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OUR 1694TH ISSUE 08.12.21 My fiancée and I are moving out of our little two-room converted attic in Cooper-Young and into a somewhat larger space in the Vollintine-Evergreen district this week. We just need a little more room, and, because I know the landlord at the new place, I’m more optimistic about routine maintenance being taken care of in a timely fashion — or at all.

So I’m writing this letter, not from my office in the Cotton Exchange Building or from my little nook in the corner of the bedroom, but sitting in a chair in what used to be our combination living room-kitchen and now could be more accurately described as Staging Area No. 1. It’s nice in here, surrounded by a labyrinth of cardboard boxes, muffling the sounds of the outside world. As happens any time I pack up for a move, I find myself getting lost in memories of the place I’m about to leave behind.

Like the time our downstairs neighbors moved in last year, a few weeks before the coronavirus pandemic began, back when “coronavirus” and “COVID-19” were just words I heard on the radio, usually linked to some vaguely frightening report from somewhere far from Memphis and Shelby County. Our neighbors, let’s just call them Jack and Jill, moved in, and at some point in our comings and goings, I realized that Jack was an old friend from a college job. We exchanged the usual niceties about how funny life was and bad pennies turning up, and we made loose plans to grill out and catch up, you know, once this whole coronavirus thing was under control.

Ha! We never did have that cookout. We probably could have, if we all would have taken this thing seriously for a month or two. We all know how that turned out, though.

Then, just before I was vaccinated this spring, Jack and Jill broke up and Jack moved out. The cookout was a bust, but for a few short months, I felt safe and guilt-free going out in public and meeting with other vaccinated folks. But now, with cases and hospitalizations surging again as the Delta variant makes itself known, we’re back to square one.

Life goes on, but the world outside seems to be stuck in some sort of loop, ever in a limbo of relaxing mandates followed by surging cases.

There are some differences, though. In March 2020, when I got back from a trip to North Carolina to interview barbecue pitmasters for Memphis magazine, I didn’t know how to behave. No one did. We were walking around unmasked, needlessly sanitizing our groceries, and testing was reserved for those who showed symptoms of the disease.

Now, having just returned from a trip to Idaho, I know the drill. I signed up for a test at CVS, drove out to Arlington at the appointed time, and self-administered a nasal swabbing. Not pleasant to experience (or write about, sorry!), but it was relatively easy and totally free. Semi-regular tests might be a part of my future as I learn how to navigate a world in which COVID has become endemic. I’m not particularly worried about myself.

But a breakthrough infection could hurt my dad, and my nephew is too young to be vaccinated. I’d hate for him to get seriously sick because I got lazy. Or to miss out on two weeks of preschool. He’s excited about it, and two weeks is a long time when you’re a kid.

But why do the cautious among us have to continue to revise our behavior if not because of a stubborn segment of society who continues to fight the most basic precautions? Last Monday, the Shelby County Board of Commissioners debated issuing a new mask mandate. At the same meeting, Commissioner Tami Sawyer presented a resolution to purchase masks for students and in-person teachers in Shelby County, which would seem to be a no-brainer. We can all agree on protecting kids, right?

Wrong. The Conservative Women of Collierville disagreed, and even accused Sawyer of getting a kickback for the purchase. Is it so improbable that an elected official just wants to protect kids and teachers? In Tennessee, maybe — though I think Sawyer truly cares about the kids, the teachers, and their safety.

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DAM M IT, GAN N ETT Digital hands were wrung in the (Memphisbased) All News Is Local Facebook group last week. The Commercial Appeal flubbed a cutline, calling the “new” bridge the “Hernando Be Soto” bridge. Jokey comments claimed the copy editor “be sotted” and “that be a mess.”

CA alum Otis Sanford made the original post, claiming “errors in headlines and cutlines, written by someone far away from Memphis, are embarrassing and sloppy.”

Current CA executive editor Mark Russell commented that these things were “mostly written by local journalists. No one in Arizona is editing CA copy or writing headlines.”

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LEE DRAGGED Critics lambasted Tennessee Governor Bill Lee on Twitter last week after a story surfaced about a state program that pays farmers to vaccinate their cows but had no similar program for humans and the COVID-19 vaccine.

“You care more about playing politics than the people. It’s obvious now. Be better,” tweeted Memphis City Council member JB Smiley.

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Masks, Critical Race Theory, & Amtrak County recommends masks for all, Tennessee releases guidelines on CRT, and Sen. Marsha Blackburn wants to divert funds from Amtrak toward the wall on the southern border.

MAN DATI N G MAS KS Masks are now recommended indoors for all — including vaccinated people — in Shelby County after a new health directive went into effect last week.

A Memphis City Council resolution asking Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland to reinstate the citywide mask mandate received a weak reception from the council. Council member Chase Carlisle said state law preempts local bodies from making such a move. However, the council could request the Shelby County Health Department to reinstate the mandate.

BAN N E D C O N C E PTS Tennessee school districts could be slapped with fines of up to $5 million if a teacher “knowingly Clockwise from top left: FEMA safe space; Josie, the baby African spotted genet; violates” state rules prohibiting cerash pond at Allen Fossil Plant; Tennessee proposes CRT guidelines; tain discussions on racism, sexism, council considers face mask mandate; Marsha Blackburn wants to defund and white privilege, according to Amtrak to build the wall; Gulf of Mexico dead zone. proposed guidelines released by the Tennessee Department of Education late last month.

BLACKBURN: DEFUND AMTRAK, BUILD THE WALL The guidelines also outline the complaint process for those Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) wants to defund Amtrak to who violate these rules and the consequences for teachers and build “the wall.” school districts who violate the rules. School districts could lose Ahead of votes on President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastrucup to $5 million in funding, and teachers could lose their licenses. ture plan, Blackburn said “the American people should not be forced to foot the bill for Joe Biden’s pet project.”

NO DUMPING Blackburn’s amendment to the infrastructure bill would realMemphis City Council members want a permanent halt to Tenlocate $1 billion in Amtrak funding “to construct a wall along the nessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) plan to dump coal ash here. international border between the United States and Mexico.’’

Council members reviewed a resolution last week that would stop TVA from dumping toxic coal ash from the now-retired AlM O R E D EAD Z O N E len Fossil Plant on President’s Island to two landfill sites — one in The polluted “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is much larger than Whitehaven and the other in Tunica County, Mississippi. the 4,894-square-mile zone scientists predicted earlier this year. An investigation showed the area to be 6,334 square miles. Due to an SAF E S PAC E excess of nutrient pollution, the dead zone has low oxygen levels.

Ground broke late last month on a nearly $5 million school This makes it hard for most marine life to survive. gym that will also serve as a safe place during tornadoes.

The new gym at Belle Forest Elementary School in southBABY G E N ET B O R N east Memphis will double as a safe room certified by the FedOfficials from the Memphis Zoo announced the birth of a baby eral Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The school will African spotted genet last week. It’s the first of its kind to be get the 11,000-square-foot, $5 million facility thanks, in part, born at the Memphis Zoo. Visit the News Blog at memphisflyer.com for fuller versions of to a $1.8 million FEMA grant announced for Shelby County these stories and more local news.

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Coal ash will be the focus of debate at Memphis City Hall probably for weeks to come as Memphis City Council members review a rule that might make it illegal to dump the stuff here.

If you’re new to the issue — maybe this is first time you’ve heard of coal ash — consider this a primer.

Coal ash is what it really is: the ashes of coal left over after that coal was burned here by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to make power for the Memphis area. But TVA closed the plant that burned coal for electricity, the Allen Fossil Plant, in 2018. The plant consumed 7,200 tons of coal per day. After it was burned to make electricity, that coal left behind about 85,000 tons of ash every year.

In 2018, TVA made the switch to the $975 million Allen Combined Cycle Plant, which burns natural gas — not coal — to power the Memphis area. The old coal plant was closed, but all that coal ash remains.

The ash is now stored in two massive ponds at the old coal-plant site, just south of McKellar Lake and President’s Island. One pond on the west side of the campus was buried years ago and now looks like a large, grassy park. The other pond — the East Ash Pond — is murky, black, and lifeless but for some brawny stands of (what appears to be) sawgrass.

Under these ponds (and because

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The massive East Ash Pond at the Allen Fossil Plant of the coal ash in them), TVA found high levels of arsenic and other toxins in groundwater. Arsenic levels were more than 300 times higher than federal drinking water standards. This was determined to be a threat to the Memphis Sand Aquifer — the source of the city’s famously pure drinking water — and TVA abandoned a plan to pump water from it for its new natural gas plant.

For years, TVA weighed options to deal with the coal ash in the ponds. In March 2020, the agency announced it would dig up the coal ash, put it on trucks, and dump it at landfills in the Memphis area. At the time, environmentalists supported the measure but were concerned about the many trucks carrying the coal ash through neighborhoods for years.

The issue was largely dormant until TVA met resistance to the plan in a hearing before the Memphis City Council last month. In its first August meeting, the council considered two resolutions that would ban TVA from dumping the coal ash either in Shelby County or within a larger area that could pose threats to the aquifer.

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The longpending matter of ranked-choice voting — aka instant runoff voting (IRV) — may be resolved in time for the next Memphis city elections, set for October 23rd. That was the word from well-known IRV advocate Steve Mulroy, one of several participants in an administrative hearing on the subject held in Nashville last week.

On Thursday, August 5th, state Elections Coordinator Mark Goins presided over the hearing in the state capitol. In his official capacity, Goins had previously determined that IRV was illegal under Tennessee election law and prevented its implementation in Memphis, despite three separate local voter referenda approving the process. Goins, who, ironically and unusually, took part in the procedure both as an adverse party and the final decision-maker at the administrative level, was represented by the state attorney general’s office.

Petitioners, including former and future City Council candidates Erika Sugarmon, Sam Goff, and John Marek, participated as challengers to Goins’ original decision and in the current determinative process.

They were represented by Taylor Cates and William Irvine of the Burch, Porter & Johnson Memphis law firm, assisted by attorneys from the international Hogan Lovells law firm. University of Memphis law professor Mulroy represented additional intervenors, including former and future City Council candidate Britney Thornton and the Ranked Choice Tennessee organization (a pro-IRV advocacy group).

Yet another participant was attorney Allan Wade, representing the Memphis City Council, which has joined the state in seeking to block IRV implementation.

The administrative hearing is a necessary step before the matter can be appealed to the Davidson County Chancery Court. An administrative decision from last week’s process is expected within a few months, with a more definitive Chancery Court ruling expected

a few months after that.

At last Thursday’s hearing, pro-IRV expert testimony was provided by George Gilbert, a former elections administrator in North Carolina and current associate of the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center, a nationwide clearinghouse for Ranked Choice Voting, which allows voters to rank candidates on a ballot in order of preference, successively sampling these choices until a majority-winning candidate can be selected. (Ranked-choice voting was the method recently used by New York City in its primaries to elect a new mayor.)

Gilbert explained that it was technically feasible to implement IRV in Memphis, using either current Shelby County equipment, hand-marked paper ballots, or any other equipment Shelby County might obtain in the future. He also insisted that, under a proper administrative interpretation of the state’s election statutes and regulations, there was nothing illegal about doing IRV in Memphis.

Memphis voters approved IRV overwhelmingly by referendum in 2008, amending the Memphis City Charter to that effect. Currently, it applies to all City Council districts but not to citywide races like mayor or city court clerk. But IRV was not immediately implemented at least partly because the then Shelby County Election Administrator Richard Holden opined that the county’s voting machines could not handle IRV. His successor, current Election Administrator Linda Phillips, stated in 2017 that this opinion was incorrect and that the county’s extant machines could indeed handle IRV. Phillips was set to implement it for the 2019 City Council election when Coordinator Goins instructed her not to, claiming that IRV violated state law.

Incumbents on the Memphis City Council placed two different IRV repeal referenda on the November 2018 ballot. Memphis voters rejected both repeal efforts, indicating once again a willingness to see IRV elections in Memphis.

Petitioners and intervenors disputing Goins’ legal interpretation also protest the involvement of the Memphis City Council in the litigation. In their view, the anti-IRV perspective is adequately represented by the state. “The City Council should respect the will of the voters and stop trying to block something that Memphis voters voted for three times,” said Mulroy.

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you need to exit homelessness.” That includes helping clients get a state ID or birth certificate. “It’s something that brings you back into citizenship,” he says. “We do all the navigation with state and federal agencies. We’re also creating income for people through our Warm Welcome program. Every day, up to 22 people go out to work for finished these in early July,” Johnson three or four hours. They get $50 and says, opening the door to one unit. lunch. It’s great for them and great for “Four are occupied and we have a posthe city because it’s a big step in exiting sible client for this one.” homelessness.”

The interior is clean and simple and Johnson says the hardest people to smells of wood. There is a bed, a chair, get out of homelessness are those who a picture on the wall, a heater, a small have aged out of foster care. “These AC unit.

PHOTO: BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN people have nothing, no support, no “These are all hardwood inside,” Kelcey Johnson family to help them. We’re working Johnson says. “Walls and floor. Each with a woman now who fled her foster care at 14 and has resident gets a new robe, slippers, sheets. As people are been on her own ever since. She’s basically homeless bestarting this new life journey away from homelessness, we cause she’s never known how to find an apartment or sign don’t want to put anything old in here.” a lease or do applications or get a birth certificate or social I ask Johnson who gets to move into these units. security card. She needs someone to guide her through “The people living here are those who have been these basic processes.” chronically homeless, long-time people we’ve known. Their This week, the Hub celebrated the start of construction mental and emotional conditions don’t allow them to stay on its new 32-bed women’s shelter. The organization also in a shelter. Here, they have their own space, safe from the hopes to increase the number of its mini-units. “If this gets crowding, safe from the virus. They have a key to their unit scaled up, it could be a national model,” says Johnson. and a key to the bathrooms. There is a sense of community There is good work being done here, and it’s palpable. in that they are separate but at the same time are together.

As I leave, I spot my friend. “See ya, Elliot,” I say.

The case managers are right here for them.”

“There you go,” he says. “You got my name.”

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Between Manassas and Danny Thomas, just a block from the restored and gilded mansions of Victorian Village, is another village of sorts. It’s the Hospitality Hub, a resource center for those experiencing homelessness in Memphis.

Outside the small office, a line of 10 or 12 men stands, waiting to meet with an outreach advisor, someone who might help them get an ID so they can access their social security checks or a veteran’s pension, someone who can maybe help them find work or shelter or food or medical attention — someone to listen.

As I approach, one of the men asks if I have any work for him. He’s a small, personable fellow, who seems sincere. We chat for a minute. I say I don’t have any work but I might someday, and I start to turn away.

“Well, how you gonna know who I am?” he asks, reasonably enough. He pulls out a photo ID and proudly shows it to me. “Elliot Allen is my name,” he says. “Can you remember it?”

“Yes, I can. I’m gonna record it.” I speak his name into my phone. “Elliot Allen.”

“That’s pretty slick,” he says. “Nice talking to you.”

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• If you take the money out and use it for qualified medical expenses, you don’t pay any tax then, either. So in that way, an HSA works like a Roth IRA in the end.

And, if you wait until you’re 65, you can pull the money out for any reason, and it’s simply taxed as ordinary income. So in one of the worst-case scenarios, the account ends up working very much like a traditional IRA. But if you play your cards right, you’ll never get taxed on this income, either, because you can withdraw the money at any time for authorized healthcare expenses, even including things like long-term care insurance premiums. You can even save healthcare receipts in case you need money in the future — there’s no requirement to reimburse your medical expenses in the same year they’re incurred.

What’s the downside to an HSA? If you suddenly need money and simply must tap into your HSA for nonhealthcare expenses, you’ll pay ordinary income tax rates plus a 20 percent penalty on those withdrawals. That’s even worse than the 10 percent early withdrawal penalty for IRAs, so HSAs aren’t a great substitute for an emergency fund. Also, HSAs are not good vehicles to transfer wealth to the next generation, which may be a consideration when spending down assets in the future.

HSAs can definitely serve as a healthcare emergency fund, though, and these accounts combine some of the best features of traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs along with other special benefits.

If you don’t have an HSA, talk to your financial advisor to see if one could be right for you. If you do have an HSA, don’t swipe that card if you can help it!

Have a question or topic you’d like to see covered in this column? Contact the author at ggard@telarrayadvisors.com. Gene Gard is Co-Chief-Investment Officer at Telarray, a Memphis-based wealth management firm that helps families navigate investment, tax, estate, and retirement decisions.

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Should I pick a healthcare plan that allows me to invest in an HSA? A: It’s hard to know for sure without knowing all your details, but you might be surprised to hear that HSAs are among the best long-term savings vehicles available in the United States. This is true even if you don’t spend a dime of the money on actual healthcare for years — or possibly even ever. Ironically, it’s especially a great deal if you’re young and healthy with few healthcare costs.

Many of us remember the Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) popular in the past, where you might get $600 a year and the money was use-it-or-lose-it by the end of each year. That is totally different from an HSA. In fact, it’s probably best if you never use the debit card from your HSA account, or at least save it for emergencies only.

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Booking It:

Our Summer Reading Roundup FROM THRILLERS TO POETRY TO CULTURAL STUDIES, HERE ARE EIGHT BOOKS TO KEEP YOU BUSY IN THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER.

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his one is for the bookworms.

In this edition of our summer reading guide, the Flyer staff has dutifully compiled a list of local (and farther afield) tomes we think will wrinkle your brain or send your imagination on a ride. From Memphis to Mississippi to Nashville, this list brims with fiction and nonfiction, volumes of poetry, and two examples of YA fiction — a bildungsroman and a dystopian thriller.

So enough delays — we hope you enjoy this list of some of our favorite books from 2021.

Maps for the Modern World

by Valerie June Hockett (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $14.99) This is your time.

Enjoy this life.

Learn its lessons.

You will never come this way In this same body Again.

— “Sacredness of All Things”

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meditations and yogic rituals, her ceremonial offerings of gratitude in alignment with a full moon, deep in the woods or alongside a flowing stream — where she finds harmony between herself and PHOTO: COURTESY ANDREWS MCMEEL Mother Earth. A PUBLISHING Some of you may have harmony that exists for Valerie June Hockett met Memphis songstress us all.

Valerie June many moons ago, before In her life, and in her book of poetry the world met her, when she gigged in and original illustrations, Maps for the town and worked at Maggie’s Pharm.

Modern World, June acknowledges that She radiated an inner light. Her warmth all humans suffer — that “somewhere stretched across the room like a hug. It at every moment there lives a tragedy,” was as if there were secrets to the unibut, she muses, if we sit still — very verse that she knew the answer to. still — and become more aware of our These days, she’s gracing late night interconnectedness with all things, TV and some of the biggest venues decide which seeds we wish to water and festivals in the nation (and the (personal or within our communities), world, when international tours are a we can and will endure, embracing each thing).

Browse her Instagram, and you’ll precious moment as we go.

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The Heathens

by Ace Atkins (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $27 hardcover) Things are heating up in Tibbehah County again, and Quinn Colson has really got his hands full this time around. The Heathens is Oxford writer Ace Atkins’ 11th tale featuring the wild and wooly denizens of his fictional North Mississippi county and their intrepid Sheriff Colson, and it hits all of Atkins’ trademark notes; meaning, it delivers satisfying dollops of action and suspense.

The tale centers around young Tanya Jane Byrd, who is suspected in the brutal murder of her mother. Before she can be brought to justice — or some semblance of it — she scoots off for parts unknown in a stolen minivan with her boyfriend, her 9-year-old brother, and her best friend Holly.

Colson gives chase, as do the real killers. (You knew there’d be real killers, right?) The plot is twisty and quirky,

but the best part of Atkins’ Tibbehah County tales is usually the insanely weird and often-violent supporting cast. One suspects these bottom-of-the-genepool types — Chester Pratt, Chastity Bloodgood, Johnny T. Stagg, to name three — are probably based on real-life counterparts, with some exaggeration, of course.

The Heathens is a fast-paced pageturner, perfect for summer. Just stay out of Tibbehah County if you know what’s good for you. — Bruce VanWyngarden The Son of Mr. Suleman

by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton, $27 hardcover) The new novel by Memphis-born New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey was published posthumously.

Dickey passed away in January of this year, but his final novel, published in April — one of 29 written by the prolific wordsmith — stands as a last gift to his

author and Rhodes College alum, this YA novel embraces what it’s like to come of age in Memphis. Lee Swann, a recent high school graduate, has always lived in the Memphis art scene and can’t imagine her life anywhere else. She even plans to attend college in Memphis, but a break-up with her long-term boyfriend, followed by her parents’ announcement of their separation, leaves her in a crisis of identity and purpose. Unable to cope with the present, Lee, with the help of some friends, turns to the past and to her love of podcasting to tell her parents’ love story, her origin story. Along the way, Lee uncovers secrets about her family, her friends, and herself.

Told from Lee’s perspective and interspersed with transcripts from her podcast, the novel explores themes of

weighty concepts art, friendship, family, — racism, power romance, and love. dynamics, culture McCoy’s writing is funny differences, politics, and self-aware yet raw love, and death — but as its plot is brought to not at the expense life by the complicated of true-to-life prose, and flawed relationships steamy romance, or a among the diverse set PHOTO: KATIE FERGUSON propulsive plot. And of lovable characters.

Mary McCoy the pages are dotted And for someone who with references to the typically avoids any novel Bluff City and its history. “That’s scary,” marketed as a rom-com on top of being Pi tells Gemma at one point. “Your a YA, I found myself rooting for the mood turned like Memphis weather in characters so much so that I read the wintertime.” book embarrassingly quickly. (To be The dialogue rings true, and the clear, I have nothing against rom-coms. ending, when it comes, is a happy one I love a good rom-com movie, but I hold made authentic by the acknowledgement my books to a different standard. Or of life’s many complexities. — Jesse Davis maybe that’s what I tell myself, so I don’t feel like a book-snob.) Part of the appeal Indestructible Object of a rom-com novel is its predictability,

by Mary McCoy but McCoy subverts that predictability (Simon & Schuster, $18.99 hardcover) enough to keep up the reader’s interest without breaking the rom-com contract Written by Mary McCoy, Printz Honor of a happy ending. We just get there

in an unexpected way, and even the ending itself is unexpected. As such, Indestructible Object is perfect for anyone — book-snob or not, young adult or not — looking for an easy-to-read, delightful summer novel. — Abigail Morici Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story

by Rachel Louise Martin (Vanderbilt University Press, $19.95) We’ve all tried that wonderful poultry inferno that is the Nashville specialty of hot chicken (if you haven’t, you should). The spiced flaming bird came to Memphis a couple years back with the opening of Hattie B’s, but hot chicken identifies as a staple of our neighbor three hours to the east. But as is the case with many iconic American dishes, the line between

food and folklore is blurred. In Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story, Rachel Louise Martin dives into the mythology surrounding the dish and how hot chicken came to be.

But Martin’s book reaches for greater heights than just a focus on Nashville spiced meat. Hot chicken has a long and complex history that is intertwined with Nashville’s growth over the past century and inexorably linked with the city’s Black population. The legend goes that a jilted wife of James Thornton Prince created the dish in a fit of rage to punish him after a night out cheating, but apparently Prince loved the flaminghot chicken so much that he told all his friends about it and eventually opened a restaurant to serve it. The James Beardrecognized business is run today by his great-niece, André Prince Jeffries, but the identity of the original “chef ” is a puzzle.

The dish’s origins present a mystery for Martin to unravel. Which woman first made the dish? As a womanizer, Prince

left many viable candidates to be the inventor of hot chicken. But the difficulty in pinning this down is the sadder side of the tale. It’s the story of Black families and communities being torn apart for the sake of new developments in Nashville, and how much of Black history in America has been intentionally erased or simply left unrecorded. So don’t go into Hot, Hot Chicken expecting a simple food parable. Martin weaves a tale of the history of Nashville itself, with all the social, political, and culinary issues that entails. — Samuel X. Cicci Drained

by Marc Daniel Acriche (Sunken Island Books, $14.99) Predicting the future is hard and getting harder. In a world of 7 billion people and counting, there are a lot of moving parts to keep track of. In the sci-fi YA novel Drained, Marc Daniel Acriche builds a convincing New York City of 2048 by not ignoring the elephant in the future room: climate change.

Manhattan is still a teeming wonderland of towers, as long as you’re north of the “light border.” That’s where teenage Casey lives and attends school at the exclusive Roosevelt Prep. Her best friend Jennifer is the daughter of Michael Hargrove, the man destined to be the next mayor of the decaying city. Casey’s father was a respected DA, until he mysteriously vanished a year ago.

He’s not the only person who is missing.

Jennifer’s boyfriend Martin disappeared from his home in the section of the city where electricity is intermittent, at best.

When the friends go looking for him, Casey uncovers a plot by Hargrove to build his private militia into an army of mind-controlled soldiers. She must tap into bravery and resourcefulness she didn’t know she had to save what is left of the world.

Unlike the extravagant villains of The Hunger Games, Hargrove is a recognizable American politician whose glad-handing exterior hides the heart of a brutal tyrant. Casey is an urban Katniss Everdeen whose battlefield is her own mind. The technology in Acriche’s world is all too plausible, given Mark Zuckerberg’s and Elon Musk’s fascination with brain implants. Most plausible of all are the games of high-tech, high-stakes hide-and-seek among the drowned streets of New York. “It was October, it was well over ninety degrees, and it had been like this for days,” Acriche writes. Drained is a fast-paced novel of post-cyberpunk action that reads like a weather report from the near future.

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many fans.

“When gods became bored in heaven they walked among mortals.”

So begins The Son of Mr. Suleman, with what feels like divine poetry. The novel follows Professor Pi Suleman, a Black man working as an adjunct professor in the final throes of Trump’s America.

Pi must navigate the power dynamics of academia as well as confront a blackmailer, even as he also embarks on a whirlwind romance with the beautiful London-to-Memphis transplant Gemma Buckingham. Then, upon learning of his absentee father’s death, Pi is summoned to Los Angeles to collect his inheritance and learn about his famous father, a celebrated writer who the world knew better than Pi himself did.

The Son of Mr. Suleman deals with

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by Caki Wilkinson (Persea Books, $15.95) In this book of poetry, there is a recurring character named Hope. “Hope Comes to Elvis Week,” “Hope Brings Back Half a Rack of Ribs,” and “Hope and Superstition” are just a few poems featuring this character. You might be starting to get a picture of Hope. Hope boxes, picks up shifts at Wendy’s, and steals. She’s more familiar than we’d like to admit, perhaps even a part of our own id, ego, and super-ego.

The two standout poems for me were “Flyover Country” and “Georgics.” The former resonates with me, quite simply, because I love to drive. It spoke to me by listing places between Memphis and Bristol. Each line has four city names. I struggle to make them make sense in some way — even if they shouldn’t, I make them make sense. The last line: “Needmore Prospect Liberty Moons.”

The latter, “Georgics” seems to allude to a poem published by Virgil in 29 B.C. about agriculture. It has four parts. Wilkinson’s poem by contrast admits that she is bad at husbandry. Okay. Fine. And yet, Wilkinson’s poem cultivated another part

— a part five. In part five you get the alltoo-familiar by now kick in the teeth. Oh, yes. The beauty of Wilkinson’s work can be found in the gut-wrenching punches. In part five, she ruins her relationship “like all the others.”

Wilkinson is a brilliant poet who takes her reader more often than not on a trip “in a borrowed car with a guy called Nuh-Uh.” You can meet Nuh-Uh in “Juvenilia.”

— Julie Ray

Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music

by David Sulzer (Columbia University Press, $27.99 paperback) What is this thing called music? Readers devoted to the auditory arts will delight in this 300-page exploratorium, which covers every facet of the sounds we register as meaningful: how a sound wave propagates

through air; why the same pitch played on different instruments registers as “violin” versus “flute”; how simple math — with whole numbers! — leads to scales, simply by halving or otherwise dividing lengths of string or pipe. Delving further, Sulzer explains why some sounds present as “noise” versus “notes,” or how compelling rhythms can be better understood mathematically.

The grand finale draws on Sulzer’s work as a neurobiologist at Columbia University, as he explores the physiology of brainwaves and neuronal clocks, or of sound waves moving from the ear to the brain and thence to the emotions.

The real accomplishment is how Sulzer, aka the prolific musician and composer Dave Soldier, relates all this in a jaunty, conversational manner. Drawn into the mystery, you barely realize that you’re learning some rather heady stuff. The listening guides at the end of each chapter bring the concepts to life with startlingly eclectic examples, including Bo Diddley (with whom Sulzer played in his youth), Steve Reich, Ethiopian krar music, Elvin Jones, Brahms, Pauline Oliveros, Thai elephants, Junior Kimbrough, Ravi Shankar, Celia Cruz, and flamenco, to name a few.

All told, John Cale’s endorsement rings true when he calls it “an encyclopedia of our tonal imagination.” — Alex Greene

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Spirits Speak

By Julie Ray

As the saying goes, “The higher the hair, the closer to heaven.” This might explain Theresa Caputo’s heavenly hairdo, which brings her closer to the spirits who want to communicate with the living. Known as the Long Island Medium, she uses her gift to relay messages of comfort, truth, and closure.

PHOTO: COURTESY Caputo says she cannot turn off communications with spirits. Messages from departed loved ones can come through at any time, leading to JONAS PUBLIC RELATIONS spontaneous readings with audience members and fans during her show.

Theresa “This isn’t about whether you believe in me,” Caputo says. “I want people to believe in themselves and in an afterlife, that what they feel about a loved one is Caputo real.”

Do you believe? Now is your chance to find out. Put away the Ouija board and planchette. Let Caputo be your guide. Along with delivering messages from the spirit world, learn about how her gift works and hear personal stories about her life.

After 14 years on the TLC show Long Island Medium, Caputo just launched her new series, Long Island Medium: There In Spirit, which airs on Discovery+. Fans from around the world can also tune into her weekly podcast, Hey Spirit!.

I’m not saying her gift is rooted in science, but Albert Einstein did say that “energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.” Perhaps Caputo is tapping into a changed form of energy — from living to spirit form. Either way, you’ll enjoy The Experience.

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THERESA CAPUTO LIVE: THE EXPERIENCE, CANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 255 N. MAIN, THURSDAY, AUG. 12, 7:30 P.M., $40.

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VARIOUS DAYS & TIMES August 12th - 18th Arthouse Film Series: The Swimmer Crosstown Concourse Theater, 1350 Concourse, Thurs., Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m., $5 Burt Lancaster plays Ned Merrill, who goes on an adventure of sorts as he swims from pool to pool through his well-heeled neighborhood.

Uncensored Live: A Variety Show Railgarten, 2160 Central, Fri., Aug. 13, 7-10 p.m., $20 An entertainment showcase featuring artists from Memphis and the tri-state area performing music, comedy, song parodies, spoken word, and dance.

Memphis Summer Cocktail Festival Overton Square, 2101 Madison, Fri., Aug. 13, 6-9 p.m., $39 Enjoy summer-inspired cocktails from more than 30 of your favorite spirits, fresh local food, an epic dance party, and more.

Opening reception for “After the Storm” Buckman Arts Center, 60 Perkins Ext., Fri., August 13, 5-7 p.m., free Exhibition of new work featuring acrylic paintings by Meghean Warner and whimsical pottery by Amy Hertz in the Levy Gallery.

Wickedly Wizard of Oz Mid-South Ice House, 10705 Ridgeway Industrial, Olive Branch, MS, Fri., Aug. 13, 6 p.m., $12 A mash-up of Wizard of Oz and Wicked on ice. Directed and choreographed by local figure skating coaches.

Summer Movie Series: School of Rock The Grove at GPAC, 1801 Exeter, Fri., Aug. 13, 7 p.m., $10 Overly enthusiastic guitarist Dewey Finn (Jack Black) gets thrown out of his bar band and finds himself in desperate need of work. Live music by T-Bone & Keys and food trucks available.

Now I Am Alone Hattiloo Theatre, 37 S. Cooper, opens Sat., Aug. 14, 2 p.m., and continues select days through Sept. 15., $150/four seats The play is written by Shakespeare; the performance is conceived and performed by Geoffrey Owens of stage and screen.

Covington Comic Con Liberty Hall, 204 E. Liberty, Covington, TN, Sat., Aug. 14, 9 a.m., $6 Featuring vendors, panels, artists, cosplay, prizes. Appearances by Historical Haunts, Nora Childers, Jeffrey Nodelman, and others.

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Attend Elvis Week’s Candlelight Vigil in person or online.

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By Julie Ray

Every time Elvis Week rolls around, I hear an Elvis story that I’ve never heard before. My dad told me about the time he saw Elvis at a gas station in the 1950s. Elvis shared that he’d just recorded “Blue Moon of Kentucky’’ at Sun Studio and he was going to be famous. And so it happened.

“My grandmother was friends with Gladys,” said Connie Pike, a family friend offering me a new story. “Elvis would invite my friends and me to parties at Graceland. My friends went, but I never did. I’d been around him enough at his mom’s house. I sure didn’t want to see him at his house, but I sure wish I’d gone to some of those parties now.”

Avoid regrets and be a part of Elvis’ story by celebrating his life and legacy on this 44th anniversary of his death. This year, Priscilla Presley will make special appearances at select events. Join other fans on Sunday as Elvis music sets the tone for the evening during a walk to the Meditation Garden for the Candlelight Vigil. The ceremony will also be available to watch online again this year along with a Virtual Elvis Week option featuring concerts and events livestreamed.

Nightly parties include Club Elvis: Hawaiian Style, a Blue Hawaii luau celebrating the 50th anniversary of the movie.

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Jennifer Hudson stars as Aretha Franklin in the biopic Respect, a huge step-up from her latest cinematic endeavor, Cats.

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Artist reception for “Strata” 2021 Projects, 55 S. Main, Sat., Aug. 14, noon-3 p.m., free Exhibition of sculpture by Coriana Close and photography by Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo.

Memphis Chicken & Beer Festival Liberty Bowl Stadium, 940 Early Maxwell, Sat., Aug. 14, 6-10 p.m., $40 Admission includes a souvenir tasting glass, live music, and more than 90 different beverages to sample. Food will be available for purchase. Benefits the Dorothy Day House. The event is 21+.

Smashed to the Blast Zone Black Lodge, 405 N. Cleveland, Sun., Aug. 15, 8-10 p.m., $8 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Tournament Series. Setup includes: Switch, game with all DLC, GameCube controller adapter, and low-latency monitor with sound.

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman Malco Paradiso and Malco Collierville, Mon., Aug. 16, $15 The true story of FBI agents Kathleen McChesney and Robert Ressler, who organized the manhunt to apprehend serial killer Ted Bundy.

RiffTrax Live: Hobgoblins Malco Paradiso and Malco Collierville, Tues., Aug. 17, 7 p.m., $15 A 1988 low-budget comedy-horror film introduces rubber puppets from outer space that make your wildest fantasies come true — then you die.

Tour with the Curator: “Persevere and Resist” Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 1934 Poplar, Wed., Aug. 18, 6:30 p.m., free with reservation Joyce Blackmon Curatorial Fellow Heather Nickels will guide participants through the exhibition.

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hen Graceland revs up its engines for this year’s Elvis Week, one event will feature some of the greatest players to ever back up the King. Elvis or no, any show with musicians like James Burton, David Briggs, Charlie McCoy, and Norbert Putnam on one stage would be notable, for they are some of the famed Nashville Cats, hitmakers for countless stars in their day.

Naturally, that’s the crew Elvis would call on when he worked in Nashville, as he did for the legendary June 1970 “marathon sessions” in RCA Studio B that yielded over three dozen tracks, spanning four albums. On Friday, fans can hear those very players recreate some of those songs live.

Luckily for us, bassist Norbert Putnam, who Elvis called “Putt,” remembers those sessions like they were yesterday.

He devotes a chapter to them in his book, Music Lessons: A Musical Memoir, but, needing to hear more details, I rang him up at his hometown of Florence, Alabama.

Memphis Flyer: Those few sessions in 1970 were prolific.

They must have proceeded at a whirlwind pace.

Norbert Putnam: I think we recorded 39 sides and they kept 35, in five nights. And they named it the marathon sessions, which makes it sound like we were struggling the whole time.

But it was easy. It was like falling off a log to work with Elvis Presley. A lot of times, Elvis would get it on the first take. He was so sharp. He was such a quick study.

I suppose you Nashville Cats were quick studies as well.

We were all trained to grab a legal pad and start writing when the demo started playing. As it played, I would note the bass part and the chords. We would have a

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Bassist Norbert Putnam

In your book, you say publishers would pitch songs to Elvis, and if he didn’t like one, he’d wad up the lyric sheet and toss it in the trash.

Oh, he loved to do that! And he did it in jest. He’d say, “Lamar, how dare you bring me such a piece of crap?”

So he had to be really into it before you would get around to actually tracking it.

Yeah, he didn’t record any songs just to please the publishers.

And he never slowly worked his way up to the keeper vocal. He started off full blast. I’d see him just before the red light came on, and he’d be breathing like a fullback, like, “Gimme the ball!”

And he was standing in front of us, holding an RE15 mic, which is what he used on stage in Las Vegas, with a 30-foot cable on it. He’s got that in his right hand, he’s got the lyric sheet in the other, and he’s looking at us, and prodding us.

It would be like, “Hang on!”

Norbert Putnam with Elvis

chart, literally, in four minutes. And Elvis might play that vocal by the demo singer, sometimes four or five times. Then he’d turn around and say, “You guys have that?

Well, let’s run it down.” [Jerry] Carrigan would count it off, and this band would play it flawlessly. Elvis would say,“‘How do you do that?!”

These were all night sessions, weren’t they?

The only bad thing about working with Elvis Presley was, he was nocturnal. He got up at 5 in the afternoon, had breakfast at 6. At 10 p.m., when he says, “Let’s record,” I have already been working for 12 hours! By 4 a.m., it was all I could to keep my eyes open. When we did “Merry Christmas, Baby,” I was just trying to stay awake.

Elvis sang it; then he starts singing it all over again, without stopping. Now I’m dying. It’s over seven minutes.

He says to James Burton, “Take it, James,” and James starts playing. Two bars later, Elvis yells, “Wake up, Putt!” He’d probably been watching me with my eyes shut all the way through the song. But he continued to hire me!

The Nashville Marathon Sessions 50th Anniversary Concert takes place Friday, August 13, 7 p.m., Soundstage at Graceland; tickets are $78, $68, $58, and $48. For more on this and other events, visit graceland.com.

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

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“After the Storm”

New work featuring paintings and pottery by Meghean Warner and Amy Hertz in the Levy Gallery. Friday, Aug. 13-Oct. 11.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL

Artists’ Link Summer Show

Work by members of Artists’ Link.

Through Sept. 2.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

“Divine Legacies in Black Jewelry”

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

Through Sept. 12.

METAL MUSEUM

Two-dimensional paper pieces and sculptures by Tim Crowder.

Through Aug. 28.

DAVID LUSK GALLERY

“Drip”

Paintings by Kevin Ford.

Through Aug. 21.

TOPS GALLERY: MADISON AVENUE PARK

“Escape to Water and Sky”

Paintings by Ann Brown Thomason on display in the Grand Hall.

Through Sept. 30.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

“Hillbilly Rock”

Featuring items from The Marty Stuart Collection. Ongoing.

GRACELAND

“Hindsight 2020”

A reflection of the events of 2020 through the lens of artists of color, LGBTQ+ artists, and others. Through Sept. 30.

ART MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS (AMUM)

“Inside the Walt Disney Archives”

Celebrating the legacy of The Walt Disney Company archives, with behind-the-scenes access never before granted to the public.

Through Jan. 2.

GRACELAND EXHIBITION CENTER

“Invisible Aquaphobic Art”

Art installation in the plaza fountain that will reveal artworks only when exposed to water by artist Stacey WilliamsNg. Through Aug. 31.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE

“King of Karate”

Highlighting Elvis’ lifelong passion of the art of karate. Ongoing.

GRACELAND EXHIBITION CENTER

“Meet the Dixons”

Highlighting Margaret and Hugo Dixon’s personal lives, collections, and legacy. Through Sept. 26.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS

“Micro-Aesthetic”

Microscopic images presented

by Dr. Amir Hadadzadeh.

Through Sept. 30.

ART MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS (AMUM)

2021 Projects’ “Strata” opens this weekend, with work by Sarah E. Cornejo and Coriana Close.

“Mona Hatoum: Misbah”

Contemporary art installation where the viewer stands in a darkened room, lit only by a rotating lantern dangling from the ceiling.

Through Jan. 9.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART

New Art by Dr. Tom Gettelfinger

Exhibition in the Crosstown Concourse West Atrium and the Church Health Welcome Center.

Through Sept. 30.

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“On the Road: Chocolate Cities”

Exhibition featuring multiple artists curated by Larry OsseiMensah, which explores notions of Blackness coupled with the

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“The Louisiana Project”

convergence of place and space.

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“Persevere and Resist: The Strong Black Women of Elizabeth Catlett” Highlighting the historic and current plights of Black women in America. Through Aug. 31.

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“Piece of Cake”

Confectious sculptures by Greely Myatt. Through Sept. 26.

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“Pieta Mondrian”

Sculptures by Christopher Chiappa. Through Aug. 21.

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“Point of View: Beauty in the Small Things” Paintings by Anna Parker.

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“Solid Gold Soul: The Best of the Rest from the Stax Museum” Exhibition of items from the archives. Through Dec. 31.

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“Strata”

Work by Coriana Close and Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo. Friday, Aug. 13-Sept. 13.

Learn the basic steps and techniques of mosaic art, then design and create your own piece.

Thursday, Aug. 12, 1:30 p.m.

“The Machine Inside: Biomechanics”

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An intriguing journey into the marvels of natural engineering.

Through Aug. 31.

The Moveable Collection Artist Talk Series Artist talks featuring Maritza Davila and Susan Maakestad.

Thursday, Aug. 12, 5:30 p.m.6:30 p.m.

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Tributaries: Tiff Massey | “Everyday Arsenal” Works inspired by African standards of economic vitality.

Through Sept. 25.

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Tour with the Curator: “Persevere and Resist”

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

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Heather Nickels will guide participants through her exhibition.

Wednesday, Aug. 18, 6:30 p.m.

Works by artist. Through Oct. 3.

WE Gallery

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Gallery benefiting artists.

Through Aug. 31.

“Yellow Jack”

The dimly lit mansion will be staged as the 1871 yellow fever epidemic will be recounted and martyrs remembered. Through Aug. 29.

WOODRUFF-FONTAINE HOUSE MUSEUM

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Artist Reception for Artists’ Link Summer Show Work by Artists’ Link members.

Sunday, Aug. 15, 3:30-5 p.m.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

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Artist Reception for “Strata”

Work by Coriana Close and Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo. Saturday, Aug. 14, noon-3 p.m.

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The Buckman Arts Center’s “After the Storm” features paintings

by Meghean Warner and pottery by Amy Hertz.

Ceramic Silly Pots

Learn the basics of pinch pot construction. $50. Sunday, Aug. 15, 1-3 p.m.

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Senior Studio: Mosaics for the Garden

Works by William Eggleston.

Through Oct. 24.

Memphis Modern Market at the Museum of Science & History

MGAL Member Showcase and Sale View and purchase artwork by

local artists who are members of the Memphis Germantown Art League. Through Aug. 31.

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Opening Reception for “After the Storm”

Featuring paintings and pottery

by Meghean Warner and Amy Hertz. Friday, Aug. 13, 5-7 p.m.

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Friday, Aug. 13, 7:30 p.m. Second show is at 10 p.m., Friday-Sunday. $25.

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Features work by regional artists. Fridays, 5-8 p.m.; Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Sundays, noon-5 p.m. Through Oct. 10.

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Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) swims from pool to pool through his well-heeled neighborhood. $5. Thursday, Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m.

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RiffTrax Live: Hobgoblins

Cheap rubber puppets make your fantasies come true, and then you die. Also screening at Collierville Towne

Also screening at Collierville Towne Cinema, 380 Market. $15. Monday, Aug. 16, 7 p.m.

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: 50th Anniversary

Also screening at Malco Collierville Towne Cinema. $15. Sunday, Aug. 15, 3 p.m.; Wednesday, Aug. 18, 7 p.m.

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Features specialty cocktail, Mama’s Boy, inspired

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Memphis Brew Bus

A 3.5-hour tour and tasting at three local craft breweries. Go behind the scenes to hear the stories of how they got started, their brewing techniques, and signature brews. $49. Saturday, Aug. 14, 2 p.m.

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Garden-themed exhibit with 40+ sprayers. Free with admission. $15. Through Sept. 6.

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KangaZoo Outback Experience

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Memphis Summer Cocktail Festival

Enjoy summer-inspired cocktails from over 30 of your favorite spirits, fresh local food, an epic dance party, and more. $39. Friday, Aug. 13, 6-9 p.m.

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Outlaw SummerFest

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The Long Island Medium will share personal stories about her life and explain how her gift works, deliver healing messages, and give comfort from loved ones who have passed. $40. Thursday, Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m.

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Showcase featuring artists from Memphis and the tri-state area performing music, comedy, song parodies, spoken word, and dance. $20. Thursday, Aug. 12, 5-8 p.m.

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Three shows nightly, Dark Side of The Moon at 7 p.m., Welcome to the Machine at 8:30 p.m., and The Wall at 10 p.m. $10. Friday, Aug. 13, 7 p.m.

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But First, Let Me Take a Selfie Memphis’ newest selfie studio, Pose 901, is open at the Southbrook Tower Center.

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ose 901, Memphis’ newest selfie studio, leaves no room to be camera-shy, with twelve uniquely Memphis sets, perfect for striking a pose and snapping a pic. The studio opened last month as a yearlong pop-up with sets that will rotate every three months or so.

Following the nationwide trend of selfie studios, co-owners Michalyn Easter-Thomas and Antoine Lever wanted to set their studio apart by incorporating Memphis culture and history in their set designs.

“For example, we have our ‘Hustle and Flow’ set that is a tribute to all Black Memphis artists, throwback and current, so we have Black Moses and Isaac Hayes, all the way to Pooh Shiesty,” Easter-Thomas says. Other sets include a boxing ring with Memphis v. Errbody plastered on the wall, a recording studio complete with headphones and microphones to pose with, and a VIP booth that Lever claims as one of his favorites.

“We wanted to make sure it reflected Memphis through what it looked like but also through how it was curated,” Easter-Thomas adds. In fact, the co-owners, who met while at Christian Brothers University, commissioned Memphisbased designers for each of their sets. “Luxe Interiors by Keila V., Raphael Small [of RAPHDesignLLC], Evo’k Designs — those were the main three who designed over half of our sets,” she continues.

“Memphis tends to be behind in things that the rest of the nation is doing,” Lever says, so when EasterThomas presented him with the idea, “I was like hell yeah, I’m on board.” While Lever brings his experience as a photographer, Easter-Thomas, a Memphis City Council member, says, “I’m the one who just likes taking pictures,

At Pose 901, guests become part of the art in each of the Memphis-curated sets. so I have the mindset of what Memphians might like.”

A self-proclaimed Millennial enthusiast, she assures, “This isn’t just a Millennial thing; we’re going all the way up to age 109.” As such, the studio plans to host family nights, so kids under the age of 10 can join in on the fun, and the studio will be available for party venues, hour-long group sessions, and professional photoshoots in addition to 45-minute individual sessions.

Plus, for those who plan to go solo, the studio has camera stands available, and employees are more than happy to snap a few shots. “We wouldn’t leave you out there,” Easter-Thomas says. “We’d even make sure you have the right angle.”

“It’s a one-of-a-kind, dope, kind of like a hypnotizing experience,” she says of the new studio. “You can immerse

yourself in the set and feel like you’re somewhere else. We have music in here, projectors, different things going on.

You’re not gonna want to leave.”

Tickets are available to purchase online or at the door.

The studio is open Thursdays-Sundays and is located in Whitehaven at the Southbrook Town Center. “A lot of good things are happening in Whitehaven,” Easter-Thomas says, “and we’re happy to add to it.”

For more information, visit pose901selfie.com and keep up with Pose’s Instagram page, where they will tease out future set designs.

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ou might scream with delight pot of cream and milk. I strain it through when you taste Schuyler a cheesecloth and make that into an ice O’Brien’s Over Yonder ice cream base. The cool thing is I add nothing cream. It’s over the top. else. No other ingredient other than the Take his Georgia Olive Oil ice cream. He burning wood. When you spin it, brown mixes an olive oil made in Georgia into the sugar, dark sorghum molasses, and vanilla base and then adds a butterscotch finished notes, all that stuff out of the barrel that with a fig balsamic vinegar. “I’ve done a soaked into the wood, comes out. Once you variation of flavors, but the one I like the light it on fire, the cream and milk absorb best is a maple ice cream,” says O’Brien. all that flavor.”

“And I do a Cheez-It brittle that I fold into it O’Brien gets inspired by others, as well — with cheesy, salty bits in the sweet maple as “just going out to eat myself and seeing ice cream. things and putting things together I might “I’ve got a running list of probably 30 not have realized before: ‘This might be [flavors] that I keep adding to … multiple cool in ice cream.’ Sometimes it works, notebooks where I have ideas on mix-ins sometimes it doesn’t. I have a constantly and flavor components.” growing collection of cookbooks in the Pints of his ice cream house. Whenever I get and ice cream cookie time, I pour a glass of sandwiches with different bourbon, pull out books, flavors are at Hog Wild and go through them.”

East, BBQ & Market at He began making 921 S. Yates Road. “The his identical ice cream flavors rotate weekly. I base — a classic put out flavors and see French-style crème how customers like them. anglaise — 12 years ago Then I’ll do popular in his advanced baking flavors.” and pastry class at Le O’Brien’s ice creamCordon Bleu College making process begins of Culinary Arts in the same way. “The ice Orlando, Florida. cream base is [what] O’Brien now makes starts every flavor. Just his ice cream at the Hog cream, whole milk, egg Wild plant in North yolks, sugar. It’s a stirred Memphis. The ice cream custard. Just a really good is available for weddings PHOTO: MICHAEL DONAHUE vanilla ice cream without and other Hog Wild’s Schuyler O’Brien the vanilla.”

A Moveable Feast Then he lets loose.

Catering events. They’re “For Avocado Chip, I blend avocado in the also available in 3.5-ounce individual milk base, spin it, and fold in semi-sweet containers with wooden gelato spoons. chocolate chips.”

He collaborates with restaurants, He also uses cereal as an ingredient. “I including Longshot, which makes its own steep whatever cereal I use to make that cookie sandwiches using one of O’Brien’s flavor. I like going back to my childhood. flavors. And O’Brien did a salted caramel Lucky Charms and Cocoa Krispies were bleu cheese ice cream with Greys Fine my favorites. Apple Jacks, Fruity Pebbles, Cheese & Entertaining.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch.”

Hen House Wine Bar executive chef His most recent concoction is “a play Cole Jeanes creates seasonal garnishes to on espresso Romano. It’s an espresso and go with O’Brien’s ice cream. Currently, they sweet-cream ice cream with Meyer lemon. are offering Strawberry Milk Tea with Thai So you get the tart, acidic flavors up front, Basil, Mexican Spiced Chocolate, and Sweet finished with the coffee, and there are also Corn and White Chocolate. some bitter caramel notes.”

Sitting down to a bowl of his own ice One of O’Brien’s wildest flavors is made cream is an added bonus. “When I went to with Blue Note Bourbon barrel staves. “I the Hen House last week and got to eat my take a barrel stave and set it on fire and ice cream in a restaurant, it was like a weird, let it ember a little. And I’ll drop it into a surreal moment.”

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For the moment of the song’s creation, which producer Arif Mardin called the greatest studio session of his long career, director Liesl Tommy turned to Hustle & Flow as inspiration. Being a fly on the wall as inspiration strikes makes for compelling cinema, but the film as a whole is wildly uneven. Tommy is an acclaimed theater director who has worked in television, but this is her first feature film, and it shows. She knows how to handle actors: Hudson’s performance borders on brilcontinued on page 28

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screenwriter shortcuts, which were skewered with pinpoint accuracy by the 2007 comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

The other problem with portraying a once-in-acentury talent on-screen is that the actor who is portraying the artist is, by definition, not as talented as their subject. Jamie Foxx is one of the best actors of his generation, but he can’t sing like Ray Charles. This is less of a problem with Respect, as Ms. Franklin is portrayed as an adult by Jennifer Hudson, who has mad chops. Respect is a big step up from Hudson’s last film, Cats, about which the less said the better.

Seriously, don’t watch Cats.

But you should watch Respect if you’re a fan of Aretha Franklin, or just music in general. Franklin’s life story is more twisty than most musicians who have already gotten biopics. (I’m looking at you, The Doors.)

She was born in Memphis, and her father was the pastor of the largest African-American Baptist church in Detroit. She grew up in a household where conversations were sung as often as they were spoken. But her mother Barbara (Audra McDonald) left C.L., who was a serial philanderer, and died young; afterward, Aretha refused to speak for months.

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retha Franklin’s nickname is hidden in plain sight on her 1967 breakthrough hit “Respect.” Coming into the final chorus, her sisters Carolyn and Erma sing “Ree ree ree ree” to kick the song into the stratosphere.

As the new film biography of Aretha — excuse me, Ms. Franklin — establishes in its opening scene, “Ree” was the nickname her father C.L. Franklin gave her as a child. “Come on, Ree,” says Forest Whitaker as the Franklin patriarch. “They want to hear you sing.”

Ree, played by 10-year-old Skye Dakota Turner, belts out a song with a voice that one partygoer describes as “10, but going on 30.”

Musician biopics are always a hard lift. People want to know how their musical idols rose to greatness, but the life of a performing artist is, paradoxically, not terribly cinematic. Sports figures have the big game they won. Generals have triumphs in battle. Musicians and artists, on the other hand, practice in their bedrooms and spend long, boring hours in the recording studio and riding the bus on tour. Their influence seeps through the culture over the course of years.

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liance, showing flashes of the traumatized preacher’s kid even as Franklin uses her boundless talent to reclaim her humanity. Whitaker brings out the complexity in C.L. Franklin, who was a confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as being a not-great father. Mary J. Blige has a short but dynamite turn as blues singer Dinah Washington. Marc Maron nails the exasperated record executive Jerry Wexler, who finally gave Franklin the freedom she needed to create masterpieces. But, too often, Tommy

turns to clunky scenes straight out of Walk Hard to advance the plot.

Hudson’s singing is as up to the Aretha challenge as anyone on the planet, especially toward the end when she returns to her gospel roots. But it’s significant that when Franklin sings “Respect” at Madison Square Garden, the performance is smooth and stagy.

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Trains are the source of many fond childhood memories.

My grandparents lived near train tracks when I was growing up. Every kid in the neighborhood used the train tracks as a playground. A kid might wander for miles along the tracks, put a penny on the track for the train to flatten, or explore the wild, tangled foliage on either side where overgrown vines created tunnels and trails.

Twice a day the train would pass on those train tracks. The trains would lumber past like massive huffing steeds. The metal on metal wheels on tracks produced a sound like rhythmic, monstrous pounding hooves. At a safe distance, we found it intoxicating.

A fascination for trains is hardly exclusive to kids, though. The Morton Museum of Collierville History recently celebrated an exhibit, “When We Rode ‘Mike’: The Somerville Accommodation Train, 1914-1920.” I’d never heard of “Mike,” so I did some research and stumbled upon an article published in the Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly in 1959 by Alfred H. Holden.

Holden recounted personal experiences on the passenger train that endeared the community to engineer Mike Brady and the train conductor George Greer Higgins, affectionately called Cap’n Higgins. Brady was so loved by everyone on the route from Memphis to Sommerville, the train was called “Mike.” Holden would board the train at the Collierville station but was sweet on a girl who lived in Germantown. He recounts in his article that while courting her, he was inclined to use the Germantown station more and more. They eventually married, and both used the Germantown station.

Trains are useful tools for transporting goods on cargo trains, people on passenger trains, and — once upon a time — a daily commute. It is good, too, to have a healthy respect for trains. As much as they are useful, they can be dangerous.

Before the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) and other modern-day safety regulations were put into place, Lionel “Mac” McCoy was involved in an accident in the railyard where he worked. McCoy was standing between two trains when the brakes failed on one. It rolled back, severing his body at the waist. They called his wife Lena to come to the yard and have last words with him before they pulled the trains apart. Once they pulled the trains apart, he would be gone. They kept him alive until she got there. The McCoys were my great aunt and uncle. The story was tragic and told as a cautionary tale at family gatherings. As a child, I had a healthy respect for trains.

Somewhere along the way to adulthood, through books, movies, and songs perhaps, trains were romanticized. Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot solved a murder on the Orient Express. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid robbed the Union Pacific Overland Flyer. Gladys Knight took the midnight train to Georgia, and the Monkees took the last train to Clarksville while Ozzy Osbourne hunkered down on the crazy train.

A few months ago, a friend called me. He was agitated. He was standing at one of the most dangerous railroad crossings in the country, according to a 2016 U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration report. There are only 15 locations listed on this most dangerous list. That crossing is located at Castalia and Lowell in South Memphis. A pedestrian had been struck and killed by a train.

The police were filling body bags with parts of the victim’s body as “kids and adults were still crossing the tracks on foot.”

The City of Memphis installed a pedestrian bridge at the crossing after the 2016 report was released, but, according to my friend, it’s rarely used. He says that pedestrians, especially kids, still need education on railroad safety. He should know. My friend lost a leg in a railyard accident. Needless railroad deaths and injuries are personal for him.

I’m a product of the 1970s program for kids called Safety Town, sponsored by local police and fire departments, the Jaycees, Kiwanis, PTA, and other civic groups. We were taught, among other things, railroad crossing safety. Maybe it’s time to revive the program. Not only was it fun, it was informative.

No one can outrun over 200 tons of metal galloping at speeds in excess of 50 mph. The fastest human alive, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, can only run 23.35 mph. You can stop. The train can’t. If you must try to outrun it, it’s always best to do so while crossing the pedestrian bridge.

The view is much better from the bridge than six feet under.

Julie Ray is the Flyer calendar editor.

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