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OUR 1642ND ISSUE 08.13.20 “Man, I can’t believe it’s been six months …”

“Six months since what?

“Since everything?”

This mirrors a lot of conversations I’ve had recently.

I’ve been going on a fishing trip with old friends to the dark, deep woods of Western Pennsylvania every May since the 1990s. In April, we agreed we probably shouldn’t risk it this year, since it involves long drives from around the country for each of us, motel stays, and holing up together in a cabin for a week.

“Maybe, if this clears up soon, we could try again in July,” one friend said.

“I’d be down for that,” I said.

Oh, how naïve we were. I talked with my buddy again this week. We both agreed we’d be down for next July. Maybe.

Will future historians really “get” what really happened in the United States during 2020? Will they understand how many of us lived like beach bums, even though we had jobs? Will they find out that millions of us haven’t worn socks or long pants or “work clothes,” for, well, at least five months and counting?

Historians probably won’t care much about things like that. Those details will be left to novelists and poets and essayists. Historians are more likely to focus on quantifiable information: the nearly 50 million unemployment claims (the most since the Great Depression); the untold thousands of COVID-19 deaths (latest predictions say 300,000 by December); the devastation of tens of thousands of the country’s small businesses; the absurdly fractious and incompetent American response to the pandemic.

Historians will marvel at how the “greatest nation on earth” bumbled and fumbled and politicized a deadly pandemic for most of a year (so far), while the rest of the civilized world figured out how to make it go away in a few months.

Historians will theorize and pontificate about what it was in the American psyche that caused us to become so polarized that the simple act of putting on a mask to protect ourselves and others became something to fight each other about.

Historians will chronicle how the pandemic transformed other aspects of society: how so many businesses discovered they didn’t need to pay high office rents in fancy buildings just so they could gather all their employees in cubicles and offices at one address, how so many Americans figured out that they didn’t have to go to jobs they hated; they could simply do something else or re-envision their businesses or careers — or lives — in fresh ways. Americans learned that they could live without watching sports. They learned that their children could thrive and still enjoy life without structured activities filling their days — and they learned that sometimes their dogs live better lives than they do.

Historians will point out how the pandemic most adversely affected the vulnerable among us: the elderly, the sick, people of color, the impoverished. They will note how the American education system — from kindergarten to college — fell apart and had to be reimagined, and how that too mostly affected the more vulnerable among us. They will note how little we did about it.

They will record how our Congressional and governmental leaders lacked the moral fortitude to challenge the obviously incompetent buffoon at the top, how they were too busy fighting for the special interests who own them and too busy diverting taxpayer money to corporations to notice the long lines at the food banks and shelters and testing centers or their fellow citizens evicted from their homes, sleeping in cars and alleyways — the huddled masses they all pledged to serve. The dead.

Now we tumble headlong toward the most critical election of our lifetimes, with the certain knowledge that malign foreign interests are doing their damndest to disrupt and delegitimize it, and that the United States Postal Service is now just another cog in the toxic political machinery that has split this country into warring factions.

The United States won’t survive another fours years of this chaos and disinformation and incompetence and fear. I want to hug my friends and family again. I want to sit at my favorite bar and swap stories and eat a N E WS & O P I N I O N cheeseburger. I want everyone to have THE FLY-BY - 4 NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 6 a job and decent healthcare. I want a POLITICS - 7 real Justice Department. I want a post COVER STORY office I don’t have to think about as “KNOCK ON WOOD!” friend or foe. I want to stop breaking

BY ALEX GREENE - 8 off relationships over this faithless and WE RECOMMEND - 14 nefarious fool in the White House.

CALENDAR - 16 And I wouldn’t mind going fishing FOOD - 18 BREWS - 19 in the dark, deep woods of Western FILM -20 Pennsylvania.

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MEMernet A roundup of Memphis on the World Wide Web. BATH B O M B S, B O U R B O N I N TH E B U F F “My husband went back to our carriage house tonight and walked in on a completely naked man just hanging out there. We called the Crisis Intervention Team of the MPD to come convince the guy that he does not belong there and to please leave.

“He had apparently been there for several days and helped himself to some good whisky and a soak in the tub with some new bath bombs.

He even rearranged the speakers to listen to some Elvis CDs. “No harm done, but it gave my husband a good scare. If anyone has a guest house, please check to make sure he has not moved into yours next!”

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B U M M E R FO O D N EWS “Onix, at the corner of Madison and Belvedere, has closed permanently.

There are now ‘For Lease’ and ‘Space Available’ signs all over the property, which seems to be a pretty good indicator that they will not be reopening.”

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“Midtown Crossing Grill on Watkins in Crosstown is closed permanently, effective [August 5th]. Going to miss our little neighborhood watering hole.”

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The Fair, the Virus, and Twitch Mid-South Fair postponed, COVID-19 slows a bit, and the military recruits through gaming.

M O N DAY • The Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) reported 258 new COVID cases on Monday, bringing the county’s total cases to 21,913. There was some mildly encouraging news: The 7-day average of new cases per day was 392, down from 413 per day for the prior week.

TU ES DAY • New virus counts rose by 207 on Tuesday, bringing the total to 22,120. The death toll Clockwise from top left: Mid-South Fair, virus cases slow, Army recruits on Twitch, was 286.

Trump bans TikTok • Locals and federal lawmakers alike chided the U.S. military for using Twitch, consecutive days with new case counts below 300 each. The the video game streaming service, for recruitment. death toll rose to 299.

A congressional amendment that would bar the practice • Operation LeGend will bring 40 federal investigators was blocked in the House last week. In early July, the from the FBI, DEA, ATF, and Homeland Security U.S Army was given a warning by the site for using fake Investigations Unit to Memphis, with 26 of those remaining giveaway links that directed people to recruitment pages. here for the foreseeable future.

“I see no harm in the military giving educational The federal operation is a move to combat violent crime presentations on the platform about joining the military, but in Memphis. baiting viewers with false giveaways is not the right way to • President Donald Trump issued two executive orders go about it,” said Piyush Kumar, founder of Memphis-based banning social media apps TikTok and WeChat from esports team, Glaive Esports. operating in the United States.

Under the ban, transactions between American compaWE D N ES DAY nies and citizens and the Chinese tech giant Tencent would • New virus cases rose by 197 on Wednesday, bringing the be prohibited if they are not sold to American companies total to 22,317. Seven new deaths were reported. within 45 days.

The Trump administration had been critical of the apps, TH U R S DAY stating that their data collection process could put Ameri• SCHD reported 235 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the cans at risk, despite numerous experts citing their data coltotal to 22,552. Four new deaths were reported for a total lection practices were on par with the industry standard. of 297.

Trump said that the apps could “allow the Chinese Com• The Mid-South Fair, originally scheduled for September munist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary 24-October 4, announced the event will be postponed until information — potentially allowing China to track the localate October. tions of federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of In a press release, Todd Mastry, executive director of the personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate Mid-South Fair, stated: “It is and always will be our goal to espionage.” provide a safe and healthy environment for all employees The move leaves a lot in the air, as Tencent is invested in and guests of the Mid-South Fair, which is why we felt this some of the country’s biggest video games, including League postponement was necessary.” of Legends, Fortnite, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and The 161st Mid-South Fair is now scheduled for October Destiny 2.

23-November 1 at Landers Center in Southaven, Mississippi.

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• At a point well into the 2020-21 fiscal year, the Shelby County budget situation is still in confusion, with members of the county commission still uncertain as to whether funds are on hand for a variety of county programs.

One persistent issue during the commission’s regular public meeting on Monday was the matter of a finished budget book, which could spell out in some specificity the county’s assets, liabilities, and available funds. But, just as during what seemed an interminable struggle to produce a budget in early summer, the commission and the administration of Mayor Lee Harris are having difficulty agreeing on means and ends and on what the facts are.

An early resolution on the commission’s Monday agenda attempted to open the way toward terminating a current hiring freeze and to establish August 19th as the date for receipt of a budget book from the administration. Dwan Gilliom, the administration CAO, could promise no date for the book other than “early September,” while county financial officer Mathilde Crosby indicated that no additional funds could be freed up and no exchange could be worked out whereby federal funding for COVID purposes could be “swapped out” to enable equivalent funding opportunities in the county’s general fund.

Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. noted that the Memphis City Council had done something similar with its federal COVID funds and wondered why the commission couldn’t do the same. Commissioner Van Turner followed up by prodding the administration to “show some cooperation.”

• Ninth District Congressman Steve Cohen, in the first Zoom press availability since his renomination in last week’s election, told reporters Tuesday that President Trump and Republicans in Congress continue to be unserious in negotiations for a renewed coronavirus aid package, and stressed that, in addition to such matters as unemployment insurance and another stimulus round, funding for the U.S. Postal Service, election security, and public nutrition is at stake.

“I think they lie about everything,” Cohen said, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in the sweep of his remarks. The Congressman also continued in his criticism of the Tennessee Valley Authority, saying, “TVA is not what it used to be. It isn’t what Franklin D. Roosevelt created. Their electric rates are among the highest in the country.”

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Who is Marquita Bradshaw? That question got asked a lot last Thursday night, when the Memphis woman took the lead in the Democratic primary’s field of five for United States Senate and kept it all the way until the last votes were counted.

That race was supposed by most political observers to be in the bag for Nashville lawyer and Iraq war vet James Mackler, who had been campaigning for two years and raised some $2 million.

Bradshaw, whose Marquita receipts were in the low Bradshaw thousands, is surprised that anybody was surprised and seems offended at those who attributed her win to her name being atop the ballot.

“I’ve been an organizer within my community for over 25 years, working on environmental justice issues. And that wasn’t just within Memphis, but that was across the nation and internationally,” she said this week in a telephone interview. “I went through the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute, and I became a union organizer.

But before then I was working with an environmental justice network with people across the United States on issues of environmental racism.”

She added: “I’ve been around. I’ve just been an organizer. It’s not a surprise to anybody in the social justice community, or anybody that’s in labor, that we’re here right now.”

She also can claim a long history as an environmentalist: “I’m on the Sierra Club executive committee, and I also serve on the Chickasaw Group.” She also went through the Leaders of Color education initiative.

And, as far as political campaigns go, this was not her first rodeo. Bradshaw has experience working in political races.

She is the daughter of Doris DeBerryBradshaw, who has been a political candidate, and she is the niece of John DeBerry, the longtime incumbent State Representative from House District 90.

So it is clear that, unlike so many people’s assumptions, she is not a complete novice, and Democrats, who haven’t had much success with statewide elections in recent years, can only hope that her name recognition — along with sources of support — continues to expand as she faces the GOP’s well-heeled Senatorial nominee,

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ddie Floyd’s attitude is contagious. After speaking with him for over an hour, what stuck with me most was the laughter. It was a perfect foil to the doldrums of days without direction, to the dread of disease that colors all our lives now. The same good humor comes through in his voice, on such iconic tracks as “Knock On Wood,” “I’ve Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do),” and other stone classics from his time with Stax Records. As of this week, that humor can also be found in his new autobiography, Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood: My Life in Soul (BMG, 302 pages), penned by Floyd and author Tony Fletcher.

Other salutary effects of the book spring 8 from this good-natured disposition. His lack of grasping materialism is especially

refreshing in these days of chicanery and corruption. “I got a badass Lincoln I bought with cash,” he writes in the final chapter, “Eddie’s Gone Shagging.” “But I ain’t driven it in eight years because I like

to drive a truck! And people say, ‘Yeah but you could be more.’ And I always ask them, ‘What is more? … I’m happy with exactly what I’ve got.”

A corollary to this is his acknowledgement of those who’ve helped him. For this is an autobiography peppered with quotes from others — colleagues and collaborators like Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones, Al Bell, and Carla Thomas. As he told me, “I thought, would it be okay if I did a book? I don’t know if I’m worthy of a book, but if I did one, it’s gotta be on the positive. And so Tony Fletcher, who helped me put it together, he got the names of all the different people in Memphis, and they were willing to be in the book and talk.

And I didn’t know all these people felt this way about me. I’ve got so many people I’ve gotta thank for that.”

Still, as illuminating as his new book may be, I wasn’t prepared for the additional revelations and insights that came out as he spoke to me from his home in Alabama, near his hometown of Montgomery. He fleshed out the book’s details with still more observations on his life: learning music at Alabama’s Mount Meigs juvenile correctional center, his early days with R&B legends The Falcons in Detroit, his Stax years, and more. Through all these chapters run the common threads of writing and singing songs, which he continues to do to this day, a songwriter’s songwriter, no matter where he may find himself.

Memphis Flyer: You’ve moved around some, I’d say.

Eddie Floyd: Yeah, pretty much all my life.

I started out in Detroit, Michigan, at 13 years old. And I wanted to be in a doo-wop group back during that time, so I formed

the group The Falcons at 16 years old. I’ve been traveling ever since. I did record in Detroit with The Falcons. And then went on to Washington, D.C., where I met Alvertis Isbell [aka Al Bell], a disc jockey who was from Memphis. Carla Thomas was there, going to Howard University.

And we kinda got together. Well, I was writing songs all the time, and I realized that Alvertis wrote songs also, so we got a chance to write a couple of songs for Carla during that time, when I first met her. That was my introduction to Memphis.

of it that way. Like, ‘Oh wow, he’s got a hit, this number [on the charts].’ Well, we never would know what our number was, No. 2, No. 1, anything like that. That was years later. But going down to Memphis, everything changed. When we wrote a song, we did say ‘that’s a hit!’ many, many, times in the studio on McLemore Street.

We knew when we were putting the song together. We knew. Everybody could feel it.

And I guess that’s why it really did work.

Even when the people at Stax were conscious of hits, it seems like creating a song that stood on its own was the main thing.

Yeah, well, this is true. Everybody contributed to each song, no matter what song it was. Steve [Cropper] and I brought “Knock On Wood” in, and as we introduced it to the MGs, Donald Duck Dunn played this little bass line, and we didn’t tell him what to play.

He played his own thing. I would say it wouldn’t have been a hit unless Al Jackson wanted to put a break in that particular song. He said, ‘Wait just a minute, let me put in a little stomp!’

‘I better knock,’ boom boom boom boom. Stop. ‘On wood.’ Back to the rhythm. I remember Isaac Hayes in that particular song played the little bridge part of it. And we had never heard a bridge like that before [laughs].

Is that you singing on “Oh Baby”? With that nice falsetto? That’s an amazing performance.

Yeah, that’s basically what I wanted to do.

Joe Stubbs, his voice was quite different, and he did the real uptempos. Wilson Pickett came into the group after Joe left, and did “I Found a Love,” which was a ballad. Ballads were always my favorite.

I liked the falsetto during that particular time, especially with your doo-wop groups.

But as far as actually learning how to sing, I learned all registers, and I could sing all registers. I could sing the deep bass, or I could go all the way up to soprano.

You write that you owe a lot to the music director at Mount Meigs.

Mount Meigs Industrial School, where I was at for three years, Mr. Arthur Wilmer was the music instructor. He also had a jazz band during that time, the Cherokees, locally in Alabama. And he taught me theory, as far as all the registers to sing.

And we had a choir. I sung second tenor, sometimes first. During the rehearsals, we had girls in the group also. I would always sing along with them, too. And that’s been my success as far as writing songs, and when I put a song together: I can hear all the parts that I actually wanna put in there.

And actually sing them.

But of course, I went off to Memphis with Al Bell to do Carla Thomas’ two songs, “Stop! Look at What You’re Doing” and one called “Comfort Me.” I didn’t get the chance to do backgrounds behind them, but I would have been ready [laughs].

You write about not having grown up singing in church, like so many soul artists, but it seems that Mount Meigs choir had a lot of the that gospel element. Is that correct?

Oh, definitely. Of course we did classical songs also, with Mr. Wilmer, because he was a jazz band leader. And he would give us different classical songs, too. Not

Eddie Floyd was recognized on the Beale Street Brass Note Walk of Fame in 2016. necessarily gospel songs. But, as a child, back earlier in Detroit, I used to go to the theater and see Lena Horne, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, all of ’em.

And really when I write, it may come out that way. I mean, I don’t like one particular style of music. What comes to my mind is what I write.

I guess that keeps things fresh.

Yeah, well, I just like the challenge [laughs]. You know — some time uptown, some time downtown. The way I feel about it. And going to Memphis, well hey, the R&B scene. The Falcons, they said we were the first R&B group, basically. And so it kinda fit when I went to Memphis, because it had that R&B sound, and I was able to, right away, come up with different songs. I wrote with Steve Cropper first, you know, and then on to Booker T. And Al Bell, we wrote in Washington, D.C., and in Memphis. We did one good tune, “I’ve Never Found a Girl,” along with Booker, which was a good ballad also. So there I was still in ballads. And then I did “California Girl” with Booker also. But with Steve, we kinda went uptempo, and we came up with quite a few uptempo songs.

I love your description of that recording and all the details of the teamwork that made it gel.

Well, that was true for just about every writer [at Stax]. Every song was really a family affair. If I could put it that way.

Everybody contributed to every song, it didn’t make any difference. Even backgrounds. I would sing on somebody else’s song, if I’m there at the studio at the time. And they would do the same thing for me.

Does it still feel like a family when Stax folks get together?

Yeah! It’s just unfortunate that we’ve lost so many of our family members. But of course, Booker T., myself, William Bell, Deanie Parker, maybe Mavis Staples when she comes, and definitely Carla Thomas, ’cause she’s my favorite. And the groups there, too. The Temprees and others. Not leaving them out! When I first came to Memphis, and coming from a doo-wop group, I was actually more involved with those groups, because they were groups.

Like the Mad Lads?

Yeah! My favorite. Yeah, all of them.

Very versatile! You write that in the days of the Falcons, you and the others didn’t think about hits, you just wanted a good song, a good track.

Oh yeah, we never spoke that way, as far as what was gonna be a hit. That was the beginning of an era of music, and everybody was involved. Everybody was into it and they all just wanted to write a song. We would actually see some of the songs become hits, but still didn’t speak

It’s interesting that you were one of the first to embrace reggae, during the Stax years. Like that track you recorded with Byron Lee and his band, in 1971.

The reggae song? “Baby Lay Your Head Down (Gently on My Bed).” Actually, we went down to Kingston — Al Bell, Jim Stewart, and the MGs. They were doing a continued on page 11

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How much writing did you do with the Falcons?

Well, the two hits were by Lance Finnie and Willie Schofield. Schofield was the bass singer. He played piano; Lance Finnie played guitar. So they were the two to write the two hits that we had, “You’re So Fine” and “I Found a Love.” But there are quite a few ballads that I wrote. I wrote mostly all of the songs, if you could go back to the albums. But didn’t write the hits.

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distributing deal. We knew about all the guys over there playing the music, too. Of course, we were gonna meet a lot of ’em.

Byron Lee, who was the biggest music there at that time, we went to his studio.

And actually, none of the MGs played on that record at that time. We wanted to get the guys from Kingston to play it, you know? Little guitar player come down the road, and he don’t even have a case for his guitar. He’s got it on his shoulder, walking. But when he got in the studio and started playing, man! Wow. So we come up with two or three songs and got back to Memphis, and then the MGs did the overdubs on those songs. I have three or four records that have probably never been hits over here, one called “Consider Me,” but in the islands, man, they’ve been No. 1 for over 30 years at least. Every time I go down there it’s just amazing.

It’s a beautiful thing, these little regional markets where you can have a hit, like the Carolina beach scene you write about, or Jamaica. Or the UK, where so many songs have taken on a new life.

Oh yeah. And Northern Soul in England.

They’ll listen right away. And I know all the fields. That’s the way I write, too.

Sometimes I’ll be thinking about them also. Definitely Northern Soul. You can do different styles, if you have an idea. ’Cause

Eddie Floyd (left), Myrlie Evers-Williams, and William Bell at the Medgar Evers Memorial Festival in 1973 they’re open-minded there! If it’s got a groove, they’ll get into it. You can introduce some new things to ’em, so they’ll be eager for new grooves. It’s an amazing area.

I was wondering how well some of your more recent records have done in some of these alternative scenes, like Northern Soul.

Has your recent stuff had an impact?

I could write a song 30 years ago and then get an idea today, and it might sound like the one that was 30 years ago. I just keep that same concept, and that’s the way it comes out with me when I write. I’m beginning to find that a lot of the young kids are beginning to pick up a lot of my songs. “I’ve Never Found a Girl (To Love

Me Like You Do)” and “Big Bird.” Those are two where I’ve had many young groups hit me up and say, ‘Listen to our version.

We’re gonna put it out.’ [laughs] Well, you’re gonna have to contact some people to make sure it’s legal! And a couple actually took off.

You were here for the groundbreaking of the Stax Music Academy 20 years ago and have been closely associated with them. Do you get to Memphis often?

I’m in Memphis all the time. And I’ll get with different artists. Lester Snell is my favorite keyboard man; he was with Isaac [Hayes]. I was there three weeks ago and did a song for the Blues Brothers

Band in New York. Dan Aykroyd’s band.

“Everybody Needs Somebody to Love.”

I went in with Lester and put the vocal down. Lester played the whole track, and I came back home and did a video of it, sent it to the Blues Brothers, and they’re at the moment putting all the other guys on the video. They wanted to do something for the virus, you know, to kinda inspire people and all. So that all came out of Memphis.

I spent a lot of time on the road with the Blues Brothers and Steve [Cropper].

One time we were in Canada doing a thing about Stax, and Steve invited me to come out and be a special guest, and it ended up being 22 years [laughs]. It was all right with me. It was family!

At 83, it seems you aren’t slowing down a bit.

You released an album on the revived Stax label in 2008, and you still work with the Blues Brothers Band. What’s the future have in store?

There’s other stuff I did with Lester that will come out under my name. You know, I’ve played with him so many years. Like I said, I never really stopped, so, one more! Let’s try one more album. Then there’s Mike Stewart, who used to be in Atlanta with William Bell but he’s now in Nashville. I’ll go up to his place and do part of that same album. It just all depends on this virus. But at least we got each other! [laughs] Yeah, we have. I will never stop the music. I’ll put it to you this way, the way I tell everybody: I’ll rock ’til I drop. That’s it.

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The historic Levitt Shell has joined forces with Baptist Memorial Health Care to provide a health and wellness series. The online programming features yoga, Pilates, mental fitness, healthy recipes, and more offerings geared toward wellness, prevention, and community health.

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Elvis Dinner and Music Cruise Memphis Riverboats, 45 S. Riverside, memphisriverboats.net, Thursday, August 13, 6 p.m., $66 Join Memphis Riverboats on a twohour Elvis Dinner Cruise including a buffet-style meal “Fit for a King” with some of Elvis’ favorite foods and an Elvis Tribute Performance.

Eco Printing & Natural Dying with Sophie Bloch Arrow Creative, 2535 Broad, Saturday, August 15, 6-7:30 p.m. $68 Participants will create a silk chiffon and silk charmeuse scarf by composing designs with items found in nature.

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Germantown Community Theatre Annie Get Your Gun, a poor but spirited and happy country girl named Annie Oakley who lives by her native sharp-shooting becomes the star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Student cast. Through Aug. 16.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).

Hattiloo Theatre

God’s Trombone, enjoy the original production of inspirational sermons by African-American preachers reimagined as poetry. Free.

Ongoing.

Sarafina!, past production about human rights in the 21st century, written by Mbongeni Ngema. Ongoing.

Iola’s Southern Fields, enjoy an online past performance drawn from the writings of Ida B. Wells. Free. Ongoing.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

The Orpheum

Orpheum Virtual Engagement, join Orpheum staff, artists, and students for activities, interviews, and more on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Visit website for more information. Ongoing.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square

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

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

Ongoing.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

Online on Stage, a Theatre Memphis Facebook group that serves as a clearinghouse for performers wanting to share their talents. Featuring storytime, readings, or performance art. Ongoing.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

Virtual Memphis Matters Stories are brought to life unlocking healing, transformation, and joy through public performances via Zoom. playbackmemphis.org. $5.

Sat., Aug. 15, 7 p.m.

PLAYBACKMEMPHIS.ORG.

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

Arrow Creative Online Store

All sales benefit local creatives.

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

ARROW CREATIVE, 2535 BROAD, ARROWCREATIVE.ORG.

Café Conversations: Arline Jernigan

Join local fine arts painter and yoga instructor Arline Jernigan and Braden Hixson of Brooks for a conversation centered on “Divas Ascending” via Zoom.

Wed., Aug. 19, 6 p.m.

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

“Doodling Around”

Download art by gallery artists to print out and color.

Post on social media and tag the artists and gallery. Visit website for more art to color.

Free. Ongoing.

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

Eco Printing & Natural Dying with Sophie Bloch Participants will create a silk chiffon and silk charmeuse scarf by composing designs with items found in nature. $68. Sat., Aug. 15, 6-7:30 p.m.

August 13-19, 2020

Handcrafted for the Hungry

Purchase a handcrafted bowl by a local artist benefiting the Memphis Food Bank, and the Woman’s Exchange president will donate a pound of food for every bowl purchased. Through Aug. 21.

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

Memphis Fashion Week 2020

Celebrate local fashion and designers. Visit website for full schedule. $250 for VIP pass.

Wed.-Sat., Aug. 19-22.

ARROW CREATIVE, 2535 BROAD.

MEMPHISFASHIONWEEK.ORG.

First Brush of Fall: Plein Air Season at the Garden

Memphis Flyer Coloring Book

Set up your easel through October. Enter your art for a chance to be in the December Gallery Show and Contest.

Saturdays. Through Oct. 31.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100).

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

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Metal Museum Online

Peruse fine metalwork digitally. Featuring past gallery

talks from previous exhibitions, interviews with artists, and demonstrations including “Beauty in the Boundary,” the museum’s exhibition of gates and railings. Free. Ongoing.

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

My Memphis View Gallery: Art Chat

Mary-Ellen Kelly chats with Memphis artists via Instagram Live platform, @downtownmemphis/instagram.

Free. Wednesdays, 6-7 p.m.

Through Sept. 30.

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

Online Author Event with James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly

Bestselling authors discuss a new Robicheaux novel, A Private Cathedral, via Zoom.

Free with registration. Sat., Aug. 15, 4 p.m.

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

“Beside Still Waters” by Jeanne Seagle at L Ross Gallery, on view through August 29 Online Author Event with Adam Rutherford

Author discusses How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don’t) Say about Our Differences. Free with registration. Tues., Aug. 18, 2 p.m.

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

Online Author Event with Sarah M. Broom in Conversation with Imani Perry

Authors discuss The Yellow House: A Memoir via Zoom.

Free with registration. Thurs., Aug. 13, 6 p.m.

LIBRO AT LAURELWOOD, NOVEL, 387 PERKINDS EXTD. (800-2656), NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.

Woman’s Exchange Virtual Art Gallery

Annual fundraiser featuring original work in mixed-media, glass, sculpture, jewelry, woodturning, and more. View on website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter or make an appointment. Through Aug. 21.

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

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David Lusk Gallery

“Heed,” exhibition of works by four artists, Massey Craddock, Leslie Holt, Ashley Doggett, and Rob Matthews, who grapple with a particular issue facing humanity and the planet. davidluskgallery.com.

Through Aug. 31.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

L Ross Gallery

“Beside Still Waters,” exhibition of work by Jeanne Seagle.

CALENDAR: AUGUST 13 - 19 Gallery open Wed.-Sat., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and by appointment. Through Aug. 29.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Staying Connected,” exhibition by members of Artists’ Link. Through Aug. 31.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis College of Art

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

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Music

Stax Museum of American Soul

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

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

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

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER THEATER, 499 UNIVERSITY, MEMPHIS.EDU.

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Adult Virtual Trivia Nights

Mid-South Nonprofit Conference Virtual Summit

Sign up to receive the Zoom link and get your trivia brain ready to win prizes. $10. Thursdays, 7 p.m. Through Aug. 27.

Examines the trajectory for nonprofits amid civil unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Visit website for registration and schedule of events. Mon.Fri., Aug. 10-14.

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

Clear the Shelters

Adopt a dog or cat for only $20 in this nationwide campaign to clear the shelters. $20. Through Aug. 31.

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Lichterman Guided Tour Walks

Walks conclude with a live animal ambassador visit. $9 members, $10 nonmembers.

Wednesdays, Saturdays, 10 a.m. Through Aug. 29.

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

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Ballet Memphis Online Pilates and Ballet Classes

Visit website for more information. $10. Ongoing, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

BALLET MEMPHIS, 2144 MADISON (737-7322).

Health and Wellness Series

Weekly healthy living programming streamed through Facebook live and other platforms to support ways to

Space Out Family Night Live

make a healthy lifestyle accessible for all. Free. Saturdays, Sundays. Through Aug. 30.

LEVITT SHELL, OVERTON PARK (272-2722), LEVITTSHELL.ORG.

Virtual Training & Group Fitness

Workouts include yoga, barre, Boot Camp, exercises for active older adults, and Les Mills training. Visit website to join.

Free. Ongoing.

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Wake Wednesdays

Bring vests, boards, and towels. Must arrive by 5 p.m. to participate and reserve a spot in advance by phone, Memphis

Boat Center FB messenger, or email, emily@memphisboatcenter.com. Wednesdays, 5-8 p.m.

Through Aug. 26.

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Churches from the Presbytery of the MidSouth: Sunday Worship Livestream

Combined livestream worship.

Visit website for more information and live-stream link.

Sun., 11 a.m.

Wake Wednesdays at Memphis Yacht Club on Mud Island, Wednesdays through August 26, 5 p.m.

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Weekly Zoom gathering for anyone 18+ who identifies as a member of the trans or GNC community. For login information, email ahauptman@ outmemphis.org. Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

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Enjoy crafts and download activities without leaving home’s orbit. Sat., Aug. 15, 5-8 p.m.

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

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Elvis Week

Visit website for events and special offerings. $39 online access. Through Aug. 16.

GRACELAND, 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (800-238-2000), GRACELAND.COM.

Elvis Week Candlelight Vigil

Attend in person with preregistration and social distancing or watch the livestream.

Free. Sat., Aug. 15, 9 p.m.

GRACELAND, 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

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ial Nine Oat One if you want to reach Amanda Krog’s granola hotline of granola products.

Krog makes Annye Lee’s Nine Oat One granola and chocolate-covered granola, which she now sells at various locations, including the Agricenter Farmers Market and Tamboli’s Pasta & Pizza restaurant.

She makes her granola products in her kitchen with the assistance of her daughter, Doris.

“I love granola,” she says. “But everything that I kept buying, the front of them read ‘healthy,’ but they were still packed with sugar and sodium. At the time, I had cut out sugar and processed foods, trying to eat as clean as possible.”

Granola is “oats and nuts and dried fruits mixed together,” she says. “The first time I made it, I just made it from stuff we had from the house: oats, pecans, pumpkin seeds, honey, almond butter, some cinnamon spice. There are different kinds of oats in there.”

She got in the habit of making granola “and keeping it in the house,” she says. “I’d give a bag or two away to people when they came over.”

People began asking her for the recipe.

She thought, “I wonder if anybody else is interested in this?”

She put some of her granola on Facebook. “I sold 20 bags that day.”

Her husband, chef David Krog, is the reason she came up with the chocolate granola, which is called Those Chocolate Things. He gets busy and “needs something he can just shove into his mouth right then,” Amanda says. “So having some oats and some chocolate, it’s a good power bite.”

Doris came up with the name Those Chocolate Things, Amanda says. “Because that’s what she calls them: ‘Can I have one of those chocolate things?’”

Amanda and David are slated to open their eagerly awaited restaurant, Dory, in a month and a half or so. “We’re opening a restaurant, so [the granola] was really just a side thing. If it could get me to the beach, that would be great. We had these delays with the restaurant, and the world is kind of scary right now. Being something that caught on really quickly, this is generating some income. It’s good for the family.”

Her friend Gillian Lepisto, with Phrizbie Design, designed the packaging color scheme, inspired by objects on the Krog’s fireplace mantle.

Amanda’s mother, Laura Gentry, suggested the name Annye Lee. The restaurant was named after David’s grandmother, Doris Marie Krog, so she said they should name the granola after Amanda’s grandmother, Annye Lee Mitchell.

“Since I’ve probably never taken a suggestion from my mom in my life, I decided this was a good place to start.

But, also, my mom is going to be doing sales. We would love to get into grocery stores and things like that. So we have decided to partner, and she is a co-owner of Nine Oat One.” Amanda gets all her prep work done on Sunday and then cooks the granola on Monday. “Doris loves to help us in the kitchen, playing around with different granola and stuff. And I let her mix the big bowl.”

Amanda Krog and her Nine Oat One granola

David helps, too. “David and I late-night it after Doris goes to sleep and get everything bagged up, sealed up.”

He also does the delivering, Amanda says. “I’m probably about to switch from once-a-week delivery to either twice or a couple of days after you order. It’s getting to where I have enough orders I need to split it into two. So far this week, I have made 80 packages of granola and maybe 100 Those Chocolate Things.”

The granola comes in 4-, 8-, and 16-ounce bags.

Amanda already is planning to broaden her Nine Oat One product line. “At Christmas time, I did one with cranberries, pistachios, and candied pecans. I think I want to try that again at the holidays.”

To order Nine Oat One granola, go to nineoatone.myshopify.com.

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The Oil Can A brief trip to Australia … and back.

And then there was the great whacking Foster’s Oil Can — at 24.5 oz., it made quite an impression on me: “No, Mom! I only had two beers!” The twist is that Foster’s was created by a pair of American brothers who sailed from New York to Melbourne in 1885. Their beer wouldn’t get to the United States until 1972, and when it did, it went big.

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As the brand fell from grace at home, however, it boomed stateside and in the U.K., where it is now their second-most popular beer.

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far away,” which posed something of a problem, as light lagers have a pretty short shelf-life, even under the best of circumstances. Australia is very far away — so far that it is already tomorrow over there.

To better recreate what’s being quaffed in Sydney, the quintessential Australian beer is, in fact, made by Miller at Oil Can Breweries in Fort Worth, Texas, and Albany, Georgia, under the direction of a brewmaster they poached from down under.

Honestly, and this is going to sound like a cop-out, Foster’s tastes like a Miller with an Australian accent.

More accurately, it is a good example of one of those East Asian lagers that tastes like beer while managing a lightness that floats above that sour aftertaste of mass-market beers. And in a hot climate with spicy foods, those options are seriously underrated.

There was no telling that to one Leif Nelson, a Manhattan physical therapist and selfproclaimed beer aficionado, who sued Miller for false advertising for giving the impression that the beer was imported from Australia. The case struck me as odd because a) Leif obviously didn’t read the side of the can before filing his lawsuit, and b) what beer aficionado would go to the mat over a brand like Foster’s?

Again, it is a good, light, hotweather beer, and I thoroughly enjoyed researching this column. But Foster’s Lager is not intended to be discussed at length … and certainly not by lawyers. It goes well with spicy Thai and Vietnamese food and, closer to home, with fried catfish and chicken. You might want to order it in draft or bottles though. While the 24-ounce Oil Can is great fun, it does force you to drink the thing in double time if you want to keep the last half of it cold. And you do.

In the end, Nelson’s lawsuit was dismissed. He admitted that he really liked Foster’s and would keep drinking it if the printing on the can had been more obvious. The crux of the psychological complaint behind the legal one seems to have been a Manhattanite’s desire to feel “authentic” by drinking a beer made by the descendants of convicts exiled from the old Empire. And if you hoist a pint brewed in Georgia, that’s exactly what you are doing.

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having to explain to my younger self that I was not, in fact, a famous author living as a tax exile in Tangier. There was no context for my younger self to even understand the job. First, I would have to explain what Twitter was, and I’m not sure I could do that now. I think my younger self ’s reaction would have been something like: “You have this worldspanning information network, supercomputers that fit in your pocket, and literal Dick Tracy video wrist communicators, but you use them to take pictures of yourself in the hopes that strangers will pretend to like you.” Because that’s pretty much my reaction today.

Young Me would be disappointed I’m not dictating my next bestseller to my exotically attractive secretary as the call to prayer floats in on the Mediterranean breeze. I would explain how that was never a realistic goal, but Young Me would just roll his eyes.

n the Before Time, I had a gig as a social media consultant. It was my job to come up with content for clients to post on their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ accounts. In the long ago of Obama’s second term, it was a pretty good job. I worked from home, made my own hours, and there was strong demand for my services. But the work was also very tedious, and dealing with companies who didn’t understand their social media brand (or even, in some cases, what social media was) could be very annoying.

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Rogen does a fantastic job as coleads, clearly relishing Herschel’s overthe-top Yiddish accent and dialing up Ben’s schlub factor. The weak link is the script, written by Simon Rich. It takes the obvious fish-out-of-water jokes for a spin but can’t transcend the premise or recover after veering into Being There territory. What ultimately redeems An American Pickle is Rogen’s top-notch performances, and the air of goodnatured sentimentality that suffuses the production. Or maybe I’m just a sucker for Borscht Belt Jewish comedy, which is something your grandfather would have definitely understood.

An American Pickle streams on HBO Max.

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In 1867, a Scottish physician named Joseph Lister published an article in response to the new “germ theory,” in which he advocated that surgeons wash their hands and spray a light acid on their tools to sterilize them.

Though more or less accepted practice by the mid-1870s, sterilization was not yet universal in the medical field. In fact, in 1881, after President Garfield was shot, his doctors probed around in his wound with their unwashed hands. It is believed the president died of sepsis brought on by, you guessed it, infection in his wounds. “I shot the president,” Charles Guiteau, Garfield’s assassin, reportedly said, “but his physicians killed him.”

Just 12 years later, in a 90-minute-long procedure on a yacht on a lake, surgeons removed cancer from President Cleveland’s mouth. The procedure was incredibly dangerous — they were operating on the president of the United States on a moving boat, for crying out loud — but the doctors washed their hands and sterilized their instruments.

President Cleveland survived. President Cleveland survived having a hole cut into his head while on a moving boat.

This could be construed as evidence that science and medicine progress as we gain more information, which some people find comforting. I, for one, am glad a doctor has never told me that my four humors were out of balance, that I was possessed by demons, that cocaine would cure what ails me, or that my headache could be solved through the simple application of leeches — you know, to remove the “bad blood.”

All this is a long way of reminding folks about the scientific method, which is essentially a methodology for asking questions. When your best friend changes his story six times about why he bailed on helping you move, sure, that’s a sign that there’s something fishy in the state of Denmark. When health professionals revise advice they first issued, that’s a sign that the method of testing theories is working. And it’s going to work a lot faster in the internet era, when leaders in their fields can communicate with each other nearly instantaneously.

Also worth noting is that scientists, physicians, researchers, and academics live and die by their reputations. Where party loyalty will carry you a long way in politics, in the realm of peer review, it’s just not enough.

I suppose it should be no surprise, though, that in a world where the president of the United States spends his morning retweeting QAnon conspiracy theories, so many Americans pick their beliefs like a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Not surprising, but no less disappointing.

Is evolution real? Decide for yourself! Could Earth be flat?

Well, if that’s the hill (or lack of one) you want to die on, it’s your right. Will this cloth mask give me brain damage — even though I survived lord knows how many Halloween nights in an equally snug costume ninja mask or four successive variations on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles motif? Sure. If you will it to be so, mask-induced brain damage is no dream.

In a world of shrinking education budgets and dwindling news landscapes, where disinformation on internet forums and white supremacy sites is never behind a paywall, it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to go from “climate change is a Chinese conspiracy” to “this malaria drug cures COVID, which is a hoax anyway.”

I understand that the self-mythologization of America is deeply rooted in a tradition of independence — but, damn, do we have to be such rootin’, tootin’ cowboys about every little thing? Is it possible that every instance of compromise for the good of society as a whole is not a terrorist plot or Deep State attack on individual liberties?

Well, it’s my right as a red-blooded descendant of the rootin’est, tootin’est of American outlaws, to choose what I believe. And I, for one, flatter myself that I’m smart enough to realize I’m not that smart. I’m going to listen to the experts.

Jesse Davis is the Flyer copy editor, book editor, and a staff writer.

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