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OUR 1571ST ISSUE 04.04.19 For 20 years, I drove from Midtown to Downtown, five days a week, on Vance Avenue.

The Flyer’s offices were on the bluff near the Tennessee Brewery, and Vance was the most direct route from my house. It was a thoroughfare that had seen better days. There were still remnants of those days — a couple of big Victorian mansions, a once-posh-looking apartment building — but the street was scruffy, worn out. The only businesses were a small market plastered with “We Take EBT” signs and a couple of faded funeral homes.

As you neared Downtown, you passed Foote Homes, the city’s last public housing project. It always seemed to be the one place full of life on Vance, the yards and front stoops filled with people and activity. It had been rehabbed in recent years and seemed like a stable, family-friendly place.

When the Flyer moved its offices to Union and Front more than a year ago, I stopped driving down Vance and hadn’t seen it in months — until last Friday night, when we were headed to a friend’s house in South Bluffs.

What a change. Foote Homes is gone; a large, grassy vacant space is all that remains.

Nearby, new apartments have sprung up on Vance, and new houses are being built just to the south. These are basically instant neighborhoods, homes created to house people of “mixed incomes,” we’re told. They look nice.

So where did the Foote Homes residents go? Scattered over the city, I suspect. The operative urban renewal theory being to break up “pockets of poverty.” So, eh, too bad if you live in one of the pockets. You gotta move.

The building boom is everywhere, especially in downtown and the center city. Near my house, a giant sign reading “The Citizen” now illuminates the night sky, proclaiming the presence of a new apartment complex at McLean and Union — with more apartment buildings to come in nearby blocks.

A large, barn-like apartment complex is provoking controversy and protest near Overton Square. “Tall skinny” houses are popping up like mushrooms in Cooper-Young, often to the dismay of neighboring home-owners. “Boom, boom, boom, boom,” as John Lee Hooker once sang.

John Lee Hooker So who’s moving in? And who’s being forced out by higher housing prices and disappearing single-family homes for rent? You can probably guess. It’s the age-old balancing act between encouraging investment and not displacing people from their homes — the gentrification dilemma. City leaders will increasingly have to deal with this problem as developers continue to exploit the now-hot Memphis market.

We have only to look 180 miles east to Nashville for a perfect case study. According to a recent affordability study by Numbeo.com, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in center city Nashville is now $1,529 a month. In Memphis, it’s currently $901. (That’s right.) That latter number will no doubt change as gentrification spreads, forcing lower-income folks to the margins — unless we do something about it. I suspect this issue will become a significant one in the 2019 mayoral contest.

The current administration’s Memphis 3.0 mantra is “Build Up, Not Out.” I get what they mean. The city has been hurt badly by urban sprawl. It’s geographically too large for its population. But Memphis leaders, now and whoever they may be in the future, will need to pay close attention to make sure the gold-rush to redevelop the city’s core doesn’t come at the cost of forcing long-time residents out, and infesting established neighborhoods with make-a-quick-buck, poorly designed housing. We should encourage and welcome the developers and investors who are putting their money into Memphis.

Financial resources are an important part of making a city vibrant. But N E WS & O P I N I O N the investors’ influence should align THE FLY-BY - 4 with the needs and wishes of the city’s NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 POLITICS - 7 residents. Their developments should EDITORIAL - 8 respect the architectural integrity of VIEWPOINT - 9 our neighborhoods. And care must COVER STORY be taken to avoid chasing away long“PIPE DREAM” time residents who have “paid their

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AFTER DARK - 20 Unfortunately, too often those with CALENDAR - 26 the big bucks are the ones directing our BOOKS - 36 cities’ urban revivals. We need to look MUSIC FEATURE - 38 to other “it” cities like Nashville and FOOD NEWS - 40 learn from their successes — and their FILM - 42 mistakes.

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TV N EWS WATN and WLMT will be sold to Tegna Inc., according to a coannouncement by Nexstar and Tribune Media. Last December, WREG owner Tribune entered into an acquisition agreement with WLMT/WATN owner Nexstar.

Planning to stay just below the FCC ownership cap for station ownership, Nexstar announced they would be divesting in 13 markets.

Nexstar chose to keep WREG when the $6.4-billion merger finally closes.

N EVE R E N D I N G E LVI S Forbes ran a story last week titled “Lisa Marie & The Rise and Fall of the Elvis Estate.” Lisa Marie Presley filed a lawsuit against Siegel and Provident Financial Management for allegedly “hiding the trust’s true financial condition.”

“The deal brought in only $40 million after taxes, plus $25 million worth of stock in the future holding company of American Idol,” the article says of the 2005 deal to sell 85 percent of Lisa Marie’s interests in Elvis Presley Enterprises. “Sadly, between 2005 and 2015, nearly all of this money was gone, and Lisa Marie was left deeply in debt.”

According to Forbes’ report, Lisa Marie spent $39 million in four years.

S M E LL-E M E N TARY Caldwell-Guthrie Elementary was evacuated last week because of a weird smell. MLGW crews investigated and found nothing out of the ordinary.

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Plastic, Coal Ash, & Gentrification Plastic bill moves on, TVA plans clean-up, & a march and a study focus on Memphis.

N EW C E NTU RY OF SOUL Leaders here delivered the New Century of Soul challenge to Memphians last week, to help locals create community projects that honor the city’s first 200 years and look ahead to the next 100 years.

Through it, locals can get a dollarfor-dollar match Clockwise from top left: Memphis, masked robber, police raises, TVA, gentrification for up to $10,000 march, immigration, and plastic bags. for projects like murals, community gardens, pocket parks, and more. removal of the ash.

H O C K EY MAS K E D MAN The Federal Bureau of Investigation sought the public’s help last week to identify a man in a hockey mask who robbed a SunTrust bank in Germantown at gunpoint in December.

P LASTI C P R O B LE M The Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club urged action against bills in the Tennessee General Assembly that would ban cities’ abilities to put any restrictions on plastic bags and single-use containers. However, the bill passed both houses last week and Governor Bill Lee indicated he would sign it.

FAITH O N I M M I G R ATI O N Eight faith leaders from the Memphis area joined about 70 others from around the state last week in delivering a letter to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, urging him to affirm the value of welcoming immigrants and refugees. The letter said “no Tennesseans should be made to feel unwelcome,” and that refugees and immigrants “make our communities stronger.”

R E M OVI N G C OAL AS H The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) said last week it plans to remove the coal ash from its now-idled Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis, removing options to store the ash in place. Arsenic and other toxic chemicals have leaked into groundwater under the coal ash ponds at Allen.

TVA plans to either move the ash to a landfill or move it to a facility the agency would build to re-use the ash.

The announcement came after U. S. Congressman Steve Cohen said in a letter that TVA’s coal ash clean up here was not treated “with sufficient urgency.” After the announcement, state Senator Brian Kelsey said he’d file a resolution calling for the

R A I S ES D R AW F I R E Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s proposal to give 3 percent pay increases to all commissioned Memphis Police Department (MPD) officers and Memphis Fire Department (MFD) drew fire from union leaders last week.

Memphis Police Association president Michael Williams said officers are “being used as political pawns” in this election year.

Memphis Fire Fighters Association president Thomas Malone there was no real negotiation period before the proposal was made public.

M E M P H I S G E N TR I F I E D Six census tracts here gentrified from 2000-2013, according to a new study.

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s (NCRC) study found gentrification largely took place in Memphis census tracts in ZIP codes 38105 and 38103 Downtown, as well as 38107 in North Memphis, 38106 South Memphis, and 38109 near the state’s southern border. There, average incomes increased by about $14,000 and residents with bachelors degrees rose by more than 50 percent.

STO P G E NTR I F I CATI O N MAR C H Saturday’s “Stop Gentrification 901 March” turned into a rally as protest organizers could not secure appropriate permits in time.

The march, led by the New Chicago Community Partnership Revitalization community development corporation, was meant to help dissuade the Memphis City Council from passing the Memphis 3.0 plan. The group said the plan would gentrify neighborhoods.

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A piece of legislation that would eliminate a 10 percent tax on small fitness centers in the state (and that is largely supported by local officials here) passed in the Tennessee Senate last week.

The legislation, HB1138, would do away with the 10 percent amusement tax included in the membership fees for small fitness centers under 15,000 square feet. The sales tax currently applies to gyms and studios providing exercise, athletics, or other fitness services like cross training, ballet barre, yoga, spin, and aerobics classes.

If the proposed legislation becomes law, the tax would still apply to facilities like country clubs, golf courses, and tennis clubs.

The bill passed with a 28-1 vote in the state Senate last week after moving through the House late last month with a 95-0 vote. To take effect, the legislation has to be signed by Governor Bill Lee, who has voiced support for the repeal in the past.

The move to eliminate the tax was backed by the Memphis City Council through a resolution last month. The resolution, co-sponsored by council chairman Kemp Conrad and councilman Ford Canale, passed unanimously.

Conrad said last week that the council is “thankful for the work of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the local fitness community, and state Rep. Mark White (R-Memphis) who was a champion

The bill would cut a 10 percent tax on small gyms. for this cause.”

“The repeal of this antiquated disincentive for small businesses and those wanting a healthier lifestyle is a win for all Memphians, and all Tennesseans, whether as operators or patrons of local fitness, wellness, and recreation opportunities,” Conrad said. “We appreciate the state legislature having acted in the interests of promoting healthy activity in our communities.”

Canale, who chairs the council’s government affairs committee, applauded the governor for including the

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The move has also been supported by Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, Shelby County Commissioner Brandon Morrison, and local small gym owners like Justin LaMance, co-owner of Crossfit Hit and Run. LaMance said the state-enforced tax caused the gym to increase its rates by 10 percent, which made the gym unaffordable to some members.

“We are a small and tightly connected community, and we hate to see people go,” LaMance said. “The tax was a bad idea that would only benefit the large, globo gym model. We’re glad to see it go and will be able to now provide our services to the community at a more affordable rate.”

Tennessee’s adult obesity rate was 32.8 in 2017, making Tennessee the 15th most obese state in the country, according to a report released in 2018. The report, called the “State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America,” also found that 30 percent of Tennessee adult residents are not physically active, 13.1 percent have diabetes, and 38.7 percent have hypertension.

The study, an effort by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, used body mass index and other data from the Centers for Disease Control to identify obesity rates.

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Representative Karen Camper (D-Memphis), the House minority leader, protested that the postponement was unfair to the Rev. Alaina Cobb, a transgender herself, who had traveled all the way from her home in Chattanooga in order to oppose the bill.

Cobb would have that opportunity in the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, which met later Tuesday and heard the bill as its first order of business. To the surprise of some attendees, who were unaware of the new amendment transforming the nature of the bill, the bill passed unanimously on an 8-0 vote and has now been referred to the Senate Calendar Committee, one step away from floor action. The House Judiciary Committee followed suit a day later after Senate Judiciary action.

Chris Sanders, executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project, which had opposed the bill as discriminatory, professed himself as unconcerned about the bill in its amended form, though he wondered aloud, perhaps with tongue in cheek, if the new genderless version might open the way to charges of samesex indecent exposure in sports teams’ locker rooms.

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• The Tennessee General Assembly’s seemingly annual attempt at passing a “bathroom bill” — construed as an effort to keep transgender individuals out of gender-specific bathroom spaces — has suffered the same fate as all previous versions. This year’s bill, however, is on the way to earning its defeat by the unusual and paradoxical fact of actually being passed.

Which is to say, the bill has now been amended to the point of being moot.

It no longer seeks to define “indecent exposure” in the context of a person designated at birth as a member of one gender using a bathroom (or “rest room, locker room, dressing room, or shower”) reserved for members of another gender.

In fact, an amendment added to the bill (HB1151/SB2097), before scheduled deliberations on it on Tuesday in

both House and Senate committees, stripped it of any reference to genders at all. The bill now merely names the aforementioned venues as places where indecent exposure can occur and be properly penalized.

This development underscored previous objections to the bill in the House by Representative Antonio Parkinson (D-Memphis), who pointed out in debate that, inasmuch as indecent exposure was illegal everywhere, therefore any and all spaces and places — even, as he put it, a hallway, a janitor’s closet, or the speaker’s chamber — could as easily be named as off limits.

The bill was scheduled for hearing in House Judiciary last Tuesday but was held over until the committee’s Wednesday session by committee chairman Michael Curcio (R-Dickson) on grounds that the Tuesday morning session’s hour-long time limit did not permit proper discussion.

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Shelby County Democrats have a contest on their hands for the chairmanship of the party. In party caucuses at White Station High School last Saturday, members were selected both for the party’s local executive committee and for its grassroots assembly. And four people were nominated for the top job to succeed Corey Strong, who had indicated for some time, largely on account of his military reservist duties, that he would not be seeking re-election.

Jeff Etheridge, Michael Harris, Erica Sugarmon, and Allan Creasy were the nominees, but Sugarmon and Creasy, each of whom made some wellnoticed races last year (Sugarmon for a Memphis City Council vacancy, Creasy in a close race against GOP incumbent state Representative Jim Coleh) quickly turned down their nominations. Both are certain to be heard from again.

Meanwhile, it is a two-man race for Democratic chair, to be decided this coming Saturday at noon at Lindenwood Christian Church.

The two contestants: Jeff Etheridge, the former owner of Dilday’s TV Sales and Service, has been running for several months and is essentially using his retirement from business as an opportunity to help revitalize the Shelby County Democratic Party. Michael Harris has been involved in the same process, working in the party’s outreach effort.

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Those readers of even moderate faculties of memory will recall a pair of legal set-tos last year pitting the Shelby County Election Commission against plaintiffs who were charging either disproportionate voting processes favoring suburbanites or outright voter suppression. Both issues were decided in favor of the plaintiffs, against suppression, and for the maximum possible enabling of the voting franchise.

The sad fact is — regarding this, as on a whole panoply of other matters — state government is attempting to intervene against the results of decision-making at the local level (in this case, against decisions in Shelby County Chancery Court). A bill backed by Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett and state Election Coordinator Mark Goins would not only penalize new-voter applications that are incomplete but would hold individuals and organizations responsible for helping turn them in via voter registration drives, saddling those individuals and organizations with fines of up to $8,000.

This issue of incomplete ballots, of course, was the one adjudicated last year in the courtroom of Chancellor JoeDae L. Jenkins, who directed the Election Commission, which had thrown out various incomplete applications, to extend its deadlines long enough to allow those applications to be completed and/or amended.

Democratic members of the General Assembly held a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday to protest the measure (House Bill 1079/Senate Bill 971), which is pending this week in both the House and the Senate. They were backed up by representatives of the Tennessee Equity Alliance and the Black Voter Project. State

Representative John Ray Clemmons (D-Nashville) went through a brief history of prior voter suppressions, including the photo ID law and the prohibition of college IDs in connection with it. He said, “Ask Tre Hargett and ask Mark Goins what they’re afraid of? Black students?

Brown students?”

Another Nashville Democrat, Vincent Dixie, followed that up: “If they’re not afraid of competition, why are they afraid to let people vote? What is this legislation really addressing?”

Those two were followed by state Senator Brenda Gilmore (D-Nashville), who provided the interesting (and alarming) fact that, in the interval since Tennessee’s adoption of the Voter ID law, the state had fallen from number 27 in its ratio of voter turnout to dead last.

And finally Representative Bob Freeman (D-Nashville) issued the compelling truism: “We don’t need to do anything to rebut people’s right to vote.”

It remains to be seen, of course, if the Republican supermajority that controls the General Assembly can be brought to re-examine its premises. And even if the bill should pass muster in both chambers this week, there would remain the hope that Governor Bill Lee, who is capable of common sense and compassion despite his ever more obvious conservatism, could issue a veto.

And, if worse should come to worst legislatively, there are always the courts — and the hope that the judgment of Chancellor Jenkins can be replicated on a statewide scale.

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The president is out on a limb with his decision to go after the Affordable Care Act.

The Republicans preferred to focus on tax reform, immigration, and low unemployment. That proved to be a loser for the party.

But the president is looking to stir his hardcore base for the 2020 campaign.

Attacking Obamacare is a potential sop to the Ann Coulter faction of his base who correctly point out he has not lived up to his promise to build the wall — and have Mexico pay.

Will it work? Here is James Capretta, a health-care expert at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, on CNN last week: “The president, I don’t think, really has any idea what he’s really saying there. It’s more of a promotional and marketing impulse on his part. It leaves Republicans open to … ridicule by the Democrats that they don’t have a plan.”

But Trump is not convinced: “We are going to have great health care. The Republican Party will be the party of great health care. You watch,” the president told Sean Hannity last week.

If this legal takedown works, Trump will take all the credit. But Republicans in Congress know they will take the blame for leaving millions without health insurance. That’s why Trump’s tribe in Congress is not lining up on this one.

Juan Williams is an author, and a political analyst for Fox News Channel.

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people with pre-existing conditions. A poll taken by the Kaiser Family Foundation in mid-March found that 50 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of Obamacare. Every one of the Democrats running for president are celebrating the ACA’s protections for people with preexisting conditions. Several are promoting the idea of “Medicare for all” and “single-payer.” They know voters elected a class of freshman House Democrats who campaigned on these ideas.

AdWeek’s Jason Lynch wrote after the midterms that health-care-themed advertising “accounted for 49 percent of all Democrat ads overall and 59 percent of all Democratic ads for House races.” Meanwhile, 367,000 Republican advertisements — only one-third of the Democratic total — mentioned health care, according to the Kantar analysis. The Republicans preferred to focus on tax reform, immigration, and low unemployment. That proved to be a loser for the party.

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Let’s go to President Trump’s toadies in Congress and see what they have to say about his Justice Department’s call last week to push the federal courts to kill the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Representative Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), one of Trump’s strong backers, bluntly told The Washington Post that the president’s order to the Justice Department is “not the smartest move.” He explained that doing away with the current law without having a replacement ready to go “leaves millions of Americans in harm’s way and they didn’t do anything.”

And here’s a Republican voice with enough distance from Trump to get the joke: “We couldn’t repeal and replace it with a Republican House,” Senator Lamar Alexander said, also to the Post, while laughing at the memory. He also pointed out the obvious: The House is now under the control of a Democratic majority.

Now let’s go to Trump’s biggest enablers. Oh, they’re not talking. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want no part of this political suicide.

Here’s a tweet from Josh Holmes, McConnell’s former top aide. “Dear GOP,” Holmes wrote, “When Democrats are setting themselves ablaze by advocating the destruction of American health care, try to resist the temptation of asking them to pass the kerosene.”

What about the cabinet? Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Attorney General William Barr both told the White House not to do it, according to several reports.

And here is more dissent, this time from the conservatives at The Wall Street Journal. Destroying Obamacare without a replacement plan means angering millions of Americans who “now rely on the law for health insurance,” the paper editorialized. As for the long-promised, fantastic replacement plan, the Journal wrote: “If there’s some new emerging GOP consensus, we haven’t heard about it.”

Okay, so even the people who have been making excuses for Trump are not looking the other way on this one. Why? The answer is that angering voters by destroying the ACA would be a political catastrophe.

Health care stands out as the top reason the GOP lost 41 seats and control of the House in the 2018 midterm elections. According to the 2018 exit polls, 41 percent of voters identified health care as the most important issue to them. Fiftyseven percent of voters said Democrats are the better of the two parties at protecting

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The promise of an economic home run for West Tennessee lies at the end of a waste pipe into the Mississippi River.

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nly human waste and sludge stand between the Memphis Regional Megasite (MRM) in Haywood County and a possible economic development grand slam nearly two decades in the making.

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Really. That’s it. At least, that’s the story according to Bob Rolfe, Tennessee’s Commissioner of Economic and Community Development (ECD). “The greatest challenge to the Memphis Regional Megasite is the lack of a wastewater discharge plan,” Rolfe told a committee of state lawmakers last year. “That is the pacing item. That is what all the site consultants tell us.”

But Rolfe has a two-pronged plan to fix that problem.

The first part: He has to get a permit. If the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) gives it to him, Rolfe will be able to build a 35-mile pipeline that will carry human waste and 10 industrial waste from the site in Haywood County to the Mississippi River.

The second part: He has to acquire land.

Rolfe calls them “easements across land,” meaning, he needs to run that pipeline across property belonging to private land owners. Many along the path have already accepted money from the state to allow it to dig up their land and run an 18-inch pipeline three feet below the surface.

But some land-owners say they won’t take the money; they don’t want a sewage line running through their property. To deal with those folks, Rolfe has teamed up with Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery to take their land by eminent domain. And Rolfe assured those lawmakers that Slatery has “developed a very good game plan.” Get the permit. Get the land. Bada-boom.

Bada-bing. A brighter economic future for West Tennessee.

“This project would be a game-changer for West Tennessee, every county in West Tennessee,” state Senator Ed Jackson (R-Jackson) told the committee last year.

“It’s so important that we get this thing, and get it right.”

We still don’t have the thing Jackson was talking about. Not yet. The long, windy

Bob Rolfe

“The greatest challenge is the lack of a wastewater discharge plan,” Bob Rolfe says.

road to the MRM’s success now leads to the end of that pipeline, puking waste and sludge into the Mississippi at a rate of up to 3.5 million gallons per day. If that sounds gross, remember: Folks pushing this project hope it happens really soon — the sooner the better.

The goal of the ongoing megasite saga — employing Tennesseans and bringing economic benefits to the area — still lies at least three years away, ECD officials said recently. The series is a slow burn.

But important episodes in that series are happening right now.

Since the beginning of the process, much of the cast has changed — including three governors, four ECD Commissioners, and hosts of state lawmakers — but much of the rebellion remains. Environmentalists, Haywood County residents and land owners, and free-market advocates have pressed back against the whole project, the sewage line, and the eminent domain process, some of them for more than a decade, and they’re still on the show.

But the primary tension remains: Should we continue to pour taxpayer

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money ($143 million appropriated, $87 million spent, and $80 million more needed) into a project that offers no guarantee of financial return? And secondarily: What are the environmental impacts of the megasite to West Tennessee if the megasite dream is realized?

Since you wouldn’t start watching Game of Thrones on season three, let’s go back to Memphis Regional Megasite season one to catch you up.

Previously on Megasite Then-Governor Phil Bredesen birthed the megasite in 2006, when it was pitched as a center for solar panel production.

In 2009, state officials purchased the six square-mile plot for $40 million. At the time, similar megasite deals had brought Volkswagen to Chattanooga (East Tennessee) and Hemlock Semiconductor (Middle Tennessee) to Clarksville in billion-dollar deals. State officials had not brought anything even remotely as big to West Tennessee.

In 2009, Bredesen said he wanted to take federal stimulus funding and build a $30 million solar farm on the megasite plot, again in hopes of making Tennessee a hotbed of the solar industry. Haywood County Mayor Franklin Smith told WMC Channel 5 at the time that, with the solar farm, “the governor is making a statement that he’s serious about helping West Tennessee by

developing our megasite.”

The solar farm opened in 2012. It now produces enough energy to power 500 homes for a year.

Governor Bill Haslam was elected in 2011. By 2014, he asked for and was awarded $27 million to reroute State Highway 222 from the site and connect it to the interstate. Haslam said the site would need a total of $150 million in taxpayer investment before it could attract a major automaker to the site.

At the time, the Haslam adminstration was also fighting with environmentalists on a plan to dump megasite wastewater into the Hatchie River, considered one of the state’s most pristine waterways. Haslam lost that fight.

In 2015, the Haslam administration launched a new marketing campaign for the megasite. Later that year, Haslam’s ECD Commissioner Randy Boyd fretted to Nashville Public Radio’s Chas Sisk that the site’s massive size may be standing in its own way.

“Nissan, Volkswagen, Hankook, and Boeing could all fit on half that space,” Boyd told WPLN. “There was a time when people thought we could put one factory in 4,100 acres. But as it turns out today, there's nobody that needs 4,100 acres.”

Boyd’s idea was to possibly split up the site, making it more attractive for smaller manufacturers and reducing the need to pump out so much wastewater.

By 2016, environmentalists had beaten a plan to dump the site’s wastewater into the Forked Deer River. Haslam

said his team was slowly building the infrastructure needed to lure an investor to the site. His team was also exploring ways to dump that wastewater into the Mississippi River. That year, Haslam and Boyd headed to Asia on a 10-day trip to meet with manufacturers about the megasite but came home empty-handed.

Megasite dreams were dealt another blow in 2017, when Toyota and Mazda picked a megasite in Huntsville, Alabama, for a $1.6 billion plant. That facility employs 4,000 and makes an estimated 300,000 cars each year.

Rolfe, then the state’s new ECD commissioner, said the MRM was passed over because it was not “shovel ready.” But that wasn’t the first prospect to pass on Haywood County.

“Last year [2017], we had a candidate for large, international project of about 1,100 jobs and $800 million in investment,” Rolfe told lawmakers in 2018. “The major reason they decided to build in an adjacent state was that their megasite was further along with infrastructure — closer to shovel ready — with a lower cost of development.”

Rolfe said another prospect in 2016 would have brought 1,000 jobs and $450 million in investment. They built in an adjacent state because of that state’s tax structure, Rolfe said. Later in 2017, Rolfe said he would ask state lawmakers for an additional $72 million to make the site “shovel ready.” He kept his promise but later upped the total to $80 million.

That year, 2018, was a gubernatorial

election year, and the megasite was a hot topic. Then-candidate Boyd said the site was already shovel ready and proposed doubling down on it. Almost every candidate — Boyd, Craig Fitzhugh, Karl Dean, Beth Harwell, and Bill Lee — told The Jackson Sun the megasite was a good project and they’d push to make it happen. Only Diane Black proposed something different. She said she wanted the 4,100 acres to be part of an agricultural hub, one that would work with the University of Tennessee in a new Agricultural Research Center.

As he left office earlier this year, Haslam told The Daily Memphian that not landing a tenant for the megasite was one of the biggest disappointments in his eight-year term. But he also kept high hopes for the megasite’s future. In that story, Haslam said the site is a big one, designed for the “big catch.”

New Governor Bill Lee told The Daily Memphian in January that he was committed to finishing the project.

Later that month, Rolfe told The Daily Memphian that the project wasn’t finished but that the Lee adminstration would not seek any new money for the megasite unless they landed a tenant.

To date, $143 million has been given to the megasite project. As of October 2018, $87 million had been spent on it. While some lawmakers seemed surprised at the figure, Rolfe said $220 million has been the “consistent” number always needed to continued on page 12

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Memphis. A mud-splattered truck with a boat trailer sits in the chilly breeze, the “have this campus shovel ready.” only tenant of a parking lot big enough At that joint committee of lawmakers to swallow an airplane hangar. The lot is last year, then-state-Senator (now U.S. covered by a half-inch of mud, and a look Congressman) Mark Greene asked about at the detritus on the bank makes it clear ROI — return on investment. How many that the river crested and receded here jobs, he asked Rolfe, would it take for the not long ago. state to break even if lawmakers gave the A kayak-and-canoe blog called River project another $80 million? He didn’t get Gator said the parking lot is a “notorious a direct answer from Rolfe at the time but hell-raising party place amongst locals.” did his own math, instead.

The description matched the evidence of “If I look at an average income [of discarded Bud Lite bottles, spent shotgun workers at the site] as $60,000 and workers shells, and lighters that littered the spend money on things we get sales tax ground, and an enormous bonfire circle. from,” Greene began, “it comes out to be Just north of that scene, state officials that 5,000 jobs are necessary to get us a hope to snake a wastewater pipeline the 20-year payout.” width of a large pizza (18 inches) out into

By Greene’s math, the hit from the the main channel of the Mississippi. If megasite wouldn’t need to just be a home the stars align, and they win that large run. It’d need to be an economic grand manufacturer to the megasite 35 miles slam in the state, surpassing Volkswagen away, that pipe could send up to 3.5 and weathering 20 years of economic million gallons a day of human feces and booms and busts before Tennessee industrial waste into the river. taxpayers ever made back their first nickel.

Party at Duvall Landing with the pipe going full blast, and you could clock about 145,800 gallons of shit and sludge sliding right by your bonfire every hour.

“People out here have to actually get Many of those interviewed for this story in the water to launch their boats,” said Jo worried that focus on the megasite for all Cris Blair, administrator of the Say No to of these years has left neglected existingthe Richardson Landing Poopline group. yet-abandoned manufacturing sites such “Will they get sick? We have no way of as the International Harvester plant or the knowing. Will the fish start glowing in Firestone plant in Memphis. the dark? We have no way of knowing.”

“One adminstration after another is But Blair said the wastewater will saying, ‘This is what we’re going to do for destroy farmland, settling into soils West Tennessee,’” said Nick Crafton, who after floods. It’ll also impact the local owns land in Haywood County close to the wildlife — fish, birds, and deer — and “it We Appreciate All Of Your Time Spent megasite. “But it’s sucking all the oxygen will really hurt the fishing and boating Helping Our Researchers Fight Cancer. out of every other project across the region. community.”

“Now, they’re talking about busting up [the megasite] and that’ll be in direct competition with the local industrial parks that these companies might otherwise be looking at.”

Blair said the Environmental Protection However, the Greater Memphis Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Chamber said it is “100 percent supportive” Engineers are turning a “blind eye to of the continued development of the the situation.” As for politicos, only megasite. Shelby County has a “serious lack Millington Chamber of Commerce of ‘development ready’ sites to begin with. executive director Terry Roland and Further, given the megasite’s size, it is not state Representative Debra Moody competition with other sites here. It’s in (R-Covington) have shown any concern competition with other ‘sites of its ilk across for it. the Southeast.’”

Another spot — about a mile north of All of this is according to Eric Miller, Duvall Landing — was the original site the Chamber senior vice president of for the pipeline’s outfall. But it was moved economic development, and a Haslamdue to the concerns of locals who felt the appointed member of the Memphis waste would harm the environment.

Regional Megasite Authority Board.

Blair said she thinks the new Tipton “Our efforts as a region and state should County spot was picked because be to make that site the premier available Memphis can’t take any more waste and Shelby Forest is protected. site in its category to help our region Rolfe told lawmakers that TDEC compete for much-needed tax dollars from helped his office pinpoint the new new investment and jobs,” Miller said. location and suggested they run it into the “deep channel” of the river. Standing at Duvall Landing, the Arkansas side of the river seems a mile away. Each second you stand there, more than 8.5 million The Mississippi River sloshes gently gallons of muddy water slides by. If the against a concrete boat ramp. The ramp angles into the muddy water from a wide, pipeline was running at full capacity — up to that 3.5 million gallons per day — it flat spot called Duvall Landing in Tipton County, about 45 minutes north of would add an average of 40 gallons of

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this problem for decades to no avail.”

The beaches Hoyos mentioned are likely those along the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico. Pollution in Mississippi River water plumes out when it hits the gulf. The pollution helps algae grow. That algae sucks the oxygen out of the water and kills everything living there. In 2017, the dead zone was the size of New Jersey.

It’s forecast to be larger this year, thanks to heavy rains.

What’s in a River?

The Mississippi River water at Memphis is already polluted. It contains chlordane, a now-banned pesticide, that — taken in high doses — “can cause convulsions and death,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It also contains polychlorinated biphenyls (or PCBs), a now-banned substance used to make capacitors, adhesives, floor finish, and more. Doses of PCBs can cause cancer and much more, according to the EPA. As for human waste, the megasite actually has to have it. Crafton, a chemical engineer, explains that human waste naturally treats industrial waste. But Crafton says the only human waste so far is coming from the city of Stanton.

It’s only 452 people, he says, not enough to treat the volume of waste from the proposed megasite. But the concern

“As for human waste, the megasite actually has to have it.” doesn’t just lie at the end of the pipeline.

From end to end, the pipeline will cross rivers and streams 54 times, according to TDEC, and they could all be affected by pollution, should the pipe burst or leak.

It’s still unknown exactly what kind of pollution the megasite pipeline would add to the Mississippi River. That’s because no one knows what kind of company will eventually be on the site or what kind of manufacturing will take place there.

Blair said ECD’s application does include heavy metals and “an unknown amount of hexavalent chromium.” If that sounds weirdly familiar, the same compound was the center of the Erin Brockovich case.

“We know what this particular contaminate can do to people,” Blair says.

“And for them to literally say ‘an untold amount’ is beyond terrifying.”

Residents along the proposed pipeline are fighting back. Motions are ongoing in a lawsuit led by attorney Jeff Ward against TDEC. Ward is working pro bono, but

the group has a GoFundMe page to help pay for other legal expenses.

The Next Step The next episode in the megasite saga is a public hearing set for Thursday, April 25th, at Dyersburg Community College. TDEC’s early opinion of the pipeline is that it will “result in no more than de minimis [meaning trivial, or minor] degradation to water quality.”

But the division will take public comments into account and the final decision will come down to “the lost value of the resource compared to the value of any proposed mitigation.”

Should TDEC grant Rolfe and his team the pipeline permit, he’s told lawmakers he’ll begin the process of taking lands (easements) from those who don’t want to sell. The process is expected to wrap up in six to nine months. If they get all those, pipeline construction can begin and is expected to take 18 to 24 months to complete.

“In the meantime, if [ECD] successfully recruits a company to the megasite, construction of the tenant’s facility on site can occur parallel to the wastewater pipeline buildout,” reads a statement from Rolfe’s office. “Under such a scenario, we could have a tenant open and operating on the Megasite within three years.”

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sewage from the megasite each second.

Feed the phrase “dilution is the pollution solution” into Google, and you’ll find environmental groups telling you that it is not. There’s a loophole in the federal Clean Water Act that allows for dumping waste into certain bodies of water if they can provide specific “mixing channels.” Deep water with lots of volume can dilute the pollution and limit its effects; that’s the idea.

Does it work? It’s hard to say with the Mississippi. It’s so wild and so big that it’s been tough to make and maintain a water-quality tracking system.

In a previous story on this topic, Renee Hoyos, the executive director of the Tennessee Clean Water Network (TCWN), said that the river drains one third of the United States and has “been used as the nation’s toilet.” It was her sense that “by the time [the river water] gets to Memphis, it is in pretty bad shape.”

In 2017, she told the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Water that the TCWN and nine other agencies like it had formed the Mississippi River Collaborative to track and fight pollution in the river.

“Right now, states in the Mississippi River basin pollute the river with so much nitrogen and phosphorus, that beaches are regularly closed, dogs are dying, and drinking water is under constant threat.

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hen the Memphis Redbirds open their 22nd season Thursday night at AutoZone Park, they’ll do so with their eighth manager.

But 37-year-old Ben Johnson will be the first native Memphian to deliver the Opening Day lineup card to the home plate umpire. So it’s a homecoming of sorts for the former Germantown High School centerfielder.

“I’m in a position to put these players in a position to succeed,” Johnson says.

“Their dream is my dream; I want them to be great. I can help them with that.”

Born at Baptist East in 1981, Johnson entered professional baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals, who chose Johnson in the fourth round of the 1999 draft, but traded him to San Diego a year later. He made his debut with the Padres in 2005 and played in 98 big-league games, his last with the New York Mets in 2007. Johnson

Redbirds manager Ben Johnson

suffered a severe injury to his left ankle sliding into second base, one that contributed to his early retirement as a player. He chose to stick with baseball, becoming a scout for four years (2014-17) with the Arizona Diamondbacks before joining the Durham Bulls (Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays) as third-base coach in 2018.

The Bulls fell to Memphis in last season’s Triple-A National Championship Game but, for Johnson, the event led to a career-altering meeting with St. Louis president of baseball operations, John Mozeliak. “We had a good conversation, and that started the ball rolling,” Johnson says. “He didn’t ask about my

interest [in the Redbirds job], but just how interested I was in coaching. How I felt about coaching. He knew from my response that I love coaching.”

Mozeliak happened to be the Cardinals’ pro scouting director in 1999 when the Cardinals originally signed Johnson as a player. The reunion had a road map.

“I’d see Mo on the scouting trail, and I covered the Cardinals [as a Padres scout],” notes Johnson. “You make sure you speak to a guy like that when you see him. There was some depth to it, I guess.”

Johnson and his wife and two children have lived in Phoenix for more than a decade now, but the Cardinals were in his heart, notably Ozzie Smith and a man he now counts as a colleague, Cardinals bench coach Willie McGee. “It’s all about the players with Willie, and it’s genuine,” Johnson says.

“He’s transparent with the players.”

When asked about managers who have influenced his own philosophy from the dugout, Johnson starts with his high school coach, Phil Clark.

“He helped me through the initial pro phase of my life,” says Johnson.

Johnson also appreciates the influence of Dave Clark (currently the third-base coach for the Detroit Tigers) and Craig Colbert, his manager at a few levels in the Padres’ system.

Johnson’s first big-league manager was Bruce Bochy, a man who has since won three World Series as skipper for the San Francisco Giants. “There was no ‘eye wash’ with [Bochy]. No false hustle needed. Fake energy is not necessary. Show up on time, work hard, and we’ll be fine.”

Johnson chuckles at the notion of filling the shoes of his predecessor, Stubby Clapp, a Memphis favorite before he won two straight Pacific Coast League titles as Redbirds manager. Now the Cardinals’ first-base coach, Clapp is the first man Johnson calls with questions any rookie manager will confront. “He’s genuinely interested in what I have to say,” says Johnson. “He gives me an honest answer, and in a way that doesn’t make me feel like he’s annoyed.”

Johnson has a grasp on priorities as the Redbirds take flight under his watch. “We have a really talented young group,” says Johnson.

“I’m not judged by wins and losses.

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When Kelby Auten moved to Memphis, she drove straight from Louisville, Kentucky, to an audition for Memphis’ rhythmic tap dance troupe, the Hot Foot Honeys.

“Being new to Memphis, finding this group of girls has been one of the best things that happened,” she says. Auten’s been tap dancing since she was two-and-a-half, starting out as Broadway-style hoofer before gravitating to rhythmic tap. Between, she studied all the usual stuff — jazz and modern.

“I got an offer to teach for Children’s Ballet Theatre in Memphis,” she says. “It was another full time ballet teaching gig. But I found out the Honeys were in Memphis, and that was a big draw. … As long as I’ve got tap shoes on my feet, I’m a happy girl.”

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Art in the Loop Ridgeway Loop (between Briarcrest and Ridge Bend), 1 p.m.

Annual arts festival featuring works in metal, glass, clay, fiber, wood, and more.

Big Red and the Cuties Green Room, Crosstown Arts, 7:30 p.m., $10 A show to kick off Alli Lemon’s Art Bar installation.

Behind the Big House 248 S. Memphis in Holly Springs, 4 p.m.

A tour of Holly Springs slave dwellings, featuring a cooking demo by culinary historian Michael Twitty. Part of the Preserve Marshall County series.

Two Centuries on the Mississippi: Refinement on the River Woodruff-Fontaine House, 5-8 p.m.

An exhibition featuring the gilded age of Memphis, featuring historical photos of the architecture that once graced the riverfront and Downtown.

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The Last Word, p. 47 SATURDAY April 6 “New Works by Body and Langsdon” 430 Gallery, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibition of sculptural works by Lewis Body and works on paper by Eva Langsdon.

Super Chevy Show Memphis International Raceway, 8 a.m.

Annual show with drag racing, a swap meet, and market, all in honor of the Chevy.

Billy Gardell Graceland Guest House Theater, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., $20-$45 An appearance by this popular comedian.

Cravings Germantown Performing Arts Center, 6:30 p.m., $250 A celebration of the culinary arts, featuring food from Jose Gutierrez, Mac Edwards, and Roel Mesta with a cocktail crafted by Brad Pitts.

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“Rites of Spring”

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By Chris Davis

After winning awards at Indie Memphis 2018, Wrestle returns to Memphis for a week at Cordova Cinema.

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Shh! We Have a Plan Halloran Centre, 10 a.m.

Based on the book by Chris Haughton featuring music, magic, and puppetry.

Forging on the River Metal Museum, 6 p.m., $85 Includes dinner and an art auction, with proceeds going to museum programming.

Memories: A Reception with Jimmy Ogle Elmwood Cemetery, 6:30 p.m., $40 The historian shares his favorite Memphis stories.

Booksigning by Philip Shirley Novel, 2 p.m.

Author signs and discusses his novel, The Graceland Conspiracy, a coming of age/crime thriller.

Love, Sex, and Marriage Halloran Centre, 6:30 p.m., $20-$40 Darrin is loved by all, but he’s a closeted gay man working for a homophobic music label.

Beach Boys Gold Strike Casino, 8 p.m., $54-$104 The real boys of summer, the Beach Boys perform tonight.

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Take a strange old castle-like building with a long, weird history that occasionally involved space aliens and copious amounts of alcohol. Add to that a troupe of fairies and satyrs, and a creative team that wants to “abandon the ordinary and step into another realm,” while also showing off the newly restored interiors of Ashlar Hall.

“Rites of Spring” is a different show every night, with a different musical performer kicking things off. Local favorites Star & Micey play opening night. After that, different performers will play a short set each night with styles ranging from musical theater diva Annie Freres to guitar picking Memphis songwriter Mark Edgar Stuart.

“Then, after the music, we have these magical creatures doing the rites,” director Julia Hinson says, trying to describe events that will unfold across rooms that have been turned into temporary art installations. “We sort of have this idea that the house has been taken over by these magical creatures. They are kind of rebirthing it into the present. And the magical creatures will invoke the ballet dancers for a ballet that weaves through the house.”

The magical creatures don’t fade away after the ballet ends. “They’ll interact with guests and live their lives in the enchanted castle,” Hinson says.

Ashlar Hall was built in 1896 for Memphis real estate developer Robert Brinkley Snowden. It has since been a restaurant, a nightclub, and a sad abandoned space. It was purchased in 2017 by Memphis area real estate investor Juan Montoya, who’s been steadily restoring the mansion.

“With an immersive show, you just don’t know what people will do,” Hinson says. So the performance repeats itself, giving audiences an opportunity to explore things they may have missed the first time.

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“The Rub” Ken Burns’ next epic explores the Tennessee roots of country music.

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ast week, a tour bus idled next to Sam Phillips Recording Studio.

Police vehicles stood by, lights flashing. Seeing Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland appear, a bystander might have thought a foreign dignitary was visiting.

But no, this dignitary was all-American: Producer/director Ken Burns was in town to promote his new eight episode series, Country Music, due to premiere on WKNO and other PBS affiliates September 15th.

Not every Ken Burns premiere gets such a buildup, at least in Memphis, but the Bluff City figures heavily in his new project. By Burns’ own reckoning, 70 percent of the series’ 16 hours takes place in Tennessee. Indeed, the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development is one of the show’s major investors. Hence the tour bus. A whole entourage, including Burns’ co-producers, Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey, was in the midst of a fourcity Tennessee blitz, bringing word of what was to come. It’s a tale that may surprise many by its diversity.

“Our first episode is called ‘The Rub,’” Burns explained over the barbecue luncheon. “And ‘the rub,’ with all due respect to the Rendezvous, is not about barbecue; it’s about the friction that takes place between black Americans and white Americans in the South. The banjo is an African instrument. The fiddle comes from Europe and the British Isles. And when they meet in America, the friction that’s given off produces many different

offspring. One of them is country music.

You can take the Mt. Rushmore of early country music greats, from A.P. Carter to Jimmie Rodgers to Bill Monroe to Hank Williams to Johnny Cash, and all of them have an African-American mentor who took their chops from here to there.”

Nowhere are the diverse underpinnings of country music more apparent than in Episode Four, which comprised the bulk of the preview segments shown in Memphis last week. As Duncan noted, “This thing we call country music came from a lot of diverse groups. Ballads, hymns, the blues, minstrel shows. It was always mixing and mingling. And this isn’t a film about rockand-roll, but it makes the point that rockand-roll has a connection to country. It’ll be a surprise to many that what Elvis was doing early on was going out and fronting for Hank Snow.”

We’re dealing with questions of freedom and race and gender ...

Even more revelatory were the segments on the early days of Johnny Cash, whose first years in Memphis spring vividly to life, thanks to newly discovered footage. “Archivists will dig deep for us.

People will haul out the black plastic bag of photos from their attic and basement and let us go through them,” Dunfey said.

“The Cash daughters just said, ‘We have all these family home movies.’ And actually they had never looked at a lot of it. They just handed little canisters to us.”

“THE RUB” What the producers found was brilliant color footage of Johnny, first wife Vivian, and their daughters, picnicking in the Memphis area, not to mention films of Cash clowning with Elvis and Carl Perkins. Beyond the visuals, the episode highlights the impact on Cash of AfricanAmerican jug band leader Gus Cannon.

With all the talk of diversity and “the rub” between cultures, I asked Burns what role anthropology plays in his work. “My father was a cultural anthropologist. He was telling you how people lived and interacted and what their language and their dress and their music said about who they are and how they interrelated with other people. My father was also an amateur still photographer. And my very first memory is being in the dark room he built in the basement of our tract house in Newark, Delaware, where he was the only anthropologist in the entire state of Delaware, and watching that magic alchemy, in that weird light and that horrible smell of those chemicals, holding me in one arm with his left hand, and with

the right hand manipulating those tongs on a completely blank sheet of paper, in water, that suddenly appeared with an image. And so I can permit you, with the anthropology and the photography, to infer the rest.”

His final comments, too, revealed more than a little anthropology: “We are operating in this really unique space, that

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule April 4 - 10 Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

The King Beez Thursdays, 5 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Brimstone Jones First Saturday of every month, 5 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

FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007

Jerred Price Saturday, April 6, 9 p.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; Rabbits Foot Friday, April 5, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, April 6, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 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.

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.

Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and Plantation Allstars Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-11 p.m.; FreeWorld Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Blind Bear Speakeasy

The Halloran Centre

Sleep Out Louie’s

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

225 S. MAIN 525-3000

150 PEABODY PL SUITE 111 ENTRANCE ON S. 2ND ST

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays; Carma Karaoke with Carla Worth Saturdays, 9-11 p.m.; Shane Weems and Nancy Apple, with Ron Shuman Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

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

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

Kirk Whalum Sunday, April 7, 6 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Medical Center

Mollie Fontaine Lounge

670 JEFFERSON

Memphis Funk Sunday, April 7, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

679 ADAMS 524-1886

Dim the Lights featuring live music and DJs First Saturday of every month, 10 p.m.

The Orpheum

Paulette’s

Silky O’Sullivan’s

Earnestine & Hazel’s

60 N. MAIN

183 BEALE 522-9596

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

Belle Tavern 117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

The Rusty Pieces Saturday, April 6, 7-10 p.m.; Songwriters with Roland and Friends Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

Regina’s

550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Joe Restivo Jazz Trio Friday, April 5; The Lannie McMillian Jazz Trio Saturday, April 6.

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

Rumba Room

1884 Lounge

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

1555 MADISON 609-1744

Swing Dance with Will Lang Saturday, April 6, 6-9 p.m.; Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.

Hardcastle, Jet Black Alley Cat, Estes Friday, April 5, 8 p.m.

The Silly Goose

964 S. COOPER 272-0830

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Bar DKDC Jesse Winchester Tribute Thursday, April 4; Sweet Knives and Optic Sink Friday, April 5; Marcella & Her Lovers Saturday, April 6; Tennessee Screamers

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The Rusty Pieces Sunday, April 7, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

South Main Memphis Songwriters Association Monthly Meeting Second Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.; Nashville Songwriter’s Assn. Intnl. (NSAI) Memphis Chapter Meeting Every third Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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

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.

Ghost Town Blues Band Saturdays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; Steve Schad Sunday, April 7, 10 a.m.

South Main Sounds

Bobbie Stacks and Friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m., Mojo Medicine Machine Thursday, April 4, 7:30 p.m.; Jerry Patton Friday, April 5, 9 p.m.; Brad Birkendahl Saturday, April 6, 8 p.m.

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203 S. MAIN 525-3000

For King & Country Saturday, April 6, 7-10 p.m.; Death Cab for Cutie Sunday, April 7, 8 p.m.

Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Thursdays, 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.

Dirty Crow Inn

C.J. Johnson Friday, April 5; Cumberland County Saturday, April 6.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule April 4 - 10 Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.

Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library 3030 POPLAR 415-2700

Joyce Cobb with the Rhodes Jazz Band and Faculty Jazz Players Friday, April 5, 6:30 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Canvas

Huey’s Midtown

Mulan Asian Bistro

1927 MADISON 726-4372

2149 YOUNG AVE 347-3965

Amy LaVere-Will Sexton Trio Sunday, April 7, 4-7 p.m.; LAPD Sunday, April 7, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Swingtime Explosion Thursday, April 4, 6 p.m.; 40 Watt Moon Thursday, April 4, 9 p.m.; Memphis Funk-N-Soul Friday, April 5, 6:30 p.m.; Groovement Friday, April 5, 10 p.m.;

Chris Gales Sunday Brunch First Sunday of every month, 12-3 p.m.

Henderson Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Juke Jam Sundays, 4 p.m.

Aktion Kat!, Ghost Foot, Universe Contest Sunday, April 7, 9 p.m.-midnight.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Misti Rae Holton Birthday

East of Wangs

Parkway Village/ Fox Meadows

6069 PARK 763-0676

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

University of Memphis

Greater Harvest Church of God in Christ’s Department of Women’s Affairs

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

The Bluff

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

Memphis Soul Goes Gospel III Sunday, April 3, 6-8 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

East Memphis

535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with

Larry Cunningham ThursdaysSaturdays; Aislynn Rappe Sundays; Keith Kimbrough

3509 BOXDALE

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

Chris Johnson and Chad Gatewood Thursday, April 4, 7-11 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Rob Caudill’s Tribute to Rob Stewart Friday, April 5, 8:30 p.m.; Benefit for the Memphis Blues Society Saturday, April 6, 7 p.m.; Benefit for the School of Rock Sunday, April 7; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Jacob Cade and Land Divided Tuesday, April 9, 7 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

1737 MADISON 443-5232

Karaoke Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.; Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck Fridays, 6 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, April 5, 9 p.m.; The Skitch Saturdays, 6 p.m.; Smokin’ Jays Saturday, April 6, 9 p.m.; David Collins and Frog Squad Sundays.; Richard Wilson Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

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

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

Summer/Berclair High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

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

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts 1350 CONCOURSE AVE., SUITE 280 507-8030

Big Red and the Cuties Thursday, April 4, 7:30-10 p.m.; Lucky 7 Brass Band Sunday, April 7, 7-10 p.m.

Whitehaven/ Airport

Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Hi-Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Afton Shows Presents Thursday, April 4, 7 p.m.; Mystic Light Casino, Rosey, Owl’s Head Mountain, Beauty School Sunday, April 7, 10 p.m.; Charley McMullen, Will Loden, Kyle Pogue, Derrick Stroup Monday, April 8, 9 p.m.; Reserving Dirtnaps, Safe and Sound, Wristmeetrazor, Barren Arrows Tuesday, April 9, 8 p.m.; Phono Pony, Red Squad Wednesday, April 10, 10 p.m.

Guest House at Graceland 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-3322

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant The Rollin Rosatti Band Saturday, April 6, 2 p.m.; Ashton Riker Saturday, April 6, 6:30 p.m.; WALRUS Saturday, April 6, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, April 7, 11 a.m.; Reckless Kelly Sunday, April 7, 8 p.m.; Memphis Knights Big Band Monday, April 8, 6 p.m.; The Wood Brothers Tuesday, April 9; Parker Millsap Wednesday, April 10, 8 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

Friday, April 5, 8-11 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

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

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Great Peacock Friday, April 5, 8 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Saturday, April 6, 9 p.m.

the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe

Mondays-Wednesdays.

Karaoke with DJ Stylez Thursdays, Sundays, 10 p.m.

Howard Vance Guitar Academy

Rock-n-Roll Cafe

978 REDDOCH 767-6940

663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

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

Triple S

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

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

1747 WALKER 421-6239

Fun-Filled Fridays First Friday of every month, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Poplar Ghost Town Blues Band Sunday, April 7, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

Blackwater Trio Friday, April 5, 8:30-11 p.m.

University of Memphis, Harris Concert Hall

422 S. GROVE PARK 682-8436

Minglewood Hall

Wild Bill’s

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

Mortimer’s

1555 MADISON 312-6058

Mandolin Orange, Charlie Parr Sunday, April 7, 8 p.m.; The Milk Carton Kids, Willie Watson Wednesday, April 10, 8 p.m.

The Second Line 2144 MONROE 590-2829

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

The Magic Flute Friday, April 5, 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 7, 3 p.m.

Libro at Laurelwood Me & Leah Thursday, April 4.

590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

Elvis Tribute featuring. Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Live Entertainment Mondays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Elvis Gospel music show Fridays, 1-2:30 p.m.; Karaoke hosted by DJ Maddy Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Whitehaven Branch Library 4120 MILLBRANCH 396-9700

Family Tunes & Tales Saturday, April 6, 11 a.m.-noon.

Van Duren Solo Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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

Dan McGuinness

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland/Lakeland Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub 6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

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Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

MusicBoxx Friday, April 5; Cruisin’ Heavy Saturday, April 6, 9 p.m.; Area 51 Sunday, April 7, 5:30 p.m.; A.M. Whiskey Wednesday, April 10, 8 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2465 WHITTEN 379-1965

Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Steak Night with Tony Butler and the Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Harbor Town Saturday, April 6, 12-3 p.m.; Possum Drifters Sunday, April 7, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

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

Jamie Baker & the VIPs Sunday, April 7, 8-11:30 p.m.

Cordova Delta Blues Winery 6585 STEWART

Friday Night Music at the Winery Friday, April 5, 7-10 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

Frayser/Millington Harpo’s Hogpin

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

4212 HWY 51N 530-0414

Fox and Hound Tavern

Huey’s Millington

6565 TOWNE CENTER, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-536-2200

Live Music Saturdays, 9 p.m.

8570 US 51 NORTH,

Even Odds Sunday, April 7, 6-9 p.m.

Pop’s Bar & Grill 6365 NAVY 872-0353

Possum Daddy or DJ Turtle Thursdays, 5-9 p.m.; CeCee Fridays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; Possum Daddy Karaoke Wednesdays, 6-10 p.m. and Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; DJ Turtle or CeCee First Sunday of every month, 5-9 p.m.

Live Music Thursdays, 5 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays.

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

Beach Boys Saturday, April 6, 8-9:30 p.m.

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

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

Toni Green’s Palace 4212 HWY 51 N

Toni Green’s Palace MondaysSundays, 7 p.m.; Live DJ Thursdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.

Mesquite Chop House 5960 GETWELL

The Rusty Pieces Friday, April 5, 8-11 p.m.

Germantown

Tunica Roadhouse 1107 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 662-363-4900

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Frankie Holly & the Noise Sunday, April 7, 8:30 p.m.midnight; Blues City Soul Collective Sunday, April 7, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, April 7, 8-11:30 p.m.

Ice Bar & Grill

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

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.

4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

1550 N. INGRAM, WEST MEMPHIS, AR 800-467-6182

Unwind Wednesdays Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

Southland Park Live Music Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica The Crossing Bar & Grill

302 S. AVALON 596-7115

DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-

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Soul Shockers Sunday, April 7, 8:30 p.m.-midnight; Amy LaVere-Will Sexton Trio Tuesday, April 9, 6-9 p.m.

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Art pop-up shop featuring local arts and crafts, sponsored by Main Street West Memphis. Free. April 5-6, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

MAIN STREET WEST MEMPHIS, 113 BROADWAY ((870) 735-8814), WWW.BROADWAYWESTMEMPHIS.COM.

Gallery Talk

Museum staff speak on topics including current exhibitions and works from the permanent collection. Meet in the lobby of the main building before the talk begins. Free. Saturdays, Sundays, 2-2:30 p.m.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art brooksmuseum.org

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest

Winning authors will be honored with a $200 gift certificate to Novel. For more information, contest rules, and submission, visit website. Through Aug. 31.

WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM.

Art in the Loop, with work

by Louise and Don Coulson and other local artists, in the Ridgeway Loop, FridaySunday, April 5th-7th TH EAT E R

Ashlar Hall

Rites of Spring, Lost in Found envisions another realm with full-scale art installations, mythical woodland creatures, food and drink, and three muses who will guide guests through the Gothic mansion. www.lostinfound901.com. $30. ThursdaysSaturdays, 7:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Through April 14.

Hattiloo Theatre

Too Heavy for Your Pockets, when 20-year-old Bowzie Brandon gives up a life-changing college scholarship to join the Freedom Rider movement, he’ll have to convince his loved ones — and himself — that shaping his country’s future might be worth jeopardizing his own. www.hattiloo.org. Through April 14.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Theatre Memphis

The Clean House, a quirky Brazilian maid hired by a career-oriented doctor, Matilde hates to clean; she longs to be a comedienne. www.theatrememphis.org. $25.

April 5-20.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

1397 CENTRAL.

April 4-10, 2019

Circuit Playhouse

Madagascar: A Musical Adventure, based on the animated film, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the hip-hop Hippo, and the plotting penguins escape from their home in Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey. (937-6496), www.playhouseonthesquare.org. Sat., Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs., Fri., 7 p.m.

Through April 7.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

The Halloran Centre

Shh! We Have a Plan, a nonverbal tale featuring magic, music, and puppetry based on the Chris Haughton book of the same name. www.orpheum-memphis.com. $15.

Sat., April 6, 10 a.m.

Love, Sex, and Marriage, the ladies love Darrin, and the guys want to be him. Little does everyone know, Darrin is a closeted gay man, signed to a homophobic music label. (525-3000), www.trefloyd.com. $20-$40. Sat., April 6, 6:30-8 p.m.

225 S. MAIN (525-3000).

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Join R2C2H2, Ekpe Abioto, and dancer Toothbrush Jesus in a salute to Charlie “Bird” Parker and Terry Adkins’ Native Son (Circus).

The interactive performance will include an African ceremonial libation and a free jazz improvisation with Adkins’ sculpture.

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CALENDAR of EVENTS: APRIL 4 - 10

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

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

430 Gallery

Opening Reception for “Recent Works,” exhibition of recent abstract metal sculptures by Lewis Bōdy and mixed-media works on paper by Eva Langsdon. Free. Fri., April 5, 6-8 p.m.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Java Cabana

Opening reception for “My Life in Colour,” exhibition of new paintings by Jessica White. Refreshments and live music by Addison Israelson. www.javacabanacoffeehouse.com. Fri., April 5, 7-9 p.m.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

L Ross Gallery

Opening Reception for “threshold,” exhibition of work by Michael Barringer. www.lrossgallery.com.

Fri., April 5, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

WKNO Studio

Opening Reception for “FourSights II,” exhibition of paintings by Sandra Horton and Frederick Lyle Morris, and photography by Becky Ross McRae and Jon Woodhams. www. wkno.org. Sun., April 7, 2-4 p.m.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Art in the Loop

Second annual art expo in the Ridgeway Loop. Sponsored by Memphis magazine, WKNO-TV, and WKNO-FM, the event features works in metal, glass, wood, clay, and more. Fri., April 5, 1-7 p.m., Sat., April 6, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sun., April 7, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

RIDGEWAY LOOP, EAST MEMPHIS, WWW.ARTINTHELOOP.ORG.

Casting Demonstration

Saturdays, Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

Cherry Trees in Bloom

From Southern to Park Avenue, these beautiful, slightly fragrant blossoms are currently pink and will fade to white as they mature over the coming weeks. Through April 14.

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

Cooper-Young Art Tours

For more information, featured artists, and pop-up performances, visit website. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

COOPER-YOUNG DISTRICT, CORNER OF COOPER AND YOUNG, WWW.COOPERYOUNG.COM.

Crosstown Arts Resident Artist Talk

Resident artists Matteo Servente, Chen Wang, and Jia Wang will discuss their work in a series of monthly artist talks. Tues., April 9, 5-6:30 p.m.

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

Dr. Martin Luther King Commemorative History Awareness Tours

The Withers Collection hosts commemorative history awareness tours every hour on the hour. $7.

Thurs., April 4, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

ERNEST WITHERS COLLECTION GALLERY & MUSEUM, 333 BEALE (523-2344), WWW.THEWITHERSCOLLECTION.COM.

Open Crit

A monthly critique event where visual artists are invited to bring new and/or in-progress studio work for critical feedback and group discussion particular to each artist’s practice. Tues., April 9, 6-8 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE AVE., SUITE 280 (5078030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Whet Thursday Kickoff Party Kickoff of the after-hours event series with delicious food and drink, music, blacksmithing demonstrations, and a gallery talk. Free.

Thurs., April 4, 5-8 p.m.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM. ORG/WHET-THURSDAY.

O N G O I N G ART

430 Gallery

“Recent Works,” exhibition of recent abstract metal sculptures

by Lewis Bōdy and mixed media works on paper by Eva Langsdon.

Free. April 5-7.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“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.

Through June 1.

“Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection. Ongoing.

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).

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TIME: 7:00pm - 10:00pm PLACE: The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

SPOTLIGHT CONCERT SERIES: TROIKA STRING TRIO

7:30PM (DOORS 7PM) GA–$10, STUDENT TICKETS–$5

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).

Crosstown Concourse

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

1350 CONCOURSE AVE.

David Lusk Gallery

“No Look Past,” exhibition of new work by Brandon Donahue. www.davidluskgallery. com. Through April 6.

“What Remains,” exhibition of new work by Rana Rochat. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Through April 6.

“The Deep,” exhibition of work by Robert Yasuda. www. davidluskgallery.com. April 4-May 31.

“A Lifestyle,” exhibition of work by Joyce Gingold. www. davidluskgallery.com. April 4-May 31.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

“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).

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

Folk Artists, exhibition of work by Debra Edge, John Sadowski, Nancy White, Bill Brookshire, and other folk artists. Ongoing.

509 S. MAIN (647-9242).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

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

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Opening reception for “threshold” by Michael Barringer, at L Ross Gallery, Friday, April 5th, 6-8 p.m.

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis “So yeah umm … ya know, but right?,” exhibition of works by nine graduates of the University of Memphis Department of Art. (6782216), Through April 19.

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3715 CENTRAL.

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TAILS & ALES

A dog adoption event and supply drive hosted by Memphis Animal Services (MAS) and Crosstown Brewing Company.

TIME: 1:00pm - 4:00pm PLACE: Crosstown Brewing Co.

Germantown Performing Arts Center

“Storytime,” exhibition of work by by Qwynto. (7517500), www.gpacweb.com.

April 9-May 5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Graceland

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

Ongoing.

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3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Come and get your brunch on with crawfish and live bluegrass music.

TIME: 1:00pm - 4:00pm PLACE: Crosstown Brewing Co.

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

“Memphis Ten Group Show,” exhibition of works by Houston Cofield, Brandon Dill, IvyJade Edwards, Paige Ellens, Amy Hutcheson, Ziggy Mack, LaAndrea Deloyce Mitchell,

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

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

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44 HULING (576-0708).

Java Cabana

“My Life in Colour,” exhibition of new paintings by Jessica White. www.javacabanacoffeehouse.com. April 5-May 31.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

Jay Etkin Gallery

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

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

“threshold,” exhibition of work

by Michael Barringer. www. lrossgallery.com. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Through April 27.

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).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Reflections,” exhibition of new work by NJ Woods. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through April 30.

“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.

“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).

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.

826 NORTH SECOND STREET (527-3427).

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“FourSights II,” by Becky Ross McRae, at WKNO Studio, Sunday, April 7th, 2-4 p.m.

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

“Listen to Learn. Learn to Act. Act to Change,” exhibition of work by Darlene Newman.

Presented as part of the Memphis Jewish Community Center’s “Power of the Collective: Our Journey Together.” www. jccmemphis.org. Through April 30.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

“Crafting a Legacy: 40 Years of Collecting and Exhibiting at the 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. (774-6380), 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).

Ross Gallery

“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., Fri., 7:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sat., 12-4 p.m., and Sun., 1-11 p.m. Through April 7.

“Migration Now,” traveling exhibition of a portfolio of prints that address migrant issues from the organizations Justseeds and CultureStrike. www.cbu.edu/ gallery. Fri., 7:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sat., 12-4 p.m., Sun., 1-11 p.m., and Mon.-Thurs., 7:45 a.m.-11 p.m. Through April 10.

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

April 4-10, 2019

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

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“Passing Through: The Friends of Don Nix,” exhibition of work by Nix. Includes photos of many of the friends Nix made along the way, including George Harrison, Leon Russell, Furry Lewis, and others. www.staxmuseum.com.

Through April 30.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Sue Layman Designs

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

Ongoing.

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

Talbot Heirs

Debra Edge Art, ongoing.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

TOPS Gallery

“Camera Obscura,” exhibition of new work by Aaron Suggs. www.topsgallery.com.

Through May 19.

400 S. FRONT.

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“20th Century Memphis Photographs,” work by Charlie Ivey and Virginia Schoenster, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

WKNO Studio

“FourSights II,” exhibition of paintings by Sandra Horton and Frederick Lyle Morris, and photography by Becky Ross McRae and Jon Woodhams. www.wkno.org.

Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Through April 26.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Seventh-annual opera celebration, with performances, music, improv, and Q & As. April 6-14.

The Falling and the Rising

This world premiere opera chronicles the imagined journey of a soldier suspended inside a coma after a roadside attack. Sat., April 6.

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (726-4656), WWW.OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG.

The Magic Flute

Part of the 2019 Midtown Opera Festival, after many twists and turns, light triumphs over darkness, true love prevails, and the lonely birdman finally finds a mate. $20. Fri., April 5, 7 p.m., and Sun., April 7, 3 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, HARRIS CONCERT HALL, INSIDE THE RUDI E. SCHEIDT SCHOOL OF MUSIC (678-5400).

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

Booksigning by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (726-4656), WWW.OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG.

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Author discusses and signs her new book Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution. Mon., April 8, 6 p.m.

Time Stepping

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

The Hot Foot Honeys’ sixth annual show bursts with original tap choreography set to a variety of music and styles ranging from traditional jazz to neo-soul. $12-$20. April 5-6, 8-10 p.m., and Sun., April 7, 2-4 p.m.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483), WWW.HOTFOOTHONEYS.COM.

OPERA

Anymore. Sat., April 6, 4 p.m.

Midtown Opera Festival

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Guest House at Graceland

Billy Gardell, Emmy-nominated actor and comedian Billy Gardell starred in the CBS hit television series, Mike & Molly as Officer Mike Biggs. Gardell performs two sets. ((877) 7770606), www.gracelandlive.com. $20-$45. Sat., April 6, 6 & 9 p.m.

3600 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Hi-Tone

Memphis Comedy Festival, four-day, laughter-filled weekend with stand-up comics from across the nation (and Canada!). Multiple venues. www.memphiscomedyfestival.

Booksigning by Philip Shirley

Author discusses and signs his new book The Graceland Conspiracy. Sat., April 6, 2 p.m.

“FourSights II,” by Frederick Lyle Morris, at WKNO Studio, Sunday, April 7th, 2-4 p.m. com. Fri., April 5, 4 p.m., and Sat., April 6, 7 p.m.

412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE).

TheatreWorks

Memphis Comedy Festival, four-day, laughter-filled weekend with stand-up comics from across the nation (and Canada!). Multiple venues. www.memphiscomedyfestival. com. Through April 6.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

Midtown Crossing Grill

Don’t Be Afraid of the Comedy Memphis, the closing event of Memphis Comedy Festival, DBACM is the longestrunning Memphis comedy showcase. It’s a show where comedians can come and do the material they want to do. www.memphiscomedyfestival. com. Sun., April 7, 5 p.m.

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394 N. WATKINS (443-0502).

603 N. MCLEAN (725-1718).

Cafe Eclectic

Poetry Society of Tennessee Open Mic Reading, readings of original poetry. Traditional readings and performance poetry welcome. Free. Wed., April 10, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

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

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Booksigning by Shelly Brown

Booksigning by Ali Cavanaugh

Author discusses and signs her new book Modern Fresco Paintings. Thurs., April 4, 6 p.m.

Author discusses and signs her new book Squint. Thurs., April 4, 6 p.m.

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

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

Booksigning by Aram Goudsouzian

LECT U R E /S P EA K E R

Author discusses and signs his new book, The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America. Wed., April 10, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Arvis Murrell

Author discusses and signs her new book It Doesn’t Hurt

Culture Wars: Publishing World Literature in the Age of German Nationalism Dr. Meike Werner, Vanderbilt University, will speak about publishing and competing visions of modern German culture. Free and open to the public. Thurs.,

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UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER, 255 UNIVERSITY CENTER, PARIS THEATER, WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

In This Place Speaker Series: Dr. James Lawson

The final installment of this speaker series, with Reverend Dr. James M. Lawson Jr. speaking about the future of Memphis. Fri., April 5, 6:30-9 p.m.

CLAYBORN TEMPLE, 294 HERNANDO, INTHISPLACE-APRIL-2019.

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Lenten Preaching Series and Waffle Shop

Guest speaker and breakfast event, serving homemade waffles, tomato aspic, chicken salad, and other daily specials. All proceeds support outreach ministries across the city of Memphis. Tuesdays, Fridays, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Through April 12.

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102 N. SECOND (525-6602).

Memories: A Reception With Jimmy Ogle

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

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Behind the Big House

Keynote Speaker Omid Safi

One of few historic site tours developed with the specific goal of interpreting slavery.

April 4-6.

HUGH CRAFT HOUSE, 184 S. MEMPHIS (336-4090), WWW. BEHINDTHEBIGHOUSE.ORG.

Calvary Episcopal Church Tours

Docent-led tours discuss stained glass windows, architecture, and symbols in Christian art. Private tours available upon request. Free.

Second Wednesday, Sunday of every month, 11:15 a.m.

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

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Garden docents will focus on the cutting garden each week on Saturday morning.

Meet in the Catmur Foyer to see the large urn design and start tour. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

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

Insiders on Tour

Board a Backbeat Tours bus to gain a new perspective of Downtown Memphis. $20-$25. Wed., April 10, 9:3011:30 a.m.

DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS VISITORS CENTER, 119 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, WWW.WELCOMETOMEMPHIS.ORG.

Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour

See what used to be, Memphis-style, with Mike McCarthy. Call to schedule a personal tour. Ongoing.

(486-6325), WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ YELLOWROCKGHOST/.

CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

The beloved Shelby County Historian will give a 45-minute presentation on his favorite stories of Memphis past. Beer, wine, and hors d’oeuvres will be served. $40.

Sat., April 6, 6:30 p.m.

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Cutting Garden Tours

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

WWW.CITYTASTINGTOURS.COM.

place from classics to modern. $20-$45 adults, $10-$20 children. April 5-7, 8 a.m.

MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, 5500 VICTORY LANE, WWW.RACEMIR.COM.

Vette City Roller Derby vs. Memphis Roller Derby

$10. Sat., April 6, 5-7:30 p.m.

MID-SOUTH FAIRGROUNDS, PIPKIN BUILDING, EAST PARKWAY AT CENTRAL (609-5005).

Walk ‘n’ Talk

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

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

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

Yoga

Learn how to eliminate stress, increase strength and flexibility, and improve mind-body connection. Bring your own mat.

No registration for these classes.

Wed., April 10, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

COLLIERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 501 POPLAR VIEW PARKWAY (457-2601).

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Cracker Barrel Sista Strut 3K Breast Cancer Walk The fifth annual rally starts at 8 a.m., and the 3K walk begins at 10 a.m. $15-$30.

Sat., April 6, 8 a.m.-noon.

LIBERTY BOWL MEMORIAL STADIUM, 335 S. HOLLYWOOD (259-1300), WWW.SISTASTRUTMEMPHIS.COM.

Kick It 5K

Ninth-annual race to raise funds to cure pancreatic cancer. Register online. Sun., April 7, 2 p.m.

SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.KICKIT5K. RACESONLINE.COM.

Marion Countryside Ride

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Brooks Museum League Meeting

Guest speaker June West will speak about the work of Memphis Heritage in historic preservation and highlight some of the projects currently in place. Fri., April 5, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

HOWARD HALL, 2282 MADISON (355-8160), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUMLEAGUEMEMPHIS.ORG.

Community Service Family Fun Day

A special day of food, fun, and fellowship designed to bring the community and families together with many activities and community services. Sat., April 6.

Third annual four-mile, 14-mile, or 45-mile bike ride to Big River Crossing and through county roads north of Marion. Call 870-739-6041 or email madison.marioncoc@outlook.com to register. $40 adults, $20 children. Sat., April 6, 8:30 a.m.

ED RICE COMMUNITY CENTER, 2907 N. WATKINS (488-4170), FCPTSA.MEMBERHUB.STORE.

MARION COURTHOUSE SQUARE, DOWNTOWN MARION ((870) 7396041), MARIONARCHAMBER.ORG.

COLLIERVILLE LIBRARY, 91 WALNUT (853-2333), WWW.COLLIERVILLELIBRARY.ORG.

MDA Mid-South Muscle Walk

There will be games, food trucks, face painting, and more for families and participants to enjoy before and after the muscle walk itself.

Sat., April 6, 10 a.m.-noon.

WESTMINSTER ACADEMY, 2500 RIDGEWAY (380-9192), WWW.MDAMUSCLEWALK.ORG.

Memphis 901 FC vs.

Atlanta United 2 Wed., April 10, 7 p.m.

AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), WWW.MEMPHIS901FC.COM.

Super Chevy Show

The 33rd annual show features drag racing with cash prizes, an automotive swap meet, a Chevrolet-focused performance marketplace, and the largest collection of Chevrolet vehicles in one

Friends of the Library Monthly Meeting

Annual dues of $10 supplement the library’s funding for programming and equipment.

Thurs., April 4, 1-2 p.m.

Memphis Area Beekeepers Meeting

Meet in wing “C” at the back of the Expo Center. Open to anyone who is interested in bees and beekeeping. Second Monday of every month, 7 p.m.

AGRICENTER SHOWPLACE ARENA, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (757-7777), WWW.MEMPHISBEEKEEPERS.COM.

Memphis Water Public Forum

The Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research at the University of Memphis presents the first public forum for the large-scale Memphis aquifer research project. Mon., April 8, 6:30-8 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700), WWW. STRENGTHENCOMMUNITIES.COM.

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52nd Annual Kite Day

A day of kite-flying on the river bluff behind the Church of the River. Bring your own kite, or get one from our youth group for a small donation. Brown bag picnic lunches also available for a donation. Free. Sun., April 7, 12-2 p.m.

CHURCH OF THE RIVER, 292 VIRGINIA (526-8631).

Family Tunes & Tales

Memphis Symphony Orchestra provides the background and theme music for story time. Free. Sat., April 6, 11 a.m.-noon.

WHITEHAVEN BRANCH LIBRARY, 4120 MILLBRANCH (396-9700).

LeBonheuRoo

The LeBonheur Club presents this family fun day with activities for kids of all ages.

Come hungry and ready to play. Sat., April 6, 12-4 p.m.

CANALE FARMS, MACON CEMETERY ROAD, OAKLAND, TN, LEBONHEURCLUB.ORG/LEBONHEUROO.

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All in for Animals Charity Poker Night

Ticket price includes food from Paradox Catering, liquor bar from Old Dominick, beer from Meddlesome Brewing Co., and poker play with River Rat Rounders. $50-$60.

Sat., April 6, 5-10 p.m.

PAID FOR BY TN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

HUMANE SOCIETY OF MEMPHIS & SHELBY COUNTY, 935 FARM (937-3943), P2P.ONECAUSE.COM/ MEMPHISHUMANECHARITYPOKER.

901-278-8965

Chowdown for Hounds

Local rescue group Dogs Second Chance presents this fund-raiser with Indian food, adoptable dogs and puppies, and a silent auction. Money raised will help pay for recent medical care for Phyllis, a rescued dog in foster care. $10.

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Fight to Shed Light on Autism

Kickboxing fund-raiser for the ANGEL Program for students with autism. At participating TFK locations. 25. Sat., April 6, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m.

TOTAL FITNESS KICKBOXING, 875 W. POPLAR.

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Forging on the River

An evening of festivities along the Mississippi River, complete with dinner by Draper’s Catering and an art auction.

All auction proceeds benefit Metal Museum programming throughout the year. $85. Sat., April 6, 6-9:30 p.m.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

Hope on Tap: A Celebration from Honduras to Memphis

Memphis Feminist Collective is turning 5 years old, and we are celebrating by honoring Britany Figeroa, a Honduran transgender activist making a new home here in Memphis.

Celebration with local brews, home-cooked Latin Ameri-

can food, and art from the raffle. Mon., April 8, 5-8 p.m.

WISEACRE BREWERY, 2783 BROAD (500-7001).

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Alice Tea Party

Tea Time in the garden with Alice and all of her friends, with treats and snacks provided by Frost Bake Shop, craft projects, and whimsical characters from Cause Play.

Advanced tickets required.

Members $15/non-members $20. Sat., April 6.

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

Annual Children’s Memorial Flag-raising

The Memphis Child Advocacy Center will hold the event to remember the lives of children who died as a result of abuse or neglect. The ceremony includes speakers, inspirational music, and a dove release for each child remembered. Free. Wed., April 10, 12-12:30 p.m.

CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, MAIN STREET MALL (888-4335).

Beale Street Moments in History

Family-friendly day of entertainment and community forum, with the themes “Dream of a King” and “Beale Street: Then and Now.” Thurs., April 4, 11 a.m.

BEALE STREET, DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS (314-5549).

Friends of George’s presents Dragnificent ’70s

Back in the ’70s, drag queens actually had to sing and nobody had anything more than a boombox to accompany them. This crazy drag family will bring the swinging 1970s back from the dead with this annual variety show. $25.

Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Through April 13.

THEATREWORKS, 2085 MONROE (274-7139), WWW.FRIENDSOFGEORGES.ORG.

Night Out With the Vets LGBTQ veterans will be offering up Jell-O shots for a $1 donation each benefiting LGBTQ Veterans Alliance. $5. First Saturday of every month, 9 p.m.-midnight.

DRU’S PLACE, 1474 MADISON (870-740-2992), WWW.LGBTQVETERANSALLIANCE.COM.

Tails & Ales

A dog adoption event and supply drive with adoptable pets from Memphis Animal Services, crawfish from Memphis Mudbugs, and live bluegrass music from the Late Greats. Sun., April 7, 1-4 p.m.

CROSSTOWN BREWING CO., 1264 CONCOURSE.

Two Centuries on the Mississippi: Refinement on the River

Bicentennial exhibition showcasing what was once the Gilded Age of Memphis.

Featuring historical photos of architecture that once lined the riverfront and Downtown areas. $20. Fri., April 5, 5-8 p.m.

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

Velvetina’s Blue Moon Revue

Live music, burlesque performances, and dinner from the Lounge. $30. WednesdaysSaturdays, 7-9 p.m. Through Sept. 28.

MOLLIE FONTAINE LOUNGE, 679 ADAMS ((917) 705-0945), WWW. BLUEMOONREVUEMEMPHIS.COM.

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Flight Tour: A Taste of Memphis

Up to 16 people per bike enjoy a flight of local spirits and brew during this twohour pub-crawl with Sprock n’ Roll’s bike bar. BYOB, but no glass tour. $315-$400.

Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 12-8 p.m., and Sundays, 12-5 p.m.

DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS, VARIOUS LOCATIONS (500-7101), WWW. SPROCKNROLLMEMPHIS.COM.

GPAC Gala Celebrating the Culinary Arts

A pre-dinner cocktail party in the lobby will showcase the talents of local chefs and a specialty cocktail crafted by mixologist Brad Pitts. A meal on the main stage will be followed by a live auction and entertainment. $250. Sat., April 6.

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

Spring Open House

Guests are greeted with complimentary lemonade and get to eat their way through the Candy Kitchen. During open house hours, everyone will enjoy a 20 percent discount on all purchases. Sun., April 7, noon-4 p.m.

DINSTUHL’S, 5280 PLEASANT VIEW (377-2639), WWW.DINSTUHLS.COM.

Sunday Supper Series

Includes new cocktails, new bar menu, and a family-style, dinner. Raw bar and a list of cocktails, beer, and wine priced $10 or under will also be available. $40. Sundays, 3-9 p.m.

GRAY CANARY, 301 FRONT, WWW.THEGRAYCANARY.COM.

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Resident artists Pierre Primetens and Matteo Servente screen some of their short films and discuss their process as filmmakers. Wed., April 10, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

CROSSTOWN THEATER, 1350 CONCOURSE AVENUE, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Journey Through Holly Springs’ Slave Dwellings in the...

TOUR April 4th- 6th 2019 “For so long folks have been visiting the plantation and going into the big house, and without these structures, the big house could not have existed.”

Joseph McGill, The Slave Dwelling Project

During the Holly Springs Pilgrimage, guests are given a rare look into another side of antebellum life through these surviving structures with Joseph McGill of the Slave Dwelling Project, as well as Culinary Historian Michael W. Twitty, who will conduct cooking demonstrations throughout the program dates.

Additional historic interpreters will illustrate the roles of an antebellum brick-maker and a laundress.

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Opening Reception, Friday, April 12, 5:00-6:30p ASU Mid-South Reynolds Center 2000 W. Broadway, West Memphis, Arkansas Exhibition runs through May 17 Hot Foot Honeys’

Time Stepping Sunday, April 14, 3:00p Glenn P. Schoettle Arts Education Center 301 S. Rhodes, West Memphis, Arkansas

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ast week, as Ken Burns visited Memphis to unveil his upcoming series, Country Music, he said he considers himself not so much a historian as a storyteller. It’s a distinction salient to Preston Lauterbach’s new book, Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers (Norton). As was seen in reportage by Marc Perrusquia nearly a decade ago, and in his subsequent book on Withers from last year, the subtle differences between history, storytelling, and journalism make a dramatic impact on the final framing of a narrative.

Perrusquia’s work, for example, was centered on the writer’s own sleuthing, and his ultimate triumph in gaining access to the FBI’s file on Ernest Withers.

The reporter’s success turned Withers’ life story into one big “gotcha” moment. Revelations that the renowned chronicler of the civil rights movement had made regular reports on that movement to the FBI’s Memphis field office were indeed earthshaking, but that narrative of betrayal so overshadowed any other perspective on Withers’ life that many Memphians who knew Withers resented Perrusquia’s detective work.

Lauterbach’s storytelling offers a refreshing widening of perspective. His more holistic focus on Withers’ life, in all its contradictions, makes that life emblematic of Memphis history itself. And it’s undeniable that the photographer, a lifelong Memphian, embodies the city’s distinct character, not least in his willingness to think outside the box and forge his own independent path.

Lauterbach’s previous volume on Memphis history, Beale Street Dynasty, was loosely organized around the life of African-American millionaire Robert Church, with the city itself a character in the tale. Because that book did not aspire to biography, even in its title, the wide-ranging digressions on other major players in the Beale Street saga made narrative sense.

The new work, then, is a sequel to that tale, bringing Beale Street into the late 20th century. Withers was a fixture there, setting up his studio “in the thick of the

midnight world.” There, Withers gained easy access to clubs on the street, snapping photos of patrons and performers alike, then running across the street to develop and sell them that same night.

This, along with with Negro Baseball League players and everyday weddings and funerals, became Withers’ initial subject matter.

And he is defined in this book primarily by the places he went and the things he did. As a biography, it makes little headway in unpacking the psychology of its

subject, or his relation to his friends and family. The Ernest Withers of Bluff City is primarily a doer, with an instinct for finding significant events and the flashframe moments that express them.

Lauterbach has a storyteller’s gift for setting a scene — and the threads leading to moments captured by Withers’ lens. A digression seemingly unrelated to Withers’ life or personal relationships will culminate in the moment immortalized by Withers with a single, well-chosen shot. And as the civil rights movement heats up, becoming more torn by its internal factions, the scene-setting comes to dominate the tale, as extended

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digressions on the lives of key civil rights figures cause Withers’ personal story to vanish at times.

One salutary effect of this is a more informed perspective on Withers’ relationship with the FBI. When Withers first begins reporting on civil rights groups’ activities, it’s clearly a natural extension of his reliance on federal authorities to keep him safe from more racially blinkered local police, as when FBI agents investigate his abuse at the hands of officers in Jackson, Mississippi.

As the movement develops, the ethics of Withers’ involvement become more blurred. If, on the one hand, his reporting on the Nation of Islam helps counter the FBI’s tendency to paint them as instigators of violence, he’s equally willing to buy into the Bureau’s antiCommunist rhetoric, brazenly misleading Northern activists to earn his informant’s wages.

In light of Richard Wright’s disillusionment with doctrinaire Communists in Black Boy, it’s understandable, but Lauterbach never really digs into the historical complexities of the Left’s racial politics. For that, one must turn to other sources.

The implication — that Withers was trying to insulate moderate activists he deemed legitimate from accusations of extremism — remains merely an implication. Teasing out such ethical and political niceties is precisely where the book’s storytelling falls short of historical analysis.

Of course, Withers’ true intentions will always be mysterious. Having passed away in 2007, he’s never been able to answer accusations of “spying” directly.

But Lauterbach’s tale, with its greater sensitivity to the contradictions inherent in surviving racism, goes a long way toward a fuller, more human vision of a life lived in the fray.

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The genesis of the idea came from Staff Sergeant Benjamin Hilgert, a tenor in the Soldiers’ Chorus, the vocal component of the U.S. Army Field Band. He wanted to do an opera that embraced the military spirit, but it wasn’t until he connected with Dye that it began to take shape.

That meeting took place thanks to a notion Canty had a few years ago. Canty knew of Dye’s abilities and arranged for a commission of “Ghosts of Crosstown,” four short opera works with music from different composers. They were first performed in 2014 as part of the second annual Midtown Opera Festival and staged on the loading dock of the old Sears building as well as at Playhouse on the Square.

“Those short pieces acted like calling cards,” Dye says, “because they were mined from true stories.” One of those subsequent performances was at an Opera America conference that Hilgert had attended. “Ben saw the piece and said, ‘I want to talk to that guy,’” Dye says. “He asked me, ‘Would you be interested in 38 writing a short piece for us?’ And I was Limit four

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The third member of the creative collaboration is composer Zach Redler, who Dye had worked with on one of the Crosstown pieces.

That 10- or 15-minute piece turned into a full-length chamber piece as interest developed and various organizations supported it with joint commissions. The U.S. Army Field Band was also involved in the commissioning along with Opera Memphis, Arizona Opera, San Diego Opera, Seattle Opera, and Texas Christian University.

Developing the story was a particularly affecting process for all involved. It evolved from interviews that Dye, Hilgert, and Redler did with dozens of soldiers and veterans at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and elsewhere.

The first interview on the first day was a soldier named Tyler, who was recovering from a traumatic brain injury. He’d been in a coma for a long time and “was eager to talk about what that experience was like,” Dye says.

“And what it was like to come out, what recovery looks like, and he talked about it in some beautiful, subtle ways.”

That quickly convinced the collaborators to tell not about an injury but about what happens in a coma, what the brain is thinking about and what kind of information is being processed. And it allowed them to put several voices in the story.

But there was a particular revelation that came only when the interview was over. “I ran out of questions at the end of the interview,” Dye says, “and I ignorantly and clumsily said to Tyler, ‘So, what’s next for you?’ And there was a little bit of silence and he looked at me with the most amazing soulful eyes and said, ‘There’s nothing else. There is just this. There is just right here and right now.’ Yeah. After I wiped the tears from my eyes, I just went, ‘Okay, there’s my Zen message for the day.

And that’s an aria.’”

The Falling and the Rising performs April 6th, 12th, and 13th at 7:30 p.m. with members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra playing. Tickets: www.operamemphis.org/ tickets or call 257-3100.

This is to give notice that Shelby County Government under Part 58 has conducted an evaluation as required by Executive Order 11988, to determine the potential affect that its activity in wetlands and the floodplain will have on the human environment for the South Cypress Creek Watershed and West Junction Neighborhood Redevelopment Project under the HUD National Disaster Resiliency Grant, Contract Number B-13US-470002.

Shelby County Government is proposing a series of open space and infrastructure project elements that will help make the greater Memphis area more resilient in future disaster and flooding events. The South Cypress Creek Watershed and West Junction Neighborhood Redevelopment activity encompasses improvements in the South Cypress Creek drainage basin just south of Interstate 55 and in the West Junction Neighborhood. The project will entail two components as described hereinafter: (1) South Cypress Creek Restoration and, (2) West Junction Neighborhood Redevelopment For this notice, all the proposed activities are located within or adjacent to the South Cypress Creek Floodplain. Additionally, there may be minor impacts on isolated wetlands. The South Cypress Creek Restoration project will affect approximately 46.2 acres of floodplain.

Currently, additional wetland delineation efforts are underway to reconcile differences between wetland acreages as certified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and wetland estimates from the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation. The intent of the project will be to maintain the total wetland acreage within the project area while looking for opportunities to restore wetlands where feasible. The West Junction Neighborhood Redevelopment improvements will affect approximately 11.4 acres of floodplain. The following describes the project locations and the proposed improvements:

South Cypress Creek Restoration

The South Cypress Creek Restoration project will be adjacent to the existing Cypress Creek, north of W. Mitchell Road and just south of Riverport Road and the BNSF Railroad Crossing.

The proposed project will expand stormwater capacity by removing obstructions, stabilizing the stream banks, and installing stormwater management facilities. These treatments will provide storage and detention of peak flows to reduce the flood stage and adjacent properties’ risk of flooding. In addition to preserving existing wetlands, the proposed project will also expand existing or create new water receiving landscapes (i.e. constructed wetlands, rain gardens, bioswales and/or other natural stormwater BMPS), landforms, green open spaces, parks, and multipurpose recreational trails that connect to the surrounding community. These elements will be designed to reduce the flood risk for the adjacent properties most susceptible to flooding within the project area, while also enhancing both the water quality and habitat of South Cypress Creek and the adjacent riparian buffer and floodplain areas.

Shelby County Government has evaluated the following alternatives and mitigation measures to be taken to minimize adverse impacts and to restore and preserve natural and beneficial values: • Building a Levee • Building a Berm • Adjusting the existing geometry and elevations of the creek Shelby County Government carefully evaluated all three options based on factors such as constructability, cost, and impacts. Both the Levee and Berm Options were not viable options due to several negative impacts, including: 1. Significantly higher construction costs 2. Increased maintenance of infrastructure and pumping requirements during flood events, etc., including costs to maintain structures 3. Disruption of hydrology on the landside causing potential localized flooding 4. The construction of a berm or levee had significant impacts on the adjacent neighborhood.

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ugh Balthrop, the owner of Sweet Magnolia Gelato Company, has a vision for his new production space.

He’d like to have a commercial kitchen in the back, with retail up front. A glass wall would separate the front from the back, so customers would be able to see how the gelato gets made.

“It’d be like an interactive experience,” Balthrop says.

Sweet Magnolia has to move from its current production space in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Balthrop has been considering new spaces in Clarksdale, Oxford, and Memphis. A North Mississippi spot would be good for his employees, Balthrop allows, and Oxford has a kitchen that is already FDA-approved.

“This has been one of the most challenging decisions I’ve ever made in my life in terms of business,” Balthrop says.

He admits to feeling a pull from Memphis. “We’ve been around for almost eight years, and we made our first retail partner in Memphis. It was Miss Cordelia’s, and they gave us our first opportunity and then we got into Whole Foods and we’re in a lot of restaurants [in Memphis].”

Balthrop likes Downtown and

Midtown for options, and he’s particularly keen on the Edge District, though he thinks that it would take two years to get production up and running, and he knows that gelato waits for no man.

The good news is that Sweet Magnolia is opening its first retail location at 409 South Main, the food hall which features City Block Salumeria, Civil Pour, Dee’Lightful Bliss Bakery, and more. He hopes to be open by May 1st. (It has been reported that Sweet Magnolia was taking over the ice cream parlor at Railgarten, but

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The good news is that Sweet Magnolia is opening its first retail location at 409 South Main, the food hall which features City Block Salumeria, Civil Pour, and more.

At the new store, Balthrop is planning to collaborate with Dee’Lightful Bliss, which already serves the gelato on its skillet cookie.

There will be milkshakes and cookie sandwiches and pints to buy (think classics like strawberry cheesecake, brown sugar and bourbon, and honey vanilla) as well as Affagatos (gelato

spiked with espresso). There will be JustWater for sale. (Will Smith’s son Jaden is behind JustWater, which is sold in cartons rather than plastic bottles) and Shotwell and Phillip Ashley candies. There may be something cooking with Civil Pour.

Ultimately, Balthrop hopes to franchise Sweet Magnolia some day.

The gelato is currently available at about 100 places from Memphis to the Gulf Coast all the way to Atlanta. sweetmagnoliagelato.com Dipsticle Artisan Gelato Cafe is located in Cordova at the Trinity Commons shopping center, near the Kroger and next to Cedars restaurant.

It opened in 2017. New ownership took over in December.

The first order of business for the new owner Katrina Younis: marketing.

Younis studied business in college and applied what she learned. She took to social media, posting images on Instagram of Dipsticle’s gelato on a stick (some dipped in chocolate, some not), along with some of happy customers.

She went on Twitter and Facebook. She began actively pursuing events where her product fit. (One such event was the Grind City Coffee Expo.) Anything to get the Dipsticle brand out there.

Dipped and drizzled treats from Dipsticle Artisan Gelato Cafe

One thing Younis never considered was changing the name. “It’s a fun name,” she says, adding that it fits because of the option of having a chocolate-dipped pop.

“We recommend dipping,” she says. “It’s absolutely delicious.”

Dipsticles offers around 25 flavors — cookies and cream, caramel coffee cake, pistachio, orange cream, mango and green apple sorbets. They also have assorted coffee drinks and milkshakes.

Then there’s the wafflsticle — a waffle on a stick. The waffles are red velvet,

Belgian (regular), chocolate, and cinnamon. And, yep, it can also be dipped in chocolate. They look sort of like corndogs.

Younis says she had yearned to own a business, and the gelato biz seems ideal for her. She loves to experiment in the kitchen, and she has a pretty big sweet tooth. “It’s been crazy busy,” she says, “but so much fun.”

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At 409, Sweet Magnolia has secured a spot at the window and there will be a floating bar there, so guests can check out the South Main flow. Balthrop ordered a special display cabinet from Italy that keeps the temperature gelatoappropriate. And, right now, Balthrop is hooking up with local farmers to secure the best, freshest ingredients.

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The documentary Wrestle is, on its face, a film about an Alabama high school wrestling team trying to win the state championship. But director Suzannah Herbert says it’s about a lot more than that: “The film is very intimate, but it gives you a more empathetic view into problems our society faces — things that affect all of our lives, in big and small ways.”

Herbert is a native Memphian — a product of Snowden and Central High School — who, along with co-director Lauren Belfer, spent six months in Huntsville, Alabama, embedded with the J.O. Johnson High School wrestling team. “It was a failing school that Huntsville was shutting down,” Herbert says. “They were weary at first, because they didn’t want anything terrible coming out about their school system. But we were clear that we wanted to make it about the wrestling team, and show their lives on and off the mat. Eventually, we were able to

gain access right before the season started.

It was great, because we really wanted to capture this final season, and their journey to the Alabama state championships. As far as gaining trust from the wrestlers and their families, I think the fact that we decided to live in Alabama for six months and not just parachute in and out really was instrumental in building these relationships. It was clear that we were in it, and we became a part of the team, because we were at every practice, every tournament. I think that trust was built after a couple of weeks, because we were not in and out of their lives.”

Out of the hundreds of hours of footage they shot, Herbert and Belfer focused their story on four individual wrestlers and their young coach. The team’s unlikely run at the state championship comes against a background of grinding poverty, depression, and drugs. In one riveting scene, a minor brush with the law while on a trip to a meet turns tense very quickly. It’s hard not to wonder what would have happened to the kids had the cameras not been there. Since the audience has so much invested in the characters, the tightly edited sequences of the wrestlers in action are extra riveting, and the sport itself

In Suzannah Herbert’s Wrestle, the students of the J.O. Johnson High School wrestling team are up against more than just the opposing teams.

takes on added meaning. “It really is a beautiful metaphor, in terms of what they’re doing in their lives, and then they get out there on the mat all by themselves,” Herbert says.

“It’s a very mental and visceral sport.”

Wrestle had its Memphis premiere during Indie Memphis 2018 at a packed screening at Playhouse on the Square. It went on to win the Ron Tibbett Excellence in Filmmaking Award and the Audience Award for Best Documentary. The film had an extremely successful festival run, garnering 11 awards all together. The film made year-end lists, and it was eventually picked up by Oscilloscope Labs, the New York-based distribution company founded by late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch.

Herbert says meeting audiences at film festivals has “made it all worth it, in a way. People have very emphatically expressed just how much they care, how they have

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Herbert will be in Memphis on Wednesday, April 3rd, when Indie Memphis will present Wrestle at Malco Ridgeway, as part of their regular weekly

film series. Then, on Friday, the film will open at the Malco Cordova Cinema for a week’s run, with a Q & A with the director on Friday night moderated by filmmaker Laura Jean Hocking, and on Saturday night by Commercial Appeal film critic John Beifuss. “It’s pretty rare to have a small, independent film in Memphis theaters for a whole week, so I’m excited to get the film to audiences there, in my hometown,” says Herbert. “This film is very small in scope, but it has huge implications and big themes.”

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Snow Cones and Nazis

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

The billionaire Reimann family — owners of Krispy Kreme, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Panera Bread, Dr. Pepper, Stumptown Coffee, and a long list of other brands in your pantry and bathroom cabinet — recently confessed that their progenitor was a straight-up Nazi. Albert and Albert Jr., who died in 1954 and 1984, respectively, didn’t speak of those days. The Reimann heirs believed a 1978 report had uncovered all there was to see about their family’s Nazi past.

They maintained that they were “reluctant” employers of slaves and prisoners of war in their chemical plants: That was the cost of doing business back then. Further research, commissioned by the family a few years ago, revealed otherwise. Father and son were avowed anti-Semites and early donors to the SS. Huge Hitler fans.

“They belonged in prison,” a family spokesman told German newspaper Bild. The Reimanns pledged to donate $11 million to charity after learning the extent of their ancestors’ crimes.

“Never get another dollar from me again,” one Twitter user said. “And I bet I’m not alone.”

Others: “Oh well, another business I don’t have [sic] patronize.”

“You have no loyalty and made a lot of enemies.”

“Never buying a snow cone from y’all again.”

Okay, wait. My bad. I must have gotten my notes mixed up. Those quotes aren’t about the Nazi bagel family. That story barely registered a blip on the outrage meter; I stumbled across it five levels deep into the Washington Post app.

No, those comments were a sampling of responses to locally beloved icy treat purveyor Jerry’s Sno Cones after they tweeted a picture of an orange UT-themed Jerry’s shirt with good luck wishes for the Volunteers in the NCAA Tournament. For this apparent mortal sin, a small army of snow cone snowflakes masquerading as “real Tiger fans” bullied @ConesJerry into deactivating their account.

If you weren’t convinced by now that Twitter has outlived its usefulness as a medium for polite and reasonable conversation, re-read the sentence above. It’s the most embarrassing thing a handful of people has done in the name of “Tiger Nation” since the Calipari lawn vigil a decade ago.

I only wish the person running the account — probably some teenage employee trying to build a portfolio for job applications — had been empowered to respond appropriately: “We’ll sure miss you in the line this summer, @TiptonTyger5892335. We hate to lose a regular.” Or “When the Tigers make the tournament, we’ll post something for them, too.” They could have turned off notifications and deleted the app for a few days.

Shortly after Jerry’s was “canceled,” Purdue sent the Vols and their orange-and-white trousers back to Knoxville.

Twitter is the only place where acknowledging the existence of other universities in the state is viewed with frothing rage as an affront to “901 loyalty,” because who would say that out loud? That’s the beauty/agony of the platform. You don’t even have to consider whether your tweet is thoughtful, right, or stable. Just chuck it like a Frisbee and hope someone catches it.

And if someone calls you out for saying something ridiculous?

Well, they need to learn how to take a joke. I swear, for every connection I’ve made on that website, there are at least two asinine takes I wish I’d never read.

Want to be angry at a business? There are so many to choose from, and so many legitimate reasons. Get mad that one chicken restaurant can’t stop bankrolling anti-LGBTQ organizations or disrupting traffic on Poplar. Stay forever mad that one family owns almost every bagel and coffee chain in America — a fact that depressed me before I learned they’re a couple generations removed from actual Nazis. Look around and observe all the conveniently timed exterior projects in Memphis: How many companies could have spent their tax cuts on payroll and hiring, but opted to paint the building gray instead? Shake your fist at pay inequality, crappy family leave policies, CEO compensation, and all the other gross side effects of capitalism.

Instead folks are pitching fits over a snow cone stand and an orange T-shirt. Very cool.

Jen Clarke is an unapologetic Memphian and digital marketing specialist.

Tennessee traitors?

Nope, it’s Jerry’s Sno Cones.

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