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OUR 1591ST ISSUE 08.22.19 If you’re like most Mid-Southerners, you’ve quite likely paid a visit or two to a Kroger store. Maybe you’re a weekly regular or perhaps just an occasional shopper, but it’s hard to imagine any local resident not having been to the ubiquitous Big K. The largest grocery chain in the U.S., Kroger is by far the dominant grocer in the tri-state area, with 32 stores located from Millington to Southaven and all points in between.

In Memphis, we even give our Kroger stores nicknames. If, for example, someone says they’re going to “Kosher Kroger,” chances are you’ll know exactly where they’re headed. Kroger is part of the local zeitgeist.

It’s also quite likely that you’ve noticed the many free publications available in the Kroger stores’ lobbies. There are magazines and newspapers of all sizes and kinds — those geared to senior citizens, African Americans, Hispanics, the LGBTQ+ community, parents, and kids. There are magazines about health and fitness and real estate services, and there are slick society magazines such as RSVP and 4Memphis.

And the Memphis Flyer, of course.

It appears that’s all about to go away. Kroger is severing its relationship with DistribuTech, the company that has long had the contract to distribute the aforementioned free publications in Kroger stores. The current deal ends October 15, 2019. At this point, it is unclear whether any other arrangements can be made by any of the local publications with Kroger, either with individual stores or region-wide. DistribuTech says the edict from Kroger to pull all free publications from its stores is coming from its national headquarters in Cincinnati.

That’s too bad because Kroger was providing a true community service with its free publications distribution, especially in a city like Memphis, where “free” information is often the only information available for a great many of our citizens. They may not be able to afford a subscription to the daily paper or the latest issue of Vanity Fair, but they can pick up the Tennessee Tribune or Best Times or the Flyer on their way out of the grocery store and get some insight into what’s happening in their community.

All these local publications will presumably be pursuing other options to get their products distributed to the public, but losing Kroger as a distribution center is a huge blow for many of them.

While it’s not as damaging for the Flyer, since we already have more than 500 other distribution locations all over the Mid-South, it does affect roughly a fourth of our circulation. We’ll keep you updated in the next few weeks about any new circulation arrangements and let you know about all new locations where you can pick up your print copy of the Flyer. Rest assured that we won’t cut our circulation; we’ll just redistribute it via other outlets — new and existing.

We also suspect Kroger will be hearing from its customers about the policy change.

All these publications have loyal readers, most of whom won’t be pleased to find that their favorite free magazines are no longer available. The Flyer, for example, has a weekly pickup rate that’s well above 90 percent, and our readers are creatures of habit. If they can’t find the Flyer at their favorite pickup location, they may not be amused.

It won’t be as easy for some of the other publications listed above, so if you’re a regular reader of any of those papers or magazines, let them know you’ll keep supporting them because many are in a bit of a pickle. Since free publications don’t charge for their product, they survive on advertising. And that advertising comes as a result of a publication having a healthy number of readers — circulation — the N E WS & O P I N I O N folks that advertisers want to reach. A THE FLY-BY - 4 strong circulation is critical to the freeNY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 publication business model.

VIEWPOINT - 7 EDITORIAL - 8 It’s a model that’s worked for the Flyer COVER STORY for more than 30 years, thank you very “THE RECYCLING CRISIS” much. Our advertisers know that we have

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MEMernet A round-up of Memphis on the World Wide Web. IT’S E LECTR I C About 17,000 Memphis Light, Gas & Water customers were without power last week when a storm rolled in Tuesday night.

Reddit user tacojohn48 captured a striking glimpse of it over the Harahan Bridge.

August 22-28, 2019

B UT IT’S A WET H EAT Reddit user iliveinmemphis posted what we all thought last week.

“Going outside in Memphis the past two days is like opening your dishwasher to get a cup right after it finishes.” The comments on the post nailed it, too.

BandidoCoyote: “Getting out of the morning shower and getting dressed without drying off.”

Tralfamadorian82: “Opening your dryer before the towels are dry.”

Benefit_of_mrkite: “People lived here before AC. Double apply your Gold Bond and keep on.”

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A D ECAD E O F LOVE Frayser Boy, Holly Whitfield, and Joe Birch walk into a bar …

The I Love Memphis blog celebrated 10 years Saturday with a packed-out birthday party at Railgarten. For the anniversary, Birch tweeted what scientists are calling one of the most Memphis photographs ever taken.

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SisterReach, Cops, and ‘Plots’ Backlash on a cut mic, police numbers up, African-American Greeks want space on campus.

P LOTTI N G FO R ‘P LOTS ’ African-American fraternities and sororities typically don’t have houses near the University of Memphis, but a group of students launched a campaign last week to change that.

The university’s National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), which governs the school’s nine traditionally AfricanAmerican fraternities and sororities, hopes to raise $7,500 soon to fund “plots,” or permanent housing Clockwise from top left: U of M’s National Pan-Hellenic Council, Peters, facilities, for each of Saine’s Flyer-inspired art, police, SisterReach’s Cherisse Scott the fraternities and sororities. Having housing on campus provides “representation and sacred spaces for these was only for use in a “Cannabag Challenge.” And the gun groups.” found nearby? Peters was only keeping it safe for him, said perennial Memphis mayoral candidate, Leo AwGoWhat.

S I STE R R E AC H S I LE N C E D Peters was arrested in February 2015 on charges of selling A state Senate committee heard testimony last week on the cannabis. According to court papers, that’s exactly what he so-called Heartbeat Bill, a bill that would essentially ban wanted. But he was also arrested for possessing a firearm abortion here, and the hearing got heated. during the crime, which came with more jail time. That, he Cherisse Scott, founder and CEO of SisterReach, a Memphis didn’t want. reproductive rights organization, called the bill the “final straw Earlier this year, Peters asked the Tennessee Court of in a political pattern of vile, racist, un-American, and unCriminal Appeals to review his case. Last week, judges Christian legislation.” After that, committee chairman Sen. Mike upheld the original ruling and sentence on Peters’ case dealt Bell (R-Riceville) cut Scott’s microphone only five minutes into by the Shelby County Criminal Court. her 10-minute testimony.

Backlash ensued. Rep. London Lamar (D-Memphis) B O OTS O N TH E G R O U N D said she watched the committee “completely disrespect The Memphis Police Department (MPD) is on track to have a black woman” and called the mic cut “unacceptable.”

2,100 officers by the end of the year, Memphis Mayor Jim Others said the move was “blatantly racist,” “sickening,” Strickland said last week. That’s just 200 officers shy of the and “blatant hypocrisy.” target number Strickland has pushed since taking office.

Strickland said that because of improved recruiting F LYE R-I N S P I R E D ARTI ST efforts and increased officer pay, the police department has When graphic artist and illustrator Mia Saine read Maya been able to hire close to 450 new officers since he took Smith’s July 2018 story on Memphis food deserts and the office in 2016. ongoing problem of food insecurity in the city, she did what The department hit a modern low in early 2017 with artists do: created a visual response. a force of 1,909 commissioned officers, but since then, We saw it posted on Saine’s Instagram account and numbers have been on the upswing. The department thought Flyer readers might enjoy seeing it. The work was currently has 2,066 officers and two training classes in recently shown at the National Civil Rights Museum. session with a total of 90 police recruits.

CAN NAB I S CAP E R The half-pound of pot found in Thorne Peters’ possession

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State officials began executing death-row inmates again here last year — another just last week — but a group of conservatives is speaking out against the death penalty and says changes on it are afoot in redstate legislatures.

Stephen Michael West was executed in Nashville last Thursday. He was convicted in the 1986 murders of a mother and her 15-year-old daughter in Union and for raping the daughter.

West was the fifth inmate to be executed here since state officials began scheduling executions again last year. Before that, the state’s last execution was in 2010.

Next month, Tennessean Amy Lawrence will attend the first annual national meeting of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty.

She spoke with us about her group and its aims.

— Toby Sells

August 22-28, 2019

Memphis Flyer: You said the death penalty violates the basic tenets of your group’s beliefs. How? Amy Lawrence: I believe that the core tenet of conservatism is small, limited government, and as conservatives, we apply this concept to a variety of issues, whether that be taxation, health care, or regulations.

This is the same tenet that should be applied to capital punishment.

Simply put, the death penalty is anything but

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AL: Tennessee already has a life small, limited government. It is sentence of 51 years before parole a prime example of a bloated, eligibility and life without parole, broken government program. which does not allow for parole It is costly, it risks executing an ever. These are the two sentences innocent person, and it leaves that the majority of murderers the ultimate power over life already receive. and death in the hands of a MF: Is an alternative to the death fallible system. penalty a hard sell in the broader MF: You also said that “murders conservative community? should be followed with swift AL: I really focus on what unites and sure justice.” What does that conservatives on this issue — limjustice look like to you? ited government, fiscal responsibilAL: Well, it sure doesn’t look like ity, and pro-life stances. years of appeals and decades of We know that government and court proceedings for the victims’ human decisions are error-prone. family members.

We simply cannot guarantee The death penalty does not that we can carry out capital provide swift and sure justice Stephen Michael West was punishment with 100 percent but instead drags families executed last week in Nashville. accuracy. While the punishment through decades of litigation, might be just in some circumstances, we cannot where, in at least half the cases in Tennessee, the carry it out justly. sentence is overturned and the convicted receives a life sentence anyway.

We also have limited resources, and with death Life without parole begins as soon as the trial sentences costing $1 to $2 million more than life is over and allows families to at least have some without parole, I think the majority of people legal finality. would support having those resources go toward MF: What alternatives to the death penalty does your victims’ compensation, law enforcement, and mental health programs. group hope lawmakers will consider?

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VIEWPOINT By Steven Mulroy

Challenge the Candidates member district system discussed above.)

The council should stop using tax dollars to fight it in court and should adopt the technical policy guidance requested by the local election commission. They should be facilitating the people’s will rather than fighting it.

Plain English Referendum Language.

Voters have complained in recent years that ballot question language is too confusing. In the best of times, it’s dense legalese; at worst — like last November’s term limits and anti-RCV referenda — they are deliberately misleading.

Our charter should require that in any referendum, in addition to any required legalese operative language, there should be a statement in plain English explaining how the law stands now, how it would change if the referendum were approved, and specifically saying “A YES vote would … [explain]” and “A NO vote would … [explain].” This language should be written by a neutral party, like the city attorney or the League of Women Voters. Similar “plain English” ballot measure requirements have worked well in other cities and states.

CLERB Reform. The Civilian Law Enforcement Review Board (CLERB), our civilian oversight body for police conduct, has no teeth. The current police director ignores its recommendations and refuses to cooperate with its requests for documents and witness testimony when it investigates allegations of police misconduct. Worse, the state legislature this year passed a law preventing local governments from giving such boards subpoena power, requiring instead that every request for investigative information be accomplished through a subpoena approved by a full vote of the entire city council. This cumbersome procedure is designed to frustrate CLERB investigations, especially given the council’s disinterest in challenging the MPD. City council adoptions of CLERB subpoena requests should be routine. Only a showing that a CLERB request for documents or testimony is severely burdensome, or harmful to a sensitive ongoing investigation, should overcome a strong presumption of city council cooperation.

Candidates should pledge to act accordingly. There are other important structural reforms, but these will do for now. Memphis voters should insist that they’ll vote for no city council candidate who fails to make his or her position clear on these issues.

Steve Mulroy is a University of Memphis law professor and a former Shelby County Commissioner.

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Though we’re supposedly in the middle of a Memphis city election campaign, there’ve been precious few chances for voters to press candidates (especially incumbents) on where they stand. Our city government isn’t as responsive to the will of the voters as it should be. Institutions like the police, and the Memphis City Council itself, are insulated from public opinion.

If you get a chance to press the candidates, emphasize issues of structural reform. Unlike some other (certainly important) campaign issues of funding priorities, these reforms would last a long time, well past the current budget cycle.

Moreover, they’d make it easier for voters’ other priorities to pass through the filter of self-interested incumbents.

Candidates should commit to structural reforms like the following. Seven council members could vote to make these happen, either by ordinance or through a charter amendment referendum.

Single-Member Districts. Memphis currently elects its city council using seven single-member districts plus two overlapping super districts. Each super district takes up half the city and elects a total of three members. So each Memphian has four different city council representatives.

This system is unnecessarily confusing for the voter. The super districts, each with 192,000 voters, are simply too big and sprawling. Campaigning in them is so expensive, it unfairly disadvantages challengers and favors incumbents.

Last decade, the Shelby County Commission switched from a similar system to one with 13 small single-member districts. It has worked well. These manageable, neighborhood-based districts made it easier for first-time candidates to campaign and for constituents to reach their incumbents. If we did the same for Memphis, each district would have 30,000 voters rather than almost 200,000.

Activists have been asking the council to do this for years, but the status quo favors incumbents, so nothing changes.

Implementing Ranked Choice Voting.

Speaking of incumbents protecting their own … Over the last two years, the council has repeatedly spent your tax dollars fighting an election reform approved by voters in referendums. In three referendums in two elections over the last 10 years, Memphians have said they want to try Ranked Choice Voting (RCV, also called Instant Runoff Voting), where voters can pick their first, second, and third choice. (There is another form of RCV, which would work well in the existing super districts, that is a viable alternative to the 13-single-

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The People’s Will On a preceding page of this issue, law professor Steve Mulroy, who paid his political dues as a two-term member of the Shelby County Commission, exhorts the candidates in this year’s city election to attend to certain overdue tasks.

One of those is that of reviving the efforts, sabotaged at two governmental levels, including by the current Memphis City Council, to institute Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in local elections. One of the scandals of the year just passed has been a successful joint effort by the aforesaid incumbent council members and the office of the Tennessee Secretary of State to suppress what had already been planned as a trial of RCV during the now ongoing Memphis municipal election.

Their efforts included, on the council side, the patently illegal use of taxpayer funds to compensate city lobbyists in Nashville for supporting legislation to ban RCV (also known as Instant Runoff Voting) in all state elections.

The council further authorized the use of more public money to pay a public relations agency for advertisements advocating a “No” vote on a citywide referendum last year to uphold previous voter support of RCV. The first such public referendum vote occurred in 2008 and was lopsidedly in favor of RCV. A second referendum in 2018 should have been unnecessary, but, once held, at council direction, it, too, passed overwhelmingly. As we noted editorially at the time, our own elected city council was using our own taxpayer money in an effort to cancel out what had been our duly authorized vote in favor of Ranked Choice Voting.

Nor has the council majority ceased in its efforts to strike down a public initiative. Council attorney Allan Wade has been directed by the incumbent council members to seek further legal

“remedies” to counteract the people’s will.

Meanwhile, the state Election Coordinator, which is a part of the publicly endowed Secretary of State’s office, issued a ruling, citing a hodgepodge of questionable reasons, why it regarded the RCV process as “illegal” and imposed a directive on the Shelby County Election Coordinator, Linda Phillips, not to follow through on this year’s or any other future implementation of RCV. Ranked Choice Voting, it will be remembered, calls upon voters to rank their preferred choices, usually in a 1-23 sequence. Should there be no majority winner for an election position, the votes of runner-up candidates would be given appropriate weight and reassigned to the top two finishers in accordance with the preferences established in voters’ rankings. Eventually a majority winner would be declared thereby.

The method saves time, money, and effort, and makes unnecessary follow-up runoff elections that, in the case of the October 3rd council district elections, would be scheduled for late November, at a time when the interests of the voting public would have shifted elsewhere, resulting in miniscule turnouts with inevitably misleading final results.

It would seem to be a small thing to ask — that our elected officials observe the people’s will in such matters as public referenda. The fact that they have not and that they have pursued underhanded means of counteracting those expressions of the democratic process is an embarrassment and an outrage.

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The Recycling Crisis Where does it go? What happens to it when it gets there? Does recycling have a future?

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August 22-28, 2019

t was one of those disconcerting moments where the reality you’ve accepted for years seems to evaporate in the blink of an eye. In the first week of June, after tending to my weekly routine of setting out waste bins for collection, I saw a garbage truck pull up, two workers roll my recycling and standard waste carts to the truck, then dump them both in. I was dumbfounded.

Most of us expect that by following the correct protocols, our waste and recycling will seamlessly feed into a system that takes it from there. Now the system was apparently broken. The variety of responses to what I’d witnessed revealed what a black box the process is to most 10 of us. Some friends I talked to shrugged and claimed that all recycling was bogus;

others expressed outrage mixed with impotency — that familiar feeling of the disempowered citizen trying to do the right thing. Very few friends and colleagues, however, could explain the recycling process in any detail.

As it turned out, there had been a fire that week at the main materials recovery facility (MRF) that processes recyclables for the city of Memphis and other municipalities. Located near American Way and Lamar Avenue and operated

by Republic Services, the facility is the country’s second-most profitable wasteprocessing outfit.

“The fire occured on a Friday afternoon,” Memphis’ solid waste deputy director Philip Davis tells me. “The facility was back and running the next Thursday.

At that time, we had to divert materials to the landfill because there wasn’t storage capacity for the recyclables. So that was unfortunate, but the silver lining was that it wasn’t a catastrophic fire that shut the facility down for an extended period of time.”

Solid waste director Albert Lamar agrees. “The cause of the fire was undetermined,” he says, adding that, due to the fire, “about 235 tons of recyclables ended up in the landfill” that week. This roughly lines up with last year’s annual total of 15,600 tons, or 300 tons per week, delivered to the MRF by the city.

Yet even when fire does not shut down the MRF, more than 20 percent of what is delivered there — 60 tons per week — will not be recycled.

Bearing that in mind, phenomena such as the 1.6-million-square-kilometer expanse of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean, aka The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, make more sense. “Well, I’m doing my part,” you might think when reading such news, not knowing how much of your recycled plastic and other waste simply goes to a landfill, despite your best efforts.

The waste-management system wasn’t always so marked by inefficiency.

But it is today, due to a perfect storm of events. And they’re just the tip of the garbage patch.

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ears ago, the recycle market was such that municipalities would actually receive revenues from

the processor for the sale of recycleable material,” says Joe Nunes, neighborhood services manager for the City of Germantown and chair of the Shelby County Solid Waste Advisory Board. “But in recent years, National Sword in China and other initiatives have dramatically impacted the market for recyclables in the entire country. The biggest issue in the industry right now is contamination.

China limited the percentage of contaminated material that they would accept, and that percentage was not achievable by most U.S. recycling facilities.”

The Chinese National Sword policy that took effect on January 1, 2018, served more like a national shield, blocking the torrent of heavily contaminated recyclables that China once received to a mere trickle. Suddenly, China would only accept recyclables with a contamination rate of 0.5 percent or better, after decades of looser contamination standards, when the country established itself as a leading importer of recyclables to feed its rapidly expanding economy. With the resale market radically shrinking, other buyers of recycled waste have become more stringent as well. Meanwhile, Memphis’ own recyclables contamination rates reach as high as 21 percent.

We may simply have to face the fact that there is a global garbage glut, especially of the plastic variety.

“Plastic Recycling is a Myth” is the title of a recent article in the Guardian. It details horror stories of a vast underworld of waste mismanagement, with unregulated landfills in Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam accepting millions of tons of mostly plastic waste. The bottom line?

There is simply too much plastic for the world to manage.

Only 9 percent of the world’s produced virgin plastic has been recycled, according to the Guardian. While the scrap metal, aluminum, and cardboard recycling markets have not sunk completely, the market for plastics is essentially gone. “The price of plastics has plummeted to the extent that it isn’t worth recycling. If China doesn’t take plastic, we can’t sell it,” said one British recycler.

The shrinking of the recyclables market is having dire effects well beyond your curbside pick up. As reported earlier this year by WKNO’s Katie Riordan, Republic Services no longer accepts any recycling waste from Memphis International Airport, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, or the University of Memphis.

And, as we go to press, the city of Jackson, Mississippi, has canceled all of its recycling programs, indefinitely.

When curbside recycling began, as most will remember, items were separated more or less by material: the glass set apart from paper, set apart from cans, and so on. This all changed in the early years of this decade, with the advent of singlestream systems. It started in Memphis in 2014, with the rollout of new recycling mega-carts that held 96 gallons, with no separation required. Single-stream systems took all the sorting responsibilities away from the consumer and pushed it further down the pipeline. And, with household-level separation abandoned, contamination shot up. Joy Williams, then the recycling coordinator for the city of Memphis, told the Wastedive website in 2017 that single-stream had raised

contamination rates from 2 percent to 16 percent. And it’s been climbing since then.

Yet Lamar and Davis remain committed to single-stream, and it’s easy to see why: volume. “We rolled singlestream out in the Cordova and Hickory Hill areas in 2014,” says Davis. “And we saw a tremendous increase in volume, literally overnight. Like, one week we had 18-gallon bins, the next week we had 96-gallon carts — 200 percent increase.

Just like that. It became apparent that people recycle until the container’s full. So that encouraged us to seek outside funding with Closed Loop Fund and the Recycling Partnership and make a significant investment in these 96-gallon carts. And it took us probably a year and a half to get those carts rolled out citywide.”

“The biggest issue in the industry is contamination.

China limited the percentage of contaminated materials they would accept,” says Joe Nunes.

Davis sees single-stream as more inclusive. “You have to make recycling available to everyone,” he says. “It’s about accessibility. Single-stream makes recycling accessible to a broader population.”

For the city’s Department of Solid Waste, it’s primarily an education issue.

“We just have to be smarter,” says Lamar.

“In the Memphis curbside collection now, we’ve got a Know Where to Throw

campaign. We have a recycling game and so forth. They can go on the Memphis Curbside Collections app, type in the item that you’re thinking about recycling, and it’ll tell you if that item is recyclable in the Memphis system. The bottom line is that, across the nation, we have to teach the consumer to be smarter about recycling.

No longer are the days in which we can just throw plastics, paper products, and so forth in there and expect that it is going to be recyclable. We have to get much better and more detailed about the way we do it, so we can reduce the contamination.”

A narrow focus on primarily changing consumer behavior, of course, bears all the signs of free-market fundamentalism, the sea in which most municipal departments swim these days. But there’s a sea change as well. Call it the environmental imperative, which even the most die-hard freemarketers acknowledge. As Nunes notes to me, in words echoed by Memphis city officials and others: “The thing about recycling is that we’ve got to not only look at the economic side of it, but also the environmental side and the social side. If we look at long-term sustainability, our goal should still be to keep material out of the landfill.”

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hat simple idea — keeping material out of the landfill — is in fact the explicit goal of a group some may not associate with environmental activism: the Teamsters Union. Supporters of workers’ rights over a broad spectrum, the union, it turns out, has been grappling with recycling continued on page 12

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issues for some time. A 2015 study by the Partnership for Working Families, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, and others, begins with the bold words: Zero waste is the future.

It’s a natural extension of a concern for workplace safety, according to Matt Brown, who works for the strategic research and campaigns department, waste division, of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. “The Teamsters are helping the city adopt a more green program that would not only get us to a zero-waste goal, but also protect workers who do that,” he says. “As a native Memphian and a trade unionist, waste workers have a special place in my heart.

Dr. King was assassinated protecting waste workers. And waste remains the fifth-most dangerous job in America. A lot of guys get hepatitis or other diseases because when they’re pulling bags of trash, they’re getting stuck by needles. Or people throw away ammunition that explodes. Workers at recycling centers are in even more danger because you’re having to reach into to these machines. It’s a dangerous gig.”

Staying unionized in the free-market dystopia of the recycling world isn’t easy.

“It’s thanks to the fight that the men went through to build their union,” says Brown.

“We just organized Waste Management in the last five years. And they [Republic] ran a very vicious anti-union campaign.

Regarding the Republic contract, we had strikes six or seven years ago, for two or three weeks, to hold on to our standards.

These are multinational corporations with almost endless pockets.”

And unionization dramatically affects how recycling is actually practiced. “One guy was fired when his supervisor came over the dispatch radio and said, ‘They missed the recycling, go back and put it in your truck.’ And he said, ‘No, we’re a garbage truck, not a recycling truck.’

The supervisor said, ‘I don’t care, go back there.’ Then a resident of Germantown videotaped him comingling garbage and recycling. So guess what, even though he was directly told by management to do it, they fired him. If that man had had a union, he could have said, no, it’s against my contract to comingle.”

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o gain a little perspective on this international web of marketing and finance, comingling cheesy pizza boxes, National Swords, and deadly medical sharps, I went to a special meeting on recycling hosted by the Chickasaw Group of the Sierra Club last week. And there, at last, was a vantage from which you could see past the hills of rubbish.

A presentation by members Scott Banbury and Nancy Chung walked attendees through the current state of market-driven recycling, its wider context, and the many alternatives. But, unlike some explanations I’d received for the current recycling predicament, this narrative included a larger, industry-

driven context. The future, according to some, is in plastics.

“The petrochemical industry wants a new market to replace any revenues they lose from people switching to electric cars,” Banbury said. “These are cars that no longer need motor oil. They no longer have to have a bunch of chemicals that get put under our hoods. And they realize that, as electric cars are adopted, their market’s going to decline. They want to replace that declining market, with making new plastic.”

At the meeting, Banbury outlined the industry’s future vision. As the Great Pacific Garbage Patch continues to grow, and the global market for recycled plastic shrinks to nil, what do we need? More plastic. He refers us to the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), which writes that “The infrastructure to produce new plastics is growing rapidly.

Massive investments in new plastics infrastructure rest on two critical, but as yet unquestioned, assumptions: 1) that demand will increase continuously and 2) that supplies of cheap feedstocks will remain available for decades.”

Those cheap feedstocks include a new market for that unrecyclable plastic. “New industries are popping up that want to take the plastics that we’re recycling and send them to facilities that heat the plastic up, using energy that is gonna have a Greenhouse impact, and break the plastic back down into the waxes, monomers, and fuel oil,” says Banbury. These processes skirt existing waste incineration laws and dovetail with efforts to harvest more plastics-related chemicals from byproducts of fracking.

In sharp contrast, the spirit at the Sierra Club meeting was one of imagining more open futures, where any and all ideas were welcome. In a discussion that would have delighted Lamar and Davis, there was much brainstorming on how to educate Memphians about recycling smarter.

There were anecdotes of apartment complex residents who had, on their own initiative, cut their garbage output and contracted privately to have their recycling picked up. There were testimonials about the wonders of the Compost Fairy, a local organization promoting composting as a way to reduce landfill waste from households, businesses, and communities.

For the first time since I’d been shocked into action by the sight of workers comingling my garbage and recycling bins, I saw a way out. Digging into the world of international recycling markets had set off warning bells more deafening than smoke alarms at a recycling plant. Somehow that simple act had led me to the knowledge that our waste and recycling process has reached a crisis point. I felt in the meeting room a shared motivation to act, perhaps best summed up by Banbury, who took a step back to reflect and said, “You’ve got to understand, we’re just scraping and sucking Mother Earth dry. She’s bleeding all over the place. And we just keep craving more of it.”

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Gong meditation is a form of sound therapy, dating as far back as 16,000 B.C., that uses a series of vibrations and sounds to induce a relaxed state in the listener.

Aaron Glazer, who leads this Thursday’s gong bath at Delta Groove Yoga, says benefits are subjective and vary from person to person.

“It can range from a very relaxing experience to completely allowing the mind to let go,” he says. “So what happens is the vibrations of the gong are not linear, and it’s not really something that the mind is used to following and keeping track of. So it forces you to let go. And it allows the intelligence of the body to be able to heal, whether you have a certain intention or if you leave it open-ended for whatever needs to happen in the body. And it’s just kind of trusting in the processes that are able to happen when we get out of our own way.”

To help guide users through meditation, Glazer uses mallets with varying levels of softness to create different soundscapes that can simulate whale sounds, deep space, or angels singing.

“The gong sounds from the front of the room, but sometimes you can’t even really tell where the sound is coming from,” Glazer says.

When asked if this effect was to disorient the listener, Glazer replies, “I think ‘reorient’ would be a better word for it.”

Looking for a way to quiet the mind? Try this — bang a gong, get it on, and a bang a gong.

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Susan Cushman releases the short story collection Friends of the Library.

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THURSDAY August 22

FRIDAY August 23

Crosstown Arthouse Presents The Slumber Party Massacre Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, 7:30-9:30 p.m., $5 In this 1982 “masterpiece of subversive trash-horror,” a power drill-wielding murderer terrorizes a group of high schoolers who are just trying to have a good time.

Memphis Is Me Visible Music College, 200 Madison, 5-10 p.m., $20 An annual celebration of the music and people of Memphis, with live music across three stages featuring headliner Sanctus Real. Run by Madison Line Records, Memphis is Me occurs every second to last Friday in August on the campus of Visible Music College Downtown.

Crosstown Arts Opening Receptions Crosstown Arts, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, 6-8 p.m.

Three exhibitions by former resident artists. “Scott Carter: Counterpoint” in the West Gallery; “Wang Chen: The Sin Park” in the Screening Room and East Atrium; and “Jia Wang: Residual Imprint” in the East Gallery.

Puck Food Hall Tasting 409 S. Main, 5:30 or 6:30 p.m. session, $50 Sample food and cocktails from the hall’s various vendors and enjoy live music and photo booths. Ticket includes 10 tokens that can be spent at the bar and vendor stations.

Memphis Tiger Football Kickoff Party University Center Ballroom, 6-9 p.m., $40 Hear from head coach Mike Norvell, see highlight footage, and participate in a silent auction and raffle. Food and drink provided.

Mamma Mia! Theatre Memphis, 630 Perkins Extd., 7:30-10 p.m., $35 Set on a Greek island, this musical, based on the songs of ABBA, finds a bride-to-be trying to discover which of three men is her father so he can walk her down the aisle.

Directed by Cecelia Wingate. Runs through September 8th.

The Humans Circuit Playhouse, 51 S. Cooper, 8-10 p.m., $27 The Tony Award-winning play looks in on a fractured family, facing illness and a changing economy, having a Thanksgiving gathering in a run-down Chinatown Apartment.

Electric Watershed Carolina Watershed, 141 E. Carolina, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., $10 Another installment of this EDM “music festival in your backyard” hosted by Ben Murray and DJ KAZ. Hot Cat Dance Party B-Side, 1555 Madison, 10 p.m., $5 Three DJs. Dance the night away.

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One Man’s Trash The Hi Tone hosts its second Midnight Yard Sale this Friday, with items like art, vintage clothing, video game systems, and sound equipment for sale by independent sellers.

“I’ve always kept this in my back pocket in case a show canceled,” says Brian “Skinny” McCabe, owner of the Hi Tone.

“Both of the shows I had scheduled in the big and small rooms canceled on the same day. It was really weird, but the first Midnight Yard Sale we threw a year and a half ago was a success, so I knew I had to do another one.”

Midnight Yard Sale is perfect for sellers who may not have the space to host their own yard sales and for buyers whose schedules don’t align with typical yard sale time slots.

“We don’t close till 3 a.m. every night. So trying to get up on a Saturday morning at a reasonable hour and go to a yard sale can be kind of taxing,” says McCabe. “So I just had the idea. What if we just threw a late-night yard sale for restaurant employees and others who don’t get off work until 9 p.m. or later? Then they can just come yard sale-ing inside the Hi Tone after that and enjoy food and drinks while they’re at it.”

Slots for vendor booths filled up quickly, and the public will be able to browse stalls within the venue’s small room, big room, and lounge and inside OOTHOON’S (adjacent to the Hi Tone).

Many of the items that do not sell will be donated to the Union Mission.

MIDNIGHT YARD SALE, THE HI TONE AND OOTHOON’S, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23RD, 11:55 P.M., FREE.

SATURDAY August 24 Water Lantern Festival Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park, 500 W. Mallory, 5-9:30 p.m., $35-$40 Attendees release lanterns to light up the water. Ticket includes a floating lantern, keepsake bag, and marker to decorate lanterns. Price covers the cost of collecting and removing the lanterns from the water following the event.

Bacon & Bourbon Festival Beale Street Landing, 251 Riverside, 6-9 p.m., $42 The Memphis Flyer hosts this one-of-a-kind event where your favorite things collide. Bourbon, bacon-inspired dishes, and live music: perfection!

SUNDAY August 25 Fight Night Minglewood Hall, 1555 Madison, 6-11 p.m., $30 (general admission), $300 (VIP) Boxing event, hosted by the Phoenix Club, benefiting The Boys and Girls Club of Memphis. VIP includes open bar, table service, and heavy hors d’oeuvres.

Moonlight Classic Bike Tour Cancer Survivors Park, 701 Perkins Extd., 8 p.m. (tailgate party begins), $30-$45 Nighttime bike ride (10 p.m.) benefiting Meritan, which offers health and support services for children to seniors. Also, cornhole and bling contests with prizes and local food and beer available.

Bowling For Balls VIII Billy Hardwick’s All Star Lanes, 1576 S. White Station, 2 p.m., $140 (team of four) Join the fight against testicular cancer and help the Mid-South Men’s Health Organization “save deez nuts.” Includes shoe rentals, three games of bowling, large pizza, pitcher of soda, unlimited Memphis Made beer, and prize entries.

Ostrander Awards The Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main, 6:30-10:30 p.m., $20 Ceremony honoring the best in local theater with awards for both community theater and college theater divisions. Post-awards reception at the Halloran Centre.

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ike Odd has a evil at large. Then you break down the lyrtough job. He’s the ics, and they were making a warning about man in charge of evil. This is a warning about fast food and Mac Sabbath, the the evils it will do to your soul.” world’s greatest The band started out playing small drive-through shows. Then came the social media posts metal band that’s made up of twisted dopfrom Black Sabbath. pelgangers of McDonaldland inhabitants “That’s what really made it happen,” led by a creepy clown who’s got a problem Odd said. “You’ve got to give it up to Black with fast food and sings about it via Black Sabbath, not just for influencing the band, Sabbath songs. but for promoting the band. It wouldn’t An instant sensation after Black Sabhave gotten to this level if they didn’t get bath posted its video for “Frying Pan,” a the joke and support it.” reworking of “Iron Man,” on Facebook The Black Sabbath post landed the and Twitter in 2015, Mac Sabbath burst band an invitation to play England’s out of Southern California and has been Download Festival, along with Kiss, Judas wreaking its fries-meet-heavy-rock havoc Priest, and Mötley Crüe. Returning to the around the world since then.

U.S., Mac Sabbath got out of California “When you’re a weirdo, you hold and has extensively toured, continuing to certain things near and dear,” Odd said in connect with fans around the country. a recent phone interview. “Black Sabbath “There’s something that happened invented heavy metal, punk rock, goth, with these characters and Black Sabbath,” everything that’s cool. In the late 1960s, he said. “I guess it’s the way they work there was nothing together so well. as creepy and They’re both so ominous as Black psychedelic and Sabbath. They’ve 1970s and creepy really influenced at the same time. everything you There’s something love if you’re a about the nature counterculture of people who weirdo. And like Black Sabthere’s no bigger bath that relates weirdo than to the cheeseRonald.” burger culture as Ronald well.” would be Ronald For now, Mac Mac Sabbath Osbourne, the Sabbath exists twisted genius only on stage, behind Mac Sabbath, who bears a striking with Grimalice shredding and Osresemblance to a certain clown from the bourne being Osbourne. fast-food chain that shall not be named “You’re talking about a disturbed clown — for copyright infringement purposes who maintains he’s traveled in the time/ — and shares his last name with Black space continuum from the 1970s to warn Sabbath’s star, Ozzy. us about the evils of fast food,” said Odd He’s joined in Mac Sabbath by of Osbourne. “So you have a person — I cheeseburger-headed guitarist Slayer don’t know if person is the right word Mac Cheeze, gumdrop-shaped bassist — you’re looking at an entity who is Grimalice (who may or may not be related constantly battling technology.” to Grimace), and drummer Catburglar, What it ultimately is is good, clean, a particularly twisted cross between the loud-rocking fun for the whole family — Hamburglar and The Catman from Kiss. at least that’s how Odd sees it.

Their repertoire consists of Black “One of the most amazing things about Sabbath songs repurposed for Ronald’s it is it looks like this big, scary, gnarly thing campaign to free the earth of fast food. So with these laser-eyed skull clowns and this “Paranoid” becomes “Pair-a-Buns,” “Sweet heavy, creepy music,” he said. “When you Leaf” is, in Mac Sabbath’s hands, “Sweet break it all down, everything he’s doing Beef,” and “Never Say Die” becomes is a kid-friendly, family thing. There’s no “Never Say Diet.”

R-rated stuff. No sex or drugs. Ronald “A lot of people look at it and think it’s a doesn’t work blue. It’s an entertaining pro-fast food culture thing,” Odd said. “In thing the family could enjoy.”

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Nature/Scope of Project: Shelby County Government is proposing a series of open space and infrastructure project elements that will help make the greater Memphis area more resilient in future disaster and flooding events. The Wolf River Wetland Restoration and Greenway activity encompasses improvements at three distinct locations: Rodney Baber Park, John F. Kennedy Park, and Orchi Road between Highland Street and Jackson Avenue.

Project Location Descriptions: (Provide locations of each area where work will be taking place).

Rodney Baber Park: Rodney Baber Park is located directly south of James Road, half a mile west of Hollywood and is bounded by McLean on the West and Interstate 40 on the South. The proposed concept plan for Rodney Baber Park will consist of up to four (4) soccer fields, one (1) baseball diamond, one (1) fishing lake, a large farmer’s market/festival pavilion and festival grounds, multi-use trails, one (1) proposed wetland with boardwalk, preservation of existing wetlands, a playground and shade structure, and the associated parking for the aforementioned facilities. It is anticipated that this activity will be completed over two phases of construction.

The site will be terraced and tie into the existing grades along the identified T.V.A. easement.

Approximately 19 acres will be raised above the floodplain and approximately 275,000 cubic yards of net fill will be required. Site grading up to the 100-year flood elevation will be balanced. The site will be graded down to match the existing elevation at the 250-foot wide T.V.A. easement along the southern portion of the property. Due to the increased elevations at Rodney Baber Park, a 1:1 stormwater mitigation will be required to compensate for the additional fill on-site in the existing floodplain.

The majority of the fill material required to meet the mitigation requirements will be taken from the proposed wetland and fishing lake in Rodney Baber Park and also from John F. Kennedy Park.

Kennedy Park: John F. Kennedy Park (Kennedy Park) is located south of Raleigh-Lagrange Road and northeast of Interstate 40 on a parcel owned by the City of

Orchi Road: Orchi Road is located east of Highland Street, north of Chelsea Avenue, and west of Jackson Avenue. Orchi Road will be reconstructed as a complete street with bicycle facilities along the north side of the road providing a direct connection from the surrounding low and moderate income (LMI) neighborhoods to the Wolf River Greenway. Sidewalks and street trees will be incorporated on each side of Orchi Road for pedestrian access.

Estimated Funding Sources: Funding Source: U.S. Department of HUD National Disaster Resilience Grant Funds Estimated Funding: $7.3 Million Funding Source: City of Memphis Estimated Funding: $1.5 Million [1] Finding of No Significant Impact [FONSI] on the Environment It has been determined that the proposed project will not constitute an action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment and, accordingly, Shelby County has decided not to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 as amended ([P.L. 91-1 190, 42 U.S.C. 4321-4347, January 1, 1970, as amended by Pub. L. 94-52, July 3, 1975, Pub. L. 94-83, August 9, 1975, and Pub. L. 97-258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982).

Environmental Review Records regarding the proposed project have been made available by Shelby County and document the environmental review of the project and more fully set forth the reasons why such a Statement is not required.

Environmental Review Records are on file and available for public examination and copying upon request at the Shelby County Department of Roads and Bridges, 6449 Haley Road, Memphis, TN 38134 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

No further environmental review of this project is proposed to be conducted prior to the request of release of Federal funds.

All interested agencies, groups, and persons disagreeing with this decision are invited to submit written comments for consideration

by Shelby County Department of Roads and Bridges. Comments may not be sent by facsimile (fax). Such written comments should specify that these comments are to be considered

for the FONSI and should be received at Shelby County Department of Roads and Bridges, 6449 Haley Road, Memphis, TN 38134 on or before September 12, 2019. All such comments so received will be considered and the County will not request release of Federal funds or take any administrative action on the proposed project prior to September 12, 2019.

[2] Notice of Intent to Request Release of Funds [NOI / RROF] At least one day after the termination of the public comment period for the FONSI, but not before comments on the FONSI have been considered and resolved, Shelby County will submit a Request for Release of Funds [RROF] and Certification to HUD. By doing so, the County will ask HUD to allow it to commit funds to the project, certifying that [1] It has performed the environmental review prescribed

by HUD regulations [“Environmental Review Procedures for Title 1 Community Development Block Grant Program” -24 C.F.R. Part 58, and [2] Shelby County and Lee Harris in his official capacity as Mayor consent to accept the jurisdiction of the federal courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review or resulting decision making and action. The legal effect of the certification is that by approving it, HUD will have satisfied its responsibilities under the National Environment Act, thus allowing the County to commit Community Development Block Grant funds to the project.

HUD will accept objections to its approval of the release of funds and Shelby County’s certification for a period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only on one of the following bases: [a] that the certification was not in fact executed by the Certifying Officer; [b] that applicant’s Environmental Review Record for the project indicated omission of a required decision, finding, or step applicable to the project in the environmental review process required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58, [c] the grant recipient or other participants in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; or [d] another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must address specifically the RROF separately from the FONSI comments and these comments must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedure [24 CFR Part 58] and may be addressed to the U. S. Department of HUD, Office of Community Planning and Development, Knoxville Field Office, John J. Duncan Federal Building, 710 Locust Street S.W., Suite 300, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902-2526.

Objections to the release of funds on bases other than those stated above will not be considered

by HUD. Potential objectors should contact HUD to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

Lee Harris Mayor, Shelby County

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On or about September 12, 2019 Shelby County Government will submit a request to the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the release of National Disaster Resilience funds under Title 1 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1984 P.L. 93-383 to undertake a project known as the Wolf River Wetland & Restoration Greenway: Construction within the Wolf River Basin within Rodney Baber Park, Kennedy Park, along Orchi Road and associated acquisition and construction costs to complete the project as described below.

Memphis. The property is roughly 260 acres, but the activity site will only disturb approximately 32.2 acres. The concept for Kennedy Park includes replacing five existing baseball/softball diamonds with approximately four soccer fields, a paved trail, which incorporates approximately 54,000 square feet of the proposed bicycle/ pedestrian trails throughout the park connecting to the Wolf River Greenway, linking the park to the Midsouth Greenprint in two places. Some of the soccer fields will be re-graded to serve as detention during intense storm events. The site grading will result in a net excavation of approximately 155,000 cubic yards from the floodplain. The excavated material will be transported and used as fill in Rodney Baber Park. Two (2) new wetlands will be created south of the proposed soccer fields. The proposed improvements to Kennedy Park are anticipated to be completed in two phases of construction.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule August 22 - 28 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 Thursdays-Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; Karaoke Thursdays, TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Mandi Thomas Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; The 901 Heavy Hitters Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Flyin’ Ryan Fridays, Saturdays, 2:30 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

B.B. King’s Blues Club 143 BEALE 524-KING

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Backstreet Boys Tuesday, Aug. 27, 8 p.m.

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

Sean Apple Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m.; Hillbilly Casino Aug. 22-23, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, Aug. 24, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, Saturdays, 5-9 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Saturdays, 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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

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

Lunch on Beale with Chris Gales Wednesdays-Sundays, 12-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/ acoustic Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands

Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

162 BEALE 521-1851

168 BEALE 576-2220

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

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Saturday, Aug. 24, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

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

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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

August 22-28, 2019

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

and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule August 22 - 28 Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Terry Wall and the Wallbangers Friday, Aug. 23, 9 p.m.; The Accessories Sundays.

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

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

Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck Fridays, 6 p.m.; Smokin’ Jays Friday, Aug. 23, 9 p.m.; The Skitch Saturday, Aug. 24, 5 p.m.; Second Chance Saturday, Aug. 24, 9 p.m.; Jazz

Greyhaven, Good Bueno, The Ellie Badge Friday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m.; Warped Tour 25th Anniversary Tribute Saturday, Aug. 24, 5 p.m.; My Chemical Monday: Forever Starts Today Monday, Aug. 26, 9 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Evince, Irata, Sleuthfoot Wednesday, Aug. 28, 8:30 p.m.

Aug. 23, 6:30 p.m.; Twin Soul Friday, Aug. 23, 10 p.m.; Devan Yanik Saturday, Aug. 24, 2 p.m.; Pearl Saturday, Aug. 24, 6:30 p.m.; Aquanot Saturday, Aug. 24, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Rick Camp and the Suburban Trunk Monkeys Sunday, Aug. 25, 4 p.m.; Madison Line Mondays Mondays, 6 p.m.; Memphis Funk Tuesday, Aug. 27, 7 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.

Thieves Wednesday, Aug. 28, 10 p.m.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Mighty Souls Brass Band Thursday, Aug. 22, 6 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Friday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m.; Hope Clayburn’s Soul Scrimmage Saturday, Aug. 24, 8 p.m.

East Memphis Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Settlers Sunday, Aug. 25, 4-7 p.m.; Soul Shockers Sunday, Aug. 25, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Memphis Botanic Garden 750 CHERRY 636-4100

Wolf at the Garden with Lee Brice and Hunter Hayes Saturday, Aug. 24, 6-11 p.m.

Poplar/I-240

Huey’s Downtown

Neil’s Music Room

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Fingertrick Sunday, Aug. 25, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Paulette’s RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

Live Pianist Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-9 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and Mondays-Wednesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.

Bartlett Hadley’s Pub

The Vault

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Medical Center

Super 5 Friday, Aug. 23, 9 p.m.; Shotgun Billys Saturday, Aug. 24, 9 p.m.; No Hits Wonder Sunday, Aug. 25, 5:30 p.m.; A.M. Whiskey Wednesday, Aug. 28, 8 p.m.

Sunrise

Collierville

124 GE PATTERSON

Ellisa Sun Friday, Aug. 23, 8:3011:30 p.m.; KC Johns Saturday, Aug. 24, 8-11 p.m.

670 JEFFERSON

Huey’s Collierville

KC Johns Sunday, Aug. 25, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

The 45’s Sunday, Aug. 25, 8-11:30 p.m.

South Main

Cordova

Spindini

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Crystal “The Sax Lady” Brown Jazz Trio Fridays, 7-10 p.m.; David Collins Jazz Trio Saturday, Aug. 24, 7-10 p.m.

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Frayser/Millington Huey’s Millington 8570 US 51 N.

Shallis Gonda’s 40th Birthday Party Blowout Saturday, Aug. 24, 9 p.m.; Paul Taylor, Eric Lewis, Daniel McKee Sunday, Aug. 25, 7 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays; David Cousar Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Outer Ring Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Goner Third Thursday Every third Thursday; Rev Neil Down and Band Friday, Aug. 23, 8-10 p.m.; Marcella & Her Lovers Friday, Aug. 23, 10:30 p.m.; Mary Gagz and Her Gaggle of Drags Mondays, 8:30-11 p.m.; Why Bonnie, Harlan Tuesday, Aug. 27, 9 p.m.; TN Screamers Wednesday, Aug. 28, 7:30 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

Sunday Brunch with Joyce Cobb Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Jam with Frog Squad Sundays, 6 p.m.; Silver Seven Band with Ron Shuman Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

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

Chuck Mead “Closer to Home” Tour Friday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m.; Alvin Youngblood Hart & Muscle Theory Saturday, Aug. 24, 8 p.m.; The Mystic Tuesday, Aug. 27, 6-7 p.m.; Austin Lucas Wednesday, Aug. 28, 7:30 p.m.

Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

A Killer’s Confession, Once Around, Influence Thursday, Aug. 22, 8 p.m.; ’68 and Listener,

Hi Tone

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412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Big Freedia, Sweet Crude Thursday, Aug. 22, 9 p.m.; Eternal Sleep, Judiciary Saturday, Aug. 24, 8 p.m.; Dirty Mike, JGJM, The Eastwoods Saturday, Aug. 24, 10 p.m.; The Wanderland Tour Sunday, Aug. 25, 8 p.m.; HEELS, Rosey Monday, Aug. 26, 7 p.m.; Proper, Alfred, Jadewick, Blvck Hippie Tuesday, Aug. 27, 8:30 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

LAPD Sunday, Aug. 25, 4-7 p.m.; The Tony Holliday Band Sunday, Aug. 25, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

The Rollin Rosatti Band Friday,

Natalie James and the Professor Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Mama Honey, Mars Hall Saturday, Aug. 24, 7 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

No-Theme, No-Class Revue with DJ Willow Friday, Aug. 23, 10 p.m.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Don McGregor Saturday, Aug. 24, 8 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rockstar Karaoke Fridays; Freeloader, Fugitive Droids Saturday, Aug. 24, 10 p.m.; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight; Tejon Street Corner

Shangri-La Records 1916 MADISON 274-1916

Sweat Fest 5 Saturday, Aug. 24, noon-6 p.m.

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

The Remainders, The Magic Hour Saturday, Aug. 24, 9-11:30 p.m.

The Sensations Sunday, Aug. 25, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Royal Blues Band Sunday, Aug. 25, 8-11:30 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Huey’s Southaven 7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND 454-7771

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Dudecalledrob Saturday, Aug. 24, 10 p.m.

Tommy Wall & the Wallbangers Sunday, Aug. 25, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

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The Boogaloos Sunday, Aug. 25, 6-9 p.m.

2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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CALENDAR of EVENTS: AUG. 22 - 28 T H E AT E R

Circuit Playhouse

The Humans, at Thanksgiving, the Blake family gathers at the run-down apartment of Brigid Blake and her boyfriend. The parents are unhappy that their daughters have left home and have abandoned their religion. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Aug. 23-Sept. 8.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Hattiloo Theatre

Jelly’s Last Jam, he wore a diamond in his tooth, denied he was black, and claimed to have single-handedly invented the genre we know as jazz. Jelly Roll Morton, jazz pioneer reinvented himself so as to conquer the vast American expanse.

Born a Creole of color in turnof-the-century New Orleans, he came of age playing piano in the bawdy houses of Storyville.

Through Sept. 1.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

The Orpheum

Ostrander Awards, the 36th annual awards, named after beloved Memphis theater icon Jim Ostrander, a long-standing member of the local theater community, honor excellence in a variety of categories, in both the community theater division and the college theater division. Every aspect of stage production — actors, directors, technical personnel, and more — will be recognized. memphisostranders.com. $15.

Sun., Aug. 25, 6 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square

Kinky Boots, in this musical

Opening Reception for “Counterpoint” by Scott Carter at Crosstown Arts, Fri., Aug. 23rd

with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, Charlie has inherited a shoe factory from his father.

It sounds like a great deal, except the factory is failing.

Enter Lola, a cabaret performer and drag queen, who sees what Charlie can’t — and it’s all in the heel. playhouseonthesquare.org. Through Sept. 1.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

Mamma Mia!, set on a Greek island and to the music of the international pop group ABBA, a young girl plans her wedding while trying to discover who of three men may be her father … all to the distress and ultimate joy of her mother. www.theatrememphis.org. $35. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.

Through Sept. 8.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

Making Folk Happy, two sisters leave Mississippi for the big city life in Memphis. Given the ultimatum to find a job or find husbands in one year, the girls live with a family friend, but soon find out that big city life may not be all that “happy.” $22. Sun., 3 p.m., and Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m. Through Aug. 25.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

430 Gallery

Artist Reception for “Remission,” exhibition of new work

by Noah Miller. Tues., Aug. 27, 6-10 p.m.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

CHOICES Midwifery

Opening Reception for “Our CHOICES,” exhibition to create an environment where people can come together in solidarity, raise hope, and hope

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

DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY. for a future unaccompanied by a constant threat to reproductive rights. (500-7001), Fri., Aug. 23, 6-8 p.m.

144 N. BELLEVUE (274-3550).

Crosstown Arts at The Concourse

Opening Reception for “Counterpoint,” exhibition of new work by Scott Carter, a former Crosstown Arts resident artist.

Fri., Aug. 23, 6-8 p.m.

Opening Reception for “The Sin Park,” exhibition of new work by Wang Chen, a former Crosstown Arts resident artist.

Fri., Aug. 23, 6-8 p.m.

Opening Reception for “Residual Imprint,” exhibition of new work by Jia Wang, a former Crosstown Arts resident artist.

Fri., Aug. 23, 6-8 p.m.

1350 CONCOURSE AVE., SUITE 280 (507-8030).

Epiphany Salon & Gallery

Opening Reception for “Seeing Dots,” exhibition of new works by Dale Martin and Julie Nouwen. Featuring live music by Soriana Wood and Richard Jacobs. Wed., Aug. 28, 6-8 p.m.

440 N. FRONT (522-3010).

Memphis College of Art Opening Reception for “Horn Island 35,” exhibition of artwork inspired by the final MCA Horn Island expedition. Sat., Aug. 24, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Ross Gallery

Opening Reception for “Temple of the Cha-Cha-Hua,” exhibition of new work by Justin Bowles. Fri., Aug. 23, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Opening Reception for “Copia,” exhibition of new work by Melissa Wilkinson. Fri., Aug. 23, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

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

CALENDAR: AUGUST 22 - 28 OTH E R ART H AP P E N I N G S

GYNECOLOGY

Artist Talk: E.V. Day

Day, a New York-based artist whose work explores themes of sexuality and humor while employing gravity-defying suspension techniques, will discuss her Rotunda Projects installation, Divas Ascending.

Wed., Aug. 28, 6:30 p.m.

ABORTION CONTRACEPTION

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

District Mural Program Open House

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MIDWIFERY

This show will take a journey with each of seven mural artists from schematic design to final design and initial installation.

Fri., Aug. 23, 6:30-8 p.m.

URBANART COMMISSION, 422 N. CLEVELAND (454-0474).

CHO CES

Hopeless Fashion Show

Debut fashion show with music and an art showcase. Thurs., Aug. 22, 6-9 p.m.

Memphis Center for Reproductive Health

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 25th Anniversary Celebration Featuring Crab Legs & Prime Rib

3 p.m. – 10 p.m. • $25 per person

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

DAN C E

RUMBA ROOM, 303 S. MAIN (523-0020).

Velvetina’s Blue Moon Revue

A dazzling dinner show featuring live, local music and the best in glamorous, classic burlesque. $30. Every other Thursday-Saturday, 7-9 p.m.

Through Aug. 31.

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

C O M E DY

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts Eddie B., former teacher and stand-up comic, brings his I’m Already Professionally Developed tour to town. $25.

Sat., Aug. 24, 8 p.m.

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 525-1515).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Author Brian W. Smith

Author discusses and signs his novel Missing. Registration is required. Free. Sat., Aug. 24, 5-8 p.m.

M.R. DAVIS PUBLIC LIBRARY, 8554 NORTHWEST (654-8612).

Booksigning by Lovejoy Boteler Author discusses and signs his new book Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard. Thurs., Aug. 22, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Susan Cushman

Author discusses and signs her new short-story collection, Friends of the Library. Sun., Aug. 25, 2 p.m.

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

LECTU R E / S P EA K E R

Kathy Wakile’s Dessert Class

The reality celebrity, national bestselling author, entrepreneur, and restaurateur gives a lesson in summer sweets. Free.

Thurs., Aug. 22, 6-8 p.m.

REMINGTON COLLEGE, 2710 NONCONNAH (389-5302), REMINGTONCOLLEGE.EDU.

A Memphis Landscape Architect’s Journey

Daniel Ashworth, a senior associate landscape architect and Memphis office manager at Alta Planning + Design, will speak on his journey as a landscape architect. Free. Sat., Aug. 24, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

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

MLK Poverty Report

Memphis Freethought Alliance hosts the University of Memphis’ Dr. Delavega, who authored the MLK poverty report on the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death, to speak on classism locally and globally and how inequality negatively impacts our everyday lives. Sun., Aug. 25, 1:30-3 p.m.

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Paul B. Evans

International speaker and author of Live on Purpose and Success is NOT an Accident! shares humorous and inspirational anecdotes in his trademark Southern accent.

Free. Sat., Aug. 24, 10 a.m.

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People release their dreams and hopes onto the water in the form of paper lanterns. Sat., Aug. 24, 5-9:30 p.m.

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best restaurants, plus an array of distilled spirits to tempt your taste buds. We’ll have music and merriment and entertainment … and did we mention a whole lot of bacon and bourbon? And to make it even more appealing, we’re contributing a portion of all proceeds to the Memphis Farmers Market. $42. Sat., Aug. 24, 6-9 p.m.

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Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia fight to restore freedom and justice to the galaxy. Fri., Aug. 23, 7 p.m.

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You Got a Friend Susan Cushman’s collection Friends of the Library.

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ibraries are something of an struggling with similar challenges. “I endangered species these spoke at a lot of book clubs and bookdays. Public spaces without stores and conferences, and people an admission fee rarely would always say, ‘I didn’t know anyfit into the makeup of the body else felt that way,’” Cushman says. modern city. Maybe that’s Processing the experience in such a way why Susan Cushman, the Memphis-based gave her a different perspective on her author of Cherry Bomb, chose them as relationship with her mother, which had the setting for her new collection of short been strained even before the struggle stories, Friends of the Library. with Alzheimer’s. “I was able to forgive Friends of the Library is Cushman’s first her before she died in 2016. That was a short story collection, and she’s celebratreal blessing. ing the release with booksignings at Novel “At the same time, I started my novel bookstore this Sunday, AuCherry Bomb, and that was Susan Cushman gust 25th, and at Cordova a long project that took Library, Wednesday, August about six or seven years. It 28th. Those readings kick came out in 2017 as well,” off an autumn and winter Cushman says, which book tour that will take the brings the story back to author to 10 independent libraries. “I was visiting bookstores and 24 libraries. libraries in 10 small towns Cushman, a native of in Mississippi in 2017 on Jackson, Mississippi, who a little book tour for my moved to Memphis in 1988 novel, and as I visited each with her husband and three town, I did a little research children, didn’t discover about it. Even though I her love for libraries until grew up in Mississippi, I’ve recently. “I was more so never been to most of those always a writer,” she says. places.”

“I really got into writing in Cushman grew fascinatjunior high and high school ed with libraries, especially for literary journals and our those in small, rural towns, newspaper. I thought, ‘I’m where libraries can function going to be a journalist.’ I as a cultural crossroads. The was a feature editor on our people Cushman met on newsletter, and then I did her book tour were dealing some freelance writing as with the same issues as she an adult.” had, but they had fewer Her journalistic leanings places to go to gain perspecwere put to the test, though, tive, to share their troubles, when she came up against and to take comfort from a work of fiction that, for her, reframed their fellows. And the pages of Friends what a writer could do. “I knew I wanted of the Library are populated by troubled to write fiction when I read Pat Conroy’s people in need of comfort.

The Prince of Tides,” Cushman says, exA few issues dealt with in the collecplaining that she relished the idea of using tion include cancer, Alzheimer’s, domesher own trauma to inform her expression tic abuse, homelessness, and racism. To — all without being too “confessional.” help her navigate the maze of heartaches “I didn’t start seriously writing books she had created, Cushman invented a until about 2006 or ’07 [when] I started fictional author to take the trip through working on a novel and a memoir,” CushMississippi. “She gets involved in the man says. Of the memoir, she adds, “I lives of the people that come to the didn’t know it was going to be a book. I Friends of the Library meetings where did 60 blog posts over an eight-year peshe speaks.” Even as she’s helping to fix riod about caregiving for my mother with the fictional dilemma, “she’s helping the Alzheimer’s, and then I turned it into a real person Susan.” Because, when you book in 2017. That was a different kind of get right down to it, everyone could use book project because I didn’t know I was a friend.

Susan Cushman discusses and signs her writing a book all those years.” new collection Friends of the Library at Cushman spoke at the Memphis Novel bookstore Sunday, August 25th, Alzheimer’s Conference in 2018, which, at 2 p.m., and at the Cordova Library, along with other speaking engagements, Wednesday, August 28th, at 2 p.m. gave her direct access to others who were

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The Molly Spaulding martini is served with a rock candy lollipop.

Because thunderstorms make me a little squirrelly, I order the Allure martini, which is a chocolate-based drink with Bailey’s and amaretto. My friend and I also try the Esquire, a mix of Old Dominick’s Huling Station bourbon and Grand Marnier, and the Mane Street Mule, which has Jack Daniel’s, ginger ale, and a strip of candied bacon.

These are all off-brand drinks for me, but if a restaurant is going to put candied bacon and Bailey’s martinis on a menu, by God, I will drink them. The brunch menu has a specialty mimosa, the Triple C, made with Camus cognac and prosecco, and for those with a sweet tooth, the cotton candy mimosa made with rosé champagne and elderflower.

The fun drinks aren’t just for brunch; Khadijah says her favorite drink to make is the Molly Spaulding, a martini made with whipped cream vodka and served with a lollipop.

Khadijah is also a spectacular ambassador of Sage’s food. She fascinates with descriptions of the beignets (made from homemade biscuits), the Soul Waffle (two waffles stuffed with fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and greens), and the daily lunch specials (tilapia with gouda grits some days, crawfish mac and cheese the next).

It’s on her recommendation that we try the Soul Egg Rolls, which, like the waffle, are made with chicken, mac and cheese, and greens — and holy moly, they’re incredible. Sage doesn’t shy away from the alcohol infusion in their food, either; the rosemary and ginger peach cobbler has Hennessy-infused Georgia peaches! Hel-lo, dessert.

After finding out how packed brunches are at Sage, I’m already planning my second visit. Khadijah knows her crowd, too: She says her brunch crowd makes Sunday feel like a “slightly earlier Saturday night.”

“They have some drinks, have some brunch, maybe ride some scooters to another bar,” she says, and hey, South Main boozehounds, isn’t it nice to feel seen? Sage is exactly the type of place I’d kick off my Sunday because then, if so inclined, a person could make their way from one end of South Main to the other and hit up all the good spots and be safe at home by sundown.

It’s important to note that Sage isn’t the line-up-at-11 a.m. type of place because their brunch runs until 4:30 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday (sleep it off or just sleep in; you’ve got time, pal!).

Khadijah describes Sage as a social situation of a bar, which is exactly the vibe it has. It’s a great place to sit and peoplewatch from the patio, enjoy some unique drinks you won’t see most other places, and plan your scooter route for the day.

It’s open at 11 a.m. daily and until 10 p.m. on weeknights, midnight on weekend nights, and 5 p.m. on Sunday. It’s going to be a go-to for pre-gaming Grizzlies games because, uh, there’s bacon in the drinks, y’all.

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barely made it in the door of Sage Memphis when the thunderstorm hit. It’s a full-on monsoon outside, and Sage, despite being a reliable shelter and serving alcohol, is relatively empty. Because I don’t let thunder and lightning spoil my good time, I am determined to find out more about this adorable bar tucked in at 94 S. Main. I have eyes — I’ve seen their Instagram. I’ve perused Twitter.

And I am pissed no one told me about this place.

“It’s a slow night,” says Khadijah, the bartender. This works out well because then she lets me monopolize her time and find out all about Sage’s drinks, menu, and future plans. Saturdays are their busy nights, with Sunday brunches close behind. It’s not difficult to see why: Despite being a kick-ass bar bathed in green light (sage!), the food is way beyond that of a humble bar. Pair the food with the kind of drinks Sage is serving up and you’ve got a winning combo in Downtown Memphis.

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People-watching and unique drinks at Sage on S. Main.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Spin the Bottle Good Boys go on a comedy quest for that first middle school kiss.

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ew films of the 21st century have had as long a shadow as Superbad.

Written by high school friends Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, it was a huge hit in 2007, launching one of the young century’s premiere comedy teams and spawning a legion of imitators. In it, the two high school protagonists (named Seth and Evan) try to score some booze for a party that takes on almost mythical status for them as they run from the cops (Rogen and Bill Hader, in star-making turns) and try to live up to the impossible standards of coolness they have developed in their heads.

Superbad is itself part of the legacy of Freaks and Geeks, the millennial high school TV series created by Paul Feig where Rogen, James Franco, and a number of other actors such as Lizzy Caplan got their start. Together, the show and the movie took the Hughesian vision of American high school as a rigid caste system of the rich, the popular, the athletic, the nerdy, the poor, and the slutty and adapted it to the new realities on the ground. Just as Animal House inspired countless numbers of frat

party comedies, every coming-of-age comedy since Superbad worth its salt has been based around young misfits on a quixotic quest for fun.

Produced by Rogen and Goldberg and penned by former writers for The Office, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, Good Boys transports the formula from high school to middle school. Max (Jacob Tremblay), Thor (Brady Noon), and Lucas (Keith L. Williams) are a trio of besties who call themselves the Beanbag Boys. The neighbors have grown up together and, until now, have been perfectly content to sprawl out on their comfy beanbags and play Magic: The Gathering. But they’re nearing puberty, and nature is calling; the film opens with Max getting busted by his father (Will Forte) for masturbating.

Max’s first crush is a girl named Brixlee (Millie Davis), and he’s been making a ceramic necklace in art class for her as a gift. After following her to a skate park, the Beanbag Boys improbably manage to wangle an invitation to a party at the home of cool kid Soren (Izaac Wang). Brixlee will be there, Soren tells Max — and there will be kissing.

The central conceit of Superbad is that Seth and

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Ain’t misbehavin’ — (l-r) Keith L. Williams, Brady Noon, and Jacob Tremblay are Good Boys.

Evan are aware of the world of college parties and grown-up kicks, and they’re trying to force their way into it. In Good Boys, our young protagonists are completely clueless. All they know about sex is from playground talk and health teachers. When they want to know how to do kissing right and not engage in “sensual harassment,” they resort to searching the web for “prob,” and then for porn. But their lurid, traumatizing searches come up empty because “nobody even kissed — at least not on the lips!”

That’s just the beginning of the trio’s descent into low-grade vice that unfolds naturally over the day of the party, as the trio tries to prove, in Max’s inspiring words, “Are we fifth graders — or are we sixth graders!?” The key to this kind of comedy is getting the characters right and balancing the comedy beats with enough genuine peril so that the stakes drive the conflict forward without much laughter-killing

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy leads to what must be the best dronebased comedy sequence ever put to film. But the film has the misfortune of being released only a few months after Booksmart, and it simply isn’t in the same league as that coming-of-age comedy masterpiece. The Beanbag Boys’ painful naiveté works for a while but becomes a one-note joke as the film wears on. Good Boys knows how to successfully apply the Superbad formula but never manages to rise above it.

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The script has its high points as well. The boys’ attempt to spy on teenage neighbors Hannah (Molly Gordon) and Lily (Midori Francis)

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PUBLIC NOTICE SHELBY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING FY 2019 CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMACE REPORT, AND AMENDMENT TO THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN Shelby County Department of Housing (SCDH) is preparing its Consolidated Annual Performance Report (CAPER) for the program year that began July 1, 2018 and ended June 30, 2019. The CAPER is required by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) to describe CDBG and HOME activities undertaken by SCDH to address housing and community development needs, especially in low- and moderate-income areas of Shelby County, outside the City of Memphis. SCDH is also proposing an amendment to the Consolidated Plan which would cancel the Collierville Haley Road sewer project, increase funding for the Bartlett Municipal Park ADA Improvements project, and fund the Lakeland Zadie Keuhl Park ADA Improvements project.

SCDH utilized approximately $1,196,253 in Community Development Block Grant funds and $253,572 in HOME funds for the following activities: low-to-moderate income housing rehabilitation and minor home repair; infrastructure/community development improvements to benefit low-to-moderate communities within the Urban County; administrative expenses; and program delivery costs.

Shelby County Department of Housing is proposing an amendment to the Consolidated Plan which would cancel the Collierville Haley Road sewer project scheduled for funding in PY19. Due to an emergency situation for residents, the project had to be completed immediately with other funds. SCDH proposes now using the $100,000 in CDBG funds originally budgeted for the Collierville Haley Road sewer project for the Bartlett Municipal Park ADA Improvements project which was recently out for bid. Based on the bid results for the Bartlett Municipal Park ADA Improvements, this project will exceed the previously budgeted $200,000 in CDBG funds. This amendment will bring the Bartlett Municipal Park ADA Improvements project to $300,000 in CDBG funding. In addition, SCDH proposes using $200,000 unallocated CDBG funds to complete a Lakeland Zadie Keuhl Park ADA Improvements project.

Unallocated CDBG funds will be used to replace an outdated and heavily worn playground with a new and inclusive and ADA accessible playground and surface; this will be the first inclusive playground for Lakeland.

August 22-28, 2019

The CAPER will be available for public review and comment from Saturday, August 31, 2019 through Saturday, September 14, 2019 at the office of SCDH (1075 Mullins Station Rd., Memphis, TN 38134), the Arlington Public Library, the Collierville Public Library, the Germanton Public Library, the Millington Public Library, and the following branches of the Memphis & Shelby County Public Library: Benjamin L. Hooks and Bartlett. The proposed amendment to the Consolidated Plan will be available for public review and comment at the same locations as the CAPER but during the following period: Saturday, August 31, 2019 through Sunday, September 29, 2019. The CAPER and the proposed amended Consolidated Plan may also be reviewed on the Shelby County website: http://www.shelbycountytn.gov/3103/ Reports-and-Plans To solicit comments on the CAPER and the proposed amendment to the Consolidated Plan, SCDH will host a public hearing on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 5:30pm at the Shelby County Code Enforcement, Training Room, 6465 Mullins Station Road Memphis, TN 38134. Attendees should enter the Code Enforcement Building through the Training Room entrance; upon walking up to the building, attendees will need to follow the signage that leads to the Training Room. Additionally, written comments or suggestions will be accepted through 8:00 a.m. on September 16, 2019 on the CAPER and through 8:00 a.m. on September 30, 2019 on the proposed amendment to the Consolidated Plan. Written comments should be directed to Mrs. Sydney Wright at Shelby County Department of Housing, 1075 Mullins Station Road, Memphis, TN 38134. SCDH will respond to all written comments within 15 working days of receipt.

For questions concerning the public hearing, CAPER, or proposed Consolidated Plan Amendment, please contact the Department of Housing at 901-222-7600 or TTY at 901- 222-2300.

Those with special needs that plan to attend the public hearing are encouraged to contact SCDH at (901) 222-7600 or TTY at 901- 222-2300 by 4:30 p.m. Friday September 6, 2019 and we will work to accommodate you.

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

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The Buck Stops … Where?

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

As someone who writes words for a living, I’m admittedly not what one would call a “math person.” My grasp on economic concepts is tenuous, so please do not treat the following Donald Trump as financial advice. However, after enough people say the same thing, coincidences become patterns that even money dummies like me can recognize. Economists are forecasting a recession on the horizon. All the hallmarks are there: weakening global economic growth, declining yields on the 10-year Treasury note, house-flipping ads on the radio, and B-roll footage of face-palming stock market traders on news clips. Friends, I am worried about The Economy. And I have some questions.

As a consumer, how exactly does one prepare for a recession?

Should I refinance my home? Do I need to start stockpiling canned goods and ramen noodles and move my $46.09 in savings to a more secure place, like a mattress or a shoebox in my backyard? Is there a checklist I can hang on the fridge? I remember the last recession’s local impact, the industry bailouts, the golden parachutes, the stimulus programs. But I was barely out of college and my gruesome financial situation in those days was mostly a self-made mess. Was I affected? Of course, we all were. Between credit card debt, student loans, and my decision to pursue a career in journalism at the exact moment people decided to stop paying for newspapers, I would have been broke regardless. Can’t worry about your 401K when you don’t have one, folks, am I right?

Experts predict the next recession won’t be as severe or last as long as 2008’s financial disaster, but signs point to a downturn. Some say it’s already happening. So, what exactly is being done to prevent or mitigate a crisis, knowing just how bad things can get? Are we just waiting for China to blink and call off the trade war? Doesn’t seem likely. Are Nancy Pelosi and the bafflingly impeachment-averse faction of Congress banking on a crummy economy in 2020 and expecting to ride the wave of destruction to a win for the Democratic party? It’s so cynical and obviously doomed to fail, I’m sure it’s been pitched as a serious strategy.

In the meantime, I’m not sure I trust some CNBC talking head, the executive producer of The Conjuring 2, and a “fringe” economist whose views are said to “go against a strong professional consensus” to guide us out of the fray. President Deals, whose tariff tête-à-tête with China is apparently causing much of the market panic, swears the Federal Reserve Board is out to get him. He laps up the credit for low unemployment, but shaky markets and any other bad omens that make it to the Resolute Desk are a cocktail of fake news and Fed conspiracy. And high-ranking economic officials such as Wilbur Ross — the guy who said rising aluminum costs won’t affect the price of soup, a product that comes in an aluminum can — are downplaying recession fears on cable news shows. Forgive me if my concerns are less than assuaged. And I highly doubt buying Greenland would move the needle, even if it were an option.

According to the Treasury Department, the federal government has already spent more than $3.5 trillion in 2019 — that’s the most it’s spent over a 10-month period since the Great Recession. And the budget deficit is projected to top a trillion. Like I said, I’m no economist, but last year’s tax cut doesn’t seem to be paying for itself as promised. If spending is that high now, what happens when unemployment rises?

Where is the next stimulus package coming from? Where’s the money going now? What happened to those Tea Party Patriots who cared so much about spending and deficits?

Even if a looming recession is “garden variety,” as Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi predicts, how many times is the so-called party of fiscal responsibility going to try the trickledown thing before we put our collective foot down?

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

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