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

A few years ago, I was having lunch with a coworker who proceeded to go on a long and sort of crazy rant about how much she hates it when restaurants bundle their straws with silverware. After that, when someone complained bitterly about something of no consequence, “straws” became a sort of shorthand dismissal.

So where do we stand, Memphis, on plastic straws? Is this as an issue “straws”?

As a single-use plastic, plastic straws are pretty bad. Millions and millions of plastic straws are used each day in America and then tossed out to litter our lands and shores.

Some cities, like Malibu and Washington, D.C., have already banned them. In New York and Hawaii, legislation is pending.

In Memphis, we’re seeing more and more restaurants abandoning the plastic straw.

Janet Boscarino, executive director of Clean Memphis, which oversees Project Green Fork, estimates that about half of Project Green Fork members (about 40 restaurants) have given up plastic straws. But, as of now, Project Green Fork does not include anything about straws in their “6 Steps to Certification” for local restaurants.

“We certainly push for the elimination of single-use plastics, which straws would fall into that category,” Boscarino says.

For Earth Day, Project Green Fork did a program they called “Don’t Suck,” which highlighted recyclable options for straws, including paper and bamboo. “We are certainly trying to raise awareness around eliminating [straws],” she says.

For Boscarino, straws are just once piece of the puzzle in reducing food waste — from bags to food containers to the food itself.

Deni Reilly, owner of Majestic Grille with her husband Patrick, says that restaurant has been straws-by-request since it opened 14 years ago. They only began to use coated paper straws about two years ago. (They go through 12,000 to 14,000 straws in a month.)

Reilly says they’ve always leaned toward being environmentally conscious. They don’t provide water, except for large parties. Their to-go glasses are biodegradable.

She says with a laugh that they do it for the sea turtles.

Octavia Young, the owner of Midtown Crossing Grill, began backing away from straws in 2016 about a year after she opened. She says she was thinking about joining Project Green Fork and started looking at what she could do. She then put up a sign: “Straws are a one-time use item that never biodegrade. Your server will only provide straws upon request in an effort to reduce our footprint. Thank you.”

Young says reaction was mixed, but ultimately, no one can argue, because as the sign says, if they want a straw, all they have to do is ask.

“Hearing about how much [waste] a restaurant produces and actually looking at it for myself, I wanted to be a better neighbor in the community that we serve,” she says.

Scott Tashie has been thinking about straws a lot lately. Tashie is owner of City Silo and three area I Love Juice Bars.

“It’s something we’ve been trying to come up with a solution on for a while, actually,” he says. “And it’s super challenging. Obviously, when you’re in a beverage-heavy business, you want to always take care of your customers, and we’ve tried different options.

It’s been challenging to find something that actually works.”

At one point, Tashie was using glass straws, but then his source stopped making them. He tried a bring-your-own straw approach, too. He admits that a straw is not something that’s particularly easy to carry on you, like a reusable bag.

Tashie has been experimenting with N E WS & O P I N I O N different types of straws. Forgoing them THE FLY-BY - 4 completely won’t work because of the NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 smoothies he sells. He recently settled POLITICS - 8 on corn straws that he hooked up with COVER STORY “UNDER COVER” through his association with Malco.

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AFTER DARK - 18 Tashie doesn’t mind the extra cost of CALENDAR - 20 the straws. For him, it’s worth it. “There’s BREWS - 25 only one Earth,” he says. “You can’t really FILM - 26 put a price on it.”

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HATS O F F Nobody not named Trump, Mueller, or Barr got more media attention last week than Memphis’ own U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen, who brought a small, plastic chicken to work.

He also brought a bucket of KFC to flavor Attorney General William Barr’s failure to appear before Congress with 11 herbs and spices.

The screwball stunt — perfect social media bait and late-night fodder — remains fairly ubiquitous and will no doubt be mentioned elsewhere in the pages of the Flyer as well.

But comedy matters here at Fly on the Wall. Even in Congressman Cohen’s moment of glory, Sarah Silverman’s professional advice can’t be overstated.

“The plastic chicken is funny,” Silverman tweeted. “But the plastic chicken AND bucket of chicken isn’t — it’s what we call in comedy a hat on a hat.”

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GAM E O F E LVI S If this column has illustrated anything over the years, it’s this: Sooner or later, Elvis eats everything.

This week, King culture collided with Game of Thrones. Sophie Turner (aka Westerosi badass, Sansa Stark) married Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers in an Elvis impersonator-officiated ceremony in Las Vegas on the 57th wedding anniversary of Elvis and Priscilla Presley.

But wait, there’s more. Cosmo reports that trash from the ceremony has become collectable, and a discarded Ring Pop wrapper is currently going on eBay for $1,325.

The saga continues.

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Shelter, U of M, & Opioids Advocates question homeless shelter, U of M to get local food options, & leaders address opioid crisis.

“H U MAN Z O O” Homeless advocates urged local leaders to re-think an $8 million plan for a new shelter and to use the money, instead, for permanent housing, warning that the shelter could become a “human zoo.”

The Mid-South Peace and Justice Center (MSPJC) said last week that the plan “is not what it seems” and that “while well-intentioned, is missing the mark.”

MSPJC said the money would be better spent in the Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Program, Rapid Rehousing, deposit and utility assistance, and Permanent Supportive Housing programs.

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D I F F E R E NT D I N I N G The University of Memphis will offer new and nontraditional dining options — including more local food — on campus beginning in the fall.

Through a new 15-year partnership with Chartwells Higher Ed, local food trucks and other outdoor pop-up food stations, where students can use Dining Dollars, will be added to the on-campus dining options.

Also, the main dining hall, Tiger Den, will get a total makeover, the campus Chick-fil-A will be expanded to include a full service menu, and a new barbecue restaurant will open this summer.

O P I O I D S O LUTI O N S Hundreds, including Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) officials, Memphis Fire and Police personnel, representatives of insurance carriers and pharmaceutical companies, law enforcement officials, and physicians gathered Tuesday at the West Tennessee Opioid Summit to discuss the opioid epidemic in the region and brainstorm possible solutions.

Some of the solutions suggested include working to erase the stigma associated with opioid addiction, providing a holistic system of recovery, legalizing marijuana, and pushing elected officials and lawmakers to address the issue further through legislation, funding, and initiatives.

Officials with the SCHD said the real time solutions produced by the groups will guide the department’s efforts to combat the crisis.

“B O LD VI S I O N S” The city is seeking “bold visions” for the two soon-to-bevacant historic buildings in Overton Park.

Officials with the Brooks Museum of Art first announced in 2017 an interest in relocating the museum to Downtown.

Soon after, Memphis College of Art (MCA) officials said that the college would be closing in 2020.

The city is seeking ideas for the 86,000-square-foot Brooks Museum of Art, slated to be vacant in 2024, as well as the 75,000-square-foot Memphis College of Art building.

C O M M U N ITY ART The UrbanArt Commission (UAC) is looking to make three community groups’ neighborhood art project ideas come to life.

Through the Neighborhood Art Initiative, three public art projects will be awarded a total of $120,000. The idea is for community organizations to incorporate public art into their current initiatives.

M U R ALS AN D S I D EWALKS Construction was set to begin last week on a new sidewalk for Overton Park. It’ll run on the north side of Poplar from Kenilworth to Veterans Plaza. A new mural may soon grace the west-facing wall of Evergreen Presbyterian Church, one that its designers say highlights “the pedestrian-friendly culture of the Evergreen Historic District.”

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A Memphis City Council member holds feet to the fire on money spent for an education campaign. referenda would be to, in my view, falsely suggest that this was somehow bad for African-American voters and exploit racial fears,” Mulroy said. “It was a targeted campaign effort to defeat referenda that would have made elections more competitive.”

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A Memphis City Council member wants a full, public review of the money the council spent on an education campaign for three referenda last year, and says he wants it done this budget season.

In November, voters here gave the thumbs down to all three referenda before them — to eliminate runoff elections, for longer terms for the mayor and city council, and eliminating instant runoff voting (IRV).

In October, five council members approved spending money on a “public information campaign” on the referenda to “explain their potential benefits” and “counter some of the misinformation presented.”

Three council members — Ford Canale, Kemp Conrad, and Worth Morgan — voted against the campaign, and Morgan promised that “every dollar spent by the chairman on this informational campaign will be tracked, accounted for, and made easily available to the public.”

and came up for a vote toward the end of a regular meeting. Morgan said it’s a move aimed at limiting debate from the public.

The resolution for the campaign passed with same-night minutes, meaning the vote couldn’t be undone at a later date.

Aaron Fowles, president of Save IRV, a group formed to defeat the instant runoff referendum, said the matter is

still important.

“There are still roadblocks that have been erected by Berlin Boyd and others,” Fowles said last month. “The city council still has got to do a few things to implement [IRV]. You know, we’d like to believe that they will listen to what voters have said and act on that.”

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But that hasn’t happened yet, Morgan said, and the money into and out of the campaign doesn’t match up. He said he understands it could be a mathematical error and he hopes that it is.

Budget talks got underway at city hall last month. Morgan said it’s the right time to review the nearly $40,000 spent on the referenda campaign.

“We need to have a whole accounting of where the money from the city council account actually got spent, and we still don’t have that,” Morgan said. “This is a perfect time to review it, ask for it. And if we can’t get it, I would be inclined to hold the city council budget until we do.”

The money was given to the Carter Malone Group to create the campaign.

That campaign included advertisements in the Memphis Flyer, The New Tri-State Defender, and IHeartRadio, according to Steve Mulroy, a former Shelby County Commission member.

He said the campaign targeted African Americans.

“They made a conscious campaign decision that the only way to beat these

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POLITICS By Jackson Baker

The Casada Controversy In the wake of a chaotic close to the legislative session, crisis continues to swirl on Capitol Hill in Nashville.

Having just spent the better part of four months in the company of the everdiligent press corps covering the state Capitol in Nashville, I am unsurprised at their effectiveness in turning up truly sensational news about some of the principal figures in state government.

Most recent have been revelations, in the immediate wake of the late 2019 legislative session, concerning Cade Cothren, chief of staff to the Republican Speaker of the House, Glen Casada of Franklin, an elite suburb of Nashville. Actually, Cothren is now the former chief of staff, having been forced to resign after successively (1) being accused of altering an email date with the aim of putting a civil rights activist in jeopardy of the law for violating a judicial ban on contact with the Speaker; (2) having to admit that he used cocaine in an office of the legislature; (3) being exposed as a horndog and serial sexual harasser of interns and other young women.

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Casada himself — and we’re talking about the most powerful single individual on Capitol Hill these days — may well be in jeopardy, since the news regarding Cothren’s sexual marauding included samples of emails in which the Speaker and his young assistant exchanged sexist remarks and predatory speculation about specific women.

Casada had only just come out from under a barrage of unfavorable scrutiny for his having appointed an accused statutory rapist, Congressman David Byrd of Waynesboro, to chair a

major education subcommittee, and of offering spirited defense of Byrd for months before finally and reluctantly removing him as chairman. Byrd remains in the legislature, however.

For further background, I’ll take the liberty of reposting an article I wrote for the Nashville Scene back in February (before the forced ending of Byrd’s chairmanship):

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If there is one fundamental difference between the current Speaker of the state House, Glen Casada of Franklin, and his predecessor, Beth Harwell of Nashville, it surely is in the fact that Harwell could be discreet in the extreme — to the point that she had difficulty gaining visibility in her race last year for Governor — whereas Casada is a veritable lightning rod for notoriety.

“This past week alone, Speaker Casada has pulled off a two-fer on the gaffe scale: “(1) He managed to provide cover for Rep. David Byrd, accused of multiple vintage incidents of sexual misbehavior and freshly under fire for violating the First Amendment rights of students from his district visiting the Capitol. “(2) On top of that, Casada was involved in a shoving incident with a protester of the continued presence in the Capitol of a bust of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, pre-Civil War slave-trader, accused architect of a battlefield massacre, and supposed Ku Klux Klan founder.

“Actually, you could probably make that a three-fer, in that Casada was, at the very least complicit, after the second incident, in the shielding by state troopers of his getaway from media members seeking him for comment following an intervening event in the Old Supreme Court Chambers.

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The next chapter for Casada, as it turned out, was having a cup of coffee thrown at him as he was boarding a Capitol elevator by the aforementioned Forrest protestor. That was the origin of the aforementioned judicial ban on further contact with the Speaker by Justin Jones, the protestor.

Just last Thursday, on the last day of this year’s legislative session, a fracas broke out in the House of Representatives when Speaker Casada ordered that the doors of the House chamber be locked to prevent the body’s 26 Democrats from walking out en masse in protest of the Speaker’s refusal to appoint at least one of them to a joint House-Senate conference committee on the last unresolved issue of the session, a bill in favor of block grant control of Medicaid funding in Tennessee.

Congressman G.A. Hardaway of Memphis was roughed up in the process.

Still later that evening, minutes before final adjournment, one of the women from

Waynesboro who had kept a constant vigil on the David Byrd situation stood up in the balcony of the House gallery and began shouting at Casada, demanding that he resign. Cowbells began ringing elsewhere in the balcony in defense of her demand, and, as troopers moved to carry the woman out, Casada began pounding his gavel on the dais as if he could thereby silence the general cacophony and the criticism in the same way that he was used to demanding order in the House itself.

The session shortly ended, but then came the Cothren matter, and the Casada matter itself may well have further resolution.

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convention of the Tennessee Press Association at the DoubleTree Hotel, where he welcomed the assembled journalists with an expression of gratitude and encouragement for their commitment to an ‘open and free’ press.

“The degree of Casada’s devotion to free inquiry by the media was further clarified in a portion of his odd, Trumplike response in a front-page comment to The Tennessean regarding the Byrd affair, wherein he said, ‘Unfortunately, the media has irresponsibly taken it upon itself to reinforce the self-inflicted designation of “fake news” while displaying a complete lack of journalistic integrity when needed most.’

“That comment would surely apply as well to the presence of a CNN crew conspicuously situated for hours outside a House hearing room on the second floor of the Cordell Hull Building on Wednesday — lying in wait, as it were, for an elusive Casada.

“As it happens, Casada had already indirectly — perhaps unwittingly — made himself available on a cell-phone video recorded by one Justin Kanew, a former Democratic candidate for Congress in the 7th District.

Kanew pressed Casada on his resistance to ‘allegations’ of sexual misconduct against Byrd from several women, who were juveniles at the time, during his service as a teacher and coach in Waynesboro.

“Though as Kanew noted, other Republican office-holders had called for Byrd’s resignation, Casada defended the District 71 legislator (whom he called ‘David’) against the women’s charges, which he described as ‘fake news,’ and expressed his continued confidence in his own appointment of Byrd as chairman of the House Higher Education subcommittee.

“Most controversially, Casada said, in a double nonsequitur which would become notorious, that ‘if I was raped, I would move. And hell would have no fury.’

“Casada had all the fury he could ask for this past week.

And it ain’t over yet. The David Byrd affair has been re-ignited bigtime, and the shoving incident with the Forrest

protester is still reverberating, to the point that Capitol observers are openly speculating as to what the next chapter in the Casada saga could be.

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eople don’t sleep under Paula Kovarik’s quilts.

“No, not on the bed,” she says. “Some of them might be a little too disturbing.”

Kovarik loves traditional quilts, but she’s never made one with a flower on it. Her quilts aren’t the conventional patchwork quilt with stars and diamond patterns.

Round and Round It Goes, one of her quilts, is about “all the threats in the world,” she says. “Like earthquakes and oil usage and financial collapse and dictators and endangered species and overpopulation and forest fires.”

Her quilts, which hang on walls, deal with everything from cancer cells and radio waves to TV signals and computer circuits.

Kovarik, 66, an internationally known quilt maker who lives in Memphis, will be included in “Stitched: Celebrating the Art of Quilting,” which opens May 10th at Crosstown Arts. The festival, which Kovarik organized, features quilts created by artists from around the world.

“Stitched” will include two exhibits:

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Round and Round It Goes “Masterworks: Abstract and Geometric,” a traveling exhibition of art quilts, and “Blue: A Regional Quilt Challenge,” which Kovarik curated. “Stitched” will also include a series of workshops, gatherings, and presentations that celebrate the art of quilting.

Martha Sielman, executive director of Studio Art Quilts Associates, curated the “Masterworks” exhibit, which includes Kovarik’s Round and Round It Goes quilt.

“What fascinates me about Paula’s work is that it is extremely simple,” Sielman

says. “It’s almost completely just a simple black line on a background, but it’s also incredibly complex. Because the imagery she uses is very complex. It’s a really powerful combination.”

Round and Round It Goes was quilted on a round tablecloth with scalloped edges.

The viewer’s eyes follow a continuous stretch of black-and-white line drawinglooking images, which include buildings, clouds, and birds, that goes around and around in a dizzying fashion.

Dixon associate curator Julie Pierotti is another Kovarik fan. “I’ve been amazed

by Paula Kovarik’s work since I first saw it a few years ago,” Pierotti says. “She takes a medium, quilting, that has such a comforting and sentimental connotation and completely turns it on its head. So there is the initial shock reaction, but when you examine each work closely and see the lines of thread moving through each work, you see how intricate they are and the thought and care Paula puts in.”

Kovarik, who was born in Michigan City, Indiana, says she always made things as a child.

(above) Kovarik’s Heartfelt; (below) “Blue: A Regional Quilt Challenge,” curated by Paula Kovarik, is on display at Crosstown Arts.

One of her influences was a gradeschool teacher who had the class interpret poems with drawings. “I remember thinking, ‘Oh, you can think about words in a different way,’” Kovarik says.

As a Girl Scout, Kovarik learned how to make a fire and build a tent, but she also “learned to use needles in many ways: knitting, crocheting, and sewing.”

Kovarik, who credits her mother as being her first sewing teacher, made her own clothes as a child. “I was a very small fifth grader or sixth grader, whatever. They didn’t have the style of clothes that everybody else was wearing in my size. I really don’t remember if they looked good or not.”

It wasn’t the finished product that intrigued her. “I love any kind of tool. My father taught me how to use saws and hammers and lawnmowers. Mom was a total teacher in terms of cooking and sewing and all of the motherly arts. I really loved any kind of tool. I loved drafting tools. I loved construction tools.”

wasn’t ‘Cooper-Young.’”

Damien got well. “He’s got two kids. He’s 41 now.”

Their other son, Miles, was born in 1988 in Memphis.

Kovarik opened Shades of Gray, a freelance graphic design firm, where she worked for 30 years.

“It was before the books were published. It was pretty amazing when those books came out.

People would start giggling when I would answer the phone.”

Her business began doing well. She concentrated on her job. “Didn’t sew a whit for maybe 35 years.”

Her mother got Kovarik back to

Incoming

sewing. “My mother was retired. She started quilting just out of the blue. I thought it was really the most boring thing I’d ever seen. It’s just so traditional,”

she says.

It seemed tedious to take squares of cloth “and put them together again and again and again.”

But, she says, “I thought, ‘Well, something in common with my mother. I’ll try it.’”

Kovarik didn’t feel quilting was her medium. And she knew she didn’t want to make a quilt to be used as a bedspread or tablecloth.

“Those are beautiful. I love them. But not for me making them,” she notes. continued on page 12

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A tool is a way to create things, says Kovarik, who uses a sewing machine as the primary tool along with hand stitching to make her quilts. “It’s a way to use my hands to interpret what I’m thinking.”

Kovarik received her degree in graphic design from Southern Illinois University.

“Part of our design training at SIU was full-throttled. There was a wood shop.

There was a metal shop. There were typography lessons. Things like that. I think I was really enamored of the drill press. I liked to drill holes into things.”

Kovarik met her husband, Jim Kovarik, at a house party in Chicago. “Jim’s had many careers. He’s a writer. He has a master’s degree in technical writing.

He’s also a farmer and a carpenter and a woodworker.”

They were back-to-the-landers up in Southern Illinois. “We had an organic farm. We built our own home,” she says.

Kovarik designed the house with the help of her husband. “We had a house raising with design students. It was passive solar. Jim has expertise with concrete, so we built it four feet into the ground for insulation. Oriented it to the sun so it would heat itself.”

They moved to Memphis in the early ’80s after “a family event,” Kovarik says.

Their son, Damien, who was three years old, had leukemia. “He got sick, and we really didn’t have any money.”

They got Damien into St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, but Kovarik wasn’t impressed with Memphis at first. “I didn’t like it,” she says.

In the early ’80s, Memphis was “hard to be in,” says Kovarik, who remembers Downtown at that time. “Everything was boarded up.”

She got a job as a graphic designer at the Ron Hoffman Group. “It’s a great training ground because it’s a small agency. And I learned everything. I had to do everything. I was the designer. I did production work and all kinds of things for graphic design. I learned the business pretty fast because I was the only designer on staff.”

Life kept her in Memphis, she says.

“I had a job. Jim had a job. I had started plugging into friends. Slowly but surely it felt like we belonged. We bought a house in Cooper-Young when Cooper-Young

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Then she saw some non-traditional quilts. “I thought they were just really more modern interpretations of quilts. They were hanging on a wall instead of a bed. I thought that’s where I could go with this.”

Kovarik describes her first quilt as “just odd patchwork. No rhyme.

No reason. No pattern. Just abstract.

Abstract compositions. It’s yellow, red, black, and white.”

It took her awhile to find her voice.

“I think it took me three or four years to really find out how I was going to approach this medium, experimenting with various techniques and ways of putting quilts together. The more I did it, the more I understood where my voice was coming from.

“Sometimes I come to a piece with an intention, with a communication that I want to make. Other times I come to them just from an emotional standpoint. That can change the technique. It can change the dynamics of the fabric that I use. It can change how I approach a piece.

“Now I’m a little more comfortable in terms of technique. I know how I can do things. Now I’m a lot more free about really approaching it with a free spirit.”

Her work is “really difficult and complicated, but it’s more of an intuitive work than it was in the past. In the past, I had to think about what I was doing and how to do it. Now it’s just doing it.”

Among her quilts is Signals, which took three weeks of stitching. She describes it as “a raw extemporaneous exploration of chaos.”

Incoming, which is more peaceful, has “flying elements that come in from the left side of the piece.

“Watching an insect fly across the yard might inspire me to draw his flight path.

Little things that we’re not aware of can affect our reality.”

She made a pair of quilted pillows, which she titled Insomnia. “This was during the economic collapse when you can’t go to sleep because you’re thinking, ‘I’ll never be able to retire.’ I did a ‘his’ and ‘hers’ on that.”

The pillows are favorites of Sielman.

“One of the pillow cases is about her experience with insomnia, and the other one is her husband’s experience with insomnia,” Seilman says. “Some of it you can interpret as a viewer, and some of it is symbolic and it makes sense to her. But all you can see is what’s happening on the outside. I love the idea of using a pillow to create an artwork about insomnia.”

Kovarik began making more politically themed quilts after the last election. “I was compelled to do it. I am still compelled. I think we’re at risk. It shows up in my work all the time. The anxiety that I feel comes into my work. The feeling of ‘This is not right. This is really seriously wrong.’ The fact that the public accepts lies every day is really beyond thought.”

Her brother, Charley Havelka, built a 12 wooden TV for her 14-foot-long scroll

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quilt, which is titled I Watch Too Much TV News. Yvonne Bobo, the sculptor, created a set of gears that are attached to rollers that rolls the quilt on a continuous 14-foot-long loop.

A lot is going on in the quilt, which includes images made with black and white thread. “There’s a lot of media people that are spewing things and talking about what’s going on. It’s broadcast over satellites and spewed through the air. Then all these various people screaming or shouting or yelling. We have tsunamis and hurricanes.

There’s climate change.”

Prior to the Robert Mueller report, Kovarik created a quilt titled Redacted. The stark black and white quilt features broken lines that evoke a heavily edited document.

Kovarik also does abstract pieces. “I’m experimenting with line and texture and fabric to create whatever comes out. I really try to let the needle tell me where it’s going.

“What I’ve been doing for quite a while now is experimenting more with not only the quilt form, but also drawing with thread.”

Kovarik makes quilts every day, but, she says, “That doesn’t mean I’m successful every day. There are some times I ruin things. A lot of mis-stitches. I can fix them, but sometimes it’s not worth it. Sometimes the composition is bad.

Insomnia Sometimes it’s overworked.”

Her quilts may stay unfinished for some time. “Like this one here,” Kovarik says. “I’ve put together these pieces of fabric. That pieced fabric will sit on the wall maybe a week or two just [so I can] think about what else is going to be on that piece of fabric. ‘How does the texture change it?’ ‘Why would I have texture?’ All those questions come up. Then the actual stitching is extremely time consuming.”

Her feelings result in a “surge of ideas” instead of a surge of quilts. “This is a slow art. I can’t do this quickly.”

She might spend three weeks to a year on one piece. “It’s slow, which allows me to be more contemplative about the message.

It allows me to take the spike off the emotions sometimes.”

Kovarik closed her graphic design business about five years ago because she wanted to focus on her art.

She’s in her backyard studio every day — except for an occasional weekend off — from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. “With a lunch break.”

To date, she’s made about 70 quilts.

“There’s a lot of things that inspire me. Things that I see in nature and in other artists.”

She held up her Pollinators quilt,

which she describes as a self portrait. “It’s about the feelings that I have and about things that I’ve seen or thought about.

This is very natural. There are a lot of nature references. I’m consistently using grids in my life, so there’s one of those in there. There’s interior thoughts that are coming out. There’s computer circuits.

There’s a little bit of everything in there.

Putting those all together is kind of my statement of ‘Okay. These are some of the ways I think.’”

The quilt is double sided. “There’s a dark side and a light side.”

Kovarik began showing her quilts — and getting recognition — about 10 years ago. “A friend of mine came in. She saw the pile of quilts under my table and said, ‘What are you going to do with these?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. I’m just going to keep making them. They’ll end up in some garage sale after I pass away.’ She said, ‘You know, there are shows.’ She gave me a couple of names of shows. I applied to one and got in.”

That was Quilt National, a biannual show in Ohio. “I entered. I was accepted.

They put me on the cover of the book.”

City, the quilt she entered, sold for $3,000. Her quilts now range from $2,000 to $12,000.

But, Kovarik says, “I’m not interested in selling my work as much as I am in showing my work. I want my art to travel.

I have made it a focus to get my pieces in shows that move.”

Quilt National, she says, travels to museums for three years. “I get to think that my message, my piece, my work, is being seen by lots of different people.

That’s the focus that I have gone to since I started my work.”

Terri Phillips, exhibitions coordinator for Crosstown Arts, is excited about “Stitched.” Kovarik, she says, has “worked tirelessly for more than a year” as the organizer. “The ‘Blue’ show has brought in over 200 artists, makers, and quilters from the community, which is fundamental to the mission of Crosstown Arts.”

Phillips first saw Kovarik’s quilts in the artist’s solo show, which was held last year at Dixon. “I was floored. For me, they are very intricate and beautiful drawings, the lines being stitched. They are epic, eccentric — the highest compliment — and creative.”

She visited Kovarik’s studio during the planning stages of “Stitched.” “Her studio was a place I could have hung out in all day. Peaceful and quiet. Beautiful light.”

If she tells people she’s a quilter, Kovarik gets the same reaction from them. “They say, ‘Well, my grandmother used to do that,’” she says. “They think I’m doing traditional work. Bedspreads and lap quilts. Sometimes they’re interested or they’re curious enough and they ask to see my work. Sometimes they’re kind of speechless. They don’t know how to react.

Sometimes they really like them.

“I stopped saying I’m a quilter. I say I make art with thread and fabric because it stops that grandma discussion.”

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It only makes sense. If you’ve got a ton of top musicians descending on Memphis for a weekend, why not have a festival? On Friday, May 10th, the Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Awards celebrates 40 years of calling its finest artists home to Beale Street, to honor the pickers, players, and belters who keep the party going through the best and worst of times.

“So blues musicians from around the world are coming here for this event,” festival promoter Jim LoSapio says. Now in its fourth year, the Beale Street Blues Festival brings some of the most exciting nominees to Beale’s stages for solo sets and jams with local favorites. On Friday, May 10th, a $10 wristband gets festival goers into 14 venues. Blues music award nominees will appear on nine, with local acts holding down the rest.

Festival highlights include appearances by Ben Rice, who’s nominated for three awards, including best emerging artist, best acoustic artist, and acoustic album of the year. At Silky’s, Memphis’ own Barbara Blue hosts a jam showcasing soul blues nominee Johnny Rawls and drummer Bernard Purdie.

Fans of Bobby Blue Bland’s gospel-fueled R&B will want to catch Rawls when he guests with Rod Bland, who’ll be hosting a Bobby Blue Bland tribute and jam at B.B. King’s “We’ve partnered with the Blues Foundation to pull this off,” LoSapio says.

“All the festival stages are inside,” LoSapio says, acknowledging a fact the blues artists and May festival goers know all too well. “Sometimes it rains.”

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FRIDAY May 10

Cooper-Young Pup Crawl Young Avenue Deli, 6-9 p.m., $30 A fund-raiser for the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County. Restaurants will offer guests discounts on pup-themed drinks, and there will be live music from Twin Soul Duo in the gazebo.

“Antepenultimatum” Memphis College of Art, 4:30-6 p.m.

Exhibition of works from the spring 2019 BFA candidates.

The Parchmen Hour: Songs and Stories of the ’61 Freedom Riders Hattiloo Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $30 The story of the 1961 Freedom Rides is told through songs of that era.

Kevin Bales Germantown Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m.

A concert by this jazz pianist. Part of the Jazz in the Box series.

New Kids on the Block FedExForum, 7 p.m.

Dust off your JNCOs, it’s about to get funky fresh up in here. Concert by this essential early-’90s band, along with Salt-N-Pepa, Naughty by Nature, Debbie Gibson, and Tiffany.

Bourbon barrel-aged beer? Actually, this new trend sounds pretty tasty.

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“Soft Landing” David Lusk Gallery, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception of new landscapes and paintings of wildlife

by Emily Leonard. Also opening is an exhibition of works by the late Burton Callicott.

Eddie Izzard The Orpheum, 8 p.m., $42 Comedian bring his Wunderbar tour, in which he discusses his theory of the universe.

Stitched: Celebrating the Art of Quilting Crosstown Arts, 6 p.m.

A festival in honor of the quilt. Includes two art shows: “Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric” and “BLUE,” both opening tonight, as well as quilting workshops, talks, and a Gathering of the Guilds showcase. Continues through July 28th.

Read more about local quilter Paula Kovarik in this week’s cover story, page 10.

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By Chris Davis Sewing School, the first collaborative effort between Amie Petronis Plumley and Andria Lisle, has been translated multiple times now, and sold more than 200,000 copies.

The crafty duo have shown crafty kids how to hand sew and machine stitch. They’ve tackled everything from soft sculpture guitars to cool quilting. For their fourth effort, Plumley and Lisle focus on fashion and design.

Sewing School Fashion Design is all about foundations. It presents models for three essentials: a top, a skirt, and shorts. Then it offers prompts, patterns, and tips for customizing those three pieces.

“We really wanted to use this to teach kids that your size is the perfect size,” Lisle says. Lisle, whose byline will certainly be familiar to regular Flyer readers, praises her co-author’s unique vision: “She was a real genius at making patterns that could be adaptable. You’re talking about kids from maybe 6 to 15. They could be really tall, or short, with straight bodies, or very curvy bodies. To be able to make these patterns that weren’t going to frustrate was something pretty incredible.”

Lisle says she and Plumley take inspiration from the annual sewing camp they teach at Grace-St. Luke’s School each summer. “We use it like a lab, and the kids are great,” she says. “They go nuts and come up with all these ideas for making clothes we didn’t even think about.”

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Rewind Ballet Memphis, 8 p.m.

Ballet Memphis’ audience voted on their three favorite works, which will appear tonight, including “Memphis Suite,” “Devil’s Fruit,” and “Flyway.”

Margarita Festival Fourth Bluff, 3-6 p.m., $38 Local restaurants compete for Best Margarita during this annual event.

Tickets are going quick for this one.

Art by Design Pipkin Building, 10 a.m., $20 Stylish vignettes are set up for this event highlighting interior design.

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Memphis Brewfest Liberty Bowl, 4-7 p.m., $45-$100 Annual beer festival with some 50 breweries.

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hen I sit down with Natalie Hoffmann, singer and songwriter for the band Nots, I begin comparing that band with a more recent group she founded, Optic Sink. “The songs for Optic Sink,” I venture, “are like Nots songs, but recontextualized and sung an octave lower.” She laughs and says, “Yeah! I’m exploring another octave. It’s super fun.” But later, going back to listen to Nots’ latest album, 3, to be released this Friday, I realize that the contrast is not so apt. For while the new Nots album, sporting plenty of guitar feedback squalls and galloping, jagged rhythms, is certainly nothing like the sequenced synthesizer grooves of Optic Sink, it features less frenetic singing than their past efforts.

Ultimately, the record reflects changes the band has undergone since 2016. It’s not just called 3 because it’s their third album; it’s also the first release of the band as a trio.

Pared down to Charlotte Watson on drums, Meredith Lones on bass, and Hoffmann on guitar and synth, the singing can afford to have more dynamics because there’s more room for it. As the night wore on, I asked Hoffmann about such transformations and more.

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How did that come about?

Natalie Hoffmann: So Ally [Alexandra Eastburn, synthesizer player] left after our second album, Cosmetic. She left after we went to Australia, in order to pursue her art, and we thought for a long time about finding another person to play synth, sticking with me on guitar and second synth. But eventually it became clear that we would be better as a three piece. The three of us have been playing music together for so long that we feel like siblings, so bringing someone else into to that dynamic would be a lot to think about. And honestly, sonically, it worked out to become a three piece again. I play two synths now and guitar.

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Did you find yourselves doing more overdubs to compensate for Ally’s absence?

It still sounds a lot like the live set up. We did add some textural elements in the studio, but it’s never so far that it wouldn’t sound like the song live. We recorded with Andrew McCalla at Bunker Audio. He’s recorded quite a bit for us, but on this one

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I feel like he had made all these advances in his recording setup. And we had made a lot of progress in how we were writing. So making these songs was a perfect meeting of where everyone was at.

Now we’re leaning in to what space can provide. I think you can hear what everyone is doing a little better. It’s nice to hear the rhythm section, and sometimes what I’m playing is a texture complementing that. Rather than two instruments that live in the treble world, competing for the space, when Ally was in the band. I thought that sounded really cool, too, but with the new album it just made sense to play to our strengths. But it still sounds like us. There’s a connecting thread.

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Even your guitar playing is very synthlike, in that it’s often bringing more sonic textures to the band than chords or riffs per se.

Yeah, I think that’s the most appealing thing to me. I never really properly learned to play the guitar. I do wish I had the range of tools in my array to be able to whip out some great solo, but that’s not really how it worked out for me. So my strengths are more in the textural realm. And then having a simple melody that’s catchy, or a simple hook. Like in a Ramones song.

One of the constants in your songs is a kind of anger or defiance.

I enjoy writing vocals that are in the punk vein; the singing becomes more of this percussive element. But the trope of the angry woman yelling on top of music gets pretty old for me. Of course, to exist in America now, you’re angry all the time, and that is in the songs — this inequality, this gross distortion of anything that can be called a fact. But, I mean, it’s 2019.

Everybody’s gonna have a whole array of influcences. If you do hear a band that’s truly just punk, it’s probably kind of boring at this point.

Nots will play a free record release show at Goner Records on Saturday, May 11th, and headline at B-Side on May 25th.

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Sean Apple Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m.; Hi-Jivers Thursday, May 9, 8 p.m.-midnight; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, Saturdays, 5-9 p.m.; Hi-Jivers Friday, May 10, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Saturdays, 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Hi-Jivers Saturday, May 11, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; ; Brad Birkedahl

Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

191 BEALE STREET

New Kids on the Block Friday, May 10, 7 p.m.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

Nat “King” Kerr Fridays, Saturdays, 9-10 p.m.

King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille 159 BEALE

Lunch on Beale with Chris Gales Wednesdays-Sundays, noon-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/ acoustic Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.;

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Ben Rice Friday, May 10, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Eric Hughes Band Saturday, May 11, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m.midnight and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Wednesdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Baunie and Soul Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight.

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room 168 BEALE 576-2220

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Friday, May 10, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; FreeWorld Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Friday, May 10, 7-11 p.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-11 p.m.

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Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-

midnight; Cowboy Neil Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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

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Leroy Clay & the All Stars Saturday, May 11, 7-10 p.m.

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Boscos

AT N. MAIN AND COURT

2120 MADISON 432-2222

Sunset Jazz featuring Joe Restivo Sunday, May 12, 6-8 p.m.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Brad Birkdahl Friday, May 10, 8 p.m.; Hillbilly Mojo Saturday, May 11, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and Friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

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

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

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

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army

Saturday, May 11, 8 p.m.; Ted Ludwig Trio Tuesday, May 14, 7:30 p.m.

Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Ecstatic Vision with Heavy Temple Thursday, May 9, 8 p.m.; My Friend Chris, the Mobros, A.M. Whiskey, and Dirty Fuss Friday, May 10, 7 p.m.; Jon Worthy & the Bends Saturday, May 11, 8 p.m.; Black Cream Sunday, May 12, 7 p.m.; Slothrust, Summer Cannibals Monday, May 13, 8 p.m.; The Turbos Tuesday,

May 10, 10 p.m.; John Roth and Kory Myers Saturday, May 11, 2 p.m.; WALRUS Saturday, May 11, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Memphis Ukulele Band Sunday, May 12, 4 p.m.; Memphis Knights Big Band Monday, May 13, 6 p.m.; Justus Brothers CD Release Tuesday, May 14, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Tracksuit Wedding with Erica Brown Wednesday, May 15, 8 p.m.

University of Memphis

Whitehaven/ Airport

The Bluff

Rock-n-Roll Cafe

535 S. HIGHLAND

3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

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

The Orpheum

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

Whitehaven Branch Library

203 S. MAIN 525-3000

Earth, Wind & Fire Tuesday, May 14, 8 p.m.

4120 MILLBRANCH 396-9700

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

The Peabody 149 UNION 529-4000

Rooftop Party with Frankie Hollie & the Noise Thursday, May 9, 6-10 p.m.

Bartlett

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

Swing Dance with WEVL DJ Timothy Taylor Saturday, May 11, 6-9 p.m.; Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.

3663 APPLING 385-6440

Music by the Lake: River Bluff Clan Friday, May 10, 6-9 p.m.

The Vault

Hadley’s Pub

124 GE PATTERSON

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Po Boys Friday, May 10, 8 p.m.; King Margo Saturday, May 11, 8:30 p.m.

The Super 5 Friday, May 10, 9 p.m.; Jay Jones Band Saturday, May 11, 9 p.m.; Amber McCain Band Sunday, May 12, 5:30 p.m.; A.M. Whiskey Wednesday, May 15, 8 p.m.

Medical Center Sunrise

Cordova

670 JEFFERSON

King Margo Sunday, May 12, 10 a.m.

Delta Blues Winery 6585 STEWART

South Main

Tim and the Fill-ins Friday, May 10, 7-10 p.m.; Gary Abbott Sunday, May 12, 2:30-5:30 p.m.

South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Germantown

Songwriter Night Featuring King Margo, City Silos, and Minnesota Mike Friday, May 10, 7 p.m.; Memphis Songwriters Association Monthly Meeting Second Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

B-Side 1555 MADISON

L.A.P.D. Thursday, May 9; Epock of Unlight, Incineration, Fugitive Droids Friday, May 10; School of Rock (Early Show), Super Low (Late Show) Saturday, May 11; Susan Marshall Sunday, May 12; Devil Train Mondays; Billie Worley and Jeremy Stanfill Tuesday, May 14; Amy LaVere and Will Sexton Wednesdays, 3:30-5:30 p.m.; Outer Ring Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.

with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Paul Anthony Friday, May 10, 9 p.m.; Alice Hasen & the Blaze Saturday, May 11, 9 p.m.; Freeman Shane Weems and Ron Shuman Every other Monday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Folk All Y’all Listening Room at Studio688 688 S. COX ST 9016266763

Folk All Y’all: An Evening with Joy Ike Saturday, May 11, 7:30 p.m.

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

Will Kimbrough Friday, May 10, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; TN Screamers

May 14, 8 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

Shamefinger, Lipstick Stains, HEELS Friday, May 10, 9 p.m.; Louise Page, Midtown Queer, Mama Honey Friday, May 10, 10 p.m.; Eru Guchi Saturday, May 11, 9 p.m.; Layers of Pink Sunday, May 12, 10 p.m.; Tony Raney, Tori Tollison Monday, May 13, 10 p.m.; Wilderado with Duncan Fellows Tuesday, May 14, 9 p.m.; Sacred Daisy, Grandpa Grew Trees Wednesday, May 15, 10 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Memphis Funk Thursday, May 9, 6 p.m.; Twin Soul Thursday, May 9, 9 p.m.; Ashton Riker Friday, May 10, 6:30 p.m.; Almost Elton John and the RocketMen Friday,

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 312-6058

Gunna, Shy Glizzy Thursday, May 9, 8 p.m.; Tyler Childers, Blackfoot Gypsies Wednesday, May 15, 8 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Solar Powered Love Friday, May 10, 10 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Adios Gringos Saturday, May 11; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Crawfish for a Cause Happy Hour with Mighty Souls Thursday, May 9, 5-9 p.m.; Lucky 7 Brass Band Friday, May 10, 8 p.m.; Cory Branan Saturday, May 11, 9 p.m.

East Memphis The Dixon Gallery & Gardens 4339 PARK 761-5250

Symphony in the Gardens Sunday, May 12, 5-7 p.m.

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

Amber McCain Band Thursday, May 9, 7-10 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; The Dantones Friday, May 10, 9 p.m.; Pulse: a Tribute to Pink Floyd Saturday, May 11, 8 p.m.; Flashback Sunday, May 12, 4-7 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Horseshoe Casino Tunica 1021 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 800-357-5600

Brian McKnight Friday, May 10, 8 p.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas Private Studio

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

1555 MADISON 609-1744

Eli “Paperboy” Reed, GA-20 Friday, May 10, 9 p.m.; The Mountain Goats Saturday, May 11, 9 p.m.

1801 EXETER 751-7500

Jazz in the Box: Kevin Bales Friday, May 10, 7-9:30 p.m.; Germantown Symphony Orchestra Season Finale Saturday, May 11, 7 p.m.

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1884 Lounge

Germantown Performing Arts Center

212 WEST POLK

Blues Off Broadway Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.

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Circuit Playhouse

1984, Winston Smith has been caught struggling for scraps of love and freedom in a world awash with distrust and violence. With the brutal “help” of four Party Members, Winston is forced to confess his thoughtcrimes before an unseen inquisitor www. playhouseonthesquare.org.

Through May 12.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Hattiloo Theatre

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The Parchmen Hour: Songs and Stories of the ‘61 Freedom Riders, adapted from real-life accounts of the 1961 Freedom Rides, The Parchmen Hour shares these struggles through music that ranges from Bob Dylan to spirituals. www.hattiloo.org. $30-$35. Thursdays, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., Saturdays, 2 & 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, 3 p.m. Through June 2. www.hattiloo.org.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

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Pay what you can ($5 min.).

Thurs., May 9, 7-8 p.m., Fri., May 10, 7-8 p.m., Sat., May 11, 7-8 p.m., and Sun., May 12, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

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“Soft Landing” by Emily Leonard at David Lusk Gallery, Friday, May 10th, 6-8 p.m.

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sational Kit Kat Klub cabaret singer Sally Bowles, whose only goal in life is to have a good time. As the Nazis take control of the government, the lives of Sally and her boyfriend begin to change dramatically. (7253008), cabaret.pptnm.org/.

Through May 26, 8-10 p.m.

www.crosstownarts.org. Fri., May 10, 6-9 p.m.

Opening Reception for “Blue: A Regional Quilt Challenge,” a curated exhibition of threelayered, stitched 24”x 24” works by local and regional artists. www.crosstownarts.org.

Fri., May 10, 6-9 p.m.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

1350 CONCOURSE AVE., SUITE 280 (507-8030).

Theatre Memphis

The Man Who Came to Dinner, a well-known radio wit, Sheridan Whiteside, falls while dining at the home of prominent socialites, making him an unexpected guest for six weeks of recovery. A threering circus of comic chaos grows to include a luncheon for homicidal convicts and a complete children’s choir. www.theatrememphis.org. $25.

Thurs.-Sun. Through May 12.

David Lusk Gallery

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

Opening Reception for “Inside/Out,” exhibition of works by artists working with vastly differing media, content, and making processes. (674-5855), www.binderprojects.com/. Fri., May 10, 6-8 p.m.

TheatreWorks

The Emotions Project, takes the audience through the chakra system by way of varied artforms including ballet, modern, tap, ballroom, Bollywood, Indian classical, bellydance, yoga, aerial dance, music, song, poetry, and theater. www.theatreworksmemphis. org. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Through May 18.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

Opening Reception for Burton Callicott, exhibition of serene landscapes by the acclaimed artist and influential educator.

Fri., May 10, 6-8 p.m.

Opening Reception for “Soft Landing,” exhibition of new work by Emily Leonard. www. davidluskgallery.com. Fri., May 10, 6-8 p.m.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Flicker Street Studio

74 FLICKER (767-2999).

Jay Etkin Gallery

Opening Reception for “Currents,” exhibition of new works

by Pam Cobb and Marc Rouillard. www.jayetkingallery.com.

Fri., May 10, 6-9 p.m.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

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

Crosstown Arts at The Concourse

Opening Reception for “Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric,” traveling exhibition of art quilts by 29 internationally known artists Fri., May 10.

Opening Reception for “Stitched: Celebrating the Art of Quilting,” three-month festival celebrating quilting and visual arts, with events, workshops, and two exhibitions of not-your-grandma’s quilts.

Memphis College of Art Artist Reception for “Antepenultimatum,” exhibition of works by the Spring 2019 BFA graduates. www.mca.edu. Fri., May 10, 4:30-6 p.m.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

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

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PIPKIN BUILDING, MID-SOUTH FAIRGROUNDS (578-2787), WWW. ARTSMEMPHIS.ORG/GENERALADMISSION-TICKETS.

Artist Talk by Martha Sielman

Presentation by the author of Art Quilts Unfolding, 50 Years of Innovation, and curator of “Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric.” Sat., May 11, 1 p.m.

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

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Rewind

An audience-curated season finale reprising the top three most-voted works from the 2018-19 mixed repertory series: Memphis Suite by Trey McIntyre, Devil’s Fruit by Julia Adam and Flyway by Steven McMahon. May 10-11, 8 p.m.

May 9-15, 2019

Memphis Symphony Orchestra provides the background and theme music for story time.

Free. Sat., May 11, 11 a.m.-noon.

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

The Orpheum

Eddie Izzard, with his Wunderbar Tour, Izzard is back to his roots with a show expanding on his surreal view of life, love, history, and his theory of the universe. www.orpheummemphis.com. $45-$65. Fri., May 10, 8 p.m.

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

USA BASEBALL STADIUM, 4351 BABE HOWARD BLVD. IN MILLINGTON (872-8326), WWW.CRAZYCROW.COM.

H O LI DAY EVE NTS

Mother’s Day Picnic

PJ Masks Save the Day

Skip the crowds and enjoy a picnic. Pre-order a picnic from Fratelli’s or bring in your own.

Plant a special flower as a take home momento. Sun., May 12.

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

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

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

B O O KS I G N I N G S

S P EC IA L EVE NTS

Booksigning by Amie Petronis Plumley and Andria Lisle

Authors discuss and sign their new book, Sewing School: Fashion Design. Thurs., May 9, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Jamie Purnell

Author discusses and signs his childrens book, Proud Penguin.

Sat., May 11, 10:30 a.m.

Shen Yun

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE AVE., WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Author discusses and signs his childrens book, Proud Penguin.

Sat., May 11, 2 p.m.

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

New super-heroic, live musical show, with leaping, flipping and climbing live on stage. $35-$55.

Wed., May 15, 6 p.m.

“Antepenultimatum,” with work by Alyssa Crowe and more, Memphis College of Art Booksigning by Mary Kay Andrews

Author discusses and signs her new novel, Sunset Beach. Tues., May 14, 6 p.m.

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

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Gumtree Festival

Arts festival in Tupelo with music, performance, food, crafts, and visual arts. May 10-11.

GUMTREE MUSEUM OF ARTS, 211 MAIN ((662) 844-2787), WWW.GUMTREEFESTIVAL.COM.

Memphis Greek Festival

Festival with dancing, cultural cuisine, the Kostas Kastanis Band, and more. Celebrating the 61st anniversary this year.

Donate three canned food items for free admission. May 10-11, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH, 573 N. HIGHLAND (3278177), WWW.MEMPHISGREEKFESTIVAL.COM.

Sixth Annual Jewish Literary and Cultural Arts Series

Featuring workshops, luncheon, film festival, books, lectures, and more. Visit website for more information and schedule of events. Tues., May 14, 7 p.m.

MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG.

Cooper-Young Pup Crawl

Memphis Brewfest

YOUNG AVENUE DELI, 2119 YOUNG (278-0034).

LIBERTY BOWL MEMORIAL STADIUM, 335 S. HOLLYWOOD (727-4344).

Making Memphis: 200 Years of Community

Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest

Annual event to support the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County. Thurs., May 9.

Bicentennial celebration, the exhibit illustrates how the threads of Memphis history form a larger story or web of history.

Through Oct. 20.

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

Millington Pow Wow

TOM LEE PARK, OFF RIVERSIDE DR., WWW.MEMPHISINMAY.ORG.

Fourteenth-annual gathering to celebrate and renew Native American culture, with dancing, and singing. $5. May 11-12,

A Fascinating Drama You Must Read! and hate, based on skin c olor, amongst African American people.

The story is told by Ann, one of the main characters, with input and commentary by a narrator. Ann, raised by her very wise grandmother, was taught to use good judgment and make wise choices in all endeavors.

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Festival celebrating craft brews, with over 50 breweries, food trucks, and local vendors. $45$100. Sat., May 11.

The 42nd annual festival and cooking contest with nearly 250 teams from around the world and across the U.S. competing for the title of World Champion and a share of the prize money.

May 15-18.

Petals of a Three-Leafed Clover Petals of a Three-Leafed Clover is a coming of age Romantic Drama of many circumstantial events that actually happened in Memphis. This story of moral growth, wisdom, and romance is based in Memphis during the challenging times of segregation and Jim Crow, coupled with the heart-rending horrors of discrimination

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Family Tunes & Tales

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BALLET MEMPHIS, 2144 MADISON (737-7322), WWW.BALLETMEMPHIS.ORG.

Classical Chinese dance, with a blend of stunning costumes, high-tech backdrops, and an orchestra like no other. $80-$150.

Fri., May 10, 7:30 p.m., and Sat., May 11, 2 p.m.

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CANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 525-1515), WWW.SHENYUN.COM.

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This is because bourbon distillers, by law, can use those charred whiteoak barrels for mellowing moonshine into the nectar of the Gods only one time. Making beer, on the other hand, is a short-term process; no one wants a beer that’s a couple of years old. Whiskey needs several years in barrels to take away the harshness of the freshly made stuff. The barrels expand and contract with seasonal temperature fluctuations, so that the whiskey soaks into and out of the charred wood — which makes Kentucky, with its hot summers and cold winters, the perfect place to make the stuff. Wood is porous, so there is evaporation — called the “angels’ share” — of up to 1 percent of the volume per year. The angels’ share doesn’t all go into the air, however; a fair bit stays in the wooden staves.

The barrels are perfectly good, but can’t be reused if the product is

going to legally be classed as bourbon.

Traditionally, these gently used barrels were sold to Scotch distillers to help recoup costs. That still happens, but bourbon production is now so high that there are more barrels than the Scots need, so they are being used to age sherry, brandy, tequila, and, yes, beer.

Storing beer in whiskey barrels draws that angels’ share out and into the beer. Traditional stainless steel vats provide more precision in the beer-brewing process. No two used barrels are exactly alike, so what you get when you pull the bung and pour out the beer is always going to be a bit of a mystery. Which is a great story of craft, but how does it taste?

Brewery Ommegang out of New York has a smoked vanilla porter made with light, smoked malt as well as chocolate malt. The porter is aged in bourbon barrels for six months with whole vanilla beans. It sounds expensive, and it is expensive. It is also very deep and — words fail me — luscious.

But with an ABV of 8.9 percent, no one is going to be funneling this stuff. It pours and looks like a Guinness, but although rich, sits a lot lighter. The weather and the seasons being what they are in Memphis, I was looking for a lighter version.

Which led me to Boulevard Brewing Company’s Rye on Rye out of Kansas City. While I’m not a huge fan of rye ales, this one doubled down, aged in whiskey barrels from Templton Rye — which I really do like. Over all, it hit the spot. It was light enough, but had that lovely rye spice imparted by those wonderful whiskey-logged barrel staves. Spicy yes, with vanilla and hops, and a nice clean finish that doesn’t leave you looking for a toothbrush.

The great thing is that these two beers taste nothing alike. Barrel-aged beers are all different. To Memphis’ craft brewers, I say this: In a few years, Old Dominick is probably going to have a lot of whiskey barrels it can no longer use. Now you know what to do with them.

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n a ramble through Kentucky’s Bourbon Fest a few years ago, I happened across a most Kentuckian innovation: ale aged in bourbon barrels. These days, it isn’t as random — or Kentucky — as it seems. Goose Island Brewing has been monkeying around with a Bourbon County Stout since the 1990s. So, bourbon-barrel beer? It’s worth a try.

Likely as a result of the bourbon boom in the last decade, brewers have been trying the same technique with lighter styles. With the surge of popularity for bourbon, a “two great tastes that taste great together” experiment seems to be happening, making bourbon-barrel beer the boozy version of a peanut butter cup.

The bourbon boom has also done something else — made used whiskey barrels a lot cheaper.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Romancing Furiosa Seth Rogen shoots and scores with Charlize Theron.

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ong Shot is a new film starring Seth Rogen and Charlize Ther…

ALL HAIL IMPERATOR FURIOSA, WARRIOR OF THE WASETLAND, CONQUERER OF THE CITADEL! I’m sorry. That happens sometimes when I try to talk about Charlize Theron. She is one of our greatest living screen actors, with dozens of film credits and an Academy Award she earned for playing serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2003’s Monster. But for many cinephiles, she is now indelibly associated with her role in Mad Max: Fury Road, where she stole the show from the title character of George Miller’s 2015 masterpiece.

Furiosa is an icon of female power and liberation from the patriarchy. In Long Shot, Theron plays Charlotte Field, the blisteringly competent Secretary of State under President Chambers (Bob Odenkirk) who is blisteringly stupid.

Before we continue, I want to praise Odenkirk, director Jonathan Levine, and writers Dan Sterling and Liz Hannah. Long Shot is a romantic comedy, but its setting is contemporary American politics, which is a bloody minefield. The overwhelming presence of the orange

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criminal in the White House threatens to crowd out any comedy potential. And yet, he must be acknowledged in some way. Chambers is clearly not Trump, but Odenkirk plays him as a distracted, incompetent, and thoroughly corrupt rube, because portraying the president as a reasonably competent patriot would simply be unbelievable in 2019. That’s where we are as a nation.

Anyway, Charlotte is a Hillary-esque figure trying her best to put together an international agreement to curb climate change. She’s also in the midst of putting together a run for the presidency herself, assisted by Maggie Millikin (June Diane Raphael) and Tom (Ravi Patel), her fiercely loyal aides.

Meanwhile, Rogen plays Fred Flarsky, a crusading investigative journalist whom we meet in the middle of a farcical attempt to infiltrate a group of neo-Nazis. Fred finds out his newspaper is being bought by Parker Wembley (Andy Serkis), a Rupert Murdoch stand-in who will stymie Flarsky’s truth seeking. Fred quits in a rage, and his rich friend Lance (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) takes him to a ritzy party to help him forget his troubles. There, he sees Charlotte, who he remembers used to babysit him when she was a hyper-responsible pre-teen and he was even more awkward

Seth Rogen (left) and Charlize Theron (aka Imperator Furiosa) star as unlikely lovers in the political romantic comedy Long Shot. than he is now.

The party scene, which is long and complex and ends in horrible (read: hilarious) humiliation for Fred, is a joy. It’s a fine piece of comedy writing, well staged by the director and effortlessly executed by the cast, that seamlessly integrates the personal and political. When the dust clears, Fred has a new job as a speech writer for Charlotte, and a new, very unlikely romance is brewing — a “long shot,” if you will.

Is there any more tired cliche than the perfect woman romantically paired with a schlubby guy? From Married With Children to The Simpsons, it’s been pretty much the norm on TV sitcoms for decades. And yet, somehow, we come out believing that the guy who wrote an article called “The Two Party System Can Suck a Dick (Actually Two Dicks)” could get it on with the Secretary of State. Theron and Rogen present the ideal avatars of the stereotypes as they fall in love during the film’s globe-hopping middle acts.

Rogen’s got the comedy chops to spare, and Theron …

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy HAIL IMPERATOR FURIOSA! … Theron is an effective straight woman. Director Levine wisely doesn’t saddle her with schtick, but uses her acting skills strategically. In one rollicking sequence, Theron gets laughs with a realistic impression of a partier rolling on MDMA. She doesn’t go big and mug for the camera — that’s Rogen’s job — she just delivers the lines while low-key trying to keep it together. The implied joke that maybe negotiations between politicians would go better if one or both parties were on drugs that enhanced their empathy lands naturally.

The way Long Shot differentiates itself from the sexist sitcom cliche is by exploring the difficulty men have in ceding power to women, even if — perhaps especially if — the women are clearly more skilled and intelligent. Frank thinks he’s woke as he can

get, but time and again he runs up against his own self-righteousness and unexamined assumptions. As the boy-meets-girl, boyloses-girl, boy-gets-girl rom-com cycle plays out, he’s just trying to hang on as she is making the kind of career-over-home decisions that a male character would be saddled with in earlier decades. By the time the When Harry Met Sally-inspired denouement rolls around, the couple have found a unique equilibrium that they are still trying to understand. Maybe that’s the portrait of a successful relationship that the romantic comedy, when done right, points us toward.

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What Is the Best, Alex Fans of the quiz show Jeopardy! already know that there’s something special happening on the venerable old program. A 35-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas is shattering records during a 22 game streak that has earned him almost $1.7 million. The contestant, James Holzhauer, is on track to surpass the earnings of previous Jeopardy! phenom, Ken Jennings, who earned $2.5 million in 74 consecutive games in 2004. As a devotee of the show, he’s the best I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been watching since college. That’s pre-Trebek for those with sentimental attachments to Art Fleming. What makes Holzhauer stand out from anybody else on a hot streak is his bold style. First of all, I never heard anyone even admit to being a professional sports gambler except that guy Robert De Niro played in Casino, and it ended badly for him. Holzhauer plays Jeopardy! like a poker player. “My approach isn’t complicated,” he explains. “Get some money, hit the Daily Doubles, bet big, and hope I run hot.” So if he calmly bets $38 thousand on a single trivia question, Holzhauer says, “It’s only money.”

Seemingly fearless, Holzhauer goes for the highest value questions first and pushes imaginary poker chips with an “all in” gesture every chance he gets. He’s been correct 97 percent of the time. His aggressive betting on the show’s “Final Jeopardy!” question has served him well. He’s answered 21 out of 22 questions. I’m telling you, this guy is the Tiger Woods of Jeopardy!

Doing my due diligent googling, I landed on a site called “The Jeopardy! Fan,” which had lots of stats. Consider this: Holzhauer won $131,127 in one game, beating the previous record of $77 thousand. Out of the top-10 highest earning games in Jeopardy!’s 35 years in its current iteration, Holzhauer holds all 10. On April 17th, all 41 questions he buzzed in on were answered correctly. In Jeopardy! parlance, that’s a perfect game, or as I like to call it, pitching a Sandy Koufax. After admitting to growing up watching Jeopardy! and promising his grandmother that he would be a contestant one day, Holzhauer said he likes to go to the children’s section of the library to prepare. Children’s books are “Chock-full of infographics, pictures, and all kind of stuff to keep the reader engaged.” He has already donated a portion of his winnings to the Las Vegas Library District along with the Ronald McDonald House and the Las Vegas Natural History Museum. Holzhauer’s streak has improved Jeopardy!’s ratings by 10 percent with over 10 million viewers per day, making it the third-highest viewed syndicated television program, just behind Judge Judy and Wheel of Fortune.

If I seem enthusiastic about Jeopardy!, it’s because it’s a family thing. When the old homestead still stood, instead of the McMansion that now stands, I would drop in on my parents to watch the show. My father was the best player among us by far. Currently, every weekday at 3:55 p.m., my 97-year-old mother can expect a call from me about Final Jeopardy! The thing that separates me from my smart family members is that I was once chosen to be a contestant. In 2003, the Jeopardy! bus came to Memphis, and their representatives set up shop in Peabody Place. Initially, you were given a 10-question quiz on a variety of subjects and out of a thousand people, about 50 scored high enough to be invited back for a 50-question quiz. Out of that group, the high scorers returned to play a mock game, buzzer and all.

Although I felt anxious and nauseous going in, a surprising calm came over me when it came to playing the game. When I exited waving that golden ticket to my wife, I was euphoric. I was assured by a Jeopardy! producer that they would be calling me with a date for my appearance. Thanks to my Kudzu’s pub-quiz teammember and former Jeopardy! champ, Ilene Markell, I was given reams of material to study and strengthen my weaknesses, like Shakespeare, science, math, pop culture, mythology, European history, anagrams, national parks, the Revolutionary War, British monarchs, and those darned before and after questions, among others. I was going to meet Alex Trebek. Then something happened.

On July 22nd, what the National Weather Service called the “Mid-South Derecho of 2003,” but locals called Hurricane Elvis, roared through Memphis with straight-line winds surpassing 100 miles per hour, flattening trees and power lines and leaving over 300,000 MLGW customers in the dark. We tried to tough it out, but after a week of extreme heat and the constant ear-piercing din of a neighbor’s faulty generator, we packed up the dogs and moved to an animal-friendly motel on Sycamore View Drive.

What we thought would be a short inconvenience turned into 15 days. We were among the last households to have power restored.

If Jeopardy! had called, they would have heard that “temporarily out-of-service” message.

When the call never came, I could only surmise that they phoned during the aftermath of Hurricane Elvis while we were living it up at the Day’s Inn. I called the Jeopardy! office to explain but was told I had to retake the test. I said that I still knew the same stuff that I did during the audition but was instructed to either come to Los Angeles to try out or take the online test. I’ve been a miserable failure at the online tests. I never learned to type, which is a necessary component. For all the traumatic testing, the elation of securing an invitation, and the deflating, deafening sound of the phone not ringing, all I got was a lousy key-chain.

I treasure it, though. The number of contestants that have been mowed down by James Holzhauer has softened the blow. I could have been like that character in Cheers who blows Final Jeopardy! and has to live with the shame. As for Holzhauer’s streak, we’ll have to wait until May 20th, after the teacher’s tournament, to see if the professional gambler can surpass Ken Jennings as the greatest Jeopardy! champion ever. I’ll take odds that he does it.

Randy Haspel writes the blog, Recycled Hippies.

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