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JESSE DAVIS Editor SHARA CLARK Managing Editor JACKSON BAKER, BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN Senior Editors TOBY SELLS Associate Editor CHRIS MCCOY Film and TV Editor ALEX GREENE Music Editor SAMUEL X. CICCI, MICHAEL DONAHUE, JON W. SPARKS Staff Writers ABIGAIL MORICI Copy Editor, Calendar Editor LORNA FIELD, RANDY HASPEL, RICHARD MURFF, FRANK MURTAUGH, MEGHAN STUTHARD Contributing Columnists AIMEE STIEGEMEYER, SHARON BROWN Grizzlies Reporters ANDREA FENISE Fashion Editor KENNETH NEILL Founding Publisher

My Facebook account was hacked last week. Not in some high-stakes, sexy cyber-spy way, as seen in the 1992 film Sneakers. My screen didn’t freeze as green text cascaded down in a digital waterfall. My cursor didn’t suddenly move with a mind of its own.

No, everything went on more or less as normal, except “I” sent a message — “Look who died” — with a link to a nonexistent website out to all 1,389 of my contacts.

I was none the wiser until I started getting Facebook messages, texts, and Slack and Twitter DMs to the effect of “Hey, man, I think you’ve been hacked.”

The Commercial Appeal’s Micaela Watts took a screenshot and posted it on my wall with a cheery note: “You done been hacked.” Another friend messaged me to say that getting one’s account hacked is bound to happen these days, “Just like Omicron, I guess.”

That’s bleak.

My dear friend Olivia got thrown in Facebook “jail” for a few days because her (perfectly inoffensive) comment didn’t meet with the site’s Community Standards. The people in charge of flagging these things are, I imagine, bored nearly to death, so I’m not sure they make for the most reliable safety net.

I spent the next half hour or so in a flurry of online activity. I posted about the hack, warning my contacts not to click the bogus link. I notified Facebook’s security and privacy team. I haven’t heard back from them yet. I changed my password to something complicated and hard to remember, and I turned on two-factor authentication, so I have to input a code texted to my phone if I log in from an unfamiliar device. I spent the next two days responding to messages about the fishy message “I” had sent out to people. It was embarrassing and time-consuming, and I don’t recommend it as a pastime.

Before long, I noticed that I was logged in on two devices — and that one of them seemed to have an IP address from somewhere in Kentucky. I kicked the device off (you can do that from the Security and Login page, for future reference) before I remembered that Facebook had asked me earlier that day if I had “liked” a photo from Michael Donahue. I don’t remember seeing anything about a Kentucky-based IP address in that message, and since I do “like” many of Donahue’s photos, I didn’t think much of it.

Whoever hacked my account must have looked at my recent activity to make sure their first move was one that wouldn’t arouse my suspicions. What a clever cyber criminal!

After the initial alarm, I realized that the fishy message I’d broadcast to everyone I know online was eerily similar to a message I had received a few days ago.

That’s right. I blundered into this cyber scam. Like the best Greek tragedies, it was all down to my hubris. You see, while I prefer email for work communications, I get messages every way you can imagine — snail mail, Twitter, Facebook. So when I received a message from, well, someone rather older than I am, I assumed a local celebrity had died and someone was sending me a tip. Yes, the method of delivery was tactless, and the grammar wasn’t going to make anyone’s high school English teacher proud, but that’s on par with at least half of the messages I’m sent. Besides, I spent six years as a copy editor, which means that I’m primed to expect most people to write poorly. And as a Millennial, I expect anyone older than Gen X to have trouble with PDFs and digital etiquette, just as I expect anyone in Gen Z to be baffled when expected to use a phone to actually call someone.

You see? Hubris.

In all likelihood, the message was garbled because it was written by either a bot or someone in a troll farm in Russia or North Korea. I wonder if some up-and-coming hacker graduated from digital training wheels to more rewarding, high-stakes cyber crime after they successfully duped me.

So yes, this was my fault, but consider how easy it was for me to fall prey to this scam.

All it takes is divided attention. We need to treat cyber malfeasance as a threat to national security. Yes, even on social media. Because, while the democratic premise that everyone is entitled to an opinion is a beautiful thing, N E WS & O P I N I O N it also presents an easy-to-hit target. Our THE FLY-BY - 4 NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 6 ability to reach a consensus is our most POLITICS - 6 fragile point, and I can’t help but feel that COVER STORY everything from vaccination efforts to “EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN political discourse would have been less IN MEDICINE” fraught without the influence of social

BY FLYER STAFF - 8 media. It’s here to stay, though, so we’d best WE RECOMMEND - 14 MUSIC - 15 get better about navigating it safely.

CALENDAR - 16 In the meantime, though, take it from me FOOD - 19 and don’t be too proud to ask, “Did someone FILM - 20 actually die or is this a spam link?”

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FORD FURY Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. fired at media members last week in the ongoing saga of “That Time Someone Stood Behind Him.” Google “Ford and Katherine Burgess” for the full story.

In a Facebook post, Ford said he was right and everyone else was wrong, whined that news stories about him since 2007 have all been false, said media outlets have “emotional problems,” called Burgess a “Karen,” said Black journalism leaders in Memphis — Mark Russell (executive editor at The Commercial Appeal), Otis Sanford (longtime Memphis columnist), and Wendi Thomas (founder and publisher of MLK50) — “still have that slave mentality” and that “it is their duty to defend white privilege and to put productive Black people ‘in their place.’”

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High-Cost Climate Change Feds say weather, climate disasters cost Tennessee lives and billions of dollars.

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Ja Morant lit up the MEMernet last week after staring down a kid in a Golden State Warriors jersey. He joked about the scene and apologized to the kid but said, “We in Memphis. He looked like he wanted to cheer, but he had that jersey on.”

BURIED THE LEDE The Memphis Police Department (MPD) Facebooked news last week that a gun had been stolen from a car.

It took them a few hundred words and three paragraphs to reveal the gun belonged to MPD’s new chief, Cerelyn Davis.

Dozens of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters have cost Tennessee untold amounts of money, resources, and, more importantly, lives.

That’s according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the federal agency responsible for monitoring the climate and environment. That report says the U.S. has suffered 310 weather and climate disasters since 1980, including floods, tornadoes, and wildfires, and that each cost more than $1 billion in damages and losses.

The report does not break out the specific costs and lives lost in Tennessee, but it does capture any such event that has affected the state. For example, the Category 4 Hurricane Ida slammed the Louisiana coast in August, leveling homes and knocking out power for thousands. Response to the hurricane and losses incurred cost about $75 billion, NOAA said, and 93 died.

A major storm had already caused flooding in Tennessee, hitting hard in the small town of Waverly. Those there were still calculating the devastation in lives lost and clean-up efforts when Ida dumped another 2.5 inches of rain on the area.

Hurricane Ida had a more direct economic effect in Tennessee, too, as the storm’s rain bands soaked the festival grounds for Bonnaroo 2021. The show was supposed to mark the festival’s return from 2020’s Covid cancellation. But event organizers said the rain meant the show could not go on, issuing refunds to ticket holders for what is a multi-milliondollar concert event in the state.

“While this weekend’s weather looks outstanding, currently Centeroo is waterlogged in many areas, the ground is incredibly saturated on our tollbooth paths, and the campgrounds are flooded to the point that we are unable to drive in or park vehicles safely,” Bonnaroo tweeted at the time.

Memphis is mentioned directly once in NOAA’s report, and it comes with a direct price tag. In 2011, parts of the Ohio Valley saw nearly 300 times the amount of its usual rainfall. Much of that water flowed into the Mississippi River.

Combine that water with the year’s typical snowpack melt, and the event flooded the river.

The overall cost of the flood was $3.8 billion, according to NOAA. For Memphis, the flood caused $403 million (adjusted for inflation) in damages. It also caused more than $1 billion worth of agricultural damages in Mississippi.

Rachel Cleetus, policy director for the Union of Concerned Citizens, said Congress needs an advisory council to require climate-risk exposure in the marketplace and protect those most in harm’s way (usually low-income households) from the harms of climate change.

“If we fail to take action now, the potential for severe shocks to our financial system will grow and, as with previous crises, the impacts will be especially harsh for those who can least afford it — low- and fixed-income households and communities of color,” Cleetus said.

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Congress members want answers on TVA’s high bills, “unambitious” carbon goals.

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Memphis ranks highest for money spent on energy bills. income Tennesseans pay some “of the lowest energy rates in the United States” and blamed high bills on homes that are not energy-efficient.

TVA said its rates are now lower than 80 percent of other U.S. utilities; industrial rates are lower than 95 percent of them. The agency has kept rates flat for 10 years, TVA said in a statement, even as fuel costs rose in that time.

“Even with TVA’s low energy costs, we recognize the challenge of high-energy burden in our region,” TVA said in a statement. “TVA is in partnership with 153 local power companies and other organizations to help address the root-causes of this issue, including the need to weatherize and implement energy-efficiency measures in buildings and housing.”

In 2018, TVA lowered power rates 50 cents per kilowatt hour and charged local utilities (like Memphis Light, Gas & Water) a fixed fee to access the TVA electricity grid, the

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House members said, too, TVA may be stalling the implementation of renewable energy initiatives by residential and industrial customers. For proof, the letter pointed to internal TVA documents that said its grid access fee would “curtail the deployment of solar projects by 40 percent.”

Finally, the group called TVA’s plan to decarbonize by 2050 “unambitious” and not in line with President Joe Biden’s goal of carbon-free energy by 2035. But TVA said it is making strides, embracing “emerging technologies, from carbon capture to advanced nuclear, while supporting national clean energy initiatives, such as a robust electric vehicle charging infrastructure.”

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Four ranking Democrats in the House Energy and Commerce committee issued a letter to TVA president and CEO Jeff Lyash last week. It said TVA’s business practices “appeared inconsistent” with the federal agency’s law-bound commitment to provide low-cost power. The lawmakers were also concerned “that TVA is interfering with the deployment of renewable and distributed energy resources.”

As for energy prices, the committee members worried they were too high and impacted low-income households the most. For proof, the members pointed to a study from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE). It found that half of low-income Memphians pay more than 13.2 percent of their annual incomes on energy, and more than a quarter of them pay more than 25 percent on energy each year. The study noted, however, that low-

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Several members of recently slain African-American families came to Memphis on Martin Luther King weekend. One feature of their visit was a luncheon in their honor Monday with Shelby Countians at the Paramount Restaurant Downtown.

On the left side of the table in the top picture (l to r): Paris Stevens, Mahalia Jones, Angela Harrison, County Commissioner Reginald Milton.

Facing them are Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris (foreground) and former Commissioner Steve Mulroy. The women, representatives of the George Floyd Global Memorial, are aunts of the late George Floyd, infamously strangled to death by a Minneapolis police officer in a 2020 incident that convulsed the nation and galvanized world attention to

the still-present specter of racism.

Also honored and attending the luncheon were Bianca Austin, aunt of Breonna Taylor who was inadvertently killed during a Louisville police raid meant to target her boyfriend, and Jacob Blake Sr., whose son was shot in the back and seriously wounded by arresting police in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The senior Blake stated the focus of the Memphis visit and a series of organized public appearances in various cities by the group of bereaved family members: “We turn tragedy into triumph. We try to support the families that are in need. We give them a part of us. Sometimes we go to five different cities in a month.”

The group also appeared Sunday at Oak Grove AME Church, in an event, “Let Our Children Live,” aimed at gun violence and sponsored by state Representative Joe Towns Jr.; Mike Dockery, CEO of Telecast Inc.; and the Stomp the City organization.

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ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY Nora Daher Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Daher Asthma and Allergy Clinic 2136 Exeter Road Germantown, TN 38138 (901) 203-6055 Christie F. Michael Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 400 Memphis, TN 38105 (901) 287-7337

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Dr. Claudette Jones Shephard, M.D. Regional One Health

An associate professor and interim chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Dr. Claudette Shephard is a gynecologist at Regional One Health. Her medical degree is from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, and her internship and residency were at SUNY-Health Science Center at Brooklyn/Kings County Hospital Center in New York. Her pediatric and adolescent gynecology fellowship was at UTHSC. Shephard has been in Memphis for 30 years and is continuing her groundbreaking work in pediatric and adolescent gynecology, but is taking on further duties in a new role as associate dean for diversity and inclusion for the college. “This is an area more and more institutions are looking at so we can truly address the needs of our patients and make sure that our trainees, students, residents, and active faculty are respected and appreciated for who they are and what they bring to the table,” she says.

Shephard has seen how the pandemic

has brought changes to her field. “It has tested our resources, which has tested our creativity,” she says. “We never thought that we could get so much accomplished without physically being in the same space, but we’ve adapted to technology. Telemedicine and telehealth have taken off and allowed us to reach patients who otherwise may not have been able to make it to their appointments. It expanded the scope and it has connected the medical community because we can now benefit from the expertise of individuals in another state. We had the technology to do that, but it wasn’t done on a regular basis.”

It is also now possible to reach patients in more useful ways. “If we have a pregnant woman at home with children or concerned about leaving because of the pandemic, she can still make her OB visits,” Shephard says. “We can still check on the moms to make sure they’re doing well. We can provide prenatal education classes virtually.”

And patients don’t have to take time off for follow-ups. “Now I can do a telehealth visit, check up on my patients, and not have to disrupt what’s

going on in their household,” she says.

“And patient compliance, I think, is increased when we make provisions for that. You’re really getting better results from all of this.” Better outcomes are boosted by the new ways of doing things. Blood pressure monitors, for example, are now in more homes so the patient can take a reading.

“No matter what we do in terms of trying to provide education, to provide resources, we still have patients who have great needs,” Shephard says, pointing out that sexual abuse has been exacerbated by the pandemic. “Children were at home in the early phases of the pandemic, often in a setting that continued to expose them to their abusers, and without the outlets of school to share with a counselor.”

With the pandemic showing where these pockets of crimes are happening, she says there is a continuing need to make sure that reproductive healthcare needs of adolescents “are addressed in terms of education, contraception, empowering them to be more responsible, and take a role in understanding how it affects them long-term.” — Jon W. Sparks

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continued from page 9 DEVELOPMENTAL-BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS Toni M. Whitaker Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Methodist University Hospital - Memphis UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities 711 Jefferson Avenue Memphis, TN 38105 (901) 287-7337

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY Sue C. Kaste St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Department of Diagnostic Imaging 262 Danny Thomas Place, Mail Stop 220 Memphis, TN 38105 (901) 595-3347

ENDOCRINOLOGY, DIABETES, & METABOLISM Lisa M. Myers Endocrinology and Diabetes Specialists 1920 Kirby Parkway, Suite 102 Germantown, TN 38138 (901) 334-5464

FAMILY MEDICINE Ericka L. Gunn-Hill Saint Francis Hospital - Memphis

Jackson-Randle Family Healthcare 5142 Stage Road, Suite 100 Memphis, TN 38134 (901) 382-2040

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

Aparna K. Murti Methodist University Hospital - Memphis Methodist Medical Group 2589 Appling Road, Suite 101 Bartlett, TN 38133 (901) 752-2300

Martha N. Taylor Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Methodist Medical Group 7690 Wolf River Circle Germantown, TN 38138 (901) 756-1231

GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY Linda M. Smiley Methodist University Hospital - Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis West Cancer Center 7945 Wolf River Boulevard Memphis, TN 38138 (901) 683-0055

INFECTIOUS DISEASE Shirin Mazumder Methodist University Hospital - Memphis Methodist Medical Group - Infectious Disease 1325 Eastmoreland Avenue, Suite 370 Memphis, TN 38104 (901) 758-7888

INTERNAL MEDICINE Joan Michelle Allmon Baptist Memorial Hospital - Collierville Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital

Natascha S. Thompson Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis Baptist Medical Group 8040 Wolf River Boulevard, Suite 102 Germantown, TN 38138 (901) 227-7900 Catherine R. Womack Methodist University Hospital - Memphis UT Methodist Physicians Primary Care 57 Germantown Court, Suite 100 Cordova, TN 38018 (901) 758-7888

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY Sylvia S. Richey Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis Methodist University Hospital - Memphis West Cancer Center 7945 Wolf River Boulevard Germantown, TN 38138 (901) 683-0055

Carmel S. Verrier Saint Francis Hospital - Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis West Cancer Center 7945 Wolf River Boulevard Germantown, TN 38138 (901) 683-0055

NEPHROLOGY Lynn Ebaugh Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital - Collierville East Memphis Nephrology 7640 Wolf River Circle, Floor 2 Germantown, TN 38138 (901) 755-0208

NEUROLOGY Rohini Bhole University Clinical Health 1331 Union Avenue, Floor 11 Memphis, TN 38104 (901) 866-8811 Violiza Inoa Acosta Methodist University Hospital - Memphis Regional One Health Semmes Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Boulevard Memphis, TN 38120 (901) 522-7700

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OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY Lanetta Anderson Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis Womens Physicians Group 7705 Poplar Avenue, B Building - Suite 110 Memphis, TN 38138 (901) 273-1190 Heather Pearson Chauhan Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women Methodist University Hospital - Memphis Exceed Hormone Specialists 7512 Second Street Germantown, TN 38138 (901) 312-7899 Vanessa M. Givens Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Women’s Health Specialists 7800 Wolf Trail Cove Germantown, TN 38138 (901) 682-9222 Claudette J. Shephard Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Regional One Health Outpatient Center

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OPHTHALMOLOGY Penny A. Asbell Methodist University Hospital - Memphis University Clinical Health Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Avenue, Suite 200 Memphis, TN 38103 (901) 448-6650 Lauren C. Ditta Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital University Clinical Health Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Avenue, Suite 200 Memphis, TN 38103 (901) 287-7337 Mary E. Hoehn Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Avenue, Suite 400 Memphis, TN 38103 (901) 287-7337 Natalie C. Kerr Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital University Clinical Health Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Avenue, Suite 400 Memphis, TN 38103 (901) 287-7337

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PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY Alicia M. Diaz-Thomas Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 North Dunlap Street Memphis, TN 38105 (901) 287-7337 Joan C. Han Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 100 Memphis, TN 38105 (901) 287-7337

PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGYONCOLOGY Melody J. Cunningham Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 848 Adams Avenue, Suite L400 Memphis, TN 38103 (901) 287-7337

Rima Zahr Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 51 North Dunlap Street Memphis, TN 38105 (866) 870-5570

PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY Jennifer D. Mclevy Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 North Dunlap Street, Suite G10 Memphis, TN 38105 (901) 287-7337 Rose Mary Stocks Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Le Bonheur Outpatient Center 51 North Dunlap Street, 1st floor Memphis, TN 38105 (866) 870-5570

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The exceptional women named on this year’s list embody our dedication to doing all we can to improve every life we touch. Thank you for going above and beyond for your patients across the Mid-South.

Linda K. Myers Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 100 Memphis, TN 38105 (901) 287-7337

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Dawn H. Scott Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Pediatric Consultants 51 North Dunlap Street, Suite 310 Memphis, TN 38105 (901) 523-2945 Ellen J. Stecker Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital River City Pediatrics 6401 Poplar Avenue, Suite 610 Memphis, TN 38119 (901) 761-1280

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RADIATION ONCOLOGY Jenny Tibbs Saint Francis Hospital - Memphis Department of Radiation Oncology 5959 Park Avenue Memphis, TN 38119 (901) 765-2050

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Memphis TN 38104

By Abigail Morici

For the next four weeks, Hattiloo Theatre is putting on a production of The Mountaintop, written by Memphis native and Pulitzer-winning playwright, Katori Hall.

“The Mountaintop is a reimagining of what it was like for Martin Luther King Jr. in his room the night before his assassination. It is — without giving anything away — a supernatural reimagining,” says Ekundayo Bandele, founder and CEO of Hattiloo. In a stripped-down version of Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel, King, played

by Emmanuel McKinney, orders room service, and a mysterious waitress Camae, played by Bianca McMillian, brings him coffee. The two then delve into a deep conversation about King’s life and legacy. “At the end of the day, you have a man who was constantly putting himself in harm’s way. And he possibly knew at some point that his time was going to come, so how is it in that room by himself the night before he is called home to God? It is the same night he delivered his ‘Mountaintop’ speech, and that’s where you get the title.

“The supernatural element adds to the question of martyrs and how they feel,” Bandele continues. “Sometimes, we see figures like Malcolm X and so on as super-beings, but at the same time they’re human and they have fears and premonitions, so this play really shows the humanity of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” As for the impression the play leaves on the audience, Bandele says, “I think they’ll take away the courage that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had to exhibit to continue the civil rights path that he was on, despite the constant threat of assassination.

That’s what they’ll take away — that this was a man, he was a flawed man. Sometimes, we fictionalize individuals who are martyrs and who are superstars and think about them one way. Well, he was a lot more complicated than that.”

The one-act play will run for an hour and 15 minutes, and performances will continue Thursdays through Sundays until February 13th, with matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at hattiloo.org or by calling (901) 525-0009.

THE MOUNTAINTOP, HATTILOO THEATRE, 37 S. COOPER, OPENS FRIDAY, JANUARY 21ST, 7:30 P.M., $30.

VARIOUS DAYS & TIMES January 20th - 26th Raneem + Better in Color The Green Room at Crosstown Arts, 1350 Concourse, Thurs., Jan. 20th, 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., $10-$15 Crosstown Arts presents Raneem + Better in Color in an evening full of original music and colorful covers.

Raneem Imam is a singer/songwriter and producer from Memphis.

On Thursday, she will share the stage with her band, Better in Color, featuring Lina Beach, Max Dixon, and Erika Pope.

Tickets can be purchased online at eventbrite.com for $10 or $15 at the door. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Ballet Folklórico de Mexico de Amalia Hernández The Orpheum, 203 S. Main, Fri., Jan. 21st, 7:30 p.m., $29-$69 The music, technical rigor, elaborate costuming, and Amalia Hernández’s choreography have helped the Ballet Folklórico and its followers disseminate the zest for rich Mexican tradition and folklore throughout the world.

Hernández founded the Ballet Folklórico de Mexico in 1952, with the goal to preserve Mexico’s dancing traditions. Merely a few years into their formation, the company achieved a degree of international success that has been maintained for more than 70 years.

Purchase tickets online at orpheum-memphis.com or by calling the box office at (901) 525-3000.

May We All Playhouse on the Square, 66 S. Cooper, opens Fri., Jan. 21st, 8 p.m., $27 May We All is the story of Jenna Coates, a small-town girl whose bigcity singing career is over before it even begins, and how she returns to the people and places of her past to find a path to the future.

This musical, which will make its debut in the Bluff City, includes country music favorites like Kacey Musgrave’s “Rainbow,” Chris Stapleton’s “Broken Halos,” Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” Kenny Chesney’s “American Kids,” and the title song by Florida Georgia Line and Tim McGraw, among many other chart-topping hits. Performances run through February 20th. Tickets can be purchased online or by calling (901) 726-4656.

MUSIC By Alex Greene

Memphis Hang Suite Charles Streeter’s public jam sessions are part open mic, part networking event.

Streeter is “trying to create a scene like there is in L.A., New York, Chicago … a musicians’ fellowship.”

But unlike others, he still felt the call homeward. Four years ago, he returned to Memphis. “I initially moved back to be closer to my daughter when I wasn’t touring,” he notes. “Plus, I wanted to give back.” And give back he has, bringing a little slice of L.A. energy to the Bluff City with an ongoing series he calls the Memphis Hang Suite, every Tuesday at Hernando’s Hide-a-Way. “Memphis Hang Suite is an open mic/ networking event that I host and put together with my band, Streeter and the Tribe,” Streeter says. “It’s basically trying to create a scene in Memphis like there is in L.A., New York, Chicago, and Atlanta, where musicians get together. It’s almost like a musicians’ fellowship. You get to

know all the musicians from every genre at these jam sessions. We didn’t have one here, so I was like, ‘Well, I guess I’ve got to be the guy to do it.’ Especially being that I know how those things work.”

On any given Tuesday, you might hear Streeter and the Tribe jamming with the likes of MonoNeon, Jackie Clark, Stanley Randolph, Marcus Scott (who sang with Tower of Power for a time), and many others. Naturally, Hernando’s owner Dale Watson and wife Celine Lee often join in. “Everybody comes through,” Streeter says. “It’s a really cool hang. No egos. Nobody up there is trying to play all over the place. You still have to play the song. Just be tasteful, be an adult when you’re playing.”

Music fans still have time to catch the Memphis Hang Suite this month before they take a brief hiatus. “We have two more Tuesdays in this month,” Streeter adds, “and then we’re going to take a two-month break and actually work on a Memphis Hang Suite compilation album. There’s tons of musicians that I’m just now meeting from hosting this jam session. A lot of people that would never cross paths, because we do different genres of music. So this bridges the gap.

We’re going to get together and put out something to commemorate our jams.

To say, ‘Hey, we did something together that will live on after we’re all gone.’”

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because life is great elsewhere. We don’t have as many opportunities as we used to have here, back in the ’60s and ’70s, when we had Stax and Hi Records and all of that.”

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iving in Los Angeles for 10 years, Memphis-born drummer Charles Streeter saw how things were done. He saw the power of the jam. “People get to know you and your name and your playing through jam sessions,” he says. “That’s where all the musicians are under one roof with producers and singers. You exchange information. You know, someone will say, ‘Hey, I need a drummer. Oh, what about that kid that moved here from Memphis last week? Let’s call him.’”

Of course, it helps if you can really play, but Streeter had that covered. He was used to being surrounded by stellar talent, having grown up playing under the direction of a soul music legend. “I came out of Christ Missionary Baptist Church,” says Streeter. “I was born in the church in 1984, and I’ve been a member ever since. And what’s interesting about my church is, [songwriter, producer, and Stax Records session musician] Lester Snell was the minister of music. So I came out of a traditional Baptist gospelmeets-Stax sound.”

Something about that Memphis soul stew made Streeter unique, so when he left the University of Memphis music department after three semesters and moved to Los Angeles, he turned heads.

In short order, he became the go-to drummer for a number of major artists.

“I toured with Chaka Khan for five years or so. And I’ve toured with J.Lo for 10 years now — I’m her onstage musical director. And I’ve played with Tori Kelly five or six years now.”

Like so many gifted Memphis players, Streeter was following a star that took him away from his hometown. “For freelance musicians or even artists, it’s really hard to make it out of Memphis without leaving Memphis,” he says. “A lot of musicians tend to move away and just don’t come back

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

January 20 - 26

ART AN D S P EC I A L E X H I B ITS

“Borders”

Exhibition of metal sculptures

by Steinunn Thorarinsdottir.

Through April 23.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS

“Color Personified!”

Display of art by Wanda Winsett. Through March 1.

FRATELLI’S

“Contingency Plan”

Showcases the work of nine graduating seniors in studio art and photography at the University of Memphis.

Through Jan. 23.

CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE

Flash of the Spirit

An exhibition of Passport Masks, carved in Africa.

Through Jan. 29.

JAY ETKIN GALLERY

Master Metalsmith: Kim Cridler | Held

An annual exhibition celebrating the most influential contemporary metal artists.

Through March 6.

METAL MUSEUM

“New Faculty: Connections”

Presents the work of the most recent additions to the department, including seven artists and two art historians.

Through Jan. 23.

CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE

“Our Town”

Exhibition of paintings of local Memphis landmarks by artist J. M. Croy on display during the Theatre Memphis production of Our Town. Through Jan. 30.

January 20-26, 2022

THEATRE MEMPHIS

“Poetics of Gesture”

Exhibition of oversized monochromatic abstract paintings by Tad Lauritzen Wright. Through Feb. 5.

DAVID LUSK GALLERY

“Selected Works: Hooks Bros. Photographic Archives” Exhibition of Hooks Bros. photos circa 1910 to 1950.

Through Jan. 31.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY

“Solid Gold Soul: The Best of the Rest from the Stax Museum”

Never-before-displayed stage costumes, recording equipment, musical instruments, photographs, documents, vinyl records, eight-track tapes, and other items of memorabilia.

Through March 1.

STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC

“Something for Everyone”

Virtual exhibition of photos by Becky Ross McRae. Through Jan. 31.

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“The 12 Months of Memphis”

Original oil paintings depicting one favorite Memphis landmark per month by local artist Jane M. Croy. Through March 2.

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE

“things we carry”

Exhibition of abstract paintings

by Lauren Cannon and whimsical pottery by Robyn Gridley Nickell. Through Jan. 21.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL

“Waves of Change”

Exhibition of fused glass by Christie Stratton Moody.

Tuesday, Jan. 25-April 2.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL

Bid on what you love, not who you know, at Memphis Botanic Garden’s Incognito Auction of original, unsigned works.

The artwork will be on view and available for bidding through Jan. 28.

ART HAPPE N I NGS

Incognito Art Auction and Gala Presented by Banes Capital Group

Exhibition of unsigned work by more than 100 of the MidSouth’s favorite artists. Online bidding opened January 18th.

Through Jan. 28.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

Opening Lecture: You Don’t Know Jack (and You’re Not Alone): Rediscovering John Leslie Breck This talk will trace John Breck’s artistic development over the course of his brief career, placing him within the context of American art of his time. Free.

Sunday, Jan. 23, 2 p.m.

B O O K EVE NTS

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A Night of Poetry

5-week Painting Series with Marilyn Wannamaker

Celebrating the publication of Josh Nguyen’s Come Clean with Jasmine Marie and Nadia Alexis. Saturday, Jan. 22, 6 p.m.

NOVEL

Drawing and painting classes for those with beginner skills through advanced levels of experience. $250, $290. Saturday, Jan. 22, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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From 5PM - 7PM Telescope observations, astronomy activities & planetarium shows.

C A L E N DA R: JA N UA RY 2 0 - 2 6 Our Town

Robert Burns Night

A special event in honor of Scottish poet Robert Burns’ birthday. $100. Tuesday, Jan. 25, 6-9 p.m.

Thornton Wilder’s immortal tale of love and marriage, death and daily life. Through Jan. 30.

THEATRE MEMPHIS

CELTIC CROSSING

Songs and Sounds of the Mississippi

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

Metalsmithing Foundations with Brandy Boyd: Statement Rings with Stones

Create a one-of-a-kind ring that is meant to turn heads. $60, $70. Saturday, Jan. 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

H EA LTH A N D F I TN ES S

As part of Creative Aging’s Senior Arts Series, Ron Jewell, cast as 70-year-old Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), is joined by songstress Joyce Cobb and her amazing musical ensemble. Wednesday, Jan. 26, 1:30 p.m.

Wolf River 5K

The first event in the Run the 901 Race Series, with proceeds benefiting the Wolf River Conservancy. Saturday, Jan. 22, 8-10 a.m.

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Crosstown Arthouse presents Mirror

Ballet Folklorico de Mexico de Amalia Hernandez

A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory. $5. Thursday, Jan. 20, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

CROSSTOWN THEATER

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Celtic Crossing Whiskey Pairing Dinner

A whiskey pairing dinner hosted by DJ Naylor and Reny Alfonso. $75. Thursday, Jan. 20, 7-9 p.m.

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The music, technical rigor, elaborate costuming, and Amalia Hernandez’s choreography have helped the Ballet Folklorico and its followers disseminate the zest for rich Mexican tradition and folklore. $29, $69. Friday, Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.

THE ORPHEUM

Mike Super — Magic & Illusion

Join the journey of emotions from laughter, intrigue, danger, fear, wonder, anticipation, tears, and sentimentality that

The Goodbye Levee

A devastating diagnosis compels Celeste Banks to invite the audience into her confidence as she hosts a “Goodbye Party.” Through Jan. 30.

The Glass Menagerie is just one of Tennessee Williams’ works to be explored in the onehour literary salon hosted by the Tennessee Shakespeare Company this weekend. only two-time Entertainer of the Year Mike Super delivers. $37.50. Friday, Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.

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Blue Roses of Tennessee Williams

The one-hour salon will explore, the first decade of the life of Thomas Lanier Williams III as he is raised in Mississippi and inspired to pen his great works. $15, $27. Friday, Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 23, 3 p.m.

May We All

Jenna Coates is a small-town girl whose big-city singing career is over before it even begins, so she returns to the people and the places of her past to find a path to the future.

Friday, Jan. 21-Feb. 20.

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE

The Mountaintop

A gripping reimagination of events the night before the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Written by Katori Hall. $30.

Friday, Jan. 21-Feb. 13.

HATTILOO THEATRE

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Spend a playful afternoon making and decorating your very own Birdie Bistro for your backyard. $55, $65. Sunday, Jan. 23, 1-4 p.m.

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usic is in the air — and ‘the barbecue cook.’ Anything on the grill.” on the walls — at The Lernard was captivated with cooking.

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“I would see mom’s little tricks on how “If you close your to make a simple fried chicken wing eyes, it’s pretty much like a musical even better than just flouring it and frypassport,” says chef/owner Lernard ing it. She’d take extra steps to make it Chambers, 29. taste totally different. I’d pay attention to Recorded music is played. Album those techniques.” covers and records hang on walls.

Everything he did was geared toward “Pretty much when you walk in you one day opening a restaurant. Lernard see music,” Chambers says. “All types and Bernard began working at a Piccadilly of records. Any artist, any genre. From Cafeteria when they were in high school.

Anita Baker to Michael Jackson to the They went on to work at other restaurants.

Beatles.”

“Just build up knowlThe main wall is “a edge of how a kitchen is bunch of vinyl record supposed to flow. How covers. We laminated fast to get food out. them and put them How to deal with differup.” The records were ent customers.” nailed to two-by-fours, Lernard majored in but close to the hole business management in the album. “I didn’t at Southwest Tennessee want it to be where Community College. you could never play The Chambers brothers them again. If anyone mowed yards to raise PHOTO: CLOUDED VISUALS wanted that record, money.

Lernard Chambers they could ask for it “We got into the parand take it off the wall and still play it.” ty industry. We took pictures and threw That happened, he says. “We had one parties. The deejaying started blowing up. person, they said they’d been looking We started a sound rental company. We for that record for the longest. So they provided sound for any DJ you can think bought it off the wall.” of in Memphis.

Chambers and his identical twin “The money kind of got there, and brother, Bernard, are DJs — DJ LNB. But we saw a location and went with it. I had the records didn’t come from their collecthe idea all along, and I was just waiting tion. They bought a lot of them off eBay, for the right time and place.” and friends donated others.

Bernard, a sheriff with the Shelby A Bob Marley record follows a BeaCounty Sheriff ’s Office, originally told tles record and a Tupac Shakur record Lernard about the location, which is follows Marley. “If you follow it, it’s like across the street from the Shelby County a timeline of music.”

Jail at 201 Poplar. “It’s a great security The restaurant also features live thing. A lot of women feel safe ’cause it’s music. “We have had several local artists close to the jail.” And, he says, “A lot of come through: Courtney Little, Izzy cops come around that area.”

Moore, Devin Crutcher. And then we Lernard describes The Genre as “a even had Charles Pender, saxophone small urban bistro … a small eatery, player, come and do a saxophone set.” with a hookah, gourmet food, and good The Genre’s cuisine, which includes customer service. catfish, hot wings, and chicken tenders, “A modern upscale experience is the has musically inspired names. “One we way I put it,” he adds. But he wants cushave is the Reggae Jerk Chicken. We call tomers to “also feel comfortable. Where our lemon pepper [chicken] the Pop you can come dressed as you are.

Rock. And then one will be the vegan “I always wanted it to be kind of like burger, The Badu, after Erykah Badu. a nightlife atmosphere, but it’s also a ’Cause Erykah is vegan.” place where you can come chill, relax.

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FILM By Chris McCoy

Toil and Trouble In The Tragedy of Macbeth, Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand dazzle in the darkness.

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f you’ve read any Shakespeare, it was probably either Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth. There are good reasons for that. First of all, they’re short for Shakespeare. Second, they’re both crowdpleasers. Romeo and Juliet’s tale of doomed young love is relatable. Everyone’s had that first romance that feels like everything in the world depends on it. Shakespeare just took it to extremes.

As for Macbeth, it’s got bad love, greed, and murder — all the juicy ingredients of a good film noir. Plus, there’s the added supernatural element of the three witches, which gives what is at heart a tale of sordid political intrigue a Halloween-y vibe.

Joel Coen knows his way around a good film noir. Along with his brother Ethan, he’s produced some of the best neo-noir in Miller’s Crossing, Fargo, and The Man Who Wasn’t There. Since Coen’s wife happens to be three-time Academy Award winner Frances McDormand and Lady Macbeth is one of the juiciest female parts in all of English literature, staging Macbeth is a natural choice. And when I say “staging,” I mean it literally. The Tragedy of Macbeth is theatrical to a fault. There are no sweeping battle scenes like Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V. When Malcolm’s camouflaged army emerges from Birnam

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Wood to depose the tyrant our antihero has become, there are only a couple dozen of them. But it’s perfect for Macbeth, which was never intended to be historically accurate anyway. The real king Macbeth ruled Scotland peacefully for 17 years and was, by contemporary accounts, well-liked.

Shakespeare’s description of the “weird sisters” as grave-robbing crones gave us the modern use of the word “weird” as something strange and perhaps icky. But “wyrd” was an Anglo-Saxon word for “fate,” which was already archaic by the time the Bard used it to describe the witches who tell Macbeth some select details about his own destiny. At its heart, Macbeth is a psychological horror story about being destroyed by our own fears of the future.

To explore the wellspring of film noir, Coen goes back to the cinema that provided visual inspiration for films like Out of the Past and Double Indemnity, the silent-era German Expressionism of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu. Macbeth’s castle at Inverness is made up of shadows and suggestion, and the thane meets his witches on a bare stage, shrouded in fog.

The characters, on the

(above) Denzel Washington stars as Macbeth, with Bertie Carvel as Banquo, Macbeth’s friend and foil, and Kathryn Hunter (below) as the three witches. other hand, are solid and real. With a Macbeth that is as technically meticulous as he is powerful, Denzel Washington once again makes the argument that he is our greatest living actor. He greets King Duncan (Brendan Gleeson) warmly, then kills him coldbloodedly, and sits on his usurped throne with a lanky arrogance. McDormand’s Lady Macbeth is the opposite of the gritty realism she won the Oscar for in Nomadland. She plots King Duncan’s murder even as her husband’s letter informing her of the witch’s prophecy catches fire in her hands. When she proposes regicide with the phrase “unsex me here,” Washington seems genuinely unsettled by her ruthlessness. Together, they are not the young couple whose ambitions for

FILM By Chris McCoy playing the game of thrones blinds them to the moral cost, but rather two royals with a long history of scheming for the crown who finally see their chance and take it. There’s not a sour note in the supporting cast, with standout performances by Gleeson, a fiery Corey Hawkins as Macduff, and veteran actor Kathryn Hunter (who was the first woman to ever play King Lear on the English stage) as the three witches.

One aspect of the play Coen zeros in on is, once the foul deeds are done, how empty the prize of the throne turns out to be for the Macbeths. Their celebratory

banquets reek of forced merriment, and their subjects obey them grudgingly.

Lady Macbeth dies unmourned, even by her husband, and when it comes time to fight for the crown, no one rallies to Macbeth’s side. By the time the usurper king is punished by Macduff ’s sword, Macbeth’s fight for power at all costs has already swallowed him whole. Coen has taken Shakespeare’s lesson about the ultimate futility of evil and crafted a starkly beautiful film.

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THE LAST WORD By Ashley Insong

The Winter Blues

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Through the fall and winter months, I watched myself and people around me go through the PHOTO: motions. Shorter days tricked my mind into thinking that bedtime was earlier than usual. Tree PROSTOCKSTUDIO | DREAMSTIME.COM branches have become bare, and flowers don’t have the strength to bloom in such cold air. Come Symptoms of seasonal January and schools are out due to inclement weather conditions. depression include feelings of Freezing temperatures kept me cooped up in my apartment where I knew I could rely on a hopelessness and heater and a cozy blanket to keep me warm. I watched as fewer people left the comforts of their mood changes. homes to step outside to jog or walk their dogs. I found myself feeling lethargic at work and home. I was there to see a close friend of mine experience sudden feelings of deep sadness and anger, and another who dreaded the holiday season to come because of past trauma.

“I feel like this every year during the fall and winter,” said my friend who is diagnosed with seasonal depression, also known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD). “I start to feel sad, hopeless, and … not myself. I don’t have the motivation to do anything and I start to isolate myself,” she continued. After listening to her story, I realized that I was having a similar experience.

Mental Health America describes seasonal depression as a subtype of depression that occurs around the same time every year. Some symptoms of SAD include feelings of hopelessness, trouble sleeping, oversleeping, weight gain, and mood changes. It’s something that affects about 5 percent of the U.S. population, or 10 million people, annually. It mostly occurs during the fall and winter months but may sometimes happen during the spring and the summer.

It only makes sense that reduced sunlight and cold weather could lead to sadness and depression. In fact, according to Mental Health America, “The reduced level of sunlight in the fall and winter months may affect an individual’s serotonin, a neurotransmitter that affects mood. Lower levels of serotonin are linked to depression.”

Sunlight also affects our levels of melatonin, a hormone related to sleep. In the dark, levels of melatonin increase. In other words, Daylight Saving Time can interrupt our internal clock and sleep patterns.

However, reduced sunlight and cold temperatures aren’t the only factors that trigger feelings of depression. The fall and winter months are associated with the holidays. We see it everywhere through bright, colorful Christmas lights, malls packed with gift-shoppers, stores advertising hot chocolate, holiday-themed drinks, and more. For most people, this period brings feelings of joy and happiness, but for others, the holidays are a trigger, causing something called the “Holiday Blues.”

The Holiday Blues is a type of depression that occurs only during the holiday season and is caused by many different factors. For those who are away from family and friends or don’t have a family to spend time with, the holidays can feel lonely. For those who want to give presents to loved ones but are struggling financially, the holidays may be a time of hardship and stress. For those who work in an industry where the holidays mean more hours or an increase in demand for labor, this can be a tense and tiring time. Said to be very similar to SAD, the difference between the two is distinguished by duration and severity of symptoms. According to Verywell Mind, “The holiday blues start around November or December and lift shortly after the new year ends.” On the other hand, SAD typically lasts longer, with symptoms dissipating through the spring and the summer.

It’s impossible to avoid mother nature’s seasons and the darkness, which begins to take up most of our days. Seasonal depression and the holiday blues are much more common yet more complex than I thought they would be, and it doesn’t help that the contagious Covid-19 Omicron variant is forcing more and more people inside. Some say that light or phototherapy aids in preventing and treating the symptoms of SAD. For others, therapy or antidepressants help.

When my friend asks me about what she can do to be happy again, I think about all the things I know that can help boost dopamine and serotonin in our bodies. I am no expert, but I could tell her that exercising will help, that she could try getting some sun, listening to music, and meditating. But what made the most sense to me was remembering that this was just a season. To remember that although things die in the winter, things will always bloom again in the spring. Holding that thought in my mind, I respond and say, “This, too, shall pass.”

Ashley Insong is a starving artist who is working toward being a best-selling author while teaching full-time and freelance writing part-time. She enjoys singing and writing poetry and short stories about love, self-discovery, and her Filipina heritage.

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