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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR • OUR 1404TH ISSUE 01.21.2016 “Nice little trees you got there. Be too bad if something were to happen to them.” — Nicky “Big Panda” Flacco, Memphis Zoo press secretary After years of simmering unrest, tension has been racheted to a fever pitch in Memphis’ Midtown district, specifically in the long-troubled region known as Overton Park. The natural areas of the park are controlled by the Overton Park Conservancy, but the park is also home to the Levitt Shell, the Memphis College of Art, the Brooks Museum of Art, and the Memphis Zoo. In recent years, the Zoo has been flexing its muscle, annexing portions of the OPCcontrolled zone known as the Greensward for overflow parking, and doubling down by charging money to its customers to park there. The OPC has filed several complaints with local authorities against the Zoo’s actions, and has gone so far as to put picket lines of volunteers at its border to stop the invasion of foreign vehicles. This has led to minor skirmishes: cars bumping protestors, angry complaints to local police, etc.

There had been an uneasy peace in recent weeks, but in the waning days of the Wharton administration, the Zoo obtained a letter from city council attorney Allan “Wood Chips” Wade that it claims gives it the right to annex the Greensward for parking. Then, without warning, the Zoo removed 27 trees that had been planted near the Zoo border in 2012 by the OPC. A local faction supporting OPC called Get Off Our Lawn (GOOL) reacted vociferously, staging a plant-in, complete with a marching band, signs, and flags. Emotions were at a boiling point. There was open talk of war.

Then things really got out of hand ...

Secret Zoo documents obtained by GOOL leaders were released showing that the Zoo had designs on annexing Rainbow Lake for a proposed “AutoZone Crocodiles of the Nile” exhibit, and also had plans to take over portions of the Old Forest for an interactive “Jack Links Messin’ With Sasquatch” diorama.

The Zoo responded by saying it had uncovered evidence that GOOL operatives had infiltrated its Northwest Passage exhibit via the Lick Creek aqueduct and planted kudzu, privet, and poison oak. GOOL denied the charge but did not rule out the possibility of future guerrilla planting raids. “We have thousands of seedlings,” said a GOOL spokesperson. “We would hate to have to use them, but the Zoo may force our hand.”

Then, on Monday, 87-year-old golfer Myron “Stroky” Teitlebaum was taken hostage by the Zoo after he bladed a 7-iron across the “Geezer Strip” into Zoo property and tried to retrieve his ball. An anonymous GOOL spokesperson told a WMC Action News 5 reporter that “getting a few meerkats out of there wouldn’t be that difficult,” and that such an action might be necessary in order to arrange a prisoner exchange. “Stroky is not in good health,” she added. “He needs his fiber pills.”

The Zoo then announced that it would begin a program called “Free Tank Parking Tuesdays” on the Greensward, and that it had made a deal with Sunrise Pontiac GMC to open a dealership on the land now occupied by the Overton Bark dog area.

“We get a million visitors a year,” said Zoo president Chuck “You and the Horse N EWS & O P I N I O N You Rode In On” Brady. “We’ll do whatever LETTERS - 4 we have to do to keep them happy, if you get THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 THE FLY-BY - 6 my drift.”

SPORTS - 10 Alertly sensing that there just might posPOLITICS - 12 sibly be a problem in Overton Park, the new EDITORIAL - 14 Strickland administration announced that VIEWPOINT - 15 COVER STORY Secretary of State John Kerry would arrive “20<30” BY RICHARD ALLEY - 16 in Memphis this week to try to bring all STE P P I N’ O UT parties to the table for peace talks.

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About Toby Sells’ post, “Zoo Removes Trees From Greensward” …

The Memphis Zoo has become a national embarassment. I used to brag about our zoo to my clients that live in places with nice zoos (San Diego, St Louis), and now they laugh at us as hicks parking in the yard. Oh, and don’t forget the Youtube video of the Zoo director losing his temper.

We’re look just like a bunch of angry old white men. I’m sorry I ever gave even one penny to the Zoo. Frank in Midtown

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But times are changing. According to Gallup, 22 percent of Americans are avoiding meat, and 12 percent are avoiding dairy products. Supermarket chains, along with Target and Walmart, offer a growing selection of delicious and healthy plantbased meats and dairy products. Animal meat consumption has dropped by eight percent in the past decade.

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Memphis Minded When Rhodes College moved from Clarksville, Tennessee, to Memphis in 1925 under the leadership of President Charles E. Diehl, it was, Diehl said at the time, “the chance of a lifetime” to re-create an institution of excellence in a central location that provides easy access to students from all over, along with greater opportunities for them to learn both inside and outside the classroom.

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NEVERENDING BOWIE There’s an old adage that says that the three hardest dates for a musician are, in order, Christmas, Easter, and Memphis. The point’s well-illustrated by a concert review of David Bowie’s first Bluff City appearance.

Commercial Appeal reporter Joe M. Dove described Bowie’s 1972 show at Ellis Auditorium as “mostly noise.”

“David Bowie probably could be a talented musician,” Dove wrote in a merciless review of the concert.

“But his show is not selling music.

He has substituted noise for music, freaky stage gimmicks for talent, and covers it all up with volume.”

The writer had been led to believe the Spiders were “a ballad group” and was surprised to discover an artist capable of “out-freaking Alice Cooper on stage.”

His harshest lines, however, were reserved for an opening act identified as Whole Oats: “At the least, Bowie’s show can objectively be called better than that of his warmup group, Whole Oats, a country rock quartet. Playing all of their eight numbers in a simple four-four time, the group could not even keep the attention of the crowd which spent much time milling up and down the aisles and tossing several plastic Frisbees.” One of Whole Oats’ final numbers was titled “I’m Sorry.”

Dove wrote: “It should have been dedicated to the audience.”

Obviously Dove missed the boat on Bowie. But whatever happened to this forgettable country rock quartet slammed by critics and ignored by Frisbee-crazed Memphians? Nothing. The detestable act was Daryl Hall and John Oates, who went on to become the most successful pop duo in history.

D&J dubbed their partnership Whole Oats before the duo signed with Atlantic. So when the label released a promotional single, that’s the name they went with. Two months after the Bowie concert, the forgettable harmony act would be identified as Daryl Hall & John Oates on their first LP, “Whole Oats.”

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Zoo and park leaders scrap on property rights … again.

The cold war between Memphis Zoo officials and Overton Park advocates sparked last week, igniting a blaze that roared all over social media and culminated in a Saturday protest even as Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland called for calm.

The Zoo uses the park’s Greensward, a large field next to Rainbow Lake, for overflow parking about 65 days a year. A group called Get Off Our Lawn (GOOL) called for the practice to end when they formed in 2014 and staged a number of sitin style protests on the Greensward.

The latest episode began as Overton Park Conservancy (OPC) officials discovered last Monday that 27 trees had been removed from a strip of land on the park’s Greensward that borders the Zoo parking lot. They called the Memphis Police Department and later found out that the Zoo removed the trees to make way for more parking on the Greensward ahead of the opening of the Zambezi River Hippo Camp this year.

OPC Director Tina Sullivan called this move “completely unacceptable.” GOOL renewed its pledge to end Greensward parking. They held a protest, which involved a tree planting, at the park on Saturday.

Get Off Our Lawn plants new trees at Overton Park.

Q&A with Gina Sweat The city’s first female fire director In December, newly elected Mayor Jim Strickland appointed longtime Memphis Fire Department employee Gina Sweat as the new director, replacing former Director Alvin Benson.

Sweat, the department’s first female director, has been a firefighter for 23 years, rising through the ranks since 1992.

Strickland noted that Sweat was chosen for the job “on her merits and her dedication to service” in a press conference announcing her position. The Flyer was able to catch up with Sweat for her thoughts on the new job.

— Alexandra Pusateri Flyer: How does it feel being the first female fire director?

Gina Sweat: To be honest, it’s quite humbling. It wasn’t my goal to set off to be the first female fire director. I was just one of those people who came to work. My parents taught me from a very young age the value of hard work, that you earn what you get by working hard and applying yourself.

That’s really been my whole approach to my career, because it was hard being a female and not being as physically strong as the men. So you have to find ways to work smarter. They could muscle through things, and I couldn’t.

I never set out to be a role model for women. I just set out to be the person who came to work and did what I was supposed to do. By doing that, and always applying myself, I find myself in this position today. It just shows you can

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Through it all, Zoo officials maintained they had solid legal footing for the removal, thanks to an opinion city attorney Allan Wade issued on New Year’s Eve. Wade said the Zoo does, indeed, control the northern parcel of the Greensward that it uses for overflow parking.

“This action was not illegal in any way, as the property is ours to maintain as upheld by the recently released legal opinion from the city of Memphis,” Zoo officials said in a statement on Facebook late last week.

However, Strickland said Wade’s opinion doesn’t speak for his administration.

He’s given park and Zoo leaders two months to figure out a parking plan, or Strickland has said he’ll devise and implement one on his own. In the meantime, Strickland urged calm.

“We’ve asked both parties not to take any actions that would inflame the situation,” Doug McGowen, the city’s chief operating officer, said in a statement.

“Both have agreed to do that. We know this won’t be fixed overnight. We ask that the community give us the time to reach a solution that works for everyone — most importantly, the people who use the park and the Zoo.” Zoo board members apparently approved a the commencement of a lawsuit over the weekend to determine if the Zoo does, indeed, have legal “We are confident that authority over the portion of the several immediate, Greensward it uses for overflow parking. achievable, and Sullivan, director of the OPC, affordable alternatives to said last week her office was close to hiring a consultant to conduct Greensward parking a parking and traffic study for already exist.”

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— Tina Sullivan “We are confident that several immediate, achievable, and affordable alternatives to Greensward parking already exist,” Sullivan said. “These alternatives will be thoroughly explored, vetted, and refined over the coming months in an open and transparent process that engages all park stakeholders.”

The Zoo reiterated past positions that the Greensward is only used 65 days a year and that the Zoo is the top tourist attraction in the Memphis region.

Restricting parking, it has said, will deter visitors.

“We never want to restrict access to our Zoo, and thus, will do whatever we can to ensure that all Zoo-managed property [which they believe includes the Greensward] is accessible and well-maintained throughout the process,” the Zoo statement read.

Where will you be focusing your recruitment efforts?

We’re going to focus our initial efforts in the city of Memphis and the metro area. I think it’s important to recruit people who have some ownership in the community: people who have family and ties to the community, their churches, schools. I think that’s going to help us with the retention part.

In the past, when they did go outside of the city, we got firefighters, but a lot of them didn’t stay. They got the experience here and went back home.

Some of them did stay and became Memphians, but I feel strongly that we have people here in the city [who could work for the fire department]. We need to invest in our youth a little better, and we can find quality people here in our hometown.

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Are you hoping to tackle any specific issues as fire director?

We have a great fire department here in the city of Memphis. We’ve had some morale issues, and some of those things I can’t do anything about. But I am going to listen to what’s going on in the field to try and find things I can do.

Even if they’re small [things], just to let the firefighters know that I am paying attention and hearing them, just trying to find some little wins to let them know that I have their back.

I do want to find ways for us to become more engaged with the community, which is going to fall in line with the recruitment efforts we do. We’re looking at ways to engage our youth and introduce them earlier to these career opportunities that are open for them, putting them on a path so they’ll know how to become a firefighter.

Once we recruit the right people, we have to make sure they stay on the department. We are losing more firefighters than we have in the past, but I think if we can head that off before it gets out of hand, we’ll be in a much better place.

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West Tennessee’s only residential treatment center for eating disorders expands. ance companies and health professionals treat eating disorders equally to other illnesses.

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In 2014, Fairhaven Treatment Center opened a residential eating disorder center on Houston Levee in Cordova to take in up to 13 clients at a time, making it the only residential facility solely focused on eating disorders for hundreds of miles.

Their program has been so successful that they’ve outgrown their space and have opened an additional Cordova facility just for outpatient treatment.

The space at 671 N. Ericson will allow them to continue follow-up treatment with residential patients, as they check out of the facility. Fairhaven had been handling outpatient services from their residential center, but they were running out of room to do so.

The new space will also allow Fairhaven more room to treat less serious cases that may not require residential treatment, and they plan to run adolescent after-school treatment programs for patients ages 13 to 17 at the new center.

Fairhaven treats women suffering from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or other eating disorders.

“This can be a step-down program, or it can be a less-intense-than-residential program with a goal of keeping someone from having to go into residential care,” said Fairhaven founder and clinical director Dr. Teri McCann. “We use the word outpatient because people aren’t spending the night, but it’s not traditional outpatient care because a patient could have services up to eight hours a day.

They might be having two to three meals a day here.”

Much like the residential center, the new outpatient facility has rooms for group therapy, an art therapy studio, and a mind-body room for yoga, pilates, and relaxation and breath therapies.

“The mind-body programming is about more than having [clients] enjoy themselves. Eating disorders are lifethreatening, and there’s a huge disconnect between body and emotions and the mind,” said Molly Fleming, therapist and director of the mind-body program. “It’s super important to be able to calm yourself down and relax. The stress levels are extremely high with eating disorders.”

The new building has a larger kitchen space than the residential facility, and nutrition education is a big part of the recovery process, Fleming said. Clients will have more hands-on time learning to cook healthy meals in the kitchen.

“This is a much less restrictive environment in a lot of ways. People are free to come and go, and there’s not as much oversight in terms of bathrooms and things like that,” McCann said.

Fairhaven’s new center is taking in its first patients just as Congress is considering a bill that would mandate that insur-

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Can this team flip the script? When Ricky Tarrant Jr. stepped to the foul line last Wednesday against Temple, I thought of Darius Washington Jr. and the very same foul line, not quite 11 years ago. Washington, you may recall, went to the line with his team trailing Louisville by two points in the 2005 Conference USA championship game, time having expired. Having been fouled attempting a three-point shot, Washington had the chance to earn an unlikely NCAA tournament berth for Memphis. With no players on either side of the lane for the shots, Washington made the first but missed the next two, falling to the FedExForum floor in a heap of misery. If you were there and had a heart, it was painful to witness.

Tarrant made his two shots. And did so with a mouth full of blood and three loose teeth. The shots beat a tough Temple bunch, many of whom remembered winning a nail-biter in the same building last season. There really seemed to be little doubt the shots would hit their mark, Tarrant being this team’s best free-throw shooter (86 percent) and, more and more it seems, its metaphorical backbone.

A team — and a season — often has moments that flip the script. These Tigers have not beaten many talented teams. But they did last Wednesday, and with a late-game comeback that included their leader’s ability to literally swallow blood and answer the bell. The challenge now, of course, is to make that moment the start of something big.

The Sam Craft story is developing momentum. Less than three weeks after playing in the Birmingham Bowl for the Memphis football team, Craft started his first game at point guard for the Tigers (in the win over Temple). Now with two starts and a total of 54 minutes (over four games) under his belt, Craft has exactly zero turnovers. Pastner insists he believes in freshman point guard Jeremiah Martin, who started five games before Craft took over against Temple.

But the coach described Craft’s skill at “organizing our team” in making the decision to start the former (and presumably future) tailback.

And there’s this. “Bigs are hard to get,” said Pastner after last Saturday’s win over USF, “but for perimeter players, I believe in guys who have been around winning. And Sam’s a winner.

He won in high school [a 2011 state

championship at Craigmont, where he was the state-tournament MVP], and he’s won in football. That matters. He’s a flat-out winner.” In playing terms, Craft is a basketball freshman. In winning terms, he’s a veteran. Consider this an intangible worth watching the remainder of the season.

How will these Tigers handle the road? It’s really impossible to tell, the team having played 14 of 17 games to date at FedExForum. The Tigers have 14 more regular-season games, eight of them away from home, starting Thursday night in Cincinnati. The U of M went 5-5 on the road in each of its first two seasons in the American Athletic Conference. The Tigers lost their only two true road games this season, but played well at both South Carolina and Connecticut.

Starting Thursday night, we’ll see if this group is worthy of NCAA tournament consideration. Another 5-5 season away from home won’t do it.

In playing terms, Craft is a basketball freshman.

In winning terms, he’s a veteran.

Can Dedric Lawson be the swing variable that gets Memphis to the Big Dance? With seven double-doubles already, Lawson is well on his way to becoming just the third Tiger freshman to have 10 such games. Keith Lee had 17 in 1981-82, a season that saw Memphis [State] go 24-5 and reach the NCAA tournament’s Sweet 16 a year after missing out on the Big Dance. Lorenzen Wright had 15 in 1994-95, a season that saw Memphis go 24-10 and reach the NCAA tournament’s Sweet 16 a year after missing out on the Big Dance.

Lawson is averaging 14.5 points and 8.9 rebounds, not quite the numbers posted by Lee (18.3 and 11.0) and Wright (14.8 and 10.2) as rookies. But with Shaq Goodwin’s senior-season emergence (13.8 and 8.3), Tarrant in command of the offense, and role players like Avery Woodson and Trahson Burrell making a difference, Lawson can continue to quietly climb the Tiger freshman-record book. But he needs to register a few double-doubles against the AAC’s best.

This week’s tilt in Cincinnati is the kind of game that measures a player’s impact, freshman or otherwise.

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Jury Still Out on Appellate Conundrum General Assembly deadlocked on “legislative confirmation” of judicial appointments; state Supreme Court remains one member short. years about whether appeals court judges should be named by the same process. Besides establishing the principle of legislative control, the 2014 constitutional amendment would seem to have resolved that issue.

Left unresolved was a newly created conundrum: What exactly does legislative confirmation mean in a bicameral legislature? Should the two chambers — the state Senate and the state House vote as a collective body (in special session, as it were) on approving a gubernatorial selection? Or should each chamber vote separately? And, if the latter, what happens if one chamber votes yes and the other chamber votes no on an appellate judge’s appointment?

The onus is on the General Assembly to resolve the matter as soon as possible in the current legislative session.

Lo and behold, the two chambers don’t agree on the point. The Republican Party may have an unbreakable monopoly (i.e., super-majority) in the Gen-

eral Assembly, with majorities in both chambers that cannot mathematically be offset by the small Democratic remnants in each body, but human nature, which abhors a perfect concordance, occasionally asserts itself in wrangles between Senate and House, each of which is jealous of its own power.

So it is that one of the first agenda items for the just reconvened General Assembly to resolve is the effective meaning of “legislative confirmation” as it applies to the 2014 constitutional amendment on selection of appellate judges.

And the issue is hardly moot. In September, state Supreme Court Justice Gary Wade retired, leaving Tennessee’s ultimate judicial tribunal one member short of its five-member quota. Governor Bill Haslam has appointed Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Roger Page to fill the vacancy, but Page cannot take his seat on the court until his appointment receives legislative confirmation — whatever that turns out to mean.

There is a fail-safe in the process. If the legislature remains in session 60 days without producing either a yes vote or a no vote on Page, the state constitution allows him to be confirmed by default. But nobody wants that to be the endgame. It would leave the conundrum unresolved, with other judicial appoint-

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Tennesseans may have thought that they’d solved the question of judicial confirmation back in 2014, when a constitutional amendment to clarify how the state’s appellate judges were appointed passed easily.

The amendment, cosponsored by state Senator Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) and state Representative Jon Lundberg (R-Bristol), abandoned what had been a judicial nominating commission on the front end and added the important proviso of legislative approval or rejection on the back end. The middle process, by which state appellate judges would be appointed by the governor, remained in place.

Although the constitutional amendment seemingly established a process similar to that by which federal judges are appointed — in that case, presidential appointment, followed by Senate confirmation — and was partly sold to the state’s voters that way, the real point of the change was to give the legislature final say over appointments.

In Tennessee’s system, state trial judges are elected directly by the people, as mandated by the state constitution, and controversy had raged for

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ments sure to come before the legislature in the relatively near future.

And such a conclusion would leave the legislature as such looking ineffectual in the process — a direct contradiction of the intent of the constitutional amendment.

And, as Ed Cromer of The Tennessee Journal has noted in a definitive article on the controversy, reliance on the 60-day default process would inevitably lead to possible accusations of “stalling” by one chamber against another or even to the enabling of questionable appointments by some future “bad actor” governor.

The onus is on the General Assembly to resolve the matter as soon as possible in the current legislative session.

An effort was made to break the impasse last spring, in a compromise proposal drafted by Senate-House conferees calling for judicialconfirmation votes to be achieved by votes of the two chambers sitting together, with a majority of the entire General Assembly — 67 votes — needing to be achieved.

That plan was rejected in the Senate, where it got only four of the body’s 33 votes and was condemned by the Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris (R-Collierville) as threatening “the end of the bicameral legislature.”

Both Norris and Kelsey are members of a 10-member committee (seven Republicans, three Democrats) assembled for the current session and charged with coming up with a new solution. The committee’s first draft, last week, called for separate confirmation votes by House and Senate, with a split decision resulting in a nominee’s rejection. Since both Haslam and the Tennessee Bar Association immediately expressed their opposition to this plan, other formulas and drafts are due to be considered by the committee this week, with deliberations starting on Tuesday.

Besides the urgent matter of filling out the state Supreme Court to its full complement, there are numerous other ramifications that would seemingly call for an immediate solution — including the fact that, while the constitutional amendment may have strengthened the legislature’s hand on the back end of judicial selection, it weakened it on the front end by allowing the expiration of what had been a built-in legislative screening process prior to the governor’s naming a candidate for an appellate position.

That’s what you might call an “unintended consequence,” one of many that may have been packed into last year’s much ballyhooed constitutional amendment process.

The public holiday season is now at an end, but private celebrations of one sort or another continue. Here’s one that’s worth noting — Saturday’s 80th birthday celebration for Ann Norton Morris, wife of former Sheriff and longtime Shelby County Mayor Bill Morris.

Held at the Morris homestead in East Memphis, the event drew droves of family members and friends, the latter including no few political figures among the well-wishers. Pictured here at one of several dining tables are (l to r, clockwise) William N. “Trey” Morris III, Kay Morris Holly, Connie Haynes, Gladys Morris Linton, Bill Morris, Ann Norton Morris, Anne Francis, Mark Stephens, and Jeff Morris.

The birthday girl’s smile indicates she is pleased; and well she should be; she is now in her 18th year of survival from a crippling stroke. Her husband is her principal caregiver, and he considers that role to be the consummation of his distinguished career.

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was the year when a once obscure state senator from Illinois named Barack Obama completed a zenith-like rise to power, which took him through a brief U.S. Senate career into the presidency in the space of a very few years.

That was the year, too, when the state’s established network of Democratic activists and officials had largely coalesced around the rival presidential candidacy of former First Lady and then-Senator Hillary Clinton. Though she came out ahead in Tennessee on the “Super Tuesday” primary of 2008, her loss to Obama in the final analysis may have led directly to the unraveling of the Tennessee Democratic Party, which proceeded with geometric speed, beginning with Obama’s disinclination to campaign seriously in Tennessee and continuing with the rapid attrition of Democratic officials in every subsequent statewide election.

It remains to be seen whether any help for Democrats is to be had from this year’s version of “Super Tuesday,” coming in March, and featuring in the Democratic primary both Hillary Clinton and what could well be a viable effort from the latest upstart from the grass roots, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

We welcome their effort, in any case, and hope whichever of them becomes their party’s nominee will not forsake Tennessee in the 2016 general election.

Meanwhile, the Republican primary will be attracting its share of statewide attention with several GOP candidates likely to put in appearances in our neck of the woods between now and March.

All in all, the idea of a two-party system, dormant in these parts for some time, will be at least temporarily alive and well in Tennessee, and we welcome that, too — even if it just turns out to be an interlude.

Frances Hooks

We are long past the time when the wives of prominent men were identified by the public (and even by themselves) via the prefix “Mrs.” followed by the husband’s name. That tradition, once commonplace, disappeared decades ago with the acceptance (still ongoing) of gender equality and with recognition of the obvious —and increasing — reality that women have distinguished lives and careers of their own.

Frances Hooks, who passed away last week, was a perfect bridge between the former and current ways of perceiving spousal identities. There was never any doubt that she was a continuing and invaluable pillar of support for her late husband, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, during his own meritorious lifetime as minister, lawyer, judge, federal commissioner, and NAACP national director. But she was, both during and after her husband’s lifetime, prominent in her own right as an educator, guidance counselor, church and civil rights leader, and original member of the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis.

Beyond all that, Frances Hooks was a paragon of graciousness and a source of constant joy, encouragement, and a relief from the daily rough-and-tumble of life to all who knew her. May she rest in peace.

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Standing next to President Obama at the White House, who, in the face of Congressional inaction, issued an executive order shielding 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation, the pope said he is “the son of an immigrant family,” and was pleased to be visiting a nation “which was largely built by such families.” Francis said the members Congress have to reject a “mindset of hostility” toward refugees and undocumented immigrants.

And later, speaking to America’s bishops, he added: “Perhaps you will be challenged by their diversity. But know that [immigrants] also possess resources meant to be shared. So do not be afraid to welcome them.”

The pope’s blessing of compassionate immigration policies came as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination won standing ovations for calling Mexican illegal immigrants “rapists” and later proposed a halt to the flow of refugees from war-torn Syria and a block on all Muslim immigrants.

Pope Francis is changing the religion-politics dynamic in a way that is sure to ripple through the 2016 presidential and congressional elections.

Congressional Republicans did not publicly criticize the pope. But conservative talk radio did not hold back.

Rush Limbaugh, the top-rated talk radio host, trashed the pope as a Marxist.

“We have a president and a pope who speak down to us,” radio host Mark Levin said. “Whether it is immigration, whether it is poverty, frankly they do not appreciate American history.”

Among the Republican presidential contenders, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Catholic, also turned thumbs down to the pope. “I just think the pope is wrong. His infallibility is on religious matters, not political ones.”

Another GOP contender, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, said he “doesn’t get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals or my pope.”

Republican candidates in 2016 will try their best to close their ears to what Pope Francis is saying. But Democrats have found a surprising voice to counter the conservative tendencies of churchgoers, especially evangelical Christians.

Juan Williams is an author and political analyst for Fox News Channel.

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Name the biggest 2015 event on Capitol Hill — the one event it was near impossible to get a ticket to attend.

It is not close: the pope’s visit.

Who said: “If someone is gay and searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”

If you said the pope, you win again.

Speaking to a Congress that is 31.7 percent Catholic, and within earshot of a Supreme Court with six Catholics on the bench, who said this: “Here we have to ask ourselves: Why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society? Sadly, the answer, as we all know, is simply for money, money that is drenched in blood.

It is our duty to confront the problem and to stop the arms trade.”

Did you answer, the pope? Right once again. Those words came from a leader with a higher approval than any American politician — a 59 percent favorable rating among the population at large.

And who called for Congress to make a courageous effort to halt “environmental deterioration caused by human activity”?

Some wild, lefty tree hugger? Well, if you consider the pope a tree hugger, yes.

On issues ranging from climate change to gun control to gay rights, the liberals in Congress found a surprising ally in 79-year-old Pope Francis.

The pope’s visit was a mind-bender for the GOP, given the party’s reliance on opposition to gay marriage and abortion rights, two key elements of Catholic doctrine. Those wedge social issues have stirred the Republican base since President Nixon adopted a “silent majority” strategy to defeat Democrats on issues of sexuality and race.

Pope Francis is changing the religionpolitics dynamic in a way that is sure to ripple through the 2016 presidential and congressional elections.

“The contemporary world, with its open wounds, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps,” the pope said to a Congress paralyzed by division.

Instead of politicians taking advantage of fear, anxiety, and anger, the pope called for Congress to engage with a “renewed spirit of fraternity and solidarity, cooperating generously for the common good.”

The pope’s willingness to step into Congress’ big political fight over immigration reform really stung the “deport them all” caucus among Republicans.

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THE CLASS OF 2016: MEET 20 YOUNG MEMPHIANS WHO ARE SHAPING THE CITY'S FUTURE.

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This is the seventh year of the Flyer’s annual 20<30 issue, and this year’s crop of young movers and shakers is, as usual, a diverse and impactful group. They are taking on the city’s major issues — poverty, transportation, education, civil rights, and medical research. They are enriching the city with their work in music, art, fashion, agriculture, and business.

They are the future of Memphis, and they have a common denominator: They all want to make their chosen city a better place to live. Some have moved here from elsewhere; some have returned to the city where they grew up. You’ll be seeing their names and hearing from them in coming years. Here’s an introduction to 20 of Memphis’ best and brightest young people.

after her grandmothers. The studio is part production company, acting school, and photography studio, with a mini-movie theatre, green screen, conference room, and dance studio.

Shortly after A Ghetto Fairy Tale was produced, she was invited to be on The Tyra Banks Show. Flown to New York, she was pampered and came back to Memphis with a taste for showbiz. Nadia quit her job at Graceland (a job she says she loved) to open LilyRoze, giving kids from ages 4 to 17 a glimpse into the life of being on, or behind, a camera.

“I wanted the lifestyle,” she says, “but I didn’t want to leave Memphis.”

hired employee) for Just City, a nonprofit spurred from the Shelby County Public Defender’s Office to serve, advocate, and reform. Most notable is their Clean Slate Fund to help expunge qualifying criminal records. With Just City, she says, she wears a “lot of different hats, so while my title might be one thing, I’m learning to do other things, which for me isn’t a burden. It’s really a learning opportunity.”

The good news for us is that she’s “on the hook to stay” in Memphis. Seeing the vast improvements in amenities and lifestyles with redevelopment in key Midtown neighborhoods, she says she’d like to challenge Memphis to do the same in those other areas — in North and South Memphis — that attracted her here in the first place.

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ALLISON GIBBS

Allison Gibbs came to Memphis from Miami, Florida, five years ago, because she wanted to make a difference. She taught at Vollintine Elementary School in North Memphis, then moved to Freedom Preparatory Academy in South Memphis as a community outreach manager.

When it came time to move on, she looked for something that would allow her to continue doing good work in the black and Hispanic communities that she’s passionate about. The Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum, and “it was the right timing to move from one area to another area that was gaining traction and visibility,” she says, “and to be part of the ground floor of work being done in Memphis in particular.”

Allison is now the program manager (and was the first

MARSHALL BARTLETT

In 2005, Nadia Matthews wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the stage play A Ghetto Fairy Tale at LeMoyneOwen College to a standing-room-only crowd four nights running. She donated the proceeds to the school. It’s just the sort of success every playwright aspires to. Nadia was 16 years old (she’s still the youngest donor to the school).

“I really wanted to be a part of a production, a lead, but being an African American there are only so many roles out there,” she says. It was a Tyler Perry production that showed her that “people with my skin color were really acting. They had lead roles, and these were stories about black people, stories I could tell.”

That same year, she founded the 501(c)3 nonprofit LilyRoze Studios, named

Marshall Bartlett is happy as a pig in slop with his work. After college at Dartmouth, where he majored in environmental studies and anthropology, the Mississippi native spent time in New Orleans with AmeriCorps, helping to rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Then he moved back home to Home Place Pastures, an 1,800-acre ancestral farm in Como that dates back to 1871; he’s the fifth generation to work the land. But where his family once grew crops from the soil, Marshall raises hogs and has become a key link in the popular farm-totable movement in Memphis. Some of those tables where you might have eaten Marshall’s pork include Porcellino’s (or any of the Ticer-Hudman restaurants), Sweet Grass and Next Door in Cooper-Young, Las Tortugas, Erling

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GABBY SALINAS

Gabby Salinas goes to work every day at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with her “family.” They aren’t blood related, but the men and women on staff have been as much a part of her life as any kin.

Her story has been well told: She fell ill in Bolivia at the age of 7 and was taken to a New York hospital, where she was diagnosed with the bone cancer Ewing’s Sarcoma but was refused treatment because of her family’s inability to pay. Marlo Thomas read the story in a newspaper, contacted her parents, and sent her to Memphis. Gabby beat that cancer and then fought it off twice more. At the age of 8, while returning from a trip with her family, a car wreck took the life of her father and younger sister and paralyzed her mother.

Despite such a tragedy, or maybe because of it, she flourished, earning an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Christian Brothers University. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Now Gabby dons a white coat every day and works to find a treatment for malaria in the hospital that saved her life, and she regularly speaks on behalf of St. Jude to help raise funds. “I grew up at the hospital, so it was a big part of my daily life,” she says. “I always say that growing up at

St. Jude is very much like having a lot of aunts and uncles.

They definitely inspired me.”

MICHAEL ROY

You may not know Michael Roy, but you know his work.

His paintings are larger than life, his canvases on the sides of buildings and shipping containers.

He has trouble describing his style, saying, “Words are my enemy. That’s why I paint.” Then he’ll go on to describe whole worlds he wants to create and the history, myths, and cultures therein.

Michael knows a thing or two about different cultures.

After growing up on the Mississippi gulf coast, where he was introduced to art in high school, and furthering that education at the Memphis College of Art, he moved to Korea to teach English. “I didn’t know what to do with my artwork,” he says. “I wasn’t happy with how it looked or what I was trying to say, so I thought, ‘I’m just going to go to the other side of the world, and I’ll teach English.’”

In Seoul, he says, there were abandoned sections of the city that would be there one day and demolished the next. But before they disappeared, they were covered in elaborate graffiti. “It wasn’t American graffiti; it wasn’t letter-based. Most of it had a strong foundation in illustration, with these complicated characters and dragons and monsters.” It became the inspiration for his work. After Korea, he traveled through Vietnam and Thailand, picking up details of those histories and myths he paints now. He moved back to Memphis in 2014 and says he’s been “lucky” to make a living with his artwork. A quick drive through the city makes it clear that we’re the lucky ones.

MARK HACKETT

The front line of any war is a literal world away from working the line in a commercial kitchen, yet these two worlds vied for the attention of Mark Hackett.

While many of us would’ve opted for the heat of a Viking Range and the smell of rosemary, Mark chose

MOZIAH BRIDGES

On the day of the photoshoot at Central Station for this story, a MATA employee was beside herself when she realized she was in the presence of a celebrity. She fawned, and she cooed, and she asked to have her picture taken with him. It’s a scene that has become commonplace for Moziah “Mo” Bridges, founder of Mo’s Bows, and those wanting to meet the 14-yearold entrepreneur have extended up the ranks to the President of the United States.

At the first White House Demo Day last year, Mo didn’t think he’d be able to meet POTUS, but an aide took him aside and said Obama wanted to meet him. “I was shocked, so I ran into the room he was in, and we chatted.”

Mo’s Bows was established in 2011 (amazing, since Mo himself was only established in 2001). Even at age 9, he liked to dress sharp, and there weren’t any bowties in his size. His intention was never to gain notoriety, yet notoriety has found him. He’s been featured on television shows such as Shark Tank and the Today show, and in publications including Oprah Magazine, Esquire, GQ, and Forbes.

His plans are to continue with the work and expand into a clothing line. The home-schooled eighth-grader plans to go to college for fashion design, but he’s still a kid, so what does he wear when he plays outside? “Sometimes, if it’s summer, I’ll take the bowtie off,” he says, “but most of the time, I’ll keep it on, even when I play with my friends.”

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Jensen, or Bounty on Broad. There are others locally and in Birmingham, Jackson, Mississippi, and New Orleans.

But this farmer isn’t a foreigner breaching the state line; he has a house in Midtown, where he plays music and enjoys Memphis life. “It’s nice for me to have the best of both worlds,” he says. “I can come down to the farm and focus, going to bed at 9:30 p.m., getting up at 6 a.m. Then, when I want to hang out and have a little bit more of a life, I can go up to Memphis.”

Marshall plans to add lamb and beef to his menu at some point, which should make local restaurants — and diners — very happy.

pain and suffering and, if everything works out, justice.

He is the founder of the nonprofit Operation Broken Silence. He and his team travel into the battlefields of Sudan, Africa, to film and photograph the atrocities of war and the refugee camps. Then they travel to a different kind of battlefield in Washington, D.C., and the United Nations in New York, to raise funds and awareness. The funds go to Sudanese refugee camps for on-the-ground emergency relief and food programs.

Born and raised in Memphis, Hackett graduated from Bartlett High School and entered college with thoughts of becoming a chef, but conversations with some of the large Sudanese immigrant population in Memphis led him down a far different path and to the founding of Operation Broken Silence in 2012. Why Sudan? “It’s ground zero for words we don’t like to talk about a lot of time, like ‘genocide’ and ‘war crimes.’ It’s been happening for so long in Sudan, over 25 years now, and the world hasn’t been able to fix the issues there.”

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continued from page 17 and heart for which the city is known. The city’s central location is advantageous in the world of interstate commerce, but also, unfortunately, for human trafficking.

Whitney works with the nonprofit Restore Corps, trying to make a difference.

“I think the reason that we pick [the victims] up here is because we work really well with the sex crimes unit with the Memphis Police Department,” she says.

Restore Corps is a nongovernmental organization whose mission is the eradication of human trafficking through holistically empowering survivors, equipping communities to identify and abolish slavery, and seeking justice for the oppressed.

She moved to Memphis from Austin, Texas, in 2010 to work with HIV patients at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, then attended the University of Memphis to become a dietician, and got a graduate assistantship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in its HIV clinic. That became the catalyst for her to work as a volunteer with Restore Corps.

For someone who spends her days in what can be the mire of human suffering, the natural question is: How do you relax? Well, she loves Memphis, for one thing, despite the dark side she sees. She and husband Jeff enjoy activities with their church and outings at the Levitt Shell. “I have to have downtime and boundaries to rejuvenate because I’m young, and I don’t want to burn out. I definitely believe in self-therapy and self-help.”

RACHEL KNOX

January 21-27, 2016

Rachel Knox lost a bet. It was a footrace, and she was slower. The terms of that bet stipulated that she had to audition for a stage production. She got the part, which began a fascination with the theater. Now, working in professional development with the Orpheum, she spends her days introducing others to her world.

Knox majored in theater at the University of Memphis and worked with the Voices of the South troupe before moving to Washington, D.C., for a fellowship at a regional theater company. She moved back to Memphis to work with the Orpheum.

Rachel returned because she loves the city, and she proved it in 2015 by running a different kind of race — for a seat on the City Council. It was an accidental involvement when she got into discussions with friends who had a stake in the city’s pension fiasco. She went to City Hall and made a speech in front of the Council that went “Memphis viral,” and the next thing she knew, she was in the race.

“I got tired of being that person who was always talking about problems but who wasn’t actively doing something,” she says. “I didn’t want to be a person who just complained and whined. I felt that I 18 could do some good

in the community.”

Rachel ultimately lost that race, too, though in a hardfought run-off. Still, she considers herself a winner. “What I enjoyed about the process was the fact that I met a lot of people who are already in our communities advocating on a multitude of subjects. It really educated me and increased my own intellectual IQ about what’s happening in the city and the issues we’re facing.”

MARCO PAVÉ

“I cannot keep a job, but I can change the face of the planet.” That’s a line from Marco Pavé’s recently released EP Black Tux, recorded in Los Angeles. But Marco can hold a job. In fact, he holds several, and all are in his control, from songwriter to CEO of his own Radio Rahim Music label to philanthropist.

And yet, with so much on his plate, the odds for Marco to ever make it to 23 years old, let alone make a career, were against him growing up in North Memphis where he saw peers dying young or becoming pregnant.

He started rapping in the third grade, but it was an experience in the 10th grade, while a student at East High School, that changed his outlook. He and a friend were playing with a gun, loading and unloading it, when his friend pointed it at Marco’s face. The trigger was pulled and the gun jammed. “That was the moment where I knew I was here for a higher purpose,” he says.

That purpose has led the father of two to give back to the community with the 2013 Books on Beale benefit concert, where $20,000 was raised and hundreds of books donated for story booth at Crosstown Arts. Instead of wedding gifts, he and wife, Zandria Robinson, asked friends and family to donate money to their newly established Soulstar Scholarship in 2015 to help high school art students realize their dreams.

What is the essence of the Marco Pavé experience?

“Being a full human being, not being pigeonholed,” he says. “That’s what hip-hop is all about, not just about making music. There are surprise elements to hip-hop.”

NICHOLAS OYLER

“I have this memory of an eighth-grade art class and getting into an argument with a friend about why Memphis was a cool place to live,” Nicholas Oyler says.

As Nicholas got older, while still a fervent defender of Memphis, he asked himself what it would take to make the city better. “That curiosity eventually led me to discover there’s this whole field of urban planning, this whole profession dedicated to planning cities, designing cities, and making them be as good as possible.”

That curiosity led Nicholas to his job as transportation planner/bicycle and pedestrian coordinator for the Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization, a

federally mandated, regional public agency tasked with planning the transportation network for the greater Memphis area. That includes roads, highways, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and public transportation.

After graduating high school, he went to Europe for two weeks. “I was really inspired by what I saw over there and came back saying to myself, ’Why can’t we have that same quality of life, that same greatness in our cities, that I felt they had over there?’”

He got his undergraduate degree from the University of Memphis and his master’s in urban planning from Texas A&M. He left again for Germany where he worked as a planner for four years (and met his future wife). “My goal all this time was to gain experience from abroad, and then one day return so that I can apply what I learned to Memphis.”

STEPHANIE REYES

As youth services manager for the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center, Stephanie Reyes is in charge of community outreach to youth. She visits libraries, schools, and started a youth group at the center for 13to 17-year olds. She’s been looking into the problem of homeless LGBT youths and initiating a comprehensive census of their numbers this year. “LGBT people make up between 5 and 7 percent of the population,” she says, “but LGBT youth make up 40 percent of the homeless youth population, so there’s a lot of disparity.”

The problem is, though, that solutions to the problem are temporary and often unsafe as the youngsters turn to adult homeless shelters. A better solution may be at hand, in the form of land recently purchased in Orange Mound to create transitional housing. A fundraiser is planned for February, the ultimate goal being $250,000.

It’s a daunting task, serving the underserved and raising money for a better future, and it’s being taken on by a relative newcomer to Memphis. Stephanie is from New York where, as she says, “I’ve been involved in some form of community service since I was a kid.”

She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut before a relationship brought her to Memphis, where she fell in love with the city. “I really like Memphis a lot. I think it’s a very passionate city.”

Though there are still problems, she says, “We’re moving in the right direction; I haven’t had a lot of pushback on this project. People know this is an issue and they want there to be a solution for these kids.”

LOGAN GULEFF

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continued from page 18 for cooking? “She did not make me clean up,” he says.

These days, his mother insists, he is made to clean up after himself. But he’s older now, more experienced; he’s 13.

Don’t let his age fool you, though. Logan has been seen many times in local media and on national television shows such as MasterChef Junior, where he was the youngest to ever win the title. The first taste of fame came with the “Jif Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich Contest,” when, at the age of 8, he won with a peanut butter turkey burger. “It’s really, really good,” he says, “and a very complicated recipe with lots of steps.” Logan was flown to New York to collect his $2,500 prize and has had a bit of flour on his face ever since.

He’s now working to develop recipes for food trucks and planning the concept for a children’s cookbook. He’ll be taking part in charity events alongside such noted chefs as Kelly English and José Gutierrez. And he’s putting together an “underground supper club.” He’s quick to point out that his favorite local restaurants include the taco truck on Summer, Tsunami, and Strano, among many others.

What does Logan think about his full plate of fame?

“I really enjoy being on stage and cooking. I just love everything about it.”

January 21-27, 2016

EDDIE WILEY

HIV is “a huge problem” in Memphis, Eddie Wiley says. “We have approximately 7,300 people who are positive, and those are only the ones who know. So there are another 12 to 16 percent who don’t know.”

Eddie would know.

As a Comprehensive High Impact Prevention (CHIP) supervisor, he works at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital with HIV testing, linking patients to care after a diagnosis, and in community outreach. The program is primarily for 13- to 34-year-olds, as well as pregnant mothers and their children. He says that, even though he’s recently been made a supervisor, he still tries to find a way to get out into the community to speak with youth to spread awareness and decrease the stigma that surrounds HIV. “Some of the people don’t have family, don’t have friends, so I basically became their best friend. I wanted to make sure that they’re taken care of.”

Eddie went to school for journalism, but he’d seen family and friends die from HIV and took community service as his calling. He’s now at the University of Memphis working on a master’s in public health.

“It’s a rewarding experience,” he says of his work with Le Bonheur. “Just to see the difference in a person when they come into the hospital and they call me when they’re positive, and by the time we’re done with the program they look at life completely differently. I try to make it a new normal for them to just continue to live life.”

ALEXANDRA SCHARFF

When you try to call Alexandra Scharff, you’re going to get her voicemail. And you’ll want to make yourself comfortable, because it takes a while for her disembodied voice to list off the businesses you may be trying to reach: the Ivory Closet, the Attic Apparel, Adel Amor Cosmetics, Ellen Anchor Brands. They were all founded by this 20 University of Memphis alumna.

Her drive to entrepreneurism came through the

corporate world, where she worked for International Paper as a sales representative, traveling the country alone, with no one micromanaging. It was as if she were running her own business and dealing with customers and follow-ups, markups and margins. “Once I realized I could sell something like paper, I thought, ‘If I can sell this, I can sell anything.’”

In 2012, she opened the Ivory Closet boutique in Harbor Town, followed a year later by the Attic, coowned with husband Benjamin, in Overton Square. She has since moved the Ivory Closet to the Square as well.

Her cosmetic line, which she began while still at IP, is an ongoing concern.

Alexandra is also working on a master’s in business and learning about franchising. The first two Ivory Closet franchises opened last fall in Mississippi, and there are more on the way. “I’m back in the corporate world,” she says, “but this time it’s for myself. I have to grow. If I’m not growing, then I’m getting in a slump.”

JEREMY CALHOUN

Jeremy Calhoun could have easily become just another statistic. He was born to a teenage mother, his father was incarcerated, and, by Jeremy’s own admission, “I was that kid,” the one who acted out and didn’t take school seriously.

But he is not a statistic. He turned his life around, for which he credits God and a handful of role models. Now he’s honoring those who helped him by helping other young people to change their ways. As the co-founder of the nonprofit STS Enterprise, Jeremy and a team of mentors work with high school students to expose them to opportunities they may never have known about.

There’s a formula: “I’m going to set their expectations high.

We’re going to hold you accountable.

We’re going to seize life, and we’re going to celebrate the victories.”

STS Enterprise brings in mentors from the corporate world and facilitates public speaking engagements at college campuses, the RISE Foundation, and Leadership Memphis. He’s built a networking program for students from LeMoyne-Owen College, Christian Brothers University, Rhodes College, and the University of Memphis, among others.

Jeremy works in information technology at International Paper, where he helps to mentor new hires.

He was also selected to be on Mayor Jim Strickland’s Youth Transition Team. “I’ve been so passionate about our youth, so the opportunity was a blessing, and I’m so thankful for it,” he says. “I’m looking forward to seeing what the mayor does.”

MARCELLA SIMIEN

Marcella Simien’s got a squeezebox, and we’re going to

dance all night. The 24-year-old musician can be seen all around town with her band, Marcella & Her Lovers, and is becoming a staple for date nights at regular venues like Bar DKDC and Mollie Fontaine.

She comes from a family of music down in Lafayette, Louisiana: Her dad, Terrance, is a two-time Grammy award-winning artist; her mom, Cynthia, is his manager and booking agent. Marcella says, “I was singing before I could talk and started writing songs and spitting oneliners at a very young age.”

She came to the Memphis College of Art and brought that bayou accordion with her, taking it out for solo shows. “Friends said my song choices and performances were unusual and lively, so I didn’t stop,” she says. “I did songs I was into by artists I dug — Nina Simone, Buzzcocks, Dylan.”

Marcella now tours regularly and has played in front of audiences from Hawaii to Tortola. As she looks to put more out-of-town dates on her calendar, she assures us that Memphis is “absolutely” home base. “Here in Memphis, I feel thankful to be a part of a community so rich in history, with a future and potential just as rich as that past.”

ACE MADJLESI

The range of topics Ace Madjlesi has been involved with while working for the Center for Research on Women (CROW) at the University of Memphis are many. She’s worked at CROW for five years and has been involved with everything from HIV and transportation to teen pregnancy and birth control. She now coordinates a birth control study on behalf of A Step Ahead Foundation conducted in Christ Community Health centers in Frayser and Hickory Hill.

“I’ve had a lot of different roles in the movement — volunteer, community organizer, nonprofit administrator, researcher,” she says. “People think they can’t get involved because they’re limited by time or money. That just isn’t true, especially not in Memphis, where half the battle is just showing up. There are about a thousand different ways for people to play a part in the fight for equity and justice. As I like to say: Get in where you fit in.”

Ace came to Memphis for the graduate program in applied anthropology at the U of M. She’s originally from Mississippi and had spent some time in Washington, D.C., where she became interested in motherhood and children and that experience for women. She linked up with CROW through her graduate studies. “It was just a really great opportunity to take this academic understanding of gender and apply it to some of the most salient issues we face in Memphis.”

Ace is also the founder of the Memphis Pinball league, and is the highest-ranked female player in the state, according to the International Flipper Pinball Association.

“There’s definitely a burgeoning pinball

scene in Memphis,” Ace says, “and it’s really exciting.”

ALVIN CROOK III

Alvin Crook III knew he wanted to be engaged in politics from an early age. “I’ve been interested in politics all my life,” he says. “It started as me just doing community service and wanting to help people. When I was 6 or 7, we used to feed the homeless, my church did. We’d pass out food and clothes, and the older I got, the more I found out about politics that could help better a community.”

At 29, Alvin is the president of the Shelby County Young Democrats and, as such, has the ear of state Senator Lee Harris, state Representative Antonio Parkinson, and Shelby County School Board member Stephanie Love. He had a working relationship with Mayor A C Wharton and looks forward to getting to know Mayor Strickland.

In 2014, Alvin ran for Shelby County commissioner, eventually pulling out to support Van Turner who, he says, “has taken me under his wings.”

Alvin grew up in Whitehaven, raised by a single mother and with two younger sisters.

Today, he and his wife Andrea are parents to 3-year-old Alvin Crook IV, and he has every intention of running for office again.

For now, though, he is content with his work as a bailiff in Family Court at Juvenile Court. It’s a position that gives him a unique perspective on the issues and troubles facing our city today, the perfect learning ground for a future leader.

“I know I can’t change the world, but I believe I can change my community.”

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“They’re intelligent and capable and inquisitive,” Katie Jones says about the children who fill our city’s schools. She should know. Katie is the assistant principal for Southern Avenue Charter Elementary School. She did her student teaching at Frayser Elementary School, and is currently working on her Ed.D. at the University of Memphis.

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Jones originally left Memphis for UT-Knoxville, hoping to become a civil engineer. “I got involved on campus with the Black Educators of Tomorrow,” she says, “working with children in schools. It changed my mind.” She switched her major to English, with a minor in elementary education, and completed a master’s in education.

She joined up with the Junior League of Memphis for a way “to be hands-on and support the work of a longstanding tradition of women who’ve been really involved here in Memphis.” She began the small business Equilibrium Education Services and is working with Knowledge Quest in South Memphis to create a curriculum for learning math through music.

Her future is committed to Memphis, which she considers ground zero for education reform. “It’s very interesting to watch what’s happening, and I want to be a part of making sure that we do close that achievement gap for all students here in the city.”

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Got crazy flipper fingers? Love the sound of the Biri-biri ? Want to show off your gunching skills? Memphis Pinball is hosting its International Flipper Pinball Association (IFPA)-sanctioned Winter Blues Tournament at Garibaldi’s Pizza Saturday, January 23rd. Wizards welcome.

When Memphis Pinball organizer Ace Madjlesi arrived in Memphis six years ago, she couldn’t find any pinball machines. She’d drive across town stopping in diners, dive bars, and laundromats looking for tables.

“I wanted to map them,” she says, recalling the desolate landscape. “There was an Elvis at Poplar Lounge, a broken Terminator at Garibaldi’s,” and so on. “Broken machines were my biggest obstacle. There were never enough up and running to get anything off the ground.”

Circumstances improved considerably. The bank of classic pinball machines at Garibaldi’s are owned and maintained by area collector Richard Rickman, and a portion of the funds collected will go toward future maintenance.

Madjlesi is an internationally ranked player. According to the IFPA, she’s ranked 12,000th in the world.

“That isn’t very good,” Madjlesi admits, laying out plans to improve her game while creating more opportunities for Memphis-area pinball enthusiasts. “The thing about an IFPA-sanctioned tournament is you earn points.

If you finish in the top 10, even at a small tournament, you can become a world-ranked player. You might be 80,000th, but you’ll be world ranked.”

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Art After Dark Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 6-8 p.m.

Held in conjunction with the new exhibition “Amalgamating the Dixon,” which features digital manipulations of the Dixon’s permanent collection. The artist, Joshua Brinlee will be there, and there will be music by Sibella.

“Acolytes” Box Gallery, 5-7 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibition of student prints curated by Holt Brasher and Trevor Simpson.

Thirteen McCoy Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

A one-woman play about human trafficking through the eyes of a 13-year-old girl.

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Penny and Sparrow The Halloran Centre, 8 p.m., $30-$125 A concert by the singer-songwriter duo Andy Baxter and Kyle Jahnke, benefiting Grizzlies Prep Charter School.

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By Chris Davis “Call it ignorance,” American Idiot director Gary John LaRosa says, having some fun at his own expense and searching for the right way to explain why he’d never given punk rock a chance.

LaRosa’s musical tastes were always eclectic, but he was classically inclined. He liked opera and was in the business of staging Broadway-style musicals. He never thought he’d like snotty-boy guitar anthems, so, when Green Day’s concept album-turned-musical hit Broadway in 2010, LaRosa wasn’t eager to go see it. “I didn’t think a punk group’s music would appeal,” he says. “But for 90 minutes there was an explosion of energy and this visually rich storytelling. I was blown away. I was moved, which is the last thing I expected to feel.”

LaRosa was sucked in by the music and caught up by the story of three media-saturated high school buddies from the suburbs looking for a way to escape. Battles with boredom, addiction, and America’s sworn enemies ensue.

Set against the backdrop of George W. Bush’s presidency, Broadway’s American Idiot used cutting-edge digital projection technology to flood the stage with news clips from sources like CNN and Fox. Unfortunately, not every theater can spend $18 million dollars to capture the spare, DIY essence of punk. Not to fear, LaRosa, who’s become an enormous fan of the show’s music and Billie Joe Armstrong’s lyrics in particular, thinks the musical’s content is better served by a lower tech approach.

“It reminds me very much, generations later, of Hair,” LaRosa says, “because of the complete dissatisfaction with the status quo and the bill of goods being sold in Vietnam. There are so many parallels. I think the musical score is an important one, and there’s a lot there you lost on Broadway because of the spectacle. I’m trying to flesh that out and make it more important.”

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early a month out of the door and Bill Maher’s 2016 is in full swing. The politically incorrect comedian just kicked off the 14th season of HBO’s Real Time and is gearing up for a string of stand-up performances that will land at the Orpheum this Saturday, January 23rd. While Maher’s been off air, he’s had time to digest the 2016 election cycle and “rip up my old act,” he told the Flyer. “Two years ago, Donald Trump wasn’t going to be the president, and now he very well may be.”

Flyer: When was the last time you visited Memphis?

Bill Maher: The last time I was in Memphis may have been way back in the ’90s.

I feel like I understand the South better than these commentators on TV who talk about it, because they never go there.

I hear a lot of conservatives complain.

They say, “Oh, you liberals, you discount the flyover states.” Not me. I seek them out because they are a more enthusiastic crowd. Memphis is a town with a church on every corner, which is good for me.

What is the biggest difference between performing stand-up and hosting Real Time? Is there anything you like more or less about the two?

The people who come to the stand-up show are the real fans. They have to be — they have to pay. The people who come to the studio audience, they’re fans. But they are much more politically correct.

And sometimes that pisses me off. I hate political correctness, obviously. I did a show called Politically Incorrect. I’m a liberal, and I love my liberal brethren, but they can just really be fucking annoying about not being able to take a joke.

Can I have an example?

I think Donald Trump is completely wrong about banning Muslims. I think he’s a demagogue. But I’m also really the only liberal who, I think, says we have to be clear-eyed about the fact that it is Islamic terrorism and it is coming from their religion. So, if I say a joke like, “Islam is a religion of peace. There’s a piece of you over there, there’s a piece of you over there,” you know what, you better fucking laugh at that. Every group gets made fun of for something, and it doesn’t ever mean that all of them do it.

If I say a joke like, “And then the French surrendered,” everybody laughs, even though the French really only surren-

dered that one time. If I make a joke about super models throwing up, well, all of them don’t throw up everything they eat. If I make a joke about Asians being bad drivers, well yeah, a lot of them are, but not all of them. And so I’m sorry, but terrorism is mostly Islamic, and they have to own that. Nobody is a protected species. Liberals have to learn to take a joke about everybody. I don’t think there’s any greater cause for a liberal these days than shepherding liberals back to a more sensible liberalism. That includes learning to laugh.

I read that you think Ted Cruz is “scarier” than Trump.

If I go by what Ted Cruz says, he doesn’t believe in climate change. Neither does Donald Trump, by the way. But I don’t think Ted Cruz would change his mind on that because I think Ted Cruz is bought and controlled by the Tea Party.

I do think I could turn Donald Trump around on climate change. I have a secret plan, which is to have Leonardo DiCaprio have dinner with him. Because Trump is huge star fucker, I think he’ll listen to DiCaprio. Ted Cruz, I think, is just owned by the Koch brothers and people like that. There are a lot of things about Donald Trump that are scary, but he’s so above ideology. He’s so beyond politics at this point. He very often takes a position that is a fairly liberal position.

He comes out against hedge fund managers. He criticizes going into Iraq. Lots of things where you go, “Wow, that’s not a very conservative position.”

You essentially endorsed Bernie Sanders when he visited Real Time. Do you think he has a real chance at the presidency?

When [Real Time] last left the race at Thanksgiving, I think the viewpoint among liberals was “Yeah, we love Bernie, but he can’t really win.” He’s like the guy you go out with who gives you a lot of orgasms, but he doesn’t have a job.

You’re not going to really marry him. But now, it looks like he really could. If he wins those first two primaries, that’s a lot of momentum. There are a lot of states in this country, like Tennessee, where somebody like Bernie Sanders is a nonstarter.

Not that I think Hillary Clinton is going to win Tennessee, but Obama flipped a lot of states. I don’t know if any of those places would even consider Bernie Sanders. You have to put that in the mix.

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Felt Hammer Free Jazz ing at festivals like SXSW, U+N Fest, and Gonerfest in the process. Yes, it’s safe to say that Obnox and X__X were made for each other, making this pairing of left-field instrumentalists that much more exciting.

Seeing as both Thomas and the gents from X__X call Cleveland home, my only question regarding this collaboration would be: What took so long?

Rounding out the bill is one of the best bands to come out of the Memphis punk scene in years, the never-normal powerhouse known as True Sons of Thunder.

While the band was seemingly on every local show during their early years (a time when bands like Dead Trends, Staags, and Sector Zero represented a small but talented punk scene), it wasn’t until True Sons of Thunder dropped the now-classic Spoonful of Seedy Dudes LP that nonMemphians started paying attention. In a 2013 interview with the Flyer, True Sons of Thunder guitarist Joe Simpson summed up the band’s existence rather concisely:

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Cleveland’s X__X “We couldn’t do this anywhere else. We are a product of this city. At the same time, our music doesn’t make sense to the people who live here. The funny thing is, people who don’t live here understand what we are doing, but no one here understands it, only we do. That’s been the funniest thing: The people who buy our records don’t live here. But we don’t really care, and maybe that’s the most Memphis thing of all. We don’t give a shit about being liked.”

While it might be true that your average Memphian doesn’t understand what True Sons of Thunder are all about, those who did would readily admit that their presence is missed. Thankfully, the band hasn’t called it quits for good, and they are usually reliable for a few Memphis appearances a year. The band also has a single on Goner Records and the amazingly titled Stop and Smell Your Face LP, both of which are recommended. This one is going to get weird, so plan accordingly.

X_X, Obnox, and True Sons of Thunder, Friday, January 22nd at Murphys. 9 p.m. $10. Advanced tickets are available from Goner Records for $7.

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A living chapter of the legendary Cleveland punk scene comes to Memphis this Thursday when X__X (pronounced Ex Blank Ex) roll through town with current Cleveland rocker Obnox and semi-local heroes True Sons of Thunder. Formed in the late ’70s, X__X mostly gets lumped into the weirdo Cleveland art-punk scene that spawned the Cleveland Confidential compilation LP and served as home to bands like Pere Ubu, the Styrenes, and the Electric Eels. While the Electric Eels (the precursor to X__X) would receive a release on the iconic punk label Rough Trade (home to bands like Stiff Little Fingers and Essential Logic), X__X have always been seen as more of an obscure punk band, possibly because of how short the band’s life was. X__X did leave two singles as proof they existed, but both records came out after the band called it quits.

Now, nearly 40 years after they were originally active, X__X is back with an album on Smog Veil records called Albert Ayler’s Ghosts Live at the Yellow Ghetto.

The record dropped in November of last year and features liner notes from Byron Coley (the rock critic behind Forced Exposure). Recorded in August 2014 and January 2015 at Negative Space in Cleveland, Albert Ayler’s Ghosts Live at the Yellow Ghetto was produced by the band and John Delzoppo and features eight tracks of weirdo Cleveland noise, including a cover of the title track “Ghosts” by free jazz artist Albert Ayler. The album features John Morton (founder of X__X) on guitar, vocals, theremin, didgeridoo, and electric sitar, Andrew Klimeyk on guitar and vocals, Craig Bell on bass, and Matthew Harris on percussion. After recording Albert Ayler’s Ghosts Live at the Yellow Ghetto and a few one-off shows, the band decided to book a tour and recruited Lamont “Bim” Thomas (of This Moment in Black History, Bassholes, and Obnox fame) on drums.

Thomas is also a relic of the Cleveland noise/art-punk scene, releasing multiple full-length albums a year through labels like 12XU, Smog Veil, and ever/never under the name Obnox. Just as X__X dabble in all sorts of genres to create their brand of not-easily-digestible music, Obnox has also been known to enter some weird territory, taking elements of hip-hop, roots rock, and heavy metal into the recording studio while being beholden to none. While still considered underground, Thomas is no doubt reaching legendary status with his creative output.

He’s collaborated with artists like Orville Neeley (Bad Sports, OBN III’s) and toured the country numerous times, perform-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Eric Hughes Thursdays, Fridays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke ongoing, 8:30 p.m.; Chris Gales Tuesday-Saturday, noon8 p.m.

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Bad Boy Matt & The Amazing Rhythmatics Tuesdays, Thursdays-Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

Hard Rock Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Love Birds Showcase Tuesday, Jan. 26, 6-9 p.m.; International Blues Challenge Wednesday, Jan. 27.

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Steve Schad Friday, Jan. 22, 7-10 p.m.; School of Rock Memphis Presents a Tribute to the Cars Saturday, Jan. 23, 3 p.m.; School of Rock Memphis Presents Fall Out Boy v. My Chemical Romance Saturday, Jan. 23, 4 p.m.; School of Rock Memphis Presents a Tribute to Black Sabbath Saturday, Jan. 23, 6 p.m.; School of Rock Memphis Presents All Things Jack White Sunday, Jan. 24, 6 p.m.; 32nd International Blues Challenge Tuesday, Jan. 26, and Wednesday, Jan. 27.

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Mack 2 Band MondaysFridays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Jeffries & the Kings of Memphis Thursdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Nate Dogg and the Fellas Fridays, Saturdays, 6:3010:30 p.m.; McDaniel Band Saturdays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m., and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Chic Jones Sundays, Tuesdays, 6:3010:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Wednesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

January 21-27, 2016

Blind Mississippi Morris Blues Band Thursday, Jan. 21, 7-11 p.m.; 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.

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King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

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Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mississippi Bigfoot Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Chic Jones, Blues Express Fridays, 9 p.m.1 a.m., and Saturdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Jam On Experience Friday, Jan. 22, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Cowboy Neil Saturday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Memphis Blues Society Jam Wednesday, Jan. 27, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

Railroad Earth Wednesday, Jan. 27, 7 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson & the Boogie Blues Band Thursday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m.-midnight, Friday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m.midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:308:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Tas Cru & His Band of Tortured Souls Sunday, Jan. 24, 7-11 p.m., Monday, Jan. 25, 7-11 p.m. and Tuesday, Jan. 26, 8 p.m.-midnight; Ghost Town Blues Band Wednesday, Jan. 27.

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Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Friday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m.-midnight and Monday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m.midnight; Mambo Combo Saturday, Jan. 23, 3-7 p.m.; Delta Project Saturday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m.-midnight; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin’ Alterboys Wednesday, Jan. 27, 11:30 p.m.

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Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays.

Brinson’s 341 MADISON 524-0104

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

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

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

Earnestine & Hazel’s 531 S. MAIN 523-9754

Amber Rae Dunn Hosts: Earnestine & Hazel’s Open Mic Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299

Penny and Sparrow: Concert Benefitting Grizzlies Prep Charter School Friday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

The Rusty Pieces Sunday, Jan. 24, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Paulette’s

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

Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

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

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Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Reahmus Boddimus Friday, Jan. 22, 10:30 p.m.; SNOZberry Saturday, Jan. 23, 10:30 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

Whatever Dude, Area 69 Friday, Jan. 22, 10 p.m.; Death of King, Shards of Humanity Saturday, Jan. 23, 10 p.m.; Data Drums, Liquid Teens, Tangles Sunday, Jan. 24, 10 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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.

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Poodle Brandy Friday, Jan. 22, 10 p.m.; Faith Evans Ruch & the Dusty Hymnals Saturday, Jan. 23, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard James Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Anne Schorr Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

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

Local Music Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

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The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

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Marcella & Her Lovers Friday, Jan. 22; James and the Ultrasounds Saturday, Jan. 23; Steve Selvidge, Jimmy Crosthwait, Ben Baker, Luke White Wednesday, Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m.

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10 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Black Tusk and Royal Thunder, Bask Tuesday, Jan. 26, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Guy Blakeslee Wednesday, Jan. 27, 9-11:45 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Pistol & the Queen Sunday, Jan. 24, 4-7 p.m.; The John D’Amato Blues Band Sunday, Jan. 24, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Thursday, Jan. 21, 6 p.m.; James and the Ultrasounds Thursday, Jan. 21, 9 p.m.; Pam and Terry Friday, Jan. 22, 6:30 p.m.; Graham Winchester Band Friday, Jan. 22, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturday, Jan. 23, 11 a.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.

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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.

Strano Sicilian Kitchen 948 S. COOPER 552-7122

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Velvet Dogs Saturday, Jan. 23, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

University of Memphis

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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

Minglewood Hall

Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

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

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

East Memphis

Murphy’s

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Bowie Benefit for St. Jude Saturday, Jan. 23, 7 p.m.

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Stone Rangers, Grey Manor, Grisly Atoms, Joybomb Thursday, Jan. 21; X_X, OBNOX, True Sons of Thunder Friday, Jan. 22, 9 p.m.; Red Necromancer, Glorious Abhor Saturday, Jan. 23.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

The Dan Montgomery 3 Friday, Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m.; Ted Horrell & the Monday Night Card, Katie Dahl Saturday, Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Mondays-Thursdays, 59:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Fabulous Steelers Sunday, Jan. 24, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Mortimer’s

1532 MADISON 726-0906

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

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GUY BLAKESLEE AT THE HI-TONE Guy Blakeslee’s recorded debut was as the bassist for the blink-and-miss-it, left-field, ’90s hardcore experimentalists Behind Closed Doors in 1997, before his windowrattling yet melodic bass lines became a signature part of the Convocation Of…, a trio formed in 1998 with former Moss Icon, Born Against, and Universal Order of Armageddon guitarist Tonie Joy and drummer George France. After two albums and an EP of heavy, ’70s-psychand-prog-inspired post-hardcore in that band, Blakeslee departed and began making music as Entrance. At first, Entrance was a largely acoustic, psych-folk endeavor that was often compared to pre-glam Marc Bolan (Tyrannosaurus Rex) and thencontemporaries like Devendra Banhart. In reality, the four albums (and handful of EPs) Blakeslee released under this moniker between 2003 and 2006 (on Fat Possum, Tiger Style, and Tee Pee) are all over the map and track a gradual move toward a more rock-and-roll direction.

In 2004, Blakeslee teamed up with bassist Paz Lenchantin (who has a fascinating underground-to-high-profile resume), and by 2008, the project had officially morphed into the heavier, harder, but no less eclectic power-trio the Entrance Band, which released an amazing self-titled double-LP on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! label in 2009 and a second album called Face the Sun in 2013. Under both monikers, Blakeslee toured the world with Sonic Youth, Cat Power, Will Oldham, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Dungen, among others, and was personally asked to play the Animal Collective-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in 2011. In 2014, Blakeslee released the more pared-back, personal, and very pretty (but appropriately all over the place) Ophelia Slowly album under his own name on Everloving Records. On the 15th of this month, Blakeslee released The Middle Sister, an all-instrumental double album evenly split between improvised John Fahey/Leo Kottke-acoustic guitar work and electric, more dynamic, and rhythmic early-’70s Krautrock/drone-rock (think Can, Neu!, Terry Riley, etc.). - Andrew Earles Guy Blakeslee at the Hi-Tone, Wednesday, January 27th, 9 p.m., $10

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

Bartlett Municipal Center 5868 STAGE

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

2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

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

Beat Generation Sunday, Jan. 24, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Zig Saturday, Jan. 23, 9 p.m.; Sax on Sunday: Straight-Ahead and Mainstream Jazz fourth Sunday of every month, 6:309:30 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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Old Whitten Tavern

Mesquite Chop House 3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

The Tommy Akers Duo Sunday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m.midnight.

Summer/Berclair

5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

Owen Brennan’s Lannie McMillan Jazz Trio Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Mesquite Chop House Pam and Terry Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.

Barbie’s Barlight Lounge

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

The Other Place Bar & Grill 4148 WALES 373-0155

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

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

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

Winchester/ Hickory Hill LoVe Lounge 7144 WINCHESTER

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

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

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

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RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

Charlie Belt and Friends Thursday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m.midnight; The Nuttin’ Fancy Band Friday, Jan. 22, 5:309:30 p.m.; Birthdaypalooza with the Nuttin’ Fancy Band Friday, Jan. 22, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Grand Theft Audio Saturday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m.-midnight; Saturday Night with Grand Theft Audio Saturday, Jan. 23, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sunday Funday with Swingin’ Leroy Sunday, Jan. 24, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Swingin Leroy Sunday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m.-midnight; Groove Method Wednesday, Jan. 27, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Frayser/Millington Haystack Bar & Grill

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

6560 HWY. 51 N. 872-0567

Shelby Forest General Store

Germantown Performing Arts Center

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Collierville

Slap Junior Band Saturday, Jan. 23, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Germantown 1801 EXETER 751-7500

IRIS Orchestra: Midori Saturday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 24, 2 p.m.

Huey’s Collierville

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JoJo & Ronnie Sunday, Jan. 24, 8-11:30 p.m.

Breeze Cayolle Sunday, Jan. 24, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Juno Marrs Sunday, Jan. 24, 8-11:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Dantones Band Friday, Jan. 22, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

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

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

4396 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 372-3556

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

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

DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.

January 21 - 27

T H EAT E R

Mexican Folkloric Dance with Tierra Mestiza at the Buckman Saturday

Hattiloo Theatre

The Brothers Size, pulsing with the rhythms of the Louisiana bayou, this lyrical tale of brotherly love explores the tension between fear and desire on the elusive road to freedom. www.hattiloo.org. $18-$26. Thursdays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, 3 p.m.

Through Feb. 7.

Hernando High School Performing Arts Center

Hairspray, kudzuplayers.com. $17. Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 7 p.m. Through Jan. 31.

805 DILWORTH LANE, HERNANDO, MS.

McCoy Theatre

RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).

Playhouse on the Square 4th Annual “NewWorks @ TheWorks” Competition. See website for full details. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $15.

Through May 30.

American Idiot, the journey of a new generation of young Americans, borne along by Green Day’s electrifying score. $22-$35. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Through Feb. 14.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

The Lion in Winter, modern classic pits Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine against her husband King Henry II of England. www.theatrememphs.org. $25.

Sundays, 2 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Feb. 7.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

January 21-27, 2016

Auditions for 1 in 10, contemporary LGBT monologues and two-character works. Show dates are Mar.

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64 FLICKER (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“The Voyage of Life,” exhibition of four allegorical landscapes

by Thomas Cole (1801-1848).

Through April 3.

“Amalgamations,” exhibition of digital reimagining of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens permanent collection by Joshua Brinlee. Through April 3.

“Painting American Progress: Selections from the Kattner Collection and More,” exhibition of The Nina and Keith Kattner Collection of American paintings. Through April 3.

Pinkney Herbert, exhibition of abstract paintings. www.dixon. org. Through April 3.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Thirteen, one-woman play of multiple accounts told by victims, witnesses, and abolitionists of human trafficking. www.rhodes.edu/ mccoy. Free. Thurs., Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.

davidluskgallery.com. Through Jan. 31.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

18-26. www.etcmemphistheater. com. Sun., Jan. 24, 5 p.m.

Byhalia, Mississippi, winner of NewWorks@TheWorks competition by Evan Linder. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $22-$30. ThursdaysSaturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Jan. 31.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

ArtsMemphis

Opening reception for “Assembled,” exhibition by 14 artists working together to create seven original works on canvas. www.artsmemphis.org.

Fri., Jan. 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

575 S. MENDENHALL (578-2787).

Box Gallery

Artist reception for “Acolytes,” student work curated by Holt Brasher and Trevor Simpson.

Fri., Jan. 22, 5-7 p.m.

3715 CENTRAL.

Clough-Hanson Gallery

Opening reception for “de|constructing home,” multimedia work by Brent Green and Heather Benning. www.rhodes. edu. Fri., Jan. 22, 5-7 p.m.

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

Opening reception for 33rd Annual Juried Student Exhibition and Award Ceremony, work by 41 University of Memphis undergraduate and graduate students. (678-3052), memphis. edu/fogelmangalleries.

Fri., Jan. 22, 5-8 p.m.

3715 CENTRAL.

2016 Fiction Contest Call for Entries

See website for more information, rules, and entry format. Through Feb. 1.

WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM/ FICTION-CONTEST-RULES/.

Artist Lecture: Heather Benning

Artist will discuss work on memory, nostalgia, and home regarding current exhibition.

Thurs., Jan. 21, 6-7 p.m.

CLOUGH-HANSON GALLERY, RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (8433442), WWW.RHODES.EDU.

PARKWAY (843-3442).

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Learn how to do your own henna designs with a skilled instructor. Limited to 20 attendees, registration fee includes all necessary supplies and 2 glasses of wine or bottled waters. Register by email, paintitcool@gmail.com. $25.

Sat., Jan. 23, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

THE BROOM CLOSET, 546 S. MAIN (497-9486).

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N.

Out of this world and in your backyard!

Introduction to Henna benefiting Hearts of Gold Pit Rescue

Lawrence “Don Lifted” Matthews Visual and alternative hip-hop artist exhibition featuring a multi-media installation. Free.

Fri., Jan. 22, 7-10 p.m.

GLITCH, 2180 COWDEN (734-6136).

Three Decades of Making Stuff: Public Lecture by Michael Aurbach

Michael Aurbach, a sculpture artist addressing issues of identity, death, institutional power, and contemporary forms of scholarship. Free. Thurs., Jan. 21, 7-9 p.m.

FOGELMAN GALLERIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, 3715 CENTRAL (6783052), AURBACHSCULPTURE.COM.

O N G O I N G ART

The Blues Foundation

“Cast of Blues,” by Sharon McConnell-Dickerson. www. blues.org. Through April 30.

421 S. MAIN.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School “Wabi Sabi: The Beauty of Imperfection in Nature,” by Rachel Darnell and Lana Chu. www.buckmanartscenter.com.

Through Feb. 15.

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

Church Health Center Wellness

Doris Gunn-Stevens, paintings in oil and acrylic. www. memphishealthcenter.org.

Through Feb. 14.

1115 UNION (761-1278).

Circuitous Succession Gallery

“The Lotus Harvest,” exhibition of mixed-media works

by Sarah Ahmad. www. circuitoussuccession.com.

Through Jan. 31.

500 S. SECOND.

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

Michael Crespo, exhibition of watercolors. www.

Eclectic Eye

“The Blues,” exhibition of cyanotypes by Jennifer Balink. www.eclectic-eye.com.

Through Feb. 24.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Frame Corner Inc.

“Trophies Through the Lens: African Wildlife Safari Images 2015,” photography

by Jack Kenner and student photographers. www.jackkenner. com. Through Jan. 22.

5056 PARK.

Hyde Gallery

“Sunset/Sunrise,” exhibition of work by artists in the Studio Nong International Collective and Residency Program. www. mca.edu. Through Feb. 5.

INSIDE THE MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART’S NESIN GRADUATE SCHOOL, 477 S. MAIN.

L Ross Gallery

10th Anniversary exhibition, paintings, sculpture, and mixed media by gallery artists. www. lrossgallery.com.

Through Feb. 27.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

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

“Families in Art,” exhibition featuring images of family.

Through Feb. 21.

“Wonder, Whimsy, Wild: Folk Art in America,” American folk art from New England and the Midwest. www.brooksmuseum. org. Through Feb. 28.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art “Illustrators 57,” juried work by the Society of Illustrators.

Through Jan. 26.

“Seahorse in Sequence: Creating a Comic,” by Shane McDermott. www.mca.edu.

Through Jan. 27.

NJ Woods Gallery and Design

“Dog Gone It,” by Debra Edge.

Ongoing.

2563 BROAD.

Playhouse on the Square “An Exploration in 3D Printing,” by MCA instructor Adam Hawk. www.mca.edu.

Through Feb. 21.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Ross Gallery

“Interwoven,” textiles and drawings by Jennifer Sargent.

(321-3243), www.cbu.edu/ gallery. Through Feb. 25.

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

TOPS Gallery

Collage Dance Collective Presents Rise: 2016 Winter Concert $10-$40. Sun., Jan. 24, 2:30 p.m.

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

Dance and Movement

Open to the general public including people with disabilities. Minimum age 18. Stephanie Hill instructs various dance forms. Free. Last Tuesday of every month, 10 a.m.-noon Through May 31.

LEWIS CENTER FOR SENIOR CITIZENS, 1188 N. PARKWAY (2894968), WWW.SRVS.ORG.

“Cops,” exhibition of work by Marlous Borm, David Deutsch,

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

Jin and John Powell, www. jccmemphis.org. Through Jan. 22, 7 a.m.-10 p.m.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

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“Residence of the Heart,” exhibition of jewelry using contemporary gold granulation techniques by Douglas Harling.

Through March 6.

“Taiwan International Metal Crafts Competition,” exhibition of objects and jewelry promoting the metal crafts of Taiwan. www.metalmuseum. org. Through March 13.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (7746380).

Morton Museum of Collierville History

“Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation”, personal accounts, artifacts, and films from a 13,000-acre plantation. colliervillemuseum. org. Through March 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

196 MAIN, COLLIERVILLE (457-2650).

National Civil Rights Museum “Cultural Heroes,” by Alan LeQuire. www. civilrightsmuseum.org.

Through Feb. 25.

Paul Edwards, Leo Fitzpatrick, Kevin Ford, Stephen Lack, Lester Merriweather, Scott Reeder, Walter Robinson, Tom of Finland, and Ernest Withers. www.topsgallery.com. Through Feb. 6.

400 S. FRONT.

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WKNO Studio

Brass Door Irish Pub

Works by members of the Bartlett Art Association, www. wkno.org. Through Jan. 22.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Tuesday Show Comedy, with Ryan Green, Shawna Blake, Henry Coleman, James Powell, and Will Loden. $5. Tues., Jan. 26, 8-10:15 p.m.

DAN C E

152 MADISON (572-1813).

Brooks Milongas

Chuckles Comedy Club

Members of the Argentine Tango Society give lessons.

Third Wednesday, Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m.

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

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

Needed: Men with type A+ and O+ blood to support malaria research.

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“de|constructing home” opens at Clough-Hanson Gallery Friday.

LOL Memphis Sketch & Improv Comedy Show, featuring improv games and sketch parodies. (654.8594), $10. Fourth Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

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Bill Maher, www.orpheum-memphis.com. $45-$100. Sat., Jan. 23, 8 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

Rollin’ Grizzlies Blues City Invitational Wheelchair Basketball Tournament Sat.-Sun., Jan. 23-24, 10 a.m.

MAM GRIZZLIES CENTER, 2107 BALL (662-280-1986), WWW.ROLLINGRIZZLIES.ORG.

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

Author discusses and signs Calming the Chaos.

Wed., Jan. 27, 7-8 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Roger Kreuz

Cookies with Cookie Monster

Cookies, ice cream, and Cookie Monster.

Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.

MAKEDA’S COOKIES DOWNTOWN, 488 S. SECOND (644-4511), WWW.MAKEDASCOOKEIS.COM.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

Booksigning by Jackie Woodside

KIDS

Call or email historian@elmwoodcemetery.org.

Free. Wed., Jan. 27, 10 a.m.

WWW.ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.

Apply for or Renew DACA

Call or email camila@tnimmigrant.org. $30-$75.

Wed., Jan. 27, 3-6 p.m.

KINGSBURY HIGH SCHOOL, 1270 GRAHAM (615-414-1030), WWW.LATINOMEMPHIS.ORG.

Magic Carpet: Mexican Folkloric Dance with Tierra Mestiza Ages 2 to 8. $5, free for adults. Sat., Jan. 23, 10 a.m.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483), BUCKMANARTSCENTER.COM.

School of Rock Memphis Presents A Tribute to Black Sabbath

Paired with Fall Out Boy v. My Chemical Romance. $10. Sat., Jan. 23, 6 p.m.

HARD ROCK CAFE, 126 BEALE (730-4380), WWW.SCHOOLOFROCK.COM.

Author discusses and signs Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language. Sat., Jan. 23, 2 p.m.

School of Rock Memphis Presents All Things Jack White Paired with A Tribute to the Who. $10. Sun., Jan. 24, 6 p.m.

HARD ROCK CAFE, 126 BEALE (730-4380), WWW. SCHOOLOFROCK.COM.

Tuesday Toddler Storytime Free. Tues., Jan. 26, 11-11:30 a.m.

BARNES & NOBLE, 2774 N. GERMANTOWN (386-2468), STORES.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM.

Winter Fantasy Tea

Costumes and formal dresses encouraged.

Advance reservations required. $15 members, $20 nonmembers. Sat., Jan. 23, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS, 2525 CENTRAL (320-3170), WWW.CMOM.COM.

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

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Gardening for the Memphis Newcomer Greg Touliatos will explain the best plants for Memphis soil and the best time to plant. Q&A to follow. Sat., Jan. 23, 9:30-10:30 a.m. and 1-2 p.m.

THE URBAN EARTH, 80 FLICKER (323-0031), WWW.URBANEARTHMEMPHIS.COM.

“The Hidden History of the Love Song” Ethnomusicologist Ted Gioia speaks on topic as part of the Springfield Lecture Series.

Thurs., Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.

EVERGREEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 613 UNIVERSITY (274-3740).

Public Input Forum: Transportation Needs of Memphis and the Region

Give input on transport needs of Memphis and area (transit, bicycling, pedestrian, road maintenance).

Brief presentation, small break-out groups, summary of all, and a paper survey.

Thurs., Jan. 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

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

Talk: Simplicity by Interior Designer Nancy Braithwaite

C O N F E R E N C ES/C O N VE N TI O N S

Christian Life Conference: “Jesus Among Other Gods”

Featuring speakers Ravi Zacharias and Michael Ramsden exploring the exclusive claims of Christianity. Fri.-Sun., Jan. 22-24.

SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 4055 POPLAR (454-0034), WWW.2PC.ORG.

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Backbeat Tours 3rd Annual Family Day Special

Go on Memphis’ most popular music tour.

Reservations by phone (deal not available online). $9 for family of five. Sat., Jan. 23, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

B.B. KING’S BLUES CLUB, 143 BEALE (527-9415).

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Educational, family-oriented reptile event featuring vendors, supplies, feeders, cages, and merchandise as well as live animal seminars and raffles. $10. Sat.Sun., Jan. 23-24, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

LANDERS CENTER, 4660 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (863268-4273), WWW.REPTICON.COM.

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PIPKIN BUILDING, MID-SOUTH FAIRGROUNDS, WWW.MEMPHISROLLERDERBY.COM.

Must be 21 and a Key Rewards member. See Cashier • Players Club for rules. Management reserves the right to cancel, change and modify the event or promotion with notice to the Mississippi Gaming Commission where required. Gaming restricted patrons prohibited.

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Bowie Tribute Benefit

Celebrate David Bowie’s life and give back to St. Jude. Face painting encouraged. $15. Sat., Jan. 23, 5 p.m.

MINGLEWOOD HALL, 1555 MADISON (866-609-1744), WWW.MINGLEWOODHALL.COM.

Inside Memphis Business CEO of the Year 2016 Awards Breakfast

Celebrate the annual IMB CEO of the Year award winners. Includes program and breakfast. Honorees will also be featured in the February/March 2016 issue of Inside Memphis Business magazine. $25.

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here’s nothing like a little competition to get the creative juices flowing.

Or the entrepreneurial spirit engaged.

For the Mosleys, their creativity centers around cooking, and lucky for Memphians, they’re very, very competitive about it.

Back in 2010, the husband and wife duo, Casscius and Fran, decided to have a bake-off on Thanksgiving Eve and let their friends and family

serve as judges.

Everyone had so much fun, and the food was so good, they did it the next year, and the next, until they outgrew their house and were forced to rent a venue to host what they named Sweet Cafe.

“We thought, ‘Hmmm, maybe we have a business here,’” Fran says.

That business emerged as the HM Dessert Lounge, a dessert bar on Madison that most definitely serves desserts, as well as a compelling collection of savory specials, such as cornbread waffles with pot roast or their signature Beale Street soup, with shrimp, andouille sausage, greens, and tomatoes.

“We take soulful food and do something different with it,” Fran says.

The desserts, well, let’s just say I had to take a moment after trying the Chocolate Temptation — a chocolate brownie with warm chocolate fudge, chocolate chips, Heath Bar crumbles, vanilla ice cream, and whipped cream, served in a martini glass. I never leave a trace that there was chocolate on my plate, or glass, but I could. Not. Finish.

Desserts average around $8, and on Fridays, they offer gourmet personal pan pizzas for $10, or for $16.50 you can add a salad and dessert, like banana pudding cheesecake.

The Mosleys host various events, including the upcoming the HM Love Jones weekend that will include entertainment on Valentine’s Eve and a four-course private

dinner on Valentine’s Day. They host a Women’s Empowerment Night and offer their walls to local artists.

“I’m really pleased with the direction we’re headed. We’ve grown into more than a dessert lounge,” Fran says.

Go in there on a day when the competition is high. You could end up choosing between chocolate bacon bread pudding with a caramel rum sauce, prepared by Casscius, or lemon pound cake with lemon glaze ice cream, whipped up by Fran.

“I totally gave him the credit for that, but, well, everyone was really liking the lemon pound cake,” Fran says.

“She had no business baking that day. She should have let me have my glory,” Casscius says. “I’m 0 and six, but I’m not giving up.”

The HM Dessert Lounge, 1586 Madison, 290-2099, www.facebook.com/HauteMondeFashionCafe Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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Then she read an article about food allergies, particularly gluten sensitivity, and she booked an appointment with her doctor.

“I hit the jackpot,” Whittington says. “Oats, yeast, barley, gluten. I had it all.”

She cut gluten out of her diet, and within two weeks “it was a whole new world.”

Her discovery motivated her to get creative, especially when it came to sweets, because a world without gluten can be especially challenging.

“I started researching ways I could have desserts and sweets. There are not many gluten-free products,” she says.

She started passing out her confections to her friends and family, and the feedback was consistent — she should start a business.

Finally, after 13 years of hearing their suggestions, and once she had some time off last summer from teaching high school, the English teacher started Miss Sandie’s GlutenFree Baked Goods.

Whittington offers four kinds of cookies so far — peanut butter, peanut butter chocolate chip, peanut butter butterscotch and chocolate chip morsel, and oatmeal cranberry dark chocolate.

“That’s a big seller,” she says. “I use Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Oats. A lot of stuff can be cross-contaminated, so I spend the extra money on gluten-free oats.”

She says she uses no flour, not even gluten-free flour.

“I say my stuff is pretty darn pure,” she says.

Her products can be found at Miss Cordelia’s and High Point Grocery, and will be offered at the new Curb Market in the old Easy-Way on Cooper, set to open soon.

“I plan on having my cookies in other stores soon,” she says.

She also offers seasonal breads, including the banana nut bread that recently replaced her pumpkin bread for the season, and will do personal orders from time to time.

Whittington says all of her baked goods are made with six to nine ingredients, which are listed on every label.

“There are no preservatives whatsoever. So many products you find at the store that are gluten-free have a list of ingredients that’s a mile long, and that is just not good for you,” she says.

“Everyone says that it’s good. I feel like it’s a service to the community.”

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Flyer: How soon did this idea come to you following David Bowie’s death?

What was the motivation behind it?

Graham Winchester: It was the day after David Bowie died I had the idea. I read Facebook comments of people saying they wished they could have seen him play live. I also saw that people were having a vinyl listening party in his honor, so I thought, “Why not throw a live show in his honor?”

The motivation was to turn a sad and tragic moment in music history into a catalyst for positivity. St. Jude’s involvement makes the tribute and the charity work a doubleheader of amazingness.

How open was Minglewood to doing the show?

They have been very cool and helpful about everything. I sent a text to Brent Logan at Minglewood Hall hoping maybe the 1884 Lounge would be open, and it was.

He messaged me back within five minutes, and it was a done deal until our Facebook event started exploding with numbers, so we got the big stage cleared for use that night.

What’s the response from local musicians been like since you announced the show?

There was an overwhelming amount of musicians asking to play. Everybody was immediately stoked on the idea.

Even visual artists, vendors, and caterers have shown their support and have requested involvement, which Minglewood and I are trying our best to organize and make happen. We have so much musical talent in Memphis, and it’s been truly touching how many people I admire have reached out about the event.

How about local David Bowie fans?

It’s the people’s enthusiasm and support that has ignited hype and increased anticipation about the benefit.

The reactions to the show have been 100 percent positive. Social media has made me even more aware of the general buzz about what’s going down Saturday.

Local fans have expressed their desire to dress up, wear Bowie face paint, and create their own tribute by representing Bowie’s style. People’s sentiments have been full of nothing but gratitude and support.

How did you pick the bands and musicians who are participating?

After announcing the show online, a wealth of talented musicians and bands responded immediately asking to play.

Trying to honor a first-come, firstserved mentality, I responded to initial

Graham Winchester inquiries first. I also made sure a few of my bands were playing, since I love Bowie’s music and know my bandmates do too. It is a stroke of serious luck that the bands performing and the songs they’ve chosen truly reflect Bowie’s expansive career through all of its eras.

Our local musicians and artists are extremely versatile too. I only wish I could have found a time slot for every band and musician that asked to play.

Where does St. Jude come in?

I’ve orchestrated benefit shows in the past, and it’s something that I truly enjoy. I play plenty of regular shows, and it feels nice to give back. I’ve always wanted to work on a benefit for St. Jude, and I saw this as a shining opportunity.

Both St. Jude and David Bowie have had so much global influence, and music is the great healer of the universe.

As for the logistics of the show, how are the sets going to work? How long will each set be?

Bowie’s timeless music will go from 6 p.m. sharp to midnight. Most bands are playing two to four songs, and I am allowing five minutes per song with five-minute set changeovers. Most Bowie songs are under five minutes, so that allows for extra changeover time in the end. There is a total of 17 artists/ bands performing. Towards the end of the night, Clay Otis and Luke White’s new group (that I’ve luckily been asked to be a member of) is going to do a final eight-song set. I couldn’t be happier with the overall lineup.

Who are you most looking forward to seeing? How many sets are you playing?

I’m performing with six groups: Brian Sharpe, Chris Johnson and Landon Moore, Clay Otis and Luke White, the Graham Winchester Band, and the Sheiks and Staniel Brown. As far as what I’m looking forward to?

All of it. I am particularly hyped about Richard James singing “John, I’m Only Dancing” and the Incredible Hook doing “All the Madmen.”

Overall, there is just too much great music scheduled to express my excitement in one interview.

What do you have planned for the grand finale?

To be perfectly honest, I hardly know what to expect of the “Heroes” finale. What I do know is it’s gonna be a hell of a finish. The things that are finite are the rhythm section and the five lead vocalists for each verse.

However, every musician there will be involved and onstage, whether it’s singing the chorus or shaking a tambourine. The musicians and fans are all going to celebrate a night of Memphis community and a night of tribute and benefit to arguably one of the greatest artists to ever live and what is absolutely the greatest hospital in the world.

Memphis Does Bowie tribute show at Minglewood Hall, Saturday, January 23rd. 6 p.m. $15

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Wonder Woman David O. Russell and Jennifer Lawrence reunite in Joy.

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Attack Ad 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is yet another Michael Bay disaster.

During the interminable screening of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, I had a lot of time to contemplate the phenomenon of Michael Bay. Since the director’s 1995 debut Bad Boys launched Will Smith’s acting career and earned $141 million on a $19 million budget, his films have consistently been

hugely profitable. The third and fourth films in his Transformers series grossed more than $1 billion each.

Yet, Bay is, by any other measure, a terrible director.

Not just bad — Ed Wood bad. He can compose a slick image, but he seems either completely indifferent or actively hostile to logic, continuity, and empathy. This is a man who, in Pearl Harbor, had Ben Affleck get on a train to travel from New York to London.

As I watched the 16th or so identical sequence of identical white guys machine-gunning undifferentiated brown Libyans, I achieved insight into the Great Bay Conundrum: He’s a commercial director. Not a director of commercial films, but actual advertisements stretched out to feature length. So who better to direct 13 Hours, a film about the September 11, 2012 riot/ attack on American outposts in Benghazi, Libya, that left ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others dead? Since the incidents happened in the middle of President Obama’s reelection campaign, the Fox News commentariat made it a cause célèbre, alleging conspiracy on the part of Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to cover up … something. They’re never quite clear on what, even after a witch hunt that has gone on for three years.

13 Hours is a typical Bay disaster, full of what would be called rookie mistakes had they been made by anyone else. Instead of telling the story of the battle through the eyes of one soldier — excuse me, security contractor — he takes on six, all of whom are muscle-bound, self-described “alphas” sporting identical, meticulously groomed beards. I took eight pages of notes trying to make sense of who’s who, but to no avail. So when a few of these identical-looking guys die or are gravely wounded, there’s no emotional connection. Bay seems to be vaguely aware that’s a problem, so he periodically stops the action to let them Skype with their six identical-looking families back home. One of the wives tells her husband she’s continued on page 42

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mop you’ll ever need” leads her to the Pennsylvania headquarters of QVC, the pioneering home-shopping channel where Joan Rivers (played uncannily by her daughter Melissa Rivers) hawks cheap jewelry to housewives from gaudy rotating sets. QVC VP Neil (Cooper) takes her under his wing and discovers that no one can sell the Miracle Mop like its creator.

The scene where Joy makes her television debut is an epic slow burn that ranks amongst the best work Lawrence has ever done, but it’s a strong song on a weak album. The screenplay, which was also written by Russell, collapses into a jumbled mess under the weight of flashbacks and failed structural experiments. Lawrence earned a Golden Globe for her performance and is nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, and she’s fantastic. Even though most of the performances are solid, particularly De Niro and Rossellini, Russell is not able to conjure the same synergy he tapped in Silver Linings Playbook or American Hustle. Hopefully, the next album by Russell’s crack band will prove to be a comeback.

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ilm is the most collaborative of media. There’s a tendency to give all the credit or the blame to the director, and, as the person conducting the orchestra, direction can make or break a movie. But, as much as they’d sometimes like to, directors can not do everything themselves, so they must find collaborators they trust. The business of filmmaking being what it is, it is a rare thing when a director can gather a trusted band of collaborators for more than one film. In the case of those who can, like Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson, their films become more like albums from a rock band. There are perfect albums, on which every song is a hit, and then there are the records with a few good songs and some filler.

Over the course of his last three films, David O. Russell has found a band who can play the music he writes. There’s longtime sideman and occasional writing partner Bradley Cooper, soul survivor Robert De Niro, and his lead singer and muse, Jennifer Lawrence. The band’s first film together, 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook, crackled with life and promise.

Their second, American Hustle, shows a band who has worked out their chemistry and gained the confidence to explore new territory. Their third film, Joy, has a few good songs and a lot of filler.

As it begins, Joy tells you it is “Inspired by the stories of daring women. One in particular.” Lawrence plays Joy Mangano, who, when we meet her, is a single mother juggling two children, a neurotic mother, Terry (Virginia Madsen), and an ex-husband, Tony (Édgar Ramírez), who is still living in her basement. Into this volatile mix drops her father Rudy (De Niro), who needs a place to stay because his current girlfriend is kicking him out.

The early scenes where we meet the family—which also include Joy’s grandmother, Mimi (Diane Ladd), who narrates the story from beyond the grave— are filled with swooping camera moves and juicy, emotional moments for the actors to chew on. The family has no problems expressing themselves, but there’s a big question as to whether their confidence translates into success or even competence. It’s invigorating at first, but as the screenplay piles on character after character and woe upon Joy, it starts to lose focus.

In a flashback inspired by tea with her best friend, Jackie (Dascha Polanco), we see how Joy’s life lost focus after she was high school valedictorian who had to turn down a college scholarship to care for her soap opera-obsessed mother. The parodic soap scenes Russell creates with the help of daytime television legend Susan Lucci and a truckload of hairspray start to seep into the dreams of the overwhelmed Joy. After enduring an embarrassing outing on a boat owned by her father’s new girlfriend, Trudy (Isabella Rossellini), Joy has a dream inspired by expired children’s cough syrup and comes up with the idea that will change her life: the Miracle Mop. Her invention of “the last

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy continued from page 41 pregnant while in the midst of a McDonald’s product placement scene.

For Bay, sympathy is just another form of branding.

Despite the excess of protagonists, there is no clear antagonist, just masses of “tangos” swarming the walls of civilization, which makes 13 Hours more like a zombie movie than a war movie. Bay wants to make sure you get that, so someone exclaims “I feel like I’m in a fucking horror movie!”

The real bad guys, of course, are liberals, represented by that most left-wing of figures, a CIA agent (David Costabile), who speaks in an NPR voice. Ambassador Stevens (Matt Letscher) is portrayed as a grandstanding jerk who won’t listen to

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the wisdom of our bearded, gun-freak heroes, until he dies a martyr to the Romney campaign.

Bay’s contribution to the steady moral decay of the American hero is putting “security contractors” — meathead mercenaries who reminisce about the good old days in Iraq — at the center of his film and expecting us to react to them like they were uniformed soldiers. Jack Silva (John Krasinski) laments that he keeps getting sent by his leaders to foreign lands to “die in a battle he can’t understand in a place he doesn’t care about.” Well, too bad. He’s a mercenary killing for money, not a soldier fighting for his country. If he doesn’t like it, he can just get another job — and indeed, in the end, he quits to become an insurance adjuster.

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Zoo Blues The last time I visited the Memphis Zoo was the first “Fake Spring” day of 2015. Fake Spring is the term I use for those latewinter, 70-degree teases everyone savors because they signal the impending change of seasons, though there’s also a 50/50 chance an ice-nado or some other freakish weather event is about to roll through town within a few days.

It was a Sunday afternoon. My friend and I weren’t the only ones eager to get outside for a glimpse at the majestic animal kingdom in our own backyards, as we were joined by practically every family in the tri-state area.

After I paid my five bucks and circled the lot a few times, I wound up having to park on the grass. My friend, who is not from the area, couldn’t believe cars were allowed to park there.

“This is not ideal,” I thought. The ground was still squishy from a recent rain. I hated to think of what the vehicles were doing to the grass and soil, and my hatchback isn’t exactly built for off-roading.

Had I known, I probably would have found a free spot on the street and walked the extra distance. The mosquitoes weren’t out yet, and I have two working legs.

Until last week, “this is not ideal” was about as strong as my opinion ever got on the matter of the parking situation at the Zoo. I saw room for compromise. “We’re so popular, no one can find a parking space” seems like a good problem to have, one that all parties involved should, ideally, be eager to solve together. I read a handful of options for a permanent solution, and I assumed we citizens could sit back and watch the two sides work it out for the sake of the community.

How, after 25 years of living in Memphis, could I be so naïve? Working out a reasonable solution that benefits everyone — that’s crazy talk. When has it ever been that simple?

The latest battle in the war over the Overton Park Greensward (“Treegate,” if you must) is too petty to ignore. Did anyone at the Memphis Zoo envision a scenario in which cutting down — excuse me, removing — 27 trees would result in anything other than a public relations imbroglio? Who signed off on that? Did they think no one would notice? And then, to double down by accusing the conservancy of maliciously planting the trees? Surely at this point the intention must be to alienate the entire city. It’s the only possible explanation. That’s one way to eliminate the need for overflow parking, I suppose.

I understand the challenge the Zoo is facing. They’re trying to get people through the gates. They keep renovating, hosting events, and adding exhibits and attractions to provide us a reason to come back, and it’s working. The facilities have come a long way since my elementary school field trips. Ya Ya’s fertility struggles aside, the Memphis Zoo has the distinction of housing one-sixth of the United States’ giant panda population. The Teton Trek exhibit is magnificent. The polar bears are super cool (har, har). Success hasn’t come without cost, though.

Parking wasn’t as much of a concern in 1906, when the Overton Park Zoo was founded, but now the Zoo is literally backed into a corner. And 45 years after citizens fought to keep I-40 out of the heart of the city, Overton Park is still fighting to keep the cars out.

It may no longer be in the name, but the Memphis Zoo is a part of Overton Park, for better or worse. Trees are not a “nuisance to patrons.” They’re a feature of parks, in case our friends at the Zoo forgot that “park” is not short for “parking lot.” Removing trees and destroying grass are actions that aren’t just un-neighborly — they’re incompatible with the mission of conservation, whether the space in question is used 60 days a year or 365.

Overton Park and the Memphis Zoo share a common goal of bringing joy to local families. It’s time to remember that and start acting like adults.

Jen Clarke is an unapologetic Memphian and digital marketing strategist.

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