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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. — Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” While many of you were at Beale Street Music Fest or at the movies or drinking yourselves silly with craft beer last Saturday night, I spent the evening watching “Nerd Prom,” otherwise known as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Yes, I know, I need to get out more.

The WHCD is an incestuous affair, one in which the Beltway elite dress up and endure polite jabs from the president, and then, after the the leader of the free world’s remarks, get skewered more forcefully by a comedian. This year’s dinner went pretty much true to form, except that comedian Larry Wilmore of The Nightly Show had the bad fortune to follow a president who had funnier material and a better stage presence.

Obama took shots at Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Reince Priebus, Ted Cruz, and, of course, Donald Trump. He was in rare form, obviously feeling some relief that this would be the last such dinner he would ever have to attend. “Next year at this time,” he said, “someone else will be standing here in this very spot, and it’s anyone’s guess who she will be.” Ow. The president even poked fun at himself in a video in which he received “advice” on retirement from former Speaker John Boehner, who offered Obama a cigarette and suggested that having a beer in the morning wasn’t the worst idea ever. Which is true.

At the end of his speech, when Obama literally dropped the mic, I thought about how much I’ll miss having a president with a sense of humor and an ability to be self-deferential, a national leader who can be joyful and use Snapchat and charm children and shoot hoops with Stephen Curry — and bear with grace and humor the most vitriolic and coordinated attacks on a president’s character in my memory.

I can’t imagine Donald Trump, for instance, ever making fun of himself. To do so requires genuine self-confidence, not the insecure macho bluster that is Trump’s stock in trade. As we trundle toward what now appears inevitable — a presidential contest between Trump and Hillary Clinton — I cannot help but feel the country is taking a step backward, with two candidates in their late 60s, neither of whom seems in touch with the nation’s current zeitgeist.

Even so, the choice between Trump and Clinton will be not a difficult one for me, nor will it be for the majority of Americans, if current polling is to be believed.

In 2012, Obama beat Mitt Romney in an Electoral College landslide, and it’s unlikely many Democratic voters will switch to Trump in 2016. There simply N E WS & O P I N I O N aren’t enough angry, xenophobic white LETTERS - 4 people to swing a national election NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 4 to the GOP. Nor are there enough THE FLY-BY - 6 Democratic voters who “feel the Bern” POLITICS - 10 of Sanders’ efforts to tackle the country’s SPORTS - 11 increasingly troubling income disparity.

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Letters and comments from Flyer readers are actually the majority — to be vocal in providing an alternative viewpoint when those with a political agenda try to conflate them and to point out that faith doesn’t demand archaic views.

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About Jackson Baker’s Viewpoint “Restless Bedfellows” …

Isn’t there some mouth-breather in the Tennessee House who can be persuaded to introduce bills to sell off TVA, rescind all divorces, and make missionary the official state coital position. Just to move things along here.

CL Mullins

The current Republican transgender bathroom scare is just more of their crusade and fearmongering against gays, trying to fool an inattentive American public.

For all the anti-gay evangelicals who haven’t been out of their own bathrooms in years: Get a grip! Bathrooms have been transgender all over the world for decades. We were in Europe 30 years ago, and both sexes, all sexes, were using the same toilets. Heaven forbid!

The latest farce by Republicans and religious extremists will blow over, just like their marriage-equality brouhaha.

Then Republicans will put some other sexual taboo on the table to stir up their religious base.

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One Way or Another Officials plan new traffic pattern as Saturday events poised to pack Overton Park.

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Expect Overton Park to be packed Saturday as great weather and a raft of events predict a “perfect storm” for traffic, and expect to drive through the park in a whole new way or take a new shuttle.

On Saturday, the Overton Park Conservancy (OPC) will debut a new traffic plan in which most interior park roads will flow one way. Also, shuttles will run into the park all day from two off-site locations. This plan came as OPC has “been working with our partners to prepare for the inevitable parking and traffic congestion on that date.”

The inevitability comes as the Latino Memphis Festival gets started on the Greensward after a 5K through the Old Forest, Café du Memphis (a New Orleans-themed fundraiser for the Dorothy Day House) kicks off at 9 a.m., the Brooks Museum of Art hosts its Party for the Century, exams at the Memphis College of Art (MCA) Saturday are followed by an Art in the Park artists market, and OPC said it expects the forecasted weather to bring many to the park’s golf course.

Also, the Memphis Zoo is expecting peak crowds for its new Zambezi River Hippo Camp, which opened last weekend. However, rain dampened attendance for the new exhibit’s debut.

“This is what we call a perfect storm,” OPC said in a statement on its website.

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Traffic Flow All traffic around the heart of the park — from Poplar and Tucker around the Brooks Museum, to the Doughboy statue, around MCA, and back to Poplar near Cooper — will flow clockwise.

Morrie Moss Lane and Prentiss Place will continue to flow both ways between McLean and Poplar. Cars can enter at Poplar near Cooper but will be directed left at Golf Drive.

Old Forest Lane, the street that runs back to the Rainbow Lake playground, will be closed. Museum Drive, the street in between the Brooks Museum and the Levitt Shell, will also be closed.

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On its Sunday evening broadcast, WMC-TV identified 38-year-old window flasher Kasey Collins as a “Peeing Tom.” According to the Memphis Police Department’s Facebook page, Kasey was accused of standing outside his victims’ windows, “while exposing himself and fonding [sic] himself.” There was no mention of urination.

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This map illustrates the new traffic pattern planned for Overton Park.

This traffic flow pattern is one of the many recommendations made by consultants in a recent traffic and parking report commissioned by the OPC. Shuttles Two pay shuttles will run all day to and from the park from First Baptist Church at Poplar and East Parkway and Idlewild Church at Union and Evergreen. The shuttles will run to stops near the Brooks and one near the golf clubhouse.

Parking in the lots will be free, but the shuttles will cost $2 each way or $5 for an all-day pass.

GREAT APES WREG reports that the Memphis Zoo has named its new baby orangutan “after naming contest,” which seems like an odd thing to do. Contesta, maybe? Or N.C., perhaps? All this time your Pesky Fly thought they’d named it Rowan, because, like most orangutans, it has red hair.

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Wine & Food Series The Grand Artisan’s Dinner May 20, 6:30–9:30 pm at the James Lee House Grand Auction May 21, 5–9 pm at the Brooks Museum Image taken from the Hassan Hajjaj exhibition My Rock Stars on view May 26–September 4, 2016. Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars was organized by the Newark Museum.

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Council Action The new traffic plan comes as the Memphis City Council readies a new city law that will solidify the results of months of talk between OPC and the Memphis Zoo, which are scheduled to conclude on June 30th.

The talks are expected to yield some long-term solutions for parking (namely the zoo’s use of the Greensward for overflow parking) at the increasingly popular Midtown park.

“We fully expect the ordinance to be amended by third reading to reflect the compromise reached by the parties in a way that is best for park users, the zoo, and the great city of Memphis,” Council Chairman Kemp Conrad said.

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If Tennessee were to restructure marijuana laws, Parkinson said there would be a socioeconomic benefit for the state.

“My goal next year is to remove the automatic intent to distribute for an ounce of marijuana or less out of the law,” Parkinson said. “I would like to legalize both medicinal and recreational marijuana and base it on Tennessee growers. We’re an agricultural state. I would like to see our state capitalize on an industry that can help people medicinally. We should [also] legalize it and put that money toward education.”

Like drug courts as an alternative to jail cells, Love said medicinal marijuana could potentially become a pain management option to combat prescription drug addiction.

“I’m not on the side that says legalize and tax it,” Love said. “I’m on the side that says, ‘How can we help people who are in pain be relieved without an addictive drug in their system?’ But the reason it’s important is students would lose their financial aid, and people might not be able to apply for jobs — all because they had a felony on their record for a half-ounce or less. ‘Or less’ is half of a joint.

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A person convicted six times of driving under the influence will now face a Class C felony in Tennessee. Meanwhile, those possessing a half-ounce or less of marijuana will be charged with a misdemeanor regardless of the number of previous possession charges on their record.

Gov. Bill Haslam signed House Bill 1478, sponsored by Rep. William Lamberth (R-Cottontown), into law last week.

The new law, which will go into effect July 1st, creates a three- to-15-year prison sentence and fines up to $10,000 for drunk drivers and eases repercussions for simple possession of any drug, including cocaine and heroin. It may signal a perception shift regarding drug sentencing in the state.

“In 2014, we had 1,904 people arrested [in Tennessee] on small amounts of marijuana possession,” said Rep. Antonio Parkinson (D-Memphis), a co-sponsor of the bill. “That’s a lot of loss of jobs and opportunities. If you had one blunt or one gram of weed over a half-ounce, you could face the same sentence as someone would for killing someone.”

Nearly half of the country has legalized medicinal marijuana, and four states have legalized weed for recreational use. Tennessee passed a law in 2014 that allowed seizure patients access to cannabis oil, but they must travel across state lines to obtain it. Co-sponsors of HB 1478 hope the legislation will bolster dialogue that furthers medicinal access and saves taxpayer money by reducing incarceration.

“We discovered the state was spending $1.7 million per year for [incarcerating people for] a half-ounce or less of marijuana,” said Rep. Harold Love (D-Nashville), who also co-sponsored the bill. “I think this bill will change the perception of how we deal with drug sentencing, treatment, and addiction in Tennessee. I’m not suggesting in any way that this is the gateway to legalizing marijuana, but I do think it helps with sentencing.”

Though people of all races smoke pot, arrests tend to disproportionately affect African Americans. Eighty-three percent of Shelby County’s drug possession arrests in 2010 were of African Americans, the American Civil Liberties Union found.

More so, states spent more than $3.6 billion in marijuana possession enforcement.

Using marijuana can also result in a violation of probation or parole in Tennessee. Some judges will revoke or raise a person’s bail if they screen positive for marijuana, says Josh Spickler, executive director of Just City. This contributes, Spickler says, to about 35 percent of state prison admissions being the result of parole violations.

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POLITICS By Jackson Baker

Break in the Weather Relative quiet on the political front, but new storm clouds are on the horizon.

The political situation, locally as well as statewide, might appear to be in something of a lull, but the apparent calm could well presage something of a storm.

That would certainly seem to be the case at this week’s committee meetings on Wednesday of the Shelby County Commission, where at least two of the agenda items are sure to generate sparks.

One is a referred-back-to-committee item on funding the Shelby County District attorney general’s office to deal with car and body cameras employed by law enforcement; the other is a Shelby County Schools audit report and a discussion of SCS’ capital improvement needs.

The request by D.A. Amy Weirich’s office for $143,378 to pay for “additional personnel and equipment to process in-car and body-worn cameras” got a turndown two weeks ago by what amounted to a skeleton crew of commission members meeting under the rubric of the commission’s law enforcement committee.

It fared little better when presented to the full commission at last Monday’s regular public meeting. Though there were advocates to go ahead with the funding matter, there was significant opposition as well, particularly relating to the body-cam issue, which turned out to have enough jurisdictional, philosophical, and fiscal overtones to justify a 10-1 vote for another committee go-over — this one sure to be more fully attended.

The SCS matters are sure also to generate some close attention as the commission swings into the initial stages of its budget season. This is especially so, given the school district’s emergency request for an additional $40 million to stave off Draconian cuts, accompanied by some heated exchanges back and forth between the commission and the SCS administration and board.

• The 2016 legislative session of the Tennessee General Assembly is formally over, but questions regarding what it did and didn’t do are still provoking serious — and, in some cases, heated — reactions.

Mary Mancini, the chair of the Tennessee Democratic Party, scheduled a press conference for Tuesday of this week “to discuss the recently ended legislative session and the upcoming elections.”

According to Spencer Bowers, the TNDP communications director, actions to be discussed (which is to say, deplored)

at the event, scheduled for the steps of the War Memorial Building, include the passage of a bill allowing professional counselors to reject gay and transgendered clients on the basis of “sincerely held principles” and another allowing college and university employees to carry weapons on campus, along with Governor Bill Haslam’s refusal to veto the bills. The agenda for the Democrats’ press conference also included mention of an expanded list of Democratic candidates running in congressional races and in legislative races across the state, to challenge the Republicans’ current supermajority status in the General Assembly.

On Wednesday, three prominent Shelby County Republican members of that selfsame General Assembly will present their own takes on the legislature’s deeds, misdeeds, actions, and omissions at a noon luncheon of the National Federation of Independent Business at Regents Bank on Poplar Avenue.

The legislators are state Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris of Collierville, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Brian Kelsey of Germantown, and House Education Committee chair Mark White of Memphis. The trio will surely have both satisfactions and disappointments in the wake of the late session. Their complaints are likely to be in an opposite direction from those of Mancini and the Democrats.

• There is, however, one lament in which the official statements of the two parties are close to being on the same page. This is in regards to the matter of Measurement, Inc., the North Carolina company entrusted with preparing and grading testing materials for the state’s new TNReady program of student/teacher evaluations.

Days after public statements by Haslam disparaging the performance of Measurement, Inc., the Tennessee Department of Education revoked its contract with the company, which failed to generate workable materials for online testing and then failed to deliver printed testing materials as well, for any but grades 9 through 12.

In a press conference at the Raleigh legislative office, state Representative Antonio Parkinson (DMemphis), state Senate Minority Leader Lee Harris (D-Memphis), and SCS School Board member Stephanie Love slammed the unreadiness of the TNReady program. Parkinson called for a three-year extension of the current moratorium on expansion of the state’s Achievement School District and for scrapping of any official testing procedure until a satisfactory one might be developed.

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Kranz and Collins made their appointments with Memphis City’s playing philosophy firmly in mind. “On the offensive side, we’re both big fans of ball possession,” Kranz says. “We want players who can bring very strong foot skills and understand how to play a patient yet penetrating style.” A possession-heavy game is utilized by some of the top European teams, such as Barcelona and Bayern Munich, and has led both organizations to sustained success over the past few years. In addition, the possession game makes for a much more entertaining experience for both casual and hardcore fans, as it promotes an attacking style of play.

Memphis City’s home game against Little Rock, a 3-3 draw at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex, showcased early signs of an offensive playing system. While it takes time to implement that style, the team was finally able to take to the field this week for their first official training sessions with a full roster. Backed up by the fan group, Rogue Squadron, look for Memphis City Football Club to live up to its motto of “Memphis Rising” when the regular season begins on May 7th.

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sell the club. New ownership moved the team to Alberta, Canada. After a solitary season in new territory, the franchise closed.

Such mistakes might seem like a distant memory, but Memphis City FC’s owners made sure everything was in place for a stable foundation this time around. Cofounders Doug Kranz and Dan Collins are both passionate about the game and have experience at the grass-roots level. Their drive to start a team was fueled by their love of the game and a desire to provide more for local fans.

“Dan and I met to discuss how we wish there was more for the [soccer] fans in the area,” says Kranz, who is also the president of Memphis City FC. With a clear vision in mind, Kranz and Collins fixated on the best league for Memphis. “We found the NPSL [National Premier Soccer League] is a perfect match because it’s a U.S. Soccer Federation-recognized league that really affords business owners freedom to operate.”

With their options open, Kranz and Collins were able to look for candidates to fit their vision of what the team would be. Their selections provide a mix of local and global experience. Matt Williams, last year’s assistant coach for the University of Memphis, has been chosen to lead Memphis’ new soccer team, while board members Tom Byer and Mads Davidsen have international experience

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A 5-4 aggregate loss might not be what the organization had in mind for its first two games, but Memphis City Football Club can walk away proud from its first competitive efforts. The I-40 Cup, fought between Memphis City FC and Little Rock Rangers, was a pre-season tournament with an aim to capture the “I-40 Trophy” and, more importantly, possession of the I-40 Traffic Cone given to the current title-holder. While this could plant the seeds for a relatively new rivalry, the final score line of the two-legged affair suggests thrilling, end-to-end games could be in store for local soccer fans.

Memphis City FC picks up the soccer mantle long since vacated by the Bluff City’s last organization, the Memphis Rogues. That team began playing at the Liberty Bowl in 1978 but quickly moved into a downward spiral that would end three years later with the team’s exile to, and finally, its dissolution in Canada.

Memphis Rogues head coach Malcolm Allison’s brief tenure began with a failure to sign enough eligible outfield players. His pre-season blunder pushed him out the door before the season began and contributed to the issues that plagued the team for the rest of the season. The Rogues finished third in the division and missed the playoffs.

Things only got worse from there. The following season, the players went on strike, leading to a disastrous last-place finish. That, coupled with a dwindling fan base, led to an abject third season that forced the owners to

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“The substance of this bill doesn’t address a group, issue, or belief system.

Rather, it allows counselors — just as we allow other professionals like doctors and lawyers — to refer a client to another counselor when the goals or behaviors would violate a sincerely held principle.

I believe it is reasonable to allow these professionals to determine if and when an individual would be better served by another counselor better suited to meet his or her needs.” — Governor Bill Haslam, April 27, 2016 Re SB 2376 — allowing employees of colleges and universities to carry concealed weapons on campus: “I am letting SB 2376 become law without my signature. I have long stated a preference for systems and institutions to be able to make their own decisions regarding security issues on campus, and I again expressed this concern throughout the legislative process this year.

Although SB 2376 does not go as far as I would like in retaining campus control, the final version of the bill included input from higher education and was shaped to accommodate some of their concerns.

“Ultimately, this legislation was tailored to apply to certain employees in specific situations, it provides protection

from liability for the institutions, and it requires notification of law enforcement before carrying on campus. I hope that as a state we will monitor the impact of this new law and listen to the feedback of higher education leaders responsible for operationalizing it.” — Governor Bill Haslam, May 2, 2016 Re SB 812 — providing an alternate means for alleviating hunger: “I am letting SB 812, the so-called ‘Johnathan Swift’ bill, become law without my signature.

No idea for resolving the all-too-prevalent problem of hunger in the state’s lowincome communities can be dismissed out of hand, and particularly not when the proposed solution also addresses such collateral issues as over-population and ever-proliferating child-care costs. Granted, the bill’s provisions for a requisitioning of dependable supplies of infants for consumption would seem to call for a fiscal note, but this would seem to be minimal, given the mechanisms also prescribed in the bill for out-sourcing responsibility to private vendors for procurement and all necessary food-preparation procedures.

“The idea of converting excess child flesh into edible commodities for the relief of hunger will clash with the moral sensibilities of some of our citizenry, and for this reason, I am withholding my signature. We cannot ignore either that the motivating idea behind this bill originated from a certified man of genius three centuries ago within the cultural umbrella of a kindred English-speaking nation. It is time to give this idea the fair test without which its efficacy cannot be judged.” — Governor Bill Haslam, May 1, 2017

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Democrats will have to pay the price to get Sanders and his supporters on the team.

What does Bernie Sanders want in exchange for endorsing Hillary Clinton?

And what can Clinton and the Democratic Party give Sanders to get him to campaign aggressively for her in the fall, harnessing the voting power of the passionate, mostly young, white, left-wing voters who favor him?

Obviously, Sanders expects a primetime speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention. Neither the Clinton camp nor the party’s leadership will have a problem with that demand. But what if he wants to be the vice presidential candidate on a Clinton-led ticket? That’s a reach.

Sanders’ “socialist” label is a liability in a general election. The Vermonter will hurt Clinton’s effort to win support from political moderates, especially older voters.

Sanders would also be a bridge too far for Republicans disenchanted by their party’s wild primary season and the prospect of either Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz as the GOP’s presidential candidate.

But if Sanders is not to be made the prospective veep, Democrats will have to find something else to give him. He has exceeded all expectations during the primary season. The depth of his support was underlined by his three strong victories in Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington. And Democrats fear him mounting a thirdparty run along the lines of the populist campaign run by Ralph Nader in 2000 that arguably gave the White House to George W. Bush.

The heart of this troublesome political puzzle for Democrats is how to get Sanders’ passionate supporters to line up behind Clinton. In early March, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found a third of the people voting for Sanders saying they “cannot see themselves voting for Hillary Clinton in November.” The Nation magazine reported recently that “nearly 60,000 people have signed the ‘Bernie or Bust’ pledge,” vowing to remain loyal to him even if Clinton wins the nomination.

President Obama is now getting involved in this escalating debate. According to The New York Times, the president privately told Texas Democrats that Sanders’ continuing campaign against Clinton stalls party organizers, donors, and activists from getting started on beating the GOP in the fall campaign.

The president and leading Democrats in Congress are all but calling for Sanders to get out of the race now. The Democrats’ unstated anxiety is that Clinton, while a clear winner among primary voters, does not set the campaign trail on fire. Sanders and Trump, the leading candidate for the GOP nomination, are arsonists by

comparison. Sanders has continued to condemn a “corrupt campaign finance system which is undermining American democracy.” Clinton’s campaign is taking money from political action committees while Sanders’ is not.

Sanders is also casting an unfavorable light on Clinton by celebrating the “energy and excitement” of his crowds and claiming that it is because “we are telling the truth.” He does not mention Clinton, but the comparison is obvious, if implicit.

Sanders’ big issue is income inequality.

He continues to accuse Clinton of being too close to Wall Street, further arguing that this makes it implausible that she will rein in wealthy bankers and hedge-fund managers. It is easy to see how his followers might be convinced Clinton is the no-change, establishment candidate and become permanently turned off to her.

Sanders’ lack of formal connection to the Democratic Party is another part of the problem. At an Ohio town hall meeting, he admitted having considered running for president as an independent but decided to run as a Democrat because “in terms of media coverage, you have to run within the Democratic Party.”

Sanders has continued to condemn a “corrupt campaign finance system.”

Last year, former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner (D), whose wife Huma Abedin is a top Clinton aide, publicly expressed the reservations Democratic insiders still have about Sanders.

“What exactly does he think he’s doing in a Democratic presidential primary?”

Weiner wrote in Business Insider last July.

“Why is he asking for the nomination of a party he always avoided joining? Now he wants to not only be a member of the party but its standard bearer?”

To bring Sanders inside the camp, Democrats will have to do more than make him a TV star at the convention.

They will also have to put Clinton, union organizers, and money behind his issues, creating a permanent movement inside the party for a living wage, for lower-cost college education, and a sharper critique of Wall Street.

The party is going to have to buy into Sanders if they want him to buy into them.

Juan Williams is an author and political analyst for Fox News Channel. His latest book is We the People.

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A steady rain was falling from ominous, dark clouds over downtown last Friday, and the occasional thunderclap was so loud, the earth seemed to vibrate. But it was the first-annual We Jump the World Day, a worldwide celebration of parkour and freerunning, and the Memphis Parkour group wasn’t about to let a little bad weather ruin their good times.

A planned parkour meetup outside Bass Pro Shops was moved at the last minute to a dry spot in a covered enclave behind Alfred’s on Beale. It was there that I watched Kevin Hetzler run down a covered alley, scale a flight of stairs, use his hands to propel himself over a concrete wall, and then jump up to grab a stair railing that he proceeded to climb — all the while followed by his buddy Navii Heru filming the sequence with an iPhone camera on a selfie stick.

A few minutes later, 17-year-old Anna Holt, a life-long ballet dancer who told me she just started practicing parkour a couple months ago, hopped a stair railing, lifted herself up onto a wall, and then jumped off the wall into a front flip on the concrete below before landing gracefully on her feet.

After the sequence was done, she grinned from ear to ear as her mother, who sat watching from a concrete bench, beamed with pride.

I stayed for more than a hour as Hetzler, Heru, Holt, and University of Memphis student Kenneth Shields took turn after turn demonstrating new ways to jump, swing, run, and vault over the architectural obstacles in their path. When I left to head back to the office, they were still going strong — rain be damned.

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Parkour and freerunning — terms that may or may not be interchangeable depending on who you ask — are athletic disciplines that involve running, jumping, climbing, vaulting, swinging, rolling, flipping, or pretty much any movement used to get from one point to another.

Watching its practitioners (called traceurs) in action is akin to watching primates moving around in a jungle — hopping over brush, using their hands to propel them over logs, swinging from branches, doing whatever it takes to move over obstacles with grace and speed.

The parkour scene exploded in the U.K. back in the early-2000s, and it caught on in the U.S. soon after. But the parkour scene in Memphis didn’t emerge until a few years ago, mostly as a sort of underground

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Parkour’s roots trace back to 1902, when French naval officer Lieutenant Georges Hébert rescued more than 700 people from an erupting volcano on the Caribbean island of Martinique. Hébert was inspired by watching the survivors move — some successfully and some not so much — through obstacles in their path. The experience caused the well-traveled Frenchman to become interested in the physical development and movement skills of the indigenous

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When attempting to schedule an interview with Heru, I suggested we meet for coffee.

His response: “Overton Park is nice. And not a big coffee drinker, sorry.” That’s when it dawned me — of course, you’re supposed meet up with a parkour guy in his natural environment. continued on page 16

Hang on — classes at Co-Motion Studio include Parkour for Everyone, Sundays 1-2 p.m.; Low Impact Parkour, Sundays 2:15-3:15 p.m.; and Parkour Skills (13+), Tuesdays 6:30-7:30 p.m. Sign up at comotionmemphis.com.

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pastime for athletic males in their late teens and mid-20s. But now, thanks to the efforts of a few Memphis parkour enthusiasts, the art is moving to the mainstream, attracting kids as young as 3 and adults of all ages to a series of classes hosted weekly at Co-Motion Studio in Crosstown. Co-Motion parkour coach/Memphis Parkour member Jonathan McCarver has seen such success that he’s planning to open a dedicated parkour gym near the airport this summer.

“I see a big boom for Memphis Parkour this year, at least by the end of the year.

Memphis Parkour has been around about seven years, but it’s really just now breaking into the scene,” says Hetzler, a 27-year-old traceur who helps coach both the teen and all-ages classes at Co-Motion.

people he’d seen in Africa and elsewhere.

He drew on those movements to create a military training discipline that uses running, climbing, and man-made obstacle courses to recreate a natural environment. He dubbed the discipline “the natural method,” and it eventually became the basis for French military training. French soldiers in the jungles of Vietnam used the style to develop what they called parcours du combattant, meaning “the path of the warrior.”

In the early 1980s, former French special forces soldier Raymond Belle, who had trained under that style, passed it on to his son David, who was already training in gymnastics. David and his best friend Sébastien Foucan used those skills to create the modern discipline of parkour, which, in a nutshell, simply meant getting from point A to point B — over, under, and through obstacles in one’s path — in the most efficient way possible.

They called its practitioners traceurs and started a parkour group called the Yamakasi.

The Yamakasi style was featured in a 2001 French film of the same name, and the movement exploded in Europe.

“It took a long time to make it to the States, but it flourished all over Europe,” McCarver says.

Foucan eventually split from the traditional parkour style by adding flips and wall spins — moves that may not be the most efficient way from one point to another but still look really cool. Remember the famous scene in 2006’s Casino Royale where James Bond chases the bad guy through a construction site — flipping, running, and eventually climbing and balancing on a beam hundreds of feet in the air? That bad guy was played by Foucan.

While it was originally developed as a military tactic, these days parkour is more about fun than military prowess.

“Historically, you could say that parkour is more tied to functional capabilities, but that doesn’t matter anymore. Everyone is doing it to have fun,” McCarver says. “It encompasses all of the arts of movement that are just moving your body through your environment. It’s broad and it’s vague, and that’s what makes it interesting.”

There are no rules in parkour or freerunning, which sets it apart from traditional gymnastics, an art that utilizes specific equipment in a specific way. And although there are parkour competitions these days, it wasn’t really intended as a competitive sport.

“Competitions are less in the spirit of parkour. People tend to associate it with things like American Ninja Warrior, and it has strong crossover, but that’s not really parkour training,” McCarver says.

There’s a World Freerunning Parkour Federation (WFPF), and they certify coaches, but even that organization’s mission statement is intentionally vague in keeping with the spirit of the art.

From the WFPF mission statement: “We aren’t here to argue or try to regulate what Parkour/Freerunning is or is not, and we certainly don’t have any interest in actions that result negatively for the community. We encourage all individuals to find their own training, to discover new ways of seeing their environment, to be pathfinders for us all as they overcome whatever obstacles seem to be standing between them and where they dream of going.”

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We met up at noon in the picnic pavilion near the Rainbow Lake playground, and Heru, a tall and lanky 29-year-old who looks like he was built to flip, pointed out the various spots in the park where he’s sustained minor injuries practicing parkour.

“I sprained all 10 toes right there. I sprained my ankle over there,” Heru says with a chuckle, pointing in different directions.

Heru, who calls parkour “ninja acrobatics,” got his start about six years ago, inspired by a parkour video game called “Mirror’s Edge.” Now, he’s a parkour coach at Co-Motion Studio.

“I was watching the character move, and I was like, man, that stuff is totally doable. I started researching moves and watched a few tutorials, and then I just took off. I practiced by myself for about a year and a half, and then I Googled and found the Memphis Parkour Facebook page and Jonathan McCarver.

“He said he’d meet me one Sunday on the East Parkway side of Overton Park, so I met him there. And all these other guys showed up and started jumping in,” Heru says.

The Facebook page is primarily used to organize spontaneous meetups, sometimes thrown together an hour before meetup time. The traceurs often meet in Overton Park or spots around downtown or the University of Memphis.

“Surprisingly enough, we’ve never been kicked off the [Shelby County] Courthouse lawn. We use those big ole chunky concrete walls and the stairs,” McCarver says. “Beale Street Landing would be good, but they hate us. They made signs to discourage us from training there.”

Heru, who works at Subway by day and as a security guard at night, says parkour has not only given him “monkey strength,” it’s also helped him overcome depression.

“It’s a really good stress reliever. Parkour unwinds me, and it teaches me to overcome life’s obstacles, like being depressed. It’s like a Zen-meditation-type thing. It’s like a vacation inside yourself,” Heru says.

McCarver, 33, who works as a software developer at Lokion and does a little acting in local theater, discovered parkour after watching the action movie District B13 about 10 years ago.

“They used all of these skills, and I looked up parkour and found out what the discipline was. It was like, oh cool, there’s a name for what I’ve done my whole life.

I’ve always been a movement person,” McCarver says.

Hetzler, who had previously studied kung fu and admits that he’s “always wanted to be a ninja,” began practicing about a People all over town are flipping for year ago after learning about the Memphis parkour at Co-Motion Studio.

Parkour group. For him, it all started with a magical night run.

“I finally got in touch with Jebediah [a member of Memphis Parkour], and he took me out for a run. I was brand new, fresh, green. We went outside and played on the vault box a little bit, and then he said, ‘Are you ready?’ before he took off running through his apartment complex.

“I just started following him, jumping over what little I could. We climbed through a hole in the roof of his apartment building, and that’s when I realized I couldn’t turn back.

But I made my way up, and the sun was going down. I just smiled and thought, this is it.

We ran for about five hours that night.”

It wasn’t long after that McCarver, Heru, and Hetzler began teaching classes together at Co-Motion.

“Parkour is about finding yourself and learning who you can be,” Hetzler says.

Of course, there’s a practical side, too.

“I’ve never had to run for my life, but I have been on my way somewhere in a hurry and used my parkour skills to get me there faster,” he says. “Someday, if someone is burning in a building, I want to be able to run in and save them. I’ve always had a superhero thing.”

And that points to, perhaps, the most important thing about parkour — it’s fun.

“We’re actually in the midst now of putting together some kind of gig where we dress as superheroes and entertain kids,” Hetzler says. “So now I can work on my superhero status.”

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the floor as the five students — mostly teen boys and one 34-year-old man — took turns bounding off a wooden block, diving through the hoop, landing in a front flip onto a mat, jumping onto a wooden vault box, and then jumping down to a balance beam. A death metal jam by Paranoia blared over the speakers, adding to the high energy in the large cavernous space.

Hetzler was there as well, demonstrating McCarver’s instruction as the boys followed his lead. Hetzler effortlessly sprang from a wooden box on the black-and-white tile floor, glided through the hoop, and managed a front flip before landing smoothly on his feet.

“I love teaching the kids. They’re really my soft spot because they’re still innocent. They don’t understand the hardships of life,” Hetzler told me after class.

Co-Motion Studio in Crosstown is primarily a hula-hoop dance studio, offering classes in hooping, yoga, and, occasionally, belly dance or hip-hop dance. But on Tuesday nights and Sunday afternoons, it transforms into a parkour gym as McCarver uses mats, wooden vault boxes, old tires, and balance beams to create an obstacle course for students.

The Tuesday night class is for teens and adults, and the skills taught are more advanced.

McCarver says it currently attracts mostly teen boys, but a few girls and older adults come from time to time.

He encouraged me to pop by one Sunday afternoon to watch the all-ages class, and it was a completely different scene. Although that class is advertised for all ages, the class has become more of a youth class, attracting lots of little kids and a few tweens. On the Sunday I dropped by in late April, there were about 15 kids ranging in age from 3 to 12. Parents stuck around to watch, and some even helped coach.

During the the warm-up, McCarver instructed the kids to crawl like zombies, using only their arms to propel themselves as they drug their legs on the floor behind them.

Hetzler and Heru crawl around with the kids, too. And once the zombie kids made it around the room, a couple of parents gave it a try.

After the warm-up, McCarver, Hetzler, and Heru broke the kids into small groups to work on mastering the cartwheel. Some kids got it immediately, and others, try as they might, landed with plops on the mat over and over again.

One of the parents, Charles Mitchell, watched as his 4-year-old son, a cute blonde kid named Graham, bounded around the room. Mitchell says he enrolled Graham in parkour when he was 3.

“I read about parkour in a book called Natural Born Heroes, and I started researching it and watching videos. I thought my son would enjoy it,” says Mitchell, a local defense attorney. “I can tell it’s really benefitted him in his natural movements and his balance and spacial recognition. Whether he ends up playing traditional sports like soccer or baseball, what he learns here will translate to that.”

While the Sunday class caters to all ages, adults who aren’t parents might feel more comfortable in the Sunday low-impact class, which, while advertised to all ages, tends to attract students well into adulthood. I signed up for a low-impact class to see what it was all about.

The room was set up in a similar fashion to the advanced Tuesday night class, with mats, balance beams, and vault boxes arranged in an obstacle course of sorts, but McCarver assured me that I wouldn’t have to do anything I wasn’t comfortable with. As an injury-prone runner with a half-marathon on the horizon, I told him I’d rather not try flipping in the air.

McCarver led me (I was the only student that day) in an hour of instruction that involved using my arms to lift my body up and over high wooden vaults, doing shoulder rolls on a mat on the floor, and learning to balance on beams a few inches from the floor.

Nothing dangerous or out of my comfort zone but certainly things I didn’t realize I was capable of. The next day, pain in my left shoulder was evidence that I’d worked muscle groups that don’t get much action in my day-to-day. I’ve clearly got a long way to go.

Susan Penn, 66, is a regular in the Sunday low-impact class, and she says it’s opened her up to new ways of moving her body. Penn, who also takes hula-hoop classes and yoga, is accustomed to physical activity, but she recently brought a friend who has some mobility issues to class, and McCarver customized the moves for her.

“It’s interesting how you can adapt physical activity to people with a variety of limitations in a way that’s fun and healthy. Old people tend to stop moving, and they shouldn’t,” Penn says. “After going to class a few times, I began to see more possibilities and ways to get around obstacles. Parkour is making me more playful. It’s making me try things that I suddenly feel like I might be able to do.”

For now, Co-Motion is the only place in town offering parkour classes, but McCarver is working on transforming a warehouse space at 2850 Lamb Place near the airport into a dedicated parkour gym. He doesn’t have an exact opening date in mind yet but says he’s aiming for some time after Memorial Day. “At Co-Motion, we have space constraints, and we have to set up equipment and take it down for every class. We’ll be able to have things set up all the time, and we’ll have taller obstacles,” McCarver says.

He says he’ll keep some of the Co-Motion classes though, for those parents and students who would prefer the Midtown location. Once the gym is up and running, he hopes to expand parkour’s impact in Memphis even further.

“My mission is to show any person at any age and any skill level that, not only can they do parkour, but they can get healthy through fun and movement and play without repetitive, boring exercise,” he says. “I just want to get people moving.”

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Brazil knows how to pitch a party. Every year, for four days preceding Ash Wednesday, the country shuts down for Carnival. It’s Mardi Gras writ large, with parades rolling day and night, revelers packing the sidewalks, and colorful costumed characters dancing in the streets. Although Carnival season has already passed down in São Paulo, Memphians can still march to samba rhythms and savor the aromas of churrasco when Latino Memphis’ annual festival pays tribute to Brazil in Overton Park this weekend.

The Latino Memphis’ festival started small with a 5K followed by a salsa competition. Like the community it celebrates, the festival has grown, then blossomed into a day-long event highlighting the diversity of Latino culture.

Latino Memphis’ communications director Fabiola Cervantes promises “Samba dancers, Brazilian martial arts, and a Brazilian pavilion where you’ll be able to taste Brazilian food and learn all about Brazil in this huge, colorful tent at the center of the festival.”

There will also be a a Brazilian-infused Zumba class, samba dance classes, mask and musical instrument-building workshops, a soccer clinic, and more. Festivities kick off at 9 a.m. The parade, led by the University of Tennessee at Martin’s percussion ensemble, starts at 11:30 a.m. Festival-goers are invited to to dress up in costumes and bring musical instruments to play.

Because parking is limited, organizers are encouraging people to carpool and ride bikes, and the first 75 cyclists to arrive will receive a gift. They have partnered with the Roo bus, which will shuttle festival attendees from parking locations at Christian Brothers University, Idlewild Church, and First Baptist Church.

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Urban Barn Market Woodruff-Fontaine House, noon-6 p.m., $5-$10 Sale featuring vintage and antique goods. Continues Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

The Fix Is In TheatreWorks, 8 p.m., $10-$12 Our Own Voice presents this play steeped in noir about a detective dabbling in dope, drink, and dames.

OUTloud Show Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 9 p.m., $5 suggested donation Comedy show with Mary Jay Berger, Chad Riden, and Josh McLane, plus music by Alex Alexion and HEELS. Ghost of the Blues The Orpheum, 7 p.m., $35-$85 A “tent revival” of the best of the blues from the ’50s and ’60s. A portion of the proceeds goes to the Blues Foundation fund to help old blues musicians in need of medical care.

Memphis Greek Festival Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

Huge annual festival celebrating all things Greek. Includes food, dancing, and sanctuary tours. What more do you need?

“My Element” L Ross Gallery, 6-9 p.m.

Opening reception for new paintings

by Annabelle Meacham, who is known for her fantastical works.

Café du Memphis Overton Park, 9 a.m.-noon, $7-$15 A meal of shrimp and grits, beignets, café au lait, mimosas, and more benefiting the Dorothy Day House of Hospitality.

Cuisine of Canada The Peabody Hotel, 7 p.m., $75 Highlighting the cuisine of this year’s Memphis in May honored country. The menu features raw rockfish, maple-glazed smoked bison, and red beet cake. Reservations: 529-4000.

Vunkbaum prove two heads are better than one.

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By Chris Davis Vunkbaum is a portmanteau combining the names of Ray Vunk and Barry Buxbaum, two process-oriented Memphis artists whose symbol-laden work is complementary but stylistically dissimilar. Buxbaum loves negative space, texture, and surfaces.

Layers of milky wax give his illustrative encaustic paintings depth. Vunk prefers busy collages that are flat, neat, hardedged, and heavily graphic. “Putting all of that together creates this really interesting tension,” Buxbaum says.

There’s another thing the artists’ share: a deep appreciation of one another’s work. “I’m one of Ray’s biggest fans,” Buxbaum says. “We’d just never thought of collaborating before,” Vunk answers. Buxbaum, again: “Because our styles are so different.” The sentence-completing artists were friends at the University of Memphis in the ’90s, but had fallen out of touch for years. Shortly after reconnecting they acquired a large board and set out to see what kind of art they might make together.

Two Heads, is the title of Vunkbaum’s first jointly created multimedia work and the name of an exhibit of work by both artists opening at Jay Etkin gallery Friday, May 6th and on display through June 4th. The nine-piece show features four works each by Vunk and Buxbaum. The one large collaborative piece combines encaustic, acrylic, charcoal, and collage to depict a mad tumble of carousel horses, deer heads, mermaids, tiny skeleton kings, churches falling through space, and sad little row houses. “So you can really see the whole story,” Buxbaum says.

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Symphony in the Gardens Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 6-8 p.m., $20 Outdoor concert by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Bring your lawn chairs and picnic baskets.

Booksigning by Sally Mann Memphis College of Art, 7 p.m.

Photographer Sally Mann signs and reads from her book Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs.

Booksigning by Rheta Grimsley Johnson The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 6:30 p.m.

Rheta Grimsley Johnson signs and discusses her book The Dogs Buried Over the Bridge: A Memoir in Dog Years. A portion of proceeds from book sales goes to Real Good Dog Rescue.

Star Trek Month CTI 3D Giant Theater, 4 p.m.

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his Friday, Seattle alt-rock icons the Posies will roll through Memphis for an already sold-out show at a secret location to promote the group’s eighth studio album, Solid States, in a nearly 30-year history. Co-founding members Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer should be no strangers to followers of the Memphis music scene, as they were the backbone of the Big Star reunion that started in 1993, alongside original members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens (the two were inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame as a part of Big Star in 2014). Stringfellow, who has also served time in R.E.M., Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, and, most recently, Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, spoke to the Flyer this week.

The Memphis Flyer: Why did you guys decide to do this tour in this format, secret shows at non-traditional venues?

Did your recent house-show tour with Holly Munoz (Texas singer-songwriter) influence that decision?

Ken Stringfellow: Definitely, Holly’s way of touring opened my eyes. I know bands do house concert tours. I know there’s an entire agency, Undertow, who does only house-concert tours. But the tour Holly and I did was not just house concerts. We played in a few different kinds of spaces — a cave, a chocolate factory, the NASA Johnson Space Center. For the Posies, most houses would be too small, but we found some incredible spaces to do the tour.

For this tour, so much is different

— the way our label functions, the fact we have a new drummer, the fact we’re touring with electronic accompaniment. We thought it would be great to do a paradigmatic shift in the way we tour as well.

You and Jon have spent a fair amount of time in Memphis over the years.

How connected to the city and the music scene here do you feel?

Well, we’re in the Memphis Music Hall of Fame! And we love coming to Memphis. The core of people around Big Star and Ardent are super important to us.

Are you surprised by the continued and increasing interest in the music of Big Star?

The range of Big Star’s influence and the protective loyalty of that fan base is definitely astonishing. Until you consider the quality of the music. Then it’s more like, “of course.” It’s some of the greatest music of all time, from which, behind the scenes, many of the indie-rock notions we take for granted were generated.

Most of the people I’ve spoken to who knew Alex say he would have hated all of the attention the band has received lately, especially for the Third album.

Do you think that’s true?

Oh my goodness. Yes. He would have definitely been against any kind of celebration or edification or museumizing of Big Star’s music.

How did Solid States come together?

We started the writing process in early

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Was it hard to adjust to playing live along with electronics and a metronome?

Credit is due there to Frankie [Siragusa, the Posies’ new drummer], who really brought the Ableton elements to life.

Jon and I spent some time in Berlin last year learning how to use Ableton, but I have to say Frankie made it come to life, and as the guy who has to play drums to the metronome, makes it feel spontaneous and real every night. We didn’t rehearse together until the week before the tour, so we had no idea if it was going to work. I mean, there’s the Ableton stuff, and then there’s playing with a new drummer. As great as Frankie is, I was unsure how this would really work live — chemistry, groove, etc. Also, I added a synth to our lineup, and on this tour I have the piano and synths in front of me, and I play those and guitar at the same time.

I understand that Solid States is currently only being sold at your shows and won’t be widely available until after the tour. Why did you decide to “soft release” the album this way?

Just to shake it up. Drive the tour ticket sales. Like Led Zeppelin used to say: “We don’t tour to promote albums. We release albums to promote the tours.”

The location of the Posies secret show will be announced the day before the performance.

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What inspired the increased use of electronic and synthesized elements on Solid States?

It’s kind of where music is these days.

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2015. We basically blocked off January to write and demo and share things with each other. A lot of the recording, then, was done in February, each of us working in our respective home studios. The idea was to add drums last and let the electronic elements take the foreground. Then, something unimaginable happened, when our drummer of 15 years, Darius Minwalla, died suddenly.

There was no going back to the way things were — we almost didn’t find the strength to go forward. It was a major shock. We did regroup and the record entered a second phase, where several new songs were written or completed as a way to deal with this loss. Darius is a major part of the album. It’s dedicated to his memory.

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Ryan Azada, Dirty Fences, Colleen Green and more…

Now that the weather is warming up and festival season is here, there’s plenty of reasons to get out of the house and catch some local bands as well as touring acts.

Here’s a smattering of shows worth your attention, starting with Thursday night’s indie rock show at Amurica.

Ryan Azada EP release at Amurica Studio, Thursday, May 5th.

Frequent Julien Baker collaborator Ryan Azada releases his debut EP Weird, But Cool this Thursday night, alongside locals Pezz, Choir Vandals, and Forrister. Weird, But Cool is a three-song EP recorded at the Pezz studio last winter with OAM Network founder Gil Worth manning the controls. Julien Baker, Matthew Gilliam, and Rebecca Flax play on “Madison and Cleveland” and “What Can I Say,” while Scott Scharinger of DADS (6131 Records) plays on the single “Return to Nothing.”

Azada’s debut EP features some of the same style of esoteric guitar work that catapulted Julien Baker into the limelight, and his lyrics are also incredibly personal, much like Baker’s. Amurica doesn’t host shows very often, and with veteranpunks Pezz on the bill, this gig should deliver. Doors are at 8 p.m., admission is $10, and the show is all ages.

Dirty Fences and Faux Ferocious at Bar DKDC, Thursday, May 5th.

After you’ve checked out what the bands at Amurica have to offer, cruise on over to DKDC to catch Nashville garage rockers Faux Ferocious and New York’s Dirty Fences. Dirty Fences played Murphy’s a year or two ago, and their mix of classic rock and ’70s metal instantly won over the crowd. The band tours often and has tight connections with L.A. rockers the Shrine, who absolutely destroyed Scion Rock Fest three years ago. Dirty Fences wrap their month-long tour up at DKDC on Thursday, so the band should be road-tested and ready to shred.

Switchblade Kid at Murphy’s, Friday, May 6th.

Switchblade Kid founder and front man Harry Koniditsiotis must just get tired of playing normal shows. His past few concerts have all been themed, and this gig is no different, as it’s being billed as “a night of comics and music.” The show will feature a pop-up shop from 901 Comics — the new comic shop currently under construction in the CooperYoung neighborhood. Friday will also serve as a launch party for the documentary Who the Hell Is Alfred Medley?

Filmed in New Orleans and Memphis,

the documentary focuses on musicians who are avid comic book readers and the urban legend of Alfred Medley. If comics, music, or stiff drinks are your thing, bring $5 to Murphy’s by 10 p.m., but leave the kids at home for this one.

Colleen Green at 140 Cumberland Street Saturday, May 7th (House Show).

Sometimes a great band comes through town, and, for whatever reason, the show falls through the cracks, like that time a few years ago Black Dice came to Memphis and played downtown to almost no one, or like a week or so ago when Dwight Twilley played Amurica and no one knew about it. Luckily for you, this is not one of those times, but unlucky for the homeowner, because I may have just invited way too many people over.

Colleen Green

Colleen Green has been making waves with her witty pop-punk since 2011, and LA Weekly readers love the hometown songwriter, voting her the Best Solo Artist of 2015. A known supporter of the legalization/decriminalization of marijuana (or, in other words, a Californian), Green crafts hazy pop-punk hooks that fit alongside other California girl-led rock groups like Bleached, Kim and the Created, and Peach Kelli Pop. Also on Saturday’s bill is locals China Gate, the band that’s perfect for the support role on these type of shows.

China Gate has opened for Diarrhea Planet multiple times, who used to feature drummer Casey Weissbuch, who coincidentally played drums with Colleen Green on her latest album I Want to Grow Up. Everything is connected; time is a flat circle and all that. Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser, All People, and Melinda are also on the show.

If seeing one of L.A.’s best songwriters in the comfort of someone else’s home sounds like fun to you, head to 140 Cumberland Street 38112 by 7 p.m. with $5 in your hand. Just don’t tell them I sent you.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule May 5 - 11 and Saturdays, 12:30 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.

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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.

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The King Beez Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.

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

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Kayla Walker Thursdays, 67 p.m.; Ruby Wilson and Family Thursdays, 7-9 p.m.; Susan Marshall Piano Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; Susan Marshall Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.; Nat “King” Kerr Fridays, Saturdays, 9-10 p.m.; Susan Marshall Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m.

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The Johnny Go Band Thursdays, Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Rob Haynes & the Memphis Flash Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.; The Memphis House Rockers Saturdays, 3-7 p.m. and Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.; Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 Sundays, 3-7 p.m., and Mondays, 7-11 p.m.

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Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; North & South Band Friday, May 6, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Delta Project Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson & the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursday, May 5, 8 p.m.-midnight; Tas Cru & His Band of Tortured Souls Friday, May 6, 6-10 p.m.; Bob Margolin Friday, May 6, 10:30 p.m.; Sean “Bad” Apple Saturday, May 7, 5-8:30 p.m.; Janiva Magness Saturday, May 7, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Monday, May 9, 8 p.m.-midnight, Tuesday, May 10, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Wednesday, May 11, 8 p.m.midnight.

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182 BEALE 528-0150

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Gracie Curran Friday, May 6, 8 p.m.midnight, and Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.-midnight; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Monday, May 9, 8 p.m.-midnight, Tuesday, May 10, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Wednesday, May 11, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s

330 BEALE 525-8981

An Acoustic Evening with Eric Hutchinson Saturday, May 7, 8-10 p.m.; Anders Osborne with Mark Edgar Stuart Monday, May 9, 811 p.m.; Young Thug Wednesday, May 11, 8-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blue Hall

183 BEALE 522-9596

Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., and Sundays, 4-9 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.

Live Music Thursdays, 7-11 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Earnestine & Hazel’s 531 S. MAIN 523-9754

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

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

The Chaulkies Sunday, May 8, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Memphis Sounds Lounge 22 N. THIRD 590-4049

Grown Folks Music first Thursday of every month, 7:30 p.m.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

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

The Orpheum 203 S. MAIN 525-3000

Blind Bear Speakeasy 119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

GHOST TOWN BLUES BAND

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays.

Ghost of the Blues Friday, May 6, 7-10 p.m.; The Mother’s Day Southern Soul Fest Saturday, May 7, 7-10 p.m.

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

Live Pianist Thursdays, 5:308:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-9 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and MondaysWednesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.

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F O R M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N V I S I T L A FAY E T T E S M U S I C R O O M . C O M

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.

DEFTONES LIVE AT MINGLEWOOD HALL Metal megastars Deftones hit Memphis this Tuesday for a show at Minglewood Hall. Formed while three of the members were still in high school, Deftones have become one of the biggest bands in alternative metal, with a Grammy award and around 10 million total albums sold. The band’s fanbase is notoriously loyal, and albums like White Pony and Around the Fur are classic examples of mid-’90s nu-metal, before it got repackaged by major labels for MTV consumption. The band also paved the way for indie experimental metal bands like Glassjaw to gain traction, and it could be said that Deftones are one of the first bands to mold nu-metal/experimental metal into what it is today.

Opening for Deftones is Code Orange, the Deathwish Inc./ Roadrunner Records band from Pittsburgh. Formerly known as Code Orange Kids, the four-piece definitely owes a lot of their song structures and writing style to Deftones, although they are most commonly referred to as a hardcore punk band. The band recorded their second album I Am King with Kurt Ballou, a producer who once recorded the first album by Memphis’ own Nights Like These, even though the label they were on eventually asked the band to re-record the album with another producer. Sadly, that session has never been officially released. Code Orange are definitely flying the modern metal-core flag high, and their upcoming album for Roadrunner Records will likely see the band move in a more mainstream direction. Tickets moved fast for this one, and as a result the show is sold out.

— Chris Shaw Deftones and Code Orange at Minglewood Hall, Tuesday May 10th. 8 p.m. $37.50- $40.00. All Ages Purple Haze Nightclub 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

The Peabody Hotel 149 UNION 529-4000

Rooftop Party: Frankie Hollie & the Noise Thursday, May 5.

South Main Onix 412 S. MAIN 901 552-4609

Neo Soul and R&B first Thursday of every month, 7-10 p.m.; Smooth Jazz Fridays first Friday of every month, 8-11 p.m.; R&B first Saturday of every month, 8-11 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Dirty Fences Thursday, May 5, 7:30 p.m.; Marcella & Her Lovers Friday, May 6; Royal Studios presents: Royal Four w/ Tori WhoDat Saturday, May 7.

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Kenny Hayes Thursday, May 5, 7-8:30 p.m.; Ed Finney & the U of M Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, May 6, 9:30 p.m.; The Lesser Knowns with Moses Crouch Saturday, May 7, 10:30 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

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

Quichenight with Pujol Reading and China Gate Friday, May 6, 9 p.m.; Jamie Kilstein with HEELS Saturday, May 7, 9 p.m.; Dead Meadow with Water Spaniel Saturday, May 7, 9 p.m.; Artifas, Small Town Titans, Nocando Sunday, May 8, 9 p.m.; An Evening With: Sebastian Bach Tuesday, May 10, 9 p.m.; PEARS, SVU, Hormonal Imbalance Wednesday, May 11, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Beat Generation Sunday, May 8, 4-7 p.m.; Dead Irish Blues Sunday, May 8, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Half Step Down Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.

Sports Junction 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Live DJ Fridays.; Live music Saturdays.; Karaoke Wednesdays.

800 E. PARKWAY S. 729-8007

Dantones Band Saturday, May 7, 3-7 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room

Wild Bill’s

2119 MADISON 207-5097

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

The Soul Connection Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

Randy & the Radiants Thursday, May 5, 7 p.m.; Brennan Villines Thursday, May 5, 9:30 p.m.; Pam & Terry Friday, May 6, 6:30 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Friday, May 6, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturdays, 11 a.m.; The River Bluff Clan Saturdays, 3 p.m.; Young Petty Thieves Saturday, May 7, 6:30 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; The Wampus Cats Sunday, May 8, 4 p.m.; Hayseed Dixie Sunday, May 8, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Friends Mondays, 6 p.m.; Bluff City Backsliders Monday, May 9, 6 p.m.; Anders Osborne Monday, May 9, 811 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Aaron Lee Tasjan Band Tuesday, May 10, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Ballroom Thieves Wednesday, May 11, 8 p.m.

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Fiesta Brazil Kick-off Party and Drag Show Friday, May 6, 9 p.m.

University of Memphis Triple S 1747 WALKER 421-6239

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

Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill

East Memphis

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Memphis Ukelele Meetup Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m.

Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

Minglewood Hall

Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

An Evening with Floetry, Kris Kelli Thursday, May 5, 7 p.m.; A Day to Remember, Parkway Drive, State Champs Friday, May 6, 6:30 p.m.; Deftones and Code Orange Tuesday, May 10, 7 p.m.

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Mondays-Thursdays, 59:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Switchblade Kid Friday, May 6; Evil Engines and Hauteur Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Howard Vance Guitar Academy

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.

978 REDDOCH 767-6940

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

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

Memphis Songwriters Association Meeting Monday, May 9, 7-8 p.m.

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Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Young Petty Thieves Friday, May 6; Ross Rice Saturday, May 7.

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Shelby Forest General Store

Huey’s Poplar

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Elmo & the Shades Sunday, May 8, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland/Lakeland

Mortimer’s

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant 786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

Karaoke ongoing.

Poplar/I-240 East Tapas and Drinks 6069 PARK 767-6002

Haystack Bar & Grill 6560 HWY. 51 N. 872-0567

Slap Junior Band Thursday, May 5, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Objekt 12 Sunday, May 8, 8-11:30 p.m.; Patio Party featuring Charvey Mac Wednesday, May 11, 5-8 p.m.

Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

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

Live Music Thursdays, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Fridays, 9 p.m.

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

Summer/Berclair Barbie’s Barlight Lounge 661 N. MENDENHALL

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Possum Daddy’s Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

High Point Pub

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Collierville

Old Millington Winery

Mesquite Chop House

Hadley’s Pub

Huey’s Collierville

6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Swingin’ Leroy Thursday, May 5, 8 p.m.; Thump Daddy Friday, May 6, 9 p.m.; Grand Theft Audio Saturday, May 7, 9 p.m.; The Lineup Sunday, May 8, 5:30 p.m.; The Charlie & Juno Experience Wednesday, May 11, 8 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

JoJo Jeffries & Ronnie Caldwell Sunday, May 8, 8-11:30 p.m.

Twelve-String Tom Gorbea, Andrew Cabiago, Leslie Anderson, Amber Dunn Sunday, May 8.

Cordova

Germantown

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

Germantown Performing Arts Center

819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

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

Huey’s Cordova

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

RockHouse Live

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

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

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 6565 TOWNE CENTER, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-536-2200

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

Gold Strike Casino 1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-24K-PLAY

Huey’s Southaven

Owen Brennan’s

Whitehaven/ Airport

Dan McGuinness 3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

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

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Brian Johnson Band Saturday, May 7, 8 p.m.; Skyking Sunday, May 8, 5-9 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

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

Hollywood Casino

Neil’s Music Room

Maria’s Restaurant

7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242

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

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

6439 SUMMER 356-2324

The Crossing Bar & Grill

Almost Famous Thursday, May 5, Friday, May 6, and Saturday, May 7.

Carlos & Adam from the Late Greats Thursdays, 7-9 p.m.; Elizabeth Wise Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.

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

North Mississippi/ Tunica

5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Mondays Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

J.P. Soars & the Red Hots Sunday, May 8, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dantones Sunday, May 8, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

1801 EXETER 751-7500

Memphis Symphony Orchestra Paul & Linnea Bert Classic Accents Series: Beethoven’s Eroica Sunday, May 8, 2:30 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

El Ced & Groove Nation Sunday, May 8, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Pam and Terry Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.

More Than Words 2123 WEST STREET

7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Living Past Sundown Sunday, May 8, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Night Mondays, 8-10 p.m.

Mesquite Chop House 5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

Pam and Terry Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Wadford’s Grill & Bar 474 CHURCH, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5861

662DJ, Karaoke/Open Mic Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Open Mic Blues Jam with Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas

Mystery Machine Band Saturday, May 7, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Southland Park Gaming & Racing

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

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

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

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

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

The New Backdour Bar & Grill 302 S. AVALON 596-7115

Ms. Ruby Wilson and Friends Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke with Tim Bachus Mondays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Ghost River Saturday, May 7, 12-3 p.m.; Wayne Walker Sunday, May 8, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

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Hattiloo’s Marcus has its ups and downs.

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efore reviewing the Hattiloo’s fun but flawed production of Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, I’d like to say just a few words about a special event that happened this past weekend on the Rhodes College campus.

Students and community actors who performed in each of the McCoy Theatre’s 35 seasons returned to Memphis to honor retiring theater professor Julia “Cookie” Ewing. The surprise party/cabaret packed the theater and included a live performance by an ensemble comprised of 43 alumni. Ewing’s the kind of committed, challenging educator who inspires good students to be better students — and better people while they’re at it. She was my faculty advisor. She’s never stopped being my teacher. The abundant love and legacy on display this weekend evidenced Ewing’s virtuoso performance as a mentor to generations. Standing O. Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet shows incredible potential, but is undermined, ultimately, by an inattention to technical detail. A fine group of actors have come together to present the last chapter of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s deceptively challenging “Brother/Sister” trilogy, and with the help of director Dennis Darling, these actors share many fine moments together. Unfortunately, on the night I attended, all those moments happened in near darkness, obscuring faces and hiding the twinkle and the terror in the actors’ eyes. There was no front lighting to speak of and very little texture in either the lighting or scenic design. It’s a superficial problem, but one that makes it difficult for me to wholeheartedly recommend a piece of theater I’d normally want to stand up and cheer about.

McCraney’s a certifiable wunderkind who writes stylized family dramas overlaid with ritual. His sense of community calls to mind the August Wilson canon, but, formally speaking, the two writers couldn’t be more dissimilar. McCraney’s scripts borrow from African mythology, with dialogue so musical his characters sometimes have no choice but to burst into full-throated song. In many regards, Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet is the most conventional play in a set that includes

In the Red and Brown Water and The Brothers Size. But it’s hardly conventional.

Dream sequences weave in and out of an already dreamy narrative while ghosts and confused lovers follow one another through a swampy Louisiana landscape.

In some regards, it’s a lot like Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but with all of the old fairytale’s original mystery and danger restored.

Marcus tells the story of a young man’s sexual awakening and an accompanying compulsion to learn more about his father. Marcus is “sweet” — a euphemism for effeminate. Maybe he’s gay. Maybe it’s more complicated than that. At any rate, the curious young man is trying to learn the secret codes that exist in a tightly knit African-American community where homosexuality is kept on the DL. He wants to make connections, not only with new friends and lovers, but with history and also to some much bigger ideas.

You don’t need to be familiar with the other “Brother/Sister” plays to follow the action, but the show will be richer for those who are. It will be richer still for those who go the extra mile to learn about all the African thunder gods and gender-bending trickster deities McCraney alludes to throughout.

Cameron Yates is so vulnerable as Marcus — able to stop hearts with his quiet reticence and warm them again with shy, schoolgirl laughter.

He’s strongly supported by Mary Ann Washington (Oba), Hannaan Aisha Ester (Shaunta Lyun), Derrick Johnson (Shua/ Oshoosi Size), and an able ensemble cast that is collectively responsible for some of the season’s most satisfyingly human interactions. What’s surprising, though, given director Darling’s background as a musician and conductor, is how all of these interactions occur in the context of a production wanting for shape and dynamics.

I get that much of Marcus’ action occurs at night. The challenge is to create the illusion of evening and shadow while still framing the characters and punctuating the action with light. But instead of blossoming into the bright sunflower it’s supposed to be, this production just kept audiences in the dark.

At the Hattiloo Theatre through May 8th

CALENDAR of EVENTS:

May 5 - 11

The Country House, a group of creative artists have come to their summer home during the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Everyone is forced to come to terms with the roles they play in each other’s lives. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $22-$35. ThursdaysSaturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through May 15.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

The Evergreen Theatre

An Enemy of the People, a doctor discovers that his town’s water is contaminated. Presented by CenterStage Theatre.

Through May 8.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

The Halloran Centre

When It Rains, from 2b Theatre Company in Halifax. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. www.orpheummemphis.com. Sat., May 7, 7 p.m., and Sun., May 8, 2 p.m.

225 S. MAIN (529-4299).

Hattiloo Theatre

Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, conclusion to the Brother/Sister plays is a coming-of-age story about a young gay man in the South. www.hattiloo.org. $18$28. Sun., 3 p.m., and Thurs.Sat., 7:30 p.m. Through May 8.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

Fiddler on the Roof, www. stagedoormemphis.org. Pay what you can. Through May 8, 2:30 p.m., and Thurs.-Sat., 7 p.m. Through May 8.

800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007).

Playhouse on the Square

Memphis, musical based loosely on Dewey Phillips. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $22-$40. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through May 29.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

TheatreWorks

The Fix Is In, noir detective, Jinx Deuce, has had

Memphis musical based on Dewey Phillips at Playhouse on the Square

Senior Arts Series

Big Easy theatrical selections by Hutchison School Theatre Group and music by the Breeze Cayolle Band with reception to follow. $5. Wed., May 11, 1-3 p.m.

it with trouble. Dope, drink, and dames have him hooked, and now the cops have their hooks in him. How will he get back his badge and his honor? $10-$12. Fridays, 8-9:30 p.m., and Sun., May 8, 2-3:30 p.m.

Through May 20.

Night Shift, after-hours cabaret and variety show featuring HEELS, Requiemma, Just Larry, Dan Castillo, and OAM Audio with hostess Katrina Coleman.

(283-3814), www.theatreworks. com. $15. First Friday of every month, 11:45 p.m.

THEATRE MEMPHIS, 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323), CREATIVEAGINGMIDSOUTH.ORG.

O N G O I N G ART

The Annesdale Park Gallery

“Place Keepers,” exhibition of paintings by Jana Travis and Elizabeth Garat. www.annesdaleparkgallery.com. Through May 11.

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S

Jay Etkin Gallery

Opening reception for “Spotlight Series,” exhibition of series I includes recent paintings by Ray Vunk and Barry Buxbaum plus VUNKBAUM: a Collaborative Work. Series II includes recent paintings by Maggie Russell. www.jayetkingallery.com. Fri., May 6, 6-9 p.m.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

Opening reception for “My Element,” exhibition honoring regional artist Annabelle Meacham. www.lrossgallery. com. Fri., May 6, 6-8 p.m.

France’s Mediterranean coast. www.mca.edu. Fri., May 6, 5-6:30 p.m.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

Artist talk for “Knotty Time”

Exhibition of abstract new works by Pinkney Herbert.

Sat., May 7, 11 a.m.

DAVID LUSK GALLERY, 97 TILLMAN (767-3800), WWW.DAVIDLUSKGALLERY.COM.

“The Becoming Tour”

Seasoned storyteller and jazz.

Sat., May 7, 7:30 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

JAY ETKIN GALLERY, 942 COOPER (550-0064).

Memphis Botanic Garden

Call to Artists for UrbanArt Public Art

Opening reception for “Lush Interiors,” exhibition of vibrantly colored mixed-media works by St. Francis Elevator Ride. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Wed., May 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Playhouse on the Square Opening reception for “Côte d’Azur, France,” exhibition of work from students and faculty who recently traveled to

JUNE 13 − 16 STARKVILLE PARK 405 Lynn Lane

JUNE 13 − 16 RHODES COLLEGE 2000 North Parkway

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.

Cultures on Cloth

Exhibit is a collection of native textiles and prints from Baker Lake in the arctic region of Canada. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. Through May 31.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM, MUD ISLAND RIVER PARK, 125 N. FRONT (576-7232), WWW.MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.

Exhibition of objects of inspiration from the Cleveland Street Flea Market transformed into new works of art.

Sat., May 7, 2 p.m.

URBANARTCOMMISSION.ORG.

“Chaotic Alignment”

Exhibition of sculpture, textiles, printed matter, and drawings by Corkey Sinks.

Exhibition on Thursday, artist talk on Saturday. Thurs.,

Boys & girls ages 7-16 are invited to learn from the Pros. Camps include 28 hours of instruction, lunch, reversible jersey, and 2 Grizzlies game tickets. GET DETAILS & REGISTER AT GRIZZLIES.COM/CAMPS JUNE 6 − 9 LIFE TIME FITNESS 3470 S. Houston Levee Road

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

Artist opportunities for murals, sculptures, and more. See website for registration and more information. Ongoing.

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES BASKETBALL CAMP SERIES MAY 31 − JUNE 3 MJCC 6560 Poplar Avenue

May 5, 6-9 p.m.

JUNE 20 − 23 INDEPENDENT PRES. 4738 Walnut Grove Road

MORE CAMP DATES AT GRIZZLIES.COM/CAMPS

Gallery Talk for “Belongings II: Repurposed”

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

Gallery Talk for “White Out”

Exhibition of new painting by Susan Maakestad and special encore performance of Pizza Witch Uprising. Fri., May 6, 7 p.m.

CIRCUITOUS SUCCESSION GALLERY, 500 S. SECOND, WWW.CIRCUITOUSSUCCESSION.COM.

Party for the Century

The Brooks celebrates its 100th birthday with this event featuring performances inside and out, art-making, cake, and more. Sat., May 7, 12-7 p.m.

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

RedBall Project

In conjunction with the Brooks Museum’s 100th anniversary, Kurt Perschke’s 15-foot ball makes its way to various points in the city. Through May 7.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, CALL FOR INFORMATION.

Artist Submissions for “Say Hello to America!”

A juried exhibition exploring the current (absurd?) state of the American political landscape. See website for submission information. Through May 15.

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“do it,” exhibition of flexible and open-ended artist instructions conceived and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Through May 7.

“Flying Colors: Asafo Flags of the Fante,” exhibition prepared

by University of Memphis students. www.memphis.edu/ amum. Through Oct. 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).

ANF Architects

“Collective Exhibit” featuring Dolph Smith, www.anfa.com.

Through May 5.

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

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

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CROSSTOWN ARTS GALLERY, 422 N. CLEVELAND, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

JOURNEY & DOOBIE BROTHERS WEDNESDAY, MAY 25

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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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.

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

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“White Out,” exhibition of new paintings by Susan Maakestad. www.circuitoussuccession.com. Through May 6.

500 S. SECOND.

Crosstown Arts

“Belongings II: Repurposed,” exhibition of objects of inspiration from the Cleveland Street Flea Market transformed into a new work of art. www.crosstownarts.org.

Through May 14.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

David Lusk Gallery

“Knotty Time” and “A Brightness of Hope,” exhibition of abstract new works by Pinkney Herbert and a new body of landscape paintings Bruce Brainard. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through May 14.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“The Impressionist Revolution: Forty Years of French Art at the Dixon,” Through July 17.

“Made in Dixon,” exhibition of artwork created in the Dixon’s 18 educational programs. www.dixon.org. Through May 15.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Sea and Stone: Ceramics and Sketches,” exhibition of work

by Melissa Bridgman. www. eclectic-eye.com. Through June 8.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

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

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Frame Corner Inc.

“Out of Africa,” exhibition of paintings from latest safari in Africa and other adventures

by Debbie Richmond. (6829901). Through May 31.

5056 PARK.

Fratelli’s

Olive Branch Country Club

Village Frame & Art

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

7558 GERMANTOWN (662-895-1555).

Java Cabana

Ross Gallery

Artists’ Link Spring Mix, exhibition featuring painting, photography, sculpture, jewelry, and more by over 40 artists. (458-2521), www. wkno.org/gallery1091.html.

Through May 31.

“Light From My Window,” exhibition of natural-light, still-life photographs by Jon Woodhams. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through June 1.

“Unfolding Stories,” new works by Erica McCarrens.

Through May 5.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

“Call of the Clay,” exhibition of works by Agnes Gordon Stark. www.cbu.edu/gallery. Through May 26.

Memphis Center for Independent Living

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

“The Tribute,” exhibition of portrait as tribute to Deborah Cunningham and other works in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Civil Rights law for people with disabilities

by Sher Stewart. Through May 20.

May 5-11, 2016

WKNO Studio

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Metal Museum

“From the Drifted Ashore House,” exhibition of works in metal and wood from artist Corrine Hunt, of Vancouver.

A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. www. memphisinmay.org/events.

Through May 31.

“Inches From the Earth,” exhibition of work by contemporary metalsmiths inspired by the intimacy and preciousness of plant and insect life. www.metalmuseum.org. Through July 10.

“F.I.R.E. Glenn Zweygardt: Then & Now,” featuring work from periods before and after the artist’s retirement. Through May 22.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

NJ Woods Gallery and Design

“Dog Gone It,” exhibition of work by Debra Edge.

Ongoing.

Triple S

Fun-filled Fridays, open mic poetry, jazz music, and networking mixer. (421-6239), $5. First Friday of every month, 8 p.m.-midnight.

1747 WALKER (421-6239).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

The Fix Is In at TheatreWorks Fridays through May 20th Temple Israel

“Fabric of Survival: The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz,” exhibition of a collection of 36 hand-stitched fabric panels telling the story of a Holocaust survivor. Through May 13.

1376 E. MASSEY (761-3130).

TOPS Gallery

“Island States,” exhibition of free-standing sculpture by Jim Buchman, LaKela Brown, Josef Bull, Renee Delosh, Anne Eastman, Derek Fordjour, Corinne Jones, Brad Kahlhamer, Seth Kelly, and others. www.topsgallery.com. Through June 11.

400 S. FRONT.

Tvesco

“Capture Canada,” exhibition of photography connecting artists in Montreal with Memphis. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. memphisinmay.org/ events. Through May 31.

296 ADAMS (525-4751).

C O M E DY

The Cove

Comedy with Dagmar, open mic comedy. www.thecovememphis.com. Sundays, 7-9 p.m.

2559 BROAD (730-0719).

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

PO E T RY / S PO K E N WOR D

Brinson’s

Strictly Hip-Hop Sunday, featuring open mic, live band, and DJ. $5, ladies free. Sundays, 5 p.m.

341 MADISON (524-0104).

Crosstown Arts

Impossible Language Poetry Reading, two Brooklyn poets, Douglas Piccinnini and Chris Hosea, and Memphis poet Jonathan May will read new work. Wine and beer provided. (507-8030), www. crosstownarts.org. Free. Fri., May 6, 7-9 p.m.

Cathy Faust, Extension Agent for University of Tennessee Extension, Shelby County, will walk through the basics of freezing garden bounty. Tues., May 10, noon.

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

Let Go and Live: Physical and Mental Empowerment

Doctors, legal and financial experts, community leaders, and survivors of physical and mental illness share strategies to live healthier, wealthier, and wiser.

Free. Sat., May 7, 9 a.m.-noon.

Booksigning by Rheta Grimsley Johnson

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

477 S. MAIN.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

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

2016 Spring BFA Exhibition: Part 2. Through May 7.

“Work by Dick Rhodes,” exhibition of plein-air landscape paintings. www.mca.edu.

Through May 7.

2016 Spring MFA Thesis Exhibition: “Hueman,” www.mca. edu. Through May 7.

Brown Bag: My Garden Runneth Over

Open mic nite, www. javacabanacoffeehouse.com.

Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

Author discusses and signs Raymie Nightingale. Sun., May 8, 1:30 p.m.

Memphis College of Art

Memphis College of Art, Nesin Graduate School

Java Cabana

Booksigning by Kate DiCamillo

1633 MADISON (726-6404).

2563 BROAD.

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“Coterie of Artists — Gallery 12,” exhibition of paintings.

Through July 30.

Gallery Artists, exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey, Virginia Schoenster, Lou Ann Dattilo, and Matthew Hasty. Ongoing.

Author discusses and signs The Dogs Buried Over the Bridge: A Memoir in Dog Years. A portion of the book sales proceeds will benefit Real Good Dog Rescue. Adoptable dogs available on site. Tues., May 10, 6:30 p.m.

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), WWW.REALGOODRESCUE.COM.

ANOINTED TEMPLE OF PRAISE, 3939 RIVERDALE (795-9677), WWW.LEDUJOUR.ORG.

“Tolerance Was Never Enough: Race and the Roots of Inequality”

Lecture redirecting focus from advocacy of “tolerance” and “diversity,” diverting attention from the persistence of racial inequality, to confronting racial inequality by Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. of Rhodes College Free.

Sun., May 8, 7-9 p.m.

BETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE, 6675 HUMPHREYS (683-3591).

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

Booksigning by Sally Mann

Innovation and the Courage to Fail, Alliance 11th Annual Conference

Author and photographer reads and signs Hold Still.

Mon., May 9, 7-9 p.m.

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.MCA.EDU.

LECT U R E /S P EA K E R

AIA Luncheon Speaker Series

Selected leading architect Bruce Kuwabara KPMB Toronto and recipient of the RAIC Gold Medal speaks. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. $20.

Through May 14, 11:30 a.m.

UNIVERSITY CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 1346 CENTRAL (722-3700), WWW. MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.

The Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence’s 11th annual conference will host the nation’s top innovators. Keynote speakers is Mason Granger.

Tues., May 10.

TEMPLE ISRAEL, 1376 E. MASSEY (761-3130).

E X POS/SA LES

“Viva Mothers!”

Wear cocktail attire, enjoy the atmosphere and latest fashion collections at this fashion show and vendors showcase. $50-$120. Sat., May 7, 10:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.

STATEHOUSE CONVENTION CENTER, 1 STATEHOUSE PLAZA (501-749-9479), CUPANIFASHION. COM/VIVA-MOTHERS-SHOW.HTML.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Needed: Men with type A+ and O+ blood to support malaria research.

If you are 18 years or older, in good health, and have type A or O positive blood, your blood is needed to support important medical research studies that could lead to prevention of malaria. You will be paid for doing something that could benefit mankind. For more information contact:

1256 Union Avenue, Suite 200 Memphis, TN 38104 901-252-3434

$1.99LB

LIVE CRAWFISH

BY THE BAG STRAIGHT FROM LOUISIANA

RESERVE YOUR BAG!

BY THURSDAY BY NOON FOR THE WEEKEND

547-7997

CALENDAR 19th Annual Hosta Sale and Tour

Over 100 varieties and 1,100 hostas for sale, yard and garden art, Little Hill Farm sedums, plant markets, how-to-grow-hosta books, and more.

Mid-South Hosta Society members will be on hand for guided tours. Sat., May 7, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

PROMO CASH DRAWINGS FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, MAY 6 - 28 AND SUNDAY, MAY 29

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

TWENTY WINNERS OF $250 IN PROMO CASH BETWEEN 6PM - 9PM. FIVE WINNERS OF $500 IN PROMO CASH AT 10PM.

Pop-Up Shop

Join KM Fashions and MD Signature Chocolates for a fun afternoon of shopping and sampling.

Great gifts can be purchased for Mother’s Day. Sat., May 7, 12-5 p.m.

THE MORE YOU PLAY, THE MORE YOU WIN.

HOMEWOOD SUITES SOUTHWIND, 3583 HACKS CROSS (413-1118), MDSIGNATURECHOCOLATES.COM.

RECEIVE ONE ENTRY FOR EVERY 10 POINTS EARNED PLAYING SLOTS AND TABLES. 5X ENTRIES ON SUNDAYS • 10X ENTRIES ON MONDAYS

Tupelo Blue Suede Cruise

Classic Car event with over 800 classic cars and trucks on display. Automotive swap meet. Lots of popular ’50s and ’60s music. Live entertainment on stage. May 6-8, 9 a.m.

WIN TWICE EACH DAY!

Each activated player can win one prize at the 6pm - 9pm drawing and one at the 10pm drawing.

BANCORPSOUTH ARENA, 375 N. MAIN (662-841-6528), WWW.TUPELO.NET.

A K E Y R E WAR DS , PL ATIN U M & ACCESS

F ES T IVALS

Frayser Annual Spring Festival

Enjoy games, activities, music, door prizes every thirty minutes, and a special recognition for mothers. Informational community vendors and various merchant crafts and wares will be available. Sat., May 7, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

ED RICE COMMUNITY CENTER, 2907 N. WATKINS (357-6919).

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE

2X

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3X

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4X

(Excludes Monday, May 30)

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TUESDAYS IN MAY

Two-day outdoor juried fine art festival sale and celebration of the visual and performing arts around the Old Courthouse in Downtown Tupelo. Sat.-Sun., May, 14-15.

A L L D AY • A L L M A C H I N E S Video Poker play earns half the stated amount.

VARIOUS TUPELO LOCATIONS, DOWNTOWN TUPELO, WWW. TUPELO.NET.

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (366-5882), WWW.LATINOMEMPHIS.ORG.

Memphis Greek Festival

Featuring Greek food, dancing, entertainment, kids’ activities, workshops, vendors, and more. Free admission with donation of three food items for the MidSouth Food Bank. Fri.-Sat., May 6-7, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Every Monday in May • Noon - 8pm

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Excludes Memorial Day, May 30

2. Have a valid email address on file and you win $25 in Promo Cash.

3. You’ll be notified by e-mail when your offer is valid.

ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH, 573 N. HIGHLAND (327-8177), WWW.MEMPHISGREEKFESTIVAL.COM.

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Urban Barn Market

This spring’s artfully vintage theme offers one-ofa-kind fine art and fine craft shopping along with unique vintage and antique finds. $5-$10. Fri., May 6, 12-6 p.m., Sat., May 7, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sun., May 8, 12-5 p.m.

MANIA

Sign up for a Key Rewards card, earn 20 points while playing slots or tables. Then swipe your card and guess the seven-digit safe cracker code. If you don’t crack the code, you’ll still win prizes including up to $100 in Promo Cash, a free buffet or a complimentary room night.

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

Must be 21 and a Key Rewards member. See Cashier • Players Club for rules. Management reserves the right to cancel, change and modify the event or promotion with notice to the Mississippi Gaming commission where required. Gaming restricted patrons prohibited. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700.

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Enjoy Brazilian music and performances, food, and fun for the entire familia including 5K Fun Run, Zumba, Samba, shopping, salsa-making championship, outdoor laser tag, and more.

Sat., May 7, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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Free Vision Screenings

Transit of Mercury Viewing

THE EYEWEAR GALLERY, 428 PERKINS EXT. (763-2020), WWW.EYEWEARGALLERY.COM.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.MEMPHISASTRO.ORG.

Reception for “In Remembrance of the Memphis Massacre 1866: And Still We Rise”

H O LI DAY EVE NTS

TOBEY PARK, FLICKER AT CENTRAL, 901VOLLEYBALL5-7.EVENTBRITE.COM.

Commemorative exhibit focusing on survivors of the massacre. Thurs., May 5, 5 p.m.

Cinco K Mayo 5K

SLAVEHAVEN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MUSEUM, 826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

Three-course dinner including blackened Nicoise salad, choice of filet mignon or grilled halibut, and raspberry and chocolate opera cake topped with Grand Marnier ice cream. Sun., May 8, 5-10 p.m.

S P O R TS / F IT N E S S

@901Volleyball Sand/Grass Volleyball Tournament

Divisions will feature 2v2 Men’s Competitive Sand, 2v2 Women’s Competitive Sand, and 4v4 Coed Recreational Grass. Register online by May 4th for cash and prizes. $20-$25 for players. Sat., May 7, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

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For seasoned runners, newbies, and everyone in between. Overall winners get prizes. Preregistration includes t-shirt, free beer (21+), Brazilian barbecue, and goodie bag. $25. Sat., May 7, 9-10 a.m.

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (366-5882), WWW.LATINOMEMPHIS.ORG.

Family Fun Hike

Educational recreation for adults and children of all ages. Second Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m.

SHELBY FARMS, VISITOR’S CENTER, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-7275), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Go Ape Treetop Adventure

Course in Shelby Farms Park open for its second season. Ongoing.

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

Special presentation for “In Remembrance of the Memphis Massacre 1866: And Still We Rise”

Highlighting Lincoln School (Normal School), which became LeMoyne-Owen College, and businessman Robert R. Church. Sat., May 7.

SLAVEHAVEN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MUSEUM, 826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

Jockeys & Juleps

Featuring big hats, bourbon, and bluegrass with a live broadcast of the Kentucky Derby benefiting Southern Reins Center for Equine Therapy. $100. Sat., May 7, 3 p.m.

440 S. SHADY GROVE, 440 S. SHADY GROVE, WWW.SOUTHERNREINS.ORG.

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

MMA at the Fitz THE FITZ, 711 LUCKY LANE (1-800-766-LUCK).

AUDUBON PARK, OFF PARK AVENUE, WWW.NAACPMEMPHIS.ORG.

Mother’s Sweet Tea: A Tea & Tour at Elmwood

Opening reception for “My Element” at L Ross Gallery Friday

The Kids Comedy & Magic Show

LANDERS CENTER, 4660 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662280-9120), WWW.MISSISSIPPIMUSICFOUNDATION.ORG.

“50 Years of Star Trek”

See a different Star Trek movie every Saturday and Sunday in May and visit the Star Trek CTI 3D Giant Theater lobby display every day in May. See website for movie schedule. Through May 31.

Empire Memphis: Official Watch Party Wed., 4-10:30 p.m. Through May 11.

MYNT LOUNGE, 4205 HACKS CROSS (714-365-6441), WWW.EVENTMEMPHIS.COM.

THE TERRACE, ROOFTOP, RIVER INN OF HARBOR TOWN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE (260-3366).

RIVER HALL, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE.

Total Wrestling Explosion

Featuring Mississippi Stomp, Alan Jones, Gena Stringer, and others. For more information on Red Carpet, Awards, and After Party events, see website. $30-$75. Sat., May 7, 3 p.m.

Includes brunch and dinner. Reservations: 2603333. Sun., May 8.

Reservations: 260-3333. Sun., May 8.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.PR-EVENTMANAGEMENT.NET.

2016 Mississippi Music Awards

Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day Buffet

Through May 22.

S P EC IA L E V E N TS

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.SWANKYSTACOSHOP.COM.

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

Swim, Bike, and Run Clinics: 2016 Memphis in May Triathlon

CROSSROADS ARENA, 2800 SOUTH HARPER RD. (662-287-7779), WWW.KIDSCOMEDYKORNER.COM.

Celebrate with live entertainment, drink specials, and more. Thurs., May 5, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

Treat mom in the Japanese Garden. $45 members, $55 nonmembers. Sun., May 8, 10:30 a.m.noon and 12:30-2 p.m.

Pre-registration online. $10-$20. Sat., May 7, 7:30 a.m.

Featuring Kids of Comedy Korner from the Atlanta IMPROV. $15 adults, $10 kids. Sat., May 7, 4:45 p.m.

Swanky’s Taco Shop Cinco de Mayo Party

Mother’s Day Brunch

NAACP Youth Council 5K Run/Walk

KIDS

CAPRICCIO GRILL ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE, 149 UNION, THE PEABODY (529-4000), WWW.PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

CHEZ PHILIPPE, THE PEABODY, 149 UNION (529-4000), WWW.PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

Sat., May 7, 8 p.m.

LATIMER LAKE PARK, 5633 TULANE (483-3926).

Capriccio Grill Mother’s Day Dinner

Celebrate Mom in the elegance of Afternoon Tea in Memphis’ finest dining room. Threecourse menu of savory tea sandwiches, assorted sweets and warm scones, and a selection of teas and caffeine-free children’s teas. $24-$40. Sun., May 8, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Through May 5.

Family fun-filled night of action. Meet former WWE Superstar and Tag Team Champion Trevor Murdoch as well as all the TWE Stars. $10. Sat., May 7, 6-10 p.m.

This rare event will be viewed at two locations, Discovery Playground, Shelby Farms at 9 a.m. and Memphis Pink Palace at 10 a.m. with the Memphis Astronomical Society. Mon., May 9.

Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea

Memphis Redbirds vs. Omaha Storm Chasers

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

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May is Healthy Vision Month. Start protecting your family’s eyes from harmful rays that can lead to all manner of visual problems. Fridays, 2-4 p.m. Through May 27.

“Lace Up”

Exhibit celebrating Canada’s love of ice skating.

A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. Through May 31.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700), MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.

Peabody Rooftop Party

Each week features entertainment, themed snack buffet, and drink specials. $10$15. Thursdays, 6-10 p.m. Through Aug. 18.

Tea and treats in the Lord’s Chapel followed by a special tour called “Stories in Stone,” Victorian symbolism found in the monuments of Elmwood. Registration required. $35. Sat., May 7, 10 a.m.

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

Peabody Mother’s Day Brunch

Celebrate Mom at the “South’s Grand Hotel” with an elegant feast for the whole family. $76, $22 kids. Sun., May 8, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

THE PEABODY HOTEL, 149 UNION (529-4000), WWW.PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

FO O D & D R I N K EVE NTS

Cafe du Memphis benefiting Dorothy Day House of Hospitality

THE PEABODY, 149 UNION (529-4000), WWW.PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

Enjoy shrimp & grits, beignets, café au lait, mimosas, bloody marys, and more served by Rotary Club of Memphis members and volunteers. $7 - $15. Sat., May 7, 9 a.m.-noon.

Stories Told 100 Years

OVERTON PARK, EAST PARKWAY PAVILION (726-6760), WWW.CAFEDUMEMPHIS.COM.

Exhibit showcasing the contributions of the Jewish community through the interesting history of the Jewish Public Library in Montreal.

A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. Through May 31.

Cuisine of Canada

MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.

Famed Chef Guillaume Cantin of Montreal presents a multi-course dining experience at Chez Philippe, Peabody Hotel. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. Call for reservations. $75. Sat., May 7, 7 p.m.

Symphony in the Gardens

THE PEABODY HOTEL, 149 UNION (529-4000), WWW.MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.

Bring your dancing shoes for an evening of big band music provided by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in an outdoor setting. $20. Sun., May 8.

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

CALENDAR Food Truck Garden Party: SuperHeroes/SuperVillains

Feed your inner superhero with eats by local food trucks. Live music by Star and Micey. Take your pic with characters from Cause-Play and 501st Legion Mid-South Garrison. Face painting at the Memphis Parent Play Zone. $5 members, $10 nonmembers. Wed., May 11, 5-8 p.m.

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

International Gala: A Toast to Canada

Canadian International Gala, an evening of live entertainment, dinner, and dance. Fri., May 6.

THE PEABODY HOTEL, 149 UNION (529-4000), WWW.MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.

Memphis Farmers Market Saturdays, 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

MEMPHIS FARMERS MARKET, PAVILION OF CENTRAL STATION, S. FRONT & G.E. PATTERSON AVE, WWW.MEMPHISFARMERSMARKET.ORG.

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Learn about programs, sign up for S.P.A.R.K Summer Camp or the FedEx/St. Jude Classic, grab some food, tour the FireHouse, and meet artist Mosal Morszart. Sat., May 7, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER, 985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522), WWW.MEMPHISBLACKARTSALLIANCE.ORG.

Overton Park Community Farmers Market Thursdays, 3-7 p.m.

OVERTON PARK, EAST PARKWAY PAVILION, WWW.OVERTONPARKCFM.ORG.

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Selected Canadian films will be screened in conjunction with the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa and Indie Memphis. Memphis in May salute to Canada event. $10. Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Through May 31.

MALCO STUDIO ON THE SQUARE, 2105 COURT (725-7151), WWW.MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.

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Hosted by Girls Inc. of Memphis in collaboration with Participant Media and the Malala Fund to galvanize a youth movement for global girls’ rights. Film will be followed by a panel discussion about the role of girls’ voices. Free. Sat., May 7, 9-11 a.m.

MALCO PARADISO CINEMA, 584 S. MENDENHALL (523-0217), WWW.GIRLSINCMEMPHIS.ORG.

Family-friendly outdoor movies begin at dusk at the Central Park roundabout. Free. Every other Friday, 7 p.m. Through Sept. 23.

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Ultimate off-trail adventure into the nation’s awe-inspiring great outdoors and untamed wilderness. Through Nov. 11.

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Wider Angle Foreign Film Series: Secrets of War

Drama about World War II based on popular Dutch children’s book. Two boys with families on opposite sides of the political battle befriend a new girl with her own dangerous secret. Subtitled. Free. Wed., May 11, 6-8 p.m.

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fter working through some internal miscommunication, closing the doors during holiday season for inspection, operating two months without a liquor license, and weathering other tweaks and construction, Bluefin’s new owner James Woo is excited about what he has to offer his customers.

Woo purchased the Main Street sushi restaurant in December after visiting the Bluff City on vacation and chatting up his friend and the eatery’s former owner Jimmy Ishii.

“He was talking about selling, and I thought this was a very nice town and a very nice restaurant,” Woo says. “It is similar to my hometown in South Korea, Kongju. We had a river in the town similar to here where after school we would go and fish and swim.”

Woo, who has worked in the restaurant

business since childhood — his greatgrandfather, grandfather, and father were all in the business — endured a staff walk-out two days into his new ownership because of miscommunication concerning the staff reapplying for their jobs and working for lower wages.

He overcame the complications of living in a new city with no connections and managed to bring in some star sushi chefs, including Sang Park, who worked at Robert De Niro’s famous Nobu restaurant in New York and Nishino in Seattle, as well as Brian Seo from California and two new kitchen chefs.

“One is from Japan and the other worked at the casinos, preparing Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai food,” Woo says.

Woo has launched a new menu that includes a hibachi grill and a continuation of its edgy sushi, and, after rebuilding the lobby bar, also has plans for the small side bar north of the restaurant.

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There he plans to open a coffee and tea bar that also offers healthy smoothies and other alternatives.

“I want everyone to know we are ready and open for business, and we have a new menu,” Woo says.

Bluefin is open Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 11 p.m., Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 1 a.m., Saturday, 5 p.m. to 1 a.m., and Sunday, 5 to 11 p.m.

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Sean’s Cafe and Smooth Moves is also getting an overhaul under new ownership, and even getting a new name.

Californian Rickie Valentino took over the Mediterranean deli and smoothie shop eight months ago and has slowly and quietly added a few new menu items while tweaking some of the old standbys.

“I love this area, Midtown. The restaurants are so eclectic with so many options and styles and cultures. The opportunity came up for this place, and that attracted me,” Valentino says.

With a lineage of Lebanese, Sicilian, and Indian, Valentino has put his own stamp on some of the familiar dishes.

The swordfish, served either as a wrap, $7.99, or a platter, $11.99, which comes as a kebab with rice and two sides, is dusted with jerk seasoning, lemon juice, and peaches.

The turmeric rice is cooked in a chicken base and tossed with celery and carrots, and his shawarma, with either chicken, beef, or leg of lamb, is prepared with red wine vinegar, oregano, lemon juice, olive oil, paprika, and cardamom.

“Essentially, I wanted to create an

atmosphere that offers light, good food,” he says.

He’s even come up with an alternative to French fries — zucchini fries served tempura-style and dusted with panko.

And vegans, take note. Balewa will be back, with his own room on the west side of the shop.

“I think he complements what I’m trying to do with my place really well. He has such extraordinary vegan cuisine, and I think the best-tasting wheatgrass in town,” Valentino says.

As of now, you can still find the restaurant in the e-world under Sean’s Cafe and Smooth Moves both on the web and social media, but not for long.

Soon Valentino will see his own name in neon lights over the establishment under the moniker Rick’s Cafe Americain (yes, just like in the movie) and Smooth Moves and in all the incarnations online.

“There’s been a little buzz going around. I’m excited,” he says.

Rick’s Cafe Americain and Smooth Moves is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Valentino plans on extending his hours and hopefully including delivery.

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Mother’s Day Guide Bounty on Broad Locally sourced, family-style food for everybody! Mother’s Day offers an opportunity to share a warm, relaxed, and eclectic meal with the family in honor of Mom. Give us the privilege of serving your family. Visit our website to make a reservation.

2519 Broad • 410-8131 bountyonbroad.com Capriccio Grill The historic Peabody Hotel invites you to celebrate Mom at our upscale steakhouse eatery. Capriccio Grill offers steak, lobster, and other American fare in a polished, airy space. Call to reserve a table for

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149 Union • 529-4199 peabodymemphis.com Ciao Bella Give the gift of fine Italian cuisine for Mother’s Day! Whether you prefer to eat in the warm ambience of our main dining room or enjoy your meal al fresco on our patio, Ciao Bella offers only the best for your Mama. Call to make a reservation.

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Some of our favorite brunch dishes: Shrimp & Grits, Chilaquiles, Crab Eggs Benedict, Brie French Toast … just to name a few. Open 10:30 a.m.2:30 p.m. Call to reserve your table today. New hours: Tues.-Sat. 4-10 p.m.; Sunday brunch 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; happy hour 4-6 p.m. daily.

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Memphis Botanic Garden Come enjoy Mother’s Day brunch at the garden on May 8th from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Treat Mom to an unforgettable experience in the Japanese Garden!

Gourmet buffet, live music, children’s crafts. Members $45/non-members $55/children 2-12 years $10/under 2 free. $55 at the door, if available. Call 636-4131 for more information.

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Swanky’s Taco Shop Want a relaxed Mother’s Day celebration? Swanky’s pairs fresh Tenn-Mex food, prepared in-house daily, with a laid back atmosphere and accommodating staff to help make your visit as enjoyable as possible. No reservations necessary!

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River Hall Surprise Mom with Mother’s Day brunch at our newly renovated River Hall. Our unmatched panoramic views of the Mississippi will make this Mother’s Day one to remember.

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CHICKASAW GARDENS/ U OF M A-Tan Avenue Coffee Bella Caffe Brother Juniper’s Camy’s The Choo Derae Restaurant El Porton El Toro Loco The Farmer Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Just for Lunch La Baguette La Hacienda Los Compadres Lost Pizza Co. Lucchesi's Beer Garden Medallion Osaka Pete & Sam’s Raffe’s Deli Republic Coffee Rock’n Dough Pizza Co. RP Tracks Woman’s Exchange COLLIERVILLE Bangkok Alley Bonefish Grill Booya’s Cafe Grill Cafe Piazza Ciao Baby!

Corky’s Ribs & BBQ El Mezcal El Porton Firebirds Gus’s Fried Chicken Huey’s Jim’s Place Grille La Hacienda Mary’s German Restaurant Memphis Pizza Cafe Mulan Asian Bistro Pig-N-Whistle The Sear Shack Sekisui Silver Caboose Square Beans Coffee Whaley’s Pizza Wolf River Cafe CORDOVA Bombay House Bonefish Grill Butcher Shop Corky’s Ribs & BBQ Crazy Italians East End Grill El Mezcal El Porton Flying Saucer Fox & Hound Friday Tuna Gus’s Fried Chicken Huey’s Incredible Pizza Company iSushi Jim ’N Nick’s Bar-B-Q Kooky Canuck La Hacienda Pasta Italia Petra Cafe Presentation Room Sekisui Shogun Skimo’s TJ Mulligan’s DOWNTOWN Agave Maria Alcenia’s Aldo’s Pizza Pies Alfred’s The Arcade Automatic Slim’s Bangkok Alley Bardog Tavern B.B. King’s Blues Club Bedrock Eats & Sweets Belle Bistro Bleu Blind Bear

Bluefin Blue Monkey Blue Plate Cafe Blues City Cafe The Brass Door Burrito Blues Cafe Keough Cafe Pontotoc Capriccio Grill Central BBQ Chez Philippe City Market Cordelia’s Table Coyote Ugly Cozy Corner DeJaVu Double J Earnestine & Hazel’s Eighty3 Felicia Suzanne’s Ferraro’s Pizzeria & Pub Five Spot Flight Flying Fish Flying Saucer The Green Beetle Gus’s Fried Chicken Happy Mexican Hard Rock Cafe Huey’s Itta Bena Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Jerry Lee Lewis’ King’s Palace Cafe Kooky Canuck Little Tea Shop Local Gastropub Loflin Yard Lunchbox Eats LYFE Kitchen Maciel’s The Majestic Grille Marmalade McEwen’s Mesquite Chop House Miss Polly’s Mollie Fontaine Lounge Office @ Uptown Café Oshi Burger Bar Paulette’s Pearl’s Oyster House Pig on Beale Pink Diva Cupcakery Rendezvous Rizzo’s Diner Rumba Room Rum Boogie Cafe Scoops Parlor Sekisui Silky O’Sullivan’s Silly Goose South of Beale South Main Sushi Spaghetti Warehouse Spindini Tamp & Tap Texas de Brazil Tin Roof Tug’s Westy’s Yao’s Downtown China Bistro Zac’s Cafe

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Jim’s Place Restaurant & Bar Julles Posh Food Co. Las Delicias Lisa’s Lunchbox LYFE Kitchen Lynchburg Legends Mac’s Burgers Marciano Mayuri Indian Cuisine Mellow Mushroom Memphis Pizza Cafe Mi Pueblo Mortimer’s Mosa Asian Bistro Napa Cafe New Hunan Old Venice Pizza Co. One & Only BBQ Patrick’s Porcellino’s Craft Butcher Rotis Cuisine of India Sakura Sekisui Pacific Rim Soul Fish Cafe Sports Bar & Grille Swanky’s Taco Shop Tamp & Tap Triad Three Little Pigs Bar-B-Q Tokyo Grill Whole Foods Market GERMANTOWN Asian Eatery Belmont Grill Chili’s Corky’s Ribs & BBQ El Porton Germantown Commissary Las Tortugas Mellow Mushroom Memphis Pizza Cafe Mister B’s Mulan Asian Eatery New Asia Petra Cafe Royal Panda Russo’s Sakura Soul Fish Cafe Staks Swanky’s Taco Shop West Street Diner MEDICAL CENTER Evelyn & Olive Sabor Caribe Sabrosura Trolley Stop Market MIDTOWN Abyssinia Alchemy Aldo’s Pizza Pies Alex’s Tavern Al-Rayan Bar-B-Q Shop Bar DKDC Barksdale Restaurant Bar Louie Bari Ristorante e Enoteca Bayou Bar & Grill Beauty Shop Beeker’s Belly Acres Bhan Thai Blue Monkey Blue Nile Boscos Squared Bounty on Broad Broadway Pizza The Brushmark Cafe 1912 Cafe Eclectic Cafe La Roux by DeJaVu Cafe Ole Cafe Society Canvas Casablanca Celtic Crossing Central BBQ City & State City Market The Cove The Crazy Noodle The Cupboard Dino’s Grill Ecco on Overton Park El Mezcal Fino’s from the Hill Frida’s Mexican Restaurant Fuel Cafe Golden India Hammer & Ale The HM Dessert Lounge Huey’s I Love Juice Bar Imagine Vegan Cafe India Palace Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Jasmine Thai Java Cabana

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Keanu

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Save The Cat Key and Peele make the big screen transition with Keanu.

It’s Keanu, starring Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele and an adorable kitten named Keanu.

Blips, a bunch of gangbangers so tough they were kicked out of both the Bloods and the Crips. After bluffing their way into the gang’s strip club headquarters, they find that Keanu is in the hands of their leader, Cheddar (Method Man), who has renamed the feline “New Jack” and dressed him in a do-rag and gold chain. Our heroes are mistaken for the Allentown Boys and sent by the gang boss on a high-stakes ride-along with the rest of the gang, which includes Hi-C (Tiffany Haddish), a flinty, but beautiful, gang captain who catches Rell’s eye. Their mission is to deliver a shipment of a new drug called Holy Shit, which is said to be so potent as to have the effect of “smoking crack with God.” If they succeed in their mission, Cheddar promises to return Keanu as a sign of respect. Lies stack upon lies, and the two nerdy friends find themselves pulled deeper into the criminal world.

Key and Peele’s frantic code switching between nerdy everymen and harder-than-thou gangsters is the best part of Keanu. Key, the taller and more imposing of the two, is especially good when he turns his voice down to a menacing growl to explain to his heavily armed charges why George Michael was an original gangster. The pair’s chemistry, carefully cultivated across five seasons of TV, translates well to the big screen. They have a lot of fun with contemporary action movie cliches, such as the duct tape bandage that magically fixes a horrendous wound, and the seemingly normal guy who, in a fit of rage, becomes a killing machine. The real Keanu Reeves even has a cameo as the voice of his namesake kitten during a Holy Shitinduced drug trip.

Realism and character consistency aren’t priorities for director Peter Atencio, who concentrates on foregrounding his stars’ personas. The result has its moments of good fun, but like many before them who have discovered the difficulty of making the comic transition from small screen to big screen, Key and Peele’s first venture into the movies seems ultimately disposable.

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results in violence towards animals. In Keanu’s case, it was a beagle named Daisy. In Peele’s case, it’s a cat named Keanu. Peele plays Rell, a schlubby L.A. loser who just got dumped by his girlfriend when he finds the cute little kitten on his doorstep. Unbeknownst to him and his cousin Clarence (Key), the kitten belonged to a drug lord who was just whacked by the Allentown Boys, a pair of assassins — also played by Key and Peele — based on the Cousins from Breaking Bad. When Clarence’s wife and daughter go out of town a couple of weeks later, Rell convinces him to go out for a night on the town — which to Rell means seeing a Liam Neeson movie and heading back to his apartment to smoke some weed. But when they arrive at the apartment, they find it has been trashed, and little Keanu is missing.

Rell enlists Clarence on a mission to retrieve the cat, first by shaking down his next-door weed dealer Hulka (Will Forte). Their investigation leads them to the 17th Street

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didn’t know we were looking, but I think we may have found our Martin and Lewis.

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis started out on the radio, and during the early days of television they were the go-to guys for good-natured, massmarket humor. Dean was the baby-faced crooner, and Jerry was the manic comic savant. They were funny, but their humor was not particularly barbed or boundary pushing like their then lesser-known contemporary, Lenny Bruce.

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele hosted five seasons of sketch comedy on Comedy Central, which is the 21st century equivalent of starting out on radio.

Their good-natured, character-based humor hit a chord with Key’s Luthor, President Obama’s “anger translator,” who said what Obama is really thinking underneath his diplomatic exterior.

Keanu is Key and Peele’s first joint outing since the comedy duo’s show ended last September. The premise is the first joke. Like Keanu Reeves’ 2014 vehicle John Wick, the incident that sets off the plot is a home invasion that

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way down by casting Christopher Walken as King Louie and referencing Brando’s performance in Apocalypse Now. Walken delivers a fine take on the song, but not fine enough to erase the memory of the original. Along with “Bear Necessities,” it’s one of only two songs to make it into this version, and that’s the problem in a nutshell. Disney wants to make some kind of slightly gritty reboot of The Jungle Book that will appeal to the hypothetical kids today, but also channel the spirit of the original, but in trying to thread the needle, Favreau takes a middle path that fully satisfies on neither level. The Jungle Book is not quite as inessential as last year’s Cinderella, but ultimately it still fails to justify its own existence.

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The Jungle Book

to keep trying. A drought brings all the animals of the jungle together in a water truce, where they promise not to Iron Man director can’t save eat each other while gathered around Disney’s live action remake. the last pond of drinkable water. It’s here that Shere Khan (Idris Elba) first sees Mowgli. Shere Khan carries scars As my wife said when we were leaving inflicted by a human wielding the “red The Jungle Book, “That was a lot better flower” of fire, and Mowgli becomes than I was expecting it to be.” the focus of his grudge. The angry She’s right. Jon Favreau’s entry tiger threatens the wolf pack if they into Disney’s campaign of remaking don’t turn over Mowgli, forcing the its classic animation titles as CGIboy on a dangerous jungle sojourn heavy live action films is a solid little with Bagheera (Ben Kinglsey), the adventure story starring talking black panther, as his guide. His animals. Mowgli (Neel Sethi, in his ultimate goal is to make it to the feature debut) is one of only two human village, but Mowgli is unsure real humans onscreen. His co-stars if he really wants to go, leaving him are a menagerie of CGI animals that constitutes the film’s biggest achievement. trapped between worlds.

The voice casts are all quite good, The computer-generated animation led by America’s spirit animal Bill and backgrounds on display here are Murray as jovial slacker bear Baloo, astonishing. The animators get all of the little things right, like the ripple of a wolf’s and including Scarlett Johansson as the hypnotic python Kaa and the recently fur or the quiver of a porcupine’s quills, departed Garry Shandling as Ikki the making this one of the visually best CGIporcupine. Favreau and company devise driven films since Avatar. a series of cleanly executed set pieces We meet Mowgli, the foundling to put Mowgli in peril as he navigates raised by his wolf mother Raksha through the dangerous jungle.

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Dear, God, at this point I’m just pissed off. If you are indeed real, are you the one running this universe? Are you the one aligning or misaligning the planets? Are you the one who let Merle Haggard and David Bowie both die earlier this year — on their birthdays, no less? And now Prince? PRINCE? At age 57?

What in God’s name (Oops! Sorry!) were you thinking? Have you lost your mind? I know you have that giveth and taketh away thing going, but really? Prince at 57? I think you can do better. My best friend cried for two solid days about Prince. Are you happy you made her do that? This is one of those losses — like John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and John John Kennedy — that will make us all remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news. I, for one, was having my brain examined in a workshop with my coworkers. You don’t want to know the results. And learning that Prince had just died didn’t help matters at all.

Why don’t you take out someone whom we’d be better off without, like Ted Cruz? Take that idiot now, and give us back Prince. Hell, (Oops! Sorry again!), take Tom Cruise. Take him and all the rest of the Scientologists. We don’t need them.

Oh, dear. I can hear my phone ringing and email pinging now. The last time I mentioned the Scientologists, just in passing, their public relations person at the celebrity center in Nashville contacted me. Apparently, someone in Collierville (Collierville!) turned me in. Who would have thought there were Scientologists in Collierville?

She was all unnerved because I made a crack about them and told me I should call her if I wanted to find out what Scientology was really all about. So I told her, “Look, I had to deal with you people for years when Isaac Hayes was still alive, and you people are freaks. Don’t try giving me the runaround, because I know you, and not one of you is able to explain this without lying through your teeth.”

Prince I don’t think she was too thrilled. I wonder if that’s why I found a dead rat in my bedroom the other morning. No, that was a gift from my tomcat, who also knocked over my flat-screen television (I finally got one!) the other day and caused me to crack a rib trying to catch it before it hit the floor. So now I have a torn intercostal muscle in one side of my ribs and a cracked rib on the other side. AND I have a spider bite on my arm. I’m falling apart. I have high blood pressure, low blood sugar, tendinitis, sinusitis, carpal and ulnar tunnel in my wrists, arthritis, vertigo while driving, degenerative disc disease, horrible allergies, dry eye syndrome, acid reflux, anxiety disorder, and a cyst the size of a fig on my elbow. But at least I have a tomcat!

I also have a handwritten letter on my office wall from former United States ambassador to Germany, Philip D. Murphy, which opens with the salutation, “Dear TimCat.” I kid you not. It ends with the line, “You make me so proud to be an American!” Yes, he underlined it. Can you believe that? He wrote me the letter (by hand!) a few years ago after I took some Stax Music Academy students to Berlin to perform for him and a lot of other people, AND he cried after they performed. So there.

But back to my open letter to God about Prince. Why would you take such a sweet, handsome, fashionable, shy musical genius from us and let all of these terrorists and Republicans stick around to drive us nuts? Is this some kind of a bizarre test? Why not take Donald Trump? Good Lord (Oops! Sorry again!). You’re going to let someone with that hair stay alive and take Prince away from us? Have you even heard “When Doves Cry”? Well, the doves are sobbing their guts out now, so thanks for nothing.

Why not take Marie Osmond, the most frightening person ever to walk this insane planet? Oh, wait. You may have created this planet.

Sorry. But if you did, you could still do better. Look at Houston. All flooded. Oh, sorry. There’s no flooding anymore; it’s “ponding.” When did flooding become “ponding”?

ARE YOU UP THERE? If you are, what are you doing? Deciding which genius musician to take out next? We not only want Prince back, but we also want Alex Chilton as well. We’ll give you Ted Cruz, Tom Cruise, Donald Trump, Marie Osmond, AND Taylor Swift if you’ll give us back Prince, Alex Chilton, Isaac Hayes, Maurice White, Bobby Blue Bland, David Bowie, and Merle Haggard.

Sound like a deal?

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MARK MILSTEIN | DREAMSTIME.COM

An open letter to the Supreme Being about some of his recent decisions.

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