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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Bruce is out for the next two weeks, so I’m taking over the column. I know! Listen, no one is sorrier about this state of affairs than I am. You’ll just have to bear with me.

Stop struggling. It will only hurt a bit.

And, so, a few thoughts and observations …

• Bruce mentioned in this space last week that when the graves of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife are dug up, it’s going to cause a national stink. But what he doesn’t know and what I’ll tell you now is that the graves are already empty.

I’ve already mentioned my personal conspiracy theory on Twitter, but it bears repeating here. Stay with me, as it’s complicated: Several weeks ago, the city issued a press release that a backhoe had been stolen and was last seen at 3 a.m. (3 a.m.!).

The city asked for any information on the missing backhoe, knowing full well that MLGW’s smart meters had meanwhile told Zimm the monkey how to escape the enclosure in the Memphis Zoo and, furthermore, told her how to elude capture.

So while we were all fixated on the monkey, the city used the “stolen” backhoe to dig up the grand wizard and his wife. When the coast was clear, Zimm was finally nabbed. That Zimm has been kept out of the public eye since means that she knows too much.

• I know all the winners of this year’s Best of Memphis. Well, not by heart. One upset surprised me. You can check it out when the Best of issue hits the stands September 30th.

• Cotton candy grapes … I don’t … I can’t …

• The other day I was working the front desk when a woman called in who wanted to talk to someone about Elvis. I told her it was a broad topic, could she narrow it down? She said the history of Elvis. I transferred her to a coworker.

• I’m about a third of the way through Andy Weir’s The Martian. Really enjoying it so far. Soon to be a major motion picture.

• I recently joined Instagram. The account’s devoted to my dog Janet. (That’s her pictured at top.) I read somewhere that Grumpy Cat has made something like $100 million, and while Janet is no Grumpy Cat, I thought maybe she was worth a fraction of that. I only have 10 followers, so I’m thinking I might have possibly been unrealistic. In any case, @janetellisthedog.

• A couple weeks ago, my mother sent N E WS & O P I N I O N me 24 dish towels. Seriously, I have no LETTERS - 4 clue, except that I’m now set in dish THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 towels for life.

THE FLY-BY - 6 • I followed Saturday’s TEDxMemphis TRUTH BE TOLD - 10 POLITICS - 12 on Twitter. The theme was “What’s Next.”

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foul ball. Fans were farther away from the action on the old bluff, but nobody seemed to mind, and the travel time was long enough for balls headed out there that parents were able to get their kids out of the way. And, lastly, one change that, to me, is definitely not an improvement: the moving of the ticket takers all the way up to the entrance to the stadium versus where they had always been before at the plaza entrance. While seemingly a minor change, at more than one game I went to this year, myself or someone I was with was hit up for money by guys IN THE PLAZA! Being solicited on the sidewalk outside of the stadium is one thing, but this is the kind of experience that might make surburbanites swear off ever coming to a Redbirds game again. tsunamiroja

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I will explain it quite simply: mental illness, alcoholism, homelessness. And she has a name. Her name is Marilyn.

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TOUGH LOVE The Rev. Steve Montgomery got Facebook-stern with Fly on the Wall because, like everybody else in Memphis, we noticed a naked lady stopping traffic on Union.

Unlike everybody else in Memphis, we only shared a photo of the woman’s feet and wondered what she might be doing with a nearby bag of charcoal.

“Her name is Marilyn,” Montgomery posted on social media. “She suffers from alcoholism and mental illness.

At Idlewild, we have loved her, fed her, counseled with her, tried to refer her for some help, cautioned her, and have even had to use ‘tough love’ at times. For we dare to believe that beneath all that brokenness is a beloved child of God … For we are all broken in one way or the other.

Some are able, with our privilege, to hide it better than others.”

You’ll get no arguments here. Mental illness is a tragedy exacerbated by bad information and worse public policies. We wish only the best for Marilyn.

Having said all that, we’ve still got no idea what she was doing with that bag of charcoal.

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City cancels contract for homeless help hotline.

and a new agency — MIFA — will be running it. It had previously been run by the Tennessee Community Services Agency (TNCSA), which manages homeless services and other programs for people in need throughout the state, since the hotline was launched in 2009.

Those seeking help in the interim are being asked to physically show up at MIFA’s office at 910 Vance between 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. There has been no word on how after-hours needs are being met.

On July 21st, the TNCSA received a phone call from Kimberly Mitchell, administrator of the city’s homeless and special needs department in the Division of Housing and Community Development, alerting the public agency that its contract to run the hotline for the

“We’re sorry. You have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service.” That’s the message people hear these days when they call the city’s homeless help hotline.

As of August 1st, the Emergency Housing Partnership Homeless Hotline, which connected homeless or financially strapped Memphians with emergency shelter, food, clothing, and other basic needs, was shut off with no plans to relaunch until mid-September.

“If you were a family with children, they were obligated to take you in that night, either at a local service provider location, or, in some cases, put you up in a motel. And the next morning, you would go to MIFA’s central intake to find out what services you qualify for,” said Brad Watkins, executive director of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, which works with the homeless through its Homeless Organizing for Power & Equality program.

The hotline is supposed to be relaunching on September 15th, but it will have a new phone number,

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Confederate symbols are in the crosshairs of a new push to rid them from public places.

Confederate heritage groups and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) do agree on at least one thing: There is a formal movement afoot to remove all references to all things Confederate from public places across the country.

Earlier this month, the SPLC launched a new initiative called “Erasing Hate,” which “aims to identify and eliminate government-sanctioned symbols honoring the Confederacy.”

“There are numerous government-sponsored symbols of the Confederacy that are out in the public across the country, and, quite frankly, it’s time for them be removed,” said SPLC founder Morris Dees. “In Montgomery, Alabama, we have a Robert E. Lee High School that wasn’t even named until [Brown v. the Board of Education], the desegregation case. We have government-sponsored holidays honoring Confederate ‘heroes’.”

Flags, street names, building names, and statues honoring the Confederacy became public targets across the country earlier this year after a white supremacist shot and killed nine African Americans in a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Last month, the Memphis City Council approved the removal of the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue in Health Sciences Park and to formally change the names of three parks that once carried names honoring the Confederacy.

The SPLC is asking citizens to identify Confederate names, symbols, and statues on public property via an online form with descriptions and photographs. SPLC will use that information to build an interactive map of the sites

online. The SPLC has a similar map, the Hate Map, which shows where hate groups are operating across the country.

The Columbia, Tennessee-based Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) called the movement a “crisis” for Southern heritage, and “the radical leftists who are driving this crisis are committed to the complete eradication of all things Confederate.” The group said moves like this are the “greatest threat to our heritage in modern times” and that “we are in war to save American culture.”

“There are numerous government-sponsored symbols of the Confederacy that are out in the public across the country, and, quite frankly, it’s time for them to be removed.” — Southern Poverty Law Center’s Morris Dees To battle the movement, the SCV has established a “Heritage Defense Fund” on a fund-raising webpage. On the site, Tom Strain, SCV lieutenant commander in chief, said the group is “actively fending off its detractors, but we need your help” to “fight to defend the Confederate soldier’s good name.” As of Monday, 373 donors had given more than $40,000 to the fund.

“Don’t think these folks will be satisfied with just Confederate memorials,” the fund-raising site says. “Many of these same ideologues have just as negative a view of our Revolutionary War heroes and the United States flag.”

city was ending on July 31st.

TNCSA’s contract with the city provided only enough funding to staff the phone line during the day, and the calls were routed to volunteers at night.

But before being notified that their contract was being pulled, TNCSA had negotiated a new contract that would staff the lines 24 hours a day with employees of TNCSA. TNCSA Executive Director Tom McWherter said he’d signed the contract and was waiting on the city to sign when he got the call in late July.

“I was told the reason my contract was being pulled was there had been some complaints during the night-time hours. The phones weren’t being answered [by volunteers], or calls weren’t being returned. It didn’t involve my staff,” McWherter said. “We all knew about that issue and had discussed it many times.

It was an issue we had worked on solving with this new contract.”

Mitchell did not return multiple requests for comment. And Chere Bradshaw, the executive director of the Community Alliance for the Homeless (CAFTH), which provided some gap funding for the hotline, would not comment on what happened with TNCSA’s contract.

“I think our performance in doing the hotline in all the years we’ve done it has been outstanding, and there is some motivation for [the contract] being ended, something other than performance,” McWherter said. “But I don’t know what that is.”

McWherter said the TNCSA offered to give the city the hotline’s number — 260-HOME — so they could relaunch the hotline sooner. But he says no one from the city or MIFA has followed up. Bradshaw said MIFA will be using a new number.

“There will be a new number, and it will be operated 24 hours. It was going to take too long to get the old number,” Bradshaw said.

Although a new number will be launching soon, Watkins said the lack of communication from the city and CAFTH about the change presented a problem for local homeless service providers, many of whom he says didn’t learn the hotline was down for a week and a half.

He says it also causes problems for homeless people who need services right away and cannot get to MIFA between 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

“We’re talking about human beings, some of them families with children, who need help,” Watkins said. “They can’t get it from a hotline that doesn’t exist.”

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Confederate flags were proudly waved last month at Forrest’s statue in Health Sciences Park during a rally that organizers hoped would change the city council’s vote on the statue’s removal.

Lee Millar, leader of the Memphis SCV, said removing the statue was a “waste of time” and that it would do “nothing to resolve crime and gangs and all of that.”

“It just adds to the division in Memphis,” Millar said. “Why take away a Civil War statue? Why erase Memphis history? Everybody’s history should be appreciated and understood and acknowledged.”

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Construction workers have removed 45 million pounds of concrete from the old Sears Crosstown headquarters. For comparison, that’s equal to 100 Statues of Liberty.

They’ve also taken out 22 million pounds of rebar, scrap metal, and steel. And they’re currently working on installing 3,200 sections of windows. The roof installation is almost complete, and several large light wells have been cut into the center of the building to allow natural light to flood into the once-cavernous space. The residential apartments on the upper floors are being framed out.

After eight months of construction, the future Crosstown Concourse is well on its way to becoming the “vertical urban village” its developers envision.

Crosstown Concourse will serve as the new headquarters for the Church Health Center (CHC), Memphis Teacher Residency, and Gestalt Community Schools. It will also house office space for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, ALSAC, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Southern College of Optometry, City Leadership, and others.

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New light well in Crosstown building grams inside the building. And the building will house 270 apartments, many of which will be reserved for the doctors, educators, and artists-in-residence who will work in the building.

The bottom floor will be home to Kimbal Musk’s The Kitchen Next Door restaurant and other retail. Todd Richardson, co-leader of the Crosstown Development Team, said they’re now turning their attention to leasing 60,000 square feet of retail space.

“We’d love to have two or three more restaurants. We need a coffee shop and bakery, and we need to have a pharmacy,” Richardson said. “We need a retail store with supplies for the artists, students, and other people who live and work in the building. The goal with the retail is to serve the 3,000 people who will be coming and going from the building every day.”

The Church Health Center led a hard-hat tour of their portion of the building last week. They’ll be consolidating their entire operation, including their Church Health Center Wellness facility on Union, into the Crosstown building. Currently, the CHC operates out of 13 buildings.

The CHC’s main space will occupy the second floor of the Crosstown building. The wellness center will be located along one wall of that floor, with exercise equipment lined up near the windows for natural light.

The CHC will also inhabit some of the first floor and have some office spaces on the third floor. The move will allow the CHC to increase their square footage from 120,600 to 149,000 feet.

“All of this space that was abandoned when Sears closed down will be coming back to life,” CHC Executive Director Scott Morris told those on the tour.

Richardson said construction has remained on-schedule, and they’re still counting on an early 2017 opening.

Currently, there are around 400 to 500 workers there each day, but that number will soon double.

“In January, we will be able to turn over tenant spaces for their internal build-out,” Richardson said. “Once that starts, we will have between 800 and 1,000 people on-site each day.”

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Hannah and Amy Pickle, the married duo behind Raw Girls, have at least found a temporary home for their food truck thanks to a social media blitz, but only after being abruptly asked to leave the lot they’d been serving from in Overton Square since early June.

Since then, Overton Square manager Loeb Properties has cracked down on food trucks operating in the restaurant-heavy entertainment district.

Last week, Raw Girls began serving their raw, vegan meals and cold-pressed juices out of their vintage trailer next to Midtown Yoga and Eclectic Eye, just a stone’s throw from Overton Square.

The Raw Girls had been operating their Midtown trailer in Overton Square, in a lot near the corner of Cooper and Trimble Place. (They have another truck that parks in the Hollywood Feed lot on Poplar near Yates in East Memphis.)

According to the Pickles, they struck a deal with Loeb Properties to set up there on a more permanent basis.

They had increased their time in the Square to five days a week, and the property manager even installed an electrical outlet for food truck use. Things were going so well between the two parties that the Pickles hired more staff and printed marketing materials to advertise the spot.

Then things changed. They were initially told the truck was blocking access for handicap accessibility, but the Pickles said they were willing to move the trailer, even potentially rent from an empty space in the Square. Then,

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“The feeling was, ‘Get out now,’ and we were told we had to get out immediately,” Hannah said. “I would say that was the only thing that made us uncomfortable.

Otherwise, they were awesome to us over there.”

“We didn’t know that one of the tenants had made a complaint,” Amy said. “We weren’t made aware [of that] until they started posting that publicly.”

On social media accounts last week, Overton Square posted that the past couple months were actually a “trial period” for the Raw Girls food truck and Paradise Seafood, another mobile food seller that sells fresh-caught seafood directly to customers. The Overton Square social media accounts published a statement, saying the two “potentially conflict directly” with the current tenants of Overton Square.

According to Mary Caywood, who is the vice-president of marketing for Loeb Properties, the company wanted to create a farmers market during that trial period.

“We just realized [the farmers market] wasn’t going to be a good fit for us,” she said. “We have a lot of tenants there that offer a variety of things. We couldn’t include somebody and exclude another, as far as the food trucks were concerned. We just figured it was not a good venture for us, period.”

A city ordinance requires food trucks to locate at least 300 feet outside of restaurant entrances, and when

the truck is on private property (like Overton Square), the agreement is contingent upon the permission of the property owner. With the exception of special events, food trucks are now no longer allowed to set up shop at Overton Square.

“We don’t want to have a food truck to compete with [tenants] and vice versa,” Caywood said. “It’s nothing personal against the Raw Girls. They have a great product.”

The Raw Girls duo said if everything goes well, they will have a stable home soon. A tentative deal is in the works already.

“The community has come out in the most unbelievable way — the emails, the letters, the texts, the social media [accounts] offering space,” Hannah said.

“Hannah and I are very resilient women,” Amy said.

“We just move forward. We don’t have bad feelings toward Overton Square at all. Whenever things happen, it’s always leading us forward.”

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To the untrained ear, Memphis mayoral candidate Jim Strickland’s plan to reduce crime seems reasonable.

“We need to have zero tolerance for violent crime,” said the Memphis City Council member during a debate last month.

But when he elaborates, he stumbles and disappoints.

“And when I say that, I mean right now, if a juvenile commits a violent act on another human being, they are not automatically taken down to juvenile court,” he continued. “That’s not zero tolerance.

That’s the exact opposite. They need to be taken down to juvenile court.”

With that statement, Strickland ignores the mountains of research about young minds and the yawning school-toprison pipeline.

He brushes away this nation’s shameful history of policing black bodies and, worst of all, overlooks recent history at Shelby County Juvenile Court, which treats black children more harshly than white kids.

His rhetoric isn’t quite a dog whistle, but it’s pandering to our basest instincts.

In theory, a civilized society acknowledges that children and teens, their developing brains incapable of consistent impulse control, deserve more care and compassion than adults.

But in practice, the adult instinct to protect children crumbles under the weight of racial stereotypes. In fact, a 2014 study published by the American Psychological Association found that police officers surveyed saw black boys as 4.5 years older than they were and less innocent.

The most recent context for Strickland’s tough-on–crime stance is a handful of videotaped brawls of black “teen mobs,” as branded by local media. One cell phone video captured an attack at an East Memphis Kroger grocery store (read: supposed to be safe). Another video showed a fight at the once-highly regarded White Station High (read: where fights aren’t supposed to happen).

Through this lens, Strickland’s pleas to enforce the curfew laws sound like smart public policy.

But the relevant context takes a wider view of history, stretching back to Reconstruction and the birth of the nation’s Jim Crow curfew laws, designed to restrict the movement of formerly enslaved men and women.

Follow Strickland’s plan to its logical conclusion in a predominantly black city,

and juvenile court will overflow with children whose chief mistake was knuckling up at school or in their neighborhoods.

Private schools, which house the overwhelming majority of the city’s white school-age children, can shield their students’ bad behavior from the public eye.

But for public school students, most of whom in Memphis are black, the hammer of indiscriminate zero tolerance policies falls hard.

According to a recently released report on school suspensions and expulsions in Southern states, researchers found that “[B]lacks were 23 percent of students in school districts across the state [of Tennessee], but comprised 58 percent of suspensions and 71 percent of expulsions.”

Factor in the local evidence, and Strickland’s crime-fighting strategy goes from ill-advised to indefensible.

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) determined that Shelby County Juvenile Court treats black children more harshly than white children.

“Black children are more likely to be detained pre-adjudication, less likely to receive warnings and lesser sanctions, and more likely to be transferred to criminal court,” wrote DOJ civil rights investigators in a scathing report.

Just this July, the federal monitor reported that the court has shown a “serious lack of progress” in reducing disproportionate minority contact. “Although the overall number of youth held in secure detention has decreased, a racial gap remains and, in fact, has increased, and race still matters once all other factors are considered,” the monitor wrote.

It gets worse: The Memphis metro area has the nation’s highest rate of “disconnected youth,” defined as people between the ages of 16 and 24 who aren’t in school or employed.

The burden of a criminal record makes residents virtually unemployable and ineligible for many college loans, decimating their chances to build wealth and, in doing so, gain true freedom.

Flawed criminal justice policies have disastrous results for communities of color. Strickland, the only white mayoral candidate with a chance to win, should know this.

He has time to amend his platform before the October election, although a more nuanced approach may alienate his Poplar-corridor base (read: mostly white and more affluent than the rest of the city).

But an informed, evidence-based crime-fighting plan is the responsible thing to do — for Memphis’ children and the city’s future.

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The Williams Factor All right. The shape of the mayoral race — and perhaps of the City Council races — has changed, and it’s time to take note of it.

It is still true that there are four principal mayoral candidates, though WREG-TV News Channel 3, for purposes of its forthcoming televised debate on September 15th, seems to regard the proper number as three.

Applying a yardstick that limited eligibility for its debate to candidates who had raised at least $50,000 as of August 1st and who maintained a public headquarters, Channel 3 will feature only incumbent Mayor A C Wharton and Councilmen Jim Strickland and Harold Collins.

Left out by that arithmetic was Mike Williams, the Memphis Police Association president-on-sabbatical, who will shortly open a headquarters on Poplar, across the street from East High School, but who had raised well below $50,000 by the designated target date.

Williams still hasn’t raised big-time money, though he’s had a couple of fund-raisers since August 1st. More important to his prospects is the presence he’s developed on social media, on websites of his own, as well as those he seems to share informally with various other rebels against the established system.

Williams’ critics maintain that he’s a one-issue candidate, and while making the case against benefits cuts on behalf of city employees, and of first responders in particular, does seem to have been his motivation in making the race, Williams is increasingly working other issues.

Among them are reform of the city’s oft-challenged animal rescue operation and defense of the Mid-South Coliseum against an existent city blueprint for its Mike Williams, looking deadpan as usual, bides his time, here listening to Mayor A C Wharton at last week’s mayoral forum at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church. The cash-poor Williams is largely dependent on debates and social media to get his message out.

demise, and Williams, who insists his first act as mayor would be to institute a rigorous “forensic audit,” calls for a slowdown in what he sees as high-risk economic development schemes.

His campaign has brought him abreast of several council candidates pursuing similar themes, including the potential hot-button issue of de-annexation, and there are several websites — the Facebook “Just the Facts” page prominent among them — where he and they post so regularly as to seem a ticket unto themselves.

Among his de facto fellow travelers are council candidates Jim Tomasik (District 2), Robin Spielberger (SuperDistrict 9, Position 1), and Lynn Moss (Super District 9, Position 2), though other candidates in other races are known to post in the same matrix from time to time.

While everybody recognizes the growing importance of social media in political campaigning — nobody more so than Williams — everybody also recognizes that money and organized support, both of which maximize a candidate’s public exposure, are of paramount importance.

There are ways to offset others’ possession of such advantages, and the kind of free media that comes with public debates, especially televised ones, is one such. Williams has been included in several recent mayoral debates, including two high-visibility ones — a televised debate on WMC Action News 5, and a well-attended one co-spon-

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The observers’ consensus was that Williams did well on both occasions, raising his profile significantly. Hence, the perils of being excluded from the Channel 3 debate, which is sure to have a large audience.

Outraged, Williams’ supporters first thought to organize a boycott of Channel 3, but cooler heads, including the candidate himself, prevailed, and the Williams entourage will spend the night of September 15th at a “Thank You WREG” debatewatch party-cum-“twitter-thon.”

That show of equanimity might be more useful to Williams than an outright reaction of anger would have been, but more exposure to the candidate’s everevolving populist message continues to be what he needs most.

And, even if his support base is kept small, it still might be large enough to influence the fortunes of others. The question is: Whose?

At this point, the naked eye, on the basis of frequent Williams-sightings, will tell you that Williams’ support base, comprising both police and fire employees and populist reformers at large, is almost totally white, though he himself is an African American.

A modest extrapolation from that would indicate that Strickland, who has a few grievances against the Wharton administration in common with Williams, could be a logical second choice for a Williams supporter — though many Williams backers, seeing the well-funded District 5 councilman as yet another establishmentarian, might demur at that prospect.

A more apt corollary is that a certain kind of Voter X— a recently annexed Cordova suburbanite, say — might find himself/herself pondering between candidates Strickland and Williams. In that sense, Williams could function as a voter hedge

against Strickland’s ultimate vote total.

Should Strickland be secretly gratified, then, by Channel 3’s decision to exclude Williams from its debate, or by any other action that effectively limits the voter alternatives to incumbent Wharton?

Not necessarily, because Strickland, who is bound to draw a significant share of the city’s white vote (the packed crowd that lined the walls of his Poplar Plaza headquarters opening in July was a revelation in that respect) has an obvious need. His chances of dethroning Wharton would seem to require further inroads on the mayor’s (allegedly) declining black vote — on Strickland’s own or on the part of

Collins or Williams.

That the mayor is worried about Collins goes without saying. Financially, the Whitehaven councilman lags well behind Strickland and Wharton (who refreshed his already significant coffers with a Fred Smith-sponsored fund-raiser last week) but is well-to-do enough to have a radio spot and to do some modest paid TV. Collins has been effective in slamming the mayor’s vaunted economic development agenda for producing only a modest number of low-paid jobs while — or so contends the councilman— ignoring strategies for upgrading the kind of job opportunities in high-tech and financial fields

that would keep Memphis’ aspiring youth population from emigrating elsewhere.

Williams not only advocates a slowdown of showy economic development projects per se, he claims that the ongoing shutdown of schools and community centers in African-American neighborhoods is part of an effort by developers, in cahoots with city officials, consciously or unconsciously to gut the inner city in the interests of gentrification.

That kind of pitch could, if given enough exposure, net a substantial upsurge for Williams in the black community. It plays large in his new campaign video circulating via Facebook.

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Though Mayor A C Wharton insists that a whole matrix of development projects midwifed by the now former city Housing & Community Development Director Robert Lipscomb will go forward without “missing a beat,” the likelihood is that several of them, notably the controversial proposed Fairgrounds TDZ, could be in serious jeopardy.

And that may be just the beginning of the complications resulting from the surprise announcement by Wharton on Monday that Lipscomb had been relieved of his city duties. The mayor’s action came as a result of accusations by a Seattle man of as yet undisclosed sexual offenses committed against him by Lipscomb years ago, at a time when the accuser was a minor.

Technically, that was a suspension.

Lipscomb has subsequently resigned from his city position, effective immediately, however, and termination of his parallel job as executive director of the Memphis Housing Authority seemed inevitable.

What gave the accusations unusual weight was the fact that Wharton had acted after dispatching a sizeable blueribbon delegation, headed by Police Director Toney Armstrong, to investigate the Seattle complaint.

Although rumors about Lipscomb’s sexual orientation had been rife in City Hall circles for years, the de facto city planning czar had benefited from today’s relaxed social climate about such matters and had hardly been so much as inconvenienced. Nor had his unmatched power to influence members of the Memphis City Council, stemming from his ability to swing city, state, and federal funding toward this or that district project.

All that is now presumably over with, as is Lipscomb’s concurrent clout in Nashville, where the state Building Commission has yet to rule on the

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Ironically, given the astonishing rapidity of Lipscomb’s fall, no criminal action has yet been taken against Lipscomb, in Seattle or elsewhere; much less has he been found guilty of misdeeds, illegal or otherwise. Lipscomb has called the accusations against him false, though he acknowledges having sent the Seattle man “blackmail” money over the years.

Ominously for Lipscomb, however, a follow-up statement by Mayor Wharton referred to the receipt by his office of additional accusations of “inappropriate sexual advances” on Lipscomb’s part by “numerous individuals” — a reminder of the echo effect seen in the case of multiplying rape accusations against entertainer Bill Cosby.

Just as Lipscomb has yet to be judged, it is much too early to appraise the mayor’s precipitate action in relieving Lipscomb.

Clearly, Wharton had to be mindful of the impact of a brewing scandal on his current reelection effort. But at this point only he, Armstrong, and a few others are in full possession of the facts of the Lipscomb case, and the mayor’s actions have to be taken at face value.

Difficult as it is to suspend judgment in the matters at hand, we the public have no reasonable alternative. It is not too early, however, to see that, wholly independent of what may or may not happen in the current election, an existing component of the order of things at City Hall has been shattered beyond recall.

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Quick quiz for Memphians, as elections approach: Who’s your city councilman?

It’s a trick question. You have four city councilpersons representing you: one in your local single-member district, and three more from an overlapping large, multimember “Super District” covering half the city.

Overall there are seven single-member districts covering all of Memphis, with two Super Districts overlaid on top, each electing three councilpersons.

Some of you may know that, but I bet many of you didn’t or forgot. And even fewer know exactly how the Super District candidates run. Do they all run against each other? Are there “sub districts” within the Super District?

Actually, neither. Candidates must choose to run for one of three “numbered positions” within each Super District, and then compete only with those candidates who have chosen to run for that numbered position.

Confusing? Yes, and needlessly so.

This patchwork quilt could be made simpler and better by switching to 13 single-member districts, as some activists and city council members have urged, and as the county commission did a few years ago.

Under this proposal, each voter would have one city councilman in a small, neighborhood-based district.

In addition to being less confusing, there are other advantages. Each singlemember district would have about 50,000 people, compared to the 326,000 people in each Super District. This would make it easier for a voter to get his representative’s attention and to affect the outcome of the election. It would also make it easier for an official to communicate with constituents.

Additionally, it would reduce the unfair advantage that incumbents have in elections, making elections more competitive. A dedicated candidate can knock on the doors of likely voters in a district that small and doesn’t need a huge campaign war chest to send advertising to hundreds of thousands of people. A less well-funded, less well-known challenger can have a fighting chance. This increased competition would be good for everybody and might even increase turnout.

The resulting redistricting plan would be more representative of the popular will. Any time you carve a city up into districts, there is an imperfect correlation between 1) the city-wide percentage of Republicans versus Democrats, liberals versus conservatives, blacks versus whites, etc., and 2) the number of districts with a majority

of Republican/liberal/black voters.

When you have smaller districts and more fine-tuned districting, that correspondence improves. That’s why federal courts in civil-rights suits have for decades favored single-member districts and disapproved of multi-member districts, because of their inherent tendency to dilute the minority vote.

Advocates of the current system say that single-member district representatives tend to have a parochial focus on the narrow concerns of their small area, and that you need the counterbalance of Super-District representatives to take the larger, city-wide view.

This is a valid point, but I’m unsure how much it works in practice. I served on a county commission with one singlemember district and four multi-member districts. I did not see this feared dynamic of geographic parochialism at work.

Also, the new county commission has now converted from a mixed single- and multi-member district approach to 13 single-member districts. (Full disclosure: They did this at my urging.) I have seen no rise in parochialism.

Anyway, Memphis doesn’t use citywide, at-large districts; we have one Super District for (whiter, richer) eastern Memphis, and one for (blacker, poorer) western Memphis. So, rather than a Memphis-wide view, those representatives are encouraged to take an East Memphis-versus western-Memphis view.

Another argument for the current system is that voters get to vote for four councilpersons rather than one. Converting to single-member districts would, in effect, be taking away three of your votes.

This, too, is a valid concern. But with the state of voter confusion about the city council system and the 326,000-person size of our Super Districts, I wonder just how empowering those three extra votes are. Does their theoretical value outweigh the new proposal’s advantages in curbing voter confusion, increasing electoral competitiveness, facilitating constituentrepresentative communication, and making the overall redistricting plan more representative?

On balance, I lean toward neighborhood-based representation. It’s a change that the city council could make with a charter amendment to be presented to the voters in a future election. As you prepare for next month’s city council elections, ask your city council candidates what they think, and think about it yourself as you work your way through that ballot.

Steven Mulroy is Associate Dean at the University of Memphis’ law school.

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The Memphis Tigers aim to build on the finest football season in the school's history.

aking into account the program’s rocky history, a summary of the Memphis Tigers’ 2014 football season reads like the overexcited birthday wishes of a 6-year-old fan who doesn’t know better.

• Ten wins. (Happened once before in Tiger history.)

• A conference championship. (Last happened in 1971, a year the Tigers finished 5-6.)

• A bowl victory. (Four of these prior to 2014, the last one in 2005.)

• And the capper: a Top-25 ranking — the kind of wish that, in these parts, elicits a pat on the head and a patronizing, “I wish that, too.”

It all happened. In just the third season under coach Justin Fuente, the U of M went 10-3, shared the American Athletic Conference (AAC) title with Cincinnati and UCF, beat BYU (in overtime!) to win the Miami Beach Bowl, and secured the final slot in the year-end Associated Press Top 25 poll. Our proverbial birthday boy didn’t merely blow his candles out. He blew the cake to smithereens.

The 2014 season looks nice on a wall or record book, but here we are at the dawn of the 2015 campaign, year four of what we can now — without irony — call the Justin Fuente Era in Memphis. How does a program follow up on a season unlike any other in its history? What kind of motivating tools will a coaching staff use to, somehow, improve on a season no Memphis football fan will ever forget?

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Versatile junior Sam Craft (right) will be among the primary threats for the Tiger offense. Paxton Lynch (p. 18) passed for 22 touchdowns and ran for 13 more in 2014.

“We’ve got to focus on ourselves,” Fuente emphasizes. “I like our kids. I like the way they’ve worked. But we’re not as mature a team as we were a year ago. We have a younger group. I like them, and I think they have a chance to play well. It’s a delicate balance. They can’t worry about the group that came in front of them, but they have to remember how those guys went about their business and emulate them the best they can while still being themselves. As coaches, we can’t beat them over the head with the guys who came before them but hold [the departed players] up as examples to follow in their own way. We’ll have a great challenge this year.”

The Tiger defense — eight senior starters in particular — became the backbone of the 2014 team. Cornerback Bobby McCain and defensive end Martin Ifedi (each drafted

by NFL teams last spring) had distinct memories of the 2-10 season they endured as freshmen, before Fuente arrived. The year-round leadership they brought the program cannot be cut-and-pasted, nor can the impact of another departed senior, linebacker Tank Jakes, the AAC’s 2014 Defensive Player of the Year. But Fuente is convinced the players groomed to succeed such stars are capable of big things this fall under new coordinator Galen Scott. (Barry Odom took the same job at Missouri.)

“It’s possible to build on the tradition we’ve established,” Fuente says. “We’re not ready yet, from an accountability standpoint. Can we do things the right way, time after time, on that side of the ball with guys who haven’t done it yet? Can we get these younger guys to that discipline level? As far as guys who can run, play, tackle ... you watch that part of it, and you get pretty optimistic.”

No Memphis defensive player earned so much as second-team all-conference recognition in the AAC’s preseason poll. Dawg linebacker Jackson Dillon (a junior) was a third-team selection, based on his 43 tackles (nine for lost yardage) in 2014, the most of any returning Tiger. Sophomore end Ernest Suttles will aim to fill some of the void left by Ifedi, and senior Leonard Pegues moves into the middle-linebacker position vacated by Jakes. With six starts last season, senior Wynton McManis will bring some experience to the linebacker position. “[Sophomores] Shareef White and Genard Avery are two young linebackers that I think have a chance to help this team,” Fuente says. “When you play a 3-4 and you’re moving guys in and out, you need quite a bit of depth there. Dillon has a presence; he looks better than he’s ever looked. He gained weight and is running better than he’s ever run. It will be interesting to see how all those pieces fit together. It’s up to us as coaches to tweak our scheme to what fits those strengths. What can [linebacker] Noah Robinson do? What can our corners and safeties handle? Playing to those strengths may be different from what we’ve done in recent years.”

Fuente believes in playing a 50 defense, a setup similar to a 3-4, but with an emphasis on stopping the running game (five men crowding the line of scrimmage).

The philosophy has meant recruiting speed first, with an emphasis on length at certain positions, particularly the boundary linebackers and defensive ends. “We haven’t been incredibly fast,” Fuente says. “When [opponents] get behind us, we haven’t been able to catch them. I hope we can continue to run better as we continue to recruit.”

The Tiger offense will have more familiar faces than the defense, with eight starters

back, including record-setting junior quarterback Paxton Lynch. Senior tight end Alan Cross (from Millington High School) was named preseason first-team All-AAC, and senior tackle Taylor Fallin made the second team. Mose Frazier (47 receptions in 2014), Tevin Jones (33), and Roderick Proctor (27) are part of a deep receiving corps. And while last year’s starter at tailback, Brandon Hayes, has graduated, the Tigers appear to have depth in the backfield. Considering last year’s team set a program record by scoring 471 points (36.2 per game), these veterans offer a comfort level not felt by the local fan base since DeAngelo Williams was in uniform a decade ago.

“I still don’t see a star [on offense],” Fuente says. He means this to be the unit’s best and most important compliment. “I see a guy who drives the bus, but I still don’t see a star. They have to continue to realize that. They had a taste of success last year for the first time, and they have to maintain the hunger. They know what it’s like to not play well.

Don’t worry about who’s on the billboards.”

Most followers of the program would make the case for Lynch, actually, as the team’s star. As a third-year sophomore in 2014, Lynch passed for 3,031 yards (thirdhighest single-season total in Memphis history) and accounted for a school-record 35 touchdowns (22 passing, 13 rushing). He went six straight games last season without tossing an interception before throwing three in the Miami Beach Bowl (where he threw four touchdown passes and ran for three more scores). A mobile quarterback who stands 6’ 7” will have NFL scouts gawking, whether or not the player has a star above his locker.

“There’s nobody I’ve ever coached that’s like him,” Fuente says. “I’ve never been around a guy who was so underdeveloped, but had so much upside. It wasn’t that [Lynch] wasn’t intelligent [when he arrived in Memphis], but some of the stuff he’d never seen before. If he continues to work hard, he’ll have the opportunity to be very, very good. I’d like him to be a little bigger, a little stronger.” (Lynch was up to 246 pounds in mid-summer.)

The quarterback relishes his 2014 season, particularly the bowl win, but has charted areas to improve this fall. “I can always improve my accuracy,” Lynch says. “Getting faster, working on my stride, getting in the film room.” As for the added bulk, Lynch emphasizes the durability he feels the extra muscle will provide. “Whenever you have a bigger quarterback, you’re able to take more hits in the pocket, and it’s harder for you to go down,” he says. “And when you run the ball, it’s a lot more bruising on defensive players.”

Lynch is more excited at the prospect of “bruising” tacklers than his teammates or coaches, but his 321 yards on the ground last fall suggest Lynch’s legs will be supplemental weapons to his right arm. “I’ve always looked up to dual-threat quarterbacks,” Lynch says.

“When things break down [in the pocket], they can turn a negative play into a positive play. I feel I can do anything [expected of a] dual-threat quarterback.”

Lynch will have an abundance of targets for his passes this fall, a reminder that resistance to the spotlight will be especially healthy when it comes to the Memphis receiving unit. Nine Tigers caught at least 15 passes last season, but no one caught more than Frazier’s 47. “Mose and Alan are tough, hard-nosed football players who have been leaders for us,” Fuente says. “Phil Mayhue and Proctor are sophomores who had really good summers; role players last year, but with bright futures.” continued on page 18

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the season’s final nine games with a right-knee injury.

Fuente and his offensive coordinators (Darrell Dickey and Brad Cornelsen) must determine when and how best to utilize their talented trio of tailbacks beyond a simple platoon system for an even distribution of carries. “Sam can provide some things from a mismatch standpoint, and motioning out from the backfield,” Fuente says. “Jarvis is a bigger player, and stands to make the most strides playing without the ball. If he can be a dependable blocker, he adds value to the team. Doroland is the best runner with the football that we have. The key for him is staying healthy.”

“We’re all excited to see Doroland come back,” Lynch adds. “He’s been working harder than I’ve ever seen him work, and he’s also put on weight.”

Running the ball will set up the pass for this team (not vice versa), so success will be rooted in an offensive line that welcomes back four starters: Fallin at tackle, Tyler Uselton and Michael Stannard at guard, and Gabe Kuhn at center. The Tigers averaged 190.5 yards per game last season and, if healthy, could top 200 yards per game on the ground for the first time since Williams’ senior season of 2005. “We’re getting more athletic and stronger [on the line],” Fuente says. “It’s such a developmental position. It takes time to develop those guys.”

Lynch describes his blockers as a “mix” of personalities who have blended nicely into a cohesive, familiar unit. “Gabe is laid back,” Lynch says, “but he gets the job done, whatever he needs to do. Fallin is messing around, but whenever it’s time to work, they lock it in and get the job done. They’re ready to protect me, and I’m ready to make them look good.”

continued from page 17 A new force downfield for the Tigers could be Anthony Miller, yet another sophomore who missed last season with an injury. Fuente describes the former Christian Brothers High School receiver as “different from anyone else we have.”

“Every receiver we have is unique in the skill sets he has,” says Lynch. “This corps is the best we’ve ever had. We’ve been pushing each other. The younger guys who’ve been watching the last few years have got to grow up. But our older guys — Jones, Frazier, Cross — do a great job of leading the group. Mose is basically out there [on the practice field] like a coach.”

If the Tiger running game can reflect the passing attack — depth over star quality — that season scoring record could be threatened. The versatile Sam Craft (Olive Branch High) returns and will be complemented by sophomores Jarvis Cooper and Doroland Dorceus. The latter ran for 86 yards on 13 carries against UCLA last year before missing

Fuente and his staff sit down before every season and rank the team’s skill players, a method for shaping the Tiger offensive attack, while also identifying holes that may need filling. Before the 2014 season, the top three players on the list were Dorceus, Craft, and Miller. All three missed significant time to injury last year. Yet the Tigers marched along to an historic season. Fuente likes to call this “competent depth.”

One more significant returnee is junior placekicker Jake Elliott, the 2014 AAC Special Teams Player of the Year. Elliott connected on 21 of 32 field-goal attempts last season (including a 54-yarder in overtime of the Miami Beach Bowl) and set a single-season Tiger record for kickers with 120 points. Elliott and punters Spencer Smith and Nick Jacobs (34 combined punts dropped inside the opponent’s 20-yard-line last fall) give the Tigers three impact players on fourth down. “We emphasize it,” Fuente says. “We’ve got to have more offensive players on special teams. It can’t just fall to our defensive guys. Guys are going to go down. We need depth.”

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The Tiger schedule will be highlighted by home games against Cincinnati (a Thursday-night affair) and Navy (the first time the programs have ever met). But the hardest ticket to land will be for the Ole Miss game October 17th at the Liberty Bowl, the first visit to Memphis by an SEC team since 2011.

The U of M, it should be noted, has lost 26 of 28 games against SEC competition since beating Tennessee in 1996.

“I don’t care if they’re from the Southeastern Conference, the Big Ten, or the Big 12,” says Fuente. “I’m all for playing one of those games a year. It doesn’t concern me whether it’s an SEC team. We don’t want to make a habit of playing multiple games like that. Ole Miss is a natural fit, for their fans to come up here. I understand that. But playing UCLA as the big game is fine. To me, those games are no pressure: take a shot. Those aren’t the games I worry about.”

The 39-year-old coach has become one of college football’s golden boys, mentioned in discussions of job openings in power conferences, including the SEC. For now, though, Fuente considers himself on a learning curve, balancing a head coach’s obligations to offense and defense, representing the face (and voice) of a program unaccustomed to sustained success. And he likes the challenge.

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By Chris Davis

There are things any rational person should be afraid of. Like Bigfoot. Or those enormous spiders that live under your toilet seat.

But there’s no reason in the world to be afraid of comedy. That’s especially true when the funny business is all for a good cause. This month’s ‘‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Comedy” show at the Hi-Tone has been rechristened “Don’t Be Afraid to Laugh for Love.” It’s the official unofficial kickoff for Rock for Love 9, a three-day, multi-venue music festival benefiting the Church Health Center. ‘‘Don’t Be Afraid” host Josh McLane says the Rock For Love tie-in was obvious. The comedy event was already booked for the Thursday night before the festival’s Friday night kickoff, so it was just a matter of putting together a good lineup. “And we’ve done that,” McLane says.

Comics scheduled to appear include McLane’s monthly sidekick Jared Herring, 6’ 2” funnyman Benny Elbows, Memphis Vine king Christopher Rex, and Black Nerd Power podcaster Richard Douglas Jones, who’ll soon be opening for Patton Oswalt. Memphis Comedy Festival founder Katrina Coleman will also perform.

McLane, who’s also a wrestling enthusiast and announcer, says he’s especially excited to have Reggie Junior on the bill. Junior is the son of pro wrestler Reggie B. Fine, and the two comics met when Junior dropped in on a wrestling-themed comedy showcase McLane was hosting called ‘‘October Slam.” So, maybe it’s okay to be at least a little bit afraid?

Rock for Love kicks off Friday night, September 4th, with a Crosstown block party. It moves to Overton Square Saturday and ends Sunday night with a performance by the North Mississippi Allstars at the Levitt Shell.

“DON’T BE AFRAID TO LAUGH FOR LOVE” AT THE HI-TONE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD, 7 P.M., $5

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FRIDAY September 4 Belinda Carlisle Germantown Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $38-$75 Former Go-Gos lead with the sultry voice … Belinda Carlisle performs tonight. Before the show, GPAC is hosting Heaven Is a Food Truck Fest featuring Hot Mess, Stickem, Fuel, and MemPopS. Mark Anderson will be spinning ’80s hits.

16th Annual On Location: Memphis International Film & Music Festival Hard Rock Café, 7 p.m.

This annual film festival kicks off tonight with a preview party featuring film trailers and performances by Marco A and Crockett Hall. Friday’s film screenings will be devoted to music and include the documentary Mabon Teenie Hodges: A Portrait of a Memphis Soul Original.

A highlight of Saturday is The Man in 3B starring Billy D. Williams. For more information and a full schedule, go to onlocationmemphis.org.

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It’s not all music, either. With six stages scattered around downtown’s Main Street mall, the Music & Heritage Festival is also a showcase for folk artists, spoken-word poets, dancers, and storytellers. There are craft-related workshops, cooking demonstrations, and vendors.

This year’s festival is dedicated to the memory of blues icon B.B. King, who died in May. Festival-goers will have an opportunity to watch All Day and All Night, a Center for Southern Folklore-produced documentary about B.B. King and other artists who got their start performing on Beale Street.

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WEDNESDAY September 9

2015 Clergy Chase Overton Park, 7:30-10 a.m.

A 5K and one-mile fun-run/ walk where congregations are encouraged to run with their pastors. Benefiting the Methodist South Diabetes Wellness & Prevention Center.

The History of the Riverfront Elmwood Cemetery, noon, $7 Jimmy Ogle leads this talk about the riverfront, touching on the buildings, the cobblestones, cotton, mules, steamships, and more.

Party for the Greensward Memphis Made Brewing Company, 1-5 p.m., $5 Family-friendly event benefiting Get Off Our Lawn. There will be food trucks, live music, and Memphis Made will unveil their latest beer, Greenswarden Hefe.

I Will Dance The Orpheum, 7 p.m., $10 Screening of this documentary about an integrated theater program in Selma, Alabama.

There will be a Q&A with the filmmaker after the screening. Part of the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers series.

God’s Slave Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 6 p.m.

The Wider Angle Film series returns with this screening of the 2013 film about two extremists who cross paths in Buenos Aries. Based on true events.

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Music for Medicine The Church Health Center celebrates its largest fund-raiser of the year.

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he 9th annual Rock for Love festival benefitting the Church Health Center takes place this weekend at multiple venues across Midtown.

Started in 1987 as a health-care provider for the working uninsured in Memphis, the Church Health Center now provides services to over 40,000 people annually. Rock for Love is the biggest fund-raiser for the Church Health Center, and last year’s concert raised $50,000, while the concert series has raised over $250,000.

One of the coolest things about Rock for Love is that the performers are all local.

Not many cities can boast a quality lineup of over 30 comedians and bands of all kinds plucked straight from it’s own backyard. Another perk about Rock for Love is that most of the shows are free. The shows that are taking admission at the door are only $5, although other donations are encouraged. With so many great bands scheduled to perform over the weekend, we’ve selected 10 must-see Rock for Love acts. This list is by no means all-encompassing, and we encourage you to check out as many (or all) of the great shows happening around Crosstown.

Thursday, September 3rd Chris Rex has been on the local comedy scene for a while, honing his deadpan delivery and off-kilter jokes at places like the P&H, the Hi-Tone and Rocket Science Audio. If awkward comedy is your thing, get to the Hi-Tone for the Don’t Be Afraid to Laugh for Love event at 7 p.m. on Thursday.

Friday, September 4th Mary Owens released her excellent debut album Sweet Soul earlier this year on the University of Memphis label Blue TOM Records and has been gaining momentum

since the record came out. Owens combines classic southern R & B with pop country, and fans of locals Deering and Down should take note. Owens plays Amurica Studio at 6:45 p.m. on Friday.

Goner co-owner Zac Ives has been spinning records since before you were punk. The Midtown musician/record collector/DJ has an amazing monthly DJ-night at Bar DKDC in Cooper-Young, so bring your dancing shoes when Ives deejays Co-Motion Studio at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.

Here’s where things get tricky: While Ives will be spinning wax at Co-Motion , >mancontrol<, one of the most interesting local bands to emerge in the past five years, will be playing at the same time (7:30 p.m.) at Crosstown Arts. With their crowd-controlled laser light show, >mancontrol< are a perfect way to turn up the heat early in the evening on Friday. Flip a coin, and decide your fate.

Kyndle McMahan of local bluegrass-fusion band Mason Jar Fireflies doesn’t play solo often, so her concert at Midtown Crossing Grill on Friday should be one to remember.

Like Owens, McMahan is affiliated with Blue TOM Records, and also like Owens, her versatile voice demands attention. McMahan plays Midtown Crossing (behind the HiTone) at 8 p.m. on Friday.

James and the Ultrasounds’ ability to craft two-to three-minute garage punk songs should be reason enough for you to catch their set at 10 p.m. at the Hi-Tone. While James Godwin has shined as a former member of the New Mary Jane and occasional bassist for Jack Oblivian, the Ultrasounds is definitely his main gig, and the bands’ frantic live show is second to none.

Two issues ago I made the mistake of claiming that NOTS weren’t playing locally again until Gonerfest 12, so fans of female-fronted post-punk will rejoice at the fact that the Memphis quartet is playing the Hi-Tone at 11 p.m. on Friday. By now, given the

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MUSIC FOR MEDICINE amount of local, regional, and national press that the band has received, NOTS should be on your radar. You know what to do.

At Midnight, Jack Oblivian ends an insane night of music with special guest Godwin on bass. Oblivian deserves the headlining spot for loads of different reasons, but the humble, yet legendary Memphis rocker would probably be content to play any slot on Rock for Love 9. That’s just the type of guy he is. Stay up late and watch him close out the second night of Rock for Love. It’ll definitely be a party.

Saturday, September 5th While Friday is obviously the “main attraction” of Rock for Love 9, Saturday still has a lot to offer. All of Saturday’s shows take place at Lafayette’s Music Room in Overton Square, and admission is $5. While the show starts at 5:30 p.m., you’ll want to make sure and be there by 9:30 p.m. when Deering and Down take the stage. Dreamy pop duo Lahna Deering and Neil Down have been working on their latest album for BAA Music Group, and if the single “You’re the One” that they dropped earlier this year is any indication, the album should be a stunner.

Sunday, September 6th Closing out Rock for Love 9 are the legendary North Mississippi Allstars. The Allstars don’t play locally too often (probably because they are busy touring the world), but everyone knows that when the Dickinson brothers book a gig, it’s best to be in attendance. The North Mississippi Allstars’ latest project is the Word, a band comprised of Robert Randolph, John Medeski, and, of course, the Allstars. The group’s album Soul Food was recently ranked the 17th best album of 2015 so far by Relix magazine, but we think it should have gotten No. 1.

The North Mississippi Allstars close out Rock for Love 9.

For the complete schedule and more information, visit rockforlove.com.

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Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

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

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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

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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, 6:3010:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Wednesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

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

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Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

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

Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Harlis Sweetwater Band Thursday, Sept. 3, 8 p.m.-midnight and Friday, Sept. 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:308:30 p.m.; Patrick Dodd Duo Friday, Sept. 4, 5:308:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Matt Lomeo and the Handy Three Monday, Sept. 7, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mississippi Big Foot Tuesday, Sept. 8, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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341 MADISON 524-0104

Purple Haze Nightclub

Double J Smokehouse & Saloon

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

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Huey’s Downtown

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

Dim the Lights featuring live music and DJs first Saturday of every month, 10 p.m.

Blind Bear Speakeasy

251 RIVERSIDE

Memphis Sounds Lounge 22 N. THIRD 590-4049

Roxi Love Thursday, Sept. 3, 7-11 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

Riverfront Bar & Grill Local Music Friday Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Grown Folks Music first Thursday of every month, 7:30 p.m.

315 BEALE

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77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Beat Generation Sunday, Sept. 6, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Tin Roof

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

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

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380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

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209 BEALE 578-5650

The Plexx

152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays.

182 BEALE 528-0150

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

Roxi Love Monday, Sept. 7, 7-11 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub

Rumba Room 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

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RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

147 E. BUTLER 672-7760

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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Cory Taylor Cox Sunday, Sept. 6, 1 p.m.

Onix 412 S. MAIN 901 552-4609

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1589 MADISON 726-4193

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Overton Square

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

GROOMS LIVE AT MURPHY’S Brooklyn’s noise-pop rockers GROOMS play Murphy’s on September 7th, as part of an extensive tour that takes the band into Canada and eventually through Europe.

The band was conceived at the legendary (and now-defunct) Williamsburg venue Death By Audio, and they went through a couple of name-changes while honing their skills before settling on the name GROOMS. Like many bands that last past the five-year mark, GROOMS has gone through line-up changes, but that didn’t stop them from releasing their critically acclaimed Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair album last year. While “noise-pop from Brooklyn” might sound pretentious, there is an authenticity in the music made by founder Travis Johnson, Jay Heiselmann and Steve Levine (the actor from Better Call Saul) that recalls ’90s indie rock bands like Pavement, as well as cotemporary avant-garde artists like Mac DeMarco, and maybe even a little Ariel Pink (especially on their song “Cross Off”).

Locals China Gate will join GROOMS at Monday’s show, marking the second show in just over two weeks for the young indie rockers. China Gate features Conner Booth of Gimp Teeth, but don’t expect any pummeling hardcore from this relatively new Memphis band. Instead, China Gate play straightforward indie rock, with plenty of impressive guitar work bursting through each song. New-ish local hardcore band Kiljoy open the show. — Chris Shaw GROOMS, China Gate, and Kiljoy, Monday, September 7th, at Murphy’s. $5.

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

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Boscos

964 S. COOPER 272-0830

2120 MADISON 432-2222

Mighty Souls Brass Band Friday, Sept. 4; Jack O & the Sheiks Saturday, Sept. 5; John Paul Keith & Friends Happi Hour Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.

Bhan Thai 1884 Lounge 1555 MADISON 609-1744

Ray Wylie Hubbard Thursday, Sept. 3, 8 p.m.

1324 PEABODY 272-1538

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

Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight.

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

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

Cory Taylor Cox Sunday, Sept. 6, 9 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

Rock for Love 9 Thursday, Sept. 3, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. and Sunday, Sept. 6, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; The Legendary Shack Shakers with Kyle Kiser Thursday, Sept. 3, 9 p.m.; Snuff Saturday, Sept. 5, 11 p.m.; Spirit of the Panther with Silver Mullet Band Sunday, Sept. 6, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Headcrusher, IKILLYA, Spline Tuesday, Sept. 8, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Sisters Sweet Sunday, Sept. 6, 4-7 p.m.; The Johnny Riley Band Sunday, Sept. 6, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Thursday, Sept. 3, 6 p.m.; Cedric Burnside Thursday, Sept. 3, 9 p.m.; Loveland Duren Friday, Sept. 4, 6:30 p.m.; Marcella & Her Lovers Friday, Sept. 4, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall and Friends Saturday, Sept. 5, 11 a.m.; Rock for Love Saturday, Sept. 5, 5:30 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; RiverBluff Clan Sunday, Sept. 6, 4 p.m.; Mason Jar Fireflies Sunday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m.; The Wampus Cats Monday, Sept. 7, 8 p.m.; Nick Black Tuesday, Sept. 8, 8 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

The PC Band with Keke Wyatt Friday, Sept. 4, 8 p.m.; Purity Ring: Another Eternity Tour Monday, Sept. 7.

Kriss Acklen Band Friday, Sept. 4, 8-11 p.m.; The Sisters Sweet Saturday, Sept. 5, 8-11 p.m.

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P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 680-8118

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

Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

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

El Toro Loco 2809 KIRBY PKWY. 759-0593

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

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

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

The Phoenix

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

Strano Sicilian Kitchen

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

948 S. COOPER 552-7122

Howard Vance Guitar Academy

Wild Bill’s

First Friday at Five Coffee House Concert First Friday of every month, 5 p.m.

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

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

978 REDDOCH 767-6940

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Deering & Down Trio Sunday, Sept. 6, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

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

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

Vocal Recital: Hugo Wolf ’s Italian Songbook (Italienisches Liederbuch) Thursday, Sept. 3, 7:30-9 p.m.

Memphis Botanic Garden 750 CHERRY 636-4100

Live at the Garden: Martina McBride Friday, Sept. 4, 6:30 p.m.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

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

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Huey’s Cordova

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Shelby Forest General Store

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

JoJo Jeffries and Ronnie Caldwell Sunday, Sept. 6, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

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

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

Mesquite Chop House 3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

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

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplethret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Brittany Russell Band with Drew Erwin Saturday, Sept. 5, 8 p.m.; Mick Kolassa Album Release Party with the Jeff Jensen Band Sunday, Sept. 6, 5 p.m.; Magnolia Road Monday, Sept. 7, 6-10 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

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; Gary Allan Saturday, Sept. 5, 8 p.m.

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

Tommy Akers Duo Sunday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

Mesquite Chop House

Summer/Berclair

5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

Maria’s Restaurant

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

6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

Tunica Roadhouse

The Other Place Bar & Grill

GOSSETT FIAT

4148 WALES 373-0155

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926 E. MCLEMORE 946-2535

Stax Fresh Trax First Thursday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

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

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

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Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

Hollywood Casino

THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

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

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

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Brian Johnson Band Wednesday, Sept. 9, 7-11 p.m.

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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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2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

6560 HWY. 51 N. 872-0567

The Dantones Sunday, Sept. 6, 8-11:30 p.m.

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

Karaoke Mondays, 8-11 p.m.

Delta Blues Winery 6585 STEWART

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

Belinda Carlisle Thursday, Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, Sept. 6, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

The Jumpin’ Chi-Chis Sunday, Sept. 6, 8-11:30 p.m.

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

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

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DJ Brother Jamm, DJ Frank Friday, Sept. 4, 7 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 5, 7 p.m.; Ms. Ruby Wilson and Friends Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke with Tim Bachus Mondays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

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September 3 - 9

T H EAT E R

Circuit Playhouse

Buyer & Cellar, one-man show explores the world of Alex More, a struggling L.A. actor who accepts a job working in Barbra Streisand’s basement.

Hilarity ensues when Barbra comes downstairs to play. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $22.

Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Sept. 6.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

The Evergreen Theatre

Spooky Nights actor information session, those interested in acting during Spooky Nights must attend one session. www.shelbyfarmspark. org. Wed., Sept. 9, 6 p.m.

McCoy Theatre

The Haze, autobiographical tragicomedy about the aftermath of being drugged and raped while attending San Francisco’s annual Bay to Breakers event. Hosted by The Dept. of Theatre at Rhodes www.rhodes.edu. Thurs., Sept. 3, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

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

Playhouse on the Square

“Public/Art/ists, part II,” recognizes and shares the work of artists from Memphis’ public art projects and initiatives. www.artsmemphis.org.

Through Oct. 16.

The Producers, www.theatrememphis.org. $30. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.

Through Sept. 13.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

ArtsMemphis

Theatre Memphis

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

In the Heights, Broadway dance spectacular brings the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan to the stage. www.hattiloo.org. $18. Wed., Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m., and Sun., 3 p.m.

Through Sept. 6.

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

500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK).

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

Hattiloo Theatre

Through Sept. 19.

Shelby Farms

Are You Lonesome Tonight?, a couple’s 20th anniversary, a husband buys tickets for an Elvis tour, and it’s August 16, 1977, the day the King leaves the building for the last time.

Call for reservations. (9466140), www.theatreworksmemphis.org. $12. Fri.-Sat., Sept. 4-5, 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.

575 S. MENDENHALL (578-2787).

Box Gallery

“By Other Means,” new work

by Anna Irace.

Through Sept. 28.

TheatreWorks

3715 CENTRAL.

Night Shift, after-hours cabaret and variety show featuring Heels, Requi Emma, Just Larry, Dan Castillo, and OAM Audio with hostess Katrina Coleman.

(283-3814), www.theatreworks. com. $15. First Friday of every month, 11:45 p.m.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“Fables,” new works by Brad Troxel. www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through Sept. 21.

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

Cafe Pontotoc

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

Through Dec. 31.

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

Gallery 1091

314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

Opening reception for “Right Brain Left Brain,” new works

by Angi Cooper. www.wkno. org. Sat., Sept. 5, 2-5 p.m.

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

L Ross Gallery

Artist reception for Leslie Barron, mixed-media works. www.lrossgallery.com. Fri., Sept. 4, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden Opening reception for “The Secret Light of Trees,” colored paper and paint celebrating trees by Miriam Oliphant. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Wed., Sept. 9, 5-7 p.m.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Billy Elliot the Musical, a young boy who trades his boxing gloves for dancing shoes. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $15-$40. Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m.

Through Sept. 6.

Shady Grove Presbyterian Church

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

5530 SHADY GROVE (683-7329).

Opening reception for “From Here to There,” abstract expressionist paintings by Jill Samuels. www.shadygrovepres.org. Fri., Sept. 4, 6-8 p.m.

Circuitous Succession Gallery

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

Call to Artists for 2015 MGAL Winter Exhibition Memphis/Germantown Art League members are eligible.

Entry deadline is Nov. 13, show dates are Nov. 24-Dec. 28. Through Nov. 13.

ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (921-1767), MGAL.ORG.

Cooper-Young Art Tours First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

COOPER-YOUNG DISTRICT, CORNER OF COOPER AND YOUNG, WWW.COOPERYOUNG.COM.

Future-Everything Artist Showcase Lifestyle brand offers music, art, video, and apparel from artists. Mon., Sept. 7, 3 p.m.

OXN, 488 S. SECOND, WWW. FUTURE-EVERYTHING.COM.

September 3-9, 2015

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

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Saj Crone and Jeff Mickey photography at Circuitous Succession Open Crit

Monthly critique event where visual artists are invited to bring work for critical feedback and group discussion. Second Tuesday of every month, 5-8 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

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

ONGOI NG ART

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

Samuel H. Crone, exhibition of drawings and sketches. www.memphis.edu/amum.

Saj Crone and Jeff Mickey, exhibition of photography. www.circuitoussuccession. com. Through Sept. 21.

500 S. SECOND.

Clough-Hanson Gallery

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

Sept. 4-Oct. 10.

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

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

“200 Miles Away,” works by Nashville artists Dane Carder, Beth Foley, Rob Matthews, Hans Schmitt-Matzen, and Kelly S. Williams. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Through Sept. 26.

64 FLICKER (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

Jun Kaneko, 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).

Fratelli’s

“Ex Voto,” mixed-media embellished photographic prints by Katie Maish. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through Sept. 26.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Hyde Gallery

“Inaugural Faculty Biennial Exhibition,” featuring work by over 20 faculty members. www.mca.edu. Through Sept. 26.

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

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

Memphis Camera Club photography. (729-8007). www.krocmemphis.org.

Through Sept. 28.

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

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

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

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

Through Sept. 13.

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

“Surreal Kingdoms,” combining acrylic paint and digital collage

by Kenneth Wayne Alexander II. Through Sept. 13.

“British Watercolors from the Golden Age,” watercolors from the late-18th through the early-20th centuries. Through Sept. 20.

“Play,” exploring the intersection of play and art using pieces from

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“Cats and Quotes,” felines in paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and prints paired with famous quotes. www.brooksmuseum.org. Through Jan. 3, 2016.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Horn Island 31,” work from an 11-day trip by 40 MCA students, faculty, and alumni to a barrier island off the coast of Pascagoula, Miss. www.mca.edu. Through Oct. 2.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

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

“A Kind of Confession,” critical and contemporary metalwork from both tenured and emerging

African-American metal artists. www.metalmuseum.org. Through Sept. 13.

seum.com. Through Dec. 31.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

art installations in the front yards of friends and neighbors. www.rhodes.edu. Through Sept. 20.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Sue Layman Designs

Wings Gallery

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

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

The Performing Arts Center at Trezevant Manor

“Trez Jolie!,” photography, ceramics, and paintings by Artists’ Link. Through Sept. 29.

3437 WAYNOKA.

Ross Gallery

“Crosscut,” new paintings by Nick Peña. www.cbu.edu/gallery. Through Oct. 8.

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

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

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

“Conclusion of Delusion,” oil paintings by Sue Layman Lightman. www.facebook.com/SueLaymanDesigns. Wed. and Sat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

TOPS Gallery

“The Season Moved,” sculpture comprised of over 200 bundles composed of discarded objects found on nocturnal walks around Memphis with large painting and immersive sound piece by Gil Ngolé. www.topsgallery.com. Through Oct. 3.

400 S. FRONT.

Various locations

“Terrain Biennial,” organized by Rhodes College as part of a national effort to bring temporary

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

OPERA

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Free opera performaces for the public all around Memphis. Through Sept. 30.

WWW.30DAYSOFOPERA.COM.

DAN C E

Shrine Tea Dance

Featuring Noble Sounds Orchestra and the Bankers. Semi-formal attire. BYOB. $10. First Sunday of every month, 2-6 p.m.

AL CHYMIA SHRINE CENTER, 5770 SHELBY OAKS (377-7336), WWW.SHRINE-DANCE-MEMPHIS.COM.

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Chase the Vape

Comedy featuring Dave Losso and Alex Kumin from Chicago and Vincent Zambon and Andrew Polk from New Orleans. Sat., Sept. 5, 8-10:15 p.m.

2537 BROAD (217-8273).

Chuckles Comedy Club

Labor Day Comedy Special, featuring host comedian Brandan, headliner Ron Taylor, Rob Love, and Mz. Vivacious. (313-353-0389), $20.

Mon., Sept. 7, 7:30-10 p.m.

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Flirt Nightclub

Trippin on Thursday, hosted by K-97 Funnyman Prescott. Thursdays, 6 p.m.

3659 S. MENDENHALL (485-1119).

Hi-Tone

Don’t Be Afraid to Laugh for Love, Rock for Love 9 concert weekend with laughs, hosted by Josh McLane featuring Katrina Coleman, Reggie Junior, Richard Douglas Jones, Benny Elbows, Chris Rex, and Jared Herring. www.rockforlove. org. $5. Thurs., Sept. 3, 7 p.m.

412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE).

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

Rockhouse Live Midtown

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HeartLights New Orleans Comedy Tour, with stand-up comedians, Addy Najera, Kaitlin Marone, Cyrus Cooper, Louis Connelly, and Happi Johnson. 21+ event. $5. Sun., Sept. 6, 8-10 p.m.

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Say What?! Public Performance, learn how to perform with confidence, find your voice, and participate in “Vibe Time” showcasing your poetry. (415-2764), www. livingbreathingpoetry.com.

Free. Sat., Sept. 5, 2-4 p.m.

8457 TRINITY (REGISTRATION, 754-8443).

The HUB

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

515 E.H. CRUMP.

Java Cabana

Open mic nite, www. javacabanacoffeehouse.com.

Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Barry Wolverton

Author discusses and signs The Chronicles of the Black Tulip Vol. 1: The Vanishing Island. Thurs., Sept. 3, 6:30 p.m.

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

L E CT U R E /S P EAK E R

Brooks Museum League Meeting Scott Blake, president of Victorian Village and owner of Design 500, talks about his Italianate-style home, his eclectic art collections, and the resurgence of Victorian Village. Free. Fri., Sept. 4, 11 a.m.-noon.

Public Sightseeing Cruise

Cruises on the Island Queen from Beale Street Landing down the Mississippi River featuring live historical commentary and a cash/credit bar. $20.

Through Oct. 31, 5 p.m.

BEALE STREET LANDING, BEALE AND RIVERSIDE, WWW.MEMPHISRIVERFRONT.COM.

Marvin Sapp, Bogard Brothers, Ronnie Strong and the Strong Family, Darrel Petties, the Bell Singers, Stax Music Academy performers, and more. Sat., Sept. 5, noon-10 p.m.

LEVITT SHELL, OVERTON PARK (272-2722), WWW.WLOK.COM.

6th Annual Pianos in the Park Jazz Fest

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Live jazz provided by keyboardist Brian Simpson and jazz saxophonist Jackiem Joyner. Sun., Sept. 6, 6-9 p.m.

W.C. HANDY PARK, BEALE AT THIRD, WWW.STRICTLYJAZZENTERTAINMENT.COM.

Memphis Music and Heritage Festival

Celebrate Memphis’ musical roots featuring musicians, dancers, cooks, talkers, poets, folk artists, workshops, and craft vendors. Sat.-Sun., Sept. 5-6.

MAIN AND PEABODY PLACE, MAIN STREET MALL (261-7529), WWW.SOUTHERNFOLKLORE.COM.

Mid-South Book Festival

Writer’s conferences, summits, book signings, street fair, and more. Wed.-Sun., Sept. 9-13.

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (726-4656), WWW.MIDSOUTHBOOKFEST.ORG.

Party

Rock for Love 9: Crosstown Block

Multi-venue concert and fund-raiser benefiting the Church Health Center.

Fri., Sept. 4, 5 p.m.

WWW.ROCKFORLOVE.ORG.

“The History of the Memphis Riverfront”

Ultimate water slide event featuring water play, food trucks, and summer treats while the music plays. Use Promo Code: SHELBY to save 40 percent on all singleticket purchases. $15-$100.

Sat., Sept. 5, noon-6 p.m.

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

WLOK Stone Soul Picnic

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MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (320-9057).

Shelby County historian Jimmy Ogle will talk cobblestones, buildings, cotton, mules, and steamships on the riverfront and its evolution. $7. Wed., Sept. 9, noon.

“Church,” at Rhodes’ Clough-Hanson Gallery

Slide Fest USA

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

2015 Clergy Chase

5K benefiting the Methodist Healthcare Foundation. Food, games, prizes, and more. $20.

Sat., Sept. 5, 7:30-10 a.m.

FRIDAY @ 7PM

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Chick-fil-A 5K

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Memphis Redbirds v.

New Orleans Zephyrs Thur., Sept. 3.

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

Yoga Thursdays

Vinyasa yoga class in the Schilling Gallery with Misti Rae Holton. No water allowed. $12. Thursdays, 11 a.m.-noon.

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

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Read and explore written works by women and LGBT authors. Second Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

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The latest updates for stroke survivors and caregivers hosted by Connie Holland, RN, AMI/ Stroke Coordinator. Refreshments served. Second Tuesday of every month, 2 p.m.

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METHODIST NORTH HOSPITAL, 3960 NEW COVINGTON PIKE (516-5200), WWW.MLH.ORG.

Tennessee Lyme Disease Support Network’s Monthly Meeting

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Family-friendly shindig featuring beer, live music, and food trucks benefiting Get Off Our Lawn. $5 donation requested.

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Food and wine-tasting event with more than a dozen local brands. Free. Sat., Sept. 5, 3-6 p.m.

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Based on actual events in 1994. Spanish with English subtitles. Free.

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Young people from an integrated theater program in Selma, Alabama. Post-show Q&A with filmmaker. $10. Wed., Sept. 9, 7-9:15 p.m.

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Mike Miller of Heritage Tavern & Kitchen (right); Alder Smoked Salmon dish (left)

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From the Northeast, there are clam chowder and lobster rolls. From the Southwest, there are carnitas tamales and shrimp-stuffed jalapeños. Want to know where the zucchini fries come from?

Heritage makes it easy — the menu is overlaid on a map of the United States, each dish appearing over its home region.

The portions are big, and the food is hearty, stick-to-your-ribs kind of stuff. Maybe my favorite was the Alder Smoked Salmon ($19). Quite often, restaurants overdo the smoke flavor in smoked fish, so it ends up tasting like a campfire log. But Heritage does it right — the alder wood doesn’t take over, which allows the rich flavor of the salmon to speak for itself. Also recommended: the Lobster Roll ($19) and the Deviled Eggs ($6), served with yummy candied bacon.

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“I consider myself a patriot,” he confesses. “My country’s very important to me. I want to celebrate our culture, but also our culinary history.”

Since 2005, Miller has been the owner and GM at Patrick’s, a homecooking restaurant on Park. Now he has he opened a new restaurant, Heritage Tavern & Kitchen, in the Regalia Shopping Center in East Memphis. The idea is to celebrate American heritage by cooking affordable dishes from several different parts of the country.

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When it comes to burger joints … how do I say this? You don’t want a bunch of skinny guys running them. Fortunately for you, Barron Brown ain’t skinny. For 16 years, he’s been the area director of TJ Mulligan’s, the same guys who brought you LBOE in Overton Square. Last year, Brown’s team took fourth place at Best Memphis Burger Fest, and honestly? He’s still a little sore about it.

“We probably could have took first,” he opines, “but there was some confusion about when the judging was. That burger must have sat out for about 30 minutes

before they tasted it.”

Brown is the general manager of Mac’s Burgers, which recently opened near Target on Colonial. It occupies the front room of Dan McGuinness Irish Pub and has the same owners. So why the switcheroo? Brown says this new concept reflects a shift in consumer tastes: Irish food is out, gourmet burgers are in.

I can’t really speak to consumer tastes, but my own taste buds are definitely happy about the change. When it comes to burgers, Brown and his buddies from Mulligan’s and LBOE are the best in town.

Take the Burning Love ($9.50). Now I’m gonna tell you what’s on it, and it’s gonna sound weird. But trust me — it’s really freaking good. Grilled jalapeños, red and green peppers, onions, pepper jack cheese, reaper hot sauce, garlic cream cheese, and a fresh-ground, grass-fed beef patty from Charlie’s Meat Market.

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Mac’s other specialty is gourmet mac and cheese, of which they offer no fewer than 12 varieties. Order The Trio ($12.95), which allows you to sample three different kinds, and definitely include the Mushroom Mac in your lineup.

The goat cheese and scallions set it off very nicely.

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I guess I’ll join? In any case, the décor seems to connect with diners, who had crowded the lunch service on a recent Monday. Miller says it’s not about kitsch.

He’s paying homage to the country that has given him such opportunities. He’s been in the restaurant business since age 14, when he started as a dishwasher. Now he owns his own place.

“The idea that we, as Americans, can go out and make things for ourselves,” Miller reflects, “and reap the rewards of that labor — I think that makes us unique among all the countries of the world. I think it’s a beautiful experiment.”

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former firefighter,” Hodgdon says. “It’s about Memphis hip-hop and dance culture. It’s been very influential, but it doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves, compared to the Bronx or the West Coast scene.”

The film features appearances by more than 30 Memphis hip-hop artists and dancers, including Juicy J, Gangsta Boo, 8Ball, and MJG. “I have been working for years on this documentary,” Coleman says. “It’s a collaborative project about the hiphop, rap, and dance culture in Memphis, which has been underground for over 20 years. Now you get to witness our secrets.”

Another Memphis production will screen on Sunday.Waffle Street is directors Ian and Eshom Nelms’ adaptation of a 2010 memoir by financier James Adams, who took a job at a popular 24hour breakfast restaurant after being laid off from his Wall Street job. James Lafferty stars as Adams alongside Danny Glover as “the best short-order cook in town.”

Actor-turned-director Tommy Ford will bring his drama Switching Lanes to Studio on the Square. Ford’s film follows Kaneesha and Sarah, who reach across racial barriers in their small Southern town to forge an unlikely friendship.

You can find a full schedule of the weekend’s films and buy weekend passes or tickets to individual movies at the On Location: Memphis website, onlocationmemphis.org.

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In 1954, the church was the location of Johnny Cash’s first live performance with the Tennessee Two. On Saturday, Joanne Cash, Johnny’s youngest sister, will be on hand for the screening of her documentary I Do Believe. “It’s a narrative of her life, from growing up in Arkansas to living here in Memphis and then being involved in the Cowboy Church in Nashville,” Hodgdon says.

On Sunday, a different kind of music documentary will screen at Cooper Walker Place.

The Record Man tells the story of independent music mogul, Henry Stone, whose TK Records was the home of some of the best disco hitmakers of the 1970s, including KC and the Sunshine Band and Memphian Anita Ward, who had a No. 1 hit on the label in 1979 with “Ring My Bell.” Ward will be on hand for the screening.

The weekend of music-related films at will kick off with the Blues Reel Review concert on Friday, which will feature Memphis artists such as Redd Velvet, Garry Burnside, and Beverly Davis, Butch Mudbone, Joyce Henderson, and Cash McCall paying tribute to a pair of legends we lost this year, Teenie Hodges and B.B. King.

Over at Studio on the Square, first-time director Morreco Coleman will spotlight a uniquely Memphis musical phenomenon with Gangsta Walking the Movie. “He’s a

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or the 16th year since beginning life as the Memphis International Film Festival, On Location: Memphis will be bringing films to the Mid-South. “We’re all volunteers, from the president on down,” says Public Relations Director Dan Hodgdon, who has been working with the festival for three years. “I’ve met a lot of cool filmmakers and musicians and seen all kinds of projects that you might not ever know about otherwise, from short films to documentaries to feature films. It’s been really interesting to meet such a broad cross section of really talented and creative people.”

Introducing the filmmakers to their audiences, and vice versa, is a big part of the On Location experience. “We aren’t officially having an opening night movie this year. Instead, we’re having a mix-and-mingle preview party at the Hard Rock Cafe. There will be a lot of trailers and filmmakers there, and an opportunity for people to get to know each other,” Hodgdon says.

Music from all over the world plays a big part in this year’s festival. “Over the years, we’ve received a lot of entries for music-related films, whether features or documentaries or shorts,” Hodgdon says. “A lot of it comes from Memphis having the history and reputation as a music city.

It’s across the board, from hip-hop to country, blues … a little bit of everything.

We decided to embrace the music component.”

Most of the musicrelated films will be screening at Cooper Walker Place, the community center located at 1015 S. Cooper in the former Galloway

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FILM REVIEWS By Chris McCoy

Girl Bromance Greta Gerwig is a whirlwind of energy in Mistress America.

Mistress America is director Noah Baumbach’s second film released this year. The first, While We’re Young, was a modest hit that starred Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as filmmakers caught between the legacy of their parents’ and, as James Murphy says, “The kids coming up from behind.”

Stiller finds himself invigorated when he befriends a younger documentarian, played by Adam Driver, but their friendship ultimately curdles into jealousy and mistrust as Stiller sees the more unpleasant aspects of his personality reflected in Driver’s characters’ ambitious nature.

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Tracy is entranced by Brooke, and the pair fall into an intense relationship.

When one of Brooke’s investors pulls out of the restaurant over an ill-timed Instagram picture, Tracey convinces Tony to let them use his car to drive to Greenwich, Connecticut to convince a pair of Brooke’s friends, Dylan (Michael Chernus) and Mamie-Claire (Heather Lind), to partner with Brooke. The trip descends into fiasco and puts a strain on their relationship.

The center of Mistress America is Gerwig, who came up from the indie scene after turning heads in 2007’s Hannah Takes the Stairs. Gerwig, also the film’s cowriter, has an electrifying screen presence that she and Baumbach put to good use in their first collaboration, 2012’s Frances Ha, where she was the uncertain young woman trying to fit in. But in this film, Brooke is the spirit of New York personified, always looking to the next hustle, living for the future while ignoring the more squalid aspects of her present life. Brooke seems like what Frances would have grown into, and I think it’s a missed opportunity to not make Mistress America a

Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke in Mistress America sequel to Frances Ha, as that would have given the character more depth.

Gerwig is her usual bright self. The big discovery in this film is Kirke. Kirke skillfully draws Tracy’s emotional arc, from intimidated college girl to confident young writer. She gives herself over to Gerwig’s deadpan dialog, nailing lines like: “That’s cool about the frozen yogurt machine. Everyone I love dies.”

The other great turn is by Lind whose character struck it rich and moved to the exurbs. Once the action moves to Connecticut, it becomes a chamber comedy for a while. Brooke and Tracy navigate an unfamiliar social world, while MamieClaire tries to keep her husband from blowing money on the restaurant.

Like Woody Allen in the 1970s, Baumbach’s films tend to revolve around the well-to-do in New York, shooting thick, witty dialog and gags like an art movie.

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It has become a given among professional journalists that Nazi or Hitler references have no place in the discourse of American politics. That being said, doesn’t Donald Trump remind you of Mussolini — the same arrogant swagger, the fiery rhetoric, the frenetic arm movements, the pout? Pardon me, Benito Mussolini was the fascist dictator of Italy who was allied with Germany and Japan against the United States during WWII. I wasn’t there. I just like to read about this stuff. Or maybe I saw it on the History Channel. Anyway, lately Trump has been making Mussolini look absolutely timid. What with the defiant stance, the funny hats, and the adorable wife. Well, at least Benito thought his wife was adorable. And he likes pushing people around, see?

Trump has dominated the news coverage for weeks. In fact, you can’t turn on the TV without seeing the Donald. He’s the main attraction on all the cable news networks as well as the entertainment news channels because, let’s admit it, he’s one helluva entertainer. But if I hear one more pundit say, “He’s sucking all the oxygen out of the room,” I’m going to suffocate. After several outrageous news conferences and incoherent speeches, Trump is running away with the GOP leading-contender status like a contestant on The Apprentice.

The Tea Party contingency loves him, and the evangelical congregation believe he’s a godsend. Literally. There’s no use telling Trump devotees that his xenophobic, misogynistic, paternalistic, and extremist ravings might be dangerous, because they don’t understand what those words mean anyway. That’s why they call it “the base.” For the rational among us, Trump’s ole-time racist rhetoric won’t be so fascinatingly galling for much longer. The novelty will wear off, his shelf-life will expire, and it will be time to change the channel. The problem is, to what channel?

No sooner had Trump made nice with the Fox Republican Propaganda Network over his ugly remarks about favorite daughter Megyn Kelly, than he unilaterally restarted the war. Trump went into Twitter overdrive saying, “I liked the Kelly File much better without Megyn Kelly,” and retweeting some clever backwoods poet’s comment that, “The bimbo’s back in town,” with Trump adding, “I hope not for long.” Trump says, “I cherish women,” in his domineering way. Maybe Ivanka can tell Dad that calling them “bimbos” is no way to win the women’s vote. Personally, I’d love to see a war between Trump and Fox News.

Trump and Roger Ailes could have a loser-leaves-town match, or better still, a hair match, only Ailes has none to lose. Perhaps he could get Hannity as a proxy. The next week, Trump tossed respected journalist Jorge Ramos out of a press conference for being too insistent, saying, “Go back to Univision.” That sucking sound you hear is the last potential Latino Trump vote heading south. During his next media scrum, Trump claimed that, “CNN is terrible,” and “Fox News doesn’t cover me fairly.” Since NBC dismissed him from his reality show, Donald is about to run out of media outlets to cover his every burp on live TV. The Dick Armey-organized, Koch brothers-funded Tea Party was once a fringe group of the Republican Party. Now, they run the show. The GOP created this beast on inauguration day when they plotted to destroy the Obama presidency — country be damned. So now they must feed the beast. Trump claims that his favorite book is the Bible, yet he can’t remember a favorite passage. Here’s one from Hosea 8:7, “They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.” Trump’s stump speeches contain phrases like, “the Mexican people love me,” “I have a great relationship with the blacks,” and “we love the Ukrainians.” I don’t know if I’m listening to Donald Trump or Don Rickles.

Political insiders scoff at the possibility of Trump winning the nomination, but this is the party that elected the twin disasters of Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. If Trump is somehow elected president, he’ll have to build a wall at the southern border to keep people in. “People are shocked at how smart I am,” Trump says, as he carries on a Twitter war that makes him look more like a Real Housewife than a presidential candidate. He’s sewn up the Duck Dynasty vote without putting forward a single intelligible program. When challenged on his plan to expel 11 million undocumented workers, Trump proclaimed, “We’re going to deport them in a very humane fashion.” I’m sorry, but isn’t that what Hitler said?

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BUCCANEER LOUNGE since 1967 9/2: Ori Naftaly 9/3: Faux Killers 9/4: Ross Johnson & Fiends 4-7pm Late Show: DJ’s 9/6: Cory Taylor Cox, Michaela Caitlin, Rock Euphora 9/7: Devil Train

1368 MONROE • 278-0909

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Woodard Properties

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

WaterBed Supplies & Sheets Call (901) 496-0492

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