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BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN Editor SUSAN ELLIS Managing Editor JACKSON BAKER, MICHAEL FINGER Senior Editors TOBY SELLS Associate Editor CHRIS MCCOY Film and TV Editor ALEX GREENE Music Editor CHRIS DAVIS, MICHAEL DONAHUE MAYA SMITH, JOSHUA CANNON Staff Writers JESSE DAVIS Copy Editor, Calendar Editor

OUR 1567TH ISSUE 03.07.19 Have you heard about that crazy Green New Deal? Yeah, the socialists are gonna ban hamburgers and air travel, and we’ll all be forced to use wind power for our homes! How nuts is that? When the wind stops blowing, you won’t even be able to watch television.

Har har. How dumb do these liberal idiots think we are? Global warming? Har. We could use some of that right about now. It’s colder‘n hell out there.

Just wanted to get that out of the way. Sorry. The lunacy passing for policy debate these days has reached depths of stupidity unimaginable just a few years ago. And President Trump’s unhinged two-hour dark-comedy routine at CPAC last Saturday just amplified it to the next level. It’s difficult to have an intelligent discussion about the environment — or anything, really — when one side of the “debate” has decided the best way forward is uninformed, knuckle-dragging ridicule.

But the environment isn’t a laughing matter. The Green New Deal probably overreaches, but it’s a starting point for policy discussion, not an edict to be enforced by socialist overlords. It doesn’t ban hamburgers or air travel, no matter what the president says. And wind turbines are used all over the country, generating electricity that will last throughout even the longest Netflix binge. Oh, and solar power works, too, even when it’s cloudy, or dark, like at night.

The environment and this country’s energy policy deserve serious attention and a real back-and-forth over the best ways to move — however gradually — from a mostly fossil fuel-based economy to one that will sustain the nation and the planet in the coming decades. But, as with almost every issue these days, foreign or domestic, political maneuvering and ignorant posturing seems to have subsumed the possibility of any substantive interchange of ideas.

If you need evidence that the environment needs attention, you have only to look to the TVA Allen Fossil power plant just south of Downtown, where we’ve got our own “green” issues to deal with. Thanks to some good reporting

by Micaela Watts in The Commercial Appeal this week, we learned that the Memphis Sand Aquifer — the source of Memphis’ lauded drinking water — is in some peril. It is sitting Coal ash ponds near TVA’s Allen Fossil power plant beneath a coal ash landfill that contains ponds contaminated with 350 times the level of arsenic considered safe.

Though TVA closed its coal plant in 2018, replacing it with a more environmentally friendly gas-fired plant, tons of poisonous residue from decades of coal-burning remain at the site, separated from our aquifer by a thin layer of clay. But here’s the bad news: TVA reported this week that there is no clay barrier near the coal ash pond.

This would be a good time to point out the debt of gratitude all the residents of Memphis owe to a group of citizen activists who formed the group Protect Our Aquifer in 2016. They, along with the local chapter of the Sierra Club, have been relentless in their battle to keep TVA from doing what big corporations like to do: Find the cheapest way to do things, no matter the environmental consequences.

All those blue yard signs around town showed that people cared and were involved.

The payoff was a big one. First, TVA was persuaded to back off its plans to drill new wells into the aquifer — near the site of the coal ash dump — in order to tap our water to cool its new gas-fired plant. The group was then influential in getting the county commission to re-examine and strengthen its permitting process for digging wells in the county.

That’s often what happens when a real debate is enjoined, when citizens stand up and make noise, and when issues get N E WS & O P I N I O N addressed and discussed in an adult, THE FLY-BY - 4 NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 rational way by governmental bodies.

POLITICS - 7 Washington could learn something from EDITORIAL - 8 what occurred here in Memphis.

VIEWPOINT - 9 Meanwhile, the somewhat good news COVER STORY is that TVA is assuring the public that it “SPLASHDANCE!” is quickly moving to address the problem

BY TOBY SELLS - 10 and bring the coal ash site into alignment SPORTS - 13 WE RECOMMEND - 14 with federal guidelines — presuming MUSIC - 16 the Trump administration won’t further AFTER DARK - 18 weaken those guidelines in coming CALENDAR - 22 months in order to appease one of its ART - 30 corporate overlords.

FOOD NEWS - 33 We can only hope they’ll be distracted FILM - 34 by trying to save our hamburgers.

C L AS S I F I E D S - 36 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 39 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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E LS EWH E R E, TN It’s old news by now, but Fly on the Wall wouldn’t be Fly on the Wall if we didn’t point out that the biggest news out of Tennessee last week wasn’t related to Governor/ Confederate cosplayer Bill Lee’s general support for the continued public veneration of Southern general/klansman Nathan Bedford Forrest.

It was the story of a disgruntled East Tennessee delivery driver who sacked some salsa and put it on the internet. Bonus points to the WMC story, “man accused of dipping testicles in customer’s salsa,” which carries the surgically precise, yet innuendo-laden subhead, “he was mad about a small tip.”

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M I G R AT O R Y WORKERS Following news of his retirement from The Commercial Appeal, it’s since been announced that awardwinning reporter/columnist David Waters is joining the Institute for Public Service Reporting, the University of Memphis’ professional newsroom.

Waters will serve as the assistant director alongside director and fellow CA alum, Marc Perrusquia.

The Institute for Public Service Reporting was created to give students practical newsroom opportunities. It collaborates with daily not-for-profit newsroom/ primary refuge for former CA journalists, The Daily Memphian.

V E R B AT I M “I’m usually hearing about people getting shot, but a 2-by-4? That’s treachery.” — Memphian Shaun Sian, quoted by WMC on news that several people attacked another man with lumber in the parking lot of a Church’s Chicken.

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Tom Lee Park, XPO, & the River Work rolls to “save” Memphis in May, XPO offers replacement jobs, & the Mississippi rises.

POTHOLE PROBLEMS City officials said last week they’re as frustrated by the potholes that pock the city as you are, but they “are confronting the problem head-on.”

A blog post said 10 city crews are filling potholes at most hours. But they face the “double whammy” of rain and winter chills, which both aggravate the pothole problem.

WORKING ON TOM LEE PARK A new group emerged to “save” Memphis in May (MIM), the Memphis River Parks Partnership (MRPP) defended their plan for Tom Lee Park as a festival ground, and Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland advised citizens not to worry.

MRPP and MIM officials had a “very productive meeting” last week, according to a joint Clockwise from top left: XPO, potholes, Tom Lee Park, Mississippi River, statement, working to meet MIM’s Strickland, MLGW. needs in a re-designed Tom Lee Park. They’re scheduled to meet again later this month. new program.

Last week, too, a new website went live from a group that Through Budget Billing, customers’ bills will remain wants “to give a voice to Memphians who are concerned the same each month. That amount will be an average of about rushing into” the redesign of Tom Lee Park and to the customer’s bills for the previous 12 months. MLGW “save” MIM. The group, SaveMIM.org, was concerned hopes the program will help customers better manage their about insufficient space for emergency personnel, crowds, household budgets. construction, and more.

MRPP said its plan gives increased capacity, better CROSSTOWN GYM drainage “to reduce the mud pit,” and better-planned A new gymnasium opened at Crosstown Concourse last facilities and utilities for Memphis in May. week, and a pool and community garden are expected to Strickland said in his weekly email on Friday that he was open there soon. confident middle ground would be found. He said, “My The gym has a college-level basketball court that can advice: don’t worry about it too much.” be used for volleyball, physical education classes, and as practice space for other sports. It’s called the Ice Box, after XPO OFFERS JOBS Crosstown High School’s mascot, the Yeti.

XPO officials said employees of the Memphis warehouse set The Church Health Center’s YMCA pool is set to open to close this spring will be offered new jobs at another one next month. The garden will open later this year. of the company’s local facilities.

About 400 employees of XPO’s Verizon-contracted RIVER RISES warehouse would be affected. Some worried the move to Leaders expected the Mississippi River to crest here this close the warehouse was in retaliation for the company’s week at its fourth-highest recorded level, but city officials national attention after allegations of pregnancy said on Twitter that “it shouldn’t be cause for concern.” discrimination, sexual abuse, and poor working conditions The National Weather Service said the river will rise to were brought forth by employees. XPO denied those claims. 41.5 feet. It will be the highest the river has been since the flooding of 2011, but leaders said it will be “nowhere near “BUDGET BILLING” FOR MLGW what happened several years ago.”

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Officials: the clinic is likely the first of its kind here.

Two organizations cut the ribbon last week on a new health clinic in Midtown that is solely for Memphis’ homeless population.

The Baptist Operation Outreach Clinic, located inside the Catholic Charities of West Tennessee (CCWTN) building on Jefferson, is spearheaded

by Baptist Memorial Health Care in partnership with Christ Community Health Services (CCHS).

The new clinic is meant to work in tandem with the organizations’ existing mobile outreach clinic for the homeless, which was established in 2004.

Since then, the mobile clinic has treated patients around the city by traveling to various locations with high homeless populations, like near the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Re-Entry in Midtown.

In 2018 alone, the clinic had more than 3,000 patient encounters — up from 500 during its first year.

Jason Little, president and CEO of Baptist, said since 2004, the goal has been to establish better ways to provide health care to the city’s homeless population, which he said is an important part of the organization’s mission.

“When we started the mobile clinic in 2004, our goal was to find a better way to care for the health needs of the homeless and uninsured in our community,” Little said. “Through our partnership with CCHS, we’ve been able to make significant gains in caring for Memphis’ homeless population

and helped many transition out of homelessness to healthier and more stable situations.”

Now, the new brick and mortar clinic, equipped with a lab, two exam rooms, a waiting area, and office space, will provide free health, dental, and vision care Tuesday through Thursday to those without permanent housing.

Kimberly Alexander, public relations manager for Baptist, said the clinic will offer total primary health care services, including immunizations and other preventative care, treatment of minor injuries, behaviour health services, screening and diagnostics of medical issues, as well as treatment and management for certain conditions like hypertension and diabetes.

For example, Alexander said patients diagnosed with diabetes are given medication, a machine to check their blood sugar, and educational materials.

Alexander said patients receive free prescriptions for any medication they require — with the exception of narcotics. For services the clinic can’t provide, like x-rays, child immunizations, or specialty care, patients will be referred to a specialist or other provider.

In addition to medical care, the clinic’s location will enable patients to easily access housing, food, clothing, and other support services through the CCWTN.

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Alexander said the new clinic is likely the first of its kind in Memphis.

“As far as we’re aware, it’s the first clinic that provides this extent of services in one location — access to health care and dental, vision, and mammography services, plus a wide range of enabling services.”

Those experiencing homelessness in Shelby County on one particular night of the year decreased from 2012 to 2018, based on the city/county 2018 Point-in-Time report. The report found that there were 1,226 homeless individuals here on the night of January 23rd last year, which was a 41 percent drop from the same night in 2012.

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POLITICS By Jackson Baker

State of the State

Bill Lee’s State of the State As he has indicated previously, Lee is proposing a package of criminal justice reform that, he says, would maintain “swift and severe” justice for violent offenders but ease and assist the re-entry of nonviolent offenders into society and reduce or eliminate the costs of their efforts to expunge their criminal records.

Lee’s prescriptions to improve health care were somewhat piecemeal, involving such matters as more money for medical instruction and for safety-nut funding in rural areas, and task forces to deal with suicide prevention and mental health.

Finally, the governor promised “that government [will] be operated with

integrity, effectiveness, and as little cost as possible.” (Governor Lee’s complete remarks are posted on the Flyer’s “Political Beat Blog.”)

Memphis state Representative Karen Camper, the Democrats’ minority leader in the House, rebutted the State of the State in an event held later in the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol.

Most notably, she took Lee to task for shying away from embracing Medicaid expansion, maintaining that the failure to do so is somewhat responsible for the current rate of hospital closures and the consequent delay in response time for medical emergencies in the state’s hinterland.

• The campaign for positions in Memphis city government is well under way, and we will make an effort to document them.

One of the most serious coming-out events of late was a reception/fund-raiser held last Thursday evening at the home of Lisanne and Tom Marshall in support of Jeff Warren, a physician and former longterm member of the former Memphis School Board. He is now a candidate for the Super District 9 position on the council being vacated by Reid Hedgepeth.

Warren’s bent, as he indicated on that board during the tempestuous period leading to the ultimately abortive merger of city and county school systems, was to try to reconcile the contradictory positions of others. That aim proved to be beyond his, or anybody else’s, ability during the pre-merger period, when he resisted the Memphis board’s majority in favor of surrendering its charter.

In any case, Warren has fairly successfully yoked some unusual companions in support of his council campaign. In his corner at the initial event were numerous representatives of the established local order. Typical was host Marshall, architect of several significant local projects and influential former councilman himself.

Jack Sammons, a running mate of Marshall’s during their council years and now a groomer-in-chief of council members acceptable to the power elite, was on hand, as were such traditional political patrons as Billy Orgel and Ron Belz.

Warren also would seem to have support among established political liberals.

He has enjoyed support in the past from Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen, longtime governmental activist Sara Lewis, and David Upton. He’ll also have lots of money. None of this makes him home free, but all of it together is enough to make Warren the candidate to beat.

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NASHVILLE — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee delivered his first State of the State address Monday night in the House chamber of the state Capitol to an enthusiastic audience composed overwhelmingly of representatives and senators belonging to the current Republican super-majority.

In a State-of-the-Union-like format involving several nods to individuals, symbolic of his themes, seated in the balcony, the governor stressed four major aspects of state government: education, the criminal justice system, health care, and governmental economy.

His two key points regarding education were his support for “education savings accounts” (ESAs), voucher-like outlays to reinforce what he sees as necessary educational “choices” for parents and for stepped-up backing of charter schools as a means to the same end. Apropos the ESAs, Lee promised to infuse the existing public education system with an additional $25 million by way of balance, and to fully fund the state’s BEP (Basic Education Fund), conspicuously underfunded in recent years.

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The case could be made that it was Trumpism, put forth via good manners and a likeable disposition. What else could be made of Lee’s “unapologetic” vow to propagate the doctrine of “American exceptionalism?” Or his masking a call for compulsory teaching of unbridled capitalism in Tennessee schools as “civics”? Or as a corollary to this curriculum, his endorsement of pedagogical hunt-and-destroy missions against “socialism,” as if economic policies adopted in some moderate measure by virtually every country allied to America — and in minute quantities in various eras of American government — amount to some pernicious form of enemy infiltration, needful of extirpation.

Does he not realize that the education vouchers he disguises as “education savings accounts” are the same sour spinach that most good Republicans in the suburbs of Shelby County recognize as serious threats to the health of the municipal public school systems they now willingly spend tax money on? As for his evangelism on behalf of charter schools, these were regarded as subversive of education by the self-same suburbanites who controlled the old, pre-merger Shelby County Schools system.

The weakest part of the State of the State, and the part to which Lee offered only minimal, even desultory attention, was health care. A key portion of that — the key portion in that it indicates the way in which the professed opponents of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act beg the question — was this line: “Another way to lower health care cost is to combat Medicaid fraud.”

This is, of course, the usual right-wing delusion — expressed most bigly by the

current president — that all governmental problems stem from “waste and abuse” and all can be solved by curbing them. It is a belief, contrary not only to common sense but to all practical experience, that the administration of public affairs is really only a matter of working around the edges, of sealing the leaks caused by biggovernment wastrels.

Oh, and there’s this: “We will also be exploring ways to build off the important efforts of the Trump administration to promote price transparency.” The governor would be well advised not to hold his breath waiting to see such efforts become real. We would suggest that they will appear about the same time as does the “great” replacement for “Obamacare” that Trump once promised would cover “everybody.”

Never mind that the number of Tennessee hospitals closed for lack of funding is now in the double digits. Easy to remedy, says Lee: “Despite the closure of rural hospitals across the state and country, there are many opportunities to transform care in these communities through smart reforms, increased innovation, and a new business model.”

To be sure, Lee offered some encouragingly salvific rhetoric about easing the re-entry of released prisoners into society and making expungement of nonviolent criminal records less expensive and troublesome.

There were places in Governor Lee’s address that contained good sense. If we have emphasized the less salutary moments here, it is out of simple caution.

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Department? Thus, make no mistake, Warmbier’s death was as much an assault on America as it was on this young American.

But Trump, who confessed to having a “warm relationship” with Kim, based presumably on whatever pheromones passed between them, said he believed the man he previously called “little rocket man.” This is because the president is a) a useful idiot; b) a malevolent force in the universe; c) a small-pawed, big-dog fanboy; d) a strategic genius.

I think most of us can eliminate option “d.”

Option “c” is probable, given Trump’s attraction to tyrants, dictators, murderers, and thieves. He has used similar terminology with other strongmen, with whom he has been equally credulous. Trump believed Russian President Vladimir Putin when he denied knowing about Russian interference in the 2016 election. And he believed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman when he denied knowing anything about the torture, murder, and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

At the same time Trump believed their lies, he disbelieved the conclusions of U.S. intelligence agencies, which, in each case, pointed a finger at the top guys.

Even if we pretend that Trump is a strategic genius who is flattering his foes by faking belief in their lies, one is left to wonder to what end? To win their approval? To charm them into believing he’s one of them, that they are essentially the same but for minor differences resolvable through the art of the deal?

If only he were trying to seize a widow’s home to make space for a new limo parking lot at one of his casinos. Or negotiating Trump Tower in Moscow.

But the stakes are a little higher now. And Trump, in trying to be a tough guy, has created the opposite perception.

What every foreign ruler, dictator, president, or potentate now knows is that every American tourist, journalist, college student, and diplomat is fair game for capture, arrest, hostage-taking, torture, or murder — all without consequence. All they have to do is lie to the president, a proven weakling, and the bad thing that happened will just go away.

The American people must not let him get away with it.

Kathleen Parker writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.

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If he were alive today, Mark Twain might say the following: “There’s lies, damned lies — and Donald Trump.”

The president of the United States not only lies routinely, but he believes other people’s lies without a modicum of skepticism.

Last week, the liar in question was North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who claimed to have known nothing about what appears to have been the torture and, ultimately, the murder of American college student Otto Warmbier. After holding a second nuclear summit for which he was grossly unprepared, this time in Vietnam, President Trump said Kim “tells me he didn’t know about it, and I will take him at his word.” He added that Kim “felt badly about it. He felt very badly.”

Right. Because Kim’s empathy and compassion toward his starving countrymen and those he has had killed, including his half brother, are legendary.

It is mind-numbing and breathtaking to hear such nonsense from a president who, if normal, would vindicate the victim through punitive actions rather than side with a violent dictator in some weird, contrived, nonproductive chitchat about nuclear weapons.

Warmbier’s parents were appropriately outraged by the president’s cavalier comments — especially since he had used the Warmbiers as props during his 2018 State of the Union address — and they issued a harsh rebuke.

The 21-year-old Warmbier had been touring North Korea when, on January 2, 2016, while going through airport security to leave the country, he was detained by North Korean authorities.

He was accused of stealing a propaganda poster from the Pyongyang hotel where he was staying. No conclusive evidence was provided that he did so, but he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.

After 17 months, Warmbier was sent home in a coma, having suffered severe brain damage from possible multiple beatings, and he died a few days later.

His brutal death was surely no accident, as Cindy and Fred Warmbier asserted in their statement rebuking Trump, nor was it likely unknown to Kim, whose supreme leadership doesn’t leave much wiggle room for independent action. No one familiar with North Korea believes that Kim wasn’t well aware of his American captive.

How could he not have been after a year-and-a-half of international news coverage and outreach from the State

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COVER STORY BY TOBY SELLS / PHOTOGRAPHS BY JUSTIN FOX BURKS

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ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE FLYER’S BEER BRACKET CHALLENGE.

Meddlesome Brewing Co.’s 201 Hoplar is (once again!) the best beer in Memphis, according to the 1,634 voters in the 2019 Memphis Flyer Beer Bracket Challenge, graciously sponsored by all of the great folks at Aldo’s Pizza Pies.

The Dirty ’Dova dudes were just getting off the ground when they took home the coveted VanWyngarden Cup last year. They brought the cup back to us during our Match-Up Monday event 10 at Aldo’s at the beginning of this year’s challenge. After a quick trip to C & J

Trophy and Engraving, we gave the cup right back to Meddlesome last week during a Facebook Live event. By now, they’ve surely returned the cup to its spot in the Meddlesome taproom, where it will reside for another year.

“We’re still blown away,” says Meddlesome co-founder and brewer, Ben Pugh. “It’s crazy. We didn’t expect it the first year. We definitely didn’t expect it in the second year. It’s been wild and humbling.”

Says co-founder and brewer Richie

EsQuivel: “Last year was, like, ‘what the hell?’ I was hoping we could get into the last four this year, but definitely did not think it’d be 201 [Hoplar] again.”

EsQuivel calls 201 a West Coast-style American IPA, “straight up and through and through.” He says new IPAs are “soft and fruity,” while 201 Hoplar meddles with that. (Don’t worry. You’ll see that pun again later on.)

“This beer is intended to be kind of aggressive and bitter,” says EsQuivel.

“It’s super-pineappley with citrus fruits.”

We changed up the Beer Bracket Challenge this year. We did away with the four categories — light beer, dark beer, IPAs, and seasonals — and let the breweries choose any four beers they wanted to compete, regardless of style.

This made for some interesting matchups.

Ghost River’s Grindhouse vs. Crosstown’s Margarita Gose, for example.

In the first round, 624 people cast 3,416 votes. Most of these voters were in Midtown, but there were a surprising number from New York

Water. Malt. Yeast. Hops.

I’ve made beer for years now. Here’s my latest recipe.

• Walk into Sweet Grass Next Door.

• Find Bailey (or Dougan, if you must).

• Say, “Bailey, may I have a” and then say the name of a beer they have.

This produces optimal results every time. I get that perfect blend of roasti-ness, bread-i-ness, hop-i-ness, with a perfect mouth feel and a cold, clean finish.

Every. Single. Time.

Listen, I don’t know shit about beer. I can confidently say that after spending a week visiting the crazy-smart, hardworking brewers at Ghost River, Meddlesome, Memphis Made, High Cotton, Wiseacre, and Crosstown. Those folks know a LOT about beer.

They can trace a beer style back in time and across a world map, like a genealogist with a family tree. They can trace the ingredients they use back to their literal roots. They can talk about beer and sound like a fanatical foodie and a chemical engineer in the same sentence.

On the Facebook Live stream for our Match-Up Monday event, I said some of the best beer in America is made right here in Memphis. I stand by that. I drink local beer wherever I go, and I always compare it to stuff back home, asking myself, “Is it as good as Traffic IPA, or Tiny Bomb, or Mexican Lager, or Fireside, or Brass Bellows, or Grindhouse?” And no matter what I think, I’m always glad to come home to my Memphis favorites.

I decided to fix some of my beer ignorance. I talked with brewers about their processes and their ingredients. I broke it down to beer’s four basic elements — water, malt, yeast, and hops. I learned a lot and have a new appreciation for brewers and the beer they make. But I’m not quite smart enough to change up my recipe anytime soon.

Water

The skies above Meddlesome Brewing are a dark battleship gray. Inside, a heavy

(opposite page) Meddlesome brewer Ben Pugh; (above, l to r) Chris Hamlett and Skyler Windsor-Cummings of Meddlesome with Flyer writer Toby Sells. quiet lays upon the bar. But through a door and around tall, sliver tanks, a gleaming white light exposes a scene that could be a laboratory, a laboratory that smells of bread and plays Alice In Chains over a noisy din of equipment whirring.

It’s a brew day, and the brewhouse is busy. Guys in rubber boots climb steel ladders to open steaming lids on massive silver tanks and check the couplings on long black hoses that snake across the ground, round as a python and tough as a snow tire. After the work of the day and a few weeks to ferment, they’ll have Broad Hammer and McRoy’s Irish Stout.

“Our [Memphis] water is a fantastic vehicle for our beers,” says EsQuivel.

“Beers are 90 percent water. So, it’s obviously super important.” Meddlesome’s Pugh says it takes about eight gallons of that famous Memphis water to make one gallon of beer. But Meddlesome reclaims and reuses much of that water.

EsQuivel says they may adjust the pH of the water and add some salts or acids to it sometimes. But mostly they don’t “meddle” with it, he says in a self-aware, corny dad joke.

Soft rain beats against High Cotton’s taproom windows. The room’s big “BEER!” sign bathes upturned barstools in a soft, yellow glow.

Through two enormous doors, bright lights fall on brick walls above a concrete floor and massive copper-colored tanks.

It’s a brew day, and the brewhouse is busy.

Guys in rubber boots check gauges and climb steel ladders to open steaming lids on those massive, copper-colored tanks.

They’re making a batch of High Cotton’s new Thai IPA and a batch of Scottish Ale. “As Memphis brewers, we really don’t have to do anything to the water to make good beer,” says High Cotton co-founder and brewer Ryan Staggs. “We also don’t have to install a super-expensive, water filtration system. Out west, water is super-expensive, but it’s also terrible. A lot of places in California will even have

to use reverse osmosis just to get that blank slate that we get right out of the tap at a great price.”

Water is also the most local ingredient source Memphis brewers can use in their beers. The rest of the main ingredients have to be shipped from specialty sources (for now, anyway).

Malt

Crosstown Brewing’s massive, yellow logo pops off the side of its massive, gray building. Inside, huge silver tanks sit in neat rows under high ceilings. Those tire-tough and python-thick hoses snake along the floor.

The place is nearly deserted, until two brewers come along, each with a French Truck Coffee in one hand and a pastry in the other. Soon they are busy, making a double batch of Traffic IPA. I point to a large bag of something with the word “Canada” written across it. Clark Ortkiese, Crosstown Brewing co-founder and brewer, says it’s their base malt.

The very patient brewers of Memphis explained to me that malt is malted barley, the same grain as in a beef and barley soup. Ortkiese says maybe 90 percent of

every beer made in the world is made with a base of malted barley. If you ever see a plant that looks like wheat on a brewery logo, it’s probably barley.

Brewers will use malt and some other grains for different kinds of beer. The list of all grains used in a beer is referred to as the beer’s “grain bill.”

Barley is grown and harvested and then sent over to a malter. There, the grain is soaked for a time, dried, and roasted. That roast time will determine much about the beer. Lightly roasted malt will give you lighter beers, a pale ale or a pilsner, maybe.

A golden-roasted malt will give you a Scottish ale or an Oktoberfest. A dark roast, of course, will give you darker beers, like a Guinness.

Ortkiese explains that the big Canada bag contains “just plain malt. You can call it two-row or pale malt. It’s a base malt. It’s all that goes into Traffic.”

Steve Winwood’s “Roll With It” blares over the darkened taproom at Memphis Made. A pallet jack, tools, and sacks of grain spread across the floor where typically sit neat rows of tables and benches.

By the late afternoon, the brewers are working on their second batch of the day.

Back in the lighted brewhouse, they gang around a silver tank, opened at the top and just bigger and taller than a pool table.

It’s filled to the brim with what looks like oatmeal. It’s not, of course. It’s that famous Memphis water and that malted barley combined to make a sugary water. One day, that hot, sweet-smelling oatmeallooking stuff (called a mash) will somehow become an ice-cold Fireside amber ale.

Memphis Made co-founder and brewer Drew Barton says a lot of his company’s grain comes from Germany, but they get some speciality stuff from the U.S., Canada, and England. Outside of water and know-how, you can’t really source a lot of beer ingredients locally, he said.

“We don’t grow hops around here,” Barton says. “We don’t grow barley around here. There’s no yeast labs around here. At this point, it’s more of the skill set … of the brewer and the equipment you use that’s more important than if you got the ingredients right down the street. The source is important but not the locality of it.”

Yeast

Barton says much can be done along the brewing process to change the flavor components of beer. Yeast, he says, is one the biggest contributors to flavors “that people don’t realize.” And it’s not just the casual beer drinker who doesn’t get it.

“The most important ingredient in brewing was the last one discovered, because yeast is a single-celled organism that is invisible to the naked eye,” continued on page 12

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and Massachusetts. Somebody voted in Spain. In round two, 571 voters cast 2,911 votes from as far away as Miami to Belingham, Washington, a town just outside Vancouver.

Meddlesome dominated our Final Four with Broad Hammer, 201 Hoplar, and Brass Bellows all taking slots.

Memphis Made’s Fireside was the fourth member of the dance.

“Fireside is easy-drinking,” says Memphis Made co-founder Andy Ashby.

“It’s super-laid-back, just like Memphis. It’s accessible and easy to fall in love with.”

But it was Meddlesome’s Broad Hammer brown ale and that aggressive 201 Hoplar IPA that went to the title fight. It was a close battle; 201 Hoplar won by only five votes.

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pelletized hops into a the steaming hole of

“Still, brewers have long known that some unseen agent turned a sweet liquid into beer. Long ago, the action of yeast was such a blessing, yet so mysterious, that English brewers [in the Dark Ages] called it ‘Godisgood.’”

Barton says yeast is vitally important to flavors. “We can have 500 gallons of wort [beer before yeast and fermentation] and split it up into five 100-gallon tanks with five different kinds of yeast in them,” Barton says, “Even though everything started out the same, you’d get five very different beers.”

Ortkiese rattles off the name of the yeast used at Crosstown — US-05 California Ale yeast — quickly, from the top of his head. But then, his eyes light up as he courses through the history of that yeast strain from a now-defunct California brewery to its rediscovery and “rescue” by Ken Grossman, billionaire founder of Sierra Nevada.

“I’m guessing here, but I’ll bet half the beers in the United States are fermented with that yeast; it’s just a workhorse,” Ortkiese says. “It’s very neutral. So, it lets all the hop flavors come forward.”

Yeast also gets you drunk.

Those little fungi eat all that sugar we made with the water and malted barley, remember? It chews it up somehow and poops out — you guessed it — alcohol.

Thanks, yeast. You really are the best.

time for spring.

Chunky, heavy-metal guitar riffs blend somehow over the hiss, clatter, and conversation spilling out of the open bay door of Ghost River. It’s a canning day, and the brewers are canners for the day.

A pallet of naked, empty, silver cans glide from their stacks in satisfying single file through a machine that would make Willy Wonka smile. The cans are filled four at a time, sealed with a lid, twirled with a label, and six-packed by hand. It’s the very first time Ghost River has canned its new Grind-N-Shine, a light cream ale with coffee and vanilla. The beer is cold, and the freshly filled cans sweat in the tropical brewhouse environs.

Back in the quiet of the taproom, Ghost River head brewer Jimmy Randall explains that it was “time to move forward.” Ghost River replaced its 1887 IPA with Zippin Pippin, and hops were a big reason why.

“We really wanted something … that would reflect those flavors that you get in IPAs and the hop profile was a big one,” Randall says. “We wanted to give it those big, up-front hops, the aroma, the flavor of them. So, we changed the way we hopped the beer completely.”

Add hops to the end of the boil, Randall explains, the more aroma you’ll get. Boil them longer, you’ll get a more bitter beer. Add hops at the end, you’ll get different flavors. And the types of hops you use will change everything.

“So, take your Centennial hops, for example, which are kind of your classic, American IPA hops,” Randall says. “Bells Two Hearted IPA? That is 100 percent Centennial hops.”

Mosaic hops will give you juicy, tropical-fruit flavors, he says. Citra will give you citrus flavors.

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But for the gentle hum of some equipment and a hiss of running water somewhere, things are quiet at Wiseacre, relative to the size of its big brewhouse. The brewers are busy, but they’re spread out, working somewhere amid silver tanks that seem two stories tall. Somewhere in here, I think to myself, is an Ananda that I will drink sometime in the future. Weird.

Inside a walk-in cooler, brewer Sam Tomaszczuk pours bright green pellets from a futuristic, metallic-silver pouch.

While you might not recognize them in their pelletized form, you’ve seen hops before. Have another look at a brewery logo. You might find a small, green plant the same shape as strawberry. Heck, a hop plant is the central feature of Meddlesome’s logo.

Hops are little green flowers, cousins to marijuana. Brewers primarily use hops to bitter beer, to balance out that sweetness from that sugary barley water.

“There are a lot of beers that are quite hoppy out there that aren’t bitter at all,” Tomaszczuk says. “We have people who say they don’t like a hoppy beer and then we have them try something like Adjective Animal. It’s 8.6 percent alcohol … so it has a lot of sugars to it.

It’s actually kind of sweet, compared to some of our other beers. So, when people try that, they tend to like it, even thought that’s a ‘hoppy beer.’”

Tomaszczuk pours those green,

Get Crafty

There are about 100 craft breweries in Tennessee. About two dozen of those are in Nashville. Knoxville has 15 along its “Ale Trail.”

The craft beer scene is still fairly new in Memphis. Boscos was Tennessee’s first brewpub, opening in 1992. Ghost River opened here in 2007. We’re now about five years from the Great Craft Awakening of 2013, the year that saw High Cotton, Wiseacre, and Memphis Made open. Since then, the city has added Meddlesome and Crosstown, each of which has been open for just more than a year.

The Memphis scene isn’t small. It’s right-sized, and more is on the way.

We’ll hopefully see Grind City Brewing in next year’s Beer Bracket Challenge.

They’re planning to open in July. Plans to open Soul & Spirits Brewing in Uptown were revealed last week. There are more breweries coming, I’m told, but nothing we can report just yet.

Until then, support your local craft brewers. Go drink a beer. And feel free to use my recipe.

Memphis 901 FC gears up for opening weekend at AutoZone Park.

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he Bluff City gave a very Memphis welcome to its new soccer team, teasing players with a hint of sun before throwing severe wind-chill and a weeklong thunderstorm at them. If that made the first month of a preseason a bit of a grind, well, all the better for helping the athletes acclimate to the city’s sporting culture.

Turn on the TV to NBC Sports, ESPN, or even TNT to see the growth the soccer phenomenon has been enjoying. Local bars like The Brass Door and Celtic Crossing have provided spaces to watch games, but Memphis needed a bigger outlet for its soccer fandom. Two members of the Redbirds ownership group were happy to oblige.

Peter Freund and Craig Unger are part of Trinity Sports Holdings, whose portfolio includes interests in the New York Yankees, Memphis Redbirds, 901 FC, and recently Dagenham & Redbridge FC, a soccer club in East London. Since the Redbirds season ended last year, the two have been working hard to ensure that all the necessary infrastructure is in place for a soccer team.

Recently branded Memphis 901 FC, the team will play in the United Soccer Memphis 901 FC League (USL).

Unger, the organization’s president, started by hiring sporting director Andrew Bell, a league veteran who led the Charleston Battery to the USL championship in 2012. That appointment aligned with Unger’s goal of aiming high in the team’s first season. “We want to win the USL Championship,” says Unger. “Crazier things can happen, even in year one.

But our immediate goal is to reach the playoffs.” In addition to a regular league season, USL teams are also entered in the U.S. Open Cup, which will see occasional clashes with Major League Soccer (MLS) franchises, the highest level of the sport in America.

While Freund and Unger already had extensive experience running a sports franchise, they needed someone

familiar with the soccer landscape to be part of the leadership group.

Luckily, one of Memphis’ own fit the bill. Nicknamed “Superman” or “Captain America” after his heroics for the United States at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Tim Howard has called Memphis home since the early 2000s.

The goalkeeper, who plans to retire at the end of his upcoming MLS season with the Colorado Rapids, heard about talks for a Memphis team early on and approached Freund about becoming a part-owner. Howard’s name brings instant credibility to the organization.

Finding the right coach goes a long way to ensuring success, and the candidate chosen for the position has his own history with Howard. Tim Mulqueen showed his eye for talent when he discovered Howard at a clinic in New Jersey and has been a mentor ever since. Howard believes Mulqueen has the right mentality to make the team successful in its first season. “Tim is tough, a great man-manager, and knows soccer inside and out,” Howard says.

Mulqueen is essentially working with a group of strangers for the first time, but he’s excited. “Their effort, their commitment to getting better and getting to know each other has been tremendous,” says Mulqueen. “We’re a good team, and with the effort and commitment the guys are putting in, we can’t help but get better.”

With Terminix recently announced as the shirt sponsor and several preseason skirmishes with other USL teams under its belt, the organization and Memphis are counting down the days until kick-off. When the Tampa Bay Rowdies arrive for opening day this Saturday, March 9th, both the players and crowd will be ready to match the 901 FC’s motto to “Defend Memphis.”

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There’s a mismatched quality to David Tankersley and Don Meyers. As artists working in two dimensions, their work couldn’t be more different or more complementary. Their group exhibit, “2 for the Show at ’KNO,” collects more than 70 examples.

Tankersley came late to drawing and takes an almost journalistic approach. The dark, pointillistically rendered places and faces he depicts feel sturdy and lived in. By contrast, even when they’re inspired by gray days, clouds, and rain, Meyers’ abstract paintings are unfailingly colorful, airy, and suggestive of a larger, more mysterious universe.

“Don’s photography is so colorful and artfully done, when you look at it initially, you might believe it’s painted,” Tankersley says.

Meyers is a retired creative director whose bio reads like the lost season of Mad Men. He started professional life working at Playboy as a photographer’s assistant and would work alongside Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer and Missing Piece author/illustrator Shel Silverstein.

“He was always drawing,” Meyers says of Silverstein, who he describes as a mentor. “He’d say, ‘Don’t worry about structure, just draw. Just get back into your childhood where kids don’t worry.””

Like Meyers, Tankersley is an independent filmmaker and a veteran of the publishing and advertising worlds. He describes his art education a little differently though. “I just hung around public restrooms,” Tankersley says.

Meyers describes his half of “2 for the Show” as a garage sale. “My wife said everything must go, so I’m taking my prices way down!”

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THURSDAY March 7

FRIDAY March 8

Jeff Tweedy Germantown Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m.

A concert by the king of altcountry.

An Evening with Greg Iles CBU Theater, 6 p.m.

A Memphis Reads event featuring the author of Cemetery Road, Greg Iles.

Fashion House Gallery 430, 7-9 p.m.

A fashion-focused show with apparel by This Is Intentional, Illanostalgia, Amara Adornments, and more, and music by Ricky Davaine, ISpeakWithAGift, DJ David Yancy III, and DJ Cel Shade.

Significant Other Playhouse on the Square, 8 p.m., $25 A play that plumbs the depths of a single person’s woes.

Elwood’s Shells brings seafood to Cooper-Young.

Food News, p. 33 SATURDAY March 9 Lisa Nobumoto and Her Sizzling Six Levitt Shell, 6:30 p.m.

An evening of jazz from this legendary vocalist. Part of the Free Jazz concert series’ “Women in Jazz.” “/Ôr’ganik/” L Ross Gallery, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibition of work exploring inner and outer worlds by Jeni Stallings.

“Dear Artist” Art Museum at the University of Memphis, 3-6 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibition of works on loan from such artists as William Eggleston, Burton Callicott, and Nakeya Brown.

Sounds of Summer Southern Thunder Harley-Davidson (4870 Venture in Southaven), 5-7 p.m.

A concert by this Beach Boys tribute band.

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Revolutionaries

By Chris Davis

Close to the ending of 1776, the enduring Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone musical on America’s struggle for independence, the contrarian patriot John Adams sits all alone in Philadelphia, talking to himself like an American Hamlet. Once upon a time, this man, who will one day become president, dreamed of a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition of equality. Why was that dream met with such ugly resistance by his fellow countrymen? And can you prevail against all that without becoming ugly and shrill yourself? It’s a sentiment anybody who follows contemporary politics or has ever drifted too close to online debates about virtually anything knows in our bones, and the question he asks is one any company mounting this 50-year-old meditation on America’s stormy birth must also ask: “Does anybody care?”

Cecelia Wingate, the award-collecting actor/director best known for her work staging extravaganzas like Young Frankenstein and The Producers, knows people are raw and worn out on politics, but she thinks the answer is yes, and she’s returned to Theatre Memphis with top-shelf acting talent like John Maness, Bill Andrews, and Kevar Maffitt in tow, to see if she can make something at least a little bit revolutionary on Perkins Ext. “Our watchwords for this have been ‘passion and urgency,’ and we hope it works,” Wingate says. “There’s so much noise out there emanating from a political system that seems broken — the ‘I’m right, you’re wrong’ mentality. Now is the perfect time to be doing this.”

1776 loosely follows events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Its songs address everything from the literal and figurative temperature inside Independence Hall to the slave economy’s tangled web. “It’s my favorite time period to read about,” Wingate says, in a characteristically salty turn. “I research the shit out of this stuff.”

“1776” AT THEATRE MEMPHIS, MARCH 8TH-31ST, FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS, 8 P.M., SUNDAYS, 2 P.M. AND THURSDAYS, 7:30 P.M. $35 THEATREMEMPHIS.ORG

The Amazing Adventures of LadyBug Lady and Beetle Boy Crosstown Arts Theater Stair, 11 a.m.

A children’s story with audience participation and music from the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

The Spazmatics Gold Strike Casino, 9 p.m., $15 A performance featuring all the best tropes of ’80s music.

Crawfish Boil at the Yard Loflin Yard, noon-5 p.m.

A crawfish boil with potatoes and smoked sausage. Continues each Saturday through May 4th.

Booksigning by Patrick O’Daniel Wolfchase Barnes & Noble, 4 p.m.

O’Daniel signs and discusses his book, Crusaders, Gangsters and Whiskey: Prohibition in Memphis.

The Rainbow Fish The Orpheum, 10 a.m., $15 A beautiful fish shares its most prized possession. Based on the Marcus Pfister book. Part of the Saturday Series. Arts and crafts before the show.

Grind City Coffee Expo Memphis College of Art, 10 a.m.2 p.m., $30 Memphis coffee lovers unite!

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Spring Fling Extravaganza Gallery 430, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

A spring art show and sale presented by the Memphis Arts Collective.

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A Cut Above

Low Cut Connie brings raucous rock to Minglewood.

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ounding and standing are? Every show should be different. You on the piano he calls try and make people free, to put them in “Shondra,” Adam the moment. I’ve got to be aware of what’s Weiner cranks out going on in the moment … what’s going some serious rock-andon outside the walls of the club. I’ve got to roll with his band Low bring all of that into the moment.

Cut Connie. A Jerry Lee Lewis-meets“At the end of the day, I try to give Little Richard-on-Broadway showman, people what they really want,” Weiner Weiner comes by his brand of distinctly says. “They’re in a communal situation, American music naturally. they’re part of the moment. They feel their “When I was 13, I bought a Lead Belly feeling and release that feeling. It’s not a album,” Weiner says. “My music listening total escapism, but a tension and release.” has been chronological, almost. I got into country blues, then blues, then Low Cut Connie Elvis, Jerry Lee, and the Sun stuff, Little Richard, and the New Orleans piano guys, and then Ray Charles. I grew up in New Jersey, so Springsteen in the 1980s is a big touchstone. Then Bob Dylan. What’s the bottom line in all this? American rock-and-roll.”

So what exactly is American rock-and-roll? “Boogie, soulful,” Weiner says. “It should touch your heart, This winter and spring, Weiner will making you want to dance. And it’s about be getting the crowds going with a run freedom. Free your body, free your mind. of headlining dates in the U.S. that What was Prince’s music about? Freedom extends into May, before heading to of spirit, freedom of sexuality. More than the United Kingdom and Europe. It’s being cool, it’s about letting go, being free.” the latest series of shows in what has In other words, something like what’s become a never-ending tour for Low captured on Dirty Pictures (Part 2), a Cut Connie. It’s the kind of work that joyous 10-song ramble Low Cut Connie needs to be done by a band that, little by recorded along with its predecessor — little, is breaking out.

Dirty Pictures (Part 1) — at Memphis’ Formed seven years ago, and named legendary Ardent Studio. after a waitress who wore low-cut tops, the Adam Hill, who worked at Ardent at band released its first recordings as Get the time, recalls, “Adam Weiner worked Out the Lotion, and followed that album for Beale Street Caravan years ago, when with 2012’s Get Me Sylvia and 2015’s Hi he was going to U of M. Early on, they Honey — all critically acclaimed. played a show at The Buccaneer that was The band got its biggest shot of recorded by Beale Street Caravan, and attention in 2015, when President Barack they liked my mix, which led to us making Obama put “Boozophilia” — a 2012 song Dirty Pictures (Part 1) and (Part 2). I’ve Rolling Stone described as “like Jerry been engineering for them the past year, Lee Lewis if he’d had his first religious working on their next batch of songs in experience at a Replacements show” — on various locations. The band is tight and his Spotify summer list. loose, in all the best ways. We’ve been That got Weiner a White House visit. cutting basic tracks live with everyone in Earlier this year, he had another summit the same room.” meeting, talking with Springsteen Dirty Pictures (Part 2) starts with the after attending one of his Broadway taut, driving “All These Kids Are Way performances. The Boss, it turns out, is a Too High,” which finds Weiner looking Low Cut Connie fan — which thrills the out at zombies standing at a show rather New Jersey-born Weiner. than dancing up a storm to the rollicking The attention, the recordings, and Low piano and the big beat. It’s his job, Weiner Cut Connie’s never-less-than-great live says, to get the walking dead to put away shows are now paying off, bringing the their phones and get moving. And that’s a band an ever-larger audience. “The word different challenge every night. is spreading,” Weiner says. “The tent is “Every city has a different culture,” expanding. We’re a cult band and people he says. “Every country has a different are finding us, coming to see us.”

Low Cut Connie plays the 1884 Lounge at culture. Daytime versus nighttime, Minglewood with the Klitz and Louise Page outdoor versus indoor. Do they know our on Saturday, March 9th, at 9 p.m. songs, or do they have no idea who we

A LETTER TO OUR LGBTQIA+ SISTERS AND BROTHERS AND THEIR ALLIES: As United Methodist clergy and lay people in the Memphis Annual Conference, active and retired, we write to acknowledge the harm done last week by the Special Session of The General Conference of The United Methodist Church.

We grieve the actions of this General Conference, which tightened restrictions on the ordination of gay clergy and maintained prohibitions on our clergy performing same-sex weddings including celebrating weddings in United Methodist Churches.

We say to our LGBTQIA+ siblings: you are beloved children of God, and you are beloved by us. These actions of the General Conference do not reflect our hopes and dreams for The United Methodist Church. More importantly, we believe they do not reflect the hopes and dreams of God for a Church that is divided. While a plurality of the General Conference delegates from the United States voted in favor of a plan endorsed by 2/3 of the Council of Bishops for a more inclusive church, through its actions in St. Louis, the denomination has perpetuated exclusion.

Too often, our silence as clergy and lay people has done harm. We commit to advocating and working for the full inclusion of all people in God’s church. And we humbly ask for your prayers and forgiveness.

We are persuaded that the actions of this General Conference will not stand. We believe there is a way out of no way and that a Church for all God's people through The United Methodist Church is coming into being as guided by The Holy Spirit.

As the holy season of Lent begins, we pray for those harmed by the Church. We pray for the redemption of the Church and that it will fully embrace the General Rules of our Methodist heritage to do no harm, do good of every kind and stay in love with God through the means of grace. We pray for our beloved sisters and brothers with whom we desire to be in fellowship who are not of one mind with us on this matter. We believe that the historic words of John Wesley ring true in this moment - "While we cannot think alike, can we not love alike?" We commit in this season of Lent to resist evils in whatever form they present themselves, especially those wrapped in the language of the Church, and to always choose love, God's love in Jesus Christ as the true way forward.

We believe that God who began a good work in us will bring it to completion. We hope that you can join us in this work, but we understand if you cannot. And we commit to working alongside God, as we weep alongside you.

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Mrs. Sherry Crump Carmichael Mr. Travis Hamm Mr. James Farris Mr. James Rogers Mrs. Tina Day Mrs. Margaret B. Cobb Mr. Joseph P. Cobb III Mrs. Mary Ann Giampapa Ms. Amanda Graham Mr. Kurt Knotts Mr. J. Jeffrey “Elmo” Adams Mrs. Libby Garrett Ms. Lynda S Smith Mrs. Karen Machart Ms. Sue Hyland Mrs. Mrs. Susan Edwards Ms. Claire Prince Ms. Luanne Gowan Hearn Mr. Sam Crump Mrs. Rae-Anne Pitts Mrs. Miriam F. Handorf Mr. Woody Burton Mrs. Blaire Burton Mr. Matthew Pitts Mr. Donald Tyson Mrs. Anna Michael Grisham Mrs. Megan Starling Mr. Russell H. Walker Ms. LeeAnne Cox Mr. Joe Shelton Ms. Carol Craig Ms. Lyn Stewart Mr. Joel Alsup Ms. Suzy Kehoe Mr. Eddie McDoniel Mr. Larry Kaler Mr. Ryan Baker Ms. Barbara Pyles Ms. Merri L Dodson Dr. Christopher Tinius Dr. Todd Richardson Mrs. Nancy H Reagan Mr. Donald M. Wood Mrs. Paula M. Wood Mrs. Lindsey Alsup Mr. Randy Reagan

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TONY MANARD & THE BIG OLE BAND THURSDAY, MARCH 7TH LAFAYETTE'S MUSIC ROOM

THE RAGTOPS SATURDAY, MARCH 9TH B-SIDE MEMPHIS

ALTERED SOUND DUO TUESDAY, MARCH 12TH CROSSTOWN ARTS

After Dark: Live Music Schedule March 7 - 13 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 341-345 BEALE 577-1089

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Itta Bena

168 BEALE 576-2220

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Friday, March 8, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.midnight.

Belle Tavern 117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

The Rusty Pieces Sunday, March 10, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Blind Bear Speakeasy

Rum Boogie Cafe

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

182 BEALE 528-0150

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, noon-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.

Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; Pam & Terry Friday, March 8, 5:30-8:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 9, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Reba Russell Friday, March 8, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, March 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and Plantation Allstars Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

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.

Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Stone Sugar Shakedown Friday, March 8, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.midnight; Cowboy Neil Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.; The Rusty Pieces Saturday, March 9, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

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

Paulette’s

Boscos

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

2120 MADISON 432-2222

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.

Regina’s 60 N. MAIN

Richard Wilson Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Open Mic Night Saturdays, 4-7 p.m.

The Po Boys Thursday, March 7, 7 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Friday, March 8, 8 p.m.; FreeWorld Saturday, March 9, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and Friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

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

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Fingertrick Sunday, March 10, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Karaoke Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.; Future-Everything presents: DJ DanceAlone, Strooly, Qemist and TEHKAL Saturday, March 9, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.

The Vault

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

Jeff Hulett Friday, March 8, 8 p.m.; Christine DeMeo Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.

Medical Center

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Sunrise 670 JEFFERSON

Ghost Town Blues Band Saturdays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; Christine DeMeo Sunday, March 10, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Earnestine & Hazel’s Amber Rae Dunn Hosts: Earnestine & Hazel’s Open Mic Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

124 GE PATTERSON

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

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

B-Side Memphis 1555 MADISON

The MD’s Friday, March 8, 10:30 p.m.; Heathens Dance Party Saturday, March 9, 7 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Marcella and Her Lovers Friday, March 8; The Abjects Saturday, March 9; Mary Gagz and Her Gaggle of Drags Monday, March 11; Mo Boogie Tuesday, March 12; Tennessee Screamers Wednesday, March 13.

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Smoking J’s Friday, March 8, 9 p.m.; Rag Tops Saturday, March 9, 9 p.m.; David Collins Frog Squad Sunday, March 10, 6 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesdays, 6 p.m. and Wednesday, March 13, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Crosstown Arts at The Concourse 1350 CONCOURSE AVE., SUITE 280

Altered Sound Duo Tuesday, March 12, 7 p.m.

Crosstown Brewing Co. 1264 CONCOURSE

The Rusty Pieces Friday, March 8, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

March 7-13, 2019

Ghost Town Blues Band Thursday, March 7, 8 p.m.-midnight; Blind Mississippi Morris Friday, March 8, 5-9 p.m., and Saturday, March 9, 5-9 p.m.; Hi-Jivers Friday, March 8, 9:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 9, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m., and Saturday, March 9, 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sunday, March 10,

5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Jason James with Rodney Polk Monday, March 11, 7-11 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule March 7 - 13 Growlers

P&H Cafe

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rockstar Karaoke Fridays; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight; I’m Fine, You Vandal, Hardaway and Joybomb Wednesday, March 13.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Forest Fire Gospel Choir Friday, March 8, 9 p.m.; Forest Fire Gospel Choir Friday, March 8, 9 p.m.; Love Light Orchestra Saturday, March 9, 9 p.m.

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe 663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

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

Poplar/I-240

Collierville

Neil’s Music Room

Huey’s Collierville

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Risky Whiskey Band Thursday, March 7, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Trouble No More Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.; Cowboy Bob and The Bounty Hunters Sunday, March 10, 5-9 p.m.; Kasey Triplets Birthday Bash Monday, March 11, 8-11 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Whitehaven/ Airport

Heart Memphis Band Sunday, March 10, 8-11:30 p.m.

Rock-n-Roll Cafe

Cordova

3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

Delta Blues Winery

Elvis Tribute featuring Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Live Entertainment Mondays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Karaoke hosted by DJ Maddy

6585 STEWART

Sunday Music at the Winery Sunday, March 10, 2:30-5:30 p.m.

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

Charvey Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, March 10, 6-9 p.m.

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

Hi-Tone

Jeff Tweedy Thursday, March 7, 7:30 p.m.; SCC Solo Tour with Steven Curtis Chapman Saturday, March 9, 7-9 p.m.

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Lee Bain’s III & the Glory Fires, the Bohannons, and Dirty Mike Thursday, March 7, 9 p.m.; Blvck Hippie, Ei, Jadewick, and Don Babylon Friday, March 8, 7 p.m.; Gouge Away, Jadewick, and the Animals Comfort Friday, March 8, 9 p.m.; Arizona Akin Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.; Karen Waldrup Sunday, March 10, 6:30 p.m.; Tyler Ramsey Sunday, March 10, 8 p.m.; Taking Meds, Brian Hillhouse, and Glorious Abhor Monday, March 11, 9 p.m.; Afrobear Wednesday, March 13, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Soul Shockers Sunday, March 10, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

LAPD Sunday, March 10, 8-11:30 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Gold Strike Casino

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-245-7829

Lafayette’s Music Room

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

The Spazmatics Saturday, March 9, 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Even Odds Sunday, March 10, 4-7 p.m.; Royal Blues Band Sunday, March 10, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Hollywood Casino Live Entertainment Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS 1-800-303-SHOE

Scotty McCreery Friday, March 8.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

Juke Joint All Stars Fridays, Saturdays, 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.

INSIDE THE RUDI E. SCHEIDT SCHOOL OF MUSIC 678-5400

Young Avenue Deli

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

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Native Blood Friday, March 8, 9-11:30 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 312-6058

Whitey Morgan with Alex Williams Saturday, March 9, 7:30 p.m.; Low Cut Connie with the Klitz and Louise Page Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.; Jermaine Funnymaine Johnson Sunday, March 10, 7 p.m.

University of Memphis, Harris Concert Hall

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays,

Double Cello Concerto Saturday, March 9, 7:30-10 p.m. and Sunday, March 10, 2:30-5 p.m.

East Memphis 551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

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

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Frankie Holly & the Noise Sunday, March 10, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Owen Brennan’s THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

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

Jamie Baker & the VIPs Sunday, March 10, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

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High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Pubapalooza with Stereo Joe Every other Wednesday, 8-11 p.m.

3663 APPLING 385-6440

Disney’s High School Musical Friday, March 8, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 9, 2:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 10, 2:30 p.m.

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Friday, March 8, 9 p.m.; Backstreet Crawlers Saturday, March 9, 9 p.m.; Shogun Billys Sunday, March 10, 5:30 p.m.; A.M. Whiskey Tuesday, March 12, 8 p.m.

Staytona Bike Weekend Saturday, March 9, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sunday, March 10, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sounds of Summer: A Beach Boys Tribute Saturday, March 9, 5-7 p.m.

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.

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Rehearsal for Murder, a play within a play within a play; on opening night, the playwright’s engagement to the leading actress is announced in the tabloids. The director, producer, the lead’s understudy, and leading actor relive the opening night that gets horrible reviews.

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Significant Other, romantic Jordan is single, and finding Mr. Right is easier said than done.

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Opening Reception for “Dear Artist,” exhibition of work on loan. Artists include Lisa Alonso, Nakeya Brown, Burton Callicott, Carroll Cloar, Jennifer Crescuillo, William

Eggleston, and others. www. memphis.edu/amum. Sat., March 9, 3-6 p.m.

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L Ross Gallery

Opening Reception for “/ôr’ganik/,” exhibition of work by Jeni Stallings. www. lrossgallery.com. Fri., March 8, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden

Opening Reception for “Things That Move Me,” exhibition of work of Mary Spellings. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Sun., March 10, 2-4 p.m.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

WKNO Studio

Opening Reception for “For Art’s Sake: 2 for the Show at ’KNO,” exhibition of works

by Don Meyers and David Tankersley. www.wkno.org/ gallery1091.html. Sun., March 10, 2-4 p.m.

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Saturday Sketch

For ages 15+. Sketch in the gardens or galleries with a special guest instructor each month. Bring a pad of paper or a sketchbook. Pencils and colored pencils only. Free with admission. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.

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

Spring Fling Extravaganza

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Art show and sale hosted by the Memphis Arts Collective.

Sat., March 9, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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

“Fashion House”

A fashion-focused showcase and performance. Thurs., March 7, 7-9 p.m.

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

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“Dear Artist” with work

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“Dear Artist,” exhibition of work on loan. Artists include Lisa Alonso, Nakeya Brown, Burton Callicott, Carroll Cloar, Jennifer Crescuillo, William Eggleston, and others. www. memphis.edu/amum. March 9-June 1.

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

Art Village Gallery

“Out of Africa: Inhabitants of the Earth,” exhibition of work

by Nigerian artist Uchay Joel Chima. www.artvillagegallery. com. Ongoing.

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

“Chinese Symbols in Art,” ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. www.belzmuseum.org.

Ongoing.

119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School “This Place, This Time,” exhibition of new work by Siphne A. Sylve. Through April 15.

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

Clough-Hanson Gallery

“Monument Lab: Prototypes/ Proposals,” exhibition of new works by Kara Crombie, Jamel Shabazz, Michelle Angela Ortiz, and Marisa Williamson. The exhibition reflects on the monuments society has inherited and imagines future monuments yet to be built. www.rhodes.edu/ events. Tuesdays-Saturdays.

Through March 16.

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

Opening reception for “/Ôrganik/” by Jeni Stallings at L Ross Gallery, Friday, March 8th, at 6 p.m.

Crosstown Arts at The Concourse

“Active Shooter,” exhibition of video art by Coriana Close. www. crosstownarts.org. Through March 10.

“Every American Thing,” exhibition of new work by Lester Merriweather. www.crosstownarts.org.

Through March 10.

Kenturah Davis and Desmond Lewis, Lewis and Davis were selected by Delta Axis and Locate Arts/Seed Space to exhibit their work together. www.crosstownarts.org. Through March 10.

“Recent Acquisitions: Friends of the Brooks Museum of Art,” group exhibition curated by Lester Merriweather. Through March 10.

FireHouse Community Arts Center

Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing.

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

“Aggregate Optics of Make-ADo,” exhibition of new work by Erin Harmon. www.memphis. edu/fogelmangalleries/. Through March 8.

1350 CONCOURSE AVE., SUITE 280.

Crosstown Concourse

“R&D,” a collection of artwork from the fall 2018 University of Memphis sculpture students.

Ongoing.

3715 CENTRAL.

Gallery 1091

1350 CONCOURSE AVE.

David Lusk Gallery

“Oh My Heart,” exhibition of new work by Beth Edwards, who is known for her contemporary stilllife paintings. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through March 9.

“No Look Past,” new work

by Brandon Donahue. www. davidluskgallery.com. March 12-April 6.

“What Remains,” exhibition of new work by Rana Rochat. www. davidluskgallery.com. March 12-April 6.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Eye to Eye: A New Look at the Dixon Collection,” exhibition of select works from the Dixon’s collection, shown in a new light.

The works will be organized by theme, highlighting some of the major ideas that influenced the art produced in Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. www.dixon. org. Through April 14.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery

“Your Name Is Not Your Own,” exhibition of new work by Louise Mandumbwa. www.eacc.edu.

Mondays-Fridays. Through March 29.

EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR.

Eclectic Eye

“#GildTheDelta,” exhibition of new work by Norwood Creech.

Each piece is adapted from paint

and pastels that incorporate gold and silver gilding, or metallic effects, as a part of the creation process. eclectic-eye.com/.

Through April 10.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Edge Gallery

“Musical and Memphis Images,” work by Wayne Russell.

Through March 30.

Folk Artists, work by Debra Edge, John Sadowski, Nancy White, and Bill Brookshire. Ongoing.

“For Art’s Sake: 2 for the Show at ’KNO,” exhibition of works by Don Meyers and David Tankersley. www.wkno.org/gallery1091. html. Through March 29.

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

Germantown Performing Arts Center

“Parsing Banality: Post-Painterly Art of Dilettantism,” exhibition of new work by Steven Heard in the

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509 S. MAIN (647-9242).

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CALENDAR: MARCH 7 - 13 continued from page 24 lobby gallery. (751-7500), www. gpacweb.com. Through March 31, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Graceland

“Hillbilly Rock”, exhibition featuring items from The Marty Stuart Collection. www.graceland.com. Ongoing.

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Java Cabana

“Let It Flow: Art from the Heart,” exhibition of new work by Kevin Chiles. www.javacabanacoffeehouse.com/. Through March 31.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Contemporary Influences of African Tribal Art,” exhibition of African art. (550-0064), jayetkingallery.com/. Through March 16.

David Hall, exhibition of watercolor works on paper. www. jayetkingallery.com. Ongoing.

“SILKSATIONS,” exhibition of paintings and collages Phyllis Boger. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through March 31.

Folding Fun Saturdays, visit the Folding Fun table and learn a new origami fold, explore different plants that make paper, and make a paper airplane before touring the exhibit. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Through March 30.

“Things That Move Me”, exhibition of work of Mary Spellings. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Through March 31.

“Origami in the Garden,” exhibition of 24 museum-quality outdoor sculptures depicting origami-inspired works crafted by artists Kevin Box, Te Jui Fu, Beth Johnson, Michael G. LaFosse, and Robert Lang. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through March 24.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

L Ross Gallery

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“/ôr’ganik/,” exhibition of work

by Jeni Stallings. (767-2200), www.lrossgallery.com. TuesdaysFridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Through March 29.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Marshall Arts Gallery

“Love of Art” and “Memphis,” exhibition of work by Nikki Gardner and Debra Edge by appointment only. Ongoing.

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Green Room Sessions Hot Buttered Soul at 50 at Crosstown Arts, Wednesday, March 13th, at 7 p.m.

Memphis Botanic Garden

“American Haiku,” exhibition of woodcuts by Memphis artist Ted Faiers. www.brooksmuseum.org.

Through May 12.

“Arts of Global Africa,” exhibition of historic and contemporary works in a range of different media presenting an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through June 21, 2021.

“A Buck & a Half Apiece,”

Metal Museum,” in honor of its 40th anniversary, the Metal Museum presents an exhibition of past, current, and future Master Metalsmiths and Tributaries artists, who represent the heights of achievement and the promising future of the metals field. (7746380), Sundays, 12-5 p.m., and Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Through May 12.

“Tributaries,” exhibition of new work by Tanya Crane. www.metalmuseum.org. Through April 7.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Overton Park Gallery

Dorothy Northern and Jennifer Sargent, exhibition of works.

Ongoing.

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

exhibition of photographs by Ernest Withers. www.brooks.org.

Through March 20.

“Native Son,” exhibition of sculpture and sound installation by multimedia artist Terry Adkins. www.brooksmuseum. org. Through Sept. 3.

Rotunda Projects: Federico Uribe, exhibition of magical creatures and playful installations from everyday objects. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through Oct. 11.

“About Face,” exhibition located

in the Education Gallery highlighting the different ways artists interpret the connection between emotion and expression. www. brooksmuseum.org. Ongoing.

“Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis,” exhibition of works inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in southeastern Nigeria by Victor Ekpuk. www.brooksmuseum.org.

Ongoing.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Ross Gallery

Memphis College of Art

“Take Note: The Final Faculty Biennial Exhibition,” exhibition of work of current and former faculty and Professors Emeriti, showcasing MCA’s rich and diverse teaching artists from over the past 83 years. (272-5100), mca.edu/. Through March 17, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

“Crafting a Legacy: 40 Years of Collecting and Exhibiting at the

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“Mi Casa es Your House,” exhibition of new work

by Vanessa Gonzalez, exploring her Mexican-American identity, while celebrating and exploring her Mexican heritage. www. cbu.edu/gallery. First MondayThursday of every month, 7:45 a.m.-11 p.m., Fridays, 7:45 a.m.4:30 p.m., Saturdays, 12-4 p.m., and Sundays, 1-11 p.m. Through April 7.

“Migration Now,” traveling exhibition of a limited-edition portfolio of handmade prints

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

Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum

“Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. (527-3427), slavehavenmemphis. com/. Ongoing.

Making Memphis: Storytelling with Jimmy Ogle

The lunch and learn series covers topics such as women in Memphis, black history, Memphis music, the historic riverfront, and more. The event is free, but guests will need to reserve seats at www.pinkpalacejimmyogle.brownpapertickets.com. Mondays, Thursdays, 12-1 p.m. Through March 14.

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (6362362), WWW.JIMMYOGLE.COM.

Old Forest Hike

Walking tour of the region’s old-growth forest. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.

826 NORTH SECOND STREET (527-3427).

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

Public Tour

“Cotton Patchers Quilt Exhibit,” exhibition of a range of quilting styles. (754-7282), MondaysFridays, Sundays, 9 a.m. Through March 18.

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

Sue Layman Designs

“Sue Layman Designs Ongoing Art,” exhibition of oil-on-canvas paintings featuring brilliant colors and daring geometric shapes. (409-7870), suelaymandesigns.com. Ongoing.

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

T Clifton Art Gallery

“Vibrant Journeys”, exhibition of work by Jeannine Paul. Oil and acrylic paintings inspired by the artist’s travels. (323-2787), Through March 30, 5-8 p.m.

2571 BROAD (323-2787).

Talbot Heirs

Debra Edge Art, ongoing.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

Tops Gallery: Madison Avenue Park

“Hawkins Bolden,” exhibition of scarecrow pieces crafted with discarded materials. (340-0134), www. topsgallery.com. Through March 25.

An in-depth and behind-the-scenes view of the historic theater. An updated schedule will always be available at orpheum-memphis.com/tours. All pro-

ceeds benefit the Orpheum Theatre Group’s nonprofit mission. $10. Second Monday of every month, 10 a.m. & noon Through March 11.

THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

Spring Tram Tours

The tour will focus on the Origami at the Garden exhibit. Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon, and Sundays, 12-3 p.m. Through March 24.

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

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Druid City Dames vs. Memphis Roller Derby $10. Sat., March 9, 5-7:30 p.m.

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Up to 16 people per bike enjoy a flight of local spirits and brew during this two-hour pubcrawl with Sprock n’ Roll’s bike bar to Old Dominick Distillery and Ghost River Brewing Tap Room. BYOB, but no glass tour. $315-$400. Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 12-8 p.m., and Sundays, 12-5 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

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t was bittersweet last Friday at the Memphis College of Art. There was the sort of exuberance that attends opening receptions for exhibitions, but there was also melancholy as suggested by the show’s title: “Take Note: The Final Faculty Biennial Exhibition.”

A robust presentation of artwork by current faculty and professors emeriti is on display through March 17th. Faculty exhibitions put on display the pieces by those who teach, or, as professor emeritus Tom Lee puts it, to show the students that they really can do it.

But MCA is closing its doors next year and there won’t be any more faculty shows. Laura Hine, the college’s president, says wistfully that maybe someone will organize the school’s long-running Horn Island show, Holiday Bazaar, and faculty exhibitions in the post-MCA future. “You can’t stop artists,” she says.

“When I started working here I’d walk through the doors and think ‘My God, this is so joyful.’ Everything is tinged by the closure now, but for me tonight, I’ve talked with three artists who went to school here and are now teachers. I take heart that these people are going out and teaching another generation of kids. That’s the happy part for me.”

Dolph Smith started attending what was then the Memphis Academy of Art on Adams Street in 1957. He went on to teach there and retired in the 1990s, but still manages to be there in one capacity or another, as artist and inspiration.

But on this night, he steps away, saying, “I’m going to burst out sobbing.”

His work at this final faculty show is Tennarkippi Penthouse, a 2005 sculpture. It shares space on the landing between floors in MCA’s main exhibition area with Lee’s 2019 witty and sly installation Fin de Skirt, which connects with a “bouquet” on another wall.

Lee’s emeriti status was awarded at last May’s commencement. Looking back at previous faculty shows, he says, “It’s all the same thing that I’ve been doing since time began in one way or another.

It just looks a lot different than what I was doing 30 years ago. But it’s pretty much the same. That’s not a real good answer, is it?”

He’s in the mood to say goodbye.

“The bouquet that’s kind of dead and falling apart is pretty obvious and pretty funny, too,” he says of one part of his installation. “The other is the skirt that

covers everything. This place has always had a lot more female energy in it and so does the artwork because, a) they’re smarter, and b) because they actually feel life when it’s happening and we try to ignore it, so it’s an image of that. Plus a lot of other kind of hidden things that refer to specific people, most of whom I admire and who I’ve learned a lot from while I was here, and a few kind of digs that nobody’s ever gonna get. Plus I just like the word ‘skirt.’”

Jean Holmgren’s digital illustrations are, she says, a bit of a sea change.

“I fought digital tooth and nail when computers came out, saying ‘that’s not real art!’ and I still have problems with that most of the time,” she says. “But I’m loving my iPad Pro — it’s so fast and easy and forgiving, and it’s never done.

You can always go back and tweak.”

One of her works at the exhibition is a 2019 homage to IKEA instructions, an assembly of an impossible machine with impossible directions, titled Some Assembly Required.

Heather F. Wetzel, the head of MCA’s photo area, started teaching at the college in the fall of 2017. Weeks later, it was announced that the institution would close. “It was sad and disappointing to find that out,” she says. But also: “It’s a wonderful place, and I’ve gotten a taste of it.” Even through her sadness at what will be her abbreviated time at MCA, she still says, “I’m happy and honored to be part of this.”

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But when he happened upon a truck in Atlanta, he had to try it and left impressed.

So much so, that he reached out to the cousins of Cousins, Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac, about starting a truck in Memphis.

Todd and his wife Felesha launched the Memphis version of the Cousins Maine Lobster food truck last Saturday.

According to Lomac, they were in business a couple of months when they were urged by the producers of Shark Tank to appear on the show. They did and convinced Barbara Corcoran to back them.

The company has since expanded wildly — now with 30 trucks and eight brick-and-mortar restaurants. Lomac says it was the exposure from the show that helped them realize this sort of success.

The menu for the Memphis truck features two types of lobster roll (Maine and Connecticut), a lobster grilled cheese, lobster tots, clam chowder, and lobster tacos and shrimp tacos.

“The lobster is amazing, just like wow,” Todd says. “I can’t even explain it.”

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he original iteration of Elwood’s Shells was a food truck parked next to Elwood’s Shack. It lasted about three hours, says Elwood’s Shells general manager Devin Wood. A fire at Elwood’s Shack put the truck permanently on blocks. But the idea for Elwood’s Shells was revived about eight months ago, and Wood, along with Elwood’s Shack owners Tim Bednarski and Mandy Edwards, set about looking for a spot for this Creole seafood restaurant in earnest.

They found it in Cooper-Young, in the old Jasmine space. The chairs and the booth along the south wall were reupholstered in bright fabrics, and a jolly roger flag hung out front. They couldn’t figure out what to do with the giant wok.

“This neighborhood is perfect. It’s who we are,” Wood says.

In keeping with the Cooper-Young Elwood’s vibe, Elwood’s Shells Shells hopes to introduce a vegan (!) menu and they want to use recyclable packaging and straws. And while they don’t have a liquor or beer license yet, they happily point their customers to nearby City Market for beer and wine or to Hammer & Ale. Bednarski is from the coast, and the restaurant’s dishes come from family recipes. The pivot from brisket to seafood is in keeping with the Elwood’s brand, Wood says. “The main thing was we wanted to provide a thing that Memphis doesn’t have — on a different level.”

The different level approach is evident throughout the menu, which is overseen by chef Alan Hayden. There’s the Elwood’s Fondue — a bestseller — with shrimp, lobster, crab, mushrooms, and spinach.

Elwood’s shrimp and grits is another customer favorite. Wood is fond of the Red Fish Lamar (named after Lamar Sorrento, whose work hangs on the walls), which is topped with crab and lobster and a meuniere sauce and served with an herb mushroom orzo. The po’boys are modeled after Mother’s, the famed restaurant in New Orleans.

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n Thursday, March 7th, Malco Theaters will open its newest movie palace. The Powerhouse Cinema Grill is located at the intersection of Front and G.E. Patterson. The seven-screen theater incorporates a 1914 building that once housed steam generators for the next door train station.

The brick building topped with a distinctive, towering smokestack, sat dormant for decades until it was repurposed as an art gallery by Delta Axis in 2003. When William Eggleston agreed to open the gallery, he shocked everyone by not mounting an exhibit of his groundbreaking color photography, but instead putting on an organ concert in the cavernous, echoing main room. This will not be the first time films have been exhibited in the Powerhouse. It was home to Indie Memphis’ Microcinema programs until the gallery closed in 2009.

The Powerhouse Cinema Grill will be the first movie theater in the Downtown area since the Muvico Peabody Place 22 theater closed during the 2008 financial crisis.

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theaters and offices in Downtown Memphis, including the Orpheum Theatre on Beale Street.

“We left Downtown Memphis over 40 years ago,” says David Tashie, senior vice-president of operaMalco brings movies back to Downtown Memphis tions. “Downtown is in the midst of a resurgence, and we with the new Powerhouse Cinema Grill. wanted to be a part of it with a new concept restaurant and boutique theater. Being in a project with Henry Turwindow of exclusivity in brick-and-morter theaters and ley and the Wilson Family was appealing, along with the ends with a home video release. The most recent manifestation of this kind of thinking is the controversy parking lot on the site. We are very excited to be bringing around Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma. Produced indepenthe Powerhouse Cinema Grill to the historic Downtown dently in Mexico and acquired by Netflix, Roma was South Main District.” nominated for 10 Oscars and earned Cuarón Academy The three-year project coordinated with the TennesAwards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and see Historic Preservation Office and the Federal Transit Best Foreign Language Film. But Netflix did the bare Administration to retain and preserve the foundation and minimum to qualify for the annual awards: Roma ran the exterior of the 1919 brick building on G.E. Patterson.

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Remember when Tennessee banned smoking inside public places? I do. It was 2007. I was working in a Beale Street restaurant and, relatedly, a smoker. The Non-Smoker Protection Act forced some businesses to choose an identity: Is this a bar that serves food or a restaurant that serves drinks? No longer could a partition between “smoking” and “non-smoking” areas permit establishments to be all things to all people.

Restaurants and bars could — and still can — allow smoking inside, but only if they’re age-restricted to 21-plus, all the time.

The bar where I worked had a well-crafted 21-and-up sort of vibe, so it wasn’t impacted much. But as a patron, I simply adjusted. We chose smoking bars when we went out. Or we dutifully huddled outside when cravings called, careful to stand a few feet from the door. I never viewed the ban as an affront to liberty — the effects of secondhand smoke had been long known. It was just annoying. That meant the law was doing its job. As far as I can tell, the recession probably killed more restaurants than smoking bans did.

Culture changed. The Camel representatives stopped showing up with free packs of cigarettes for anyone with a valid ID — disappointing in the moment, but an unconscionable practice in hindsight. The ghosts of thousands of cigarettes escaped from the walls of newly smoke-free restaurants. The air got cleaner, and dining out became a more pleasant experience. I had expected the choice to go smoke-free would doom the Young Avenue Deli, but I learned their famous cheese fries were better without a fine layer of ash on top. As it turns out, smell is an essential complement to taste!

As a now-former smoker, I kinda like not smelling like other people’s cigarettes. And more than a decade later, it’s much harder to find a restaurant or bar that allows smoking indoors. Unless you’re on Beale Street.

It feels so weird and anachronistic to walk into a Beale Street bar before a basketball game and see ashtrays on all the tables. Like, are they for hot wing bones?

It’s 2019. Instead of carding families at the door when they try to pop in at 11 a.m. on a Saturday for some pregame nachos, wouldn’t it be easier to send smokers to the patio? They know the drill by now. More than 80 percent of the U.S. population lives in an area where smoking is banned in public places. Our visitors won’t be offended. Lunch business might improve, too. Long shot here, but maybe folks would be more inclined to stay inside on those summer stampede nights if the air’s not as toxic.

I don’t have access to this kind of data, but I am not sure “tourists who see a smoky bar and say, ‘Heck yeah, this is my kind of place’” is a niche worth pursuing anymore. Not at the expense of the health and comfort of the 86 percent of the population (according to the CDC) that doesn’t smoke.

Consider the musicians in the bands, who need to use their voices and breath to create the sounds that tourists come to hear. Think of the employees who can’t afford to take sick time because they work for tips. Sure, plenty of those people smoke.

But an hourly break and an eight-hour shift of continuous smoke inhalation are not the same.

For a destination that’s relentlessly promoted by state and local tourism boards, shouldn’t the atmosphere be a little more welcoming? Oddly, the state law preempts cities from enacting their own regulations on smoking in public. Before my smoking friends approach with torches and pitchforks, our beloved dives are safe. But as Memphis and Nashville are on a short list of cities across the entire country where smoking in bars is still a thing, perhaps the law is worth revisiting to exclude entertainment districts like Beale and Broadway from the exemption. Or, you know, bars could get with the times.

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

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Maybe Memphis should get with the times and just say no.

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