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Meet local growers, makers, and dreamers who are nurturing hope right here in Memphis.

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Our annual look at the finest in local medicine.

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Now, midway through 2020, who can say featured profiles of several remarkable nurses when booking a flight abroad will feel safe in the Memphis area, and now the doctors are once more? Airlines have reported losses in making their rounds. We’re grateful to all the the billions in the first months of the year. I like medical professionals especially in the midst a bargain as much as the next of Covid-19. Frightening, diflady, but I’m still nowhere near ficult times shine an even ready to contemplate air travel, clearer light on those among even at pandemic prices. us who walk readily into crisis.

This summer, we’re staying We hope you find these listclose to home, like so many ings to be a helpful resource others. Instead of hopping all year long; even if you don’t f lights, we’re lacing up our keep this magazine on hand, sneakers, finding a certain you can search for a specialist earthbound freedom in neighany time at memphismagaborhood runs. Plus, they say zine.com/health. regular exercise helps bolster There’s much more, besides, a person’s immune system — from the refugee-run Global Anna with homegrown kale. sounds like a good idea to me.

Café to the legendary blues I can say without hesitation guitarist Memphis Minnie to the business or expertise that exercise helps with mental and mission of the Community Foundation. health, and goodness knows we can all use a This issue showcases the talents of a relittle help in that area right about now. markable team, and I salute each of them. At Instead of seeking out culinary adventures, Contemporary Media, we’re still working rewe’ve become small-scale kale farmers. We’re motely. I stop by the office periodically to take working on herbs and tomatoes and radishes care of this and that, and it’s strange walking and broccoli, too. But the kale seems to think past empty desks, some missing computer this is some kind of bodybuilding contest. monitors, others without chairs, dragged It’s made gains every time we wander into home in backseats to make remote work less the backyard, while the others putter along, painful. We all miss our people. But I can sprouting new leaves when they feel so moved. tell you that these people have been doing a Yes, we’re still baking bread. Also, if you phenomenal job moving forward, continuing must know, homebrewing kombucha, the to make plans and set goals and stay in touch. fermented tea crawling with helpful bacteria.

The next issue you’ll receive from us will I would say you should have seen our joy when be our annual City Guide. Readers with lonour ginger-lemon kombucha self-carbonated, ger memories will recall that we publish our but you might have worried about the wild- City Guide in August. Yes, this is a June/July eyed weirdos. The stuff’s delicious, though. combination issue. We chose to combine the This issue of Memphis makes sense to me, in two months for practical reasons. Candidthis moment. You’ll find a bundle of stories ly, it’s a cost savings, something we all must about ‘the homegrown,’ featuring local farm- consider these days. Until August, we’ll keep ers, honey-makers, and mushroom-growers, you informed and curious online, if you’ll visit all of whom are creating things close to home, our website (memphismagazine.com) or and closer to the heart. As we stay home, it’s follow us on social media (@memphismagso important to continue to support local azine). But just wait till you see City Guide. organizations like these. You don’t have to be- It will be a good one. And it will come with a come a backyard kale farmer to enjoy what’s few extras. Hmm, what extras? You’ll find out nurtured in Memphis soil. soon enough. Meanwhile, be well.

You’ll also find our annual Top Doctors listings, along with more extensive profiles of – Anna Traverse Fogle several of the doctors listed. Last month, we CEO and Editor-in-Chief

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hat feels like half a century ago, which is to say half a year ago, I wrote a hopeful little letter in this space about what 2020 might bring. I titled it, because of course I did, “2020 Vision.” This seems impossible now, but I wrote that letter from a tiny apartment in Paris. My husband and I traveled there for a belated honeymoon, without a thought of catching a potentially deadly virus. We were struck by how relatively quiet the city was, many of the tourists who typically crowd the Louvre and the Seine having stayed home to avoid the inconvenience of mass transit strikes. We hadn’t started talking about social distancing then, yet we spent most of the trip socially distanced.

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Memphotos And the opposite, too.

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n my 39 years of living in Memphis and frequently visiting before that, I have developed a complicated love for the people here. They make splendid art and music and food. Except when they don’t. The culture is easygoing, the faith strong, the sports fun, the community generous. And the opposite, too.

Photos don’t lie, say some. Nonsense. All photos lie, but some impart great truth. I’ve managed to get a bird’s-eye view of our town as well as images of people at work, at rest, and in contemplation. All here are Memphians, or have a lot of Memphis in them, and I admire who they are and what they do. And maybe the opposite, too.

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Homegrown Heart WITH

Meet local growers, makers, and dreamers who are nurturing hope right here in Memphis.

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he spring and summer of 2020 will be remembered in many ways, and without overwhelming fondness. These have been the days of COVID-19, 19, of loss and loneliness, of a troubled economy, of sweeping 19 closures and cancellations, of graduations and birthdays celebrated over Zoom, of tires gone mushy from lack of driving.

These have also been days when many learned new-to-us skills, the kind that aren’t so new at all: growing vegetable gardens from seed, tending to sourdough starters, relying more on what we can create than on what we can procure.

But long before the coronavirus pandemic, plenty of people in Memphis were growing and making both tangible and intangible goods. In this homebound season, we have chosen to present several local organizations who are bringing new meaning to what ‘homegrown’ signifies. There’s the story of a farm continually refining their operation and now including digital sales and home deliveries. A social enterprise wearing a beekeeping outfit — changing women’s lives and crafting honey while they’re at it. A group of community gardens working to restructure Memphis’ food ecosystem. And, in an industrial warehouse, a carefully tended indoor mushroom farm, blooming in cool darkness.

Whether you’re growing a bed of backyard kale or not, this is a particularly good time to help grow, support, and enjoy what’s made right here in Memphis. — Anna Traverse Fogle

Memphis Tilth volunteers help to sell fresh produce at the St. Jude Farmers Market.

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Ray Tyler's youngest farmhand delights in freshly harvested radishes.

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Rose Creek Farms in McNairy County has successfully made the shift to online sales. by alex greene

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ith summer upon us, Memphians who love to cook have, until recently, been missing an integral staple of the season: the farmers market. Far beyond the farm-fresh produce and artisanal crafts, the farmers market is an oasis of sociability.

And that is exactly what we’ve had to avoid in these pandemic times. But the fruits and vegetables are still out there, as local farms soldier on; one just needs to hunt for them on the internet.

Long before social distancing, Rose Creek Farms of McNairy County was ready for the shift from in-person to online. Now they’re making the most of changes they began implementing years ago, to the benefit of local food enthusiasts.

“When Amazon bought Whole Foods, that told me that consumers were more comfortable buying items online,” says Rose Creek co-owner Ray Tyler. “Consumers are interested in buying food that way. I’m always looking at where people’s buying trends are going to be two to three years from now. It’s better to be prepared than to be in a reactionary PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY ROSECREEK FARMS

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mindset. So we set up this oneasier for our local communities,” line store, thinking, ‘Let’s learn says Ray Tyler. “So, on orders over this, let’s get comfortable using $25, we started offering free deit, let’s get people acclimated.’ livery to everybody in Corinth, This was two or three years ago.

Selmer, Henderson, Jackson, We started doubling down on it Germantown, Collierville, and last fall, and we really saw those Memphis. Plus a few select peonumbers increase.” ple elsewhere who are older.”

Ray and his wife, Ashley, havThe Tylers have constantly refined their approach to farmen’t given up on farmers markets completely, even in ing since starting Rose these shut-in times.

Creek over a decade ago. Early on, they “I’m already at the Franklin market. pioneered grow“It feels really good to People there reing in the off seaget this food to families’ ally want that son with large, market to stay homes that really need it.” movable high open, because tunnels and row — Ray Tyler they feel it’s a covers. They’ve safer way to shop also hosted semthan a grocery store inars with authors that’s recirculating all and consultants who of the bacteria and breath specialize in growing large particles back into the air. So volumes in small spaces, partly people are really doing their to learn more themselves. Now, part to be safe.” with all their cultivation done Due to their location near in the tunnels, they’re often far Selmer, just an hour east of Memahead of the curve in supplying phis, Rose Creek’s reach extends crops early. Unlike many local farmers, they had ramped up our way as well. production well before people “When the pandemic really hit and people were encouraged to were sheltering in place. stay home, we wanted to do our “We’re able to seed carrots in part in making this time a little December and January,” says Ray.

“And we have had a lot of production. On March 1st, things really started to heat up, and by April we were doing 200-300 bunches of carrots a week, 400 bunches of scallions, 200-300 pounds of spring mix, 100 pounds of spinach, 400 head of lettuce a week, plus herbs, radishes, arugula, and beets. It’s amazing how this all worked out. We invested in all these tunnels last fall and started planting, not knowing if we were going to sell it all. But we have been selling everything we can harvest. “We’re not excited to see what’s happening to everyone’s lives,” he continues, “but it’s been exciting to see what is possible this time of year in our climate, in terms of production. It feels really good to get this food to families’ homes that really need it. They’re really excited and happy that they’re feeding their families and boosting their immune system. It’s been quite the past few weeks, I’ll just say that. It’s an exciting time to be a farmer.”

Visit rosecreekfarmstore. com to order fresh produce and arrange socially distanced deliveries to your porch.

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The women who are part of Thistle & Bee are survivors. Through the process of tending to bees, they learn new ways of tending to themselves.

Pollinating the Seeds of Change At Thistle & Bee, a social enterprise generates honey and hope. by anna traverse fogle

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n a dozen sites around the Memphis area, buzzing hives of bees are nestled, humming towards honey. At regular intervals, courageous women appear, clad like earthbound astronauts, to tend to the bees. These women are not courageous simply for donning beekeeping suits and plunging into hives — although surely this can take some getting used to — but for what they have survived: sexual exploitation, substance use disorder, original traumas and the traumas those germinate.

Thistle & Bee was founded in Memphis in 2015 by the Reverend Eyleen Farmer, formerly of Calvary Episcopal Church. Since last year, Eli Cloud has been executive director of the organization, which she describes as a social-justice enterprise. Women who enter Thistle & Bee are typically referred by one of several local treatment centers.

They must have been sober for a minimum of 30 days — Thistle & Bee is not set up as a detox facility — and any minor children cannot currently be in their custody, so that the women may focus on their own healing. The enterprise’s organizing goals: To create a safe space where women learn to work

together as a team and hone transmany were trafficked. “They didn’t latable job skills. make these choices,” she says. “No Many may know Thistle & Bee one chooses to become a prostiprimarily through their products tute. But they are making choices now,” now that they are choosing — jarred honey, handmade granoto prioritize their own recovery. la, milk-and-honey soaps, beeswax candles, a well-balanced mint and The program lasts two years. lemon-balm tea — available at loIn the beginning phases of their cal retailers, the Cooper-Young time at Thistle & Bee, women are Farmers’ Market, and online. ineligible to work on anything The honey is floral and complex, other than themselves. They though not overpoweringly so; the must first spend time in intensive soaps, patterned like beehives, are outpatient therapy; throughout, almost too pretty to use.

Thistle and Bee recognizAll of those prodes that transformation ucts are the work of happens from the inside out. After the women in the “Six women doesn’t Thistle & Bee prosix months, womsound like a lot. But gram. These women join the proen were exploited duction team — these women are creating and traumatized; baking granola, seeds of change.” many were combottling honey, — Eli Cloud pelled into prostifulfilling orders. tution. Cloud recalls Later, they transibeing asked more than tion to what Cloud calls the “Bee Team,” once whether the women in the program were trafficked checking on the hives, tendor had chosen to become prostiing to the bees. tutes. The way she sees it, choosing Since April last year, Thistle & prostitution is no choice at all. One Bee’s mission has included a reswoman was just 3 years old when idential program, a safe house at she began to be raped by a family an unpublished location. The resmember; another was 5. Nearly idence is equipped to house six all suffered some form of trauma; women at a time. This spring and

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early summer, as Covid-19 snaked its way into the Memphis area, the operation shifted somewhat; retail sales suffered, direct event sales have been off entirely with event cancellations, and the team took time away from the farmers’ market. Retailers are beginning to reopen, though, and granola production is ramping up again.

Over Zoom, Cloud shows me a little tin of beeswax lip balm whose formula she’s been perfecting in her home kitchen over a double boiler. Soon, she’ll be teaching the women how to craft the lip balm themselves.

Cloud wants people to understand that the impact of Thistle & Bee cannot be measured by the number of women in the program at a given time. Yes, she says, “Six women doesn’t sound like a lot.

But these six women — some of them will be inspired to work with this program and help other women off the streets. They are creating seeds of change.” Seeds that grow flowers, to be pollinated by bees, to transform into honey, to change lives.

For more information, visit thistleandbee.org PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY THISTLE & BEE

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Memphis Tilth's St. Jude Community Garden, led by community garden site coordinator Mary Carnes (right), supplies the hospital with fresh produce.

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Memphis Tilth is building sustainable self-reliance for neighborhoods, one garden at a time. by samuel x. cicci

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s we prepare to finish our phone call, Mia Madison is getting ready to make a severalhour drive to pick up a crop of rice from a farm on the outskirts of town. But the long trek is no object; as executive director of Memphis Tilth, Madison is more than willing to put in the hard hours to create a sustainable food ecosystem in Memphis.

While most might recognize the organization for its work with several community gardens around town that supply the St. Jude and Chelsea Ave. Farmers markets, Memphis Tilth has its hands all over Memphis’ budding food ecosystem. “We’re focused on creating an economically sustainable, socially equitable, and environmentally sound local food system,” says Madison. “Five different nonprofits joined together a few years ago to create Memphis Tilth, so we’ve been able to focus our efforts on our core mission.”

To achieve it, the organization relies on three separate programs to provide food access, culinary education, and opportunities for farmers: Grow Local, Cook Together, and Farm Direct.

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rently supports 55 community garexpanded to cover a wider varidens in 15 different Zip codes in ety of dietary implications. The Memphis. That initiative allowed community kitchen now teachthe organization to pursue outes classes on culinary education, side partnerships, like with the shared meal preparation, valSt. Jude Garden, where they grow ue-added production, and healthy fresh food for patients, families, eating practices.

The instruction also includes a and staff. The site also hosts hummingbird and butterfly stations, workforce. Participants can earn as well as beehives that produce their ServSafe Certification, a honey to be sold at the food and beverage safety farmers market. Othcertificate officially “We’re focused er Memphis Tilth sponsored by the projects around National Restauon creating an town have everyrant Association. economically sustainable thing from tea “ServSafe is just gardens to medi- and environmentally sound one method of tation gardens. training that we local food system.”

“Having these have available,” opportunities to s ays M a d i s o n .

— Mia Madison “Students can also build gardens helps us think in new ways about receive gardening skills growing local,” says Madison,” training. That would proand not just how to grow food, but vide them with a certificate they how to grow communities as well.” could take to places like Lowe’s Memphis Tilth’s second proor Home Depot that would allow them to speak intelligently when gram, Cook Together, synthesizes applying for jobs.” the organization’s urban farming knowledge to create a garden to Beyond classes, Memphis Tilth’s community kitchen is a table pathway. Initially, Memphis Tilth sought out a grant to host full-service commercial kitchen nutrition classes around diabethat provides additional space for local food-makers. Madison cites tes at their community kitchen, but the programming has since an entrepreneur who needed to

make dog treats. The kitchen let him significantly increase production and then use Memphis Tilth’s online platform to sell his product to members.

The organization’s third core program, Farm Direct, brings locally grown produce directly to consumers through the Chelsea Ave. and St. Jude Farmers Markets, but its most interesting initiative is the Bring It Food Hub. Each week, Memphis Tilth provides a produce subscription to members all over the city from 15 different drop sites, which include spots like Crosstown Concourse or various churches.

“It’s a great way to bring fresh, healthy foods to the community,” says Madison. “And it’s important for communities to grow their own food. I like to think about resilience in communities and how quickly people can bounce back from something. Many areas of Memphis have been living in poverty for years, so providing day-to-day access to fresh, healthy food is what will help build that resiliency.”

For more information, visit memphistilth.org

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Patti Young (left) holds a Lion’s Mane mushroom, one of the species available from Bluff City Fungi.

Scott Lisendy (right) presents a Reishi mushroom in the indoor, climate-controlled production facility.

Oysters, Lion’s Manes, & Chestnuts It’s not what you think. These are just some of the varieties of mushrooms grown indoors at Bluff City Fungi.

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hen I was 20 or 21, I started to get really interested in farming and growing my own food,” says Scott Lisendy. “To be completely honest, I wasn’t even a huge fan of mushrooms.” Now at 28, he is the owner of Bluff City Fungi, supplying mushrooms to hungry people all over the MidSouth.

Linsendy started his first farming operation with the help of a local agricultural incubator. “I had a produce and f lower farm for a couple years,” he says, “and worked and managed for a lot of other local farms in the area.”

What fascinated him the most about growing was the “interwoven relationship between plants and soil and fungi … We always kind of played around with it on the side, but then we saw there was this huge need for them here that nobody was really filling at the time. I was just so fascinated by the science of it, and the process.”

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With their varied tastes and when it’s the perfect humidity textures and high protein conand the mushrooms just gotta tent, mushrooms can make a pop a rain. You’re trying to capture that every day of the week.” great substitute for meat. They’re The fungi begin life on a petri also high in fiber, cholesterol, and gluten, and are fat-free. Lindsey plate before moving onto carefulgrows the type of mushrooms ly controlled growing environknown in the industry as “exotments. “They all grow on a woodics”: spindly shiitakes, terraced based substrate,” says Lisendy. oysters, tightly clustered maiBluff City Fungi is a regular takes, furry lion’s manes, presence at Mid-South golden chestnuts, and farmers markets and stout pioppinos. supplies dozens With their varied of rest au r a nts His operation with mushis located in a tastes and textures warehouse in an rooms for their and high protein content, industrial seckitchens. When mushrooms can make tion of Memphis. the COVID-19 pandemic shut “Mushrooms are a great substitute perfectly suited to down the dining for meat. farming in a more rooms, it was a big urban setting, beblow to the compacause they can be grown ny. “I’ve always tried vertically in environmentally to make sure that we have a controlled systems,” he says. little bit of diversity in a lot of “The whole process is mimicking different directions,” he says, something that’s so rare. You’re “which, after all this, has paid trying to capture this moment off very well, because we lost in spring, that’s, like, 50 degrees, about 90 percent of our restau-

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Lisendy says he’s seen sales come back since the first shock, and he’s focused on making sure his products remain available.

Bluff City Fungi ships to all 50 states. They offer curbside pickup, fresh from their indoor farm, and once-a-week deliveries.

“We have a lot of different options for local Memphis people.”

Recently, he signed on to provide mushrooms for Whole Foods stores in East Memphis and Germantown. Despite the current challenges, Lisendy is optimistic about the future: “The core business has always been just my mom and me. She handles sales and I handle production. We’re really grateful that local people have stepped up to support us, and to make sure that businesses like ours can make it through this. It’s directly because of their support.”

For more information, visit bluffcityfungi.com

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ood health is the baseline. For everything. How we work, how we

play, what we choose to eat, where (and how often) we travel. The Mid-South has an abundance of hospitals and clinics that exist for the shared mission of a thriving community: wellness. Within those institutions, though, are human beings who have made it their own life mission to heal the sick and keep those blessed with good health on the right path, regardless of life stage.

Let this year’s list of Top Doctors be your first resource should you be in need of care, be it a sprained wrist or lingering stomach discomfort. These specialists have been chosen among peers as the best in their field. Your good health is their baseline.

ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY NORA DAHER, MD

Daher Asthma & Allergy Clinic 2136 Exeter Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-203-6055 FOOD ALLERGY, ASTHMA, DRUG ALLERGY

JOSEPH S. FAHHOUM, MD

Allergy & Asthma Specialists Of Memphis 2006 Exeter Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-202-4100 ASTHMA & ALLERGY

CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY ERIC E. JOHNSON, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000 ARRHYTHMIAS, PACEMAKERS / DEFIBRILLATORS

RAJESH KABRA, MD

UT Methodist Physicians - Cardiology 1211 Union Ave., Suite 965, Memphis, TN 38104 901-435-8550

GREGORY A. HANISSIAN, MD

PACEMAKERS / DEFIBRILLATORS, ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, ARRHYTHMIAS, CATHETER ABLATION

ASTHMA & ALLERGY, IMMUNE DEFICIENCY

Sutherland Cardiology Clinic 3950 New Covington Pike, Suite 220, Memphis, TN 38128 901-516-5373

Hanissian Allergy 2101 Merchants Row, Suite 3, Germantown, TN 38138 901-751-9696

D. BETTY LEW, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

PEDIATRIC ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNE DEFICIENCY

YOSEF A. KAHN, MD

ARRHYTHMIAS

JEFFREY E. KERLAN, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 6027 Walnut Grove Rd., Suite 112, Memphis, TN 38120 901-271-1000

JAY A. LIEBERMAN, MD

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, DEFIBRILLATORS

CHRISTIE F. MICHAEL, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 ASTHMA & ALLERGY, AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE

DAVID ZHI-QIANG LAN, MD

ARRHYTHMIAS

CARDIOVASCUL AR DISEASE TODD D. EDWARDS, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000 TRANSPLANT MEDICINE - HEART

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MEMPHIS TOP DOCTORS 2020 STEVEN S. GUBIN, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000 PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY, ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

JASON I. INFELD, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000

NON-INVASIVE CARDIOLOGY, ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY - TRANSESOPHAGEAL, CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

JOHN L. JEFFERIES, MD

UT Methodist Physicians - Cardiology 1211 Union Ave, Suite 965, Memphis, TN 38104 901-435-8550 CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE-ADULT & CHILD, CARDIOMYOPATHY, HEART FAILURE

DAVID H. KRAUS, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000 HEART FAILURE, HEART VALVE DISEASE, AMYLOID HEART DISEASE, CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION

FRANK A. III MCGREW, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES

DANIEL E. OTTEN, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000

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ven though he says, “Mom and Dad never pushed me to become a doctor,” surely Dr. Steven Gubin was destined to join that profession. After all, his grandfather had been a physician in New York before joining the U.S. Army, which sent him to Memphis, where he ran the outpatient services department for the VA hospital here. His father served as a pediatrician for 56 years in Missouri, the only such specialist in the rural “bootheel” area.

Even so, Gubin might have ended up as a Top Dentist instead of a Top Doctor, or working in another field of medicine entirely — except for a meeting with the prominent cardiologist who pioneered the development of the pacemaker.

Gubin earned a degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina, and then pondered a career as a pediatric dentist. After medical school at the University of Tennessee – Memphis, admitting, “I still didn’t know what I wanted to get into,” he began an internship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he met Dr. Richard Judge, a member of the team who developed the first successful pacemaker.

“Dr. Judge was very well-known, and for some reason, he took an interest in me,” says Gubin. “I respected him so much and was very impressed with how he worked with patients. He’s the one who really introduced me to cardiology. The rest is history.”

That history includes fellowships with the University of Illinois and Penn State before coming to Memphis in 1991 and joining what was then called the Stern Clinic. “I was only their tenth cardiologist, and now we have 40 physicians in Memphis, Germantown, Southaven, Oxford,

Munford, and Union City. I really liked Stern because it was a private practice that had many of the benefits of an academic center, such as research facilities.”

In addition to treating patients, Gubin also serves as president of the Stern Cardiovascular Foundation. “We are 100 years old this year, and it’s unusual for a medical group to be together that long,” he says, noting that the founder, Dr. Newton Stern, brought the first EKG machine to Memphis. “I’m always humbled and honored to be only the fourth president in our long history.”

He feels he’s part of a good team, with doctors treating patients and others conducting studies. “I feel that everybody in our group is a Phi Beta Kappa in something,” he says. “I’m honored to be named a Top Doctor, but I think we have 40 Top Doctors.”

Many of the group’s physicians are specialists in specific areas — catheterization, electrophysiology, heart transplants — and Stern’s expertise is preventive cardiology.

“In the field of cardiology we’ve always done a good job of taking care of problems after they’ve happened, but I like to do things before that occurs.” On the board of directors of the American Heart Association since 1993, he works closely with AHA members “to address modifiable risk factors, blood pressure, cholesterol, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and others. These are things we can do something about.”

He’s pleased with the technological progress in his field. “But it still upsets me that the number-one cause of death in men and women is heart disease,” he says.

“We’ve come a long way, but we certainly have to do better.” — Michael Finger

HOLGER P. SALAZAR, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000

ARSALAN T. SHIRWANY, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 6027 Walnut Grove Rd., Suite 112, Memphis, TN 38120 901-271-1000

MAUREEN A. SMITHERS, MD

Sutherland Cardiology Clinic 7460 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-763-0200 NON-INVASIVE CARDIOLOGY, HEART FAILURE, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, ARRHYTHMIAS

CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY JERRY D. HESTON, MD

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Associates 1135 Cully Rd., Suite 100 Cordova, TN 38016

901-752-1980 ADD / ADHD, DEPRESSION, AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS

CHILD NEUROLOGY STEPHEN P. FULTON, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 848 Adams Ave., L400., Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337

AMY L. MCGREGOR, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 848 Adams Ave., Suite L400, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337 EPILEPSY

ROBIN L. MORGAN, MD

Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 848 Adams Ave., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337

TOURETTE'S SYNDROME, AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS

NAMRATA S. SHAH, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Neurology Clinic 848 Adams Ave., Memphis, TN 38103

866-870-5570 NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS, PEDIATRIC ONSET DEMYELINATING DISEASE, EPILEPSY

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MEMPHIS TOP DOCTORS 2020 JAMES W. WHELESS, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 848 Adams Ave., Suite L400, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337 EPILEPSY / SEIZURE DISORDERS

CLINICAL GENETICS JEWELL C. WARD, MD / PHD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM, METABOLIC GENETIC DISORDERS, PHENYLKETONURIA (PKU), REPRODUCTIVE GENETICS

COLON & RECTAL SURGERY JOSHUA A. KATZ, MD

Memphis Surgery Associates 6029 Walnut Grove Rd., Suite 404, Memphis, TN 38120 901-726-1056 INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE, COLON & RECTAL CANCER, ANORECTAL DISORDERS, LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY

JUSTIN MONROE, MD

UT Methodist Physicians 7705 Poplar Ave., Building B - Suite 220, Germantown, TN 38138 901-516-6792 COLON & RECTAL CANCER, INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE / CROHN'S, ULCERATIVE COLITIS, HEMORRHOIDS

DERMATOLOGY F. GWEN BEARD, MD

Memphis Dermatology Clinic 1455 Union Ave., Memphis, TN 38104 901-726-6655

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orn in London, Dr. Purvisha Patel spent most of her first 12 years in Wales before her parents — refugees from Uganda — seized an opportunity to run a motel in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

She spent her formative years in Ashland, Virginia, and attended the University of Virginia as both an undergraduate and medical student. She completed her dermatology training at the UT Health Science Center in Memphis, where she served her residency under Dr. William Rosenberg. (“Dr. Rosenberg was an amazing thinker,” says Patel. “He had skin-care lines and patents, which inspired my own career.”)

“As an immigrant family, [my parents] thought being a doctor was the ultimate career choice,” she says. “Seeing my parents work so hard, never having a vacation … you want to do whatever it takes to make them happy. I loved science, and I was good at it. I often took care of our grandparents, who would come and live with us. I was a caregiver, so doing medicine flowed naturally from that.”

Patel describes her decision to specialize in dermatology as a “eureka moment,” one that came with a serious dose of heartache. “My parents were thinking cardiology or neurosurgery, maybe pediatrics,” she says. “Nobody [in my family] really knew what dermatology was. But skin is the largest organ in the body. I feel like a Sherlock Holmes of medicine. I can tell if a patient is vitamin-deficient, if they have thyroid disease, diabetes, if they’re taking their medicine. I can see what people are doing for hobbies, if they’re swimming in a pool, what kind of pets they have. Before we had lab tests, this was medicine. Looking at a person’s body for signs and symptoms of disease.”

Patel’s father died at age 57 from skin cancer, just as she was choosing her specialty. “I chose to be a skin-cancer surgeon,” she reflects, “when my dad looked at me and asked, ‘You could have gotten rid of this before it spread?’ That’s how I knew. It was an easy decision.”

Dermatology offers about the closest thing a doctor can find to instant results. An ailment can be diagnosed, addressed, and often removed in a single visit. “A patient gets to see a disease go away,” Patel emphasizes, “and that’s really gratifying. We get to see the progress of treatment. It’s super fun.”

Reflecting on two decades as a dermatologist, Patel notes advances in technology — as with any field of medicine — but stands by the same general approach she studied at the turn of the century. "When it comes to skin cancer," she explains, "the answer is to still take it out. The procedure I do most — micrographic surgery — is considered cutting-edge, but it hasn't changed much since I left my training. When it comes to medicine, we’re using immunotherapies now for melanoma treatment.

Science has changed the field, but it’s still kind of ancient in its roots."

The coronavirus pandemic has and will impact dermatology, but Patel already sees progress in the area of remote treatment. “We’ve been utilizing telemedicine throughout the lockdown,” says Patel. “It has a good place in dermatology when it comes to follow-up visits, acne and rashes, or refilling prescriptions. Still, when doing a full skin exam — looking for skin cancer — seeing the person [in the same room] is the gold standard.”

— Frank Murtaugh

LUELLA G. CHURCHWELL, MD

Dermatology East 1335 Cordova Cove, Germantown, TN 38138 901-753-2794

ROBIN H. FRIEDMAN-MUSICANTE, MD Memphis Dermatology Clinic 1455 Union Ave., Memphis, TN 38104 901-726-6655

MOHS SURGERY, COSMETIC DERMATOLOGY, SKIN CANCER

JOHN D. HUBER III, MD

Levy Dermatology 1125 Schilling Blvd. East, Suite 105 Collierville, TN 38017 901-624-3333 SKIN CANCER, MOHS SURGERY

FRANCES K. LAWHEAD, MD

Memphis Dermatology Clinic 1455 Union Ave., Memphis, TN 38104 901-726-6655

SKIN CANCER, MOHS SURGERY, DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY

ALAN L. LEVY, MD

Levy Dermatology 6254 Poplar Ave., Memphis, TN 38119 901-624-3333

COSMETIC DERMATOLOGY, MEDICAL DERMATOLOGY, MOHS SURGERY

PURVISHA J. PATEL, MD

Advanced Dermatology & Skin Cancer Associates 7658 Poplar Pike, Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-2322 MOHS SURGERY

MALIKA TULI, MD

Mid-South Dermatology 6605 Stage Rd., Suite 2 Bartlett, TN 38134 901-372-4545 SKIN CANCER, MOHS SURGERY

TERESA S. WRIGHT, MD

Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 848 Adams Ave., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337

PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY, ACNE & ROSACEA, ECZEMA, PSORIASIS

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DR. PURVISHA J. PATEL, M.D.

MOHS SURGERY, COSMETIC DERMATOLOGY

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MEMPHIS TOP DOCTORS 2020 DEVELOPMENTAL - BEHAVIOR AL PEDIATRICS TONI M. WHITAKER, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities 711 Jefferson Ave., Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS, DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS, NEONATAL DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS, DEVELOPMENTAL & BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS

DIAGNOSTIC R ADIOLOGY HARRIS L. COHEN, MD

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Department of Radiology 848 Adams Ave., Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-6938

PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY, FETAL ULTRASOUND / OBSTETRICAL IMAGING, ULTRASOUND, CT BODY SCAN

SUE C. KASTE, DO

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Diagnostic Imaging 262 Danny Thomas Place, MS 220, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3347

BONE DENSITY IN PEDIATRIC CANCER, PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY

JAMES E. MACHIN, MD

Mid-South Imaging 7600 Wolf River Blvd, Suite 200, Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-1000 ULTRASOUND, MRI, CT BODY SCAN

ROBERT J. OPTICAN, MD

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s a young girl growing up in Birmingham, Dr. Sylvia Richey always knew she wanted to be a doctor. “Ever since I can remember, I was fixing and repairing my dolls,” she says, “and since my mother didn’t like the sight of blood, whenever anyone in the family needed a bandage, I took care of them. It seemed a natural path for me to take.”

A love of art history led her to a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University, but she used her elective classes there to prepare her for study at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham.

Although she originally planned to specialize in pediatrics, a fellowship in medical oncology brought her to UT-Memphis. After additional training at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, she returned here and joined the staff of West Cancer Center in 2005, where today she also serves as the associate medical director.

“What attracted me to oncology is that you are taking care of the whole patient and not just focusing on one organ,” she says. “To be effective, you have to treat cancer in the context of the rest of the body.”

In the 15 years since she’s been practicing, the most dramatic improvement in cancer treatment has been targeted therapy. “The sophistication of the molecular testing that we can do now really individualizes a patient’s treatment,” says Richey. “That approach didn’t exist years ago, but now it absolutely dictates how we treat every patient we see.” In the past, she explains, “Breast cancer was breast cancer. Now we know that not all breast cancers are the same, and so the treatment options are different for every patient.”

Richey has also witnessed many technological advances in her field, such as improvements in imaging, CT scans, and other diagnostic equipment. “We can find things earlier, which is great,” she says, “and surgeries have become less invasive, which is always better for the patient.”

In 2017, she took on a new role as director of the center’s Integrative Oncology Division, which is designed to address what patients can do for themselves during treatment. She likes this analogy: “If you think of cancer in someone’s body as a weed in their garden, the doctor is focusing on how to get rid of that weed, and we have to decide what weed killer to use,” she says. “But in the bigger picture, the patient has to take care of the whole garden, to make it as inhospitable as possible to that weed, so it won’t come back.”

The program addresses a patient’s spiritual and religious needs, shows them how to handle the psychological stress of a cancer diagnosis, and emphasizes the importance of nutrition, diet, and exercise. A new component is art therapy, where an artist works with patients during their “cancer journey.”

An integrated approach to therapy is key to the future of cancer treatment, says Richey. Also important is what she calls “survivorship” — how to get cancer patients back into society after they have recovered. That wasn’t always a concern years ago. “When I first started practicing,” she says, “our whole patient population would turn over every couple of years because patients were not long-term survivors. But now they are living longer, and I think that’s fantastic.” — Michael Finger

CANCER IMAGING

KEITH A. TONKIN, MD

Mid-South Imaging 7600 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 200., Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-1000 CARDIAC IMAGING, THORACIC RADIOLOGY

DEXTER H. WITTE III, MD

Mid-South Imaging 7600 Wolf River Blvd, Suite 200, Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-1000 MUSCULOSKELETAL IMAGING

ENDOCRINOLOGY, DIABETES & METABOLISM A. JAY COHEN, MD

The Endocrine Clinic 5659 S. Rex Rd., Memphis, TN 38119 901-763-3636 DIABETES

FAMILY MEDICINE WILLIAM R. DREWRY, MD

Memphis Medical Specialists 6005 Park Ave., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38119 901-761-2100

PRESTON G. GIVENS, MD

Methodist Medical Group 9047 Poplar Ave., Suite 105, Germantown, TN 38138 901-752-2300

ERICKA L. GUNN-HILL, MD

Jackson-Randle Family Healthcare 5142 Stage Rd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38134 901-382-2040

LEE W. MCCALLUM, MD

Methodist Medical Group 8115 Country Village Drive Cordova, TN 38016 901-752-2300

CALVIN J. MULLINS, MD

Methodist Medical Group 8115 Country Village Drive Cordova, TN 38016 901-752-2300

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DR. SYLVIA S. RICHEY, M.D.

Mid-South Imaging 7600 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 200, Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-1000

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We salute the masked heroes of Memphis.

Memphis is a city of heroes.

A place where tenacious healthcare workers unfailingly answer the call.

Where caregivers and first responders bravely face adversity day after day.

Where compassionate business owners and service industry workers keep our city moving. And where our selfless citizens have rallied to the cause of flattening the curve.

And though the rules of engagement in this fight continue to change, each day is an opportunity for all of us to improve the lives of others.

Together, we will make a difference.

This will be our city’s finest moment.

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For more than 100 years Semmes Murphey Clinic has led the way in advancing diagnostics, surgery and rehabilitation for brain and spine care.

Today the standard of care at SMC is unmatched in the Mid-south and around the world. We offer a full range of services under one roof and through our convenient continuum of care.

Areas of Specialty SPINE CARE

SURGERY CENTER

AUTONOMIC CARE

BRAIN CARE

NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

NEUROLOGY

INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT

TESTING & IMAGING

PHYSICAL THERAPY

I live one hour away from the clinic and was relieved to have my follow-up evaluation though a telehealth appointment. It was super simple and worked perfectly.

JULIE Semmes Murphey Patient

Clinic Locations MEMPHIS, TN 6325 Humphreys Blvd

JACKSON, TN 2802D N Highland Ave

JACKSON, TN 1535 Vann Drive

OXFORD, MS 1100 Belk Blvd #202

SOUTHAVEN, MS 391 Southcrest Cr, Ste 205

JONESBORO, AR 4802 E Johnson Ave

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MEMPHIS TOP DOCTORS 2020 contin u ed from page 3 0 APARNA K. MURTI, MD

Methodist Medical Group 2589 Appling Rd., Suite 101 Bartlett, TN 38133 901-752-2300 PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

MICHAEL C. WALLACE, MD

BMG Family Physicians Group Foundation 7685 Winchester Rd., Memphis, TN 38125 901-752-6963

CHARLES J. WOODALL, MD

BMG Family Physicians Group Foundation 7685 Winchester Rd., Memphis, TN 38125 901-752-6963

GASTROENTEROLOGY ALEX E. BAUM, MD

Gastro One 3350 N. Germantown Rd. Bartlett, TN 38133 901-377-2111 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND

EDWARD L. CATTAU JR, MD

Gastro One 8000 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 200, Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-3630 ENDOSCOPY

MICHAEL S. DRAGUTSKY, MD

Gastro One 1324 Wolf Park Drive, Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-9110

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ORTHOPAEDICS — CAMPBELL CLINIC

specialist in orthopaedics and the chief of staff for one of the world’s leading research centers in that field, Dr. Frederick Azar envisions a time when patients won’t need the high-tech metal and plastic implants currently used to replace damaged joints. Instead, he looks forward to the growing use of orthobiotics.

“We’re talking about stem cells and gene therapy and a much more developed treatment that’s not available today,” he says. “These approaches, which are more biological than artificial, may not happen in our lifetimes, but I think someday they will even lead to the natural restoration of damaged cartilage and the treatment of arthritis. We already have patients who come to us looking for alternatives to surgery, but we’re not quite there yet.”

Growing up in Greenville, Mississippi, Azar says his parents instilled in him the desire “to use your God-given talents and interests and help your fellow man and make some contribution to society.” He already loved science and biology, so the field of medicine was a natural fit. He earned a bachelor’s degree in pre-professional studies at Notre Dame, then studied medicine at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. After a residency in orthopaedic surgery at UT-Memphis, and a fellowship in sports medicine at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, he joined the staff of Campbell Clinic in 1995.

In those days, patient recovery after joint surgery often involved long stays in the hospital. One of the most impressive advances he’s witnessed is less invasive

arthroscopic surgery — working through small incisions instead of opening up the whole joint — which allows for shorter recovery time. “Today, a lot of our procedures can be done on an outpatient basis, or even same-day surgery,” he says. “It’s not uncommon for a patient to have knee-replacement surgery and go home the following day.”

That’s especially remarkable considering how complicated some joints in the human body can be. “A shoulder is especially complex,” he explains, “since it’s actually a compact structure that’s composed of three separate joints, with multiple tendons, ligaments, and muscles, but yet still allows more range of motion than any other joint in the body.”

A damaged knee joint can be particularly troublesome. Patients with elbow or shoulder injuries can still walk around, but a bad knee can be immobilizing.

What’s more, he says, “A knee injury, which can be caused by someone simply stepping off the curb, can be a life-threatening injury, because of the vascular structures there.” That’s why Azar is so impressed with advances he’s seen in implants, surgical procedures, and improvements in pain management.

As the team physician for the Memphis Grizzlies and University of Memphis Tigers, Azar has seen a lifetime of knee, shoulder, and elbow injuries. He also treats players for the 901FC and the Memphis Hustle teams.

“I really enjoy everything about my job,” he says. “It’s extremely gratifying and fulfilling to help someone get their function back. I feel very blessed to be doing what I do each and every day here at the Campbell Clinic.”

— Michael Finger

Gastro One 3350 N. Germantown Rd. Bartlett, TN 38133 901-377-2111

KENNETH I. FIELDS, MD

Gastrointestinal Specialists Foundation 80 Humphreys Center Drive, Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901-761-3900 ENDOSCOPY, GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE (GERD), COLON CANCER SCREENING, GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS

SATHEESH P. NAIR, MD

UT Methodist Physicians Transplant Institute 1265 Union Ave., Shorb Tower, Floor 4, Memphis, TN 38104 901-478-9183 TRANSPLANT MEDICINE - LIVER

BRYAN F. THOMPSON, MD

Gastro One 8000 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 200, Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-3630

ROBERT S. WOOTEN, MD

Gastro One 1324 Wolf Park Drive, Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-9110 CELIAC DISEASE, CROHN'S DISEASE

ZIAD H. YOUNES, MD

Gastro One 2999 Centre Oak Way, Germantown, TN 38138 901-684-5500

ENDOSCOPY & COLONOSCOPY, INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

GERIATRIC MEDICINE ROBERT BURNS, MD

Geriatrics Group of Memphis 2714 Union Ave. Extended, Suite 150, Memphis, TN 38112 901-725-0872 GERIATRIC MEDICINE, DEMENTIA

GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY JOSEPH T. SANTOSO, MD

Gynecologic Surgical Specialists 80 Humphreys Center Drive, Suite 202, Memphis, TN 38120 901-226-4280 OVARIAN CANCER, CERVICAL CANCER, UTERINE CANCER

PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY CAMPBELL CLINIC

DR. FREDERICK M. AZAR, M.D.

RAIF W. ELSAKR, MD

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• Accel Performance and Wellness

• Orthopaedic Trauma

• Back, Neck, and Spine Care

• Pediatric Orthopaedics

• Elbow Care

• Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

• Endoscopic Spine Surgery

• Regenerative Medicine

• Foot and Ankle Care

• Shoulder Care

• Hand and Wrist Care

• Sports Medicine

• Knee Injury Care

• Total Joint Replacement

• Orthopaedic Oncology

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MEMPHIS TOP DOCTORS 2020 GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY LINDA M. SMILEY, MD

West Cancer Center 7945 Wolf River Blvd., Memphis, TN 38138 901-683-0055

CERVICAL CANCER, UTERINE CANCER, OVARIAN CANCER

HAND SURGERY JAMES H. CALANDRUCCIO, MD

Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3111 HAND & UPPER EXTREMITY SURGERY

DAVID L. CANNON, MD

Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3111 HAND & WRIST SURGERY

R. JEFFREY COLE, MD

OrthoSouth 6286 Briarcrest Ave., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901-259-1600 HAND & UPPER EXTREMITY SURGERY, SPORTS INJURIES, TRAUMA, CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME

HEMATOLOGY PATRICIA E. ADAMS-GRAVES, MD

Regional One Health Outpatient Center 880 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38103 901-545-8535 SICKLE CELL DISEASE

SANDEEP K. RAJAN, MD

University Clinical Health 6401 Poplar Ave., Floor 1, Suite 195, Memphis, TN 38119 901-866-8547 LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA, HEMATOLOGY - BENIGN

INFECTIOUS DISEASE MICHAEL G. THRELKELD, MD

Threlkeld Infectious Disease 6029 Walnut Grove, Suite C002, Memphis, TN 38120 901-685-3490

STEPHEN C. THRELKELD, MD

Threlkeld Infectious Disease 6029 Walnut Grove, Suite C002, Memphis, TN 38120 901-685-3490

INTERNAL MEDICINE JOAN MICHELLE ALLMON, MD

H. HOWARD NEASE, MD

Baptist Cancer Center 6029 Walnut Grove Rd., Suite 301, Memphis, TN 38120 901-747-9081

MARTHA N. TAYLOR, MD

ALEKSANDAR JANKOV, MD

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, DIABETES, HYPERTENSION

Baptist Cancer Center 6029 Walnut Grove Rd., Suite 301, Memphis, TN 38120 901-747-9081

UT Methodist Physicians Primary Care 57 Germantown Court, Suite 100 Cordova, TN 38018 901-758-7888

Baptist Cancer Center 80 Humphreys Center Drive, Suite 330, Memphis, TN 38120 901-752-6131

NATASCHA S. THOMPSON, MD

CATHERINE R. WOMACK, MD

UT Methodist Physicians Primary Care 57 Germantown Court, Suite 100 Cordova, TN 38018 901-758-7888

WOMEN'S HEALTH, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, OBESITY

INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY SHADWAN F. ALSAFWAH, MD

UT Methodist Physicians Cardiology 1211 Union Ave., Suite 965, Memphis, TN 38104 901-435-8550

CLARO F. DIAZ, MD

Sutherland Cardiology Clinic 7460 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-763-0200

CHARLES W. MUNN, MD

Methodist Medical Group 6570 Summer Oaks Cove Bartlett, TN 38134 901-373-7100

ESOPHAGEAL CANCER, LUNG CANCER, GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER, SICKLE CELL DISEASE

SYLVIA S. RICHEY, MD

West Cancer Center 7945 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-683-0055 BREAST CANCER, INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

LEE S. SCHWARTZBERG, MD

West Cancer Center 7945 Wolf River Blvd., Memphis, TN 38138 901-683-0055

CARMEL S. VERRIER, MD / PHD

West Cancer Center 7945 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-683-0055

Proactive Heart & Vein Center 7751 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-297-4000

West Cancer Center 7945 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-683-0555

ANGIOPLASTY & STENT PLACEMENT, CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION, PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY, ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

BREAST CANCER, BREAST CANCER - NOVEL THERAPIES, DRUG DEVELOPMENT

BASIL M. PAULUS, MD

NEONATAL - PERINATAL MEDICINE

MICHAEL A. NELSON, MD

Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000

GIANCARLO MARI, MD

Baptist Medical Group 7205 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 100, Germantown, TN 38138 901-684-1322

Baptist Cancer Center 80 Humphreys Center Drive, Suite 330, Memphis, TN 38120 901-752-6131

UT Methodist Physicians Cardiology 1211 Union Ave., Suite 965, Memphis, TN 38104 901-435-8550

GEORGE CHU, MD

GREGORY K. JENKINS, MD

BREAST CANCER, CLINICAL TRIALS

RAYMOND U. OSAROGIAGBON, MD

BREAST CANCER, LUNG CANCER, STEM CELL TRANSPLANT

MATERNAL & FETAL MEDICINE

HYPERTENSION, PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY

PHILIP E. LAMMERS, MD

Baptist Cancer Center - Bartlett 2996 Kate Bond Rd., Suite 100 Bartlett, TN 38133 901-383-5570

RAMI N. KHOUZAM, MD

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, DIABETES, HYPERTENSION, WOMEN'S HEALTH

WILLIAM C. CUSHMAN, MD

C. MICHAEL JONES, MD

PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE, INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION, ANGIOPLASTY & STENT PLACEMENT, HEART VALVE DISEASE, PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE

Memphis VA Medical Center 1030 Jefferson Ave., Memphis, TN 38104-2127 901-523-8990

ANEMIA, LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA, LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN'S, MULTIPLE MYELOMA

Methodist Medical Group 7690 Wolf River Circle, Germantown, TN 38138 901-756-1231

Aim Allmon Internal Medicine 526 Halle Park Drive Collierville, TN 38017 901-910-3246

Mid-South Internal Medicine 7550 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 102, Germantown, TN 38138 901-767-5000

DONALD S. GRAVENOR, MD

Baptist Medical Group Internal Medicine 7205 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-260-3100

Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 305, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-6981

FETAL THERAPY, OBSTETRIC ULTRASOUND, PREGNANCY - HIGH RISK

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY JASON C. CHANDLER, MD

West Cancer Center 7945 Wolf River Blvd., Memphis, TN 38138 901-683-0055

DRUG DEVELOPMENT, TARGETED THERAPIES, CLINICAL TRIALS

MOON J. FENTON, MD / PHD

West Cancer Center Midtown Memphis Campus 1588 Union Ave., Memphis, TN 38104 901-683-0055

BREAST CANCER, HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES

GREGORY VIDAL, MD / PHD

RAMASUBBAREDDY DHANIREDDY, MD

Regional One Health Newborn Center 853 Jefferson Ave., Suite 201, Memphis, TN 38103 901-448-4750

NEONATAL CARE, PREMATURITY / LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS

AJAY J. TALATI, MD

Regional One Health Newborn Center 853 Jefferson Ave., Suite 201, Memphis, TN 38103 901-448-5950

NEONATAL CARE, INFECTIONS - NEONATAL, PREMATURITY / LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS, NEONATAL NUTRITION

NEPHROLOGY FADI DAHER, MD

Kidney Group of Memphis 2225 Union Ave., Ste 100, Memphis, TN 38104 901-726-1161

KIDNEY DISEASE - ACUTE, KIDNEY DISEASE - CHRONIC

LYNN EBAUGH, MD

East Memphis Nephrology 7640 Wolf River Circle, Floor 2, Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-0208

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MEMPHIS TOP DOCTORS 2020 OMAR O. HAMZE, MD

Kidney Care Consultants 3950 New Covington Pike, Suite 300, Memphis, TN 38128 901-382-5256 KIDNEY FAILURE, HYPERTENSION, DIABETIC KIDNEY DISEASE, DIALYSIS CARE

NAWAR E. MANSOUR, MD

Kidney Specialists 1325 Eastmoreland Rd., Suite 335, Memphis, TN 38104 901-726-1199

REHAN SHAFIQUE, MD

Kidney Care Consultants 3950 New Covington Pike, Suite 300, Memphis, TN 38128 901-382-5256 KIDNEY DISEASE - ACUTE, KIDNEY DISEASE CHRONIC, TRANSPLANT MEDICINE - KIDNEY

MARC H. STEGMAN, MD

LUCAS ELIJOVICH, MD

Semmes Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700 VASCULAR NEUROLOGY

VISHAD KUMAR, MD

T. FRANKLIN KING, MD

Adams Patterson Gynecology & Obstetrics 1727 Kirby Parkway, Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901-767-3810 PREGNANCY - HIGH RISK, PELVIC SURGERY

FRANK W. LING, MD

Semmes Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700

Women's Health Specialists 7800 Wolf Trail Cove, Germantown, TN 38138 901-682-9222

Veracity Neuroscience 5050 Poplar Ave., Suite 511, Memphis, TN 38157 901-261-3500

CLAUDETTE J. SHEPHARD, MD

MARK S. LEDOUX, MD / PHD

PARKINSON'S DISEASE / MOVEMENT DISORDERS, DYSTONIA, BOTOX THERAPY, DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION

MARC MALKOFF, MD

PAIN - PELVIC & PERINEAL, VULVAR & VAGINAL DISORDERS, MENSTRUAL DISORDERS

Regional One Health Outpatient Center 880 Madison Ave., Suite 3E01, Memphis, TN 38103 901-515-3800

Kidney Group Of Memphis 2225 Union Ave., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38104 901-726-1161

University Clinical Health 1331 Union Ave., Floor 11, Memphis, TN 38104 901-866-8811

ADOLESCENT GYNECOLOGY, CHILD ABUSE

VASCULAR NEUROLOGY, CRITICAL CARE, NEUROLOGICAL IMAGING

NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY

JESUS F. MARTINEZ, MD

University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Ophthalmology 930 Madison Ave., Suite 470, Memphis, TN 38163 901-448-5492

KENAN ARNAUTOVIC, MD

Semmes Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700

CHIARI MALFORMATIONS, ACOUSTIC NEUROMA / SCHWANNOMA, SKULL BASE SURGERY, BRAIN & SPINAL CORD TUMORS

ADAM S. ARTHUR, MD

Semmes Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700

CEREBROVASCULAR NEUROSURGERY, ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY, STROKE, ANEURYSM

FREDERICK A. BOOP, MD

Semmes Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700 PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY, BRAIN TUMORS, CHIARI MALFORMATIONS, EPILEPSY

KEVIN T. FOLEY, MD

Semmes Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700

SPINAL SURGERY, MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINAL SURGERY

DANIEL A. HOIT, MD

Semmes Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700

Regional One Health Neurology 6555 Quince Rd., Memphis, TN 38119 901-515-3150 EPILEPSY

BARBARA CAPE O'BRIEN, MD

Neurology Clinic 8000 Centerview Parkway, Suite 300 Cordova, TN 38018 901-747-1111

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

LEE S. STEIN, MD

Neurology Clinic 8000 Centerview Parkway, Suite 300 Cordova, TN 38108 901-747-1111 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, EPILEPSY

RANCE B. WILBOURN, MD

Lifestyle Neurology 2215 West St., Germantown, TN 38138 901-440-8482

MIGRAINE, ADD/ADHD, BOTOX THERAPY, SEIZURE DISORDERS

MERRILL S. WISE III, MD

Mid-South Pulmonary Specialists 5050 Poplar Ave., Suite 800, Memphis, TN 38157 901-276-2662 SLEEP DISORDERS, NARCOLEPSY

ANEURYSM

NEUROR ADIOLOGY

Semmes Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700

DAVID E. BUECHNER, MD

PAUL KILMO JR, MD

PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY, BRAIN & SPINAL TUMORS

JEFFREY M. SORENSON, MD

Semmes Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700 BRAIN TUMORS, MENINGIOMA

NEUROLOGY TULIO E. BERTORINI, MD

Memphis Radiological 7695 Poplar Pike, Germantown, TN 38138 901-683-1890 INTERVENTIONAL NEURORADIOLOGY

OPHTHALMOLOGY PENNY A. ASBELL, MD

CORNEAL DISEASE & TRANSPLANT, LASIK - REFRACTIVE SURGERY, CATARACT SURGERY, KERATOCONUS

LAUREN C. DITTA, MD

Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38103 866-870-5570

PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY, PEDIATRIC NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY

JAMES F. FREEMAN, MD

MECA Eye & Laser Center 6485 Poplar Ave., Memphis, TN 38119 901-767-3937

CATARACT SURGERY, GLAUCOMA, CORNEA TRANSPLANT, LASER SURGERY

SUBBA R. GOLLAMUDI, MD

VRF Eye Specialty Group 825 Ridge Lake Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-685-2200 CORNEAL DISEASE, CATARACT SURGERY

MARY E. HOEHN, MD

Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337 PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY, STRABISMUS

BRIAN JERKINS, MD

Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38103-3452 901-448-6650 GLAUCOMA

NATALIE C. KERR, MD

Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337

STEPHEN DAVID MORRIS, MD

PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY, STRABISMUS, CATARACT - PEDIATRIC,GENETIC DISORDERS - EYE

ANEURYSM

Rice Eye Associates 6238 Poplar Ave., Memphis, TN 38119 901-761-4292

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OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

KEVIN E. RICE, MD

M. CATHLEEN SCHANZER, MD

LANETTA ANDERSON, MD

VRF Eye Specialty Group 5350 Poplar Ave., Suite 950, Memphis, TN 38119 901-685-2200

HEATHER PEARSON CHAUHAN, MD

RICHARD E. SIEVERS, MD

Wesley Neurology Clinic 8000 Centerview Parkway, Suite 305 Cordova, TN 38018 901-261-3500

Womens Physicians Group 7705 Poplar Ave., Building B, Suite 110, Memphis, TN 38138 901-273-1190

ROHINI BHOLE, MD

Exceed Hormone Specialists 7512 Second St., Germantown, TN 38138 901-312-7899

Mid-South Retina Associates 6005 Park Ave., Suite 624-B, Memphis, TN 38119 901-682-1100

VANESSA M. GIVENS, MD

ROLANDO TOYOS, MD

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UT Medical Group 1331 Union Ave., Floor 11, Memphis, TN 38104 901-866-8811 STROKE, VASCULAR NEUROLOGY

MAROUN T. DICK, MD

Mid-South Neurology Clinic 8577 Cordes Circle, Germantown, TN 38139 901-590-0886 EPILEPSY, SLEEP DISORDERS

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LASIK-REFRACTIVE SURGERY, CATARACT SURGERY, DRY EYE SYNDROME

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MEMPHIS TOP DOCTORS 2020 MATTHEW W. WILSON, MD

Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38103 901-448-6650

EYE TUMORS / CANCER, RETINOBLASTOMA, MELANOMA - OCULAR

ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY FREDERICK M. AZAR, MD

Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3111 SHOULDER SURGERY, ROTATOR CUFF SURGERY

JAMES H. BEATY, MD

Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3111 PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, FRACTURES PEDIATRIC, HIP DISORDERS - PEDIATRIC, CLUBFOOT

JOHN R. CROCKARELL JR, MD Campbell Clinic 1458 W. Poplar Ave., Suite 100 Collierville, TN 38017 901-759-3111 HIP & KNEE REPLACEMENT

DAVID A. DENEKA, MD

OrthoSouth 6286 Briarcrest Ave., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901-259-1600

SPORTS MEDICINE, ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY - KNEE, ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY - SHOULDER, ADOLESCENT SPORTS MEDICINE

JEFFREY A. DLABACH, MD

OrthoOne Sports Medicine 99 Market Center Drive Collierville, TN 38017 901-861-9610

SPORTS MEDICINE, ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY

JAMES L. GUYTON, MD

ROBERT M. PICKERING, MD OrthoOne Sports Medicine 99 Market Center Drive Collierville, TN 38017 901-861-9610

JEFFREY R. SAWYER, MD

Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3111 PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, SCOLIOSIS, SPINAL DEFORMITY - PEDIATRIC, SPINAL TRAUMA

DAVID D. SPENCE, MD

Campbell Clinic 7887 Wolf River Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3100

PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, PEDIATRIC SPORTS MEDICINE, ADOLESCENT SPORTS MEDICINE, HIP DISORDERS - PEDIATRIC

THOMAS W. THROCKMORTON, MD

Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3100 SHOULDER & ELBOW SURGERY

WILLIAM C. WARNER JR, MD

Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3111 PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, SPINAL SURGERY, SCOLIOSIS, MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY

JOHN C. WEINLEIN IV, MD

Campbell Clinic 1211 Union Ave, Suite 500, Memphis, TN 38104 901-759-3100 TRAUMA

KENNETH S. WEISS, MD

OrthoSouth 6286 Briarcrest Ave., Memphis, TN 38120 910-641-3000

Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3111

SPORTS INJURIES, ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY - SHOULDER, ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY - KNEE, MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY

JAMES W. HARKESS, MD

NEAL S. BECKFORD, MD

JOINT REPLACEMENT, PELVIC SURGERY

OTOL ARYNGOLOGY

Campbell Clinic 1458 W. Poplar Ave., Suite 100 Collierville, TN 38017 901-759-3100

UT Medical Group 7675 Wolf River Circle, Suite 202, Germantown, TN 38138 901-737-3021

ROBERT K. HECK JR, MD

Mid-South Ear Nose & Throat 7600 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 220, Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-5300

JOINT REPLACEMENT

Campbell Clinic 1211 Union Ave., Suite 500, Memphis, TN 38104 901-759-3100 MUSCULOSKELETAL CANCER, JOINT REPLACEMENT

DEREK M. KELLY, MD

Campbell Clinic 1458 W. Poplar Ave., Suite 100 Collierville, TN 38017 901-759-3111

PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, SPORTS INJURIES, FRACTURES, LIMB DEFORMITIES

G. ANDREW MURPHY, MD

Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3111 FOOT & ANKLE SURGERY

MICHAEL D. NEEL, MD

OrthoSouth 6286 Briarcrest Ave., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901-259-1600

MUSCULOSKELETAL CANCER, HIP & KNEE RECONSTRUCTION, ARTHRITIS

BARRY B. PHILLIPS, MD

Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3100

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VOCAL CORD DISORDERS, LARYNGEAL & VOICE DISORDERS

BRUCE L. FETTERMAN, MD

NEURO-OTOLOGY

M. BOYD GILLESPIE, MD

UT Methodist Physicians 1325 Eastmoreland Ave., Suite 260, Memphis, TN 38104 901-272-6051 HEAD & NECK CANCER, SLEEP DISORDERS, AIRWAY DISORDERS, THYROID DISORDERS

DEAN A. KLUG, MD

Mid-South Ear Nose & Throat 7600 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 220, Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-5300 SINUS DISORDERS

VICTORIA L. LIM, MD

Shea Clinic 6133 Poplar Pike, Memphis, TN 38119 901-761-9720 SINUS DISORDERS / SURGERY, PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY, EAR DISORDERS

OTOL ARYNGOLOGY/FACIAL PL ASTIC SURGERY PHILLIP R. LANGSDON, MD

The Langsdon Clinic 7499 Poplar Pike, Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-6465

FACIAL PLASTIC SURGERY, RHINOPLASTY REVISION, FACIAL COSMETIC SURGERY, OTOLOGY

PAIN MEDICINE ALAN J. KRAUS, MD

Memphis Interventional Pain Group 99 Market Center Drive Collierville, TN 38017

901-754-3365 PAIN - INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES, STEM CELL THERAPY, PAIN - LOW BACK, PAIN - NECK

AUTRY J. PARKER JR, MD

Memphis VA Medical Center 1030 Jefferson Ave., Memphis, TN 38104 901-523-8990

SPINAL CORD STIMULATION, PAIN - CHRONIC, PAIN - BACK & NECK

MOACIR SCHNAPP, MD

Mays & Schnapp Pain Clinic & Rehab Center 55 Humphreys Center Drive, Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901-747-0040 PAIN - INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES, PAIN - NEUROPATHIC

PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY BENJAMIN S. HENDRICKSON, MD

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Pediatric Cardiology 51 N. Dunlap St., 2nd Floor, Memphis, TN 38105 866-870-5570 CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

VIJAYA M. JOSHI, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FETAL CARDIOLOGY, EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY, NEONATAL CARDIOLOGY

J. KEVIN STAMPS, MD

Memphis Pediatric Heart 80 Humphreys Center Drive, Suite 230, Memphis, TN 38120 901-259-2440

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE, ARRHYTHMIAS, MARFAN SYNDROME

JEFFREY A. TOWBIN, MD

Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 848 Adams Ave., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337 CARDIOMYOPATHY, CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE, TRANSPLANT MEDICINE - HEART

BENJAMIN R. WALLER III, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY ALICIA M. DIAZ-THOMAS, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Memphis, TN 38104 901-287-7337

METABOLIC BONE DISORDERS, CALCIUM DISORDERS, SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION DISORDERS, PITUITARY DISORDERS

JOAN C. HAN, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 DIABETES, OBESITY

PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY DENNIS D. BLACK, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

NUTRITION, OBESITY, LIVER DISEASE, CHOLESTEROL / LIPID DISORDERS

MARK R. CORKINS, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

NUTRITION, INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE, CELIAC DISEASE

JOHN K. ESHUN, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

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MEMPHIS TOP DOCTORS 2020 PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY - ONCOLOGY MELODY J. CUNNINGHAM, MD

Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 848 Adams Ave., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337 PALLIATIVE CARE

WAYNE L. FURMAN, MD

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Place, MS 260, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-6146

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AMAR J. GAJJAR, MD

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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-2544

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DANIEL M. GREEN, MD

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Cancer Survivorship 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-5914 WILMS' TUMOR, FERTILITY IN CANCER SURVIVORS, CANCER SURVIVORS - LATE EFFECTS OF THERAPY

ALBERTO S. PAPPO, MD

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Place, MS 260, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-2322 SARCOMA - SOFT TISSUE, MELANOMA, GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS

CHING-HON PUI, MD

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Place, Room C6056, MS 260, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-6146 LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA

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RAUL C. RIBEIRO, MD

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Place, MS 260, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3694 LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA

VICTOR M. SANTANA, MD

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Global Pediatric Medicine 262 Danny Thomas Place, Room S2040, MS 274, Memphis, TN 38105-2794 901-595-3300 SOLID TUMORS, CLINICAL TRIALS, ETHICS

PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE

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UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY JOHN J. BISSLER, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

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MEMPHIS TOP DOCTORS 2020 PEDIATRIC OTOL ARYNGOLOGY C. BRUCE MACDONALD, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

HEARING & BALANCE DISORDERS, HEAD & NECK SURGERY, NEURO-OTOLOGY, EAR DISORDERS / SURGERY

JENNIFER D. MCLEVY, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite G10, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 AIRWAY DISORDERS, SWALLOWING DISORDERS, EAR RECONSTRUCTION / MICROTIA

JEROME W. THOMPSON, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 TONSIL / ADENOID DISORDERS

PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY PATRICIA J. DUBIN, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 ASTHMA, SLEEP DISORDERS / APNEA

JONATHAN D. FINDER, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

LUNG DISEASE, PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS - SICKLE CELL DISEASE

TONIA E. GARDNER, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Floor 4, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

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JAMES D. TUTOR, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Floor 4, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY LINDA K. MYERS, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 JUVENILE ARTHRITIS

PEDIATRIC SURGERY ANDREW M. DAVIDOFF, MD

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Surgery 262 Danny Thomas Place, Room B3019, MS 133, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-4060 NEUROBLASTOMA, CANCER SURGERY

JAMES W. EUBANKS III, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Floor 2, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY, CHEST WALL DEFORMITIES, PEDIATRIC CANCERS, TRAUMA

EUNICE Y. HUANG, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Floor 2, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

HIRSCHSPRUNG'S DISEASE, ANORECTAL MALFORMATIONS

MAX R. LANGHAM JR, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 5 N. Dunlap St., Floor 2, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 TRANSPLANT - LIVER, CONGENITAL ANOMALIES, LIVER CANCER, WILMS' TUMOR

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PEDIATRIC UROLOGY DANA W. GIEL, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 NEUROGENIC BLADDER, WILMS' TUMOR

GERALD R. JERKINS, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38138 901-287-7337 URINARY RECONSTRUCTION, NEUROGENIC BLADDER

PEDIATRICS STEPHEN T. BAUCH, MD

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JANET D. GEIGER, MD

River City Pediatrics 6401 Poplar Ave., Suite 610, Memphis, TN 38119 901-761-1280

TIMOTHY G. GILLESPIE, MD

Memphis Children's Clinic 1129 Hale Rd., Memphis, TN 38116 901-396-0390

CHARLES C. HANSON, MD

Laurelwood Pediatrics 5050 Sanderlin Ave., Memphis, TN 38117 901-683-9371 NEWBORN CARE

SCOTT M. KLOEK, MD

Memphis Children's Clinic 7705 Poplar Ave., Suite 230 Germantown, TN 36138 901-755-2400

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ELISHA M. MCCOY, MD

UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Floor 4, Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

DAWN H. SCOTT, MD

Pediatric Consultants 51 N Dunlap St., Suite 310, Memphis, TN 38105 901-523-2945

STEPHEN P. STANCIL, MD

Memphis Children's Clinic 6385 Stage Rd., Bartlett, TN 38134 901-386-1683

ELLEN J. STECKER, MD

River City Pediatrics 6401 Poplar Ave., Suite 610, Memphis, TN 38119 901-761-1280

JASON YAUN, MD

Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 51 N. Dunlap St., Floor 4, Memphis, TN 38105 866-870-5570

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PETER A. ALDEA, MD

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BREAST COSMETIC SURGERY, TUMMY TUCK / ABDOMINOPLASTY, LIPOSUCTION & BODY CONTOURING

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Plastic Surgery Group of Memphis 80 Humphreys Center Drive, Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901-761-9030 COSMETIC SURGERY - FACE, BREAST COSMETIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

PATRICIA L. EBY, MD

Cosmetic Surgery Specialists of Memphis 6401 Poplar Ave., Suite 360, Memphis, TN 38119 901-752-1412 COSMETIC SURGERY, FACIAL REJUVENATION

WILLIAM L. HICKERSON, MD

University Plastic Surgeons 890 Madison Ave., Suite TG032, Memphis, TN 38103 901-515-5665 BURNS - RECONSTRUCTIVE PLASTIC SURGERY, TRAUMA - RECONSTRUCTIVE PLASTIC SURGERY

ROBERT D. WALLACE, MD

University Plastic Surgeons 1068 Cresthaven Rd., Suite 500, Memphis, TN 38119 901-866-8525

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PULMONARY DISEASE RICHARD L. BOSWELL, MD

Mid-South Pulmonary Specialists 5050 Poplar Ave., Suite 800, Memphis, TN 38157 901-276-2662 ASTHMA

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Mid-South Pulmonary Specialists 5050 Poplar Ave., Suite 800, Memphis, TN 38157 901-276-2662

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Mid-South Pulmonary Specialists 5050 Poplar Ave., Suite 800, Memphis, TN 38157 901-276-2662 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS, LUNG DISEASE

SCOTT E. SINCLAIR, MD

Regional One Health Outpatient Center 880 Madison Ave., Floor 5, Memphis, TN 38103 901-545-6969

AMIK SODHI, MD

UT Methodist Physicians Pulmonology 1325 Eastmoreland Ave., Suite 370, Memphis, TN 38104 901-758-7888

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Mid-South Pulmonary Specialists 5050 Poplar Ave., Suite 800, Memphis, TN 38157 901-276-2662

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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Place, MS 210, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3604 BRAIN TUMORS - PEDIATRIC

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Saint Francis Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology 5959 Park Ave., Memphis, TN 38119 901-765-2050 PROSTATE CANCER, SARCOMA

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Fertility Associates of Memphis 80 Humphreys Center, Suite 307, Memphis, TN 38120 901-747-2229 INFERTILITY, ROBOTIC ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY

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NUBODY CONCEPTS Dr. Mark Peters DR. PETERS IS the Medical Director of the NuBody Concepts Cosmetic Surgery Center of Excellence in Germantown. He is a board-certified plastic surgeon with over 20 years of experience and performs a full range of cosmetic surgery services. In addition to breast augmentation and lifts, tummy tucks, and facelifts, Dr. Peters has specialized in fat removal and skin-tightening solutions that yield surgical-like results without the scars or downtime.

Utilizing Inmode’s BodyTite, the leading technology in minimallyinvasive cosmetic surgery, Dr. Peters was one of the first plastic surgeons to use BodyTite in the Mid-South. He has treated hundreds of patients looking for a fat-removal solution that would also tighten their skin. In addition, he has trained other surgeons on this technology.

BodyTite uses Radio Frequency Assisted Liposuction (RFAL) to heat the deep and superficial fatty tissue layers of the skin, thereby tightening and improving the contours in the treated areas. Studies have shown that BodyTite achieves 35 percent to 45 percent skin contraction over the course of six months to a year. This gives new options to patients who are unhappy about pockets of fat as well as excess skin as a result of weight loss, pregnancy and childbirth, or aging. Previously, Dr. Peters would have recommended a tummy tuck to such a patient, because liposuction alone would not have addressed the sagging skin.

But for Dr. Peters, it’s important to give his patients the best overall experience with minimal disruption to their lifestyle. For some of his patients, a tummy tuck is simply too invasive.

BodyTite Radio Frequency Assisted Liposuction fills this gap. Indeed, Dr. Peters likes to call these his “gap patients” — clients whose tissues are not bad enough for so-called excisional surgery, and not good enough for stand-alone liposuction. As an additional bonus, BodyTite is so versatile that it can be applied to many different areas of the body such as the upper arms, inner thighs, and back. This gives patients the option to avoid the scars and longer recovery of a tummy tuck or thigh or arm lifts, with results previously only seen after surgery.

Dr. Peters is passionate about helping patients find solutions that boost their confidence. A common complaint he hears from women is about their cellulite — the dimpled and wrinkly appearance of the skin, particularly on the thighs. Dr. Peters has found that many patients who are unhappy about cellulite simply exhibit age-related laxity of the skin, which is also treatable with BodyTite.

For patients who want to tighten up their neck and face but are not ready for a facelift, Dr. Peters likes to use Inmode’s FaceTite, using a slightly altered version of the same technology. One of the most common signs of aging is a sagging neck, and Dr. Peters has achieved great results performing non-surgical facelifts with FaceTite.

A Louisiana native, Dr. Peters received his medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport, Louisiana, with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. He has been a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons since 1995.

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COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE: THE ART OF TREATMENT AND CARE Suffering from unpleasant stomach and bowel conditions can be challenging enough, without having to worry about finding a top-quality doctor! The Baptist Medical Group Gastrointestinal Specialists team includes highly skilled professionals with expertise in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heartburn, food allergies and hemorrhoids, to colon and pancreatic cancers.

HIGH QUALITY AND CONVENIENT CARE The physicians and staff focus on each patient’s comfort in the onsite Baptist Memorial Healthcare Corporation GI Lab. For added convenience, choose from five satellite locations: Brighton, Collierville, Covington, Millington, and Marion. Whether you need screening or treatment, our group is passionate about providing excellent care for every patient.

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THE CHARLES RETINA INSTITUTE, founded in 1984, is proud to serve the citizens of Memphis and the Mid-South with adult and pediatric retinal medical and surgical consultations daily. We specialize in the treatment of retinal detachments, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinopathy of prematurity, macular surgery as well as other retinal and vitreous problems.

Our physicians are true leaders and authors on retinal surgery. Our textbook, Vitreous Microsurgery, currently in its fifth edition, has been translated into six languages and has been a leading source of retina surgery education worldwide since Dr. Charles’ first edition in 1981. In recognition of our global leadership position, we serve as a site for dozens of studies that will provide the next generation of medical and surgical care. We are committed to providing the best level of retina care available and to have the top medical technology for our patients. We are available for medical and surgical consults and second opinions.

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CHARLES RETINA INSTITUTE Left to right: Stephen Huddleston, MD; Steve Charles, MD; Mohammad Rafieetary, OD; Philip Ames, MD; Jessica Haynes, OD; Paul Runge, MD; Adam Pflugrath, MD; and Jonathan Brugger, MD

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FOR DECADES, MAYS & SCHNAPP PAIN CLINIC AND REHABILITATION CENTER has been the Mid-South’s premier pain management center. The medical team is dedicated to providing compassionate, comprehensive, and state-of-theart care for patients who are suffering with chronic pain.

The physicians at Mays & Schnapp provide early diagnosis pinpointing the source of pain and then treat the whole patient by relieving pain, restoring function, and improving quality of life. The Center’s multidisciplinary treatment philosophy may include any combination of nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord stimulation, physical therapy, medication management, and other therapies — all conveniently located in one location.

Mays & Schnapp is the only clinic in the Mid-South certified by the Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in outpatient pain rehab.

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MAYS & SCHNAPP PAIN CLINIC AND REHABILITATION CENTER Left to right: M. Cody Scarbrough, MD; Moacir Schnapp, MD; and Ryan McGaughey, MD

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DR. KISHORE ARCOT has seven board certifications including interventional cardiology, cardiology, venous/ lymphatic disease, vascular, and endovascular medicine. He received his cardiovascular training at the University of California-San Francisco and has trained several practicing cardiologists in peripheral vascular percutaneous intervention. Dr. Arcot was voted Most Compassionate Doctor 20102020 on Vitals.com. Memphis Cardiology and Vein Center was voted among the “best clinics” in the Commercial Appeal in 2014, 2015 and 2016. At Memphis Vein Center not only are we seeing patients in the office, we also offer telemedicine and video visits. Dr. Arcot treats all types of vascular problems, from the simple to the very complex, including varicose veins, DVT, peripheral arterial disease, leg ulcers, May-Thurners syndrome, and pelvic congestion syndrome.

Dr. Arcot and his highly qualified, boardcertified medical team offer comprehensive treatment for all vascular conditions including venous and arterial diseases.

Varicose veins are abnormal veins that occur in the legs. They can present as thin, purple lines (called spider veins) or they can appear as thick, bulging, or knotty veins.

SYMPTOMS OF VARICOSE VEINS: • Achy, tired, heavy feeling in the area of the varicose veins

• Leg cramps, restless legs at night • Burning or throbbing pain along with swelling of the legs • Itching, rashes, bleeding • Discoloration of the foot • Non-healing ulcers • History of blood clots • Pain with menstruation While most people think that varicose veins are simply a cosmetic issue, an underlying medical problem often causes varicose veins; it’s called venous reflux/venous insufficiency/ venous obstruction. In a normal vein, valves work to move the blood back to the heart.

When a valve malfunctions it causes the blood to pool in the vein, a disorder known as venous insufficiency, which causes varicose veins. The procedure is covered by most insurance companies.

Memphis Vein Center is an outpatient state-of-the-art, nationally accredited vascular facility (IAC) to offer all modalities to diagnose and treat varicose veins, including endovenous laser ablation treatment (EVLT), radio frequency, Varithena, Venaseal, Clarivein, as well as ultrasoundguided sclerotherapy, and a microsurgical procedure called phlebectomy. Please visit memphisvein.com for further information about varicose veins including personal testimonials, before-and-after pictures and to schedule a consultation.

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MEMPHIS CARDIOLOGY AND VEIN CENTER Front row, left to right: Alyssa Gray, NCMA; Leigh Anne Bennett, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, RT; Kopal Agarwal, MBBS; Kishore K. Arcot, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FSVM, RPVI; Cathy Chandler, BSN, RN; CaSonya Jordan, CPC; and Bryana White, BS Second row, left to right: Kristy Wirt, RVT, RT; Lindsey Mack, CMA; Valecia Harris; Domonique Freeman, RMA; Whitney Bates, BS; Ashley Treadaway, CMA; and Hannah Mills

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MID-SOUTH OB-GYN PROVIDES comprehensive Gynecological and Obstetrical health care for women of all ages. Some of our services include yearly wellness exams, fertility counseling, weight management, contraceptive options, MonaLisa Touch for vaginal atrophy and other inoffice procedures. Our physicians deliver at Baptist Women’s Hospital and Methodist Germantown Hospital. All expectant mothers receive a complimentary 3D/4D ultrasound. Other services include mammograms and bone density tests. Aesthetics services including Obagi Skin care, PelleFirm body treatments and cosmetic Laser procedures.

The physicians of Mid-South OB-GYN have received award recognition from Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women for their leadership roles. They have also been recognized by The University of Tennessee for excellence in clinical teaching and have received certification by the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

At Mid-South we don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to women’s health care; we treat each patient with personalized plans, courtesy and compassion. We look forward to caring for you.

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• MEMPHIS TOP DOC FOR 7 CONSECUTIVE YEARS: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014 • VARICOSE VEINS, SPIDER VEINS, LEG CRAMPS, RESTLESS LEGS, LEG SWELLING, LEG DISCOLORATION: Charley Horse, EVLT, Venaseal, Sclerotherapy, and Phlebectomy

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• CIRCULATION PROBLEMS AND TREATMENT: Cold Feet, Leg Pain with Walking, Leg or Foot Ulcers. Treatments include Angiograms, Blockage Removal, and Stents without going to the hospital • PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY: Stress Testing, Echocardiogram, Holter Monitor, Blood Pressure and Cholesterol management • INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY: Chest Pain, Heart Stents, Congestive Heart Failure, Palpitations Dr. Michael Nelson of ProActive Heart & Vein Center is the recognized leader in the Mid-South for all Vein, Circulation and Heart Problems.

From Prevention to Cutting Edge technology, we embrace a ProActive and Preventive approach, providing ALL Treatments in the comfort of our Office. Dr. Nelson is consistently rated as one of the top physicians in his areas of expertise.

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VASCULAR AND VEIN INSTITUTE OF THE SOUTH The largest group of board-certified vascular surgeons in the Mid-South. The group has the lowest amputation rate in the region and serves as the premier center for restoring blood flow to the legs and limb preservation.

They provide the best clinical outcomes for patients with peripheral arterial disease, varicose veins, carotid disease, aortic aneurysms, and dialysis access.

Left to right: Dr. Timothy Weatherall, Dr. Anton Dias Perera, Dr. Prateek K. Gupta, and Dr. Jacqueline Majors

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WILSON DENTAL CARE is proud to serve the Mid-South as a specialist in cosmetic, preventive, and restorative dentistry, as well as Invisalign treatment. With over 30 years of combined experience, Dr. Charlyn Wilson and Dr. Nishel Patel are at the forefront in the field of dentistry with the use of state-of-the-art equipment and treatment options. Drs. Wilson and Patel make every decision with you in mind. They are dedicated to beautifying your smile and appearance, patient education, and maintaining your dental health.

Along with their team of dental professionals, Dr. Wilson and Dr. Patel strive to bring a personal touch to dentistry and provide exceptional care for all patients.

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NIDAL RAHAL, MD, FAAFP, ABFM, ABHPM DR. NIDAL RAHAL has been in private medical practice for 18 years. His specialty is in Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Hospice and Palliative care with special interests in elderly population. Dr. Rahal provides a unique practice module, combining inpatient geriatric practice at Methodist Germantown Hospital with outpatient clinical practice in his office and multiple assisted living facilities in the city of Memphis, Germantown and Olive Branch. He is board certified in family practice, hospice care and palliative medicine. Dr. Rahal finished his residency at UT, Family Medicine department in 2002, Geriatrics medicine Fellowship at UT, Knoxville 2002-2003. His professional memberships include American College of Physicians, American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Medical Association. Dr. Rahal is a Clinical Assistant Professor for UT, family medicine department. He considers it an honor to help tutor and guide medical students, interns, and residents in experiencing family practice medicine first hand. Dr. Rahal is the Medical Director of The Village of Germantown.

Dr. Rahal strives, to provide all of his patients with the best possible medical care, personal touch and an exceptional experience. He looks forward to serving you and those you love.

EAST MEMPHIS INTERNAL MEDICINE 6027 Walnut Grove, Suite 317, Memphis, TN 38120 901.818.3921 • (f) 901.767.3056

RANDY VILLANUEVA, MD EAST MEMPHIS INTERNAL MEDICINE is a unique practice module. It’s a traditional primary care private practice attending to adult and geriatrics medicine with special focus on the geriatrics population. Dr. Randy Villanueva is a board-certified physician who’s expertise has served the community in a one of-a-kind, uninterrupted inpatient and outpatient practice and cover several assisted living and independent living facilities.

Dr. Villanueva is a skilled internist with hospital experience where he attends personally to his patients in the clinic and at Methodist Germantown hospital. Dr. Villanueva serves as hospice director.

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ALEXANDRA GARRETT, DDS AT GERMANTOWN COSMETIC AND FAMILY DENTISTRY, we pride ourselves on the personalized attention we give every patient. From the first phone call to the end of an appointment, Dr. Alexandra Garrett and Team want patients to feel comfortable. We understand the dental office is not most people’s favorite place but our nurturing environment can help patients feel at ease.

Dr. Garrett has been building strong relationships through dental healthcare in the Memphis area since 2002. She continues to invest in cutting-edge technology, like same-day crowns, impression-free 3D scanning, low-radiation digital x-rays, and Carivu early decay detection, so she can offer the most comprehensive and comfortable care. We take pride in our infection control procedures so our patients will be safe. Dr. Garrett provides full-service dental care including cosmetic smile reconstruction, Invisalign, teeth-whitening, replacing missing teeth, and comprehensive dental care for children and adults.

She also incorporates facial esthetic solutions, Botox and Juvederm to help restore overall facial beauty.

We are moving to a new location to better serve our patients.

GERMANTOWN COSMETIC AND FAMILY DENTISTRY 9045 Forest Centre Way, Suite 101 Germantown, TN 38138 901.347.3527 • GtownSmiles.com

MINESH PATHAK, MD KIDNEY DISEASE is an often unrecognized, silent disease caused by uncontrolled high blood pressure and diabetes. The diagnosis and treatment of kidney-related diseases requires an in-depth evaluation of various risk factors. Obesity, vascular abnormalities, autoimmune diseases, and kidney stones have been linked to renal failure. Dr. Pathak is a board-certified Nephrologist and member of The American Society of Nephrology and The National Kidney Foundation. He provides compassionate care with the highest-quality treatment of kidney disease. His goal is to provide early, preventive education along with diagnosis and relevant treatments of specific conditions to lessen the risk of progression to kidney failure and to improve a patient’s quality of life.

Dr. Pathak takes great interest in understanding the needs of his patients and providing them with quality care with the least invasive treatment.

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MILES C. MOORE, DDS CREATING BEAUTIFUL SMILES is what Dr. Miles Moore does best. Dr. Moore, along with the rest of his team at Memphis Center for Family & Cosmetic Dentistry, specializes in the latest dental technologies, while offering an office environment that is both calming and friendly. Not only does Dr. Moore approach each patient with compassion and respect, but he is also committed to finding the best solutions for every dental problem.

Whether you are seeking a complete smile makeover, “invisible” braces, or teeth whitening, Dr. Moore can transform your smile with an array of cosmetic dentistry options. If you are looking for ways to make your or a family member’s smile healthier, the office treats patients of all ages with general dentistry services.

Memphis Center for Family & Cosmetic Dentistry’s convenient location and dedication to serving patients has made it a Memphis favorite for years. After one appointment, you’ll see what a difference Dr. Moore makes!

MEMPHIS CENTER FOR FAMILY & COSMETIC DENTISTRY 725 W. Brookhaven Circle Memphis, TN 38117 901.761.2210 BeautifulSmiles.org

MID-SOUTH NEPHROLOGY CONSULTANTS Jacinto Hernandez, MD, Julio Ruiz, MD, Patrick Kulubya, MD, Bernadette Deogaygay. MD, Konrad Stepniakowski, MD, FASN, Naing Htike, MD, Jim Angell, FNP, and Dominga Hernandez, Executive Director SERVING THE MID-SOUTH since 1982. Specializing in kidney diseases and hypertension. State-of-the-art facilities with dedicated clinics for glomerular disorders, polycystic kidney diseases and transplant nephrology. Our nephrologists also provide dialysis for both acute inpatient and chronic outpatient hospitals and clinics throughout the Mid-South region. “Always There, Always Care.”

6490 Mt. Moriah Ext., Ste. 200, Memphis, TN 38115 901.565.0244 2047 Highway 51 S., Covington, TN 38019 901.565.0244 7318 Southcrest Pkwy., Southaven, MS 38671 662.349.8323 310 S. Rhodes, West Memphis, AR 72301 870.735.7290 midsouthnephrologyconsultants.com 58 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • J U N E / J U L Y 2 0 2 0

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ORTHOSOUTH Left to right: David A. Deneka, MD, Kenneth S. Weiss, MD, Michael D. Neel, MD, R. Jeffrey Cole, MD, and Thomas V. Giel, MD ORTHOSOUTH CONGRATULATES Dr. R. Jeffrey Cole, Dr. David A. Deneka, Dr. Thomas V. Giel, Dr. Michael D. Neel, and Dr. Kenneth S. Weiss for their inclusion on the Castle Connolly Regional Top Doctors list! These fine doctors are part of the OrthoSouth team of 34 board-certified orthopedic physicians offering convenient world-class orthopedic care across eight Mid-South clinics and two surgery centers.

WELCOME BACK TO ORTHOSOUTH As our community reopens, OrthoSouth has carefully and thoughtfully re-expanded access to our services. Enhanced safety measures — including temperature screenings, spaced appointments, distancing in waiting rooms, masks, wait-in-car options, heightened cleaning procedures, telemedicine appointments, and Covid-19 testing for surgery patients — have been tailored for both protection and comfort.

Schedule your appointment online at orthosouth.org or call us at 901.641.3000.

KASHIF LATIF, MD

ULRIC DUNCAN, MD

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Diabetic technology; thyroid (immune) disorders, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), microbiome, and strong aging BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology MEMBERSHIPS: American Diabetes Association, Endocrine Society, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologist AWARDS: The James R. Givens Outstanding Residents Award in Endocrinology HOBBIES: Avid runner & enjoys reading

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Colonoscopy, Upper Endoscopy, Capsule Endoscopy, Fibroscan, Rectal Manometry, Ultrasound, Hemorrhoid Treatment, Hepatitis C, Weight Management, Gastric Balloon BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine MEMBERSHIPS: Am. Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), Am. Gastroenterology Assoc. (AGA), National Medical Assoc., Am. Medical Assoc., Am. College of Gastroenterology, Christian Medical & Dental Assoc., Am. College of Physicians

Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism

AM DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY CENTER 3025 Kate Bond Road, Bartlett, TN 38133 901.384.0065 • www.amdiabetes.net

Gastroenterology

DELTA GASTROENTEROLOGY-DELTA ENDOSCOPY CENTER — DELTA MEDICAL WEIGHT MANAGEMENT 9140 Highway 51 North, Southaven MS 38671 • 662.280.8222 • deltagastro.net 1867 Forrest Drive, Southaven MS 38671 • 662.548.8075 • dmwmc.net

JOHN W. WHITE, JR, MD

WILLIAM C. CUSHMAN, MD

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Medical Weight Loss, Age Management Medicine, Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy, and Testosterone Replacement Therapy BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Family Medicine and Obesity Medicine ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Additional Training in Age Management. Having undergone his own personal physical transformation, Dr. White is passionate about helping patients realize their own transformation by balancing hormones, nutrition, supplements, and exercise.

HOBBIES: Weight training and fly-fishing

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Hypertension, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Clinical Trials BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Specialist in Clinical Hypertension MEMBERSHIPS: Am. Heart Assoc., Am. College of Physicians – Fellow in both ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: VA Hypertension-Lipid Field Advisory Cmte. Co-chair; Professor Preventive Medicine, Medicine and Physiology, UTHSC. Participated in formulating many national hypertension guidelines; leadership in many large clinical trials in hypertension & diabetes mellitus; VA Barnwell Award (2010) for outstanding achv in clinical science; Am. Heart Assoc. Hypertension Cncl Page-Bradley Lifetime ACHV Award (2018)

Family Medicine and Obesity Medicine

THE TRANSFORMATION DOCTOR 2150 West Poplar Avenue, Suite 102, Collierville, TN 38017 901.221.7212 • www.thetransformationdoctor.com

Hypertension

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AUTRY J. PARKER, JR, MD, MPH

JEFFREY A. DIABACH, MD

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Treating cervical and lumbar pain through interventional therapies including nerve blocks and spinal stimulators BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Certified by the American Board of Pain Medicine and the American Society of Anesthesiology MEMBERSHIPS: Am. Medical Assoc., Tenn. Pain Society Board of Directors, Am. Academy of Pain Management, Tenn. Society of Interventional Pain Board of Directors, Memphis Medical Society Board of Directors ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Principle investigator in the first FDA Phase 1 Study for stem cell therapy in the treatment of lumbar degenerative disc disease. On tract to graduate with the first accredited master’s degree in Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine, D1 Sports Training BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, CAQ Sports Medicine MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Arthroscopy Association of North America, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine LICENSURES: TN, MS

Interventional Pain Management

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (VA) MEDICAL CENTER 1030 Jefferson Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104 901.523.8990 • www.memphis.va.gov

Orthopaedics

ORTHO ONE 99 Market Center Drive, Collierville, TN 38017 • 901.861.9610 9085 E. Sandidge Center Cove, Suite 200, Olive Branch, MS 38654 • 662.890.2663 www.orthoone.org

FREDERICK M. AZAR, MD

JAMES L. GUYTON, MD

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Sports Medicine, Knee, Shoulder, Elbow BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Subspecialty Certificate in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Association, American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy Association of North America LICENSURES: TN

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Total Joint Replacement, Hip Preservation Surgery BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Association, American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons LICENSURES: TN

Orthopaedics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 7887 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

Orthopaedics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 7887 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

JAMES H. CALANDRUCCIO, MD

JAMES W. HARKESS, MD

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Orthopaedic Hand and Wrist Surgery BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American Society for Surgery of the Hand LICENSURES: TN

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Total Hip and Knee Replacement BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Association for Arthritic Hip and Knee Surgery LICENSURES: TN

Orthopaedics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 7887 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

Orthopaedics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1458 W. Poplar Ave., Suite 100, Collierville, TN 38017 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

JOHN R. CROCKARELL, JR., MD, MBA

ROBERT K. HECK, MD

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Total Joint Replacement BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, Mid-America Orthopaedic Association LICENSURES: TN, MS

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Hip and Knee Replacement, Oncology BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Musculoskeletal Tumor Society, Mid-America Orthopaedic Association LICENSURES: TN

Orthopaedics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 1458 W. Poplar Ave., Suite 100, Collierville, TN 38017 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

Orthopaedics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1211 Union Avenue, Suite 500, Memphis, TN 38104 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

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G. ANDREW MURPHY, MD

JOHN C. WEINLEIN, MD

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Foot and Ankle Surgery BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society LICENSURES: TN

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Trauma Surgery BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Orthopaedic Trauma Association LICENSURES: TN, MS

Orthopaedics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 7887 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

Orthopaedics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1211 Union Avenue, Suite 500, Memphis, TN 38104 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

BARRY B. PHILLIPS, MD

JAMES H. BEATY, MD

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Elbow, Knee, Shoulder, Sports Medicine BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Subspecialty Certificate in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy Society of North America LICENSURES: TN, MS, MO

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Pediatric Orthopaedics BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, Mid-America Orthopaedic Association, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery LICENSURES: TN, MS

Orthopaedics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 7887 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

Orthopaedics — Pediatrics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 7887 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

ROBERT M. PICKERING, MD

DEREK M. KELLY, MD

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine, D1 Sports Training BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Medical Society, Arthroscopy Association of North America, Regional Mid-America Orthopaedic Association LICENSURES: TN, MS

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Pediatric Orthopaedics BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America, Scoliosis Research Society, American Orthopedic Association, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Ponseti International, International Perthes Study Group LICENSURES: TN

Orthopaedics

ORTHO ONE 99 Market Center Drive, Collierville, TN 38017 • 901.861.9610 9085 E. Sandidge Center Cove, Suite 200, Olive Branch, MS 38654 • 662.890.2663 www.orthoone.org

Orthopaedics — Pediatrics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1458 W. Poplar Ave., Suite 100, Collierville, TN 38017 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

THOMAS (QUIN) THROCKMORTON, MD

JEFFREY R. SAWYER, MD

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Shoulder and Elbow Surgery BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow (ESSSE/SECEC), Association of Clinical Elbow and Shoulder Surgeons (ACESS), American Orthopaedic Association LICENSURES: TN

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Pediatric Orthopaedics and Spine Surgery, Pediatric Fractures BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, Scoliosis Research Society, Children’s Spine Foundation, LICENSURES: TN

Orthopaedics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 7887 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

Orthopaedics — Pediatrics

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DAVID D. SPENCE, MD

THOMAS D. GREENWELL, JR., MD

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Pediatric Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Hip Preservation BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine LICENSURES: TN, MS

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Complete obstetrics & gynecology care for women of all ages BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, diplomate; American Congress of Obstetrics & Gynecology, fellow HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, University of TN HSC Clinical Faculty and Methodist Germantown Hospital ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: University of Tennessee Ob-Gyn Residency site director at BHW, 2001 to present; Physician Champion for Epic Baptist Memorial Healthcare; & managing partner of MidSouth OB/GYN a div. of Womens Care Center of Memphis.

Orthopaedics — Pediatrics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 7887 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

Obstetrics & Gynecology

MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com

WILLIAM C. WARNER, JR., MD

CANDACE HINOTE, MD, MPH, FACOG

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Pediatric Orthopaedics, Scoliosis, Cerebral Palsy BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Scoliosis Research Society, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, and Clinical Orthopedic Society LICENSURES: TN, MS

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Obstetrical and high-risk pregnancy care, long-acting reversible contraceptive options, menopausal care, minimally invasive surgery, adolescent care and education RESIDENCY: University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis MEMBERSHIPS: Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, American Institute of Ultrasonographic Medicine ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Clinical faculty for UT Memphis, MPH in Epidemiology from New York Medical College, Award for Excellence from UTHSC in Reproductive Endocrinology 2011 HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: Methodist Germantown Hospital and Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women

Orthopaedics — Pediatrics

CAMPBELL CLINIC ORTHOPAEDICS 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 7887 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901.759.3111 • www.campbellclinic.com

Obstetrics & Gynecology

MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com

DOMINIQUE M. BUTAWAN-ALI, MD, FACOG

MARY KATHERINE JOHNSON, MD,FACOG

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Gynecologic & general OB Care, preconception health, contraception management including long- acting reversible contraception, office & minimally invasive procedures/surgery including laparoscopy and robotic surgery EDUCATION: Univ. of Memphis, BS; Univ. of TN HSC, Coll. of Medicine, Memphis, MD & Residency training in the Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology BOARD CERTIFICATION: Americian Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, American Congress of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Fellow HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: Methodist Germantown Hospital, Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, Univ. of TN HSC Clinical Faculty

SPECIAL INTERESTS: OB care for low & high risk pregnancies, contraception, gynecologic care & surgery, including office & minimally invasive procedures EDUCATION: Univ. of Memphis, BS; Univ. of TN HSC, Coll. Medicine, Memphis, MD & Residency training in the Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology BOARD CERTIFICATION: Am. Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Fellow of the Am. College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists MEMBERSHIPS: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Soc.; Am. Coll. of Obstetricians & Gynecologists; Am. Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine; Am. Soc. for Colposcopy & Cervical Pathology HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: Methodist Germantown Hosp., Baptist Memorial Hosp. for Women, Univ. of TN HSC Clinical Faculty

Obstetrics & Gynecology

MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com

Obstetrics & Gynecology

MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com

JUDI CARNEY, MD

PAUL NEBLETT, MD

SPECIAL INTEREST: General OB/GYN, Preconception Counseling and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Medical School at the University of Virginia; Residency at UT Memphis: Assistant Residency Site Director at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women: Former President of Medical Staff at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Obstetrical and Gynecologic care. Well care for women of all ages, preconception planning, contraceptive management, hospital and in-office surgery.

EDUCATION: Fellow, American College of Obstetrics & Gynecologists; diploma from American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology AWARDS: Recipient of the Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women Physicians Champion Award & the Louie C. Henry Excellence in Teaching Award.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: University of Tennessee – Memphis Clinical Teaching Facility Department of OB/GYN

Obstetrics & Gynecology

MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com

Obstetrics & Gynecology

MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com

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ROBIN M. TAYLOR, MD

FRANK A. OGNIBENE, DPM

SPECIAL INTERESTS: General Obstetrics and Gynecology, high risk Obstetrics, Adolescent gynecology, minimally invasive surgery, perimenopause and menopause management and general health and wellness counseling EDUCATION: Boston Univ, BA; Univ of TN, MD; Univ of TN HSC, Coll. Medicine, Memphis, MD & Residency training in the Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology BOARD CERTIFICATION: Fellow of the Am. College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists MEMBERSHIPS: Memphis Ob/GYN society, Am. Medical Assoc and Am. Soc. for Colposcopy & Cervical Pathology

MEDICAL SCHOOL: Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine EDUCATION: Long Island University, B.S. RESIDENCY: Memphis Eye and Ear Hospital BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Diplomate, American Board of Podiatric Surgery; board certified in foot and ankle surgery MEMBERSHIPS: Fellow, American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: Baptist Memorial Hospital, Methodist Hospital, St. Francis Hospital, Delta Medical

Obstetrics & Gynecology

MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com

Podiatry

2120 Exeter Rd., Suite 220, Germantown, TN 38138 901.757.0045 • (f) 901.756.4413

NANCY A. CHASE, MD, FAAP, FACC

S. GREGORY PORTERA, M.D., FACOG

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Pediatric Cardiology for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology MEMBERSHIPS: American Heart Association, American College Of Cardiology, American Academy of Pediatrics, Memphis Journal Review Club, Memphis Music from Opera to Folk and Bagpipes BOARD MEMBERSHIPS: former: Memphis Medical Society; current: Memphis Acoustic Music Association, Memphis Chamber Music Society

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Urogynecology, Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (FACOG) FELLOWSHIP: Urogynecology & Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN CLINICAL FACULTY POSITION: Urogynecology & Gynecology University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital MEMBERSHIPS: American Urogynecologic Society, SGS, Memphis Medical Society

Pediatric Cardiology

NANCY A CHASE, MD, PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY 805 Estate Place, Memphis, TN 38120 901.287.4150 • (f) 901.287.4153

Urogynecology and Obstetrics & Gynecology

CENTER FOR URINARY AND PELVIC DISORDERS 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 110, Memphis, TN 38120 901.227.9610 • asportera@me.com • www.cupdms.com

ALLISON STILES, MD, FAAP, FACP, IBCLC Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Breastfeeding Medicine

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Adolescents, obesity, breastfeeding BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Pediatrics, Internal Medicine EDUCATION: B.S. Biochemical Engr., University of Missouri, Columbia. M.D. at University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Residency at University of Illinois, Chicago MEMBERSHIPS: Memphis Medical Society, Memphis Pediatric Society, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians/ASIM, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, and Chair of Shelby County Breastfeeding Coalition

MEMPHIS INTERNAL MEDICINE AND PEDIATRIC ASSOCIATES 1325 Eastmoreland, Suite 585, Memphis, TN 38104 901.276.0249 • (f) 901.276.0996

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nlike the many places we’ve found that share the moniker of Memphis, the Mississippi village that goes by that name doesn’t exist, strictly speaking.

No, it’s not from a dream or a novel. On paper, it has legally existed, and to this day, if one trawls the internet, the exact coordinates are sure to pop up. A mapping app will even give you directions there, marking each mile on U.S. Highway 61 and every subsequent turn, until even the all-knowing app must give up. “Prepare to park your car near Delta View Road,” says the automated attendant. “You will need to walk to your destination from there.” Staring at the kudzu-covered trees before me, imagining the ticks and chiggers that await, I decide to pass.

Though the coordinates are out there in the overgrowth, the developer’s dream that was fixed on them for many years has been left to the crickets. Still, only a stone’s throw from there, toward the sunset, another Memphis namesake awaits the explorer, even sporting a historical marker by the road. And that other Memphis in the Magnolia State may well be immortal, as long as music lives in our hearts.

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t’s a study in contrasts: one with its provenance in great wealth, yet oddly insubstantial; the other born of flesh and blood in utter poverty, yet able to live on whenever a needle drops into the groove.

To be sure, the “village” in the kudzu was real enough to earn a dateline in The Commercial Appeal, for a time.

“MEMPHIS, Miss.,” was where staff reporter Russell

Fly filed from on July 5, 1981. “Memphis, and sister city Newport,” he wrote, “are two of Mississippi’s smallest towns. In fact, if it hadn’t been for an act of the legislature this year, the two DeSoto County cities would have lost their charters.”

A state representative from Southaven, it turns out, successfully lowered the minimum number of inhabitants required to qualify for municipal status under the Mississippi State Code, just so Memphis and Newport could continue to be recognized. “Saved By Legislative Chivalry,” shouts the headline, with wry accuracy. But no fair maiden was saved by this noble act; rather, it was the investment of a Texas billionaire, one Nelson Bunker Hunt, whose father founded the Placid Oil Company on reserves from the East Texas Field, discovered in 1930.

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serve his dream of new sister cities taking root in the Mississippi Delta. Newport was to be an industrial hub, while neighboring Memphis would host the homes of the workers. By 1973, soon after Hunt discovered and developed oil fields in Libya, the 10,000 acres he’d bought in DeSoto County were transformed into “municipalities” by petitions of incorporation, and Memphis, Mississippi, was born.

After a time, though, Hunt’s fortunes took a downturn. He and his brothers were charged “with manipulating and attempting to manipulate the prices of silver futures contracts and silver bullion during 1979 and 1980” by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In 1994, Placid Oil was bought by the Occidental Petroleum Corp. at a fraction of its former value. The village of Memphis, with a smattering of scattered residents, was recognized by the state for another ten years. Then it became part of nearby Walls, a bustling metropolis in comparison, with roughly 1,500 people.

Ironically, just as the village of Memphis was born in 1973, another Memphis was laid to rest only four miles away. Yet it was the latter that may well prove to enjoy a kind of immortality. To understand why, one has to delve into the last years of the nineteenth century in Walls, Mississippi, where one “Kid” Douglas was raised.

Some accounts have Kid being born in Algiers, Louisiana, before the Douglases moved to Walls. Others dispute that, but all agree that Kid grew up there in DeSoto County, never quite taking to the hard-scrabble farming life. At eight years old, Kid received a guitar, and the rest is blues history. The youngster took to the instrument with a passion and, after choosing the life of a runaway at age 13, came to be recognized as one of the nation’s greatest singers, guitarists, and songwriters. By then, of course, the name “Kid Douglas” was abandoned — the world knew her as Memphis Minnie.

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hile our geographical quest has yielded one youngster bearing the name of our city, near Memphis, New York, none have owned the name “Memphis” like Memphis Minnie.

She came by it honestly, working Beale Street as an entertainer through her teens (and rubbing shoulders with W.C. Handy) before joining the Ringling Brothers Circus for a time at age 17. As World War I came to a close, she toured the country, building on her innate talent. In Paul and Beth Garon’s biography of her, Woman with Guitar, one man recalls that even then, she was “a showman all the way. She’d stand up out of that chair, she’d take that guitar and put it all ’cross her head and everywhere.”

Even more impressive than such grandstanding was her command of her instrument, her voice, and the burgeoning musical genre that had only recently been dubbed “the blues.” One contemporary tells the Garons that “she could make the guitar talk, say: ‘Fare thee well.’” Such skills served her well, and Beale Street continued to be her center of gravity. One early liason was with the famed Willie Brown, a colleague of blues innovator Charlie Patton, later name-checked in Robert Johnson’s lyrics, who was based on the Bedford Plantation, not far from Walls. For several years, Minnie settled there too. Playing with Brown, the Memphis Jug Band, and others, Minnie was always the one who

“I flagged a train, didn’t have a dime Trying to run away from that home of mine I didn’t know no better. Oh boy!

In my girlish days.”

— “Kid” Douglas opposite page: The New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, surrounded by cotton fields, is the final resting place of a blues legend who carried the Memphis name far and wide. above: The tiny hamlet of Memphis, Mississippi, has now been absorbed by the town of Walls, where the Douglas family once farmed.

played lead guitar. And, hearing her records from not long after, one can imagine that her powerful voice also dominated the rooms she played.

Sometime in the 1920s, Minnie connected with another Mississippian by the name of Joe McCoy, aka Kansas City Joe, and together they found even greater success, eventually marrying in 1930. As they played for dimes in a Beale Street barber shop, a scout from Columbia Records chanced to hear them, and they traveled to New York City to record for the label in 1929. Minnie’s sister, Daisy, told the Garons that a Columbia A&R man, overseeing the sessions, dubbed her “Memphis Minnie” at the time.

While Joe sang on the first two songs to be released that year, “That Will Be Alright” and “When the Levee Breaks,” Minnie was the co-writer and lead guitarist on both. By the end of the year, records featuring her singing (from the same initial recording session) were released by Columbia as well, followed by the 1930 release of “Bumble Bee,” which she also sang. That composition, according to the Garons, “became one of the best-known songs of the period.” Though most records sold poorly during those depressed times, her reputation grew.

Decades later, of course, “When the Levee Breaks,” one of many songs from that time about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, would be interpreted by Led Zeppelin. But beyond that direct connection, Minnie would forge the way for rock-and-roll itself by adopting a new innovation: the electric guitar.

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espite the Great Depression, Minnie made a living with her music through the 1930s, and did not falter when she and Joe McCoy went their separate ways in 1935. By then, they had relocated to Chicago, where they recorded many sides for Vocalion, and as she continued living there on her own, the city led to her early embrace of an experimental instrument that guitar makers had been refining through the 1930s.

It’s often associated with the blues stars that came after her. Robert Gordon’s biography, Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters, quotes the man who became synonymous with electric blues on how the Windy City’s noisier venues demanded a change in sound: An acoustic guitar “wouldn’t carry there, not in a liquor club,” says Muddy. No doubt Minnie was responding to the same dynamic. On record, one can hear her playing electric guitar as early as the May 1941 recording session that yielded “In My Girlish Days” and her biggest hit ever, “Me and My Chauffeur Blues.” In the latter, with a few deft lines, she captures all of the independence she found in running away from Walls. Clearly, as in many of her songs, she was the boss.

above: Memphis Minnie, sporting her “dice ring,” plays a National New Yorker. She pioneered the use of the electric guitar in the blues. top right: Memphis Minnie’s gravestone at the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery.

of the icebox, that sometimes the voice, the words, and melody get lost under sheer noise, leaving only the rhythm to come through clear …

“Memphis Minnie’s feet in her high-heeled shoes keep time to the music of her electric guitar. Her thin legs move like musical pistons. She is a slender, lightbrown woman who looks like an old-maid school teacher, with a sly sense of humor. She wears glasses that fail to hide her bright bird-like eyes. She dresses neatly and sits straight in her chair perched on top of the refrigerator where the beer is kept. … Then Minnie smiles. Her gold teeth flash for a split second. Her earrings tremble.

Her left hand with dark red nails moves up and down the strings of the guitar’s neck. Her right hand with the dice ring on it picks out the tune, throbs out the rhythm, beats out the blues.”

That driving, electric sound is in keeping with contemporaries’ impressions of Minnie as a tough, gun-toting, tobacco-chewing maverick, fiercely independent.

Such qualities must have served her well as a peripatetic blues musician who even managed her own vaudeville troupe for a time. The bluesman Homesick James recalls in the Garons’ book, “Chicago, then back down South, Chicago, then back down there; Mississippi, all the way through. That woman, she used to go.”

Even as she continued to visit the South, playing Saturday-night fish fries and house parties, trips to Walls became less frequent. Much of her family had relocated to Brunswick, Tennessee, and other relatives moved to Cordova or Memphis. During one of her many returns to the Bluff City, Minnie met a new musical contin u ed on page 70

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o this boss bought herself a new guitar. By the time Langston Hughes wrote about seeing Minnie in late 1942, for the Chicago Defender, she was obviously well-acquainted with the instrument, before Muddy Waters had even moved north from Mississippi: “Midnight. The electric guitar is very loud, science having magnified all its softness away. Memphis Minnie sings through a microphone and her voice — hard and strong anyhow for a little woman’s — is made harder and stronger by scientific sound. The singing, the electric guitar, and the drums are so hard and so loud, amplified as they are by General Electric on top

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contin u ed from page 66 partner, Ernest Lawlars, aka “Little Son Joe,” a gifted guitarist in his own right, and they were married in 1939. They lived primarily in Chicago’s South Side through the 1940s and most of the ’50s, and it proved to be the most prolific and creative period of their careers.

Throughout this time, Minnie’s countrified past informed many of her compositions, and she’s often classed as a country blues singer in spite of her embrace of the “scientific sound.”

Songs like “Plymouth Rock Blues” (about a variety of chicken), “Frankie Jean (That Trottin’ Fool)” (about her father’s mule), “What’s the Matter with the Mill?” (about waiting to grind her corn), “Sylvester and His Mule Rules,” “Digging My Potatoes,” and “Down Home Girl” sat side by side with songs evoking the chauffeurs, alleyways, and “fashion-plate daddies” of the city. Like Memphis itself, she embodied the tension between the rural and the urban all her life.

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oday, visiting her grave at the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church outside of Walls, you can see the land she ran away from at 13 and kept within her as a landscape of the mind. A blistering sun drops down into the dusty furrows of the table-flat Delta; kick up a cloud of dust and watch it drift and settle onto Horn Lake, across the field, as shadows lengthen over the emptiness. It’s ironic that she alone, of all the Douglases, made this her final resting place, after carrying the name of the Bluff City around the world with her for so long.

To the rest of her kin, the immortal music she performed and recorded was apparently not a matter of great import.

Recently, with a phone call to Cordova, I caught up with the administrator of the Memphis Minnie estate, her nephew Leotha “Lee” Wilson, son of Minnie’s late sister Daisy. Born in 1940, he describes what it was like to have the legendary Memphis Minnie as his aunt.

“The family was aware that she was a musical performer in Chicago,” he tells me, but he never saw or heard her records while growing up. “I know my mom used to go up there quite often to Chicago, to see her. And she came down here to Memphis I guess a couple of times. So the family wasn’t really around her a lot, except for my mom. My mom was really the only one that kept up with her.”

He mainly got to know Minnie after she and Little Son Joe fell on ill health in the

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late 1950s and moved in with Leotha and his parents. By then, their music and their life in Chicago was a thing of the past.

“They were very sick,” he tells me. “That’s why they left Chicago, because they were so sick they couldn’t work. They couldn’t perform, so they were selling their guitars and amps. Selling everything they had to survive. So I guess, rather than let them starve to death, they moved to Memphis and she stayed up here until she passed.”

Did the family gather around her to hear her tales of travel and celebrity? “She was there in the house, she and her husband, and of course I talked to them, you know, but I didn’t really talk to them about their careers, or anything about them performing or anything like that, really,” Leotha tells me. Even playing for family members was out of the question by then. For one thing, there simply were no instruments around. “I guess nobody else was interested in trying to get into music,” he reflects.

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She performed one last time in 1959, at a memorial for her friend, Big Bill Broonzy, then suffered a stroke in 1960. Little Son Joe died the next year and was buried at the New Hope cemetery. After another stroke, Minnie lingered on until 1973, then was laid to rest beside him. Nowadays, because celebrities like Bonnie Raitt and others contributed to the cause, Minnie’s gravestone, with its fulsome praise for her achievements, far outshines her husband’s, but they make for a lovely pair.

And beside the road, a few feet away, stands a marker from the Mississippi Blues Trail, with photographs and an overview of her heyday.

Four miles to the southeast lies another Memphis, a legal conceit on paper, a billionaire’s vision that foundered on his own grasping overreach. But here at New Hope, with the sun sinking low, we find a more lasting monument: the name and the sound of Memphis, engraved in stone and on 78 rpm records for all the ages. Memphis Minnie, Mississippi.

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Kitchens used to be small, utilitarian spaces — a stove, refrigerator, and sink within reach of the dining room. Now, they are often the most popular room in the house, and new materials, designs, lighting, and other features make them a multi-purpose area the whole family can enjoy.

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Dave Moore, owner of Dave Moore companies and a member of the West Tennessee Home Builders Association (WTHBA), has been a general contractor since 1986 and impressed homeowners with many of his entrants in the VESTA Home Show. There’s no easy remodeling job, but Moore has had plenty of experience with projects both large and small. Now, he finds many people gravitating to a sleeker-looking kitchen. “We’re finding that a lot of people are going back to what I call just that ‘traditional’ style,” he says, “with verything being relatively white and clean and crisp. A lot of it is going back almost to timeless selections that aren’t faddish.”

At the outset, finding the right professional fit is crucial. Getting the right contractor for the job can make all the difference and save homeowners from undue stress.

“Do some research and check good, solid, reputable contractors and get their pricing,” says Moore. “Make sure you’re working with somebody you trust.” Once homeowners have found the right contractor, preliminary budgets and layout drawings can be considered.

Karen Kassen, owner of Kitchens Unlimited, agrees that finding the right fit is important to any kitchen remodeling job. “There are several questions I ask a new client during our first consultation,” she explains.

“‘Have you remodeled before, and how did it go?’ I ask if they have considered what amount they are willing to spend and what their timeframe is. If we mutually decided that we are a good fit for their renovation and understand the scope of the job, we work up a realistic budget and plan.”

Plenty of resources are available to inspire homeowners during the planning stage, but it’s important to remain grounded. “One of the first things we learn is that form follows function,” says interior designer Becca Gaines. “It’s important to think through how you want to use your space, or how you need it to function.

Do you love to cook? Or entertain? Do you have a great collection of spices? Hate lifting your mixer? Need to sit down while you put your makeup on? If you decide to hire an interior designer, the designer helps sort these details out thoroughly.”

Once the plans are drawn up, Kassen recommends hashing out other details, like what times and days the subcontractors will be working, whether your neighborhood will allow a dumpster, or who will be responsible for opening and locking your home at the beginning and end of each day. Homeowners should also get a head start on cleaning their kitchen and move surrounding draperies and rugs to avoid dust. Finally, it doesn’t hurt to set up a temporary spot for making food while the kitchen is being worked on.

Kassen points to cabinets, countertops, and appliances as the three main components of a kitchen remodel. Most of her customers want better cabinets with an up-to-date look and new appliances to make time in the kitchen more efficient. Going forward, Kassen sees

the kitchen space as more multi-purpose than it used to be. “The kitchen is not just a place to prepare and cook meals, but has become a place to study and work in too,” she says. “Especially in the wake of COVID-19 and the ‘safer at home’ policies. I have a feeling that there will be a new emphasis on larger, organized pantry spaces, islands with seating giving a family more spots to work and eat in the kitchen, and larger freezer capacity or an extra freezer for stocking up on food.”

Mixing metals has become a common trend for the plumbing side of things. Many local contractors utilize the Cordova showroom at Ferguson Plumbing to pick out faucets and other fixtures that are resistant to stains and easy to clean. Mixed metals are also appearing more frequently for metal countertops, or the hood over a cooking area.

Selecting what kind of appliances to use can be difficult with all the creative options available to a homeowner. Some requests that Kassen has seen include built-in coffee espresso machine or wine units, while some homeowners may opt for additional refrigeration. And with health and cleanliness at the forefront of everyone’s thoughts recently, she points to a new refrigerator model. “One of our lines has a special microbiological purification system that scrubs the air every 20 minutes,” says Kassen, “which prevents bacteria, mold, and viruses.” Post-pandemic, she predicts that these types of features will be more common among designers and manufacturers.

To round out a space, proper lightning can accentuate any part of a new kitchen. Cabinet manufacturers noq have lines that come with interior lighting when a drawer or door is opened. With improved LED lighting options, Kassen says that teams can “provide great task lighting where needed and accent with fabulous decorative accent lighting.”

When it gets down to the nitty-gritty of rebuilding, Moore indicates a contractor will tackle cabinets first. “If you’re changing the design of the kitchen, the first thing we like to do is get the cabinets ordered. Because with a kitchen remodel, we try very hard to keep a kitchen functioning right up until the time we start the remodel. That way, we can put it back together as quickly as possible.” According to Moore, cabinets generally take six to ten weeks to get ordered. A couple weeks out from the delivery date, contractors can really start to do electrical and plumbing relocation, as well as receive all the necessary inspections. Then, flooring, countertops, J U N E / J U L Y 2 0 2 0 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 77

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Project length from start to finish can vary; a simple job might just take a few weeks, while Moore says that his longest, most complex job took about six months to complete. Kassen says to expect the entire process to take several months, from planning and design all the way to finished construction. Throughout the

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whole process, communication with contractors and sub-contractors is paramount. No matter the best-laid plans, some issues are always bound to arise. “Renovations are full of surprises,” says Gaines. “There’s always something unexpected behind the walls.”

At the end of the day, preparation can make all the difference. A consistent level of communication with contractors and subcontractors will ensure any hiccups that arise are handled smoothly, while homeowners need to have a firm idea of what they want to do with their remodeling project. For building, that’s to make sure that every team member is up for the job.

“The WTHBA has a list of recommended policies and guidelines for choosing a contractor,” says Moore, “like checking on proper certification, making sure they have worker’s comp general liability, suggesting you find references.” Regarding design, Gaines wants to ensure that homeowners grasp the full scope of a project.

“Some of the most common issues are driven by social media and TV,” she says. “These information channels are tools that inspire many great ideas, but we find they can also give false impressions of project timeline and project cost.”

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Today’s homeowners like to blend materials. The kitchen remodel here features red-brick floor tiles, white cabinets, man-made stone countertops, and stainless-steel appliances, matched with a colorful mosaic of tilework.

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The Smallest Room in the House Revamping the bathroom may be one of the most cost-effective ways to improve your home.

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ight now, as more and more people are working from home, there’s no better time to remodel where they’ll be spending most of their time in. And as tastes and trends change, bathroom remodels have been popular among homeowners.

Whether the home dweller wants to transform their master bath into a haven of relaxation or if they want to provide a welcoming vibe for guests, anything is possible. Anyone wishing to revamp their bathroom space has plenty of options to execute this project, including taking on the project or contracting a builder.

RKA Construction, known for providing superior quality, craftsmanship, and customer service since 2011, is one such company that could take handle the task.

Since COVID-19 emerged, they’ve spent considerable time working away from the office but have still been conducting renovations for their clients.

Owner Ryan Anderson says that homeowners can take on the responsibility of some or most of a bathroom project if preferred. He expresses caution, however, against DIY remodelers trying to tackle reframing, plumbing, HVAC, and electrical work themselves. Those aspects should be left to licensed contractors.

“It’s one thing just to swap a new faucet. You can certainly watch a couple YouTube videos and figure out how to do that yourself,” he says. “But it’s a whole other thing to swap a tub, install a new shower valve, or replumb a sink. If you do them wrong, you can certainly run the risk of causing some pretty major water damage during the process or down the road. And the same applies for electrical work. You could hurt yourself, cause a fire, or do things that would cost you a lot more than if you had a licensed electrician come in and install that new light fixture or rewire that room.”

But there are many installations that homeowners can take on themselves, including adding tile to the floor or tub surround, painting and adding hardware to vanities, and perhaps even replacing the entire vanity.

Before the project begins, the homeowner needs to check with their local code enforcement offices on any permitting requirements they might have. “Gener-

ally, the things that are going to require a permit are probably what the average person shouldn’t be tackling on their own,” Anderson says. “And then from there, if a permit is required, homeowners can pull a permit themselves. They would be required to hire a licensed plumber and electrician to work under that permit.”

Once permits and contractors are established, homeowners can get to work on the demolition.

“If they’ve already got the tools, such as a circular saw, then they could certainly do those themselves if they feel comfortable,” says Anderson. “If not, they would need to hire a framer to do that.”

For any reframing, framing repairs, or wall relocation, it is advised that a framer do this for you. Then, after reframing, the other licensed contractors will need to take care of any electrical, plumbing, or HVAC work.

“That would all need to occur while everything is still opened up,” says Anderson. “Once that’s done and inspected, you would put in any insulation then that would be required if it’s on an exterior wall. Then you’d hang the drywall.” He notes that drywall might be something best handled by a professional if the homeowner is not experienced with it.

Next comes any tiling that would be needed, whether that’s for the floor, shower, or tub surround. Shower tiles should be left up to a professional, but homeowners can take on floor and tub surround tiling themselves, provided they do enough research.

“Think about picking fairly basic materials,” says

A bathroom can serve as a quiet refuge at the beginning — or end — of a long day. New designs and materials can make it one of the most relaxing areas in the home.

Anderson. “If you’re going to do any kind of complex mosaic tiles, sometimes for a novice, it can be really challenging to make it look right.”

From there, the bathroom is ready for DIY trim work, such as baseboards and crown molding, followed by vanity installation and painting. Professionals can then install plumbing and light fixtures, and voila, the brand-new bathroom is complete.

“This will certainly give you a much nicer space to live out of day-to-day as a homeowner, and it’s also going to give you a pretty good return on your dollar when it comes to the point of resale,” says Anderson.

Below, some renowned suppliers can best help you get your bathroom and/or kitchen outfitted with upand-coming trends and products to ensure you have the dream home you’ve always wanted.

Tile floors and walls Memphis Tile and Marble Co. offers a range of products suited for both bathroom and kitchen, including high-quality porcelain and mexican tile, brick pavers, radiant floor systems (NuHeat), and beyond. They offer full-scale kitchen and bathroom remodels and can help J U N E / J U L Y 2 0 2 0 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 79

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Peterson says that clients have been gravitating with tile, marble, granite, or natural stone products. towards white and grey color schemes, although some Owner Richard Cox says that subway tiles are a popudesigners are bringing warm tones back into the mix. lar option for wall tiling, while white and grey porcelain “Honed or leathered stones have been quite popular tiles have been a favored substitute for marble flooring. with clients over the last few years,” she says. “The honing “Manufacturers have gotten very good at producing a process gives it a matte finish and the leathered, more of a porcelain tile that looks like real marble,” he says. “This textured finish.” saves the customer money versus If the client is upgrading from using a real marble that has to be another material and wants to maintained routinely.” replace it with granite, quartzite, Cox says the company has begun marble, or man-made quartz, Bluff to install porcelain panels as large City Stonework looks for desired as 5’ x 10’ on shower walls and colors and designs that are within the bathroom floors. “These thin pancustomer’s budget. els are really popular now with the If the client is looking for duradesigners and specifiers,” he says. bility, Peterson says that granite is As far as installing tiling yourself, a preferable choice, as it is stain-, Cox says the process is ever-changscratch-, and heat-resistant. ing due to so many kinds of tiles “Granite will last for years, and emerging on the market. He recdepending on what cleaning prodommends that homeowners stay ucts are used, it won’t need to be up-to-date on new techniques or sealed as often,” she says. different installation instructions She says that marble may work from the manufacturers. for bathrooms but is not practical “Glass tile is a good example,” for kitchens, since it is a soft, porous he says. “You cannot use a cheap Modern shower stalls have come a long stone that can stain and scratch easmortar to install them. Depending way from the days when homeowners ily, and it is sensitive to etching with on how the glass is mounted on stretched a plastic shower curtain from acidic foods, drinks, and oils. Clients the sheet, a different technique to wall-to-wall across the bathtub. must also be cautious about the install them may need to be used.” cleaning products they use on marble, because chemicals Before a shower is ready to receive tile, however, can damage the stone. To make these countertops work, Shelby County Code Enforcement must conduct a shower Peterson recommends that marble be sealed at least once pan inspection by filling the pan with one inch of water a year, if not every six months. and letting it sit overnight to make sure everything is “I generally feel my clients out if they want marble,” waterproofed correctly. “For the DIY, the shower pan is she says. “Personality has a lot to do with it also. I tell a very critical process,” says Cox. “If not done correctly, them that if they are a bit OCD and want everything shiny the shower will leak from day one.” and looking good all the time, then it is not for them.

But if they are more laid-back and like the look of worn Countertops marble, like in Europe, with the pits, etching, and stains Bluff City Stoneworks, Inc. is a locally owned and that those give the stone character over time, then it may operated stone fabrication and installation company be okay for their lifestyle.” that services the tri-state area and has more than 30 For a marble look without the hassle, however, Peyears of collective experience in the stone industry. They terson recommends a natural quartzite. These stones can offer professional custom fabrication, installation, and provide the marble look with a harder surface than granite restoration services of granite, marble, manufactured and marble, meaning it won’t stain and scratch easily. quartz, and other natural stones.

However, it can still etch like marble would and it is not The company’s vice president, Melissa Peterson, says very heat resistant. that Bluff City Stoneworks factors in budget, design, If the client is looking for a low-maintenance product, and functionality when helping clients choose stone Peterson suggests man-made quartz, which can also selections for bathrooms and kitchens. When it comes to be used to achieve a marble look without all the hassle. bathrooms, they start with measurements so they can Unlike a natural stone, it won’t stain, scratch, or etch. The offer remnants from their shop to help with the budget, one downside, however, is that this type of countertop is rather than purchasing a slab for small areas. not fully heat-resistant, so homeowners should refrain “Then, we try to determine functionality,” says from placing hot pots and pans directly on the countertop.

Peterson. “If they want marble, how often will they be With a lot of options for countertops, Peterson reveals using that top? Do they use a lot of products that have what has been trending: “Granite is still one of the best, citrus or other acidic items that might etch or scratch the but in the last few years, more and more people are going marble? Do they use a lot of makeup that might stain for quartzites or man-made quartz like Cambria.” the marble? What cleaning products do they use? Will When it is time for installation, Peterson recommends they be all right with more upkeep and having to reallowing a professional to install countertops. “I don’t seal yearly? Is the top for a kids’ bathroom?” recommend homeowners installing them unless they have Depending on answers, Bluff City Stoneworks might had contracting experience,” she says. “The stone can be try to dissuade the client from going with marble counquite heavy and hard to handle if you don’t know what tertops and opting instead for man-made quartz, such you are doing, and you could get hurt. You will most likely as Cambria, Caesarstone, or Silestone, that will give them get a better fit or look letting the fabricator handle it.” the marble look without all the upkeep.

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Keeping an Eye on Costs

An expert offers tips on financing your remodeling project.

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tarting a home remodeling project has many variables. But before jumping into a project, it’s important to understand the financial commitment. Staying within budget is crucial for the smooth operation of any renovation, and planning things out ahead of time will help that budget stick. It’s tricky to stay abreast of all the options at your disposal, but knowing what kind of loans and financing banks offer can make all the difference when pulling the trigger on a project.

Fresh off her own home remodeling project, Bess Lewis, vice president of medical and professional banking at Triumph Bank, offers a few tips on how to keep your accounts in order.

Memphis: What do homeowners need to realize about budgeting for a renovation/remodeling project before committing financially?

Bess Lewis: Although it is a very exciting time when homeowners decide to build a new home and take on a significant renovation of an older home, patience needs to be a virtue! Homeowners need to be prepared for the overall cost and time horizon of the project to be more than originally quoted.

It is a good rule of thumb that you should build in a 10 percent buffer into your overall loan amount to account Bess Lewis for any overages, fixtures, or unforeseen repairs that can occur. As far as the time horizon goes, bad weather or waiting on specialty materials can many times delay the completion date. There may also be issues that are unexpected, so you need to have a little liquidity and be prepared just in case.

What is the current state of the mortgage loan market? Is it a good time for homeowners to seek out additional financing?

BL: The market is very volatile right now and there are many unknowns. However, rates are lower than we have seen in quite some time, so it is a good time to utilize the low interest for the right situations.

What types of loans do homeowners have available to them when looking to pursue home renovation?

BL: Each bank has its own unique loan products, but the most universal loan requested when undergoing a major renovation or addition is the construction loan.

Typically, a construction loan has a 12-month term and then refinanced at the end of the term into a conventional loan, but at Triumph Bank, homeowners can apply for a construction loan that offers a one-time close option. This keeps your costs down as well as eliminates the hassle of refinancing at the end of your project.

For smaller renovation projects, such as a bathroom or kitchen-only renovation, you can also many times utilize a home equity line of credit (HELOC). HELOCs are also interest-only but continue to revolve over a certain period of time determined by the bank.

With this type of loan, most of the closing costs are covered by the bank.

What are the different benefits of each available loan?

BL: A construction loan is great for a larger project. Generally, these loans have slightly higher interest rates than HELOCs, but they are strictly monitored and managed carefully to ensure your project is completed as promised by the contractor’s quote and write-up.

If you have enough equity built up into your home, then a HELOC is a great loan choice for smaller renovations. Typically, HELOCs have lower initial interest rates, but work like a credit card in the fact that they have a longer maturity date and the interest rate can fluctuate, but the homeowner has much more flexibility with how they use it and what they pay each month.

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Lighting fixtures Graham’s Lighting has been around for more than 60 years, providing design, expertise, and commitment to quality nationwide. They have become renowned for providing customized lighting and have attracted well-known customers such as Dixie Carter and Morgan Freeman.

Lighting designer expert Bob Meyers says that one can never have too much lighting in bathrooms and that having a sufficient amount of lighting can help brighten up the room. Because bathrooms can be used for both relaxation and for cleansing, grooming, and applying cosmetics, Meyers suggests that lighting in these spaces should be multifaceted and variable to provide appropriate lighting for all situations.

Vanity lighting requires soft light sources coming from multiple angles to provide an even, pleasing source of light. To pull this off, Meyers recommends pinhole recessed lighting that shines down on the vanity top to light up the sink area and adding a pair of wall-mounted fixtures on either side of the mirror.

“I want to be able to light the face evenly without shadows, so that if I’m doing any kind of work with the face, whether it’s shaving or makeup, I can see what I’m doing,” he says. “And I want to make sure that it’s a shielded source because I don’t want to create any glare.”

He says that although clear glass shades and clear filament bulbs have been trending, this type of lighting should be avoided due to the harsh glare they can produce.

Instead, he recommends a shielded source of light that can be achieved by encasing the bulb in white glass or by covering the bulb with a silk shade.

And to transform these lights for relaxation purposes, Meyers highly recommends installing dimmer controls.

“Some people like to sit in a nice warm bath and relax with a good book and soak away some of the strain of the day,” he says. “Well, if that’s another way that I’m going to use that bathroom, then I have to be prepared to have lighting that takes that into account.”

The need for sufficient lighting carries over to the kitchen, too, so that homeowners can see what they’re doing when preparing or eating food, grabbing dishes out of cabinets, and more. For overhead lighting, Meyers recommends recessed lighting. “It has become more popular to use smaller aperture recessed lighting, as opposed to larger aperture recessed lighting,” he says.

Meyers also considers under-cabinet LED lighting an essential component for lighting up countertops. “If you do a lot of cooking, you want to be able to see recipes and mix ingredients,” he says. “If my back is to the light source, I may end up shadowing what I’m working on. But if my light source is in front of me, above my eyeline, shining on whatever I’m working with, it’s going to give me much better work light.”

This type of cabinet lighting can also look stunning above cabinets and inside cabinets that have glass doors, according to Meyers. Other popular kitchen lighting fixtures include pendant lighting with fabric shades, chandeliers, and even small lamps placed in a corner on the counter.

“The more little sources of light we can place around the room, the better the lighting system feels when everything’s turned on,” he says. “When all those are turned on without being turned up, the room can be really pretty.

And it’s well-lit, but you’re not aware of any glaring source of light. It’s just that there’s light in every direction that you look, because in each case, there’s a light there.”

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Bathroom plumbing fixtures For the last 25 years, MiniMax Kitchen & Bath Gallery has served the Memphis community, providing a range of services, products, and designs for bathroom remodels. They are a one-stop-shop for bathroom plumbing fixtures, including bath tubs, whirlpools, showers, sinks, faucets, and more.

When clients come to MiniMax for bathroom design plans, the first thing designers consider is the homeowner’s lifestyle, according to company president Steve Juang.

“The use of space is probably most important,” he says.

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soaker tub to make more space for a large shower stall. If the client chooses to install a standing shower, they can choose between a solid panel or tiles, but Juang says that tiles have been the most popular option.

“The key to tile showers is waterproofing,” says Juang.

“You should choose porcelain tiles over ceramic, because ceramic is made up of red clay, which absorbs water.”

However, grout can absorb water, so if the client wants a truly waterproofed shower, Juang recommends selecting a solid panel made by Corian, which is not only completely antibacterial but also cost-effective.

If a soaker tub is desired, free-standing acrylic tubs have been popular with his clients. “You see those in magazines all the time,” Juang says. “People love them.”

Alternatively, for a more luxurious soaking experience, clients may want to opt for a whirlpool tub. For that, Juang recommends Jason Hydrotherapy tubs. “Most whirlpool brands accumulate gunk, but Jason actually has a patent on a connector that completely drains water out of the pipe and eliminates the chance of buildup,” he says.

When it comes to sinks, Juang says there are many options to choose from. “You can use a sink to bring out your own personality,” he says. “Everything from colors, to shapes, to styles like under mounted, halfway mounted, or vessels on top.”

However, clients typically choose a basic, rectangular-shaped bowl for its simplicity and clean lines. And to go along with that look, Juang says that the hot color for faucets has been matte black.

“Fingerprints don’t show, and it goes real well with that white and black, clean line look people are going for these days,” he says.

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The passion for creativity sparked by those expeditions with his grandfather would go on to shape Meyers’ life. “My dad was great, but he didn’t get that interested in the things I wanted to do,” he says. “He had a little print shop in the basement, and he wanted me to take that over.

But I never really liked it. I wanted to get into art.”

One thing Don and his father had in common was a love of fast cars. “He owned two Hudson Hornets, vintage 1949. He raced one of them at the old O’Hare stock car track in Chicago. They were ugly as sin, but fast as hell, and he drove them like beasts. …

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was born on Chicago’s West Side in the 1930s, during the Depression,” says Donald Meyers. “I remember standing in line at the local fire department with my mom Lillian, dad Raymond, and brother Greg for a basket of food when our family was on relief in 1939.”

One of the biggest influences on Meyers’ life was his grandfather, Daniel Sokolowski. “He was an artist, a musician, and a teacher. I loved him to death.”

For Meyers and his grandfather, Chicago was a wonderland waiting to be explored. “We had these great Sunday mornings together,” he recalls, “when we would visit old bookstores and the Art Institute.”

Like many men and women of his generation, he joined the Army after graduating from high school. He shipped off to Berlin, the front lines of the Cold War. “They assigned me to police a battery, and I was an MP for a while,” he says. “It was pretty tough patrolling that area, because a lot of German citizenry were still opposed to any kind of American occupation of the country. They would take potshots at us.”

Police work was definitely not Meyer’s bag. He lucked out when an opportunity came to try out for the Army baseball team. He played ball for about three or four months before his rotation back to the States.

One of Meyer’s Army teammates was Billy Martin, who would go on to great fame as the cantankerous manager for the New York Yankees. “He was kind of an asshole, but he drove a pink Cadillac.”

After his two-year stint in the Army was up, Meyers returned home to Chicago, where he “just

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floated around for a couple of years deciding what I wanted to do.” Throughout, “Art kept tugging on me, because I was always drawing cartoons.”

He went back to school for an art degree, and with a fresh diploma in hand, Meyers found work with one of Chicago’s most famous publications: “I saw an ad in Playboy, so I went over there with my portfolio, and they hired me as a photo assistant, because there were no openings in the art departments. … All I did was load film. It was 4-by-5 and 35 millimeter film in those days.

They shot a lot of stuff on 35 millimeter, because it was so fast — 30, 40, 50 rolls in just an hour.”

Working on Playboy photo shoots was a dream job for a twentysomething guy in the early 1960s, but Meyers was ambitious.

“When there was an opening,” he

top: As an art director for Playboy in the early 1960s, Donald Meyers designed magazine covers and sets for Hugh Hefner’s television show. above: Meyers worked in Hollywood in the 1980s, drawing storyboards and creating concept art for films in pre-production. (right) One of Meyer’s concept sketches for the alien in the 1987 film Predator.

recalls, “they shoved me into an art director position.”

In his new job, Meyers found more prestige and responsibility, but less glamour. He worked in a cramped basement office, where “We had to do a lot of mechanical work. They didn’t use computers, so everything had to be pasted up

and keylined.”

Kent would come into this litMeyers was proud that he was tle place called The Plug Nickel able to send some jobs to his fa- with a 20-piece group. Everybody ther, who was still setting type by would go there on Friday and Sathand in his basement print shop. urday night. It was all bare walls, After a childhood of Depres- straight-back chairs, and bare sion poverty, he enjoyed some tables. But there were big guys newfound prosperity by buying coming in there, like Count Basie. a Ford Mustang. “I I would sit through Meyers’ officemate lost my license three five, six, seven sets times,” he says. “I in a night. I would in the basement of bribed our preget home at four in the Playboy building cinct captain with the morning and go a case of scotch was Shel Silverstein, to work at six.” to get my license When Monday the cartoonist and mo r n i ng rol le d back each time.”

Meyers’ office- songwriter who later around, the hunmate in the base- penned “A Boy Named gover Playboy staff would drag themment of the Playboy Sue” for Johnny Cash. building was Shel selves back to work.

Silverstein, the cartoonist and “We were all up against the songwriter who later penned deadline — and things got re“A Boy Named Sue” for Johnny ally quiet when we were trying Cash. “It was two or three years to publish a magazine,” Meyers of the most enlightening times of says. “And then one day, the elmy life,” he recalls. “He wore this evator door opened and there white shawl and white clothes. was Jonathan Winters. He was He drew with these Rapido- holding a staff with a skull on the graph pens, which were very top of it, and he started doing a sharp, architectural points. He scene from Hamlet. He walked always had lots of stains on his down through the aisles of our clothes, because those pens kept art department shouting, ‘To leaking. But he kept drawing all be or not to be!’ Those were the the time, always drawing just as kind of people Hefner had around fast as he could talk.” the magazine.”

One day, Meyers and SilverEventually, Meyers moved into stein received a coveted invita- the advertising world as a cretion from their boss, who was ative director for the Leo Burone of the original investors in nett agency. It was a high-speed Playboy. “He said, ‘Do you want to change of pace. “With agency get on Hefner’s list?” work in those days, you had three That was the first time Mey- days to do a campaign,” he recalls. ers visited the fabled Playboy “You learned pretty fast, because Mansion, and it wouldn’t be there was so much competition. the last. “I walked around with You could throw an X-Acto knife Shel Silverstein, and we just in Chicago, and you’d probably sketched people.” hit three art directors walking He hit it off with Hefner who, down the street.” it turned out, was a cartoonist At the Burnett agency, he himself. “He always had a pen- worked on campaigns for elecchant for artists, for people who tronics firms, United Airlines, could draw,” according to Mey- and, fatefully, Avis Car Renters. “I was invited to those parties als. That was when he met every other weekend, and they Nancy Gates, who would soon were everything you thought become his wife. they were. Everything.”

But the Mad Men life was takParties at the mansion glit- ing its toll on Meyers. “I found tered with celebrities, but Mey- myself working around the ers was most interested in the clock many days and the presmusicians. “Some of the people sure was intense,” he says. “After I rubbed shoulders with in Hef- many late-night episodes at the ner’s group were Dave Brubeck agency. Nancy and I decided to and Woody Herman. We would get out of Dodge. I was close to get free passes to wherever they getting a serious ulcer and we were playing in Chicago. Stan needed a change.”

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The couple adopted their second wife, Lydia Stainfield and daughter, Lea, and moved to stepson, Raymond. He got a good Little Rock, where Meyers’ expaying job with the local agency perience helped him quickly Chandler Erlich, but says “once land work. “A nice agency hired again, agency work is not 9 to 5.

It’s more like 7 to midnight.” me for a Chicago wage, which was unheard of.”

The acting bug never went But life in the slow lane didn’t away. In 1992, he auditioned for last very long. Nancy was getThe Firm, which was filming in Memphis. He was offered the ting noticed as a writer, and in 1979, they moved to Los Angeles. part of a lawyer in the film, but “I was feverishly doing illustrahad to turn it down due to his tions at the time, and my wife inflexible work schedule. “That was working as a script reader for would have been a juicy role for me to get in Memphis,” he Universal Pictures,” he says. “We were doing script work on Predadmits. “But it didn’t work out, ator when Arnold Schwarzenegand that’s okay.” ger walked in. I didn’t know it, As the new century dawned, but I had parked in his spot at Meyers got involved in the nathe studio. He walked in and said, scent independent film scene “WHO PARKED IN MY PARKwhen he became the oldest memING SPOT, GODDAMNIT?’ ber of the Digital Media Co-Op. Located in the basement of First I said ‘I did!’ He said, ‘That’s OK. Congregational Church on CooYou go on with your work.’ I was per, the Co-Op was a freewheelscared shitless. He said, ‘Can I see some of your sketches?’ I said sure. I found him to be a fun and engaging guy.

“There were about three of us assigned to the project,” he continues. “One was a model maker who had to decide what the Predator was going to look like.

When they went into production, lo and behold, the Predator kind of looked like my original sketch.

I was proud of that … I worked on many films with a crew of talented artists and writers, and I cherish those years, which helped me in my development as ing creative environment filled a creative director and designer.” with people learning the art of Immersed in Hollywood, Meyfilmmaking. Meyer’s experience ers started taking acting classes would prove invaluable: “That at night. He got his Screen Acwas when I met Sarah Fleming tors Guild card as a day player and Christopher Reyes and Moron the soap opera gan Jon Fox. And I Meyers became General Hospital and met you there.” worked with actors I b eca me ac a mainstay in the such as Alan Alda. quainted with DonMemphis film “I did a lawyer and ald Meyers when I a doctor, a couple community, working on cast him as a stern of those things,” he or appearing in at least boss in my 2006 says. “That’s how I film Eat. He had the got the acting bug. 22 movies in the aughts energy and drive I did my art thing of a person half his and early teens. during the day, then age, and I was very went to auditions in between. But impressed. We saw each other events catch up to you. You get a frequently as Meyers became a point where the energy is gone. mainstay in the Memphis film You can’t get to bed, and you end community, working on or apup exhausted during the day.” pearing in at least 22 movies in Nancy and Don split up, and the aughts and early teens. after 12 years in L.A. he returned “I worked on Rod Lurie’s production of Nothing But The to the Mid-South to live with his

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Painting has been a lifelong passion. In 2019, his work appeared in a show at the WKNO studios.

Meyers continued to grow. He got his first directing experience creating short films for the Live From Memphis Lil’ Film Fest.

He has gone on to helm several respected shorts, including the award-winning 2018 short “Hypnotic Induction,” based on a vampire story written by Corey Mesler. “I’ve met so many great creative people here in Memphis,” he says.

Meyers’ most recent film is his first documentary, “Sundays With Gramps,” which premiered at Indie Memphis 2020. It’s a reminiscence of the Chicago of his youth, and the grandfather whose creativity inspired him to lead such a rich and varied life. “This burning desire to create is what drove me into different fields,” he says.

“To me, they’re all tied together.

You get this creative spark, and you branch out from one thing to another. There’s always another film to make, right?”

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Biz 901 Responding to the Crisis The Community Foundation collaborates to take on the coronavirus disruption.

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n mid-March it was clear that the coronavirus, already taking its toll on health and lives worldwide, was also destined to devastate on economic and social levels as we responded to its spread.

Doug McGowen, the City of Memphis’ chief administrative officer, contacted Robert Fockler of the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis.

Officials with the city and Shelby County were pulling out the stops to prepare for the coming crisis and they wanted to see if private money could be raised to meet the inevitable need.

The Community Foundation is the largest charitable grantmaker in the Mid-South, with grants of $163 million last year. It manages 1,200 charitable funds for individuals, families, and organizations throughout the region and was in a position to host a community-wide effort to raise those private dollars.

That’s how the Mid-South COVID-19 Regional

The Community Alliance for the Homeless was granted $45,000 to house the newly homeless for 30 days and to support the City of Memphisled sheltering of homeless families.

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Response Fund came about. “We wanted to make sure that it was a community decision-making process,” Fockler says, “so we put together an advisory committee that meets every week to make grants.” Along with the city, county, and Community Foundation, there were representatives from the United Way of the Mid-South and Momentum Nonprofit Partners.

The city and county can identify what’s going on and where the needs are the greatest.

The United Way and Momentum are in touch with more than 300 agencies ascertaining needs and vulnerabilities and determining ways to get service to those who need it most.

“We looked at models from across the country,” Fockler says. That included New Orleans’ response to Hurricane Katrina as well as Seattle, which was the first city in the United States to do battle with coronavirus. “We decided to spend 60 percent of the dollars in immediate response to the crisis and 40 percent on the back end.” In the experiences of these other cities, the 60/40 apportionment was an effective standard. “You certainly want to step up quickly and respond to the immediate needs, but there’s still significant resources that need to be devoted on the back end to recovery and resilience, fixing the damage done during the immediate crisis.”

The group identified the key populations that were most likely to be affected by the crisis, such as the elderly, the food insecure, the housing insecure, those quarantined without resources, and those displaced from their jobs, among others.

“So that’s how we put it together and it’s run now for nine weeks and with nine rounds of grants,” he said in mid-May. “Every Friday we look at how much money we have and then go around the virtual table for updates. We develop grant recommendations based on that.”

Things changed in the initial weeks. For example, food was clearly an immediate need and the Regional Response Fund gave money to the Food Bank and MIFA. But those organizations started getting other resources flowing in, which let the fund refocus on other areas. “We’ve actually most recently been funding a lot of smaller agencies that are in niche places around the broader community,” Fockler says.

That broader community goes beyond Memphis and Shelby County. While most grants go to agencies in Shelby County, there have been grants made in northern Mississippi, a food bank in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and agencies in West Tennessee. “[As of midMay] we’ve made 108 grants to 84 different agencies,” he says, “and some have been fairly small grants, but we’ve also made some fairly large grants.”

Fockler says the Community Foundation is uniquely positioned to assist in a situation like this. “We have worked with both city and county governments in a number of public-private partnerships. They’re usually not disaster-related, like the acquisition of the Shelby Farms Greenline — we actually purchased the Greenline on behalf of the county. We were the vehicle for the public-private acquisition and renovation of the Harahan

Bridge, for instance.”

He says that the fund has had to create some elements to respond to this crisis. For example, some of the initial fallout from the shutdown involved arts workers and hospitality workers losing their jobs.

The YMCA of Greater Memphis received $100,000 to provide food service for Shelby County Schools students.

Christ Community Health Services got $50,000 to support COVID-19 testing and other expenses in Hickory Hill and Frayser.

A $10,000 grant went to Knowledge Quest to provide food, utility, and rental assistance to neighborhood families.

“There isn’t really an infrastructure to deal with that and we’re not, under tax law, allowed to make grants directly to individuals ourselves,” Fockler says. “So we worked with some local agencies to build brand-new response funds to work with, such as Welcome to Memphis, which works in the Memphis hospitality industry. We needed a responsive fund to put dollars immediately into the hands of displaced hospitality workers, and that has grown and been very successful. We did the same thing with ArtsMemphis. The arts community is one of the first things to shut down when you can’t have meetings or groups of more than 10 or 50 people; you can’t have Playhouse on the Square. So we created an immediate response fund for displaced arts workers, again to put dollars in the hands of folks that had just lost their jobs.”

It’s an advantage, Fockler says, that the Community Foundation doesn’t have a big infrastructure or a traditional way of doing business. “Our business has always been problem-solving and finding the best way to get things done.”

The effects of the coronavirus outbreak contain lessons on how to handle a complex crisis. But even as it continues, the uncertainty of the health and economic situations challenges

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how those lessons will be absorbed. “It’s hard to look into the future to know well where funding will be needed but also when things are going to end,” Fockler says.

“Another thing that concerns me a little bit is that Memphis has such an incredibly generous community and the region has certainly stepped up to support the fund,” he says. “But this is a long-term thing. It’s not like a tornado or a flood that comes and goes, leaves its damage, and then you’re left to pick up the pieces.

This crisis is rolling and it’s certainly going to be rolling forward for another few weeks.

We’ve had great funding and great support to this point and we’ve been able do pretty much everything we wanted to do.”

But Fockler worries that even the noblest of intentions can get worn down by an unrelenting crisis. “I’m a little afraid of those resources lagging two, three, four weeks down the line when the needs haven’t gone away,” he says.

“And the fatigue of writing checks and supporting these things really starts to kick in.

But at the end of the day, I have a lot of confidence in Memphis and the Mid-South, and one thing that Mid-Southerners know is when people are in need, they’re prepared to step up and support whatever’s needed. I’m hoping that fear is unfounded, but that’s something I am concerned about.”

Another of the unknowable consequences of the crisis is what the long-term fallout will be. Fockler worries there may be some agencies that either go away or are severely damaged. “We may need to scramble to make those agencies sound again,” he says, “but we don’t really quite know at this point who that is or when and where those gaps and holes might be. And that’s why our survey process has been pretty important.

The main thing that Momentum Nonprofit Partners has been doing is surveying agency needs. They’ve received input from more than 300 agencies and [as of mid-May] we’ve now gone through two cycles of those surveys. That’s going to be important to keep doing because the needs of an agency today 92 • I N S I D E M E M P H I S B U S I N E S S • J U N E / J U L Y 2 0 2 0

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may change and may evolve two, four, eight weeks from now. So the future is going to depend on the constant review of current information. It’s a little hard to know exactly what we’re going to need in four and six and eight weeks.”

Imagine, however, how the face of philanthropy may change in even more fundamental ways. It was undergoing substantive changes before coronavirus came around, but the ongoing crisis may speed the rate of change.

There have long been private foundations as well as individuals and families that have done much of the heavy lifting of giving.

“Looking forward and certainly in view

of our response to this crisis, we can’t just always look to a couple of privileged families to help us,” Fockler says. “We really need to help ourselves. I think the future of philanthropy is not going to be a couple of individuals or families. I think it’s going to be all of us coming together collectively and more formally pooling our resources. And I think that the Community Foundation in particular is going to be focused on how to draw community resources for a community-wide philanthropic effort to build an endowed foundation representing the collective resources of hundreds, if not thousands, of families as opposed to four or five families.”

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GARDEN VARIETY

Hydrangeas for Every Occasion From ‘Pinky Winky’ to ‘Little Lamb,’ gardeners can choose from a large selection of sizes and colors.

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bout three years ago, I was working with a husbandand-wife design client. They had a south-facing front porch with almost no shelter from the late afternoon sun. He was fine with anything she wanted to do to the rest of the yard, he claimed, so long as the design included a row of flowering shrubs along the front porch. He suggested knockout roses.

But, he added, he also liked straight lines and formality. He said, “I don’t like landscapes that seem to go every which way, with no rhyme or reason.”

Hydrangea paniculata is a high bush with large cone-shaped clusters of small white flowers.

She hated knockout roses, saying, “They are drangea would spill over the top of the hollies. everywhere!” She also said the garden needed When I presented the design, the husband some romance and she really wanted to incorlooked at it and said, “That’s ridiculous! Those porate more native plants. In particular, she Hydrangea will cook in all that sun.” His wife wanted a pollinator garden in at least some nodded her head in agreement. I could see part of the front yard and less him actually starting to stand H. paniculata not only up, as if to leave our meeting. turf grass.

So, I came up with a design His body language indicated tolerates the sun but that included, among other he was completely through really needs full sun to things, a foundation plantwith my incompetence. perform at its best.

But I asked him to give me ing along the front with Hyjust a few minutes to explain. drangea paniculata ‘Jane’ (Little Lime Hardy Hydrangea) directly in front He sat back down. I explained that the Hyof the foundation and Ilex vomitoria ‘Nana’ drangea genus is diverse. It has many different species. When most people in the south(Dwarf Yaupon Holly) directly in front of the Hydrangea, so that the blooms from the Hyeastern United States think of Hydrangea,

they are thinking of cultivars of Hydrangea macrophylla. This is the big-leaf Hydrangea, which does best in less than full sun. ‘Nikko Blue’ is the most common of these.

However, other species are commonly available in the nursery trade in the United States, including H. arborescens, H. serratta, H. aspera, H. quercifolia, and H. paniculta. Of those, H. paniculata is the one that not only tolerates the sun but really needs full sun to perform at its best. In subsequent columns, I will write about Hydrangea for shade and Hydrangea for mixed-light conditions. However, here are some of the most readily available cultivars of H. paniculata with which you should be familiar: J U N E / J U L Y 2 0 2 0 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 95

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Hydrangea paniculata (‘Renhy’) is also known as ‘Vanilla Strawberry Panicle Hydrangea.’

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‘Limelight’ is probably the H. paniculta cultivar with which people are most familiar. Big football-like blooms begin green in the summer but then go through a range of colors, including shades of pink, before becoming spent in late fall.

This plant gets very big, from 6 to 8 feet tall and wide. Its heavy blooms on tall stems frequently cause it to lay down in rainstorms. Pruning it back by 30 percent in the spring may help mitigate this tendency.

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Jane,’ marketed as ‘Little Lime,’ has turned out to be a better plant for most urban gardens than ‘Limelight.’ Though its marketing would imply that it is merely a dwarf cultivar of limelight, in fact it was not derived from ‘Limelight’ at all. Its only genetic commonality with ‘Limelight’ is that they both descended from the same species, H. paniculata. It is smaller, maturing at 3 to 5 feet tall and wide. Also, its stalks tend to stand straighter than ‘Limelight.’ It has less of a tendency to lay down in heavy rainstorms. It fits better into the tighter spaces typical of smaller urban yards.

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‘Quickfire’ tends to stand up straighter than ‘Limelight.’ It produces beautiful lace-cap-like white blooms. In areas farther north than Memphis, ‘Quickfire’ blooms fade to a deep red in the fall. But in Memphis, this tendency is less pronounced.

This plant also gets 6 to 8 feet tall and wide, comparable in size to ‘Limelight.’ Its dwarf is marketed under the name, ‘Little Quickfire.’ ‘Little Quickfire’ gets 3 to 5 feet tall and wide.

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If you like the lime-green footballshaped blooms of Limelight, then you’ll love H. paniculata ‘SMHPMWMH.’ This cultivar is marketed under the name ‘Candy Apple Hydrangea.’ It matures at a size 4 to 5 feet wide. I find it to be much better than both ‘Limelight’ and ‘Little Lime.’ It has less of a tendency to lay down than ‘Limelight’ and has bigger and more richly colored blooms than ‘Little Lime.’

There are many more H. paniculata cultivars to consider, including ‘Bobo,’ ‘Zinfin Doll,’ ‘Strawberry Shake,’ ‘Ruby’ (marketed under the name Angel’s Blush), ‘Firelight,’ ‘Little Lamb,’ ‘Pinky Winky,’ ‘Diamond Rouge,’ and ‘Vanilla Strawberry,’ Few if any independent garden centers are big enough to have every or even most known cultivars of H. paniculata in stock at any given time. So it’s good to check in with them regularly, as their inventory changes.

John A. Jennings is an experienced garden designer, garden writer, and nursery manager. He also has degrees from the University of Richmond and the University of Memphis. Email him at gardener@ memphismagazine.com.

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DEAR VANCE: What happened to the old Claridge Hotel? It’s rarely mentioned in any discussion of the grand old Downtown hotels along Main Street.

— g.t., memphis.

DEAR G.T.: I am as guilty of anyone of this oversight, but

I prefer to blame my readers. After all, I merely answer questions they send me, and even though I’ve written several times about the Peabody, King Cotton, Chisca, Gayoso, and even the William Len hotels, I believe this is the first time anyone has even raised the subject of the Claridge.

That’s rather surprising, since it opened the same year (1925) as The Peabody, and with 400 rooms it’s almost the same size as that more well-known property.

It’s certainly hard to miss — a 17-story limestone-andred-brick tower at Main and Adams looming over City Hall, just across the street. But even the authors of Memphis: An Architectural Guide give the Claridge only a few lines in their book, acknowledging its “large and

ornate lobby with splendid coffered ceilings” but barely mentioning the exterior, only noting “some rather thin ornament spread around its top.”

Even so, if the hotel wasn’t considered grand-looking from the outside, it certainly had plenty of distinctive features — including “the largest open-air roof garden in America,” according to a promotional booklet archived in the Lauderdale Library.

The Claridge was constructed and operated by a St. Louis company called the Tri-States Hotel Corporation, so named because it built three almost identical properties at the same time: the Claridge in Memphis, another Claridge Hotel in St. Louis, and the Mark Twain Hotel in that city. The name — Claridge, not Mark Twain — was apparently “borrowed” from the older and considerably more famous hotel, Claridge’s, in London, which has attracted travelers the world over since the 1850s.

Perhaps the Tri-State owners hoped the Memphis and St. Louis versions would enjoy the same success.

The hotel here included two separate eateries, the Claridge Tea Room, “where the culinary art of the Old South is maintained with all its rich traditions,” and the Claridge Tap Room, “where you can quaff domestic and imported ales in an atmosphere that harks back to the famous eating and drinking places of England.” I’m quoting from that promotional folder, you understand.

But two areas of the hotel really set it apart from others around town. “Seventeen stories in the clouds” (they must have been rather low-hanging clouds), the Starlite Roof Garden offered “a glorious setting for the crowds that throng nightly during the summer season, with a seating capacity of 1,000. Nationally famous orchestras provide evenings of unique and thrilling entertainment, while you dine and dance your cares away in the happiest retreat of the Southland.” Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey and other big-bandleaders of the day made regular appearances here.

Much closer to street level (safely below those clouds), the second-floor Twentieth Century Room was the hotel’s main attraction. Designed in the finest Art Deco style, this huge ballroom with a raised stage stretching across one end was “a mecca for smart, sophisticated Memphians, featuring America’s outstanding dance orchestras and floor shows.”

“Smart” seems to have been the catchword of the Claridge in its early days. The Twentieth Century Room was promoted as “the South’s smartest supper club” and the entire building was proclaimed “Memphis’ Smartest Hotel” in all of its literature. According to a newspaper article, celebrities who called the Claridge home whenever they happened to visit Memphis included Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphreys, Imogene Coca, and Liberace.

Even the most jaded travelers were impressed by the Twentieth Century Room, but in 1940 the management transformed it into the supper club that some readers may recall to this day — the Balinese Room.

That’s right. A Memphis hotel replicated the culture of an island in faraway Indonesia. Well, one room, anyway.

Gone were the Art Deco embellishments, including 3,000 feet of blue neon, which had given off a “garish blue glow” (it sounds quite wonderful, actually).

In its place was a more subdued atmosphere, created by Oscar Nordstrom of Chicago, hailed as “one of

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the foremost hotel designers in the country for the past 40 years.”

First of all, Nordstrom replaced all that neon with something novel at the time — hidden fluorescent lighting — so arranged that “after dinner, no light penetrates above a few feet over the heads of those present, and the ceiling is not even visible.” This must have created a strange effect, I have to admit.

He also added special touches, including six hand-painted murals of Balinese life, “executed by Virgil Quadri, noted painter and sculptor of Chicago,” according to an old Memphis Press-Scimitar article, along with mirrors on all columns and walls — including one panel that measured 15 feet wide. Getting that into the hotel and installing it must have been quite a feat.

What little bit of wall that wasn’t mirrored “was tufted in cream leather and studded with brass nails.”

Other walls “are of zebra wood, cut thin and placed on canvas so it will go around corners,” that article continued. “The tables are round, with rounded, builtin seats covered in leopard skin.” Even the bandstand got special treatment, with “draperies of cream satin, an upper curtain of rust satin with a crystal fringe, and a background of sparkling crystal cloth.”

Everything “was designed to harmonize, carrying out the Balinese motif.” Now look, I know it’s really hard to picture all this, especially if you haven’t traveled to Bali as often as I have, but I don’t have a picture to show you. I can only do so much, sometimes, even as a Lauderdale.

The Balinese Room also attracted big-name entertainment, though some of those names might not be familiar to present-day readers. According to that newspaper article, “The Eddie Rogers Orchestra, wellknown on the networks, has been chosen to open the In the 1950s, by the way, room rates were just $2.50 for new Balinese Room. Supplementing the music would a single and $3.50 for a double. Like other Downtown hotels, it had regular residents as well, who could rent be two floor shows nightly, featuring the Kurtis Royale rooms by the month.

Marionettes, dancer Dolly Arden, and the dance team of Billie Burns and Dennie White.”

The 1968 death of Dr. Martin Luther King changed everything.

Not a word about what kind of food “The moment you walk Downtown businesses and hotels such a place offered, though I certainthrough the Claridge closed, including the Claridge. In ly hope they offered Balinese specialentrance … you’ll find an ties — whatever those would’ve been.

December of that year, newspapers At any rate, the Claridge joined announced the property would be atmosphere as refreshing the other “classic” hotels along Main demolished, though nobody seemed as a breath of spring.”

Street, and all of them drew customto have definite ideas about how to ers and tourists. In 1954, not yet 30 replace it. One plan involved building years old, the management embarked on a $500,000 a 25-story “office-motel” on that corner, whatever that means. Why would that be any better? upgrade, designed to offer guests “a host of new and exciting features unmatched anywhere.” My pal Wayne None of this happened. Instead, the former hoDowdy, manager of the Memphis and Shelby County tel was ultimately converted into condos and office Room at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, was space. Big bands no longer perform at the Starlite kind enough to share with me a brochure for the propRoof Garden, but the rooftop is open to residents, and erty, now calling itself “Memphis’ Most Modern Hotel.” the former Balinese Room is now commercial space, The improvements included a gleaming new lobby, complete with an indoor swimming pool. The buildwith pink marble walls and mosaic tile floors, all-new ing has certainly gone through some changes over meeting and banquet facilities, and “fingertip weather the years, but the Claridge House, as it’s now called, control in every room.” In other words, the guest rooms still anchors the north end of Main Street Mall. had air-conditioning, a novelty in the mid-1950s. The “world-famous” Balinese Room was left relatively unGot a question for vance? touched, but otherwise, the hotel presented an all-new EMAIL: askvance@memphismagazine.com experience. According to that brochure, “The moment MAIL: Vance Lauderdale, Memphis magazine, P.O. Box 1738, you walk through the Claridge entrance … you’ll find Memphis, TN 38103 an atmosphere as refreshing as a breath of spring.”

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Views from an old promotional brochure for the Claridge Hotel show the Twentieth Century Room (top) before it was transformed into the Balinese Room. The Starlite Roof Garden often drew 1,000 guests to enjoy the big bands of the day.

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A Multicultural Food Hall Global Café provides a taste of the world, no passport required.

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e might be under quarantine for a little longer, but the Crosstown Concourse’s food hall provides a little taste of the world beyond our borders. Global Café at Crosstown Concourse takes an international approach to cuisine, offering a variety of dishes from several countries. And the best part?

The restaurant has immigrants from each of those countries running their own kitchens and sharing traditional and innovative recipes. It might have been tough to predict how the Global Café experiment would turn out when the restaurant opened its doors in 2018, but two years on, its unique social enterprise model has seen the restaurant thrive, even through times of adversity.

Global Café is the brainchild of owner and Swiss immigrant Sabine Langer, who came up with the concept when volunteering with refugees and immigrants in Binghampton. There, she found chefs with immense talent but little restaurant experience.

She parlayed that idea into the food hall now known as Global Café. But she made her first Global Café connection all the way back in 2012 while on a 20mile run in California. There, she fell into a pace group with Juan Viramontes. The two stayed in touch, and when she called him about an opportunity for a new restaurant, he immediately relocated to Memphis.

Born and raised in Mexico, Viramontes moved to California at a young age. His first taste of

Chef Fayha from Syria

Juan Viramontes

the dining industry came when who are hardworking people he was just 10 years old, cleaning who have incredible amounts of up after a food truck that set up cultural enrichment to offer via shop near a popular soccer park their recipes.” in his neighborhood. Since then, Such a platform is crucial, he studied culinary according to Vira“Our philosophy arts in college and montes, as many has worked every refugees find it difis to have folks restaurant posificult to adapt when from all over the tion imaginable. arriving in the Unitworld who are Now, as general ed States. “There manager of Global hardworking people are many people Café, he wants the who come here and restaurant to pro- who have incredible end up with tough vide a platform for jobs that don’t amounts of cultural other immigrants leave them time to enrichment to offer and refugees to learn the culture via their recipes.” hone their craft. and study the lan“We are a social enguage,” he says.

— Juan Viramontes terprise that works And with so many with immigrants and refugees,” politicians taking a negative he says. “Our philosophy is to stance on immigration, he views have folks from all over the world Global Café as a way to bridge

Chef Ibti from Sudan

Chef Maria from Venezuela

that gap. “We want to be able to share our culture and open doors for us where we can. In turn, we can integrate into the community better and understand the customers better; in the end, we can be better members of our community as well.”

One of the most foolproof ways to join people together is through food, and Global Café embraces that notion with a strong menu.

The restaurant currently features three separate stations, each run by immigrants: Chef Fayha, from Syria; Chef Ibti, from Sudan; and Chef Maria, from Venezuela.

Each station offers numerous appetizers and entrées from each country, featuring everything from empanadas to chicken shawarma, and you won’t find a weak link among them.

“There’s nothing I would ponder switching off this menu,” says Viramontes. “We were careful to select each item we included so that we would have variety, but the stuff we put there is strong.”

Beyond the main menu, the chefs are always looking for new things to add. Ibti recently created her own Sudanese spin on fried chicken, while Viramontes introduced tacos around Cinco de Mayo. “I think it’s a good idea to every once in a while create a new special,” he says. “We’ll keep all the old favorites, but when someone goes full circle on the menu, it’s good to have something to keep up the interest.” When Cinco rolled around, the tacos sold out immediately.

Any new specials will stay on the menu until they stop selling.

In addition to managing Global Café, Viramontes also tends bar, where he whips up a select menu of cocktails. The kaleidoscopic drinks all burst with bright colors, and there’s something for everyone’s taste. For those wanting something familiar, there’s always Juan’s Margarita, of course,

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SAM’S PICKS: THREE TO TRY Need somewhere to start when sampling Global Café’s international cuisine? While every dish is delicious and representative of its origin, here are three to get lunch or dinner rolling.

DAMA WITH ROUS – SUDAN

Take the spice levels up a notch with Chef Ibti’s migrants, there were times when things were tight, and even something so basic as food could be tough to get our hands on,” says Viramontes. “We had to endure a lot, so I think there’s a direct translation to people who are struggling now. Uncertainty is something we’re familiar with, so we figured, even if it’s just a few meals, we could try to make a difference.”

Viramontes has seen a ripple effect, with many customers jumping on board to help out Chocolate/Hazelnut Martini the economically challenged but other interesting concoctions and medical professionals who to sip on include the Chocolate/ have to work around the clock.

Hazelnut Martini, which ViraIt all traces back to Viramontes’ montes describes as a “full-on line about community; the food dessert in a glass.” served at Global Café has brightWhile the ened many a day for Memphis dinCOVID-19 pandemCustomers have ic put many restauers, and that apprean option to rants into dire ciation has allowed straits, Viramontes the chefs at Global pay it forward cites Langer’s proCafé to turn into by purchasing a philanthropic asactivity as the key meal for a medical to the restaurant’s sets to the commuadaptation. She nity in uncertain professional or times. And with quickly set up web ordering service anyone economically Langer not touchand created a deliving a single cent impacted by the ery team for Global of the restaurant’s coronavirus.

Café, which delivprofits, the food ers for free within hall can continue a four-mile radius of the restauto be creative with recipes and rant. Customers can order any of do good work in Memphis. the regular appetizers or entrees, But that sense of collective or a few family-size portions of remains inside the restaurant, select dishes. Draft beer from as well. “We are not an incubaCrosstown Concourse is also tor,” explains Viramontes. “We sometimes available for a steal at do not put our people out. If 99 cents a cup. the chefs want to make this a But with Global Café’s new retirement job, those chefs can capacity for delivery, the restaustay as long as they want. If in rant did more than just stay open.

10 years or 20 years, if any one Almost as soon as stay-at-home of them wants to move on with orders went into place, the team their life for whatever reason started promoting an option for or ever reaches a point where customers to pay it forward by they’re ready to open up their purchasing a meal for a medical own restaurant, I will help them personally get it open, professional or anyone economically impacted by the coronavirus. and then we will bring in some“With our backgrounds as imbody else to Global Café.”

Dama with Rous. The dish places slow-cooked beef tender over a bed of rice, with the meat marinated in a wild jalapeño and tomato sauce. The use of extra fresh jalapeños gives the dish an extra kick, while the garnishes of red and green bell pepper provide a crisp foil to the spice.

STUFFED AREPA – VENEZUELA

Originating in the northern region of South America, the Arepa is a staple of Venezuelan cuisine. The flat, doughy patty comes stuffed full to bursting with beans, cheese, and your choice of either pulled beef or chicken. Chef Maria can also whip up a vegan variation.

CHICKEN KOBAB – SYRIA

The grilled chicken kobab is as reliable as they come: a filling, yet very healthy dish accompanied with vegetables, rice, and Tzatziki sauce. And the best part? You’ll find no fat on this kobab; Chef Fayha’s approach to the grill transforms the dish into 100 percent protein to round out this flavorful meal.

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but the appetizers and desserts can both stand on their own. The empanadas (chicken, beef, cheese & potatoes, or vegan) are a fantastic opener, and you can’t go wrong FOOD: A delicious variety of internawith a sweet walnut baklava to close tional cuisines to satisfy any palate.

The differing styles offer something for things out. everyone, all at an affordable price.

WHAT’S NEXT: New items, like Juan’s Asado Bowl, keep things fresh on the ALCOHOL: Viramontes’ colorful menu. Keep an eye out to see what other assortment of cocktails pairs well with any of the restaurant’s entrées. specials the Global Café team comes up with going forward.

The bar also offers wine, domestic and imported beer bottles, and local PRICES: Appetizers ($5), entrees ($10), brews on tap (watch out for 99-cent desserts ($3-$10), cocktails ($5-$11). specials on select Wiseacre and Cross- OPEN: For curbside pickup and free delivery town beers). (in a four-mile radius) 12-7:30pm, Tuesday - Friday; Saturday 11:30am-8pm. Call in or EXTRAS: There are enough items on the menu to keep any diner occupied, order online at globalcafememphis.com J U N E / J U L Y 2 0 2 0 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 101

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FLYING FISH—Serves up fried and grilled versions of shrimp, crab, oysters, fish tacos, and catfish; also chicken and burgers. 105 S. Second. 522-8228. L, D, X, $-$$ THE GRAY CANARY—The sixth restaurant from chefs Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman, offering small emphis magazine offers this curated restaurant listing as a plates and entrees cooked on an open flame. Oysters, service to our readers. Broken down alphabetically by neighborhoods, this directooctopus, and hearty steaks are among the menu options at this ry does not list every restaurant in town. It does, however, include the magazine’s eatery in Old Dominick Distillery. Closed Mon. 301 S. Front. 466“Top 50” choices of must-try restaurants in Memphis, a group that is updated every August.

6324. D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ GRECIAN GOURMET TAVERNA—Serves traditional Establishments open less than a year are not eligible for “Top 50” but are noted as “New.” favorites like spanakopita, pastitso, moussaka, and hand-rolled This guide also includes a representative sampling of other Bluff City eating establishments. dolmathes, as well as lamb sliders and pita nachos. Closed Mon. No fast-food facilities or cafeterias are listed. Restaurants are included regardless of whether 412 S. Main. 249-6626. L, D, X, $ they advertise in Memphis magazine; those that operate in multiple locations are listed under GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN—Serves chicken with signature spicy batter, the neighborhood of their original location. Suggestions from readers are welcome; please along with homemade beans, slaw, and pies. 310 S. contact us at dining@memphismagazine.com.

Front. 527-4877; 215 S. Center St. (Collierville). 853-6005; 2965 N. editor’s note: As Memphis enters new phrases of reopening as we continue to navigate COVID-19, Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 373-9111; 730 S. Mendenhall. 7672323; 505 Highway 70 W., Mason, TN. 901-294-2028. L, D, X, MRA, $ some restaurants will be open for limited dine-in, while others may still focus on takeout and HAPPY MEXICAN—Serves quesadillas, burritos, chimidelivery. Please call ahead to confirm hours, adjusted menus, and available services. changas, vegetable and seafood dishes, and more. 385 S. Second.

529-9991; 6080 Primacy Pkwy. 683-0000; 7935 Winchester. pasta, and several Northern Italian specialties. 149 Union, The 751-5353. L, D, X, $ Peabody. 529-4199. B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$$ CENTER CITY HU. DINER—An extension of Hu. Hotel, diner serves such CAROLINA WATERSHED—This indoor/outdoor eatery, 117 PRIME—Restaurateurs Craig Blondis and Roger Sapp dishes as country-fried cauliflower, cornflake-fried chicken, set around silos, features reimagined down-home classics, teamed up with Chef Ryan Trimm to recreate the traditional and octopus and grits. 3 S. Main. 333including fried green tomatoes with American steakhouse. Serving oysters on the half shell and a 1224. L, D, X, $-$$ DINING SYMBOLS smoked catfish, a buttermilk fried variety of surf and turf options. 117 Union. 433-9851. L, D, WB, HU. ROOF—Rooftop cocktail bar with chicken sandwich, burgers, and more.

X, $-$$$ B — breakfast superb city views serves toasts with a Closed Mon.-Thurs. 141 E. Carolina.

3RD & COURT—The latest from Ryan Trimm and variety of toppings including beef tartare 321-5553. L, D, WB, $-$$ L — lunch Across the Board Hospitality is a retro diner with an with cured egg, cognac, and capers CATHERINE & D — dinner upscale twist. Includes a three-meat meatloaf and or riced cauliflower with yellow curry, MARY’S—A variety of pasSB — Sunday brunch pound cake French toast. 24 N. B.B. King. 290-8484. B, L, D, X, currants, and almonds. Also salads, fish tas, grilled quail, pâté, razor WB — weekend brunch WB, $-$$ tacos, and boiled peanut hummus. 79 clams, and monkfish are among the X— wheelchair accessible ALDO’S PIZZA PIES—Serving gourmet pizzas Madison. 333-1229. D, $ dishes served at this Italian restaurant in MRA — member, Memphis — including Mr. T Rex — salads, and more. Also 30 HUEY’S—This family-friendly the Chisca. 272 S. Main. 254-8600. D, SB, beers, bottled or on tap. 100 S. Main. 577-7743; 752 S. Restaurant Association restaurant offers 13 different X, MRA, $-$$$ Cooper. 725-7437. L, D, X, $-$$ burgers, a variety of sandwiches, $ — under $15 per person without CHEF TAM’S THE ARCADE—Possibly Memphis’ oldest cafe. and delicious soups and salads. 1927 UNDERGROUND CAFE—Serves drinks or desserts Specialties include sweet potato pancakes, a fried Madison. 726-4372; 1771 N. Germantown Southern staples with a Cajun twist. $$ — under $25 peanut butter and banana sandwich, and breakfast Pkwy. (Cordova). 754-3885; 77 S. Second.

Menu items include totchoes, jerk $$$ — $26-$50 served all day. 540 S. Main. 526-5757. B, L, D (Thurs.-Sat.), X, 527-2700; 2130 W. Poplar (Collierville). wings, fried chicken, and “muddy” mac $$$$ — over $50 MRA, $ 854-4455; 7090 Malco Blvd. (Southaven). and cheese. Closed Sun. and Mon. 668 AUTOMATIC SLIM’S—Longtime downtown favorite 662-349-7097; 7825 Winchester. 624-8911; Union Ave. 207-6182. L, D, $ specializes in contemporary American cuisine emphasizing local 4872 Poplar. 682-7729; 7677 Farmington Blvd. (Germantown).

CHEZ PHILIPPE—Classical/contemporary French ingredients; also extensive martini list. 83 S. Second. 525-7948.

318-3030; 8570 Highway 51 N. (Millington). 873-5025. L, D, cuisine presented in a luxurious atmosphere with a L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ X, MRA, $ seasonal menu focused on local/regional cuisine. The BARDOG TAVERN—Classic American grill with Italian HUSTLE & DOUGH BAKERY & CAFE—Flaky, crown jewel of The Peabody for 35 years. Afternoon tea served influence, Bardog offers pasta specialties such as Grandma’s baked breakfast goodness every day with fresh pastries, Wed.-Sat., 1-3:30 p.m. (reservations required). Closed Sun.NJ Meatballs, as well as salads, sliders, sandwiches, and daily sandwiches, and more at Arrive Hotel. 477 S. Main St., Tues. The Peabody, 149 Union. 529-4188. D, X, MRA, $$$$ specials. 73 Monroe. 275-8752. B (Mon.-Fri.), L, D, WB, X, MRA, 701-7577. B, L, X, $ COZY CORNER—Serving up ribs, pork sand$-$$ ITTA BENA—Southern and Cajun-American cuisine served wiches, chicken, spaghetti, and more; also homemade BEDROCK EATS & SWEETS—Memphis’ only Paleohere; specialties are duck and waffles and shrimp and grits, along banana pudding. Closed Mon. 745 N. Parkway and centric restaurant offering such dishes as pot roast, waffles, with steaks, chops, seafood, and pasta. 145 Beale St. 578-3031. D, Manassas. 527-9158. L, D, $ enchiladas, chicken salad, omelets, and more. Closed for dinner X, MRA, $$-$$$ DIRTY CROW INN—Serving elevated bar food, including Sun. 327 S. Main. 409-6433. B, L, D, X, $-$$ KOOKY CANUCK—Offers prime rib, catfish, and burgers, poutine fries, fried catfish, and the Chicken Debris, a sandwich BELLE TAVERN—Serving elevated bar food, including a including the 4-lb. “Kookamonga”; also late-night menu. 87 S. with smoked chicken, melted cheddar, and gravy. 855 butcher board with a variety of meats and cheeses, as well as Second. 578-9800; 1250 N. Germantown Pkwy. 1-800-2453 L, D, Kentucky. 207-5111. L, D, MRA, $ daily specials. 117 Barboro Alley. 249-6580. L (Sun.), D, MRA, $ X, MRA, $-$$$ EVELYN & OLIVE—Jamaican/Southern fusion cuisine BISHOP—Ticer and Hudman’s newest venture at the THE LITTLE TEA SHOP—Downtown institution includes such dishes as Kingston stew fish, Rasta Pasta, and Central Station Hotel features upscale dishes in a French serves up Southern comfort cooking, including meatloaf jerk rib-eye. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun.-Mon. 630 brasserie style. 545 S. Main St., 524-5247. L, D, X, $$-$$$ and such veggies as turnip greens, yams, okra, and tomaMadison. 748-5422. L, D, X, $ toes. Closed Sat.-Sun. 69 Monroe. 525-6000, L, X, $ BLEU—This eclectic restaurant features American food with FAM—Casual Asian restaurant serves sushi rice bowls, noodle global influences and local ingredients. Among the specialties LOCAL—Entrees with a focus on locally sourced products include bowls, sushi rolls, and spring rolls. Closed Sun. 149 Madison; 521 are a 14-oz. bone-in rib-eye and several seafood dishes. 221 S. lobster mac-and-cheese and ribeye patty melt; menu differs by S. Highland. 701-6666. L, D, X, $ Third, in the Westin Memphis Beale St. Hotel. 334-5950. B, L, D, location. 95 S. Main. 473-9573; 2126 Madison. 725-1845. L, D, WB, FELICIA SUZANNE’S—Southern cuisine with WB, X, MRA, $$-$$$ X, $-$$ low-country, Creole, and Delta influences, using BLUEFIN RESTAURANT & SUSHI LOUNGE— LOFLIN YARD—Beer garden and restaurant serves vegetarian regional fresh seafood, local beef, and locally grown Serves Japanese fusion cuisine featuring seafood and steak, fare and smoked-meat dishes, including beef brisket and pork foods. Entrees include shrimp and grits. Closed Sun. and Mon. A with seasonally changing menu; also a sushi bar. 135 S. Main. tenderloin, cooked on a custom-made grill. Closed Mon.-Tues. 7 W. downtown staple at Brinkley Plaza, 80 Monroe, Suite L1. 523528-1010. L, D, X, $-$$ Carolina. 249-3046. L (Sat. and Sun.), D, MRA, $-$$ 0877. L (Fri. only), D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ BRASS DOOR IRISH PUB—Irish and New-American THE LOOKOUT AT THE PYRAMID—Serves seafood and FERRARO’S PIZZERIA & PUB—Rigatoni and cuisine includes such entrees as fish and chips, burgers, Southern fare, including cornmeal-fried oysters, sweet tea brined tortellini are among the pasta entrees here, along with pizzas shepherd’s pie, all-day Irish breakfast, and more. 152 Madison. chicken, and elk chops. 1 Bass Pro Dr. 620-4600/291-8200. L, D, X, (whole or by the slice) with a variety of toppings. 111 Jackson.

572-1813. L, D, SB, $-$$ $-$$$ 522-2033. L, D, X, $ CAFE KEOUGH—European-style cafe serving quiche, LUNA RESTAURANT & LOUNGE—Serving a limited FLIGHT RESTAURANT & WINE BAR— paninis, salads, and more. 12 S. Main. 509-2469. B, L, D, X, $ menu of breakfast and lunch items. Dinner entrees include Citrus Serves steaks and seafood, along with such specialties Glaze Salmon and Cajun Stuffed Chicken. 179 Madison (Hotel CAPRICCIO GRILL ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE—Offers as bison ribeye and Muscovy duck, all matched with Napoleon). 526-0002. B, D (Mon.-Sat.), X, $-$$$ prime steaks, fresh seafood (lobster tails, grouper, mahi mahi), appropriate wines. 39 S. Main. 521-8005. D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$

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MACIEL’S—Entrees include tortas, fried taco plates, quesadillas, chorizo and pastor soft tacos, salads, and more. Downtown closed Sun. 45 S. Main. 526-0037, X, MRA, $ THE MAJESTIC GRILLE—Housed in a former silent-picture house, features aged steaks, fresh seafood, and such specialties as roasted chicken and grilled pork tenderloin; offers a pre-theatre menu and classic cocktails. Wellstocked bar. 145 S. Main. 522-8555. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ McEWEN’S—Southern/American cuisine with international flavors; specialties include steak and seafood, sweet potato-crusted catfish with macaroni and cheese, and more. Closed Sun., Monroe location. 120 Monroe. 527-7085; 1110 Van Buren (Oxford). 662-234-7003. L, D, SB (Oxford only), X, MRA, $$-$$$ MESQUITE CHOP HOUSE—The focus here is on steaks, including prime fillet, rib-eyes, and prime-aged New York strip; also, some seafood options. 5960 Getwell (Southaven). 662-8902467; 88 Union. 527-5337; 3165 Forest Hill-Irene (Germantown).

249-5661. D, SB (Germantown), X, $$-$$$ MOLLIE FONTAINE LOUNGE—Specializes in tapas (small plates) featuring global cuisine. Closed Sun.-Tues. 679 Adams Ave. 524-1886. D, X, MRA, $ THE NINE THAI & SUSHI—Serving authentic Thai dishes, including curries, as well as a variety of sushi rolls. Closed for lunch Sat. and Sun. 121 Union. 208-8347. L, D, X, $-$$ PAULETTE’S—Presents fine dining with a Continental flair, including such entrees as filet Paulette with butter cream sauce and crabmeat and spinach crepes; also changing daily specials and great views. River Inn. 50 Harbor Town Square. 260-3300. B, L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ PEARL’S OYSTER HOUSE—Downtown eatery serving seafood, including oysters, crawfish, and stuffed butterfly shrimp, as well as beef, chicken, and pasta dishes. 299 S. Main. 522-9070; 8106 Cordova Center Dr. (Cordova). 425-4797. L, D, SB, X, $-$$$ PONTOTOC LOUNGE—Upscale restaurant and jazz bar serves such starters as alligator filet fritters; entrees include Mississippi pot roast with jalapeño cornbread and tagliatelle with braised beef. 314 S. Main. 207-7576. D, X, $-$$ PUCK FOOD HALL—Food hall featuring a variety of vendors serving everything from bagels and beer to comfort food and healthy cuisine. 409 S. Main. 341-3838. $-$$ REGINA’S—New Orleans-inspired eatery offering po’boys, Cajun nachos topped with crawfish tails, catfish platters, oysters, and more. Closed Mon. 60 N. Main. 730-0384. B, L, D, SB, X, $-$$ RENDEZVOUS, CHARLES VERGOS’—Menu items include barbecued ribs, cheese plates, skillet shrimp, red beans and rice, and Greek salads. Closed Sun.-Mon. 52 S. Second. 523-2746. L (Fri.-Sat.), D, X, $-$$ RIZZO’S DINER—Chorizo meatloaf, lobster pronto puff, and lamb belly tacos are menu items at this upscale diner. Michael Patrick is among the city’s best chefs. 492 S. Main. 304-6985. L (Fri.-Sat.), D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ SABOR CARIBE—Serving up “Caribbean flavors” with dishes from Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. Closed Sunday.

662 Madison. 949-8100. L, D, X, $ SAGE—Restaurant and lounge features daily lunch specials and tapas with such dishes as braised short ribs, teriyaki pulled pork, and the Sage burger made with Angus beef, avocado mash, fried egg, and flash-fried sage. 94 S. Main. 672-7902. L, D, WB, X, $-$$ SLEEP OUT LOUIE’S—Oyster bar with such specialties as char-grilled Roquefort oysters and gulf oysters on the half shell with Prosecco mignonette; also serves flatbread pizzas and a variety of sandwiches. 150 Peabody Place, Suite 111. 707-7180. L, D, X, $ SOUTH MAIN SUSHI & GRILL—Serving sushi, nigiri, and more. 520 S. Main. 249-2194. L, D, X, $ SPINDINI—Italian fusion cuisine with such entrees as woodfired pizzas, Gorgonzola-stuffed filet, and fresh seafood; large domestic whiskey selection. 383 S. Main. 578-2767. D, X, $$-$$$ SUNRISE MEMPHIS—From owners of Sweet Grass and Central BBQ. Serves breakfast all day, including house-made biscuits, frittatas, kielbasa or boudin plates, and breakfast platters.

670 Jefferson. 552-3144. B, L, X, MRA, $ TERRACE—Creative American and Continental cuisine includes such dishes as filet mignon, beef or lamb sliders, chicken satay, and mushroom pizzetta. Rooftop, River Inn of Harbor Town, 50 Harbor Town Square. 260-3366. D, X, MRA, $$ TEXAS DE BRAZIL—Serves beef, pork, lamb, and chicken dishes, and Brazilian sausage; also a salad bar with extensive

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toppings. 150 Peabody Place, Suite 103. 526-7600. L (Wed.-Fri.), D, SB, X, $$-$$$ UNCLE BUCK’S FISHBOWL & GRILL—Burgers, pizza, fish dishes, sandwiches, and more served in a unique “underwater” setting. Bass Pro, Bass Pro Drive, 291-8200. B, L, D, X, $-$$ THE VAULT—Oysters, shrimp beignets, flatbreads, stuffed cornish hen, and Smash Burger featured on “Late Nite Eats” are among the dishes offered at this Creole/Italian fusion eatery. 124 G.E. Patterson. 591-8000. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ WESTY’S—Extensive menu includes a variety of wild rice dishes, sandwiches, plate lunches, and hot fudge pie. 346 N. Main. 543-3278.L, D, X, $

COLLIERVILLE CAFE EUROPE—From Italian chef Michele D’oto, the French, Spanish, and Italian fusion cuisine includes a variety of dishes like Rosette al Forno, fish ceviche, and sole meuniere. Closed Sun. 4610 Merchants Park Circle, Suite 571. 286-4199. L, D, X, $$-$$$$ CAFE PIAZZA BY PAT LUCCHESI—Specializes in gourmet pizzas (including create-your-own), panini sandwiches, and pasta. Closed Sun. 139 S. Rowlett St. 861-1999.

L, D, X, $-$$ CIAO BABY—Specializing in Neapolitan-style pizza made in a wood-fired oven. Also serves house-made mozzarella, pasta, appetizers, and salads. 890 W. Poplar, Suite 1. 457-7457.

L, D, X, $ COLLIERVILLE COMMISSARY—Serves barbecue sandwiches, sliders, ribs, shrimp, and nachos, as well as smoked barbecued bologna sandwiches. 3573 S. Houston Levee Rd. 979-5540. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ DAVID GRISANTI’S—Serving Northern Italian cuisine and traditional family recipes, like the Elfo Special, shrimp sauteed in garlic and butter, tossed with white button mushrooms and white pepper, and served over vermicelli with ParmigianoReggiano. Closed Sun. 684 W. Poplar (Sheffield Antiques Mall).

861-1777. L, D (Thurs.-Sat.), X, $-$$$ EL MEZCAL—Serves burritos, chimichangas, fajitas, and other Mexican cuisine, as well as shrimp dinners and steak.

9947 Wolf River, 853-7922; 402 Perkins Extd. 761-7710; 694 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 755-1447; 1492 Union. 274-4264; 11615 Airline Rd. (Arlington). 867-1883; 9045 Highway 64 (Lakeland). 383-4219; 7164 Hacks Cross Rd. (Olive Branch). 662890-3337; 8834 Hwy. 51 N. (Millington). 872-3220; 7424 Highway 64 (Bartlett). 417-6026. L, D, X, $ EMERALD THAI RESTAURANT—Spicy shrimp, pad khing, lemongrass chicken, and several noodle, rice, and vegetarian dishes are offered at this family restaurant. Closed Sunday. 8950 Highway 64 (Lakeland, TN). 384-0540. L, D, X, $-$$ FIREBIRDS—Specialties are hand-cut steaks, slow-roasted prime rib, and wood-grilled salmon and other seafood, as well as seasonal entrees. 4600 Merchants Circle, Carriage Crossing.

850-1637; 8470 Highway 64 (Bartlett). 379-1300. L, D, X, $-$$$ JIM’S PLACE GRILLE—Features American, Greek, and Continental cuisine with such entrees as pork tenderloin, several seafood specialties, and hand-cut charcoal-grilled steaks.

Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 3660 Houston Levee.

861-5000. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ MULAN ASIAN BISTRO—Hunan Chicken, tofu dishes, and orange beef served here; sushi and Thai food, too. 2059 Houston Levee. 850-5288; 2149 Young. 347-3965; 4698 Spottswood. 609-8680. L, D, X, $-$$ OSAKA JAPANESE CUISINE—Featuring an extensive sushi menu as well as traditional Japanese and hibachi dining.

Hours vary for lunch; call. 3670 Houston Levee. 861-4309; 3402 Poplar. 249-4690; 7164 Hacks Cross (Olive Branch). 662-8909312; 2200 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 425-4901. L, D, X, $-$$$ RAVEN & LILY—Eatery offers innovative Southern-inspired cuisine with such dishes as crispy shrimp and cauliflower salad, spiced lamb sausage and parmesan risotto, and bananas foster pain perdu. Closed Monday. 120 E. Mulberry. 286-4575. L, D, SB, X, $-$$ SEAR SHACK BURGERS & FRIES—Serving Angus burgers, fries, and hand-spun milkshakes. Closed Mon. 875 W. Poplar, Suite 6. 861-4100; 5101 Sanderlin, Suite 103. 567-4909 ; 7424 Stage Road, Suite 121 (Bartlett). 382-3083; 6518 Goodman

(Olive Branch). 662-408-4932; 427 E. Commerce (Hernando).

662-469-4114. L, D, X, $ STIX—Hibachi steakhouse with Asian cuisine features steak, chicken, and a fillet and lobster combination, also sushi. A specialty is Dynamite Chicken with fried rice. 4680 Merchants Park Circle, Avenue Carriage Crossing. 854-3399. L, D, X, $-$$ ZOPITA’S ON THE SQUARE—Cafe offers sandwiches, including smoked salmon and pork tenderloin, as well as salads and desserts. Closed Sun. 114 N. Main. 457-7526. L, D, X, $

CORDOVA BOMBAY HOUSE—Indian fare includes lamb korma and chicken tikka; also, a daily luncheon buffet. 1727 N. Germantown Pkwy. 755-4114. L, D, X, $-$$ THE BUTCHER SHOP—Serves steaks ranging from 8-oz. filets to a 20-oz. porterhouse; also chicken, pork chops, fresh seafood. 107 S. Germantown Rd. 757-4244. L (Fri. and Sun.), D, X, $$-$$$ COASTAL FISH COMPANY—Upscale offerings of international fish varieties utilizing styles ranging from Carribbean, East Coast, West Coast, Chinese, to Filipino, and more. 415 Great View Dr. E., Suite 101. 266-9000. D, X, $$-$$$ GREEN BAMBOO—Pineapple tilapia, pork vermicelli, and the soft egg noodle combo are Vietnamese specialties here. 990 N. Germantown Parkway #104. 753-5488. L, D, $-$$ KING JERRY LAWLER’S MEMPHIS BBQ COMPANY—Offers a variety of barbecue dishes, including brisket, ribs, nachos topped with smoked pork, and a selection of barbecue “Slamwiches.” 465 N. Germantown Pkwy. #116.

509-2360. L, D, X, $ JIM ’N NICK’S BAR-B-Q—Serves barbecued pork, ribs, chicken, brisket, and fish, along with other homemade Southern specialties. 2359 N. Germantown Pkwy. 388-0998. L, D, X, $-$$ EL MERO TACO—This food truck turned restaurant serves up Mexican and Southern-style fusion dishes, including fried chicken tacos, chorizo con papas tacos, and brisket quesadillas. 8100 Macon Station, Suite 102. 308-1661.

Closed Sun.-Mon. L, D, WB, X, $ MISTER B’S—Features New Orleans-style seafood and steaks. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. and Mon. 6655 Poplar #107. 751-5262. L, D, X, $-$$$ PEI WEI ASIAN DINER—Serves a variety of Pan-Asian cuisine, including Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Thai.

Noodle and rice bowls are specialties; a small plates menu also offered. 2257 N. Germantown Pkwy. 382-1822. L, D, X, $-$$ SHOGUN JAPANESE RESTAURANT—Entrees include tempura, teriyaki, and sushi, as well as grilled fish and chicken entrees. 2324 N. Germantown Pkwy. 384-4122. L, D, X, $-$$ TANNOOR GRILL—Brazilian-style steakhouse with skewers served tableside, along with Middle Eastern specialties; vegetarian options also available. 830 N. Germantown Pkwy.

443-5222. L, D, X, $-$$$

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(INCLUDES POPLAR/ I-240) ACRE—Features seasonal modern American cuisine in an avante-garde setting using locally sourced products; also small plates and enclosed garden patio. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 690 S. Perkins. 818-2273. L, D, X, $$-$$$ AGAVOS COCINA & TEQUILA—Camaron de Tequila, tamales, kabobs, and burgers made with a blend of beef and chorizo are among the offerings at this tequila-centric restaurant and bar. 2924 Walnut Grove. 433-9345. L, D, X, $-$$ AMERIGO—Traditional and contemporary Italian cuisine includes pasta, wood-fired pizza, steaks, and cedarwood-roasted fish. 1239 Ridgeway, Park Place Mall. 761-4000. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ ANDREW MICHAEL ITALIAN KITCHEN— Traditional Italian cuisine with a menu from two of the city’s top chefs that changes seasonally with such entrees as Maw Maw’s ravioli. Closed Sun.-Mon. 712 W. Brookhaven Cl. 347-3569. D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ ANOTHER BROKEN EGG CAFE—Offering several varieties of eggs Benedict, waffles, omelets, pancakes, beignets, and other breakfast fare; also burgers, sandwiches, and salads.

6063 Park Ave. 729-7020; 65 S. Highland. 623-7122. B, L, WB, X, $

BANGKOK ALLEY—Thai fusion cuisine includes noodle and curry dishes, chef-specialty sushi rolls, coconut soup, and duck and seafood entrees. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. at Brookhaven location; call for hours. 715 W. Brookhaven Cl. 590-2585; 2150 W. Poplar at Houston Levee (Collierville).

854-8748. L, D, X, $-$$ BENIHANA—This Japanese steakhouse serves beef, chicken, and seafood grilled at the table; some menu items change monthly; sushi bar also featured. 912 Ridge Lake Blvd. 767-8980.

L, D, X, $$-$$$ BLUE PLATE CAFÉ—For breakfast, the café’s serves old-fashioned buttermilk pancakes (it’s a secret recipe!), country ham and eggs, and waffles with fresh strawberries and cream.

For lunch, the café specializes in country cooking. 5469 Poplar.

761-9696; 113 S. Court. 523-2050. B, L, X, $ BROOKLYN BRIDGE ITALIAN RESTAURANT— Specializing in such homemade entrees as spinach lasagna and lobster ravioli; a seafood specialty is horseradish-crusted salmon. Closed Sun. 1779 Kirby Pkwy. 755-7413. D, X, $-$$$ BRYANT’S BREAKFAST—Three-egg omelets, pancakes, and The Sampler Platter are among the popular entrees here.

Possibly the best biscuits in town. Closed Mon. and Tues. 3965 Summer. 324-7494. B, L, X, $ BUCKLEY’S FINE FILET GRILL—Specializes in steaks, seafood, and pasta. (Lunchbox serves entree salads, burgers, and more.) 5355 Poplar. 683-4538; 919 S. Yates (Buckley’s Lunchbox), 682-0570. L (Yates only, M-F), D, X, $-$$ CAPITAL GRILLE—Known for its dry-aged, hand-carved steaks; among the specialties are bone-in sirloin, and porcini-rubbed Delmonico; also seafood entrees and seasonal lunch plates. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. Crescent Center, 6065 Poplar.

683-9291. L, D, X, $$$-$$$$ CASABLANCA—Lamb shawarma is one of the fresh, homemade specialties served at this Mediterranean/Moroccan restaurant; fish entrees and vegetarian options also available.

5030 Poplar. 725-8557 ; 7609 Poplar Pike (Germantown). 4255908; 1707 Madison. 421-6949. L, D, X, $-$$ CIAO BELLA—Among the Italian and Greek specialties are lasagna, seafood pasta, gourmet pizzas, and vegetarian options.

Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 565 Erin Dr., Erin Way Shopping Center.

205-2500. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ CITY SILO TABLE + PANTRY—With a focus on clean eating, this establishment offers fresh juices, as well as comfort foods re-imagined with wholesome ingredients. 5101 Sanderlin.

729-7687. B, L, D, X, $ CORKY’S—Popular barbecue emporium offers both wet and dry ribs, plus a full menu of other barbecue entrees. Wed. lunch buffets, Cordova and Collierville. 5259 Poplar. 685-9744; 1740 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 737-1911; 743 W. Poplar (Collierville). 405-4999; 6434 Goodman Rd., Olive Branch. 662893-3663. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ ERLING JENSEN—For over 20 years, has presented “globally inspired” cuisine to die for. Specialties are rack of lamb, big game entrees, and fresh fish dishes. 1044 S. Yates. 763-3700. D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ FLEMING’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE—Serves wetaged and dry-aged steaks, prime beef, chops, and seafood, including salmon, Australian lobster tails, and a catch of the day.

6245 Poplar. 761-6200. D, X, MRA, $$$-$$$$ FOLK’S FOLLY ORIGINAL PRIME STEAK HOUSE—Specializes in prime steaks, as well as lobster, grilled Scottish salmon, Alaskan king crab legs, rack of lamb, and weekly specials. 551 S. Mendenhall. 762-8200. D, X, MRA, $$$-$$$$ FORMOSA—Offers Mandarin cuisine, including broccoli beef, hot-and-sour soup, and spring rolls. Closed Monday. 6685 Quince. 753-9898. L, D, X, $-$$ FOX RIDGE PIZZA & GRILL—Pizzas, calzones, sub sandwiches, burgers, and meat-and-two plate lunches are among the dishes served at this eatery, which opened in 1979. 1769 N. Germantown Pkwy. 7586500. L, D, X, $ FRATELLI’S—Serves hot and cold sandwiches, salads, soups, and desserts, all with an Italian/Mediterranean flair. Closed Sunday. 750 Cherry Rd., Memphis Botanic Garden. 766-9900.

L, X, $ FRANK GRISANTI’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT— Northern Italian favorites include pasta with jumbo shrimp and mushrooms; also seafood, filet mignon, and daily lunch specials.

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Closed for lunch Sunday. Embassy Suites Hotel, 1022 S. Shady Grove. 761-9462. L, D, X, $-$$$ HALF SHELL—Specializes in seafood, such as king crab legs; also serves steaks, chicken, pastas, salads, sandwiches, a ”voodoo menu”; oyster bar at Winchester location. 688 S. Mendenhall. 682-3966; 7825 Winchester. 737-6755. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ HIGH POINT PIZZA—Serves a variety of pizzas, subs, salads, and sides. Closed Monday. A neighborhood fixture. 477 High Point Terrace. 452-3339. L, D, X, $-$$ HOUSTON’S—Serves steaks, seafood, pork chops, chicken dishes, sandwiches, salads, and Chicago-style spinach dip.

Farmous for first-class service. 5000 Poplar. 683-0915. L, D, X $-$$$ INTERIM—Offers American-seasonal cuisine with emphasis on local foods and fresh fish; daily chef specials. Closed for lunch Sat. 5040 Sanderlin, Suite 105.

818-0821. L, D, SB, X, $-$$$ LA BAGUETTE—An almond croissant and chicken salad are among specialties at this French-style bistro. Closed for dinner Sun. 3088 Poplar. 458-0900. B, L, D (closes at 7), X, MRA, $ LAS DELICIAS—Popular for its guacamole, house-made tortilla chips, and margaritas, this restaurant draws diners with its chicken enchiladas, meat-stuffed flautas, and Cuban torta with spicy pork. Closed Sunday. 4002 Park Ave. 458-9264; 5689 Quince. 800-2873. L, D, X, $ LIBRO AT LAURELWOOD—Bookstore eatery features a variety of sandwiches, salads, and homemade pasta dishes, with Italian-inspired options such as carbonara and potato gnocchi. Closed for dinner Sun. 387 Perkins Ext. (Novel). 8002656. B, L, D, SB, X, $-$$ LISA’S LUNCHBOX—Serving bagels, sandwiches, salads, and wraps. 5885 Ridgeway Center Pkwy. 767-6465; 2650 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Suite 1200; 730-0064; 6070 Poplar. 2335875; 50 N. Front. 574-0468. B, L, $ LOST PIZZA—Offering pizzas (with dough made from scratch), pasta, salads, sandwiches, tamales, and more. 2855 Poplar. 572-1803; 5960 Getwell (Southaven). 662-892-8684. L, D, X, $-$$ LYNCHBURG LEGENDS—This restaurant with a Jack Daniels’ theme and Southern cuisine serves such entrees as Bourbon Street salmon, buttermilk-fried chicken, and grilled steak and wild mushroom salad. DoubleTree Hotel, 5069 Sanderlin. 969-7777. B, L, D, X, $-$$$ MAHOGANY MEMPHIS—Upscale Southern restaurant offers such dishes as coffee-rubbed lamb chops and baked Cajun Cornish hen. Closed for dinner Sun. and all day Mon.-Tues.

3092 Poplar, Suite 11. 623-7977. L, D, SB, X, $-$$$ MARCIANO MEDITERRANEAN AND ITALIAN CUISINE—Veal Saltimbocca with angel-hair pasta and white wine sauce is among the entrees; also steaks, seafood, and gourmet pizza. 780 Brookhaven Cl. 682-1660. D, X, $-$$ DAN MCGUINNESS PUB—Serves fish and chips, shepherd’s pie, burgers, and other Irish and American fare; also lunch and dinner specials. 4694 Spottswood. 761-3711; 3964 Goodman Rd. 662-890-7611. L, D, X, $ MAYURI INDIAN CUISINE—Serves tandoori chicken, masala dosa, tikka masala, as well as lamb and shrimp entrees; also a daily lunch buffet, and dinner buffet on Fri.-Sat. 6524 Quince Rd. 753-8755. L, D, X, $-$$ MELLOW MUSHROOM—Large menu includes assortment of pizzas, salads, calzones, hoagies, vegetarian options, and 50 beers on tap. 5138 Park Ave. 562-1211; 9155 Poplar, Shops of Forest Hill (Germantown). 907-0243. L, D, X, $-$$ MOSA ASIAN BISTRO—Specialties include sesame chicken, Thai calamari, rainbow panang curry with grouper fish, and other Pan Asian/fusion entrees. Closed Mon. 850 S. White Station Rd. 683-8889. L, D, X, MRA, $ NAM KING—Offers luncheon and dinner buffets, dim sum, and such specialties as fried dumplings, pepper steak, and orange chicken. 4594 Yale. 373-4411. L, D, X, $ NAPA CAFE—Among the specialties are miso-marinated salmon over black rice with garlic spinach and shiitake mushrooms. Closed Sun. 5101 Sanderlin, Suite 122. 683-0441. L, D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ NEW HUNAN—Chinese eatery with more than 80 entrees; also lunch/dinner buffets. 5052 Park. 766-1622. L, D, X, $ ONE & ONLY BBQ—On the menu are pork barbecue sandwiches, platters, wet and dry ribs, smoked chicken and turkey platters, a smoked meat salad, barbecue quesadillas,

Brunswick Stew, and Millie’s homemade desserts. 1779 Kirby Pkwy.

751-3615; 567 Perkins Extd. 249-4227. L, D, X, $ ONO POKÉ—This eatery specializes in poké — a Hawaiian dish of fresh fish salad served over rice. Menu includes a variety of poké bowls, like the Kimchi Tuna bowl, or customers can build their own by choosing a base, protein, veggies, and toppings. 3145 Poplar.

618-2955. L, D, X, $ OWEN BRENNAN’S—New Orleans-style menu of beef, chicken, pasta, and seafood; jambalaya, shrimp and grits, and crawfish etouffee are specialties. Closed for dinner Sunday. The Regalia, 6150 Poplar. 761-0990. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ PARK + CHERRY—The Dixon offers casual dining within the museum. Seasonal menu features sandwiches, like rustic chicken salad on croissant, as well as salads, snacks, and sweets. Closed for breakfast Sun. and all day Mon. 4339 Park (Dixon Gallery). 761-5250.

L, X, $ PATRICK’S—Serves barbecue nachos, burgers, and entrees such as fish and chips; also plate lunches and daily specials. 4972 Park.

682-2852. L, D, X, MRA, $ PETE & SAM’S—Serving Memphis for 60-plus years; offers steaks, seafood, and traditional Italian dishes, including homemade ravioli, lasagna, and chicken marsala. 3886 Park. 458-0694. D, X, $-$$$ PF CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO—Specialties are orange peel shrimp, Mongolian beef, and chicken in lettuce wraps; also vegetarian dishes, including spicy eggplant. 1181 Ridgeway Rd., Park Place Centre. 818-3889. L, D, X, $-$$ PHO SAIGON—Vietnamese fare includes beef teriyaki, roasted quail, curry ginger chicken, vegetarian options, and a variety of soups. 2946 Poplar. 458-1644. L, D, $ PYRO’S FIRE-FRESH PIZZA—Serving gourmet pizzas cooked in an open-fire oven; wide choice of toppings; large local and craft beer selection. 1199 Ridgeway. 379-8294; 2035 Union Ave. 208-8857; 2286 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 207-1198; 3592 S. Houston Levee (Collierville). 221-8109. L, D, X, MRA, $ RED HOOK CAJUN SEAFOOD & BAR—Cajunstyle array of seafood including shrimp, mussels, clams, crawfish, and oysters. 3295 Poplar. 207-1960. L, D, X, $-$$ RIVER OAKS—Chef Jose Gutierrez’s French-style bistro serves seafood and steaks, with an emphasis on fresh local ingredients. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 5871 Poplar Ave. 683-9305. L, D, X, $$$ RONNIE GRISANTI’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT— This Memphis institution serves some family classics such as Elfo’s Special and handmade ravioli, along with house-made pizza and fresh oysters. Closed Sun. 6150 Poplar #122. 850-0191. D, X, $-$$$ RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE—Offers prime steaks cut and aged in-house, as well as lamb, chicken, and fresh seafood, including lobster. 6120 Poplar. 761-0055. D, X, $$$-$$$$ SALSA—Mexican-Southern California specialties include carnitas, enchiladas verde, and fajitas; also Southwestern seafood dishes such as snapper verde. Closed Sun. Regalia Shopping Center, 6150 Poplar, Suite 129. 683-6325. L, D, X, $-$$ SEASONS 52—This elegant fresh grill and wine bar offers a seasonally changing menu using fresh ingredients, wood-fire grilling, and brick-oven cooking; also a large international wine list and nightly piano bar. Crescent Center, 6085 Poplar. 682-9952. L, D, X, $$-$$$ STAKS—Offering pancakes, including birthday cake and lemon ricotta. Menu includes other breakfast items such as beignets and French toast, as well as soups and sandwiches for lunch. 4615 Poplar. 509-2367; 7704 Poplar (Germantown). 800-1951. B, L, WB, X, $ SUSHI JIMMI—This food truck turned restaurant serves a variety of sushi rolls, fusion dishes — such as kimchi fries — and sushi burritos. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Mon. 2895 Poplar.

729-6985. L, D, X, $ SWANKY’S TACO SHOP—Taco-centric eatery offers tortas, flatbreads, quesadillas, chimichangas, burgers, and more. 4770 Poplar. 730-0763; 6641 Poplar (Germantown). 737-2088; 272 S. Main.

779-3499. L, D, X, $ THREE LITTLE PIGS—Pork-shoulder-style barbecue with tangy mild or hot sauce, freshly made coleslaw, and baked beans.

5145 Quince Rd. 685-7094. B, L, D, X, $ TOPS BAR-B-Q—Specializes in pork barbecue sandwiches and sandwich plates with beans and slaw; also serves ribs, beef brisket, and burgers. 1286 Union. 725-7527; 4183 Summer. 324-4325; 5391 Winchester. 794-7936; 3970 Rhodes. 323-9865; 6130 Macon.

371-0580. For more locations, go online. L, D, X, $

VENICE KITCHEN—Specializes in “eclectic Italian” and Southern Creole, from pastas, including the “Godfather,” to hand-tossed pizzas, including the “John Wayne”; choose from 50 toppings. 368 Perkins Ext. 767-6872. L, D, SB, X, $-$$ WANG’S MANDARIN HOUSE—Offers Mandarin, Cantonese, Szechuan, and spicy Hunan entrees, including the golden-sesame chicken; next door is East Tapas, serving small plates with an Asian twist. 6065 Park Ave., Park Place Mall.

763-0676. L, D, X, $-$$ WASABI—Serving traditional Japanese offerings, hibachi, sashimi, and sushi. The Sweet Heart roll, wrapped — in the shape of a heart — with tuna and filled with spicy salmon, yellowtail, and avocado, is a specialty. 5101 Sanderlin Rd., Suite 105. 421-6399. L, D, X, $-$$ WOMAN’S EXCHANGE TEA ROOM—Chicken-salad plate, beef tenderloin, soups-and-sandwiches, and vegetable plates are specialties; meal includes drink and dessert. Closed Sat.-Sun. 88 Racine. 327-5681. L, X, $ ZAKA BOWL—This vegan-friendly restaurant serves buildyour-own vegetable bowls featuring ingredients such as agave Brussels sprouts and roasted beets. Also serves tuna poke and herbed chicken bowls. 575 Erin. 509-3105. L, D, $

GERMANTOWN BLUE HONEY BISTRO—Entrees at this upscale eatery include brown butter scallops served with Mississippi blue rice and herb-crusted beef tenderloin with vegetables and truffle butter. Closed Sun. 9155 Poplar, Suite 17. 552-3041. D, X, $-$$$ FARM & FRIES—A burger-centric menu features 100 percent grass-fed and finished beef served in creative combinations like roasted portobellos and Swiss cheese. Try the Brussels with cheddar, bacon, and quick-fried sprout leaves on fries, house-cut with dipping sauces. Closed Sun. 7724 Poplar Pike. 791-2328. L, D, X, $ FOREST HILL GRILL—A variety of standard pub fare and a selection of mac-and-cheese dishes are featured on the menu.

Specialties include Chicken Newport and a barbecue salmon BLT. 9102 Poplar Pike. 624-6001. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ GERMANTOWN COMMISSARY—Serves barbecue sandwiches, sliders, ribs, shrimp, and nachos, as well as smoked barbecued bologna sandwiches; Mon.-night all-you-can-eat ribs. 2290 S. Germantown Rd. S. 754-5540. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ KOHESIAN SOKO STYLE EATERY—KoreanAmerican eatery serves up fusion-style dishes like bibimbap burgers or gochujang marinated loaded spicy pork nachos. 1730 S. Germantown Rd. 308-0223. L, D, X, $$ LAS TORTUGAS DELI MEXICANA— Authentic Mexican food prepared from local food sources; specializes in tortugas — grilled bread scooped out to hold such powerfully popular fillings as brisket, pork, and shrimp; also tingas, tostados. Closed Sunday. 1215 S. Germantown Rd. 751-1200; 6300 Poplar. 623-3882. L, D, X, $-$$ MISTER B’S—Features New Orleans-style seafood and steaks. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. and Mon. 6655 Poplar #107. 751-5262. L, D, X, $-$$$ MOONDANCE GRILL—From the owners of Itta Bena and Lafayette’s. Serves steak cooked sous vide and seafood dishes including Abita-barbecued shrimp and pan-seared sand dab, in addition to an extensive wine and cocktail list. 1730 S. Germantown Road, Suite 117. 755-1471.

L, D, X, $$-$$$ NOODLES ASIAN BISTRO—Serves a variety of traditional Asian cuisine, with emphasis on noodle dishes, such as Singapore Street Noodles and Hong Kong Chow Fun. 7850 Poplar #12. 755-1117. L, D, X, $ PETRA CAFÉ—Serves Greek, Italian, and Middle Eastern sandwiches, gyros, and entrees. Hours vary; call. 6641 Poplar.

754-4440; 547 S. Highland. 323-3050. L, D, X, $-$$ PIMENTO’S KITCHEN + MARKET—Fresh sandwiches, soups, salads, and plenty of pimento cheese at this family-owned restaurant. 6540 Poplar Ave. 602-5488 [Collierville: 3751 S. Houston Levee. 453-6283]. L, D, X, $ RAW GIRLS / CITY & STATE POP-UP— Hannah and Amy Pickle offer plant-based dishes and cold-pressed juices alongside Lisa and Luis Toro’s coffee bar. Hours vary. 2055 W. Germantown. L, X, $

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RED KOI—Classic Japanese cuisine offered at this family-run restaurant; hibachi steaks, sushi, seafood, chicken, and vegetables. 5847 Poplar. 767-3456. L, D, X $-$$ ROCK’N DOUGH PIZZA CO.—Specialty and custom pizzas made from fresh ingredients; wide variety of toppings.

7850 Poplar #6. 779-2008. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $$ ROYAL PANDA—Hunan fish, Peking duck, Royal Panda chicken and shrimp, and a seafood combo are among the specialties. 3120 Village Shops Dr. 756-9697. L, D, X, $-$$ RUSSO’S NEW YORK PIZZERIA AND WINE BAR—Serves gourmet pizzas, calzones, and pasta, including lasagna, fettuccine Alfredo, scampi, and more. 9087 Poplar, Suite 111. 755-0092. L, D, WB, X, $-$$ SAKURA—Sushi, tempura, and teriyaki are Japanese specialties here. 2060 West St. 758-8181; 4840 Poplar. 572-1002.

L, D, X, $-$$ SOUTHERN SOCIAL—Shrimp and grits, stuffed quail, and Aunt Thelma’s Fried Chicken are among the dishes served at this upscale Southern establishment. 2285 S. Germantown Rd. 754-5555. D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ WEST STREET DINER—This home-style eatery offers breakfast, burgers, po’boys, and more. 2076 West St. 757-2191. B, L, D (Mon.-Fri.), X, $ WOLF RIVER BRISKET CO.—From the owners of Pyro’s Fire Fresh Pizza, highlights include house-smoked meats: prime beef brisket, chicken, and salmon. Closed Sun. 9947 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 101. 316-5590. L, D, X, $-$

MIDTOWN (INCLUDES THE MEDICAL CENTER) ABYSSINIA RESTAURANT—Ethiopian/Mediterranean menu includes beef, chicken, lamb, fish entrees, and vegetarian dishes; also a lunch buffet. 2600 Poplar. 321-0082. L, D, X, $-$$ ALCHEMY—Southern fusion, locally grown cuisine features small and large plates; among the offerings are pan-seared hanger steak, quail, and lamb chops; also handcrafted cocktails and local craft beers. 940 S. Cooper. 726-4444. D, SB, X, $-$$ ART BAR—Inventive cocktails feature locally foraged ingredients; snacks include house-cured salt & vinegar potato chips and herb-roasted olives. Closed Mon. 1350 Concourse Avenue #280. 507-8030. D, X, $ BABALU TACOS & TAPAS—This eatery dishes up Spanish-style tapas with Southern flair; also taco and enchilada of the day; specials change daily. 2115 Madison. 274-0100; 6450 Poplar, 410-8909. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ BACK DO / MI YARD—A revamped patio space behind The Beauty Shop features rotisserie meats and fishes via Brazilian-style outdoor grill. Dinner Wednesday-Saturday, weather permitting. 966 S. Cooper, 2727111. D, X, $$ BAR DKDC—Features an ever-changing menu of international “street food,” from Thai to Mexican, Israeli to Indian, along with specialty cocktails. 964 S. Cooper. 272-0830. D, X, MRA, $ BAR KEOUGH—It’s old school eats and cocktails at the new Cooper-Young neighborhood corner bar by Kevin Keough. 247 Cooper St. D, X, $ BAR-B-Q SHOP—Dishes up barbecued ribs, spaghetti, bologna; also pulled pork shoulder, Texas toast barbecue sandwich, chicken sandwich, and salads. Closed Sun. 1782 Madison. 272-1277. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ BARI RISTORANTE ENOTECA—Authentic Southeastern Italian cuisine (Puglia) emphasizes lighter entrees.

Serves fresh fish and beef dishes and a homemade soup of the day. 22 S. Cooper. 722-2244. D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ BARKSDALE RESTAURANT—Old-school diner serving breakfast and Southern plate lunches. 237 S. Cooper. 722-2193.

B, L, D, X, $ BAYOU BAR & GRILL—New Orleans fare at this Overton Square eatery includes jambalaya, gumbo, catfish Acadian, shrimp dishes, red beans and rice, and muffalettas. 2094 Madison. 278-8626. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ BEAUTY SHOP—Modern American cuisine with international flair served in a former beauty shop.

Serves steaks, salads, pasta, and seafood, including pecan-crusted golden sea bass. Perennial “Best Brunch” winner.

Closed for dinner Sunday. 966 S. Cooper. 272-7111. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$

BELLY ACRES—At this festive Overton Square eatery, milkshakes, floats, and burgers rule. Burgers are updated with contemporary toppings like grilled leeks, braised tomatoes, and sourdough or brioche buns. 2102 Trimble Pl. 529-7017. L, D, X, $ BHAN THAI—Authentic Thai cuisine includes curries, pad Thai noodles, and vegetarian dishes, as well as seafood, pork, and duck entrees. Closed for lunch Sat.Sun. and all day Mon. 1324 Peabody. 272-1538. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ BLUE NILE ETHIOPIAN—Kabobs, flavorful chicken and lamb stew, and injera (flatbread) are traditional items on the menu, along with vegetarian options. 1788 Madison. 474-7214.

L, D, X, $-$$ BOSCOS—Tennessee’s first craft brewery serves a variety of freshly brewed beers as well as wood-fired oven pizzas, pasta, seafood, steaks, and sandwiches. 2120 Madison. 432-2222. L, D, SB (with live jazz), X, MRA, $-$$ BOUNTY ON BROAD—Offering family-style dining, Bounty serves small plates and family-sized platters, with such specialties as chicken fried quail and braised pork shank. 2519 Broad. 410-8131. L (Sat. and Sun.), D (Mon.-Sat.), SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ BROADWAY PIZZA—Serving a variety of pizzas, including the Broadway Special, as well as sandwiches, salads, wings, and soul-food specials. 2581 Broad. 454-7930; 627 S. Mendenhall.

207-1546. L, D, X, $-$$ CAFE 1912—French/American bistro owned by culinary pioneer Glenn Hays serving such seafood entrees as seared sea scallops with charred cauliflower purée and chorizo cumin sauce; also crepes, salads, and onion soup gratinée. 243 S. Cooper. 722-2700. D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ CAFE BROOKS BY CITY & STATE—Serving grab-and-go pastries, as well as lunch items. Menu includes soups, salads, and sandwiches, such as the Modern Reuben and Grown-Up Grilled Cheese. 1934 Poplar (Memphis Brooks Museum of Art). 544-6200. B, L, X, $ CAFE ECLECTIC—Omelets and chicken and waffles are among menu items, along with quesadillas, sandwiches, wraps, and burgers. Menu varies by location. 603 N. McLean. 725-1718; 111 Harbor Town Square. 590-4645. B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, $ CAFE OLÉ—This eatery specializes in authentic Mexican cuisine; one specialty is the build-your-own quesadilla. 959 S. Cooper. 343-0103. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ CAFE PALLADIO—Serves gourmet salads, soups, sandwiches, and desserts in a tea room inside the antiques shop.

Closed Sun. 2169 Central. 278-0129. L, X, $ CAFE SOCIETY—With Belgian and classic French influences, serves Wagyu beef, chicken, and seafood dishes, including bacon-wrapped shrimp, along with daily specials and vegetarian entrees. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 212 N. Evergreen. 722-2177. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ CARITAS CAFE—Community deli serves Southerninspired gourmet-style farm-to-table food using locally grown produce and ingredients. Open for lunch MonSat. Closed Sunday. 2509 Harvard Ave. 327-5246. L, X, $ CELTIC CROSSING—Specializes in Irish and American pub fare. Entrees include shepherd’s pie, shrimp and sausage coddle, and fish and chips. 903 S. Cooper. 274-5151. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ CENTRAL BBQ—Serves ribs, smoked hot wings, pulled pork sandwiches, chicken, turkey, nachos, and portobello sandwiches. Offers both pork and beef barbecue. 2249 Central Ave. 272-9377; 4375 Summer Ave. 7674672; 147 E. Butler. 672-7760 ; 6201 Poplar. 417-7962. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ THE COVE—Nautical-themed restaurant and bar serving oysters, pizzas, and more. The Stoner Pie, with tamales and fritos, is a popular dish. 2559 Broad. 730-0719. L, D, $ THE CRAZY NOODLE—Korean noodle dishes range from bibam beef noodle with cabbage, carrots, and other vegetables, to curry chicken noodle; also rice cakes served in a flavorful sauce. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 2015 Madison. 272-0928. L, D, X, $ THE DOGHOUZZ—It’s both bark and bite at the Doghouzz, which pairs a variety of gourmet hot dogs alongside local craft beer and one of the city’s most extensive whiskey selections. Open for lunch, dinner, and latenight. Closed Sunday. 1349 Autumn Ave. 207-7770. L, D, X, $ ECCO—Mediterranean-inspired specialties range from rib-eye steak to seared scallops to housemade pastas and a grilled vegetable plate; also a Saturday brunch.

Closed Sun.-Mon. 1585 Overton Park. 410-8200. L, D, X, $-$$

FARM BURGER—Serves grass-fed, freshly ground, locally sourced burgers; also available with chicken, pork, or veggie quinoa patties, with such toppings as aged white cheddar, kale coleslaw, and roasted beets. 1350 Concourse Avenue #175.

800-1851. L, D, X, $ FINO’S ITALIAN DELI & CATERING—The newly revived Fino’s offers the old favorites such as the Acquisto as well as a new breakfast menu. 1853 Madison. 272-FINO. B, L, D, X, $ FRIDA’S—Mexican cuisine and Tex-Mex standards, including chimichangas, enchiladas, and fajitas; seafood includes shrimp and tilapia. 1718 Madison. 244-6196. L, D, X, $-$$ GLOBAL CAFE—This international food hall hosts three immigrant/refugee food entrepreneurs serving Venezuelan, Sudanese, and Syrian cuisines. Samosas, shawarma, and kabobs are among the menu items. Closed Mon. 1350 Concourse Avenue #157. L, D, X, MRA, $ GOLDEN INDIA—Northern Indian specialties include tandoori chicken as well as lamb, beef, shrimp, and vegetarian dishes. 2097 Madison. 728-5111. L, D, X, $-$$ GROWLERS—Sports bar and eatery serves standard bar fare in addition to a pasta, tacos, chicken and waffles, and light options. 1911 Poplar. 244-7904. L, D, X, $-$$ HATTIE B’S—Fried chicken spot features “hot chicken” with a variety of heat levels; from no heat to “shut the cluck up” sauce. Sides include greens, pimento mac-and-cheese, and black-eyed pea salad. 596 S. Cooper. 424-5900. L, D, X, $ HM DESSERT LOUNGE—Serving cake, pie, and other desserts, as well as a selection of savory dishes, including meatloaf and mashed potato “cupcakes.” Closed Monday. 1586 Madison. 290-2099. L, D, X, $ IMAGINE VEGAN CAFE—Dishes at this fully vegan restaurant range from salads and sandwiches to full dinners, including eggplant parmesan and “beef” tips and rice; breakfast all day Sat. and Sun. 2158 Young. 654-3455. L, D, WB, X, $ INDIA PALACE—Tandoori chicken, lamb shish kabobs, and chicken tikka masala are among the entrees; also, vegetarian options and a daily all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. 1720 Poplar. 278-1199. L, D, X, $-$$ INSPIRE COMMUNITY CAFE—Serving breakfast all day, in addition to quesadillas, rice bowls, and more for lunch and dinner. 510 Tillman, Suite 110. 509-8640. B, L, D, X, $ LAFAYETTE’S MUSIC ROOM—Serves such Southern cuisine as po’boys, shrimp and grits, and wood-fired pizzas. 2119 Madison. 207-5097. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ LBOE—Gourmet burger joint serves locally sourced ground beef burgers, with options like the Mac-N-Cheese Burger and Caprese. Black bean and turkey patties available. 2021 Madison.

725-0770. L, D, X, $ THE LIQUOR STORE—Renovated liquor store turned diner serves all-day breakfast, sandwiches, and entrees such as Salisbury steak and smothered pork chops. Closed for dinner Sun.-Mon. 2655 Broad. 405-5477. B, L, D, X, $-$$ LITTLE ITALY—Serving New York-style pizza as well as subs and pasta dishes. 1495 Union. 725-0280; L, D, X, $-$$ LUCKY CAT RAMEN—Specializes in gourmet ramen bowls, with such ingredients as braised pork belly and housemade blackened garlic, made with rich broth. Bao, steamed buns filled with various meats and veggies, also grace the menu.

Closed Sun. 2583 Broad. 208-8145. L, D, X, $-$$ MARDI GRAS MEMPHIS—Fast-casual establishment serving Cajun fare, including an etouffee-stuffed po’boy. Closed Mon.-Tues. 496 N. Watkins. 530-6767. L, D, X, $-$$ MAXIMO’S ON BROAD—Serving a tapas menu that features creative fusion cuisine; entrees include veggie paella and fish of the day. Closed Mon. 2617 Broad Ave. 452-1111. D, SB, X, $-$$ MEMPHIS PIZZA CAFE—Homemade pizzas are specialties; also serves sandwiches, calzones, and salads.

2087 Madison. 726-5343; 5061 Park Ave. 684-1306; 7604 W. Farmington (Germantown). 753-2218; 797 W. Poplar (Collierville).

861-7800; 5627 Getwell (Southaven). 662-536-1364. L, D, X, $-$$ MIDPOINTE FROM EDGE ALLEY—Edge Alley’s sister cafe at the Ballet Memphis headquarters focuses on freshness for its breakfast, lunch, and happy hour tapas. Closed Sunday-Monday. 2144 Madison Ave. 4252605. B, L, X, $ MOLLY’S LA CASITA—Homemade tamales, fish tacos, a vegetarian combo, and bacon-wrapped shrimp are a few of the specialties. 2006 Madison. 726-1873. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ NEXT DOOR AMERICAN EATERY—Serves dishes sourced from American farms. Menu features chorizo bacon

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L, D, X, $-$$ PAYNE’S BAR-B-QUE—Opened in 1972, this family-owned barbecue joint serves ribs, smoked sausage, and chopped pork sandwiches with a standout mustard slaw and homemade sauce. About as down-toearth as it gets. 1762 Lamar. 272-1523. L, D, $-$$ PHO BINH—Vietnamese, vegetarian, and Cantonese specialties include lemon tofu and spring rolls. Closed Sunday.

1615 Madison. 276-0006. L, D, $ RAILGARTEN—Located in a former rail station space, this eatery offers breakfast items, a variety of salads and sandwiches, and such entrees as short rib mac-and-cheese and fish tacos.

Also serves shakes, malts, floats, and cream sodas. 2166 Central.

231-5043. B, L, D, $-$$ RED FISH ASIAN BISTRO—In the former Nineteenth Century Club building, serves sushi, teriyaki, and hibachi.

Specialties include yuzu filet mignon and Chilean sea bass. 1433 Union. 454-3926; 9915 Highway 64 (Lakeland). 729-7581; 6518 Goodman (Olive Branch). 662-874-5254. L, D, X, $-$$$ RESTAURANT IRIS—French Creole-inspired classics, such as Gulf shrimp and rice grits congee served with lap chong sausage and boiled peanuts, are served at this newly remodeled restaurant owned by Chef Kelly English, a Food and Wine “Top Ten.” 2146 Monroe. 590-2828. D, X, $$-$$$ ROBATA RAMEN & YAKITORI BAR—Serves ramen noodle bowls and Yakitori skewers as well as rice and noodle dishes. 2116 Madison. 410-8290. L, D, X, $ SABROSURA—Serves Mexican and Cuban fare, including arroz tapada de pollo and steak Mexican. Closed Sun. 782 Washington. 421-8180. L, D, X, $-$$ SALTWATER CRAB—Offers an array of seafood dishes including boils with blue crab, crab legs, lobster tails, and more, and specialty sushi like the Dynamite or Royal King rolls, in addition to signature sangrias and cocktails. 2059 Madison Ave. 922-5202. L, D, X, $$ SAUCY CHICKEN—Specializes in antibiotic-free chicken dishes with locally sourced ingredients, with such items as hot wings and the Crosstown Chicken Sandwich, and a variety of house-made dipping sauces; also, seafood, salads, and daily specials. 1350 Concourse, Suite 137. 203-3838. L, D (Mon.-Fri.), $ THE SECOND LINE—Kelly English brings “relaxed Creole cuisine” to his newest eatery; serves a variety of po’boys and such specialties as barbecue shrimp, andouille shrimp, and pimento cheese fries. 2144 Monroe. 590-2829. L, D, WB, X, $-$$ SEKISUI—Japanese fusion cuisine, fresh sushi bar, grilled meats and seafood, California rolls, and vegetarian entrees. Poplar/Perkins location’s emphasis is on Pacific Rim cuisine. Menu and hours vary at each location. 25 Belvedere. 725-0005; 1884 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova).

309-8800; 4724 Poplar. 767-7770; 2130 W. Poplar (Collierville).

854-0622; 2990 Kirby-Whitten (Bartlett). 377-2727; 6696 Poplar.

747-0001. L, D, X, $-$$$ STONE SOUP CAFE—Cooper-Young eatery serving soups, salads, quiche, meat-and-two specials; and daily specials such as Italian roast beef. Closed Monday. 993 S. Cooper. 922-5314. B, L, SB, X, $ SOUL FISH CAFE—Serving Southern-style soul food, tacos, and po’boys, including catfish, crawfish, oyster, shrimp, chicken, and smoked pork tenderloin. 862 S. Cooper. 725-0722; 3160 Village Shops Dr. (Germantown). 755-6988; 4720 Poplar.

590-0323. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ SWEET GRASS—Chef Ryan Trimm takes Southern cuisine to a new level. Low-country coastal cuisine includes such specialties as shrimp and grits. Closed Mon. Restaurant’s “sister,” Sweet Grass Next Door, open nightly, serves lunch Sat.-Sun. 937 S. Cooper. 278-0278. D, SB, X, $-$$$ TAMBOLI’S PASTA & PIZZA—Pasta Maker Josh Tamboli whips up Italian soul food with seasonal menus featuring dishes like crispy fried chicken or creamy bucatini with pecorino cheese. Serves dinner TuesdaySaturday. Pizza only menu after 9pm. 1761 Madison. 410-8866.

D, X, $-$$

TAKASHI BISTRO—Fusion restaurant with an open kitchen that lets customers watch chefs prepare a variety of Japanese and Thai cuisine. 1680 Union Ave. Ste. 109. 800-2936. L, D, $-$$.

TSUNAMI—Features Pacific Rim cuisine (Asia, Australia, South Pacific, etc.); also a changing “small plate” menu. Chef Ben Smith is a Cooper-Young pioneer. Specialties include Asian nachos and roasted sea bass.

Closed Sunday. 928 S. Cooper. 274-2556. D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ ZINNIE’S—Dive bar classic reopens with a makeover and signature Zinnaloni sandwich. 1688 Madison.

726-5004. L, D, X, $

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COLETTA’S—Longtime eatery serves such specialties as homemade ravioli, lasagna, and pizza with barbecue or traditional toppings. 1063 S. Parkway E. 948-7652; 2850 Appling Rd. (Bartlett). 383-1122. L, D, X, $-$$ CURRY BOWL—Specializes in Southern Indian cuisine, serving Tandoori chicken, biryani, tikka masala, and more.

Weekend buffet. 4141 Hacks Cross Rd. 207-6051. L, D, $ DELTA’S KITCHEN—The premier restaurant at The Guest House at Graceland serves Elvis-inspired dishes — like Nutella and Peanut Butter Crepes for breakfast — and upscale Southern cuisine — including lamb chops and shrimp and grits — for dinner. 3600 Elvis Presley Blvd. 443-3000. B, D, X, $-$$$ DWJ KOREAN BARBECUE—This authentic Korean eatery serves kimbap, barbecued beef short ribs, rice and noodles dishes, and hot pots and stews. 3750 Hacks Cross Rd., Suite 101. 746-8057; 2156 Young. 207-6204. L, D, $-$$ THE FOUR WAY—Legendary soul-food establishment dishing up such entrees as fried and baked catfish, chicken, and turkey and dressing, along with a host of vegetables and desserts. Around the corner from the legendary Stax Studio. Closed Monday. 998 Mississippi Blvd.

507-1519. L, D, $ HERNANDO’S HIDEAWAY—Hernando’s Hideaway–No one cares how late it gets; not at Hernando’s Hideaway. Live music, killer happy hour, and plenty of bar fare at this South Memphis hang. 3210 Old Hernando Rd. 917-982-1829. L, D, $ INTERSTATE BAR-B-Q—Specialties include chopped pork-shoulder sandwiches, ribs, hot wings, spaghetti, chicken, and turkey. 2265 S. Third. 775-2304; 150 W. Stateline Rd. (Southaven). 662-393-5699. L, D, X, $-$$ LEONARD’S—Serves wet and dry ribs, barbecue sandwiches, spaghetti, catfish, homemade onion rings, and lemon icebox pie; also a lunch buffet. 5465 Fox Plaza. 360-1963. L, X, $-$$ MARLOWE’S—In addition to its signature barbecue and ribs, Marlowe’s serves Southern-style steaks, chops, lasagne, and more. 4381 Elvis Presley Blvd. 332-4159. D, X, MRA, $-$$ UNCLE LOU’S FRIED CHICKEN—Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives for good reason: fried chicken (mild, hot, or home-style); jumbo burgers four patties high; strawberry shortcake, and assorted fruit pies. 3633 Millbranch. 332-2367. L, D, X, MRA, $

SUMMER/BERCLAIR/ RALEIGH/BARTLETT ASIAN PALACE—Chinese eatery serves seafood, vegetarian items, dim sum, and more. 5266 Summer Ave. 766-0831. L, D, X, $-$$ ELWOOD’S SHACK—Casual comfort food includes tacos, pizza and sandwiches. Specialties include meats smoked in-house (chicken, turkey, brisket, pork), barbecue pizza, and steelhead trout tacos. 4523 Summer. 761-9898. B, L, D, X, $ EXLINES’ BEST PIZZA—Serves pizza, Italian dinners, sandwiches, and salads. 6250 Stage Rd. 382-3433; 2935 Austin Peay. 388-4711; 2801 Kirby Parkway. 754-0202; 7730 Wolf River Blvd. (Germantown). 753-4545; 531 W. Stateline Rd. 662-3424544 (check online for additional locations). L, D, X, MRA, $ GRIDLEY’S—Offers barbecued ribs, shrimp, pork plate, chicken, and hot tamales; also daily lunch specials. Closed Tues.

6842 Stage Rd. 377-8055. L, D, X, $-$$

LA TAQUERIA GUADALUPANA—Fajitas and quesadillas are just a few of the authentic Mexican entrees offered here. A bona-fide Memphis institution.

4818 Summer. 685-6857; 5848 Winchester. 365-4992. L, D, $ LOTUS—Authentic Vietnamese-Asian fare, including lemon-grass chicken and shrimp, egg rolls, Pho soup, and spicy Vietnamese vermicelli. 4970 Summer.

682-1151. D, X, $ MORTIMER’S—Contemporary American entrees include trout almondine, chicken dishes, and hand-cut steaks; also sandwiches, salads, and daily/nightly specials. A Memphis landmark since the Knickerbocker closed. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 590 N. Perkins. 761-9321. L, D, X, $-$$ NAGASAKI INN—Chicken, steak, and lobster are among the main courses; meal is cooked at your table. 3951 Summer.

454-0320. D, X, $$ PANDA GARDEN—Sesame chicken and broccoli beef are among the Mandarin and Cantonese entrees; also seafood specials and fried rice. Closed for lunch Saturday. 3735 Summer.

323-4819. L, D, X, $-$$ QUEEN OF SHEBA—Featuring Middle Eastern favorites and Yemeni dishes such as lamb haneeth and saltah. 4792 Summer.

207-4174. L, D, $ SIDE PORCH STEAK HOUSE—In addition to steak, the menu includes chicken, pork chops, and fish entrees; homemade rolls are a specialty. Closed Sun.-Mon. 5689 Stage Rd. 377-2484.

D, X, $-$$

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A-TAN—Serves Chinese and Japanese hibachi cuisine, complete with sushi bar. A specialty is Four Treasures with garlic sauce. 3445 Poplar, Suite 17, University Center. 452-4477. L, D, X, $-$$$ THE BLUFF—New Orleans-inspired menu includes alligator bites, nachos topped with crawfish and andouille, gumbo, po’boys, and fried seafood platters. 535 S. Highland. 454-7771. L, D, X, $-$$ BROTHER JUNIPER’S—This little cottage is a breakfast mecca, offering specialty omelets, including the open-faced San Diegan omelet; also daily specials, and homemade breads and pastries. Closed Mon. 3519 Walker.

324-0144. B, X, $ CHAR RESTAURANT—Specializing in modern Southern cuisine, this eatery offers homestyle sides, char-broiled steaks, and fresh seafood. 431 S. Highland #120. 249-3533. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ DERAE RESTAURANT—Ethiopian and Mediterranean fare includes fuul, or fava beans in spices and yogurt, goat meat and rice, and garlic chicken over basmati rice with cilantro chutney; also salmon and tilapia. Closed Monday. 923 S. Highland. 5523992. B, L, D, $-$$ EL PORTON—Fajitas, quesadillas, and steak ranchero are just a few of the menu items. 2095 Merchants Row (Germantown).

754-4268; 8361 Highway 64. 380-7877; 3448 Poplar (Poplar Plaza). 452-7330; 1805 N. Germantown Parkway (Cordova). 6249358; 1016 W. Poplar (Collierville). 854-5770. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ JOES’ ON HIGHLAND—Specializes in fried chicken and comfort sides such as warm okra/green tomato salad and turnip greens. Entrees include salmon patties and chicken-fried steak. Closed Mon. 262 S. Highland.

337-7003. L, D, X, $ MEDALLION—Offers steaks, seafood, chicken, and pasta entrees. Closed for dinner Sunday. 3700 Central, Holiday Inn (Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality). 678-1030. B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ OPEN FLAME—This authentic Persian and Mediterranean eatery specializes in shish kebabs as well as kosher and halal fare.

3445 Poplar. 207-4995. L, D, X, $

OUT-OF-TOWN BOZO’S HOT PIT BAR-B-Q—Barbecue, burgers, sandwiches, and subs. 342 Hwy 70 (Mason, TN). 901-294-3400.

L, D, $-$$ CATFISH BLUES—Serving Delta-raised catfish and Cajunand Southern-inspired dishes, including gumbo and fried green tomatoes. 210 E. Commerce (Hernando, MS). 662-298-3814. L, D, $

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CITY GROCERY—Southern eclectic cuisine; shrimp and grits is a specialty. Closed for dinner Sunday. 152 Courthouse Square (Oxford, MS). 662-232-8080. L, D, SB, X, $$-$$$ COMO STEAKHOUSE—Steaks cooked on a hickory charcoal grill are a specialty here. Upstairs is an oyster bar.

Closed Sun. 203 Main St. (Como, MS). 662-526-9529. D, X, $-$$$ LONG ROAD CIDER CO.—Specializes in hard apple ciders made with traditional methods. Cafe-style entrees include black-eyed peas with cornbread and greens, chicken Gorgonzola pockets, cider-steamed sausage, and housemade ice creams. Closed Sun.-Wed. 9053 Barret Road. (Barretville, TN). 352-0962. D, X, $ MANILA FILIPINO RESTAURANT—Entrees include pork belly cutlet with lechon sauce, and shrimp and vegetables in tamarind broth; also daily combos, rice dishes, and chef specials. Closed Sun.-Mon. 7849 Rockford (Millington, TN). 209-8525. L, D, X, $ MARSHALL STEAKHOUSE—Rustic steakhouse serves premium Angus beef steaks, seafood dishes, rack of lamb, and more. Breakfast menu features griddle cakes, and lunch offerings include hamburger steak and oyster po’ boys. 2379 Highway 178 (Holly Springs, MS). 628-3556. B, L, D, X, $-$$$ MEMPHIS BARBECUE COMPANY—Offers spare

CASINO TABLES BOURBON STREET STEAKHOUSE & GRILL AT SOUTHLAND CASINO RACING—1550 Ingram Blvd., West Memphis, AR, 1-800-467-6182 CHICAGO STEAKHOUSE AT THE GOLDSTRIKE—1010 Casino Center Dr., Robinsonville, MS, 1-888-24KSTAY /662-357-1225 FAIRBANKS AT THE HOLLYWOOD—1150 Casino Strip Blvd., Robinsonville, MS, 1-800-871-0711 JACK BINION’S STEAK HOUSE AT HORSESHOE—1021 Casino Center Drive, Robinsonville, MS, 1-800-303-SHOE LUCKY 8 ASIAN BISTRO AT HORSESHOE—1021 Casino Center Drive, Robinsonville, MS, 1-800-303-SHOE THE STEAKHOUSE AT THE FITZ—711 Lucky Ln., Robinsonville, MS, 1-888-766-LUCK, ext 8213 ribs, baby backs, and pulled pork and brisket, along with such sides as mac-and-cheese, grits, and red beans. 709 Desoto Cove (Horn Lake, MS). 662-536-3762. L, D, X, $-$$ NAGOYA—Offers traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi bar; specialties are teriyaki and tempura dishes. 7075 Malco Blvd., Suite 101 (Southaven, MS). 662-349-8788. L, D, X, $-$$$ PANCHO’S—Serves up a variety of Mexican standards, including tacos, enchiladas, and mix-and-match platters; also lunch specials. 3600 E. Broadway (West Memphis, AR).

870-735-6466. 717 N. White Station. 685-5404. L, D, X, MRA, $ PIG-N-WHISTLE—Offers pork shoulder sandwiches, wet and dry ribs, catfish, nachos, and stuffed barbecue potatoes. 6084 Kerr-Rosemark Rd. (Millington, TN). 872-2455.

L, D, X, $ RAVINE—Serves contemporary Southern cuisine with an emphasis on fresh, locally grown foods and a menu that changes weekly. Closed Mon.-Tues. 53 Pea Ridge/County Rd. 321 (Oxford, MS). 662-234-4555. D, SB, X, $$-$$$ SAINT LEO’S—Offering sophisticated pizzas, pastas, sandwiches, and salads. A James Beard nominee for Best New Restaurant in 2017. 1101 Jackson (Oxford, MS). 662-234-4555.

D, L, WB, $-$$ SNACKBAR—Billed as an intriguing mix of “French Bistro with North Mississippi Cafe.” Serving a confit duck Croque Monsieur, watermelon-cucumber chaat, pan-fried quail, plus a daily plate special and a raw bar. Chef Vishesh Bhatt was named as Best Chef South by the James Beard Foundation in 2019. 721 N. Lamar (Oxford, MS). 662-236-6363. D, $-$$$ WILSON CAFE—Serving elevated home-cooking, with such dishes as deviled eggs with cilantro and jalapeño, scampi and grits, and doughnut bread pudding. 2 N. Jefferson (Wilson, AR). 870-655-0222. L, D (Wed. through Sat. only), X, $-$$$

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My Dad’s Health Without Wealth Don’t all Americans deserve the right to decent healthcare?

by jesse davis

Jesse Davis with his dad, Jeff Davis.

J

ust before Halloween last October, I got the scariest phone call of my life so far. My dad was sick and was refusing to go to the hospital.

My dad, Jeff Davis, lives a few miles from the dividing line between Chester and Madison counties, so it would be an hour and 45 minutes before I arrived. When I did, my sister was already there, wringing her hands and apologizing for failing to coax him into going to the hospital.

It took some persuasion (read: I threatened to drag him), but we managed to get him into my sister’s car.

At Jackson General, it worried me how quickly we were ushered out of the waiting area and into a private examination room. This is serious, I thought. Then the staff took over. A parade of nurses and doctors examined my dad. Every time they decided to run “just one more test,” my worry ratcheted up another notch. When the attending physician explained that Dad was suffering from pancreatitis brought on by a chronic infection of his gallbladder, he promised to swear off milk — really his only vice.

We all laughed at his attempt to

bargain his way off of the operating table, but when Dad made it clear he was serious, the surgeon said no dice. They could have tried a different remedy if he had sought treatment sooner, but now surgery was the only option.

So why didn’t my dad see a doctor at the first twinge of pain? I suspect that, more than anything else, he was worried about the cost. He doesn’t smoke or drink or overeat, and for a man his age, he’s very active. He should have little to fear from a visit to the doctor.

Until very recently, though, Dad was one of the 44 million

Americans without health inern guy with an irrational fear surance. It took all my skills of of doctors. To me, they were hepersuasion to convince him to roes making sure the man who let my sister and me sign him taught me to love Memphis and up to receive his Social Securimusic and history would be okay. ty benefits last year. Because he Now, months after his surgery, signed up late, his full Medicaid my dad has fully recovered — package won’t kick in for another in fact, he’s doing better than he has in recent memoyear or so.

Everyone, every Everyone, every ry. It’s a wonder what single person, no not having to fight a single person, matter how poor or chronic infection no matter how mean or bad-temwill do for one’s state pered, deserves acof mind. So I can nevpoor or mean or cess to healthcare. er thank his doctors bad-tempered, How can one purand nurses enough, deserves access sue happiness while and I believe we hobbling along on a owe it to them not to to healthcare. broken foot? What needlessly compliabout the more than 33 million cate their jobs with politics.

Americans who now find themMaking sure every American selves jobless in the midst of a has access to healthcare means global pandemic — and months we have a stronger populace and before the American Health a more robust workforce. And Care Act open enrollment periit means doctors and nurses — od begins? who now, more than ever, are real-life superheroes — don’t have If Dad’s ailment had brought to pull double and triple duty as him down a year ago, before he financial advisors and therapists signed up for the Social Security he was already eligible for and to hurt and sick patients worthe Medicaid it brings, I’m not ried, not just about their physisure anything I could have said cal health, but the health of their would have convinced him to go bank accounts. It also means to the hospital. fewer emergency surgeries for Pancreatitis and gallbladder ailments that could have been infections are treatable. They’re treated by IV drips and antibiotics and physical therapy. no picnic, but they’re not necessarily life-threatening — unless I don’t claim to have the anthey’re ignored and allowed to swer, but I don’t think anyone should ever forgo a necessary cause serious complications.

Once Dad was admitted to medical procedure due to an inthe hospital, once the diagnosis ability to pay. I think of all the was made, we were enveloped generational wisdom that won’t by a team of nurses, doctors, surbe passed down because grandgeons, and technicians, all vital pas and grandmas fear leaving parts of the process of healing. their loved ones with debt. I believe that, whether they’re workThey were all just doing their ing or not, they deserve dignity, jobs. To them I’m sure my dad life, and health. We all do. was just another stubborn South-

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