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

OUR 1531ST ISSUE 06.28.18 A few short years ago, once you got south of Earnestine & Hazel’s on South Main, you entered a barren urbanscape of abandoned warehouses, dusty railyards, and weedy, empty lots. Now the streets are lined with row after row of apartment buildings. Hip restaurants like Loflin Yard and Carolina Watershed are repurposing old industrial spaces in creative ways. South of South Main is booming, inhabited by thousands of mostly young Memphians who live, work, and play Downtown.

Will it last? Can a neighborhood built on young folks wanting to live Downtown sustain itself? Well, it can, but only if there is a steady stream of fresh young folks wanting to live there in the coming years. Here’s hoping there is. Otherwise, well, that’s a lot of apartments to fill.

That’s because as those young Memphians grow older, they’ll form relationships and maybe — as tends to happen — decide to have children. At that point, they’ll usually want the customary accoutrements of family living: a house, a yard, a mutt.

The closest neighborhoods to Downtown are already feeling the pressure of the influx — from Downtown and from older suburbanites moving in. If you want to buy a home in Midtown, East Memphis, Cooper-Young, etc., you’d better be pre-approved for your loan and be ready to pounce when a house you like comes on the market. Memphis’ core is a hot housing market right now.

In recognition of that, developers are moving in, buying distressed properties, doing teardowns, and putting up two or more new houses on what were once single-family lots. These new homes are often what are called “tall skinnies,” because, well, that’s what they are. Another name for them is “infill homes,” and they are going up all over CooperYoung and elsewhere in Midtown. (The Flyer’s Toby Sells has done numerous stories on infill housing, with more to come soon.)

On the plus side, more housing is being created in core city neighborhoods, meaning a bunch of fresh residents, bringing more businesses, new restaurants and retail, and, hopefully, new students for neighborhood schools. On the down side, there is a danger our old neighborhoods will lose their historic charm as older homes get torn down, trees get removed, and residential parking gets more difficult.

Try finding a parking spot around the new Nashville export, Hattie B’s, on Cooper.

In fact, if you want to see where all this could be going, drive up to East Nashville and behold the glut of tall skinnies on street after street. Behold the young hipsters with strollers. Behold the bicyclists and coffee shops. Behold the new urbania. It’s coming, for better and for worse.

In Memphis, all the attendant paraphernalia of an “It City” — the bike lanes, the bike-share program, the Bird scooters, the moving of musicians here from Austin and Nashville, the booming South Main, Overton Square, Crosstown, Broad Avenue, and Cooper-Young entertainment/restaurant districts, the Railgartens and Urban Outfitters and Hattie B’s — it’s all developing under our very noses. Something’s happening here, Mr. Jones, and we’d better pay attention.

Case in point: We’re increasingly seeing plans for new apartment buildings springing up in Midtown, with the city offering the usual PILOT plans to “encourage” developers by allowing them to avoid taxes for an agreed-upon period of time.

Whether or not those deals make sense is an open question. What shouldn’t be in question is a requirement that in order to get a PILOT, developers should have to build structures that reflect the character of the surrounding neighborhood.

Traditional Midtown apartment buildings — the Gilmore, the Kimbrough, the Knickerbocker, the apartment buildings along Poplar near Overton Park — seamlessly integrate with the cityscape and their neighborhoods. In contrast, many N E WS & O P I N I O N of the new apartment designs being THE FLY-BY - 4 given PILOTs are stark, cheap-looking NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 boxes, seemingly built only to take POLITICS - 7 advantage of the housing boom with no EDITORIAL - 8 consideration of the visual impact on the VIEWPOINT - 9 character of our historic streetscapes.

COVER - “FOOD FIGHT” Again, go visit Nashville — specifiBY MAYA SMITH - 10 WE RECOMMEND - 14 cally, the Gulch, just south of Downtown MUSIC - 16 — if you want to see how quickly these AFTER DARK - 18 cheap-looking boxes can redefine the CALENDAR - 20 character of a neighborhood. Memphis BOOKS - 28 needs to put serious design restrictions THEATER - 29 and guidelines in place before giving out FOOD NEWS - 30 tax breaks to developers.

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For 36 years, a 1962 Lockheed JetStar 1329 aircraft has rusted in the New Mexico desert. Though worn by the elements, one peek inside at the velvet-and-wood interior is all it takes to know that, once upon a time, this was Elvis Presley’s ghostly flying machine.

And now, thanks to the online auction site Iron Planet, this can be your rusty scrap heap, if the price is right.

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C O R R E CTI O N Your Pesky Fly on the Wall is always highlighting follies and mistakes in area media. It’s only fair to highlight this column’s own shortcomings. Last week, we were naughty and ran a blurb about WMC reporter Janice Broach teasing a story with a riding crop. We failed to include an image. As many readers have pointed out, “pictures or it didn’t happen.” We regret the omission.

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VE R BATI M “We haven’t reached an agreement with them on what the final agreement will be for antitrust purposes.” — Makan Delrahim, chief of the Justice Department’s antitrust division on the stalled Sinclair/ Tribune Media merger. That deal could include Memphis’ WREG.

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TVA, Immigration, & Bird Trump plan blasted, Trump policy knocked, and we get some scooter rules.

TVA TI F F Tennessee Senators fired back at a Trump administration proposal to sell the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) electric transmission lines, calling the plan “loony” and “harmful” for the agency.

The move is one of several ideas President Donald Trump floated Thursday in a plan to re-organize parts of the federal government.

I M M I G R ATI O N LEG I S LATI O N Tennessee’s Bob Corker, along with 25 other U.S. senators, introduced legislation last week that promotes keeping immigrant children and their parents together.

The Keep Families Together and Enforce the Law Act would require that families are kept together during legal proceedings, while “ensuring the integrity of our nation’s immigration laws.”

The law includes provisions to ensure fair treatment of migrant families by setting mandatory standards of care at residential centers. Under the law, families would be required to have access to proper living accommodations, food and water, medical assistance, and other necessary services.

The legislation also authorizes the hiring of 225 new immigration judges to help faster resolve the cases of families housed in residential centers.

The legislation came after Senator Corker and Senator Lamar Alexander and 11 other Republican senators sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions calling for an end of the separation policy. The letter reads, immigration enforcement should be done in a way that is “consistent with our values and ordinary human decency.”

B I R D R U LES The Memphis City Council passed an ordinance last week that puts regulations in place for the recently launched Bird shared scooter system.

City officials are now working to create operating regulations to govern the use of all shared-mobility systems in the city. In the meantime, Bird and Memphis have entered into an interim operating agreement, which includes guidelines for parking, operating, and riding the scooters.

R O LL I N G N U M B E R S In its first month, 2,950 people used Explore Bike Share (EBS), the citywide bike-share system. They took 6,423 rides, traveling 27,503 miles and burning more than 1 million calories.

The system already has more than half of its annual membership projection. EBS officials hoped to have around 500 members in its first six months; more than 500 signed up in the program’s first month.

WO M E N HAC K The first-ever women-only hack-a-thon is coming to Memphis on Friday, July 20th.

The University of Memphis’ FedEx Institute of Technology, in partnership with Memphis Women in Technology and other local tech organizations, will host ATHENAtechne, a two-day hack-a-thon designed to “cultivate a positive environment for women in technology.”

The event is free and open to all females over the age of 10 of any skill level who have an interest in technology.

In addition to programmers and web designers, graphic designers, artists, writers, and those in any other creative field are encouraged to attend.

Attendees will be immersed in tech culture and will create “interesting and innovative” hacks. Representatives from organizations like Black Girls Code, Tech901, and CodeCrew will be at the hack-a-thon for education and networking.

Fuller versions of these stories and even more local news can be found on The News Blog at memphisflyer.com.

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State officials formally asked the federal government for permission last week to strip TennCare payments to clinics that provide elective abortions.

They also asked if Tennesseans had any comment on the move. They did. Pink-shirted advocates flooded public hearings in Nashville on Friday and Monday. Public comment on the move is open until Friday, July 13th via mail and email.

State lawmakers passed the bill — aimed primarily at defunding Planned Parenthood — this year, and Governor Bill Haslam signed it in April. Lawmakers said, simply, they did not want taxpayer funds to be used in clinics that perform elective abortions. Representative Jimmy Matlock, the bill’s House sponsor, said its passing was a “huge win” for Tennesseans “who believed in the sanctity of life.”

“Putting an end to abortion is one of the primary reasons I got involved in politics,” he said in a statement.

“The very idea that our money was being handed over to industry executives who have proudly killed millions of babies for profit, and there was supposedly nothing we could do about it, absolutely sickened me.”

No TennCare money is spent directly on abortions.

But lawmakers felt paying the clinics anything indirectly supported abortion.

Rebecca Terrell, executive director with Choices Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, called that assertion “absurd.”

“If anything, private revenues from abortion care often

subsidize our provision of critically needed services to a growing population of Tennesseans without access to other health-care providers,” Terrell said. “In other words, you’re welcome, Tennessee.”

Officials with Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi (PPTNM) called the state’s move “politically motivated” and “dangerous.”

“This amendment blocks patients with low incomes, who already face systemic barriers to care due to racist and discriminatory policies, from accessing critical care at Planned Parenthood in Tennessee,” reads a statement from the organization. “Governor Haslam’s politically motivated agenda is dangerous to Tennesseans and will harm people in need of basic healthcare services.”

Texas cut funding to similar clinics in 2011, in an effort to defund Planned Parenthood. After the cuts, 82 family planning clinics closed; two-thirds of them were not Planned Parenthood clinics.

In response to the cuts, the federal government (under the Obama adminstration) cut $35 million in annual funds to the state. Lawmakers there are hopeful that the Trump adminstration will help restore the funds. The ask was made in May 2017 and Texas officials still have no answer.

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PPTNM officials said Tennessee’s request would exclude at least 600,000 patients from getting care at their clinics and others like them. While those clinics do provide abortion services, they also provide birth control, cancer screenings, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, and more.

In 2010, 56 percent of all pregnancies in Tennessee were unintended, and in 2016, 53 percent of women who gave birth were TennCare or Medicaid recipients, according to PPTNM. “This proposed waiver does nothing to improve the integrity and effectiveness of the Medicaid program for Tennesseans,” said Ashley Coffield, CEO of PPTNM. “The last thing Tennesseans need is to have their options for reproductive and sexual health care restricted by additional barriers such as the proposed waiver.”

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Bredesen at Bioworks Foundation; District 8 U.S. House candidate John Boatner and family at border action rally Yet a third such gathering, a “Families Belong Together Memphis Action Rally,” hosted by Latino Memphis and Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition [TIRRC], will convene on Saturday, June 30th, at 10 a.m. at Gaisman Park.

Political candidates, mainly Democrats, were observed at the first two rallies, and doubtless will be at the third, but ordinary citizens, expressing extremes of both outrage and compassion, are the main players in this drama, a continuing one that could well transform the ongoing course of the year and trump politics as usual.

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• Former Governor Phil Bredesen, a conservative at heart, might be considered an unlikely avatar of the aforementioned Democratic blue wave, but that he is, as the party’s standard-bearer for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the GOP’s Bob Corker. Bredesen was in town for a Monday night fundraiser, which followed up on an earlier meeting Monday with representatives of the Memphis Bioworks Foundation about the effect of Trump’s tariffs on entrepreneurial initiatives being midwifed into being by the foundation.

“Too early to tell,” was Bredesen’s finding about the fledgling medical enterprises under discussion, though he told reporters afterward that the president’s tariff policy would give a hard hit to the state’s agriculture and possibly its automobile industry — as well as to Tennessee whiskey, which Bredesen described as one of the state’s major exports and one wide open to other countries’ retaliations.

As Bredesen said, “You can’t hurt Elvis, and you can’t hurt Dolly, but you can definitely hurt Jack Daniels.”

Bredesen had harsh words for the president’s hard-line policy on immigration.

“Child abuse,” he called it.

That may end up being the mildest epithet bestowed this week on President Trump’s “zero tolerance” border policy toward immigrants seeking asylum. A massive demonstration protesting that policy and its results, notably

the separation of parents from their children and the scattering of both to various detention camps in the country, took place Sunday at Lindenwood Christian Church, under the auspices of MICAH (Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope).

Yet another demonstration took place Monday evening at Shady Grove Presbyterian Church under the auspices of the activist group Indivisible Memphis and the non-profit Showing Up for Racial Justice. Both assemblies numbered in the several hundreds and, at both, plans were launched for aiding the afflicted asylum-seekers and countering the border policy.

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This week was destined to see large and distinct choices, forks in the road for the politically minded.

Be this a blue-wave year or not, the Shelby County Republican Party still has to be considered the county’s dominant political unit, on the strength of its success in the last several election results. And what is arguably the lynchpin organization of the SCRP, the East Shelby Republican Club, scheduled its annual Reagan Day Master Meal for Thursday night at the Great Hall of Germantown, with state treasurer David Lillard as the featured speaker.

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The three members are Janis Fullilove, Democratic nominee for Juvenile Court clerk; Bill Morrison, Democratic nominee for Probate Court clerk; and Edmund Ford, Democratic candidate for the Shelby County Commission’s District 9 position.

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appoint new members of the same stripe, end-running other options that might surface in a special election.

So far, none of the three council members has committed to a course of action on a time for resignation. Berlin Boyd, the current council chair, and Allan Wade, the council’s attorney, insist that the critics have misread the charter and that special elections to replace departing council members can only take place in August — thereby nullifying the prospect of November elections for the three seats and making the protesters’ wishes moot.

The Rev. Earle Fisher and other citizens seeking a commitment for a timely withdrawal by the departing incumbents, should they win, cite charter language specifically authorizing replacement elections in either August or November.

Regardless of who’s right about charter requirements, the protesting citizens’ point is well taken: The appointment process has become wholly predictable, with a dominant council faction choosing replacements who, though they may be admirably skilled and bastions of integrity, have been suggested by well-placed supporters of the current majority and not subjected to any real public vetting via the election process.

The video archives of last week’s council meeting show that, after four speakers had made their case and had been basically blown off by Boyd, Wade apparently engaged the speakers in an exchange of taunts, somewhat off-mic. We think the protesters have a respectable case to make and should be listened to.

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Trump’s border policy is unlike any that the U.S. has deployed in our history.

The Washington Post recently reported that

by May 1, 2018, Trump had lied more than 3,000 times in his presidency, averaging 6.5 lies per day.

In one 80-minute speech, Trump lied 44 times.

The senator’s reflexive use of false equivalency is telling. President Trump’s border policy is unlike any that the U.S. has deployed in our history. No administration has ever systematically removed children from their parents, simply for crossing the border. Alexander’s initial claim that previous administrations have separated children when their parents were detained obfuscates the fact that previous administrations took such actions only when the parents engaged in criminal activities beyond simply crossing a border to seek asylum and a better life.

The time has come for Republicans and anyone who clings to a moral compass to quit excusing President Trump’s actions. His words have been callous, his actions cruel and unusual, and if Congressional leaders won’t act now, in the face of objective cruelty to children, then the great American experiment is truly at its end stage.

Bryce Ashby is a Memphis-based attorney and board chair of Latino Memphis.

Michael LaRosa is an associate professor of Latin American history at Rhodes College.

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der last week ending the policy of family separation. But, the ramifications of this policy have been deadly, and the problem isn’t solved by any means.

One Honduran father killed himself after being separated from his wife and child. Child psychologists have warned about the emotional well-being of children who are held in detention centers without parents and relatives. Last week, a heartbreaking photograph of a two-yearold Honduran girl, in tears, witnessing her mother’s arrest became the symbol of Trump’s cruel immigration policy.

In response to complaints about Trump’s policy, Senator Lamar Alexander initially claimed that “Previous administrations have separated children when their parents were detained for criminal charges or other charges that required their detention.” Senator Alexander has since condemned Mr. Trump’s actions as public opposition has grown.

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President Trump has built his presidency on a foundation of untruths and a defense of false equivalence. His defenders have followed suit. Now, the lies and the hypocrisy of an administration that cares only about preserving power and privilege for the loyal few are literally tearing families apart.

It all started before the 2016 election.

In October 2016, the Access Hollywood audiotape showed candidate Trump bragging about how status as a “star” gave him the power to sexually assault women.

Initially Trump fumbled through an apology, but he quickly switched to what has become a more familiar posture: normalizing his behavior via diversionary tactics, i.e. by claiming that Bill Clinton had said much worse to him on the golf course.

Next, after multiple indictments of his staff, including his campaign manager and his first national security advisor, Michael Flynn, Trump argued that Hillary Clinton’s emails were a more significant scandal, despite repeated FBI investigations, including the recent inspector general’s investigation, finding no basis for her prosecution.

The president’s proclivity for lying is well-documented but is too often met with the familiar refrain that “all politicians lie.” The truth, however, is that no politician in modern times has engaged in such a continuous and willful effort to mislead the public. The Washington Post recently reported that by May 1, 2018, Trump had lied more than 3,000 times in his presidency, averaging 6.5 lies per day. In one 80-minute speech, Trump lied 44 times.

As the daily lies mount, the administration has begun a truly reprehensible campaign against our neighbors to the south. This administration, in a “zero tolerance” policy they alone concocted, is criminally prosecuting every individual who crosses the U.S. border without documentation. Many are crossing to seek asylum as they flee violence, political unrest, and economic despair. This is a new Trump administration policy; it is not a policy developed — as claimed

by Trump and his acolytes — by the Democrats. There is no “law” requiring the separation of families.

Instead of treating migrants with dignity, Trump refers to them as “animals.”

The administration, evidently, didn’t think the U.S. public would care about dividing up families, poor people, mostly from Central America. They were wrong.

Public outcry followed and forced the president to back down; he signed an or-

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FOOD FIGHT The battle to eliminate Memphis’ “food deserts” is being fought on several fronts.

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Injustice is a problem in Memphis — in its housing, its wealth-gap, its food deserts, its justice system, its education system. In 2018, the Flyer is going to take a hard look at these issues in a series of cover stories we’re calling The Justice Project. The stories will focus on reviewing injustice in its many forms here and exploring what, if anything, is being done — or can be done — to remedy the problems.

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Justice Project The green fields in the above map indicate food deserts.

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f you drive through Midtown, there are no shortages of places to find fresh food. In fact, there are three full-scale grocery stores within a

one-mile radius of each other. But, as you venture further south, along Bellevue into South Memphis, you won’t find many grocery stores. Instead, you’ll see streets lined with fast food joints, dollar stores, and corner stores selling junk food, beer, cigarettes, and a few overpriced groceries such as white bread and milk.

Marlon Foster, longtime resident of South Memphis and pastor of Christ Quest Community Church near McLemore and Mississippi Boulevard, says accessing healthy, non-processed food is a huge struggle among his neighbors. People “literally right next door to me don’t have real food to eat.

Despite forward strides, there are still some neighborhoods in Memphis where residents are without healthy food options.

Click a button on the interactive site, and magenta begins to overlap with green, showing the areas in Memphis where a large portion of households don’t own cars. Green plus magenta equals food desert, which the USDA defines as a community where at least 500 people and/or 33 percent of the population reside more than one mile from a grocery store and do not own an automobile. These areas exist heavily here in Whitehaven, Orange Mound, South Memphis, and North Memphis.

The latest report by Feeding America, a national hunger-relief organization, shows that 198,610 Shelby County residents were food insecure in 2015, meaning about 21 percent of the population faced “lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods.”

These are communities where residents do not live in close proximity to affordable and healthy food retailers, especially those that sell fresh fruits and vegetables. Healthy food options in these communities are either hard to find or unaffordable. Residents can, however, easily access processed food with little or no nutritional benefit and that is high in fat, sugar, and sodium.

Theo Davies (above) at Green Leaf Learning Farm; Ma Ani Community Service Summer Program campers The USDA cites that in most cities, food deserts are found in low-income areas and neighborhoods of color.

Memphis, a city that is about 62 percent African American, is no different. On the USDA’s food desert atlas, green largely covers the city’s poorest zip codes — 38126, 38105, 38108, and 38106, which have an average median household income of $19,107 a year. In these neighborhoods, families struggle to find and afford healthy food, children rely on school-provided meals, and parents have to make trade-offs between basic needs and adequate food.

Closed Doors

When Kroger closed two of its stores in South Memphis and Orange Mound in February, the residents who depended on those stores were suddenly struck with the reality of not having a place to buy food.

Rhonnie Brewer, chief visionary officer of local consulting firm Socially Twisted, says she doesn’t live in either of those neighborhoods, but when she heard about the predicament of the residents there, she was compelled to help “meet the need.”

After attending neighborhood meetings, while researching and contacting potential grocers to fill the space, Brewer says she realized she needed hard numbers to actually prove a grocery store could be viable in those locations. So, Brewer went to the Memphis City Council, asking for funds to conduct a grocery store feasibility study. Though some of the council members were “strongly for it,” she says, others “weren’t concerned” and couldn’t understand why a study was necessary.

“It wasn’t easy,” but after what Brewer says was “lots of presentations and lots of begging,” the council voted to fund the study.

Still, some council members said they didn’t see a need for the study. “I was dismayed,” she says. “Because anything that impacts the community’s citizens is the responsibility of the city ultimately.”

The study, based on census data, traffic counts, and other numbers, showed the need for a grocery store in the two spots, but in locations like South Memphis and Orange Mound, Brewer says the study also suggested a traditional grocery wouldn’t work. Because profit margins for the two locations were projected to be low or negative, Brewer says the grocer would need to be “creative about making money … . It’s completely doable, it requires thinking outside of the norm for grocery stores.”

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There are a lot of people who walk up and down the street to get food from me and other neighbors,” Foster says. “We see it all the time” Since the church opened 14 years ago, Foster says he’s been offering Sundaymorning breakfast to his congregation.

Half come just for the guaranteed meal, he says.

“It’s about gathering, but it’s also a direct confrontation of hunger,” Foster says. “People are not coming to socialize; they’re coming because they’re hungry and need something to eat.”

South Memphis isn’t the only Memphis neighborhood where residents don’t have reliable access to fresh, healthy food. In fact, on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s atlas that highlights areas in the U.S. with low access to food, much of the city of Memphis is colored green. In this case, green isn’t good. Green means that the people living in that census tract are low-income and live between one and 10 miles from a grocery store.

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continued from page 11 Creating the prototype would have cost the city about $174,000, but the council told Brewer it wasn’t in the budget.

“They just didn’t go for it,” she says, and some of the council members “basically avoided me. I sent emails, called, texted, left voicemails, called their assistants, and still got no responses from some,” Brewer says. “It left me at a loss.”

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Brewer’s talks with the city council were not in vain, though. Last week, the council took a step toward bringing grocery stores into the city’s food deserts, but in a different direction.

The council voted to allocate $360,000 from surplus funds to an initiative meant to make it easier for grocers to open shop in underserved, low-income neighborhoods.

The Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI), modeled after the USDA’s national program, is designed to expand access to nutritious food in communities by developing and equipping grocers, small retailers, corner stores, and farmers markets that sell healthy food.

Through the initiative, healthy food projects in Memphis’ USDA-certified food deserts will be incentivized with loans and other assistance to offset the costs of land/facility purchase, construction/renovation, and business start-up/operations. The initiative is spearheaded by The Works, Inc. CDC, a housing and community development group that aims to rebuild and restore South Memphis.

Roshun Austin, president and CEO of The Works says the initiative will be “vital” in eliminating food deserts in neighborhoods where she works in South Memphis, and in others, such as North Memphis, where there are “whole blocks of neighborhoods that barely have convenience stores.”

“We’re not in it just to provide a loan,” Austin says. “It’s about what we can provide and what it means for families’ health. This is a way to focus on how we reduce our health disparities.”

Austin is wasting no time getting started, either. She’s been working with Rick James, owner of the local Cash Saver chain, to bring a grocery store back to Kroger’s old location in South Memphis’ Southgate Center.

James, who has already signed a lease with the property owners for the 31,000foot space, says “it’s a done deal” and expects the store to open sometime in August. James has been operating stores in Memphis for about 30 years, and says he’s “confident” that the store will be successful.

“The neighborhood is very, very similar to the ones where we already have stores,” James says. “We know how to provide for these customers, and we’re comfortable in the community. I wouldn’t be doing it if we 12 didn’t think it could be successful.”

Whether the store is a success or not,

James says Cash Saver is “not in it for the short-run,” citing a $1 million front-end investment for store renovations.

Unlike other grocery stores, Cash Saver has a “price plus 10” format. This means at the register, customers pay the price listed on the shelf, plus tax, plus an additional 10 percent of each product’s cost. James says this allows the store to offer the lowest price for all products, instead of just for a few on-sale items.

Despite the extra 10 percent, James says he’s “pretty certain” that Cash Saver’s products are cheaper than those found in other grocery stores.

With Cash Saver set to open at the end of the summer, hope is on the horizon for the approximate 55,000 individuals living within a 3-mile radius of the shopping center. Still, in a zip code where the annual average household income is a little over $29,000, transportation options are limited and obstacles still stand in the way of getting to the store. And those without access to a car, living further than a mile from the store, by USDA definitions still reside in a food desert.

from where the farm sits now and says he’s seen the population and economics of the neighborhood shift over the years.

People moved out, businesses closed, buildings became dilapidated, and lots turned to blight, he says.

“It’s challenging for me to ride down the same streets I rode down as a kid with my parents now and remember what used to be,” Foster says, citing the number of grocery stores that used to be in the community. “We had what we needed in the neighborhood, but now a lot of it is gone. We are having to literally build from the ground up with community gardening to try to fill the gap for that loss.”

Green Leaf is an effort to be a “direct redress” to the food desert in which it operates, Foster says. “At least with the presence of Green Leaf, those food desert realities begin to diminish for those in a close proximity to the farm,” Foster says.

“Through us, families do have access to healthy produce — and soon to be — eggs and honey.”

Because the goal of the farm’s parent

conservation to how to project harvest yields, Foster says.

“So if they want to be outside and get their hands dirty or own a farm or go into an agribusiness career one day, they’ll have that experience to do that,” Foster says. “Our goal is for a child to have the chance to experience all the elements of the food cycle.”

Urban farming is one way to curb the food desert problem, but Foster says it’s not the single solution. “I am still an advocate that it should not be that for under-resourced communities to have healthy food, they have to grow it themselves,” Foster says. “I wouldn’t want to go down that road too far — to say that it’s the whole answer.”

Foster says community farming is a good way for people to become empowered and immediately respond to challenges in their neighborhood.

“But still, we want access to produce in traditional outlets,” Foster said. “I want a high-quality grocery store in proximity to me in South Memphis, where I live.”

It all works hand-in-hand, Foster says, as urban farming can be one piece of a broader solution.

More Than Food

Maricela Lou-Gator welcomes Ma Ani counselor Deen Bowden and campers.

An Oasis

Opening grocery stores is one way to address the food desert epidemic in Memphis, but tucked away in South Memphis another type of solution — and an oasis — already exists. Sitting to the south of Walker, near Mississippi Boulevard, a two-third-acre learning farm spans over 30 formerly vacant, blighted lots and three abandoned buildings.

The Green Leaf Learning Farm is a USDA-organic-certified farm, where everything from jalapeños and thai chilies, to zucchini and tomatoes, to sage and thyme is grown. The food is sold at the farm, as well as the South Memphis and Cooper-Young Farmers Markets.

Residents of the neighborhood receive a slightly reduced rate on food, and every week, food is given away to neighbors.

Marlon Foster is not only the pastor of Christ Quest Church, but he’s also the founder of Green Leaf and the organization that operates it: Knowledge Quest. Foster grew up just a few blocks

organization, Knowledge Quest, is to provide high quality service to “one of the most under-resourced and underserved neighborhoods that traditionally would not get that,” Foster says, Green Leaf strives to grow the highest quality food.

“We don’t just provide vegetables; we’re committed to growing the healthiest of the healthiest,” Foster says. “We’re passionate about vegetables with high amounts of nutrients, like leafy greens — hence our name, Green Leaf.”

Green Leaf has three focuses: community and economic development, food access, and education. Student education, through “mass exposure” and “intentional engagement” to growing food, is the most important, Foster says.

Students at Knowledge Quest have the opportunity to learn about the different aspects of urban agriculture, and those who show interest are given the opportunity to join a club and learn more in hands-on ways. The club members learn everything from water and soil

Despite some forward strides, there are still a number of neighborhoods in Memphis where residents are without healthy food options. Rhonnie Brewer says it’s important to keep the conversation about food deserts going.

“The minute it gets quiet and it’s no longer relevant, it gets swept under the rug,” Brewer says. “Then it becomes the status quo, and it’s normal old news. At the end of the day, if you were to look at the USDA food desert atlas, you see Memphis covered in all these spots that are food deserts, and that’s an issue that has to be addressed. I just don’t want these individuals who are now living in these situations to get forgotten about.”

People often don’t understand the obstacles that stand in the way of certain demographic groups in some neighborhoods accessing fresh food, Brewer says.

“If you are a senior who lives in Orange Mound off of Park with no means of transportation, imagine the hurdles you would have to go over to get to the closest full-scale grocery.”

Grocery stores do more than just provide food, Brewer says. They often serve as anchors in communities.

Where there is a grocery store, there is a centralized hub where other retail stores will likely open. It’s also a determination of where people decide to live, she says.

“When the grocery stores close, neighborhoods start to die,” Brewer says “Small businesses can’t be supported, people start to move out, and schools close. It’s like a huge domino effect.

At the point where there’s no grocery store or school in the neighborhood, it’s dead.”

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THE FREE PRESS Don’t get the blues, anime fans.

A long, long time ago — 2010, to be precise — Memphis was a very different place. “We didn’t have an anime con,” says Matthew Santirojprapao, the director of media and communications for Anime Blues Con. Sure, we had comic cons and the Mid-South Con, which caters to a variety of fandoms. But the massively influential Japanese style of animation had no local con to call its own. “So we thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if it did?’ And we started one,” Santirojprapao says. And that is the astonishing origin story of Anime Blues Con, now celebrating its 8th year.

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Jazmin Withers, the Collection’s marketing and communications director and great-granddaughter of Ernest Withers, says the festival was inspired by a recent partnership with the Memphis Music Initiative, an innovative non-profit organization built to enhance in-school music education. “That partnership brought us into close contact with all of these wonderful, young, creative people,” she says.

June is African-American music appreciation month, so the original plan was to launch a new music festival. But Memphis has several musical festivals and Withers and her collaborators didn’t think that was enough. “Why just focus on music when you can also have film? And why not photography,” Withers asks. “This is the Withers collection.

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he first time I saw Cory Branan — solo at the Hi-Tone in its former location on Poplar — he performed an act of serious musical hypnotism. The crowd was quiet (for a Hi-Tone crowd), quiet enough that I could pick out every finger-plucked note. His lyrics ambled, getting there but not always taking the most obvious route. He had a country twang and a folky, John Prine-inflected delivery, but he played an electric guitar, a Gibson SG, if I remember correctly.

There has always been a little rock-androll in Branan’s country, a little folk in his poetry. He’s a musical amalgamation, and he’s set to play an intimate Memphis set this Saturday at Studio688 as part of the Folk All Y’all series.

Folk All Y’all concerts aim to match idiosyncratic musical acts with intimate, interesting venues to create a unique Cory concert experience.

Branan And Branan is tailormade for the musical experiment. His songs breathe with an authenticity that suggests something in possession of a life of its own.

He speaks slowly and quietly, but when he sings, his lyrics don’t always conform to meter. That’s not to suggest he’s sloppy or out of time, rather that he’s counting his own time. Or that he knows the value of losing track of time every once in a while. “Keep up,” his songs seem to say.

Branan, a native of Southaven, spent a handful of years in Nashville, but the singer/songwriter has had an on-again, off-again relationship with Memphis, where he cut his teeth in metal and country bands and where he now lives with his wife Rebecca and son Clemens.

(He also has a daughter, Jane, “from a different mama.”) The Branan family moved back to Memphis in February, and since then, the singer says he’s been enjoying home life.

“I’m kind of a hermit. My wife jokes that I went out five times in the five years we lived in Nashville,” says Branan. “When I’m off the road, I just wanna be home.”

The singer has been adapting to family life, learning how to write whenever he

can steal the time. After the Folk All Y’all gig, Branan heads out in July in support of California punks Face to Face, who are releasing a record of acoustic versions of old material. In October, he’s set to play the second annual MEMPHO Fest with his full band. And then there are the plans for the new record.

“I’ve never been able to write on the road,” Branan says. He says he would collapse into a bed after a tour, still feeling the ground moving underneath him.

But things are a little different now for Branan. “Now, when I come off the road, I just wanna look at the wife and kid.” So the blond songsmith has been teaching himself to write on the road.

Branan has a dozen new songs in the works for the follow-up to Adios, which was released in April 2017 on Bloodshot Records — and named one of the Memphis albums of the year by the Flyer. In contrast to Adios, one of the more polished of Branan’s five studio albums, the new material suggests a raw approach.

“I’m thinking about more of a 1970s-type songwriter record, where you can hear the room, and everybody’s doing it live,” Branan says, referencing Jackson Browne and “even Gordon Lightfoot” before hitting on his ideal example. “For me, it’s some of those Kinks records in the 1970s. You can hear ’em hitting their teeth on the microphone. It’s just so ragged and glorious.” If anyone can produce the Southern Muswell Hilbillies, it’s Branan, who says he plans to play some of the new material during his set this Saturday.

The singer says he plans to hunker down in late autumn or winter to record the new album. Branan’s already envisioning how the process will go. “That’s always been my choice: overqualified, underprepared musicians,” Branan says of his recording style. “Don’t give ’em too much of a heads-up about what’s gonna happen. Just surround yourself with the best people and do it fast and try to catch a little lightning in a bottle.”

Cory Branan at Folk All Y’all, Saturday, June 30th at 7:30 p.m., at Studio688 (688 S. Cox). $20.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule June 28 - July 4 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, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.

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

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

Sean “Bad” Apple Thursdays, Sundays, 5 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 4 p.m.; Live Music Thursdays-Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; DJ Ron Fridays, 11 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.

FedExForum 191 BEALE STREET

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King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Sensation Band Tuesdays, Fridays, 7-11 p.m.; Chic Jones and the Blues Express Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Fuzzy Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 7 p.m.-midnight; North and South Band Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

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

Yo Gotti Thursday, June 28, 7-10 p.m.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

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Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Friday, June 29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Fuzzy Saturday, June 30, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

days, Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. and Sundays, 3-7 p.m.; Fuzzy Friday, June 29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Myra Hall Band Saturday, June 30, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sensation Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, 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.

New Daisy Theatre

Belle Tavern

330 BEALE 525-8981

117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

The Rusty Pieces Sunday, July 1, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille

Rum Boogie Cafe

152 MADISON 572-1813

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Chris Gales Solo Acoustic Show Mondays-Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/acoustic Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

182 BEALE 528-0150

Eric Hughes Band Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Friday, June 29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Saturday, June 30, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Fuzzy Tuesday, July 3, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

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Earnestine & Hazel’s

Lunch & Listen with Abby Frances Friday, June 29, 1-2 p.m.

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

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

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, July 1, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

125 N. FRONT 576-7241

Zoogma Memphis Farewell Show Saturday, June 30, 11 p.m.; Bush Monday, July 2, 6:30 p.m.

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

Stacks and friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Mud Island River Park

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Nathan Belt and the Buckles Thursday, June 28, 8 p.m., Friday, June 29, 9:30 p.m. and Saturday, June 30, 9:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m., Saturdays, 5:30 p.m. and Wednesday, July 4, 9 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; Earl “The

Pearl” Banks Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. and Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.

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

Center for Southern Folklore 123 S. MAIN AT PEABODY TROLLEY STOP 525-3655

Claudia Valentin Saturday, June 30, 8-11 p.m.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Karaoke Night Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Keith Blanchard Friday, June 29, 9 p.m.; Broke Talk Folk Saturday, June 30, 9 p.m.; Bobbie

Widespread Panic Pre-Show “Grill’n’Chill” Friday, June 29, 5 p.m.

National Civil Rights Museum 450 MULBERRY 521-9699

Lyrics at the Lorraine: The Power of Words Saturday, June 30, 6-8 p.m.

Paulette’s 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.

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

119 S. MAIN 435-6509

The Peabody Hotel 149 UNION 529-4000

Peabody Rooftop Parties Thursdays, 6-10 p.m.

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

Heath and Bobbie Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Keith Blanchard Friday, June 29, 8 p.m.; Merit Koch and Co. Saturday, June 30, 8 p.m.

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Abbye West Pates, Abby Frances, Katie Ferren and Mark Currey Friday, June 29, 7 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Steve Selvidge’s Birthday Friday, June 29; Karen Meat with Crystal Shrine Saturday, June 30; Le Tumulte Noir Sunday, July 1, 8 p.m.; Devil Train Monday, July 2; Dave Cousar Tuesday, July 3; James Brown Dance Party with DJ Andrew McCalla & DJ Eric Hermeyer Wednesday, July 4; Wooly Bushman Wednesday, July 4.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule June 28 - July 4 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.

Twin Soul Saturday, June 30, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Jeffrey and the Pacemakers Sunday, July 1, 4 p.m.; Jeff Crosby & the Refugees Sunday, July 1, 8 p.m.; Fingertrick Monday, July 2, 6 p.m.; Nick Garrison Tuesday, July 3, 5:30 p.m.; As Am I Tuesday, July 3, 8 p.m.; 3RD Man Wednesday, July 4, 5:30 p.m.; Kasey Tyndall Wednesday, July 4, 8 p.m.

Levitt Shell OVERTON PARK 272-2722

Paul Thorn and the Blind Boys

Murphy’s

Memphis Botanic Garden

1589 MADISON 726-4193

750 CHERRY 636-4100

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

Poplar/I-240

Live in Studio A Concert Series Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m.

Neil’s Music Room

Whitehaven/ Airport

Earl “The Pearl” and the People of the Blues Friday, June 29, 6-9 p.m.; Switchblade Kid with Nowhere Squares Saturday, June 30; The Sheiks Tuesday, July 3.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Not a Part of This World, Negro Terror, Walking on Landmines Saturday, June 30, 9 p.m.; Two Wheel Tuesday bike night Tuesday, July 3.

Train Friday, June 29, 8 p.m.

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Jameson Rodgers Saturday, June 30; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Brian Johnson Band Thursday, June 28, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Lonesome Highway Saturday, June 30, 8 p.m.; Mo Boogie Sunday, July 1, 6-10 p.m.; Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Streeter and the Tribe Tuesday, July 3, 7 p.m.;

926 E. MCLEMORE 946-2535

Rock-n-Roll Cafe 3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 3986528

Elvis Tribute featuring Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Karaoke hosted by DJ Maddy Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, June 28, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck Saturday, June 30, 6-8 p.m.; Graham Winchester & Turnstyles Saturday, June 30, 10 p.m.; Frog Squad Jam Sunday, July 1, 6-9 p.m.; Timmy & the Jazz Monday, July 2, 6 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesday, July 3, 6-8 p.m.; See You Space Cowboy with Wine Witch Tuesday, July 3, 9 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Shotgun Billys Saturday, June 30, 9 p.m.; A.M. Whiskey Wednesday, July 4, 8 p.m.

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

Folk All Y’all Listening Room at Studio688

John Paul Keith Band Sunday, July 1, 8-11:30 p.m.

688 S. COX ST 9016266763

Cordova

Folk All Y’all: An Evening with Cory Branan Saturday, June 30, 7:30-10 p.m.

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

Growlers

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, July 1, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

The Klitz Album Release Thursday, June 28, 7 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s 64 2821 N. HOUSTON LEVEE 377-9997

Hi-Tone

Nick and Wade Thursday, June 28.

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Joe Restivo Four Sunday, July 1, 4-7 p.m.; Bluff City Soul Collective Sunday, July 1, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Indian Pass Raw Bar Memphis 2059 MADISON 207-7397

Paul Taylor Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.; Henry Swain Club Friday, June 29, 7-10 p.m.; Grace Askew Saturday, June 30, 8-10 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Rice Drewry Thursday, June 28, 6 p.m.; The Super 5 Thursday, June 28, 9 p.m.; Donovan Keith Saturday, June 30, 6:30 p.m.;

Huey’s Millington 8570 US 51 NORTH,

Charvey Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, July 1, 6-9 p.m.

Germantown Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

of Alabama Friday, June 29, 7:309 p.m.; Stax Music Academy Summer Grand Finale Saturday, June 30, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Trixie Mattel Thursday, June 28, 7 p.m.; The Steel Woods, Ross Cooper Friday, June 29, 7 p.m.; The BreakUp Chronicles Concert Saturday, June 30, 6-9 p.m.

Mulan Asian Bistro 2149 YOUNG AVE 347-3965

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

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, July 1, 8-11:30 p.m.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Kittel & Co. Whorls Tour Thursday, June 28, 7 p.m.; A Weirdo From Memphis Saturday, June 30; Al Kapone presents “Chill & Grill” Tuesday, July 3, 6 p.m.; Independence Day with John Paul Keith Wednesday, July 4, 7:30 p.m.

Sounds Good Memphis 831 S. COOPER

The Outcry Family Reunion!

Saturday, June 30, 7 p.m.midnight.

The Tower Courtyard at Overton Square 2092 TRIMBLE PLACE MEMPHIS, TN 38104

Acoustic Courtyard Last Thursday of every month, 6:309:30 p.m.

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe 663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

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

East Memphis East of Wangs

Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Summer/Berclair Cheffie’s Cafe 483 HIGH POINT TERRACE 202-4157

Songwriter Night hosted by Leigh Ann Wilmot and Dave “The Rave” Saturdays, 5-8 p.m.

6069 PARK 763-0676

Lee Gardner Fridays, 6:30-9 p.m.; Randal Toma, Solo Guitar Tuesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Big Dog Thursday, June 28, 7-11 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Horseshoe Casino & Hotel AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS 1-800-303-SHOE

Theresa Caputo Friday, June 29; Lil Jon Wednesday, July 4.

Raleigh South Memphis Paradise Entertainment Center 645 E GEORGIA

Pre-4th of July Comedy and R&B Explosion Saturday, June 30, 8 p.m.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Frayser/Millington

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Bad Cop, the Maggie Valley Band Thursday, June 28, 8 p.m.; The Smokehouse Special Friday, June 29, 7 p.m.; Cities Aviv, Outside Source, Lukah Friday, June 29, 10 p.m.; The Goddamn Gallows, Days ‘N Daze, Gallows Band Saturday, June 30, 9 p.m.; LA’ Chat Three G Saturday, June 30, 9 p.m.; HEELS Sunday, July 1, 7 p.m.; As Cities Burn, My Epic, Tigerwine, Jadewick Tuesday, July 3, 8 p.m.; Negro Terror, Pink Mass, Hormonal Imbalance, The Gloryholes Tuesday, July 3, 8 p.m.

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

June 28 - July 4

T H EAT E R

Germantown Community Theatre

Arsenic and Old Lace, a madcap cast of characters, including the Brewster sisters, who feel that poisoning solitary, friendless old men is a charitable act. www.gctcomeplay. org. $24. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2:30 p.m. Through July 1.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (4537447).

Hattiloo Theatre

Raisin, musical adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s revolutionary A Raisin in the Sun. Set in segregated 1950s Chicago, the story depicts a black family’s struggle in the face of change. www.hattiloo. org. $30-$35. Thurs., Fri., 7:30 p.m., Sat., 2 & 7:30 p.m., and Sun., 3 p.m. Through July 1.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Playhouse on the Square Dreamgirls, follows the journey of a young female singing group from a revolutionary time in American music history. The trio learns that show business and stardom isn’t always as glamorous as it seems. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $25-$40. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through July 15.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

42nd Street, starstruck Peggy Sawyer arrives in New York City from Allenstown, PA, hoping to become a Broadway star. She learns about show business and discovers which relationships are most important in life. www.theatrememphis.org. $30. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m.

Through July 1.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

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“Somnium (Daydreams)”

by Mario Henrique at Art Village Gallery, Friday, June 29th

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

Art Village Gallery

Opening reception for “Somnium (Daydreams),” exhibition of 10 medium- to large-scale figurative paintings on reverse canvas by Mario Henrique. www.artvillagegallery.com. Fri., June 29, 6:308:30 p.m.

Open Late

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

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

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

David Lusk Gallery

Opening reception for “Arboretum,” exhibition of drawings and sculpture by John Salvest. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Fri., June 29, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception from Jeane Umbreit, exhibition of enhanced photography by Jeane Umbreit. www.davidluskgallery.com. Fri., June 29, 6-8 p.m.

O N G O I N G ART

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“Monster Marks,” exhibition of work from Memphis collections that make us think about how we define monsters. www.memphis.edu/amum.

Through July 28.

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

Ongoing.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

Opening reception for “Eco Prints,” exhibition of prints on paper. Framed prints are $150, unframed $60. www. robinsoneditions.com. Fri., June 29, 6-9 p.m.

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

Art Village Gallery

44 HULING (576-0708).

Leadership Memphis

Opening reception for “Trolley Night: Music, Messages, and Movements,” exhibition in partnership with The Withers Collection Museum & Gallery.

Register to attend. (523-2344), www.witherscollection.com.

Fri., June 29, 6-8 p.m.

365 S. MAIN ST. (278-0016).

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

Accepting Applications: Crosstown Arts Residency Program

Visit website for more information and registration. $10 application fee. Through July 15.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE (FORMERLY SEARS CROSSTOWN), N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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

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

“Art in Nature”

Students will be installing environmental art using natural, found materials from the grounds and created in various Garden locations. Observe these works of art before gone with the wind. Fri.-Sat., June 29-30.

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

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.

Blue Star Museums Program

Free admission to Pink Palace Family of Museums for the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. Visit website for more information.

Through Sept. 3.

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

Casting Demonstration Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.

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

Exhibition Dinner & Dialogue

Welcome visual artist Mario Henrique from Portugal, see his latest works, and enjoy

music, dialogue, and dinner by chef Ana Gonzalez (dishes from the coastal country of Portugal). $100. Sat., June 30, 7-9:30 p.m.

ART VILLAGE GALLERY, 410 S. MAIN (521-0782), WWW.ARTVILLAGEGALLERY.COM.

Mario Henrique in Conversation with Sheila Urevbu

Conversation between curator and artist as they explore the new exhibition at Art Village Gallery, “Somnium (Dreams).”

Sat., June 30, 2 p.m.

ART VILLAGE GALLERY, 410 S. MAIN (521-0782), WWW.ARTVILLAGEGALLERY.COM.

“Somnium (Daydreams),” exhibition of 10 medium to large-scale figurative paintings on reverse canvas by Mario Henrique. www.artvillagegallery.com. June 29-Aug. 31.

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

ANF Architects

“The Best of the Best,” exhibition showcasing the winners of the Memphis Camera Club’s 2017 Year End Awards. www.anfa.com.

Through Aug. 2.

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

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

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THE KIDS

Crosstown Concourse

July 13

“Distilled: The Narrative Transformed,” exhibition of a 30-year survey of works by Pinkney Herbert. www.crosstownarts. org. Through July 4.

SELENA

July 20

N. CLEVELAND AT N. PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

“Arboretum,” exhibition of drawings and sculpture by John Salvest. Through July 27.

“Southern Obscura,” exhibition of enhanced photography by Jeane Umbreit. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Through July 27.

THE WIZARD OF OZ

July 27 SUPERMAN/BATMAN

July 28

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

“’IN LAK’ECH ALA K’IN,’ Tú eres mi otro yo, You are my other self,” exhibition of installation transforming the Mallory/Wurtzburger Galleries into a work of art by Richard Lou. www.dixon.org.

Through July 15.

August 10 LOVE & BASKETBALL

August 10

4339 PARK (761-5250).

CINDERELLA

August 18 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

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August 24

Come and try a variety of selections from some of Memphis Best Food Trucks.

“Escape to the Sea,” exhibition of acrylic and watercolor paintings by Carolyn Moss. www.eclectic-eye.com.

Through July 25.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Edge Arts

“Memphis Landmarks,” exhibition of works by John Sadowski. Through June 30.

600 MONROE (262-6674).

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Eclectic Eye

FireHouse Community Arts Center

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

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Graceland

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

Ongoing.

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

“Eco Prints,” prints on paper.

Framed prints are $150, unframed $60. (576-0708), www.robinsoneditions.com.

June 29-Aug. 31.

44 HULING (576-0708).

L Ross Gallery

“Olly Olly Oken Free,” exhibition features playful paintings

by Memphis artists Pam McDonnell and Stephanie King and tactile works by Sloane Bibb. www.lrossgallery.com.

Through June 30.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Leadership Memphis

“Trolley Night: Music, Messages, and Movements,” exhibition in partnership with The Withers Collection Museum & Gallery. June 29-Aug. 31.

365 S. MAIN ST. (278-0016).

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

“Seeing Green,” exhibition by the Bartlett Art Association bringing together the BAA members’ collected interpretations and visions of the many meanings of nature’s favorite color. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through June 29.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Black Resistance: Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement,” exhibition focuses on and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the events from March 27 through April 8, 1968. Through Aug. 19.

“African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style,” exhibition of dynamic traditions of African dress featuring colorful, boldly patterned printed cloth highlighting the interplay between regional preferences and cosmopolitanism. Through Aug. 12.

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

“Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis,” exhibition of works inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in

Opening reception for “Eco Prints” at Jack Robinson Photography Gallery, Friday, June 29th, 6-9 p.m. southeastern Nigeria by Victor Ekpuk. www.brooksmuseum. org. Ongoing.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art “We Rise: The Final Biennial,” exhibition by Memphis College of Art’s Alumni Association. All alumni and community invited to celebrate the MCA art and artists that will continue to progress forward. www.mca. edu. Through July 15.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

“Forge,” exhibition of work by 15 international metal artists whose practice has been identified as having a significant impact in the field of blacksmithing. Through Sept. 16.

“Tributaries: Venetia Dale-Next After the First In Order, Place and Time,” exhibition of installations that refocus attention on overlooked support objects secondary to the items they hold up, contain, or aid. Appreciated as individual creations when removed from context and made in pewter. www.metalmuseum. org. Through Sept. 9.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Playhouse on the Square

“DreamESCAPES,” exhibition of multi-media series of imagined, constructed landscapes of famous cities, iconic places, and sometimes rural, non-descriptive corners of the world by O. Gustavo Plascencia. www.mca.edu.

Through July 29.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Ross Gallery

“Connecting Memphis,” exhibition of selections from photography-and-storytelling project by Cindy McMillion. www.connectingmemphis. com. Through July 18.

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

C A L E N D A R : J U N E 2 8 - J U LY 4 Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum

“Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. Ongoing.

826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“The Chaos and the Cosmos: Inside Memphis Music’s Lost Decade, 1977-1986,” exhibition of photography by Patricia Rainer. www.staxmuseum.com.

Through July 31.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Talbot Heirs

Debra Edge Art. Ongoing.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

Tops Gallery: Madison Avenue Park

“Lion Tamers,” exhibition of paintings by Paul Edwards. www.topsgallery.com. Through July 15.

American comedian Jerry Seinfeld at the Orpheum, Friday, June 29th at 7 p.m.

WKNO Studio

“Tennessee Craft-Southwest Fine Craft Showcase,” exhibition of fine craft in an array of media and styles by members of Tennessee Craft-Southwest. Through June 29.

“The Memphis I Love,” exhibition of photography by Adarryll Jackson, Sr. (458-2521), www. wkno.org. July 2-27.

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

Woman’s Exchange Tea Room

Eighth Annual Woman’s Exchange Art Gallery Open House, exhibition of approximately one-hundred local and regional artists’ work in all media. (541-331-0077), Through Aug. 24, 2-4 p.m.

88 RACINE (327-5681).

DA N C E

Cherry Burlesque Show

151 MADISON (340-0134).

Sat., June 30, 9:30 p.m.

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

Trezevant Manor

EARNESTINE & HAZEL’S, 531 S. MAIN (523-9754).

Amurica World Headquarters

Anne Hughes Sayle, exhibition of oil on canvas realistic landscapes and figures work and fabric art pieces. www. trezevantmanor.org. Through Aug. 10.

177 N. HIGHLAND (325-4000).

Village Frame & Art

“20th Century Memphis Photographs,” exhibition of work

by Charlie Ivey and Virginia Schoenster, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

C O M E DY

Meddlesome Brewing Co.

Dark Match Comedy Show, www.meddlesomebrewing.com.

Thurs., June 28, 7:30 p.m.

7750 TRINITY (207-1147).

The Orpheum

Jerry Seinfeld, www.orpheummemphis.com. $68-$175. Fri., June 29, 7 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Spillit Slam: In Tune, your stories. www.spillitmemphis. org. Fri., June 29, 7 p.m.

410 CLEVELAND.

National Civil Rights Museum

Lyrics at the Lorraine: The Power of Words. Accepting children’s book donations for youth ages 1015 to give away to at-risk youth in the city. www.civilrightsmuseum. org. Free. Sat., June 30, 6-8 p.m.

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Earnest E. Lacey

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

Youth Sports Injury Prevention Symposium

E X POS/SA LES

Join Campbell Clinic physicians for a half-day symposium focusing on injury prevention, recognition and management of injuries when they happen, and guidelines for safe return. RSVP by email, rfarrell@campbellfoundation.org. Thurs., June 28, 7:30 a.m.-noon.

SOUTH MAIN BOOK JUGGLER, 548 S. MAIN (249-5370), WWW. SOUTHMAINBOOKJUGGLER.COM.

TO U R S

BURKE’S BOOK STORE, 936 S. COOPER (278-7484), WWW.BURKESBOOKS.COM.

Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (576-1200), WWW.ANIMEBLUES.COM.

RHODES COLLEGE, BRYAN CAMPUS LIFE CENTER, 2000 N. PARKWAY (759-5490), WWW.CAMPBELLFOUNDATION.ORG.

Author reads and signs The Birth and Death of Girl and Cetacea Vaginae. Thurs., June 28, 5:30 p.m.

WWW.JIMMYOGLE.COM.

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

Ongoing.

Author discusses and signs Hilton Street: From Memphis to Chicago. Fri., June 29, 6-9 p.m.

Booksigning by Zoe Etkin

Meet at Hotel Chisca, South Main & Dr. MLK Jr. Blvd, for tour of South Front Street.

Tues., July 3, 11:45 a.m.

Anime Blues Con 8

Featuring guests, panels, dealers, and more. Visit website for full schedule. Fri.-Sat., June 29-30.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Jimmy Ogle’s Walking Tour

City Tasting Tours

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

Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1:30 p.m.

Book Signing and More Marketplace

Author and entrepreneurial vendors and pop-up shops.

Free. Fri., June 29, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat., June 30, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., and Sun., July 1, 12-6 p.m.

WOLFCHASE GALLERIA, 2760 N. GERMANTOWN PARKWAY (907-6828), WWW.YVONNEJAMES.COM.

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Withers Creatives Festival

Annual festival with a focus on showcasing, informing, and assisting in the development of local creative talents in Memphis. Featured arts categories are photography, film, and music. $10-$55. Thurs., June 28,

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WWW.CITYTASTINGTOURS.COM.

Paddle through the exhibit June 2 - September 3, 2018 Opens May 26

This exhibition was produced by the Florida Museum of Natural History with support from the AEC Trust, Lastinger Family Foundation, State of Florida and VisitGainesville.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

SHELBY COUNTY NATIONAL DISASTER RESILIENCE GRANT SOUTH CYPRESS CREEK/WEST JUNCTION NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN Shelby County Government’s Office of Resilience and Sasaki Associates, Inc. will hold a Public Meeting to discuss the Shelby County National Disaster Resilience Grant’s project design for flood risk reduction within the South Cypress Creek target area.

The purpose of this public meeting is to review a design concept for improving flood risk reduction along South Cypress Creek compatible with the established National Disaster Resilience (NDR) Grant and to solicit input on the design concept for South Cypress Creek and the West Junction Neighborhood. This meeting will be the fourth in a series of public meetings that have been held at Mitchell High School to solicit comments and input on the South Cypress Creek Project under the NDR Grant. The design concept for flood risk reduction resulting from future flooding along South Cypress Creek follows the concepts outlined in the NDR Grant award. Future meetings will occur as the project moves forward in both design and implementation.

The meeting will be held at the following time and location within the South Cypress Creek and West Junction community: South Cypress Creek/West Junction Neighborhood Public Meeting Thursday July 26, 2018 Mitchell High School Cafeteria 658 W. Mitchell Road, Memphis, TN 38109 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM If you plan to attend the public hearing and have special needs, please contact the following individual or TTY at 901-2222301 by 4:30 p.m. Wednesday July 18, 2018 and we will work to accommodate you:

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Jared Darby, NDR Planning Manager, Office of Resilience, 125 N. Main, Room 443, Memphis, TN 38103, (901) 6367166, jared.darby@memphistn.gov Citizen input and public participation is strongly encouraged from all sectors of the Shelby County community. Shelby County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age or disability in employment or the provision of services. Equal opportunity/equal access provider.

Para mas información en Español, por favor llame al 901-222-2088.

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

S P O R TS / F IT N ES S

LPGA - USGA Girls Golf Clinics

Developmental golf program for girls ages 7-17, beginner to advanced. Formed to create a network of girls to learn to play golf, build friendships, and compete in a fun and social environment. $20-$95. Thurs., June 28, 10 a.m.-noon.

THE LINKS AT WHITEHAVEN, 750 E. HOLMES (409-8801), WWW.PGAGGMEMPHIS.WIXSITE.COM.

Redbirds v. Omaha Wed., July 4, 6:35 p.m.

ence. $4-$4.75. Mondays-Fridays, 9:45 a.m.-noon Through July 12.

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (6362362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

MCA’s 2018 Summer Art Camp

Choose a camp for children ages 3-17. New camps include The Art of Branding, Comics and Characters, Mobile App Design, Mural Collaborative, and more. Through July 31.

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

Mini Masters

Parent-child (2-4 years) workshop designed for toddlers to explore shape, texture, color, and other sensory possibilities through art-making. Free for members, $8 nonmembers. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.

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

S P E C IA L E V E N TS

30 Thursdays at the Garden

On Thursday nights throughout Daylight Saving Time extended hours until sunset open to members at no cost. Thursdays. Through Oct. 31.

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

Best of Memphis Nominations Open

Vote online now for the business/service/media personality that makes Memphis special. You know you have a favorite — now’s the time to let everyone know. Through June 28.

Dance and sweat it out to the latest in Dancehall.

Theme colors this year are black and white (activewear). $15-$25. Sat., June 30, 6-8 p.m.

The Butterfly Effect 2nd Annual End Of Year Celebration Find out how the Butterfly Effect makes a difference in the lives of our young ladies. Those with

Drag racing. Fri., June 29, noon.

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

M E E TI N G S

Two Rivers Book Club

WWW.TWORIVERSBOOKSTORE.COM.

Mid-day bicycle ride with Revolutions Bicycle CoOp. Meet at the northwest corner of Front and Monroe and ride with Downtowners to a restaurant within 15 minutes of The Fourth Bluff. First Tuesday of every month, 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

COSSITT LIBRARY, 33 S. FRONT (726-6409), WWW.REVOLUTIONSMEMPHIS.ORG.

“Dugout Canoes: Paddling Through the Americas”

Object-rich and interactive exhibition featuring American dugouts from ancient times to present.

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FREE FIRE WORKS SHOW AT DUSK ON FIT Z FRONT L AWN

Triple Nickel $5K

TWO RIVERS BOOK STORE, 2171 YOUNG (630-8088),

Downtowners’ Bike to Lunch

THE BIGGEST & THE BEST

ST. LUKE’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 480 S. HIGHLAND (626-0886).

Discussion of The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. Open to the public but not suitable for children. To vote on next month’s book, join the Facebook group Two Rivers Book Club. Free.

Thurs., June 28, 6-7 p.m.

HICKORY HILL COMMUNITY CENTER, 3910 RIDGEWAY.

WWW.MEMPHISFLYER.COM.

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

Summer Bash: Afrobeats and Island Rhythms

daughters interested in joining the program or in becoming a mentor or sponsor invited to attend.

Sat., June 30.

TUESDAY, JULY 3

Watch a spectacular fireworks show light up the night sky! Bring your friends, family, lawn chairs and blankets as you enjoy the music and food starting at 5pm. Enjoy the biggest FREE fireworks show in the mid-south.

L I V E M U S I C • B B Q • B E E R G A R D E N • PA R T Y FAVO R S • F R E E , C O N V E N I E N T PA R K I N G

Domestic Violence Legal Clinic

For survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse.

Clinic participants will receive assistance, guidance, and information from advocates, attorneys, counselors, faith leaders, therapists, and health-care professionals. Free. Sat., June 30, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

ABUNDANT GRACE FELLOWSHIP, 1574 E. SHELBY (8969055).

GFWC Metro Memphis Woman’s Club

Volunteer community service organization for Memphis women. Monthly guest speaker, service project, and other activities. Projects include domestic violence, advocates for children, arts, and more.

Free. Fourth Thursday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m.

COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER, 3475 CENTRAL, WWW.GFWC.ORG.

2018 Kids Summer Film Fest

Participating Malco Theatre locations will offer G- and PG-rated movies at a specially discounted price benefiting children’s hospitals across the Mid-South. $2. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 10 a.m. Through Aug. 1.

WWW.MALCO.COM.

Auditions for Missoula Children’s Theatre Blackbeard the Pirate and Snow White Performance on July 13. Through June 29.

BARTLETT PERFORMING ARTS AND CONFERENCE CENTER, 3663 APPLING (385-6440), WWW.BPACC.ORG.

Fun Fridays

In the Tracks & Trails and Campfire Tales Idea Garden investigate animal tracks in June, travel trail in July, and campfire tales in August. Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon Through Aug. 31.

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

The Lego Movie

Sat., 4 p.m. Through June 30.

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

The Magic of Science

Theater program where live experiments and demos teach the fundamental principles of sci-

FitzgeraldsTunica.com • 1-662-363-LUCK (5825) • Must be 21 and a Key Rewards member. See Cashier•Players Club for rules. While supplies last. Tax and resort fee not included in listed price. Advance hotel reservations required and subject to availability. $50 credit or debit card is required upon hotel check-in. Arrivals after 6pm must be guaranteed with a credit card.

Management reserves the right to cancel, change and modify the event or promotion. Gaming restricted patrons prohibited. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700.

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$12.75. Through Sept. 14.

4th of July Dinner and Music Cruise

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

Memphis Music Trivia

Hosted by Memphis Rock N’ Soul Museum, featuring $50 for first place, $20 for second, $10 for third, and a secret surprise for the team with the best name. First Wednesday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Through Dec. 26.

CROSSTOWN BREWING CO., 1264 CONCOURSE (364-5000), WWW.MEMPHISROCKNSOUL.ORG.

Peabody Rooftop Parties

Live music and beautiful views of the sun setting over the Mississippi River. Ladies get in free before 7 p.m. 21+ $10-$15.

Thursdays, 6-10 p.m. Through Aug. 16.

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

Silent International Party Featuring pair of quiet events headphones, glow in the dark gear, and three live DJs. Sat., June 30, 10 p.m.

Enjoy two hours on the Ol’ Man River featuring our live House Band, a one-trip buffet-style meal.

For more information, visit website. Wed., July 4, 7:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS RIVERBOATS, 45 S RIVERSIDE DR (527-2628), WWW. MEMPHISRIVERBOATS.NET.

Fourth of July at Celtic Crossing

Enjoy $10 domestic beer buckets and $1 off slushies. Wed., July 4, 11-2 a.m.

CLUB 152, 152 BEALE (544-7011).

Speed Mentoring

Opportunity for college students to sit down one-on-one with young professionals to ask questions and get career advice.

Learn from their experiences.

Thurs., June 28, 6-8 p.m.

THE CRESCENT CLUB, 6075 POPLAR (527-4625), WWW.NEWMEMPHIS.ORG.

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

Independence Day Fireworks Spectacular Wed., July 4.

MUD ISLAND RIVER PARK, 125 N. FRONT (576-7241), WWW.MEMPHISRIVERPARKS.ORG.

REVOLUTIONS COMMUNITY BICYCLE SHOP, 1000 S. COOPER (INSIDE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH) (7266409), WWW.REVOLUTIONSMEMPHIS. COM.

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

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

THE FITZ, 711 LUCKY LANE (1-800766-LUCK), WWW.FITZGERALDSTUNICA.COM.

FO O D & D R I N K EVE NTS

Discover the herbs that go into your favorite cocktails. Visitors are encouraged to stop by the gin and tonic bar and create their own mix. Other spirits will be provided. $30 members, $40 nonmembers. Thurs., June 28, 6-9 p.m.

Celebrate America with beer, pizza, and live music. Visit two local breweries and enjoy pizza from Aldo’s in Midtown. Beer, pizza, and souvenir glasses included. $39. Sat., June 30, 6-8:30 p.m.

Tues., July 3, 5 p.m.

Bike to Dinner: Dino’s & Alex’s Tavern

30 Thursdays: Botanical Bars

5th Annual Red, White, and Brew Tour

Fireworks Spectacular

Muddy’s Kitchen Evening Tour and Tasting, Friday, June 29th, 6 p.m., at Muddy’s Bake Shop, 2497 Broad Avenue

Patriotic Pops Featuring Tim Zimmerman and The King’s Brass

Celebrate July 4th with music from Second Presbyterian’s Chancel Choir & Orchestra and special guests Tim Zimmerman & the King’s Brass. The evening will conclude with a fireworks display. Free. Thurs., June 28, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

LEVITT SHELL, OVERTON PARK (454-0034).

Pre-4th of July Comedy and R&B Explosion

Hosted by Dannon Green featuring special guests AJ Johnson, Reginald Ballard, and

Kool Bubba Ice. $35. Sat., June 30, 8 p.m.

PARADISE ENTERTAINMENT CENTER, 645 E GEORGIA.

Stars & Stripes Mixer

Waterfall format. Men’s, women’s, and mixed doubles divisions. Must sign up with a partner. For more information or help finding a partner, email twills@tennismemphis.org. $25.

Sat., June 30.

LEFTWICH TENNIS CENTER, 4145 SOUTHERN (515-8747), WWW.TENNISMEMPHIS.ORG.

Bartlett Station Farmers’ Market Saturdays, 8 a.m.-noon Through Sept. 22.

FREEMAN PARK, 2629 BARTLETT BLVD., WWW.CITYOFBARTLETT.ORG.

Beer & Brats Night

Enjoy The Curb’s house-made bratwurst paired with CBC beers at Crosstown Brewing Co. Thursdays, 6-8 p.m.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE (FORMERLY SEARS CROSSTOWN), N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Bike Night

$1 off whisky and wine. $3 beers, 3-7 p.m. Wed..

Join the ride to Dino’s for AllYou-Can-Eat Spaghetti Nite.

Those over 21 can ride to Alex’s Tavern afterward. Thurs., June 28, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Botanical Bars: Gin & JUNEipers

Discover the different herbs used in your favorite cocktails.

Stop by the gin and tonic bar and create your own mix. Not a fan of gin? We’ll feature drinks from the bitter to the bubbly.

Advance tickets required. $30 members, $40 nonmembers.

Thurs., June 28, 6-9 p.m.

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

Burg Thursday

Enjoy $7 Baba Burgers all day with a purchase of a beverage or entrée only. Thursdays.

Through Jan. 1.

BABALU TAPAS & TACOS EAST MEMPHIS, 6450 POPLAR (410-8909).

Burg Thurs

Enjoy $7 Baba Burgers all day with a purchase of a beverage or entrée only. Thursdays.

Through Jan. 1.

BABALU TACO & TAPAS, 2115 MADISON (274-0100).

T.J. MULLIGAN’S 64, 2821 N. HOUSTON LEVEE (377-9997).

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Canoes + Cocktails

Experience a sunset with guided evening paddle on Hyde Lake followed by cocktails and farm-to-table treats on the AutoZone Front Porch. Benefits Shelby Farms Park + Shelby Farms Greenline. $40 members, $45 nonmembers. Thurs., June 28.

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Cocktail Times

Loosen your tie and let your hair down in the lounge and enjoy cocktail time by the bottle, by the glass, and by the board. Through July 31, 4-7 p.m.

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Corner Bar Saturday Brunch

Brunch menu includes a brunch pizza and cinnamon s’mores French toast along with brunch cocktails for $5 each. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Flight Tour: A Taste of Memphis

Up to 16 people per bike enjoy a flight of local spirits and brew during this 2-hour pub-crawl with Sprock n’ Roll’s bike bar to Old Dominick Distillery and Ghost River Brewing Tap Room. BYOB, but no glass tour. $315 - $400. Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 12-8 p.m., and Sundays, 12-5 p.m.

Through Dec. 31.

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

Food Truck Fridays

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

Through Sept. 30.

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

Food Truck Thursday Thursdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Friday Night Wine Tasting

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Monday Happy Hour: Oysters & Guinness

$1 Oysters: raw or char grilled and $4 Pints of Guinness while they’re are oysters to be shucked. Mondays, 3 p.m.

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Monday Mania

Bartender’s special martini, margarita, and mojito for $3 each. Mondays, 4-7 p.m.

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Muddy’s Kitchen Evening Tour + Tasting

Watch baking team create cupcakes, pies, and other treats while learning some secrets of the trade. $25. Fri., June 29, 6-8 p.m.

MUDDY’S BAKE SHOP, 2497 BROAD, WWW.MUDDYSBAKESHOP.COM.

Music at St. Mary’s

Hear Wednesday Morning Musicians at Eucharist in Sisters’ Chapel. The program will feature a wide variety of musical styles with instruments and vocals. Wednesdays, 8 a.m.

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Peabody Sunday Brunch

Variety of breakfast dishes, entrees and desserts, including salads, pastas, freshlybaked breads, croissants, pastries, eggs benedict, smoked salmon, Belgian waffles, applewood smoked bacon, prime rib, and champagne. $40, $14 kids. Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

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Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

Signature cocktails and flavorful dishes for Memphis area’s professionals. DJs will be playing R&B, Old School, and Trap music. $20-$45.

Sat., June 30, 12-6 p.m.

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Joe’s Passport to France 2018 Taste some of the best wines that France has to offer. Every major wine region will be represented accompanied by food and a live band. $50$70. Thurs., June 28, 6-8 p.m.

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Local draft beers for $3 each and half-priced pizzas. Sundays, 1-7 p.m.

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Taco Twosday: Babalu Tapas & Tacos Overton Square

Every Tuesday during lunch and dinner hours, $2 per taco for dine-in guests. Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

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Selection of house red and white wines for $3, $5, and $7 each. Master Taster’s Flight for $15. Wednesdays, 4-7 p.m.

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Dream Big 3D

From the Great Wall of China and the world’s tallest buildings to underwater robots, solar cars, and smart, sustainable cities, Celebrates the human ingenuity behind engineering marvels.

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Independence Day

After an extraterrestrial attack on the world’s major cities, a disparate group of people converge in the Nevada desert to launch a latch-ditch counterattack on the alien invaders on the 4th of July — Independence Day. Starring Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum. $8. Tues., July 3, 7 p.m.

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Journey to the South Pacific

3-D adventure to the lush tropical islands of remote West Papua, where life flourishes above and below the sea. For more information, visit website. Through June 30.

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BOOKS By Corey Mesler

Feral Music Tom Winton’s The Shepherd’s Hut.

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et’s talk about voice in fiction. Sometimes what’s meant by voice is the author’s style. Think of Hemingway, Joyce, Nabokov, Faulkner, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf. Their styles are so much their own voices that they changed the way we read fiction. And then there is the voice of a particular novel, which often means an idiosyncratic first-person narrative.

Think of The Catcher in the Rye, The Color Purple, Portnoy’s Complaint, Jane Eyre, or Lolita.

The Shepherd’s Hut, by the Australian author Tim Winton, belongs to that group of novels remarkable for their narrator’s voice.

Consider the opening sentences: “When I hit the bitumen and get that smooth grey rumble going under me everything’s hell different. Like I’m in a fresh new world all slick and flat and easy. Even with the engine working up a howl and the wind flogging in the window sounds are real soft and pillowy.” The speaker is teenager Jaxie Clackton. His mother is dead and his father — Captain Wankbag, he calls him — is an abusive drunk. When his father is killed in a freak accident, Jaxie takes off on foot, thinking the constabulary will come after him believing that he killed his father to escape his beatings. His goal is to disappear for a while until he can rendezvous with his paramour, Lee. This romance may or may not be made of air castle.

“There’s a sad feeling,” Jaxie says, “in a place people have just walked out of and left behind. Could be only me thinks shit like this. And you could probably say there’s plenty houses feel just as sad with people still in them. God knows our place was one of them for sure.”

The landscape over which Jaxie travels is barren and uninviting. Winton’s prose — and storyline — is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s. His nimble sentences wield an irresistible power that seems like literary legerdemain. Jaxie’s peripatetic tale is harrowing, though humorous in places, and a coming of age saga like no other. He says, “I been through fire to get here. I seen things and done things and had shit done to me you couldn’t barely credit. So be happy for me.

And for fucksake don’t get in my way.”

Along the way, Jaxie stumbles upon another exile, a seemingly cracked, elderly Irishman named Fintan MacGillis.

Fintan lives in a remote corner of the saltlands, all by himself except for the

unseen companions he is constantly chatting with. The mysterious Fintan — only some of his checkered past is revealed, and I won’t give it away here — will become mentor, enemy, friend, adversary, protector, and protectee. Their relationship is what shapes the second half of the book. Jaxie says, “He was from Ireland where it’s green and rainy and people believe in fairies. He said the Irish don’t believe in the church anymore and they had a right not to, but they still believe in the little people and the Eeyou.”

The latter part of the novel is where the narrative really gets its footing and the slow burn of the opening chapters changes to a high-octane thriller. Here Jaxie’s crude, profane, mordant voice — and Winton’s masterful control of it — meld with the tale’s surprising but inevitably bleak path. “Our stories. We store them where moth and rust destroy,” he says.

Tim Winton is one of Australia’s most revered writers. He is the author of many novels, story collections, and works of nonfiction. He’s been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and his 2008 novel, Breath, was made into a feature film.

This newest novel — expect another Booker Prize short-listing, at least — is as powerful as anything he’s written. There is a feral music to Winton’s style, not just here but in all his books, that is somewhat reminiscent not only of Cormac McCarthy but of the wild Glaswegian, James Kelman. Winton, here, has created a seductive articulation for his adolescent protagonist that is as intoxicating as Kelman’s stream-of-consciousness voice in his Booker Prize winner, How Late It Was, How Late. Young Jaxie Clackton — you’ll want to follow him anywhere, even into the burning hell of his self-imposed expatriation.

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membersonly neighborhood associations. Hers is a deeply sad but open-hearted critique of the American Dream, a Depression-era fiction embraced by President Herbert Hoover to sell the advantages of single family home zoning where ethnic groups were excluded, over crowded apartmentbased urban living where anybody might move across the street.

Raisin’s Lena became an almost instantaneous theatrical archetype. George C. Wolfe brilliantly lampooned that archetype in The Colored Museum’s “Last Black Mama on the Couch” sketch. Hattiloo stalwart Patricia Smith never sits on a couch or plays to type. Her Lena shifts from thoughtful, nurturing, and wise, to superstitious, impulsive, and tyrannical. She struggles to create security for her family without realizing how restrictive security can be — or how tenuous. Smith exudes maternal virtue, but hers is a nuanced, warts-and-all take on a part the veteran performer could have easily phoned in.

Director Mark Allan Davis gets topshelf performances from an ensemble cast that includes Rashideh Gardner, Samantha Lynn, Aaron Isaiah, and Gordon Ginsberg.

But Kortland Whalum’s leave-it-all-onstage take on Walter Lee Younger is really something to see. Whalum feels nothing lightly and his words and songs land like punches — some weak, flailing and ineffectual, some like haymakers. It’s as rich a performance as I’ve seen in ages, just at the edge of too much but never tipping over.

Walter Lee gets swindled, of course.

I don’t think that’s a spoiler given the shopworn material. He’s one more casualty of unstable alternative economies created when people are isolated and shut out of the regular economy. The Youngers may be moving into a Chicago neighborhood, but in this moment Walter Lee becomes the embodiment of Hughes’ “Harlem,” and the “dream deferred.” Maybe this gifted, young, imperfect black man, who’s trying to do all the things he’s supposed to do but still can’t get ahead, will finally dry up like a raisin in the sun. Maybe he’ll fester like a sore or stink like rotten meat or sag like a heavy load. Maybe he’ll explode. In a beautifully manicured interpretation, Whalum gives you the sense it’s all on the table all the time.

Short take: This Raisin has some real problems. Telling one helluva strong story isn’t one.

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rom a technical standpoint, I could pick Hattiloo’s Raisin to pieces.

The set looks slapped together, the music’s canned, and that’s just for starters. But so much of any show’s success depends on material strength and a cast’s ability to leverage it. In this regard, everything about Raisin delivers. Music and dancing never water down the message in this faithfully adapted retelling of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. This story of the Younger family and their struggle to buy an affordable home and possibly start a family business is a subtle, almost generous look at how America and its wealth became segregated. It is a deeply felt family drama that ends with a devastating loss barely tempered with dignity and determination.

As more and more Americans moved out of apartments and into single-family homes, the limited properties made available to African Americans were typically lower quality and far more expensive than property being offered to whites. Absent credit, it was sold via a contract system eliminating equity. One missed payment could result in eviction, with nothing to show for your effort. This is the legal, social, and economic environment in which Raisin unfolds.

Raisin isn’t about integration or white flight. It’s about a family’s struggle to create legacy inside a system designed to prevent it. The family patriarch has died leaving $10,000 in life insurance. Lena, the surviving matriarch wants to sink most of the money into an affordable home in a white neighborhood, not because of the demographics, but because “It was the best [she] could do for the money.” Her son Walter Lee’s a chauffeur who wants to invest the money in a family business — a liquor store. Her daughter has exchanged faith for science and wants to go to medical school. In the absence of credit or anything more than sustenance income, all these dreams hinge on one pot of cash.

Add to this dynamic a white representative of the Clybourne Park neighborhood who wants to negotiate a kinder, gentler way to keep blacks out, and you have all the ingredients necessary for an emotionally honest and devastating primer in how everything went wrong.

Raisin’s story is famously inspired by the poetry of Langston Hughes. More crucially, it’s informed by the Hansberry family’s personal experience in court, fighting the restrictive legal covenants and

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FOOD NEWS By Susan Ellis

LA Confidential A taste of New Orleans from Regina’s and New Orleans Seafood.

Gumbo? “Yeeeesssss,” she says, as if to intone, C’mon now, of course, we’ve got that.

The sisters say they were bound to have a restaurant. Both have backgrounds in the industry, and they considered other locations in Houston and Iowa, but Memphis, they say, had that “it” factor. The restaurant opened in November.

But back to that menu. They’ve got seafood by the pound, including king crab and lobster; Cajun nachos (!) with crawfish tails and smoked sausage; crab cakes; a catfish basket; and a crab platter with stuffed and soft-shell crab with fried crawfish tails, and oysters.

They also serve, on Wednesday and Thursday only, Yaka Mein, aka “Old Sober.” This beef noodle soup, served with boiled eggs and soy, hot sauce, Worcestershire, and ketchup, is known to zap a hangover and is a staple at

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ne would be pretty safe calling Regina’s a family affair. Terese Burns and her sister Ciera Robinson, who are New Orleans born and bred, share duties at the restaurant, along with their seven other siblings. A brother found them a prime spot at the corner of Court Square Downtown.

A few cousins work in the kitchen, and their father backed them (as his father backed him in his sweets shop).

The titular Regina is an aunt. Though Regina is still with us, they wanted to honor the legacy of her genuineness and caring. “She would give you her shirt off her back,” says Ciera. (She can cook good, too, the sisters say.)

Regina’s serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. All the New Orleans highlights are there: po’boys? “Yeeeesssss,” says Ciera. Jambalaya? “Yeeeesssss.”

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This is the second New Orleans Seafood. The original is on Crump.

Le got into the business through her boyfriend. She says there was no learning curve in going from Vietnamese to Creole. She’s got her instincts, after all.

The seafood is sourced fresh from New Orleans. The menu features fish and chicken wings. A 12-piece shrimp platter with fries, onion rings, or hush puppies is $8.99. Two dozen oysters are $10.99.

New Orleans Seafood also serves steamed dishes of snow crab and lobster tail, plus turkey necks. They come with potatoes, broccoli, or corn.

Customers can also buy raw seafood to take home and cook for themselves — tilapia, whiting fish, mussels, red snapper, snow crabs, king crabs, shrimp, crawfish, frog legs, and more.

Le hopes to see some familiar faces from Saigon Le soon. “I love my customers,” she says. “I miss all my customers.”

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For breakfast, one could order beignets, a sausage biscuit, and a pork chop platter with eggs. And, yes, lots of grits. The grits are made with heavy cream. “We bring it back to our roots,” says Ciera.

The New Orleans vibe extends to the bar, which serves such classics as the Hurricane, the Sazerac, and Pimm’s Cup. They also have lunch specials. Four dollars can get you well fed at Regina’s.

“We try to reach all folks,” Terese says.

All folks include vegans. On Tuesday, they serve vegan tacos.

Regina’s catfish, served fried, grilled, and blackened, is exceptional, the sisters say. They also insist on sourcing the French bread and red beans from Louisiana or “It will not taste the same,” says Ciera. They’ll put their gumbo up against anybody’s.

“It’s the food that we know best,” says Terese.

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“Old Tom”

the philologists, have neglected them.”

Nevertheless, by 1878, the cocktail was a mainstay on bar menus. It was — and still is — served in a Collins glass, a tumbler that’s a few inches taller than a highball glass.

Now, how to make it: Start with Hayman’s Old Tom Gin, a sweet, botanic variety that was stocked in every bar in Victorian-era England.

Today, you can find it at area liquor stores with a wide variety; I’ve seen it around town for under $26 for a large bottle. An aside here: Old Tom is a sweet and higher ABV strain of gin that, in recent years, is enjoying a resurgence. In addition to Hayman’s version, Tanqueray bottles a limited edition Old Tom variety. At Buster’s Liquors, I’ve also found an American Old Tom gin that’s bottled by the Louisville craft distillery Copper & Kings. All told, there are approximately two dozen variations of Old Tom on the market, although few have made their way to Memphis shelves.

If you don’t have Old Tom on hand, go dry or go botanical. Cook up a batch of simple syrup and let it cool. Squeeze fresh lemon juice.

Pack one-and-a-half cups of ice into a Collins glass, and put it in the freezer.

Combine two ounces of gin, threequarters ounce lemon juice, and a half ounce simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Add ice, cover, and shake until chilled. Strain the concoction into your ice-filled and pre-chilled Collins glass, and top with club soda. Garnish it with a lemon wedge and, if you’d like, a few maraschino cherries.

That’s the easy way. Years ago, Tom Collinses were actually mixed in the glasses they’re served in. To go oldschool, just add two ounces gin, the juice of a lemon, and one teaspoon of superfine sugar to a Collins glass. (If you want, chill the glass, filled with ice, in the freezer first, then dump the ice before adding ingredients.) Stir with a tall spoon until the sugar has dissolved, fill the glass with ice, and then top it off with chilled club soda.

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t some moment during my teen years, I read a book or watched a movie that included a scene extolling the virtue of a Tom Collins. I’ve tried, desperately, to remember the reference, but no luck — it might’ve been Lisa Birnbach’s The Official Preppy Handbook or Little Darlings or, somewhat randomly, the obscure 1958 melodrama Marjorie Morningstar, which starred Natalie Wood as a love-struck camp counselor.

What I do recall is the sage advice that a girl on a date with a guy she didn’t know so well should stick to drinking Tom Collinses, because the drinks were tall, sippable, and full of soda water. It was highly unlikely that a “nice” girl would get schnockered drinking Tom Collins.

However it was delivered, that kernel of wisdom was permanently lodged into my brain, and for years, I longed for that moment when I, too, could demurely sip on the lemony gin drink. Unfortunately for me, my dating experiences once I reached legal age consisted of nights spent at Midtown hotspots like the Lamplighter and the Antenna Club, where beer was the only alcoholic beverage on the menu. And even today, although I’ve stepped up my game on the local bar scene, the Tom Collins is seldom featured on area cocktail menus.

That doesn’t mean that your favorite Memphis bartender won’t make one for you — or that you can’t mix up your own at home this summer.

First, the history of this cocktail: The Tom Collins first appeared in bartender literature in 1876 as a kissing cousin to the John Collins, a British drink that was made from either bourbon or gin, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water.

It’s likely that the drink was popularized two years earlier, when a practical joke later dubbed “the Tom Collins Hoax of 1874” swept across the United States. Everything’s a bit vague, though — as “the sage of Baltimore” H.L. Mencken once wrote, “The origins of the Tom-Collins remains to be established; the historians of alcoholism, like

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Dinosaur Poop Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom falls short of greatness.

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ast weekend, while $150 million worth of viewers were flocking to see Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, I happened across a Jaws marathon on TV. The original, 1975 Jaws is, of course, an incredible piece of filmmaking. Steven Spielberg’s eye for a shot is so great it looks accidental. His sense of timing, both comic and horror, is impeccable. He’s great with actors and understands how to construct a sympathetic character in as few beats as possible.

Most importantly, he can literally make you feel any way he wants you to feel on command. Jaws is still thrilling as ever after 43 years.

Jaws 2, released in 1978, was directed by Jeannot Szwarc. He has the dubious distinction of being the first in a long line of filmmakers who have tried and failed to reproduce the Spielbergian magic. All the parts are there — the shark, the John Williams music, the doomed beachgoers — but they somehow fail to work together in quite the same way. At least it’s not incompetently bad, like Jaws 3-D, or cynical and insulting, like the infamous Jaws: The Revenge.

If one were a cynical web critic in 2018, one could sum up Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park

with “What if Jaws, but dinosaurs?”

But if there’s one thing Spielberg is not, it’s cynical. His sense of curiosity and fun are infectious. You wanna see a T-rex eat a guy sitting on a toilet? Sure you do.

And your uncle Steven can make it happen. The film, credited with ushering in the age of CGI, and its sequel The Lost World, work mostly because Spielberg really likes dinosaurs.

2015’s Jurassic World worked, to the extent it did, because director Colin Trevorrow really liked Jurassic Park. He, along with Jurassic Park III and Captain America: The First Avenger director Joe Johnston are among the few who have actually managed to pull off a convincing Spielberg imitation, and was rewarded with a whopping $1.6 billion at the box office. Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom director J.A. Bayona, on the other hand, falls into the Jaws 2 trap. The opening sequence features two rubes in a submersible retrieving a tooth from the submerged skeleton of Indominous Rex, the genetically engineered super dino that consumed so many theme park goers in the last

Chris Pratt (above, not the T-rex) faces off with dinosaurs in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. go round. Their consumption by a mammoth mosasaurus is handled in tasteful suspense, but by the time the scene’s over, Bayona goes full Sharknado. It’s the first of many fabulously expensive sequences that play like groaner dad joke versions of classic Jurassic Park gags. The script, by Trevorrow and his writing partner Derek Connolly, never met a cliche it didn’t like. You like the part where the T-rex saves the day with a mighty roar? Uncle Bayona gives you two of those, unearned. A hacker says “I’m in!” A suited money guy yells at a scientist to explain a technical matter “In English!”

What keeps Fallen Kingdom from scoring a Revenge on the Jaws Scale are the leads. Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire Dearing is now the head of the Dinosaur Protection Group. She’s gravely concerned, because Isla Nublar, the island overrun with thunder lizards after the Jurassic World theme

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Fallen Kingdom suffers from a distinct, and fatal, lack of Jeff Goldblum. He never even stands up during his cameo as Dr. Ian Malcom, the franchise’s voice of reason. Perhaps more Goldblum would have helped the 128-minute running time go down a little smoother. As it is, I’m with the little girl in the row in front of me who kept asking her mom, “Is it going to be over soon?”

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Message: I Don’t Care

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In the 1992 campaign, President George H.W. Bush created an unofficial and much-mocked motto for his administration during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire. “Message: I care,” he announced, as if reading aloud the stage directions.

Melania Trump did much the same last week when she went to Texas to see some of the migrant kids who were taken from their parents under her husband’s policy. The now-famous wording on her jacket made her a human billboard for what should be the unofficial motto of the Trump administration: “I really don’t care, do u?”

The administration’s cruelty is particularly prominent lately because of photos of the anguish of the migrant children — and Trump’s accompanying allegation of “phony stories of sadness” and his warning that immigrants, like insects, would “infest” the country. But the current episode, though highly visible, is hardly one of a kind. By now, the administration has amassed an extensive catalogue of cruelty.

On Thursday, Trump doomed the latest attempt to protect from deportation the “dreamers,” those 700,000 people who have known no home but America since they were brought here as children. He tweeted that he didn’t see the “purpose” of the House passing an immigration bill — and, sure enough, the House called off the vote. It was his own executive action that exposed the dreamers to deportation in the first place.

I really don’t care, do u?

On Wednesday night, Trump renewed his assault on Senator John McCain, as he dies from brain cancer.

Trump again blamed McCain for the failed repeal of Obamacare.

The administration earlier this month decided not to defend the law against a court challenge that if successful would end protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions. Trump has also ended subsidies to help insurance companies cover low-income people, and acknowledged the Obamacare repeal he championed was “mean.” He gave a green light to work requirements for Medicaid that could deny health insurance even to many poor Americans who work.

I really don’t care, do u?

The Trump administration this month said that fleeing domestic violence and gang violence would no longer be grounds for seeking asylum in the United States.

Trump previously reduced the number of refugees from 110,000 to 45,000 per year — the lowest in almost 40 years; and even fewer are actually being admitted, forcing tens of thousands to remain in refugee camps and return to face persecution or violence in the countries they fled. This is after Trump’s travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries, which resulted in families separated and students and doctors denied entry.

I really don’t care, do u?

Lawmakers complained this last week to Trump’s commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, that the administration’s haphazard implementation of trade barriers is causing havoc for farmers, small businesses, and manufacturers. Ross responded by calling such notions “exaggerated” and “not our fault.”

A week earlier, as The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein and Andrew Van Dam wrote, Trump’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that wages after inflation have fallen over the past year for production and non-supervisory workers — 80 percent of all privately employed workers. That means economic “gains are going almost exclusively to people already at the top of the economic ladder.” And the tax cuts further widen the gap between the rich and everybody else.

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Trump’s budget proposal this year, sensibly ignored by Congress, would have cut Medicaid by $306 billion over 10 years, food stamps by $214 billion, nutritional help for mothers and children, and heating assistance for the poor, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

The Trump administration is also reducing enforcement of fairhousing laws. And Trump said Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was not a “real catastrophe” and said Puerto Ricans “want everything to be done for them.” It now appears thousands died.

I really don’t care, do u?

Trump said there were “very fine people” among the neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville last summer. He declared a ban on transgender people in the military and later imposed a partial ban. His administration ordered prosecutors to seek maximum penalties for even nonviolent drug crimes.

I really don’t care, do u?

Now come reports that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller — architects and leading defenders of Trump’s child-separation policy — were heckled in separate incidents in recent days while dining at Mexican restaurants. Another report this last week highlighted the discovery that Miller’s great-grandfather had his naturalization petition denied because of “ignorance.” I don’t like incivility, or cheap shots. But you know what else? I really don’t care, do u?

Dana Milbank writes for the Washington Post Writers Group; @Milbank on Twitter.

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