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Last week we did an Arkansas getaway: two days canoeing the Buffalo, followed by a trip to Bentonville to see the Crystal Bridges Museum, then wrapping it up with a day and night in Eureka Springs. Since I still had to turn in a column this week when I got back, you’re going to get a play-by-play of the trip. Fair warning.

After a night in a rustic cabin, we left Ponca and drove to the designated put-in spot, where we loaded our 17-foot rental canoe with a cooler and dry bags holding our tent, sleeping bags, air mattresses, and food, and headed downstream. If a canoe had gills, we’d have been loaded to them.

The water was a bit low, making for a few tricky riffles and the occasional skinny water bump-and-grind, but it was mostly smooth paddling — like gliding across the surface of an aquarium, with smallmouth, gar, suckers, Crystal Bridges Museum sculpins, sunfish, and various turtles easily of American Art visible below. The bluffs were high, the sky was blue, birds were everywhere — and the day got warm, meaning lots of dips into the water to cool off. As evening fell, we pitched our tent on a gravel bar, built a little fire, and went to bed before the sun went down on the shortest night of the year.

Late in the night, we scared off a few curious deer who were huffing and puffing and inspecting the tent, but they weren’t bears, which we counted as a victory. By noon the next day, we were back in the car and on our way to Bentonville, tired and happy and ready for a soft bed.

If you haven’t been to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, I enthusiastically recommend it, as much for the grounds and museum buildings — which are remarkable — as for the formidable collection. And it’s free, unless you opt to tour certain temporary exhibits. It’s funded with Walmart money, of course, which made our consciences twitch a bit, but like I said, it’s free and a phenomenal resource and tourist draw for the area.

Bentonville itself is a bit like Seaside, Florida, with lots of precious faux-traditional houses, tons of running and bike trails, plus a lovely, thriving town square straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting. Anyway, go. You won’t be sorry.

The final leg of our Natural State Triathlon was Eureka Springs, home to the “Gumby Jesus” statue (google it) and a dinosaur museum that claims “immature dinosaurs” were on Noah’s Ark. Of course. There are also lots of bars, hippie paraphernalia shops, souvenir joints, and New Age boutiques crammed onto vertical streets that resemble paved goat paths. Think Myrtle Beach with hills. We stayed at the “haunted” 1905 Basin Park Hotel, but opted not to buy one of the “ghost detectors” for sale in the lobby, because we don’t scare easy.

I wandered off in the late afternoon to find a watering hole, finally settling on a balcony bar overlooking the main drag. I ordered a margarita and listened for 15 minutes, fascinated, as a couple from Kansas and a couple from Ontario at adjoining tables chatted about their dogs, which were waiting back in their RVs. It was the nicest, least ironic, least cynical conversation I’ve ever heard. Sadly, I had to push them off the balcony to their deaths.

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OUR 1583RD ISSUE 06.27.19 It’s late afternoon when we pull into Ponca, Arkansas (Pop. 9). We’ve been winding north along Highway 21 through the Ozark National Forest for an hour or so, trusting Siri, even when Siri seems untrustworthy. Finally, here it is, our destination, a wide spot on a narrow road along the Buffalo River, home to a canoe-and-cabin-rental operation and little else, it appears.

“Not much of a town,” says my wife.

“But they’re famous for their music here,” I respond.

“Really?”

“What, you never heard of Ponca-rock?”

“Shut up,” she explains.

It had been a long drive.

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MEMernet A round-up of Memphis on the World Wide Web. MAYO MAN Not OJ Mayo. This time we’re talking mayonnaise in Memphis sports.

Some rando was seen at a Memphis Redbirds game last week eating mayonnaise with a spoon from a huge jug. The Redbirds Twitter kept an eye on him through the innings.

It was unclear who the guy was or where he got the jug of mayo. Some suspected he might’ve been a plant by the Redbirds to gin up some free press.

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ALTO N S P EAKS Old Memphis stuff resurfaces online from time to time. This Alton Brown comment about Memphis food seemed to be one such internet zombie.

He’d said Memphis was the greatest food town back in 2015. Loves Gibson’s Donuts and Gus’s Fried Chicken (see photo below). Apparently, he repeated his Memphis love during an interview this month.

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‘Idiot,’ Immigrants, & Plastic Bags A professor flames online, a backlash on the deportation threat, & plastic plans.

C R ITI CAL C O M M E NTS A Memphis author and tenured professor at LeMoyne-Owen College (LOC) received backlash last week for comments about the recent officerinvolved shooting of Brandon Webber.

Tom Graves teaches English at LeMoyneOwen, a historically black college. In a Facebook post, Graves called the 21-year-old black man who was shot and killed

by U.S. Marshal officers here earlier this month a “fucking idiot.”

Graves also criticized activists like Tami Sawyer, as well as the community’s (Clockwise from top left:) Tom Graves, Latino Memphis, Goodwill fined, response to the shooting. plastic bag ban, ITT Tech The LOC Student Government Association is calling for Graves to publicly apologize.

2021, and each violation would result in a $50 fine.

‘E X P LOS IVE’ AN D ‘D IVI S IVE’ The leader of a local organization that advocates for the Latino community here called President Donald Trump’s recent threats to remove “millions of illegal aliens” an “explosive” and “divisive” comment and questioned the verity of the claims.

Mauricio Calvo, executive director of Latino Memphis, said Trump’s statement is “another explosive, non-deliverable, and divisive comment from the president.”

Calvo said one way for immigrants to prepare for this possibility is to become informed of their rights and to get involved by voting.

BAG BAN The Memphis City Council is still looking to ban the distribution of single-use plastic bags to customers at retail stores of 2,000 square feet or more.

In November, Councilman Berlin Boyd initially proposed a seven-cent fee on plastic bags, but then reduced the proposed fee to five cents earlier this year.

Votes on the ordinance were held several times after a new Tennessee law was signed by Governor Bill Lee in April. The law bans local governments from regulating the “use, disposition, or sale of an auxiliary container.”

Now, the council is waiting for a legal opinion from the Tennessee Attorney General’s office on whether or not Memphis’ amended ordinance would violate the law.

If the ordinance passes, it would take effect in January

D E BT R E L I E F Did you borrow money to attend ITT Tech, the failed, forprofit college? Debt relief may be on the way.

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery said last week that a settlement deal will bring $6 million in debt relief for 699 former ITT Tech students in Tennessee. That settlement is part of a national deal with 42 states and the District of Columbia totaling more than $168 million for more than 18,000 former ITT students.

F I N E D BY F E D S Memphis Goodwill Industries, Inc. will pay $150,000 to the federal government to resolve allegations that it falsely claimed compliance with a federal contract standard for employing disabled workers.

Memphis Goodwill won contracts with the federal Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the General Services Administration, through the government’s AbilityOne Program. Through that program, agencies must employ disabled workers for 75 percent of the direct labor hours on those contracts.

According to Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney, Memphis Goodwill said they complied with the regulation (and said so in certifications to the government) “when, in fact, the direct labor hours actually worked by disabled individuals were much lower.”

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Nonprofit helps those who want to get ‘internet married.’

On July 1st, “internet married” is over in Tennessee.

State lawmakers this year passed a bill that prevents online-ordained ministers from marrying couples.

The new rule (Public Chapter No. 415) gives that power to a broader array of government officials but demands more from “ministers” of any stripe.

“Under present law, in order to solemnize the rite of matrimony, a minister, preacher, pastor, priest, rabbi, or other spiritual leader must be ordained or otherwise designated in conformity with the customs of a church, temple, or other religious group or organization, and such customs must provide for such ordination or designation by a considered, deliberate, and responsible act,” reads the bill summary.

But American Marriage Ministries (AMM) was in Memphis Monday for a free and easy (and legal, they say) workaround. The group, an official, nonprofit church, performed in-person ordinations for anyone hoping to “internet marry” couples.

“With thousands of ministers stranded by the discriminatory Public Chapter No. 415, our ministers and the communities they serve are entitled to wedding ceremonies that reflect their values and beliefs, despite what the Tennessee legislature says!” reads a statement from AMM executive director Lewis King.

— Toby Sells Memphis Flyer: Why are you doing this?

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Now You See It … meeting, the $4.05 rate was arrived at last year by error, as the result of some faulty arithmetic (including doublecounting of expected revenue amounts).

Responsibility for the error was not assigned, though it occurred on the watch of former County Mayor Mark Luttrell and former Trustee David Lenoir.

Erroneous or not, the same tax rate is being continued, though, as Commissioner Reginald Milton keeps insisting (and did so again Monday), an “adjustment” is clearly in order. One impediment has been the adamant opposition to a perceived tax increase on the part of the commisson’s five Republicans and Democrat Edmund Ford Jr. — enough opposition to forestall the charter-ordained eight votes needed, especially since Mayor Harris is also reluctant on the score.

The like-mindedness of Ford and Harris on this point was in contrast to some ill feeling that has flared between them of late — and did so again on Monday when Ford publicly castigated the mayor for remarks made on a weekend television show blaming previous disagreements between the two on the fact that Harris had achieved his electoral victories by defeating members of the extended Ford family.

“Don’t use any member of my family as backup when you don’t have answers,” Ford said. “I can’t respect you.” Harris did not respond right away, but at the end of Monday’s meeting, which ended around 10 p.m., he made a point of praising the political Ford family and denying any animosity toward its members.

All of that, however, was but a sideshow to the budget turmoil, which, almost certainly, will require a revisit and perhaps a revision.

• Kudos: To 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen for presiding over an eyeopening panel of the House Judiciary Committee last week on a question that won’t go away — that of potential reparations to African-American citizens for the effects of slavery and Jim Crow laws. Cohen, chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, was the sponsor, years ago, of a House resolution expressing an overdue apology for slavery.

To Sidney Chism, for another installment last week of his annual summer political picnic, this one attracting numerous political candidates, including mayoral foes Jim Strickland and Willie Herenton.

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There came a moment in Monday’s regular public session of the Shelby County Commission when chairman Van Turner attempted to assure his colleagues that all the forthcoming year’s budget numbers were in order, including maintenance of a fund balance amounting to no less than 20 percent of the total budget — the amount regarded as sufficient to ensure solvency.

After all, Turner remarked, there was the matter of $2.5 million that was “going back in” to the 2020 budget at some point. That would offset the impact of several new expenditures approved by the commission on Monday, including $2.5 million (or $2.4 million; the exact amount remained somewhat hazy) required for the county’s obligations under a joint pre-K program undertaken with Memphis city government.

The commissioners present seemed to know what Turner meant, though there was considerable confusion in the audience at large. In the course of an extended recess, during which much head-scratching occurred among media members and other spectators, things became a little clearer: As members of the commission and Mayor Lee Harris had been informed by county attorneys during executive session, a piece of litigation — its exact nature unspecified publicly — was about to be resolved in favor of the county.

Further prodding revealed that representatives of the city had evidently assured county officials that a settlement, in which the aforementioned $2.5 million would be made over from city to county, was imminent, though the deal was not yet done.

If this informaton seems uncertain to the point of being opaque, that circumstance is due to what amounts to a vow of omerta imposed upon county officials regarding the nature of the aforesaid litigation.

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It’s kind of like that old saying: When Tennessee lawmakers close a door, the internet opens a window.

This year, lawmakers here valiantly slew the wicked wishes of those evil, eager couples hoping to get married by someone not of the cloth or of the government.

Since 1997, even two Tennessee Attorneys General have opined against this dark, all-encompassing oppression choking the necks of every soul across the Volunteer State. But this year — redemption! Thanks to 26 separate, holy actions by the House and 10 by the Senate, Public Chapter 415 becomes the law of the land on July 1st.

The hills shall rejoice and give praise!

Getting “internet married” is a digital, DIY culture hack that allows couples to get hitched by anyone they choose. Friends, relatives, bosses, book club leaders, crosswalk guards, rodeo clowns — anyone — can marry any two people in Tennessee — for the rest of this month at least.

All they need is an internet connection and an email address. Point a browser over to the digital temple of the Universal Life Church. Enter your name (it has to be a real one). Enter your email address, and Bang! There’s your official ordination on an official-looking certificate you could print off and hang on the wall.

Couples get “mail-order ministers,” who are usually friends or family, to give their personal, private ceremony a personal, private touch. Such a solemn pact could be sealed by a friendly face, not some stranger who’d say Satanknows-what during your special day.

But Tennessee Republicans — who think the government should stay out of our personal business — think the government they lead should get all up in this personal business in a great, big way.

So, two white, cis-gender, Christian, white-haired, East-Tennessee Republicans sponsored a bill that wades right out into the middle of the private lives of every Tennessean. It passed with easy majorities of both legislative bodies, which are dominated by those small-government Republicans.

Here’s your new law, Tennesseans: “Under present law, in order to solemnize the rite of matrimony, a minister, preacher, pastor, priest, rabbi, or other spiritual leader must be ordained or otherwise designated in conformity with the customs of a church, temple, or other religious group or organization; and such customs must provide for such ordination or designation by a considered, deliberate, and responsible act,” reads the

bill summary.

So, you can’t be ordained by the click of a mouse anymore. You must go through an established religious organization. This, in a country that stands upon a document that proudly proclaims a separation of church and state and freedom from religion. It’s all right there alongside the right to bear arms. Isn’t it, Republicans?

But these Sky-Daddy-Fearing lawmakers gave some reprieve to all of those helpless, sinful internet-marrieds.

If you got internet married (before July 1st) by your sweet old grandma (because she was going to die soon and she always wanted to see her sweet little one get married one day), you can stay married. Oh, such benevolence.

Tennessee Republicans — who think the government should stay out of our personal business — think the government they lead should get all up in this personal business.

In 1997, then-state-Attorney General John Walkup said internet ministers couldn’t seal the deal in Tennessee. But are internet-marrieds still married? Eh, depends on who’s asking but the “presumption in favor of marriage is very strong.”

In 2015, Attorney General Herbert Slattery put a finer point on online ordination. He said, officiants (outside of government leaders) must belong to religious groups and be “ordained by a considered, deliberate, and responsible act.” So, not only did you have to be in the God Club, Jesus also had to pull your name out of the Goblet of Fire, or whatever.

So, our faithful defenders of Democracy For Some created a new, unbreakable law on internet hitching this year. But this week, a window on all of this was slated to open here in Memphis.

The American Marriage Ministries was to set up shop at Shelby Farms on Monday to ordain — in person — anyone who wanted to marry anyone.

It’s enough, the group says, to stand against Tennessee’s new law.

The AMM church’s doctrine is broad enough to cover Christians, Muslims, Atheists, Agnostics, or even Pagans, it says. Weird. Isn’t that what the American Constitution was created to cover?

Toby Sells is a Flyer associate editor.

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Songwriters old and new put Memphis on the map — and keep it there.

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(left) William Bell; (above) Don Bryant

Bell, masters of their craft. They too have become legendary, though Janet and the Jays fans would only have seen their names in the very small print below the songs’ titles. That’s just how songwriters were credited. In the age of streaming, the people who composed the music are often completely unacknowledged (though the Sound Credit platform designed by Memphis’ own Soundways is trying to change that).

The lack of public credit given songwriters is all too apparent when I ask Boo Mitchell if he remembers Jo’zzy

and her family. “Sure!” he says. “She writes music herself. I recorded some of her first stuff in the four-track room at Royal Studios.” It’s yet another moment in the big small town of Memphis, where everyone seems to know everyone else. But he’s not ready when I toss out another factoid: that a song she co-wrote is currently the No. 1 song in the nation — a little number called “Old Town Road.”

“Really?” he exclaims. “Good for her!”

It’s a Memphis thing. Great songwriters are crawling out of the woodwork, and most of us don’t even

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ocelyn “Jo’zzy” Donald is recalling her mother’s glory days in the recording industry. “She was a singer with Hi Records, with Willie Mitchell producing. She had a group called Janet and the Jays, back in the day.

Boo Mitchell knows my whole family.”

It’s the kind of memory a family can treasure, a brush with greatness, a bit of immortality on vinyl. The group not only worked with a producer who became legendary, they recorded songs by writers like Don Bryant and William

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Now dropping her debut single as an artist, “Sucka Free,” featuring Lil Wayne, Jo’zzy is poised for something most songwriters never receive: public acclaim. It’s almost a tradition in Memphis, which does not always get the same credit as Nashville as a font of song creation. The absurdity of that is apparent if one simply reflects on the songwriting legacy of the Bluff City.

Of course, Memphis looms large in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, where notable inductees include Al Green, Isaac Hayes, David Porter, Otis Redding, Maurice White, and W.C. Handy. Keith Sykes, now managing Ardent Recording Studios after a lifetime of songwriting for himself and other artists like Jimmy Buffett, recently attended this year’s induction ceremony for the New York-based institution and saw fellow Memphian Justin Timberlake receive the Contemporary Icon Award. “He also closed the show. Fantastic, man! And he gave a huge shout-out to Memphis, several times,” Sykes says. His friend and erstwhile collaborator John Prine, who is rightfully honored as the gold standard of songwriters, also was inducted, causing Sykes to ponder Prine’s longtime connection with Memphis.

“He did his first album here, with Don Nix at American,” recalls Sykes.

“He did Common Sense here and Pink Cadillac here. He’s done a bunch of stuff in Memphis. And he loves it down here.”

Beyond working in the city so often, Prine has influenced a whole crop of songwriters based here, who took his template of finely honed, detail-rich narratives to heart. The great John Kilzer, whose recent death is still being mourned, was one such practitioner of the narrative songwriter’s craft. “John Kilzer, I signed in 1986,” says Sykes. “His songs, you could just tell there was something there.”

Beyond his natural talents of observation, Kilzer studied creative writing at then-Memphis State University. It’s a path that other songwriting greats have taken as well, including local writer and performer Cory Branan, whose tightly woven tales are gems of song construction. (I should know; I sometimes play bass for the guy.) English hitmaker Frank Turner recently quipped, “The thing about Cory for me is, almost every songwriter

I know is slightly embarrassed by his existence, in the sense that he’s just better than all of us. And should be more successful than any of us.”

Branan says studying creative writing and literature can indeed enhance this approach to songwriting.

“I didn’t write songs until I was 24 or so, but I wouldn’t be doing this if I hadn’t tested into the right classes when I was in school in Mississippi.

My teacher, Ms. Evelyn Simms, went off the curriculum, let’s just say that.

She would see what we were interested in and then steer us toward things that technically she couldn’t assign.”

From wider reading, Branan learned to take in the wider world. “Keats called it ‘negative capability.’ The idea of not having a persona or a personality, to be able to pursue another one. Basically, not getting your fingerprints all over shit.” (Playing with him and seeing rooms full of fans singing along to “The Prettiest Waitress in Memphis” and others attests to the power of evoking characters that may or may not reflect the songwriter himself.)

It’s an approach that befits almost any style of songwriting, revealing a basic attitude toward the craft that transcends

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any genre or timely trends. Producer IMAKEMADBEATS, reflecting on songs he’s cowritten with singer Cameron Bethany, puts it this way: “The thing about stepping out of the world of hip-hop, whether it’s for a Cameron Bethany record or an Aaron James record, is that you get to just shamelessly become somebody else. You get to really take on the perspectives of another person. And try to tell that story. With that, songwriting is fun to me because it becomes infinite. I’ve heard songs by people from the perspective of being a gun. I’ve heard songs from the perspecitve of what they thought it was like to be their parents. You can take on any and all perspectives.”

Memphis native William Bell, one of the first hitmakers for Stax Records and a 2017 Grammy winner, would agree.

“I started singing with the Phineas Newborn Orchestra when I was 14, and I was always a people watcher. At that age, I couldn’t go out in the club, so I had to sit backstage and peek out at the audience. And I would just watch people as they’d come into the club, and after a couple drinks, how they were acting. All of that stuff just kinda hit continued on page 12

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realize it.

In the case of Jo’zzy, it’s a tale many years in the making. “My brother became a recording artist but got locked up. So I pretty much took his whole love of music and just ran with it. That’s what happened with me falling in love with music. I started working at this studio called Traphouse, with DJ Larry Live. He’s actually Yo Gotti’s right-hand man now. He had a studio on Highland, right near the University of Memphis, and I used to go over there and write. That was where I got my start. I was still at Germantown High School then. All the rappers in the city knew me as the girl who wrote hooks. I was just the hook girl.”

Word of her prolific creativity got around, and before long she was working with famed producer Timbaland in Miami. Then came a move to Los Angeles and being signed to Columbia Records as an artist in her own right. It was then that her label mate, Lil Nas X, found he needed a hand supplementing a song he’d already written and released.

“Old Town Road,” his song of determination in the face of alienation, made use of the old pop trope of the African-American cowboy, which dates at least as far back as the Coasters or Jamaican dub legends the Upsetters. But having a banjo-driven track with Western themes wasn’t enough for the Nashville establishment to recognize the song as a legitimate entry on the country charts.

So Lil Nas X upped the ante and actually featured a country star in a remix of the song. That’s where Jo’zzy came in to write an extra verse for the cameo.

“I just love that Billy Ray Cyrus really stood behind us,” says Jo’zzy of the star she ended up writing a passage for in the remix. “Because Billy Ray went through the same thing with ‘Achy Breaky Heart,’ which they also took off the country charts. So he could relate to it. And really, the controversy added to the greatness of the song, but I hate that the country music industry had to act like that. Still, new country artists like Keith Urban are supporting this song.”

Indeed, country fans even love it.

When Cyrus brought Lil Nas X out for the song at the recent Country Music Association Music Festival, the crowd went crazy.

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home, and I wrote about a lot of that just from observation.”

Don Bryant, who started in the same era and for a time put off his own performing career to become a staff writer for Hi Records (penning “I Can’t Stand the Rain” for wife Ann Peebles), is similarly inspired by the everyday tales he hears around him to this day. “I had six brothers,” Bryant recalls, “and they always came home with something, or I’d be out in the neighborhood and you hear little things. After a period of time, you visit back on those days and you see a whole lot of things. I pull stories from anywhere I can.”

While much younger than pioneers like Bell or Bryant, Greg Cartwright is universally admired in Memphis as a writer whose songs might have been written in their heyday. As such, his recorded work (on which I’ve played in the past) stands as a kind of bridge between the classic songwriting that emerged from studios like Stax, Royal, or American and the edgier, punkinfused style of bands like the Oblivians or the Reigning Sound.

“I write about things that I’m familiar with,” he says, “so I can speak with authenticity when I say it. But that doesn’t mean necessarily that it happened to me. It just means that I can empathize with the idea. Even though it may not

be purely autobiographical, it’s certainly something that I can understand and empathize with. I’m not saying it’s about me so much as to say, ‘I empathize with you if you feel this.’”

But if not autobiographical, Cartwright feels it’s imperative to find one’s authentic voice, something he did through a longtime bandmate.

“When I met Jack [Oblivian], he was the first person I met who didn’t sound like anybody I’d ever heard. He wasn’t trying to sound like anybody I could put my finger on. Sure, he had lots of influences, and he would tell you right away what they were, but in my early 20s, most people were very taken with whatever the music of the time was or whatever their social scene was into.

And he just seemed like he was just flying his own flag.”

In the end, this willingness to buck prevailing trends and pursue a personal vision may be the hallmark of all the city’s great songwriters. “What I look for is something fresh and original,” says Sykes. “And I can never put my finger on what that is.” Some toil at length to build that quality into their songs. “I work hard at making things sound off the cuff,” Branan told one interviewer. Others, like Jo’zzy, take another route. “Your first mind is everything,” she says. “Your first melody that comes into your head, normally

that’s the right melody. I tell my manager all the time, ‘Never play me a beat before I go in the studio.’ I’d much rather go freestyle.”

Yet another approach to forging individuality is to be overwhelmingly prolific. Kirby Dockery, a graduate of the Stax Music Academy, left Berklee College of Music to pursue her music career, but was having trouble getting recognition. Her resolve led her to post a song a day on YouTube — eventually culminating in 200 compositions and being signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Publishing. There, she ascended to what is surely the songwriter’s mountaintop, co-writing “Only One” with Kanye West and Paul McCartney, and “FourFiveSeconds” with West, McCartney, and Rihanna.

Working under the name Kirby, she reflects on the role of the Stax legacy in her achievements. “The Stax Music Academy [SMA] was one of the first catalysts that helped me believe that songwriting wasn’t just a dream. It was there where I first heard my lyrics and melodies put to music. If it wasn’t for SMA I wouldn’t have had the pleasure of meeting my future publisher years before I even knew how to be signed as a songwriter. SMA planted seeds that are still blooming in my life today. I am forever grateful.”

To that end, she’s now giving back to the institution. As SMA executive director

Pat Mitchell-Worley notes, “Kirby offered four scholarships to students in the program, based on the students creating original material. And she listened to every song that was offered. And not only did she pick the best ones, she gave them feedback on their songs. So her scholarship reinforced our songwriting focus.” In fact, the SMA is now promoting the importance of songwriting more than ever.

“For the upcoming regular school year,” says Mitchell-Worley, “we have a full songwriting track. Songwriting and music business. And the two go hand in hand. If you’re gonna pursue a career as an artist, you need to have every form of revenue that you can grasp, and songwriting is a very important part of how you get paid. Students have come to understand more that owning the material that they record and perform affects their revenue streams.” Beyond that, they’re thriving on the creativity that such an emphasis fosters.

Perhaps an old tune by Youmans, Rose, and Eliscu from 1929 puts it best, reeling off the reasons we should be grateful for the craft that has shaped the city’s history for so long: Without a song, the day would never end Without a song, the road would never bend When things go wrong, a man ain’t got a friend …Without a song.

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thrilled about the UEFA Cup coming to town. Not only were trash cans set aflame, there were Juventus flags burning on the sidewalk, some ripped from the hands of Juve fans riding along in trolley cars. It was scary for a boy of my age. And it was exciting. These were “Met” fans attacking a “Yankee” parade . . . but fueled purely by Italian blood. The culture’s reputation for passion — passione — is well-earned.

Images of that street riot have danced in my head of late for two reasons. The first: My 16-year-old daughter is in Europe this week, competing and touring with her own soccer club (Memphis FC).

She’ll be exploring Brussels for much of the trip, but crossing into France for a couple of World Cup games, a live look at the greatest female soccer players on the planet. There won’t be any rioting (fingers crossed), and I doubt she’ll witness a rivalry along the lines of Juventus-Torino.

But Elena will be immersed in a form of international sports culture only soccer — calcio! — can deliver.

My Juventus memories are also triggered by this town’s very own soccer club, 901 FC. Memphis is struggling in its first season in the USL Championship, having won but two of 14 matches (with five draws). But don’t tell the Bluff City Mafia, the band of fans who arrive at AutoZone Park on game night with multi-colored (and quite safe) smoke bombs and enough drums to wake Kong himself. Soccer culture has arrived in the Bluff City, and it’s a culture that connects us globally in ways that the NBA hopes to someday. (When there’s a riot between a city’s rival basketball clubs in, say, Munich, let me know.) A few home wins will help 901 FC among casual fans. But the club’s mere existence has transformed Memphis sports culture, and for that I’m grateful.

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was in a European soccer riot when I was 8 years old.

Okay, this warrants an explanation. My family spent a memorable academic year (1976-77) in Torino, Italy, as my dad pursued his Ph.D. in economics.

(He was studying people and policies in the country under Cavour, Italy’s first prime minister.) I was in second grade at the time and fell in love with the city’s renowned soccer club, Juventus.

I Bianconeri (“the Black and Whites”) were to Italian calcio what the New York Yankees are to American baseball.

No Italian club has won more Series A championships (35), and no Italian club sports as distinctive colors as the vertical stripes — yes, black and white — on Juve’s home kits. Before I came to cheer the likes of Lou Brock and Ted Simmons of the St. Louis Cardinals, I had posters of Roberto Bettega and Dino Zoff on my bedroom wall.

In the spring of ’77, Juventus beat Spain’s Athletic Bilbao to win the UEFA Cup for the first time. Now known as the UEFA Europa League, this is a competition between qualifying clubs across Europe. It’s not the Champions League and nowhere near the World Cup, but four decades ago, let me tell you, it was a big deal, a title that made Bettega, Zoff, and friends kings of the pitch in Europe.

When Juventus clinched the championship in Spain, the streets of Torino — well before nightfall — went wild in celebration, chants of Forza Juve! filling the increasingly smoky air. The air was smoky, as my blurred memory recalls, because of small fires, not all of them celebratory. Torino, you see, has not one, but two major soccer franchises. If Juventus is the Yankees to northwest Italy, Torino F.C. is the Mets. And fans of Torino that May evening back in 1977 were not

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Take me out to the ball game.

Pop, Bang Every year since the Redbirds were introduced to our city in 2000, the Memphis Redbirds Independence Day games have served as a staple for Memphians looking to celebrate the holiday. After all, how much more of an All-American experience can you get beyond combining baseball, hot dogs, and fireworks? The Redbirds have you covered.

This year, our beloved baseball team will play against the New Orleans Baby Cakes in front of a packed house of 10,000 attendees.

The first 1,000 fans to show up will receive free sunscreen samples from the American Cancer Society as part of Minor League Baseball’s aptly named “Cover Your Bases” initiative.

“We also have a specialty ticket that includes a ticket to the game and an all-you-can-eat hamburger/hot dog buffet, which is always very popular,” says Michael Schroeder, director of media and public relations for the Redbirds and 901FC. Other food items included in the unlimited buffet: potato chips, cookies, bottled water, and two Coca-Cola beverages per person.

“It’s a good way to let us do the grilling so you can just sit back with family and friends and watch some baseball while eating great food and enjoying post-game fireworks,” says Schroeder.

After the game, Schroeder promises the Minor League Baseball team will deliver AutoZone Park’s biggest fireworks extravaganza in history.

And because the Redbirds’ Independence Day celebrations occur on July 3rd, attendees can get a head start on Fourth of July festivities a day early and/or celebrate two days in a row. “No matter when it is, we create a memorable night at the ballpark,” Schroeder says.

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Queer Fest 2 Midtown Crossing Grill, Hi Tone, Dru’s Place, various times, $5-$10 This second annual pride celebration held across four days, June 27th through June 30th, features various LGBTQ+ acts performing across three venues.

The event launches with an acoustic show at Midtown Crossing Grill on Thursday with sets from Brando, Alyssa Moore, and others.

Featured weekend acts include The Gloryholes, Dixie Dicks, Exit Mouse, and more. Find Memphis Queer Fest on Facebook for the full lineup, schedule, cost, and more information.

Opening Reception for “HELLO, my name is…Artist” L Ross Gallery, 6-8 p.m.

This juried show featuring work by local artists such as Jimpsie Ayres, Alisa Free, Mark Nowell, and others runs through July 20th.

Sickle Cell Awareness Benefit Concert The CMPLX, 2234 Lamar, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $15-$25 This sixth annual fund-raiser benefits sickle cell anemia research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and features performances by organizer Christen Dukes, J. Buck, and Doll McCoy. Dukes has battled sickle cell his entire life.

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Wiseacre Beach Within Reach Release Party Young Avenue Deli, 7-10 p.m.

Celebrate the release of Wiseacre’s specialty Berliner Weisse at YAD with beach-scene photo opps and flavored-syrup add-in options (if that’s your thing) to amp up the fun. Cheers!

Yo Gotti & Friends Birthday Bash FedExForum, 7 p.m., $34.50-$127 Memphis-born rapper Yo Gotti hosts his seventh annual hometown birthday celebration. At press time, special guests had not been announced, but past performers have included Gucci Mane, Nicki Minaj, and Lil Wayne.

Dirty Streets B-Side, 1555 Madison, 9 p.m., $7 Longtime Memphis soulful bluesrock band performs a special show celebrating drummer Andrew Denham’s birthday. Veteran songwriter Michael Jasud (Dead Soldiers) opens.

Model Zero Album Release Bar DKDC, 10:30 p.m.

The band, featuring members of the Sheiks and Yesse Yavis, releases its self-titled album of “postapocalyptic dance music” with a party that includes performances by Limes, Trampoline Team (NOLA), and DJ Nya.

The Mid-South International Festival brings diverse cultures to Railgarten.

Around the World Sarah Bishop spearheads perhaps one of the most captivating international festivals in Memphis.

Last year’s inaugural event, then called DeSoto County International Festival, took place at DeSoto Civic Center, with an attendance of 50-70. “I looked at the data from the involvement of ticketing on Eventbrite and a lot of general comments from people who attended last year, and the big consensus was that a lot of people were actually coming in from Memphis,” says Bishop. “I thought, why don’t I just bring the festival to Memphis, since that’s where most of them are coming from? To me, it’s a no-brainer.”

Bishop, who works as the events and catering director for Railgarten and its sister companies like Carolina Watershed and Rec Room, thought Railgarten would make the perfect setting for this year’s event with its expansive indoor and outdoor areas, nice ambiance, and never-ending activities.

So, naturally, the festival was moved to Railgarten, and the name of the festival was changed to Mid-South International Festival. As the name suggests, the two-day festival celebrates diversity and culture with a spread of international vendors, performances, and activities. Several countries will be represented, including Argentina, Ireland, West Africa, and more.

Throughout those two days, Railgarten’s two stages will house 28 performances, including musical performances, ethnic dances, yoga demonstrations, drum circles led by Memphis Drum Shop, fire performances, and more.

Food, offered by Railgarten, will include international options like Korean barbecue and skewers, as well as tofu items. Corona beer, one of the festival’s sponsors, will be available.

The other sponsor, Mempho Music Festival, will be present offering discounted presale tickets for the festival.

Fourteen vendors, each representing different countries around the world, will be selling clothing, crafts, jewelry, and more.

If all of that weren’t enough, Railgarten will also be introducing its new life-sized cornhole game played with bean bag chairs.

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SATURDAY June 29 Bouguereau Community Day Brooks Museum of Art, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

The free event offers a look at the “Bouguereau & America” exhibition. Also, sketch from a live model, watch a musical performance by Jessie Munson of MSO, attend a film screening of James Sulkowski’s No Nonsense Realism: The Portrait, and more.

Tommy World Cooper-Young Gallery + Gift Shop, 6-9 p.m.

A celebration of the life and art of local artist Tommy Foster, who lost his battle to cancer. Some of Foster’s work will be displayed, as well as new art inspired by/honoring him.

WEDNESDAY July 3 Stax Music Academy Summer Grand Finale Levitt Shell, 7:30-9 p.m.

The culmination of Stax Academy’s four-week intensive summer music program, a free performance by talented middle and high schoolers.

Memphis Concrète 2019 Crosstown Arts, June 29-30, $30-$50 Artists from around the world come together to showcase experimental and electronic music.

Linda Heck says she’s excited to collaborate with Mississippi-based Pas Moi. “I’ve never worked with him before,” she says. “So it’ll be a true improvisation.” Other artists performing include MirepoiX and Nashville-based Careful Handling.

Al Kapone’s Third Annual Chill & Grill Railgarten, 4-11 p.m.

Three words: Frozen. Purple.

Drank. Also, kiddie pools, sprinklers, and, of course, hot dogs on the grill. Music by Al Kapone and Jack Oblivian and the Memphis Shieks.

Crazy Town Hi Tone, 9 p.m., $20 I just wanted to write the words, “You’re my butterfly, sugar, baby.”

The song is in your head now, isn’t it? You’re welcome. The band’s bringing its 20-year anniversary tour to Hi Tone. Come, my lady.

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Model Zero Model Zero (Slovenly Recordings) There’s something different going on in Model Zero, the self-titled debut album from members of the Sheiks, Yesse Yavis, and several other Bluff City bands. Model Zero is Keith Cooper (bass, synth, drum machines), Frank McLallen (vocals, guitar), Linton Holliday (guitar, vocals), Jesse James Davis (drums, synthesizer, background vocals) — a supergroup, of sorts, made up of members of bands who usually specialize in punk, garage rock, and roots rock. So where do the pulsing drum machines and swirling, psychedelic synthesizers fit in?

“We were in the lab for a long time,” Cooper says of working out the dynamics of playing the songs live. Part of the danger was the exploration of new musical motifs and temperamental equipment.

Model Zero

“Anything could go wrong because we’re using a lot of old equipment and analogue equipment,” Davis says. “I think it adds to the energy.” And there is an undeniable energy to the album. The band’s cover of Buffalo Springfield’s “Mr. Soul” pulses insistently; “This Modern Life” is frantic with guitars, percussion, and the refrain repeated like a chant.

“Our first major performance was playing at Quintron and Miss Pussycat’s Lundi Gras at Sailor Jack’s in New Orleans,” McLallen says. “It was the first time the drum machines went through a huge P.A., and there were guys and girls in costumes coming out on the floor and dancing with this sexy verve.” Holliday chimes in: “That’s the secret. We’re a dance band.”

Model Zero’s album release concert at DKDC Friday, June 28th, at 10:30 p.m.

Alyssa Moore The Farmer’s Revenge (Self-released) This is what it sounds like when a talented multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer exorcises her demons — and has fun doing it. With her third solo effort, The Farmer’s Revenge, Alyssa Moore confronts new horizons, the joys of independence,

and life after trauma.

“It’s a sequel to The Girl Became a Farmer,” says Moore, solo artist, bassist for math-rock outfit Strengths, and owner and operator of indie recording studio Move the Air. “The lyrics and songs were more about getting up and going forward [this time],” she says, explaining a shift on the new record. “The last [album] was put out as a way to release some emotions about the event that happened,” Moore says, referring to a violent public assault by her ex-boyfriend in 2017. With The Farmer’s Revenge, however, Moore explores new territory; most of the work, she says, fit the motifs of freedom and independence.

“I just locked myself up here and recorded it all,” Moore says. “Everything on the album was written, recorded, and played by me. When I hear the term ‘solo artist’ or ‘solo album,’ I think of a single person doing the work.”

Moore makes no bones about sticking to any one style with her new release. On “Here Comes the Thunder” she alternates whispers and screams during the refrain.

With “Cat’s Cradle,” cut-time drums and a bed of acoustic guitar share sonic space with swaggering squalls of electric guitar. The result is as dynamic as the person who crafted it, at times joyous, sometimes dark, and overflowing with personality.

Alyssa Moore performs at Midtown Crossing, Thursday, June 27th, 10:30 p.m.

Hash Redactor Drecksound (Goner) After a heavy touring schedule in 2018, Hash Redactor released their debut album, Drecksound, in April via Goner Records.

The pairing is hardly surprising, as the band is pure Goner. Fronted by guitarist Alec McIntyre of Ex-Cult and with Meredith Lones (bass) and Charlotte Watson (drums) of Nots laying down rhythm, the band is a Goner supergroup. George Williford on guitar rounds out the lineup.

It’s not just Hash Redactor’s c.v. that screams “Goner.” The songs come in fast and hard, propelled by booming bass and tight drums. Watson and Lones share an easy comfort playing together; their confidence oozes from every song. McIntyre sneers the vocals, an antihero decrying humanity’s self-destructive tendencies and looking cool while doing so. The guitars alone are worth the price of admission.

Hash Redactor performs at Bar DKDC, Saturday, July 13th, 10 p.m.

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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.

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The King Beez Thursdays, 5 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Lisa G

and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; P.S. Band First Wednesday, Sunday of every month, 7 p.m.

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

9:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band June 28-29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

Yo Gotti Birthday Bash with Special Guests Friday, June 28, 7 p.m.

Blues City Cafe

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Sean Apple Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m.; Hillbilly Casino Thursday, June 27, 8 p.m.-midnight and June 28-29, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, Saturdays, 5-9 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Saturdays, 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.;

Lunch on Beale with Chris Gales Wednesdays-Sundays, 12-4 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.

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David Bowen Thursdays, 5:30-

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

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

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Friday, June 28, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, June 29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

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

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Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

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

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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

Dueling Pianos Thursdays,

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Eager Street Sunday, June 30, 6:30-9 p.m.

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Big Rick and the Troublemakers Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Rev Neil Down Friday, June 28, 8 p.m.midnight; Jack Rowell and Triplethret Saturday, June 29, 9 p.m.; The Accessories Sundays; Stacks and Kilgore Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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The Orpheum 203 S. MAIN 525-3000

Leslie Odom Jr. with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra Friday, June 28, 7:30 p.m.

The Peabody 149 UNION 529-4000

Rooftop Party with Soul Shockers Thursday, June 27, 6-10 p.m.

South Main Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Candace Mache Jazz Trio June 28-29, 7-10 p.m.

Kid Saturday, June 29; Moon Glimmers Sunday, June 30, 7 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays; David Cousar Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Outer Ring Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Pleasers, Faux Killas Thursday, June 27, 10 p.m.; Model Zero Album Release with Limes, Trampoline Team Friday, June 28, 10 p.m.; Marcella & Her Lovers Saturday, June 29, 10:30 p.m.; Mary Gagz and Her Gaggle of Drags Mondays, 8:3011 p.m.; Lahna Deering and Special Guests Tuesday, July 2.

2234 LAMAR

Sickle Cell Awareness Benefit Concert featuring Christen Dukes, J. Buck, Doll McCoy Friday, June 28, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

The Cove

1555 MADISON 609-1744

Charley Crockett, Joshua Ray Walker Thursday, June 27, 8 p.m.

B-Side 1555 MADISON 347-6813

Louis Page, Grandpa Grew Trees, Wicker Well Kept Thursday, June 27; Dirty Streets Friday, June 28, 10 p.m.; Toy Trucks, Switchblade

Hi-Tone

Midtown Crossing Grill

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays; Memphis Queer Fest 2 Sunday, June 30, 4 p.m.

Folk All Y’all Listening Room at Studio688 688 S. COX 626-6763

Folk All Y’all: An Evening with John Fullbright Friday, June 28, 7:30-10 p.m.

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

Memphis Concrète 2019 June 29-30, 2:30-10 p.m.

The CMPLX

2559 BROAD 730-0719

1884 Lounge

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck Fridays, 6 p.m.; Turnstyles Friday, June 28, 9 p.m.; Tailored Makers Saturday, June 29, 9 p.m.; Jazz Jam with Frog Squad Sundays, 6 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

My Chemical Monday Thursday, June 27, 8 p.m.; Pants Tour featuring Schaefer Llana, Shamefinger, Ben Abney, Animal Sounds, Wicker Friday, June 28, 7 p.m.; Framing Hanley, Shallow Side, Allyria, 5 Stories, My Friend Chris Saturday, June 29, 7:30 p.m.; Square Hammer: a Tribute to Ghost Sunday, June 30, 8 p.m.; Relent, Bloodlines, When Forever Ends Monday, July 1, 8 p.m.; MXMS, Outside at Night, Weeping Hour, Cheshire Tuesday, July 2, 8 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Memphis Queer Fest 2 Friday, June 28, 6 p.m. and Saturday, June 29, 5:30 p.m.; Crazy Town, Spoken Wednesday, July 3, 8 p.m.

Memphis Queer Fest 2 Thursday, June 27, 8 p.m. and Saturday, June 29, 1:30 p.m.; “The Happening” Open Songwriter Showcase Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room

Minglewood Hall

2119 MADISON 207-5097

1555 MADISON 312-6058

Three Star Revival Thursday, June 27, 9 p.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Acoustic Friday, June 28, 6:30 p.m.; Thumpdaddy Friday, June 28, 10 p.m.; Pop 901 Saturday, June 29, 2 p.m.; Emily Chambers Saturday, June 29, 6:30 p.m.; Twin Soul Saturday, June 29, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Visible Music College Mondays, 6 p.m.; Tab Benoit Tuesday, July 2, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.

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Leela James, Black Cream Friday, June 28, 8:30 p.m.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Lucky 7 Brass Band Friday, June 28, 8 p.m.; Devan Sundays, 3 p.m.; Al Kapone’s Third Annual Chill & Grill Wednesday, July 3, 4 p.m.

Memphis Made Brewing Company 768 S. COOPER 207-5343

Saturday Spins Saturday, June 29, 6-10 p.m.

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Southern Vocal Collective Saturday, June 29, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove 6285 SNOWDEN, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662) 892-2660

Outlaws & Renegades: The Charlie Daniels Band, Travis Tritt, the Cadillac Three Friday, June 28, 7:30 p.m.

Shangri-La Records 1916 MADISON 274-1916

Model Zero Friday, June 28, 5:30 p.m.

OVERTON PARK 272-2722

Patriotic Pops with the Memphis Wind Symphony Thursday, June 27, 7:30-9 p.m.; Flor de Toloache Friday, June 28, 7:30-9 p.m.; Stax Music Academy Summer Grand Finale Saturday, June 29, 7:309:30 p.m.; Donna the Buffalo Sunday, June 30, 7:30-9 p.m.

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Hadley’s Pub

Aaron Lewis June 27-28, 8 p.m.

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Rockstar Karaoke with Charlie Belt Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Area 51 Friday, June 28, 9 p.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Saturday, June 29, 9 p.m.; Charlie and Juno All Stars Experience Sunday, June 30, 5:30 p.m.

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

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T H EAT E R

Circuit Playhouse

The Legend of Georgia McBride, he’s young, he’s broke, his landlord’s knocking at the door, and he’s just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make matters even more desperate, Casey is fired from his gig as an Elvis impersonator in a run-down, smalltown Florida bar. Then the bar owner brings in a B-level drag show to replace his act, Casey finds that he has a wh. www. playhouseonthesquare.org.

Through June 30.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Playhouse on the Square

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, Matilda is an extraordinary girl with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind whose talents are constantly belittled by her cruel parents and hostile headmistress, the wicked Miss Trunchbull. Reclusive, but with an ever-growing imagination and sharp mind, Matilda dreams of a better life – and proves that no matter your age you have the power to control your own destiny. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. Through July 14.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Hairspray, set in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1962, Tracy Turnblad’s dream is to be on a local TV dance show. When she wins a role on the show, she becomes an overnight celebrity and meets a colorful array of characters leading to social change as Tracy campaigns for the show’s integration. www. theatrememphis.org. $35. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m. Through June 27.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

Pants, a new original work dives into the lives of three female-born figures from history who presented themselves as male as a means of escape or survival. Through language, movement, and technology, an ensemble aims to explore gender, identity, and the power of pants. Concept and direction

by Julia Hinson. (848-0111), adults $15, students $10.

Thurs., June 27, 8-9:30 p.m., Fri., June 28, 8-9:30 p.m., Sat., June 29, 8-9:30 p.m., and Sun., June 30, 6-7:30 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

Cooper-Young Gallery + Gift Shop

“Tommy World,” this exhibition is a celebration of the life and art of the late Tommy Foster, the Memphis artist, filmmaker, and founder of Java Cabana, who passed away after a battle with cancer. Also showcased will be new works by local artists honoring and inspired by Foster. (729-6305).

Sat., June 29, 6-9 p.m.

889 SOUTH COOPER (729-6305).

L Ross Gallery

Opening Reception for “HELLO, my name is…Artist,” exhibition featuring local artists Jimpsie Ayres, Alisa Free, Robert LaWarre III, Matthew Lee, Susan Maakestad, Mark Nowell, C.A. Traen, and Claudia TullosLeonard. Fri., June 28, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

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.

“HELLO, my name is…

Artist” featuring work by Robert LaWarre, at L Ross Gallery, Fri., June 28th Bouguereau Community Day

In celebration of the summer exhibition “Bouguereau & America,” the Brooks hosts this day with sketching with instructor Sunny Montgomery, a musical performance

by Jessie Munson of Memphis Symphony Orchestra, a film screening of James Sulkowski’s No Nonsense Realism: The Portrait, and more. Food vendors Café Brooks, Say Cheese, and Parker’s Concessions will be on site. Free. Sat., June 29, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

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

The Designer’s Runway Show

Memphis Metro Fashion Week runway show hosted by Algernon Johnson. $12. Fri., June 28, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

430 GALLERY, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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Old Forest Hike

Walking tour of the region’s only urban oldgrowth forest. Last Sunday of every month, 10 a.m.

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour

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

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

M E ETI NGS

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

Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest

Winning authors will be honored with a $200 gift certificate to Novel. For more information, contest rules, and submission, visit website.

Through Aug. 31.

WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM.

C O M E DY

The Orpheum

Chris D’Elia has three comedy specials available on Netflix, including Man on Fire and Incorrigible, and he was chosen as one of four comics to represent the US in Netflix’s 2019 series, Comedians of the World. orpheummemphis.com. $28-$58.

Thurs., June 27, 7:30 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Daniel Brook

Author discusses and signs his new book, The Accident of Color. Thurs., June 27, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Michael Croley

Author discusses and signs his new book, Any Other Place. Sun., June 30, 2 p.m.

50 Years After Stonewall

Commemoration of the Stonewall riots, a spontaneous demonstration by the gay community against a police raid in 1969. The events brought national attention to the movement for gay rights.

Sun., June 30, 1-3 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (216-2626).

C O N F E R E N C ES/ C O NVE N TI O N S

Black Box Entrepreneur Symposium

Designed for budding entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders seeking to develop stronger entrepreneurial skills and to build their networks. Early bird registration: $57; Vendor registration: $250. Sat., June 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

BARTLETT PERFORMING ARTS AND CONFERENCE CENTER, 3663 APPLING (335-1733), STEPINTOTHEBLACKBOX.COM.

TO U R S

Bicentennial History Hikes

Meet at the guest services desk in the Visitor Center.

Tuesdays, 2 p.m.

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

City Tasting Tours

Savor tastings at five eateries, interact with chefs and managers, and sample local flavors while strolling down Main Street and enjoying historic landmarks. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1:30 p.m.

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

WWW.CITYTASTINGTOURS.COM.

Booksigning by Tijuana Boswell

Garden docents will focus on the cutting garden each week on Saturday morning. Meet in the Catmur Foyer to see the large urn design and start tour.

Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

Author discusses and signs The Web of the Damsel. Free.

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

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

Cutting Garden Tours

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

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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.

KIDS

Funky Fridays

Fridays in June and July have interactive activities and workshops celebrating Memphis’ “BiSOULtennial” year. Free with museum admission. Fri., June 28, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

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

Magical Summer Book Club

A magical adventure for young wizards and magic fans every Monday through June and July, with snippets of the story, on-theme clay and ceramics projects, and fun. Ages 7+. $199 for the series, $29 a day. Mondays, 1-3:30 p.m. Through July 29.

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Memphis Lift Anniversary Block Party

Party celebrating four years of Memphis Lift with a petting zoo, games, food, face-painting, and more. Sat., June 29, 2-5 p.m.

GOOCH PARK, 1974 HUNTER (801-9154).

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

Ask. eXplore.

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

Through July 30.

STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC, 926 E. MCLEMORE (942-7685), STAXMUSEUM.COM.

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Each week-long session includes rental gear, four hours of games, instruction, and climbing each day. $189.

Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Through Aug. 30.

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

Unplugged Play: CMOM Summer Camp Children can unplug and try out different roles, learn to play with others, and express themselves creatively. $200 for members, $250 for nonmembers. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Through June 28.

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

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Fund-raiser hosted by Lucy J’s Bakery with family fun, food trucks, and a baking competition. $15. Sun., June 30, 12-3 p.m.

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An evening of fashion, fun, and drinks, all to honor local women of influence. The mission of Dress for Success is to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support, and career development tools. $50. Thurs., June 27, 5:30-9 p.m.

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Relive the thrills of lunar exploration. Various times, see website for details. Ongoing.

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Chris D’Elia, from Netflix’s Comedians of the World, at The Orpheum, Thursday, June 27th, at 7:30 p.m.

Museum Presents: A Century of the American Motorcycle

Exhibition, curated by the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, exploring a century of the American motorcycle.

Mondays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Through Nov. 23.

GRACELAND EXHIBITION CENTER, 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY BLVD. (3323322), WWW.GRACELAND.COM.

Fab Fridays Laser Light Show

State-of-the-art laser light tribute shows, featuring Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and more. Fridays, 7, 8 & 9 p.m.

3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW. MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Stars & Stripes III

All-inclusive VIP holiday party with wine, drinks, and music. Wed., July 3, 8 p.m.

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Velvetina’s Blue Moon Revue

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

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Celebration of American independence, and the night concludes with the largest post-game fireworks show in AutoZone Park history. Wed., July 3, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Friday Night Lights

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

Mayor Strickland is partnering with Memphis Gun Down to provide a safe, fun, and family-friendly environment. Fridays, with food, a DJ, bounce houses, and more.

Fridays, 7 p.m.-midnight Through Aug. 2.

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Greatest of All Time: Muhammad Ali

Exhibition celebrating Muhammad Ali’s rise from humble beginnings to becoming the three-time heavyweight champion of the world. Mondays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Through Sept. 15.

GRACELAND EXHIBITION CENTER, 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY BLVD. (3323322), WWW.GRACELAND.COM.

Making Memphis: 200 Years of Community

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

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Admission to the gardens is free, and Park & Cherry café is open for lunch. Food trucks will be in the gardens.

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

Through June 28.

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

Wiseacre Beach Within Reach Release Party

The Memphis brewery celebrates the release of a new Berliner Weisse summer brew with samples, flavored syrup add-ins, and a beach-scene photo shoot. Bring your own sunscreen and beachy shades.

Fri., June 28, 7-10 p.m.

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“Law enforcement officials are getting more sophisticated in their methods for identifying marijuana-impaired drivers, and the consequences are not worth the risk,” said Stephanie Milani, Tennessee public affairs director for AAA. There are now about 185 Drug Recognition Experts (DREs) working in the Tennessee Highway Safety Office, up 30 percent since 2013.

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Copper Pot, a Canadian whiskey with a maple finish that he asks us to try. Maybe it’s the effect of the 34-ounce beer I’m enjoying, but the maple-y Copper Pot is almost as delightful as my beloved Jameson.

Danko is quick to point out MemphisCanada connections, including Canadian politeness’ similarity to Southern hospitality. The Memphis Grizzlies now have two Canadians with the addition of Brandon Clarke (the other being Dillon Brooks).

Danko also shares that Kyle Lowry’s first meal, upon moving to Memphis, was at Kooky Canuck. His favorite memory of Gasol came a few years ago at the Grizz Gala in Tunica. As he posed for a picture with Gasol, Danko accidentally grabbed his ass (we’ve all wanted to do it, so shoutout to Danko for getting the job done) and then, as is custom for our polite Northern neighbors, apologized profusely.

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Kooky Canuck’s drink specials are the shining star of this place, but its most prominent feature is the décor. The inside is full of deer, moose, and caribou heads.

Where does one acquire this substantial collection? “Bachelors getting married,” Danko deadpans. While I might be here for the booze and taxidermy, it’s worth noting that Kooky Canuck also has a substantial menu and a kitchen that stays open late. On weeknights, the kitchen is open until 1 a.m. and the bar until 3 a.m.

On weekend nights, the kitchen is open until 2 a.m. At the Cordova location, it’s open until 2 a.m. every night of the week to accommodate those unfortunate suburbanites who don’t have a plethora of late-night dining options.

Interested in finding out how many $9.99 34-ounce cocktails you can consume under the watchful eyes of a dead moose?

Head to Kooky Canuck and vie for a coveted seat at Earhart’s bar. You might end up in the warm embrace of your new favorite Canadian whiskey and with that much more in common with your recently departed Memphian-turned-Canadian.

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en Earhart is the selfproclaimed best bartender in Memphis, the “crazy Tennessean” who mans the bar at Kooky Canuck and serves as the gatekeeper of the best happy hour Downtown. We headed to Kooky Canuck to watch the draft and talk Canada with Earhart and owner Shawn Danko. It seemed only fitting that we talk basketball with Danko — who relocated to Memphis from Toronto — and get the opinions of Memphis’ second-most famous Canadian now that our most famous Canadian is NBA champ Marc Gasol.

Kooky Canuck is known for its big menu items, most notably their various “Challenges,” including the Kookamonga, King Kookamonga, and Humonga Kookamonga, a $99.99, 25-pound meal to be consumed between no more than four people in under 60 minutes. Those who claim victory over the burger earn a spot on the wall of fame and a free meal. The burger challenges might’ve made them famous, but there’s more to this place than the food. When it comes to all things bar-related, Kooky Canuck does it big and cheap.

Happy hour is from 3 to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, and features a house wine, well mixed drink, or domestic beer for $2.50. A 34-ounce Molson Canadian sets you back a mere $5 at any time. Ten dollars will get you a craft beer of the same size. Interested in a 34-ounce cocktail? It’s $9.99 all day every day, pal. And a 12-ounce pour of a house wine, literally a pour to the brim of the standard wine glass, is $6.99. With these deals, you, too, can be drunk enough to nearly fall off a bus during a parade in your honor.

Speaking of Gasol’s now-legendary drinking antics after earning a ring with the Toronto Raptors, what would owner Danko’s poison of choice be if he needed to tie one on while bussing through the streets of Toronto? “Canadian whiskey, absolutely,” he says. He prefers Forty Creek, but clutched in his hands is a bottle of Wayne Gretzky’s proprietary booze that he’s giving a shot. Canadian whiskeys are normally blends and, in Canada, they’re often referred to as ryes, despite the absence of rye in almost all of them, Danko says. Earhart reappears with Forty Creek

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Infinity and Beyond Toy Story 4 rises above a summer of lackluster sequels.

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his month, a spate of articles in publications from Forbes to CinemaBlend asked, why are sequels and reboots tanking at the box office this year? Films from The Secret Life of Pets 2 to Men in Black: International have significantly underperformed industry expectations. Dark Phoenix looks poised to lose about $100 million. After years of reliably turning out audiences, the writers ask, is the endless sequel model faltering?

I usually try to keep talk about the business end of things to a minimum in my columns because I believe my primary job is to help you, my beloved readers, to decide what films to watch, and the behind-the-scenes stuff is largely irrelevant to that decision. But in this case, as a critic in the trenches, I believe I can answer the question currently obsessing industry observers. Why did these sequels fall short at the box office? Because they’re stupid and they suck.

Not all sequels have done badly at the box office. Avengers: Endgame may well end up being the highest-grossing film of all time.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters will easily top $100 million domestically and is raking in the money overseas. The franchises that are tanking are the ones that have no visible reason to exist beyond seeming like a safe choice for fearful studio executives.

Which brings us to Toy Story 4, a film that, by my own definition, has no reason to exist. 1995’s Toy Story was the film that launched Pixar and popularized 3D computer animation. 2010’s Best Animated Feature winner Toy Story 3 ended with Andy, the kid who owned Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), going to college and the toys being passed down to a new kid named Bonnie (Madeleine McGraw). It was a bittersweet tearjerker that, rare for a children’s film, addressed aging and mortality.

In 2010, Pixar said the Toy Story was over, but Disney, in

Toy Story 4 reunites old friends and introduces some new googly-eyed faces (like Forky). their wisdom, decided we needed another one. The story begins with a flashback. Bo Peep (Annie Potts), who was absent from the third film, is being given away while Woody and the gang mount a rescue operation. Before leaving, she assures Woody that being passed from kid to kid is just part of a toy’s life.

Back in the present, Woody is still Bonnie’s toy, but no longer the favorite like he was with Andy. Languishing in the closet, he makes a spontaneous decision to stow away in her backpack as she goes to orientation on the first day of kindergarten. Bonnie has a hard time fitting in at school, so she makes a new friend. This doesn’t mean she meets another kid, but rather, she makes a toy out of a spork, a popsicle stick, and some pipe cleaners and names him Forky.

The existence of Forky (Tony Hale) foregrounds all sorts of existential questions that hover around the Toy Story premise. He asks the first one himself: “Why am

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Forky tries to escape, but Bonnie loves him, so Woody has to bring him back to the fold. This mission becomes more complicated when the family takes a road trip in a rented RV. Woody and the gang are thrown into a series of adventures, escapes, and rescues revolving around a carnival and a small-town antique store.

Woody reunites with old flame Bo Peep, who is now living a Furiosa-like existence as a rogue toy.

Directed by longtime Pixar hand Josh Cooley and written by Wall-E director Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom, Toy Story 4 has the magic mix of humor and pathos. A pair of stuffed animals voiced by Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key get huge laughs. The animation is frequently eye-popping. The

facial expressions, especially in the early kindergarten sequences, convey more emotion than anyone in Dark Phoenix.

The glowing carnival at night and the jumbled interior of the antique store are wonders to behold.

I’ll admit I was skeptical going in, but Pixar proved me wrong. Toy Story 4 may not rise to the level of the greatest Pixar films like Ratatouille or Inside Out, but it is not a waste of time and resources like, say, Dark Phoenix. I am first in line to lament Hollywood’s dependence on franchises, but when a sequel can deliver on this level, I’ll take it.

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The Main Street Trolley rail cars will only pick up passengers on the east side of the tracks at the Trolley stations located between Madison and Exchange Avenues. In addition, some southbound Trolley stations will be temporarily closed.

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FINAL NOTICE AND PUBLIC EXPLANATION OF A PROPOSED ACTIVITY IN A WETLAND AND FLOODPLAIN WITHIN THE SOUTH CYPRESS CREEK WATERSHED IN SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE

properties’ risk of flooding. In addition to preserving existing wetlands, the proposed project will also expand existing or create new water receiving landscapes, i.e., constructed wetlands, rain gardens, bioswales and/or other natural stormwater Best Management Practices (BMP’s), landforms, green open spaces, parks, and multi-purpose recreational trails that connect to the surrounding community. These elements will be designed to reduce the flood risk for the adjacent properties most susceptible to flooding within the project area, while also enhancing both the water quality and habitat of South Cypress Creek and the adjacent riparian buffer and floodplain areas.

To: All interested Federal, State and Local Agencies and Groups or Individuals

Shelby County Government has considered the following alternatives and mitigation measures to be taken to minimize adverse impacts and to restore and preserve natural and beneficial values: • Building a levee • Building a berm • Adjusting the existing geometry and elevations of the creek

This is to give notice that Shelby County Government under Part 58 has conducted an evaluation as required by Executive Order 11988, to determine the potential effect that its activity in wetlands and the floodplain will have on the human environment for the South Cypress Creek Watershed and West Junction Neighborhood Redevelopment Project under the HUD National Disaster Resiliency Grant, Contract Number B-13-US-470002.

Shelby County Government is proposing a series of open space and infrastructure project elements that will help make the greater Memphis area more resilient in future disaster and flooding events. The South Cypress Creek Watershed and West Junction Neighborhood Redevelopment activity encompasses improvements in the South Cypress Creek drainage basin just south of Interstate 55 and in the West Junction Neighborhood. The project will entail two components as described hereinafter: (1) South Cypress Creek Restoration and, (2) West Junction Neighborhood Redevelopment.

For this notice, all the proposed activities are located within or adjacent to the South Cypress Creek Floodplain. Additionally, there will be minor impacts on isolated wetlands.

The South Cypress Creek Restoration improvements will affect approximately 29.3 acres of floodplain and 0.80 acres of wetlands.

The West Junction Neighborhood Redevelopment improvements will affect approximately 11.4 acres of floodplain. The following describes the project locations and the proposed improvements: The South Cypress Creek Restoration Project activities will restore and preserve the natural and beneficial functions of the floodplain and wetlands. The proposed West Junction Neighborhood Redevelopment activities will include the acquisition of properties located in the floodplain and permanently dedicate those properties for use of flood control and protect them from future development through the Voluntary Buyout Program. Additionally, vacant lots located outside the floodplain in the Neighborhood will be redeveloped for various beneficial community uses.

South Cypress Creek Restoration

The South Cypress Creek Restoration project will be adjacent to the existing Cypress Creek, from north of W. Mitchell Road to east of Weaver Road. The proposed project will expand stormwater capacity by removing obstructions, stabilizing the stream banks, and installing stormwater management facilities. These treatments will provide storage and detention of peak flows to reduce the flood stage and adjacent

Shelby County Government carefully evaluated all three options based on factors such as constructability, cost, and impacts. Both the Levee and Berm Options were not viable options due to several negative impacts, including: 1. Significantly higher construction costs 2. Increased maintenance of infrastructure and pumping requirements during flood events, etc., including costs to maintain structures 3. Disruption of hydrology on the landside causing potential localized flooding 4. The construction of a berm or levee had significant impacts on the adjacent neighborhood.

5. Berm or levee would physically and visually disconnect the adjacent areas from the Creek, which has the potential to be a neighborhood amenity The construction documents for the South Cypress Creek Restoration and West Junction Neighborhood redevelopment projects will be reviewed and coordinated with the City of Memphis, the Local Floodplain Administrator, to certify that these proposed activities will have no significant net effect on the designated wetland and floodplain.

Shelby County has reevaluated the alternatives to building in the wetland and floodplain and has determined that it had no practicable alternative. Environmental files that document compliance with steps 3 through 6 of Executive Order 11988 are available for public inspection, review, and copying upon request at the time and location delineated in the last paragraph of this notice for receipt of comments.

This activity will have no significant impact on the environment for the following reasons: 1. A detailed wetland and waters delineation survey and report has been completed to identify existing wetlands and water courses that would be impacted and affected by these improvements. The proposed site grading and features were adjusted to avoid impacts to existing wetlands and to minimize the impact to significant natural features.

2. Personnel with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have reviewed the material provided regarding the Cypress Creek Resiliency Study in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Although there appears to be Indiana bat and northern long-eared bat roosting habitat on the site, the area is outside of any known occurrence buffers, and recent bat surveys in the general area have

not indicated presence of either species. Based on this, we would not anticipate adverse impacts to the Indiana or northern long-eared bat as a result of the project.

West Junction Neighborhood Redevelopment The Neighborhood Redevelopment will be conducted in the portion of the West Junction Neighborhood south of W. Peebles Road, west of Ford Road, north of W. Mitchell Road and east of Weaver Road.

The Neighborhood Redevelopment activities will include a property acquisition program to purchase existing at-risk properties located below elevation 231.00 within the floodplain in the West Junction neighborhood. The program proposes incentives to encourage residents to relocate within the neighborhood. The properties acquired under the program will have permanent restrictions included in the property deed to preserve the floodplain from future development.

The redevelopment effort also includes the development of strategies for community redevelopment projects such as allowing residents the opportunity to expand their existing properties by acquiring adjacent vacant lots as well as reclaiming vacant lots to introduce uses like local food production, community park space, stormwater retention, and expansion of natural areas. An additional goal is to seek to minimize municipal maintenance costs and reestablish vacant and delinquent properties to be tax revenue generating.

There are three primary purposes for this notice. First, people who may be affected by activities in the wetland and floodplain and those who have an interest in the protection of the natural environment should be given an opportunity to express their concerns and provide information about these areas. Second, an adequate public notice program can be an important public educational tool. The dissemination of information about wetlands and the floodplain can facilitate and enhance Federal efforts to reduce the risks associated with the occupancy and modification of these special areas. Third, as a matter of fairness, when the Federal government determines it will participate in actions taking place in wetlands and floodplains, it must inform those who may be put at greater or continued risk.

Additional information on the proposal may be obtained by contacting: Jim Vazquez Administrator at jim.vazquez@memphistn.gov or (901) 636-7170 Written comments must be received by Shelby County at the following address on or before July 19, 2019: Division of Planning and Development Attention: Jim Vazquez, Administrator Office of Resilience 125 N. Main Street, Room 468 Memphis, TN 38103 during the hours of 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. Comments may also be submitted via email at: jim.vazquez@memphistn.gov Date: June 27, 2019 Attest: Lee Harris Mayor Shelby County, Tennessee

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

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THE LAST WORD by Jen Clarke

While the local and national media were busy portraying Memphis as a town just happy to watch our Large Spanish Son succeed, I wondered if I was the only Grizzlies fan watching the NBA Finals with the acrimony of an ex who had just received a save-the-date from the one who got away. If nobody else is going to acknowledge that it’s still freaking weird seeing Marc Gasol in Toronto Raptors black and red, whooping and celebrating and chugging wine with some other teammates, I guess I’ll be the first.

When the Grizzlies sent Gasol to Toronto, I knew they were doing right by him, putting him in a position to win a ring without the pressure of having to be The Guy all the time. I just wasn’t prepared for it to happen so fast. It was beyond time for both sides to move on and start looking toward the future. But seeing your ex having a good time with somebody else at a place he never took you is never fun, regardless of who broke up with whom.

“Oh, he does that now? Interesting,” I caught myself saying during Game 5. “Aggressive Marc showed up. Man, I miss these nights.”

Yes, the relationship outlived its spark and lasted about a year longer than it probably should have, taped together by memories of happier times. But that should have been us, dammit. Forget throwing a parade for Big Spain — how about a pity party for the city that was, to borrow a line from his new team’s pop icon, with him shooting in the gym. And we’ll get to do it all over again next season, when Mike Conley inevitably proves to be Utah’s missing piece. Hell, maybe Mike and Marc will end up playing each other in the Finals. Won’t that be a dream come true? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way. It will be depressing.

Please do not get it twisted — despite my bitterness and the number of times I’ve yelled “Oh, for God’s sake will you just shoot it?” over the past few seasons, I am truly happy for Marc Gasol. I love nothing more than seeing people accomplish their goals.

Actually, that’s wrong. There is something I would love more, and that is seeing Zach Randolph and Tony Allen on a parade float, cruising down Riverside Drive. Please pause for a moment to ponder this amazing visual and consider how close it was to becoming reality. In some parallel universe, I like to imagine it has happened — maybe even twice. In that universe, Z-Bo’s hand never met Steven Adams’ face five years ago. The Grizzlies upset the Thunder and rode that momentum to the Finals. CJ McCollum’s elbow never got acquainted with Conley’s eye socket, and the Warriors never even got a chance to blow a 3-1 lead against the Cavaliers. A lot of things would have had to go right to secure those outcomes, and “everything going right” has only recently become associated with the Grizzlies brand, but fandom doesn’t have to be rational all the time. Fan is short for fanatic, after all.

That’s how close they got to glory — just a couple of unlucky breaks and some really, really questionable personnel decisions away. Remember that the next time you see someone comparing the Gasol and Conley trades to “sending them off into the real world” like a kid to college, as a fan told one local outlet. It wasn’t long ago that the Grindhouse was the real world that chewed up the Spurs and crushed the Clippers, where the MVP became Mr. Unreliable.

With an electric new point guard and some new people in charge, it feels like good times are on their way back to the corner of Beale and B.B. King. But the organization lingered a little too long in the glow of the Grit ‘n’ Grind era (ahem, Wrestling Night), so I think we’ve earned a little extra time to grieve. Hopefully Ja, Jaren, and company understand and can make room for the Core Four in their eventual championship parade. For the visual and for paving the way.

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

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Watching Marc Gasol celebrate the NBA championship was more bitter than sweet.

Marc Gasol holds the 2019 NBA Championship trophy.

THE LAST WORD

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