 25, 10 a.m.-noon.

GALLERY FIFTY SIX, 2169 CENTRAL (276-3808), WWW.GALLERYFIFTYSIX.COM.

Booksigning by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Author discusses and signes Heroes Are My Weakness. Wed., July 29, 6:30 p.m.

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

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Memphis Mayor and City Council Candidates Open House Thurs., July 23, 5:30-8 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700), WWW.SIERRACLUB.ORG.

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Summer Mid-South Wedding Show and Bridal School $15. Sun., July 26, 1-5 p.m.

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

We Consign Shop

Antiques, silver, crystal, china, and more. Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Sept. 28.

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27th Annual WEVL Blues on the Bluff

Blues, barbecue, and beer on the bluff of the Mississippi River. $21.50. Sat., July 25, 6 p.m.

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

The Rose Theatre at The University of Memphis Tickets on sale August 1st

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Featuring a snowman craft, scavenger hunt, and prizes. Ice Princess costumes encouraged. $3 members, $15 nonmembers. Sat., July 25, 9 a.m.-noon.

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

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Back in 2009, he was named one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs.

Since then, he’s appeared in Bon Appétit, Garden & Gun, and Everyday with Rachael Ray. His flagship, Restaurant Iris, is consistently voted the best restaurant in Memphis. Now he’s opening a new Second Line in Oxford.

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“No secrets,” English answers, with an insouciant shrug. “Good food is good food. I just put a little salt on it.”

Which is a bit like David Copperfield saying he’s just playing around with cards — right before he pulls the ace of spades out of your ear. But here at the Flyer, we don’t take our magic on faith. So we signed English up for our Farmers Market Challenge, in which we take a chef to the farmers market and make lunch.

Today we’re headed to the Church Health Center’s tomato festival. Many people don’t know that CHC has a weekly farmers market — but they ought to. The market, at CHC’s wellness facility on Union, is convenient and well-curated, and it has the virtue of being open on Tuesday.

It also has a farm-fresh tomato festival. ’Nuff said.

English and I start by making a run on the purple hull peas at Harris Produce.

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ugly and delicious. These particular tomatoes — Cherokee purples from Peach World — atone for their funny shape by being rich and heartbreakingly sweet, with a bright, acid finish.

We round out our market basket with a few fresh herbs filched from the CHC Wellness garden. (Shh, don’t tell.) Then it’s back to English’s home, a one-story charmer in Memphis’ Evergreen neighborhood. We are greeted at the door by his brother, Todd, who will run the kitchen at Second Line Oxford.

So I’m dying to know — what was English like as a kid?

“I’m keeping my mouth shut,” Todd answers, “seeing as how he signs my paychecks.”

English, who has begun ostentatiously sharpening a large kitchen knife, nods his approval. Then he starts chopping. He’s dreamt up a medley of summertime produce — peaches, jalapeño, homemade ricotta, and fennel — but he can’t figure out what to call it. His working title is “peach situation.” But whatever you do, don’t call it a salsa.

“A lot of chefs don’t know what to do with fish,” English observes, “so they throw some fruit on it and call it a salsa. I’m thinking, come on. You’ve gotta try harder than that.”

After the “peach situation” is plated, English gets to work on the main event — a sauté of diced onions, purple hull peas, and Gulf shrimp. When it comes off the stove, he tosses it with mayo, Creole mustard, and lemon juice. Then he serves it with shredded basil on a bed of Cherokee purple tomatoes. Time to eat.

What’s astounding about this food is how simple it is. In all, there are about 12 ingredients. It takes about half an hour to prepare. Volume-wise, it probably wouldn’t fill a Starbucks cup. But the ingredients are so fresh, the flavors so intense, that it ends up feeling like a magic trick. David Copperfield would be proud.

While we eat, English remembers his time washing dishes in Barcelona. Back then, he was studying abroad at Ole Miss, paying his way through school by working in kitchens. Funny enough, scrubbing pots in Catalunya taught him that food wasn’t just a means to an end — it was an end in itself.

“We were working with sixth-generation farmers,” English recalls. “Farmers who were representing not just their wife and kids, but generations of their family that they’d never even met. So when they grew a bell pepper, it would have to make their great-grandfather proud. I thought that was amazing.”

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Amy Schumer vs. Ant-Man What do Marvel’s smallest superhero and Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck have in common?

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ast weekend’s box office race involved two seeming opposites: Marvel’s Ant-Man and Trainwreck, the collaboration between comedy titans Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow. But after a Sunday double feature of the two films, I was struck by their similarities and what they say about the current risk-averse environment in Hollywood.

Ant-Man stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, a

former electrical engineer whom we first meet as he is being released from San Quentin, where he was doing time for a Robin-Hood robbery of his corrupt former employer. His wife Maggie (Judy Greer) has divorced him and is living with their daughter, Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson) and her new boyfriend, Paxton (Bobby Cannavale). Scott tries to go straight, but after he’s fired from his job at Baskin-Robbins, in one of the more creative product placement sequences in recent memory, he takes his

friend Luis (Michael Peña) up on his idea to break into a Victorian mansion and clean out a mysterious basement vault.

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After a desperate mission for S.H.I.E.L.D. to stop World War III, she disappeared into subatomic space, and he took off his supersuit and vowed to keep the world-changing and potentially dangerous technology under wraps.

Under Pym’s tutelage, Scott sets out to stop the scientist’s former protegee Darren Cross (Corey Stoll) from selling his own version of the shrinking technology to the evil forces of Hydra by stealing a high-tech Iron Man-type suit called the Yellowjacket.

Ant-Man is not as good as this year’s other Marvel offering, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, but it scores points for originality. Written

by Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’s Edgar Wright, who was originally slated to direct, the film tries — and mostly succeeds — to combine an Ocean’s Amy Schumer and Bill Hader Eleven-style heist flick with a superhero story in Trainwreck in the same tonal range as Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman. It’s burdened with the traditional origin-story baggage, but the sequence where Scott discovers the powers of the Ant-Man supersuit by shrinking himself in the bathtub and fleeing running water, hostile insects, and a vacuum cleaner is another triumph for special effects wizards Industrial Light & Magic. Rudd, a veteran of many Apatow comedies, including Knocked Up, is exactly the right guy to sell the mix of comedy and superheroics, and some sparks fly with furtive love interest Evangeline Lilly as Pym’s double agent daughter Hope van Dyne. For the sections of its 117-minute running time when it’s focusing on its core plot, Ant-Man is a good time at the movies.

For Trainwreck, Amy Schumer’s vehicle for transforming basic cable stardom into a feature film career, she surrounded herself with some very heavy hitters. First and foremost is Apatow, the producer, director, and writer with his fingers in everything from The 40-Year-Old Virgin to Girls. The pair execute Schumer’s first feature-length screenplay with verve. Schumer stars as Amy, a New York magazine journalist who is basically a fleshed-out version of her public persona. In a sharp inversion of the usual romantic comedy formula, she is a quick-witted, commitment-phobic hookup artist dating a hunky man-bimbo named Steven (John Cena), who just wants to get married, settle down, and raise a basketball team’s worth of sons in a house in the country. Soon after her chronic infidelity torpedoes her relationship, she is assigned to write about a prominent sports doctor named Aaron (Bill Hader), who counts LeBron James among his patients. The two hit it off, and she soon violates her “never sleep over” rule with him.

If this were a traditional Rom-Com, and Amy’s character were male and played by, say, Tim Meadows (who is one of the dozens of comedic talents who have cameos), I would be calling him a ladies man. Schumer is practically daring people to expose the double standard by calling her a slut. Her effortless

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performance proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that she has chops to carry a feature film. Apatow is savvy enough to give her a long leash, giving her time to breathe, selecting some choice improvs, and letting barrages of comic exchanges live in two-shots. Hadler finds himself in the unfamiliar role of the straight man to Schumer’s cutup, but he acquits himself well in what is essentially the Meg Ryan role from When Harry Met Sally. Practically everyone in the film’s supporting hoard of comics and sports figures also gives a good turn. Tilda Swinton is stiletto sharp as Dianna, Amy’s conscience-free magazine editor boss. Dave Attell is consistently funny as a homeless man who acts as Amy’s Greek chorus. Daniel Radcliffe and Marisa Tomei slay as the leads in a black-and-white art film called The Dogwalker that the film’s characters keep trying to watch. Matthew Broderick, Marv Albert, and tennis superstar Chris Evert share a funny scene. But the biggest surprise is LeBron James, who shines with confidence and humor every time he’s on the screen. For the sections of its 124-minute running time that it focuses on Amy’s romantic foibles, Trainwreck is a good time at the movies.

But that’s the rub for both Ant-Man and Trainwreck. They both spend way too much time straying from what an M.B.A. would call their “core competencies.” In the case of Ant-Man, the distractions are twofold. First is the now-predictable, awkward shoehorning of scenes intended to connect the film to the larger cinematic universe. As his first test, Pym assigns Scott to steal a technological bauble from a S.H.I.E.L.D warehouse, prompting a superclash between Ant-Man and fellow Marvel C-lister Falcon (Anthony Mackie). The allegedly vital piece of equipment is never mentioned again.

Second is the turgid subplot involving Scott’s efforts to reconnect with his daughter Cassie, and her would-be stepfather Paxton’s attempts to put him back in jail. When Scott is having trouble using Pym’s ant-control technology, Hope tells him to concentrate on how much he wants to reunite with his daughter. The moment rings completely false in context: If you’re trying to talk to ants, shouldn’t you be concentrating on ants? The intention seems to be to make Scott a more sympathetic character, but Rudd’s quickquipping charisma makes that unnecessary. Why spend the time on flimsy sentiment when we can be playing to Ant-Man’s strengths?

Similarly, Trainwreck gets bogged down in a superfluous subplot involving Amy’s sister Kim (Brie Larson) and their father Gordon (Colin Quinn). It starts promisingly enough in the very first scene of the movie when Gordon explains to young Kim and Amy why he and their mother are getting a divorce (“Do you love your doll? How would you like it if you could only play with that one doll for the rest of your life?”). But then, we flash forward to the present day, and Gordon has been admitted to an assisted living facility, which becomes a source of friction between the sisters. Quinn is woefully miscast as a disabled old man, especially when he’s sitting next to veteran actor and actual old man Norman Lloyd. The subplot is seemingly there only for cheap sentiment, and it drags on and on, adding an unacceptable amount of running time to what should be a fleetly paced comedy. As we left the theater, my wife overheard a woman asking her friend how the film was. “I like it okay,” she said. “I thought it was never going to end, though.”

When Ant-Man is kicking pint-sized ass and Amy Schumer is schticking it up, their respective movies crackle with life. Hollywood is filled with smart people, and I can’t believe that an editor didn’t point out that the films could be improved by excising their phony sentimental scenes. So why didn’t these films achieve greatness? I submit it is another symptom of the studio’s increasingly crippling risk aversion. All films must be all things to all audiences to hit the so-called “four quadrants” of old and young, male and female, so raunchy comedies get extraneous schmaltz and lightweight comic book movies get weighed down with irrelevant family drama. Both Ant-Man and Trainwreck end up like rock albums with lackluster songwriting filled with killer guitar solos. They’re entertaining enough but haunted by the greatness that could have been.

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I don’t think I’ve ever used the term “bafflement” before, but I am now in a total state of bafflement. I can usually use reason and objective thinking to figure things out, but on this one I am stumped. I can’t seem to be able to think of one single fraction of a reason why anyone claiming to be a member of the human race could possibly think that it would be a good idea for Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States. Is there some kind of Kool-Aid out there that I don’t know about? Have we sunken this low? Is everyone smoking crack? Is this an alien invasion in disguise? Is this an ISIS plot?

Now the next time I travel to another country, I am going to have to tell people again that I am from Canada, so I don’t suffer the shame and humiliation of their knowing I am from a country where this repugnant, nouveau riche cartoon character is leading the polls in his party for the upcoming presidential election.

I don’t know who or what is worse: Trump, his supporters, or the sad state of the Republican Party, if this is the best they have to offer. I never thought these words would cross my mind in any way, shape, or fashion, but I sincerely think I’d rather see Sarah Palin in the White House than Donald Trump. Or Charles Manson. Or — God forbid — someone who is almost as frightening as Trump is: Marie Osmond. She scares the crap out of me on those weight-loss commercials, with the way she points into the camera when trying make a point. Come to think of it, she and Trump maybe have a lot in common. They’re both monsters.

Trump is the sleaziest, worst kind of opportunist, because all he really wants is attention. I don’t think he even wants the job of POTUS at all. He just wants people to pay attention to him. Thus, the hair. I know, I know. It’s an easy target that has been maligned for decades. But if he weren’t just out in the limelight to get attention he would do something to correct that magic carpet ride. After all — and he has said this on camera about two million times in the past week — he IS worth $10 billion.

I think he can afford a stylist, but then that would take away from his shtick. And he is nothing but shtick. NOTHING. Other than hateful, racist, laughable comments about immigrants, I haven’t heard him say anything other than his gag-a-maggot claims of how rich he is. But then, I turn away in horror every time I see him on the television screen, so I might be missing something.

Anyway, he’s a delusional creep, and it’s a shame even I am paying this much attention to him. Trump, be gone before one of your tacky skyscrapers falls on you.

So I’m going to turn my attention elsewhere and get down on my knees and thank Barack Obama for being the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. How in the hell it took so long for this to happen is anybody’s guess.

Donald Trump But at least he did it, and at least he is going to try to do something about the crooked, for-profit, privately owned prison system in this country, where thousands and thousands of people are living like animals because they happened to have been caught with weed or pain pills on them.

Oh, how violent and scary they are.

I can’t wait to see what else Obama does during this last period of his presidency. If I were him, I would go nuts. Now that gay marriage is finally legal across the country and he doesn’t have that to worry about, I would start enacting laws that replaced nonviolent drug offenders in the prisons with people who place unwanted telecommunication and scam calls to innocent people’s cell phones.

My phone is like a slot machine some days, with all the dinging from any number of bullshit calls. The other day I got one, and it was a recording from a robot voice telling me this was my final notice and that the IRS was filing a lawsuit against me. Right. I was so skeert. Like the IRS is going to leave an automated message on my cell phone voice mail, and like I make enough money for them to care about anything in my tax return.

So I tried to call back to play a little game. A woman did answer saying, “Hello, Internal Revenue Service,” in an unamerikan accent, and I could actually hear a television and a kid crying in the background. I called back from a landline, and when I tried to lay into her, she hung up. So I tried calling back from my cell phone numerous times but kept getting a fast busy signal and finally a number-disconnected message.

Damn! I was all ready to play into her hand and fall for it before I told her my bank’s pin number was 666 and that I was Satan and was on my way to eat her children. But alas, no luck.

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1555 Madison Ave. * 901-312-6058 ON SALE FRIDAY: Jeff Austin Band [9/23] 7/24: Angelah Johnson presents Bon Qui Qui (Comedy) 7/25: BBBS Sports Ball 7/26: Toad the Wet Sprocket w/ Derik Hultquist 7/31: Raekwon & Ghostface Killah (Wu-Tang Clan) 8/5: Kevin Gates w/ Solo Lucci & OG Boobie Black 8/21: Corey Smith w/ The Railers 8/27: Magic Men – SOLD OUT 8/28: Magic Men – SOLD OUT 8/30: Belle and Sebastian 9/7: Purity Ring 9/28: Beach House w/ Jessica Pratt 10/1: Death Grips 10/3: Breaking Benjamin w/ 10 Years 10/10: Leela James w/ Raheem DeVaughn

1884 LOUNGE

7/22: Failure w/ Queen Kwong 8/3: Marriages & Creepoid w/ Mayfair 8/11: Ghost-Note (Snarky Puppy Drummers) 8/14: Earphunk w/ Agori Tribe 9/3: Ray Wylie Hubbard w/ Aaron Lee Tasjan MORE EVENTS AT MINGLEWOODHALL.COM

ROCKHOUSE LIVE EAT. DRINK. ROCK!

Daily Lunch Specials $5.99!

Happy Hour 11AM-7PM Daily!

RHL MIDTOWN: 2586 Poplar - 901.324.6300 Free Lunch Delivery Mon - Open Mic, Tues: Parker Card, $2.50 Pints, $5.99 Steaks Wed - Bob Boccia & Karaoke 7/24: Aqueduct 7/25: Karaoke 7/26: Earth Entertainment Showcase RHL SYCAMORE VIEW: 5709 Raleigh Lagrange - 901.386.7222 Mon - Karaoke, Tues - $2.50 Pints Tues - New Open Jam Tuesdays Thurs - $5.99 Steaks & Karaoke 7/22: MCW Midget Wrestling 7/24: ALMOST FAMOUS 7/25: Prezzance 7/26: 5th Kind www.rockhouselive.com

Porcelain Crowns Bridges/Veneers

SPT Dental Smile Clinic. Dr. Brown. Immediate Appointments.

Call 901.744.2225 Near Downtown

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.

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

$CASH 4 JUNK CARS$

Non-Operating Cars, No Title Needed. 901-691-2687

OVERTON CHAPEL

Church Rental, Weddings, Receptions, Seminars, Events, Etc. Accepting Bookings Now! 53 E. Parkway S., Memphis, TN 38104 Contact: Charles Lawing 901.359.5398 Contact: Susan Wampler 901.361.7330 State Of The Art Sound, Video, Lighting & Video Streaming.

DOWNTOWN VAPE SHOP 111 S. Court Ave. 901.517.6451 Next Door To Blue Plate Cafe’ www.DpgVapeShop.com

FABULOUS CARPET CARE

Steam Clean 3 Rooms $99.

Free Deodorizer. We Are The Master Sanitizers.

901.282.5306 | www.fabulouscarpetcare.com

COFFEE IS THE SAFEST Business to start. Recession Proof.

Just Ask Sbucks! Weekly Pay. 901-221-4141

I BUY RECORDS! 901-359-3102

Waterbed Business for Sale!

Only one in Memphis area.

Turn Key Operation. Retiring.

Call 901-496-0492