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OUR 1579TH ISSUE 05.30.19 Did you read The New York Times story Sunday about Navy pilots who’ve encountered UFOs? Here’s the lead paragraph: “The strange objects … appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast.

Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.”

The story quotes six pilots who had encounters with these mysterious objects, and it even links to a video filmed by two Navy pilots that shows incidents of U.S. planes pursuing mysterious flying objects. The video showed objects accelerating to hypersonic speed, making sudden stops and instantaneous turns — something beyond the physical limits of a human crew.

After one pilot had a nearcollision with one of the UFOs, the pilots began to complain to superiors that something needed to be done, so a system was set up to monitor and record observations of encounters with UFOs. This story was being widely circulated on social media. Oddly, I saw no one who claimed that the story was “fake news from the failing New York Times.” Maybe that’s because everybody loves these kinds of stories, no matter their politics. I don’t know.

I do know that the Memorial Day weekend was particularly rife with fake news memes, including a photo of former President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama supposedly taken at a Memorial Day celebration in which Michelle did not have her hand on her heart and had a surly look on her face.

Here’s a sampling of comments: “Disgraceful!” “They are both sh*t.” “Thank God we have a real patriot as president now!”

Of course, there were the usual well-meaning folks who pointed out that the photo had been widely debunked as a photoshop from 2015, but to little avail from the “Obummer” haters, who doubted the legitimacy of the fact-checkers.

Similarly, some anti-Trump folks circulated a meme showing the cost of the president’s golf outings at $102 million and counting. Some doubters claimed that since the president owned his golf resorts and takes no salary, these numbers were bogus. Others claimed that Obama golfed much more than Trump. When folks pointed out that the amount spent on Trump’s golf trips had been researched and validated by numerous legitimate news outlets, the responses were that it was “fake news” from fake news outlets. Of course. This is where we are, America.

With the 2020 election campaign drawing nigh, this sort of misinformation will only increase in frequency and subtlety. See last week’s wide-spread dissemination of an altered video of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, slowed down to make her appear drunk. It was viewed more than two million times on Facebook pages and conservative websites. Hours after it had been debunked, it was shown on Fox News as legit, and later tweeted by the president and by his consigliere Rudy Giuliani.

There was once a time when America had what was called a “fairness doctrine,” in which the FCC required that broadcast media give “equal time” to opposing views.

How quaint that seems now, in this era where we all choose our own facts. It’s the Wild West, where anything goes, and the truth is just the latest clever meme.

I don’t know how we fix it, but there are countries that are taking real steps to assure that poisonous lies don’t get spread so easily. One example is the tiny nation of Estonia, which suffered a Russian cyber attack on its elections in 2008 (widely seen as a dress rehearsal for later, more ambitious cyber-meddling). Estonia instituted a national cyber-security strategy (ENISA), which consisted of a basic reboot of its election systems, heightened security measures for banks, utilities, and other high-risk targets, and a massive public information campaign designed to help Estonians become more cyber-literate, better able to spot mischief and misinformation masquerading as truth.

It’s a subject that needs to be addressed as soon as possible in the U.S. — “as soon N E WS & O P I N I O N as possible” meaning as soon as the SenTHE FLY-BY - 4 ate is loosened from the grasp of Mitch NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 POLITICS - 7 McConnell and the GOP, which has COVER STORY steadfastly refused to take any measures “NATURAL HIGH” to improve the nation’s electoral cyber-seBY TOBY SELLS - 9 curity. It’s almost as though they wouldn’t SPORTS - 13 mind if the Russians got another shot at WE RECOMMEND - 14 screwing up our elections. Weird, huh?

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But if things go according to plan, The Pony will soon be hosting Roger Stone. He’s a conservative consultant, strategist, and agent provocateur who worked on the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump, more than earning his reputation as the Dark Lord of the Right.

According to various reports, Stone has been making appearances at strip clubs to fund his legal defense against a seven-count federal indictment stemming from the Robert Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The Pony visit would find Stone judging a stripper contest scheduled for June 5th-7th.

This isn’t the first time The Pony has courted a more political crowd.

Almost a year ago, top-shelf porn star and occasional libertarian candidate Stormy Daniels visited Memphis on her Make America Horny Again tour. The controversy around Daniels’ affair with President Donald Trump and the $130,000 in hush money she was paid not to disclose it had already blown up in the media. The Pony advertised the show by changing their sign to read, “You Can’t Trump Us.” N E V E R E N D I N G E LV I S Could this be the Game of Thrones sequel we haven’t been waiting for?

Dakota Striplin, a contestant on “The Voice Australia,” just suggested that he — maybe, possibly — could be a secret grandson to the King of Rock-and-Roll, Elvis Presley.

The only evidence seems to be that Striplin’s grandmother met Elvis in Hawaii and was very upset when he died.

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Brooks, Parks, & Bluff City Law Design firm announced for Brooks, Memphis’ park score improves, council wants state incentives for show production.

B U I LD I N G TH E B R O O KS Last week, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art introduced a worldrenowned design firm as the creative force behind “Brooks on the Bluff,” the future Downtown incarnation of the 103-year-old institution.

Herzog & de Meuron of Basel, Switzerland and New York, will collaborate with Memphisbased archimania, the architect of record. The design is expected to be unveiled early next Clockwise from top left: Brooks selects design firm, “Memphis As Fuck” fan art, year and the $105 Bluff City Law, Memphis park system ranked million facility completed in four-to-five years. here and in nearby Oxford, Mississippi, in March.

Herzog & de Meuron won the Pritzker Architecture Earlier this month, NBC picked up the show as a weekly Prize for its renovation of London’s Tate Modern in 2000. It series. Producers of the show have said previously that about also did the striking Bird’s Nest Stadium at the 2008 Beijing $50 million will be spent on location during filming.

Olympics, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and several other Councilman Martavious Jones said Tuesday that the only notable projects. way the council can speak is through a resolution, so he proposed a resolution urging the governor to allocate $10 PA R K P R O G R E S S million of discretionary state funds to the production of Out of the country’s 100 largest cities, Memphis ranks 87th Bluff City Law. when it comes to parks, according to one group’s annual report on the country’s best park systems.

DUMPSTER FIRES The Trust for Public Land nonprofit ranks parks based on Did you see those bright lights over Memphis? It wasn’t the accessibility, investment, acreage, and amenities.

Barbecue Festival. It was the glowing lights from two Memphis Memphis’ park system, comprising 194 parks, earned an social-media dumpster fires. And you should have a look. improved ranking from last year. It was up four points from The flames are still being fanned on an Instagram photo the 91st ranking Memphis received in 2018. posted by Memphis As Fuck (@memphisaf_ck) last week. It Memphis’ highest score was in acreage, where it earned shows an orange-brown rock in some desert landscape with 60 out of 100 points. That number is calculated based on the words “Memphis As Fuck” scrawled onto it. median park size and the percentage of the city’s land Memphis As Fuck captioned the photo (above) “#fanart dedicated to parks. Here 5 percent of the land is used for #memphisasfuck #allday: memphisasfuck.com.” And parks and recreation, according to the report. The national internet people were having none of it. median is 15 percent.

And, it looks like Victory Bicycle Studio removed a post that also sparked a roaring fire. The photo showed a cycling SHOW MONEY jersey printed with a handgun image sticking out of the rear The Memphis City Council will ask Tennessee Governor Bill pocket. Also printed on the pocket is “Memphis” in a graffiti Lee to set aside $10 million to incentivize NBC’s new legal print. The post was captioned #memphis. drama to film in Memphis.

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Tennessee came close to being the 17th state to pass legislation this year either placing greater restrictions on abortion or effectively banning the procedure completely.

About 40 pro-choice advocates rallied here last week against those recently passed bans.

Ashley Coffield, president of Planned Parenthood for the Greater Memphis Region, said last week that 73 percent of Americans oppose banning abortion, and “we’re out here today to raise up their voices and tell the nation that we won’t stand for it.

“In Tennessee, we have Planned Parenthood and other organizations that offer abortion, and that’s a great thing,” Coffield said. “But we are under attack from our legislature right now. It’s worse than it’s ever been.”

Coffield said the Tennessee legislature was close to passing an outright abortion ban this year, but that measure failed in the state Senate. That legislation is slated to be discussed during the legislation’s summer session, meaning it could return next year.

Tennessee did, however, pass a law that would criminalize abortion in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is overturned.

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If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the law would make it a felony offense for doctors to perform abortions.

Under the law, women seeking abortions would not be prosecuted.

“The fight is far from over in Tennessee,” Coffield said. “Our rights are at risk like they’ve never been before and this is a coordinated attack nationwide to get a case to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.”

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women and making abortion illegal won’t stop abortions: “Abortion will just be unsafe, and women will die.”

Currently, in Tennessee abortion is legal throughout the first 20 weeks of a woman’s pregnancy. However, the law places restrictions and regulations on clinics that offer abortion and women seeking the procedure, according to Holly Calvasina, director of development and communications for Choices.

One of those regulations is the 48-hour waiting period, Calvasina said. Women seeking an abortion must make an appointment to see a physician on two different occasions at least 48 hours apart. According to the law, this is to “reduce coerced abortions and to allow time to carefully consider the information and resources provided by informed consent provisions.”

Calvasina said this makes abortions more expensive because women must pay for two doctor’s visits.

Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer, who sits on the Planned Parenthood board here, was also at the rally last week, speaking against abortion bans.

“It was more important for me to be here with you on the ground to say ‘this won’t fly for us,’” Sawyer said. “I know personally what it means to be able to make decisions about your body. No one should be able to tell anyone what they can do with their life and their future.”

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Council Races: First Look As petitions begin to be pulled, several races come into focus; Memphis loses the gallant Ralph White.

DISTRICT 2: So far, incumbent Frank Colvett seems to have this district all to himself.

DISTRICT 3: Incumbent Patrice Robinson has at this point drawn a single challenger, Joe P. Washington.

DISTRICT 4: Jamita Swearengen, the incumbent, and the daughter of an influential and well-remembered African-American jurist, is in good shape against potential challengers Nikkous Crump, Rodney A. Muhammad, and Britney Thornton, the latter of whom has some experience in city affairs and a modicum of support.

DISTRICT 5: Incumbent Worth Morgan, well-financed and regarded as able, should have an easy time of it against his only possible opponent so far, George D. Summers.

DISTRICT 6: This has been a seat held by members of the extended Ford family from time immemorial, and it is highly likely that Edmund Ford Sr., who formerly held the seat and seeks a return to it, will triumph over a bevy of would-be challengers: Davin D. Clemons, Justin J. Ford (who has pulled petitions in several races and is unlikely to persevere against his uncle), Larry Hunter, Theryn C. Bond

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DISTRICT 7: No council incumbent has aroused the public animosity that the headstrong and oft heavyhanded Berlin F. Boyd has, but few have buffered themselves with as much influential business support, either. That makes things tough for his challengers, who range from his bestknown potential foe, Thurston Smith, to such others as Catrina L. Smith, Jerred Price, Larry Springfield, and Michalyn C.S Easter-Thomas.

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SUPER DISTRICT 8, POSITION 1: Though, as of last week, she had not yet picked up a petition, District 6 incumbent Gerre Currie is expected to run for this seat, and to do so as a favorite. Those who had picked up early petitions for the seat include J.B. Smiley Jr., an on-the-move activist with decent support; Hanalei Harris; and three pullers of multiple petitions, the aforementioned Justin J. Ford, as well as Pearl Eva Walker and Roderic Ford (who, his surname notwithstanding, is not a member of the extended political clan).

SUPER DISTRICT 8, POSITION 2: Pulling petitions so far have been Craig Littles, Frank W. Johnson, and the aforementioned Justin J. Ford, Pearl Eva Walker, and Roderic Ford.

The incumbent is Cheyenne Johnson, who is expected to prevail.

SUPER DISTRICT 8, POSITION 3: Incumbent Martavius Jones has this one all the way against the ubiquitous Roderic Ford.

SUPER DISTRICT 9, POSITION 1: This race is shaping up as a three-way, pitting Erika Sugarmon, a runnerup in last year’s special election for District 9, Position 2, against two

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DISTRICT 1: The much-mentioned “people’s choice” aspirant (as she was dubbed by her thwarted supporters for a District 1 vacancy last year) is Rhonda Logan, the activist who now has a chance to prove the validity of that appellation; she faces a serious obstacle, though, in Sherman Greer, an experienced governmental hand who served as an aide for 9th District Congressmen Harold Ford Jr. and Steve Cohen, and who ultimately got the appointment nod from the council.

A third candidate in District 1, not so well known, is Tierra Holloway, whose family name, coincidentally, is the same as that of Logan’s birth family.

(well known as a protestor in several City Hall issues), Jaques Hamilton, and Paul S. Brown.

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well-backed candidates, University of Memphis development specialist Cody Fletcher and developer Chase Carlisle, neither of whom had picked up their petitions as of last week. Sugarmon is the daughter of the late revered African-American legal icon Russell Sugarmon. Other petition pullers are Mauricio Calvo, a multiple puller who will have significant Latino support for whichever race he sticks with, and Jerome Williams Sr. SUPER DISTRICT 9, POSITION 2: Calvo has pulled here as well, as has Samuel Goff, a candidate last year for a Shelby County Commission post. Both are probably wasting their time against incumbent Ford Canale, who as of last week had not yet pulled.

SUPER DISTRICT 9, POSITION 3: Calvo again, along with one Tyrone Romeo Franklin, but Jeff Warren, a former Memphis School Board member who has already raised $100,000 and has across-the-board support, is the clear favorite.

political lines — died in the saddle, as it were, officiating in an ultimate godly act at the church, Bloomfield Full Gospel Baptist Church, that he had made a haven for righteousness, in more ways than one.

Ralph White was a marvelous preacher and, in his prime, a superlative athlete and singer. He was a gracious, compassionate, thoughtful man who fully deserved to win any or all of the electoral positions he ran for. Ironically, it was his large-minded determination to serve the total community rather than to kowtow to this or that influential faction that may have prevented his winning a public office.

It is a shame he did not get to serve in that way, but he managed to act on behalf of the community — and, again, that’s all of us — in many other ways, through church enterprises and civic groups. A recent act of service was his tenure as chair and then, as illness hobbled him, vice chair of the city’s Civilian Law Enforcement Review Board (CLERB) — perfect casting for this preeminently fairminded man. We’ll all miss him.

NEXT WEEK: An early look at the races for Mayor, City Court Clerk, and three municipal judgeships.

Rev. Ralph White

Journey to the past.

We learned over the weekend that Rev. Ralph White died while conducting a funeral Saturday afternoon. It is surely no disservice to observe that Pastor White — Ralph, as he was known to so many of his friends across all sorts of civic and social and racial and

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Imagine carrying five of them. Now, imagine it’s not frozen turkeys but marijuana.

Whoa, dude. Trippy. Sounds like some stoned fantasy wafting out of a freshman dorm.

But 50 pounds of legal cannabis was a reality — a legal reality — in Arkansas two weeks ago. Patients drove hours to line up at the state’s first two cannabis dispensaries in Hot Springs on Friday, May 10th. A week later (at the close of business the following Saturday, May 18th), 52 pounds of medical marijuana had been sold.

The Arkansas Department of Finance & Adminstration doesn’t track specific

patient numbers. Each sale is tracked by weight and individual cannabis strains purchased. So, if one patient buys an ounce of cannabis — a half-ounce of Banana Kush for anxiety and the other half in Pineapple Trainwreck for depression — state accountants consider that two transactions.

So, in that first week, Doctor’s Orders sold a total of 24.5 pounds of medical marijuana through 2,171 transactions. Green Springs Medical missed the first two days of sales, but from Sunday to Saturday, the company sold 27.5 pounds of medical marijuana in 2,616 transactions, according to state figures. So, totals were 52 pounds sold in 4,787 transactions.

Marijuana prices at both stores are $15 per gram. State data said individual receipts averaged about $79.

In that first week, medical cannabis sales in Arkansas were $353,802. The

figure does not include Hot Spring’s 9.5-percent sales tax and a 4-percent medical cannabis tax. With those numbers included, medical cannabis in Arkansas added about $47,763 to state and local tax coffers in one week.

Consider these figures as only the very beginning of a burgeoning cannabis business across the state of Arkansas. Look west from the top of the Pyramid and you’ll be able to watch that business boom right across the river from Memphis.

On the western Arkansas border, a cannabis boom is also happening in Oklahoma. Voters there approved medical cannabis last summer. Two months later — greased lightning for a state bureaucracy — the Sooner State’s medical cannabis program was up and running.

According to a story in CannabisNow, an online news magazine, “Medical marijuana is

literally too popular for Oklahoma to handle.” The story describes a glut of patients — way more than state officials expected — and first-month sales receipts of more than $1 million.

If your driver’s license was issued in Tennessee, you’re out of luck if you want to legally join the party, er, get a prescription. You can’t go to Hot Springs or Fort Smith and buy any of that Banana Kush or Pineapple Trainwreck (or Grandaddy Purple, Buddha Kush, or Alaskan Thunder Fuck, for that matter).

State lawmakers in Tennessee just can’t quite pull the trigger on a medical cannabis program. Probably because, y’know, Jesus. But they came close this year — close enough to give a pretty detailed look at what Tennessee residents could possibly expect … someday.

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Initially, few thought medical marijuana legislation had a shot in hell in Arkansas. For one thing, the Natural State is very religious: 77 percent of Arkansans believe in God, and 79 percent of those are Christians, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.

So, it was no surprise that socialconservative groups took a strong negative stand when medical cannabis was first on the ballot in Arkansas in 2012. The Family Council, a conservative think tank based in Little Rock, launched a multi-pronged attack against the measure, calling it a “backdoor effort to legalize marijuana across the state of Arkansas.”

Groups fought the 2012 measure all the way to the Arkansas Supreme Court, which ruled in September (just before the November vote) that the marijuana measure could be placed on the ballot. The 2012 measure failed at the ballot box, but only by a slim 49 percent/51 percent margin, which gave hope to cannabis proponents.

The cannabis question simmered in the state for four years. Then, in 2016, a flurry of lawsuits, two competing ballot initiatives, think pieces, op-eds, court rulings, political wrangling, and a lot of general hand-wringing produced an initiative that went on Arkansas’ November ballot, the same one in which state voters mostly pulled the lever for Donald Trump for president.

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, who led the federal Drug Enforcement Agency under President George W. Bush, opposed any cannabis-legalizing legislation in his state. He said it was “not best for patients” and that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration — not Arkansas voters — should decide.

“We don’t vote on cancer cures, and we should not set a new pattern of determining what is good medicine at the ballot box,” Hutchinson said at the time.

Still, there was plenty of support for medical cannabis. The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Association (AMMA) was established to organize legislative efforts. Patient groups, such as Arkansans for Passionate Care, provided patient stories to extoll the virtues of cannabis in pain management and as an effective alternative to opioids.

In the end, voters approved the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2016 by another narrow margin: 53 percent for; 47 percent opposed. The margin was wider in Crittenden County, right across the river in West Memphis, where 61

percent of voters approved the measure.

Hutchinson, the former drug czar, said in January that “I never dreamed I would be governor with the responsibility” of implementing a medical cannabis program. But the voters approved it, he said, and “I am committed to making it work.”

But Arkansas policy makers slow-rolled the entire process. Unlike Oklahoma’s lickety-split two-month timetable, Arkansas lawmakers met and wrung hands over medical marijuana for two and a half years. Hutchison said they “took the time to get this just right” and noted that a state judge stopped the implementation process altogether for awhile.

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission divided the state into eight zones and determined that each zone would get four dispensaries, a total of 32. The commission hired Boston-based Public Consulting Group to score the 200 applications the state received from companies interested in opening dispensaries. Results were posted in December 2018, and licenses were issued in January 2019.

Companies could file applications in more than one zone. If that company scored in the top four of any zone, it would get an application, but could only run a dispensary in one zone.

So, applications from other, lowerscoring companies would move up in consideration when companies left certain zones.

Such was the case in Zone 3, the section of northeastern Arkansas just across the river from Memphis.

There, two companies — Valentine Holdings and Grassroots OPCO — left consideration in Zone 3 to pursue applications elsewhere, according to the Arkansas Times. The four companies who got dispensary rights in Zone 3 are THC Rx Inc. (West Memphis), Delta Cannabis Co. (West Memphis), Comprehensive Care Group (West Memphis), and NEA Full Spectrum (Rector).

Swimming in Marijuana

That’s right. West Memphis (population 24,860) could soon have three cannabis dispensaries. That’s no small feat when you consider that Little Rock, the state’s most populous city (population 198,606) is only approved for two dispensaries.

But before West Memphians get their hands on AK-47, Bubba Kush, or White Widow for back pain, the dispensaries must pass an inspection by the marijuana commission. And before that, they need to get built.

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Somewhere beyond the floodplain, some Arkansan is legally smoking cannabis right now without a single care in the world of getting busted. That still seems like a fantasy in Tennessee, where a first-offense simple possession could net you a year in prison.

The Volunteer State still don’t allow no jazz-cabbage, reefer joints, or wacky weed, even if you bought it legally elsewhere for, say, your glaucoma.

There has been support to soften state cannabis laws, and the push has

come mostly from Memphis. State Senator Sara Kyle (D-Memphis) proposed a bill this year that would decriminalize possession of less than one ounce of cannabis. Another from Kyle would allow those holding medical cannabis cards from other states to bring their medicine with them while in the state. Neither measure passed.

Both bills did find support this year from a divided Memphis City Council, which voted 5-4 to approve a resolution backing the bills. In 2016, the council tried to use local laws to soften cannabis laws. A proposed rule would have reduced the penalty for simple possession to a $50 fine or community service. It narrowly passed here but was blocked by state lawmakers in Nashville.

But Tennessee got this close to cranking up its own medical cannabis program this year. Of course, the issue has been this close to passing for years now. But this year was different, at least a bit. This year’s efforts produced a 68page document that provided a detailed roadmap of what Tennessee’s medical cannabis program could look like.

If the bill had been approved, a new medical cannabis commission would have been organized by April 2020.

That commission would have issued up to 75 licenses for dispensaries in 2020 and up to 75 more in 2021. Those licenses would’ve cost between $5,000 and $15,000. Cities and counties could still opt out of the program.

Qualified patients (those who are at least 21 with no felonies) could have applied for a patient card with a doctor’s note and $35. Patients could have purchased legal cannabis to help them with debilitating medical conditions like HIV, AIDS, ALS, Crohn’s disease, and more to less severe continued on page 12

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address (3700 Interstate 40 Frontage Road East) for THC Rx and found nothing. Siri led me to Southern Tire Mart, next to an empty field. The Delta Cannabis Co. address took me to another empty field.

Over on OK Street (yes, it’s just OK), the address for Comprehensive Care Group was a humble, one-story building set among car repair shops.

Nothing about it said “medical” or “marijuana,” to me. But, then again, maybe it doesn’t have to. Doctor’s Orders in Hot Springs is in a similar building, decorated only with a white sign with the name of the dispensary and a phone number. Arkansans obviously had no trouble finding it, since they were lined up out the door and down the sidewalk.

But those West Memphis applications were hard-won and didn’t come cheap, so it’s unlikely the investors will let them languish (especially after having to post a $100,000 surety bond). It seems likely that West Memphis will, indeed, become a cannabis hot spot.

West Memphis Mayor Marco McClendon and officials with the West Memphis Chamber of Commerce declined to comment on this story.

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But Tennessee patients would only be able to buy cannabis products as oils or extracts, including nasal sprays, capsules, pills, suppositories, transdermal patches, ointments, lotions, lozenges, tinctures, and liquids.

There would not have been any government programs to help patients pay for cannabis, and employers could still prohibit cannabis use on the job and could screen (and not hire) possible employees for cannabis use. And, according to the Tennessee Agricultural Medicine Act, private establishments could control cannabis use on their grounds and facilities, and no cannabis would be allowed at correctional institutions.

The act was packed with details, down to how much each of the nine cannabis commissioners would be paid each year ($45,000). It would not be surprising if some version of it popped up again next session.

CBD in the Meantime

So, no dispensaries in Tennessee — at least, not yet. But cannabis culture is on the move in Memphis.

Back in 2016, state lawmakers approved the use of CBD in Tennessee.

It’s cannabis (derived from hemp) but not marijuana. It’s used for many common ailments, such as for insomnia or pain. CBD isn’t psychoactive, like weed, so, it won’t get in your head or give you a deeper appreciation for Pink Floyd’s The Wall.

Gary Geiser has sold cannabis gear at Whatever, his Memphis smoke shops, for so long that he can remember when the legislature made him stop using the word “bong” to describe water pipes. CBD sales have boomed in his stores over the last year and a half, mostly on word of mouth, as consumers learn more about it and become curious.

“We see just about every demographic and age group — from 20-year-olds to folks in their 70s,” Geiser says. “They claim it works for just about everything. If something’s wrong, put some CBD on it.”

The Broom Closet on South Main is primarily a magick and metaphysical shop — think candles, herbs, and altar tools. But below the spooky posters of witches and devils, you’ll find colorful bags of fruit gummies, honey straws, and lollipops. But they’re not for kids.

They’re CBD products.

“Our clientele is very much into conscious, holistic living, so it fits with what we do,” says Stephen Guenther, who owns The Broom Closet with his wife, Emily. “Everyone is getting into [CBD products], though, from major department store chains to makeup companies. You can put CBD on topically, and I saw the other day where they now have CBD lube.”

If you’ve visited any cannabis-legal states, you’ve surely seen upscale dispensaries that look like they were decorated by Gwyneth Paltrow. That’s kind of what the proprietors of Ounce of Hope, a new CBD shop, were going for when they opened the shop next to the I Love Juice Bar on Cooper last month.

Store owner Collin Bercier describes the space as an “upscale apothecary.”

Bercier says sales have outperformed projections, and if there are people living with chronic pain, cancer, MS, PTSD, and more, there is a market for medical cannabis.

“Ounce of Hope doesn’t currently sell medical cannabis, but the impressive sales of our CBD products indicate a large appetite for alternative, natural solutions,” Bercier says. “Plus, the medical cannabis legislation that just passed in Arkansas demonstrates what’s possible in the South.

Tennesseans are becoming even more vocal and expressing the need for similar legislation.”

For the time being, however, Tennesseans will just have to wait and hope — and watch the smoke rise just across the Mississippi.

S P O R TS B y Fr a n k M u r t a u g h

Hall of Fame Memphis’ sports legends find a home.

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cians to 1975 NCAA Division III national championship.

George Lapides: Editor and columnist at the Memphis Press-Scimitar, longtime radio host and TV sports editor.

Keith Lee: All-American for Tiger team that reached the NCAA tournament’s Sweet 16 four straight years (198285). Tops Tiger charts in career points (2,408) and rebounds (1,336).

Verdell Mathis: One of the top pitchers in the Negro Leagues. Played nine years for Memphis Red Sox and beat the legendary Satchel Paige three times.

Tim McCarver: Baseball and football star at CBHS, played for three World Series teams with the St. Louis Cardinals, earning championships in 1964 and 1967.

Renowned TV analyst.

Nikki McCray-Penson: Star basketball player at Collierville High School; AllAmerican at the University of Tennessee.

Won gold medals with U.S. Olympic team in 1996 and 2000. Played nine seasons in the WNBA. Cary Middlecoff: All-America golfer at Ole Miss (1939). Won 40 PGA tournaments, including the 1955 Masters and two U.S. Opens.

Cindy Parlow: Star soccer player at Germantown High and University of North Carolina. Member of 1999 World Cup-champion U.S. soccer team.

Ronnie Robinson: Teammate of Finch at Melrose High School and Memphis State, where “the Big Cat” helped Tigers reach the 1973 Final Four.

Verties Sails: Won more than 700 games over 33 years as basketball coach at Shelby State Community College.

Fred Smith: CEO of FedEx. Integral in supporting Memphis sports landscape via PGA tournament and FedExForum.

Rochelle Stevens: State champion at Melrose High School; national champion at Morgan State. Won silver medal with 4x400 relay team in 1992 Olympics. Won gold at 1996 Olympics.

Melanie Smith Taylor: Won gold medal in show jumping at 1984 Olympics. One of only two to win Triple Crown of show jumping.

Bill Terry: Star first-baseman for the New York Giants in the 1920s and ’30s.

Managed Giants to three National League pennants and the 1933 world championship. Inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954.

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emphis’ sports legends will soon have a Hall of Fame all their own. Last Wednesday, the Memphis Sports Council announced the Bicentennial Class of the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame. The inaugural class includes 22 members — six of them deceased — and will be featured in the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame exhibition space on the third floor of AutoZone Park. There are three categories under which candidates could be considered. Athletes must be five years removed from competing in their sport. Coaches must be five years removed from competition, or over 50.

And contributors include administrators, philanthropists, trainers, or members of the media.

Here are the members of the Memphis Sports HOF inaugural class: Betty Booker-Parks: Record-setting basketball player at Memphis State.

Isaac Bruce: First Memphis Tiger football player to accumulate 1,000 receiving yards in a single season. His 15,208 receiving yards rank fifth in NFL history.

Bill Dance: Nationally renowned bass fisherman and TV personality.

Billy Dunavant: Founder of The Racquet Club of Memphis and key player in attracting professional tennis to venue.

Owner of Memphis Showboats.

Larry Finch: Star guard for Memphis State basketball Larry team. Led Tigers to 1973 Finch NCAA championship game and still holds program record for career scoring average. Won 220 games in 11 seasons as Tiger coach.

Avron Fogelman: Owner of the Memphis Chicks for 20 years. Part-owner of Kansas City Royals. President of ABA’s Memphis Pros.

Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway: AllAmerican at Memphis State, third pick in 1993 NBA draft, two-time first-team All-NBA with Orlando Magic, member of the 1996 gold-medalist U.S. Olympic team. Current coach at U of M. Claude Humphrey: Star defensive end with the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles. Twice named All-Pro and accumulated more than 100 sacks. Member of Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Jerry Johnson: Won more than 800 games over 46 seasons as basketball coach at LeMoyne-Owen College. Led Magi-

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By Chris Davis

Things are going to get loud and fast this SATURDAY, SATURDAY, SATURDAY at the Memphis International Raceway, when all those stock car engines crank up for the NASCAR K&B Pro Series, Memphis 150.

Spokesperson Ryan Perezluha describes the K&N Pro Series as “the minor leagues” of NASCAR. “It’s where all the rising stars get their start. This is where they start making a name for themselves on the national level,” he says, rattling off up-and-coming speedsters like Brittney Zamora, who sped off with Washington State’s Rookie of the Year award in NASCAR’s Whelen All-American Series, and Max McLaughlin, the son of NASCAR Xfinity Series racer Mike McLaughlin.

As sports go, NASCAR is extremely fan engagement-forward. Autograph sessions and photo opportunities are just part of the event. “So, unlike if you go to a football game or basketball game or Grizzlies game, you don’t really get access like you do with NASCAR,” Perezluha says. “You have an opportunity to meet the drivers before the race even starts and take pictures with them right next to where they’re about to be racing just a couple of minutes later.”

VIP parking and tailgating areas come with access to games like corn hole and skee-ball, and there is a kid zone with bounce houses and a water slide.

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THURSDAY May 30

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Memphis Italian Festival Marquette Park, 4 p.m., $10 Huge annual festival celebrating Italian culture. We’re talking bocce ball, multiple cooking contests, live music, and more. Through Saturday.

Sound Observations Green Room, Crosstown Arts, 7:30 p.m., $15 A performance by Nadah El Shazly, part of a series presented by Crosstown Arts and Sonosphere.

REO Speedwagon Horseshoe Casino, 8 p.m., $105 Instead you lay still in the grass all coiled up and hissing … You know you’re singing it. REO, playing tonight. Be there.

Whiskey Tasting Celtic Crossing, 6 p.m., $75 Whiskey dinner featuring Rick Edwards, a master of Scotch (!). Edwards will pour some of his favorite whiskeys.

Goner 25 Weekend B-Side, 9 p.m., $10 Three days of rock-and-roll!

Tonight opens with a show by Jack Oblivan Gang, Msr. Jeffrey Evans with Ross Johnson, and Richard James.

Forks & Corks De Terra Vineyard & Wines of Somerville (605 Joyners Campgrounds), 6 p.m., $40 A fund-raiser for Fayette Cares, which deals with homelessness and domestic abuse.

Botanical Bars Memphis Botanic Garden, 6-8 p.m., $40 Tonight’s theme will be “Herbal Highballs,” featuring all sorts of cocktails enhanced with herbs like lavender and mint.

Bobby Blue Bland Blues Music Festival Long Road Cider Company (9053 Barret in Barretville), 5-9 p.m.

An evening of music in honor of blues great Bobby Blue Bland, with members of the Bland family, live music, food, and more.

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Shady Grove Presbyterian Church, 2-4 p.m.

Volunteers pack “period packs,” menstrual products for those in need. Volunteers are encouraged to collect products or bring their own for donation.

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By Chris Davis This isn’t a scouting story. It’s about grown, beer-drinking men and women who’ve united to transform a cherished childhood memory into what might just be the greatest bar game to arise since billiards and darts — pine block car racing. But the dreams of speed and splinters started with the memory of being Cub Scouts, carving blocks of wood into hot rods and dragsters and racing them down a four-lane, 32-foot track to see whose derby “car” was fastest.

The memory and joy was reawakened when the grown-ups had kids of their own and helped them build their model cars to race against other scouts. After all, why should kids have all the fun?

MidSouth Derby and Ales is a recreation of the childhood race experience but modified for adults. The first race brought out 20 competitors to show off vintage and newly carved pine cars that can weigh no more than five ounces. The second race promises to liven things up a bit with “outlaw races,” allowing competitors to trick their cars in ways young scouts might only dream of.

“That’s where we bend the rules,” Derby and Ales co-founder Christopher Bryan says. The models can be bigger and modified with electronics.

“I’ve seen drone engines on them,” Bryan says. “I’ve seen CO2 cartridges and computer fans. I’m building one right now that’s beyond the five-ounce limit because the heavier they are, the better they race.”

The next adults-only race is scheduled for June 6th at Meddlesome Brewing Company. Details for racers and fans can be found at derbyandales.com.

MIDSOUTH DERBY AND ALES RACE AT MEDDLESOME BREWING CO., THURSDAY, JUNE 6TH. CAR CHECK-IN IS 7-7:45 P.M., AND RACES START AT 8 P.M. FREE. DERBYANDALES.COM.

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Toy and Model Train Show St. George’s Episcopal Church, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., $5 Tons of toy trains on display, plus door prizes, O-gauge trains and accessories, and more.

Yappy Hour Ecco, 2-6 p.m.

Get yer drink on during this happy hour event to raise money for the Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County.

Anastasia The Orpheum, 7:30 p.m., $25-$125 Musical based on the animated feature about a woman who believes herself to be royalty.

The Hodgetwins Hallaron Centre, 8 p.m., $25-$50 YouTube stars take the stage for a night of comedy.

“40 Under 40” Metal Museum, 3-5 p.m.

Opening reception for this show highlighting the work of 40 up-andcomping metal artists. Part of the museum’s celebration of its 40th year.

Outdoors Inc. Canoe & Kayak Race Greenbelt Park, 10 a.m.

Annual kayak race with live music and park clean-up afterward.

Kafe Kirk Crosstown Theater, 6 p.m., $45 Kortland and Kameron Whalum join Kirk Whalum in this ongoing jazz series.

Tom Graves Novel, 6 p.m.

Local author and publisher Tom Graves signs and discusses his memoir White Boy, which covers tricky racial ground.

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emphis Birthday During a meeting between Watson and Blues Festival,” Gene Rosenthal (owner of the ’60s label read the banner at Adelphi Records) about field recordings the band shell in Rosenthal had made in Memphis in Overton Park in 1968, Rosenthal casually mentioned, a recent concert “Yeah, I don’t know if you’re interested, film. It could well but I recorded the 1969 Memphis be another event tied to the bicentennial, Country Blues Festival, and I have the but the texture of the film footage gives footage and audiotapes in my basement.” the date away: This is from the city’s Watson, having read about the festival sesquicentennial — 50 years ago. for years, was very much interested and Of course, the viewer already knows arranged to buy the rights. (He also plans this, having begun the film with a to release a three-LP soundtrack from journey up from the Mississippi Delta, the film later this year.) cars whizzing by as WDIA announces “There are probably 14 or 15 hours that weekend’s main event: the fourth of film and audio,” Watson says. “The annual Memphis Country Blues Festival. footage is remarkably good for sitting And from those first few moments, the in his basement for 50 years. Some film offers total immersion in the world of it syncs up, some of it doesn’t. The of a half-century ago. audio engineer was tripping on acid, so Watching Memphis ’69, which the audio is kind of hit and miss. The screens at Crosstown Arts on June 7th solo performances with the blues guys (the very date on which the festival sound pretty good, but when you start was held), is a bit like gazing upon getting Johnny Winter and Moloch and some freshly unearthed treasure, a that stuff, it’s really overdriven.” moment eulogized in decades’ worth of music history, captured in Sleepy amber. Stanley Booth has written John eloquently of the festivals (most Estes recently, in a chapter of his new book), as has Robert Gordon in his essential tome, It Came from Memphis, and it’s a tale both inspirational and cautionary.

First staged in 1966 by a rag-tag group of beats and bohemians that included Lee Baker, Jimmy Crosthwait, Jim Dickinson, and Sid Selvidge (who eventually coalesced into Mud Boy & After organizing the sprawling footage, the Neutrons), the festival’s focus was Watson sought out the aid of Joe and originally the obscure local blues players Lisa LaMattina, a Los Angeles-based — such as Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis, couple who have had a hand in many Bukka White, and Son Thomas — whose music documentaries. “When we saw work inspired these ne’er-do-wells. From the footage, we were like, ‘We have to there, the festival gained a higher profile make this movie,’” Joe says. Now the two, each year, and a recording of the 1968 along with Watson and consultant Robert event was even released as an album on Gordon, have crafted a total immersion in London Records. that fabled era. And while casual viewers By 1969, as Gordon writes, there may believe they are seeing nearly raw was “a struggle for ownership of the footage, full of sprocket holes and jump event between the hippies and the cuts from backstage, it’s actually a carefully city government” that lent a bitter curated experience. “One of the things we aftertaste to the memories of many wanted to do,” Joe says, “was try to edit the of the original organizers. And yet, movie as if it were made in 1969, so it’s not by then expanded to three days, that a technique-heavy movie.” last festival featured many of the same Despite being a festival staged at blues legends that were honored in the city’s behest, there was still plenty 1966, including a 106-year-old Nathan of countercultural influence: The local Beaugard, making this new film a Jefferson Street Jug Band is joined by John remarkable thing to behold.

Fahey and Robert Palmer for the anti-war “It’s an absolute miracle that the “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag.” It’s all footage ever saw the light of day,” says summed up by the banter of one emcee, Bruce Watson, co-owner of Fat Possum who announces, “We don’t know what Records and co-producer of the film. the heat says, but it’s cool to dance.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule May 30 - June 5 B.B. King’s Blues Club 143 BEALE 524-KING

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.

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.; Brimstone Jones First Saturday of every month, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; P.S. Band First Wednesday, Sunday of every month, 7 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill 341-345 BEALE 577-1089

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

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007

Lionesse Friday, May 31, 6-8 p.m.

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

Friday, May 31, 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.; Jason James with Rodney Polk First Monday of every month, 7-11 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

Nat “King” Kerr Fridays,

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

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

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:3010:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Friday, May 31, 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; Hawkeye May 31-June 1, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and First Saturday of every month, 4:30-8:30 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

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.

Belle Tavern 117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

The Rusty Pieces Sunday, June 2, 6:30-9 p.m.

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Sean Apple Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule May 30 - June 5 Blind Bear Speakeasy 119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

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

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

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

Dirty Crow Inn

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.

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Grape Friday, May 31, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and Friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Growlers

Lafayette’s Music Room

Railgarten

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

2119 MADISON 207-5097

2160 CENTRAL

The Canvas People, Hawkins AV Club, Bad Dad Jokes, Blvck Hippie, the Head Friday, May 31, 9 p.m.; BEITTHEMEANS with the Eastwoods, Evince Saturday, June 1, 9 p.m.; Tristian Barton Weekend EP Release Party — Pt. 2 Sunday, June 2, 4 p.m.; The Smokes Tuesday, June 4, 8 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Brad Byrd with Skylar Gregg Wednesday, June 5, 8 p.m.

Memphis Funk-N-Horns Friday, May 31, 6 p.m.; Nick Black Friday, May 31, 10 p.m.; Will B. Smith Saturday, June 1, 2 p.m.; Ashton Riker Saturday, June 1, 6:30 p.m.; Young Petty Thieves Saturday, June 1, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Jeffrey and the Pacemakers Sunday, June 2, 4 p.m.; Visible Music College Monday, June 3, 6 p.m.; Memphis Funk Tuesday, June 4, 6:30 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.;

Fall of Rome EP Release Party Friday, May 31, 7 p.m.; NTJ Saturday, June 1, 8 p.m.; Garten-ofDreams, Cirque-style Brunch Sunday, June 2, noon.

The Tower Courtyard at Overton Square

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.

2092 TRIMBLE PLACE

Acoustic Courtyard Last Thursday of every month, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Whitehaven/ Airport Graceland Soundstage 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY BLVD.

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

Stryper Sunday, June 2, 6 p.m.

130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

Rock-n-Roll Cafe 3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

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

Elvis Gospel Music Show Fridays, 1-2:30 p.m.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

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

Bartlett

The Peabody 149 UNION 529-4000

Hadley’s Pub

Rooftop Party with Drunk Uncle Thursday, May 30, 6-10 p.m.

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Triple Annie Friday, May 31, 9 p.m.; Mo Boogie Saturday, June 1, 9 p.m.; Area 51 Sunday, June 2, 5:30 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Red Hot Lindy Hop Swing Dance Saturday, June 1, 6-9 p.m.; Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Mark Edgar Stuart Saturday, June 1, 12-3 p.m.; Possum Drifters Sunday, June 2, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

The Truehearts Friday, May 31, 8:30 p.m.

Frayser/Millington

South Main

Long Road Cider Company

South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

9053 BARRET 352-0962

Songwriter Night Featuring the Truehearts and more Friday, May 31, 7 p.m.

Bobby Blue Bland Blues Music Festival Saturday, June 1, 5-9 p.m.

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L.A.P.D. Thursday, May 30; Goner Records 25th Anniversary with Jack Oblivian, Msr. Jeffrey Evans and Ross Johnson, Richard James Friday, May 31; Steve Selvidge Band Saturday, June 1, 10 p.m.; Michael Dinallo and Juliet Simmons Dinallo Sunday, June 2, 7 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays; David Cousar Tuesday, June 4, 8 p.m.; Outer Ring Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck Friday, May 31, 6 p.m.; Lucky 7 Brass Band Friday, May 31, 9 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.; Ben MindenBirkenmaier Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Bar DKDC

Crosstown Theater

964 S. COOPER 272-0830

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

1350 CONCOURSE AVE.

The Woolly Bushmen Saturday, June 1, 11:30 p.m.

Kirk Whalum’s Kafé Kirk Sunday, June 2, 6 p.m.

Black Lodge

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

405 N. CLEVELAND

Guitar Wolf Sunday, June 2, 2-8 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

1350 CONCOURSE AVE., SUITE 280 507-8030

Luna Nova Music Thursday, May 30; Sound Observations: Nadah El Shazly Friday, May 31, 7:30 p.m.

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

Neckbeard Deathcamp, Theories, WVRM, No Convictions Thursday, May 30, 8 p.m.; Masters of Realitease Friday, May 31, 10 p.m.; The 5.6.7.8’s, Bloodshot Bill, Flamin’ A’s Saturday, June 1, 10 p.m.; Ritual Talk, Planet Limbo Sunday, June 2, 10 p.m.; Anne Elise Hastings, Grandpa Grew Trees, Spence Bailey Monday, June 3, 10 p.m.; Reserving Dirtnaps, Sworn Enemy, Piece of Mind, Theifs Hand Wednesday, June 5, 8 p.m.; Psymbionic, TVBOO, Z-Dougie Wednesday, June 5, 9 p.m.

Java Cabana 2170 YOUNG 272-7210

Jeff Ruby Wednesday, June 5, 7 p.m.

Tracy Lawrence Friday, May 31, 9-10:30 p.m.

Lucky 7 Brass Band Wednesday, June 5, 8 p.m.

Levitt Shell OVERTON PARK 272-2722

North Mississippi Allstars Thursday, May 30, 7:30-9 p.m.; Revel in Dimes Friday, May 31, 7:30-9 p.m.; River Whyless Saturday, June 1, 7:30-9 p.m.; Talibah Safiya Sunday, June 2, 7:30-9 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 312-6058

Big Gay Dance Party Vol. 7: Summertime Sizzle Saturday, June 1, 8 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

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

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Summer Jam Fest with Canaan Cox and Skyelor Anderson Saturday, June 1, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

East Memphis Shady Grove Presbyterian Church 5530 SHADY GROVE 683-7329

PRIZM Music Camp and International Chamber Music Festival June 3-8, 7-9 p.m.

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

REO Speedwagon Saturday, June 1, 8 p.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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Hattiloo Theatre

The Parchmen Hour: Songs and Stories of the ’61 Freedom Riders, adapted from real-life accounts of the 1961 Freedom Rides. www.hattiloo. org. $30-$35. Thurs., Fri., 7:30 p.m., Sat., 2 & 7:30 p.m., and Sun., 3 p.m. Through June 2.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

The Orpheum

Anastasia, a brave young woman sets out to discover the mystery of her past. www. orpheum-memphis.com. $25$125. June 4-7, 7:30 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

TheatreWorks

First Site, a comedy by Ruby O’Gray about young church youth entering their widowed Bible Class teacher’s name on various dating websites, unbeknownst to him, in hopes of finding a wife for him. (9307737), womenstfmemphis.org. $20/$15 seniors, students. Fri., May 31, 7:30-9 p.m., and Sat., June 1, 5-6:30 & 8-9:30 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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Eclectic Eye

Opening Reception for “Still Life,” exhibition of new works

by Melissa Bridgman and Debi Vincent. www.eclectic-eye. com. Fri., May 31, 6-8 p.m.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

L Ross Gallery

Opening Reception for “Forever an Icon,” exhibition of work by Anton Weiss. www. lrossgallery.com. Fri., May 31, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Metal Museum

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk for “40 Under 40,” to continue the celebration of the museum’s 40th anniversary,

this exhibition explores the next generation of influential American metal artists.

(774-6380), www.metalmuseum.org. Sun., June 2, 3-5 p.m.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Stock&Belle

Trolley Night: Live Painting from Renda Writer, guests can enjoy Writer live painting in his signature “handwritten” style. (734-2911). Fri., May 31, 6-9 p.m.

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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LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS, 365 S. MAIN ST. (523-2344), WWW. THEWITHERSCOLLECTION.COM/ EXHIBITIONSEVENTS.

Open Late

Galleries and gardens will be open late. Free with admission. Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m.

387 S. MAIN (734-2911).

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

WKNO Studio

Spring Show and Sale

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

ST. ANNE CATHOLIC SCHOOL, 670 S. HIGHLAND (323-3817), WWW. THEMEMPHISPOTTERSGUILD.COM.

Opening Reception for “Beauty in the Midst of Decay,” exhibition of new work by Donald Golden. www.wkno.org. Sun., June 2, 2-4 p.m.

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

Art Trolley Tour

Tour the local galleries and shops on South Main. Last Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN.

Artist Talk for “Soft Landing”

Emily Leonard discusses her new exhibition. Sat., June 1, 11 a.m.

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

Artist Talk with Renda Writer

This 45-min artist’s talk will give some additional insight into Renda’s mission as an artist. Sat., June 1, 11 a.m.-noon.

STOCK&BELLE, 387 S. MAIN (7342911).

Leadership Memphis Exhibition

The Withers Collection Museum & Gallery has partnered with Leadership Memphis to display a monthly exhibit open

Exhibition and sale of works by the Memphis Potters’ Guild.

Fri., May 31, 5-8 p.m., Sat., June 1, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sun., June 2, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Red Hot Lindy Hop Swing Dance

Monthly swing dance with beginner lesson 6 p.m. followed by dance 7-9 p.m. Full bar; no experience or partner needed. $7. Sat., June 1, 6-9 p.m.

RUMBA ROOM, 303 S. MAIN (205799-8449).

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The Halloran Centre

The Hodgetwins, the YouTube comedy duo, bring their act to the stage. www.orpheummemphis.com. $25-$50. Sat., June 1, 8 p.m.

225 S. MAIN (525-3000).

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Booksigning by Michael Ford

Author discusses and signs his new book, North Mississippi Homeplace: Photographs and Folklife. Mon., June 3, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Tom Graves

Author discusses and signs his new book, White Boy: A Memoir. Tues., June 4, 6 p.m.

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

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Daylilies in the Mid-South

Presentation by Richard Wiliamson on selecting, growing, and caring for the best daylilies for the Mid-South. Free. Sat., June 1, 10-11 a.m.

PALLADIO GARDEN, 2231 CENTRAL AVENUE (276-3806), PALLADIOGARDEN.COM/.

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Bicentennial History Hikes

Meet at the guest services desk in the Visitor Center. Tuesdays, 2 p.m.

May 30-June 5, 2019

LICHTERMAN NATURE CENTER, 5992 QUINCE (767-7322), WWW. MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

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1-3:30 p.m. Through July 29.

Through Our Garden Gates Garden Tour

PITTER POTTER STUDIO, 845 GERMANTOWN PKWY (443-7718).

Annual event sponsored by the Memphis Area Master Gardeners, featuring docent-led tours of seven gardens grown and nurtured by master gardeners. For more information and directions go to memphisareamastergardeners.org or call (901) 752-1207. Sat., June 1, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

S.T.A.X: See. Touch.

Ask. eXplore.

On Tuesday afternoons, kids can enjoy a summer music series and See, Touch, Ask, and eXplore the history of Stax Records with hands-on activities and objects from the archive on display. free. Tuesdays, 1-4 p.m.

Through July 30.

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

STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC, 926 E. MCLEMORE (9427685), STAXMUSEUM.COM/EVENT/.

Walk With Me

Join tour guide Amanda Knight for an introduction to Elmwood Cemetery, with visits to ancient trees and magnificent monuments along carriage paths. $20.

Sat., June 1, 2:30-4 p.m.

ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW.EVENTBRITE. COM.

Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour

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

Ongoing.

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

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Memphis Italian Festival

Thirtieth annual family-friendly festival features Italian food, live music, and games. Musical entertainment includes Ghost

Summer Camp

“Beauty in the Midst of Decay” by Donald Golden at WKNO Studio, Sunday, June 2nd, at 2 p.m.

Town Blues Band Thursday night, Hope Clayburn & Soul Scrimmage on Friday. $10 for adults, kids 10 and under get in free. Thurs., May 30, 4-11 p.m., Fri., May 31, 11 a.m.-11 p.m., and Sat., June 1, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

MARQUETTE PARK, PARK AVE. AND MT. MORIAH, WWW.MEMPHISITALIANFESTIVAL.COM/.

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Canoe and Kayak Race

Thirty-eighth annual 5K canoe and kayak race along the Mississippi River, presented by

Outdoors, Inc. Saturday, June 1, 10 a.m.

GREENBELT PARK, ISLAND DRIVE, DOWNTOWN, WWW.OUTDOORSINC.COM.

K&N Pro Series Memphis 150

The young guns of NASCAR return to the Bluff City. $25.

Sat., June 1, 12:45 p.m.

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

Memphis Roller Derby Boot Camp

Boot camp is for adults of all genders aged 18 and over. A $10 fee covers two weeks of skating instruction, rules and NSO training. $10. Thurs., May 30, 6:45-9:15 p.m.

MID-SOUTH FAIRGROUNDS, PIPKIN

BUILDING, EAST PARKWAY AT CENTRAL (609-5005).

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In Her Time

Sixth-annual women’s breakfast presented by the Salvation Army. Tues., June 4, 7:30 a.m.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

KIDS

Magical Summer Book Club

A magical adventure for young wizards and magic fans every Monday through June and July, with snippets of the story, ontheme clay and ceramics projects, and fun. Ages 7+. $199 for the series, $29 a day. Mondays,

Each week-long session includes rental gear, four hours of games, instruction, and climbing each day. Participant ages range from 5-14. $189.

Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Through Aug. 30.

HIGH POINT CLIMBING AND FITNESS, 21 N. HUMPHREY’S (2036122), WWW.HIGHPOINTCLIMBING. COM.

Toy and Model Train Show

The last train show of the season, with door prizes, lots of O-gauge trains and accessories, and great fun for adults and kids. $5. Sat., June 1, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (7547282), MEMPHISMODELRAILROADERS.COM/EVENTS.

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UPCOMING SHOWS Sundays with the Arts

Obruni Dance Band

Alex Greene of The Memphis Flyer says, “The Obruni Dance Band specializes in West African Highlife Music, the eminently danceable grooves that have dominated popular music in Ghana for nearly a century, where cascading guitar arpeggios swirl around intricately locked bass and drums.” This performance will be sure to get everyone up on their feet to experience the rhythms, movement and joy of African pop music.

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Thursday Nights • April—August 6pm-10pm $10-15 • LADIES FREE ‘TIL 7pm

Children can unplug and try out different roles, learn to play with others, and express themselves creatively. $200 for members, $250 for nonmembers; $30 for aftercare, $50 sibling discount(s). MondaysFridays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Through June 28.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS, 2525 CENTRAL (458-2678), WWW.CMOM.COM.

5.30 Drunk Uncle 6.6 Garry Goin Group

2019 PARTY line up

6.13 Seeing Red 6.20 DJ Epic 6.27 Soul Shockers 7.04 Bluff City Bandits 7.11 Voodoo Gumbo 7.18 City Mix

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Next Door at Crosstown Concourse is donating 25 percent of every dine-in check to Tennis Memphis. Mon., June 3, 5-9 p.m.

NEXT DOOR EATERY, 1350 CONCOURSE (374-0603).

We Need You! Period.— Sister Supply Celebrates Menstrual Hygiene Day Drop off menstrual supplies and/or monetary donations at participating locations.

Visit website for list. Through June 2.

WWW.SISTERSUPPLY.ORG.

Yappy Hour

Ecco sponsors this event benefiting the humane society, which includes food tasting, live music, beer, wine, and signature cocktails. $50. Sun., June 2, 2-6 p.m.

ECCO, 1585 OVERTON PARK (9373943), HSMSC.EJOINME.ORG/ ABOUTYAPPYHOUR.

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Community Health Wellness and Safety Fair One-stop resource fair for the family, focusing on health, wellness, and safety. This event kicks of CPR and AED Awareness Week and National Safety Month. Free. Sat., June 1, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

RALEIGH COMMUNITY CENTER, 3678 POWER (337-8964).

Firefly Glow Party

May 30-June 5, 2019

Get glowing at the Illumination Station, visit the Glow Lab to discover nature under blacklight, bring your light-up toys to our dance party featuring evening performances and an LED hoop performance. MBG members $12/non-members $15. Fri., May 31, 7-9:30 p.m.

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

King of the Street Bike Weekend

Featuring activities and events focused on the power and passion of the riding life. Sat., June 1, 9 a.m.-9:30 p.m., and Sun., June 2, 7 a.m.-10 p.m.

GRACELAND, 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322), WWW.GRACELAND. COM/KING-OF-THE-STREET-BIKEWEEKEND.

Making Memphis: 200 Years of Community

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65 Union Avenue, Memphis, TN 38103 901.531.7826 memphiscottonmuseum.org

Bicentennial celebration, the exhibit illustrates how the threads of Memphis history form a larger story or web of history. Through Oct. 20.

“Forever an Icon” by Anton Weiss at L Ross Gallery, Friday, May 31st, 6-8 p.m.

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

Velvetina’s Blue Moon Revue

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

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

We Need You! Period.— Sister Supply Period Pack Party Entertainment and refreshments will accompany the packing party. Volunteers are encouraged to collect & bring menstrual products to pack.

Sat., June 1, 2-4 p.m.

SHADY GROVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 5530 SHADY GROVE (683-7329), WWW.SISTERSUPPLY. ORG.

FO O D & D R I N K EVE NTS

Botanical Bars: Herbal Highballs

Discover the herbs that go into your favorite cocktails as you sip your way through our herb garden. Stop by the Gin and Tonic Bar and create your custom drink, enjoy bubbly blooms with a Lavender Peach Bellini, enjoy a local brew, and sip into summer with a refreshing Cucumber Mint Cocktail.

MBG members $30/nonmembers $40. Thurs., May 30, 6-8 p.m.

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

Food Truck Friday

Admission to the gardens is free during Food Truck Friday. Park & Cherry café

is open for lunch, and food trucks will be in the gardens.

Fridays, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Through June 28.

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

Forks & Corks

A night of food, music, and wine, with beautiful views among the vines and under the stars. $40. Sat., June 1, 6-10:30 p.m.

DE TERRA VINEYARD & WINES OF SOMERVILLE, 605 JOYNERS CAMPGROUND (465-3802), FAYETTECARES.ORG/FORKS-CORKS/.

Whiskey Dinner with the Master of Scotch Rick Edwards

One of the four highest educated Masters of Scotch in the world, Rick Edwards, is sharing his favorites — Glenlivet, Chivas Regal, and Aberlour.

Dinner will be provided and carefully paired with each whiskey. $75. Thurs., May 30, 6-9 p.m.

CELTIC CROSSING, 903 S. COOPER (274-5151).

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Apollo 11: First Steps Edition

Film celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Check CTI Theater schedule for show times and ticket prices.

Ongoing.

CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

A Walk to Remember

A jaded, aimless high school senior falls in love with a guileless young woman he and his friends once scorned.

The two develop a powerful and inspirational relationship and discover truths that take most people a lifetime to learn. Thurs., May 30, 8 p.m.

THE TOWER COURTYARD AT OVERTON SQUARE, 2092 TRIMBLE PLACE MEMPHIS, TN 38104, WWW.OVERTONSQUARE.COM.

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hen it comes Mississippi mud, you know about the to drag musical acts at DKDC. Mary Gagz and performances, Her Gaggle of Drags are relatively new the higher the to the lineup; they began their weekly heels, the higher performances in late January. From the my expectations. looks of it, they’ve already established Mary Gagz and Her Gaggle of Drags, themselves in the fabric of Bar DKDC performing at Karen Blockman Carrier’s and its incredible ability to morph into Bar DKDC every Monday night from a perfect venue for whichever act it is 8:30 to 11 p.m., leave little to be desired in hosting. Everyone has probably spent their full-on takeover of one of Memphis’ a sweaty night in DKDC. Shows get favorite artful holes in the wall. The night packed and those who do not arrive early also serves as the bar’s industry night. The will be doomed (or delighted) to stand evening’s general feel is reminiscent of and sway with the music rather than Bar DKDC’s sister restaurant, The Beauty find a comfortable seat. But that’s the Shop’s Rehab nights that used to occur atmosphere! Get up close and personal every Monday night. It’s a throwback to with the rest of the fans. Pack into that the grand days of Rehab: late nights, a small room and feel the passion. Find colorful cast, and the sort of hangovers yourself falling backwards into the that leave you questioning many of life’s photobooth as the crowd runneth over. decisions. Looking for a reminder? Head And, if you’re Mary Gagz and company, to Bar DKDC and this time, remember work the room like you own it and take to take off work on possession of the Tuesday. hearts and souls of We arrived about those who watch. halfway through The drag the show this past performance was a Monday and the more low-key affair girls and their fans than the pulsating were in full swing. throng of people Tia Burchfield is you normally the bartender on encounter at a Monday nights late-night weekend and said that part performance (and of the reason they thank the heavens began hosting Mary above; it’s Monday, Gagz and the rest after all). The girls of her girls is to try had plenty of room out a re-launch of to move about, Rehab. The night titillate, and invite Mary Gagz and includes a full show others into their Her Gaggle of and industry night wild world. The Drags prices, including $5 audience came well liquor drinks, prepared to drink, $2 PBRs and High Lifes, and $6 Fireball cheer, and offer monetary support to our and Tullamore Dew shots. If that doesn’t Memphis performers who put so much serve to lube one up after a long weekend into their alter egos. Tia, our bartender of working in hospitality, then your who has probably seen her fair share of expectations are, honestly, way higher debauchery, rock-and-roll, and drunken than the heels will ever be. exploits cited none of the former as her In a manner, Bar DKDC caters favorite reasons for working at DKDC. overwhelmingly to us night owls; shows She simply said that it’s the people that typically begin later and go late into the she works alongside that make her job night. People roll in after long hours, most enjoyable. It speaks to the scene that ready to commiserate and imbibe with Bar DKDC cultivates. It’s a place for all their fellow restaurant crews, eager to be of us, both queens and bartenders, both among their people after dealing with those looking for a thrill and those of us the general public and their obnoxious looking for a meal, both those in need of children in various dining settings. That’s camaraderie and those in need of a break. the feeling at DKDC; it’s authenticity and DKDC bathes itself in a light that begs inclusion, a sanctuary for real people with both for secrets to be kept and secrets to real stories. be told, and what better place for a drag But unless you’re living under show than that?

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Saturday, June 1st - 11:55 a.m.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

The Kids Are Alright Booksmart is a funny, genuine teen comedy.

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May 30-June 5, 2019

very now and then, a movie comes along that is so of its time that it comes to define its time. Rebel Without a Cause caught the energy of the early rock-and-roll era. In the ’80s, John Hughes films both reflected high school reality and helped shape it.

As I came out of Booksmart, I felt like I had just seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off for the first time. Olivia Wilde’s directing debut has the potential to be one of those generation-defining high school films.

Part of that is by design. Booksmart is very specifically about the class of 2019, and BFFs Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein) are about to graduate at the top of it. Amy is a do-gooder lesbian who drives a vintage Volvo with a Warren 2020 sticker on the bumper. Molly is the anti-Bart Simpson: the product of a distinctly working class home who is an overachiever at everything. On the last day of school, as class president, she’s more interested in going over year end budget numbers with Nick (Mason Gooding) than finding ways to celebrate.

But right before cap and gown time, they are

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Feldstein (left) and Dever in Booksmart suddenly struck by an acute case of late-blooming FOMO. They set out on their penultimate high school night to find the ultimate high school party, and maybe finally put the moves on their respective crushes while they’re at it. The two have a Ferris/Cameron dynamic. Molly, utterly convinced of her own smarts, is constantly talking the reluctant Amy into escalating the hi-jinks, while Amy immediately lives to regret it.

Feldstein, who shone as Saoirse Ronan’s best friend in Lady Bird, fully emerges as a major comedic talent.

Dever plays it tighter to the vest, but the two characters are such fully intertwined teenage best friends you can’t really call her the straight woman.

We follow Amy and Molly, and root for them to have fun, and for their friendship to endure. But Booksmart rises above the usual teen movie clichés by fully humanizing all of its supporting characters. First and foremost is Hollywood royalty Billie Lourd giving off strong Jeff Spicoli vibes as Gigi, the drug-addled rich girl who serves as Amy and Molly’s spirit guide for their procession through progressively less lame parties. Jared (Skyler Gisondo) drives an ’80s Firebird with a FUK BOI license plate. His taste in hats echoes

Pretty in Pink’s Ducky. Booksmart kicks into high gear at the epically unsuccessful party he throws on a docked yacht and keeps that momentum going all the way to the end, wrenching unexpected twists from the Superbad-like premise.

Working from a whip smart screenplay by four women writers, Wilde lovingly shepherds Amy and Molly through the best/worst night of their lives. The way she precisely balances out Feldstein’s manic energy and Dever’s thin veneer of calm is reminiscent of how John Landis handled Belushi and Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers. Most crucially, editor Jamie Gross, who worked on MacGruber and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, two of the decade’s best comedies, delivers a cut so tight you could bounce a quarter off it.

So much contemporary comedy feels clutching and desperate for a laugh. They’ll just throw in five vaguely amusing gags and hope you fall for one of them. Booksmart feels loose and spontaneous, and it looks like everyone’s having a good time on the set, but the laughs flow naturally from the characters and situations. Even when something truly Porky’s-level

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy outlandish happens, it feels earned and not mean spirited. It’s hard to do comedy well in these politically fraught times, but Wilde gets the tone just right, so that it feels like an authentic voice of Generation Z, or whatever the hell we’re calling the kids these days.

And what kind of portrait of the kids these days emerges from Booksmart? Pretty darn good, all things considered. The politics of the moment are integral to everything.

Molly is focused on changing things from within the system and planning to move to Washington to get into politics after she graduates from Yale, which conveniently fits her personal ambition in with the greater good. Amy, who sports a denim jacket with patches that say “SISTER,” is going to go to Africa to help women there directly. You know

that their idealism will get roughed up when they run up against the real world, but the kids’ determination to shape it in a new and better image is the spark that gives them life. And consider this: Even at the end of John Hughes’ most optimistic film, The Breakfast Club, the social barriers remain in place, even if the characters themselves got to see around them for a time. In Booksmart, once social barriers are confronted, they’re revealed to have been mirages all along. If that’s how the class of 2019 sees the world, we’re all going to be better off.

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Apply in person to 1081 Court Ave, Memphis, TN 38104. Please ask for leasing information for Gospel Gardens Apartments. Applications will be taken on Monday - Friday, during the hours of 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Evening hour appointments are available.

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Apply in person at Gospel Garden. Leasing office located at 4801 Tulane Dr, Memphis, TN 38109. Applications will be taken on December 3rd, during the hours of 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

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THE LAST WORD by Jen Clarke

TMI!

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

My sister sent $150 and a tube of saliva to a company in California she found online. They did some science, and now we have a new uncle and cousin. What a time to be alive. I shared this revelation with some friends and learned that The War was apparently a randy time for many granddads and papaws. Guess that’s why it was the Greatest Generation, huh?

If your granddaddy served, you might reconsider springing for the Father’s Day offer of 25 percent off an ancestry kit plus free gift-wrap. Or don’t say nobody warned you when you end up with your own gift: uncovered family secrets and a diminished opinion of your grandfather.

Whatever. I get it. War is hell, boys will be boys, and all that.

Maybe Grandpa didn’t know about his secret child. It’s too late to tell him, anyway — he’s been gone for 30 years. It could be a mistake or a false alarm. I don’t know how much I trust those mail-order DNA tests — certainly not enough to send my own specimen to their sinister gene library. I read the fine print.

On the bright side, my sister’s spit sample tested negative for the terrifying gumbo of genetic risk factors the service can detect. “Doctor Google” induces enough hypochondria without foresight of the debilitating diseases that lurk in the future.

Otherwise I’d spend the rest of my life shouting “I’m a-comin’!” to the heavens, Fred Sanford-style, every time I get a stomach cramp or forget where I put my keys. That’s the last thing I need.

I lose those things every day.

As family secrets go, ours is awkward but not exactly earthshattering. My grandmother isn’t around to have her feelings hurt. It’s just another thing to add to the growing list of things I wish I hadn’t found out, like the amount of sodium in a packet of instant ramen. I’m not sure if I’m afflicted with millennial unrest or I’ve recently unlocked a new adulting level, but I’m starting to reconsider my stance on knowledge being power. It’s kind of overrated. Between the things that can’t be unseen or unheard, immaterial crap, and general information overload, I’m starting to understand how people did live without this stuff. As someone who works in digital content and also has to watch a YouTube video to boil an egg, that’s saying something.

It’s wonderful that technology puts new realms of information at our fingertips. But only a sliver of it is essential; the rest is either pointless or false and it keeps getting harder and harder to distinguish or even keep up. On one hand, think of how many arguments went unsettled before we had tiny computers in our pockets. We don’t have to balance checkbooks to know whether we can afford to charge a pizza to our debit cards — the tiny computer will tell us. Heck, we don’t even need checkbooks anymore. That’s great, but that same computer is also responsible for showing me the infamous “pink slime” video and giving away the ending of Get Out. It has told me so many opinion-wrecking things, like which of my schoolmates grew up to be anti-vaxxers. Not long ago, one had to attend a class reunion to obtain that kind of dirt — it was once-in-a-decade intel. Now it comes with an order of essential oils.

This summer, I’m cutting back on the “Welp, could’ve gone my whole life without that” content I consume. It’s impossible to escape it all, but I know I won’t miss much — I already deleted Nextdoor and left my neighborhood Facebook group, and the high crime rate of loud noises and suspicious teens subsided immediately. Disabling alerts from The Washington Post cut my daily eye-roll tally in half. It’s not that I don’t care what happens in my neighborhood, or in the news. I just don’t need to be pelted with little arrows all day long. Just give me a calculator and an encyclopedia before I forget how to use them. I’ll let y’all know how it goes.

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

THE LAST WORD

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