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OUR 1578TH ISSUE 05.23.19 Pets have always been part of my life. Currently, my wife and I have three dogs and a cat. Two of the dogs are young. One of them, Turbo, a miniature schnauzer, is 17.

He’s still eating and tottering around, but we know how this ends, eventually. Turbo will either die in his sleep or, more likely, will have to be put down, a sad process we’ve been through with other pets.

Once the decision is made that the old fella’s quality of life is gone, we’ll call the vet, who will come to our house, make the animal comfortable with a sedative, if necessary, then inject a lethal dose of pentobarbitol. The animal will die peacefully in a minute or so. It’s the saddest thing in the world, but surely it’s more humane than letting our furry loved ones linger and suffer in pain.

Contrast this process with the one endured by 68-year-old Donnie Edward Johnson last week. You may recall that Johnson was executed in our name by the state of Tennessee for murdering his wife 35 years ago, a heinous crime. But no matter your feelings about that crime or the death penalty, surely no one truly believes a person should have to slowly die over the course of several minutes, gurgling as their dissolving lungs fill with liquid — literally drowning — a side effect of the lethal drug midazolam that Tennessee uses to execute condemned prisoners.

Surely, we can do better as human beings.

It’s inhumane, it’s cruel, and it is unnecessary to execute someone in such a horrific way. Never mind that our proudly professed Christian Governor Bill Lee prayed upon this decision and decided that neither he nor Jesus would forgive Johnson’s sins — nor halt his execution. The rampant “Christian” hypocrisy that infests our politics is another subject for another day. And never mind that Johnson, by all accounts, had himself become a devout Christian and a model prisoner, and that his execution was opposed by some members of his victim’s family, who had forgiven him for his crime, and by many members of the clergy.

All to no avail. The hour of reckoning came. As he was strapped Olive VanWyngarden down, Johnson’s last words were, “I commend my life into your hands.

Thy will be done. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.” After being injected with midazolam, Johnson sang hymns for two minutes, before loudly drowning in his own bodily fluids and finally passing from this world with a high-pitched gasp.

Johnson became the fourth Tennessee inmate put to death since the state resumed executions in August, and the 136th person put to death by Tennessee since 1916.

Some members of Johnson’s victim’s family stated they felt justice had finally been done. I think we should just acknowledge the death penalty for what it really is: revenge. There is nothing Christian about it. It is not what Jesus would do.

But the state is not supposed to be a religious entity, so “WWJD?” doesn’t come into to play here, legally. Therefore, the issue should be one of justice, not faith. But when we execute a fellow human being, we do have to have a kind of faith — in our justice system. Do we believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that none of those 136 men could have been unjustly executed? I don’t. There have been too many cases of people awaiting execution whose convictions were overturned, sometimes decades later, by DNA evidence or the discovery of coerced confessions or false witness testimony. Police officers can lie and cover up a botched arrest. Aggressive win-at-all-cost district attorneys can withhold evidence, making the winning of a case more important than finding the truth. It happens all the time.

But if we’re going to continue to execute people, maybe we should begin N E WS & O P I N I O N treating death row inmates like animals.

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GAN N ETT In an act of relative sanity, Gannett shareholders have — at least temporarily — turned back MNG/ Alden Global Capital’s attempted hostile takeover.

For Memphians, that means The Commercial Appeal avoided falling into the fire of hedge-fund ownership, though it remains in a frying pan heated by economic pressure, and hedge-fund created trends. In the short run, it means we won’t lose the city’s historic paper of record, giving the newly rightsized and relocated newspaper an opportunity to claw its way back to relevance.

Gannett chairman John Jeffry Louis sounded a bit like someone just awakened from a cryo-chamber after sleeping for 30 years. His company, USA Today, quoted him as saying he was “laser focused on transformations” and the process of securing a business model that will “thrive in the digital future.”

Meanwhile, MNG — a company famous for its slash-and-burn roadmap to double-digit profits — read like a broadcast from Bizarro world.

Via MNG’s official statement: “Gannett’s newspapers are critical local resources, and we hope that Gannett’s incumbent board and management shift course to embrace a modern approach to local news that will save newspapers and serve communities.”

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DAMMIT More on our tempest-tossed paper of record. Here’s hoping the Iowan editors win awards for reporting this miraculous miracle: “Don Johnson’s last words after Tennessee execution.” Bless their hearts.

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Tom Lee Park, 3.0, & Cooper-Young A later park start, mayor orders 3.0, and petition for rainbow road.

TH E AI R U P HERE Memphis scored an F on smog from the American Lung Association’s annual air quality report, but scored an A on particle pollution, or soot.

Data used for the scores is from 2015-2017.

TVA MAK ES ITS CAS E Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) president and CEO Jeff Lyash said he Clockwise from top left: Mayor Jim Strickland signs executive order, state sues over drug wants Memphis claims, Memphis gets an F on smog, rainbows in Cooper-Young, park plans delayed to keep his agency as a power provider but said he’d help the city through the Memphis 3.0 is “way past due,” as the city has not had a process of making a choice. comprehensive plan in nearly 40 years.

Lyash told the Memphis Light, Gas & Water’s Power The order was Strickland’s fourth since he took office in Supply Advisory Team, the group weighing whether to 2016. His orders have focused on city-employee ethics, a sex keep TVA as a power provider, that in the past TVA has not assault task force, and an open data policy. “lived up to our or your expectation” in serving Memphis, but that “one of my objectives this year is to change that.”

STATE S U ES D R U G MAK E R The state of Tennessee sued Endo Pharmaceuticals, an PAR K B U I LD P US H E D opioid maker, last week on marketing claims that its The Mississippi River Parks Partnership pushed the products were less addictive and more effective than other construction start for Tom Lee Park to this fall while a products, violating the state’s consumer protection law. petition surfaced online to pause the park plan for more discussion.

C O O P E R-YO U N G S E ES R AI N B OWS The new schedule will align with another project to An online petition hopes to bring rainbow crosswalks to fix the historic cobblestone landing, which is hoped to Cooper-Young. As of press time, 922 people had signed the minimize disruption to Riverside Drive. petition to bring the gay-pride rainbows to the walks at the The petition to “Save Tom Lee Park” had 2,527 signatures corner of Cooper and Young. as of press time. It needs 1,500 before the request is formally Jerred Price, running for the Memphis City Council’s sent to local leaders. The petition wants Memphis in May’s District 7 seat, started the petition last week as he said, approval before any construction begins at the park.

Cooper-Young has “the highest density of LGBTQ+ people in the west portion of Tennessee! It is also home to C OS S ITT TO R E- O P E N OUTMemphis. Through their hard work and sacrifice, they Cossitt Library could re-open in about two months, built an ‘oasis in the desert of our struggle.’” according to its director, Shamichael Hallman. Cossitt, the It needs 1,000 signatures before the proposal can be oldest public library in Memphis, closed in January 2018 for submitted to local government leaders. renovations.

The move has support from the Cooper-Young Community Association.

STR I C K LAN D O R D E R S 3.0 “Love is the answer,” the association wrote on Facebook Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland signed an executive order last week. The words were followed by multi-colored heart last week adopting the Memphis 3.0 comprehensive plan. emoji.

The Memphis City Council has delayed approving the plan for weeks as a lawsuit was filed to block the plan’s Visit the News Blog at memphisflyer.com for fuller versions of these implementation. Strickland said that the adoption of stories and more local news.

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health and well-being of young children in Shelby County, is partnering with Sister Supply on next week’s fund raiser.

Dominique DeFreece, special projects coordinator for the Institute, said though the organization’s main focus is children under eight years old, the institute saw a need for providing menstrual supplies to older girls and women as well.

“We see that children aren’t individuals,” DeFreece. “They’re part of families. To really be able to care for a child, we need to look at family and who’s caring for them. If these people aren’t being provided for, then the child’s needs aren’t being met either.”

Now, the institute, is working to create a large-scale product bank that provides mentsrual supplies, diapers, and adult incontinence products.

DeFreece said the plan is to begin distributing the products in mass from the Mid-South Food Bank beginning in mid-June.

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One Memphis grassroots organization wants to help eliminate period poverty here by improving women’s access to sanitary products for menstruation.

Sister Supply, formed in 2015, provides pads, tampons, and underwear to women and girls who are homeless or living in poverty. It also works to de-stigmatize the discussion of periods and provide education about and access to sustainable menstrual products, such as washable pads.

Eli Cloud, co-founder of Sister Supply, said that period poverty isn’t a new concept here, but it’s only recently began to be addressed. Cloud said many women and girls go without the proper menstrual supplies because they can’t afford them.

“Menstruators have been going without and improvising because they lack financial access to pads and tampons — essential items that are taxed as luxury items,” Cloud said. “Period poverty remained hidden until recently because of the stigmatization of discussion of menstruation.

This lack of access to menstrual products required to meet a basic need of all females creates a ripple effect that has a negative impact on achievement.”

Cloud said the organization initially focused on providing menstrual supplies to homeless women here, but learned that the “problem extends well beyond the homeless population.”

Cloud said most of the donations go toward middle and elementary schools.

“In school, going back and forth to the school office to get a pad during your period means that you miss out on valuable instruction time — time that male students do not miss,” Cloud said. “This creates unequal access to education.”

The cost of providing supplies for one student from the time she begins menstruating through high school graduation is about $100, Cloud said.

“It’s a small front-end investment compared to the cost associated with highschool dropouts, education, and workforce development problems.”

Cloud said the ultimate goal is to push for policy changes that would eliminate period poverty completely.

Between May 28th and June 2nd the group will be collecting menstrual products and money for women in need at various locations around the city, including Crosstown Concourse, the Mid-South Food Bank, and the Memphis Child Advocacy Center.

On Saturday June 1st, Sister Supply will hold a volunteer event at Shady Grove Presbyterian Church where participants will prepare one- and three-month menstrual supply kits.

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They’re Off! Dr. Jeff Warren becomes first petitioner for a City Council position; beleaguered GOP House Speaker Casada gives up the ghost.

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Jeff Warren, who may have been the first person, several months ago, to float a City Council candidacy for the 2019 Memphis general election, on Monday became the first candidate to pull a petition for office from the Election Commission. As he had indicated he would do, Warren, a primary care physician, is running for Position 3 in the Council’s Super District 9.

And Warren, who had previously served as a member of the Memphis School Board from 2005 to 2013, has what would seem to be a bluechip organization to steer his campaign. He has named three campaign co-chairs — 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen, Desi Franklin, and Kelly Fish, with Fish serving as campaign manager. Warren has a campaign treasury of more than $100,000 already, and a campaign treasurer in Milner Stanton.

In a press release, the candidate also announced that he has a 31-member steering committee and listed the following names of supporters: Ron Belz, Joey Beckford, Andrea Bicks, Steve Cohen, Kathy Fish, Scott Fleming, George Flinn, Desi Franklin, Tom Gettlefinger, Joe Getz, Kate Gooch, Mitch Graves, Althea Greene, Shawn

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The list is, as Warren indicates, highly diverse — “a great slice of Memphis,” as he puts it. “On my steering committee, I count Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites, straights and LGBTs, young and old; they all have one thing in common — a love for Memphis. I look forward to all of us working together toward a healthy Memphis.”

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Cothren had electronically spied on House members. Emails between himself and Cothren also surfaced, rife with sexist jesting and misogynistic attitudes. Casada, who had just concluded his first session as speaker, had also run afoul of criticism for having appointed state Representative David Byrd (R-Waynesboro), an accused pedophile, to an education subcommittee chairmanship.

Prior to the negative vote by his own House caucus, Casada was the subject of formal repudiations from the House Democratic Caucus and from the Legislative Black Caucus.

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• Though his initial instinct on Monday was to respond in the negative to the latest call for his resignation as speaker of the Tennessee House — this time from members of the House Republican caucus — Glen Casada (R-Franklin), has finally capitulated.

He first indicated in a statement on Monday that he intended to remain in office, despite a lopsided 45-24 vote against him by his fellow House Republicans.

The last straw for Casada was Monday’s caucus vote, which was followed almost immediately by a statement from Republican Governor Bill Lee that the governor would call a special session of the legislature to consider the matter of Casada’s tenure if the beleaguered speaker resisted resignation. “Today, House Republicans sent a clear message,” Lee said.

The vote, the governor’s statement, and calls for Casada’s withdrawal from other members of the Republicans’ legislative leadership — including House Majority Leader William Lamberth (R-Portland) and Senate Speaker/Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally (R-Oak Ridge) — finally made that message clear.

As indicated, Casada’s first response to the caucus vote had been one of continued resistance. “I’m disappointed in the results of today’s caucus vote,” the speaker said on Monday. “However, I will work the next few months to regain the confidence of my colleagues so we can continue to build on the historic conservative accomplishments

from revelations that his main aide, Cade Cothren, was guilty of multiple sexual harassments, some against interns, and of expressing racist and misogynistic attitudes in emails that came to light. Cothren also admitted having snorted cocaine on state premises and was suspected of altering a date on an email to Casada from a protester so as to make it appear that the protestor had violated a no-contact judicial order.

Though he quickly jettisoned his aide, Casada himself had become implicated in some of these issues, including a suspicion that he and

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prepared in-depth, may well have the Position 3 race to himself, though another early-bird candidate, developer Chase Carlisle, is also expected to file for one of the Super District 9 positions, as is University of Memphis development officer Cody Fletcher, who has indicated he will run for the Position 1 seat in District 9.

The Position 1 and Position 3 seats are open, inasmuch as they are now occupied by two-term incumbents — Council Chair Kemp Conrad and Reid Hedgepeth, respectively, both of whom are term-limited and cannot run again.

The incumbent in Super District 9, Position 3, is Ford Canale, who won appointment to his seat last year and later won a special election. He is expected to run again.

Now that petitions for office in the forthcoming election are available (as of Monday), a flood of new candidacies is expected over the next several weeks.

Filing deadline is noon on Thursday, June 20th, for all positions in the October 3rd Memphis municipal election. Withdrawal deadline for candidates is June 27th at noon.

of this legislative session.”

That statement was supplanted on Tuesday by this one: “When I return to town on June 3rd, I will meet with caucus leadership to determine the best date for me to resign as speaker so that I can facilitate a smooth transition.”

GOP House members have indicated they intend at some early point to conduct a new internal election to pick a new speaker.

Though the pressure on Casada to resign as speaker (he will presumably remain as a House member) had mounted steadily over the weeks, his ordeal is only a month old. It arose

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You may not notice a difference. The 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. news anchors probably won’t change, so faces will remain as familiar to viewers as the tried-andtrue news/weather/sports format.

Automation may result in lost jobs on the production side, but broadcasts will look slick, with fast editing and eye-catching visual content. But whether you notice differences or not, TV news in Memphis is in the midst of an unprecedented and abrupt shakeup that started in January, when Gray Television completed its $3.6 billion dollar acquisition of Raycom Media Inc. That deal made NBC-affiliated WMC-TV, the first of Memphis’ local TV news stations to change ownership this year. It was a harbinger of things to come: Barring unforeseen delays, each of the city’s five TV news channels will be under new ownership before the start of 2020.

Viewers are more likely to associate local stations with CBS, NBC, or Fox, than their parent companies, but nationally branded network affiliation and ownership aren’t related. There’s no reason to expect viewers checking in to see if it’s going to rain or if they’ve won the lotto to recognize the names of remote corporations controlling their local news.

So please bear with me while I fill out a game bracket.

CBS-affiliated WREG, now a Tribune property, will soon belong to the Nexstar Media Group. Nexstar is already the second-largest owner of local TV stations in the country, and before the $4.1-billion Tribune merger can happen, the Federal 10 Communications Commission (FCC) wants Nexstar to sell some properties.

Two of the 19 stations Nexstar is unloading are WATN and WLMT, an area duopoly collectively branded as Local Memphis. Local Memphis was picked up

by Tegna Inc., a media/marketing services group created in 2015, when Gannett, The Commercial Appeal’s corporate owner, split into two separate publicly traded companies. Meanwhile, Fox 13, now owned by Cox Media Group, a subsidiary of Atlanta’s Cox Enterprises, is being absorbed into Terrier Media, a division of the private equity group Apollo Global Capital. Got all that?

So why all the sudden change, and what does that mean for “the viewers at home”? These are the questions that matter, of course. But before going there, let’s back up and take in a broader media landscape. Newspapers, which were identified in a 2012 FCC report as providing much of the available information required for a healthy democracy, are shrinking. Many papers — weeklies, primarily but metro dailies, too — are shuttering altogether.

The story you’re reading is the second in a series of Memphis Flyer cover packages cumulatively addressing “information justice.” The first installment, “Going to Pieces,” focused on Memphis print media’s struggle in a fractured, increasingly digital market, and how that struggle trickles down to consumers.

That story also attempted to change how we talk about “media,” looking behind the usual industry myths and political narratives to see how news content is mostly determined by economics. This is relevant for context, but also because, as

reported in The Expanding News Desert — a study published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) — the more local and regional newspapers shrink or disappear altogether, the more important local TV news becomes.

Between accessibility and sustained profitability, TV is well positioned to “fill the news void.” But will it?

Ten years ago newspapers fielded more reporters than current levels of TV and newspaper journalists combined.

Penelope Muse Abernathy, author of The Expanding News Desert, and former executive with The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, thinks even more perspective is required. To understand the void TV is being asked to fill, you first have to assess the full scope of what’s been lost.

“In terms of newspapers, there have been two losses,” she explained, in a telephone interview. The first was the shuttering of more than 1,700 newspapers in recent years. The second was the loss of coverage that occured when, to counter plunging revenue and chaotic variable costs, big metro newspapers ended rural home delivery. “These papers bound

regions together,” Abernathy says. “They showed us how we might be vitally related to people five or six counties over. You might have the same problem or face the same opportunities, whether you’re dealing with opioid crisis, health care, or the like.”

To understand why the future of television and the current plight of newspapers is linked, Abernathy refers to the 2012 FCC report, which listed eight critical information needs: emergencies and public safety, health, education, transportation, environment, economic development, civic life, and political life.

“The key reason the newspaper industry is the subject of so much attention and concern is that research indicates that newspapers continue to provide a substantial portion of the original reporting — the original production of news — that then circulates throughout the rest of the local media ecosystem,” the report noted. TV, by contrast, devotes “inadequate air time to serving the critical information needs of local communities.” To that end, Abernathy fears what’s been lost is too much for TV newsrooms to pick up, even if they were incentivized to try.

“The collapse of the news ecosystem creates an undue burden by assuming television is going to take over that,” Abernathy says. “It’s unrealistic for us to expect they can do that.”

As of 2017, TV newsrooms employed more journalists nationally than newspapers, according to an industry survey. It’s a positive-sounding statistic, but misleading in terms of potential for

Studies have shown that most local news is comprised of “soft content” — crime, weather, and sports. In some instances, according to the UNC report, such content can comprise 90 percent of a station’s news broadcast. A four-day

sample of WREG Channel 3’s 10 p.m. broadcast, taken from Tuesday, May 14th, to Friday, May 17th, found 80 percent of alloted news time devoted to crime, weather, sports, and other soft content, including lotto numbers and station-

branded money giveaways. Twenty percent of the station’s reporting was devoted to violent or disruptive crime and punishment, and that number would continued on page 12

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expanded coverage. For starters, the difference isn’t large: 27,100 to 25,000. For context: Ten years ago newspapers fielded more reporters than current levels of TV and newspaper journalists combined.

Also, a community typically has more news stations than daily papers, creating redundancy in beat coverage, since all stations will cover many of the same big stories and regional narratives. So, having more TV journalists on the job doesn’t translate into broader or more in-depth community coverage.

Forget every other explanation you’ve ever heard: There’s one reason why mayhem always seems to lead and dominate nightly news broadcasts.

The basic “Jill shot John” crime story is reliably popular content that seldom requires follow up and costs virtually nothing to produce, relative to the time and resources required to do investigative or enterprise reporting. That kind of work may require hours of interviewing, weeks of source cultivation, and months or years of institutional knowledge and beat coverage. It’s not that watchdogging government and industry isn’t important.

It just takes more time and resources to produce and move that kind of information, and advertisers may have no interest in supporting it.

“My students are always surprised that a Pulitzer Prize can be bad for business,” Abernathy says. “Advertisers and city fathers are really mad at you for having exposed what they didn’t want exposed.”

A Knight report titled “Local TV News and the New Media Landscape” encouraged TV news crews to “drop the obsession with crime, carnage, and mayhem.” It encouraged stations to focus on “ways to connect with local communities through issues similar to those proposed by the FCC: education, economy, transportation, etc.”

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go up considerably if you folded in more heavily reported crime and police-related features covering topics like sex trafficking and a state execution by lethal injection.

Most of WREG’s news was local, but out-of-market content was always present and included reports about wildfires, a helicopter crash, a kitten found in a trash can covered in spray foam, and a horse stuck in the mud.

As a frequent ratings winner in the Memphis market — “on top morning, noon, evening, night,” according to their own reports — WREG is exemplary of what virtually all local TV news looks like today.

Although television news would seem to be in an enviable position as the dominant source for local information, and consistently posting double-digit profits, changing user habits may be taking a toll on viewership. According to Pew research, the slow erosion of TV news users kicked into overdrive in 2018, particularly among viewers under 50.

Pew’s findings show just 50 percent of U.S. adults obtained news regularly from television in 2017. That marked a 57 percent decline from the previous year. “Local TV has experienced the greatest decline, but still garners the largest audience,” Pew’s associate director of journalism Katerina Eva Matsa wrote.

Being the largest combines with regular election year capital injections to keep TV growing in terms of value, even as the audience appears to be falling away.

“It’s very hard, when you’re still successful, to imagine a new way of doing things, or take the risk of destroying your current business model,” Abernathy says.

“There’s what’s called a waterfall effect,” she says. “Things go down incrementally at first, and then all of a sudden it just drops, as it did with newspapers.”

At just about the time Gray was sealing the Raycom deal, a trio of Memphis journalists sat down for a sprawling interview on 88.5 FM, Shelby County Schools Listen Live. It was a rare and insightful look at the role of clickbait — what you get when public interest determines the public interest — in local news production.

“You have to sit there and look at a big board to see what’s trending across the company,” Nicole Harris, a digital producer with experience in newspapers and television said. “So, if something’s doing well in another market or trending on Google, we need to get that on our site, too, to get people to click on it, because we’ll get those hits.”

Harris was joined by Memphis media critic Richard Thompson, who tweets under the handle Mediaverse, and Memphis Association of Black Journalists president Montee Lopez, a senior producer for Local Memphis.

“It’s not fun, especially when you’re being asked to post something you know is dumb,” Harris continued. “There are

times when I would push back. I would say, ‘We don’t need to do this.’ But, at the same time, you only get so many get-outof-jail-free cards.”

The SCS interview was organized in response to social media posts made by area stations that don’t make it clear when shocking crime- and disaster-related content isn’t local. “People don’t read past the headline,” Lopez said. “That’s what a lot of our social media producers count on. They know they’re going to see that headline — ‘Man Kills Wife in Bizarre Way.’ It’s hundreds of miles away, or thousands, but they know because of the headlines it’s going to get the clicks.”

“Crime-all-thetime coverage is lazy,” Ransom was quoted as saying. “It glorifies violence and can fuel racial stereotypes.”

Harris, and Lopez aren’t the only area TV journalists who’ve shown some self-awareness. Nightly crime reporting was compared to clickbait in an interview Richard Ransom gave to Memphis magazine, when the news anchor and reporter transitioned from his former gig at WREG to his current home at Local Memphis. “Crime-all-the-time coverage is lazy,” Ransom was quoted as saying. “It’s low-hanging fruit. It also doesn’t reflect in a balanced way the city I know. It glorifies violence and can fuel racial stereotypes.”

Back to the original questions: Why are all of Memphis’ TV news stations about to be under new ownership, and why does it matter? Unlike the newspaper business, where industry titans are frequently bought and sold in the wake of catastrophic revenue declines and sudden value loss, change in the TV industry is motivated by its history of success and potential for future earnings, buoyed by enormous political campaign spending every two years.

Memphis’ station-ownership turnover reflects an industry where the biggest companies are all looking to get as big as regulations allow, and to challenge those boundaries to take advantage of scale for profits.

In some ways mass consolidation in media makes sense. Big jobs require big organizations, and producing daily news content across a range of interests is an enormous and expensive job. The problem is, the bigger and farther away the ownership groups get, the smaller local newsrooms and their range of reporting become.

So, you probably won’t notice when everything changes and new owners take over all the local television stations — but maybe you should.

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Memphis in May’s Celebrate Memphis is a day-long event celebrating Memphis’ 200th with fireworks, live music a drone show, and an attempt at a Guinness World Record.

They are looking to blow up the previous record for the World’s Longest Picnic Table. Robert Griffin, director of marketing for Memphis in May, notes that the table will use some 18,000-plus yards of wood and 53 pounds of nuts, bolts, and washers. We recently asked Griffin for more deets on the picnic.

How did the picnic idea come about?

We wanted something big, unique, and symbolic for a 200th birthday celebration, and the idea of everyone being invited to Tom Lee Park for this community picnic piqued the curiosity of our Vice President of Programming, Susan Elliott, and she researched the requirements for building the World’s Longest Picnic Table that will allow all the communities of Memphis to come together around one table to share a meal. We loved the symbolism of that.

How is the table going to be set up? Will it circle around, double back?

Originally, we wanted a U or J shape so if you were on one side and your friends were on the other, you wouldn’t have to walk all the way to the end to get to the other side. Unfortunately, Guinness regulations require that it be in a straight line, modeled after a commercially-available design, so it looks like a standard table with bench seating — only four football fields long!

What will the food situation be?

Guests are invited to bring their own sack lunches, coolers or picnic baskets (subject to security check, of course), or purchase food from local concessionaires in the park. One of the Guinness requirements is that people must be picnicking at the same time at the table for it to qualify.

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Chris Milam Green Room, Crosstown Arts, 7:30 p.m., $15 A concert by singer/songwriter Chris Milam.

Spring Book Sale Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

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A Vibe on the Island Mud Island River Park, 6-8 p.m.

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“It’s really much, much more intricate than it was before,” says Dave Maness of modern laser shows. Maness is Sharpe Planetarium Supervisor at the Pink Palace Museum and as such is in charge of the museum’s laser shows.

This week, the planetarium will host its Fab Friday show featuring a Laser Tribute, Laser Genesis, and Laser Led Zeppelin.

“Back in the ’70s and early ’80s, they used a lot of incandescent effects and psychedelic-like liquid lights,” he says.

Since then, technology has advanced. The motors are faster, smaller, and lighter, and the laser power is greater, with sharper colors and more intricate designs.

Maness says back when he started at the Pink Palace in 2006, there was a large water-cooled laser. He was shown the Elvis laser show, and then that laser went kaput, never to laze again.

Laser shows are now computer programmed, though Maness notes there’s always an operator there to give the show a little extra flash.

Along with the improvements in laser technology, the music has been upgraded as well, with shows dedicated to Beyonce and shows that include music from Miley Cyrus, John Legend, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Lady Gaga, and the like. They still dust off the old Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, from time to time, of course. “Pink Floyd has to be involved,” Maness says. “It’s the quintessential group for lasers.”

For Maness, laser shows are like a more intense fireworks display. “It’s hard to put into words if you haven’t seen it,” he says.

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Great American River Run Tom Lee Park, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

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Bluff City Jazz Levitt Shell, noon-9 p.m., $45 An evening of smooth jazz, featuring Will Downing, Norman Brown, Keiko Matsui, Mike Phillips, Althea Rene, and Julian Vaughn.

Return to Burn Tour Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 7-11 p.m., $40 Features a performance by the Bar-Kays’ Larry Dodson and ConFunkShun.

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf TheatreWorks, 6-8 p.m., $15 A fund-raiser for the Women’s Theatre Festival of Memphis. Ntozake Shange’s choreo-poem about the plight of the black woman presented by Cordova High School.

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hen rapper Co Cash dropped his Tay Keithproduced Interscope Records debut, F.A.C.T.S., at the end of April, the album received ripples of praise from the usual suspects — magazines like XXL and youth culturedriven websites like Uproxx. Then an incident in Nashville on May 14th landed Co Cash in the national spotlight.

That evening, he performed a free concert at the Mercy Lounge with Yo Gotti and Detroit rapper 42 Dugg, a new signee to Gotti’s Collective Music Group label and Lil Baby’s 4PF imprint. After the show, Gotti’s tour bus sat outside the Loew’s Vanderbilt Hotel, where it was struck by multiple rounds of gunfire from an unnamed assailant. Gotti is no stranger to violence — an ongoing feud with fellow Memphian Young Dolph has led to headline-making violence in cities as farflung as Los Angeles and Kansas City.

Fortunately for Co Cash, he was nowhere near the scene outside Loew’s. The 24-year-old Memphis-to-Nashville transplant, an alumnus of White Station High School’s class of 2013, was already home when the shooting happened.

The situation hardly gave Co Cash pause.

“Whenever Gotti brings me out, I’m coming,” he Co Cash says. “I think it was just some stuff going on with random people. I didn’t ride on [Gotti’s] bus; I had my own trucks for the tour.”

Eager to discuss his own career-in-themaking, Co Cash shifts the conversation to another Nashville headline-maker: the late, great country anti-hero Johnny Cash.

He’s a diehard fan. In May 2018, Co Cash debuted his new Man in Black-styled moniker after rapping for years under the Rico Dinero persona, staking his claim via the opening lines of his debut mixtape, Foolhardy. “First name Co/Last name Cash/I’m from the city of Memphis,” he avows on the album’s first track, “Take One.” For the release of F.A.C.T.S. (the title is an acronym for the statement “Fuck a critic, I’m the shit”), he posed in front of the Johnny Cash Museum, on Third Avenue South in downtown Nashville.

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Like his namesake, Co Cash has spent plenty of time on the streets of Memphis.

“I’m really from the Whitehaven area, but I’ve lived everywhere in Memphis,” he says. Another similarity: Both are somewhat dark horses in the quest for success. Johnny Cash survived the violent, premature death of his older brother Jack, plus his own addictions to barbiturates and amphetamines, to become one of the greatest-selling music artists of all time.

Co Cash also sees music as an escape — and he says that he “always feels like an underdog,” despite racking up accolades like 2 million YouTube views for his “Cash Day” single.

The music created by Cash and Keith, his collaborator since high school, has little to do with outlaw country music, however. Lil Nas X’s breakout hit “Old Town Road” practically sounds like a Blake Shelton anthem in comparison to the 12 songs that make up F.A.C.T.S. Co Cash drops F-bombs and N-words aplenty, sticking to typical trap music subject matter like blunts, bad girls, and gold chains. Yet if you try hard, you can hear the lineage between tracks like Johnny Cash’s 1964 song “Two Timin’ Woman” and “Bonjour,” the second track on F.A.C.T.S. Same sentiments, different century.

Another rising Memphis export, BlocBoy JB, lends a verse to “Boatload,” and Atlanta-based bubblegum trap artist Lil Yachty appears on the album’s closer, “Told Me.” But the hottest star on the album is Keith, a fellow White Station alum who acquired his bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from Middle Tennessee State University while producing a formidable set of multiplatinum hit singles, including Eminem’s “Not Alike,” Drake and BlocBoy JB’s “Non Stop,” and Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode.”

Keith, the subject of a recent Forbes Magazine profile, is the current go-to producer for Memphis’ latest crop of Billboard chart-topping rappers. “We’ve always had a musical connection,” Co Cash says of his relationship with Keith. “His beats come from my flow, and my flow comes from his beats.”

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Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

The King Beez Thursdays, 5 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill

200 BEALE 527-2687

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

Hard Rock Cafe

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

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

126 BEALE 529-0007

Lionesse Friday, May 24, 6-8 p.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.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

Blues City Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe Patio

138 BEALE 526-3637

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.

182 BEALE 528-0150

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.

60 N. MAIN

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

The Silly Goose

Beethoven Club

Dirty Crow Inn

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

855 KENTUCKY

FreeWorld Friday, May 24, 9 p.m.; Turnstyles Saturday, May 25, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and Friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Rumba Room

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

The Vault

The Halloran Centre

Hillbilly Mojo Friday, May 24, 8 p.m.; KC Johns Saturday, May 25, 8:30 p.m.

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

225 S. MAIN 525-3000

Salute to the Stars: Tribute to Elvis Presley, George Strait, and Adele Saturday, May 25, 7 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

The King Beez Sunday, May 26.

Belle Tavern

124 GE PATTERSON

Medical Center Sunrise 670 JEFFERSON

KC Johns Sunday, May 26, 10 a.m.

South Main

1354 MADISON 249-8976

South Main Sounds

Paulette’s

Songwriter Night Featuring KC Johns and More Friday, May 24, 7 p.m.

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

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

1555 MADISON AVE

Boss Trio Thursday, May 23; Rob Mortimer, Good Paper Friday, May 24; NOTS Album Release with Sweet Knives Saturday, May 25; Dan Montgomery Sunday, May 26, 5 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays; Billie Worley and Jeremy Stanfill Tuesday, May 28; Outer Ring Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.

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

Richard Wilson Every other Friday, 5-7 p.m.

The Rusty Pieces Sunday, May 26, 6:30-9 p.m.

B-Side

Regina’s

152 MADISON 572-1813

Mot & Ed’s

117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

Rooftop Party with DJ Epic Thursday, May 23, 6-10 p.m.

550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Joe Restivo Jazz Trio May 24-25.

263 S. MCLEAN

Concerts at Five Thursday, May 23, 5 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

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

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck Friday, May 24, 6 p.m.; Turnstyles Friday, May 24, 9 p.m.; Hope Clayburn & the Soul Scrimmage Saturday, May 25, 9 p.m.; Freeman Shane Weems and Ron Shuman Every

May 23-29, 2019

Sean Apple Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, Saturdays, 5-9 p.m.; Jonathan Ellison May 24-25, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Saturdays, 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall

149 UNION 529-4000

Brass Door Irish Pub

Rum Boogie Cafe Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-11 p.m.

The Peabody

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

182 BEALE 528-0150

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

341-345 BEALE 577-1089

168 BEALE 576-2220

Blind Bear Speakeasy

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1350 CONCOURSE AVE., SUITE 280 507-8030

Bryant Lockhart Saturday, May 25th.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

Memphis Botanic Garden

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

750 CHERRY 636-4100

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

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Javi & the Hyenas, featuring Ross Johnson and Richard James Monday, May 27, 9 p.m.

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx Friday, May 24, 7:30 p.m.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

Michael Cullipher ThursdaysSaturdays, 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.

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

Huey’s Collierville Royal Blues Band Sunday, May 26.

Cordova Delta Blues Winery 6585 STEWART

Almost Famous Friday, May 24, 7-11 p.m.

Growlers

Huey’s Cordova

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Good Vibes Only: A Celebration of Omar Thursday, May 23, 4 p.m.; Banger Fest May 24-26, 5:30 p.m.; My Chemical Monday: Emo, Pop-Punk, and Screamo Monday, May 27, 10 p.m.; Andrew Ryan Tuesday, May 28, 8 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; The Atomic Bitchwax Tuesday, May 28, 10 p.m.; Mikey Duran and the Nice Dog Band, Garrett Bryan Wednesday, May 29, 8 p.m.

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 318-3030

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, May 26; Davis Coen & the Change Tuesday, May 28.

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

The Pistol & the Queen Band Sunday, May 26; artE 3 Wednesday, May 29.

Huey’s Germantown

Hi-Tone

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Five O’Clock Shadow Sunday, May 26; Gerry Finney Wednesday, May 29.

Dead Meadow with Deep Paul Thursday, May 23, 9 p.m.; Arkansauce Thursday, May 23, 10 p.m.; Royal Thunder, Dead Note, Native Blood Friday, May 24, 8 p.m.; Omar Higgins Tribute with blood like wine, Evince, Tojo Yamamoto, Moses Crouch, Revenge Body Saturday, May 25, 9 p.m.; Opposite Box Sunday, May 26, 7 p.m.; The Other Favorites, Reina del Cid Tuesday, May 28, 8:30 p.m.; Raytracer, Rosey, the Ellie Badge Wednesday, May 29, 10 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Huey’s Southaven 7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Memphis All Stars Sunday, May 26.

Mesquite Chop House 5960 GETWELL

The Rusty Pieces Friday, May 24, 7-9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown

Raleigh

1927 MADISON 726-4372

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Nicole Boggs & the Reel Thursday, May 23, 6 p.m.; Marcella and Her Lovers Thursday, May 23, 9 p.m.; Amber McCain Band Friday, May 24, 6:30 p.m.; The Dantones Friday, May 24, 10 p.m.; The Rollin Rosatti Band Saturday, May 25, 2 p.m.; Emily Chambers Saturday, May 25, 6:30 p.m.; Twin Soul Saturday, May 25, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Swingtime Explosion Monday, May 27, 6 p.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Acoustic Tuesday, May 28, 7 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.

Levitt Shell OVERTON PARK 272-2722

Bluff City Jazz at the Shell Saturday, May 25, 12-9 p.m.

Dyer’s Cafe 101 N. CENTER 850-7750

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Chris Milam Thursday, May 23, 7:30-10:30 p.m.; The Klitz Thursday, May 23, 9:30-11:30 p.m.; The Mystic Tuesday, May 28, 6 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room

Collierville Richard Wilson Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m.

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

1350 CONCOURSE AVE., SUITE 280 507-8030

John Paul Keith Sunday, May 26, 4-7 p.m.; The Chaulkies Sunday, May 26, 4-7 p.m.; Jamie Baker & the VIPs Sunday, May 26, 8:30 p.m.-midnight; Some Sons of Mudboy Tuesday, May 28, 4-7 p.m.

26, 12:30-3:30 p.m.; TuneAGator Monday, May 27, 12-3 p.m.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Jug Band, Don McGregor, and Delta Celtica Saturday, May 25, 8-11 p.m.; Zeke’s ThreeGenerations Jug Band with Don McGregor Saturday, May 25, 8-11 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rockstar Karaoke Fridays; Obscura: A Gothic Affair Saturday, May 25; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Ghost Town Blues Band Friday, May 24, 9 p.m.; Obruni Dance Band Saturday, May 25, 8 p.m.; King Pin Skinny Pimp Birthday Bash Saturday, May 25, 10 p.m.; Magic Brunch Sunday, May 26, noon.

East Memphis East of Wangs 6069 PARK 763-0676

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

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

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

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Settlers Sunday, May 26, 4-7 p.m.; Young Petty Thieves Sunday, May 26, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

Poplar/I-240

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

Whitehaven/ Airport Rock-n-Roll Cafe 3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

Elvis Tribute featuring.

Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Rockstar Karaoke with Charlie Belt Thursdays, 8 p.m.; The Brian Johnson Band with Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Friday, May 24, 9 p.m.; Musicboxx Saturday, May 25, 9 p.m.; Twin Soul Sunday, May 26, 5:30 p.m.; Red Letter Day Wednesday, May 29, 8 p.m.

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Steak Night with Tony Butler and the Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Possum Drifters Saturday, May 25, 12-3 p.m.; Possum Drifters Sunday, May

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas Private Studio 212 WEST POLK

Blues Off Broadway: Ghost Town Blues Band, Earl “The Pearl” Banks & the People of the Blues Thursday, May 23, 5-8 p.m.

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

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

The New Backdour Bar & Grill

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302 S. AVALON 596-7115

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

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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.

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Hattiloo Theatre

The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the ’61 Freedom Riders. 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.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Playhouse on the Square

5.23

CROSSTOWN ARTS WEEKLY FILM SERIES:

Stranded in Canton TIME: 7:30am-8:30pm PLACE: Crosstown Theater Tickets are $5 (at the door only) After-party with The Thank You Friends Alex Chilton Revue Band in The Green Room!

Cabaret. (725-3008), cabaret. pptnm.org/. Through May 26, 8-10 p.m.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

TheatreWorks

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, a fund-raiser Women’s Theatre Festival of Memphis. womenstfmemphis.org. $15/ $12 seniors (60), students w/ID..

Sat., May 25, 6-8 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

20Twelve

Opening Reception for Kate Bradley McClure, exhibition of new work by the Virginia-based artist. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Church Health. www.20twelvedesign.com. Thurs., May 23, 5-7 p.m.

2531 BROAD.

430 Gallery

5.29

The McCain Duo at The Green Room

$10 GA | $5 w/ Student ID

TIME: 7:30-9:30pm PLACE: The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

Spit and Image, a one-night art event featuring new works by Jeshua Schuster, Meredith Lones, Sara Moseley, and Stacy Kiehl. With DJ Damp Velour. www.crosstownarts. org. Thurs., May 23, 6-9 p.m.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

OTH E R A R T HA P P E N I N G S

Jazz-A-Fire

Living Legends Series featuring Dr. Alvin McKinney, the alto saxophonist, $20. Last Sunday of every month, 4-7 p.m.

BRINSON’S, 341 MADISON (524-0104), WWW.MEMPHISBLACKARTSALLIANCE. ORG.

May 23-29, 2019

ONGOI NG ART

20Twelve

6.02

KAFÉ KIRK at CROSSTOWN THEATER with Special Guests

KAMERON WHALUM + KORTLAND WHALUM

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Kate Bradley McClure, exhibition of new work by the Virginia-based artist. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Church Health. www.20twelvedesign.com. May 23-31.

2531 BROAD.

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

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

Through June 1.

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

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

Art Village Gallery

“Visions of Illusion,” exhibition of new work by Zeinu Mudeser. www.artvillagegallery.com.

Through July 31.

“Out of Africa: Inhabitants of the Earth,” exhibition of work by Nigerian artist Uchay Joel Chima. www. artvillagegallery.com. Ongoing.

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

Work by Kate Bradley McClure at 20Twelve, opening Thursday, May 23rd

4339 PARK (761-5250).

“Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric,” traveling exhibition of art quilts by 29 internationally known artists. www.crosstownarts.org.

Through July 28.

Edge Gallery

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

509 S. MAIN (647-9242).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

Crosstown Concourse

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

1350 CONCOURSE AVE.

Blues Hall of Fame Museum

Burton Callicott, exhibition of serene landscapes by the acclaimed artist and influential educator. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Through June 7.

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

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

“Soft Landing,” exhibition of new work by Emily Leonard. www. davidluskgallery.com. Through June 6.

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

“The Blues According to Arhoolie,” exhibition honoring Arhoolie Records, an independent record label famed for publishing and promoting obscure folk and blues artists. www.blues.org. Through Sept. 1.

421 S. MAIN (527-2583).

Clough-Hanson Gallery

Senior Thesis Exhibition. www. rhodes.edu/events. Ongoing.

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

Crosstown Arts at The Concourse

“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. www.crosstownarts.org.

Through July 26.

“Blue: A Regional Quilt Challenge,” a curated exhibition of three-layered, stitched 24”x 24” works by local and regional artists. www.crosstownarts.org. Through July 28.

beth was an accomplished still-life painter, as well as William’s wife, muse, and favorite model. www. dixon.org. Through July 14.

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

Ongoing.

David Lusk Gallery

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“The Allure of Creative Self-Absorption,” exhibition of photographs of Virginia Oldoini Verasis, the Countess of Castiglione. www. dixon.org. Through July 14.

“William McGregor Paxton and Elizabeth Okie Paxton: An Artistic Partnership,” exhibition of the works of William Paxton and Elizabeth Paxton. William is best remembered for his involvement with the Boston School, and Eliza-

Folk Artists, exhibition of work

by Debra Edge, John Sadowski, Nancy White, Bill Brookshire, and other folk artists. Ongoing.

L Ross Gallery

“Where the Petals All Unfold/ Where Light and Landscape Meet,” exhibition of works by Alan Duckworth and Dolores Justus.

(767-2200), lrossgallery.com. Free.

Tues.-Sat. Through May 25.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Marshall Arts Gallery

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

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Botanic Garden

Twilight Thursdays, extended hours staying open til sunset.

Each week will have a different highlight from plants to pets. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Thursdays.

“Bicentennial Blues Bed,” new, year-long planting celebrating the Bluff City’s bicentennial, located just outside of the Four Seasons Garden. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Ongoing.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Natural Curiosity,” exhibition of work by Beth Van Hoesen, displaying the artist’s process, from initial sketch to polished print. Van Hoesen specialized in

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C A L E N D A R : M AY 2 3 - 2 9 continued from page 20 the intaglio processes of etching, drypoint, and aquatint, primarily focused on natural subject matter like insects, plants, and animals. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through June 30.

“Painted Words: Poets and Painters in Print, 1869 – 1967.” www.brooksmuseum.org.

Through Aug. 11.

“Arts of Global Africa.” www. brooksmuseum.org. Through June 21, 2021.

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

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

Through Oct. 11.

“About Face,” exhibition located in the Education Gallery highlighting the different ways artists interpret the connection between emotion and expression. www.brooksmuseum.org. Ongoing.

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

May 23-29, 2019

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

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3-5 p.m.

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

BACKBEAT TOURS, CORNER OF SECOND AND BEALE (INSIDE BLUES CITY CAFE) (527-9415), WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ EVENTS/325679704783982/.

“Collaborations,” exhibition of collaborative works by Tennessee Craft members. www. jccmemphis.org. Through May 31.

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6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Spring Book Sale

Metal Museum

The annual Friends of the Library seasonal sale. May 24-25, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

“Tributaries,” exhibition of work by featured artist Jill Baker Gower. (774-6380), www.metalmuseum.org.

Through June 30.

“40 Under 40: The Next Generation of American Metal Artists.” (774-6380), www. metalmuseum.org/40-under-40. Tuesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Sept. 15.

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

Urban Indulgence Anniversary Celebration Anniversary celebration of this store selling handcrafted bath and body products. Free admission, RSVP required.

Sat., May 25, 12-4 p.m.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR.

Ross Gallery

“Outside Looking In,” exhibition of works by CBU BFA graduates Erin McInnes, Darien Parsons, and Katherine Traylor. www.cbu.edu/gallery. Free. Mondays-Fridays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Through July 8.

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

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Horseshoe Casino Tunica

Ladies Night Out Comedy Tour, host Nene Leakes shares the stage with comedians Sherri Shepherd, Janelle

Great American River Run Saturday, May 25th Downtown James, and special guest Loni Love. Fri., May 24.

1021 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS (800-357-5600).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

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Author discusses and signs his new book, A Good American Family. Thurs., May 23, 6 p.m.

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I’d go as far as to argue that cheap domestic keg beer is the inspiration for the whole thing. It is the spark that brings the team to life. Sure, you’ve got to have something to smoke, but you’ve got to have a team name, and after a while, those swine puns get hard to come by. And the very clever ones don’t sound like the product of an altogether sober mind. There is an undeniably creative genius unleashed by this sort of beery slow burn. Like when I overheard, sung to the tune of the traditional “Old Man River,” the following: “I’m so bloated, Yes, I’m so bloated.

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Not award-winning pulled pork from aficionados coming from around the globe, but that thoroughly Memphis carnival of meat, liquor, fried adrenaline, heat, and the lingering whiff — beneath the wood-smoke and pork fat — of off-license glaucoma treatments being applied with mellow determination.

In my long experience, the thing that holds it all together is beer. Not pork, but beer. Hear me out: In your car, the engine gets all the glory, but without a drive shaft you aren’t going anywhere. To get yourself through Barbecue Fest, you need beer. Cheap domestic beer, and a lot of it. Not for drunkenness, but for maintenance of that strange and tricky equilibrium where the alcohol keeps the exhaustion at bay, but doesn’t pull you under.

I recall in high school — before the safety barriers were up and the event had a lot more “Thunderdome” to it — my friend Tim trying to climb the bluff and tumbling headfirst into hilarious failure. A skinny fella, Tim looked like a Wham-O hula-hoop bouncing down the bluff with the skinny outrigger of his arm holding a beer. He came back to us in a Ferris wheel of profanity and hair, with a mouthful of grass. Tim hadn’t spilled a drop. We called it a Barbecue Miracle, but the truth is that if he’d been drinking Arnold Palmers, he’d have lost the whole cup in the first loop.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

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Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway fleece the rubes in The Hustle.

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Somewhere in between those two extremes is Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Directed by Frank Oz, the 1988 film starred comedic superman Steve Martin and prestige actor with underutilized comic chops Michael Caine. Both are con men, but with dramatically different styles. Caine is a European sophisticate who knows where the rich, gullible widows are

because he’s from the milieu. Martin is something of a confidence idiot savant, disorienting his targets with a barrage of bullshit. The younger grifter wants to learn from the older grifter, but they end up at odds — neither one of them is exactly trustworthy, you see.

There ain’t room enough in the French Riviera for the two of them, so they make a bet: The first one to con a rich heiress out of $50,000 wins, and the loser must leave town.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels isn’t the greatest comedy of the ’80s, but it definitely has its moments, and a couple of decades as basic cable fare has earned it an audience. It’s ripe for a remake, and as you know, 21st-century Hollywood abhors a remake vacuum. Or something.

The driving force of The Hustle is Rebel Wilson, Australian comedian who produced the film and stars in the Steve Martin role. Wilson’s Penny Rust is a professional catfisher who reels in her rich, conceited, yet dopy marks on Tinder. She falls victim to the con artist’s biggest occupational hazard: when you’ve been too successful and you’ve got to leave town ahead of your vengeful victims.

You can’t con a con artist — can you? Anne Hathaway (left) and Rebel Wilson in The Hustle.

Inspired by a travel magazine, she sets off to France, where, by chance, she meets Josephine Chesterfield, played by Anne Hathaway. Josephine has refined conning old men out of their excess capital into a science. She does her research, surveils her targets, and then hits them in their most psychologically vulnerable spots. From the moment she sees Penny on a train talking a guy out of a free dinner, she recognizes the game. Fearing an oversaturated con market in the hoity toity French Riviera town she prowls, Josephine tries to misdirect Penny. But the ugly American keeps coming back, and the two prideful con artists are off, trying to one-up each other for money, jewels, and bragging rights.

Like Martin and Caine, Hathaway and Wilson have the chemistry to pull this off. Josephine, who at one point gives a speech about how the best way for a woman to con a man is to let him underestimate her, repeatedly underestimates Penny’s cunning. The mark the two artists compete to fleece out of an inflation-

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British comedy actor Chris Addison makes his directorial debut with The Hustle, and he may be the problem with the film. Hathaway has too much fun flipping through her portfolio of accents and wardrobe of slinky dresses, while Wilson is having a blast doing physical comedy. Like in its inspiration, there are a high points where it all works, such as when Hathaway takes the personae of a severe German psychologist to cure Wilson’s faked hysterical blindness. It’s well edited, and there are no obvious, throw it against the wall improv passages, which

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THE LAST WORD by Dana Milbank

In a Heartbeat

Louis Brandeis imagined that states could serve as laboratories of democracy. At the moment, they are serving as a bunch of mad scientists.

The late Supreme Court justice envisioned states trying “novel social and economic experiments.” But he could not have anticipated just how novel the thinking would be of Alabama state Senator Clyde Chambliss (R), author of the state’s toughest-in-thenation law, which bans virtually all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest.

“I’m not trained medically, so I don’t know the proper medical terminology and timelines,” the legislator-scientist said during this week’s debate on his bill. “But from what I’ve read, what I’ve been told, there’s some period of time before you can know a woman is pregnant. … It takes some time for all those chromosomes and all that.”

Chambliss then argued that, under his law, women would be free to get abortions during this period of time — so long as they don’t yet know they are pregnant. So a victim of incest could get an abortion? “Yes, until she knows she’s pregnant,” he reasoned, as journalist Abbey Crain recounted.

The genius behind the abortion law elaborated: “She has to do something to know whether she’s pregnant or not. It takes time for all the chromosomes to come together.”

The poor fellow seems to have confused chromosomes, the genetic material that combines during fertilization, with the hormones detected in pregnancy tests.

So, once an egg is fertilized, no more abortions? Chambliss floundered: “I’m at the limits of my medical knowledge, but until those chromosomes you were talking about combine — from male and female — that’s my understanding.” Contradicting himself, he also said that throwing away eggs that were fertilized in vitro wouldn’t land you in jail because “it’s not in a woman. She’s not pregnant.”

He similarly was confused about how a doctor, who under the law would face imprisonment for assisting with an abortion, would discern between the identical symptoms of a woman miscarrying (which would still be legal) and one having a medication-induced abortion. “The burden of proof would be on the prosecution,” he said — thus opening the 25 percent of pregnancies that end in miscarriages to law-enforcement probes.

When one woman in the chamber questioned his familiarity with female reproduction, Chambliss replied: “I don’t know if I’m smart enough to be pregnant.”

The better question is whether he’s smart enough to be writing laws.

Thus did Chambliss join the vanguard of clueless male legislators telling women what to do with their bodies. In Ohio, the author of a bill banning insurance coverage for non-life-threatening abortions included an exception for a fictitious procedure in which a doctor implants the fetus from an ectopic pregnancy in the uterus. The bill also appears — inadvertently — to ban coverage of IUDs and possibly birth control pills.

And Georgia, in its bill banning abortion after six weeks, designated “unborn children as natural persons” with “full legal recognition,” thus inviting questions about whether it’s legal for fetuses in the uteri of female inmates to be imprisoned without charges, whether women who have abortions could theoretically be charged with murder and whether, if a tax deduction is claimed for the unborn child, it would be repaid after miscarriages.

And: If fetuses are full persons, could we at least start teaching them biology?

After Justice Brett Kavanaugh provided the Supreme Court with a likely decisive vote to repeal Roe v. Wade, abortion opponents in state legislatures — Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, Mississippi, Kentucky, North Dakota, Iowa, and elsewhere — have joined a pell-mell rush to come up with restrictive laws to serve as test cases.

They say science has improved since Roe, but clearly the scientific knowledge of those writing the laws has not.

The new abortion bans are commonly dubbed “heartbeat” bills because pulsing cells can be detected as early as six weeks — but embryos don’t have hearts at that point. Women may be near or past the six-week abortion window before they know they’re pregnant. And though lawmakers may not intend to ban birth control or to jail women who have abortions, those possibilities are far more realistic than Trump’s claim that Democrats like to “execute” swaddled newborns.

No wonder House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who claims Democrats favor “infanticide,” had difficulty with a question this week about whether Republicans would now be identified with the new laws. McCarthy opposes the Alabama bill, saying the state took an “extreme” position.

So extreme that it departed not just from legal convention but from medical science.

Dana Milbank writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.

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