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OUR 1612TH ISSUE 01.16.20 One of the core tenets of journalism is to “find the local angle” for a national or international story. If, for instance, there’s a big, destructive hurricane in Florida, Memphis media might do a story on a Midtown family trapped in a Destin hotel or maybe an article on MLGW workers being sent to help reconnect power. Like that.

One of the national stories that’s been brought to the forefront in the past three years is immigration. Our president has made the demonization of refugees and immigrants a core element of his doctrine. Irrational fear of immigrants — especially brown ones — is stoked on a near-daily basis.

That’s why it was so gratifying to read about Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s refusal to be cowed by his party’s leader into denying refugees, well, a refuge, in our state. Lee is a self-avowed Christian who apparently believes Jesus meant it when he said, “Love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Jesus also preached that Christians should serve “the least of these … feeding the hungry and clothing the naked.”

And it was equally gratifying to read last week about Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris signing a commitment to continue the county’s participation in the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program. Harris said, “The U.S. is an inspiration of hope around the world. When we have the ability to act, we have a moral duty to help those in need, those in dire circumstances.”

Lee’s and Harris’ actions were taken in response to an executive order from the president that allows state and local governments to opt in — or out — of the program.

There is already dissent brewing in Nashville from the usual GOP troglodytes in the General Assembly. They are upset with Lee’s actions and say they plan to do whatever they can to stop the horde of scary brown folks from getting into our fair state.

I use the word “horde” loosely, because the number of refugees coming into the U.S. — and into our state — has declined drastically in the past three years.

Tennessee accepted 692 refugees in 2019. Around 40 are expected to settle in Shelby County this year. I think we can handle it.

The Trump administration is limiting the total number of refugees allowed into the country this year to 18,000, down from 30,000 in 2019 — and down from traditional levels of nearly triple that number in prior years. This administration’s commitment to erasing the Emma Lazarus poem at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty is unwavering. We don’t want none of your “huddled masses,” buddy.

In addition, the Trump administration and its Justice Department are continuously tweaking regulations and requirements for refugees and immigrants who are in-country seeking to file for asylum or citizenship, making the process more difficult and more expensive. It’s a “death by 1,000 cuts” policy, designed solely to discourage immigration and assimilation.

That’s why Lee’s and Harris’ actions were so gratifying. Good leaders aren’t N E WS & O P I N I O N afraid to stand up for what’s right.

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B U R S O N PAS S E S Public relations pioneer Harold Burson passed away last week.

Burson, 98, was called “the century’s most influential PR figure” by PRWeek, a public relations trade publication.

He was born in Memphis, schooled at Ole Miss, and spent most of the rest of his life in New York, tending to his business.

Last year, he returned to Memphis to stay with family. But he still went into work three days a week.

MATA M O N EY Last week, Shelby County Commissioners mulled new fees for a more-robust Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA).

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris first proposed a $145 Clockwise from top left: kids go to adult court, Dorothy Gunther Pugh, fee for each household’s third Harold Burson, MICAH, and MATA car and beyond. However, a resolution for a $20 wheel tax increase passed a commission But law enforcement officials say violent crime is real and committee last week, but votes on MATA funding were delayed rampant in Shelby County, and punishment needs to be in commission action Monday. The wheel tax increase is extough to meet it. pected to yield $9 million annually for MATA. The key area reformers point to comes in transfers to The plan has support of the Memphis Interfaith Coaliadult court. Sometimes, when a minor commits a violent tion for Action and Hope (MICAH). Members of the group crime, they are moved from juvenile court to adult court say it furthers economic equity in Memphis. and tried as adults. In regular criminal court, the sentences Business leaders showed broad support of a stronger are tougher, the stakes of crime are much higher.

MATA in commission meetings last week. Speaking for new In Shelby County, the cases of 90 children were transfunds were FedEx executive Richard Smith, Greater Memferred from juvenile court to adult court in 2019. The figure phis Chamber president and CEO Beverly Robertson, and is way above other jurisdictions in Tennessee. Transfers here Willie Gregory, Nike’s director of global community impact. were also higher than in 2018, when federal monitors still watched the court.

G R AC E F U L E X IT At least 87 of the 90 children transferred to adult court Dorothy Gunther Pugh, who has led Ballet Memphis from last year were children of color, and 86 of those were black, its inception in 1986, said she will retire this summer. according to Josh Spickler, executive director of Just City.

Carol Miraglia, the director of finance and administraThis disparity is what brought federal monitors from the tion, will become interim director while the company’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2012. They watched the board of directors undergoes a national search for the perMemphis and Shelby County Juvenile Court until October manent executive director.

2018, leaving after many local leaders urged them to conclude their work.

K I D S I N AD U LT C O U RT In February, Juvenile Court Judge Dan Michael declared In the year following the end of federal oversight, black “mission accomplished” during his state of the court adkids are still treated more harshly in one key area of Shelby dress, touting the end of federal oversight.

Visit the News Blog at memphisflyer.com for fuller versions of County Juvenile Court. these stories and more local news.

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By Maya Smith “We let people know that they don’t have to be afraid, they have power, and they do have rights.”

Volunteers mobilize to monitor ICE raids.

Maria spent six hours on Saturday training a few dozen volunteers who will soon be the eyes and ears monitoring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in the community.

Maria (who wished to keep her last name confidential) is one of the organizers of Vecindarios901, a local group that mobilizes volunteers to monitor, respond to, and record ICE activity in the county. The group began its work in the fall after Maria moved back to Memphis from Colorado where she volunteered with a statewide ICE rapid response team. Using what she learned there, Maria set up Shelby County’s own response team, structuring it similar to Colorado’s.

If people in the community believe they’ve seen ICE agents, Maria said they can call the group’s emergency hotline. Volunteer dispatchers take those calls and contact confirmers or legal observers who then go to the scene, take pictures, and confirm whether or not ICE was actually present.

“It’s really important for us to verify if it is or isn’t ICE because if it’s not ICE, we can automatically dispel fear,” Maria said. “Often people see an unmarked vehicle with tinted windows and immediately assume it’s ICE, meaning they’ll stay indoors, won’t go to

work, won’t send their kids to school, won’t go to the grocery store.”

If volunteers do verify that ICE agents are at a location, Maria said the group shares that information on social media to warn the community and remind them of their rights. They also connect those who’ve interacted with ICE to legal resources.

“We let people know that they don’t have to be afraid, they have power, and they do have rights,” Maria said. “We let them know that there are people who stand with them and are watching with them.”

Maria believes it is especially important to protect her community now, as “white nationalist rhetoric regularly comes straight from the president.”

“That has an impact on our community,” Maria said. “It impacts policies, the way agencies treat us, and the way the public treats us. People of color have historically been underdogs and have always had to fight to protect our communities. And the fact that we’re still having to do this in 2020 shows we still have a lot to work on.”

Selena (who also wished to keep her last name confidential) attended Saturday’s training. She hopes to volunteer as a dispatcher since she is bilingual.

“The community that they are targeting here is my community,” said Selena, who lives in Nutbush. “I live in an area where there’s a lot of fear and confusion. So I’m going to do whatever I can to help those people live happier and safer lives while holding ICE accountable. They can’t just come into our communities and terrorize families.”

Vecindarios901 is always looking for more volunteers, Maria said. Those interested can email the group at vecindarios901@gmail.com. Maria also urges the community to call the hotline at (901) 329-797 to report ICE activity.

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Needing nine votes from the Shelby County Commission to save his $20 wheel tax increase to provide for $10 million worth of county funding for MATA (Memphis Area Transit Authority), Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris decided on Monday that discretion was the better part of valor.

Aware that he was nowhere close to expanding on the five votes his proposal garnered in committee last Wednesday (nine votes are needed for passage), Harris pulled up stakes and agreed to defer the proposal for two weeks. He had already bowed to reality over the weekend when he confided at a Lakeland fundraiser in his honor that he hoped to get a yes vote within 30 days.

To get that result, Harris knows — as he conceded in a post-meeting conversa-

Vergos at Commission tion with reporters — that he will have to do some evangelizing with members of the county’s suburbanite populations. The commission approved the deferral 8-4, but three Republican members from the outer county — David Bradford, Amber Mills, and Mick Wright — voted along with Democrat Edmund Ford Jr. against it, preferring an immediate vote on the record, one that, there was little doubt, would have fallen short.

Yet another suburban Republican commissioner, Brandon Morrison, though voting for the deferral, indicated that she had an “original” idea for how to pay for the expansion of MATA through county auspices, and, though she didn’t spell it out, it seemed obvious that upping the wheel tax was not what she had in mind.

In a statement before the deferral vote,

Harris made a point of acknowledging that he had not consulted sufficiently about the project with suburban mayors, specifically with Mayor Mike Wissman of Arlington. Harris promised to make amends with Wissman and the other suburban mayors going forward.

The stubborn arithmetic of suburban resistance on the commission was counterpointed on Monday by speaker after speaker from the audience making the case for a county commitment to MATA. Prominent among them was restaurateur John Vergos, a former city councilman who in recent years has been serving as chairman of the board of MATA. “My interest in transportation goes back to when I served eight years on the city council and even before that, when we used to struggle cityside to come up with means,” he said. “… I know that the fee would be considered aggressive in some regards, but it’s also a fair amount, and it spreads across everybody in the county.”

Vergos said that, as the owner of the Rendezvous restaurant, he could not count the number of times when, on a busy Saturday night, employees would come to him and say, “‘I’ve got to leave while the buses are running.’ What happens to those guys is that many times at the end of the day they’re going to lose $30 or $40 in wages.”

Vergos said he would “certainly applaud it” if the board of commissioners could come up with a solution, “as close as we are.”

Commissioner Tami Sawyer said she was hopeful that a “stronger proposal” could emerge from further discussion, “but I do think that it’s important that … we don’t keep kicking this ball down the road.”

Commission chairman Mark Billingsley, who kept the discussion within reasonably cordial bounds, announced that, in view of Monday’s turnout and continuing community interest in the matter, the forthcoming rehashing of the proposal next Wednesday, January 22nd, would be held in the Commission’s firstfloor auditorium.

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Attendees filled to capacity the Midtown law office of Mike Working in Cooper-Young on Saturday. They heard 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen extol Bloomberg as a candidate willing to lend his efforts and his financial support to a campaign to defeat the re-election of President Donald Trump. While praising Bloomberg, Cohen said he was maintaining his option to support whatever presidential nominee the Democratic Party should ultimately produce.

On hand for the affair was Greg Fischer, mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, and the national chairman of Bloomberg’s presidential campaign, who repeated to the crowd what had been assurances of support for Bloomberg’s candidacy made the day before by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland.

Fischer said Strickland could not be present on Saturday because he was attending two funerals.

Another outright endorser was present, however, and willing to explain his reasons to the crowd. This was newly elected City Councilman Jeff Warren, a physician, who explained his reasoning this way: “It’s really very simple. I’ve been listening to try

to see who is going to come up with the best possible solution for the health care that we need in our country. And I walked across the parking lot from my office and heard Mayor Bloomberg announce his strategy for how to do that. It makes perfect sense. You know, in red states, where we haven’t advanced the Affordable Care Act for our poorest people, he wants to federalize that, and that makes perfect sense to me. … I endorse him wholeheartedly, and I really think his health-care plan is the best thing we can see in our country.”

Fischer touted the spillover advantages his candidate’s effort had for other Democrats: “He’s running, but at the same time, he’s running $100 million [in ads] a day in the battleground states to make the case against Trump — not for Mike Bloomberg, for whomever the Democratic nominee is going to be. He’s got $20 million to work in those states to increase voter registration, not for Mike Bloomberg. And he said I’m going to keep all my offices open across this country, regardless if I’m the candidate or not, because we gotta beat Donald Trump.”

In other words, Bloomberg’s freespending effort would boost the campaign of every other Democrat running for president, and, in particular, the party’s nominee, whoever that might happen to be, right up to election day. It was an offer that was hard to refuse.

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Carb Wars Why are alternative diets becoming so popular?

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So now Yolanda is eating a steak at lunch. Bryan says pork rinds are considered “health food.” And Aunt Dee is making her famous cookies with almond flour.

Before we go any further here, the Flyer is in no way pushing these diets. We’re not saying they’re good or bad. We’re not even suggesting that you try them.

Let’s go ahead and cover our asses here and remind you that before you change your diet in any way, you should check with your doctor first.

When it comes to low-carb diets, Harvard researchers say there is “some evidence” that they “may” help “some people” lose weight more quickly and keep it off, compared to those on low-fat diets. A dietitian with Britain’s National Health Service says “not all carbs are the same” and that it’s “the quality and quantity of carbohydrates in our diet that is important.” Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say, basically (and correctly), that everyone is different and their diets should be, too.

It’s all a bit confusing. To help sort it out, we turned to some Memphians with knowledge of this stuff — a nutritionist, a

restaurant owner, cookbook writers, and a clean-eating food blogger. They’re working on the front lines of health, wellness, cooking, and eating, and all agree that lowcarb diets are the deal right now.

At the Bedrock

The breakfast rush is over, leaving Bedrock Eats smelling of coffee and bacon. Chef and owner Brandi Marter sits in a side booth in black workout gear, working on a laptop.

Much was made of the paleo-inspired restaurant when it opened in 2015 at the corner of Main and Vance. It was “paleo friendly” — the restaurant’s name a subtle nod to the caveman style of eating. Heads were scratched. But Bedrock has thrived as more Memphians seek whole foods and low-carb options.

Marter says her restaurant offers way more than just paleo. It’s also gluten-free and caters to people with food allergies (like eggs or nuts), vegans, vegetarians, low-carb, low-fat, “or whatever your thing is at the moment.” Sometimes, people will bring Marter lists of their food restrictions, and she works to accommodate them.

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y now, all us have that low-carb friend. The one who hisses at bread and pasta like a garlicfrightened vampire. The one who asks for bunless burgers at a restaurant. The person who rices (yes, it’s a verb here) cauliflower and “spiralizes” zucchinis into something called “zoodles.”

Maybe they’re just low-carb. Maybe they’re paleo. Maybe they’re Atkins.

Maybe they’re keto. Heck, maybe they’re crazy.

If they are, they have plenty of company.

While it’s impossible to know how many Memphians now follow some form of low-carb diet, surely there are many thousands.

But while you can’t quantify it, it is easy to see how these low-carb/clean-eating diets have risen over the last five or so years and have — for the moment — become the dominant diet trend. They are lauded and pushed by celebrities and

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“The longer you try to adhere to a certain set of restrictions, the more you realize life happens,” says Marter. “Every human body is different. People get frustrated because they are looking for quick answers. You have to spend time with your body and figure out what works for you, specifically.”

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Cheryl Malik loves Costco. It was there that she really started to see just how big low-carb diets had become.

She and her husband did Whole30 about four years ago. On that diet, you eat only whole foods for 30 days. It’s restrictive and often has adherents scrambling to find approved foods.

“It was so much harder back then to find convenient products to eat that way,” says Malik. “Now, it’s so easy. They have grain-free tortilla chips at Costco. There’s cassava flour at Costco. I used to spend a small fortune on a small bag of almond flour from Kroger. Now, I can get a huge bag for $9 at Costco. I’m a big, big Costco fan over here, apparently.”

Malik also loves cooking and says she is “obsessed with health and wellness.”

Ten years ago, she focused that love into a blog. The blog — 40 Aprons — now has hundreds of recipes, all elegantly organized by diet — Whole30, paleo, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and lowcarb. You can even search by cuisine style: Mexican, Indian, American, and more.

Malik says the most-loved recipe on the site is for her egg roll in a bowl, which fits Whole30, paleo, keto, and low-carb diets.

Also look for bell pepper nachos, cookie dough, buffalo chicken dip, and more.

The blog came from a love of writing, Malik says, and of cooking, which she

Cheryl Malik knows Whole30, 40 Aprons, and Costco. began in college. But the notion of eating clean and doing paleo really began when she was 8. “I knew instinctively that the way we were eating — as a culture — wasn’t right,” Malik says.

Vegetarian was the only alternative diet with visibility at the time, she says, and she followed it for long time. But when she discovered clean eating, she decided “it made a lot of sense.”

She took the dive about a year after she had a baby. Her brain was foggy. She was stressed. And she couldn’t seem to lose that last bit of baby weight. She decided Whole30 was “doable.”

All of the previous issues melted away (along with the baby fat). Her husband’s running pace improved.

“I never looked back,” Malik says.

“That focus on real food made such an immediate difference for us, physically.”

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“The typical vegetarian diet — think beans and rice or sandwiches or even vegan pizza — is fairly high in carbohydrates,” Burks and Lawrence say in a statement. “We decided that we need to give our readers an off-ramp when they feel like they need some recipes that don’t lean too much on carbs.”

But the two didn’t crank out a product to fit the times. They did their homework.

They consulted dietitians and nutritionists Erin Dragutsky and Kristi Edward from 901 Nutrition and Carolyn Nichols, nutrition education coordinator at Church Health, to “better understand the role carbs play in our bodies.”

“The standard American diet is crazy!” they say. “We have been tricked by marketing into believing that foods that are actually pretty terrible for us are ‘fun.’

Too much sugar and too many carbs can become a real problem.”

Meat and seafood are staples of most low-carb diets. So an already restrictive diet gets even harder for vegans and vegetarians. Burks is vegan. Lawrence is gluten-free. But they say some simple food swaps can make going low-carb and nomeat a little easier.

The easiest way, they say, may be using cauliflower rice and zucchini noodles. They swap jicama for potatoes in home fries and kohlrabi for wheat in tabouli. They also use a lot of nuts and chia and coconut in desserts. The new cookbook has a recipe for almond flour crackers and biscuits.

“The easiest of all is swapping sugar for Lakanto Monk Fruit Sweetener,” they say.

“It has zero net carbs and tastes like sugar.

It’s actually pretty amazing.”

The Food Doctor is In Susan W. Warner knows low-

carb diets aren’t new. How? She’s a physician, a certified culinary medicine specialist, chef, and professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).

Warner says that one of the earliest lowcarb diets was Irwin Stillman’s plan in the 1960s. Robert Atkins followed up with his Atkins Diet in the 1970s, but it didn’t gain popularity until the 1990s. Arthur Agaston came next, with his South Beach Diet.

These are just three notable examples of numerous low-carb diets that have been created over the years, Warner says.

“The theories behind these diets have actually been around a long time,” she says. “Their popularity will probably ebb and flow, as so many have done in the past. Some are more grounded in science than others, and it is important for consumers to be aware of misleading information and pseudoscience.”

Before hopping aboard for any of these diets, Warner suggests you ask a few questions. Did the information come from a credible institution or qualified researcher? Are there other studies with the same conclusion? Who funded the study?

More than anything, though, Warner says Americans should focus on mindfulness, quality ingredients, and portion control.

While there are some risks with lowcarb diets, Warner says there are benefits.

“What I like most about these diets is that most stress whole foods instead of foods that have undergone a lot of processing,” Warner says. “Ultraprocessed, convenient, and fast foods, which are so readily available in our food culture, have been linked to weight gain and poorer quality of diet.”

Find Warner’s full interview on lowcarb diets this week on the News Blog at memphisflyer.com.

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continued from page 20 Frank W. Ling Women’s Health Specialists 7800 Wolf Trail Cv. Germantown, TN 38138 901-682-9222 Diane M. Long Ruch Clinic 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Ste. 500 Memphis, TN 38120 901-682-0630 Giancarlo Mari UT Regional One Physicians Maternal Fetal Medicine Services Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl. 880 Madison Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-515-3800 Mary N. McDonald McDonald Murrmann Center for Wellness & Health 7205 Wolf River Blvd., Ste. 150 Germantown, TN 38138 901-752-4000 Christine S. Mestemacher Mestemacher Clinic for Women 7918 Wolf River Blvd.

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Norman L. Meyer UT Regional One Physicians Maternal Fetal Medicine Services Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl. 880 Madison Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-515-3700 Kyle Patterson Martin Martin, Lee & Page OB GYN 6286 Briarcrest Ave., Ste. 308 Memphis, TN 38120 901-752-4500 Owen P. Phillips UT Regional One Physicians OB/GYN Clinic 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Ste. 200 Memphis, TN 38120 901-515-3840 S. Gregory Portera Center for Urinary and Pelvic Disorders 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Ste. 110 Memphis, TN 38120 901-227-9610

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Joseph T. Santoso Baptist Medical Group Gynecologic Surgical Specialists 80 Humphreys Center Dr., Ste. 202 Memphis, TN 38120 901-226-4280 Linda M. Smiley West Cancer Center 7945 Wolf River Blvd.

Germantown, TN 38138 901-683-0055 Thomas G. Stovall Women’s Health Specialists 7800 Wolf Trail Cv. Germantown, TN 38138 901-682-9222 Todd David Tillmanns West Cancer Center 7945 Wolf River Blvd.

Germantown, TN 38138 901-683-0055 Val Y. Vogt The Conrad Pearson Clinic 1325 Wolf Park Dr. Germantown, TN 38138 901-252-3400 OPHTHALMOLOGY Steve Charles Charles Retina Institute 1432 Kimbrough Rd. Germantown, TN 38138 901-767-4499 Brian M. Jerkins Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Ste. 200 Memphis, TN 38103 901-448-6650 Gary Passons Passons Eye Center 909 Ridgeway Loop Memphis, TN 38120 901-683-1112 Matthew W. Wilson Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Ste. 200 Memphis, TN 38103 901-448-6650 ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY Frederick Martin Azar Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics 1211 Union Ave., Ste. 500 Memphis, TN 38104 901-759-5432 James Wilson Harkess Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics 1458 W Poplar Ave., Ste. 100 Collierville, TN 38017 901-759-3111

Michael D. Neel OrthoMemphis Briarcrest Professional Bldg., Ste. 200 6286 Briarcrest Ave. Memphis, TN 38120 901-259-1684 Kenneth S. Weiss OrthoMemphis Briarcrest Professional Bldg., Ste. 200 6286 Briarcrest Ave. Memphis, TN 38120 901-259-1684 OTOLARYNGOLOGY Neal S. Beckford University Clinical Health UT Otolaryngology 7675 Wolf River Cir., Ste. 202 Germantown, TN 38138 901-737-3021 Marion Boyd Gillespie UT Methodist Physicians Head & Neck Surgery 1325 Eastmoreland Ave., Ste. 260 Memphis, TN 38104 901-272-6051 Dean A. Klug Mid-South Ear, Nose & Throat 7600 Wolf River Blvd., Ste. 220 Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-5300 PATHOLOGY Mahul B. Amin University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 930 Madison Ave., Ste. 531 Memphis, TN 38163 901-448-7020 PEDIATRIC ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY D. Betty Lew UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Allergy and Immunology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT GYNECOLOGY Claudette J. Shephard UT Regional One Physicians OB/GYN Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl. 880 Madison Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-515-3800

PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY John Lynn Jefferies Sutherland Cardiology Clinic Memphis Professional Bldg., Ste. 965 1211 Union Ave. Memphis, TN 38104 901-763-0200 Vijaya M. Joshi UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Heart Institute 49 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-5092 Jeffrey A. Towbin UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Cardiology Clinic Outpatient Center, 2nd Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 Benjamin Rush Waller UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Cardiology Clinic Outpatient Center, 2nd Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8817 PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE Mark C. Bugnitz Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Division of Pediatric Critical Care 848 Adams Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-6756 Stephanie Ann Storgion Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Division of Pediatric Critical Care 848 Adams Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-6303 PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY Ramin Alemzadeh UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Endocrinology Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 Alan J. Cohen The Endocrine Clinic 5659 S. Rex Rd. Memphis, TN 38119 901-763-3636

Alicia Diaz-Thomas UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Endocrinology Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY Dennis D. Black UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8821 Mark R. Corkins UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 John K. Eshun UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8821 Linda F. Lazar UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8821 PEDIATRIC GENERAL HEPATOLOGY Dennis D. Black UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Gastroenterology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8821 PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGYONCOLOGY Jeremie H. Estepp St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Hematology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-5703 Wayne L. Furman St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3300

Amar Gajjar St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Division of NeuroOncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-4055 Daniel Michael Green St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-5915 Melissa Hudson St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3445 Hiroto Inaba St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Division of Leukemia and Lymphoma 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3606 Sima Jeha St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-4055 Daniel A. Mulrooney St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3658 Ellis Neufeld St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Hematology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 888-226-4343 Alberto S. Pappo St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-6765 Gerald J. Presbury UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology 51 N. Dunlap St., Ste. 350 Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8815 Ching-Hon Pui St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-4055

Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-7573 John T. Sandlund St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3300 Victor M. Santana St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-6146 PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE Elisabeth E. Adderson St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Infectious Diseases 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3300 Sandra Arnold UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Infectious Disease Clinic Outpatient Center, 1st Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8815 John P. Devincenzo UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Infectious Disease Clinic Outpatient Center, 1st Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8815 Patricia M. Flynn St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Infectious Diseases 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3300

Joshua Wolf St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Infectious Diseases 262 Danny Thomas Pl., Rm. E8063 Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-6416 PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY John J. Bissler UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Nephrology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 Margaret Colleen Hastings UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Nephrology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8822 PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY Frederick Boop Semmes Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Blvd.

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

Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7722 PEDIATRIC NEURORADIOLOGY Asim F. Choudhri Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology 848 Adams Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-6938 PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY Mary Ellen Hoehn Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Ste. 400 Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337

PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY James H. Beaty Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics 1400 S. Germantown Rd. Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3125 Jeffrey R. Sawyer Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 1400 S. Germantown Rd. Germantown, TN 38138 866-870-5570 William C. Warner, Jr. Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics 1400 S. Germantown Rd. Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3111 PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY Jerome W. Thompson UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists ENT Clinic Outpatient Center, Ste. G10 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-4400 PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY Patricia J. Dubin UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Department of Pediatric Pulmonology Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 51 N. Dunlap St., 4th Fl. Memphis, TN 38105 866-870-5570

For over 100 years, Semmes Murphey Clinic has been a leader in neurological and spinal care. Our dedicated team of doctors provides cutting edge treatment options with compassionate, personal care.

Jonathan D. Finder UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Department of Pediatric Pulmonology Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 51 N. Dunlap St., 4th Fl. Memphis, TN 38105 866-870-5570 Robert A. Schoumacher UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Department of Pediatric Pulmonology Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 51 N. Dunlap St., 4th Fl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337

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Raul C. Ribeiro St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3300

Aditya Gaur St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Infectious Diseases 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3300

Natalie C. Kerr Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Ste. 400 Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337

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Saumini Srinivasan UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Department of Pediatric Pulmonology Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 51 N. Dunlap St., 4th Fl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 James D. Tutor UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Department of Pediatric Pulmonology Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 51 N. Dunlap St., 4th Fl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-5222 PEDIATRIC RADIATION ONCOLOGY Matthew James Krasin St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-6146

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Thomas Merchant St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3300 PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY Harris L. Cohen Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology 848 Adams Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-6938 Sue C. Kaste St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Radiologic Sciences 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-4055 M. Beth McCarville St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Diagnostic Imaging 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-2399 Stephen F. Miller Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology 848 Adams Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-6041

PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY Linda K. Myers UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Rheumatology Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8824 PEDIATRIC SLEEP MEDICINE Merrill S. Wise III Methodist Sleep Disorders Center 5050 Poplar Ave., Ste. 300 Memphis, TN 38157 901-683-0044 PEDIATRIC SPECIALIST/ABUSED CHILDREN Karen L. Lakin UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists General Pediatrics Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8815 PEDIATRIC SPECIALIST/ NEONATALPERINATAL MEDICINE Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy UT Regional One Physicians Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center 877 Jefferson Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-545-7366 PEDIATRIC SPECIALIST/ NEUROLOGY, EPILEPSY James W. Wheless Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Division of Pediatric Neurology 848 Adams Ave., Ste. 400 Memphis, TN 38103 901-866-8823 PEDIATRIC SPECIALIST/ NEUROLOGY, SLEEP MEDICINE Merrill S. Wise III Methodist Sleep Disorders Center 5050 Poplar Ave., Ste. 300 Memphis, TN 38157 901-683-0044

PEDIATRIC SPECIALIST/ PEDIATRIC METABOLIC DISEASES Jewell C. Ward UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Genetics Clinic Outpatient Center, 4th Fl., Ste. 235 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-6472 PEDIATRIC SURGERY Andrew M. Davidoff St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Surgery 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-4055 Max R. Langham, Jr. UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Surgery Clinic Outpatient Center, 2nd Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-6820 PEDIATRICS/ GENERAL Susan M. Aguillard Pediatrics East 8110 Walnut Run Rd. Cordova, TN 38018 901-757-3535 H. Gail Beeman UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists General Pediatrics Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8815 Kristen A. Bettin Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 848 Adams Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-7337 Aimee Christian Memphis Pediatrics 1255 S Germantown Rd. Germantown, TN 38138 901-432-1591 Alicia Diaz-Thomas UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Endocrinology Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 Lelon O. Edwards Pediatrics East 2004 Exeter Rd. Germantown, TN 38138 901-757-3535

Ara James Hanissian Hanissian Healthcare 574 Greentree Cv., Ste. 101 Collierville, TN 38017 901-853-2021 Gina R. Hanissian Hanissian Healthcare 574 Greentree Cv., Ste. 101 Collierville, TN 38017 901-853-2021 Charles Christopher Hanson Laurelwood Pediatrics 5050 Sanderlin Ave. Memphis, TN 38117 901-683-9371 Marion E. Hare UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists General Pediatrics Clinic Outpatient Center, 3rd Fl. 51 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-7337 Burton Hayes UT Methodist Physicians Primary Care 57 Germantown Ct., Ste. 100 Memphis, TN 38018 901-758-7888 Wayland J. Hayes III Pediatrics East 120 Crescent Dr. Collierville, TN 38017 901-757-3535 John R. Hill Raleigh Group 2860 Covington Pike Memphis, TN 38128 901-252-6034 Valerie P. Jameson UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists General Pediatrics Clinic 777 Washington Ave., Ste. P110 Memphis, TN 38105 901-287-6292 Joel Kronenberg 920 Estate Dr., Ste. 3 Memphis, TN 38119 901-767-3620 Michael Lacy Memphis Children’s Clinic 7672 Airways Blvd.

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Amanda Mefford Memphis Children’s Clinic 6615 Kirby Center Cv. Memphis, TN 38115 901-795-9193 Keith B. Owen Pediatrics East 8025 Stage Hills Blvd.

Bartlett, TN 38133 901-757-3535 Harry Phillips Memphis Children’s Clinic 7672 Airways Blvd.

Southaven, MS 38671 662-349-2555 Robert W. Riikola Memphis Children’s Clinic 7672 Airways Blvd.

Southaven, MS 38671 662-349-2555 Willie Tsiu 920 Estate Dr., Ste. 3 Memphis, TN 38119 901-767-3620 A. Graham Warr The Light Clinic 7715 Wolf River Blvd.

Germantown, TN 38138 901-328-6031 PLASTIC SURGERY William L. Hickerson Firefighters Regional Burn Center 890 Madison Ave., Ste. TG032 Memphis, TN 38103 901-448-2579 Phillip R. Langsdon 7499 Poplar Pike Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-6465 Edward Andrew Luce University Clinical Health University Plastic Surgeons 1068 Cresthaven Rd., Ste. 500 Memphis, TN 38119 901-866-8525 Robert D. Wallace University Clinical Health University Plastic Surgeons 1068 Cresthaven Rd., Ste. 500 Memphis, TN 38119 901-866-8525

RADIOLOGY Harris L. Cohen Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology 848 Adams Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-6938 George Gallimore Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics 7600 Wolf River Blvd., Ste. 200 Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-1000 Robert E. Gold Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology 848 Adams Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-6968 James E. Machin Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics 7600 Wolf River Blvd., Ste. 200 Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-1000 Robert J. Optican Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics 7600 Wolf River Blvd., Ste. 200 Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-1000 Zoltan Patay St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Diagnostic Imaging 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3300 Joseph C. Sullivan Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics 7600 Wolf River Blvd., Ste. 200 Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-1000 Allen K. Tonkin Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics 7600 Wolf River Blvd., Ste. 200 Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-1000 Heidi R. Umphrey Mid-South Imaging & Therapeutics 7600 Wolf River Blvd., Ste. 200 Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-1000

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Germantown, TN 38138 901-692-9600 F. Elizabeth Pritchard UT Methodist Physicians Surgical Oncology 7705 Poplar Ave., Ste. 220 Germantown, TN 38138 901-516-6792

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY Martin D. Fleming University of Tennessee Methodist Physicians UT Methodist Physicians Surgical Oncology 7705 Poplar Ave., Ste. 220 Germantown, TN 38138 901-516-6792 David Shibata UT Methodist Physicians Surgical Oncology Clinic 1211 Union Ave., Ste. 300 Memphis, TN 38104 901-609-3520 Danny Yakoub Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare UT Methodist Physicians Surgical Oncology 1211 Union Ave., Ste. 300 Memphis, TN 38104 901-516-0792

THORACIC SURGERY H. Edward Garrett, Jr. Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic 6029 Walnut Grove Rd., Ste. 401 Memphis, TN 38120 901-747-3066

Michael J. Rohrer UT Methodist Physicians Vascular Surgery 1325 Eastmoreland Ave., Ste. 310 Memphis, TN 38104 901-272-6010

UROLOGY Val Y. Vogt The Conrad Pearson Clinic 1325 Wolf Park Dr. Germantown, TN 38138 901-252-3400 VASCULAR SURGERY Hugh Francis III Memphis Surgery Associates 6029 Walnut Grove Rd., Ste. 404 Memphis, TN 38120 901-726-1056 H. Edward Garrett, Jr. Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic 6029 Walnut Grove Rd., Ste. 401 Memphis, TN 38120 901-747-3066

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By Julia Baker

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said.

Dr. Noelle Trent, director of interpretation, collections, and education at the National Civil Rights Museum and the project leader for the museum’s annual King Day celebration this Monday, says that this was one thing King told fellow citizens to encourage them to activate themselves in society.

“Being silent on an issue means that you’re being complicit,” she says. “The idea [of this event] is that people can go to the museum and see regular folks making some very basic decisions about their lives and making some sacrifices. It’s something that helps move the movement forward. And that was what Dr. King encouraged people to do.”

Vitalant (formerly Lifeblood) and the Mid-South Food Bank will be on site to encourage attendees to give back. In addition to receiving free entry to the museum during the event thanks to FedEx, guests who donate nonperishable foods will receive a $2 coupon toward admission on any future visit to the museum this year, and guests who donate blood will receive free admission for four people (in exchange for the four people a pint of blood could help) on any day in 2020.

“We’re offering people reasonable ways to engage with Dr. King’s story and the story of the movement, but also to do good for the medical community,” says Trent.

To help celebrate King’s life and legacy, entertainment will be provided by the Soulsville Charter School choir, Karen Brown, and more; and kids will be able to partake in face painting and balloons.

“We’re celebrating who he is and what he means to us,” says Trent. “This is not a somber moment.”

January 16-22, 2020

KING DAY, NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, MONDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 8 A.M.-6 P.M., FREE.

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Old Zinnie’s, the “best little neighborhood bar in the universe,” returns.

Brews, p. 41

Maybe Iowa isn’t the best representation of America as a whole.

The Last Word, p. 47

FRIDAY January 17

SATURDAY January 18

The Science of Beer Pink Palace, 3050 Central, 6:30-9 p.m., $45 Drink and learn! Sample offerings from regional breweries and restaurants while learning about the science behind the brews: from aquifers to ales and carbonation to climate change. We’ll raise a glass to that.

Dreamfest Weekend 9 1884 Lounge, 1555 Madison, 7 p.m., $10 Dreamfest shines a light on the abundance of talent in the Memphis music scene. This year’s performers include Sexi Killa, Sumo Tre, Queen Fee, B.A. Barber, Leelee, Aspen Price, and more.

Cosplay Carnival: A Nerdlesque and Circus Extravaganza Rec Room, 3000 Broad, 9 p.m.-midnight, $10 Nerd out at this cosplay event, featuring aerial acrobatics, fire shows, nerdlesque numbers, and more. Costumes welcome but not required. VIP options available.

Anime Blues Winterfest Remix 7 Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., $10-$15 From the team behind Anime Blues Con, this event celebrates the arts and culture of Japanese anime, manga, and cosplay. Features vendors, fan panels, cosplay contest, and more.

Moses Crouch and Memphissippi Medicine Loflin Yard, 7 W. Carolina, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.

Self-described as “hyperdimensional soul, multiversal roots, lunar crater boogie, gourd banjo stomp, way back yonder funk, future folk” — sounds pretty far out, man.

Women’s March 2020 #PowerTogether Clayborn Temple, 294 Hernando, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Show your support for women’s issues. This year’s march meets at Clayborn Temple and continues to the National Civil Rights Museum, where the crowd will hear from speakers from various backgrounds.

New Ballet’s MLK Arts Unite New Ballet Ensemble and School, 2157 York, 2-4 p.m.

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy with a day of dance at this free event. Features arts workshops in dance and music, including flamenco, West African, and Memphis jookin, and participants will have an opportunity to perform what they’ve learned.

Taco & Margarita Crawl Alfred’s, 197 Beale, 2-8 p.m., $14.99 (general)-$34.99 (VIP) Two of our favorite things! Register at Alfred’s and enjoy drink specials and giveaways at Coyote Ugly, Jerry Lee Lewis’, Lew’s Blue Note Bar and Grill, and other locations.

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Honor the King

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MEMPHIS MINIFEST, HI TONE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18TH, 6 P.M.-2 A.M., $17.99/ADVANCE, $20/DOOR (+$5 FOR PERSONS BELOW 21 YEARS OF AGE).

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Experiencing festival withdrawals in these not-so-cold winter months? A collection of various up-and-coming local and regional musicians will showcase their talents at this Saturday’s Memphis miniFEST at the Hi Tone.

The mini fest, organized as part of a series of similar events held in cities throughout the country, was put together by Colorado-based company Bridging the Music Productions as a means of providing a platform for exposing local talents’ music to the public.

“We want to give artists the opportunity to be able to play an event where they can get their music out in front of new people, play at a great venue, and where we can create an opportunity for them to expand as an artist,” says Jonah Lipsky, head event producer for Bridging the Music.

The production company has presented concerts around the country for artists from the likes of Steve Molitz (Particle/ Phil Lesh & Friends), Jason Hann (Eoto), SunSquabi, and more. Now, they’re touring the country, giving local artists in cities across the nation the opportunity to shine. One of those cities is Memphis, and Lipsky says they’re looking forward to bringing the series to the city to highlight some of our local and regional artists like Lucky 7 Brass Band, Jalan Veasley, and Woody & Sunshine.

“This will be our first event in Memphis, and we are excited to branch out into Tennessee,” says Lipsky. “MiniFEST has really great momentum, and people love the idea of a festival and community. And being able to see a ton of different acts throughout the night keeps people very entertained.”

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Rick Springfield Live at Graceland Graceland Live, 3717 Elvis Presley, 7-11 p.m., $40 and up The ’80s power pop powerhouse performs at Graceland, with a set of songs that’s sure to include such hits as “Love Somebody,” “Jessie’s Girl,” “Affair of the Heart,” and “Human Touch.”

Give ’Em Hell Harry!

Halloran Centre, 225 S. Main, 7:30 p.m., $35 A faithful and often humorous portrayal of President Harry S. Truman’s life and presidency.

Clifton Truman Daniel marks the first time in history a U.S. president will be portrayed onstage by a direct descendant — his grandson.

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MONDAY January 20

Sunday Funday High Cotton Brewing Co., 598 Monroe, 1-7:30 p.m.

High Cotton hosts craft vendors and live music. Vendors include SunGypsy Apparel, Lexi Perkins Art, and others. Live music by Joseph David Liberto Dowling, Outer Ring, and Allman Brothers Tribute band Trouble No More.

MLK Day of Service Various locations and times Volunteer Memphis is partnering with Clean Memphis and Memphis City Beautiful to host a citywide cleanup project. Participate with your neighborhood, school, church, or community center to clean up the community. Visit the Volunteer United website at uwmidsouth.org for a list of opportunities.

Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory The Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main, 6:30 p.m., $25-$100 You’ve got a golden ticket to the wonderful world of Willy Wonka!

Featuring songs from the original film alongside a new score from the songwriters of Hairspray.

Chewish: A Chinese + Jewish Mashup Meal Puck Food Hall, 409 S. Main, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $75 Wok’n in Memphis and Caramelized present this dining event featuring seven courses served on the mezzanine.

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The various blades and handles have come and gone — you’d definitely describe Henry Rollins as a hard-chopping example of the former — but the message has remained the same: that of unapologetic, beer-stained, never-say-die, in-the-trenches punk beloved by surfers, skateboarders, and more, the world over.

Joining a group with such an enduring back catalogue and dedicated fan base would be intimidating for any musician, regardless of their chops.

Count drummer Isaias Gil, who joined Black Flag last April, as one of that number.

“To enter this mix is kind of surreal,” the 35-year-old Houstonian tells the Flyer, ahead of Black Flag’s gig at Growlers this Saturday. “[Growing up], I was familiar with bits of the music and had heard of it, but I wasn’t super familiar with the entire catalogue. As I started diving into it, it was cool to see all the musicality in it and the different routes it takes, the different eras.

I’m just learning the whole history. I’ve come to appreciate it way more now than I could have then.”

Gil’s path to Black Flag has been an interesting one. Born in Acapulco, Mexico, Gil moved to Texas as a child and didn’t pick up drumming until he was 15. The late start hasn’t hurt him professionally though, with his résumé including studio work with pop-soul icon Macy Gray and Van Halen’s David Lee Roth, as well as stretches touring with Americana staples Charlie and the Regrets, Grand Old Grizzly, and desert rockers Thunderado.

Yet it was Gil’s link with lead singer Mike Vallely, whom he had collaborated with on a solo project, which saw him brought into the Black Flag fold. Gil says his positive working dynamic with Vallely, a legendary pro skateboarder who joined Black Flag full-time in 2013, has spilled over into the group itself.

“That same heart and mentality

transferred over to the band, right now,” he says. “When I first met Greg, it was just him and me in a rehearsal space. He was on bass. I had learned a few songs, [but] I was really nervous because I didn’t know the entire catalogue.

“He said, ‘Hey, man, let’s just jam and see how this feels.’ That’s what we did.

Everything was really organic — they really wanted to know who I was as a person rather than the chops I could play or anything like that.”

Bassist Joseph Noval joined Black Flag at the same time as Gil, before the group embarked on a 52-date U.S. tour last year.

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Exhaustive stuff, though Gil reckons the band’s dynamic of being loose but staying tight definitely gets the most out of its members. “I worked with other people where it’s very business [oriented] and you check your personal stuff and your feelings at the door,” he says. “With Black Flag, it’s the opposite, and I’ve had the good fortune of playing with some people who are like that. So, coming into this, it was a real nice welcoming thing, knowing what I was walking into. Especially with it being Black Flag. I mean, it’s iconic. Everyone sees the bars, and they recognise it. To know the history of the band — and here I am, bright-eyed and green to everything.

It’s very welcoming. I’m like, ‘Come on, let’s do this.’”

With only one new album (2013’s What The…) since Rollins left the band in 1986, expect Black Flag to dive into the classics in Memphis. Well-known for their support of the punk community and fostering talented bands rising from within it, the group will be supported by Phoenix ska/punk three-piece The Linecutters at Growlers.

Black Flag, with special guests The Linecutters, play Growlers on Saturday, January 18th. Doors open at 7 p.m. $25.

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This innovative, immersive experience lifts the veil on Memphis’ longstanding songwriting tradition for music fans of all genres to enjoy.

Each Songwriters Series performance features three of Memphis’ own seasoned musicians.

February 27, 2020 March 26, 2020 April 23, 2020

GIVE ‘EM HELL, HARRY! January 18, 2020

THAT GOLDEN GIRLS SHOW: A Puppet Parody March 28, 2020

Memphis Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Moody unlocks the musical genius of Beethoven, takes audiences to the “Crossroads,” where Delta Blues Robert Johnson and Igor Stravinsky meet, and then deconstructs the full historical arc of music from the Gregorian Chant to music of great 21st Century Composers. Have a cocktail, bring your friends, and immerse yourself in an auditory journey.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule January 16 - 22 Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 Thursdays-Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; Karaoke Thursdays, TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Mandi Thomas Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; The 901 Heavy Hitters Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Flyin’ Ryan Fridays, Saturdays, 2:30 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

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

The King Beez Thursdays, 5 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill

The Amazing Rhythmatics Tuesdays, Thursdays-Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007

Memphis Music Monday Third Monday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Itta Bena Nat “King” Kerr Fridays, Saturdays, 9-10 p.m.

King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille 159 BEALE

Lunch on Beale with Chris Gales Wednesdays-Sundays, 12-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/ acoustic Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

Blues City Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe Patio

138 BEALE 526-3637

162 BEALE 521-1851

Rum Boogie Cafe

Semi-Average Joe Thursdays, 6 p.m.; Matt Bennett Jan. 17-18, 6 p.m.; Dumas Walker Band Jan. 17-18, 10 p.m.; MLK Sunday Sunday, Jan. 19, 2 p.m.; Jamie Davis & Friends Tuesday, Jan. 21, 7 p.m.; Rodell McCord Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m.midnight and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Wednesdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Baunie and Soul Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight.

Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; FreeWorld Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Cash O’Riley Thursday, Jan. 16, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Saturdays, 4:30-8:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and Fridays, 4-8 p.m.; Jimmy James Band Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Cowboy Neil Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Soul Street Mojo Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-3 a.m., and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

The Lounge at 3rd & Court 24 N. B.B. KING BLVD 930-0793

LAPD Thursday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m.; John Williams and the A440 Band Fridays, 9 p.m.; Aubrey McCrady Band Saturday, Jan. 18, 9 p.m.; Soul Jazz Trios with Joe Restivo Sundays, 7 p.m.

Mesquite Chop House 88 UNION

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays; Carma Karaoke with Carla Worth Saturdays, 9-11 p.m.

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN 525-1515

Richard Wilson Saturday, Jan. 18, 7-10 p.m.

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

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

Songwriters with Roland and Friends Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 525-3000

Saturday Series: Lessons of Humanity Saturday, Jan. 18, 10 a.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, Jan. 19, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Moses Crouch and Memphissippi Medicine Friday, Jan. 17, 10 p.m.; Blackwater Trio Saturday, Jan. 18, 9 p.m.-midnight.

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Joe Restivo Jazz Trio Jan. 17-18, 7-10 p.m.

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

Mahler and Marimba: Featuring Zuri Wells and Mary Wilson Saturday, Jan. 18, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 19, 2:30 p.m.

130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

South Main

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

The Silly Goose DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

1884 Lounge 1555 MADISON 609-1744

DreamFest Weekend 9: The Concert Friday, Jan. 17, 7-11 p.m.

B-Side 1555 MADISON 347-6813

Rodrick Duran Band Thursday, Jan. 16, 9 p.m.; Relentless Breeze Friday, Jan. 17, 6-9 p.m.; Blvck Hippie, Crook & the Copper Artillery Kids Saturday, Jan. 18, 9 p.m.; E & H Jazz Trio Sunday, Jan. 19, 8 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; David Cousar Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Outer Ring Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

The Vault

Bar DKDC

124 GE PATTERSON

964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Alexis Taylor Friday, Jan. 17, 8:30 p.m.; KC Johns Saturday, Jan. 18, 8 p.m.

Medical Center Sunrise 670 JEFFERSON

KC Johns Sunday, Jan. 19, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Goner Third Thursday Every third Thursday; Chris Milam Friday, Jan. 17, 8 p.m.; Data Drums Friday, Jan. 17, 10:30 p.m.; Lil Al and G Reub Saturday, Jan. 18, 10:30 p.m.; Mary Gagz Mondays, 9 p.m.; Lahna Deering with Doug Easley and John Lightman Tuesday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m.; TN Screamers Wednesday, Jan. 22, 8:30 p.m.

January 16-22, 2020

Sean Apple Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 5-9 p.m.; John Paul Keith Fridays, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Landon Lane with Rodney Polk Mondays, 7-11 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

168 BEALE 576-2220

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Tin Roof 315 BEALE

182 BEALE 528-0150

145 BEALE 578-3031

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

341 BEALE 577-8387

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

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Join us for the Annual MLK, Jr. Celebration Game, with a 4pm tip-off, presented by Mid-South Ford Dealers. GRIZZLIES.COM 901.888.HOOP

Grammy Award winning rock band Tool makes a stop at FedExForum.

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The world-famous Harlem Globetrotters bring their all-new show Pushing the Limits to FedExForum.

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Actor, filmmaker and comedian Tyler Perry is making a stop at FedExForum.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule January 16 - 22 Boscos

Lafayette’s Music Room

Murphy’s

Huey’s Poplar

Hernando’s Hide-A-Way

2120 MADISON 432-2222

2119 MADISON 207-5097

1589 MADISON 726-4193

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

3210 OLD HERNANDO 398-7496

1737 MADISON 443-5232

Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

Caberet Night Friday, Jan. 17, 9 p.m.; Uptown Punk: Ramones Tribute Part Duh Saturday, Jan. 18, 10 p.m.-midnight.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rockstar Karaoke Fridays; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND 454-7771

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Ladies of the ’00s Saturday, Jan. 18, 4 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Soul Shockers Sunday, Jan. 19, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Mario Monterosso Thursday, Jan. 16, 7 p.m.; Them Durty Crooks, Jimbo Mathus Thursday, Jan. 16, 9 p.m.; Jesse Daniel Friday, Jan. 17, 9 p.m.; Chuck Mead Saturday, Jan 18, 9 p.m.; Honky Tonk Wednesdays with Dale Watson & his Lone Stars Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

Bartlett

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Paul Anthony Friday, Jan. 17, 9 p.m.; Bluff City Backsliders Saturday, Jan. 18, 9 p.m.; Jazz Jam with Frog Squad Sundays, 6 p.m.; Freeman Weems Mondays, 6 p.m.; Comedy with Geno Mondays, 8 p.m.; Gayland Grooms Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

Crosstown Theater

Cordova

3663 APPLING 385-6440

Marty Haggard: A Tribute to Merle Haggard Friday, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m.

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

The Dantones Sunday, Jan. 19, 8-11:30 p.m.

1350 CONCOURSE

Booker T. Jones Saturday, Jan. 18, 8-11 p.m.

Huey’s Cordova 1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 318-3030

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

Two-Mule Plow Sunday, Jan. 19, 4-7 p.m.; The Chaulkies Sunday, Jan. 19, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 507-8030

The Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Series: Alberto Lombardi Friday, Jan. 17, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Ryan Lee Crosby and Grant Smith, Shaun Marsh Wednesday, Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m.

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

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Frayser/Millington

Growlers

Huey’s Millington

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

8570 HWY 51 N.

Sunweight, The Blam Blams Thursday, Jan. 16, 9 p.m.; Refreshingly Heavy Friday, Jan. 17, 6 p.m.; Black Flag, The Linecutters Saturday, Jan. 18, 8 p.m.; A Sunday Afternoon featuring Bosco Park, Shufflegrit Sunday, Jan. 19, 1 p.m.; Life Explicit, Slark Moan, Magnum Dopus Sunday, Jan. 19, 8 p.m.; Reverend Jack, Reframe Monday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m.; (Hed) P.E. Tuesday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m.; Afton Presents Wednesday, Jan. 22, 7 p.m.

Hi Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Olympics, The Streakers Thursday, Jan. 16, 10 p.m.; Creature Comfort, Everdeens Friday, Jan. 17, 10 p.m.; Bridging the Music Presents: Memphis miniFEST Saturday, Jan. 18, 6 p.m.; To Serve Man, HEELS Saturday, Jan. 18, 10 p.m.; Paint & Get Lit Sunday, Jan. 19, 7 p.m.; Gools, Future Losers, Not Tight Monday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m.; Benefit for Animals of Australia Tuesday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m.; Mykel Boyd, Drekka, Timber Rattle, Mike Honeycutt Wednesday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Jimbo Mathus and Them Durty Crooks Sunday, Jan. 19, 4-7 p.m.; John Paul Keith Sunday, Jan. 19, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Java Trio Sunday, Jan. 19, 6-9 p.m.

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

& New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.

Lamplighter Lounge 1702 MADISON 726-9916

Toward Space, Alicja-Pop, Opossums Tuesday, Jan. 21, 8-11 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

An Evening with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Saturday, Jan. 18, 8-10 p.m.; Mahler and Marimba! Featuring Zuri Wells & Mary Wilson Sunday, Jan. 19, 2:30 p.m.

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe

Huey’s Germantown

The PRVLG Friday, Jan. 17, 8 p.m.; Lucky 7 Brass Band Saturday, Jan. 18, 8 p.m.; Mighty Souls 4 Sunday, Jan. 19, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Live Music with DJ ALXANDR Fridays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Live Music with Coldway Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Whitehaven/ Airport

Wild Bill’s

East Memphis

Graceland Soundstage

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

Rick Springfield Saturday, Jan. 18, 7-10 p.m.

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY

Natalie James and the Professor Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; “The Happening” Open Songwriter Showcase Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony Chapman, Charles Cason, and Miss Joyce Henderson Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Juke Jam Sundays, 4 p.m.

60 N. PERKINS EXT. 537-1483

An Evening with Gaby Moreno Friday, Jan. 17, 8 p.m.

Guest House at Graceland

Minglewood Hall

Young Avenue Deli

3600 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-3322

1555 MADISON 312-6058

2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Wale Saturday, Jan. 18, 9 p.m.

Devil Train Wednesday, Jan. 22, 10 p.m.

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

Larry Cunningham ThursdaysSaturdays; Aislynn Rappe Sundays; Keith Kimbrough Mondays-Wednesdays.

Rob Haynes Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Live Music Mondays-Wednesdays, Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

The Bugaloos Sunday, Jan. 19, 8-11:30 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Gold Strike Casino 1010 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 1-888-245-7829

Engelbert Humperdinck Friday, Jan. 17, 9 p.m.; Dueling Pianos Friday, Jan. 17, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

Royal Blues Band Sunday, Jan. 19, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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Canvas

Scott Sudbury Solo Thursday, Jan. 16, 6 p.m.; School of Rock Friday, Jan. 17, 5 p.m.; Almost Elton John Friday, Jan. 17, 10 p.m.; Amber McCain Acoustic Saturday, Jan. 18, 10:30 a.m.; Eric Hughes Trio Saturday, Jan. 18, 2 p.m.; Rice Drewry Saturday, Jan. 18, 6:30 p.m.; The Dantones Saturday, Jan. 18, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Your Academy Sunday, Jan. 19, 4 p.m.; Madison Line Mondays Mondays, 6 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle

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

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ENTERTAINMENT AT GOLD STRIKE ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Friday, January 17 • 9 p.m.

Millennium Theatre

CALENDAR of EVENTS:

JAN. 16 - 22 T H E AT E R

The Halloran Centre

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JUST KIDDING WORLD TOUR Thursday, February 6 • 9 p.m.

Millennium Theatre

Give ’Em Hell, Harry!, a faithful portrayal of President Harry S. Truman’s life and presidency, the play spans his childhood, his “political apprenticeship” as a judge in Jackson County, Missouri, his years in the U.S. Senate, and his two terms as president. orpheum-memphis.com. $35. Sat., Jan. 18, 7:30 p.m.

225 S. MAIN (525-3000).

The Orpheum

Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the golden ticket for a delectable treat, with songs from the original film. orpheum-memphis.com. $25.

Tue.-Thurs., Jan. 14-17, 7: 30 p.m., Sat., Jan. 18, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sun., Jan. 19, 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

BILL ENGVALL Saturday, February 22 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.

Millennium Theatre

Playhouse on the Square

Friday, February 28 • 8 p.m.

Millennium Theatre

January 16-22, 2020

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Call 1.800.522.4700.

PlayBack Memphis, bringing stories to life in a safe space to unlock healing, transformation, and joy. Families welcome. (207-3694), Free. Third Thursday of every month, 4:30-6 p.m.

LEMOYNE-OWEN COLLEGE, 990 COLLEGE PARK.

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

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

Give ’Em Hell, Harry! at The Halloran Centre, Saturday, January 18th, at 7:30 p.m.

ROOM PACKAGES AVAILABLE. GET TICKETS AT 1.888.747.7711 OR GOLDSTRIKE.COM.

Universal Parenting Place

Memphis the Musical, in the 1950s, on the Downtown streets of Memphis, rock-androll was born. In a seedy bar on Beale, music spoke to the soul of a local country boy. playhouseonthesquare.org. $27.

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

When We Get Good Again, when a brilliant, idealistic but poor college student is tempted by a lucrative job selling term papers to her classmates to pay her tuition, she wonders: Is it ever okay to put being good on hold?

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

Ross Gallery

Opening Reception for “Stitched Dissent,” exhibition of textile by Paula Kovarik. Fri., Jan. 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Opening Reception for “Forge, Cast, Fabricate,” exhibition of new work by artists from the Metal Museum. Fri., Jan. 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m. cbu.edu.

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

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

TheatreWorks

MICHAEL CARBONARO LIVE!

playhouseonthesquare.org. $27. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Through Jan. 26.

The Liberal Mrs. Price, it’s 1968 and two women engage in an open and honest conversation about Dr. Martin Luther King’s impact on mankind and walking in each other’s shoes. Free coffee and hot tea. theatreworksmemphis.com. $10. Mon., Jan. 20.

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

Opening Reception for “Reflections by the Sea,” exhibition of quilts, paintings, and photographs by Marilyn League and Frederique Zindy. buckmanartscenter.com. Fri., Jan. 17, 5-7 p.m.

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

Opening Reception for “To Disappear Away: Places Soon To Be No More,” multimedia works

by Lawrence Matthews. Thurs., Jan. 16, 6-8 p.m.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

My Memphis View Art & Gallery

Opening Reception for “Conversation with Myself,” modern paintings by Michelle Fair. maryellenkellydesign.com. Fri., Jan. 17, 7-9 p.m.

5 S. MAIN.

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Artist Talk: Creative Destination with Pam Santi

Local artist and community collaborator will discuss how she uses her artwork to engage the community and create inspired works. In conjunction with “Color Schemes: The Value of Intensity.” Sun., Jan. 19, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 (507-8030), CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Artist Talk for “An Unobstructed View”

Exhibition of paintings by Shelley Gentry. Talk precedes Exile Spotlight Series performance. Sat., Jan. 18, 6:30 p.m.

EACC FINE ARTS CENTER GALLERY, EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR, EACC.EDU.

Artist Talk for “The 35th Parallel”

Exhibition of works by Chuck Johnson. Sat., Jan. 18, 11:30 a.m.

L ROSS GALLERY, 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200), LROSSGALLERY.COM.

Artists’ Link Meeting

Guest speaker Angela Goza, Commercial Art. Third Monday of every month, 6:30 p.m.

JASON’S DELI, 3473 POPLAR (324-3181).

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Evening of music, art, and community in a festival style atmosphere. $15. Sat., Jan. 18, 6 p.m.

HI TONE, 412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE), BRIDGINGTHEMUSIC.COM.

Open Late

Galleries and gardens will be open late. Free with admission. Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m.

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

Open on Main: My Memphis View Art & Gallery

MS. LISA FISCHER & GRAND BATON SATURDAY FEB 1 8 PM Star of the Oscar winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom

Artist Mary-Ellen Kelly will be selling “My Memphis View” products including books, prints, T-shirts, drink coasters, and posters, as well as featuring a local emerging artist every three weeks. Ongoing.

MY MEMPHIS VIEW ART & GALLERY, 5 S. MAIN, MARYELLENKELLYDESIGN.COM.

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Argentine Tango Society

All level dancers; everyone is welcome. $10. Wednesdays, 6-7:30 p.m.

BERT FERGUSON COMMUNITY CENTER, 8085 TRINITY (341-9282).

Brooks Milongas

Members of the Argentine Tango Society give lessons and tango demonstrations in the rotunda. Included with museum admission. Third Wednesday, Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m.

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

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Comma Comedians Present: 1, 2, 3 Comedy, every other Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

95 S. MAIN (473-9573).

January 16-22, 2020

P&H Cafe

You Look Like, a monthly showcase of spite, battle of bitchery, and competition of “Oh, hell no.” Watch the quickest wits from all over the country talk mad shit. $8.

Third Saturday of every month, 9-11 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

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Girl’s Write In

Take those 2020 dreams and visions and turn them into a workable plan. Learn the basics to create clear measurable goals. Fri., Jan. 17, 7-10 p.m.

ORIJENNAL ART, 1770 N. GERMANTOWN PARKWAY, PAMETRIADOMINISE.COM.

“A History of Death”

Join Kim Bearden for a 45-minute presentation on funerals, folklore, and how we’ve come to memorialize our loved ones during this indoor, seated talk. Snacks will be served. $20.

Sat., Jan. 18, 1 p.m.

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

Keith Amodeo: Weight Loss

Discuss healthy ways to lose weight with Collierville Weight Loss Center representative.

Learn how making small changes can produce big results. Feel healthier and have more energy. 18+. Free. Sat., Jan. 18, 2-3 p.m.

LUCIUS E. & ELSIE C. BURCH JR. LIBRARY, 501 POPLAR VIEW, COLLIERVILLE (457-2600).

C O N F E R E N C ES/ C O NVE NT I O N S

Novel

General Hospital Fan Celebration

Spillit Slam: Bookends, an evening of your stories. spillitmemphis.org. $10. Sat., Jan. 18, 6:30 p.m.

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Raynesha Pittman

Author of urban fiction discusses and signs Kingpins: Memphis. Sat., Jan. 18, 4-5 p.m.

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

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“Renaissance Woman”

by Augusta Savage at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens

Graceland and ABC television network have teamed up to celebrate the longest-running American soap opera and longest-running scripted television drama currently in production today. Fri., Jan. 17, and Sun., Jan. 19.

GRACELAND, 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322), GRACELAND.COM

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City Tasting Tours

Savor tastings at five eateries, interact with chefs and managers, and sample local flavors while strolling down Main Street and enjoying new art installations and historic landmarks. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1:30 p.m.

CITYTASTINGTOURS.COM.

Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour

See what used to be, Memphisstyle, with Mike McCarthy.

Call to schedule a personal tour. Ongoing.

(486-6325).

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The Pink Bride Wedding Show

$15. Sun., Jan. 19, 12-4 p.m.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, SHOWPLACE ARENA, 105 S. GERMANTOWN (865-531-3941), THEPINKBRIDE.COM.

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Anime Blues Winterfest Remix 7

Celebrates the arts and culture of Japanese anime, manga, and cosplay. Features vendors, fan panels, cosplay contest, and more. Sat., Jan. 18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100).

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Cardinals Caravan

Both sessions include Q&A with past and present players and autograph opportunities.

Afternoon caravan includes lunch, $25. Evening caravan is free. Visit website for more information. Fri., Jan. 17, 11:45 a.m. & 6 p.m.

AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), MEMPHISREDBIRDS.COM.

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Cleveland Cavaliers Fri., Jan. 17, 7 p.m.

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Sunset Yoga

Join Peggy Reisser for an hourlong Vinyasa flow class. All levels welcome. If you have blocks, straps, or blankets, please bring them. Free for members, $5 nonmembers. Third Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m.

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

Walk ‘n’ Talk

Sip on a cup of tea or coffee from Fourth Cup while you listen to Memphians’ stories and share ideas with others.

Wednesdays, 6:45-7:30 a.m.

RIVER GARDEN, 51 RIVERSIDE DRIVE (312-9190), MEMPHISRIVERPARKS.ORG.

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The Dixon Book Club

Interactive discussion on great

reads. For more information, email lschmidt@dixon.org. Free with admission. Third Thursday of every month, 6-7:30 p.m.

5 p.m.

SAM’S TOWN HOTEL & CASINO, 1477 CASINO STRIP RESORTS (662-357-7686), SAMSTOWNTUNICA.COM.

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

City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign

Get Lit Book Club

Discuss monthly selections over a beer. Join the group on Facebook to learn more. Free.

Third Thursday of every month, 7-8:30 p.m.

The Poor People’s Campaign — a grassroots, multiracial movement — drew thousands of people to Washington, D.C., to demand social reforms while living side-by-side on the National Mall in a tent city known as Resurrection City.

This poster exhibition explores the history and legacy of this important moment in U.S. history. Through June 30.

GHOST RIVER BREWING, 827 S. MAIN (278-0087).

MS Touchdown Club

Meeting include lunch, recognition of guests and officials, guest speaker, and announcements.

RSVP by preceding Wednesday by phone or email cwicker@ desotocountyms.gov Tues., Jan. 21, 11:30 a.m.

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

Cosplay Carnival: A Nerdlesque and Circus Extravaganza

HOLIDAY INN SOUTHAVEN, 280 MARATHON WAY (603-9135).

KIDS

PAW Patrol: Adventure Play

Free-flowing exhibit with activities encouraging teamwork, self confidence, and playing the roles of the rescuing heroes. Included with museum admission. Through Feb. 2, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS, 2525 CENTRAL (458-2678), CMOM.COM.

Women’s March 2020 at Clayborn Temple, Saturday, January 18th, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Peanut Butter & Jam: Middle Eastern Music and Dance

Children ages 8 and under are invited to performances in the Watkins Studio Theater. Sat., Jan. 18, 8:30-10:30 a.m.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), GPACWEB.COM.

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Back to the Moon: For Good

Planetarium show that lets the audience relive the thrills of lunar exploration. Various times, see website for details.

Ongoing.

AUTOZONE DOME PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Birthday at the Bar

Celebrate the birthday of founder Domenico Canale.

Featuring punch drink specials, trivia, toddy, cupcakes, and hors d’oeuvres honoring Domenico’s Italian heritage. Thurs., Jan. 16, 2-10 p.m.

OLD DOMINICK DISTILLERY, 305 S. FRONT, OLDDOMINICK.COM.

The Chambers Escape Room

Escape room located on the second floor of the atrium.

Choose from two rooms where you can Escape Alive as a reluctant group of tourists or find stolen information in Mission Improbable. $25. Fri., Sat., 3 &

$7.50. Fri., Jan. 17, 9 p.m.

REC ROOM, 3000 BROAD (2091137), QCGPRODUCTIONS.COM.

Downtown Neighborhood Association 2020 Membership Kickoff

Renew or start a membership to be part of DNA for 2020. All new events and parties, new communications, new information, improved social media presence, and more. Tues., Jan. 21, 5:30-7 p.m.

477 S. MAIN, 477 S. MAIN, MEMPHISDNA.ORG.

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Firepit Fridays

Friday-afternoon gathering with firepits, free s’mores, hot cocoa, and more. Fridays.

Through Jan. 24.

RIVER GARDEN, 51 RIVERSIDE DRIVE (312-9190).

The Grand Krewe of Ennead Coronation

Carnival Memphis is about to begin, and the Grand Krewe of Ennead is the first to kick off the season with their King and Queen Coronation. $60. Sat., Jan. 18, 7:30-11 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS HOLIDAY INN, 3700 CENTRAL (831-8235).

Sun, Earth, Universe

An interactive museum exhibit about Earth and space.

Ongoing.

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

Twilight Thursdays

Extended hours staying open till sunset. Each week will have a different highlight from plants to pets. Thursdays.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Women’s March 2020 #PowerTogether

Meet at Clayborn Temple and continue to the National Civil Rights Museum, where the crowd will hear from speakers from various backgrounds in support of women’s issues. Sat., Jan. 18, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

CLAYBORN TEMPLE, 294 HERNANDO.

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King Day

Celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. featuring daylong performances, activities, and entertainment along with free Museum admission for all.

Blood drive and food donations accepted. Mon., Jan. 20, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), KINGDAY.ORG.

MLK Day of Service

Empowers individuals, strengthens communities, bridges barriers, creates solutions to social problems, and moves us closer to Dr. King’s vision. Visit website for volunteer opportunities. Mon., Jan. 20.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, UWMIDSOUTH.ORG.

MLK Day of Service: Elmwood

Join the staff of Elmwood for clean up efforts including picking up litter and free audio tour of the cemetery grounds after

MLK Day of Service: Read With the Stars

Featuring special activities for students and parents including food, fun, photo booth, prizes, raffle, free books, and more.

Free. Sat., Jan. 18, 1-3 p.m.

HOLLYWOOD BRANCH LIBRARY, 1530 N. HOLLYWOOD (323-6201), MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.

MLK Days of Service Kick-Off Event

Free with registration. Thurs., Jan. 16, 5:30-7 p.m.

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

New Ballet’s MLK Arts Unite

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy with a day of dance.

Features arts workshops in dance and music and participants will have an opportunity to perform what they’ve learned. Sat., Jan. 18, 2-4 p.m.

NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE & SCHOOL, 2157 YORK (274-5368), NEWBALLET.ORG.

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Chewish: A Chinese + Jewish Mashup Meal

Wok’n in Memphis and Caramelized present this dining event featuring seven courses served on the mezzanine.

Mon., Jan. 20, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

PUCK FOOD HALL, 409 S. MAIN.

Culinary Fare and No Passport Required

Sampling of international cuisine prepared by the chefs of Global Café and free preview screening of season two of the PBS series about rituals and food of multicultural America.

Free with registration. Wed., Jan. 22, 5:30-7 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 (458-2521), WKNO.ORG.

No Meat Meetup Vegan Potluck

Vegan potluck. Bring a vegan dish to share, and mingle with like-minded folks. Sun., Jan. 19, 3-5 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 (507-8030), CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Science of Beer

Drink. Learn. Eat. Taste beer from craft breweries and home brewers, talk to local brewers, attend guided tasting sessions, or learn science experiments with beer. Enjoy with local food. $45. Fri., Jan. 17, 6:30-9 p.m.

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

Sunday Funday

Featuring craft vendors and live music by Joseph David Liberto Dowling, Outer Ring, and Allman Brothers Tribute band Trouble No More.

Sun., Jan. 19, 1-7:30 p.m.

Register at Alfred’s and enjoy drink specials and giveaways at Coyote Ugly, Jerry Lee Lewis’, Lew’s Blue Note Bar and Grill, and other locations. $15-$35.

Sat., Jan. 18, 2-8 p.m.

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ALFRED’S, 197 BEALE (525-3711).

Wine Down: Cheeseboard Edition

Wine tasting provided by Buster’s Liquors and Wines, food by Park + Cherry, and live music by Josh Threlkeld.

Members $25, nonmembers $40. Fri., Jan. 17, 6-8 p.m.

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Winner of six Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron who sing and dance to the music of George and Ira Gershwin. Sun., Jan. 19, 1 p.m., and Wed., Jan. 22, 7 p.m.

MALCO PARADISO CINEMA, 584 S. MENDENHALL (682-1754), MALCO.COM.

Apollo 11: First Steps Edition

Film celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Check CTI Theater schedule for show times and ticket prices. Ongoing.

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CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

January FilmFest

Swim with a whale, walk on the moon and go on safari with popular documentaries Journey to the South Pacific, Apollo 11, Wild Africa, and more. Visit website for schedule. Through Jan. 31.

CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Weapons of the Spirit

During World War II, Pierre Sauvage and his family were hidden in the French village of Le Chambon. Discussion after the film. Wed., Jan. 22, 7-9 p.m.

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

Weathering With You

A boy runs away to Tokyo and befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather. Also screening at Malco in Collierville. Thurs., Jan. 16, 8 p.m.

MALCO PARADISO CINEMA, 584 S. MENDENHALL (682-1754), MALCO.COM.

A Wider Angle Film Series: Styx

An ER doctor embarks on a one-woman sail from Gibraltar to the island of Ascension. She encounters a stranded refugee boat and is tested to the brink of her limits. English and German with English subtitles.

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straight-A student who was always in trouble” in school. “I was thinking about work or starting a company or doing this and that, and I’d finish my schoolwork a little too early and have nothing else to do.”

He had his own lawn-cutting business when he was 14. The following year he went to work at KFC. Phillips dropped out of high school.

“I realized I could make more money if I wasn’t in school. And I had already, in my adolescent opinion, learned what I needed to learn to make money and do okay.”

He began his own catering company when he was 18. He now is a partner in 901 Thyme Catering.

While at L’ecole Culinaire, Phillips acquired his “passion for agriculture and farm-to-table and sustainability.” And, he says, “That blossomed [thanks] greatly in part to Spencer McMillin.”

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onrad Phillips began cooking at 4 years old. Then, he enjoyed watching PBS in the kitchen in his house in Cordova. “They did some sort of an episode on kid-friendly desserts,” he says, “with Nutella and peanut butter. They layered it in a cupcake tin and threw it in the freezer. I [recreated] it, and that’s when I knew I wanted to be a chef.”

He got into carpentry when he began building fences for money at age 15.

Phillips, 25, now combines all his talents as chef de cuisine at Caritas Community Center & Cafe.“I believe God’s got a plan, and he’s got a lot of moving parts in my life that are all slowly coming together,” he says.

Phillips’ Season’s End Wild Game Dinner & Fundraiser, a four-course dinner with hors d’oeuvres and wine and beer pairings, will be his first Caritas fundraiser. The date coincides with the end of duck hunting season so area hunters can attend. The menu will include elk bolognese, duck confit, and venison steak Diane. “I’ll be doing a chocolate grand marnier crème brûlée using duck eggs,” he says.

The dinner is only one of his plans for Caritas.

Phillips, who already built new shelving and menu boards, wants a “full transformation” of the center. That’s “from the ground up, inside out. I want to redo the floors and paint everything so it doesn’t look like a facility. And all these paneled lights need to go.

“The outside will be painted white or a whitewashed brick. All of the windows, we’ll have planted boxes underneath them,” Phillips continues. “We’ll have a pergola, a seating area with big, farmstyle family tables that will sit maybe 30 people. We’ll have picnic tables inside a fenced-in area. Fenced for aesthetics, not for security.”

He wants to grow edible plants for the community. “Instead of having a box where people can go grab a can of some crap processed stuff, I’m going to have a tree out there where they can go pick some superfoods.”

Phillips also has plans for an “aquaponic system” so Caritas can raise its own fish. Cutting down costs will allow Caritas to “provide more for the community.”

They’ve already applied for grants, he says, so more money will come from fundraisers and donations.

Phillips describes himself as “the

McMillin, a veteran chef and former Caritas chef de cuisine, introduced Phillips to Tim Ammonds at Oleo Acres Farm. “We would go every Saturday for a few hours and help out on the farm,” Phillips says.

He worked at various restaurants, and he also made jams, jellies, pies, cakes, syrups, and cookies at Jones Orchard.

Phillips now owns his own construction business, Phillips Enterprises, where he makes fences, decks, and other outdoor structures.

He went to work for Caritas after he saw a Facebook post from McMillin, who was looking for cooks.

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Zinnie’s Redux An old Memphis standby makes a comeback.

Sitting as we are at the end of a deranged decade, we need a place that’s been operating (mostly) since hairy, go-to-hell 1973. The beauty of Zinnie’s is that the bar’s theme is still “Zinnie’s.” A place from a simpler time. A time when I showed up one night to be told by Stan, the then-bartender, that my friend ____ had been hit by a car leaving the place about a halfhour earlier. Perhaps, he suggested, I should call him to check in. Whether it was Stan’s humanity or keen grasp of risk management is anyone’s guess, but I was concerned. I’ve never been a good salesman but managed to talk ____ into coming back out. So in he walks, still suited up (I think there was a wedding involved), if a bit disheveled, sporting a chipped tooth and an angry red whelp across the cheek where the wiper blade smacked him.

I bought him a drink, and we fired up a couple of heaters. I asked what it

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was like — you know — getting plowed by a car while wearing worsted wool.

He took things in stride because that’s the sort of place Zinnie’s was. “Not as bad as you’d think,” he said. “Scared the hell out of the driver though. It didn’t really hurt me until he hit the brakes and I rolled off the hood.”

“So basically,” I clarified, blowing a long plume of smoke, “had our driver possessed the presence of mind to just keep driving steadily to, say Canada, you’d have been fine?”

“Yes … but I don’t know anyone in Canada.”

Zinnie’s was the sort of bar where things like that just happened and it wasn’t remarkable. It looks like it still is that kind of place. The main difference now is the great cross-section of local beers. Memphis standbys like Wiseacre’s Tiny Bomb, Meddlesome’s 201 Hoplar, and Memphis Made’s Fireside, as well as an amber and pilsner from the new kid, Delta Sunshine. It’s not all local: There is Hi-Wire brown ale, and a red ale from Steel Barrel.

And, of course, PBR, if you feel the need to out-hipster the craft beer people.

Ginny, the bartender, took me around the shots and offered me a food menu. I don’t know if they’ve always had one, but I sure as hell don’t remember it — just that popcorn machine in the back. She recommended the hamburgers and honestly seemed like the sort of lady who’d look after a good customer that had been menaced by a Ford Taurus. The wings are solid pub grub. The Zinnalonni is a thick-cut, fried bologna sandwich with American cheese and slaw. My guess is that this creation will occupy the same place as the chicken-on-a-stick at the Chevron in Oxford, Mississippi. They aren’t moving too many during daylight, but once you float across the hour of good and evil on a river of booze, they really hit the spot.

So at the New Old Zinnie’s, you have the best of vintage Memphis serving a cold pint of the new Memphis. And they’ve still got that big front window.

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Zinnie’s, fortunately, was saved from that oblivion. Well, strictly speaking, it sat in oblivion’s waiting room for a bit, decided the city still needed it, and reemerged at the same location on Madison. The new owners have cleaned it up but retained its old-school vibe. So old-school, in fact, that you can still park yourself at the heavy wooden bar in the beautiful neon gloom and suck down a lung-dart with impunity.

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FILM By Chris McCoy

Rope Trick Director Sam Mendes’ 1917 is a one-shot wonder.

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he year 2019 was a banner one for Memphis short films. One of the best — and certainly the most technically challenging to produce — was “A Night Out” by Kevin Brooks and Abby Myers.

Winner of the Memphis Film Prize, “A Night Out” is done in one continuous, 10-minute shot by cinematographer Andrew Trent Fleming, who follows actress Rosalyn Ross up and down the stairs at Molly Fontaine’s. The hard part was to make it seamless while passing through different lighting conditions and requiring a dozen actors to hit their marks exactly right at the same time.

The origin of the seamless, one-shot trick is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 film Rope. Hitch took advantage of a then-new camera that held 10 minutes worth of film and staged his parlor murder mystery as a play on a soundstage. The cuts in the 74-minute film are concealed with camera moves and lighting tricks.

Ten years later, Orson Welles would take Hitch’s innovation and run with it. The unbroken, three-minuteand-twenty-second opening shot of Touch of Evil sets up

the entire plot and introduces the main characters with spectacular swoops and daring close-ups.

The modern vogue for long takes began with Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 Children of Men, which features a climactic battle sequence that takes six minutes to unfold as Clive Owen runs through an urban hellscape. Since then, bravado long takes have popped up in everything from Gaspar Noé’s trashy psychedelic dance picture Climax to Cuarón’s sentimental prestige picture Roma. But these films use long takes as a seasoning. Since 1948, no one, to my knowledge, has attempted the full Rope trick.

Enter director Sam Mendes (who most recently directed two James Bond movies) and his war film 1917.

The story is based on the experience of his grandfather Alfred Mendes on the Western Front during World War I. It opens with a pair of English soldiers napping on a beautiful April morning near the BelgianFrench border. Lance Corporals Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) have no idea what kind of day they’re about to have when their commanding officer picks them for a mission.

After fighting over the same few acres of ground

Not so quiet on the Western Front — George MacKay (above) risks life and limb in 1917. for more than a year, the Germans have unexpectedly withdrawn to a new position. An English battalion, which happens to include Blake’s brother, is set to launch an all-out attack to capitalize on this unexpected development. But Allied high command has discovered that they’re charging into a trap. Since the Germans cut the telephone lines on their way out, Blake and Schofield must carry word to Colonel MacKenzie (Benedict Cumberbatch), telling him to call off the attack. The pair of buddies sets out to cross nine miles of battlefield to deliver the message that could save 1,000 lives.

Mendes’ best move in 1917 was tapping Roger Deakins, our greatest living cinematographer, to shoot this intimate story of individual heroism set against the backdrop of an epic conflict. With digital imaging technology, lightweight cameras, cranes and dollies with fully programmable computer controls, and CGI to paint over the gaps, Deakins’ task is superficially easier than Hitchcock’s. But there’s really no comparison. Rope was a bottle

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The best sequence in a film made of nothing but impossible images comes after night falls on the worst day of our protagonists’ lives. Schofield sneaks through a bombed-out French town, his progress lit by flashing explosions, shimmering flares, and a raging bonfire.

Deakins uses the flickering shadows like a German Expressionist, creating ephemeral representations of our hero’s haunted mental state.

The other great film from the 1950s that pioneered the long take is Paths of Glory. If 1917 has a direct inspiration, it’s Stanley Kubrick’s searing 1957 World War I film. Both Kirk Douglas’ one-shot tour of the trenches and his march across

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by Mendes to great effect. But the visual callbacks to a legendary anti-war film raise issues that 1917 skirts. Not that Mendes shrinks from putting the horrors of war in your face — far from it. But Kubrick is explicit that war is empty vanity. Mendes is focused on the technical trickery, pacing his film like a first-person shooter to keep you engaged in the action. It wouldn’t do to lose your attention while Blake and Schofield trudge through a field with no one to shoot at them. Maybe Truffaut was right when he said “Every film about war ends up being pro-war” — especially one like 1917 that looks so damn good.

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As Iowa Goes …

With the confetti swept and the holiday credit card statements sent for payment, it’s time to dive into what promises to be a well-fought and civil presidential election season. In just three weeks, we’ll find out which of the 12 (at press time) Democratic hopefuls survives the gauntlet.

Who will emerge from a year of hand-shaking and folksy photo ops in Iowa, electability still intact?

That was a trick question. The four candidates who have been leading the whole time will persist, and so will the four billionaires who have no chance. If you had more money than you could ever use, wouldn’t you spend it on a vanity campaign and not something frivolous like, I don’t know, earthquake relief or fighting the Australian wildfires? Guess that’s why I’m not a billionaire.

Iowa’s outsized relevance is one of many baffling traditions that proves this country’s electoral process needs an overhaul. What started as a response to a legitimate threat to democracy in 1968 has become, like the Electoral College and two-party system, “just the way we do things,” for better or worse. The Iowa caucus is like a large-scale version of a New York Times profile of “undecided voters” in a Rust Belt diner. I’m sure they’re all fine people, Iowans. They just don’t deserve the attention.

Iowa has a population of 3.15 million. That’s total. The population is just slightly larger than that of Puerto Rico, a territory that does not even get to participate in the election. Los Angeles has more people than Iowa. New York City has more than twice as many people as Iowa.

Defenders of the state’s vanguard status — most of whom live in Iowa — say the state’s small size allows candidates to interact with voters one on one and sample a slice of real American life. The state is more than 90 percent white, so that slice is more like a sliver. The second state to vote, New Hampshire, is also more than 90 percent white — and even smaller. It’s almost as if this is done by design to preserve the influence of white people in an increasingly diverse electorate!

Iowa doesn’t represent the country electorally, either. In 2016, about 171,000 Democrats and 187,000 Republicans voted in Iowa’s caucuses. The winners, Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz, won 50 and 27 percent of the delegates, respectively. Neither candidate won the general election, not that any of us need to be reminded.

In fact, the Iowa caucus has correctly picked only three firstterm Presidents: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Bill Clinton got less than three percent in 1992. He came in fourth place, two spots below “Uncommitted.” Yikes. A real barometer, that caucus.

As much as I enjoy watching middle-aged dudes try to look natural while eating a corn dog, the state fair butter-cow shtick is played out. Kamala Harris ate a pork chop with her bare hands, and she’s not even in the race anymore. Joe Biden didn’t eat anything: How is he even competitive? As political views go, “Wow, that candidate really humiliated himself. He wolfed down that turkey leg like a pro. I bet he’d show Vladimir Putin who’s in charge” is just as misguided as “The ‘You’re Fired’ guy really tells it like it is.” Maybe that’s just who we are.

I understand primary season is a huge windfall for the state. Des Moines’ tourism board estimates $11.3 million in economic impact in the week leading up to caucus day — and that’s just Mike Bloomberg’s ad spend. (Did you hear? He Will Get It Done.) But if the primaries were really small-D democratic, every state would be voting on the same day — preferably one that isn’t nine months from Election Day. Let’s do the whole primary on Super Tuesday. Iowa voters no doubt take their caucus seriously, but media buyers and TV pundits are the only other Americans benefiting from this exhausting slog.

Jen Clarke is a digital marketing specialist and an unapologetic Memphian.

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