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It’s deep in a November night in Memphis, and I’m awakened by rain. It’s coming down hard, sounding like a million pebbles hitting the roof. The gutter I’ve been meaning to clean is overflowing outside the bedroom window. A flash of lightning illuminates the room, and I do what I’ve done since I was a boy: count the seconds ’til the thunder rolls. I get almost to 10 before I hear a distant rumble. Two miles or so. Someone else’s lightning. Lightning struck France last week. Islamist terrorists hit Paris and brutally murdered 129 people. The thunder is still rolling. Politicians and some media pundits are sounding the alarm, demanding action, spreading fear: We can’t have lightning striking here. We need to stop all refugees coming from Syria. We need to put troops on the ground and go after ISIS on their home turf. We need to bomb the shit out of ’em. I agree with the latter sentiment, if we can do so without blowing up wedding parties and hospitals. But that’s a simplistic and emotional response, one that makes us feel better, but not one that will lead to a permanent peace or eradicate the problem. ISIS isn’t really a country, it’s an ideology of ignorance and hate and death, and it can strike anywhere in the world. Whack-A-Terrorist in one place and another will spring up elsewhere. We need to remember, too, that lightning also struck in Beirut and on a Russian airliner last week. ISIS is a problem for all countries in the civilized world. Their ideology doesn’t play favorites. Even Iran denounced the attacks. A coordinated effort, using combined intelligence gathering, cooperative military actions, and black ops would be much more effective in preventing future attacks than mere bombing. But nothing can totally prevent terrorism. A Canadianbred terrorist without a criminal record could easily drive from Windsor into Detroit. A “tourist” could enter San Francisco on a flight from Indonesia. A “sailor” on a Saudi Arabian oil tanker could jump ship on a loading dock in New Jersey. There is simply no way we can guarantee an absence of evil-doers in this country. No more than we can prevent an insane American from shooting up a movie theater in Colorado or killing nine people in a church in South Carolina. Once a terrorist gets here, getting an assault-style rifle is the least of his worries. Lightning strikes. Sometimes it kills. But it’s rare. It’s important to keep things in perspective. After 9/11, we were N E WS & O P I N I O N united as a country, but our eventual LETTERS - 4 response was disastrous and misguided THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 and helped create many of the problems THE FLY-BY - 6 we’re facing now. It’s important to not SPORTS - 10 POLITICS - 12 politicize the attacks or try to create EDITORIAL - 14 hysteria or pander to the base urges of VIEWPOINT - 15 the human animal. In the big scheme COVER STORY of things, more people in America die “NEW DAY AT THE CA (AGAIN)” each year from gun violence (30,000) BY TOBY SELLS - 16 and/or auto accidents (31,000) than any STE P P I N’ O UT terrorist could hope to kill. We shouldn’t WE RECOMMEND - 20 MUSIC - 22 fear terrorists. We should treat them AFTER DARK - 24 with contempt and go after them like the ART - 28 international criminals they are. THEATER - 29 And for the record, lightning has CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 30 killed an average of 123 people a year FOOD - 38 FILM - 40 since 1940. We need to remember that THE LAST WORD - 47 and count to 10. C L AS S I F I E D S - 43 Bruce VanWyngarden brucev@memphisflyer.com

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About Alexandra Pusateri’s story, “Three Sculptures Celebrate Binghampton History” … I’m all for hiring the best person for a job, but it seems odd that a city that won’t hire better police or fire personnel because they don’t live here keeps contracting public art executed by people with no roots or ties to our city. ALJ2

A nice mix is healthy. I’m thankful it doesn’t work the other way around and Memphis artists can compete in other cities. I’d hate to think the ones with skills to throw down on a public scale would be 5limited to work 6 that’7s available 8 locally. 9 10 Chris Davis

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About MATA … After 18 living in a medium-size city (150,000 people) in Germany for a number of years, I noticed that their 21 public transportation system outdoes any in the U. S. Make me the czar of MATA! First, rename the main station;24 25 “terminal” is a bad name. Clean the bathrooms. Add a serving counter 29where one can sit and have a coffee and snacks — there or to31 go. Keep 32 prices 33 down; a dollar for a canned drink is way too much for poor people who have to ride a bus. 38 39 Put in a machine where people can buy bus tickets. (Think Coke 42 machine.) Add a machine to each bus so passengers can swipe their cards at the back door. Duh! And there should 46 be 47 easy-to-read maps of the entire system at all real bus 50stops.51 52 Finally, print out 10,000 month-long passes, and give them to people waiting 54 in line at unemployment offices. You’re welcome. 59 60Smith Robert 63

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F R OSTY’S G OT A G U N Have you ever stopped to think about some of the things that go on in the popular holiday song “Frosty the Snowman?” Like that part where Frosty leads the children down the streets of town right to a traffic cop. And he “only paused a moment when he heard him holler, ‘STOP!’” Have you ever wondered how Frosty could just flat-out ignore a policeman’s direct order and get away with it? Well, he’s a snowman, so he’s white obviously. But that’s only part of the troubling story. What we didn’t know until this ad for Bass Pro’s $49.99 holiday inflatables came out: Frosty, the “happy, jolly soul” immortalized in song, isn’t an ordinary enchanted snowman. He’s a seven-foot-tall enchanted snowman packing major heat. It’s all visions of sugarplums until your childhood fantasies start fighting back.

N E VE R E N D I N G M O N G O Prince Mongo shows up in the strangest places. Last week, his name popped up in a post for the feminist blog Jezebel. Mongo told the author, who was in Memphis to shop at thrift stores, about the time he won an insurance settlement and used the money to rent a hot-air balloon and buy a bunch of expensive radio equipment to broadcast from said balloon and how said radio equipment had to be thrown from the balloon to make it lighter as the balloon approached power lines. By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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Memphis bus riders’ and drivers’ unions join forces in hopes to be heard by mayor-elect Jim Strickland. Less than a week after the announced partnership between the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 713 (the local bus drivers’ union) and the Memphis Bus Riders Union (MBRU), Congressman Steve Cohen announced that $2.6 million in federal funds, secured through the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), would be allocated to fund three electric trolleys for downtown Memphis. Members of the MBRU congregated at their monthly meeting at the Memphis Center for Independent Living said the funding felt like a familiar slap in the face; so familiar, that the funding announcement invoked little surprise, and the discussion quickly refocused to the litany of problems faced by everyday Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) users.

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“When you put money [only] downtown where the trolleys are, you’re forgetting about your citizens,” said Cynthia Bailey, outreach coordinator for MBRU. “You’re forgetting about the people who need transportation to get to jobs and destinations.” The narrative of bus riders and drivers drawing attention to unmet transit needs while money continues to pour into the trolley system is hardly new, but with each announcement of trolley funding, members of both unions have become increasingly desperate to look for solutions. According to both Bailey and Sammie Hunter, MBRU’s cochair, the bus riders’ union has little faith left in MATA’s CEO and general manager Ron Garrison, who they said showed initial interest in solving MATA’s problems but has not followed

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Gay and lesbian community center takes point-in-time count of homeless youth. On a national scale, around 40 percent of homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT), according to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. The Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center (MGLCC) set out last weekend to find out how many local LGBT youth are homeless. Through its first annual Youth Count, volunteers stationed across the city surveyed teens and young adults about their housing situations and their sexual orientation and gender identity. The exact number of homeless youth identified from the point-in-time count wasn’t yet available at press time, but the MGLCC could confim that they surveyed more than 100 youth. “This is us trying to figure out how we get our kids off the street,” said Will Batts, executive director of the MGLCC. “It’s not safe for them to be on the street. It’s not healthy. It’s not good for their long-term outcomes. To do that, we need to know how many of them are there at any one time.” Batts said the center is working on a permanent solution to help LGBT homeless youth ages 18 to 25, but he said the center won’t announce specifics until December. He said homeless LGBT teens and young adults in Memphis who have aged out of the foster care system have few options. “We don’t refer kids to the shelters anymore because so many kids have reported being sexually assaulted or having their things stolen. A couple kids have said they fell asleep in the shelter with their arms wrapped around their belongings and woke up with them gone,” Batts said. “There’s nothing safe about those places for young people. They’re not safe for skinny little gay kids, and they’re certainly not safe for trans kids.”

Because the shelters have a reputation as unsafe places for LGBT youth, Batts said many turn to other options, some of which may dangerous or illegal. “Some kids will turn to couch-surfing if it’s available. But others adapt survival techniques of selling themselves to get money to eat. An 18-year-old kid should not have to do that to survive,” Batts said. Stephanie Reyes, MGLCC’s youth services and volunteer manager, said the center started their Youth Count by surveying those who showed up at the center’s weekly Gen Q youth group for LGBT young adults on Friday. On Saturday, volunteers set up tables at various locations around town where youth might hang out — Tobey Skate Park, the Central Library, Social Suds laundromat in South Memphis, etc. — and surveyed any young people who appeared to be under the age of 25. The survey asks questions about sexual orientation and homelessness, so some surveyed likely weren’t the target population. “We don’t want to stigmatize the kids and say, hey, ‘You look queer, come fill this out,’” Batts said. “They just wanted anybody under 25 to fill it out, and then they’ll pull out the ones that identify as LGBT.” Reyes says she hopes having some solid numbers will help them raise funds for the center’s goal of housing LGBT homeless youth. For now, she says when homeless youth come to the center, she can provide food, clothing, and help with resumes, but she has no options for shelter. “There are no shelters in Memphis that advertise that they are LGBT-friendly. Most are faith-based, and I don’t know of any that are, like, ‘Bring on the trans kids,’” Reyes said. “If you have an 18-year-old who has aged out of foster care, and they come to the

According to Bailey, if both the MBRU and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 713 (ATU) are able to meet with Mayor-elect Jim Strickland and bypass Garrison, it will be a victory. “I think [Stickland will] understand us better,” Bailey said. “The ATU

center and tell us they’re homeless and ask what they can do, all I can say is go to the Union Mission and don’t tell anyone that you’re gay.” In a separate MGLCC project, Reyes is launching a survey of emergency homeless shelters to determine which would like help in becoming more LGBT-friendly. “It may be a case where the shelter may not be against this community, but they may not know how to serve them properly or be respectful in their questions. We want to find out who has had sensitivity trainings or who has an intake form that asks your identity instead of just male and female sex,” Reyes said. Several years ago, the MGLCC launched a foster program that paired homeless LGBT youth with volunteers willing to temporarily open their homes. But that program is no longer in place. “Some of the kids had more serious issues than most people could deal with. There are mental health issues and legal issues,” Batts said. He said the center’s future efforts to house homeless youth will include wraparound services for legal, medical, and mental health needs. “We make up less than 10 percent of the population, but up to 40 percent of homeless kids identify as LGBT. I saw a report today that said 40 percent of girls in juvenile detention facilities identify as LGBT,” Batts said. “Our community is overrepresented in homelessness and incarceration and abuse. But it’s not because we’re bad people. It’s because there’s a society that has told us that we are bad and disordered, and that wears on people. It creates a really unhealthy environment for young people.”

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Barber said. Garrison said that he wants to keep an open dialogue with both unions. “I think to the extent that we can make ourselves available, my staff and I would be happy to sit down with them to work through their concerns. I’ve tried to meet with them a number of times and have,” said Garrison, who noted that there have been no additional funds spent on the trolleys except for specific funds that can only be used on trolleys. Additionally, the funds recently granted by TDOT could mean that the current buses used in lieu of trolleys on Main could be redistributed to MATA’s fleet. “I welcome anyone to talk to our mayor, and I would be glad to do that with or without them,” Garrison said. “I would like to partner with them to get additional funds.”

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has experience with the board on the inside, and we have experience from the riders’ perspective on the outside. If we’re merged together as one organization, it will have a big impact.” Local 713’s business manager William Barber not only echoes MBRU’s concerns but is also eager that the union merger will erase the long-standing perception of blameplacing that pits the bus drivers against the bus riders. “What I want our public to realize, is that it’s not drivers against the public, it’s management against the public,” Barber said. “We want everybody to join us, listen to our rally points, get on board with the unions and MATA so we can make this city better for everybody, not just for a certain group of people.” Barber is also quick to point out that he’s highly in favor of trolley drivers having jobs. “We want everyone to benefit,”

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The Zoo’s Hippo Camp exhibit is still under construction.

The Memphis Zoo will be entering a new era after the completion of its new hippopotamus exhibit, which is set to open in March 2016. The exhibit is the last major project in the Zoo’s 20-year master plan. The Zoo has been redeveloping old exhibits and creating new ones since the late 1980s. The Zambezi River Hippo Camp will not only provide a new home for the hippos, it will also showcase flamingos, crocodiles, and free-flying birds. The camp’s name comes from the Zambezi River, the fourth-longest river in Africa. The exhibit is modeled after a South African fishing village with a coffee plantation. The Zoo’s overall master plan mostly focuses on large-scale immersion exhibits, which is the trend in zoos across the country. Newer exhibits, such as the China exhibit, Teton Trek, Northwest Passage, and the upcoming Zambezi River Hippo Camp are examples of immersion exhibits, which focus on the animals of specific regions. Immersion exhibits transport the visitor to the animals’ natural habitat and provide interaction with the visitor, and the Memphis Zoo’s expansions have reflected this, according to Chuck Brady, CEO and president of the Memphis Zoo. “It’s much more engaging and immersive for the visitor to not only see the animals in nice, pleasant environments but also to get the feel like you’re walking down the Zambezi River or walking through Teton Park,” Brady said. “It’s a good theme, and we’re going to continue it.” The Zoo also plans to install “beacons” in the future for their

smartphone app, where visitors will receive educational notifications on their phones based on where they are in the park. The Zoo’s history with Overton Park has been met with opposition when expanding. When Tetron Trek was being built in 2008, Citizens to Preserve Overton Park opposed the exhibit due to the removal of four acres of the Old Forest within the borders of the Zoo. A raised boardwalk is supposed to protect the natural flora of the ground. The master plan also includes the smaller project, Chickasaw Bluffs trails, which aims to be low-impact on the Old Forest Arboretum of Overton Park inside the Zoo. The idea is to allow visitors to learn more about the natural culture of the Old Forest, but activists have opposed the idea of charging admission through the Zoo to walk the trails of the natural area. Parking, a more recent point of contention with activists for Overton Park, was not included in the master plan. Over the past couple of years, activists from a group called Get Off Our Lawn have staged protests over the Zoo allowing its patrons to park on the Greensward at Overton Park. A plan to reconfigure the Zoo’s parking lot to handle more cars was dropped last month due to higherthan-expected costs. Solutions for Zoo parking have gone back to the drawing board. A new 10-year master plan is currently in development and should be finished in about a year and a half. For more information on the new Zambezi River Hippo Camp, check out The Memphis Flyer News Blog for an in-depth look and a slideshow.

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week ago, it looked like the Grizzlies’ season was headed into the dumpster. The offense looked terrible, the defense looked terrible, and the team’s three most important players — Mike Conley, Marc Gasol, and Zach Randolph — looked out of shape and out of motivation. The bench units couldn’t play defense, Brandan Wright looked lost, and Dave Joerger looked like a man who was quickly headed for the NBA unemployment office. Playing the Clippers, their most hated rival, with a determination not to get embarrassed seemed to rekindle the old Grit ‘n Grind ways, and now this team looks familiar to Grizz fans as the team they’ve come to know and love. The problem with that, of course, is that the Grizz team fans know and love has some serious limitations — limitations we’ve been talking about in these pages since their first brush with playoff success five years ago — and the rest of the league is only getting better at exploiting them. The offense is still an issue, most obviously with perimeter scoring to space the floor. The trade of Beno Udrih to Miami for Mario Chalmers immediately improves the backup point guard position, especially defensively, but with Brandan Wright missing an undetermined number of games due to a lingering knee issue, the second unit is still undefined. Jeff Green continues to get minutes with the starters, even though he’s shown all season that he plays better with the second unit. His 21 points against Minnesota on Sunday only served as further proof of his ability to contribute when he has room to improvise, away from the clogged-up floor of the starting unit. Most seriously for the Grizzlies, and hardest to fix, are the offensive issues with the starters. It’s no secret that Tony Allen can’t shoot, but teams have finally started to force the Grizzlies to use Allen as a scorer, and while he’s still contributing this year, he’s posting a negative net rating (which is, while Allen is on the floor, the number of points scored per 100 possessions minus the number of opponent points scored per 100 possessions). For a player so integral to the Grizzlies’ defense for the past few years, the fact that he’s a net negative on the floor so far should be concerning. The bad news is that’s not really what was to blame for the Grizzlies’ slow start. For one thing, Gasol was told to take the summer off, and apparently took it way

off. He’s clearly out of shape, has trouble moving the way he wants to, appears mostly disengaged from what’s going on on the floor (even in his 31-point performance against the Portland Trail Blazers). Conley hasn’t looked much better until recently, finally starting to turn the corner against Portland and Minnesota, two teams not exactly known for being able to defend point guards with any sort of skill. Randolph has struggled to guard stretch fours (which isn’t a new development, but there are more 3-point shooting forwards now) and has looked slow and tired on offense from being worn out on defense. When those three guys don’t look right, nothing looks right. There are signs that things are improving. After a brutal West Coast road trip, the Grizz have several games at home, and while they’re divisional games against tough teams, the way they’re playing now, they at least have a shot to win them, whereas the 50-point-blowout Grizzlies of the first week of the season would only be looking at digging themselves a deeper hole.

The Grizz have several games at home ... the way they’re playing now, they at least have a shot. I think this year is going to be a bit of a slog. The Grizzlies are crowded at several positions — especially in the wing rotation — and should be looking to make more moves to get playing time for Jordan Adams, who should be returning from injury before too much longer. The Grizzlies are in “reload” mode this year, in a Western Conference that is heavy at the top but a little light in the middle, and the bar to make the playoffs is probably a couple of games lower than it was last year — 43 to 45 wins, instead of 48 to 50. While it is encouraging that they’re starting to play like “themselves” again, the simple truth is that “themselves” needs improvement to contend for an NBA title. The trade deadline is in February. I would expect the Grizzlies to be active between now and then — both in small ways, like the Udrih-for-Chalmers flip we saw last week, and in big ways, maybe ways bigger than fans will be comfortable with. They can’t afford to continue to “Grit ‘n Grind” past the point at which it’s relevant, even if that point isn’t here yet. And while they’ve certainly improved in the last week, the endpoint of that evolution is still a ways away.

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Here Comes Hillary

November 19-25, 2015

The pending visit to Nashville and Memphis this week of Hillary Clinton is for Tennessee Democrats a poignant reminder of a time — not that long ago — when the Democratic Party counted for something statewide and could boast real political power. In the 2007-2008 election cycle, when Clinton, then still serving as a U.S. senator from New York, made her first run for president, she did so in an environment in which her party was still the predominant political force in Tennessee. The governor, Phil Bredesen, was a Democrat. So was the long-serving speaker of the state House of Representatives, Jimmy Naifeh of Covington. He presided over a body that had been majority-Democrat since Reconstruction, save for a momentary blip in the ’70s, and whose power was so unquestioned and his favors so sought-after that he could always boast a solid corps of minority Republican votes for his speakership. The state Senate was technically divided between Democrats and Republicans, with 16 members each, but the lone Senate independent, Micheal Williams of Maynardville, was a former Republican who had become accustomed to voting with the Democrats — a serious

crimp upon the power of Republican speaker and ipso facto lieutenant governor, Ron Ramsey. His ousting in 1977 of longtime Democratic Speaker John Wilder had owed as much to members’ reaction to Wilder’s superannuated state as to a real shift in their politics. The state’s congressional delegation in Washington was divided, with a majority of the state’s House members being Democratic, while Tennessee’s U.S. senators were both Republicans. The party affiliation of the state’s senators had, however, fluctuated with some regularity since the mid-1960s in keeping with Tennessee’s status as a bellwether state, reliably reflecting shifts in party dominance between Republicans and Democrats, but with a default bias in favor of the latter. As the 2008 presidential cycle began to heat up in 2007, there seemed little reason to believe that any major shift in the political balance of power was in the offing for Tennessee. If anything, the Democrats’ national successes in the off-year elections of 2006 — when Memphis Democrat Harold Ford Jr. had been narrowly defeated by Chattanooga Republican Bob Corker in a Senate race — still resonated. And in a post-Katrina envi-

ronment, with the Iraq War having long since become unpopular, sentiment in Tennessee as elsewhere had seemingly turned against the administration of the Republican President George W. Bush. In advance of the 2008 primary season proper, Hillary Clinton, wife of a still popular ex-president from a neighboring Southern state, had sufficient magnetism all by herself to hold in common cause a specific mass of Democratic regulars. In rural West and Middle Tennessee, the ancestral Democratic networks of county executives, local officials, and legislators still held sway, and widely admired former Governor Ned McWherter was a Clinton enthusiast. So was Memphis’ African-American mayor, Willie Herenton. Nashville, then as now the reservoir of what had once been a solid Democratic South, was virtually all-out for Hillary. Even after the unexpected surge of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign that drew to his cause such party bellwethers as congressmen Steve Cohen of Memphis and Jim Cooper of Nashville, the Hillary coalition held. On Super Tuesday of 2008, Clinton won Hillary in Memphis in 2014

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infrastructure that it possessed in 2008. Returning it to the party fold electorally — or even making it competitive —will be a serious challenge indeed. In any case, here she comes. Longtime Clinton retainer James Carville headed up a successful Memphis fund-raiser for her in August, and members of Clinton’s campaign team were in town last week, scouting out locations for her visit on Friday and working out arrangements with local liaisons. Particulars were to be announced by mid-week. • By the end of Wednesday, the Shelby County Commission may — or may not — have come to some closure of

at least one phase of its ongoing power struggle with the administration of County Mayor Mark Luttrell. The commission is scheduled to adjourn midway of its normal committee sessions in order to consider an override of a Luttrell veto. Luttrell has exercised his veto in relation to a previous commission vote to appoint former Commissioner Julian Bolton as an independent attorney serving the commission in the same manner that lawyer Allan Wade serves the Memphis City Council. County Attorney Ross Dyer has ruled that the County Charter prohibits such an appointment, and last week saw a flurry of informal legal opinions on both sides.

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Tennessee with 54 percent of the vote, uniting statewide party allegiances with national ones. The Republican winner on Super Tuesday in Tennessee that year was former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, a more purely regional phenomenon whose early strength in the Iowa caucuses could not be replicated on a national scale. Huckabee later narrowly lost the pivotal South Carolina primary to John McCain. The vintage cry of Democrats in the South, contrariwise, had always been based on professions of loyalty “from courthouse to White House,” alternately “from precinct to President.” A significant number of Tennessee Democrats were “Blue Dogs,” committed to an ambiguously moderate-to-conservative tradition of government, and the Clintons had good working relations with them. “The party, as a working statewide organization with roots in the population and with an active and functioning political leadership was still intact in Tennessee,” observes Memphis Democrat David Cocke, a former party chairman with long-standing ties to Democratic Party groups elsewhere in the state. “Hillary embodied all that.” As Cocke sees it, there was no intrinsic reason why, with local party organizations and the state Democratic establishment working in tandem with a national ticket headed by Hillary Clinton, the traditional alliance could not have worked again in 2008, as it had with Jimmy Carter in 1976 and with Bill Clinton in his two races. Moreover, the suspenseful competition between Hillary Clinton and Obama had inflated Democratic energies overall. The eloquent and charismatic Obama had stirred the fancy not only of his fellow African Americans but of professionals and young people in general. But Obama, once triumphant as Democratic Party nominee in 2008, allocated his resources not along the lines of the “50-state” theory of national Democratic Chairman Howard Dean, but in accordance with an electoral-college math that focused on Northern and Midwestern swing states. Tennessee got correspondingly little in the way of attention or funding from the Obama campaign, and the cohesion between the national campaign and statewide and local Democratic efforts was virtually non-existent. Tennessee went for GOP nominee McCain in the general election, and a late campaign visit by the Republican nominee to Bristol, Virginia, has been credited with influencing a Republican legislative win across the state line that would give Republicans a surprise majority in the Tennessee state House. From that point on, Democratic Party fortunes in Tennessee waned dramatically. Though the case can be made that Obama’s presidency proceeded along

relatively moderate lines, some connection between the Democratic Party and its traditional adherents in Tennessee had been severed, and Tennessee, in successive election years beginning in 2010, joined the rest of the South, veering dramatically in the direction of Republican dominance. State government is now totally in Republican hands, with the GOP possessing legislative super-majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly. The Tennessee which Hillary Clinton (who seems certain to be her party’s nominee for president next year) will visit this week is by now almost completely divested of the Democratic Party

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Countering Daesh When you have declared enemies so fanatic that they will not only risk their lives to deprive you of yours but will pursue such a suicidal end as a glory to be achieved at all costs, how do you arrive at the right sort of disincentives to discourage them? That is rapidly becoming the main theological conundrum of our times, and, as such things go, it is somewhat more compelling than, say, that famous question that medieval scholastics used to ponder: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? And, unfortunately, as last Friday’s tragic events in Paris most recently demonstrated, the question of the suicide bomber (or suicide shooter or what-have-you) is inescapable. How we answer it when it comes around to the U.S. will, as they say, determine our final grade. It goes beyond politics or statecraft or even religion. It is, in the most literal sense, existential. So what do we do? None of the instant solutions tendered so far have that Bingo ring to them. Not, for example, Donald Trump’s seat-of-thepants recommendation that we “take the oil,” the previous raw material the minions of Daesh (the latest name for ISIS or ISIL) are selling on the black market to finance their caliphate. And how do we do that? By “bombing the s**t” out of it at its source — pipes, scaffolding, sand and all.” Oh. Trump is nothing if not versatile, however; his ex post facto remedy for the carnage in France was that the assassins could have been stopped if only their victims had been packing their own heat. Never mind that he borrowed this from Wayne LaPierre, the sage of the NRA, and that its actual point of origin was probably a 1970s episode of All in the Family in which

Archie Bunker advocated that airlines start handing out guns for self-defense to all enplaning passengers. At the other extreme of possible action, there seems to be no practical way to bargain with the jihadists, who would appear to be insisting on absolute surrender on the part of us infidels — a category that, to judge by events, is virtually all-inclusive: Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Buddhist, secular humanist, trash-talking atheists, and even, it would seem, their moderate co-religionists in the Islamic world, who are as likely to be turned into corpses or sex slaves as anybody else, and who in several well-publicized cases have been forced to pay with their heads, despite their conversion to Islam. But there, if anywhere, lies the clue to success — not in routine denunciations by fanatics on our side of “radical Islam” (by which, they usually mean, Islam of any persuasion) but in coming to closer terms of cooperation with the governments and societies (Jordan, Turkey, the Emirates, to name several) that practice Islam in a way congenial not only to the Koran and the prophet but to the principle of coexistence in a world of diversity. That’s not a complete answer, we know, and we’re not talking about trying to line up such actual and potential Arab allies on the firing line as “boots on the ground.” That hasn’t worked out too well. But active cooperation of some sort beats hell out of our trying to become Holy Warriors in our own right.

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A Zoo Solution? The answer to the Memphis Zoo’s parking dilemma may be just a block away. property that now houses an employee parking lot. Though there are still a few residential streets between Summer and Sam Cooper, this is no longer a viable parking plan. You’d be better off parking in the Evergreen neighborhood or spending time waiting in the cluster of cars that blocks up McClean on low-ozone-warning summer mornings. But the area around the western side of the park is about to change: At the beginning of November, the Tennessee Department of Transportation put the eight acres of unused land that sits on either side of the East Parkway/ Sam Cooper intersection up for sale. The largest of the lots is just under five acres; the smallest is just over half an acre. No date has been set for the sale, yet, but local media have reported that Loeb Properties has expressed serious interest in acquiring the parcels.

To whomever it may concern: That land, or at least, some of it, should be turned into parking for the Zoo. You could fit 750 parking spots on that five-acre lot. The Zoo could run a shuttle — or a trolley or a beer bike or whatever — in between E. Parkway and its main entrance, allowing visitors to see beautiful wooded areas of the park. George Kessler, the park’s designer, who kept company with landscape architecture giants such as Frederick Law Olmsted, would be proud. We would all be relieved. During chillier seasons, when zebras and humans do not seek each other’s company, the land could be used in other ways. We should get imaginative. Maybe take Crosstown Arts’ lead and create a cheaply-rentable outdoor space for cookouts and concerts. Or host roller hockey events and food truck meet-ups or town-hall-style meetings. There are ways that this could be fun, environmentally conscious, and turn a profit. We need a parking lot. We want more great public spaces. What we don’t require is condos. Please. No more condos. Eileen Townsend is a writer for Memphis magazine and The Memphis Flyer.

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Unpopular admission of the day: I’m kind of a cynic about saving the Overton Park Greensward. The Greensward is the parcel of land that sits adjacent to the Memphis Zoo in Overton Park, which has been frequently repurposed as an overflow parking lot on heavy traffic days at the Zoo. It’s hard to miss the green yard signs, visible everywhere within the Parkways, that implore us to “SAVE THE GREENSWARD!” It’s not that I’m an advocate of people parking their cars in a place that should be rightly used for hacky sack, pop-up aerobics, and dog-and-frisbee stuff. Parking is undoubtedly a bad use of Overton Park, which was designed as a space for repose at the turn of the century, part of a national movement for more peaceful urban surrounds. Considerate people should leave their minivans elsewhere and put in the pedestrian time it takes to enjoy the Teton Trek or the Hippo Camp. (Side note: the Zoo should have called this the HippoCampus because, come on, hilarious!) Overton Park may not be the most stunning of American vistas, but it is ours, and we love it, and it would be great if people didn’t park their vehicles there. My generalized apathy about the fate of the Greensward is that the campaign feels frivolous, compared to some of the other objectionable stuff we have going on in this city. I’d be happier in a world where “SAVE THE GREENSWARD!” signs were, if not replaced, at least accompanied by little beseechments to “TEST THOSE RAPE KITS ALREADY!” or “STOP MESSING AROUND WITH PUBLIC EDUCATION!” I’ve resolved, though, that the only way to save ourselves the trouble of having to think about the Greensward is to actually save the Greensward. Thankfully there is an easy way to do this, and do it cheaply. Here’s the pitch: Younger Memphians, myself included, may not recall a time when people accessed the Zoo from the eastern side of Overton Park, back before there was that dumb plan to put I-40 through Overton Park. (Credit where credit it due to those not-in-my-backyard crusaders.) This was in the 1970s, when the area that now houses the end of Sam Cooper Boulevard was a neighborhood. People either walked through the park or down N. Parkway, where there used to be a Zoo entrance on a part of the

New Day at the CA (Again)

November 19-25, 2015

Gannett’s takeover at The Commercial Appeal may bring big changes.

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rom outside those shiny windows of The Commercial Appeal headquarters at 495 Union, there’s a perception that things are tense inside. Over the years, the paper has been hit hard from many angles, toiling in a daily newspaper industry experts call “beleaguered” and “strained” when they’re trying to be nice about it (and “dead” when they are not). Many cycles of newsroom layoffs and worries about future newsroom layoffs have created what is now a routine kind of stress at the CA, according to sources. But if, as expected, the Gannett Co.’s deal to buy the paper is done, that old tension will sharpen. The Commercial Appeal will have a new owner, one that’s notorious for shrinking newsrooms. For an example, look 200 miles east to Nashville’s daily, The Tennessean. Last year, Gannett implemented its “Newsroom of the Future” project there, which entailed firing the newspaper’s entire newsroom and making them reapply for their jobs, a move that bled veteran reporters from the ranks in what’s been called a “massive exodus.” If the Gannett deal is done, the CA will have had three owners in the span of about a year. The paper, which had been owned by the Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co. since 1936, was sold in April to the Journal Media Group. That lasted until October, when Journal Media announced that it was merging with Gannett. Stormy skies and unpredictable seas, indeed. But inside the newsroom at 495 Union, there’s also an undercurrent of routine calm. “There’s apprehension. A lot of people are concerned about job security and the kind of changes that might be coming,” says Wayne Risher, a business reporter for the CA and president of the Memphis Newspaper Guild. “I think it’d be the same no matter who the buyer is. Just the act of being sold again so soon after April 1st just has people kind of on edge. Still, everyone has a job to do. People are going about their business.” The Deal On October 7th, Milwaukee-based Journal Media Group and McLean, Virginia-based Gannett announced a deal that would merge Journal Media (which was six months old at the time) into the Gannett portfolio of newspapers. Gannett said it would pay $280 million (or $12 a share to Journal Media stockholders) for the 15 daily papers and 18 weeklies that Journal Media owned in 14 markets. Market watchers told The Wall Street Journal that Journal Media was valued at $192 million when the Gannett deal was announced, meaning Gannett paid a fat premium ($88 million over market value) for the takeover. But the deal was “highly attractive” to Gannett, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC], because it would add

What We Know Unknowns abound about what might happen if Gannett does purchase The Commercial Appeal. But thanks to public merger documents filed with the SEC, we do know a few things (or, at least we know what the companies say): •Newsroom layoffs: Gannett won’t lay off anyone in the CA newsroom (or the newsroom of any Journal Media paper) for one year after the deal is closed. A clause in the merger document says “for a period of not less than 12 months” after the deal is done, Gannett is to “maintain the editorial staffing levels existing” just before the deal was done “in all newsrooms” of Journal Media Group and its subsidiaries. However, Risher isn’t so sure the statement will hold. Attorneys for the Newspaper Guild said the clause isn’t legally binding and is more like a statement of intent between Journal Media and Gannett. “If they don’t follow it — if they do come in and make wholesale changes

— (the Guild) would have no standing,” Risher said. “No one outside of Journal Media and Gannett have any standing to do anything about any part of that agreement that doesn’t get followed.” He said the Guild wouldn’t be able to file a grievance if Gannett went back on its word. Still, though, Risher said the clause does give some “reassurance that there won’t be any big changes right off the bat.” •Customers: Nothing should change for subscribers or advertising clients of the CA. Journal Media says “subscriptions will continue uninterrupted.” Advertisers and “key partners” will continue to work with their current sales reps. •Syndication: Content generated at the CA will be syndicated across a new network that will include all Gannett properties, called the “USA Today Network.” With it, Gannett hopes to “bring the nation’s largest news gathering force together.” •Outside content: You’ll find USA Today content (and other Gannett news) in the CA in print and online. Journal Media says, however, that “Gannett is committed to investing in differentiated relevant local reporting.” •Website: Commercialappeal.com will likely be integrated to the Gannett platform. The document was unclear as to whether or not we’ll see a newly designed website for the CA, which just got an overhaul this year, complete with a marketing campaign pumping its content. Richard Thompson, a former CA reporter and now a Memphis media critic who writes the Mediaverse blog, said a USA Today-style website for the paper is one of the things he’s most dreading about Gannett’s possible ownership. “It’s cookie-cutter,” Thompson said. “You want Memphis to have a website or a news service that reflects the value and the nature of the city. That’s one of the things you had [on commercialappeal. com] before Scripps started centralizing everything.” •Benefits: No changes are expected for employees’ base pay, vacation, or insurance (at least through 2016). •The Journal Media Group brand will disappear. What We Don’t Know •Management: “No decisions have been made yet” as to whether or not Journal Media managers will join Gannett. But leaders from the two companies will meet soon to “review staffing needs.” This could mean key leaders at the CA could leave. •Layoffs: The merger document says, “certain jobs may be affected as plans are enacted to streamline operations between the two companies.” Laid-off employees will be offered a company-paid severance package and COBRA health insurance. •Integration: “Specific integration plans have not yet been determined,” the merger document says. Though, it notes that The Commercial Appeal will be part of a network with papers such as The Arizona Republic, The Indianapolis Star, The Des Moines Register, and The Detroit Free Press.

•Newspapers: Journal Media was vague as to whether all of its papers will survive. It says that its portfolio of newspapers “complements” Gannett’s but doesn’t say outright that they don’t overlap. “We anticipate that we will be able to leverage our combined resources for the benefit of both readers and advertisers.” Layoffs and Memphis Layoffs have been frequent at the CA in recent years. The first question Memphians want to know is usually how many were let go in the newsroom? All of this attention paid to one Memphis company may seem excessive to some. Why aren’t long, detailed news stories written about layoffs at every company? Former CA editorial editor Otis Sanford said it’s simple: Reporters watch out for their communities. Sanford is now a media professor at the University of Memphis but he started as a Commercial Appeal reporter in 1977 and still writes a weekly opinion column. Sanford saw the first rounds of layoffs after he was promoted to managing editor in 2002. People who really care about news and information in Memphis, Sanford said, know that the CA is best positioned to cover hard news, tell important stories, and uncover what’s been covered up.

I'd argue that newspapers are the best version of the truth that you can find in any American market today. “They want to see news covered, and they want to see [oversight on the] government — the watchdog responsibility that news organizations have. They want to see that fulfilled,” Sanford said. “That’s why they get worried when they hear about layoffs. They worry that they don’t have enough folks down there to check on city hall or county government or the school systems or the environment or education.” Bruce Dobie is a former editor of the Nashville Scene and a former columnist for The Tennessean. He watched Gannett’s Newsroom of the Future project bleed reporters from the Nashville daily. Soon after that, Dobie and some investors tried to buy The Tennessean, according to a story by the Nashville Scene, but Gannett rejected the deal. Dobie and others have since purchased the long-defunct daily Nashville Banner and are trying to revive it. Asked why he thought newsroom reductions hit so hard in a community, Dobie said that newspapers, in general,

are still important because social media — while ubiquitous — is unreliable when it comes to reporting the truth. “You have to have instruments of record that really attempt to arrive at the correct version of events in a city. Newspapers are still the best medium for that,” Dobie said. “I’d argue that newspapers are the best version of the truth that you can find in any American market today. So, it’s vital for us as citizens in our communities to have a common understanding of the environments in which we live, and for that we turn to newspapers.” Gannett and the Newsroom of the Future When it comes to American newspapers, nobody’s bigger than Gannett. The company has more than 90 papers all across the country and, of course, “America’s newspaper,” USA Today. When asked what Gannett ownership of the CA may bring, many point to The Tennessean. Gannett has owned the paper since the 1970s, and it didn’t make any radical changes for many years. But in 2006, Gannett debuted its “Newsroom of the Future” project to reinvent its newsrooms to compete in a digital marketplace. It rolled out the new newsroom structure in four newspapers, including The Tennessean, last year. Gone were many of the traditional newsroom titles, replaced by job descriptions such as “community content editor,” “content coach,” “engagement editor,” and other online-era monikers. To fill these jobs, The Tennessean fired its entire news staff and made them reapply for their jobs (under the new titles). In the end, according to the Nashville Scene, about 15 percent of the news staff was cut. That list included a travel and society writer, a copy editor, two high school sports writers, a Predators beat reporter, and a photographer. The paper’s executive editor at the time, Stefanie Murray, wrote that the move was a “bold step forward in our evolution.” But the move opened the floodgates. In the following months, many reporters, including several veteran beat reporters, became fed up with the company and moved on, according to the Scene. “It was a massive exodus of people,” Dobie said. Whether Gannett will take such drastic measures at the CA remains to be seen. However, Risher said someone asked Gannett CEO Dickey about the move to fire everyone and have them reapply for their jobs, and he said it was a model the company wasn’t sticking with. Dobie said such cutbacks in the newspaper business are not unique to Nashville or even Gannett. The company has to show stock value growth to shareholders, and in an age of declining print revenues, cuts are the next preferred method to get there. continued on page 18

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$450 million in annual revenues (the top line) and about $60 million each year to earnings (the bottom line). But the deal would also consolidate some corporate and administrative functions that could save the combined companies $35 million annually. This (called corporate synergy) is a concept that means a combined company is more valuable together than as separate entities. It increases share prices to stockholders, and is usually what makes merger deals attractive in the first place. “Synergy” also likely means job cuts and service cuts and, according to the newspaper groups, they’ve found $35 million worth of them. The deal would give Gannett a total reach into 106 local markets across the country, in addition to its flagship national paper, USA Today. The new papers would give Gannett’s total print circulation a bump of about 1.6 million. Websites for the acquired newspapers would add about 10 million unique digital visitors a month to Gannett’s digital network, for a combined total of about 100 million monthly unique visitors. Gannett is a newspaper-only company now, having spun off its broadcast division last year, and it’s on the hunt to aggressively expand its print empire. Experts say print companies are cheap compared to years past, and Gannett is set to gobble them up. Here’s how Robert J. Dickey, Gannett president and CEO, said the Journal Media purchase fits into the new strategy: “This transaction is an excellent first step in the industry consolidation strategy we have communicated to our shareholders and is a good example of the value-creating opportunities we believe are available.” The deal still has to get approval from Journal Media shareholders and federal antitrust regulators, though few believe the deal will face much government pushback. If all goes according to plan, the deal will be done in the first three months of 2016.

continued from page 21 Ken Paulson agreed. He spent nearly 20 years working with Gannett. He was one of the first team members at USA Today and rose to become the paper’s editor-in-chief. He’s now the president of the First Amendment Center and dean of the College of Media and Entertainment at Middle Tennessee State University. Paulson said he’s not a Gannett apologist, but he said there have been “countless examples” of new owners making newsroom cutbacks all over the country and pointed to recent examples at the Los Angeles Times and ESPN. “New owners are always trying to improve profit margins,” Paulson said. “I suspect there will be that kind of scrutiny applied to every newspaper Gannett owns. ... If you’re a reporter in Memphis, you have every right to wonder [about layoffs], but that would be the case no matter which ownership interest came in.” Newsroom cuts and even the threat of newsroom cuts made it tough for some to stomach a news report last week from the Milwaukee Business Journal. The paper reported that if the Gannett deal closes on time, Journal Media Group CEO Tim Stautberg would get a payday of $4.56 million for less than a year’s work. Gannett Will Dominate Tennessee Another fact about Gannett’s possible

purchase of Journal Media emerged in analysis following the news announcement. If the deal gets done, Gannett will own nearly every major newspaper in the state of Tennessee. It owns the The Tennessean, The Jackson Sun, The Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro), and The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville). The new deal would give it The Commercial Appeal and The Knoxville News Sentinel. (The Chattanooga Times Free Press remains privately owned by WEHCO Media, a family company.) For those with corporate media conspiracy theories, the Gannett deal in Tennessee is a smorgasbord. Gannett would theoretically be able to tell each of its editorial boards whom to endorse for public office. Paulson said in all his years at Gannett, he never saw corporate intervention in editorial board policy. Why? ‘‘It’s simple,” he said, ‘‘money.” “You have to remember that for a company like Gannett, profit is the greatest priority,” Paulson said. “There’s really no percentage in getting entangled in local politics. They’re looking for high (website) traffic numbers and as healthy a circulation number as they can deliver.” Thompson said that he was less concerned about corporations as kingmaker and more concerned that news will lose its Memphis focus once reporters from across the state begin contributing to

The Commercial Appeal. “I think Memphis readers, Memphis people, are very news-centric, they know their news,” Thomspon said. He said the change might further diminish the CA’s work on “heavy news.” New Faces in High Places Thompson’s fears are backed up by what Dobie said he saw in Nashville last year. At one point, he said, the publisher and the editor of The Tennessean had collectively lived in the city for less than 18 months. “[Another problem] was the fact that the editors and publishers [Gannett] brings in to run these markets usually know very little about the character and soul and personality of the markets for which they’re supposed to be publishing a newspaper,” Dobie said. Dobie predicted an “immediate change” in the management for the CA. That prediction corners one of the few concerns Sanford said he had with the Gannett deal, the possible replacement of newsroom leaders Louis Graham as editor and Mark Russell as managing editor. For now, it’s largely a wait-and-see game for the CA. That game has been played for a long time by veteran employees. It’s by no means any fun, according to a former newsroom employee. “One of the things that was hardest to deal with was this cloud of dread and uncertainty that hung over you every single day, because you kept thinking: Am

I next?” the former staffer said, on the condition of anonymity. Layoffs came in shocking waves over the years, the former employee said, and were unannounced and unexpected. One minute a colleague was there, and the next moment they were gone. After landing another job, the former employee said he had a revelation. “When I got that offer, I was thrilled that somebody wanted me,” the former employee said. “You had that whole Stockholm Syndrome where you’re treated as if you’re expendable. ’You should give all you’ve got for [the paper], but just know we may get rid of you at any second.’” Risher said the Guild’s contract will be recognized by Gannett and that his group will try to meet with the company this month. But, he said, he doesn’t have a whole lot of insight into the proceedings of the merger deal. Risher was resigned to the purchase, however, noting that Gannett is probably good at making cuts by now, and that, as far as dealing with a new company, “We’ve been dealing with a kind of hostile management here going back 30 years.” He said his CA colleagues soldier on inside those shiny windows at 495 Union out of a sense of duty, but also because the future is largely out of their hands. “That’s all you can do,” he said. “It’s not going to do any good to worry about what might happen. We’ll just wait and see what comes and deal with it when it happens.”

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The Magic Flute

By Chris Davis

Opera Memphis’ pop culture-obsessed general director Ned Canty compares Mozart’s The Magic Flute to Star Wars. Of course, he does. “You’ve got this feckless kid with nothing to do,” Canty elaborates. “So he has to go off and rescue a princess. It’s got a lot of that whole Joseph Campbell thing happening.” As visiting director Alison Moritz prepared to stage Mozart’s sprawling comedy, with its 30-foot snake and its magical, mystical elements, she turned to adventure films like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Romancing the Stone for inspiration. Although the opera is set in Memphis, Egypt, Moritz’ production is set in the South American rainforest. It is additionally inspired by Robert Driver, a native Memphian who was the general director of Opera Memphis before Canty’s predecessor Michael Ching. “Driver’s family was in the cotton trade,” Canty says. “As a kid, he spent a lot of time in South America, and this production is inspired, in part, by his memories of being in the rainforest.” Opera Memphis’ production of The Magic Flute stars Sean Panikkar, a member of the opera trio Forte that wowed America’s Got Talent judges in 2013. For a sample of his powerful tenor voice and quirky aesthetic, just google his name and “Game of Thrones.” You’ll discover a video of Panikkar and his partners in Forte running around Ireland with swords belting the popular show’s theme song written in High Valyrian. It’s some nerdy stuff and a fantastic appetizer before Mozart’s comic feast. OPERA MEMPHIS PRESENTS “THE MAGIC FLUTE” AT GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER NOVEMBER 21ST-22ND, 7:30 P.M. $33-$84. OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG

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The Invisible War Studio on the Square, 7 p.m., $10 donation suggested The Memphis branch of American Association of University Women hosts this screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Invisible War about rape in the military. RSVP: AAUWTN@gmail.com.

“10 Years of Christmas in Pencils” Disciple Gallery, 6-9 p.m. Opening reception for this exhibit of Christmas icons made entirely out of number two pencils.

Booksigning by Leonard Pitts Jr. story booth, 6 p.m. Leonard Pitts signs his latest book Grant Park, involving Martin Luther King Jr., the 2008 election, white supremacists, journalists, and a kidnapping.

Frank Sinatra Jr. Horseshoe Tunica, 8 p.m., $24.50-$102 Frank Sinatra Jr. performs a tribute to dear old dad.

Peter Pan Playhouse on the Square, 7 p.m., $22 You know the drill: flying, clapping, never growing up. Orion Starry Nights Shelby Farms Park, 6-10 p.m., $20 Annual holiday lights display returns with more than 40 (!) new displays. Includes the Mistletoe Village with a petting zoo, a shop with locally made goods, s’mores, and more. Through December 27th.

Flip the Switch Graceland, 6 p.m. The holidays are on, son. Country star Trisha Yearwood has the honor this year of flipping on the switch of Graceland’s holiday lights. The Memphis Potters’ Guild Annual Holiday Show & Sale Memphis Botanic Garden, 5-8 p.m. Wares from members of the Potters’ Guild, including sculpture, jewelry, tableware, and more.

Nut ReMix

By Chris Davis

The bad news is that Lil Buck, Memphis’ international jookin’ ambassador who wowed hometown audiences in last season’s Nut ReMix, won’t be performing in New Ballet Ensemble’s retooled take on The Nutcracker this year. He’s on the road dancing with Madonna’s Rebel Heart tour and promoting a newly launched line of sneakers, Lil Buck for Versace. Okay, maybe there’s nothing bad about that news at all, especially considering the lineup for this year’s holiday treat. Nut ReMix fuses classical performances with Memphis street style. It moves Tchaikovsky’s seasonal favorite to Beale Street and infuses the story with international flavors. The reimagined piece showcases the talents of 145 dancers including New Ballet Ensemble (NBE) jookin’ standouts Shamar Rooks and Marquez “Spider” Alexander, as well as ballerina Briana Brown, who accepted NBE’s National Youth Program Award from Michelle Obama last year. Maxx Reed, whose professional credits include dancing for Michael Jackson and playing the high-swinging title role in Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, will also perform. Music for Nut ReMix will be provided by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mei-Ann Chen, who is leaving her position with the symphony in 2016. Symphony player and arranger Sam Shoup scored the ballet’s climatic hip-hop battle between the Rat King and the Nutcracker. Reed is another fantastic NBE success story. When the company’s founder Katie Smythe saw him dancing on the street in Cooper-Young and asked him if he’d like to train with her school and company, Reed’s answer was an unequivocal: “No!” So Smythe bribed him with tickets to a dance performance at Germantown Performing Arts Center, and that did the trick. In addition to playing the world's most popular superhero eight shows a week for five years running and being hand-picked to audition for the King of Pop, Reed has appeared in numerous commercials and music videos. Not too shabby for a kid who wasn’t the least bit interested in jumping around in tights. NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE’S “NUT REMIX” AT THE CANNON CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS FRIDAY, NOV. 20TH, AT 7:30 P.M., SATURDAY, NOV. 21ST AT 5:30 P.M., AND SUNDAY, NOV. 22ND AT 2:30 P.M. $15-$50. NEWBALLET.ORG

SATURDAY November 21 Infinitus The Halloran Centre, 7 p.m., $35 A beatboxing string trio … what’s not to like? Bacon & Bourbon Class 387 Pantry, 6:30 p.m., $25 Jonathan Burlison of Pigasus Cured Meats leads this class on the basics of cured meats (i.e., learn how to make your own bacon!). Includes a whiskey tasting and discussion on pairing bourbon with pork.

WEDNESDAY November 25 Deal Cancer Out III Central BBQ, 2-6 p.m., $45 buy-in Annual poker tournament to raise awareness for prostate cancer. Features a barbecue buffet and giveaways. Meowathon Overton Park, 7:30 a.m., $28 Annual 5K and silent auction fundraiser for House of Mews.

Lyfe Is Dope Jam Session Minglewood Hall, 8 p.m., $35 Multi-media event presented by the clothing and production company Lyfe Is Dope featuring fashion, art, dance, and music by Project Pat, Lord T & Eloise, and Late Shift.

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hen I reach David Parks, cofounder of Lyfe Is Dope, he’s just finished a sound check at the Hard Rock Cafe in Miami, a venue he’ll perform at later that night with platinum-selling artist Jason Derulo. “I’m in Los Angeles about six months out of the year, on tour for about three months, and then back in Memphis for about three months,” Parks explains, while he tries to find a quiet place in the club to talk. When he’s in Memphis, Parks and longtime friend Damien Woods curate Lyfe Is Dope, a production/ clothing company that’s grown from a small block party-type event to an anticipated annual gathering, hosting artists and socialites like Drumma Boy, Bruno Mars member Kameron Whalum, Shanell, and K97’s Devin Steel. Parks and Woods first met while working at Club 152 on Beale, and quickly decided to join forces. “We had started putting our ideas together, and around that time I was doing a lot of touring and going to a lot of live events, so I just started taking notes,” Parks says. “I would go to happening shows in L.A. and New York, and I noticed that there was just a huge void in the

Memphis hip-hop community. At the time, most of the hip-hop shows in Memphis weren’t well planned out, and the sound was almost always bad.” After settling on the name — Woods had a production company named “Nice Life,” and Parks had a company called “Rated D for Dope”— Lyfe Is Dope was born. With the notion that this wasn’t going to be just another hip-hop show, Parks and Woods started to come up with the ideas that are now staples at every Lyfe Is Dope event: a live band backing a rapper or artist who normally wouldn’t perform with one, visual artists, projection screens throughout the venue, merch stations, body paint booths, and even a live chef. The first Lyfe Is Dope events were held at 409 S. Main, but the packed shows quickly outgrew that space, leaving Parks wondering what the budding production company’s next move would be. “It grew beyond South Main, and I started thinking about trying to move the event to Midtown to bring in as many people as possible. If you’re going to go to a big show, you’re going to go to Minglewood Hall, and so that was just the obvious choice.” On Wednesday, November 25th, at Lyfe Is Dope Volume 6, Memphis legend Project Pat will perform with backing band Trump Tight for the first

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time, along with Lord T & Eloise and DJ Dnyce. Parks says that there will also be a jookin’ contest, in addition to shoe painting stations where attendees can customize whatever kicks they bring to the show. If you were holding out to find out who the live chef is going to be, you’ll be happy to know Chef Kenna — an upcoming contestant on the television show Hell’s Kitchen — will be in the house. “You won’t see Project Pat with a live band anywhere else,” Parks says. “It’s very important to include the live band aspect, because that is what Memphis is known for. We don’t want it to be an average show; it has to be a next-level experience every time. My band will be behind Project Pat, and I’ll be serving as the music director, taking all the skills and knowledge I’ve gained over the past five years playing with some of the biggest artists in the world.” Still, the idea of Project Pat performing songs with a full band off his club-ready albums Ghetty Green or Mista Don’t Play seems a little bit weird, but Parks insists the crowd will like what they hear. “The misconception is that rap music would be easy to play, but you have to lock in to all those grooves and hooks to make it feel right. There’s a lot more going on than what people think,” Parks says. “We approach the artist ahead of time and make sure it works for both parties, but I think Project Pat already knew about Lyfe Is Dope because of his relationship to Damien. The band [Trump Tight] will normally spend about a week practicing the set, and then the artist will normally come in and do a couple of days of practice before the show. I’ve noticed that when you get to a certain level of musicianship, it’s not that hard to pull off. Everyone involved just has to do their homework.” As for Park’s intense touring schedule, he sees the experience as a way to make Lyfe Is Dope one of the best hip-hop events in the country. “I had to turn down an Australia run to do this show,” Parks says. “But this is my dream. This is something I believe in. This goes further than me just being a side man for someone else. You’ve gotta sacrifice, and the band isn’t gonna miss me for too long. Right after Lyfe Is Dope, I go to Angola, then I come back to L.A., and then I go to the U.K. in December.” Lyfe Is Dope Volume 6 featuring Project Pat, Lord T & Eloise, DJ Dnyce, and Trump Tight, Wednesday, November 25th, at Minglewood Hall. 8 p.m. $25-35.

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The Green Beetle 325 S. MAIN 527-7337

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

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299

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

Riverfront Bar & Grill 251 RIVERSIDE

Local Music Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

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

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, Nov. 22, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Wet Willie’s

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

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Soulfly Thursday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m.-midnight; Houndmouth Friday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m.; Seven Lions Saturday, Nov. 21, 10 p.m.; Monica, Rico Love Sunday, Nov. 22, 7 p.m.

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

New Daisy Theatre

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

Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

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Infinitus Saturday, Nov. 21, 7-9:15 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

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

The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

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

St. Peter Catholic Church 190 ADAMS 527-8282

Saint Cecilia Sing Sunday, Nov. 22, 4 p.m.

South Main Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Mighty Soul Brass Band Friday, Nov. 20, 10:30 p.m.; Graham Winchester Band Saturday, Nov. 21, 10:30 p.m.

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Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

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

TIMMY’S ORGANISM AT THE HI-TONE This Thursday night, Timmy’s Organism and Wand will take the HiTone by storm with two very different brands of psychedelic rock. Recently signed to Third Man Records (run by Jack White), Timmy’s Organism have a new record out called Heartless Heathen, and the band played a couple of shows on this tour with two other recent Third Man signees — Wolf Eyes and Video. While Third Man has never followed the rules of a predictable indie label (their discography includes work from Pokey LaFarge and Insane Clown Posse), the recent signing of three truly underground bands did come as a bit of a surprise, even when considering Jack White and Timmy Lampinen (leader of Timmy’s Organism) share the hometown of Detroit. Lampinen has been waving the Detroit freak flag proudly for some time with bands like Clone Defects and Human Eye, but now, thanks to the reach that a label like Third Man has, his mutant space-rock might finally get the attention from the masses that so many of his devout followers believe he deserves. On the other side of psych-rock is Wand, the Los Angeles-based band that last played Memphis on the heels of a breakout South by Southwest performance this past March. Since then, Wand signed to Drag City and released 1000 Days, their third album of loud, California psych-rock in three years. A lot of the music created by Timmy’s Organism relies on the unpredictable, and everything about Wand’s layers of noise seems calculated, but while both bands take different approaches to the same genre, rest assured that both sets will be loud. - Chris Shaw Timmy’s Organism, Wand, SHADE, Buldgerz, Thursday, November 19th at the Hi-Tone, 9 p.m. $10. Bhan Thai

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Two Peace Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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Wand, Timmy’s Organism, SHADE, Buldgerz Thursday, Nov. 19, 9 p.m.; Jonny Two Bags, Scott H. Biram, Jesse Dayton Friday, Nov. 20, 9 p.m.; Jane Lee Hooker, Snakehips, Richard James & the Special Riders Saturday, Nov. 21, 9 p.m.; Digg Monday, Nov. 23, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Mobile Deathcamp, Carnivora, edhochuli Wednesday, Nov. 25, 9 p.m.; Dead Soldiers, Urban Pioneers Wednesday, Nov. 25, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Chaulkies Sunday, Nov. 22, 4-7 p.m.; Deering & Down Trio Sunday, Nov. 22, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

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

Midtown Crossing Grille

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Metric-the Topaz Tour Thursday, Nov. 19, 8 p.m.-midnight; Earphunk Friday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m.-midnight; Collective Soul Tuesday, Nov. 24, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

DiNOLA, the Grown Up Wrongs Thursday, Nov. 19; The Rough Hearts, the Subteens Friday, Nov. 20; Terry Prince & the Principles, Campfire Cassettes, the Renault Brothers Saturday, Nov. 21, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Brandy Zdan, Bailey Bigger Friday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m.; Jed Zimmerman, Mark Edgar Stuart, Kelley Mickwee, In the Round Saturday, Nov. 21, 8-11 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

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

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Moonlight Masquerade with Marcella & Her Lovers Saturday, Nov. 21, 9 p.m.-midnight. 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Scott and Vanessa Sudbury Thursday, Nov. 19, 6 p.m.; Kenny Brown Band Thursday, Nov. 19, 9 p.m.; Reba Russell Trio Friday, Nov. 20, 6 p.m.; Roxy Roca Friday, Nov. 20, 10 p.m.; The River Bluff Clan Saturday, Nov. 21, 11 a.m.; Doster and Cheevers Saturday, Nov. 21, 6:30 p.m.; B.B. King Allstars Saturday, Nov. 21, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; David Allan Coe, Joecephus and the George Jonestown Massacre Sunday, Nov. 22, 8 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill Band Monday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m.; Jason D. Williams Tuesday, Nov. 24, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesday, Nov. 25, 5:30 p.m.

Strano Sicilian Kitchen

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

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

Rhodes College, Hardie Auditorium 2000 N. PARKWAY

Chamber Music Concert: UT-Martin Faculty Sunday, Nov. 22, 3:30 p.m.

Sports Junction

Wild Bill’s The Soul Connection Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Memphis Dawls Saturday, Nov. 21, 9 p.m.

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

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

University of Memphis MICHAEL ROSE THEATRE

A Night in London Sunday, Nov. 22, 7-9 p.m.

University of Memphis, Harris Concert Hall INSIDE THE RUDI E. SCHEIDT SCHOOL OF MUSIC 678-5400

The Beggar’s Opera Friday, Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 22, 3 p.m.

East Memphis Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

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

El Toro Loco 2809 KIRBY PKWY. 759-0593

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

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

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

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The Lizard Kings Sunday, Nov. 22, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Charlie Belt and Friends Thursday, Nov. 19, 8 p.m.midnight; Almost Famous Friday, Nov. 20, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Full Circle Saturday, Nov. 21, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; The Original Sunday Funday with the Lineup Sunday, Nov. 22, 5:309:30 p.m.; The Nuttin’ Fancy Band Wednesday, Nov. 25, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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Soul Shockers Sunday, Nov. 22, 8-11:30 p.m.

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The Magic Flute Fri.-Sat., Nov. 20-21.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

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High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

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

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

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

Huey’s Southaven

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

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Mesquite Chop House

Maria’s Restaurant

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Neon Velvet Band Friday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Pubapalooza with Stereo Joe Every other Wednesday, 8-11 p.m.

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

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

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

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

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

Bluff City Soul Collective Sunday, Nov. 22, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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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.

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Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Traci Domingo Saturday, Nov. 21, 12-3 p.m.; Shelby Forest Pioneers Sunday, Nov. 22, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

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Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Roxy Roca Sunday, Nov. 22, 8-11:30 p.m.

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, Nov. 22, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Mesquite Chop House

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Section 8 Band Saturday, Nov. 21, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

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

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

Open Mic Blues Jam with Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; One O’clock Jump Rockabilly Trio Saturday, Nov. 21, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

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The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra Thursday, Nov. 19, 7-9 p.m.

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oan Livingstone, a sculptor whose exhibition, “marvels and oddment[s],” is currently on display at Rhodes Clough-Hanson Gallery, likes to go on walks. Most days, the artist wanders the streets near her house, picking up small objects that draw her eye and saving them for later use. Livingstone lives in West Town, Chicago, in a neighborhood where new condominiums are replacing historic brick buildings. What she collects on these walks, more often than not, are chunks of broken concrete and disconnected piping — urban detritus that forms a makeshift vocabulary for her recent sculptures. “These are not uncommon objects,” Livingstone says of the agglomerate pieces of broken cement, plastic ephemera, and fabric that make up her 2014 piece, oddment[s]. They are things that most of us know, although many of them have been altered.” oddment[s], displayed along a narrow table, includes gold-leafed clay cups, fragments of checkered tile, stacked and painted rocks, handmade books, seven artificial crows, 50 felted wool rectangles, dried flower petals, and metal pipe elbows. Livingstone is known for her work with fabric, which she calls “a kind of touchable boundary between ourselves and others,” and though many of these fragments are not fabric, all are united by a similar touched, and touchable, quality. Among Livingstone’s oddments is a weather-worn soccer ball. The ball is partially deflated, and the glossy polyester overcoat of the fabric is rubbed off so that what remains is just the soft skin of the cotton. It’s the sort of object you’d expect to find hidden behind a backyard fence after a long winter. Despite the fact that the ball has outlived its useful life (and maybe because of it), it is precious. You want to hold it, to feel where the synthetic fabric has flecked off around the stitching. There is the undeniable physical memory, looking at the ball, of comfort, of threadbare blankets and lived-in denim — a specialness reserved for something that has been in the world a while. Accompanying the piece is a small booklet in which Livingstone has compiled fragments of text. The chapbook includes passages from books by Michael Ondaatje, Teju Cole, Nadeem Aslam,

Sue Monk Kidd, W.G. Sebald, and Milan Šimečka. These quotes are also embroidered, in silk thread, on 50 felted rectangles that Livingstone assiduously created while her mother was ill and Livingstone was helping to care for her. They deal with waiting and walking and a quality that Livingstone refers to as “slow time.” “Little streets wind in upon each other like a basketful of eels; no two run parallel,” writes Cole, in a quoted passage from his 2014 book, Every Day Is for the Thief. He continues, “ … letting go of my moorings makes me connect to the city as pure place, through which I move without prejudging what I will see when I come around a corner.” There is much in Livingstone’s work that would suggest letting go of moorings, in that her sculpture revises inanimate and overlooked aspects of the city as something more visible when given new attention and context. The painted and stacked rocks — which Livingstone carefully layers with rice paper, turning them over and over again — seem to exude an aura of having been held. I keep wanting to write that they “glow with touch” despite the fact that I know that doesn’t really make sense.

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If oddment[s], which includes 35 very different objects, goes long, marvels goes deep: broken concrete pieces, arrayed across the floor in a rectangle, look like a kind of cryptic lettering. They have an alphabetic structure. As with the concrete corners in oddment[s], Livingstone and her studio assistants layered these pieces with thin strips of paper, softening them until they appear, ever so slightly, rarefied. Also included in the show is Livingstone’s reflective series of photographs of swirling clouds that appear soft despite their being shown in black and white, with heightened contrast. Another group of photos show piles of debris, left in halfcompleted buildings. The complete effect is to create an invisible tracery; a map of what is fine and overlooked. Through December 5th

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wonder would tighten things right up. “Two or More” is the treat of the evening. I’d be happy to spend an entire night in the theater watching Steve Swift and Cecelia Wingate sitting on their imaginary porch going back and forth. It starts slow and stays that way, an excellent lesson for all those directors out there suffering under the illusion that broad farce is fitful and frenetic and works best when executed at breakneck speeds. “Two or More” is a direct ancestor of a classic comedy routine most closely associated with hayseed comedian Archie Campbell of Hee Haw fame. Though it was usually scripted, “That’s Good/That’s Bad” functions like a theater game where a story is told in which all the things that sound good turn out bad and vice versa. In this case Swift and Wingate talk about the fate of a young hell-raiser who grew into an adult hell-raiser who found a good woman who led him to Jesus so he could become a hell-raiser for Jesus, before he fell off the wagon and lost Jesus but not the woman or the hell-raising. And so on. It’s classic front porch comedy with more substance than it lets on. Pitch perfect front to back. Short Stories closes with a piece called “Do You Love Me,” a boy’s memory of

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his mother. Like most of the pieces up for consideration in this collection, it loses its way a bit while working through circumstances most viewers will respond to emotionally. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. And Couter and Alice Berry are so good together you’ll want to call your mama after curtain call. This is a pretty show in sentiment and style. It’s also some of the greenest writing we’ve seen from TheatreSouth’s most celebrated voice. Well, at least since the last time the company staged a collection of Dye’s shorter works. That collection eventually spawned the excellent new play Distance. I’m really looking forward to seeing what mature things may grow from this latest seed batch. Short Stories at TheatreSouth through November 22nd. $23. voicesofthesouth.org

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hort Stories, presented by Voices of the South, is exactly what it says. It’s a collection of brief, meditative narratives about loss: loss of parents, loss of youth, loss of freedom, loss of identity, loss of love, loss of lifestyle, loss of control, loss of innocence, and loss of Jesus. Many hushed tones and reverent, sweetly held silences too. Also adjectives. There are lots of glittering, garish, alluring, stinky, and provocative adjectives, languidly and liberally scattered near adverbs and such. That Dye kid can write, but somebody needs to intervene regarding the ornamentals. It doesn’t make his prose richer or more musical, it only makes it more. And by more, in this case, I mean less than it might be. Less confident. Less clear. Less to the heart of the matter. “Uber” is a story performed by Todd Berry, about two men telling stories. One is an oversharing driver with roots in the Far East. The other is a distant passenger who doesn’t know he’s in powerful need of blessing. “Uber” is best when it’s in the moment, letting the audience decide what these internal and external dialogues mean as guarded and gregarious strangers clash, connect, and talk about death in their families. The piece ruminates too much on itself. Most all of these stories do. But “Uber” is effective in contextualizing both the evening and the mission of a theater company deeply committed to the singularity-like power of stories to connect across cultures, generations, dimensions, time, space, and maybe even the void of death. “Jesus and Mrs. Stone” is where Dye really unpacks his adjectives. But let’s face it, if you’re not hooked by the faintly New Age-ish inner-child dance that opens this story, you’re probably dead inside. The opening is all about that thing kids once called “the feels” (til their parents co-opted it, they outgrew it, and life went on). In a sequence worthy of a Super Bowl commercial, a grown man, played by David Couter, connects with his old Sony Walkman cassette player and a song that unlocks his younger self (Reece Berry) and everything that mattered to him in the 1980s. The song is the Go-Go’s first hit “Our Lips Are Sealed.” What mattered was a fading free spirit named Ms. Stone, perfectly played by Anne Marie Caskey. Like “Uber,” it turns in on itself instead of resolving. It is, in some regards, one of Dye’s richest portraits wrapped in some of his thinnest writing. A little less wonderous wonderousness and a little more

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

November 19 - 25

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Royal Passion Soiree, entertainment and education on imagination, intimacy, and romance. Mature audiences only. www. royalpassionsoiree.eventbrite. com. $25. Third Saturday of every month, 7-11 p.m. Through Dec. 31. 287 MADISON (410-1400).

The Orpheum

Pippin, hit musical featuring acrobatics, magical feats, and songs from the composer of Wicked. www.orpheum-memphis.com. $25-$125. Thurs., Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Nov. 20, 8 p.m., Sat., Nov. 21, 2 and 8 p.m., and Sun., Nov. 22, 1 and 6:30 p.m. 203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square Peter Pan, join the Darling children as they adventure to Neverland and meet Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, and Tinkerbell. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $35. Fri., Nov. 20, 7 p.m., and Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Jan. 10. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

Doubt, set in the Bronx in 1964, a nun and principal at a Catholic school believe there has been sexual misconduct between a priest and an African-American student. www.theatrememphs.org. $25. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m. Through Nov. 21. 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreSouth

Short Stories by Jerre Dye, narrative theater adapted from Southern fiction by Voices of the South’s Jerre Dye. www. voicesofthesouth.org. $23. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 4 p.m. Through Nov. 22. INSIDE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (726-0800).

Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101. DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.

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Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

A Box of Yellow Stars, an American Christian man marries and divorces 15 Jewish women to save them from being killed during World War II. (213-7566), www.womenstheatrefestivalofmemphis.org. $15$50. Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Nov. 22.

“People and Places: 19th Century English Drawings and Caricatures and Tennessee Maps,” from the collections of Richard Tanner and Nancy and Orion Miller. www.buckmanartscenter. com. Through Dec. 17. 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

Cafe Pontotoc

“A Community Collaboration: French Fort,” artifacts and art inspired by the French Fort. Through Dec. 31.

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

ANF Architects

Opening reception for “Coming Home,” paintings by Sally Hughes Smith. www.anfa.com. Fri., Nov. 20, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

Circuit Playhouse

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

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Disciple Gallery

Artist reception for “Xmas: 10 Years of Christmas in Pencils,” Christmas icons created out of #2 pencils. www.discipledesign. com. Fri., Nov. 20, 6-9 p.m.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Clough-Hanson Gallery

390 S. MAIN (386-4299).

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Memphis Artists Spotlight: Sue Layman Designs, exhibition, appetizers, and beer and wine benefiting Ballet Memphis. www.eighty3memphis.com. Free. Thurs., Nov. 19, 5-6:30 p.m. 83 MADISON (333-1224).

The Majestic Grille

Artist reception for Robert Finale and unveiling of Main Street, Memphis. (257-1212), www.ThomasKinkadeMemphis. com. Sat., Nov. 21, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 145 S. MAIN (522-8555).

Memphis College of Art

Opening reception for “Breaking Narratives,” work by Carrington Lemons, Annie Lynne, Gil Ngolè, Ryan Steed, and Olivia Wall for the fall 2015 MFA thesis exhibition. www. mca.edu. Fri., Nov. 20, 6-9 p.m. 1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

2016 Fiction Contest Call for Entries

See website for more information, rules, and entry format. Through Feb. 1, 2016. WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM/ FICTION-CONTEST-RULES/.

Art Family Day

Art, special demonstrations, games, live music, and snacks. Sat., Nov. 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

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.

Sally Hughes Smith’s “Coming Home” opening Friday at ANF Architects. Call to Artists: “Mi Sur/My South”

A survey of Latino/a artists working in Memphis. See website. Through Dec. 5. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

“Lyfe is Dope: Jam Session 6”

Artists from different arenas showcase individual talents and exhibits, featuring Project Pat, Lord T & Eloise, David Parks, DJ Dnyce. $25.00-$35.00. Wed., Nov. 25, 8 p.m.-midnight. MINGLEWOOD HALL, 1555 MADISON (606-3919), WWW.MINGLEWOODHALL.COM.

The Memphis Potters’ Guild: Annual Holiday Show & Sale

The best ceramic artists in the Mid-South. Fri., Nov. 20, 5-8 p.m., Sat., Nov. 21, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sun., Nov. 22, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.THEMEMPHISPOTTERSGUILD.COM.

Scarecrow Display

Exhibition of scarecrows. Through Nov. 20.

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

“Oh Happy Day,” works by Beth Edwards. www.davidluskgallery. com. Through Nov. 24. 64 FLICKER (767-3800).

Diane’s Art Gift & Home “Family Traditions,” exhibition of new work in sculpture by Ken Woodmansee. www.dianesartgifthome.com. Through Dec. 24.

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

O N G O I N G ART

“A Sense of Place,” oil paintings by Rebecca Thompson. www. theannesdaleparkgallery.com. Through Dec. 9. 1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

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

1581 OVERTON PARK (276-7515).

LICHTERMAN NATURE CENTER, 5992 QUINCE (767-7322), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

The Annesdale Park Gallery

“marvels and oddment[s],” by Joan Livingstone. www.rhodes. edu. Through Dec. 5.

“Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection,” exhibition of private art collection based in Spartanburg, South Carolina Through Jan. 3, 2016. Jun Kaneko, exhibition of contemporary ceramic sculptures. Through Nov. 29. “My Own Places,” Southern landscapes by Martha Kelly. www.dixon.org. Through Jan. 3, 2016.

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CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 19 - 25 “Down by the Riverside,” by Jill Samuels. www.eclectic-eye. com. Through Jan. 6, 2016. 242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

BFA Art Exhibition, works by nine graduating seniors of the University of Memphis Department of Art. (678.2216), memphis.edu/art. Free. Mon.Fri. Through Nov. 20. 3715 CENTRAL.

Fratelli’s

“At Cross Purpose,” photography by Erin Jennings. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Nov. 28. 750 CHERRY (766-9900).

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

Melissa Corry, paintings, prints, and murals. www.krocmemphis.org. Through Dec. 5. 800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007).

L Ross Gallery

“Layers: Work Through the Decades,” byAnton Weiss. www. lrossgallery.com. Through Nov. 28. 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden “Wilderness Children,” by Michelle Duckworth. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Nov. 29.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Metal Museum

“60s Cool,” celebrating art and design from the 1960s. Through Jan. 17, 2016. “Cats and Quotes,” exhibition featuring felines. Through Jan. 3, 2016. “Clare Leighton and Thomas W. Nason: Common Threads,” exhibition by masters in the medium of wood engraving. Through March 13, 2016. “Decorative Arts Trust: 35th Anniversary,” exhibition of works for the museum’s permanent collection. Through Jan. 10, 2016. “William Eggleston & Ernest C. Withers in Conversation,” photographs from 1976-1987. Through Jan. 3, 2016. “Wonder, Whimsy, Wild: Folk Art in America,” exhibition of American folk art from New England and the Midwest made between 1800 and 1925. www.brooksmuseum.org. Through Feb. 28, 2016. 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

2015 Fall BFA Exhibition, www. mca.edu. Nov. 24-Dec. 10. “Knowing Places,” paintings by Betsy Brackin Burch. www. mca.edu. Nov. 24-Dec. 10.

“Master Metalsmith: Linda Threadgill,” exhibition of works highlighting patterns, repetition and variation. www. metalmuseum.org. Through Dec. 6. 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Nabers Interiors

“Color Study: Art by Chloe York and Jesse Nabers Alston.” www.nabersinteriors.com. Through Nov. 20. 2665 BROAD (323-2892).

Playhouse on the Square

“Conceptualizing Dystopia,” by Michele Noiset. www.mca.edu. Through Jan. 10, 2016. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Ross Gallery

“Tacos or Sushi?,” by Annabelle Meacham. (321-3243), www. cbu.edu/gallery. Through Dec. 10. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

2015 MGAL Winter Exhibition, www.mgal.org. Nov. 24-Dec. 28.

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Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“Stax: Visions of Soul,” visual art celebrating the iconic Stax catalog. www.staxmuseum.com. Through Dec. 31. 926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Sue Layman Designs

“Grace and Space,” by Sue Layman Designs. www.suelaymandesigns.com. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Through Dec. 5. 125 G.E. PATTERSON (409-7870).

TOPS Gallery

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

Cafe Eclectic

Features an all-student cast supported by the University of Memphis Orchestra. $20. Fri., Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., Nov. 22, 3 p.m.

The Wiseguys Present: Storytellers Unplugged, combines fast-paced improv, guest storytellers, and scenic improv. $5. Third Saturday of every month, 10:30 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, HARRIS CONCERT HALL, INSIDE THE RUDI E. SCHEIDT SCHOOL OF MUSIC (6785400), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU/MUSIC.

603 N. MCLEAN (725-1718).

P&H Cafe

You Look Like A Comedy Show, comedians from Memphis and abroad go head to head in a tournament of roasting. (423-714-6852). $5. Sat., Nov. 21, 9-11 p.m. Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

The Magic Flute

Mozart’s delectable blend of low comedy and high art. Presented by Opera Memphis. $33-$84. Fri.-Sat., Nov. 20-21. GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (202-4533), WWW.OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG.

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Wings Gallery

“Images of Healing, Images of Hope,” past artists of the year. www.wingscancerfoundation. org. Through Nov. 30. WEST CLINIC, 100 N. HUMPHREYS (322-2984).

WKNO Studio

“Dreamsicle,” work by Lizi Beard-Ward, Melody Haspel, and Susan Younger. www.wkno. org. Through Nov. 25. 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Nut ReMix

Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker leaps into the 21st Century with ballet, hip-hop, African dance, Flamenco, Chinese folk, classical elements score, Beale Street, and hip-hop battle. $15-$50. Fri., Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Nov. 21, 5:30 p.m., and Sun., Nov. 22, 2:30 p.m. CANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 525-1515), WWW.NEWBALLET.ORG.

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Swing Dance Night with the Rhodes Jazz Band Free dance lessons taught by Red Hot Lindy Hop. Thurs., Nov. 19, 7 p.m.

The Memphis Potters’ Guild annual holiday show and sale this weekend

Spillit Story Grand Slam 2015: M.E.M.P.H.I.S., winners Elaine Blanchard, Fitz Dearmore, Sarla Nichols, Kyle Statham, Paul Arnett, Floyd Brummett, Sean Mosley, Sarah Glaser, and Mitchell Grimm compete for the title of Grand Master Storyteller of Memphis 2015. (289-6276). $10. Fri., Nov. 20, 7-9 p.m. 410 CLEVELAND.

RHODES COLLEGE, MCCALLUM BALLROOM OF THE BRYAN CAMPUS LIFE CENTER, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3470), WWW.RHODES.EDU/MUSIC.

Cordova Branch Library

Game of Poems, learn tips, network with other poets, and share poems. For seasoned and beginner adults. (415-2764), www.livingbreathingpoetry.com. Free. Sat., Nov. 21, 2-4 p.m. 8457 TRINITY (REGISTRATION, 754-8443).

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Share the Stage Benefit Concert Series 2015, bring a nonperishable canned good for half-price entry. Benefiting Homeless Organizing for Power and Equality (H.O.P.E.). (300-9172), $10. Fri., Nov. 20, 6-9 p.m. 287 MADISON (410-1400).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Book Talk: Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America Discussion of Ari Berman’s book. Thurs., Nov. 19, 6-8 p.m. NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), WWW. CIVILRIGHTSMUSEUM.ORG.

Booksigning by James H. Smith and Jerry Lee Smith

Authors read and sign Snowball: A Christmas Story. Thurs., Nov. 19, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and Sat., Nov. 21, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. WOMAN’S EXCHANGE TEA ROOM, 88 RACINE (327-5681), WWW.WOMANSEXCHANGE.COM.

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Author discusses and signs Foster’s Market Favorites: 25th Anniversary Collection. Fri., Nov. 20, 6:30 p.m. THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), WWW. THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

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Authors Toni Blake, Cynthia Eden, Lorraine Heath, Sophie Jordan, Cathy Maxwell, Kay Thomas, and Lori Wilde greet guests. Includes swag bag filled with Avon goodies and wine. $35. Sat., Nov. 21, 2 p.m. THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), WWW. THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

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“Obama is Brazilian: (Re)Signifying Race Relations in Contemporary Brazil”

Professor Oliveira-Monte explores what President Obama’s election as the United States’ first black president meant to Brazil, where 51 percent of the population is black. Free. Thurs., Nov. 19, 5:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER, 255 UNIVERSITY CENTER, PARIS THEATER, WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

Phoebe Cook Lecture: European Floral Design with Francoise Weeks

Robert Finale’s Main Street, Memphis this Saturday at the Majestic Grille

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Memphis Comic and Fantasy Con

Meet John de Lancie, the legendary Q from Star Trek, and the voice of Discord from My Little Pony. See website for full schedule. $15-$35. Fri.-Sun., Nov. 20-22. MEMPHIS HILTON, 939 RIDGE LAKE (684-6664), MEMPHISCFC.COM/.

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The Fall VIB (very important bride) Open House

Talk with wedding professionals and see the latest wedding trends. Free. Tues., Nov. 24, 7-9 p.m. WHISPERING WOODS HOTEL AND CONVENTION CENTER, 11200 GOODMAN, OLIVE BRANCH, MS (368-6782), WWW. MIDSOUTHSHOWS.COM.

Francis Klein and Bevel Trunk Show Featuring Parisian and American-designed eyewear brands. Sat., Nov. 21, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. ECLECTIC EYE, 242 S. COOPER (2763937), WWW.ECLECTIC-EYE.COM.

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Give Back Give Thanks Family Fest Enjoy hay rides, a corn maze, and bonfires with roasted marshmallows and hot dogs. Bring a chair, drinks, and snacks. RSVPs and items for those in need are encouraged. Sat., Nov. 21, 2-5 p.m. TOM’S FARM, 1665 MURRELL, ROSSVILLE (853-0997), WWW.TOMSFARM.ORG.

“Run for the Claws” 2015 Meowathon 5K and Silent Auction OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR, WWW.HOUSEOFMEWS.COM.

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Campfire Party in My Big Backyard

Crafts, night hike, and roasting a hot dog and s’mores around the campfire. Call for reservations. $8 members, $12 nonmembers. Fri., Nov. 20, 6-8 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Cookies with Cookie Monster

Kids and kids at heart will enjoy cookies, free ice cream with three-bag purchase, and take pictures with Cookie Monster. Saturdays, noon-4 p.m. MAKEDA’S COOKIES DOWNTOWN, 488 S. SECOND (644-4511), WWW.MAKEDASCOOKEIS.COM.

Kids Night Out

Kids ages 7 and up will enjoy an evening of play, pizza, and a movie. Multi-kid discounts available. $25 per child. Fri., Nov. 20, 6-10 p.m. CO-MOTION STUDIO, 416 N. CLEVELAND (316-7733), WWW.COMOTIONMEMPHIS. COM/CALENDAR/.

Nutcracker Sweet Children’s Ball

DJ, dancing, ballerinas, dance lessons, and a Kingdom of Sweets Cookie Table and hors d’oeuvres benefiting the Children’s Ballet Theater. $32. Sun., Nov. 22, 2:30-5:30 p.m. RACQUET CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 5111 SANDERLIN (765-4400), WWW.GPACWEB.COM.

CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 19 - 25 S P E C IAL EVE N TS

Blues City Cultural Center presents “Big Ten”

Tailgate extravaganza. Wear your team (college or professional) jersey. Food trucks and vendors will be on-site. Thurs., Nov. 19, 7 p.m. SOULSVILLE, USA, CORNER OF MISSISSIPPI AND WALKER, WWW.SOULSVILLEFOUNDATION.ORG.

Cranksgiving

Races and performances benefiting Urban Bicycle Food Ministry. Nov. 20-22. WWW.UBFM.ORG.

Date Night Dance

Learn the rumba with your sweetheart. Includes lesson. Call to enroll. Free. Sat., Nov. 21, 5 p.m. BLUE SUEDE BALLROOM, 3675 SOUTHWIND PARK COVE (758-0032), WWW.BLUESUEDEBALLROOM.COM.

Dine01 Food Tour

Join Loving My Memphis to try four different places in one night. Meet at Schweinehaus, 2110 Madison. $40. Sat., Nov. 21, 6 p.m. LBOE, 2021 MADISON (826-2376).

Choose from two different Wagyu burgers, accompanied by two exceptional wines typically reserved for bottle purchases only. Call for more information and reservations. $25. Through Nov. 22, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

Holiday Appetizers

THE CAPITAL GRILLE, 6065 POPLAR (683-9291), WWW.THECAPITALGRILLE.COM.

Instructors provide recipes and skills to produce classics with a contemporary twist. Hors d’oeuvres paired with a signature seasonal beverage. $65. Fri., Nov. 20, 6-9 p.m. L’ECOLE CULINAIRE, 1245 N. GERMANTOWN (754-7115), WWW.LECOLE.EDU.

United Housing Night at the Brewery

21st anniversary of providing homeownership services. 100% of beer proceeds and 10% of food sales benefit United Housing. Thurs., Nov. 19, 5 p.m.

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ay Nolan got the barbecue bug early. At the age of 6, he started accompanying his father to buy ribs for the family on Friday night. By the time he was 13, he was in the business, cleaning the parking lot at a neighborhood barbecue joint. “I told them, ‘You don’t have to pay me in cash,”’ Nolan recalls. “Just pay me in barbecue. It’s what my blood bleeds.” In the years since, he has opened no fewer than 14 barbecue shops in and around Memphis. None has stayed open for more than a couple of years, but it wasn’t for a lack of good food. In 2014, Nolan competed in an episode of chef G. Garvin’s Underground BBQ Challenge on the Travel Channel — and won, collecting a hefty $10,000 prize. He attributes the closures to a combination of bad location and bad financing. “I’ve been doing this thing long

enough,” admits Nolan, now 62. “I made enough mistakes. Now I know how to do it. This is a no-miss situation.” Earlier this week, he opened Ray’z World Famous Dr. Bar-b-que on S. Main. Technically speaking, Nolan is no doctor; he says the name is a reference to the food’s medicinal properties. In any case, the barbecue is truly tasty. Start with a plate of ribs ($10.95). They’re dry-roasted on an open-pit grill with a spice rub that Nolan calls his MFE — Miracle Flavor Enhancer. The meat is a dreamy pink, enrobed in a gorgeous, dark-brown crust. It’s good enough to eat without sauce, but don’t skip it. It’s a signature recipe that features mostly natural ingredients, including red wine vinegar, minced garlic, and blueberries. What’s the secret to a good rack of ribs? “You’ve got to control your fire,” whispers Nolan, with a passionate intensity. “You can’t rush it. You’ve got to stay with it like a newborn baby.”

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Charles Billings and Albert Bean spent a week in Vermont learning to roast. It’s a good thing, too, because these days, the field is getting crowded, and you have to do something to stand out. Something like Dr. Bean’s Ethiopian Yirgacheffe ($14). “We try to roast in such a way as to highlight the best qualities of the bean itself,” explains Billings, weighing out the coffee on a kitchen scale. “It’s like a steak. 15 seconds and one degree of temperature can profoundly alter the flavor.” In the case of the Yirgacheffe, roasting yields something surprising: strawberries. Try it, and tell me if you don’t taste them. That distinctive fruity flavor is nestled in a medium-bodied beverage with a lovely, bright aroma. This coffee needs no sweetener. (Also recommended: the Rwandan Kivu Kibuye, $14) In January, Bean and Billings plan to open a coffee shop on Madison. For now, you can find their beans at local retailers like 387 Pantry, Miss Cordelia’s, and Bedrock Eats & Sweets. Where retail is concerned, they are recalling bags that haven’t been sold after two weeks. “The Memphis palate is changing,” Bean reflects. “They want to know what they’re drinking, who made it, and where it came from.” Dr. Bean’s Coffee and Tea Emporium, 72 Madison, 849-1532

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Mother and Child Room is a rare indie jewel. Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson in Room

November 19-25, 2015

lot of things happen when you grow up, but one of the most important is a widening of your point of view. That’s the major theme of Room, the remarkable new film by Irish director Lenny Abrahamson — although at first glance, it might not be obvious. But the pleasures of Room (not to be confused with The Room, the so-bad-it’s-good cult hit by Tommy Wiseau) aren’t dependent on immediately grasping the deeper meaning. It’s an extraordinarily well-crafted indie film that shows what is possible with a limited budget, a good screenplay, and a clear vision. The point of view that gets expanded in Room belongs to Jack (Jacob Tremblay), a 5-year-old boy who starts the film with a long, luxurious head of hair that would be the envy of a L’Oréal model. His hair is so long because he has been trapped in a single room with his mother Joy Newsome (Brie Larson) for the entirety of his short life. It is also, like Samson, the source of his “strong.” The room Joy and Jack share is tiny and squalid, with an open toilet set next to a sink, and only a tiny TV for entertainment. But mother and son have carved out a simple existence that is, if not happy, at least content in each other’s company. Despite their isolation, Jack has learned to speak and evolved a fairly consistent worldview. Because there is only one of everything, there is not much need for articles such as “the” and “a,” so “door” refers to the only door he’s ever known, the thick, steel one with the number pad-operated lock that keeps him from finding out about the outside world. He knows that “TV people are flat and made of colors,” a little Zen koan containing hidden wisdom if ever I heard one. But he’s not too clear on just what goes on beyond the sole skylight in Room’s ceiling, or what happens when Joy’s captor Old Nick comes to visit, and he is forced to spend the night in the tiny closet. But from the sounds his mother makes, it’s not good. I went into Room knowing basically nothing

about it — a strategy I find increases my engagement with the many movies I review — and I found the slow revelation of the facts of Joy and Jack’s imprisonment in Room extremely rewarding. Knowing how to dole out information at exactly the right pace is one of the hardest skills to learn for a director. Hitchcock was a master at it, as you can tell from watching Strangers on a Train, to cite just one example. Abrahamson’s clearly been studying Hitch, and I don’t want to spoil his hard work by revealing too much plot detail here. Suffice it to say that Jack and Joy do finally find their way into the outside world, where they find much greater challenges than mere survival. Given the hermetic nature of the first hour or so of Room, its success depends solely on the performances of its two leads. Larson is more than up to the challenge. She was most recently seen as Amy Schumer’s uptight, judgmental sister in Trainwreck, but the depth of her performance

here has only been hinted at in her previous work, including her starmaking turn in Short Term 12. We follow Joy from maternal happiness to grim determination to exultant freedom and on into existential despair, and it all plays out on Larson’s subtle, expressive face. Equally impressive is Jacob Tremblay, who gives the kind of unself-aware performance as Jack that most older actors can only dream of. I can only imagine the depth of the collaboration between Larson and director Abrahamson that put this 9-year-old into the proper headspace to create such a rich character. I expect to see Academy Award nominations for both actors. Superbly constructed and passionately made, Room is the kind of rare indie jewel that only comes around once every few years. Room Opens Friday Multiple locations

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sequel, The Night Before makes them count. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Ethan, whose parents died 14 years ago just as the Christmas season was getting underway. His two best friends, Isaac (Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie), took him out to party on Christmas Eve to keep him from feeling lonely, and a tradition was born. But these days, the boys don’t get out much any more. Isaac is a successful lawyer with a baby on the way, and Chris plays in the NFL, so this is going to be the last year of the traditional debauch. Ethan’s life never took off, and he’s working as an event server dressed as an elf. When he’s demoted to coat check, he gets the opportunity he’s been waiting years for. He swipes invitations to the Nutcracker Ball, a massive, secret party that is the hottest holiday ticket in New York. Meanwhile, Isaac’s wife, Betsy (Jillian Bell,) gives him an early Christmas gift: a box of assorted drugs so he can put the tradition to bed in high style. Naturally, the three friends’ trip

to the party weaves an intertwining tapestry of social disasters. Rogen gets the best scene with a psychedelic paranoid crisis in a bar bathroom, but Gordon-Levitt gets plenty of mileage using his prodigious acting gifts to mug for the camera. Mackie comes off as a little stiff next to comedy vets like Lizzy Caplan, who plays Ethan’s love interest, and Mindy Kaling, the subject of an epic cell phone mix-up, but he’s an agreeable screen presence. The Night Before is a 21stcentury studio product, full of product placement, Save the Cat screenwriting beats, and Miley Cyrus cameos. Strangely enough, that studio is Sony, whose posthacking survival I publicly doubted. Sony survived, even though many, including the studio’s chief executive, lost their jobs. But somehow, Rogen and Franco, who has a cameo in The Night Before, are still making pleasantly stupid studio comedies. I hope somewhere, an angel got his wings for that one. The Night Before Opens Friday Multiple locations

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THE LAST WORD by Jen Clarke

Grief and Grace

If something terrible happens and you don’t post about it on the Internet, how will anyone know you care? How did we grieve before Facebook and Twitter?

THE LAST WORD

November is supposed to be a time of gratitude, when we gather round and reflect on all the good things and people in our lives. But in the wake of last week’s tragedy in Paris, plus the recent loss of a friend, I’ve spent a lot of time pondering grief. How do I process these emotions, and how do I respond? How can I help others find comfort in painful situations? How can I best serve the memory of those who are gone? These are questions we can answer only for ourselves. And, apparently, our Facebook friends. Last Friday afternoon, as we watched the horrific events in Paris unfold, the social media reaction came in waves. First came the photos of friends in front of the Eiffel Tower, sharing their concern and offering their prayers. Then, the blue, white, and red profile photos. Outward expressions of sympathy and support are perfectly acceptable responses! Anger, confusion, and frustration are understandable as well. But what came next troubled me. I’m not talking about the Obama-blamers or Donald Trump’s shock-value pander-babble or the “bomb ‘em all” crowd. I am used to all that. No, it’s the Grief Police that have convinced me that the Internet has made monsters of us all. “Where was the outrage over (insert other issue here)?” “Why is there no flag for (insert country here)?” “What is France going to do with your thoughts and prayers?” “Do you people really think changing your profile picture is going to do anything?” It can be a burden, but it is possible to care about more than one thing at a time. There is a veritable cornucopia of issues to lose sleep over. I usually am outraged about at least three different things, and that’s on a good day. I’m sure most of France appreciates the thoughts, prayers, and gestures. I doubt anyone at ISIS headquarters has decided to give up the terrorist life after logging in to Facebook and seeing the shows of solidarité. All of this is beside the point, which is: Don’t tell people how to be sad. Grief is a process that all of us approach differently. There are healthy approaches, but there is no single correct approach. Of course, that did not stop me from considering whether I should change my Facebook picture, lest anyone suspect me of being unsympathetic. Because if something terrible happens and you don’t post about it on the Internet, how will anyone know you care? How did we grieve before Facebook and Twitter? Where did we offer our #ThoughtsAndPrayers in times of tragedy? Is wearing black the analog version of a changed profile picture or a pithy meme? And how on Earth were we able to judge others when we perceived them to be processing their sadness in the “wrong” manner? Is this brand of shaming a new phenomenon like Tinder and selfie sticks? Or has it been happening all along, just in beauty parlors and sewing circles and Letters to the Editor? Social media provides a space for people to grieve together in spite of physical distance. Seeing and sharing anecdotes and photos and well-wishes can be therapeutic. Or it can be overwhelming. It might be #toosoon. It might fill you with regret or remorse or sometimes even resentment. But that’s your response. We all have emotional baggage, but the contents vary. Each of us carries our baggage in our own way. There is so much ugliness in the world. And we’re exposed to so much more of it thanks to the myriad technologies we have at our fingertips. Let’s not compound it by being assholes to each other on the Internet when people are hurting. There’s not a whole lot we can control, but one thing we can control is the way we treat others. Be thankful for that. Jen Clarke is an unapologetic Memphian and digital marketing strategist.

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I Buy Old Windup Phonographs & Records

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OVERTON CHAPEL Church Rental, Weddings, Receptions, Seminars, Events, Etc. Now Accepting Bookings! 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.

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TUT-UNCOMMON ANTIQUES 421 N. Watkins St. 278-8965

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

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Memphis Arts Collective Holiday Artist Market Nov 27- Dec 24, 1501 Union Ave. Nov. 27 Opening Night Silent Auction to benefit Alzheimer’s Day Services, 6-9 pm, Music by Paul Taylor Holiday Store Hours: Mon-Sat 10:30-6:30, Fri til 7:30, Sun 12-5 | 901-833-9533 www.memphisartscollective.com