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BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN Editor SHARA CLARK Managing Editor JACKSON BAKER Senior Editor TOBY SELLS Associate Editor CHRIS MCCOY Film and TV Editor ALEX GREENE Music Editor JULIA BAKER, MICHAEL DONAHUE MAYA SMITH, JON W. SPARKS Staff Writers JESSE DAVIS Copy Editor, Staff Writer JULIE RAY Calendar Editor JEN CLARKE, LORNA FIELD, RANDY HASPEL, AYLEN MERCADO, RICHARD MURFF, FRANK MURTAUGH, MEGHAN STUTHARD Contributing Columnists AIMEE STIEGEMEYER, SHARON BROWN Grizzlies Reporters ANDREA FENISE Fashion Editor KENNETH NEILL Founding Publisher

OUR 1637TH ISSUE 07.09.20 “Dr. [Manoj] Jain … provided his estimates on cases and hospitalizations thru December and believes we will see an average of 230 daily new cases and a 240 daily hospital average in July; 360 and 360 in August; 500 and 550 in September; 620 and 700 in October; 670 and 780 in November; and 620 and 740 in December.”

This is from a media briefing I received on July 3rd on the Shelby County COVID-19 situation. To say it is sobering is an understatement. If these numbers are anywhere near on-target, it’s clear that we will be dealing with this nightmare of a pandemic well into 2021, with around 95,000 cases in Shelby County by year’s end.

All the blue-sky talk about schools opening and football and basketball seasons beginning looks a little sketchy right now. We are already matching Dr. Jain’s projected July numbers and then some, hitting 400 new cases on some days.

In early May, after several weeks of a “stay at home” mandate, Shelby County’s infection rate dropped to 4 percent and its new case numbers were leveled off. We flattened the curve. Now, two months later, the infection rate is consistently over 10 percent — and rising steadily, week over week. We got the horse into the barn for a little while, then we opened the door and said “Please don’t go into the pasture, Nelly.” That policy of hoping for self-restraint has been an epic failure. Mainly because too many Americans resemble the back-end of a horse, including our president.

It’s not like there isn’t a blueprint for how to stop this thing. Most countries figured it out and are now getting back to normal life, while in the U.S. we’re looking at another six months of pandemic. In New York and New Jersey, state leaders, led by Governor Anthony Cuomo, also figured it out: Test as much as possible, lock down everything, trace every infection, keep the public informed with daily briefings. Even so, New York was filling truck trailers with bodies and turning non-COVID patients away from hospitals before it got the disease under control. Most New Yorkers are still wearing masks. They learned their lesson.

Unfortunately, there is no Governor Cuomo in sight below the Mason-Dixon line.

Hospitals are already near or at capacity in large areas of Texas, with infection rates climbing every day. Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, is about to look like New York did in March. Florida’s infection rates and death totals are surging, with many more to come. Meanwhile, here in Tennessee, Governor Bill Lee stands on the capitol steps shouting, “Nelly, come home!” as the state he “leads” lurches into the top 10 of infection rates nationwide.

In 1992, Democratic strategist James Carville coined the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid,” while managing Bill Clinton’s campaign against George Bush the Elder. Bush had led the country in a brief but popular invasion of Kuwait, and his popularity stood at 90 percent afterward. Then the economy slipped, all other issues faded in importance, and Clinton took the presidency — though it didn’t hurt that mavericky Ross Perot siphoned off some GOP voters from Bush.

Now, almost 30 years later, the American economy is a dumpster fire, due almost entirely to the pandemic. It simply won’t recover unless this disease gets put back in the barn. The two are inextricably interlocked. Statues are a diversion. Antifa is a diversion. “Riots” are a diversion. “Leftist protestors” are a diversion. Donald Trump’s racist tweets and daily incoherence are a diversion.

It’s the pandemic, stupid.

Nothing gets back to “normal” until we beat this thing. If, instead of raging about statues while standing beneath Mt. Rushmore, the president had made a simple plea for all Americans to wear masks, he would have saved countless lives in coming weeks — and, ironically, likely improved his election chances.

Investment firm Goldman Sachs just released a study showing that a national mask mandate would raise the number of people who wear masks by 15 percent and would lower the infection rate nationwide to .6 percent. This is no bleedingN E WS & O P I N I O N heart liberal dogma. Goldman Sachs is THE FLY-BY - 4 advocating a mask mandate for purely NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 economic reasons: It would prevent the POLITICS - 8 country from having to shut down the COVER STORY economy again. Goldman Sachs says “BLACK AND PROUD” masks are good for business.

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F E D S I N TOWN Federal health officials have been in Shelby County to offer assistance as part of a tour of the country’s top 10 locations seeing “dramatic” numbers of new coronavirus cases.

Dr. Jonathan Mermin, the director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention and a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service, said he and others came here as federal officials saw a “dramatic increase” in Shelby County and other locations in the country. Officials also came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Clockwise from top left: ArtsMemphis, Brooks Museum, a CDC official, jail report, Secretary for Preparedness and and Shelby County Health Officer Dr. Bruce Randolph Response (ASPR).

Those teams gave technifollowing estimate of the response plan to the COVID-19 cal support and expertise to local officials for a more effective epidemic put in place at the jail by Wellpath, the caregiving response to an ever-growing number of COVID-19 cases. agency contracted by Shelby County to administer medical policy at the jail.

ART F U N D S “The Wellpath COVID-19 response plan is inadequate to The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has chosen protect the vulnerable inmates housed in the Shelby County ArtsMemphis as one of nine local arts agencies nationwide Jail,” says the report. to receive $250,000 in CARES Act funding. Separately, the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis (CFGM) AD D E D R ESTR I CTI O N S selected ArtsMemphis to receive a $200,000 capacity Bars, prisons, and nursing homes could see added restricbuilding grant from the Mid-South COVID-19 Regional tions to stem the swell of positive virus cases in Shelby Response Fund.

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Both grants will help the nonprofit arts community comAs of last week, nearly 10.3 percent of tests for bat the financial implications of COVID-19.

COVID-19 are coming back positive. That translates to new In addition to the CARES Act grant to ArtsMemphis, the daily cases of around 200-300 people.

NEA announced grants of $50,000 each to four Memphis Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said last week he hopes arts organizations: Blues City Cultural Center, Hattiloo to avoid a return to Phase I of the Back to Business plan, Theatre, Indie Memphis, and Opera Memphis. which limited capacity at businesses around the county.

However, additional measures may be added soon to help JAI L R E PO RT stop the virus’ spread.

The neutral expert witness appointed by U.S. Judge Sheryl Lipman has made his report in the case Busby v. Bonner, in B R O O KS R EO P E N I N G which the plaintiffs seek significant changes in the manner The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art reopened on July 1st of treating actual and potential COVID-19 victims in the to Brooks members and first responders. It opens to the Shelby County jail. general public on Wednesday, July 15th.

The expert is Michael K. Bray, director of the criminal During July, admission will be pay-what-you-can, and justice division for Sabot Consulting, and the text of his day tickets can be purchased at brooksmuseum.org. Reserreport was released last week. vations are encouraged.

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Data Driven Number-cruncher says Memphis opened too soon, may need to shut down again.

A $1.5 million settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit claiming that Methodist Healthcare – Memphis Hospitals (“Methodist” or “Defendant”) failed to comply with the terms of various contracts by accepting payments from third-party liability insurance sources in amounts greater than patients’ health insurers would have paid for covered services. The Defendant denies all allegations of wrongdoing.

Who Is Included?

• Adult Settlement Subclass: Any adult Tennessee resident who received treatment at a Methodist facility between April 15, 2003 and December 31, 2015 where Methodist collected at least one Liability Payment and at least one Health Insurance Payment.

• Minor Settlement Subclass: Any minor patient, regardless of state of residence, who received treatment at a Methodist facility between April 15, 1992 and December 31, 2015 where Methodist collected at least one Liability Payment and at least one Health Insurance Payment.

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In order to receive a cash payment you must complete and submit a valid Claim Form. Claim Forms must be filed online or postmarked on or before August 23, 2020.

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If you do not want benefits from the Settlement you are not required to file a claim. If you wish to preserve the right to bring an action against Methodist on your own about the legal issues in this Action, you must take steps to remove yourself from the Settlement. This is called excluding yourself — sometimes referred to as “opting-out” of the Settlement Class. You must exclude yourself from the Settlement by September 7, 2020. If you do not timely exclude yourself, you give up the right to sue Methodist for the claims that the Settlement resolves. If you do not exclude yourself, you can object to any part of the Settlement by September 27, 2020. The Detailed Notice available at www.KBSettlement.com explains how to exclude yourself or object. The Court will hold a Hearing on October 12, 2020, to consider whether the Settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate. You may appear at the hearing, either yourself or through an attorney hired by you, but you don’t have to. For more information, call toll-free 1-866-977-1092 or visit www.KBSettlement.com.

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One month into Safer at Home, James Aycock was grasping to “figure out what was going on” with the local COVID-19 situation here but found little information and “even less thoughtful analysis.”

Though he says he’s no epidemiologist, he did what someone with a background in biomedical ethics would do. He took matters into his own hands, or spreadsheets. He crafted the daily virus information from the Shelby County Health Department into a series of visualizations.

The data came to life in easy-to-read charts that show where we’ve been and where we’re (probably) heading.

His First Responses blog and his Twitter feed have become a go-to for data-hungry Memphians. His first update had over 2,000 impressions and nearly 600 engagements, about 200 times higher than his normal tweets. Those numbers grew to 15,000 and 3,000 for the last update.

“The reason I think it’s needed — the real reason you should care about what I have to say — is because the public is not getting the full story from our local officials,” Aycock says. “Analyzing the data, I’ve noticed the ways our elected officials have not always been honest with us and have not always made public health a priority. So, it is my hope that my analysis can inform the public discussion so that we can hold our elected officials accountable.”

We caught up with Aycock to talk data (natch), trends, and projections. Catch the full interview with him this week at memphisflyer.com. — Toby Sells Memphis Flyer: What does the data show you?

James Aycock: We reopened too soon.

We had actually made some real progress.

We had effectively flattened the curve, but we did not meet the criteria for reopening.

Then, Phase 2 has been a disaster.

James Aycock maps virus trends on his First Responses blog.

The second thing I’m seeing is how we’re starting to effectively lose control of the spread of the virus. The reproductive rate continues to climb, new cases continue to climb much faster than testing, and the positivity rate is spiking.

MF: What might lie ahead for us?

JA: If we don’t take aggressive action, and soon, we will have no other choice than shutting things down again. We are looking at exponential growth. Remember, that’s what “flattening the curve” was all about. We did that … until we didn’t. The curve is back again, and that is incredibly dangerous.

Right now, we’re doubling roughly every 30 days. Case 2,500 occurred on May 1st, then case 5,000 occurred on May 31st, and then case 10,000 occurred this week, on July 1st. If this trend continues, we’re looking at 20,000 total cases by August 1st. To frame that, it took us four months to see the first 10,000 cases, but at this rate the second 10,000 cases will come in just 30 days.

Let’s say we continue to double every 30 days. Then we’re talking about 40,000 total cases by September 1st and 80,000 by October 1st, all the way to 640,000 cases

by January 1st. At this rate, all of Shelby County will have been infected before the end of January.

MF: How have you seen data drive policy here?

JA: Unfortunately, I’m not seeing policy being driven by data. According to the data, we reopened too soon. Not only did we not meet our own criteria, but the reproductive rate was above 1 when we reopened, even though we know it has to be under 1 to stop the spread.

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positions in the federal/state primary elections to be held on the same day.

In theory, Shelby County Democrats were on the move, too, organizing a series of “forums” involving their candidates for the state and federal primaries, and simultaneously recording for later broadcasting these events, some of them conducted at the old Hickory Ridge Mall.

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At long last, and after months of inaction, it can probably be said that there’s an election season on. On the Republican side, GOP members of all stripes were on hand Sunday at a Germantown Parkway storefront that will serve as the party’s campaign headquarters for the duration of the 2020 election year.

Interestingly, the new party headquarters location is on the approximate geographic site — the same lot, it would seem — as the old, sprawling Homebuilders headquarters, razed to the ground some years ago but, in its prime, a complex that contained a generous-sized auditorium/arena area that long served as a meeting place for local GOPers, as well for civic clubs of various kinds.

Local Republican party chairman Chris Tutor, who, because of the resurgent coronavirus, insisted that all attendees wear face masks and do what they could to achieve some measure of social distancing, turned things over to keynote speaker David Kustoff, the 8th District congressman, who pointed out that one final Democrat-vs.Republican contest loomed on the August 6th county general election ballot: the General Sessions Court clerk race between Republican Paul Boyd and Democrat Joe Brown.

That was something to unite upon, given that others in the crowd were running against each other for

Who was that (un)masked man?

At Sunday’s opening of the Shelby County Republican campaign headquarters on Germantown Parkway, everybody, in accordance with advance instructions, wore a face mask. There was one exception — the unidentified interloper at the very right side of this photo.

Fancy meeting you here! — Eighth District U.S. Congressman David Kustoff (l), keynote speaker at the GOP headquarters opening, chats with George Flinn, a frequent political candidate who is running once more, this time for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Lamar Alexander.

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Black and Proud Five Memphians talk about what it means to be Black in today’s society.

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Black and Trans Five years ago, Kayla Gore was robbed and stabbed in the shoulder with a butcher knife outside of her home in Memphis.

With two bloody bath towels wrapped around her hands, which had been ripped open from attempting to grab the knife from her attacker, Gore waited for the police to show up. When they did, the first question the officers asked Gore is if the incident had been related to sex work.

“They acted as if I was a suspect instead of the victim,” she says. A week later, Gore found out that the District Attorney would not be pressing charges on the individual who attacked her.

“That was the end of that,” Gore says.

“And I know that decision was solely based on me being Black and trans. If I were white and trans, or even just white, they would have prosecuted the case to the fullest extent of the law.”

Gore says this is not an isolated incident for Black trans women in America. “Even when we call the police for protection, the tables can easily turn from us being a victim to a suspect.”

That is just one example of the ways in which trans women of color are treated differently, especially in the South, Gore says. “Being a trans Black woman in the South feels like living in a desert where I don’t have access to a lot of things. It’s a resource desert, a safety desert, a housing desert. This is all because of how I show up with my transness and my Blackness.”

This is the “lived reality” for trans women in the South, Gore says. “I could literally walk out of my house and be killed because I’m Black and because I’m trans.

People have their own personal biases about trans folks in the South, so it makes it even more dangerous for us.”

To make matters worse, Gore says there is no trans representation in elected or appointed officials on the local or state level, which makes her community “feel like we don’t have a space or a voice. When we elevate our voices, they’re erased.”

Feeling left out of spaces isn’t new for Gore, who recalls her first adverse experience because of her Blackness and queerness occuring when she was 8 years old. “I went to a very diverse church, but it was predominantly white. That’s when I noticed there was a difference in the way I was treated versus my white counterparts.

I would get excluded from summer camps or sleepovers. It could have been because I’m Black or because I was queer, as I was definitely a very queer child.”

After that experience, Gore says her mother had “the talk” with her and she

realized “I’m Black, therefore things will be different for me.” But different didn’t have a negative connotation for Gore: “I’ve always been proud of my Blackness because of how I was raised by my mother. I’ve always been super proud of how I show up in the world.” Much of that, she says, is the ability to connect to other people’s Blackness. “I’m fascinated with Black history. It fortified my love for my Blackness.”

It took a little longer for Gore to embrace her queerness though. She says for years she tried to be “stealthy, identifying as a Black gay man.”

But when she transitioned 10 years ago, Gore says she felt “like a whole new person.

Pride became more than a day or a month, but a 365-day thing. I’m out and proud every day now. When I show up, people can’t help but see my transness, and I don’t think there’s a better way to show my pride than that.”

That pride led Gore to activism. For 10 years, she’s been advocating for better access and equality for trans women of color. Fully committed to the cause, she’s now the executive director of My Sister’s House, which provides emergency shelter and other resources for trans women of color in Memphis.

Gore’s hope is to make life better for “people like myself,” continuing the work of Black trans women who have come before her. “We have to pick up the baton and keep the marathon going until we reach liberation.”

Black and Preaching Rev. Earle Fisher has always been going against the grain. When his first grade teacher in Michigan threatened to paddle all of the Black students, Fisher recalls protesting and walking out of the classroom. “I wasn’t going for it then, and I’m not going for it now. I’ve always been critical of racial injustice,” says Fisher, now the senior pastor at Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church in Whitehaven.

As a Black pastor, Fisher says he’s in a “beautiful and complicated position.

It’s beautiful because the Black faith has always been something that sustains Black people throughout history, even in Africa.

In the United States, it was the impetus for resistance work that led to abolition, the Black Power movement, and the civil rights movement.”

Fisher says his role is also “complicated,” explaining that religion has historically “been co-opted and used as a tool of manipulation, especially in the white Evangelical strand of Christianity. It’s not always easy to embrace a Black pastor in America and especially in the South.”

This concern was at the forefront of Fisher’s mind one Sunday in 2015 when a white couple showed up to attend his predominantly Black church. Nervously reading over his notes, he questioned whether his prepared message would offend the couple and if he needed to change it for their sake. continued on page 12

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Beyond police brutality and systemic racism, Black people, because of their hairstyles, music of choice, sexual orientation, and culture, often face discrimination, microaggressions, and prejudice in everyday life. Still, a tenacious pride abounds in the Black community.

This is the story of five Memphians’ experiences as Black people in America.

— Maya Smith

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“I immediately began to skim over my preaching manuscript in my mind, asking myself, ‘Am I going to say anything offensive to them?’ I know I can be a little edgy and unorthodox in my attempts to articulate the gospel on a grassroots and socially conscious level. I had to think about if I needed to dial it back. Do I need to assimilate to a more moderate conservative theology in my own church?”

Ultimately, Fisher says he stuck with his original manuscript and delivered a message with “unadulterated and unapologetic commitment to Black liberation theology, and they actually loved it. But the point is, how many times do you think a white pastor would question his sermon because of Black visitors?”

Fisher says when you grow up Black in America, “the air you breathe informs you of these social constructs that are a part of our reality. But it’s not a reality I was ever ashamed of.”

Fisher says he’s always been proud to be Black. He shows that on the pulpit, as well as on the streets through activism and grassroots involvement.

“I don’t have to apologize for my heritage or my ethnicity,” he says. “I don’t see it as a negative attribute. I thank God I’m Black. I don’t need to be ashamed about it. There are so many times where my Blackness is affirmed. How can you watch Serena Williams and not be Black and proud? How can you listen to Malcolm or Martin speak? Or how can I be in my house with my family playing spades, listening to the newest album, and not be proud? Just thinking about these moments gets me excited. It’s a beautiful thing.”

Black and in Business As a college student in the Chicago area, Bartholomew Jones frequented many coffee shops. One thing he noticed about the shops was the lack of people who looked like him in the room.

“I never had a negative encounter,” he says, “but the whole experience was just white, from the people to the music playing over the speakers. So I just assumed coffee was a white people’s thing.”

That began Jones’ multi-year journey to learn about the history of coffee, which culminated last year when he started CxffeeBlack, a coffee company that seeks to “make coffee Black again.”

In his research, he learned that coffee originated in Ethiopia and was later brought to Europe.

“Black people in America don’t understand our cultural ties to coffee,” he says. “So the question was ‘What’s a way for us to provide more education on the history of coffee and also try to provide a way for more Black people to experience coffee?’ That was the inspiration for starting the company. I wanted Black people to feel like coffee was for them.”

Jones’ years in college opened his eyes to more than the lack of diversity in coffee shops. He also saw firsthand “the reality of

how unequal society is.”

At Wheaton College, Jones says there were few other Black students on campus — so much so that he knew most by name.

Growing up in Whitehaven, a majorityBlack neighborhood, for most of his childhood, he says that was a culture shock.

“I noticed how much the white guys would drink and do drugs and there were never any police around. Meanwhile, I grew up in an overpoliced neighborhood. I got to see how the other side was living and what they could get away with.”

That wasn’t the first time Jones says he was made aware of the difference in the way he and his Black peers were treated.

He remembers taking a ride with his mentor, who was white, during his senior year in high school. Jones asked if he could play one of his favorite CDs, a Christian hip-hop album by Lecrae.

“I put the CD in and he was immediately like ‘I have to show you something.’ He took me to the school basement where they keep old tracts and handed me a red pamphlet about types of demonic music, which of course included rap and hip-hop. But the reasoning was because they come from the ‘dark continent of Africa.’ I was speechless.”

Jones says he was aware of racism in a historical context, but not in the form of present-day prejudices. “It didn’t matter how many people were kind to me, they still hated my culture,” he says. “It didn’t matter how smart or nice I was, I was still Black in their eyes. Only if I conform and assimilate to their culture and listen to their type of music, am I then okay.”

Today, Jones fully embraces his Blackness, in part by “providing quality coffee for the ’hood” and also by protecting and uplifting other Black people.

Jones says the most important part of that role is being the father of two young boys. He and his wife want to ensure their sons are prepared for what they might face as Black men in America, he says.

“We want to give them a new narrative, though. We don’t want our boys to think they are destined to be killed by police officers. We have to give them the tools to protect themselves and overcome obstacles they will encounter as Black men. Most importantly, we teach our kids that they are Black and they should be proud of it.”

Black and Non-Binary When Mia Saine was in preschool, they were bullied because their skin was darker than their classmates’ and their hair was a different texture.

“This was the first time I remember any form of discrimination,” they say. “I mean, imagine being a 4-year-old and someone pointing out your features that make you different or implying those features make you not desirable to befriend. It was hard.”

Later, Saine remembers seeing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on TV for the first time and recalls that being the earliest moment they were proud of their Blackness.

“I got to see Michael Jackson playing this role as a zombie. He was on TV. It was

worthy in a way I shouldn’t have to. I have to overcompensate so often. But at the same time, I’m the type of person who won’t stand for any kind of discrimination.

I don’t want to be seen as the angry Black woman, so I have to figure out how to be diplomatic but still stern.”

Despite the challenges over the years, Saine says they’ve come to love their queerness and Blackness, realizing “I should just love myself for me and advocate for all of my qualities instead of trying to seek approval and forgiveness. I can’t wait around for people to understand me. I have to live my life.”

Saine says they’ve felt more hopeful about the future for Black Americans in the past few weeks, seeing more people “accept the reality of people who are like me, my friends, family, and loved ones. Because we matter so much. We just want to be valued.

That’s all.”

Black and Elected Antonio Parkinson’s dreadlocks were below his ears when he had to cut them in order to keep his job at the Shelby County Fire Department.

“I started to grow dreadlocks,” he says. “There was no policy in place at the time, but they wrote me up, and when I wouldn’t sign the write-up, they were ready to suspend me. They told me I had to cut them or I’d be fired. So I did, and it made me feel terrible. I felt singled out. They didn’t understand my culture and weren’t

trying to at the time.”

Parkinson says hair discrimination is just a drop in the bucket of what he experienced during his 25 years working for the fire department. From racial slurs to attempts to thwart the promotion of him and other Black firefighters, Parkinson says the culture was one of “suppression for people that look like me.”

He thought about walking away several times “when it got ugly, but I’m a fighter so I stayed. I simply looked at it as ‘Why not me?’ Why should your child and family have opportunities and not mine?

Why can’t I do something that will create generational wealth for my family?”

Now, in his ninth year as a Tennessee state representative, Parkinson says his experiences over the years have only added fuel to the fire, motivating him to create legislation, such as healthy workplace laws to prevent discrimination on jobs and the Tennessee CROWN Act, which would make it illegal to discriminate against natural hair in the workplace.

“I just wanted to get some stuff done,” he says of his decision to run for office in 2011. “I wanted to level the playing field for everyone.” But discrimination and racism is still a reality for Parkinson.

“The Tennessee legislature is rampant with racism,” he says. “There’s overt racism. There’s covert racism. It’s in the racist jokes and slurs to the policies. And if you say something about their racism or racist statues, then they want to kill all of

your bills.”

For example, Parkinson says no people of color had any input that made it into the state’s budget this year. “Not one single person of color had something in the budget. What does that say? The budget is a moral document that determined the priorities for the state.”

“Sometimes it gets discouraging,” he says of his role as a legislator in the majority-white General Assembly.

“Sometimes they’re practicing discrimination and don’t even realize what they’re doing is racism. They say things that are not necessarily from a place of malice, but a place of ignorance. So part of my job is educating them.”

Despite the discrimination over the years, Parkinson says he has always been proud of being Black.

“I knew I was Black early on. My mother wouldn’t not let me know. She taught me who I was and how proud I should be. I loved and still love being Black. There’s nothing like the culture and everything that comes with it.”

Because of that, Parkinson says he is an “unapologetic, uncut version of myself.

We shouldn’t have to compromise who we are, at all. I don’t care if you have gold teeth or weave down your back. We don’t have to compromise our culture. This culture is dynamic with everything from natural hair to 26-inch rims to bass in the music.

We should not be ashamed or dumb down who we are for someone else’s comfort.”

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just so magical. My parents introduced me to a lot of Black music, and I started to feel a sense of pride for our culture.”

Saine, born and raised in Arlington, is an illustrator and graphic designer in Memphis. They are also Black and nonbinary, which they say “is a protest itself.

Every day I’m going against the so-called normal lifestyle and American Dream.

But that just doesn’t represent who I am as a person.”

As a high school student in Arlington and then a college student at Memphis College of Arts, Saine says they had to learn how to navigate predominantly white spaces, but there were times “when I was uncomfortable and just couldn’t relate because I didn’t have certain privileges and opportunities.”

Now, a full-time professional artist, Saine says that discomfort continues. Often in meetings, “I’m the token Black person.

There have been times where I’ve been like ‘Oh yeah, this conversation is happening because I’m Black.’ It’s infuriating. However, having been on both sides of the coin, I know how to adapt and code switch.”

As an artist of color, Saine says “every time I present something, it’s over 100 percent, to surpass the expectations for that of a Black person. I feel responsible to represent a whole group of people. Being a non-binary Black artist is an empowering thing for me.”

However, Saine says they “feel obligated to go above and beyond to prove myself

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How COVID-19 will affect 2020 taxes.

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020 has been an amazing year so far.

The stock market had a record sell-off in the first quarter and a solid recovery in the second.

COVID-19 shut down the world for a couple of months, but we started to reopen and now some areas are slowing down again. All of this in only six months.

If you haven’t had enough fun with that, let’s take the time to think about taxes in 2020. As a result of COVID, legislation was passed earlier this year that included three changes that may apply to you.

Charitable Contributions: Charities are feeling the pinch of reduced contributions and increased service needs, just like the rest of us.

Congress added two rules to help encourage charitable gifts in 2020.

Normally, if you take the standard deduction on your income tax return, you cannot deduct charitable contributions. However, this year, donors who do not itemize may deduct up to $300 of charitable contributions. Additionally, larger donors are generally limited to deducting 60 percent of their Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) for cash gifts.

But in 2020, Congress has increased this to 100 percent of AGI for cash gifts to operating charities. If you make sizable charitable contributions, work with your favorite charities and advisors to determine if there is an opportunity to make an additional impact this year.

IRA Distributions: IRAs are great places to accumulate assets, but eventually the IRS decides they want their tax money. To make this happen, you must begin taking Required Minimum Distributions from your own IRA at age 72 or earlier for an inherited IRA. Because of the sell-off in the stock market early this year, Congress approved a one-year exemption from Required Minimum Distributions. If you would normally be subject to an RMD but do not need the cash this year, consider postponing the distribution and tax payment until next year. Depending on your 2020 tax bracket, it may be a good year to make a Roth conversion with a portion of your IRA. Pay some tax this year and get tax-free growth

in future years.

People under age 59½ who take distributions from IRAs and 401ks are normally subject to a 10 percent penalty for early distribution. These accounts are designed to be a longterm savings program, but sometimes they are the only source of funds. For COVID-related distributions in 2020, you can pay the tax with your 2020 tax return or extend the payment over a three-year period. If you elect the three-year payment, you are still subject to paying the taxes during this period, but you have the option to claim a refund to get the funds back and avoid the tax (essentially a self-funded loan). To avoid the 10 percent early distribution penalty and qualify for the repayment period, the withdrawals must be under $100,000 and you have to meet one of the following criteria: You, your spouse, or dependent are diagnosed with COVID. You experience adverse financial consequences as a result of being quarantined, furloughed, laid off, or having reduced work hours, or the closure or reduction of hours for a business you own.

Normally, if you take the standard deduction on your income tax return, you cannot deduct charitable contributions.

This year, donors who do not itemize may deduct up to $300.

Unemployment Benefits: The additional $600 per week unemployment benefits paid by the federal government is taxable income; don’t be surprised.

The tax changes offer a little bit for everyone: an additional charitable deduction for those who are inclined, postponed RMD for taxpayers who don’t need the cash, and a lower tax rate for those who do have to tap into retirement savings.

Take the time to plan ahead and get the best tax answer out of 2020.

Perry Green, CPA/PFS, CFP, CFA is chief financial officer and senior wealth strategist for Waddell & Associates.

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Nights Like These

By Julia Baker

While the city was on lockdown, local Americana band Lucero finished recording a new album at Sam Phillips Recording Studio.

“We all wore masks, everybody stayed out of the way and everything,” says Brian Venable, the band’s Lucero guitarist. “But it was interesting. First or second night in, not only was there COVID, but the protests started happening and you couldn’t go out after 10.

There was a whole lot of stuff going on in the world.”

Fans might be able to hear a couple of songs from the new album this Saturday during Lucero’s first live-streamed concert (recorded from Minglewood Hall) since they last toured together in February. Venable says the band agreed that they preferred this method of streaming over other methods they’ve seen musical artists use.

“Jason Isbell supposedly did that thing where everybody Zooms from their different houses and plays music together,” he says. “That sounds logistically like a nightmare. I go online mostly every night for an hour on Instagram and read. I’ve read four books aloud. There’s a Brian Venable Book Club now. I was like, man, I’m so tired of white, bearded, tattooed guys singing about girls on the internet.”

Venable adds, “There’s something about playing in your living room, but there’s also something about pay-per-view events where there’s lights and good sound and there’s a possibility of hearing new songs or making requests.”

Venable says, if everything goes according to plan, Lucero will play their annual Family Block Party in September.

Until then, however, Venable says he hopes that this live stream will provide an authentic “MTV-like” experience for viewers.

“Tune in. Have fun. We’re Lucero,” he says. “Somebody is gonna be drunk, somebody’s gonna mess up, someone’s gonna have fun. Those three things are guaranteed.”

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VARIOUS DAYS & TIMES July 9th-15th Virtual Wine Dinner with Restaurant Iris facebook.com/joeswinesandliquors, Thursday, July 9th, 6:30-8:30 p.m., $95-$155 Live from Restaurant Iris, Chef Kelly English will show you how to prepare the first course and walk you through plating the second and third courses. Sisco Larson of Joe’s Wines and Liquors will discuss cocktail and wine pairings.

Virtual Fridays in HSP facebook.com/MMDC901, Friday, July 10th, noon-1 p.m., free The Memphis Medical District Collaborative has taken its Friday concert series online. This week, get down to music by DJ Siphne Aaye, a visual artist whose sonic grooves are a unique blend of hip-hop, funk, and soul, as well as a little bit of Caribbean, afrobeat, and dancehall music.

Songwriter Series: Drive-In Concert Series Landers Center, 4560 Venture, Thursday, July 9th, 8 p.m., $40-50 Songwriters Don Sampson and Jim “Moose” Brown perform a drivein concert. Sampson’s songwriting credits include Brad Paisley’s “Waitin’ on a Woman.” Brown is a member of Bob Seger’s Silver Bullet Band.

Orion Virtual Concert Series facebook.com/TheLevittShell, Friday, July 10th, 7:30-9 p.m., free Each Friday, the Shell streams past concerts on their Facebook page. This week, enjoy a “live” performance by Aztec Sun, a “funk with soul” band from Washington, D.C. Watch from your backyard with your favorite beverage in hand for the ultimate experience.

Carpenter Art Garden Virtual Art Show facebook.com/CarpenterArtGarden, Monday, July 13th, and Wednesday, July 15th, 10 a.m., free Since 2012, the center has worked to empower the children of Binghampton to create their best futures through exposure to artistic, educational, and vocational programs. Seventy percent of proceeds go to students who crafted the artworks.

The Plagues of Memphis, Part 1 facebook.com/ElmwoodCemetery, Tuesday, July 14th, 6:30 p.m., $10 COVID-19 is not the first epidemic that has struck our city. Join Elmwood as they discuss other diseases that plagued Memphis during the 19th century. They’ll also discuss the palliative care used to treat them.

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Spaceman Arrives Michael Graber debuts fresh original tracks that reflect the moment we’re in.

Michael Graber with son Leo and Graber Gryass ing fully as well, but in a different way.

The first single, which dropped in late June, is simply titled “Marijuana.” “An ancient herbal brew, it could take care

of you too,” he sings. Other tracks have dropped since, such as “Drinkin’ Forties,” celebrating another ancient brew, and “When the Water’s This Low,” which begins, “Now Daddy and Red been drinking since dawn and now the sun’s waning low. Twilight crept in like a ghost as we rode through a cypress grove.”

These first releases, which will emerge on a Graber Gryass album in August, are especially meaningful to Graber.

“I’m gonna call [the first album] Late Bloom. I’m 50 and this’ll be the first thing ever released under my name, other than the Backsliders, 611, Prof. Elixir, all that stuff. It’s taken a while. It’s a way to say, ‘Hey, it’s never too late to create. We can always blossom, we can always flourish.’”

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and everybody’s playing behind me.”

While the songs were written in the downtime of shelter-in-place, Graber notes that they apply to life more generally. “There may be some emotional truth, but there’s no topical or literal way of talking about this time of quarantine. These songs run the gamut of the emotions, everything from jumping into a river to turning into light. It’s crazy stuff. It’s really more like a celebration of living fully, no matter what. Just flourishing. It’s springtime!”

Meanwhile, the other batch is already being released online. These are more traditional numbers, in a folk/ bluegrass/country vein, albeit touched with Graber’s own old world-inspired lyrical imagination. These celebrate liv-

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ichael Graber has built a career outside of music, but he’s a fixture on the local scene.

Back in the ’90s, he helped found Prof.

Elixir’s Southern Troubadours; more recently, we’ve heard his work with the Bluff City Backsliders, who have mined similar territory, or with the group Damfool, who are harder to pin down.

Now, another of his groups, Graber Gryass, is stepping to the fore, and, as the name implies, it’s more focused on his own songwriting than any of his earlier projects. That’s partly due to the realities of life during the coronavirus.

“When Amy LaVere and Will Sexton were on tour in March, and suddenly every gig they had was canceled, I thought, ‘Shit, what can I do?’” he explains. “So I started that Microdose series [on Facebook every Saturday at 1:30 p.m.], where I do two originals and one cover, to raise money for full-time working musicians. And I raised over $1,000 dollars, just to give away to all my musical brethren and sistren. But by the fourth one, I ran out of songs that I had written. I had to start writing songs pretty quickly just to keep up because there was more interest than I thought there would be.

I challenged myself to do more songwriting, and after I had about 24 of them, I thought, ‘Hmm, some of ’em fit into a mold, some of them are way out, but we should record all of them.’”

Graber booked a couple days with Boo Mitchell at Royal Studios, and, fully masked, the band cut one song after another, mostly live in the tracking room.

The players were so prolific and inventive that Graber is sorting the final tracks into two batches, to be released under different names. (An Indiegogo campaign under the name of Graber Gryass has been launched to fund the releases.)

Sometime next year, he’ll release the most left-field compositions, which developed as the band grew more and more uninhibited in the studio. “The one with the weirder songs, I’m gonna call Spaceman’s Wonderbox. In one band I play in, called Damfool, they started calling me Spaceman. And they’ll never tell me why. It just kinda stuck. You can’t really fight it, right?”

Moreover, the name is a good fit with the material itself, which Graber describes as “this mix of shamanic spoken word and ecstatic love poetry,

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Playhouse on the Square

Playhouse on the Square at Home, a series of digital content through POTS website and social media platforms.

View past performances, engage in quizzes, enjoy digital playwriting, and more. Free.

Ongoing.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

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

2020 Virtual Door Dash The annual kickoff for Adapt-A-Door fundraiser in November. Peruse pictures of available doors or other items to make into furniture, art, or other adaptive reuse. Artist can register on website or call.

Through July 31.

MEMPHIS HERITAGE, 2282 MADISON (272-2727).

3rd Space Online

Visit Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn for exciting activities and relief efforts from the local creative community.

Ongoing.

3RDSPACEARTS.ORG.

Arrow Creative Online Store

All sales benefit local creatives.

Shop locally made jewelry, candles, greeting cards, soaps, and more. Ongoing.

ARROW CREATIVE, 2535 BROAD, ARROWCREATIVE.ORG.

Arrow Creative: Positively Creative Quarantined Convos

Inspiring conversations live on Instagram with creatives. Free.

Tuesdays, Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. & 8 p.m.

ARROW CREATIVE, 2535 BROAD.

Café Conversations

Tour a related special exhibition or works from the Brooks permanent collection led by local Memphians. Visitors contemplate real-life issues by comparing themes in art. Free.

Wed., July 15, 6 p.m.

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

Exhibition of works by the Bartlett Art Association at Memphis Botanic Garden, through August 31st Call to Artists for “Unresponsive”

Seeking work in solidarity with the Black community of Memphis. Submit new works of visual art, music, spoken word, and writing to be included in a large-scale, open-call exhibition and performance event when Crosstown Arts reopens to the public. Through July 31.

CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE, STE. 280 (507-8030).

L ROSS GALLERY, 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200), LROSSGALLERY.COM.

benefiting Planned Parenthood. Visit the website for more information and submission. Through July 31.

CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE, STE. 280 (270-8409), NASTYWOMENMEMPHIS.COM.

Open on Main: My Memphis View Art & Gallery

Visit artist Mary-Ellen Kelly online for “My Memphis View” products including books, prints, T-shirts, drink coasters, and posters.

Featuring virtual gallery tour.

Ongoing.

MY MEMPHIS VIEW ART & GALLERY, 5 S. MAIN, MARYELLENKELLYDESIGN.COM.

Pinot’s Palette Virtual Paint

Register online for Zoom invite and an emailed supply list.

Don’t forget the wine. Visit website for dates and times, $15. Ongoing.

PINOTSPALLETE.COM.

Soul Practice Chops Series

Memphis Flyer Coloring Book

Practice online with music director Paul McKinney. Sessions include tutorial videos and sheet music that any student can use to practice.

Free. Ongoing.

MEMPHISMAGAZINESTORE.COM.

STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC, 926 E. MCLEMORE (9462535), STAXMUSICACADEMY.ORG.

Order your book today, benefiting local artists and journalism. $35. Ongoing.

Metal Museum Online

Peruse the art and craft of fine metalwork digitally. Featuring past gallery talks from previous exhibitions, interviews with artists, and demonstrations including “Beauty in the Boundary,” the Museum’s exhibition of gates and railings. Free. Ongoing.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Call to Artists: “Nasty Women Memphis: War Paint”

Seeking work for the Memphis exhibit in fall 2020 at Crosstown Arts in the Concourse

Watercolor Florals 101 Shelby Brown, studio artist at Arrow, has made a PDF of steps, techniques, and a 25-minute video tutorial to teach you how to make watercolor florals. $10-$50.

Ongoing.

ARROW CREATIVE, 2535 BROAD.

Woman’s Exchange Virtual Art Gallery

Annual fundraiser featuring original work in mixed media, glass, sculpture, jewelry, woodturning, and more. View

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

CALENDAR of EVENTS:

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

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WOMAN’S EXCHANGE ART GALLERY, 88 RACINE (327-5681), WEOFMEMPHIS.ORG.

ONGOI NG ART

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

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

Ongoing.

“IEAA Ancient Egyptian Collection,” permanent exhibition of Egyptian antiquities ranging from 3800 B.C.E. to 700 C.E. from the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology collection. Ongoing.

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

ArtsMemphis

“Access Granted,” exhibition of work by ArtsAccelerator grant recipients. Through Aug. 31.

“Unfolding: The Next Chapter in Memphis,” exhibition of visual art by local Memphis artists, curated by Kenneth Wayne Alexander. artsmemphis.org. Ongoing.

575 S. MENDENHALL (578-2787).

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“Interiors: A Study of Domestic Quarantine,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Paula Kovarik and Sophia Mason. Curated

by Jenna Gilley. Visit Facebook page to view virtually. rhodes.edu. Ongoing.

“Quarantine Couple,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Lacy Mitcham Veteto and Gregory Allen Smith. Curated by Ben Aquila. Visit Facebook page to view virtually. rhodes.edu.

Ongoing.

“Second Life, Third Life,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Meredith Potter, Melissa Wilkinson, and Emily C. Thomas. Curated by Roland Donnelly-Bullington. Visit Facebook page to view virtually. rhodes.edu. Ongoing.

“Eyesolation: Seeing and Looking in Quarantine,” exhibition

Memphis Mojo Tours

by Backbeat Memphis, through July 31st

L Ross Gallery

“Finding Birdsong,” exhibition of new works by Lisa Jennings. Through July 25.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Melissa Dunn, Alexander Paulus, Emily C. Thomas, Mary K VanGieson. Curated by Katie Clark.

Visit Facebook page to view virtually. rhodes.edu. Ongoing.

“Home is Where the Art Is,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Nick Peña, Ryan Steed, and Nancy Cheairs. Curated by Julia Conway. Visit Facebook page to view virtually. rhodes.edu. Ongoing.

“All by Myself,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Jesse Butcher and Emily C. Thomas. Curated

by Marlo Morales. Visit Facebook page to view virtually. rhodes.edu. Ongoing.

“Landscapes in Isolation,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Clare Johnson, Maysey Craddock, and Susan Maakestad.

Curated by Caroline Koch.

Visit Facebook page to view virtually. rhodes.edu. Ongoing. “playground,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Elizabeth Alley and Susan Maakestad. Curated

by Dresden Timco. Visit Facebook page to view virtually. rhodes.edu. Ongoing.

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

David Lusk Gallery

“Dualities,” exhibition of works by Don Estes. Through July 31.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Fratelli’s

“Selections by Sandy,” exhibition of landscapes, still lifes, and animals by Sandy Scruggs. Through Aug. 31.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Circus,” exhibition of recent paintings by Juan Rojo.

Through July 11.

Permanent Collection: “The Flow Museum of Art & Culture,” ongoing.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

Memphis Botanic Garden

Bartlett Art Association, exhibition of work by members of the Bartlett Art Association. Through Aug. 31.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Arts of Global Africa,” exhibition of historic and contemporary works in a range of different media presenting an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry. Through June 21, 2021.

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

by Victor Ekpuk. Ongoing.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Intrepidly Yours,” exhibition of spring 2020 BFA work by last graduating class. mca2020bfa.com. Through Feb. 28, 2021.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

“Tradition of Excellence: Japanese Techniques in Contemporary Metal Arts,” exhibition of Japanese metalworking techniques and materials by Japanese and American artists highlighting the influence of Japanese metalworking on contemporary metal arts.

Curated by Hiroko Yamada and originating at Penland Gallery. metalmuseum.org. Free.

Through Sept. 13.

“Tributaries: Sophie Glenn i Rust Never Sleeps,” exhibition of works by furniture maker and metal worker from New York City. Through Sept. 27.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Mid-South Artist Gallery

“1899 to 1940 Old School,” exhibition of paintings from 1899 to 1940. Call for private gallery viewing. Through July 21.

Quinlan Rhodes, exhibition of wildlife paintings. Through July 16.

“Historical Artist Review,” exhibition of work from 1896-1940

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“Beautiful Souls: Joel Brodsky and the Faces of Stax Records,” exhibition of some familiar faces and famous Stax album cover photographs. Through Sept. 30.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Tops Gallery

“Bleeding to Space,” exhibition of three-dimensional work by Ziba Rajabi. Through Aug. 15.

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Wednesday Opera Time Join Opera Memphis every Wednesday on Facebook for an assortment of live events

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Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 1:30 p.m.

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Through July 9.

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Neko Mew’s Belly Dance Classes

Need to stay active while social distancing? Local artist and belly dancer Jen Russell offers weekly video tutorials via Facebook Live.

Donations accepted, payable through Venmo. Available via Facebook group Neko Mew’s Belly Dance Classes. Viewers can also receive individualized instruction by donating $5 for the first video lesson and $10 for each subsequent video.

Wednesdays.

University of Memphis Theatre & Dance: Free Livestream Classes Visit the Facebook page for live streaming with student instructors. Free. Ongoing.

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Metal Museum Audio Tour B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue

Authors will discuss and sign What Makes a Marriage Last: 40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life.

Ticketed virtual event moderated by Action News 5’s Joe Birch. $33. Tues., July 14, 7 p.m.

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Enjoy the lecture series featuring presentations by local artists, scholars and Dixon Staff sharing their knowledge on a variety of topics. Wed., July 15.

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Guided Bicycle Tour, Elmwood Cemetery, Saturday, July 11th, 6:30-8 p.m.

Zoo Dude

Hosted by Chief Zoological Officer Matt Thompson, Memphis Zoo updates. Free.

Wednesdays, Sundays, 8 a.m., and Saturdays, noon.

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Bicycle Tour

Pedal your way through history during this guided tour and explore the cemetery from top to bottom. $20. Sat., July 11, 6:30-8 p.m.

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Memphis Mojo Tour

All of the guides are professional Beale Street musicians who play and sing while

Explore the newly updated Sculpture Garden and accompanying audio tour while adhering to safe social distancing. Ongoing, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

The Plagues of Memphis, Part 1

Age-old diseases tormented the citizens of Memphis in the 19th century. Guides will discuss palliative care, like leeches, herbs, and other means by which early Memphis settlers cared for themselves. Register to attend via Zoom. Tues., July 14, 6:30 p.m.

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Tours for Very Small Groups

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St. Jude JAM Auction

Bid on items from cars to oneon-one time with celebrities benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Ongoing.

ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL, 262 DANNY THOMAS PLACE (495-3300).

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Ballet Memphis Online Pilates and Ballet Classes

Classes offered include Espresso Flow, Stretch & Burn, Fascial Fun, Intermediate/ Advanced Ballet, Intermediate Mat Flow, and Get Moving. $10. Ongoing, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

BALLET MEMPHIS, 2144 MADISON (737-7322).

Kroc Center Online Fitness Classes

Classes offered free and online. From mediation and yoga to Boot Camp and kickboxing.

Free. Ongoing.

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Virtual Training & Group Fitness

YMCA of Memphis & the Mid-South offers workouts for anyone to try at home.

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Novel Virtual Book Club

For more information on joining book club discussion, visit website or follow on social media. Members can get 10 percent off this month’s book to have shipped or pick up curbside. Free. Third Wednesday of every month, 7-8:15 p.m.

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (922-5526).

Read in Peace Book Club: Zoom Edition

Online meeting to discuss monthly book. Register for meeting invite. Proceeds benefit Elmwood Cemetery. $5. Ongoing, 5:30 p.m.

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

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Explore Memphis Reading Challenge

Summer reading program.

Read 20 minutes a day and track your reading online for prizes. Challenge is for all ages, but requires an adult to sign up those under 13. Free.

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BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700), MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.

Live at the Garden Online Auction

Special items will be auctioned throughout the season, including a Ron Olson original painting. Visit website to participate. Ongoing.

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Lunchtime Meditations with Amy Balentine

Explore a variety of meditation practices designed to help you find balance and reduce stress. Join live or enjoy past meditations online.

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Pink Palace Online

Visit website for at-home museum offerings, including The Sun, Our Living Star planetarium show, America’s Musical Journey movie, and more. Free. Ongoing.

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

United Way of the MidSouth: Driving The Dream

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S

pencer Coplan began his Wok’n in Memphis restaurant as a pop-up in 2017. For the past two years, he’s been serving his nontraditional take on Chinese food at Puck Food Hall.

Well, Coplan started something new: Wok’n in Pickle Co. “It’s our side hustle project from Wok’n in Memphis,” Coplan says. “We open to the public Thursday, July 25th.

It is an online grocery store that sells specialty provisions and products we make in-house using local ingredients.”

He’s making shiso (a plant that’s in the basil family) vinegar. It has a “floral and earthy” flavor that is perfect for salads. And, Coplan says, “A couple of dashes go well in a cocktail.”

They bought a whiskey barrel to make aged soy sauce. “It sits in the whiskey barrel for three months, and then it gets chocolatey and oak notes.

And we add umami to the soy sauce.

It’s a great marinade for meats or [to put] a dash of it in a rice bowl or on noodles.”

He’s also making “kimchi pickles of all varieties” and flavored oils.

Kimchi is “a Korean fermented pickle condiment. We put it in fried rice. We stuff it in dumplings. The juice is really nice and pungent. And it goes well in my Bloody Mary mix.”

The oils include garlic chili oil and coriander oil. They also make a spicy chili condiment, which is made of fried garlic and shallots, chili flakes, and sesame seeds. “That goes in all of our dumplings.”

Some of these are Coplan’s products that have been around for a while.

“We’ve been making them for a long time just for us. Why not bottle and sell them?”

They’re using “all Rolling Along Farms produce out of Memphis.

We’ve got cucumbers, carrots, banana peppers, green beans, peas. And then we’re making cabbage kimchi and carrot kimchi.”

Coplan created all the recipes from “trial and error. Lots of error.”

They began with the kimchi. “We’ve always done kimchi. We started selling that probably around February in 16-ounce deli cups. It kind of took off. People really enjoyed it. I thought, ‘Why not bottle and sell other items?’”

The items will be available at the restaurant and online at wokn-in-

memphis.square.site.

Wok’n in Pickle Co. came into being because of the pandemic, Coplan says.

“A lot of the stuff came from the fact we were really slow. I didn’t know what people were going to do. We had a lot of leftover product, and we didn’t want it to go bad. So we started preserving it in different capacities.”

Everything is made at Puck Food Hall. “We’ve got some new peach hot sauce coming out now. And we’re thinking down the road we’d like to package and sell our dumplings in the frozen variety. So you can take them home and steam them, fry them, boil them. Any way you please.”

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They currently are offering about 15 products, Coplan says. “And we plan on growing from there. Add dumplings; maybe we’ll jar up some sauces we make. Things like that.”

Wok’n in Pickle Co. is “my idea of how to provide a few things for people Downtown who want to buy some specialty groceries.”

During the quarantine, Coplan says there were “a lot of late nights of bottling hot sauce and chili oil and jarring things.”

Wok’n in Memphis has been open for takeout and delivery, but now customers can eat inside Puck Food Hall. “During those times, we started focusing on other outlets of income so we could be open doing takeout and delivery or half capacity. I thought another way of making an income is this side hustle.”

His restaurant is open Thursday through Sunday.

“The General Tso’s Chicken is still our fan favorite,” Coplan says. “It’s just the tangy sauce tossed with crispy chicken served over rice. It’s our bread and butter.”

Wok’n in Memphis is in Puck Food Hall at 409 S. Main; (901) 949-4887.

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it was cloudy. Not peering through briny sea water cloudy, but like looking through … bread. The brewery’s motto is “Never Settle,” and this one didn’t. Not that that put me off. The slogan for the old Murffbrau was, “It’s not real beer, unless you can chew it.” So I dove in and …

These are the people behind 201 Hoplar, one of Memphis’ great craft brews. For all I know, this might be the cosmic ideal of a New England IPA. Nuance is Dead wasn’t bad, it was just too much. I had been warned, “This stuff is so hoppy it’s hard to get in the growler.”

The aftertaste is a little “clingy.”

The weird thing is that the longer I thought about it, the more I wanted to try it again. I also wanted to shave my tongue. Make of that what you will.

I’m headed down to my poor man’s Goldeneye to bat out a masterpiece, so I need to concentrate. To cut the taste, I experimented with something called Pusser’s Rum — Original Admiralty Strength: Gunpowder Proof. I try not to get too excited about packaging, but this struck the right vibe. Fleming was a Navy man. The gal at Buster’s described it as the kick of moonshine and smooth of rum. I hate moonshine, so I said, “I don’t think so.”

Without missing a beat, she said, “Well, we sell it in a larger bottle, so if you’re unsure, this one is clearly the one you should be buying.” Fortune 500 companies pay top dollar to teach sales people how to just hurtle over objections like that. Well done.

I can assure you that Pusser’s Rum cut the taste of that loaf of beer I drank earlier. She wasn’t kidding about the moonshine kick or a good rum taste either.

It’s a wallop of a dram; Mrs M. could smell it on the far end of the sofa.

Drinking it neat really is like gunpowder, and over ice the whole thing opens up. Still a bit hot, but velvety too. An intriguing combination.

I have no one to blame, the warnings were right there on the label. Like the Nuance is Dead, the Gunpowder Proof rum was good — certainly worth a try — but just a little too much for me. Neither was the sort of thing that a very nearly awardwinning writer quaffs before typing “It was a dark and stormy night.” Both just might work wonders, however, after typing “The End.”

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Eye on You,” but the depth of Miranda’s genius is revealed in the second act’s “The Room Where It Happens.” Sung by Burr, it’s a show-stopper about the creation of a national banking system and the geographical placement of Washington, D.C. Who even knew such a thing was possible?

Now, the prediction: In a few years, once we’ve fought COVID-19 to a draw and film production can resume, Disney is going to drop $100 million to make a blockbuster version of Hamilton. They’ll film in Independence Hall (the room where it happened) and “Guns and Ships” will be staged at a lavishly recreated Battle of Yorktown — but it won’t have a 10th of the power of the version that just dropped on Disney+.

Thomas Kail, who directed both the original Broadway musical and the film, uses techniques pioneered by Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense, cutting together footage filmed over three nights of shows at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in June 2016.

The show had just set records at the Tonys and was about to take home a Pulitzer. From the first closeup of Miranda as Hamilton, backed by a chorus singing “What’s your name, man?,” these performers are on fire. Tony winner Renée Elise Goldsberry as Hamilton’s sister-in-law Angelica, roars onto the stage for her introduction in “The Schuyler Sisters.” continued on page 28

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It is Hamilton’s moral ambiguity that makes him such a rich character in the hands of Lin-Manuel Miranda. There’s a lot of sappy musical theater which hits big on the strength of melody and sentiment.

Hamilton is the opposite. Part of Broadway’s cultural function has traditionally been to assimilate popular music traditions, and Hamilton’s integration of hip-hop with show tunes is the perfect example.

Miranda uses the lyrical density of rap to weave a decade-spanning story of wartime heroism, political intrigue, and personal reversals. Rap cyphers turn out to be the ideal format to dramatize George Washington’s cabinet meetings.

Miranda’s music and story sit among the greatest of Broadway. It’s easy to craft inspirational songs about revolutionary heroism. Just look at Les Misérables.

But writing a toe-tapper about the ugly political wrangling that comes after a successful revolution is something else entirely.

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First, the confession: Before watching the film now streaming on Disney+, I had never seen Hamilton. I had only added the cast recording to my iTunes library, where it languished after one perfunctory listen.

It’s not that I don’t like musicals. I’d much rather go to a musical than a football game. I would have loved to have seen Hamilton on Broadway, but the truth is I was too broke to afford a pair of $500 tickets. Maybe I could have scraped together the dough, but I wasn’t motivated to because, as a student of American history, I’ve never been a big fan of Alexander Hamilton. The founder of the country’s first central bank has always come across as an ambitious schemer to me, even as I generously quoted the Federalist Papers. For me, Hamilton has always been representative of those who love America more for its capitalism than for its democracy.

The penniless immigrant from the Caribbean turned self-made statesman was ripe for a reputation renovation, but it was his status as proto-capitalist that allowed Hamilton the musical to see the light of day. If you don’t believe that’s true, let me tell you

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Hamilton bowed on Broadway three months after the decade’s other towering masterpiece, Mad Max: Fury Road, hit movie theaters, and a few weeks after Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign. Like Fury Road, the cascading catastrophes have only served to deepen Hamilton’s meaning.

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flaws — and they had many — their experiment in government by the people, for the people has endured and brought hope to the world. In Hamilton’s day, the young republic was threatened by the personal ambitions of powerful men. So, too, is it in our day. In Miranda’s telling, Hamilton’s ambition is both his driving force and tragic flaw. Nevertheless, he recognized the dangers of a president driven only by the will to power when he endorsed his longtime rival in 1800. “When all is said and done/Jefferson has beliefs/ Burr has none.”

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A few days ago, Packed House Productions closed their restaurant and bar locations (Slider Inn, Aldo’s, Bardog, etc.) due to a staff member testing positive for COVID-19. They did the responsible thing, which was to shut down temporarily, and I think we can all find some relief there. This isn’t by any means a derogatory analysis of PHP; they are simply Exhibit A on the long road to non-recovery (thus far) in the fight against the current pandemic in the restaurant industry.

COVID-19 is a real and growing problem, as Shelby County’s infection rate numbers continue to increase to levels well above those seen in April and May. As we watch the numbers grow, we also watch some of these small businesses, the backbone of the American economy, continue with back-to-business plans that are put in place at the expense of their front- and back-of-house workers. In response to these concerns, one hears about the required-mask ordinance, the cleaning and safety protocols these businesses have put into place, and how people are “choosing” to come back to work. Unfortunately, too often, these are empty gestures and unimaginative solutions.

The mask ordinance is a necessary precaution but becomes null when applied to dining or drinking indoors — activities that pose the greatest risk of infection.

The safety protocols businesses attempt to enforce, such as low occupancy or sixfoot-distance seating, simply don’t work. Customers will slip up or ignore them, and violations immediately slip through the cracks.

After the virus has dealt such a devastating blow to their revenue, it is quite naturally in the interest of businesses to make as much money as quickly as possible in order to recover. The safety protocols hinder businesses’ ability to do that, so often protocols are not enforced by managers who care more about saving their business than keeping their employees safe.

Many of the people who are “choosing” to go back to work do not want to be there. While they wear the required PPE, they have to deal with customers who don’t and who have little regard for workers’ safety. Most servers make $2.13/hour plus tips or minimum wage ($7.25/hour) with no benefits, insurance, or protection. The public is expected to pay workers’ bills through tipping, meaning, it’s up to customers to choose whether or not to pay workers.

I write these thoughts not because I want to see small (and some not-so-small) local businesses go under. Business owners are people, too, and have their own dreams and goals, and none of those should be diminished. But we don’t seem to worry as much about their workers’ dreams. What of their goals? What of their lives? What of their experiences? What of their health?

What does it say about our “backbone” when employees are saying, “Hey! This isn’t safe! We don’t feel cared for!” As employees organize and begin to ask questions about continued pay during another shutdown, or ask to be included in meetings about reopening, managers and owners often turn a blind eye — it’s a problem. When businesses make PR posts about how responsible they are but refuse to be transparent about how they will be caring for their lowest-tier employees, it’s a problem. When workers share their stories and experiences, only to have their bosses say they are petulant, choose to “agree to disagree,” or worse, fire them, it’s a problem. When businesses tell their FOH employees that they are “family” then decide not to listen to their family’s needs or concerns about their safety, it’s a problem.

In the restaurant-worker community, we call out local businesses because it is our responsibility to look out for one another.

Why have servers and bartenders been so reticent to share their experiences and concerns during this time? They are terrified to lose their jobs for speaking out, for sticking up for themselves or each other. We as the community want safety for our friends, loved ones, and fellow workers. It simply cannot continue this way.

Between COVID-19 and the current rallying of the Black Lives Matter movement, I’ve seen this community come together in ways I never thought possible. I have seen struggle, hardship, sadness, and trauma in the communities of workers, BIPOC, and LGBTQ individuals. I also see so much love, caregiving, willingness to learn, accountability, transparency, and growth in these communities.

Businesses that exploit labor aren’t what define this country. The people — the workers, the activists, the artists, the community caregivers — are the real backbone of this country.

To all my friends and to the people I don’t know who are back at work: I see you. I hear you. We all do. Know that your experiences are valid, and not only do you deserve to be treated better, but it is your human right to be treated better. Never forget you have the strength of community behind you.

Chase Baltz is a Memphis activist and artist, and has worked in the service industry for 14 years.

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Open to the public Fri 4-10p & Sat 1-10p, Sun 1-7p To-go beers only Wed & Thur 4-7p 768 S. Cooper * 901.207.5343

World Championship

Hot Wing Contest and Festival

Taproom is open every day

JUST ANNOUNCED! VIRTUAL EVENT

Cheers! We can now deliver some delicious alcoholic drinks right to your door alongside your to-go meal or have them available for curbside pickup! Don’t want to leave the house, that’s okay - twobrokebartenders.com will be happy to deliver it to you.

You may also buy gift card for all locations online.

We are going to make it through this together.

AUGUST 29th

We’re looking forward to coming back bigger and better than ever in 2021 www.worldwingfest.com benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis

ALL ABOUT FEET $35-$55

Mobile foot care service, traveling to you for men & women, ages 50+.

Over 25 years of experience. Traveling hours M-F, 9a-6p.

Call now 901-270-6060

*TEAM CLEAN*

Address: 320 Monroe Ave • Entrance on Floyd Alley • Park in Stop345 Lot on Madison • West of Danny Thomas • 901.730.0290 • Take Sally to the Alley..

All natural cleaning for your home • office • studio environment Contact Candace @ 901-262-6610 or teamcleanmemphis@gmail.com

GONER RECORDS Visit Us Online At Goner-Records.Com Local Pickup Available (901) 722-0095

Coco & Lola’s MidTown Lingerie PINCH DISTRICT

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 21,000 sq ft. 100 + booths • 5855 Summer Ave. (corner of Summer and Sycamore View ) exit 12 off I‑40 | 901.213.9343 Mon‑Sat 10a‑6p | Sun 1p‑6p

WE BUY RECORDS 45’S, 78’S, LP’S

Don’t “give them away” at a yard sale We Pay More Than Anyone Large Quantities No Problem Also Buying Old Windup Phonographs Call Paul 901-435-6668

$CASH 4 JUNK CARS$

Non‑Operating Cars, No Title Needed.

901-691-2687

ARTISTS’ MARKET 1ST SUNDAYS IN THE PINCH ON WESTY’S PATIO

SUNDAY AUGUST 2ND

NEW SUMMER ARRIVALS!

We are following all safety guidelines for your next visit ! Shop our SUMMER SALE! Be safe Memphis ! We  You SERVING ALL SIZE DIVAS SMALL - 4X

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Memphis’ Top Lingerie Shop 710 S. Cox|901-425-5912|Mon-Sat 11:30-7

2PM - DARK

346 N. MAIN • MEMPHIS, TN 38103 901.543.3278 • westysmemphis.com

We carry a variety of CBD products. Full Spectrum oil, sprays, skin care, and even CBD for Pets. Find us at Foozie Eats Clark Tower 5100 Poplar Blue Suede Do’s iBank Building 5050 Poplar Oothones 410 N Cleveland St or online at simplyhemp.shop 901-443-7157