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OUR 1615TH ISSUE 02.06.20 I was struck last weekend by a Twitter thread from GOP presidential candidate Joe Walsh.

Yes, there is a Republican seeking to challenge President Trump for his party’s nomination, but he’s tilting at windmills, since the GOP establishment has already eliminated primaries in many states in order to protect Trump’s incumbency.

Walsh reported that he walked a line of Trump supporters outside the president’s Iowa rally last week, trying to convince them to consider his candidacy. Here’s what he wrote: “Plenty of Trump supporters were angry at me and many got in my face. But here’s what made me sad: I asked about 40 folks a very simple question: Has Donald Trump ever lied to the American people? Every single person said ‘No.’ Trump has never lied. Every single person gave me that answer. But that wasn’t all. A few people told me that Trump, unlike Obama, has never golfed. Nobody in line knew that Trump was increasing the debt way faster than Obama. Nobody knew that under Trump our deficit was now greater than $1 trillion. Nobody I asked could think of one single thing that Trump has done that has disappointed them. Nobody thought Trump did anything wrong with Ukraine.

“Almost everyone thought that China was paying for Trump’s tariffs. Nobody cared that Russia screwed with our 2016 election. On and on it went. I left sad and frustrated because all of these folks in line were being fed a sea of lies by Trump, Fox News, and the rest of Trump’s media sycophants. …

They didn’t believe basic truths.”

Anyone so far down in the Foxhole that they don’t think Trump ever golfs is pretty much beyond saving. Facts truly don’t matter to them. Trump is perfect, godlike. It was Obama who golfed, not our magnificent president!

After the president’s much-mocked tweet congratulating “the Great State of Kansas” for the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory, the usual Fox pundits lined up to rally the troops. Maybe Abraham Lincoln the snooty liberal coastal elites don’t realize there is a Kansas City, Kansas, they snickered. There are Chiefs fans in Kansas, too, they snorted. Silly snowflakes! Remember when Obama said there were 57 states?

Seriously, is it really that hard to just say the president goofed? Must he be utterly without fault, a flawless golden Superman? This level of intentional ignorance — and the amplifying of said ignorance by right-wing media — is terrifying.

If it makes you feel any better, none of this is new. There is a thread of know-nothingness that has woven itself through American history, usually driven by xenophobia and politicians who seek to exploit it. There was even a major political party that surfaced around the time of the Civil War that called itself the “Know Nothings.” I went down that Google wormhole so you wouldn’t have to: “The Know Nothing party, formally known as the Native American Party and the American Party, was a far-right nativist political party and movement that operated nationwide in the mid-1850s. It was primarily an anti-Catholic, antiimmigration, and xenophobic movement, originally starting as a secret society.

Adherents to the movement were to simply reply ‘I know nothing’ when asked about its specifics by outsiders.”

Shorter version: The Know Nothing party was anti-Catholic, anti-immigration, and sought to keep America white and protestant. Sound familiar? Same as it ever was.

But if you really want to get your mind blown, see if you can guess the author of the following: “I am not a Know Nothing — that is certain. How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically N E WS & O P I N I O N read it as ‘all men are created equal, THE FLY-BY - 4 except negroes.’ When the Know NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 Nothings get control, it will read ‘all POLITICS - 8 men are created equal, except negroes EDITORIAL - 9 COVER STORY and foreigners and Catholics.’ When “GENERAL ASSEMBLY REBOOT” it comes to that, I should prefer

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ARTS - 29 That was soon-to-be President CANNABEAT - 30 Abraham Lincoln writing to a friend in DINING OUT - 31 1855. Does history repeat itself? Nearly FOOD NEWS - 32 165 years later, it would appear so. Let’s BAR REPORT - 33 hope America survives this latest round FILM - 34 of Know Nothings.

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B O O K IT Southland Casino Racing opened its book for sports betting last week just ahead of the Super Bowl, opening a new vein of competition with casinos in Tunica.

At Southland, you can bet on NFL, NBA, college basketball, NASCAR, PGA tournaments, and more. Bets can be made at teller windows, kiosks, and other spots inside the casino.

Sports betting arrived in the Tunica, Mississippi, casinos in 2018. In December 2019, more than $12.4 million in bets were placed in the northern region of the state in basketball, footClockwise from top left: Eden robs a bank, Southland Casino Racing gets sporty, ball, and cards. Sports and Nathan Bedford Forrest targeted for removal (again) bets across the state were more than $49 million in December, according to the The removal process begins with a February 20th meetMississippi Gaming Commission. ing of the Capitol Commission, a board comprised of sevState legislators approved online-only sports betting in eral cabinet members, like the Secretary of State, comptrolTennessee last year, but it’s not yet live. The commission to ler, and Commissioner of Finance, for example. That body govern betting here has not yet been established. would have to request a waiver to remove the bust from the Over at Southland in West Memphis, the casino is getting Tennessee Historical Commission. a $250 million expansion and facelift. The project includes a This commission denied Memphis’ wishes to remove a new casino complex and a high-rise hotel. statue of Forrest from what is now called Health Sciences The casino announced last year that it changed its name Park. City leaders sidestepped the process by selling the to Southland Casino Racing in April. It announced in Octo- park (and others) to a nonprofit organization. ber that it would phase out live greyhound racing by 2022.

The committee last week debated a resolution brought by Rep. Rick Staples (D-Knoxville). If approved, the resolution AN D I’M O UT would not change the process substantively. But it might inBefore all the proof had been laid out in federal court, Arfluence members of the boards who would vote on the matter. nold Eden must have decided he’d seen enough.

Staples suggested replacing the bust with a “more-deservEden, 52, was on trial last week for the 2017 robbery of ing Tennessean.” Others suggested replacing it with busts of the Hope Federal Credit Union on Ridgeway Road. Law lawmakers or government officials. Some suggested rotating enforcement officials had a video of the robbery that showed the busts in and out.

Eden’s face. They also had fingerprints he’d left on a glass Debate on the matter is expected in a committee meeting door as he left the bank. With all of this, Eden pleaded guilty this week. to the robbery during the course of the jury trial.

At the same committee meeting last week, Staples offered a bill to designate the Sunday before August 8th as FO R R EST R I D ES AGAI N “Emancipation Day,” remembering the day slavery ended in Fiery debate sparked among members and guests of the TenTennessee. The bill would would change the day from one of nessee House Naming, Designating, and Private Acts commitobservance to a legal holiday.

Visit the News Blog at memphisflyer.com for fuller versions of tee last week as they reviewed the possible removal of a bust of these stories and more local news.

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New law could remove firearms from dangerous people.

A Tennessee lawmaker is looking to create a red flag law here.

Sen. Sara Kyle (D-Memphis) is sponsoring the red flag or “extreme risk” bill, which would allow law enforcement officers, family or household members, and intimate partners to petition the court to remove a firearm from someone who might be a danger to themselves or others.

Specifically, SB 1807 provides that someone who has a “reasonable belief that a person poses an imminent risk of harm to the person or others if allowed to purchase or possess a firearm may seek relief ” by filing a sworn petition for emergency protection.

Some form of red flag law has been enacted in 17 states and Washington, D.C. Kat McRitchie, volunteer lead for the Tennessee chapter of Moms Demand Action, said red flag laws have proven to save lives in states where they are in place and are a “good start for gun control.”

“We know in places where there are red flag laws there is a reduction in gun deaths by suicide and related to domestic violence,” McRitchie said. “This accounts for two huge percentages of gun deaths.

Red flag laws best serve the public interest and save people’s lives.”

The “extreme risk” bill could allow police, family, and others to ask a court to remove a firearm from someone.

Opposing the legislation, one gun advocacy group, Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA), calls the proposed red flag law “the biggest risk to your Second Amendment rights.”

“These types of laws pose a real and extreme risk for Tennessee’s gun owners,” the group wrote in a recent newsletter. “TFA and its members, as well as many members of the public, recognize the risk and the misrepresentations of gun control advocates and even some legislators about how such laws are beneficial and pose no risk to lawful gun owners.”

This legislative session, Moms Demand Action is also pushing for a bill that would make it a Class A misdemeanor to leave a firearm or ammunition unlocked in a motor vehicle or boat that is unattended or where someone under 18 is present.

The goal is to ensure that guns are not just out of sight, but secured in vehicles, McRitchie said. “Gun thefts in vehicles are a big problem in our state, so that’s something we plan to spend a lot of time developing.”

Last year, a bill was passed that changed the handgun permitting process in Tennessee, and McRitchie said the group is preparing to oppose any bills that compromise that process further. As of January 1st, one can acquire a general gun permit by just passing an online test with no live-fire training.

“If I took my three kids to the park near our house in 2019 and saw somebody carrying a firearm, I could make a reasonable assumption that they had training with a certified instructor and could fire a gun safely,” McRitchie said. “Now, I don’t have that same security.

When I see someone with a gun in public now, I can’t expect that they have that level of training. That’s frightening to me as a mom and as a Tennessean.”

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In the Air Coronavirus may grab headlines, but health officials say flu is real concern.

“That is absolutely not true,” said Joan Carr, the department’s public information officer. “There are no coronavirus cases or suspect cases in Memphis or specifically 201 Poplar.”

Carr said the respiratory virus Memphians should be concerned about is the regular, seasonal flu. Two types of flu — Flu A and Flu B — are circulating in Shelby County. So far this flu season, the virus has killed eight children in Tennessee and sent thousands to area hospitals.

Dr. Alisa Haushalter, director of the Shelby County Health Department, said 22 percent of all visits to area emergency rooms on Christmas Day were for flu-like symptoms. That figure remains at around 14 percent now.

“The most important thing to keep in mind is that the flu is actually the No. 1 leading cause of death for vaccine-preventable deaths,” said Haushalter. “So, while we focus on coronavirus and all these other emerging diseases, people are more likely to contract and die from the flu.”

The flu vaccine is available for free at health department clinics and many other clinics around Memphis. The flu season won’t end until late April or the beginning of May, said Haushalter, and it is not too late to get a shot. The flu can be very serious for children or anyone with a chronic illness, and the flu “is particularly hard on our seniors.”

“The main reason we should get a flu vaccine is not just to protect ourselves, but actually to protect those other populations and high-risk individuals,” Haushalter said.

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If you tuned into Memphis social media last week, you may have wondered if coronavirus had spread to the confines of the Walter L. Bailey Jr. Criminal Justice Center at 201 Poplar.

The virus, sometimes called novel coronavirus or the Wuhan virus, had killed 362 and infected 17,300 across the globe as of Monday morning. In about two months, the virus — first found in the Chinese city of Wuhan — has killed more people than the ninemonth SARS outbreak in 2003.

The virus has been confirmed in 25 countries and in five American states — Washington, California, Massachussetts, Illinois, and Arizona.

A patient in Arkansas was tested for the virus and held in medical isolation last week but ultimately tested negative for the disease.

Health officials in Tennessee are getting regular guidance on the virus from the federal Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). So far, no patient in the state has been confirmed to have the coronavirus, according to state officials and the CDC. Still, that didn’t stop some locals from saying otherwise last week.

“Still awaiting confirmation, I’ve been hung up on twice: a case of the Wuhan coronavirus has been found in the 201 Poplar Ave. Memphis jail,” Yvette d’Entremont tweeted last Thursday. “Again, can’t get someone official on the phone to confirm, it was a solid tip.”

But that confirmation would not come, not from the Shelby County Health Department.

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The Medicaid Matter Still unresolved, and complicated by differing block grant concepts, the issue could be important in 2020.

As much as any other issue impinging on the fortunes of Tennessee is the imminent prospect of federal block grants to pay for the state’s Medicaid expenses. The Trump administration has indicated it intends to shift in the direction of block grants, and Republicans in Tennessee, from the time of former Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey, have invoked a preference for the principle as their excuse for not committing to expansion funds under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

The idea behind block grants is simple enough: Monies are dispatched from Washington not in accord with federally prescribed requirements and formulas for distribution but more or less for the states to dispose of as they see fit.

In his State of the State address Monday night, GOP Governor Bill Lee boasted that “with the encouragement of this legislature, I’m proud that Tennessee was the first state in America to apply for a Medicaid block grant from the federal government.” He went on: “While we do not yet know whether this proposal will be accepted, I am confident that what we’ve proposed would be a good deal for Tennesseans and that no Tennessean would be worse off if it is approved.”

State Senator Jeff Yarbro of Nashville, presenting the Democrats’ response, professed himself “disappointed tonight to see the governor mentioning this ill-fated attempt at a block grant. … It looks pretty clear from what the federal government said last week that it’s not gonna come out well for us.”

The fact that allows for such disparate views is real enough. The federal guidelines released last week aim in a wholly different direction than does TennCare, the state health-care program that is the primary recipient in Tennessee of Medicaid funding.

The Trump administration’s formula, under what is to be called “the Healthy Adult Opportunity Program,” limits its assistance basically to that part of the state population that has least need of drastic remedies. The idea is to free up more of a given state’s existing healthcare resources for more serious problems — like the low-income patients and people with disabilities that TennCare deals with. And it is these people, along with pregnant women and children, who

would be the direct recipients of federal block grant assistance under the state’s application for a block grant.

Much remains to be worked out if block grants become the primary medium of federal assistance, and undoubtedly some form of accommodation can be arrived at between the state’s and the Trump administration’s goals. But the unspoken feature of block grants in either formulation is that they provide possible loopholes for ad-libbed, unstructured use of the monies involved.

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Accepting the mic (and an endorsement) from County Mayor Harris, Jerri Green addresses Democrats in East Memphis.

Meanwhile, Democrats campaigning for legislative office in Tennessee tend to make a major issue of the state GOP’s disinclination so far to claim direct Medicaid aid available under the A.C.A. One such is Jerri Green, who, using the slogan “One Tough Mother,” is campaigning to unseat Republican state Representative Mark White in state House District 83.

Green has been endorsed by Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, who introduced her to a tightly packed crowd of 100-odd attendees at Craft Republic in East Memphis last Thursday night. Both Green and Harris pointed out the $1 billion or so in annual federal Medicaid funding that has gone wanting, as well as the inexact fit for Tennessee of the new Trump guidelines for block grants. It remains to be seen if the issue has legs.

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and something of a vamp, in which Clinton, among other things, credited his fellow Democrat with possessing a sagacity, one lacked by the competing Republicans, in dealing with the ravages of the then-recent economic crash.

Clinton said he could sum up the difference in one word: “Arithmetic!”

The line brought down the house, but it was more than good theater. There was a sense in that statement that made it more than a punchline, that in fact summed up one of the fundamental differences between the two major parties in their recurrent debates over fiscal policy, wherein the Republicans talk (but don’t necessarily practice) solvency, while the Democrats prefer to emphasize (not always wisely) financial remedy.

There came a similar point of epiphany Monday night in the official Democratic response to Republican Governor Bill Lee’s 2020 State of the State address, delivered by state Senate minority leader Jeff Yarbro of Nashville. It is worth quoting at length.

In one of his several concessions to the principle of governmental activism, Lee boasted about the $117 million he proposed adding to the salaries of the state’s teachers. “$117 million,” Yarbro mused. “That’s just a little bit more than the $110 million that vouchers are supposed to cost the state once they’re fully implemented. So in a lot of ways, we’re not even sure if we caught up with last year’s losses before we we start filling in the holes.

“So it’s good news. But it’s not clear that we’ve really made the steps that we

need to. Tennesseans don’t expect their state government to spend foolishly; they expect us to live within our means.

But just imagine how much more we could afford if we weren’t wasting money on private school vouchers. If we weren’t sending almost $1 billion of childcare TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] funds back to the federal government, if we weren’t sending $1 billion a year worth of Medicaid funding back to the federal government.

“And this is a big deal. The governor announced a lot of initiatives tonight focused on mental health care and substance abuse, and make no mistake about it, some of those ideas are great, ideas that we all support. But here’s the reality: Tennessee could spend less money to reach more communities and help more people if we just simply join the other 36 states that have expanded Medicaid. That $300 million in initiative could go toward shoring up TennCare, providing new access and safety nets and pilot projects. That’s $300 million that could have gone straight into public education, if we had just expanded.”

Back in 2012, we found Clinton’s point to make good sense, and we find what Yarbro had to say on Monday night just as agreeable. In the jampacked week of public events we’ve just gone through, we were mightily impressed by Shakira’s rendition of “Hips Don’t Lie” at halftime of the Super Bowl. And Yarbro’s numbers: They don’t lie either. Less sexy, maybe, but profoundly more serious.

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he 2020 session of the Tennessee General Assembly is underway, and in many ways its tone was set even before Republican Governor Bill Lee got to deliver his annual State of the State message Monday night.

Lee, whose speech would dabble in much human rhetoric, had already expressed his compassionate side the week before when he declared forthrightly that “the United States and Tennessee have always been … a shining beacon of freedom and opportunity for the persecuted and oppressed, particularly those suffering religious persecution,” and vowed to continue

offering resettlement opportunities in Tennessee to these displaced peoples.

And Lee’s continued embrace of the principle of criminal justice reform was evident even before he restated it in the State of the State.

But there is another Lee, equally committed, it would seem, to a more divisive attitude toward state policy, and this Lee, too, was fully on record before he addressed the state on Monday night.

There is the Lee who has not only recommitted himself to the revival of last year’s moribund “fetal heartbeat” bill but has vowed to seek the kind of total ban on abortion that would set back or eliminate any sense at all of women’s reproductive freedom.

There is the Lee whose agenda, focused as it is on industrial recruitment and holding the line on taxes and spending, is content to pursue incrementalism at best in most policy spheres. “I see you,” Lee kept assuring his statewide listeners in the climax of his speech. State Senate Democratic Leader Jeff Yarbro of Nashville answered for the Democrats in his party’s official response: “The Governor may see, but it’s not clear that he understands.”

Yarbro added: “Our state is still in the basement compared to the rest of the country when it comes to public school funding, when it comes to

hospital closures, drug overdose deaths, violent crime, and medical debt. We lead the nation in children losing health care, and [have] lots of counties where there are fewer businesses and fewer jobs today.”

Perhaps the most telling depiction of the gap between Lee’s vision and that of the Democratic opposition has to do with their differing price tags on educational spending. Both visions involve freeing up more money. But, after spending considerable time in the State of the State itemizing what seemed a blizzard of new initiatives, Lee proudly totaled it all up as an additional $600 million spent on education. The Democrats, in a caucus announcement two weeks ago, called for a minimum increase of $1.5 billion, more than twice as much.

But the polarities of the parties do not explain all the divisions of legislative Nashville, nor do they offer ideological guideposts to every issue.

In many ways, Lee is close to the most conservative fringe of his party — not in the point-by-point way that, for example, his defeated 2018 GOP rival Diane Black, a serious right-winger, would have been, but in most of the ways already hinted at by his agenda from last year.

It is no accident that a bill allowing the state to overrule local school boards on licensing charter schools

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“THERE IS ANOTHER LEE, EQUALLY COMMITTED TO A MORE DIVISIVE ATTITUDE TOWARD STATE POLICY.” and considerable numbers of both Republicans and Democrats, wants to.

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s the 2020 session began, the governor found himself in conflict with virtually the entire GOP super-majority over another issue — that of refugee resettlement in Tennessee, for which, as indicated, Lee has taken a favorable stand. Sexton and 49 other Republican members of the House — including Tom Leatherwood, Kevin Vaughan, and Mark White of Shelby County — have signed on to a bill sponsored by Ron Gant of neighboring Fayette County, HB 1929, which, in the language of its caption, “prohibits the governor from making a decision or obligating the state of Tennessee in any way with regard to resettlement of refugees unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly.”

Donald J. Trump could not have said it any firmer. This is the same kind of prohibition which Republican state Senator Brian Kelsey of Germantown managed to incorporate in a measure that forbade Lee’s gubernatorial predecessor, Bill Haslam, from proceeding with an acceptance on Tennessee’s behalf of the $1.5 billion reserved for the state annually under the Obama-created Affordable Care Act of 2009.

The Gant bill, and the overwhelming Republican backing of it, afforded House

Democratic Leader Mike Stewart of Nashville the occasion to express both an undoubtedly sincere outrage and a priceless opportunity to probe at and widen a potential divide in GOP ranks.

Said Stewart: “There are some decisions that are better left up to the executive branch, and this is definitely one of those. The governor has made the absolute right moral decision; one that is completely his to make, based on information that he has at his disposal and without legislative second-guessing.”

From the competitive point of view, “legislative second-guessing” is the main — and perhaps the only — weapon the Assembly’s Democrats have at their disposal given the numerical disproportion they are faced with.

And, while, as indicated, Lee and the Republican super-majority are not necessarily on the same page legislatively on all issues, the members of the Democratic minority in the General Assembly have much more to secondguess about in Lee’s proposed agenda for 2020 than does the GOP majority.

Several actions taken right off the bat in the 2020 session put Lee and the Democrats at loggerheads, especially in relation to the so-called “social issues.” First and most notorious has been the governor’s announcement on January 23rd that he would support a bill that he intends to be a run-up to the aforementioned ultimate total ban

on abortion.

The governor’s bill will contain a version of the “fetal heartbeat” measure that handily passed the House and nearly made it all the way through the 2019 session but was effectively halted

by Senate Speaker/Lt. Governor Randy McNally on the verge of Senate passage because of doubts that it could withstand legal challenge.

Lee has indicated that his bill, which has McNally on board, will contain other “fail-safe” provisions, including bars to abortion at various points of the pregnancy calendar that have passed legal muster in prior anti-abortion measures.

Summing up the views of legislative Democrats, State Senator Katrina Robinson of Memphis — calling the Lee proposal “one of the most divisive issues brought to any state legislature” — denied the validity of the term “pro-life,” saying that “it’s disturbing that the governor would place more effort to build a litigation strategy around abortions than he would to solve issues facing families like health care, child-care access, and funding public education.”

Similarly, though for the most part they have somewhat discreetly deferred comment to spokespersons for rights organizations, like Chris Sanders of the Tennessee Equality Project, Democrats have challenged the use by Lee and other Republicans of the nomenclature “religious freedom” to justify various legal restrictions aimed at members of the LGBTQ community.

A notorious case in point was another early-bird measure of the 2020 session, a bill passed by the state Senate and signed by Lee that allows faith-based adoption agencies to avoid penalties for declining placements for foster care or adoption on grounds of “religious or moral convictions” — in effect, to exclude LGBTQ parents from the process.

That kind of measure, like the onagain-off-again efforts in the General Assembly to bar transsexuals from gender-specific public locations (the so-called “bathroom bills,” in legislative parlance), normally engender public attention far beyond the borders of Tennessee and can arouse opposition even from Republican legislators — like state Senator Steven Dickerson of suburban Davidson County, who warned of potential backlash from business interests to the adoption bill’s passage.

This is as good a point as any to note that, despite the “us-vs.-them” struggles inherent in the two-party system, not every situation that comes up for discussion or votes in the General Assembly is of a forbiddingly binary nature. Cooperation across party lines happens all the time, as it generally has in the case of criminal justice reform, in which Republicans, expressly including Lee himself, have joined hands with continued on page 13

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and a measure funding “education savings accounts” (read “vouchers”) at the expense of Shelby and Davidson counties’ public school systems were two of his most eagerly sought goals, touted all over again in the State of the State.

His is not the right-wing populism of Trumpians or the erstwhile Tea Party; it smacks more of the paternalism of the Republican Party’s seigneurial wing, once dominant not only on the Eastern seaboard but among the country’s landed gentry and its upscale suburbs. And Lee’s conservatism on social issues attaches him to an age that is, for better or for worse, largely bygone among Gen Xers and Millennials but whose moral positions still loom large in the Tennessee hinterland.

The governor would probably accept the old George W. Bush term “compassionate conservatism” as descriptive of his views. He does not, for example, see his ideas about education as regressive. He is apparently sincere in believing that he is merely allowing state government to circumvent obsolete structures and inherited restrictions to endow less fortunate citizens in the name of benevolence.

Although Democratic legislators from the big-city enclaves of Memphis and Nashville, both directly affected, were and remain the most conspicuous opponents of vouchers, they have by no means been alone in resisting this legalized diversion of taxpayer funding into private schools via the medium of parent applications.

The voucher bill of 2019 famously passed the House of Representatives last year by a single vote, and then only after then-House Speaker Glen Casada, in determined pursuit of the governor’s agenda, suspended voting for upwards of an hour while he lobbied members of the Republicandominated body, looking for a GOP member willing to break a tie by doing a vote change from no to aye.

He finally found one in Representative Jason Zachary of Knoxville, but only after Zachary extracted a promise that the bill would not apply to his own Knox County or to anywhere else except Shelby and Davidson.

Casada was, as it turned out, much too devious for his own good in a multitude of ways and ended up the 2019 session losing a vote of confidence in his own party caucus and was deposed as speaker.

The new speaker selected by House Republicans, Representative Cameron Sexton of Crossville, was and is a sworn foe of vouchers. One of the most intense conflicts of the current session is the disagreement between Governor Lee and Speaker Sexton over whether to expedite the voucher process, as Lee desires, or to delay it, as Sexton,

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initial appearance in 2019 was SB1429/ HB1290, a measure that would modify the contractual rights of homeowners’ associations to prohibit long-term rentals.

Discussion of the bill, both last year and this year, which has brought it to the brink of passage, yielded a pattern of conflicting rights and complexities within complexities, and, as of now, it needs only approval by the House Calendar and Rules Committee to get to floor votes in both chambers.

It’s a vaguely worded “caption bill” in the sense that its listed nomenclature in the legislative record is but the most general and uninformative guide to its content. It’s one of those you-had-to-be-

there things, but its purport is to make it easier on absentee corporations (on “Wall Street,” as opponents of the bill put it) to convert the homes they acquire into rental properties, despite explicit prohibitions or obstacles in the protocols of homeowners’ associations.

It’s a suburban issue, a complex one in which each contingent claims to have justice on its side and each side accuses the other of violating property rights.

Win or lose, in the long run it will invite litigation. In the meanwhile, it is one more reminder that there isn’t necessarily a Democratic or a Republican way to do the public’s business. Sometimes not even a right or a wrong way.

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Democrats in eliminating or reducing the post-release legal shackles that in times past made it difficult for ex-felons to find a place as useful, productive members of society.

One frequent participant in such joint actions is the aforementioned state Senator Kelsey, paragon of the far right and author of such partisan measures as the currently pending Senate Joint Resolution 648, which seeks to enshrine in the state constitution a right-to-work provision. The term “right-to-work” is considered a misnomer by opponents of the concept, who include virtually all trade unionists and union sympathizers.

It basically allows workers to enjoy all privileges earned by unions for members of a work force without having to join or pay dues to a union, and it further protects such non-union workers from sanctions of denial of employment.

Laws establishing right-to-work have been passed before in Tennessee, and by majority-Democratic legislatures, as Kelsey shrewdly pointed out in introducing his constitutionalamendment resolution in the Senate Labor and Commerce committee last week.

Though he probably has more detractors among Democrats at large than any other GOP legislator, he can work across the party line.

Most recently, Kelsey is a co-sponsor with state Representative Antonio Parkinson of Memphis of HB1594/ SB1636, potentially path-finding legislation that “prohibits a public institution of higher education from preventing a student athlete from earning compensation as a result of the use of the student athlete’s name, image, or likeness.”

One final example of how issues, even cutting-edge ones, can defy the binary principle: A bill that made its

Even so, Democratic state Senator Raumesh Akbari of Memphis, one of her party’s rising stars, cast the lone vote against the measure in committee, saying, “Laws like Senator Kelsey’s amendment have kept wages low and health benefits scarce for workers everywhere they’ve been enacted — including Tennessee.

I believe it is wrong to use the state constitution to tie the hands of future lawmakers who may see value in the rights of workers to negotiate better pay and stronger benefits without interference from politicians.”

Still, Kelsey has in the past partnered with Democrat Lee Harris, now Shelby county mayor and then a state senator, in legislation to safeguard the Memphis aquifer from pollution and with various Democrats in criminal justice legislation.

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• Stay curious. Already fluent in Italian and Spanish, Bryant learned just enough Slovenian to properly trash talk young Dallas star Luka Doncic from a front-row seat at a recent Lakers-Mavericks game.

That competitive fire again. Doncic speaks English. Conventional barbs would have sufficed. But Bryant wanted to be distinctive. He wanted to be heard. He wanted to be understood.

• Respect goes both ways. Bryant’s Lakers lost to the Memphis Grizzlies in the last game Kobe played at FedExForum (on February 24, 2016). With the outcome decided and less than five minutes to play, Bryant entered the game … strictly to salute a fan base that didn’t even exist when his career began in 1996. The man who holds the single-game scoring record in that arena (60 points in 2007) made thousands of friends for life that night.

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ike much of the world, I was shaken by Kobe Bryant’s death on January 26th.

I was on the road to Atlanta to help my daughter catch a flight for a semester abroad when I learned the basketball legend perished in that helicopter crash with eight others, including his own 13-yearold daughter. In the days since, I’ve found some lessons Kobe left us. I’ll share eight of them (in respect to one of his Los Angeles Laker uniform numbers).

• Ego can be good. Bryant was outspoken about his desire to have a better NBA career than Michael Jordan’s when he was 18 years old. (Jordan still had two championships to win with the Chicago Bulls.)

In a sport flooded with ego, Bryant’s was outsized, but it became his fuel. He gave himself a nickname (Black Mamba) and it may be the best in basketball history, this side of Doctor J. By the time his NBA career was complete, Bryant’s combination of supreme talent and competitive fire was of a kind that can be compared with only one other player: Jordan.

• Your number is you (not the other way around). I initially found it absurd that the Lakers retired two jersey numbers in honor of Bryant. Then I looked closer. The points Bryant scored wearing numbers 8 and 24 would rank fifth and sixth, respectively, on the Lakers’ career scoring chart. (Behind jerseys worn by Jerry West, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elgin Baylor, and Magic Johnson.) Bryant decided to make a mid-career statement with his number change and added two championships to the three he’d won wearing the first number. Two numbers, one heart.

• It’s the recovery that counts. Whatever happened in that Colorado lodge in the summer of 2003, it wasn’t good for the Bryant brand. Rape charges were eventually dropped, and a civil suit settled. The superstar lost a lot of fans that summer, and it’s up to an individual to decide if sexual assault can be forgiven. The fact that Bryant’s wife, Vanessa, stuck with him, that they had three more children, that Bryant was clearly active in his four daughters’ lives … these are indications of a man’s growth. The ugliest of mistakes can be overcome.

• Daughters make a man. Kobe Bryant was a different man the day he died from the man who first became a father — to a baby girl — in 2003. I have two daughters myself, and I know this transformation.

Bryant discovered a form of beauty, grace, and, most importantly, strength, he didn’t know before his daughters arrived. May

Kobe against the Grizzlies in 2012

• Don’t be satisfied. Bryant won an Oscar, for crying out loud. He was the first African American to take home the prize for Animated Short Film (“Dear Basketball” in 2018). Kobe Inc. may well impact the world after the passing of its founder and namesake. Perhaps the saddest part of Bryant’s death is the fact that it came, not at the end of a life stage, but at the very beginning of one.

• Today matters. This is the most obvious and important lesson, of course. Gianna Bryant should be making plans for high school, helping her younger sisters find their own distinctive paths. Spend every day with someone you love. If you can’t be in the same room with them, connect. You won’t even need to say, “I love you.” They’ll know. And that’s enough.

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Local agency Love Doesn’t Hurt is hosting its inaugural Rock for Love event this Friday, featuring entertainment by Mama Honey, Native Blood, Chinese Dub Connection Embassy, Gloryholes, PXLS, Midtown Queer, and Magnum Dopus.

These talented local artists will help raise awareness for the organization, which provides emergency resources to victims of domestic abuse within LGBTQ+ partnerships and relationships.

“Domestic violence is one of those things that does not discriminate,” says Phillis Lewis, CEO of Love Doesn’t Hurt. “It affects all walks of life, people from many different backgrounds and demographics.”

Lewis, who formerly worked at the district attorney’s office, founded Love Doesn’t Hurt in 2011 after a client of hers, who’d been a victim of domestic abuse, had trouble receiving help from a counselor Lewis had referred her to.

“Instead of focusing on the trauma that she had experienced, they were more shaming her for being a lesbian,” says Lewis. After this revelation, Lewis began vetting service providers to ensure her clients were taken care of in a more inclusive environment.

“But there weren’t a lot of shelters that were very welcoming and accommodating to the LGBTQ community,” she says.

So she founded the agency, and since then, they have helped between 200 and 300 individuals by providing emergency services and other resources to help them get back on their own two feet.

“It’s important to provide the resources because if the person doesn’t get out of the situation they’re in, they’ll fall into a sense of hopelessness,” she says. “You want to get the person into safety. That way they can thrive. Otherwise, they’re going to continue to experience that abuse.”

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Best in Black Awards The Central Station, 545 S. Main, 7 p.m., $45 Honoring those voted “best” black-owned and black-supported businesses in the area. The top three in each category will be in attendance, with winners announced at the event.

MULYP Progressive Dinner Tour Makeda’s Cookies, 488 S. Second, 5:30-8 p.m., $35 Memphis Urban League Young Professionals and City Tasting Tours present a three-course dining experience across three Downtown restaurants: Makeda’s Cookies, Sage, and Rizzo’s by Michael Patrick. Participants will meet at Makeda’s to kick off the night.

Flawless Memphis Jewish Community Center, 6560 Poplar, 7 p.m., $5-$7 Part of the International Jewish Film Festival. The film follows high school students who want to sell their kidneys to pay for cosmetic surgery and prom dresses. One student, secretly a trans woman, is exposed.

Opening Reception: Jana Jones Art Body Soul Studio 1024 S. Yates, 6-8 p.m.

Exhibition of artworks by Jana Jones, a native Memphian and registered nurse. Artist talk at 7 p.m. Musical accompaniment

by Lyn Jones.

Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line is a dazzling debut.

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Opening Reception: Jerry Plunk My Memphis View Art & Gallery, 5 S. Main, 7-9 p.m.

“Body” is a collection of striking images by local photographer Jerry Plunk that depict body shapes close-up, while playing with light and shadow. The exhibition of large-scale prints is provocative and thought-provoking.

Night at the Pawscars Gala Cadre Building, 149 Monroe, 7-11 p.m., $45-$75 ALIVE Rescue Memphis benefit featuring food, drinks, music by DJ A.D., awards, performances, a dog fashion show, and a silent auction.

The Pawscars is a dog-friendly event, with limited V.I.P (Very Important Pup) tickets available.

Paint & Get Lit Oothoon’s 410 N. Cleveland, 7-9 p.m., $25 Bring a date, friend, or family member and paint a tree with branches shaped to form a heart.

Artist David Yancy III will guide you through painting the picture in a fun atmosphere.

Tyler Perry’s Madea Farewell Tour FedExForum, 191 Beale, 7:30 p.m., $45 & up Stage play to coincide with the final installment of the Madea film series, 2019’s A Madea Family Funeral. Perry has said this tour is the last chance for fans to catch Madea on stage.

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In 2008, after 10 years of research, Dr. Miriam DeCosta-Willis published her book Notable Black Memphians, a biographical and historical study that documents the accomplishments of more than 200 African Americans born between 1795 and 1972 who were instrumental in paving the way for society and strengthening the Memphis community.

Now, 12 years later, her hard work is being displayed at Woodruff-Fontaine House Museum starting this Friday until March 15th.

DeCosta-Willis herself has made strides in the civil rights movements, having been the first African-American professor at Memphis State University, participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycotts with her mother, and more.

“I have been an activist all my life,” she says. “And I think [my ex-husband Russell Sugarmon and] I have passed the political bug down to two of my children.”

DeCosta-Willis is the mother of four children, two of whom are active in the local political scene: Erika Sugarmon (a candidate in last year’s City Council elections) and Tarik Sugarmon (a judge for Division 2 of the Memphis Municipal Court). One of her other daughters, Elena Williams, is helping her put this exhibit together.

“I raised them to be independent primarily and to seek their own area of community activism,” she says.

DeCosta-Willis credits her lineage for influencing her family’s involvement in the community. Her great-grandfather was born into slavery and was freed in 1865, after which, he was able to turn around and acquire property, put all 12 children through college, and give back to the community.

“I’m proud of my enslaved ancestors,” she says. “And I always talk about my descendents because I’m very proud of them, too.”

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Winter Festival of Lights 409 S. Main, 6:30 p.m., $75 Enjoy live music, food, and drinks and participate in a silent auction at this Merge Memphis event to raise funds for Clare’s House, a homeless women’s facility assisting with employment, stability, safety, housing, and other needs.

Folk All Y’all: An Evening with Snaps for Sinners The Green Room at Crosstown Arts, 1350 Concourse, 7:30-9:30 p.m., $20 The swing ensemble infuses jazz, folk, and punk for a danceable blend of multicultural grooves. All ticket proceeds go to the artists.

Robin: The Ultimate Robin Williams Experience Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, 3663 Appling, 7:30 p.m., $35 Robin Williams was one of the greatest comedians — and human beings — of our generation.

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Chinese New Year Celebration The Children’s Museum of Memphis, 2525 Central, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., free with museum admission ($15/ nonmembers) Gather the family together to celebrate Chinese culture with traditional dragon dance, Chinese painting and calligraphy, origami, dumpling samples, and more.

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Parker to Hurt. The two eventually married and settled in Little Rock. When Fowler moved to Lake Desoto, Arkansas, in recent years, after many peregrinations, the three reconnected. “Initially it was Chris who had the brainchild of the Dopolarians,” says Fowler. “It started with a project we did in Arkansas to commemorate the integration of Little Rock’s Central High School. Chris and his wife, Kelley Hurt, who’s from Memphis, wrote the No Tears Suite for that. Chris called me and [trumpeter] Marc Franklin.

We also ended up getting Brian Blade, who is one of the best drummers of his generation. And that made us realize, ‘We can play with great players.’

“So we figured, let’s work with the people who we’d love to work with. And also make it still be really Southern. There’s this frustrating thing, where it’s assumed you have to be in New York or Chicago or San Francisco to do avant-garde jazz

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opolarians, while not exactly a household name, are quietly becoming a widely celebrated group in jazz circles. The record they released last fall has been lauded in the pages of Pitchfork, Offbeat, and Rolling Stone. But what’s rarely mentioned in all of this press is that the group has its roots in Memphis’ free-jazz scene of 20 years ago — and a friendship that has endured since those days. Which is not to say that Garden Party, the group’s debut on Mahakala Music, is a Memphis record — the group’s members are too far-flung for that claim. But it is certainly a Southern record, and that’s a unique claim in the free-jazz universe. That it is indeed free jazz should come as no surprise, as the group brings together several luminaries from that world, most notably drummer Alvin Fielder, who played with the likes of Sun Ra and others, when free jazz was a markedly revolutionary musical statement.

Other players include tenor saxophonist Kidd Jordan and bassist William Parker and relative spring chickens Chad Fowler (alto saxophone), Chris Parker (piano), and singer Kelley Hurt. It’s those last three who make the group’s show at Crosstown Arts’ Green Room this Friday a return.

“Chris and I used to live in a house together on Meda in Cooper-Young,” Fowler tells me. “We had a bunch of free sessions — including a couple sessions with [late free-jazz pioneer] Frank Lowe when he would come to town. It wasn’t too long before Chris was touring with him. That connection actually led to Chris meeting William Parker, Alvin, and Kidd and all those people.”

This was some two decades ago, when there was a surprising amount of free-jazz improvisation going on here. “I actually studied with [saxophonist] George Cartwright a bit,” Fowler recalls. “He did a piece for big band, and I was part of that.

[Guitarist] Jim Duckworth was also a big influence. We played Sonny Sharrock and that kinda stuff in a group called The Jim Spake Action Figures. And the drummer Samurai Celestial, who was once with the Sun Ra Arkestra, was around Memphis quite a bit back then.”

Ultimately, Fowler introduced Chris

Dopolarians

music. But if you look at the history of the music, it almost all started in the South, whether it’s Ornette Coleman or Pharoah Sanders or Sun Ra. All these people [in Dopolarians] were born and grew up in the South, other than William Parker. And we recorded it in New Orleans. A lot of it was fully improvised music, but it feels like the blues in a way that a lot of avant-garde music doesn’t. It feels soulful. Some of these people are really into the Hi Rhythm Section and Stax music.”

While Friday’s show will be something of a homecoming, Fowler says it will also serve as a memorial to Fielder, the de facto leader of the group, who passed away just over a year ago. “The new drummer is Chad Anderson — a protégé and a great friend of Alvin’s for many years. And Kidd Jordan’s doctor just told him he can’t travel. So we have the great Douglas Ewart coming down. Everyone in this group is somehow connected through these weird threads.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule February 6 - 22 Bluff City Troubadours Mondays; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; P.S. Band First Wednesday, Sunday of every month, 7 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill 341 BEALE 577-8387

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

191 BEALE

Celine Dion Sunday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.

200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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.

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Rum Boogie Cafe Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; 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

Center for Southern Folklore Hall 119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

Delta Cats, Billy Gibson & Linear Smith First Friday of every month, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Tin Roof 315 BEALE

Semi-Average Joe Thursdays, 6 p.m.; Rodell McCord Wednesdays, 8 p.m. and; Radio Romance Friday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.; Wayne Harper Feb. 7-8, 10 p.m.; Jerry Patton Sunday, Feb. 9, 2 p.m.; Blue Chip Duo Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7-10 p.m.

The Orpheum 203 S. MAIN 525-3000

The Beach Boys Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7 p.m.

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

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.

The Vault

292 VIRGINIA 526-8631

Huey’s Downtown

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Richard Wilson Saturday, Feb. 8, 7-10 p.m.

Church of the River

Silky O’Sullivan’s

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

162 BEALE 521-1851

152 MADISON 572-1813

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

Love and All That Jazz Sunday, Feb. 9, 11 a.m.-noon.

183 BEALE 522-9596

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.

Brass Door Irish Pub

Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Saturdays, 4:30-8:30 p.m. and Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and Fridays, 4-8 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Soul Street Mojo Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

162 BEALE 521-1851

88 UNION

168 BEALE 576-2220

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

182 BEALE 528-0150

Handy Bar

Mesquite Chop House

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

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

124 GE PATTERSON

Turnstyles Friday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m.; KC Johns Saturday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m.

Medical Center Sunrise 670 JEFFERSON

KC Johns Sunday, Feb. 9, 10 a.m.

South Main

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Five O’Clock Shadow Sunday, Feb. 9, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

LAPD Thursdays, 8 p.m.; John Williams and the A440 Band Fridays, 9 p.m.; An Evening with Pat Harrington and Aubrey McCrady Saturday, Feb. 8, 9 p.m.; Soul Jazz Trios with Joe Restivo Sundays, 7 p.m.

South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Stephen Michael, Jeremy Stanfill, Kyle Bailey Friday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.

B-Side 1555 MADISON 347-6813

Garrett Bryan, Alice Hasen Friday, Feb. 7, 9 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; David Cousar Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Boom

Boom Pachyderm, Great Lakes Wednesday, Feb. 12, 9 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Goner Third Thursday Every third Thursday; Freeloader, Faux Killas Friday, Feb. 7, 9 p.m.; Marcella & Her Lovers Saturday, Feb. 8, 10:30 p.m.; Mary Gagz and Her Gaggle of Girlz Mondays, 9 p.m.; Graham Winchester Song Swap: Jacob Church and Jeff Hulett Wednesday, Feb. 12, 9 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

Karaoke Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.; 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.

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 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.

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Sean Apple Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Thursday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.-midnight; Blind Mississippi Morris Friday, Feb. 7, 5-9 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Feb. 7-8, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Saturday, Feb. 8, 5-9 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.;

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule February 6 - 12

The Dopolarians Friday, Feb. 7, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Folk All Y’all: An Evening with Snaps for Sinners Saturday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.; Modern Masters Jazz Series: Tim Lerch Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Jubu Smith Wednesday, Feb. 12, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Growlers

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

Ryan Hurd, Niko Moon, Joey Hyde Friday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m.; MO3, EL’ zappo foreign, Mo3 Badazz Saturday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m.; Highly Suspect Tuesday, Feb. 11, 8 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.

Murphy’s

Wolfgang Manor

1589 MADISON 726-4193

950 MEDA 208-3317

Hancock & Co. Saturday, Feb. 8, 9 p.m.

Variety Show: “I Love Memphis” Saturday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m.

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Rock-n-Roll Cafe

East of Wangs

3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

6069 PARK 763-0676

Eddie Harrison Tuesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.; Lee Gardner Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House 551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

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

Whitehaven/ Airport Graceland Soundstage 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY

Lee Brice Saturday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m.; Umphrey’s McGee Wednesday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m.

Bartlett

Giovannie & the Hired Guns Thursday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.; Rock for Love Friday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.; AJJ, Tacocat, Emperor X Saturday, Feb. 8, 7:20 p.m.; Stone Senate, Queen City Gypsies, The Crook and the Copper Sunday, Feb. 9, 8 p.m.; Wyred: Night of 1,000 Babies Monday, Feb. 10, 6 p.m.; My Chemical Monday: Memphis Emo Night Monday, Feb. 10, 9 p.m.

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Steak Night with Tony Butler and the Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

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

Hi Tone

Bar Misfits Sunday, Feb. 9, 8-11:30 p.m.

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Veaux, Rose, Joybomb Thursday, Feb. 6, 9 p.m.; Moshpit Wars, ATM, Richbaby Friday, Feb. 7, 9 p.m.; Cost 2 Coast Live Saturday, Feb. 8, 9 p.m.; Softspoken Saturday, Feb. 8, 10 p.m.; Michael Angelo Batio Sunday, Feb. 9, 8 p.m.; Frankie Valet, Late Night Cardigan, Blvck Hippie Sunday, Feb. 9, 11 p.m.; Memphis Music Clique Presents: The Solution Episode 2 Monday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m.; Gender Confetti, Big Mermaid, Vexadrem Wednesday, Feb. 12, 10 p.m.

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

Even Odds Sunday, Feb. 9, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Frayser/Millington Huey’s Millington 8570 HWY 51 N.

Amber McCain Trio Sunday, Feb. 9, 6-9 p.m.

Germantown

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Fabulous DooVays Sunday, Feb. 9, 4-7 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Sunday, Feb. 9, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

Spyro Gyra Saturday, Feb. 8, 8-10 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room

Huey’s Southwind

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Blackwater Trio Thursday, Feb. 6, 6 p.m.; Debbie Jamison and the Big Jam Band Friday, Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m.; Thumpdaddy Friday, Feb. 7, 10 p.m.; Dantones Duo Saturday, Feb. 8, 10:30 a.m.; Chad Wesley Saturday, Feb. 8, 2 p.m.; Fingertrick Saturday, Feb. 8, 6:30 p.m.; Almost Elton John & The Rocketmen Saturday, Feb. 8, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Rick Camp and the Suburban Trunk Monkeys Sunday, Feb. 9, 4 p.m.; Madison Line Mondays Mondays, 6 p.m.; Memphis Knights Big Band Monday, Feb. 10, 6 p.m.; Royal Blues Band Jam Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Memphis All-Stars Wednesday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m.

Lamplighter Lounge 1702 MADISON 567-5322

Boofin’ Tylenol, Aquarian Blood Thursday, Feb. 6, 9 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Beer and Hymns Love Edition Friday, Feb. 7, 6-7:30 p.m.

Elvis Tribute featuring Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Live Entertainment Mondays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Elvis Gospel Music Show Fridays, 1-2:30 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Tony Holiday & the Soul Service Sunday, Feb. 9, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, Feb. 9, 8-11:30 p.m.

P&H Cafe

Howard Vance Guitar Academy

1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rockstar Karaoke Fridays; Ben & Hannah’s Wedding Rock Opera Saturday, Feb. 8, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

University of Memphis

Railgarten

The Bluff

2160 CENTRAL

535 S. HIGHLAND 454-7771

The Flying V’s: All Ages Show Thursday, Feb. 6, 10 p.m.; Devan Friday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m.; 10th Annual Forever Loving Marley: Bob Marley Tribute Show Saturday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m.

Rhodes College West Campus 613 UNIVERSITY 843-3775

“At the Movies” Friday, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m.

978 REDDOCH 767-6940

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

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

Dirty Dozen Brass Band Sunday, Feb. 9, 7-8:30 p.m.

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

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Natchez Brothers Sunday, Feb. 9, 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.

Guest House at Graceland 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-3322

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

Hernando’s Hide-A-Way 3210 OLD HERNANDO 398-7496

Brandon Cunning Thursday, Feb. 6, 9 p.m.; B.B. Palmer Friday, Feb. 7, 9 p.m.; Harpdog Brown & the Uptown Blues Band Saturday, Feb. 8, 9 p.m.; Streeter and the Tribe present Memphis Hang Suite Tuesday, Feb. 11, 8 p.m.; Honky Tonk Wednesdays with Dale Watson & his Lone Stars Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

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

Dueling Pianos Friday, Feb. 7, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

Chris & Sarah Sunday, Feb. 9, 4-7 p.m.; Roxi Love Sunday, Feb. 9, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Open Mic Night and Steak Night Thursdays, 6 p.m.-midnight; Blues Jam hosted by Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 507-8030

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 312-6058

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

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.

FEBRUARY 6 - 12

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

TH EAT E R

Circuit Playhouse

Indecent, in 1923, a Jewish theater troupe was arrested on the grounds of obscenity. Playwright Paula Vogel recounts the controversy surrounding this play and the lives of the actors who created it. playhouseonthesquare.org. $47.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Feb. 16.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

The Evergreen Theatre

What Becomes of a Broken Heart: The Stage Play, what happens to a happy family when you find out that someone has been in your face the whole time and seeking your place? Catch this live, action-filled drama. theatreworksmemphis.org. Fri., Feb. 7, 7 p.m., Sat., Feb. 8, 7 p.m., and Sun., Feb. 9, 5 p.m.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

FedExForum

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Farewell, fedexforum.com. $60.

Fri., Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m.

191 BEALE.

Germantown Community Theatre

Next to Normal, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. gctcomeplay.org. Sundays, 2:30 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Feb. 16.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).

Hattiloo Theatre

Detroit 67, it’s the summer of 1967, Chelle and her brother Lank are running an unlicensed after-hours joint out of their basement. They must navigate the chaos both outside and within. hattiloo.org. $35. Sun., 3 p.m., Sat., 2 & 7:30 p.m., and Thurs., Fri., 7:30 p.m.

Through Feb. 9.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

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New Moon Theatre Company

Quills, the Marquis de Sade is in an asylum for his sadomasochistic, pornographic writing. After confiscating the Marquis’ quills and paper, the Abbe is surprised to find new stories circulating. newmoontheatre.org. $20. Fridays, Saturdays, 8-10 p.m., and Sundays, 2-4 p.m. Through Feb. 23.

AT THEATREWORKS, 2085 MONROE (484-3467).

The Orpheum

The Play That Goes Wrong, welcome to the opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. The actors trip over everything — including their lines. orpheum-memphis.com. $25$100. Mon.-Wed., Feb. 5-7, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Feb. 8, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., and Sun., Feb. 9, 1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

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Opening Reception for “Colored Pencil Showcase” at WKNO Studio, Sunday, February 9th, 2 p.m.

Playhouse on the Square

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

Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m. Through Feb. 8.

artvillagegallery.com. Sat., Feb. 8, 5:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

Germantown Performing Arts Center

Opening reception for “The Chosen Ones,” exhibition of work by Danny Broadway. gpacweb.com.

Sat., Feb. 8, 5-7 p.m.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Jay Etkin Gallery

Opening reception for “Current & Ancient Trends,” jayetkingallery.com. Fri., Feb. 7, 6-9 p.m.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

942 COOPER (550-0064).

Tennessee Shakespeare Company

L Ross Gallery

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, based on the children’s book by Kate DiCamillo about the voyage of a toy rabbit that travels the world including the bustling streets of Memphis.

The journey has lessons of love, the loss of love, and how to love again. tnshakespeare.org. $15-$29.

Wednesdays, Thursdays, 10:30 a.m., Fridays, 6 p.m., Saturdays, 11 a.m. & 4 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m.

Through Feb. 16.

7950 TRINITY (759-0604).

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

Art Body Soul Studio

Opening reception for Jana Jones, exhibition of artwork with music by Lyn Jones. artbodysoulstudio.com. Fri., Feb. 7, 6-8 p.m.

1024 SOUTH YATES (207-4161).

Art Village Gallery

Opening reception for “Negritude: The Igbo Has Landed,” exhibition of work by international artist Gerald Chukwuma in his first solo exhibition in the United States. (521-0782),

Opening reception for “Shelter,” exhibition of work by Randy Akers. lrossgallery.com. Fri., Feb. 7, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden

Opening reception for “In Full Bloom,” exhibition of paintings by Kelly Roy. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Sun., Feb. 9, 3-4:30 p.m.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

My Memphis View Art & Gallery

Opening reception for Jerry Plunk, exhibition of body and form photography. Fri., Feb. 7, 7-9 p.m.

5 S. MAIN.

Woodruff-Fontaine House

Opening reception for “Notable Black Memphians,” exhibition curated by author and historian, Dr. Miriam DeCosta-Willis. $20.

Fri., Feb. 7, 5-8 p.m.

WOODRUFF-FONTAINE HOUSE, 680 ADAMS (526-1469), WOODRUFF-FONTAINE.ORG.

WKNO Studio

Opening reception for “Colored Pencil Showcase,” exhibition of work by the Memphis Chapter

of the Colored Pencil Society of America featuring portraiture, landscape, floral, wildlife, and abstract pieces in a wide range of styles. wkno.org. Sun., Feb. 9, 2-4 p.m.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

OT H E R A R T HAP P E N I N G S

Artist Talk: Cullen Washington Jr.

Utilizing the grid and the public square to communicate democracy, humanity, and freedom of speech, Washington uses collage abstract paintings as non-representational fields of activity. Wed., Feb. 12, 6:30 p.m.

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

Munch and Learn: Dynamic and Whimsical Interaction Kong Wee Pang talks about merging her dynamic aesthetic and whimsical imagination, Wed., Feb. 12, 12-1 p.m.

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

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 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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THIS WEEK AT

02.09

BLUEGRASS BRUNCH 1:00pm - 4:00pm Crosstown Brewing Co.

WOMAN’S EXCHANGE ART GALLERY, 88 RACINE (327-5681), WEOFMEMPHIS.ORG.

C O M E DY

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

Robin: The Ultimate Robin Williams Experience, comedian Roger Kabler resurrects the greatest comic mind of his generation. bpacc.org. $35. Sat., Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.

3663 APPLING (385-6440).

Brass Door Irish Pub

Improv Underground VIII, what’s more romantic than an improv show in a basement?

18+ bluffcityliars.com. $5.

Fri., Feb. 7, 8 p.m.

152 MADISON (572-1813).

Chuckles Comedy Club

LECTU R E / S P EA K E R

“Economic Recovery for Whom?: Who Gets Squeezed and What We Can Do About It”

Ernesto Cortés Jr. will talk about the toll the Great Recession took on people of color, how the corporate recovery in no way translated to individuals, and how organizers can help. Free with registration. Thurs., Feb. 6, 6-8 p.m.

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

First Fridays: “Growing from Seed” An educational social hour for plant lovers featuring environmental educator Mary Riddle to speak on topic.

Free. Fri., Feb. 7, 6-7 p.m.

PALLADIO GARDEN, 2231 CENTRAL AVENUE (276-3816), PALLADIOMEMPHIS.COM.

THE BROOM CLOSET, 546 S. MAIN (497-9486), THEBROOMCLOSETMEMPHIS.COM.

“Women Who Rock”

Conversation with Grace Askew who will share her story, as well as lessons learned along the way. Moderated by Clara Daschund of Sun Studio. $10. Sun., Feb. 9, 2:30-4 p.m.

TO U R S

Adults Only Twilight Tour

Love is in the air! At least for the zoo’s animals at the Memphis Zoo. Find out how the animals find their perfect match and see how these relationships unfold. $20. Sat., Feb. 8, 7 p.m.

MEMPHIS ZOO, 2000 PRENTISS PLACE IN OVERTON PARK (333-6500), MEMPHISZOO.ORG.

Winter Woodland Tree ID

This Old House 40th Anniversary Celebration

Featuring speakers, vintage and handmade vendors, workshops, food trucks, and more. $10-$25. Fri., Feb. 7, 6-8 p.m., and Sat., Feb. 8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Jerry Mitchell

Author discusses and signs Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Wed., Feb. 12, 6 p.m.

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (9225526), NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.

WKNO STUDIO, 7151 CHERRY FARMS (9017298735), WKNO.ORG.

Wicca 101 Curious?

Join Rev. Stephen from The Fellowship of Avalon for a fast paced, rollicking twohour overview of Wicca and Paganism. Learn about casting a circle, altar tools, and ritual structure. Free. Wed., Feb. 12, 7-9 p.m.

1:00pm - 5:00pm Madison Pharmacy

Join the Church Health Knitting & Crocheting Group every Monday at the cafe at Crosstown Arts. All levels and ages welcome!

Bring your own projects and supplies.

Crosstown Arthouse presents

Fancy Little Flea Market

AVON ACRES, 4361 SUMMER (333-2650), MRSJONESPAINTEDFINISHES.COM.

Intergalactic Bead Show $5. Feb. 8-9, 10 a.m.

AGRICENTER SHOWPLACE ARENA, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (678-9240818), BEADSHOWS.COM.

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The UTHSC College of Pharmacy Women’s Health Committee is hosting an HPV Vaccine Clinic. Come learn if the HPV Vaccine is right for you, and get the vaccine at Madison Pharmacy.

CROSSTOWN ARTS

02.07

E X PO S/ SA L E S

Meet Richard Trethewey, plumbing and heating expert, and Ross Trethewey, home technology expert. With a presentation followed by a meet and greet. Light refreshments will be served. $120.

Mon., Feb. 10, 7-9 p.m.

HPV VACCINE CLINIC

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

CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 102 N. SECOND (525-6602), CALVARYMEMPHIS.ORG.

768 S. COOPER (207-5343).

02.10

02.06

1700 DEXTER.

Drafts and Laughs, Comma Comedians return. Sat., Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.

9:30am - 11:30am Cafe at Crosstown Arts FREE

Arborist Bo Kelley and Linnea West lead participants on a tour to identify native trees by examining buds, bark, and form. Call for more information or to register. Free with admission. Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m. Through Feb. 19.

Immigration Forum

Memphis Made Brewing Company

CHURCH HEALTH KNITTING & CROCHETING GROUP

WONDER/COWORK/CREATE, 340 MONROE, INTHEKNOWCITY.COM.

The Christi Show featuring Ms. Shirleen, clean comedy

by Christianee (pronounced Chris-tee-knee) Porter, also known as The Christi Show, brings her funny to Memphis. chucklescomedyhouse.com. $28-$50. Sun., Feb. 9, 5-7 p.m.

Forum with Charlie Pazar and Jack Richbourg, moderated by Paul McLain. Lives Worth Saving, Thistle and Bee, and Community Legal Center will be in attendance.

Sun., Feb. 9, 11:15 a.m.

02.10

02.12

POLYESTER 7:30pm - 9:30pm Crosstown Theater $5 THE DOPOLARIANS 7:30pm - 9:30pm The Green Room $15

JUBU SMITH 7:30pm - 9:30pm The Green Room $10

More This Week At Crosstown Arts: • THE COLOR WHEEL POP-UP GALLERY Thu Feb 6th 4:30pm - 5:30pm, East Atrium, FREE • Kelvin Walters presents HOPE: THE FRUIT OF EXPERIENCE Thu Feb 6th 7:30pm - 9:30pm, The Green Room, $10 • Folk All Y’all: An Evening with SNAPS FOR SINNERS Sat Feb 8th 7:30pm - 9:30pm, The Green Room, $20 • Modern Masters Jazz Series feat. TIM LERCH Tue Feb 11th 7:30pm - 9:30pm, The Green Room, $20

CROSSTOWNCONCOURSE.COM/EVENTS

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

Shoppers can view and purchase furniture, rugs, crystal, sterling, antiques, and other treasures. Sales support the WE mission, “Helping others to help themselves.” Refreshments provided. Sun., Feb. 9, 2-5 p.m.

“Negritude: The Igbo Has Landed”

by Gerald Chukwuma at Art Village Gallery

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

WE Consign Preview Party and Open House

Come and get your brunch on with a rotating list of visiting food trucks and music by The Late Greats.

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Buyers and guests can register online. Public hours begin on Saturday at 1 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m. Visit website for more information. $15. Fri.Sun., Feb. 7-9, 9 a.m.

AGRICENTER SHOWPLACE ARENA, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (630-2419865), HELENBRETTEXHIBITS.COM.

MIR Job Fair

Always dreamed about working in motorsports? Bring your resume to MIR. Apply in person to join our staff for the upcoming season. For more information, visit website. Sat., Feb. 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, 5500 VICTORY, RACEMIR.COM.

Very Important Bride Food Tasting

Featuring vendors, wedding experts, games, door prizes, and a food tasting. Entertainment provide by the MidSouth DJ Association. Free.

Tues., Feb. 11, 7-9 p.m.

WHISPERING WOODS HOTEL AND CONVENTION CENTER, 11200 GOODMAN, OLIVE BRANCH, MS (368-6782), MEMPHISBRIDALSHOW.COM.

F EST IVALS

Black History Month Celebration

Other weekends include poetry, book signings, and more.

Visit website for schedule of events. Saturdays. Through Feb. 29.

SLAVE HAVEN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MUSEUM, 826 N. SECOND (527-3427), SLAVEHAVENMEMPHIS.COM.

S PO RTS / F IT N ES S

Memphis Grizzlies vs.

Portland Trail Blazers Wed., Feb. 12, 7 p.m.

FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE, FEDEXFORUM.COM.

Memphis Hustle Basketball

Thurs., Feb. 6, 10:30 a.m.

LANDERS CENTER, 4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120), LANDERSCENTER.COM.

Memphis Tigers vs.

South Florida Bulls Mens Basketball Sat., Feb. 8, 3 p.m.

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Featuring heavy hors d’oeuvres, silent auction, and light show on the Memphis bridge. Benefiting families of the Heart Institute at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. $25.

Fri., Feb. 7, 6:30-9 p.m.

FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE, FEDEXFORUM.COM.

M E ETI NGS

Meristem Women’s Book Club

NO.2 VANCE, 325 WAGNER, BIGHEARTFUND.ORG.

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

Herbal Work Study: Herbs for Love

Two hours will be spent weeding, grooming, thinning, planting, or other duties. Last hour will be spent learning about the history of herbs for love. Call for more information. Sat., Feb. 8, 8:15-11:30 a.m.

OUTMEMPHIS: THE LGBTQ CENTER OF THE MID-SOUTH, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), MGLCC.ORG.

United Way Free Tax Prep

Make an appointment to receive help with tax preparation. Income restrictions apply. Visit website for locations and more information. Free.

Through April 15.

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

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

KIDS

Chinese New Year Celebration

Celebrate the rich culture of China featuring traditional dragon dance, Chinese painting and calligraphy, Lucky Pocket craft, Rain Flower dance, origami, storytime, and Chinese dumpling samples.

Free with admission. Sat., Feb. 8, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

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

Janice the Griot: Harriet Tubman

Janice the Griot recounts these historic and courageous tales of freedom as Harriet Tubman. $10-$15. Sun., Feb. 9, 2:30 p.m.

BARTLETT PERFORMING ARTS AND CONFERENCE CENTER, 3663 APPLING (385-6440), BPACC.ORG.

Memphis Parent Family Choice Awards: Nominations Open

Vote for your favorite family-friendly services and businesses in the Mid-South.

Check out the categories in the February issue, vote online, and results in April. Vote now. Through March 6.

MEMPHISPARENT.COM.

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Heart to Heart Cocktail Party and Bridge Lighting

Gala

Open for Submissions: Ag Day Student Art Contest

Theme: Ag Brings Everyone to the Table: Exploring Ag Careers, open to students grades 3-12 in Shelby or DeSoto counties. For more information, visit website. Through March 13.

AGRICENTER SHOWPLACE ARENA, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (757-7777), AGRICENTER.ORG.

S P E C IA L E V E N TS

Poker for Pups

Featuring food buffet, beer, wine, and silent auction.

Prizes for 1st-3rd place and all seats at the final table will win a prize. Sign up by email, charliescrusaders.org $40-$80.

Sat., Feb. 8, 6:30 p.m.

PICKERING CENTER, 7771 POPLAR PIKE (757-7376).

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.

Adults Only Twilight Tour at the Memphis Zoo, Saturday, February 8th, 7 p.m.

Best in Black Awards

Shines a light on some outstanding African-American businesses, community organizations, entrepreneurs, and individuals in the Mid-South. Thurs., Feb. 6, 7 p.m.

CENTRAL STATION, 545 S. MAIN, BESTINBLACKAWARDSMEMPHIS. COM.

Celebrating Black History

Featuring displays and artifacts pertaining to black history. Free. Sundays, 2-4 p.m. Through Feb. 29.

BARTLETT MUSEUM, 2969 COURT.

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 & 5 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Crosstown Concourse Scavenger Hunt

Free family activity. Pick up a scavenger hunt guide at the front desk in the Central Atrium. Show your completed book at Area 51 or MEMPopS for half-off a frozen treat.

Ongoing.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE, CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Fab Fridays: Laser Music Shows and Giant Screen Movies All shows on CTI Giant Theater or AutoZone Dome Planetarium. Visit website for shows and times or more information. Fridays, 6-9 p.m.

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

Inaugural Night at the Pawscars

A night full of food, beverages, awards, dog fashion shows, dancing, and silent auction. The Pawscars is dog-friendly. Come in your best Oscars-inspired attire, benefiting Alive Rescue Memphis. Fri., Feb. 7, 7 p.m.

CADRE BUILDING, 149 MONROE (218-5399), ALIVERESCUEMEMPHIS.COM.

Literacy is Key: A Book and Author Event Luncheon and conversation with award-winning authors to benefit literacy in the MidSouth. $60. Thurs., Feb. 6, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS HOLIDAY INN, 3700 CENTRAL (678-8200), MEMPHIS.KAPPA.ORG.

Low-Cost Microchipping Event

Get your pet microchipped at Hollywood Feed in Southaven.

Proceeds benefit Dogs 2nd Chance. Cash only. $20. Sun., Feb. 9, 12:30-2 p.m.

HOLLYWOOD FEED SOUTHAVEN, 356 E. GOODMAN (662-470-5990), HOLLYWOODFEED.COM.

Mardi Gras on the River The JSU Alumni bring a little bit of New Orleans to the Bluff City. Wear Mardi Gras/ cocktail attire and enjoy food, music, and dancing. $30. Sat., Feb. 8, 8 p.m.-midnight.

BALINESE BALLROOM, 330 N. MAIN (601-616-1870), JSUMEMPHIS.ORG.

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RESURRECTION CATHOLIC CHURCH, 5475 NEWBERRY AVENUE (264-0016).

Memphis Film Prize 2020 Kickoff Party

Sunday Sessions: Pop-Up Party

Pre-Valentine’s Day event featuring local makers and artists: 901 MEM Candles, Fleskes Jewelry, Bluff City Cru Vintage, and more.

DJs Irie, Mado, and DJ Tree, free wine and beer, and BYOB-friendly. Free. Sun., Feb. 9, 5-9 p.m.

THE PLANET’S FINEST GIFT SHOP, 3648 PARK (300-2717), THEPLANETSFINEST.COM.

Take Your Dog to Trivia

Filmmakers, cast, crew, and community members alike are invited to kick things off. Fri., Feb. 7, 6 p.m.

THE COVE, 2559 BROAD (730-0719), MEMPHISFILMPRIZE.COM.

“Race to the End of the Earth”

This exhibition recounts the contest to reach the South Pole.

From the edge of Ross Ice Shelf to the South Pole and back. Feb. 8-May 17.

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

Seed Library Seed Swap

Bring your saved seeds to exchange with other gardeners.

Featuring a presentation from Kadejah Scott of Grow Local, who will discuss gardening tips and the importance of seed sharing. Free. Sun., Feb. 9, 2-5 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2734), MEMPHISTILTH.ORG.

Bring your dog to Cerrito Trivia on this special night of general knowledge trivia. Dog is optional, but encouraged.

Hollywood Feed staff will attend with swag, treats, and prizes. Free. First Thursday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

MEMPHIS MADE BREWING COMPANY, 768 S. COOPER (207-5343), HOLLYWOODFEED.COM.

Winter Festival of Lights

Benefiting Clare’s House. $75.

Sat., Feb. 8, 6:30 p.m.

409 S. MAIN, SOUTH MAIN ARTS DISTRICT, MERGEMEMPHIS.ORG.

H O LI DAY EVE N TS

First Fridays on Broad: Sweet Street

Featuring a $5 punch card, sample mouth watering treats from local retailers, drop off your card for a chance to win a basket of goodies. Fri., Feb. 7, 5-8 p.m.

BROAD AVENUE ART DISTRICT, BROAD (378-4270), BROADAVEARTS.COM.

The Love Connexion Live: A Celebration of Black Love

A celebration of black love. $15 single, $25 couple. Fri., Feb. 7, 7-10 p.m.

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

Day

Museum After Dark: Silentine’s

A silent disco for the lonely, the ladies, and the lovers. Includes beverages, snacks, sweets, and headphones. Pick a live DJ or Memphis “love” playlist. Switch it up. RSVP through Eventbrite. $10. Wed., Feb. 12, 6-8 p.m.

Join HopeWorks for its 12th annual breakfast fundraiser.

Enjoy breakfast and listen to speaker R. Brad Martin, former CEO of Saks, Inc., and founder of Hope 2 Hire. $25. Sat., Feb. 8, 8:30-10:30 a.m.

HIGHLAND CHURCH OF CHRIST, 400 N. HOUSTON LEVEE (458-3335), WHYHOPEWORKS.ORG.

Tour

MULYP Progressive Dinner

Meet at Makeda’s Downtown and travel for a three-course dining experience at local restaurants. $35. Fri., Feb. 7, 5:30-8 p.m.

STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC, 926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535), STAXMUSEUM.COM.

MAKEDA’S COOKIES DOWNTOWN, 488 S. SECOND (745-2667), MEMPHISULYP.ORG.

FOOD & DR I N K E V E N TS

FI LM

The Art of Dinner Interactive Cooking Class: Valentine’s in Hawaii

Portrait of the journeys of those who rose to challenge the nation to end gun violence. $10.

Thurs., Feb. 6, 7 p.m.

Chef Joshua House will guide you through a four-course vegetarian menu. $65. Fri., Feb. 7, 6-9 p.m.

CHURCH HEALTH, 1350 CONCOURSE, CHURCHHEALTH.ORG.

D’usse N’ Pancakes

Ultimate day party brunch experience. $20. Sun., Feb. 9, 2-11 p.m.

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

A Voted Best Antique Store in Millington 2020 !

Alison's Alcove Consignments & Antique Mall 4792 Navy Rd., Millington, TN • 901-317-9137

Valenti ne’s Day Sale 9 Days 9 Days ** Thurs 2/6 thru Sat 2/15 **

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Flawless

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High school students want to sell their kidneys to pay for cosmetic surgery and prom dresses. One student, secretly a trans woman, is exposed. $5 members, $7 nonmembers.

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MicroCinema: Best Friends Forever Shorts

An encore screening of shorts from the 2019 Indie Memphis Film Festival. Mon., Feb. 10, 7 p.m.

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Polyester

A suburban housewife turns to the bottle when life gets too hard. $5. Thurs., Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m.

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The Princess Bride

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Part of the International Jewish Film Festival. Tovah Feldshuh recreates 100 years of Jewish history playing 45 different characters. Free for members, $7 nonmembers. Sun., Feb. 9, 2 p.m.

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The Harder They Come

The epochal cultural moment that first brought reggae to the international stage, made Jimmy Cliff a star, and demonstrated how music can change the world. $5. Wed., Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m.

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t is remarkably difficult to get reliable figures about how many Indian children go missing, but the scale of the problem appears to be staggering,” reads a 2017 piece in The New York Times by author Sonia Faleiro.

According to a report by the National Human Rights Commission of India, 40,000 children are abducted in that country each year. In 2019, Hindustan Times reported that figure may be as high as 60,000.

Given the severity of that problem — and the many lives it leaves irreparably mangled in its wake — a work of fiction about a child detective investigating the disappearances of his classmates could feel exploitative. Deepa Anappara’s debut novel, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (Penguin Random House), is anything but. It’s a novel that wears its beating, bleeding heart on every page, a chronicle that refuses to let victims be sidelined but rather gives them breath to tell their own truth.

Djinn Patrol is the story of three 9-year-old Indian children — Jai, Pari, and Faiz — who, spurred on by Jai’s appreciation for crime television, take it upon themselves to investigate the increasingly frequent disappearances of children from their poor neighborhood, or basti. In picking children as her protagonists, Anappara, who worked as a journalist for 11 years, gives a voice to the often-overlooked victims of the epidemic. She opens a window into the lives that are usually shunted to the side in fiction to make room for hard-nosed detectives or charismatic psychopaths.

Jai, the novel’s protagonist, is a young boy made overconfident by, even within extreme poverty, an abundance of blessings. His parents love him, his older sister does much of the housework, and his maleness affords him a privileged place in the world. His naiveté is often heartbreaking, as he fails to accurately assess the dangers around him.

Jai’s innocence also allows Anappara room to develop her characters. While the older members of the basti pay out police bribes, mistrust each other, and search for their missing children, Jai and his friends face life with heart and humor. Pari is the Hermione Granger of the group; smarter and more empathetic than Jai, she’s a better

detective than her friend. Fai, a young Muslim, is more aware of the world — his religion makes him a minority, and his job gives him a sense of responsibility Jai lacks.

Though the disappearances are never far from the children’s minds, the brief reprieves from their search — whether to focus on homework, family, or jobs they should be too young to hold — serve to flesh out the novel’s main characters. They feel like real children with messy lives, albeit kids living on the edge of catastrophe.

“Tomorrow is exam day,” Jai muses at one point. “Exams seem unreal, like they belong to another world. In our world we are doing daily battle with djinns and kidnappers and buffalo-killers and we don’t know when we will vanish.” It’s clear that Jai’s child-detective act is an effort to fit tragedy into a framework he understands.

If he can make his world of missing classmates and frantic or resigned parents look like the one he sees on television, then maybe he can make sense of it.

And maybe the police won’t bulldoze his basti — a common concern among the older residents of the impoverished basti nestled against the Purple Line railway, who worry that the attention will press city officials to do away with the problem wholesale.

“Even if our basti goes up in flames, we won’t be on TV. Papa himself says so all the time, and he still gets mad about it,” Jai thinks to himself. The police have too few resources to adequately investigate any but the most slam-dunks of cases; the poorest citizens have nothing to offer and can expect even less in the way of protection.

The plight of Jai’s community is made all the more tragic when the residents begin to turn on their neighbors. The vanished children have all been Hindu, and the rumor mill churns out theories of Muslim kidnappers and blood sacrifices, illustrating the ease with which vulnerable communities can be made to fight one another.

Anappara’s debut announces a new literary talent with wit and the humanity and gentle touch to take on even the most delicate of subjects. She’s a welcome voice, and readers would be wise to look for Djinn Patrol on bookstore shelves — and to eagerly await her next release.

The CLTV’s “The Audacity” explores black representation.

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range Mound-based black arts organization The CLTV (Collective) opened a new exhibition last month called “The Audacity: Addressing Our Representation in Popular Culture,” featuring the works of 12 artists, all black illustrators, comic and manga artists, and toymakers, whose hopes are to represent themselves through characters set in fictional worlds and stories.

Guest curator Ed Williams sought to build upon the popular hashtag #RepresentationMatters, which is about providing narratives about people of color or of different orientations, genders, backgrounds, and abilities.

Ed Williams, guest curator and founder of Mayke Entertainment LLC

“Some of us dream of being superheroes,” he says. “Some of us just want to see ourselves. So the core of this show is definitely about representation. You know, black people, we just want to see ourselves as superheroes, flying, saving the day, in space. We just want to be visible outside of slavery movies and things like that.”

Williams’ comic book line, developed under his company Mayke Entertainment LLC, is featured at the exhibit to show the “characters, stories, and mythologies from the color palette that represents the world.”

“My motivation for working with comic book characters started when I was a kid,” he says. “I always loved superheroes. But I started noticing that none of the superheroes that I love actually looked like me. And it was a very hard thing to digest. Because when I went looking for black superheroes, I found sidekicks and I found villains. And I was just like, wow, is that what I’m limited to?”

His installation features character cutouts, posters, comics, and lookbook pages of four of Mayke’s characters:

Tremor, John Henry, Braxton, and Bolt.

Tremor, who was conceptualized in 2009, two years before Mayke was founded, was based on Williams himself.

“You’ll see me all throughout there in how he looks, his size and things like that,” he says. “That was inspired by the fact that there were no heavy-set superheroes that people could take seriously. They were always like the punch line, and I hated that.”

Adjacent to Ed Williams’ Mayke display is that of local artist Quinn McGowan’s comic book company, Legends Press Comics, showcasing comic books Elsewhere and Project: Wildfire, a map of Shelby City (inspired by Memphis), an action figure, and drawings of his characters mingling with characters from pop culture. In one piece, entitled Bad Cousin, the main hero, Wildfire, is seen attending a party with Erik Killmonger from Black Panther.

“Black Panther was sort of universal in its connectivity to black audiences,” says McGowan. “And Erik Killmonger being the primary African-American character, he resonates on a pretty high level, even if you don’t agree with him completely morally.

So when a character or person from our community makes it, we all jokingly say he’s our cousin.”

McGowan says Wildfire is inspired by his grandfather.

“My grandfather and I used to watch wrestling when I was little on Saturdays, and then after that, Ultraman would come on, and he would fight monsters,” he says.

“One of his favorite wrestlers was a wrestler from the Memphis circuit called Wildfire, Tommy Rich. So everything is a piecemeal letter to my grandpa, who’s pictured in the center of all of those images.”

McGowan and his friend Kennedy Moore are currently developing a 16-bit video game that mimics a television cartoon with gameplay during the “commercial breaks.”

“It would be a representation of if we were represented more in media,” says McGowan. “That could have been what I experienced when I got home from school at three o’clock in the afternoon.”

Other artists featured in “The Audacity” include Parker-Nia Gordon, Toonky Berry, Mia Saine, Kenneth Alexander, Dezmond Gipson, Sarai, David Yancy III, Amber Williams, Grant Butler, and Therrious Davis.

The exhibition is on display through March 12th at The CLTV CMPLX (2234 Lamar).

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In 2017, the National Highway Transportation Safety Adminstration (NHTSA) said such limits appear “to have been based on something other than scientific evidence.” Many arrested by law enforcement officials for driving under the influence of cannabis were later found to have THC below those set thresholds.

The NHTSA said getting a blood sample tested could take one to two hours, maybe allowing levels to fall below set levels.

“This will place a large burden on the officer to make the case through objective evidence of impairment along with signs and symptoms associated with marijuana use,” reads the 2017 report. “The blood THC concentrations will often impede, rather than assist, in making the case to a judge or jury who has to determine whether a suspect is impaired as a result of their marijuana use.”

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ew research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety shows a “concerning number of Washington state drivers involved in fatal crashes are testing positive for recent use of cannabis.”

Since the state legalized marijuana in December 2012, the number of drivers who have tested positive for THC (the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis) after a fatal crash has doubled, according to AAA. Between 2008 and 2012, about 8.8 percent of Washington drivers involved in fatal car crashes tested positive for THC. That figure rose to 18 percent between 2013 and 2017, according to the group.

The rise “raises important traffic safety concerns for drivers across the country” as recreational marijuana use is now legal in 11 states and Washington, D.C. “This study enabled us to review a full 10 years’ worth of data about the potential impact of marijuana on driving safety — and it raises significant concerns,” said Dr. David Yang, executive director of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. “Results from the analysis suggest that legalization of recreational use of marijuana may increase the rate of THC-positive drivers involved in fatal crashes.”

The average number of THC-positive drivers increased, too. In the five years before legalization, an average of 56 drivers involved in fatal crashes each year were THC-positive. In the five years after legalization, the average jumped to 130.

The study did not attempt to determine if marijuana contributed to the crashes included in its latest research. It focused only on the prevalence of drivers who tested positive for active THC. A number of studies show that cannabis use impairs the ability to drive safely. It can fog concentration, slow reaction times, and cloud judgment. But how much is too much? No one really knows, according to AAA. Its research found that “no data reliably shows what level of THC impairs driving.” The chemical’s effects vary by user, the group said, and THC testing cannot be done until hours after a crash.

This poses a problem to the states that have legalized cannabis, either for recreational or medical purposes. So far, seven states have set limits on the amount of THC drivers can have in their systems, much like legal limits for alcohol.

Colorado’s education initiative about marijuana and driving: “Drive High, Get A DUI.”

AAA suggests that states should not rely on “an arbitrary legal limit” alone to determine if a driver is impaired. The group suggests a two-pronged approach: a positive test for recent marijuana use and behavioral and physiological evidence of driver impairment.

Last year, a AAA survey found that nearly 70 percent of Americans think it’s unlikely a driver will get caught by police for driving shortly after using marijuana.

The survey also found that an estimated 14.8 million drivers reported getting behind the wheel within one hour after using marijuana in the past 30 days.

DINING OUT By Shara Clark

V-Day: Honey Do Taking your Valentine out to eat? Do these things.

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(choice of one) Roasted Potato Leek Soup, Pepitos and Truffle oil Artisan greens, Burrata, Serrano Ham, Edamame, Lemon Thyme, White Balsamic Vinaigrette

Prepare for People Remember that you won’t be alone out there. It’s going to be extra people-y, folks! Many groups and couples will be lining up for a taste of Valentine’s fare.

Somewhere in the crowd, you may see a lot of hand-holding, or possibly some more-blatant PDA. If you’re flying solo, know that you might bear witness to a good bit of mushy, romantic verbal or physical proclamations of love — maybe order to-go or delivery if that sort of thing annoys you. If you’re the kissing couple, be mindful of others — we came to eat; we could do without a full-on show. (But we love that you’re in love!)

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Dessert (choice of one) Chocolate Decadence Fleur de Sel Ice cream, Drunken Berries

Make a Reservation If you’re looking for a romantic, sit-down experience, you’re probably not the only one. And with Valentine’s Day falling on a Friday this year — an already busy day/ night for many restaurants — you may have a tough time getting seated if you just show up unannounced. This goes for the day of and likely the entire weekend.

If you’ve got big plans in your mind but haven’t acted on them yet, stop reading this right now and call (or go online) and make a reservation. Do it. Now. We’ll wait.

Plan Ahead Will your restaurant of choice have a limited or special menu that night?

Will there be special pricing? Since you’re already calling to make a reservation (ahem, have you done this

Tip — and Tip Well This should really go without saying — because DUH! — but absolutely tip your servers well. Overtip even. The people making this happen for you are missing this time with their own loved ones. You don’t have to cook, and you don’t have to do the dishes. Make sure you show your appreciation for their time, attentiveness, and job well-done in the form of cold, hard cash (or a few extra dollars written in on the “tip” line of your credit card receipt). Show them the money!

If you follow these suggestions (the tip thing is more of a demand, really), you should be all set for a successful Valentine’s dining experience. Happy Day to you and yours and bon appetit!

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Be Patient and Polite In a packed restaurant, things can get a little hectic behind the scenes. Be respectful of the servers who are busting butt to get your extra salad dressing and drink refills as quickly as they can while juggling multiple tables. Understand that the bartender has a dozen drinks to shake and pour before yours. And know that the kitchen staff is all-handson-deck churning out plate after plate of food for hungry V-Day diners. This is not the time to be impatient. Enjoy some good conversation with your dinner date between courses, and the night will unfold as it should.

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f your significant other is anything like me, they appreciate a good meal out on the town — where someone else handles the cooking and the dishes and you’re able to enjoy a nice plate of food without having to lift a finger.

I’m also quite food-motivated, so roses, while beautiful, aren’t necessary (they’re going to die after a few days anyway: sad face). My suggestion: Skip the flowers or heart-shaped box of chocolates and aim straight for the heart (the gut).

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his year, Erling Jensen The Restaurant will trade its tiny patio for an expanded bar area and fresh, new menu options.

The change will double the size of the bar room and eliminate the patio altogether, which is seen by staff as an unpopular seating choice for restaurant guests.

“No one really goes out there,” says chef de cuisine Keith Clinton. “Sometimes if it’s really crowded inside, people will, but I wouldn’t call it the best patio in town.”

You could say the patio is even kind of dismal: It’s small and lacks atmosphere, offering only a view of the parking lot and some commercial real estate nearby. And, to me, this feels like a disservice to the restaurant, which offers some of the best fine dining in the city.

Though he’s been with the restaurant for about six years, Clinton has only been chef de cuisine for the past two. However, in that time, he has received a wealth of local and national attention. Recently, Clinton was a guest on the Food Network show Guy’s Grocery Games.

“I wanted to see the TV side of it all,” Clinton says. “It’s extremely fast-paced, and a lot of the things that I thought would be fake and dramatized were not. Like the countdown was very real. When they give you 10 seconds, they really mean it.”

Renovations on the restaurant are expected to begin any day now, but they plan to stay open for the duration. The bar area will expand by roughly 100 square feet, several additions will be made to the bar menu, and they may even offer a new tasting menu as well.

“We’ve got some crazy ideas, like when we expand and [the bar] room gets bigger, we would talk about doing a tasting-only room,” Clinton says. “We would do wine tastings and food pairings and stuff like that weekly.

“It happens all the time, and it’s something people ask for. It’s not on the menu, but people can come and say, ‘Can you do something just for us?’ and we say, ‘Sure, how many courses?’ So we thought about offering a tasting menu specifically to this new area,” Clinton says, referring to the expanded bar room.

The bar hasn’t always been there, but since it was installed it’s perhaps the most popular part of the restaurant.

“We used to do all of our service

drinks and wine through the server alley,” Clinton says. “The bar has done better every year since it’s gone up and has always exceeded the expectations we set out for it.

“From a business side alone, the bar is great for us. But I think for the guests who don’t necessarily go for such a fine dining experience and have to sit down and go through silverware changes and all that stuff, they can actually come in and just sit down and enjoy something [at the bar].”

The bar offers a more relaxed, intimate environment for those who just want to have a great dining experience without all the stuffiness of a fancy restaurant.

The bar also has its own separate menu, but guests can order à-la-carte from the dining room menu, too.

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Erling Jenson chef de cuisine Keith Clinton (above)

“We come out and shave the truffles for them right here, and people really like that. It’s fun for us, too,” Clinton says.

Erling Jensen The Restaurant is known for its seasonally changing menus, which is perhaps why the majority of guests are regulars: It’s impossible to get sick of eating the same thing over and over when there are always new dishes to choose from.

Likewise, so many people feel a personal connection because the staff go above and beyond to make everyone feel comfortable and welcome. Jensen himself is there most nights and loves to walk around the dining room chatting with and thanking guests.

“We don’t take reservations, so it feels kind of exclusive in a way,” Clinton says.

Renovations are expected to be complete by the end of spring, but in the meantime, go enjoy some handmade tortellini and say “Hi” to Erling.

BAR REPORT By Meghan Stuthard

Bingo!

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“It’s called Hernando’s Hide-A-Way.”

And while I could talk Dale Watson all day, I’m here to talk about drinkin’ and dancin’. Hernando’s Hide-A-Way is what a lot of bars wish they were and only a small handful pull off. It’s dark as hell, save for lights behind the bar and up on stage.

There are no windows on the first floor.

There’s a dance floor laid out in front of the stage, a welcome sight for those who are into the Hide-A-Way brand of Western swing and outlaw country. Each Sunday

night, Watson or one of his friends hosts Chicken Shit Bingo (it’s listed as Chicken S#!+ Bingo on the website, but this is the Flyer, not a church program).

It’s the same question each time: “What the hell is Chicken Shit Bingo?”

Pal, here’s the deal. You head to the bar any Sunday from 3 to 7 p.m., order some drinks, and take in a crazy-good rockabilly band. Buy a couple of numbered tickets and hang until one of the Hide-A-Way’s two chickens is brought into the bar, where we wait for it to shit on a numbered mat. Did she christen your ticket’s number? Congrats, you’re a winner.

On the Sundays that Watson himself hosts bingo, winners are invited to the stage to play “Let’s Make a Dale,” where the winner can either keep the winnings or give them up for whatever amount of cash might be in one of Watson’s pockets.

The good news? It could be more than the bingo earnings. The bad news? It could be some loose change and your total humiliation onstage in front of your friends.

But bingo, while the most outside-ofthe-box reason to visit the bar, is just one in the Hide-A-Way’s bag of tricks. Each week, they host Honky-Tonk Wednesdays, typically with Watson and his band.

Monthly, they feature Goner Records Night. Monday through Friday, happy hour lasts from 4 to 7 p.m. with burger and drink specials. When Watson isn’t touring, he’s there himself, even occasionally living in the upstairs part of the bar when his nearby Airbnb is rented out.

The menu is mostly burgers, hot dogs, and chicken sandwiches, and while I haven’t tried much of it, my friend declared the burger “phenomenal!” There’s also a menu item called My Girlfriend Isn’t Hungry, featuring a couple of wings and some fries. On bingo nights, plain hot dogs are complimentary.

The Hide-A-Way has a full bar, which I have explored at length from ordering wine to whiskey to beer.

There are a handful of special cocktails, and everything is reasonably priced. As always, I report on the frontline of Jameson procurement, and here it is only $5.

Watson’s World Famous Hernando’s Hide-A-Way has a packed schedule in the coming weeks. Watson is hosting a kickoff party for his Ameripolitan Awards on February 21st, and the next night he’ll be onstage with special guests to host what I imagine will be a very raucous Chicken Shit Bingo. Let’s make a Dale: I’ll be there if you are.

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’ve been excited for World Famous Hernando’s Hide-A-Way to reopen ever since I read the news that Dale Watson, honky-tonk hero and purveyor of Ameripolitan music, was not only setting up residence in Memphis, but purchasing the club that sits just blocks from Graceland.

The building has been standing since the early 1900s but has been shuttered with its secrets for well over a decade.

Beautifully restored to its former glory, it sits at 3210 Hernando, just off Brooks, taunting us Memphians to darken its saloon doors once again.

Are you familiar with Watson? If not, it’s time to acquaint yourself with the man who moved out of Austin because it got too full of dickbags, tech dudes, and Californians selling tacos out of trucks (my words, not his). Memphians will delight in his epic shunning of Nashville as a potential new hometown. Don’t believe me? Check the lyrics of his song “Nashville Rash” to read the series of sick burns yourself, issued from one of country’s last strongholds to the pop-country artists who now infest Music City.

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FILM By Chris McCoy

Who Will Win ... at the Academy Awards?

Our critic doesn’t know.

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have a confession to make: I’m not very good at the Academy Awards.

Oscar night is a big deal in the HockingMcCoy household. We clear off the coffee table and put out a big spread of sushi. We parse each acceptance speech down to the syllable level. We print out ballots and compete to see who gets the most categories right. The prize for the winner is bragging rights for the year.

I can’t remember the last time I held bragging rights.

Have I ever bested Commercial Appeal writer John Beifuss in his annual “Beat Beifuss” competition? I got close once.

You’d think that someone who reads about, watches, and occasionally makes movies for a living would be better at predicting Oscar winners. But, it turns out, my tastes rarely match the outcome of the Oscar voters’ poll.

I’ve tried voting strategically, making my choices based on the conventional wisdom in the trades and among critics with bigger circulation than me. I’ve also tried voting my conscience, picking the ones I thought should win and letting the chips fall where they may. Neither method seems to work.

This is, of course, very similar to the choice voters face in the Democratic primaries. Do you vote your conscience or do you vote for the candidate you think has the best chance to beat Trump? Let my experience be a lesson to you. You simply don’t have enough information to vote strategically, so use the system the way it was designed to be used and just vote for the candidate you think will do the best job.

My Oscar ineptitude is one of the reasons I usually don’t do a preview pick-’em column. But the voices of my writing teachers are in my head saying, “People love it when you make yourself vulnerable.” So here goes: my picks for the 2020 Academy Awards.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker is the only truly great part of that film, but Adam Driver’s clueless art-dad Charlie in Marriage Story is the year’s best naturalistic performance.

I’m going with Driver.

Supporting Actor: Tom Hanks plays Mr. Rogers better than anyone else could have in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, but Brad Pitt elevates Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood to greatness. Plus, his T-shirt clearly

Little Women could clean up in multiple categories. says “CHAMPION.” Pitt is it.

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: This is the hardest category for me. Cynthia Erivo’s Harriet Tubman is close to perfect. Scarlett Johansson is Adam Driver’s equal in Marriage Story. I’m going with Saoirse Ronan as Jo in Little Women.

Best Supporting Actress is a little easier. It’s down to Laura Dern as a divorce lawyer in Marriage Story and Florence Pugh as Amy in Little Women. I think Pugh nudges Dern.

Best Animated Feature: I desperately want Missing Link to win. The stop-motion wizards at Laika have been killing it for a decade, and this is their year for recognition!

For Cinematography, it’s Roger Deakins in a walk.

1917 is a next-level achievement. This is the only Oscar that film deserves.

For Costume Design, Jacqueline Durran for Little Women barely beats Arianne Phillips for Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood. Excellent work by both women.

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Any other year, Achievement in Film Editing would be Thelma Schoonmaker’s for the taking, but The Irishman is more than three hours long. Jinmo Yang’s work on Parasite should carry the day.

Honeyland makes a strong case for Best International Feature, but I’ve got to go with Parasite.

I’m going to take a pass on makeup because I haven’t seen two of the nominees. Best Original Song is “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” by Elton John and Bernie Taupin from the underrated Rocketman. Original Score should and probably will go to John Williams for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, so he can retire a legend. Go ahead and give Skywalker Best Visual Effects, too. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’s 1969

mixtape should take home the two sound awards, as well as Production Design.

Greta Gerwig’s tear-up-the-floorboards reimagining of Little Women deserves the Adapted Screenplay statue. I’m giving the Original Screenplay to Knives Out … probably because I’m giving everything else to Parasite.

Best Director goes to Bong Joon Ho. I was willing to give it to Quentin Tarantino, but then I found out that the Parasite house was a set with CGI background, and I was shook. Masterful execution is what this category is all about.

Best Picture has to be Parasite. This was a very good year for movies. Little Women, Marriage Story, and Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood are all worthy films. But Parasite captures the spirit of 2019, and it deserves the biggest prize of all.

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Pulling up to El Gallo Giro on Lamar Avenue, I hurried behind my mom as she grabbed a handful of volantes from the car and walked into the restaurant. She asked the manager if she could pass them around, and a second later she was introducing herself to everyone, one by one, and handing them a flyer.

Some entertained a conversation. Others received a flyer and continued eating, and my mother moved on to the next person. I don’t remember what was on those flyers, probably some kind of community event. But it wasn’t the flyers that left an impression on me. It was watching my mom move through the room and approach each individual with a paper in hand and a smile on her face. I stood a few steps behind her as she made her rounds, watching in amazement. The conversations were brief but personal.

My reaction to this also left an impression on my mom. When she shares this story, she laughs as she recalls, “Me preguntastes, Mamá, ¿cómo hablas con extraños?” How do you speak to complete strangers like that? I was about 7 years old then. I couldn’t recall anything in school that would prepare me to do something like what she had just done. In a society where we’re supposed to watch out for ourselves and our family, Mom was bringing in the community around her. She wasn’t talking at people, she was listening and connecting people to each other.

That was one of my earliest memories of seeing “ground game,” as political campaigns call it, in action.

Last week, I was driving back into the city when I was reminded of this moment.

My Spotify-curated playlist “Your Top Songs 2016” played in the car, and I was driving through Jackson when Bambu started rapping about the ground game. Bambu is a father, organizer, and Filipino American hip-hop artist from L.A., and, like my mom, he’s not shying away from having one-on-one conversations with his neighbors. “That’s the beginning of groundwork / Building on that face to face / And not just on that Facebook, organizing on a Twitter page.”

Bambu ain’t wrong.

As technology and social media advance, it’s easy to lean too much into those tools. The primaries are getting here closer and closer (early voting in Tennessee starts on February 12th). We cannot rely on social media to do the work for us. The posts, shares, and retweets may be good at distributing some information, but they’re not enough to activate the change we need.

Campaigns know this, too. Having a strong ground game, having conversations with people directly, is the most effective way to turn out voters, and you can learn a lot about a campaign that is investing in this work.

To some, knocking on doors or making cold calls to voters isn’t the most exciting part of activism. It may even seem daunting. But we have to think of it as a muscle we’re exercising.

You’re not going to knock out a marathon tomorrow morning without any training or preparation. You have to practice, run a couple of races; you’ll make mistakes, and you’ll get better. It’s similar to having a conversation with someone in the context of furthering a movement or political campaign forward. You’ll get people who are on board with you and others who will disagree.

No one expects you to have all the answers — just to be a part of something larger than yourself.

Social media protects us a bit in this way. We sit comfortably behind our screens, away from confrontation or rejection, but without having real conversations with our friends, family, and neighbors, we’ll continue to be in a cycle of reacting to news, logging off, and not doing anything to change it. Getting active in your community and learning about and supporting other communities can be enjoyable and healing. Don’t just stick around when it’s fun and convenient. Lend a hand because when you need it, your community will be there for you.

We need you now. Our city needs you now. So put on your walking shoes, and let’s talk to our neighbors.

Aylen Mercado is a brown, queer, Latinx chingona and Memphian exploring race and ethnicity in the changing U.S. South.

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2/6: Memphis Trivia League!

1/31: Lucky 7 Brass Band 2/8: UFC 247 Jon Jones vs. Dominick Reyes Kitchen Open Late! Now Delivering All Day! 278-0034 (limited delivery area)

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TapThurs Room Hours: & Fri 4-10 p.m.,

2/7: Ryan Hurd w/ Niko Moon & Joey

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2/8: MO3 Badazz & El’Zappo Foreign 2/11: Highly Suspect 2/14: PJ Morton 2/15: Ky-Mani Marley 2/29: V3Fights Live MMA 3/3: Trippie Redd 3/12: Allen Stone 3/13: Larkin Poe 3/18: Blues Traveler 3/19: Eric Johnson 3/20: Frank Foster 3/21: Trap Karoake 3/28: Koe Wetzel 4/4: R&B Only 4/8: Yung Gravy

Sat 1-10 p.m., Sun 1-7 p.m.

768 S. Cooper * 901.207.5343

Kevin Cerrito Trivia, Thursdays, 7 p.m. Bingo, Friday, 8 p.m.

2/20: Cody Canada & The Departed 2/21: Lost Dog Street Band 2/29: Ruston Kelly

MORE EVENTS AT MINGLEWOODHALL.COM

Thursday, Feb 6: The Flying V’s - All Ages Show, 10p Friday, Feb 7: Devan Band, 8p Saturday, Feb 8: 10th Annual Forever Loving Marley, 7p Sunday, Feb 9: Big Brass Brunch Buffet, 11a Friday, Feb 14: Angels and Demons: Valentine’s Day Burlesque of the Bizarre, 7p

Friday, Feb 7: Silent Disco, 10p Sunday, Feb 9: Bluegrass Brunch, 11am Thursday, Feb 13: Galentine’s Day, 7p Friday, Feb 14: Adam McClelland, 9p See more Party Memphis info on our display ad inside on page 19.

April 25, 2020 www.worldwingfest.com

Benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 21,000 sq ft. 100 + booths • 5855 Summer Ave. (corner of Summer and Sycamore View ) exit 12 off I-40 | 901.213.9343 Mon-Sat 10a-6p | Sun 1p-6p

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We Buy Records!

2152 Young Ave - 901-722-0095

421 N. Watkins St. 278-8965

50% Off Hats & Accessories throughout February

1500 sq. ft. of Vintage & Antique Jewelry.

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

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Food Truck for Parties, Events, & Festivals Hand-Cut Fries, Fancy Grilled Cheeses & More

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WE BUY RECORDS

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We offer a variety of products. Find our brand at: Foozie in Clark Tower, Blue Suede Do’s iBank building, South Main Hemp at 364 S. Front, Two Rivers Bookstore at 2172 Young Ave, and Oothones at 410 N Cleveland St. Find our skin care at Southern Leaf Hemp, Co at 4721 Poplar Ave. simplyhemp.shop 901-443-7157