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

OUR 1691ST ISSUE 07.22.21 Last week, the Flyer editorial staff had our regular Wednesday meeting in the office.

We crowded around the big table in the “fishbowl” (so called because of its glass wall) conference room and dared to breathe the same air. In person! I don’t typically use exclamation points, but I feel the previous sentence warrants some excitement.

Michael Donahue, our inimitable food and party writer, author of the popular “We Saw You” column, made the mistake of saying he would see everyone at next week’s meeting — on Tuesday. I corrected him, but he somehow planted that little bit of misinformation in everyone’s brain, where it took root and bore poisoned fruit.

Why would we meet on Tuesday morning — before the issue has gone to press?

It makes no logical sense and flies in the face of a Flyer editorial tradition that long predates my time with this estimable publication. Nonetheless, a third of the staff remembered and seemed to take as gospel Donahue’s slip of the tongue.

I spent the last week fielding emails, texts, and in-person(!) questions about our untimely Tuesday meeting.

My intention here isn’t to tease my editorial staff — well, not only to tease them — but to point out in practice something that has been clearly demonstrated in studies.

Gossip, rumors, and misinformation travel much faster than proven fact.

After an analysis of 126,000 rumors spread on Twitter over a period of 11 years, a 2018 study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that false news travels more quickly and reaches more people than true news. Rumors and false news were found to be 70 percent more likely to be retweeted and reached people up to six times faster than actual news. Of course, this study is limited to stories spread on Twitter, but what is the bird app if not society’s rumor mill?

Of course, I am once again referring to the propagation of vaccine-related misinformation online. (I don’t want to talk about it anymore, folks, but for the moment it seems to be one of the more immediate dangers disproportionately affecting our region. We’re a hot spot again, one of the top five states for increases in case counts.) But I’m not just thinking of vaccine and coronavirus misinformation.

There’s also the Big Lie, the belief that the most recent presidential election was stolen, and all of the dozens of smaller lies it’s spawned. There’s a crisis at the southern border. President Joe Biden will soon give the signal to the Chinese army (currently hidden in Canada) to invade. Or, as Senator Marsha Blackburn tweeted on Monday, President Biden is using his political power to silence his opponents. Well, Marsha, he’s doing a downright terrible job of it if that tweet is still up. All of this — these flurries of fearmongering tweets and email blasts and news spots, the needless trips to inspect the troops at the border, this grandstanding — serves only to distract from real issues affecting real people. Our neighbors and friends and family and coworkers aren’t being served by trips to the border between Texas and Mexico. I’m much more concerned with the bridge that spans the border between Tennessee and Arkansas, thank you. Or with the way certain county borderlines seem to demarkate a dramatic difference in vaccination levels.

Disinformation is deadly. I’m not up in arms about a difference of opinion, but spreading patently false information for political credit is another thing entirely.

“Almost all the patients that get admitted to the hospital and admitted to me in the intensive care unit are unvaccinated patients,” Dr. Todd Rice, the director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s COVID-19 unit, told Nashville’s WKRN last week.

I wish we could get past all this. It’s like we have our own 21st century version of Vichy France, with outposts in most communities in every state, remotely governed from Mar-a-Lago. (And yes, I am aware of all the xenophobic, authoritarian, and Nazi-collaborator connotations of my reference to Vichy France. Can you honestly say it doesn’t fit?)

N E WS & O P I N I O N THE FLY-BY - 4 Look, there are no Chinese troops NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 6 stationed in Canada waiting on an order POLITICS - 6 from an American president to give AT LARGE - 8 them the signal to invade and subjugate COVER STORY Tennesseans. The level of coordination “BURGER BONANZA” that would take is, put simply, beyond

BY FLYER STAFF - 10 WE RECOMMEND - 14 the realm of possibility. If anyone is that MUSIC - 16 put together, it flies in the face of the BURGER WEEK LIST - 17 evidence of every meeting I’ve ever tried CALENDAR - 18 to schedule.

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True fans of Memphiana will know the 1980s “Memphis Group” (of Italian designers and architects) launched a new design style of cartoony-looking furniture, fabrics, lighting, and more.

It was named “Memphis” for Bob Dylan’s “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again.”

The style reemerged recently in illustrations of large, cartoony-looking people, now referred to as “Corporate Memphis” and widely used by companies. Design expert Evan Collins explained why the name may be misplaced in a long thread on Twitter.

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Many Memphians were among the 39 million U.S. families eligible for a federal child tax credit of up to $3,600 per child that will be paid directly to them in monthly installments through the end of the year.

Experts said they expect the influx of child tax credit money to dramatically help Black families in Memphis, where the child poverty rate is 40 percent for Black children and 35 percent for children overall — the second highest in the nation for large cities. That direct infusion of money will, in turn, boost the local economy, with an initial impact of at least $234 million, said a local economist.

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The Kelly family, pictured here in their living room, is set to receive $800 a month to help care and provide for their three children, ages 5 months, 6 years old, and 10.

N EW H EALTH LEAD Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris nominated Dr. Michelle Taylor to be the next director of the Shelby County Health Department.

The nomination comes after the March resignation of former director Alisa Haushalter amid a state investigation of wasted COVID-19 doses and untidy vaccine record-keeping.

Dr. LaSonya Hall has been serving as interim director.

If approved by the Shelby County Commission, Taylor could start on August 2nd.

H I STO R I C LOW O N FO O D S P E N D I N G Americans spent 10 percent less on food during the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recession of 2020, according to federal data.

Citizens spent 8.62 percent of their disposable incomes (which the government counts as all money left after paying taxes) on food during the pandemic, the lowest in 60 years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Restaurants took the biggest hit as Americans spent 22.2 percent less of their incomes on dining out. They spent slightly more (1.4 percent) on food at home from stores.

MAR IJ UANA PO LL State Rep. Bruce Griffey (R-Paris) filed legislation recently that will ask Tennesseans on a ballot what they think about legal-

izing marijuana. But this is not a ballot initiative; it’s a poll. It’s nonbinding, which means that if every single Tennessean votes “yes,” nothing happens. The nonbinding nature of the poll brought criticism of Griffey’s move.

State Rep. John Ray Clemmons (D-Nashville) tweeted, “This is the type of bill you introduce when you don’t have the courage, as a legislator or a party, to just do what’s right. They don’t hesitate to discriminate against kids, limit voting rights, or give anyone a handgun, but legalizing marijuana is a bridge too far.”

STU DY FO R GAY B LO O D D O N O R S Memphis is one of eight sites for a new study that could broaden blood-donor eligibility for men who have sex with men.

In April 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deferred a man who had sex with another man from donating blood for three months following his most recent sexual contact with another man. The aim of the policy is to reduce the risk of infection, including HIV, from reaching the blood supply.

The Assessing Donor Variability And New Concepts in Eligibility (ADVANCE) study could base donation decisions on individual risk, rather than the blanket three-month deferment.

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them and find where they are. This is actually very valuable because, otherwise, it’s sort of a needle in a haystack kind of thing or looking for an animal that’s, you know, a centimeter long.”

The Asian longhorned beetle has been introduced in North America many times, McKenna said, but has been eradicated each time. These beetles are threats to home property values, too, and have been found to inhabit whole neighborhoods in places like Boston and Chicago.

With the five-year grant, McKenna will work with Stephanie Haddad, a research assistant professor in U of M’s department of biological sciences. They will hire some post-graduate students to help, but those students will also get training in the methods used by McKenna and other working scientists to “themselves become educators and mentors,” McKenna said. They will all work with other scientists around the world (specifically in Australia, South America, and Europe) as these beetles are found everywhere but Antarctica.

The project has another global pursuit.

McKenna’s team will also sequence the genomes of 15 beetles as part of an international effort to sequence the genomes of representative groups of all life on Earth. The Earth BioGenome Project is called a “moon shot for biology” and could tranform “the scientific understanding of life on Earth.”

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Duane McKenna is a key player on a global hunt for an economic friend and threat, and his team is now armed with a $1.3 million grant to fuel the search.

McKenna is a Harvard-educated beetle expert at the University of Memphis. He teaches biology at U of M but also founded the school’s Center for Biodiversity Research and the Agriculture and Food Technologies Research Cluster on the campus.

This year, he and his team won the $1.3 million grant from the federal National Science Foundation (NSF) to study how beetles taste and smell (chemosensation).

Knowing how they find food and eat may allow scientists to find them more easily.

The beetles are pollinators, so knowing where they are can aid agriculture. The beetles eat wood, so being able to find them, McKenna said, could help avoid multi-billion-dollar destruction of forest land in eastern North America.

“We are going to learn things about the beetles that relate to how they find plants or even wood that they’re eating and how they find it,” McKenna said.

“Knowing those two things, it provides us with mechanisms that facilitate control or, in the case of invasives that come into the U.S., an understanding of how to trap

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‘Keeping Ourselves Safe’ Dr. Michelle Taylor was nominated last week by County Mayor Lee Harris to be Shelby County’s new health department director.

Pending a vote from the Shelby County Board of Commissioners, she will succeed longtime director Dr. Alisa Haushalter and interim director Dr. LaSonya Harris Hall.

Here she discusses taking the reins.

very much with us, and it’s very much a risk. What we can see from the numbers right now is that most of the people who are being hospitalized with COVID more than likely have the Delta variant and more than likely have not been vaccinated. And so I think what it’s going to be important to do from the health department standpoint, is to make sure that we are messaging what the risks are to the community, so that folks can make decisions about how best to protect themselves, their families, and the community at large.

Memphis Flyer: Obviously, you’re taking over at a very strategic time when the pressure from the state government is overwhelming.

Michelle Taylor: We are more independent than some of the more rural county health departments that are under the state health department umbrella. I believe that Shelby County Health Department has already put out a statement that we intend to continue to push vaccines, the safety of vaccines, and the importance of vaccines to our residents and their families. So there’s no pressure to follow the state model. And that’s the nice thing about being a metro health department — we can set our own tone about how we want to message to the population here in Shelby County. We’ll let the state take care of the state, but we’re going to continue to practice good public health, which we’ve been doing for a long time.

How important in the chain of possible infection are teenagers as a group?

Oh, wow. That’s a great question. So teenagers, as we know, are very social human beings. And so, you know, it is good that the FDA has approved kids 12 and up to be able to get COVID vaccinations, in consultation with their families, if they feel like that’s the right choice for their families.

But we know that teenagers, speaking as a pediatrician, tend to their bodies, and their immunities start to act more like adults than children. So at the beginning of COVID, we knew that children were less likely to become infected. And when they did become infected, they were less likely to have severe symptoms. But now that we know that COVID has mutated, that landscape may be changing a bit. So we really do need to know what’s going on in our teenagers going forward.

What should the relationship be between the city and the county in administering antiCOVID vaccines?

That’s a good question. Basically, what I would want to see is a renewed partnership between all of the municipalities and the county to make sure that we’re protecting the health of the people.

How important a factor in the current state of things is politics ?

Politics is quite important. Right now, we know that we’ve seen that over the last 12 to 15 months. A lot of the debate about whether to get vaccinated or not get vaccinated has been driven by politics. But we also know that at the end of the day, most people, most families, most communities want to be safe. And they’re trying to figure out the best way to be safe, given what they see on the news, given what they see is happening in their own families. So yes, politics plays a part. But I believe that it doesn’t have to be the whole ballgame if we message the people how to protect themselves.

We’ve had enough folks finger-pointing, now let’s get back to some civil conversations about things that we have in common — like how to keep ourselves safe.

A longer version of this interview can be seen at memphisflyer.com.

Do you think you have a good sense of what mistakes were made that created that situation back in February when the state insisted there be a changeover?

As you know, I was in Maryland then. I was watching it on the news just like everyone else, but I had no way of knowing internally what was going on.

Is there any likelihood that the Delta variant can build to the proportions that we had back then?

Well, I hope not, but the Delta variant is

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Into the woods I’m writing a couple hours a day and also putting together a collection of my stuff for publication at some point. I’ve been taking French classes on Duolingo for about a year, but I’ve ramped that up lately.

I do laundry. I water the garden. I mow the yard. I’m living on the edge, basically.

The main change in my life is that I’m now a dog. I’m the alpha of my pack, and why not? I mean, the other two are co-dependent slugs who lack all ambition. They spend the day lying at my feet, waiting for me to move, which, to be honest, is a big responsibility. I get up and walk toward the kitchen and they follow, tails wagging, wide-eyed: “OMG, is he going to eat something??”

Or, if I should casually walk toward the back door, they’re up in a flash, dancing around like idiots. If they had pants, they’d be peeing in them: “Is he gonna grab the leashes? Huh? Huh? HE IS! HE’S GOT THE LEASHES! OH MY GOD, THIS IS AMAZING! WE’RE

GOING FOR A WALK!! OH, HAPPY DAY!! HOLY CRAP!!!”

Oh to be a dog and to be able to get that ecstatic over something that happens Every. Damn. Day. It’s a gift, I swear. Lucky dogs.

Sometimes we go to Tobey Dog Park, which has a self-appointed park monitor: “Olive just pooped down in the corner, just past the third tree!” she’ll say, helpfully. Yeah, I saw that, thanks, Pat. She means well, but I’m the alpha here.

Most of the time, I drive them to Overton Bark, where they can hang with other hounds for a bit before we venture off onto one of the countless trails and paths of the Old Forest. I’m still finding new ones. Our walks are quiet, shady, soul-cleansing — and even informational. If I hear an unusual bird sound, I record it on my BirdNET app. When I learn that it’s a great crested flycatcher, I dutifully pass along this knowledge to my pack. I like to keep them updated. I also check plants, so I can let them know that those blue blossoms we’re walking past are American bellflowers.

After 45 minutes of hiking and learning, my girls are panting — bushed and ready for some air-conditioning. Who’s a good alpha? Who’s a good alpha? Me. That’s who.

Back home, as the dogs return to their spots under the table, I check Duolingo. I’ve gone from spending 30 minutes a day when I was working fulltime to as much as a couple of hours a day now. Yes, it’s because I want to get better at French, but I must admit it’s also because Duolingo (le batard!) has figured out a way to make language learning a competitive sport. There are “standings” — a league where you get points for how many lessons you take each day and how many points you get on your tests. I like to win, mes amis, and Duolingo knows this — and knows how to suck me back in.

During my walk in the park, for example, I could have gotten an alert (I did) that “Amelie” has moved into first place in our league. You can be sure, now that I’m home, I’m going to be taking an unstoppable hour-long dive into passe imparfait. “Amelie” won’t know what hit her. She may be good at French, but she’s no alpha. She is powerless against Retiree Man.

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For our annual Burger Week, we’re highlighting 10 burgers discerning Memphis foodies have to try — from classic beef to black beans to … ostrich.

Everybody loves Burger Week. At least, everyone on the Flyer editorial team certainly seems downright hungry to devour a burger (and write about the experience) for this annual cover story.

And why shouldn’t they be? Hamburgers are the black T-shirt of American cuisine — they go with almost everything. Whatever your palate, you can dress them up or down to your taste, even eschewing the meat if that’s what floats your burger boat (and as 20 percent of this story’s samplings do). This roundup of 10 Bluff City burgers runs the gamut, from the classic to the most gourmet of garnishes.

Whet your appetite with these helpings of hamburger, and then see page 17 for a full list of the Burger Week specials available around town. In the meantime, if, like Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, you find yourself “Cruisin’ for Burgers,” we hope this list will be your burgerific guide.

The Bishop Burger at Bishop

Bishop, inside Central Station Hotel at 545 South Main, feels both familiar and otherworldly: You’re in the heart of historic Memphis, but with a French twist. A light Eurodisco take on Françoise Hardy’s “Le Temps De L’Amour” echoes through the room when the burger enters, buttered brioche buns gleaming, a steak knife plunged into the center, and all else is forgotten. Much care has gone into this creation, which some food-savvy friends have dubbed the best burger in town.

The double patties are made with beef from Evans Farms, blended with filet and short rib trimmings, topped with cheddar cheese and “all natural, humane” bacon from Niman Ranch. And then there are the enhancements: a B1 sauce, “a play on A1 sauce,” essentially a red wine and butter demi-glace incorporating more bits of filet, and a tomato aioli. The latter is made with tomatoes fermented for several days in the Bishop kitchen, adding a subtle tartness to the profile.

served with hand-cut fries. I go for the tots because that’s how I roll. — Shara Clark RP Tracks, 3547 Walker Avenue

The Fye Junt at Plant Based Heat

If you opt for pommes frites, try them with the garlic and dijon aioli, which takes the French penchant for mayonnaise with fries and throws a mustardy bite into the proceedings. Merveilleuse! — Alex Greene Bishop, 545 S. Main Street #111

Steakhouse Burger at RP Tracks

“Proud loser of the Best Burger in Memphis award for what, 30 years now?” That’s the text on an advertisement RP Tracks ran in this publication a few months back, poking fun at the fact that they’ve never made it to the top in the Flyer’s Best of Memphis “Best Burger” category. That may well be true, but their burgers are the business.

The standard RP Burger is a good go-to if you’re looking for a classic (8-oz. Angus patty and your choice of cheese, alongside a setup of lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickles), but don’t stop there. The bacon cheddar and jalapeño burgers are both solid choices, but — being a fungi fanatic — I opt for the steakhouse. A thick, juicy beef patty is topped with grilled red onions and mushrooms, covered with melted Gouda shreds, and sandwiched in a potato bun. You can add the fixings to it, if you’d like, but with or without the extras, you’re gonna need to take a tip from Guy Fieri and do “the Hunch” — cradle it from underneath to hold it all together, tilt your head to the side, and open wide to get all that goodness in one bite. Any of Tracks’ burgers can be made with a Beyond Burger veggie patty, and they’re SHARA CLARK

Steakhouse Burger at RP Tracks

CHRIS MCCOY

Mr. Good Burger at Roxie’s Grocery I wish I’d tried the $5 burger. The place was full of regulars. You don’t get regulars with a $19 ostrich burger that tastes like beef. Google informed me that ostrich was a lot healthier than beef and an ostrich looks like Big Bird.

My apologies to Sesame Street, but I took that as a win.

— Julie Ray Off the Hoof, 12013 US-70, Arlington, Tennessee

Mr. Good Burger at Roxie’s Grocery

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Ostrich Burger at Off the Hoof

Ostrich Burger at Off the Hoof

I’d heard about two great places for a burger in Arlington — Off the Hoof and Slingshot Charlie’s. I planned to try both and the best burger would get a write-up. By default Off the Hoof won the competition. Slingshot Charlie’s was shuttered for the week so that the owner and staff could celebrate the Fourth of July. Don’t fret, Charlie should be slinging shots by the time you read this.

At Off the Hoof, I had planned to have the $5 house burger. But then I saw the “Big Game” menu. I had to go there. It boasted buffalo, elk, wild boar, ostrich, and venison burgers. I was informed that fresh ostrich meat was shipped in on Tuesdays and Fridays. This tasty trek was on a Friday. Score.

I made a mistake. It tasted like beef. I expected more.

There were some interesting sides ordered — Frito Pie (Fritos corn chips, chili, and cheese) and Freta Fries (handcut battered fries with feta cheese and buffalo sauce).

“I hope you don’t have any work to do this afternoon.”

I’m standing next to Daris Leatherwood, chef and owner of the Sum Light Bistro food truck. We’re in line at Roxie’s Grocery, waiting for our orders. The cooks are presiding over a full griddle. It’s lunchtime, and we’re behind a big order destined for workers at nearby St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Roxie’s is an Uptown landmark, the kind of place where you take time to talk to your neighbors.

Leatherwood’s been telling me about launching his food truck when he asks what I ordered. I’m getting the Mr. Good Burger, the H-bomb of the Bluff City burger scene. I tell him I’ve got to write about it once I’ve eaten it. “You’re gonna have to take a nap,” he says.

The Mr. Good Burger comes wrapped in a foil package that’s bigger than both my fists — and I’m a bass player with long fingers. It’s a double bacon cheeseburger with all the trimmings, but that generic description doesn’t convey the sheer magnitude of this classic. The four strips of super-thick bacon are bent double and inserted between the patties. I have to unhinge my jaw to take the first bite and blast off to carnivore heaven. They call it “Mr. Good Burger” for a reason. This is the Platonic ideal of the two-patty griddle burger, a mixed-meat masterpiece.

Now I’ve got to lay down. The things I do for journalism … — Chris McCoy Roxie’s Grocery, 520 N. 3rd Street

The Bshop Wagyu Burger at the Beauty Shop

My burger of choice, the Bshop Wagyu Burger at the Beauty Shop, is daunting, understandably pricey, and a thing of wonder. The $12 delight comes with a tasty special sauce, lettuce, tomato, cheese, pickles, and onions. I ordered bacon, avocado, and mushrooms on top of that (75 cents each) because I could. Cheeses available are American (my choice), cheddar, pimento cheese, provolone, and gruyère.

And you can get an egg in the mix for another buck. continued on page 12

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The Fye Junt at Plant Based Heat

It’s fire, fire, everywhere with one of Plant Based Heat’s signature burgers. The new vegan restaurant by Ralph Johnson brings in all the traditional flavors of Southern cooking, just without the meat. For burger time, I emerged slightly singed, but none the worse for wear, after diving into the Fye Junt burger.

The Beyond Meat patty is simply the canvas for the firestorm to come. Jalapeño peppers? Check. Vegan pepper jack cheese and spicy mayo? Absolutely. But instead of a simply overwhelming heat wave, PBH’s secret sauce, coupled with Memphis Sweet Heat BBQ sauce, brings the spice back down to a manageable level just before things get out of hand. For good measure, toss in fresh spinach, tomato, and caramelized onions.

The Fye Junt fresh off the grill sure feels like messy and greasy goodness, with a texture akin to biting into a regular ol’ beef patty. Even if you’re a devout carnivore, like me, the Fye Junt will satisfy, I promise. Just maybe make sure there’s a glass of water nearby. For it’s all in the name: The Fye Junt truly brings plant-based heat. — Samuel X. Cicci Plant Based Heat, 669 S. Highland Street

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probably five, six years ago. It had great success. People really liked it. It eventually made its way on the menu.”

And, again, this isn’t some fiery burger that will make you run for water. “I would just describe it as more of a mild to medium heat. The jalapeños aren’t very hot. So it’s more of a spiciness than it is a real tongue-burner.”

— Michael Donahue Clancy’s Cafe, Hwy. 178 West, Red Banks, Mississippi

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No.1 Farm Burger at Farm Burger

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The Bshop Wagyu Burger at the Beauty Shop Once you’ve outfitted it, you’ll find it difficult to deploy in the traditional way. There is a top and bottom torta roll, but everything in the middle makes it difficult to chomp without dislocating a jaw, so you may want to have utensils at the ready. Still, going at the mushrooms with fingers or the avocado with a fork doesn’t diminish the pleasure in the slightest. The beef is sublime and the veggies are yummy. It is fairly typical of what you get at the Beauty Shop — or any of Karen Carrier’s eateries — in bringing forth the freshest ingredients and splendidly prepared dishes. — Jon W. Sparks The Beauty Shop, 966 S. Cooper Street

Firecracker Burger at Clancy’s Cafe

I can’t resist saying the Firecracker Burger at Clancy’s Cafe bursts with flavor. But it really does. It’s delicious.

But I won’t say “explode” because it’s not one of those sohot-it’s-inedible food items.

“It is two 8-ounce patties, ground beef, that’s stuffed with our homemade pimento cheese and pickled jalapeños,” says Tyler Clancy, owner of the Red Banks, Mississippi restaurant.

“And then we fry the burger, of course. It’s on a toasted sourdough bun with our hand-breaded onion rings. The onion rings are on the burger. And then we do our in-house queso cheese dip on all of it.”

The burger is just one of those things that was so good it stayed around. “This was like a Fourth of July special

July 22-28, 2021

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Firecracker Burger at Clancy’s Cafe

ABIGAIL MORICI

Chipotle Black Bean Burger at Evelyn & Olive

Chipotle Black Bean Burger at Evelyn & Olive

As a Catholic, I’ve made my fair share of mandatory confessions, but this is, perhaps, my most embarrassing one yet: I tried my first burger in 2019, not as a curious toddler but as a semi-functioning 20-year-old picky-eater. It was a veggie burger on a certain local college campus, where my options were limited, my standards sinking, my expectations low, and, man, that burger was sinfully bad. Thankfully, I had the wherewithal not to give up just yet on expanding my palate, and I tried the Chipotle Black Bean Burger at Evelyn & Olive. And hallelujah, what a delight!

The ciabatta bun is lightly toasted, and the black bean patty, topped with tomato and lettuce, has just the right amount of crisp. But the mango-barbecue sauce is the real star of the show with a smoky but sweet flavor. Plus, the dish came with a side, so I also devoured some fried plantains, which mmmm, I could snack on all day and night and the next morning, too. Overall, the black bean burger is pretty simple compared to the other Jamaican and Southern dishes on the menu, but Evelyn & Olive can never disappoint.

— Abigail Morici Evelyn & Olive, 630 Madison Avenue

No. 1 Farm Burger at Farm Burger

The eponymous sandwich at Farm Burger in Crosstown Concourse is exactly what you’d want something called a “farm burger” to be — fat, juicy, but tight enough in its bun to be easily managed by hand. Cooked to your order (I like mine medium well), the patty I had was topped with cheddar and a generous layer of caramelized onions and marinated in the establishment’s “f.b. sauce” (mayonnaise, garlic, and a touch of chili were some of the recognizable components). The bun encasing all these goodies was an integral part of the package, as well, its breaded halves neither melted on nor floppily separate.

The burger, which is served in a basket, can be further customized more or less to the customer’s taste, and a variety of sides is available. I was happy enough with the basic Farm Burger as normally prepared, but I was curious enough about what was billed as “pimento cheese fries” to give that menu item a try. It turned out to be a delectable

(and generously proportioned) selection of french fries smothered in melted pimento cheese and crowned with sliced jalapeños. Forks are available. You can eat as many of the peppers — or as few — as you choose. It may depend on what your drink choice is; mine was a glass of a refreshingly light pilsner beer. Standard teas and soft drinks can be had as well. — Jackson Baker Farm Burger, 1350 Concourse Avenue #175

Assassin Burger at Wally Hatchet’s

Drive east past the Malco Summer Drive-In, cross the Wolf River, pass Golf and Games, and drive past the Shoney’s graveyard of Summer and Sycamore View. Find self-control enough to pass Elena’s Taco Shop, cross Elmore Road, and you’ll find Wally Hatchet’s, nestled in a strip mall with a how-can-this-still-be-Memphis address.

The lunch-rush crowd was finishing up as I entered.

Customer graffiti covered the walls in between colorful prints of Hank Jr., Merle Haggard, and the like. The aesthetic was NASCAR-dad man-cave with a collage of art (like a painted board that reads “rock me baby”), a dented piece of a race car, a giant Harley-Davidson sign, and a toilet-roll holder shaped like a revolver. One wall was dedicated to military veterans.

Given the drive, I wanted the wildest burger Wally Hatchet’s had to offer. The Assassin Burger was tasty but mild, given an ingredient list that included pepper jack cheese, grilled jalapeños, and pepper sauce that tasted an awful lot like A1.

Wally Hatchet’s won’t become my next burger obsession.

But, if you’re out that way, give it a try. — Toby Sells Wally Hatchet’s, 6439 Summer Avenue TOBY SELLS

Assassin Burger at Wally Hatchet’s

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By Julie Ray Ephraim Urevbu has held down the corner at Huling and South Main since 1998. Prior to that, Urevbu migrated from Nigeria in 1980, earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Memphis, and opened the Art Village Gallery on Beale in 1991, which was moved to the current location. Recently, COURTESY UREVBU CONTEMPORARY the gallery was rebranded as Urevbu Contemporary.

A new exhibit, “The Naked Truth: An American Story in White, Red and Blue,” is headed to Belmont University in Nashville and will be shown in the university’s Leu Art Gallery this fall. The full exhibition consists of more than 50 original paintings inspired by the advent of public demonstrations surrounding issues of social justice, the unjust treatment of African Americans, and the normalized presence of systematic racism.

Ahead of the university exhibition opening in late August, the artist will hold a preview exhibition, an artist-led talk, and private tour with a cross-section of paintings on display — a suite of 20 abstract expressionist paintings from the series. Many will be paired with a short essay or reference material, which function as key components to provide interactive and layered experiences to viewers.

“For 400 years, American culture and nationhood has been haunted, stalked, and tormented by the reality and symbols of racial injustice — the chains, the noose, the statues, the bullets,” says Urevbu. “Now, well into the 21st century, the labels, suspicions and accusations, the protests and riots, the righteous indignation, and ‘good trouble’ rise again and again as a shadow on the land and as a spotlight on the hypocrisy of a nation that saw itself as the standard-bearer for freedom.”

A line of limited-edition candles titled “Good Trouble” and a coffee table book titled after the exhibition are to be released in late fall of 2021. Both items can be pre-ordered at the event.

EXHIBITION PREVIEW FOR “THE NAKED TRUTH: AN AMERICAN STORY IN WHITE, RED AND BLUE,” UREVBU CONTEMPORARY, 410 S. MAIN, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 4-6 P.M., FREE WITH REGISTRATION.

VARIOUS DAYS & TIMES July 22nd - 28th Memphis Flyer Burger Week Visit memphisflyerburgerweek.com for participating locations, through Tuesday, July 27, $5.99 Enjoy a special burger at a special price from participating local restaurants. New locations added daily. Share your burger photos using #FlyerBurgerWeek and tagging @MemphisFlyer for prizes.

Bye Bye Birdie Landers Center, 4560 Venture, Southaven, MS, opens Friday, July 23, 7 p.m., continues Friday-Sunday through Aug. 1, $20 Musical comedy about rock star Conrad Birdie whose publicity stunt sends the wholesome enclave of Sweet Apple, Ohio, into chaos.

Artist Talk for Tributaries: Tiff Massey | “Everyday Arsenal” Metal Museum, 374 Metal Museum, Saturday, July 24, 3-6 p.m., free Exhibition of works inspired by African standards of economic vitality. Includes both large-scale and wearable sculptures, music, and performance.

Time Warp Drive-In: Ground Control to Major Tom — The Cinema Legacy of David Bowie Malco Summer Drive-In, 5310 Summer, Saturday, July 24, 7:30 p.m., $25 per car Movies start at dusk. Featuring Labyrinth, The Hunger, Absolute Beginners, and live performance of “Ziggy Stardust.”

“Three Takes on a Thiebaud: A Panel Discussion” Online from Dixon Gallery and Gardens, dixon.org, Sunday, July 25, 2 p.m., free with registration Join a discussion on the first day of a new exhibition. Learn about the artist Wayne Thiebaud and his life.

Features the artist’s daughter Twinka Thiebaud, professor Hearne Pardee, and art historian Julia Friedman via Zoom.

Great Wine Performances Playhouse on the Square, 66 S. Cooper, Tuesday, July 27, 6 p.m., $75 - $100 Trivia and wine tasting event with an “Under the Big Top” theme brings 10 exciting shows to life and pairs them with 10 different wines.

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hen I walk into Electraphonic Recording to meet Howard Grimes, I hear him before I see him. He’s behind the drum kit, recreating a beat he used to do when he backed a doo-wop group, the Largos, at Currie’s Club Tropicana. He’s laughing at the memory as he plays the shuffle he’d start when Roosevelt Green did his comedy bit. “He would pantomime this whole scheme, and it was all based on the rhythm I was playing. Boom-chick, boom-chick. The funniest part was when he got in his car, and he’d slam the door and I’d catch him — it was tight, man! — then he’d crank the car up, and you’d see him still moving and dancing inside as he drove away.”

Club Tropicana is fresh on my mind, as I’ve just read Grimes’ new autobiography, Timekeeper: My Life in Rhythm (Devault Graves Books), written with Preston Lauterbach. Yet having it spring to life with his actual playing and stories from his youngest days feels like some kind of miracle. It makes one grateful to be around when legends like Grimes still walk the earth.

Reading the book, to its credit, is very much like hearing stories from the great man himself. Only the beats are missing, though you can listen along to the accompanying “Howard Grimes ‘Timekeeper’ Playlist” on Spotify. It presents hit after hit that Grimes played drums on, from Rufus and Carla Thomas’ “Cause I Love You,” a significant early single on Satellite Records (before it became Stax), to Willie Mitchell’s “Soul Serenade” from 1968, to the silky funk of Al Green’s greatest chart-toppers. Few figures span the transition from early ’60s R&B to the smooth, funky soul of the ’70s with such aplomb, but hearing the span of his work on the playlist as you read, a direct connection between the herky-jerky “Frog Stomp” and the smoldering “Love and Happiness” becomes apparent: a relentless, driving rhythm.

That driving, steady quality led Willie Mitchell to call him “Bulldog.” As Grimes recalls, “Willie Mitchell told me, ‘You know, Howard, when you play, I can hear you coming.’ I didn’t know what he was talking about. But when I cut a track, he said, ‘I can hear you coming. That foot!’ Willie was very

distinct on listening to musicians. That’s how I learned so much.” The nickname has stuck to this day with variations.

“Teenie [Hodges] always called me Pup. ‘Hey Pup, what ya doing, Pup?’ Leroy [Hodges] called me Dog. When I cut a session, Willie would always go, ‘Hey Dog! There’s the Dog! Here he comes!’”

Speaking of the many iconic tracks he laid down with the Hodges brothers and Mitchell, I can’t resist asking Grimes about one beat in particular, so distinctive as to have been subsequently

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Grimes’ new book details his experience and perspective of the beginnings of the soul-era music in Memphis. sampled on nearly 200 tracks, from The Notorious B.I.G. to Massive Attack: the introduction to Al Green’s “I’m Glad You’re Mine.”

“Well, I love Ernie K-Doe and Lee Dorsey. So Lee Dorsey had this record out, ‘Working in the Coal Mine.’ The day ‘I’m Glad You’re Mine’ came up, I couldn’t hear nothing but that ‘Working in the Coal Mine’ pattern! So something guided me to play the first four bars of that because I knew it would fit with the way we had worked up the song. When we put the song together and we cut it, [Willie] said, ‘Man, you crazy as hell!

Drummers ain’t never gonna figure out what the hell you did! Where in the hell did you come up with that?’ So I told him, and he said, ‘You just as crazy as Earl Palmer. You all is tit for tat.’”

Some rhythms that Grimes put on wax years ago mystify even him. “I cut a song on Ivory Joe Hunter, called ‘This Kind of Woman,’” he relates. “There’s no cymbals, just bongo drums and rhythm, and I don’t know what I did! It’s a difficult song, man, and I’ll be playing it now every day, trying to figure it out, could I ever bring that back? I haven’t figured it out yet.”

The best thing about hamburgers is that you don’t have to pick just one thing to love. They exist in endless permutations — square or circular patties, 100 percent certified Angus beef or Mexican chorizo, smothered with cheese and sautéed onions or given room to breathe with the classic lettuce-and-tomato-only combination. Burgers can be a simple sandwich or a colossal configuration of artisanal veggies and locally sourced meat.

We’re once again celebrating the plethora of burger-rific possibilities with the return of the Memphis Flyer’s Burger Week. This year, 11 restaurants are offering burgers, from the most-basic to the bougie, for only $5.99 each. Whatever your tastes, we’re pretty sure you can find a few you’d like to try.

Bacon Pimento Cheese Burger PIMENTOS KITCHEN + MARKET

6450 POPLAR AVE., #123, MEMPHIS 3751 S. HOUSTON LEVEE RD., COLLIERVILLE Honey glazed pepper bacon, our famous jalapeño and regular Papa’s Pimento Cheese, lettuce, and tomato served on a sweet sourdough bun. pimentos.com

WESTERN MELT WALLY HATCHET’S

6439 SUMMER AVE. Grilled 1/2-pound ground sirloin patty topped with applewood smoked bacon, pepper jack cheese, caramelized onions, sautéed mushrooms, creamy homemade coleslaw, onion rings, and tangy BBQ sauce. wallyhatchets.com

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ALL LOCATIONS The classic World Famous Huey Burger features a 6-oz.

Certified Angus Beef burger topped with signature Huey’s Seasoning and your choice of mayo, lettuce, tomato, mustard, pickle, onion, and cheddar or Swiss cheese on a buttered, toasted sesame seed bun. hueyburger.com

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363 MULBERRY ST. Two (2) Certified Angus Beef patties with grilled onion, grilled mushroom, fresh grilled jalapeño, Swiss, burger sauce, and spicy pickles. thesliderinn.com

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1350 CONCOURSE AVE., #175 Home Place Pastures beef burger with pasture-raised pork belly, Bonnie Blue Farm feta cheese, arugula, and housemade Georgia peach compote. farmburger.com/MEMPHIS-TN

2117 PEABODY AVE. Two (2) bacon-wrapped Certified Angus Beef patties, roasted red pepper, grilled red onions, Swiss, and spicy mayo. thesliderinn.com

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ROYALE WITH CHEESE

711 WEST BROOKHAVEN CIR. 5-oz. hand-pattied burger topped with mayo, mustard, lettuce, tomato, pickle, and onion and grilled to perfection. foxridgepizza.com

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SOUTHALL SPECIAL

We begin with 1/3 pound of our ground-fresh-daily beef, cook it on top of a pile of red onions, add a slice of American cheese to each side of the patty, and top it off with mustard and pickles. wimpysburgers.com

669 S. MENDENHALL The Southall Special is a single beef patty version of the popular Southall Double Burger and features caramelized onions, pickles, American cheese, arugula, Mackey sauce, and a side of our soon-to-be-worldfamous tots. southallcafe.com

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130 PEABODY PLACE 44 Farms ground beef, American cheese, chopped red onion, jalapeño bacon, mustard, and spiked ketchup. beerknurd.com

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

July 22 - 28

ART AN D S P EC I A L E X H I B ITS

38th Annual Juried Student Online Exhibition Featuring work by University of Memphis students. Ongoing.

ART MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS (AMUM)

“Africa on My Mind”

Exhibition featuring new and recent artwork by Ethiopian artist Dereje Demissie and Nigerian artist Johnson Uwadinma. Ongoing.

UREVBU CONTEMPORARY

“Contemporary & Ethnographic Works of Art”

Exhibition of contemporary and ancient works by multiple artists. Ongoing.

JAY ETKIN GALLERY

“Divine Legacies in Black Jewelry” Exhibition of jewelry to contextualize the history of modern Black American jewelry production during the 20th and 21st centuries and to expand our understanding of Black jewelers and their work.

Through Sept. 12.

METAL MUSEUM

“Drip”

Exhibition of paintings by Kevin Ford. Through Aug. 21.

TOPS GALLERY: MADISON AVENUE PARK

“Folk Art”

Exhibition of works from the collection of Judy Peiser, cofounder and executive director of the Center for Southern Folklore. Through July 31.

July 22-28, 2021

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Exhibition by four student curators, three professional mentors, and two student graphic designers offering a reflection of the events of 2020 through the lens of artists of color, LGBTQ+ artists, and others. Through Sept. 30.

“Persevere and Resist: The Strong Black Women of Elizabeth Catlett”

ART MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS (AMUM)

Exhibition highlighting the historic and current plights of Black women in America. Through Aug. 31.

“IEAA Ancient Egyptian Collection”

Exhibition of Egyptian antiquities ranging from 3800 B.C.E. to 700 C.E. from the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology collection. Ongoing.

“Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage”

DAVID LUSK GALLERY

“Pieta Mondrian”

“Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings”

“Inside the Walt Disney Archives”

FRATELLI’S

Exhibition of paintings by Anna Parker. Through July 31.

Exhibition of original work by Barbara Hicks, Katie Lindsey, and Ann Brown Thomason. Online viewing only. Through July 31.

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“Invisible Aquaphobic Art”

“Meet the Dixons”

Exhibition of art installation in the plaza fountain that will reveal artworks only when exposed to water by artist Stacey Williams-Ng. Through Aug. 31.

“Hillbilly Rock”

“King of Karate”

Exhibit highlighting Elvis’ lifelong passion of the art of karate.

Ongoing.

GRACELAND EXHIBITION CENTER

Exhibition highlighting Margaret and Hugo Dixon’s personal lives, collections, and legacy.

Through Sept. 26.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS

“Micro-Aesthetic”

Exhibition of microscopic images forming a connection to everyday-life patterns presented

by Dr. Amir Hadadzadeh.

Through Sept. 30.

ART MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS (AMUM)

Exhibition of a contemporary art installation where the viewer stands in a darkened room, lit only by a rotating lantern dangling from the ceiling. Through Jan. 9.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART

“On the Road: Chocolate Cities”

Exhibition featuring multiple artists curated by Larry OsseiMensah, which explores notions of Blackness coupled with the convergence of place and space.

Through Sept. 18.

TONE

Veterans’ work on view.

Through July 31.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS

“Point of View: Beauty in the Small Things”

“Mona Hatoum: Misbah”

Vietnam Veterans & Desert Storm Veterans Exhibition

“Watch for my Signals”

TOPS GALLERY

“Light and Color Inspired”

METAL MUSEUM

“Piece of Cake”

SLAVE HAVEN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MUSEUM

Exhibiton celebrating the legacy of The Walt Disney Company archives, with behind-thescenes access never before granted to the public. Friday, July 23- Jan. 2, 10:00 a.m-5:00 p.m.

Exhibition of works inspired by African standards of economic vitality. Includes both largescale and wearable sculptures, music, and performance.

Through Sept. 25.

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Exhibiton of sculptures by Christopher Chiappa. Through Aug. 21.

Exhibition of photography

by Jeff and Shaakira Edison.

Ongoing.

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Exhibition of confectious sculptures by Greely Myatt. Through Sept. 26.

ART MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS (AMUM)

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE

GRACELAND EXHIBITION CENTER

Metal Museum’s “Divine Legacies in Black Jewelry” celebrates the often-overlooked Black American jewelry production.

“Hindsight 2020”

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

Exhibition featuring items from The Marty Stuart Collection.

Ongoing.

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“Sketching Europe: A Tour through the Eyes of Memphian Samuel H. Crone”

Exhibition of sketches and watercolors by Samuel Hester Crone.

Ongoing.

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“Structure(s)”

Exhibition of works by Lester Merriweather. Through Aug. 6.

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“The Machine Inside: Biomechanics”

Exhibit for all ages that takes visitors on an intriguing journey into the marvels of natural engineering. Through Aug. 31.

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM

Exhibition of works made from found objects by Alex Lockwood. Through July 31.

Exhibition of works by artist.

Sunday, July 25-Oct. 3.

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“Yellow Jack”

The mansion is prepared for Yellow Fever and a season of mourning. The dimly lit mansion will be staged as the 1871 yellow fever epidemic will be recounted and martyrs remembered.

Wednesday, July 28-July 29.

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Artist Talk for Tributaries: Tiff Massey | “Everyday Arsenal”

Exhibition of works inspired by African standards of economic vitality. Includes both largescale and wearable sculptures, music. and performance. Saturday, July 24, 3-6 p.m.

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Saturday, July 24, 4-6 p.m.

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Great Wine Performances Annual trivia and wine tasting event with an “Under the Big Top” theme brings 10 exciting shows to life and pairs them with 10 different wines. $75/general admission, $100/VIP. Tuesday, July 27, 6 p.m.

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The Peace Project

Hear the peace offerings made up of artists’ voices, instruments, ambient noises, and reverberations in a healing space featuring work by Hank Willis Thomas. Ongoing.

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“Three Takes on a Thiebaud: A Panel Discussion”

Join the artist’s daughter Twinka Thiebaud, professor Hearne Pardee, and art historian Julia Friedman, Ph.D., for a program on Thiebaud and his life via Zoom. Sunday, July 25, 2 p.m.

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Ephraim Urevbu’s exhibition explores the realities and symbols of racial injustice, confronting the past and the present.

Uncommon Threads Quilt Guild

First two meetings are free to prospective members and a yearly membership is $25. Each meeting includes a lecture, snacks, and meet and greet.

Tuesday, July 27, 6:15 p.m.

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Virtual Tours at Two

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Become a steward for the Thistle & Bee mission. Email Oriana for more information, oholmes@ thistleandbee.org. Free. Ongoing.

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Gallery benefiting artists.

Through Aug. 31.

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Whet Thursday

Featuring live music, a food truck, metalsmithing demonstrations, and a gallery talk.

Thursday, July 22, 6-9 p.m.

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Authors discuss their books Murder at Sunrise Lake and Claimed via Zoom. Wednesday, July 28, 12:30 p.m.

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Selected book, Thick: and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom, engages Memphians in the Black female experience in today’s America. Through Oct. 31.

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Midday Mystery Virtual Event: Karin Slaughter and Jennifer Hillier

Author discusses False Witness with guest via Zoom. Thursday, July 22, 2 p.m.

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A fun community dance class in the park taught by the staff of Cat’s Ballroom. Saturday, July 24, 7 p.m.

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Shop carefully curated, locally made homeware, jewelry, art, and more benefiting Church Health in West Atrium. Saturday, July 24, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE

Join the Dixon’s discussion on Wayne Thiebaud, whose dessert-focused art inspired the sculptures of “Piece of Cake,” now at the Dixon.

book page for more information. Thursday, July 22, 6 p.m.

BEALE STREET

Soulin’ on the River: Cameron Bethany

Features music, food trucks, and more. Friday, July 23, 6 p.m.

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Douglas Park Mobile Food Pantry

Watermelon Festival

Features petting zoo, bounce houses, giant water slides, hayrides, train rides, watermelons, and more. Through Aug. 15.

Bring state-issued ID and be prepared to complete a one-page form. Invite family, friends, and neighbors in need to receive 14 days worth of groceries for a family of four.

Saturday, July 24, 10 a.m.

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Features music, drink, DJ, and party. Saturday, July 24, 2-6 p.m.

Haunted Pub Crawl

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KangaZoo Outback Experience

Experience the outback and meet one of Australia’s largest marsupials, the red kangaroo.

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Celebrate the 70th anniversary of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland with a special screening on the big screen at the Graceland Soundstage. Sunday, July 25, 2-3:15 p.m.

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Outdoor music series in Handy Park on Beale Street’s biggest stage. Visit Handy Park’s Face-

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Time Warp Drive-In: Ground Control to Major Tom — The Cinema Legacy of David Bowie

Features Labyrinth, The Hunger, Absolute Beginners, and live performance of Ziggy Stardust. $25. Saturday, July 24, 7:30 p.m.

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A guided sunset paddle followed by cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, yard games, and music at Hyde Lake Pavilion. Friday, July 23, 7 p.m.

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Large selection of produce & meat. Tuesdays, 9 a.m.

Knowledgeable and entertaining guides take you on an informative and humorous walking tour of Downtown Memphis restaurants, bars, and taverns. $25. Friday, July 23, 7:30 p.m.

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Traditional English afternoon tea, three-course menu of savory tea sandwiches, assorted sweets, and warm scones. $35, $45. Thursdays-Fridays, 1-3:30 p.m.

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Full Moon Kayak

Paddle the Mississippi River at night. Free 30-minute kayak rental (first come, first served).

DJ spins tunes as attendees take advantage of an evening under the moon and stars listening to good music and paddling around the harbor.

Friday, July 23, 7-9 p.m.

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Tai Chi

Relieve stress and increase flexibility by participating in Tai Chi classes led by a certified instructor. Comfortable shoes and loose clothing are recommended. Bring a personal water bottle. Classes held near Woodland Discovery Playground. $8. Wednesday, July 28, 3 p.m.

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ThyCa Memphis Monthly Support Group Meeting

ThyCa Memphis seeks to support all thyroid cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers in the local area so that no person affected by this disease goes on the journey alone.

See website for more details: krocmemphis.org. Monday, July 26, 6-7:30 p.m.

Wild Ones MidSouth Informational Gathering

Learn about a new native plant group forming in the area and then take a guided walk through MBG’s four-acre native plant garden. Thursday, July 22, 6:30 p.m.

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Home game soccer match.

Saturday, July 24, 11:30 a.m.

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Musical comedy about rock star Conrad Birdie whose publicity stunt sends the wholesome enclave of Sweet Apple, Ohio, into chaos. $20.

Friday, July 23-Aug. 1.

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Ivanka vs. Reality

A divorced Hollywood screenwriter is losing her grip as her career slides into middle-aged female oblivion. Desperate for work she takes a job writing a movie. $25/streaming, $42/ live. Through July 25.

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Saturday, July 24, 10:30 a.m.

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Tuesday, July 27, 7-9 p.m.

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Ghost Walk

Join the Historical Haunts Investigation Team and explore the macabre and dark history of Downtown Memphis. $20.

Friday, July 23-July 24, 8 p.m.

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Old Forest Hike

Walking tour of the region’s only urban old-growth forest.

Sunday, July 25, 10 a.m.

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Join Caza Teatro to explore fun bilingual theater activities for the whole family and practice Español. Saturday, July 24, 11:30 a.m.

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On this 90-minute bus tour, informative and entertaining guides will share tales of murders, hauntings, and dark history. With multiple photo opportunities, you may catch your own paranormal evidence of orbs, apparitions, and spectral figures. $25. Friday, July 23-July 24, 7:30 p.m.

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Particle Man Amir Hadadzadeh’s “Micro-Aesthetic” finds beauty in the little things.

Hadadzadeh’s research, but, he says, “I don’t expect the general public to understand the science.” In fact, he encourages visitors just to look around and enjoy what they see. “People can know that scientists are doing something that has scientific value and artistic value,” he says. “I’m trying to combine them here. This is the first step for me, and I’m trying to explore how I can do more and use the adventurous world of art to promote science and engage people and encourage them to learn a little more.”

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(above) Basketweave from “Micro-Aesthetic”; (left) Amir Hadadzadeh

Before this exhibit, Hadadzadeh had never really experimented with art.

“I’m from Iran, and in Iran, usually families really would like their children to go to engineering schools or medical schools,” he says. “Unfortunately, at least for my generation, they didn’t appreciate art or humanities.” Even so, the professor found his passion in material sciences and engineering and can’t imagine doing anything else. “I’m not an artist,” he says. “I’m an engineer.”

But under his wife’s artistic influence, he’s learned to engage with his creative side.

“Let’s be honest,” he says. “Engineers and scientists usually do not understand the art in the proper way. … She changed that mindset in me.”

Now that Hadadzadeh has had a taste of his wife’s creative philosophy, he plans to pursue his art further and hopes to have more exhibitions that can simultaneously promote art and science. “It is very helpful to have an artist in your life,” he says, “and I’m very grateful for it.”

“Micro-Aesthetic” is on view at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis until September 30th.

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f you were to zoom into a piece of metal — and I mean really zoom in, down to the atom, down to a billionth of a meter — you might get an image similar to those captured by Amir Hadadzadeh, whose microstructure images are now on display in his “Micro-Aesthetic” exhibition at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis.

An assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering, Hadadzadeh uses these images in his research on the nano- and micro-features of metals to evaluate the determining properties of the internal structures. “We find a connection between the properties and the features that we see on the very small-scale,” he says, “thinner than the thickness of a hair.”

While working with these images, taken through electron microscopy, Hadadzadeh realized that “whether I’m thinking about it or writing a scientific paper or trying to interpret all of the images, I have the same feeling as being high.” To him, this tiny science contained an unexpected beauty. “They are all scientific images,” he says, “but they have artistic features — colors, lines, patterns, and there’s similarity to what we see in our everyday life.”

So with the help of his wife, Sepideh Dashti, who is an artist working in both photography and performance art mediums, he selected a dozen or so images for his exhibition out of the hundreds stored on his computer from his time as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Brunswick and CanmetMATERIALS in Canada. “I tried to pick images with some features that can have a connection to our everyday life,” Hadadzadeh says. He even titled the images of the zoomed-in fabricated aluminum or titanium as objects they resemble — “Hot Peppers,” “Hairy Back,” “Horse Head,” “Atomic Heart.”

“My purpose here was to engage the general public with what I have been doing during my research,” Hadadzadeh says. While to the average onlooker the “hairs” on “Hairy Back” might be just that, engineers like Hadadzadeh use the hair-like lines to characterize the strength of the metal. Though the colors on some of the pieces may appear abstract, engineers use them to understand and interpret the image according to a color-coding system.

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Space Jam: A New Legacy Whatever expectations you may have for this flick, lower them. Now lower them again.

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f you were expecting a true sequel to the original Space Jam released in 1996, I regret to inform you that this is not that movie. If you were expecting a well-written cinematic masterpiece, I regret to inform you that this is also not that movie. Space Jam: A New Legacy is less of a sequel to the original and more like a modernized ABC Afterschool Special.

LeBron James plays LeBron James, a basketball superstar and bumbling dad insistent on pushing his sons to follow in his basketball footsteps. The movie opens with a flashback of a young LeBron heading into a school gymnasium before a basketball game and being gifted a hand-me-down Game Boy from his friend Malik. LeBron is so engrossed in this new toy that his coach must call him to attention during the game.

Later, when he’s leading the charge on a final play, he misses what should have been the game-winning shot.

After the game, his coach takes him aside to express disappointment that LeBron had been distracted by video games and had not given his all on the court.

Flash forward to present-day, where LeBron’s sons are on a private basketball court. Older son Darius (Ceyair J. Wright) practices shooting while his younger brother Dom (Cedric Joe) sits on a nearby bench

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LeBron joins the boys on the court and calls out Dom’s halfhearted effort.

That night, LeBron visits Dom’s room, where he plays a game his son created called “DomBall,” which combines realistic basketball moves with bonus video game abilities. Dom would rather go to a game design camp than basketball camp. Later, he accompanies LeBron to a meeting at Warner Bros. Studios, where two executives (Sarah Silverman and Stephen Yeun) attempt to pitch LeBron on an augmented reality device called the Warner 3000, which gives users the ability to insert themselves into WB movies and livestream it to all their social media followers.

SJ: ANL is doing a lot, and not in the best way. What it lacks in plot development it more than makes up for by packing in cameos and top-notch hand-drawn and computer-generated animation. If you told me a group of executives sat around brainstorming how to cram in as many culturally irrelevant intellectual properties as possible, I would absolutely believe it.

The Warner 3000 is a creation of a sentient AI called Al G. Rhythm (played fabulously by Don Cheadle), who tries to persuade LeBron to help him promote this new innovative technology.

Twenty-five years after Michael Jordan assembled the Tune Squad to defeat the Monstars, LeBron James teams up with Bugs and friends to defeat a new enemy.

After LeBron rejects the pitch, Al G tricks him and Dom into entering “The Serververse.” He then kidnaps Dom and challenges LeBron to play a game of basketball to get his son back and free them from the Serververse. If he loses, they must stay forever.

LeBron travels to Tune World to enlist Bugs Bunny in his quest to assemble a basketball team to beat Al G’s Goon Squad. LeBron and Bugs hijack Marvin the Martian’s spaceship and set off through the Serververse to collect various Looney Tunes characters to build the Tune Squad: Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Granny, Tweety, Sylvester, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzalez, Foghorn Leghorn, Taz, Lola Bunny, and a hairy red monster called Gossamer.

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TBS’s Ernie Johnson and Lil Rel Howery from Get Out are transported in to serve as play-by-play announcers.

Whew. I told you this movie was doing a lot. It is not a great film by any

metric, but Space Jam: A New Legacy does have something for everyone: feel-good family moments, Porky Pig dropping a rap verse, fictional character cameos, an entertaining battle of something akin to basketball, and a metric fuck ton of CGI. If you have elementary school-aged children or nostalgia for the ’90s, this might be a movie for you. Everyone else can safely skip it.

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TH E LAST WO R D By Matthew J. Harris

Failure to Move Forward

THE LAST WORD

I never really planned on quitting my job. Since I was young, I had wanted to be a journalist. The thought of people reading things I wrote sent me over the moon. It’s not often that the opportunity to do what you love comes around, and I thought I was making the right choice when I decided to take the leap. It doesn’t feel like work when you’re doing what you love, and that rang true. I loved writing the news and just writing for a living. It was fun, and seeing your name on a byline is a PHOTO BY feeling of pride that I don’t think I can replicate.

ANNA TRAVERSE FOGLE I don’t think there was a day where I disliked the Matthew J. Harris practice of what I was doing, and yet I daily felt that something was missing.

When I look back on it, I should have waited. Taken a couple of months to live worry-free without deadlines or rent payments. I had only taken a two-week break after graduating from college to join the workforce full-time, but I was doing what I thought felt right. In your 20s, there’s KURHAN | DREAMSTIME.COM immense pressure on you to follow the path of those around you. While in undergrad, I felt that weight on my shoulders every day, pushing me to do more and more, even if it was unhealthy. It culminated in me taking 20 hours of classes, working a 10-hour a week internship, and doing 60 hours of service work a month for my scholarship during my senior year. Even then, I still found a way to feel like I wasn’t doing enough. I needed a break, but I kept telling myself, “This is just what everyone does.” When I was lucky enough to get a job during the height of COVID-19, I wasn’t happy because I was going to be employed; I was excited I wasn’t going to be one of “those people” that sat at home and did nothing with their degree after graduating. I was “successful.”

I spent so much time trying to live up to what I felt like I should be doing that I neglected to listen to those around me questioning my path. I had a long conversation with my mom before I accepted the position, and I remember her asking me if I wanted to take time to come home instead. At the time, I found myself not wanting to. It felt like passing up the opportunity of a lifetime.

It took two of my grandparents dying, a good portion of my immediate family catching COVID while I was 300 miles away unable to travel, and countless missed birthdays, holidays, and family get-togethers for me to realize I hadn’t been around my family for more than two weeks at a time in more than five years.

There’s merit to pushing forward and accomplishing what you think is impossible, but there is also merit to listening to your gut. In my case, I was tired and missed my family, but I pushed those thoughts aside because I wanted to go down the path that I felt would make me the most successful. I regret it. There are memories and time lost with family and friends that I will never get back because I was so focused on “being successful” that I forgot to spend time living life.

It took a long time for me to accept that I had “failed.” Given up to come home. Despite the consequences surrounding the decision, it was the truth, but failure isn’t always catastrophic.

We can grow from failure and learn from mistakes we made in the past. In failing, I was able to come home and spend time with the people who I love the most and find peace of mind that I desperately needed but ignored for far too long.

I wish I had a happy ending for my story, but it’s still being written. What I can do though is leave some advice for those who find themselves at the same crossroads I found myself at three months ago: It’s okay to take a break. To wait for your opportunity.

To listen to your gut. To take the time to turn your brain off, walk away from responsibility, and come back more prepared. You’ll thank yourself later.

Matthew J. Harris is a former Flyer editorial assistant.

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