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OUR 1389TH ISSUE 10.08.2015 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR What is the picture on your computer’s desktop screen? Your kids? Your dog?

Maybe a memorable vacation photo? Mine is a shot I took one October morning in 2012 as I was about to wade into the Little Red River. A mist is coming off the water, lit golden by a rising sun. The streamside trees are glowing yellow and red and that pale, dry green that says autumn is here. The photo captures everything I like about being on a stream. I put it on my computer so I’d see it each morning when I began to work — a reminder of the beauty that’s so easy to lose sight of in the hustle of everyday life.

I haven’t really looked at it in a long time. That’s because what’s beautiful can fade with time and familiarity. So can what’s horrific — like mass shootings of innocent people by a crazy person. What unfolded on an Oregon college campus last week was the now-familiar nightmare: an insane gunman with multiple weapons acting out some disturbed fantasy, destroying the lives, hopes, and dreams of others before shooting himself or being shot or captured.

Next come the somber statements of support for the families of the victims, the prayer vigils, the tweets of sympathy, the Facebook postings, the presidential statement calling for lawmakers to pass some sort of sensible gun-control laws, the funerals.

Then comes the gun-fetish chorus, spurred on by Big Ammo and the NRA: “It was a gun-free zone, liberals … ”; “If one of those students had been armed ... ”; “Obama will take our guns … ”; “The Second Amendment guarantees my rights … ”; “Why don’t we ban cars?”

And on it goes, the perpetual circle of death and dialogue that is unique to this country. We’ve had 294 mass shootings in 2015, more than one a day. It’s because we’ve created a culture where gun rights trump all else. And we have allowed it to flourish because not enough people have the guts to stand up and say “Enough.

This insanity doesn’t happen anywhere else on the planet. We have a gun problem, and we’re going to address it.”

Instead, we get the moronic response of Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, who, in the aftermath of the Oregon massacre, said, “I would encourage my fellow Christians who are serious about their faith to think about getting a handgun carry permit. Our enemies are armed. We must do likewise.”

Not exactly the approach Jesus would have taken. But then, maybe he wasn’t as serious about his faith as Ron is.

N EWS & O P I N I O N Then, as icing on the cake, comes a LETTERS - 4 story this week out of Blount County, THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 Tennessee: Eight-year-old McKayla THE FLY-BY - 6 SPORTS - 10 Dyer was approached by an 11-year-old POLITICS - 12 neighbor boy who wanted to see her EDITORIAL - 14 puppy. When McKayla refused to let VIEWPOINT - 15 him, the boy went back to his house, COVER STORY grabbed a 12-gauge shotgun, returned, “SIZE MATTERS” BY CANDICE BAXTER - 16 and killed McKayla.

If only she’d been armed, like a serious STE P P I N’ O UT WE RECOMMEND - 20 Christian, she might have been able to MUSIC - 22 shoot the 11-year-old first, and we could AFTER DARK - 28 have avoided this tragedy.

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Letters and comments from Flyer readers Another fenced-in public housing project that was originally built to prevent people from assimilating being torn down? If so, good. A step forward.

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About Bianca Phillips’ post, “CBHS Sends Student Home After He Spoke Out Against Anti-gay Policy” …

He was suspended for making them look bad.

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About Lesley Young’s travel story on New Orleans, “Wandering” …

Dang, can I go with you the next time you visit New Orleans? I would love to follow you around to some of these off-the-beaten path spots in my favorite city for a quick getaway. No place else is remotely close.

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About Toby Sells post, “Pinch Plan Moves Forward” …

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f l y o n t h e w a l l River Resiliency { O UTS I D E TH E B OX There is a neat row of newspaper boxes on Main Street’s pedestrian mall, just north of Madison, in front of the Elvis-themed Walgreens.

In that row of newspaper boxes, between a nicely kept and neatly stocked Memphis Flyer box and a similarly maintained Commercial Appeal box, there’s a filthy, rotting derelict box that’s never full of anything but garbage. The sad little box at the Elvis Walgreens sends a simple message to tourists dropping in for allergy pills and a TCB T-shirt.

That message: “Eat More Fat.”

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HALLOWE E N S C E N E Speaking of Walgreens, the Halloween season is upon us. For maximum spookiness, you’ll want to rush out to your corner pharmacy to pick up a bag of Jesus Harvest Seeds, scripture included with every fun-size pack of candy! Also, if you’re checking out fright-night lawn displays, you’ll want to swing through Uptown to see the bear playing a broken piano. Beary Lee Lewis, maybe?

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COOL THINGS May the Grind be with you! The Memphis Grizzlies have announced the greatest giveaway ever. A lucky 3,000 fans will receive free Tony Allen Jedi robes during the Grizzlies’ December 11th game against the Charlotte Hornets. It’s never too early to start camping out while dressed as Chewbacca.

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CITY REPORTER B y To b y S e l l s

A new plan aims to battle floodwater and “make room for the river.”

Four years after severe storms pounded the MidSouth, some areas haven’t yet fully recovered. But city leaders are working on a $116 million plan to patch them up and make Memphis more resilient to Mother Nature.

Tornado sirens blared through the darkness as hail and rain pounded Memphis one evening in early April 2011. Twenty-one days later, ominous dark clouds dropped sheets of rain on the city in a storm system that also brought a tornado through neighboring Little Rock. Memphis was blasted again two days later and again one month later.

Damages from flooding, tornados, and straight-line winds totaled about $2 billion.

More than 345,000 households and businesses lost power. Floodwaters damaged numerous homes, the Raleigh-Millington Road Bridge, and Nonconnah Creek and the Loosahatchie and Wolf Rivers. Shoreline erosion on President’s Island threatened wildlife habitats, farming, and the operations at the International Port of Memphis, which has an annual economic impact of more than $5.5 billion.

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Riverside Drive after the 2011 flood

Four years later, about $9 million is needed to fully fix President’s Island, about $4 million to fix damage to the tributaries, $400,000 to repair parks and stormwater continued on page 8

CITY REPORTER B y M i c a e l a Wa t t s

Campaign pushing for wage increases gets first wage board hearing.

The common thread to the minimum-wage increases seen recently in New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle, are hours of testimony from low-wage workers from both public- and private-sector jobs.

This past Tuesday, Tennessee residents and elected officials held the first Tennessee wage board hearing, where workers receiving the federally mandated minimum wage of $7.25 an hour had the chance to share their testimonies of economic strife.

“We can’t talk about civil rights, and we can’t talk about human rights without talking about economics,” state Rep. G.A. Hardaway said.

The board hearing was scheduled after the Flyer’s press time, but Hardaway said the board was set up to allow elected officials to hear from the people most impacted by low wages.

“If we’re going to present legislation, we need to hear from the folks that it impacts in order for the message to persuade your colleagues,” Hardaway said. “They need to know who’s going to be impacted the most. Let them witness how it’s going to change lives.”

Hardaway sat on the wage board, along with Memphis City Councilman Myron Lowery; the Rev. Keith Norman of First Baptist Church-Broad; Cherisse Scott, founder and CEO of SisterReach; and Dr. David Ciscel, a retired economics professor from the University of Memphis.

Members of the Fight for $15 campaign demonstrate on the University of Memphis campus.

According to Hardaway, after his election to office in 2007, his values have centered around education and economics. In 2014, when Hardaway proposed a bill for an incremental minimum-wage increase, which was ultimately continued on page 8

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PAUSING TO CELEBRATE. At the 24th Annual Freedom Award, three more who have led us on this hard road will be celebrated. Their stories will be told, good and noble chapters in the larger narrative of human rights. The plot still unfolding, heroes yet to be introduced. The conclusion yet to be written.

All the honorees are women.

Another step taken, another milestone reached.

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was a Freedom Rider who desegregated Tougaloo College.

Ruby Bridges Hall was the first black child to desegregate the Louisiana school system. Ava DuVernay brought Selma to the screen and the powerful story to new generations.

INSPIRED TO CONTINUE. Because of these three and those before, we have a better understanding of where we’ve been and where we must go.

Because of them, we know we will never get there alone. If we are to arrive, we will arrive together.

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infrastructure, and 80 homes still need repair.

To address these needs and to plan for future disasters, the Memphis-Shelby County Office of Sustainability (MSCOS) has applied for the National Disaster Resilience Competition. The office is a finalist in the competition, against other counties, states, cities, and Puerto Rico for a piece of a $1 billion grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The money aims to help areas recover from past disasters and improve their resiliency against future disasters.

“Catastrophic events are becoming more commonplace, and crisis is the new normal,” said Dr. Judith Rodin, president of The Rockefeller Foundation, HUD’s partner in the competition. “This is why it is critical for communities, large and small, to place a premium on building resilience. They can be prepared for whatever comes their way, and disruptions won’t become disasters.”

Shelby County’s plan, called “Greenprint for Resiliency,” focuses primarily on flood storage in the places hardest hit by the 2011 storms: along Big Creek in Millington, along Wolf Creek in Memphis, and South Cypress Creek in Southwest Memphis.

“While it’s really important to not only think about how we can better protect our communities against future flooding,” said MSCOS administrator John Zeanah, “it is also important, given a lot of socioeconomic vulnerabilities that we have, to protect communities that may have a difficult time identifying the resources to build back.”

Projects in these areas will piggyback on the existing Mid-South Greenprint and Sustainability plan, which proposes connecting green spaces in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi with a series of trails and greenways. Projects in the resiliency plan would also come with other improvements to create trails, aid local food production, provide safe transportation alternatives, and more.

Also, a regional resiliency plan will be developed to toughen Shelby County against future storms, of course, but also heavy wind, extreme heat, drought, and severe snow and ice.

In all, the project will cost $116 million. But the county is requesting $70.5 million from the resiliency competition. The rest will come from other committed sources, the plan says.

The application’s deadline is October 27. In the meantime, two public hearings have been scheduled about the plan: • Thursday, Oct. 8 at Golden Gate Cathedral, 3240 James Road, at 5:30 p.m.

• Monday, Oct. 12 at the Whitehaven Library, 4120 Millbranch Road, at 5:30 p.m.

“Wage War” continued from page 6 voted down in the Tennessee House, he became familiar with citizen action groups such as Show Me $15.

Show Me $15 is the local affiliate of the national Fight For $15 campaign, which has expanded from an initial mission to organize fast-food workers to include more low-wage workers such as home health-care professionals and even adjunct college faculty. It’s their stories from the frontlines of minimum wage earnings that Hardaway wants heard.

The debate over raising the minimum wage to $15 is national and divided. The latest Pew Research Center reports from 2014 show that a minimum-wage increase is a popular idea, with 90 percent of Democrats and 71 percent of Independents in favor of increases. The issue is more divided among Republicans, with 53 percent in favor of a wage increase and 43 percent opposed.

It’s important to note, however, that these Pew numbers are in response to last year’s failed Democrat-backed proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

Raising the wage to $15 an hour is another beast entirely, and Ciscel finds optimism in the years-long adjustment period that he believes workers will likely face during the battle for increasing wages.

“So, while we actually want to see a minimum wage go from $7.25 to $15 an hour, the actual wages that we are talking about are moving from the mid-$8s and mid-$10s,” Ciscel explained.

Not every low-wage worker is earning $7.25 an hour, and Ciscel asserts the increases from the slightly higher ranges of $8.50 to $10 an hour pose less of an economic threat than some might think.

“Historically, as we move the minimum wage up, it means that people have more spending power, and, in fact, it means that new jobs are created through that spending power,” Ciscel said. “What people are trying to scare folks on right now is that short-run adjustment from when you move up to $15 dollars an hour from that $7.25. It’s not going to happen like that for most workers. You’ll have a period of adjustment.”

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Markers honor the first 13 black kids to integrate Memphis schools. the courage, and the strength to do what they did.”

Congressman Steve Cohen attended the unveiling at Bruce. While he awaited his turn to speak, he stood near the school’s old cornerstone.

“I was just looking at the marker that’s been here for 107 years that says ‘Bruce Public School.’

It was not a public school. It was a white school, and we shouldn’t forget that,” Cohen said in his speech. “That’s why we’re here with the Memphis 13. This became a public school in 1961.”

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You’ve no doubt heard of the Little Rock Nine — the first African American students to integrate public schools in the Arkansas capital. But what about the Memphis 13?

The stories of the first 13 black students to integrate Memphis City Schools have gone largely ignored.

But now their contributions to desegregation have been immortalized with four new historical markers erected this past weekend by the Shelby County Historical Commission.

The markers were placed at the four schools — Bruce, Gordon, Rozelle, and Springdale Elementary Schools — in which the 13 enrolled on October 3, 1961.

“When I read that one of the Memphis 13 said they felt they had been forgotten, it was like a dagger in my heart,” said the Rev. LaSimba Gray, who pushed for the markers through his work on the Historical Commission. “They did such a tremendous thing for the city in terms of human and civil rights.”

The 13 first graders were chosen in 1961 by the NAACP in Memphis, after the organization filed suit against the city for dragging its feet on integration.

Other schools in the South launched integration with older students and came up against violence. Memphis was the first city to use younger kids.

“The premise for using younger children was that young children would not be tainted. They wouldn’t know bitterness and hatred and resort to violence. The NAACP chairman, the Rev. Billy Kyles, said he did not want to see what happened in Little Rock happen in Memphis,” Gray said.

And there were no mobs or major violent incidents on that first day. But within the schools, many of the 13 experienced bullying and taunting. In a documentary on the Memphis 13 by University of Memphis law professor Daniel Kiel, Menelik Fombi detailed how some white boys would act like friends until they were in a group, and then they’d use the n-word.

“I internalized a lot. I cried a lot. I learned to hate school,” Fombi said.

But Fombi — and five others from the original 13 — attended the marker unveilings last Saturday. Fombi told the crowd gathered at Bruce Elementary, the school he helped integrate along with Harry Williams and Dwania Kyles, that he never imagined something so good could come of his sacrifice.

“I never thought the memories would be so pleasant. I never thought I’d shed tears of joy. It was a battle worth fighting,” Fombi said. “I’m thankful my parents had the wisdom,

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ational League Central Division champions (again) the St. Louis Cardinals will enter the postseason this week as baseball’s first 100-game winner since the 2011 Philadelphia Phillies. And they’ll do so having endured a season of injuries that — on paper — would seem to compromise the chances of a wildcard chase, let alone that magical three-figure win total. A quick summary (well, as quick as I can make such a list): • Three men expected to play every day — first baseman Matt Adams, left fielder Matt Holliday, and center fielder Jon Jay — each missed more than half the season. All three returned to the active roster in September and will be expected to perform in the play-offs for St. Louis to advance.

• The team’s longtime ace, Adam Wainwright, tore his left Achilles’ tendon in his fourth start of the season on April 25th. Initially considered lost for at least nine months, Wainwright returned last week as a highly paid supplement to the Cardinal bullpen. (You’ll remember the last season Wainwright missed — 2011 — ended in a Cardinals’ world championship. The last season he spent in the St. Louis bullpen — 2006 — also ended with a parade.)

• Jay’s replacement in center field — Randal Grichuk — played like a Rookie of the Year contender until straining ligaments in his throwing elbow in August and sitting out a month.

• All-Star catcher Yadier Molina injured his hand applying a gamesaving tag to the Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo on September 20th. His condition for the play-offs (his ninth postseason with St. Louis) remains in question.

• Holliday’s replacement in left field — Stephen Piscotty — hit .305 and drove in 39 runs (better than Holliday in each category) since his promotion from Memphis in July.

But Piscotty crashed horrifically with center fielder Peter Bourjos in Pittsburgh on September 28th, suffering “only” a concussion despite being carted off the field.

• Carlos Martinez — winner of 14

games and the team’s strikeout leader with 184 — will miss the postseason with shoulder tightness, likely the result of his 2014 innings load (89) doubling this season.

Then you have relief pitchers Jordan Walden and Matt Belisle.

Acquired last winter, the two combined to pitch 44 innings. Hard to know what the Cardinals missed here.

When you consider the tragic death of out fielder Oscar Taveras last October, the torn tendons and bruised bones of 2015 are little more than distractions. St. Louis will seek its 20th National League pennant with a roster devoid of a 100-RBI man, no one with 30 home runs, nary a 20-game winner on the pitching staff. It’s a 100-win team that could sweep the Pirates or Cubs on its way to a fifth straight National League Championship Series ... or just as easily be swept aside by Pittsburgh (winners of 98 games) or Chicago (97). Since September 1st, St. Louis is merely 15-16. And consider this: The last three Cardinal teams to win 100 games (in 1985, 2004, and 2005) did not win the World Series.

It’s been one “next-man-up” moment after another for six months in St. Louis. One more such month and Busch Stadium will have a 12th flag to fly.

If strength in adversity, though, is a quality of champions, these Cardinals are fully armed. If you spent any time at AutoZone Park this past summer, the Cardinals’ pennant race should look familiar. Piscotty, Tommy Pham, and Greg Garcia spent most of their season in Memphis uniforms before delivering clutch hits down the stretch. No Wainwright?

No Martinez? Last Wednesday in Pittsburgh, Tyler Lyons (9-5 with the Redbirds this season) took the mound and shut down the Pirates to clinch the Cardinals’ division title.

It’s been one “next-man-up” moment after another for six months in St. Louis. One more such month and Busch Stadium will have a 12th flag to fly.

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Old Country, New World A bucket-list trip to Europe was both a break from and a lead-in to the city election outcome.

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indicate, and just as the song says, this country ain’t gonna study war no more.

A stark reminder of the reasons for that was evidenced in the human and architectural tableau that occurs every afternoon in Munich’s downtown square of Marienplatz, where a crowd, composed of both locals and visitors (the latter drawn last week from an estimated 6 million of diverse nationalities in town for the ongoing Oktoberfest), gathers at 5 p.m. in front of the city’s medieval city hall structure.

As the bells chime out the time, what follows is a mechanical musical template involving two sequential levels of drama enacted by painted wooden figures in the building’s belfry — the higher of which shows a pair of jousting knights, while the lower sets in motion wooden figures of celebrants dancing in glee as the slumping of one of the knights on his horse indicates that the trouble above is all over.

The cheers that issue forth from the massive crowd in the square are clearly for the depicted revelry and not for the little show of combat that preceded it. Ain’t gonna study war no more.

Off to the right of Marienplatz is a tall, yellowish building with long, cone-shaped spires that make it look simultaneously medieval and futurist and which somehow has the look of a movie prop rather than a truly functional structure. And, indeed, one

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PARIS — Some clichés have outlived their usefulness. One of them is the myth of French rudeness. I just returned from a whirlwind tour of four countries — Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, France— on a bucketlist trip I contracted for back in the spring, before I realized how close to the end of the election season it would fall. (I know. I know.)

In any case, most of the trip took place in Frenchspeaking Europe, and most of that was in La Belle France itself. Not once did I utter a syntactically complete and correct French sentence to a native of the country, and seldom did I even attempt it. (Well, make an exception for “Où est la toilette?”)

Moreover, I was in a group that had its share of American-style rowdies. But no French person — clerk, waiter, or citizen — was anything but kind and responsive and willing to try to navigate across the language barrier in our direction.

Nor was there anything goose-steppy or overbearing about the Germans our group encountered in Munich, or elsewhere in the swaths of Bavaria or western Germany we traversed. Even as reports of newly indigenous German pacifism

is told that this is the site of the old city hall, totally destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II and replaced by a concrete facade with squares painted on to simulate the building’s original stones.

Munich wishes above all to manifest its ancient traditions of Gemütlichkeit — hence, the massive annual carnival of Oktoberfest (the original one so named, mind you, and one that dwarfs all imitative festivals, in Memphis or elsewhere).

POLITICS The city is doing its best to live down its reputation as an erstwhile Nazi capital, of sorts. It was here that an ex-solider named Adolf Hitler attempted to begin a putsch against the newly established Weimar Republic in 1923, and it was here that Hitler, after release from a slap-on-the-wrist prison term, established his party headquarters, biding his time until the international Depression in the early 1930s generated enough new chaos for an already traumatized people to see his iron-hand rule as a last, desperate way out.

We know the story, and, believe me, so do the Germans. They maintain Dachau, the suburban retention facility that became the new regime’s first concentration camp, as an object lesson for themselves as well as for the steady train of international visitors that come to see it.

As for the erstwhile headquarters building of the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party that served as the site for the signing of the fateful Munich Agreement of 1938 and that, against all odds, survived the war intact, it has been converted into a Hochschule für Musik, a conservatory.

As for the prospect of tensions between Islamic immigrants and long-term inhabitants of the predominant ethnicity anywhere in Europe, I offer only two images, admittedly incomplete, to suggest the spectrum.

There was the kids’ soccer team in Munich, taking a break from practice at an ice cream store, with one of the players, a swarthy lad with the name Mohamed identifying him on his jersey, joking at ease with his

blondish teammates. So there can be, and is, some acceptance.

And in Paris, warily patrolling the edge of a large throng gathered in front of an ongoing mass and communion at Notre Dame Cathedral, were members of a SWAT squadron, making their presence felt as a clear warning to any would-be militants of the sort that famously have staged murderous raids in the recent past and have begun to cast the faint shadow of fear on the edifices and attractions of the City of Light. So there can be, and is, apprehension.

• MEMPHIS, Tennessee — I know the foregoing, strictly speaking, isn’t political in the way that readers of this column expect. Nor is it explicitly relevant to the issues and possible outcomes of the pivotal city election that is just concluding.

And yet, there are legitimate points of reference.

Ethnic pre-judgments — whether uttered afresh by Donald Trump or whomever or merely passed sotto voce through the medium of voters’ habits — will have played a role in the results here in Memphis.

There is a reason why demographic categories exist in all legitimate polls of likely election outcomes.

There is a “white vote,” and there is a “black vote,” and both categories are spoken of freely and taken stock of in the estimations and planning sessions of all serious campaigns.

When, after this week, we look at the results of the 2015 races for mayor, city clerk, and at-large Memphis City Council races, it will be truly revealing to gauge the strength of habitual ethnic voting patterns vis-à-vis the impact of economics or a myriad of issues that transcend race.

Was there a significant impact from the lastminute revelations of a lucrative contract (now

canceled under pressure) that was bestowed on Deidre Malone, Mayor A C Wharton’s campaign manager, to promote the city’s new police body cameras?

With four mayoral candidates all drawing significant votes from various constituencies, where will vote splits have mattered most decisively — in the “black vote” that Wharton needed a commanding share of to prevail? Or within the ranks of voters anxious for change and uncertain as to which of three challengers to give their votes to?

Within that choice lie two different outcomes, and how the choice will have been made is one key to the mayoral outcome, as, for that matter, will have been the relative turnouts of major voting blocs.

If there is a single undoubtable given in the mayor’s race, it is in the nearly monolithic vote that Councilman Jim Strickland, regarded as Wharton’s leading challenger, was expected to receive from white voters.

Strickland was doing his best to court disaffected black voters, as well, and the results will demonstrate whether that effort, perhaps abetted by the aforementioned “September Surprise,” came to something or nothing.

Both Councilman Harold Collins and Memphis Police Association president Mike Williams seemed to be making late converts. To what result?

What was the voter takeaway from the Lipscomb Affair? That’s another enigma.

How effective was the unprecedented outpouring of money by the two leading mayoral candidates and by a few candidates, hitherto political unknowns, for council positions?

As we speak, all these questions are about to be answered.

Meanwhile, suspense will continue in the several expected runoffs in single-district Council races, not to be decided until November 19th.

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Soft Balls It wasn’t that long ago that Governor Bill Haslam and his transportation commissioner, John Schroer, were in Memphis as part of a statewide tour to pitch what had to have been the softest soft-sell of all time. Here, as elsewhere in Tennessee, the two state officials met with local business, civic, and political leaders in an effort to dramatize a dire picture of infrastructure needs and the near-catastrophe that would confront the state if these needs could not be met in the near future.

That was in July. Haslam and Schroer made it clear then that the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) was looking at a $6 billion backlog of necessary highway and bridge construction — $150 million of which was needed here in Shelby County — and that there simply was no available revenue to build even a few dollars’ worth of it.

Not long before this tour, there had been some preliminary talk in administration circles of asking the legislature for a modest gasoline tax to finance some of the most drastic needs, but that idea was shortly deep-sixed by the usual suspects — i.e., those mossbacks in the General Assembly who evidently think infrastructure repairs get made by themselves at no cost to anybody.

After the debacle suffered by the administration in failing to get the legislature to approve Insure Tennessee, a Medicaid-expansion package that would actually have brought some $1.4 billion in federal funding to Tennessee, the governor evidently hadn’t the heart for asking the state’s smug solons to pass a tax to pay for something.

The idea of that earlier tour was to go around the state to describe in the most dramatic terms how unsustainable

the state’s infrastructure situation would become unless some new funding could be found. But no request was made for any specific form of revenue at any of the local stops made by Haslam and Schroer.

What the administration evidently hoped for was that distressed locals would petition the state for a new highway tax without anybody in state government having to ask for it. Needless to say, in the three months since there have been no such petitions presented.

Schroer was back in Memphis on Tuesday, telling a luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Memphis that the state’s infrastructure situation was unsustainable under current funding circumstances.

Things had meanwhile been made even worse by the impact of a reduction, late in this year’s legislation session, of the portion of state transportation tax that FedEx had been paying.

Things were so bad, Schroer said, that “we can’t survive with everybody in Tennessee driving their car to work.”

Why not ask for a state gasoline tax then? Or at least open a dialogue about it?

“That would be ill-advised,” Schroer said.

Really? What is ill-advised is the state bumbling on toward a future of infrastructure shut-downs and breakdowns without specifying a remedy for the funding shortage and making a case for it.

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Shiite militias are operating under an umbrella called Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs), while Sunni tribes are much more loosely aligned in their fight and are against ISIS more independently — tribe by tribe. In the end, through unity of forces, they could possibly be successful and turn their country around. But it is a long shot.

The fear of ISIS brutality is everywhere in Iraq. While gathering in town squares as a way of protest is empowering, the fear of beheading at the hands of ISIS is still, understandably, a major disincentive to organizing, fighting, and resisting.

When 800 ISIS members marched into Mosul in June of last year, 55,000 Iraqi police and soldiers ran away. A city of two million people collapsed into the hands of 800 ISIS members.

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to call upon their politicians to stop quarreling and quibbling. The protesters want services — education, water and electricity. For years, their politicians have told the citizens of Iraq that the problem in government is religious sectarianism — Shiites versus Sunnis — and now many young people in Iraq are saying that they aren’t buying it any more.

Young Sunnis and young Shiites want accountability. More crucially, they want to know why ISIS has succeeded in taking over huge swathes of Iraq. In today’s world, if anything is to unite Sunnis and Shiites, it will be ISIS. To put it succinctly, other than the West, right now, the only thing that Shiites hate more than Sunnis and Sunnis hate more than Shiites is ISIS. The Iraqi people want unity among conventional Muslims to fight and rid Iraq of extremist ISIS.

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The two main sects within Islam are not at all like the various sects within Christianity, or, for that matter, within Judaism. Sunnis hate Shiites and Shiites hate Sunnis. Since the middle 7th century, each side has taught and preached that the other side is practicing a corrupt form of Islam. It is because the other side is practicing corrupted Islam that the true followers (whichever side that is) believe it is their obligation to teach about the denial and the destruction of the other.

It began with the death of Muhammad in 632. Muhammad failed to declare a successor. That decision caused a divide among his followers. Sunnis believed that the best successor should emerge from among the students of Muhammad. Shiites believed that Muhammad’s mantle of leadership should be passed down through the family.

Sunni is the larger sect, comprising about 85 percent of Muslims. Shiites comprise the remaining 15 percent.

There are other, smaller sects but their numbers worldwide are dwarfed by these two groups. The largest country with a Shiite majority is Iran. Iraq also has a majority of Shiites, about 60 percent.

Every once in a while, Sunni or Shiite leaders announce their intention to unite the factions in order to confront a common enemy. The pitch always sounds good, but almost always falls flat. The common enemy they most often speak of is the West — specifically Israel and the United States.

If these two Muslim sects were to stop their conflict, the Middle East would be a different place. Not a peaceful place, but a place with differently focused conflict. For instance, much of the tension in Syria is Shiite versus Sunni. The conflict in Yemen is Shiite versus Sunni. And the power struggle engaging Iran and Saudi Arabia is, of course, Shiite versus Sunni.

And yet, despite the conflict, every Friday over the past few weeks, Shiites and Sunnis in some Iraqi cities have come together in major squares. By the tens of thousands, sometimes even by the hundreds of thousands, they have gathered united, as one voice, in protest over the current divisive situation. The slogans they are shouting and the placards they are raising say, “Sectarianism is dead” and “Stop stealing from us in the name of religion.”

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Suburban sprawl has changed the Memphis landscape — farmland was subdivided, two-lane roads grew to six, cow pastures were replaced by strip malls. Growth is important to our city, but there are people who are rejecting the concept of “bigger, better, faster” commercialism. They want to take up less space. They want to economize possessions. They want to live in a tiny house.

A tiny house is a completely inhabitable unit of less than 400 square feet (some say 500), usually built on a trailer. Most have running water and electricity, made fully functional by being hooked up to a water hose and a 120-volt extension cord.

The little structures seem to appeal to three groups: first-home buyers with student loan debt, downsizing empty nesters, and the environmentally conscious.

And then there are those people who watch all the TV shows about tiny houses and really want one but are deterred by the real concerns of a lack of privacy, micro appliances, and the shoebox nature of living in one room.

For the past 15 years, this concept of pared-down living has spread across the Western U.S., as more and more people decided to live more simply. Many tiny house models are designed to go completely off-grid, equipped with solar panels, wood-burning stoves, and composting toilets. Unplug and head for the hills.

Others have built them as second homes for vacation getaways, boomerang kid

A repurposed barn and horse arena serve as home base to Tennessee Tiny Homes (above); Del Gray built his own tiny home for his family (left). quarters, or mother-in-law suites.

But the tiny house movement, as it is called, isn’t just about the house. It is about changing the focus of life. Having less and doing more. Lower cost of living allows for more available cash, but less space to store possessions. Tiny homes aren’t just for the “crunchy” sector anymore. In the wake of the housing market crash, with student loan debt at all-time highs, more people are choosing not to spend a third of their income on mortgage.

They say they have money to get out and do things.

Many downsize as a means to pursue more fulfilling careers for less pay.

Also appealing to some is the opportunity to stick it to The Man, so to speak. Property taxes are not assessed on tiny homes on wheels. If built on a foundation, taxes are based on the square footage of living space.

From the new Renaissance Group development of 450-square-foot “micro-units” near South Main, to the county outskirts, where a young couple from Tacoma, Washington, parks their tiny house on a friend’s land, the tiny living movement has made its way to the Mid-South.

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but there were no takers. After hundreds of pitches, Everson pulled his tiny house home, where he faced a foreclosure notice. “Then,” he says, “I took the last of my money and built another tiny house.”

It sold almost immediately. Then he sold the original one. Calls began to trickle sold and awaiting construction. Rain taps on the metal roof of an old open-air in from people he’d met on the road. Posts trended on social media. People wanted horse arena. The humid summer breeze mixes smells of overgrown pasture with tiny houses, but they wanted custom builds. And Tennessee Tiny Homes was born. fresh paint and wood crackling in the burn pile. Sawdust crunches underfoot.

These days, Joe wanders through the stables, talking to buyers on the phone, All around, tiny houses in various states of construction start to show the sending photos of progress, and expediting final builds before they hit the road. personalities of their owners — barn dormers, a pitched roof, cedar shingles, When asked why someone couldn’t just buy an RV, Joe ducks his head into a pink siding. A saw-horse maze is the center point, and all around, carpenters little red house. “It’s all about longevity,” he says. “Say you pay all that money for are running saws and drills. Every board is screwed in place — not nailed — for an RV, and in about five years, things start breaking. When have you ever known maximum durability on the road. Today, all the exterior craftsmen are focused on something on an RV not to break? But if you build a tiny house, you can live in it one house — the shell headed for Georgia to be featured on an upcoming episode for a while. When your kids go to college, they can live in it. And their kids can live of FYI’s Tiny House Nation. in it. It’s a house. This thing will last.”

You might say tiny houses are the next big thing, and 32-year-old Joe Everson is The average unit built by Tennessee Tiny Homes runs $30,000 to $35,000, with riding the wave. Everson grew up in the construction business. He stands 6 feet 5 top sellers being the smallest model (7’x12’) and the largest (8’x24’). The company inches and is all muscle. He was the biggest cop on his shift at the North Memphis creates each house specific to buyers’ needs and offers high-end touches such as precinct and was always called to break up domestics. With his head of thick dark granite countertops, tiled steam showers, and reclaimed wood flooring. hair and charming smile, Everson says he has been asked more than once if he was Many buyers opt for just the exterior shell (complete with electrical, plumbing, really a stripper. and insulation) to save labor costs. The Eversons have transported tiny houses all After wearing the badge for 10 years, Everson returned to construction and over the continental U.S., from California to Georgia, Canada to Texas. became his own boss. He got the tiny house idea Everson’s tiny dream has grown into a family from a “princess playhouse” his brother had built business. His wife, Kristen, runs the office from in the backyard. He researched tiny plans and took TINY OPEN HOUSE home. They share their Collierville house and nine a workshop with Jay Shafer of Tumbleweed Tiny The next Tennessee Tiny Homes open house is acres with seven dogs.

House Company, the founder of the movement.

Saturday, October 25th, 2-6 p.m. See up to five “We can’t live in a tiny house,” Kristen Everson He draws inspiration from Henry David Thoreau’s tiny houses in various stages of completion. says. “We rescue Great Danes.” But she has good Walden. “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the Admission is $5. No children under 12, as it is reason to be thankful for those who want to live marrow of life … to drive life into a corner, and an active construction site. Thick-soled, closedtiny. In 2011, on a trip to the Spring River, she got reduce it to its lowest terms.” toe shoes are recommended. All proceeds a tick bite and contracted Lyme disease. Two years In 2012, Everson built his first tiny house in benefit Tiny Homes of Hope, a nonprofit effort later, her symptoms still weren’t responding to his backyard. With no local buyers, he hitched up treatments. “The stars aligned when the tiny house to build a tiny house shelter for victims of the trailer, loaded his Great Dane, Sampson, and domestic violence. For open house address and business took off, so we could afford a month-long embarked on a nine-city tour, stopping at Home ticket information, RSVP to tthopenhouse@ clinic in Reno,” she says. Since 2014, she has been Depots and town squares. People pulled over to gmail.com.

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Joe’s younger brother John is the head builder. He tackles each floorplan like a puzzle. “You’ve got to have everything that’s in a regular house, but in a tight space. So you can’t have a plumber and electrician in at the same time. It all has to happen in stages.”

Their mother, Rhonda, handles final clean-up, and their father, Big Joe, heads up logistics. He has maneuvered dozens of tiny houses cross-country, down steep hills and under lowhanging power lines. “I just drive the truck,” he says.

When not on the road, they live in a tiny house in Joe’s back yard.

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For some, tiny living is an act of civil disobedience. One person declined an interview for fear of being discovered.

In the city of Memphis, it’s illegal to park a tiny house in the backyard and live in it. Or rent it out.

Allen Medlock, administrator of Shelby County Construction Code Enforcement, has been answering a lot of questions about small dwellings lately. Section 48-211 of Memphis city codes states that it is unlawful to use recreational vehicles to live, sleep in, or for housekeeping purposes. On property zoned residential, it must be stored the backyard on a concrete or asphalt slab.

“Most subdivisions have their own rules about where to park these things,” Medlock says.

A tiny house on wheels is considered an RV when uninhabited. But when it’s parked and lived-in, the city of Memphis considers it a house trailer, which is also illegal inside city limits, unless parked on an approved private lot. But who wants to put their fancy tiny house in a local trailer park?

Plots of four acres or more are exempt from subdivision rules, so the safest long-term place for a tiny house in the Mid-South is on rural land.

Typically, tiny house owners lease a flat spot with a pretty view and northern exposure and live off-grid. But legally, permanent Tennessee residences require a sanitary septic system. So if there is a water hose, extension cord, and sewer hookup, it’s all legal.

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Meridian, Mississippi. He had been deployed to the Middle East before and did not want to leave his family if only stationed three hours away. Del and his wife, Korei, a former Shelby County Schools teacher, considered options to accommodate their boys, ages 6, 8, and 9. Payments and utilities on two large homes was not an option. They didn’t want to sell or rent the High Point house, so going tiny made sense. They wanted to buy a tiny house from the Eversons, but the wait was too long. So Del researched plans online and drew up a plan to fit his family.

“When he parked the trailer in the front yard, I knew there was no turning back,” Korei remembers. “He worked on it all spring. He could have finished sooner, but people stopped him all the time wanting to talk about it.”

Del worked almost four months, on nights and weekends and in all kinds of weather. By May’s end, around 100 people had come to see the rustic, wooden tiny house before the family pulled it to Meridian, where they spent the summer in an RV park near the Naval reserve center.

TINY LIVING IS AN ACT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ... IT'S ILLEGAL TO PARK A TINY HOUSE IN THE BACKYARD AND LIVE IN IT. All in all, the Grays’ tiny house cost $20,000. Four slide-outs, two sleeping bunks, and two closets maximize the central living space. The galley kitchen boasts a two-burner cooktop, convection oven, apartment-sized fridge, sink, and a small washer/dryer.

The bathroom houses two separate accordion-door shower stalls with built-in sinks and one flushing toilet.

A cushioned bench area provides space for lounging and more storage.

Sleeping lofts cap each end, the boys’ accessible by ladder while steps doubling as storage lead to the parents’ “bedroom.” Outside, the front porch folds down for traveling.

Korei says life runs along like in a regular home — rush to eat breakfast and get dressed, spend all day at work/ school, do homework, eat supper, practice sports, watch a little Apple TV or play video games, and go to bed.

The family drives back to Memphis each weekend to switch out the week’s clothes and visit with their oldest son, who lives in the High Point house while on leave from the Coast Guard.

“It has brought us closer as family,” Del says. “Instead of collecting items, we’re collecting memories.”

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How does one train for a marathon, 10-hour walking tour of Memphis? Treadmill workouts? Endurance talking? Run a potholeand-road-repair obstacle course? If you’re Memphis historian and master tour guide Jimmy Ogle, you don’t do anything at all. He says he’s ready to go and has enough material in his head to do a 20-hour tour. And, of course, he does.

Ogle’s regular tours take him from Elmwood Cemetery, where he resurrects the ghost of censor Lloyd T. Binford, to the courthouse, where he’s got stories about everything from the artwork to a famous cuspidor into which many famous people have spat. He does park walks, and bridge walks, and riverfront tours, and tours of downtown manhole covers. And that just barely scratches the surface.

But the question remains, why a 10-hour-tour?

“I’ve got a thing about numbers,” Ogle says. He added up all the tours he’d given and was scheduled to give in 2015, and the total was 49. That wasn’t good enough. He “wanted to make it 50.” From there, things get a little weird. “I’ve always liked the number 10,” Ogle explains, dropping a bit of trivia about himself. “I played basketball in school, and the number on my jersey was 10.” And that’s how it became clear that he was destined to conduct a 10-hour tour on the 10th day of the 10th month, kicking off from Beale Street Landing at exactly 10 minutes after 10 in the morning, and ending at Westy’s in the Pinch 10 hours later.

Participants don’t have to walk the entire route. They are allowed to drop out and rejoin at any point along the way.

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Booksigning by Tom Piazza Crosstown Story Booth, 6 p.m.

Tom Piazza signs his latest novel, A Free State, a book about “race, violence, and identity set on the eve of the Civil War.” Feed the Soul The Warehouse (36 G.E. Patterson), 6 p.m., $45 Annual fund-raiser for MIFA with lots of food and lots of drinks. More info: www.mifa.org/feedthesoul.

Booksigning by Dave Hoekstra Stax Museum of American Soul Music, noon-1 p.m.

David Hoekstra signs his food history The People’s Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today.

James Beard Foundation’s Celebrity Chef Dinner Memphis Zoo, 6:30 p.m.

Part of the James Beard Foundation’s Celebrity Chef Tour and the organization’s first dinner held at a zoo. Participating chefs in this five-course dinner include Oxford chef (and allaround badass) John Currence; New York chef Michael Ginor; and Steven Satterfield of Atlanta, plus Memphis’ own Kelly English, Michael Hudman and Andy Ticer, and chocolatier Phillip Rix. Tickets: 333-6571.

43rd Annual Pink Palace Crafts Fair Audubon Park, 10 a.m., $9 Massive crafts fair with vendors selling all kinds of stuff. If it’s craftsy, it’s there. There are artist demos as well, and don’t you dare leave without one or two (or three?)

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“You Are the Hole: An Exhibition in Four Acts” Crosstown Arts, 6-9 p.m.

Opening night of this intriguingly titled show by Joel Parsons.

A “beholding & being held” performance is set for Sunday, October 25th at 2 p.m.

Pagliacci

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By Chris Davis It’s all fun and games ’til somebody’s cheating ass gets stabbed through the heart. That, more or less, is the moral of Pagliacci, Ruggero Leoncavallo’s iconic one-hit wonder of an opera.

There’s no scene in opera history more famous than the one where Canio, a beloved clown, confronts his hateful clothes and his ridiculous makeup, and tells himself to put on the costume, ruffles and all, and to go out on the stage and laugh for the crowd — laugh in spite of heartbreaking disappointment and swelling homicidal rage. The image, tragic and terrifying as it is, has been referenced and parodied on countless occasions and used to sell everything from Taco Bell tacos to Rice Krispies Treats.

Pagliacci is an especially good opera for beginners. For starters, it’s short, packing a lot of tragic action into 90 minutes.

It’s also a leading example of opera verismo, or “realistic opera,” which, of course, sounds like an oxymoron. In response to operas about gods and kings and weird mythological creatures, the verismo movement aimed to bring a bit of realism to the least realistic of all theatrical forms. These grittier works focused on sensational “slice-of-life” stories, and often depicted scenes of graphic violence.

Opera Memphis’ colorful and fast-paced production makes the most of a large chorus that fills the stage and cheers convincingly for their favorite clown while jugglers pitch their rings and acrobats tumble. The show features Memphis favorites like Matt Worth and Jennifer Goode performing alongside “Neapolitan powerhouse” Marco Nisticò.

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“Invisible Girls” and “The Mind’s I” Memphis College of Art, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception for two exhibitions by Anne Harris.

“Invisible Girls” features Harris’ “phantasmagorical” portraits of women. “Mind’s I” deals with the ideas of perception and selfperception.

Also opening in the Alumni Gallery is “Symbiotic Tendencies,” sculptural collages by Nikkila Carroll.

An Actor in Purgatory TheatreWorks, 8 p.m., $12 An Our Own Voice production of Bill Baker’s work about the 40year working relationship between Baker and another actor Bob Klyce, using the career of Peter Lorre as its storyline.

Deconstruction Day Corner of Madison and Cooper, 9:30-11 a.m.

The old French Quarter Inn will be demolished, and a new building for Ballet Memphis will go in its place.

Ballet Memphis celebrates the demo with this event.

I Am Spartan Evergreen Theatre, 7 p.m.

The Unreal Film Festival, focused on sci-fi, horror, and fantasy, continues with this screening of I Am Spartan about a fighter facing one last battle.

Bristerfest Tower Courtyard, Overton Square, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Annual festival with live music (including Chinese Connection Dub Embassy), MemFizz, Zigadoo Moneyclips, and more), a marketplace, and beer. Benefiting GrowMemphis.

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In Adams about my wife and I had had our first baby,” he says.

Memphis, TNSay 38105 their heyday, the Subteens were one what you will about So That’s What the Kids Are “The Subteens had been plugging away for seven years of the biggest draws in town, butOpen for a Fridays Calling It being a better-sounding or more cohesive and it was time for me to make a decision. I could keep and Saturdays myriad of reasons, both personal and professional, they album. For my money, Burn Your Cardigan is the stumbling home at three in the morning, smelling like a 10am–4pm eventually fizzled out, unceremoniously leaving behind definitive Subteens statement. greasy ashtray, or I could be a responsible husband and a legacy of two rock-solid albums and a host of “Do you “I’m proud of it. We worked our asses off on that dad. No choice, really.” remember when?” memories for those who were lucky record, and I think it holds up pretty well,” Hines says.

Another factor in Hines’ decision was Akin’s growing enough to catch one of the band’s frenetic live shows.

Of course, Burn Your Cardigan attracted more than drug problem.

I first saw the Subteens in 1996 at either Bartlett Park just my attention. Rave national reviews soon followed “I was really starting to party a lot, and I think he or at a club on Highland, I can’t remember which came in Billboard and in CMJ, and the band toured the U.S. didn’t like being around it, understandably,” Akin says. first. The group’s sound hadn’t fully evolved into what I extensively. By 2000, the Subteens were one of the “Some things got easier, like traveling and practicing. No think of as “the Subteens” at that time. It was a bit more biggest bands in Memphis. It was around that time one in the band had a real job, so we could all basically polished and “college rock-y” back then. that they added a fourth member, Terrence Bishop, on do whatever we wanted. We definitely travelled more, but “I was influenced by British punk bands like the Jam second guitar. without Jay to keep us centered, we sort of came off the and the Sex Pistols, and Kram was influenced by rails a little.”

Magevney punk bands and AC/DC,”House Jay Hines, the group’s Two years after Hines’ departure (which led The Subteens Adams and Ave.again briefly in bass player from198 1995-2002, to Bishop’s switching over to bass), the band 2007, says.Memphis, TN 38103 was effectively done. Yes, they released So That’s “Sean was more into bands like the Church What the Kids Are Calling It in 2004, but the Open the first Saturday of and Buff alo Tom. Th e common denominator for spark was gone. The band had blown several each month from 1–4pm all three of us was the Replacements.” big opportunities, including a European tour, A string of temporary and fill-in drummers and Akin started not showing up for gigs. The followed as Hines and Mark Akin honed their Subteens, more or less, just disappeared. songwriting and started to attract a following.

“Bubba and Terrence got sick of it, so they But the pieces never quite fit together perfectly quit,” Akin says. “That’s pretty much it. I think until the emergence of a new, permanent those guys would have pretty much put up with drummer came in 1999 — longtime Memphis anything except flaking on gigs.” music veteran John “Bubba” Bonds.

In 2007, the band started doing the occasional “I’d like to think I helped them get things reunion show, once with Hines on bass, other together, but it was an easy band to join,” Bonds times with Bishop. says. “Most of the songs were already written.

None of those mostly one-off reunions lasted They just needed a drummer.” very long, which brings us to the present. The “[Bonds] was literally like a god in my eyes,” Akin “Terrence used to hang out with us all the time. He Subteens are celebrating 20 years of history together. says. “In my mind he was a rock star. He said, ‘I’ll play would road-trip it with us and just sort of be around,” Bishop won’t be there because of scheduling conflicts, but with you, Subteens,’ and Jay and I looked at each other Akin says. “I really, really wanted a second guitar player the trio of Akin, Hines, and Bonds will suffice. like, ‘Holy shit, really?’” in the band. It just sort of hit me — why don’t we ask “I feelCENTER so ridiculously lucky, ” saysCenter) Akin, who is now LANDERS (DeSoto Civic Almost instantly, the newly solidified trio was holed him? The whole thing took like two minutes.” drug-free and has been for several years.

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Meanwhile in Memphis Five upcoming concerts worth your attention.

Father John Misty at Minglewood Hall, Friday, October 9th.

Dubbed a sex symbol by the music press titan known as Pitchfork, Father John Misty was most recently in the news for poking fun at Ryan Adams’ Taylor Swift cover album (hey, somebody had to do it). Misty, (whose real name is Joshua Tillman) isn’t just an internet troll, as he consistently releases new music in between touring and whatever else sex symbols do with their time. Misty has to be doing something right, as his latest song, “The Memo” has over 100,000 plays on SoundCloud, despite having only been available on the internet for about two weeks. “The Memo” is a glimpse into the mind of Misty, who isn’t afraid to call it like it is with lyrics openly criticizing the status quo of popular music and highbrow art. He will be joined by indie rockers Tess & Dave. Doors are at 6 p.m., and admission is $20-$23.

Father John Misty plays Minglewood Hall this Friday night.

Bristerfest at Overton Square, Saturday, October 10th.

Bristerfest is a one-day music festival put on by Jack Simon to benefit the local nonprofit group GrowMemphis. The festival has had a few different locations since its inception, and has raised over $4,000 for GrowMemphis. This year, Chinese Connection Dub Embassy and Zigadoo Moneyclips are the main attractions, along with Suavo J. and 88 Bones, and a new-ish group called Memfizz. Bristerfest starts at 11 a.m. at the Tower Courtyard in Overton Square. Admission is free.

Chickasaw Mound at Bar DKDC, Saturday, October 10th.

I’ve been preaching the Chickasaw Mound gospel for a while now, and hopefully at some point during my high praise you’ve paid attention. The band plays late at DKDC on Saturday night, and as they proclaim to be “Flower Children of the Revelation,” you should probably check out what Jesse Davis and company have in store.

The show starts at 11 p.m., and the Mound are the only band on the bill, although there is a DJ. Admission is $5.

Cheater Slicks at Murphy’s, Wednesday, October 14th.

Columbus, Ohio’s Cheater Slicks return to Memphis this Wednesday, making for one of the biggest garage rock shows of the month. Formed in 1987, the band has been cranking out nasty garage punk for over 20 years and has heavily influenced noisemakers in Memphis. Wednesday’s show should bring some older Memphis rockers out of the woodwork. Joining Cheater Slicks is Boston’s Mr. Airplane Man, a female two-piece who are flying in specifically for the show. Mr. Airplane Man recorded a session with Bruce Watson (Fat Possum Records) in 1999, and the recording is currently online as the band waits for a physical copy to finally be released. Toy Trucks open the show at 9 p.m., and admission is $8.

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Meanwhile in Memphis: The Sound of A Revolution DVD Release at the 1884 Lounge, Friday, October 9th.

Meanwhile in Memphis is the music documentary by Robert Parker and Nan Hackman that first premiered at the Indie Memphis Film Fest in 2013.

It’s now available for purchase, and to celebrate, the Grifters, Paul Taylor, and Hope Clayburn will perform at 1884 Lounge. Meanwhile in Memphis covers the D.I.Y. music scene from the late ’70s to the present day, and this is the first time the DVD will be available. The film will also include a second disc with 16 additional short films edited from leftover material, and if you can’t wait for the release show, all 16 short films will be shown Thursday night at Studio on the Square. Friday’s event is at 10 p.m. and admission is $5.

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October is usually when things start slowing down for the Memphis music scene. The late-summer festivals have come and gone, the free concert series at the Levitt Shell is coming to an end, and the hectic music schedule of September is finally over with. Well guess what? Times they are a changin’ around here, thanks to a reinvigorated New Daisy Theater, Minglewood Hall ramping up their action, and other local venues and promoters doing their part to supply me with ample events to cover. Now that it’s not one million degrees outside, you’re running out of excuses not to check out local and national acts rolling through town.

Here are some events that should be on your radar over the next few days.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule October 8 - 14 Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

B.B. King’s Blues Club 143 BEALE 524-KING

1st Floor: Mercury Blvd.

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

Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar 159 BEALE

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

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

Blue Note Bar & Grill

King’s Palace Cafe

341-345 BEALE 577-1089

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

Blues City Cafe

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

162 BEALE 521-1851

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

182 BEALE 528-0150

168 BEALE 576-2220

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

New Daisy Theatre

Disco Donnie Presents: Tommy Lee & DJ Aero Friday, Oct. 9, 9 p.m.-3 a.m.; Disco Donnie Presents: Borgore Saturday, Oct. 10, 9 p.m.midnight; Seether with Saint Asonia Wednesday, Oct. 14, 6:30-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe

138 BEALE 526-3637

182 BEALE 528-0150

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

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

Tin Roof 315 BEALE

The Voice’s Barrett Baber and Nashville’s Ashley McBryde Sunday, Oct. 11, 6-9 p.m.

251 RIVERSIDE

Local Music Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub

Rumba Room

152 MADISON 572-1813

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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.

Huey’s Downtown

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

South Main Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Daddy Mack Blues Band Sunday, Oct. 11, 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

Paulette’s RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

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

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Riverfront Bar & Grill

Brinson’s

209 BEALE 578-5650

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119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

341 MADISON 524-0104

Wet Willie’s The Bonfire Orchestra Thursday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Eric Hughes Friday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m.; Roxi Love Saturday, Oct. 10, 7 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m.

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.

Live Music Fridays.

183 BEALE 522-9596

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

Blind Bear Speakeasy Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.

Silky O’Sullivan’s

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

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

162 BEALE 521-1851

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

145 BEALE 578-3031

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.

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall

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

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

King’s Palace Cafe’s Patio

1884 Lounge 1555 MADISON 312-6058

Rhiannon Giddens Thursday, Oct. 8, 8 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Linda Heck and the Trainwreck Friday, Oct. 9.

The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

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

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Crosstown Arts

Overton Square

Dan McGuinness Pub

430 N. CLEVELAND 507-8030

MIDTOWN

4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

An Evening of Acoustic Soul with Anitra Jay & The Rebellion Thursday, Oct. 8, 7-9 p.m.

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

Dru’s Place

1532 MADISON 726-0906

Evergreen Presbyterian Church

2809 KIRBY PKWY. 759-0593

The Phoenix

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

613 UNIVERSITY 274-3740

SPRAY PAINT LIVE AT MURPHY’S Austin, Texas noise rockers return to Memphis this Thursday night for a show with locals NOTS and Strengths. Spray Paint are no strangers to Memphis (or Murphy’s for that matter), having played here multiple times including their memorable performance at Gonerfest 11. The Austin band often gets compared to UK post-punk pioneers Wire, which is a fine comparison, even if Spray Paint’s drummer Chris Stephenson hits the skins way harder than Robert “Gotobed” Grey (Wire’s drummer) ever did. The band has been around for the past few years, cranking out records for labels like Upset! the Rhythm and 12XU (run by Matador Records founder Gerald Cosloy) before settling with Monofonus Press for their second record of 2015, Dopers. The album will be officially released on October 23rd.

Recorded in California by Chris Woodhouse (The Blind Shake, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall), Dopers features eight tracks of noise-infused punk, and the recently premiered second track “Signal Master” indicated that Dopers could be a sleeper for one of the last great punk albums released this year. Thursday night’s show is the start of an East Coast tour for Spray Paint in support of the new album, and hopefully the band will have copies of Dopers for sale at the show.

Also on the bill is NOTS, who are about to go on a relatively long East Coast tour. The band recently had their breakout album We Are Nots re-released in the UK by Heavenly Recordings, and they plan to head to England sometime before the end of the year. Opening up the show is Strengths, a new-ish noiserock band featuring Alyssa Moore, who was recently voted best sound person in Memphis in the staff picks of our “Best Of ” issue. — Chris Shaw Spray Paint, NOTS, Strengths, Thursday, October 8th, at Murphy’s, 9 p.m. $8.

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538

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

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

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

Blue Monkey

Celtic Crossing

2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

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.; Accidental Field Trip Friday, Oct. 9, 10 p.m.; Zeke and the Jug Band Rascals Saturday, Oct. 10, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard James Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Anne Schorr Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Fall Choral Concert: Songs of Dreams and Awakening Saturday, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.; Rhodes Orchestra and Wind Ensemble Concert Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m.

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

Green River Ordinance Thursday, Oct. 8, 11 p.m.; Co-Wreck’d and Imperial Dynasty Productions presents: The Impossible Show: Friday, Oct. 9, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Earl “The Pearl” Banks Sunday, Oct. 11, 4-7 p.m.; Grady Champion Sunday, Oct. 11, 8:30-11:30 p.m.; Soul Shockers Sunday, Oct. 11, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Java Cabana 2170 YOUNG 272-7210

Jonathan Tea Sunday, Oct. 11, 3-5 p.m.

1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Memphis Songwriters Association second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9 p.m.

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

Rhodes College, Tuthill Performance Hall

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

2000 N. PARKWAY

Faculty Concert Series: Iren Zombor and Brian Ray Monday, Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m.

Sports Junction 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

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

Strano Sicilian Kitchen 948 S. COOPER 552-7122

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

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

University of Memphis

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Ghost Town Blues Band Sunday, Oct. 11, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

T.J. Mulligan’s Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant

Ubee’s Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

East Memphis

Otherlands Coffee Bar

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

521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

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

641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Karaoke ongoing.

Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; RiverBluff Clan Sunday, Oct. 11, 4 p.m.

Bryan Hayes & The Retrievers, Rice Drewry Friday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.; Dan Montgomery Trio, Candace and Robert Mache, Elizabeth Wise Saturday, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.

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2119 MADISON 207-5097

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Wild Bill’s

Lafayette’s Music Room

Midtown Crossing Grille

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

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School 60 N. PERKINS EXT. 537-1483

Return of the King Monday, Oct. 12, 7-9:30 p.m.

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplethreat Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Rhythm Rockers Saturday, Oct. 10, 8 p.m.; Mother Lode Sunday, Oct. 11, 6-10 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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P&H Cafe

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

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

Summer/Berclair

RockHouse Live

Delta Blues Winery

5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

6585 STEWART

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

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

El Porton 1805 N GERMANTOWN PARKWAY 624-9358

Mystery Machine Saturday, Oct. 10, 7-11 p.m.

High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Delta Joe Sanders and Friends every other Tuesday, 8-11 p.m.; Pubapalooza with Stereo Joe every other Wednesday, 8-11 p.m.

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

The Other Place Bar & Grill 4148 WALES 373-0155

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

Germantown

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

Germantown Performing Arts Center

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

1801 EXETER 751-7500

Pagliacci Wed.-Thur., Oct. 9-10, 7:30-9:30pm; Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s Paul & Linnea Bert Classic Accents Series: Mozart & More! Sunday, Oct. 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

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

Whitehaven/ Airport

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

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

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

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

Horseshoe Casino Tunica 1021 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 800-357-5600

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing; Huey Lewis & The News Friday, Oct. 9, 8 p.m.

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

Deering and Down Sunday, Oct. 11, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

Tunica Roadhouse

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

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

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

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Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Steak Night w/ Scott and Vanessa Sudbury Thursday, Oct. 8, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Nuttin’ Fancy Band Friday, Oct. 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Backstreet Crawlers Band Saturday, Oct. 10, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sunday Funday Cruisin’ Heavy Sunday, Oct. 11, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Groove Method Wednesday, Oct. 14, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

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Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

The King Beez Sunday, Oct. 11, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Side Car Cafe

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Huey’s Germantown

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Brian Johnson Band Saturday, Oct. 10, 7-11 p.m.

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

The Vine Brothers Sunday, Oct. 11, 4-7 p.m.; Six String Lovers Sunday, Oct. 11, 8-11:30 p.m.

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

Karaoke Mondays, 8-11 p.m.

The Dantones Sunday, Oct. 11, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

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

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

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

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, Oct. 11, 8-11:30 p.m.; Charvey Mac Wednesday, Oct. 14, 5-7 p.m.

Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

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

North Mississippi/ Tunica BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove 6275 SNOWDEN GROVE, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-892-2660

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

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

Mesquite Chop House

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3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

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

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

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

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

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The Keepers

Cormac McCarthy conference comes to Memphis.

October 8-14, 2015

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ormac McCarthy was 32 when he published his first novel, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965. He has since won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, and a Pulitzer Prize, among other fellowships, awards, and recognitions, and has garnered a cortege of devotees, from the lay reader to the fellow prize-winning author, that could be defined as a veritable phenomenon.

In 1993, close to a year after the publication of McCarthy’s sixth novel, All the Pretty Horses, which became a New York Times best-seller seemingly overnight, a faction of those disciples gathered at Bellarmine University in Kentucky to discourse about this author who had irreversibly bewitched readers across the globe.

That assembly resulted in an (almost) annual international conference as well as the Cormac McCarthy Society, which co-hosts other mini-conferences, fields papers, and assists with the publication of journals on all things McCarthy, mostly through their website cormacmccarthy.com.

For the 50th anniversary of McCarthy’s first novel, the society decided to host the 2015 conference in Memphis. This Thursday, October 8th, through Saturday, October 10th, hundreds of fans from all over the world will convene on the campus of the University of Memphis to celebrate one of the world’s greatest living authors.

“It seems like an eyeblink that we’ve gone from pulling our teeth to find a place for our first conference. It was just by a stroke of luck that we were able to go to Bellarmine. Now we field calls from universities all over the world asking would we like to hold the conference there,” Society Secretary and co-founder Rick Wallach says.

They settled on Memphis by way of Knoxville, where McCarthy grew up most of his life and lived many years and where the society has hosted numerous previous conferences. The Orchard Keeper as well as his other early novels take place in and around Knoxville.

“This is a rare opportunity where scholars from all over the world will come to Memphis, and it is a chance for our students and faculty to hear some of the most interesting and current ideas going on in literature,” Dr. Jeffrey Scraba, associate professor and director of graduate studies at the U of M, says.

Conference planners designate a theme each year, and while this year’s conference

centers around The Orchard Keeper, panel topics will cover a variety of works and motifs, such as ecotheology, the aesthetics of violence, and teaching McCarthy in high school.

McCarthy has published 10 novels, two plays, and three screenplays. All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road have been adapted for the screen, with No Country taking home four Academy Awards, and his screenplay The Counselor was released in 2013 and was directed by Ridley Scott.

Trying to synopsize McCarthy’s prose is as absurd an idea as the fetus trees and necrophiliacs he chronicles in his “venomous fiction” (as described in his interview with The New York Times in 1992, one of only two interviews ever granted by McCarthy in his 50 years of publishing, the other given to, of course, Oprah Winfrey).

“Cormac McCarthy is an enormous vacuum cleaner. He’s the most synoptic, eclectic, synthetic representation of American fiction there has ever been,” Wallach says. “Blood Meridian is a parody of the literary style that was popular in the mid19th century, the penny dreadful, mostly cowboy gunslinger stories. He takes all of that and then moves through traditional Southern writing like Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner and Walker Percy, and it all goes into a blender and comes out as distinctly Cormac McCarthy.”

Just as his his style and subjects are vast and varied (yet distinct), so are the presenters for and attendees to the conference, who come from across the globe and range from professors and students to doctors and lawyers to carpenters and stockbrokers.

“McCarthy conferences are very nurturing. They’re also supporting the next generation of scholars. A lot of academic organizations are very hermetic, but ours is an attitude of inclusiveness. We don’t think a writer like McCarthy with such enormous stature should be the private property of the ivory tower. We invite all to attend,” Wallach says.

The public is invited to Friday night’s 7:45 dinner in the Fogelman Executive Conference Center featuring author Brian Evenson or to drop in on a panel for free.

Donations are encouraged. Otherwise fees apply to attend the entire conference.

Registration for the conference will be held Thursday from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the University Center, where the panels will also be held, and the conference concludes Saturday evening at 6:30.

For more information, visit the society’s website at cormacmccarthy.com.

TH EAT E R

Circuit Playhouse

Carrie: the Musical, based on the best-selling novel. www. playhouseonthesquare.org.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Oct. 25.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Hattiloo Theatre

In the Red and Brown Water, a young woman forgoes a college track scholarship to care for her ailing mother. www.hattiloo.org. $18-$26.

Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, 3 p.m. Through Oct. 25.

Radio Golf,, history, memory, and legacy challenge notions of progress and country club ideals. www.hattiloo.org. $13$26. Thurs., Fri., 7:30 p.m., Sat., 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sun., 3 p.m.

Through Oct. 11.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

The Orpheum

Cinderella, production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Tony Award®- winning Broadway musical.

(525-3000), www. orpheum-memphis.com. $25-$125. Tues., Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m., and Wed., Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square

The Matchmaker,, comedy about the exploits of Dolly Levi, a widow who arranges marriages for New Yorkers. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $22-$35.

Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Oct. 11.

Third annual NewWorks @ TheWorks reading series, held at Circuit Playhouse, 51 S. Cooper. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $10. Sun., Oct. 11, 7 p.m., and Mon., Oct. 12, 7 p.m.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

TheatreWorks

An Actor in Purgatory,, reflection on the art of acting, devised by Bill Baker and Bob Klyce. www.

theatreworksmemphis.org. $12.

Fridays-Sundays.

Through Oct. 17.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

University of Memphis, Department of Theatre & Dance

Next to Normal, drama that unmasks the seemingly normal facade of a suburban family. www.memphis.edu/ theatre. $20. Thurs.-Sat., 7 p.m. Through Oct. 10.

3745 CENTRAL (678-2576).

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

ANF Architects

Artist reception for 2015 RiverArtsFest Invitational. www.anfa. com. Fri., Oct. 9, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Crosstown Arts

Opening reception for “You Are the Hole,” installation work and performance by Joel Parsons. www.crosstownarts. org. Fri., Oct. 9, 6-9 p.m.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Memphis College of Art

Opening reception for “Invis-

ible Girls” and “The Mind’s I,” by Anne Harris. www.mca. edu. Fri., Oct. 9, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception for “Symbiotic Tendencies,” sculptural collage works by Nikkila Carroll. www.mca.edu. Fri., Oct. 9, 6-8 p.m.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

PhotoSpace

Artist reception for “Our World,” work by local photographers. (483-5726), www. memphisphotospace.com.

Fri., Oct. 9, 6:30 p.m.

6047 EXECUTIVE CENTRE #4 (410-0552).

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

Art Break

Explore a variety of materials and make something unique.

Free with gallery admission.

Thur.-Fri., Oct. 8-9, noon-4 p.m.

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

Artist lecture for “Invisible Girls” and “The Mind’s I” Thurs., Oct. 8, noon-1:30 p.m.

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

Artist workshop for “The Mind’s I”

Thurs., Oct. 8, 5-8 p.m., and Fri., Oct. 9, 2:30-5:30 p.m.

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

Call to Artists for Palladio Gallery 2015 Juried Exhibition

Benefits Binghampton Christian Academy. $25 application fee. Through Oct. 20.

ART GALLERIES OF PALLADIO, 2169 CENTRAL (276-3808), WWW.THEPALLADIOGROUP.COM.

Desoto Arts Council Fall Show and Reception Local music and Southernthemed art. Free. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 5-7 p.m. Through Oct. 23.

BANKS HOUSE GALLERY & GIFT SHOP, 564 W. COMMERCE (662-404-3361), WWW.DESOTOARTS.COM.

“On Track in Memphis” Model train exhibit.

Through Oct. 17.

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

Open Crit

Monthly critique event. Bring new and/or inprogress studio work. Every second Tuesday, 5-8 p.m.

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

Scarecrow Display

Exhibition of scarecrows made by community groups and schools. Through Nov. 20.

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

O N G O I N G ART

The Annesdale Park Gallery

“Finding Center,” exhibition of composition work by Dolores Justus. Through Oct. 14.

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

ArtsMemphis

Stephan Pastis reads from Timmy Failure: Sanitized for Your Protection at the Booksellers of Laurelwood.

“Public/Art/ists, part II,” the work of artists who have participated in Memphis’ public art projects. www.artsmemphis.org. Through Oct. 16.

575 S. MENDENHALL (578-2787).

Box Gallery

“Navigator,” new paintings and installation by Laura J. Lawson. www.memphis.edu.

Through Oct. 14.

3715 CENTRAL.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“Among Horses,” new paintings by Jimpsie Ayres, Carol Sams, and Jeanne Seagle. www.buckmanartscenter.com.

Through Nov. 2.

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

Circuitous Succession Gallery

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

“Artwork by the Homeless,” work by homeless citizens of Memphis. www.circuitoussuccession.com. Through Oct. 27.

500 S. SECOND.

Clough-Hanson Gallery

“Church,” large-scale installation by Sebura and Gartelmann. www.rhodes.edu. Free.

Through Oct. 10.

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

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

“Game Day,” all things college football by Ted Faiers, Carroll Cloar, Tad Lauritzen Wright, Jared Small, Greely Myatt, William Eggleston, Kelly S. Williams, Dwayne Butcher, and others. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through Oct. 24.

64 FLICKER (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

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

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

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

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

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2491 BROAD (652-0848).

Fratelli’s

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

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Hyde Gallery

instagram

“Water, Bones, and Blood,” presented by NIA Artist Collective. Works from 15 artists.

Through Nov. 1.

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

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

for a special thank-you discount! this weekend only, October 8 - 12

Rita DeWeese, www. salvationarmymemphis.org.

Through Oct. 31.

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

L Ross Gallery

“Giardino Inverno,” abstract art by Jeri Ledbetter. www. lrossgallery.com. Through Oct. 31.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden

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

Through Oct. 28.

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“60s Cool,” art and design from the 1960s including Ted Faiers, Yrjö Kukkapuro, Paul Evans, György Kepes, and Henry Easterwood. Through Jan. 17, 2016.

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

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

“Clare Leighton and Thomas W. Nason: Common Threads,” masters in the medium of wood engraving. www.brooksmuseum.org.

Through March 13, 2016.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Threadgill,” works highlighting patterns, repetition and variation. www.metalmuseum.org. Through Dec. 6.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Midtown Crossing Grille

“New Hope/No Hope: Weeps, Woes, and Wonderment,” paintings and visual art by Frank D. Robinson. Through Oct. 15.

394 N. WATKINS (443-0502).

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

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

Through Dec. 31.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Sue Layman Designs

“Grace and Space” and “Conclusion of Delusion,” original oil paintings by Sue Layman Designs. (409-7870), www.suelaymandesigns.com.

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

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

Wings Gallery

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

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

WKNO Studio

WinterArts Preview Show, work by Cheryl Hazelton, Dennis Paullus, Rick Cannon, Bryan Blankenship, Brigitte Lang, Sharron Barrett, and others. (458-2521), www. wkno.org. Through Oct. 30.

DAN C E

Deconstruction Day Community Event

Demolition of the French Quarter Inn and preparation for the future Ballet Memphis.

Sat., Oct. 10, 9:30-11 a.m.

FRENCH QUARTER SUITES, 2144 MADISON, WWW.BALLETMEMPHIS.ORG.

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Dave Hoekstra

Author discusses and signs The People’s Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today. Thurs., Oct. 8, 12-1 p.m.

STAX MUSEUM, 926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535), WWW.SOULSVILLEFOUNDATION.ORG.

Booksigning by Letetia Kirk

Author discusses and signs Taking Care of Elvis. Sat., Oct. 10, 2 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Stephan Pastis

Author reads and signs his children’s book, Timmy Failure: Sanitized for Your Protection. Sun., Oct. 11, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Tom Piazza

Author discusses and signs A Free State. Thurs., Oct. 8, 6 p.m.

CROSSTOWN STORY BOOTH, 422 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Pagliacci

Mid-South debut of Marco NisticÒ. $33-$84. Wed.Thur., Oct. 9-10, 7:30-9:30pm.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (257-3100), WWW.OPERAMEMPHIS.COM.

LECT U R E /S P EA K E R

“John Jones: Collector and Benefactor”

Lecture by Joanna Norman, curator of European furniture at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sat., Oct. 10, 10:30 a.m.

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

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The 10-Hour Tour with Jimmy Ogle

10-hour bonus tour. Free.

Sat., Oct. 10, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

RIVERFRONT BAR & GRILL, 251 RIVERSIDE (604-5002), WWW.JIMMYOGLE.COM.

Scandals & Scoundrels

Each of Elmwood’s 75,000 residents has a story to tell. $15. Sat., Oct. 10, 10:30 a.m.

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

Tuesday Tour with Jimmy Ogle: Adams Avenue

Meet at quiltsurround, northeast corner of Front and Adams. Tues., Oct. 13, 11:45 a.m.

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Woodruff-Fontaine House Museum Ghost Tour

Tour with experienced paranormal investigator and equipment. $25. Fri., Oct. 9, 7:30-9:45 p.m.

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E X PO S/ SA L E S

Customer Swap Meet October 8-14, 2015

Proceeds benefit Ronald McDonald House. Sun., Oct. 11.

BUMPUS-HARLEY DAVIDSON COLLIERVILLE, 325 S. BYHAILIA (316-1121), WWW.BUMPUSHDCOLLIERVILLE.COM.

Memphis Senior Living Expo

Fashion show, senior idol competition, writing challenge, Memphis Bop Club, and more than 50 booths.

Tues., Oct. 13, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

BARTLETT STATION MUNICIPAL CENTER, 5868 STAGE (729-9469).

MS Numismatic Association Annual Coin Show

Noon–6 p.m. on Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. on Saturday, and 9 a.m.–3 p.m. on Sunday.

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43rd Annual Pink Palace Crafts Fair

Demonstrations, entertainment, food, children’s activities, and merit awards. $9. Thur.Sun., Oct. 9-11, 10 a.m.

AUDUBON PARK, WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Brister Street Music Festival

Music, arts and crafts, and more benefiting GrowMemphis. Free. Sat., Oct. 10, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

OVERTON SQUARE, MIDTOWN (3183969), WWW.BRISTERFEST.COM.

Southern Salsa Festival Food, dance, music, and prizes. $5. Sun., Oct. 11, noon-9:30 p.m.

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11th Annual Walk for Wags n’ Whiskers

Vendors, freebies, adoptable animals, raffle, and pet contests benefiting Desoto Animal Rescue. $20-$30. Sat., Oct. 10, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

OLIVE BRANCH CITY PARK, OLIVE BRANCH, MS (662-342-9448), WWW.DESOTOANIMALRESCUE.ORG.

Greenline Half Marathon

Lunch, live music, and award ceremony. Sat., Oct. 10, noon-4 p.m., and Sun., Oct. 11, 6 a.m.-noon.

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

Million Calorie Burn 5K

Family fun-run, 5K race, yoga, Zumba, and linedancing demonstrations to combat obesity. $30. Sat., Oct. 10, 9-11 a.m.

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Night Rider

Six-mile family bike ride, outdoor movie. Decorate your bike.Sept. 15. $15. Sat., Oct. 10, 5:30 p.m.

FARMINGTON PARK, 2029 CORDES, GERMANTOWN, WWW.GERMANTOWN-TN.GOV.

Wheelchair Basketball Expo: Memphis Rollin’ Grizzlies vs Houston Mustangs

Memphis Rollin’ Grizzlies NWBA team plays against GMSD administrators benefiting special ed and Rollin’ Grizz. $10. Sat., Oct. 10, 2-4:30 p.m.

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Featured speaker Eric Marsal on “Contemporary Fire Ratings in Gypsum Construction”. Includes meal. $25.

Thurs., Oct. 8, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

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Healing Planet Spa Night Dinner, massage, facials, nails, hair/wigs, and footbaths for women with cancer and other illnesses. Free. Every second Monday, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

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Meristem Women’s Book Club

Written works by women and LGBT authors. Every second Wednesday, 7 p.m.

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Stroke Support Group Updates for stroke survivors and caregivers. Every Second Tuesday, 2 p.m.

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Experience native wildlife, archery lessons, and bicycle trails. $125 members, $150 nonmembers. Mon.-Fri., Oct. 12-16, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

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The story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust containing tiny people called the Whos. Sat., Sun., 2:30 p.m., and Thurs.-Sat., 7 p.m. Through Oct. 11.

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Pink sales and a percentage of all sales benefit the Cure all month. Sat., Oct. 17, 8 p.m.-close. Through Oct. 31.

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Learn how to decorate gourmet cupcakes. $19. Sat., Oct. 10, 11 a.m., and 1, 3 and 5 p.m.

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Fish Fry Friday

Plates of catfish and sides benefiting Holy Community Church. $7. Fridays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Home tour, food, beverages, music, and family activities. RSVP to betsy@saltstyleandevents.com Sun., Oct. 11, 2-5 p.m.

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Food Truck Garden Party

Live music, cash bar, local food trucks, and the new Memphis Parent Play Zone. $5 members $10 nonmembers. Tues., Oct. 13, 5-8 p.m.

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Wine sampling with an “Around the World” theme benefiting Youth Villages. $45. Sat., Oct. 10, 5-9 p.m.

Master blenders, cigar brand owners, and barbecue. $25. Sat., Oct. 10, 2-8 p.m.

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Sci-fi, horror, and fantasy films from around the world and genre films from local filmmakers. $10-$12. Through Oct. 10.

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Movie Nights At The Grotto Free. Sat., Oct. 10, 8-10 p.m.

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A Wider Angle Foreign Film Series: The Dark Valley

Atmospheric revenge western set in the 19thcentury Austrian Alps. Free. Wed., Oct. 14, 6 p.m.

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Animal Blessings

Dogs on leashes, cats and other small animals in carriers, and birds in a carrier or cage. No loose animals. Sat., Oct. 10, 12-5 p.m.

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Bike ride the Arkansas Delta. $30-$60. Sat., Oct. 10.

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Feed the Soul

Rum and bourbon tastings, oxygen bars, and raffle benefiting MIFA. $45. Thurs., Oct. 8, 6 p.m.

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Great Dixter at The Dixon

Fergus Garrett of Great Dixter, one of England’s most beautiful and celebrated gardens. $170 members, $200 nonmembers. Wed., Oct. 14, 5:30-7 p.m.

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St. Anne School Benefit Auction

Auctioneer Joe Birch, music by Earl Randle, dinner buffet, drinks, and free child care benefiting St. Anne School. $35. Sat., Oct. 10, 5:30-9 p.m.

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FOOD By John Klyce Minervini

Kimbal Musk

Sow, Reap Q&A with The Kitchen’s Kimbal Musk.

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n 1999, at the tender age of 27, Kimbal Musk sold an internet company for $307 million. Since then, through companies like PayPal, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX, he has been instrumental in shaping the way we think about tech. Now he wants to help Americans transition off of highly processed, industrial food, and he’s making his next big move here in Memphis.

In May, Musk announced that he would open two new restaurants: one at Shelby Farms Park and another inside Crosstown Concourse. The restaurants — The Kitchen and Next Door — offer simple American dishes at reasonable prices. And here’s the kicker: More than 50 percent of the ingredients will be locally produced.

Musk originated the concept in his hometown of Boulder, Colorado, and has since opened seven across Colorado and one in Chicago.

At the same time, through his nonprofit, Musk will build 100 so-called “Learning Gardens” at Shelby County Schools. These are outdoor classrooms for elementary, middle, and high school students that incorporate fresh fruits and vegetables into existing math, science, and health curricula. The Flyer recently caught up with Musk to talk about beet burgers, Big Macs, and the long road to Memphis.

Flyer: Was there a moment when you decided to give up tech?

Kimbal Musk: On Valentine’s Day in 2010, I went down a ski hill on an inner tube. I got to the bottom of the run, the tube flipped, and I broke my neck. I was paralyzed, horizontal for two months, and I just kind of said, fuck this shit. I’m not gonna do technology any more. I don’t care if it’s hard, I’m gonna do food.

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Technology is amazing, but it will continue to remove our normal ways of connecting with each other. Using our meals to get together with friends, family, and coworkers — I think it will be our last and most important way to form meaningful bonds.

In your latest TED talk, you spend a lot of time talking about “industrial food.” What do you mean by that?

Industrial food is optimized for one thing: price. Whether it’s a Twinkie or a Big Mac, it becomes a transport mechanism for an enormous amount of calories with very low nutrition. The end result is that we are simultaneously hungry and obese. We have to get people off that, or society as we know it will collapse.

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S O W, R E A P What’s the alternative?

I call it real food, food where you’re asking, is it nourishing to the consumer, to the community, the farmer, the planet? A Big Mac has 47 ingredients. One is meat, one is flour for bread, and the other 45 are a total nightmare. A real burger would be ground beef with some flour. It’s a very simple concept: What you see is what you get.

What do you say to someone who has never tried beets or kale?

I would tell them to try our beet burger. It’s fantastic! I had one for lunch today. Last year, at one of our Denver locations, we sold 100,000 cheeseburgers and 50,000 beet burgers.

That’s a ridiculous number for a non-beef burger. The truth is, if you’re replacing meat, it has to be better. Not the same — it actually has to be better.

Why Memphis?

Memphis is positioned to be one of the next big cities. Where real estate is concerned, it’s a blank canvas. We can find hundreds of acres of farmland right around the city, convert it to organic, and start growing real food in a matter of months. You can’t do that in Colorado. In Colorado, all the land is taken, and it’s taken by high-margin products.

After The Kitchen announced its new locations, there was a perception among some Memphians that you were planning to “fix” them or teach them how to eat. How do you respond to that?

I don’t feel that way, and I’m sorry if there was a misunderstanding. In fact, I believe there’s an amazing food renaissance currently happening in Memphis, and I see what I’m doing as fitting very neatly with that. If there’s a problem, it isn’t Memphis, and it isn’t barbecue. It’s cheap carbohydrates and high-calorie, low-nutrient food, which is actually a problem for the whole country.

Why is it important to eat food that is locally produced?

First, the money stays locally, which is important for any community that’s looking to thrive. And second, when you know where your food comes from, you’re more likely to be a good steward of the land. It’s a virtuous cycle. When you have a relationship with your farmer, you can trust the quality of their food. Meanwhile, the farmer can take pride in her work because she knows and loves the community she’s feeding.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Starman Matt Damon is lost in space in The Martian.

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001: A Space Odyssey regularly jockeys for position with Citizen Kane and Vertigo atop lists of the greatest movies ever made. When Stanley Kubrick set out to create what he called “the proverbial good science-fiction movie”, he tapped Arthur C. Clarke, the super-genius author who came up with the idea for the communications satellite, and the resulting masterpiece explores the space between scientific rigor and religious awe.

But sometimes it seems 2001’s influence on the genre it sought to perfect has not been universally positive. Consider 1968’s other great sci-fi hit, Planet

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of the Apes. It, too, concerned itself with humanity’s ultimate fate, but its big ideas are wrapped in a fun package. There should be enough room in sci-fi for both Charlton Heston snarling “You damn dirty apes!” and Keir Dullea staring into psychedelic infinity. But too often, when directors are given free reign, they feel obligated to try to top Kubrick.

Consider two recent examples of hundred-milliondollar misfires: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Nolan’s spectacular, 2001-inspired 70-mm photography couldn’t save Interstellar from collapsing into self-important gobbledygook. For Prometheus, Scott disappointed

everyone by ditching the pulpy, “haunted-house-inspace” premise that made Alien a classic in favor of wallowing in secondhand Kubrickian mysticism.

Scott learned his lesson with The Martian. The origin and fate of all humanity are not at stake, just the life of one man: NASA astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon). Adapted from a best-selling novel by Andrew Weir, The Martian’s inspiration comes not from universe-spanning epics, but from the 1954 short story “The Cold Equations,” in which a space pilot and a stowaway must grapple with the fact that they don’t have enough fuel to land safely. Newtonian physics creates the fodder for high drama.

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The Martian is a major return to form for Scott, who seems inspired

by NASA’s can-do spirit. The film’s optimism is a far cry from the darkness of Blade Runner, but it has proven to be a big hit with audiences, massively outperforming box-office projections by grossing $55 million in its opening weekend. As this film and Gravity prove, science fiction is sometimes better when it concentrates on the small questions, like how to find your way home.

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Everyone must work together to rescue Watney as the world watches.

The Martian often plays out like a fictionalized, future version of Apollo 13. Scott and screenwriter Drew Goddard get all the little details right, like how calling a NASA scientist a “steely-eyed missile man” is the highest compliment, and how “lock the doors” is the worst thing you can

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TH E LAST WO R D by Susan Wilson

The Weresquirrel’s Concubine

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I’m cheating on my library.

We had a little tiff. That’s not exactly why I’m cheating, but let me tell you what that skank did to me. I checked out too many e-books. I’m a fast reader, and sometimes I think I haven’t read a book, but it turns out I have. Sometimes I realize that I liked the book, so I finish it. Other times, I remember why I didn’t remember it and give up.

I am also guilty of judging books by their covers. The synopsis sounds so good, and I get into the book and realize it was the best part. There were a couple of nights I checked out and returned several books in a row, and the e-brarian cut me off. I have to go cold turkey on my library e-books for a few days. I can get real books, I know, but the main reason I went to e-books is that I like to read before I go to sleep, and if I accidentally fall asleep and bash my husband in the head with virtual War and Peace, it’s a lot less painful that bashing him in the head with the hardback version. I’m kidding, obviously. Why would I read the classics when there are so many new crossgenre gems like The Weresquirrel’s Concubine?

I have to be in Collierville some, and the library there is good for hanging out, but I’m a city girl. Not that I ever walk to the Central Library (I think about walking there, but I guess that’s not the same thing). Anyway, one of my favorite places to sit in the Central location is up on the fourth floor, especially when it’s rainy. It’s not so much for the stellar view — I sit where I can overlook East High School and the scrubby little strips of cellphone stores and nail places on Poplar. I just think it’s amazing there’s this big building full of books that could answer any question a person could have. AND THEY’RE FREE! They just GIVE them to you.

When the weather is extremely hot or cold, there are a lot of scruffy men draped across the pleather chairs. They always seem to be eating Hot Fries. Back in April, I was up there on a rainy morning. Several men were sitting around complaining about wives and trading work stories. I turned out that two of the men had worked for the city during the sanitation strike, but didn’t know each other. I tried not to act like a creep, but HISTORY! I had to listen in.

And that’s why I love the library and Memphis. I can look out over a high school that looks like something out of a John Hughes movie while listening to people talk about being there the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King’s life.

The library in Collierville has carpet that costs more than my house. I don’t know how new the place is, but it doesn’t smell like a library yet. You know the smell. Paper, mold, dust, the reference librarian who still wears Wind Song. This library smells like a hotel. But credit where credit’s due, the outlet situation there is superb. There are many places to plug in one’s computer. Of course, I usually seem to be the only person using a computer who doesn’t belong to the library. The downside is I don’t get to bond with a harried grad student when we make a deal to watch each other’s stuff while we go to the restroom.

I think I could just leave my stuff on the table at the Collierville library if I need to go. I’m generally the youngest person there by at least 15 years. If the old guy behind me wearing seersucker shorts and suspenders tried to make off with my laptop, I could take him down. I don’t want to brag or anything, but I could totally trip him with his own cane. And don’t think I wouldn’t do it. I have many important pictures of kittens cuddling with pandas downloaded on my laptop.

It’s nice to be able to spread out. I might even take a snack.

I find every task more enjoyable when snacks are involved. It’s kind of lonely though. The people-watching situation is subpar. The quiet is a real quiet. Not the quiet of kids just sprung from school and eager to check Facebook on library computers.

It’s not the quiet like when I try not to yell because they keep moving the 300s and 700s. And everyone smells nice. I’m not sure I’m entirely comfortable with that.

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

10/7: Danzig w/ Superjoint, Prong, Veil of Maya & Witch Mountain 10/8: Rhiannon Giddens w/ Birds of Chicago 10/9: Father John Misty w/ Tess & Dave 10/10: Leela James w/ Raheem DeVaughn & V Bozeman 10/15: Toro Y Moi w/ Astronauts, etc.

10/20: Third Eye Blind w/ Emily Afton 10/21: Walk the Moon w/ Holychild 10/23: Mac Miller w/ Gold Link, Domo 10/30: The Lacs w/ Hard Target

1884 LOUNGE 10/17: Nava Sanctum’s Villians Variety Show 10/21: The New Mastersounds w/ Hope Clayburn’s Soul Scrimmage 10/27: The Sheepdogs w/ Star & Micey 10/30: Zoogma MORE EVENTS AT MINGLEWOODHALL.COM

ROCKHOUSE LIVE EAT. DRINK. ROCK!

Daily Lunch Specials $5.99!

Happy Hour 11AM-7PM Daily!

RHL MIDTOWN: 2586 Poplar - 901.324.6300 Daily Lunch Specials $5.99!

Happy Hour 11AM-7PM Daily!

Mon- Open Mic Tues- Parker Card, $2.50 Pints, $5.99 Steaks Thurs - Bob Boccia & Karaoke RHL SYCAMORE VIEW: 5709 Raleigh Lagrange - 901.386.7222 5709 Raleigh Lagrange - 901.386.7222

Mon - Karaoke, Tues - $2.50 Pints Tues - New Open Jam Tuesdays Wed - Bob Boccia Thurs - $5.99 Steaks & Karaoke Fri & Sat - Twin Soul www.rockhouselive.com

BUCCANEER LOUNGE since 1967 10/8: Linda Heck & Guest 10/9: Richard James, Joe Restivo, Jack Olivian, Graham Winchester & More 10/10: Crockett Hall & Elizabeth Wise, Brandon Taylor 10/11: Ruby The Hatchett, Namazu 10/12: Devil Train 10/13: Dave Cousar

1368 MONROE • 278-0909

East Memphis Yard Sale Saturday 10/10; 7am-12pm 5330 Timmons Ave Mphs, 38119; toys, baby items, bedding, car seat, clothes, furniture, lamps, lighting hardware, misc household items and more!!

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I BUY RECORDS! 901.359.3102 Rocktober @ the Gazebo in CY Live Music Mon -Thur Each Week from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Presented by Central Automotive 10/12 - Switchblade Kid 10/13 - Marcella Simien 10/14 - Cherry Brooks & Cal Jackson 10/15 - Dan Montgomery

WaterBed Supplies & Sheets Call (901) 496-0492

$CASH 4 JUNK CARS$ Non-Operating Cars, No Title Needed. 901-691-2687

TREES FOR SALE: $5 EACH.901.396.0451

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

1500 sq. ft. of Vintage & Antique Jewelry. Retro Furniture and Accessories. Original Paintings, Sculpture, Pottery, Art & Antiques.

We are the only store in the Mid-South that replaces stones in costume jewelry.

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