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OUR 1601ST ISSUE 10.31.19 This is the best column anyone ever wrote in the history of Memphis.

Many people have thought about writing a column this good but were unable to get it done. People are saying no one can write a column like I can, and they are right.

It’s not surprising. That’s because I invented the word “column.” I have all the best words, and no one else even compares.

Geoff Calkins tried 11 times to write this column. Dan Conaway couldn’t even make his fingers move when he tried to write this column. Tonyaa Weathersbee? No way. John Beifuss? Don’t make me laugh. Even Jackson Baker gave it a shot, but it just didn’t happen.

I’m a stable genius, and I’m the best. Get over it. No one writes like I can. But writing isn’t all I do.

Many of you have probably driven by the empty pedestals in Memphis’ Downtown parks. Most people don’t know there used to be statues of Confederates there. They were very fine people, but the statues were put up after the War Between the States, which I call the “Civil War.” Many people don’t know that we had a Civil War. That’s because it was 300 years ago, which is why we needed to take down the statues.

They were too old.

I called the mayor of Memphis last year and said, “Mayor Stricker, those statues have to come down.” He said, “Sir, no one has been able to take down those statues. They’ve been there for 250 years. It can’t be done, sir.” Well, I got it done. Afterwards, he said, “Sir, I did not think anyone could do that. Thank you.” There were strong men and women in the mayor’s office, and they were all crying because they didn’t think anyone could take down those statues. They all said, “What a great outcome, sir. Thank you. And congratulations.”

True story. You can look it up.

Many of you will be surprised to learn that the University of Memphis football team used to be terrible. It’s true. They lost 29 games in a row in 2003. It was ridiculous how bad they were. Most people don’t know that David Rudge, the president of the university, called me a couple of years ago. He was whimpering and crying on the phone. He said, “Sir, what can we do? People are saying our football team is terrible.”

I said, “Hire a great coach, Dave.” And I told him about this young fellow, Mark Norveen, who at the time was an assistant volleyball coach at Arkansas College. Most people haven’t heard of Arkansas College. Great school, just outside of Tulsa. Mark’s a handsome young man. Right out of central casting. “Hire Mark Norveen,” I said.

Well, Dave did, and look what happened. The Tigers have been undefeated for six years, and they’re going to be on Fox’s “Gamers Day” show with Steve Doocy this weekend against the great University of Notre Dame.

I plan to be at the game. They’re going to put my picture on the big television screen — I call it a JumboTron — so people can cheer for me. People are saying I’ll get the greatest ovation in the history of football. They say 20,000 people won’t even be able to get into the stadium.

There are lots of other things that many people don’t know about me. For example, I helped do the deal to get Bass Pro to build a pyramid Downtown. It used to be a Walgreens. The elevator to the top? That was my idea. The giant man-eating alligators? That was my idea, too.

And many people would be surprised to learn that I was behind getting $270 million dollars allocated from the city to move the Raymond James brokerage out of that dump Downtown into a great new building they already owned out in eastern Memphis.

Here are some other things people would be surprised to learn about me: I helped design the Midtown Kroger parking lot.

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D I S TO R NAD O Severe weather tore through Memphis last week, taking many by surprise as they woke up to the sound of tornado alarms. The storm took Memphis Twitter by storm, too.

“I hope dis tornado swing by my job & rip dat MF out tha ground,” wrote Emmet Durley.

“My girl phone start ringing at 6 a.m. I’m like who tf is flash flood,” Deion Sanders tweeted.

“Sirens so mf loud I thought we was finna have a purge!!” wrote Karla Denise.

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WO LVE R-R E N D E Z VO US An online version of X-Men comic spinoff Marauders found Wolverine issuing a shopping list to Kitty Pride. Top of the list? Ribs.

“From Rendezvous in Memphis (they’ll FedEx it to you),” reads the list. “Have dry ice ready.”

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Storm, Court, & Scooters High winds knocked out power, Just City wants eyes in court, and OjO arrives.

STO R M WATC H Memphians woke to the cry of tornado alarms on the morning of Monday, October 21st, as a storm powerwashed the city with heavy rains and winds of up to 65 miles an hour.

No one was killed Clockwise from top left: MLGW crews fix storm damage, Just City recruits for Court Watch during the program, OjO scooters, the Bloodstained Men, and MLGW restores power storm, but property was damaged in several parts of Shelby County. J.T. Young, and it operates largely out of sight from most people,” MLGW CEO and president, said the storm initially left Spickler said. “We believe it is too large, often unfair, and close to 43,000 customers without power. sometimes inhumane, and our mission is to correct it.

Because of the large number of substations down, as By introducing people to it — letting them see and hear well as multiple downed poles, wires, and trees, Young said for themselves how it works — we hope to introduce on Monday after the storm — the first day of what would accountability into a system that doesn’t have much.” be a multi-day restoration effort — that full restoration Court watchers are asked to track basic demographic would take multiple days. information, such as race, age, and gender. Volunteers also

By Tuesday afternoon, MLGW had restored power to 85 take notes on judges, attorneys, victims, and defendants, percent of those who had lost it, though 6,500 customers recording their temperament, behaviors, and decisions. were still in the dark. Crews comprised of about 600 people were “actively working.” MLGW was focusing on B LO O D S TAI N E D schools and heavily impacted areas. The work ahead of The Bloodstained Men protested circumcision at the the crews Tuesday was to be “more tedious as we continue University of Memphis campus last week. “This protest tour to assess widespread outages in Shelby County.” Power focuses especially on young adults, the majority of whom progress was also stymied by “extensive damage” that had are not yet parents,” the group said. “It is crucial for people to be repaired, like resetting damaged poles, restringing to be educated about male genital mutilation before they fallen and torn wires, and cutting and removing tree parts. make the irreversible decision to circumcise their child.”

Wednesday morning found 2,700 MLGW customers still without power. It was also determined that OJ O? O H, YES. certain parts of the city had been hit with a moderate About 150 OjO scooters arrived on the streets of Memphis (or EF-1) tornado. last week.

As of last Monday morning, almost 100 percent of The scooters will be docked at about 30 bike-share MLGW customers had power. stations around town. Memphis-based Explore Bike Share will manage and maintain the fleet.

TH E P EO P LE’S C O U RT The cherry-red scooters differ from others like Bird and Just City is, once again, recruiting residents to watch Bolt, primarily because riders sit on OjO scooters. They Shelby County criminal court cases to encourage are bigger and faster than the others, too, topping out at 20 accountability, community participation in criminal justice miles per hour. reform, and, primarily, transparency, said Josh Spickler, executive director of the group.

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A Memphis Zoo shooting sparks gun review.

A Memphis Zoo guest accidentally shot himself in the leg last week near the zoo entrance. The guest sustained a non-fatal wound, and no one else was hurt from the incident, but zoo officials have since said they are reviewing its gun policy.

Currently, the zoo allows concealed weapons, but guests are required to check in at the front gate and present a gun permit.

Now, that policy will change with input from the city and state, Nick Harmeier, the zoo’s chief marketing officer said.

Harmeier said since the arrival of the zoo’s new CEO Jim Dean in April, “We’re doing a lot of different things at the zoo in general right now.

Our new CEO came in, and he’s making quite a bit of changes.”

Harmeier said the gun policy “would not have been looked at on the front end, but what happened this week definitely sparked us to say, ‘Hey, this is something we really need to dig into.’”

“We’ve been ahead of the situation, where as a public space you’re always trying to look at the whatifs,” Harmeier said. “At the end of the day, our No. 1 priority is to have a safe space for families.”

Here’s a look at the gun policies for other places around town: Children’s Museum of Memphis: CMOM does not allow guns on the property.

Where can you pack in Memphis?

National Civil Rights Museum: Weapons, including sharp objects longer than 2.5 inches long, are not permitted in the museum.

FedExForum: Weapons of any type, including guns and knives, are prohibited.

Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium: Weapons of any type, including guns and knives, are prohibited in the stadium.

AutoZone Park: Weapons of any kind are prohibited.

Beale Street: Knives, guns, and other weapons are not allowed on the street.

Crosstown Concourse: Possession of firearms is

prohibited.

Bass Pro Shop at the Pyramid: Guests are asked to check their firearms at the entrance of the store, where a trigger lock is applied and the chamber is emptied.

City-owned public places: “It shall be the intent of the city government to exercise its statutory option to opt out of any state law that would otherwise authorize the carrying of firearms on public parks, playgrounds, civic centers, and other public recreational buildings and grounds,” reads a city ordinance on weapons.

State parks: Guns are permitted.

Rhodes College: The college “strictly prohibits possession of weapons of any type by students, employees, or visitors, including but not limited to firearms, BB guns, pellet guns, bows and arrows, hunting knives, explosives, or any object that could be used as a deadly weapon.”

University of Memphis: Possessing a firearm on the campus is prohibited except for by authorized employees with a valid handgun carry permit. Parttime employees are prohibited from possessing a firearm anywhere on campus.

University of Tennessee Health Science Center: Students are not permitted to carry a handgun.

Employees with a valid handgun carry permit can carry on campus except where prohibited by state law.

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Final Throes With early voting under way, the season’s final two city races head into the stretch.

Ordinarily, challengers Logan and Easter-Thomas would seem to own the momentum, in light of the failure of Greer and Boyd to exploit the presumed natural advantage of their incumbency on the first go-around. But no one is making any firm and fast predictions. The notorious reality about runoffs — and one of the compelling arguments in favor of substituting Ranked Choice Voting as an alternative to dependence on them — is

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(above) Councilman Sherman Greer campaigning in district coin-op laundry; (below) Michalyn Easter-Thomas with supporters

the precipitate fallout in general voter turnout that accompanies them.

Victory in a runoff often depends on which side is more successful in getting their people out to the polls.

And one seasoned consultant, asked about prospects for the runoff election, conjectured that the total vote in each of the runoff districts could easily run to no more than 1,600 voters each.

That fact co-exists with another reality, that the incumbents have a second chance to activate the donor sources that, as office-holders, they have presumably been able to develop a working relationship with. But the financial factor may not be weighted as much for the runoff cycle as it was for the general election.

In any case, all four candidates seem to be trying hard — each according to their fashion.

Logan is busy on social media and working with her political allies in the district. Greer is pressing the flesh in locations like the coin-op on Highway 64, in the Countrywood sector of his district.

Boyd is being touted by at least one large billboard on a major thoroughfare. And Easter-Thomas is networking big-time with organization Democrats and fellow District 7 candidates from the first round.

Further points: Boyd’s wheeler-dealer image is both a help and a hindrance.

He may enjoy some credit for his efforts, say, in landing a dog park on Mud Island and arranging a FedEx presence in the vacated Gibson’s building Downtown, but he incurred conflict-of-interest allegations for his previously undisclosed contractual relationship with FedEx. Easter-Thomas’ opportunity is the high-water mark for the 2019 version of the People’s Convention, and it was buttressed by her well-attended support rally last week from former District 7 candidates, political veterans (like the Rev. Bill Adkins), activists (e.g., AFL-CIO representative Jeffrey Lichtenstein), along with a huge turnout from the media on a rainy day.

Though Greer finished well behind Logan in the regular general election, his previous service with Congressmen Harold Ford Jr. and Steve Cohen makes for both a helpful and a practical association, and he has crossover support from the likes of GOP icon John Ryder.

Logan, president of the Raleigh Community Development Corporation, is a bona fide grassroots product, heavily boosted now as before by influential indigenous political figures, notably state Representative Antonio Parkinson.

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JACKSON BAKER

Thursday, November 14th, two weeks from now, will see the final voting for the 2019 Memphis city election. The remaining races to be decided, via runoff, are the Memphis City Council seats in District 1 (Frayser, Raleigh), where incumbent Sherman Greer hopes to do a turnaround on the tally of October 3rd, when challenger Rhonda Logan missed an outright majority win by a hair’sbreadth, and in District 7, where Michalyn Easter-Thomas, runner-up to incumbent Berlin Boyd, is attempting to consolidate a potential anti-Boyd majority with the support of several other former candidates in that race.

Early voting for the runoff elections began on Friday, October 25th, and will end on Saturday, November 9th.

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electoral system allows this opportunity to perfect the people’s will, we’ll say again, as we’ve said in the past, this is a lousy way to do it.

By the time that runoff election date rolls around, the always chancey Memphis weather will have had ample opportunity to turn sour on us, discouraging turnout, and it’s already a given that runoff elections are notoriously poorly attended even in the best of conditions.

We have no reason to expect otherwise for what amounts to judgment day for council Districts 1 and 7 — and an important judgment day at that. Depending on the outcome, there could be two council incumbents returned, with a disposition to continue the governing pattern of the past, or two new faces, those of candidates whose campaign rhetoric at least obliges them to consider serious change in the way city government does its business.

An even split between these prospects is also possible. Our concern does not necessarily lie with a commitment to either point of view or to any of the four candidates. What we worry about is the fact that the honest will of the people may not factor into the truncated totals of a runoff election — one in which the outcome could be decided by the weather or by the electorate’s lapsed attention, or, even in the best-case scenario, by the superiority of one campaign organization or another in forcing their cadres to the polls.

The solution to the runoff dilemma

is no secret: It is the election process known alternately as Ranked Choice Voting or Instant Runoff Voting. This process has twice been approved by a large majority of Memphis voters — in a 2008 referendum and in another one in 2018. The process has so far been sabotaged by holdover council members who refuse to authorize the county Election Coordinator to employ it, and by state election authorities, who have intervened against its use.

Come to think of it, that’s another good argument in favor of the new faces on the runoff ballot.

Regardless of what happens on November 14th, an event scheduled for the previous day, Wednesday, November 13th, also will have serious import for Memphis’ political future.

On that date, retired Circuit Court Judge William B. Acree of Jackson convenes a hearing in Memphis to decide on the ultimate fate of bogus sample ballots that falsely claim to represent the endorsement choices of local political parties. For several election cycles, local entrepreneurs have been in the habit of fobbing off these travesties to local voters at election time.

The scandal is that an outside judge had to be called in to hear the case, since the judges of Shelby County have been as guilty as any other candidates in paying their way onto these fraudulent ballots and thus had to recuse themselves. It is for their sake and ours that we hope Judge Acree will see fit to decree an end to this fraud against democracy.

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FILM FOR ALL! INDIE MEMPHIS 2019 IS BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER. Harriet

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October 31-November 6, 2019

t’s movie time in the Bluff City.

The Indie Memphis Film Festival, now in its 22nd year, opens on several screens October 30th and runs through November 4th. Executive Director Ryan Watt says more than 12,000 people attended last year’s festival, and he expects this year to be bigger. “Ticket sales this year are way ahead of the past,” he says. “Someone made a comment that hopefully other people agree with, but it was pretty much my dream feedback: They said, ‘This is one of the few events in Memphis that actually gets better as it gets bigger.’ What I hope is that we grow organically, but it doesn’t mean you lose out on the important things.”

After opening night at Crosstown Theater, the festival moves to Overton Square, where Cooper Street will be blocked off for a giant, three-day block party under a big tent that will serve as home base for screenings at Playhouse on the Square, Hattiloo Theatre, and Malco Studio on the Square. There will also be industry panels and special events, such as the Black Creator’s Forum and Pitch Rally, where AfricanAmerican filmmakers compete for a 10 $10,000 grant to get their Memphisbased film off the ground.

The “important thing” Watt wants to be sure to preserve about Indie Memphis is encapsulated in its motto: “Film For All.” For most of the dozens of feature films presented during the festival, this will be the only opportunity to see them on the big screen in Memphis. The person responsible for choosing the films is Artistic Director Miriam Bale. “I’m always looking for films that keep me engaged and surprise me in some way,” she says. “I feel like we stand out to some people for having more films directed by POC or women filmmakers, and it always catches me off-guard when people ask about that. It seems the real question is why are other film festivals dominated by white men?

It just feels fresh and well-balanced to have a variety of perspectives and styles.”

Here are a few notable films to catch at Indie Memphis 2019. For continuing coverage of all of the great stuff we didn’t have room for in print, be sure to visit the Memphis Flyer website for daily updates.

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Harriet

“You are money to them,” says Rev. Samuel Green (Vondie Curtis-Hall) to Harriet Tubman (Cynthia Erivo) as he preps her for her escape from slavery in

the opening act of Harriet.

The timing of this year’s Indie Memphis was fortunate for director Kasi Lemmons’ new biopic of the abolitionist hero. It opens the festival at Crosstown Theater on Wednesday, October 30th, before going into wide release on Friday, November 1st.

Rev. Green’s precarious position as a free black man in 1849 Bucktown, Maryland, serves to introduce the tensions of pre-Civil War America, as the debate over slavery was slowly heating to a boiling point. We first meet him ministering to the slaves on the Brodess farm. Under the watchful eye of masters Edward (Mike Marunde), Eliza (Jennifer Nettles), and Gideon (Joe Alwyn), the Reverend preaches to his flock that God has made servitude their lot in life. But his church is a stop on the Underground Railroad, and he tells Tubman, “Fear is your enemy.

Follow the North Star.”

Deception, divided loyalties, and fear pervade the atmosphere of Harriet.

Lemmons and writer Gregory Allen Howard are at their best when Tubman is on the run. Her initial flight to freedom, pursued by Gideon Brodess and a pack of snarling slave catchers, is a masterfully designed chase sequence that ends on a picturesque bridge, simultaneously providing an early climax and setting up dramatic moments later in the film. It is no small irony that Harriet makes such good use

of the cinematic tools which held 1915 audiences in thrall to D.W. Griffith’s notoriously racist The Birth of a Nation.

Cynthia Erivo takes on the challenging title role with grace and focus. We first meet her lying unconscious in a field from a seizure, which she suffers with after an overseer gave her a head injury as a child.

Called “Minty” by her masters, she chooses to become Harriet after she is encouraged to take a new name by Marie Buchanon (Janelle Monáe), a free black Philadelphian hotelier who takes in Harriet after her escape.

Lemmons and Howard frame Tubman, who would come to be called Moses by slaves yearning for freedom, as a kind of Joan of Arc figure — an unlikely young liberator who leads by divine inspiration. Harriet is a bythe-numbers heroic biopic that takes few cinematic chances while trying to balance its subject’s emotional life with her exploits as a flintlock-toting action hero. The result is a crowd-pleaser that feels long overdue.

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Mystery Train

Director Jim Jarmusch is one of the founding fathers of the independent film movement. In 1988, the auteur came to Memphis to create Mystery

Hometowners Rule At Indie Memphis 2019 From a haunted bachelor party to an essential music documentary, Memphis-area filmmakers shine at this year’s festival. — By Chris McCoy

Mystery Train

Blacula Train. The film’s four parallel stories, which all happen over the course of one eventful night on South Main, begin with “Far From Yokohama.” Musicworshipping couple Mitsuko (Yuki Kudo) and Jun (Masatoshi Nagase) visit Memphis to see firsthand the place where blues, rock, and soul were born.

Upon the film’s release in 1989, Jarmusch told Interview magazine why he chose to set his film in the Bluff City, which he had never visited. “If you think about tourists visiting Italy, the way the Romantic poets went to Italy to visit the remnants of a past culture, and then if you imagine America in the future, when people from the East or wherever visit our culture after the decline of the American empire — which is certainly in progress — all they’ll really have to visit will be the homes of rock-and-roll stars and movie stars. That’s all our culture ultimately represents. So going to Memphis is a kind of pilgrimage to the birthplace of a certain part of our culture.”

The cast is stacked with musical legends. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins stars as the desk clerk at the hotel where the characters’ lives intersect. Rufus Thomas makes a memorable cameo early in the film. Joe Strummer’s brief career as an actor peaked here, with the Clash frontman playing scenes with a pre-fame Steve Buscemi. Tom Waits, already a Jarmusch veteran from Down by Law, provides the voice

of the unseen radio DJ who sets the film’s eerie mood.

Mystery Train is not only a great watch and hugely influential — Pulp Fiction would build on its inventive story structure four years later — but it is also a window into the vanished past of Downtown Memphis.

Jarmusch will be in attendance on Saturday, November 2nd, when Mystery Train screens at Playhouse on the Square at 6:30 p.m. There will be an encore screening on Thursday, November 7th, at the Malco Powerhouse theater, which is located in the South Main neighborhood where Mystery Train was filmed.

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Halloween Hijinx

Halloween falls during Indie Memphis this year, and the festival has responded by programming some appropriately spooky fare, such as Jim Jarmusch’s latest picture The Dead Don’t Die. Jarmusch’s entry into the small but growing zombie comedy subgenre stars Bill Murray, Adam Driver, and Chloe Sevigny as small-town police officers faced with a plague of ghouls. The cast includes Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits, Danny continued on page 12

he Indie Memphis Film Festival was founded in 1998 by Memphis filmmakers who could not find traditional outlets for their art. The festival has grown enormously in the last two decades, but it has never lost its commitment to local filmmakers, who compete in the “Hometowner” category.

This year’s batch of Memphis-made movies includes six feature films. Cold Feet (Sunday, November 3rd, 7 p.m.) is the latest from Brad Ellis and Allen C. Gardner. Ellis has been a staple of the Memphis film scene since his (literal) art house horror film The Path of Fear premiered at Indie Memphis in 2002.

Gardner first teamed up with Ellis when he wrote and starred in Indie Memphiswinner Act One in 2005. Their last collaboration Bad, Bad Men appeared at Indie Memphis 2016 and is now available on Amazon Prime.

For Cold Feet, Ellis and Gardner got much of the crew back together from Bad, Bad Men to return to the horror genre with a comedic twist. Gardner, Nathan Ross Murphy, Adam Burns, and Gabe Arredondo return as old friends gathered for a decadent bachelor party weekend. But as fate would have it, the house they have rented is also home to a ghost or two who have their own plans. Lindsey Roberts, who starred in Craig Brewer’s premiere film The Poor & Hungry, and Annie Gaia also star.

Brad Ellis and Allen C. Gardner

On the other end of the cinematic spectrum is Humanité, The Beloved Community. The music documentary celebrates its subject, Memphis musician Kirk Whalum with a trip around the globe, seeking out the music that the saxophonist and minister has both been inspired by and inspired.

Director Jim Hanon turns his camera on Whalum as he traces the roots of African influence through gospel, jazz, and soul and on into the larger popular music environment. The lavishly photographed film stops in Nairobi,

Tokyo, and London to see Whalum play and connect with the musicians he collaborates with.

Director Jessica Chaney will premiere her debut feature This Can’t Be Life on Sunday, November 3rd, at 1:30 p.m.

Chaney tapped Amanda Willoughby, who co-directed the 2018 short film “Not Your Ordinary Black Girls” about a pair of super-powered sisters who team up to help a burlesque dancer in distress, for her latest work, to edit and produce from the script by Chaney and Davida McElrath. This Can’t Be Life stars Melissa Vanpelt as Danny, Lillian Land as Cree, and Ray Simone as Jade, three longtime girlfriends navigating the ups and downs of life, careers, and love as black women in the Bluff City. The dramedy raises an eyebrow to romance and sings a paean to the power of friendship.

Jookin’ has historically been a favorite subject of Memphis filmmakers. One of Memphis’ favorite sons is profiled in Lil’ Buck: Real Swan (Sunday, November 3rd, 7 p.m.). The dancer with the uncanny ankles who grew up in poverty and translated his raw talent into the world of ballet returns home to the city he loves and traces the history of jookin’ from the Crystal Palace skating rink to national prominence. As Buck says early in the film,“We have no choice but to struggle here in Memphis.” Director Louis Wallecan combines impressive 4K cinematography with some choice archival footage.

When Los Angeles director Joe LaMattina premiered his documentary Memphis ’69 (Saturday, November 2nd, 2 p.m.) at Crosstown Theater earlier this year, the house was packed — and for good reason. The first music festival devoted to the blues was held at the Overton Park Shell in 1966. By the summer of 1969, the blues had gained wide new audiences as rock-and-roll conquered the world. A few months before Woodstock, the final Memphis Country Blues Festival was filmed

by Gene Rosenthal. The film sat in Rosenthal’s basement for years until Fat Possum Records’ Bruce Watson decided to back the production. The film includes performances by Memphis legends Sid Selvidge and Lee Baker, Sleepy Jon Estes, and a stunning turn from a 106-year-old bluesman named Nathan Beauregard, making it a mustsee documentary for anyone with an interest in the music that makes this area great.

For daily recommendations of what to watch at Indie Memphis, keep an eye 11 on the Memphis Flyer website.

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Ira Sachs has always been a fine observer of people. What makes the Memphian’s films so compelling are the exquisitely rendered characters. Rip Torn’s self-destructive record producer in Sundance-winner Forty Shades of Blue, John Lithgow and Alfred Molina’s cozy, lifelong lovers in Love Is Strange, and the families caught up in New York’s class conflict No in Little Men could have only Ordinary come from the mind of Sachs.

Love continued from page 11 Isabelle Huppert’s layered performance in Frankie (Sunday, Glover, and — in a joint cameo with November 3rd, 4:15 p.m.) is the Iggy Pop — Sara Driver. latest in that long line of beautifully Driver is Jarmusch’s longtime conceived protagonists. The title character is a successful actress whose producer and partner. Indie Memphis cancer prognosis is not good. She is devoting screens to a retrospective gathers all of her extended family of her work, including her 2017 together for one last vacation to documentary Boom for Real: The Late make some good memories and say Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat, goodbye. But while she may have and her surreal fantasy from 1986, intended the trip to be an opportunity Sleepwalk. Driver was also asked to to tie up loose ends, her family has recommend some of her favorite other ideas. “My experience in the last horror classics for the festival. She few years of being close to illness has chose Cat People, Jacques Tourneur’s timeless 1942 black-and-white been so surprising because I realize masterpiece (Saturday, November so many other things are always 2nd, 11 a.m.); and Kuroneko (Black happening at the same time,” says Cat), a 1968 film from director Sachs. “You can’t just focus on the Kaneto Shindo which dazzles with its end. Simultaneously, there is every black-and-white cinematography and other genre of life taking place. … You presages the psychological Japanese know, it’s funny because I’m coming to horror of today (Saturday, November Memphis for a family reunion on the 2nd, 11:40 p.m.). weekend when I show the film at the Showing on Halloween proper is Indie Memphis festival. If 35 people Blacula. Part of the blaxsploitation show up for a family reunion, there wave of the 1970s featured in Craig are 35 different stories being told.”

Brewer’s Dolemite Is My Name, the Sachs says he designed the film stars the 6’5” William Marshall, character for the prolific French a serious stage actor who was lauded actress. “She had written me after for his Broadway portrayal of Othello, seeing Love Is Strange. She really as Prince Mamuwalde, African responded to it. I got to know her, royalty transformed into a vampire and I felt like I could really write for after an ill-fated encounter with her and her voice. I also encouraged Count Dracula. It was the first-ever her to be as simple as possible with onscreen portrayal of a black vampire, the material — meaning, I wanted her and the bloodsucker takes time out to reveal as much of her own self as from stalking the reincarnation of she could through the character.” It his late wife Luva (Denise Nicholas) was Sachs’ longtime writing partner to take revenge on some familiar Mauricio Zacharias who suggested blaxsploitation villains before dying setting the story in Portugal. The lush for real this time as a tragic anti-hero. countryside and wide beaches of the (Playhouse on the Square, Thursday, continued on page 27 October 31, 6:30 p.m.).

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Cazateatro Bilingual Theater Group and the Brooks Museum will host a celebration for the community’s deceased loved ones during their Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) parade and festival this Saturday, November 2nd.

Día de los Muertos celebrations, originating from Mexico, have extended to the U.S. And people like Monica Sanchez, assistant director and co-founder of Cazateatro, want people to know that, no matter one’s heritage, anyone is welcome to celebrate and honor their dearly departed on this day.

“The more you know about your neighbors, the stronger your community will be,” says Sanchez.

The parade, which kicks off at the Tower Courtyard at Overton Square, will feature a number of floats by local organizations like Comunidades Unidas en Una Voz (or United Communities in One Voice), Memphis Police Department, Latino Memphis, and more.

“One of the floats is going to look like a cemetery, where people can leave ofrendas [or offerings] for their loved ones,” she says.

The Memphis Police Department will honor fallen officers, and Comunidades Unidas will pay their respects to migrants who died this year. Attendees are also encouraged to bring photos of their loved ones.

The parade fleet will head toward Brooks for a fiesta, where attendees can get sugar skull face paintings, do crafts, shop with art vendors, enjoy live music and dance performances, and learn more about the holiday from helpful guides dressed as Las Catrinas.

“If you don’t understand what is going on, our Catrinas — ladies with humongous and beautiful dresses with their faces painted as sugar skulls — will be giving cards with information about the meaning of Día de los Muertos and the meaning of a La Catrina,” says Sanchez.

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Beetlejuice! Adult Trick-orTreating Midtown Crossing Grill, 394 N. Watkins, 6-11:30 p.m.

Join the recently deceased for a pizza party with a pumpkin patch of cash and prizes, costume contest, and Harry Belafonte dance-off.

Battle of the Bras Horseshoe Tunica, 1021 Casino Center Dr., Tunica, Mississippi, 6:30 p.m., $10 Local male celebrities, executives, and sports figures will model bras decorated by employees from Horseshoe Tunica and Tunica Roadhouse to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. Heavy hors d’oeuvres served and music

by Grammy-nominated singer McKenna Bray.

Creepshow at the Commonwealth 240 Madison, 7 p.m.-1 a.m., $20 Hosted at a suitably spooky Gothic Revival building. Inspired by the 1980s film Creepshow, the event features live music, food truck offerings, cult classic-themed cocktails, prizes, and more.

Benefiting World Relief Memphis Chapter, an organization working to serve immigrants and refugees.

An R-Rated Magic Show Evergreen Theatre, 1705 Poplar, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20 Comedy magician Grant Freeman brings his hilariously mind-blowing show full of laughs and wonder.

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An Evening with Booker T. Jones Stax Museum of American Soul Music, 926 E. McLemore, 7-9 p.m.

Stax legend Booker T. Jones joins Daily Memphian reporter Jared Boyd for a conversation about Jones’ life, career, and recently released memoir, Time Is Tight: My Life Note by Note.

Memphis Made: Center Stage with Star & Micey Buckman Performing Arts Center, 60 Perkins Extd., 8-9:30 p.m., $20 Memphis band of brothers and best friends (who’ve gained international notoriety) opens Buckman’s third Memphis Made: Center Stage season with a blend of folky pop and quirky charm.

Smells Like Nirvana 1884 Lounge, 1555 Madison, 9 p.m., $20 I’ll start this off without any words … The national traveling tribute group Smells Like Nirvana brings its top-notch cover act, performing favorites from Nevermind, In Utero, Bleach, and more, including B-sides and rarities. Come as you are.

The Return of Misterioso B-Side, 1555 Madison, 9 p.m.-midnight, $5 Celebrate the release of new music from explorative, psychedelic bands Frog Squad, New Saturn Collective, and Misterioso Africano. What’s your interplanetary frequency?

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Looking for unique, locally made holiday gifts for friends and family? Or perhaps just a delicious sandwich? The Planet’s Finest Gift Shop, a CBD dispensary and art dealer fusion store, provides a one-stop shop this Sunday with their Holidays Pop-Up Shop and Memphis Sandwich Clique Meet Up. A number of vendors will set up shop in the neighboring parking lots, offering wares including original canvas artworks, candles, quirky crocheted hats, and crafts made by artist C. Young (the artist behind the University of Memphis Tiger sculptures seen around town) and 14 others.

Guests will also be able to explore the shop’s museum-esque wall of visual art for sale and brand-new apparel room while checking out CBD products that are produced in-house.

Outside, the popular Facebook group Memphis Sandwich Clique, of which Jason Payton (co-founder of The Planet’s Finest) is a moderator, will be hosting a meet-up for their first battle of the buns. Bain Barbecue (barbecue sandwiches) and Walking the Dog (made-from-scratch hotdogs and sausages) will ask for customers’ votes to help Clique members settle a hot debate.

“Half of the moderators think hot dogs are sandwiches, and the other half think they aren’t,” says Payton. “So we’re going to let our guests decide by voting on the best sandwich.”

While shopping and deciding whether or not a hotdog is indeed a sandwich, attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy a smorgasbord of electronic music from local artists like Brian Hamilton, Tree Riehl, and GuTTA KicK. “The big thing that I want to push is bringing people together to do their holiday shopping with local artists and makers while supporting local art, whether that’s visual, musical, or culinary,” says Payton.

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SATURDAY November 2 India Fest Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Celebrate the culture of India with this 17th annual event, which includes vibrant, authentic displays featuring Unity in Diversity, allday activities, Bollywood dancing shows, henna painting, Indian cuisine, and more than 50 vendors.

Memphis Soul Music Festival Levitt Shell, 1928 Poplar, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., $20-$100 Two-day fest. Gospel on Saturday with headliner Callie Day, Cedric King & the King Sisters, and more.

Sunday (from 1 to 8 p.m.) acts include Eric Roberson, Karen Brown, and others. VIP tickets available.

SUNDAY November 3 Broad Avenue Art Walk Broad Ave. Arts District, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Shop the artist market featuring 40 local artists and enjoy offerings from a variety of food trucks. Broad Avenue merchants’ open house and Maximo’s paella for sale in a pop-up tent outside the restaurant. Yum. Fall Dog Show at Loflin Yard Loflin Yard, 7 W. Carolina, noon-6 p.m.

Adoption Day event, co-hosted by Mutt Mafia Dog Rescue, features puppy olympics, talent show, obedience training demonstration, costume contest, ugly dog contest, and photo booth. Craft vendors on site, and more.

Mary Burns Memorial Spanish War Memorial Park, Central and East Parkway, 9-10 a.m.

A gathering to commemorate the legacy of beloved Java Cabana owner, Mary Burns, who passed away in early October. Attendees will share stories and poems and plant an American Fringe Tree with a personalized plaque in her honor.

MFM Farm Fest & Auction Puck Food Hall, 409 S. Main, 5-8 p.m., $50 Memphis Farmers Market fundraiser features live music from Shufflegrit and food by Felicia Suzanne.

Benefits MFM, which promotes the values of buying locally and improving health and nutrition.

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ost Memphians associate Booker T. Jones with the M.G.’s, the house band for the glory years of Stax Records and instrumental hitmakers in their own right. But Jones’ several decades’ worth of hits as a producer and distinguished sideman after moving to California should not be lost in the shuffled beats of McLemore Avenue.

This quickly becomes apparent when reading his vivid and thoughtful autobiography, Time Is Tight: My Life Note by Note (Little, Brown, 2019), which opens not on the tracking room floor of a studio, but with the words “Acapulco Gold,” the smoke of a joint wafting around him during his first brush with an earthquake in Malibu.

From there, Jones presents vignettes from all chapters of his life, skipping like a stone over the river of his years. And, of course, many ripples extend outward from Memphis.

Still living in California, Jones spoke with me about how he came to write the book, his approach to music, and how he still treasures lessons he learned in the Bluff City long ago.

Memphis Flyer: Was your new book quite a long time in the making?

Booker T. Jones: Yeah, it was much longer than I thought it would be. I didn’t start out to write a book. Ten or 12 years ago, I was just writing some essays about my life. It was almost like practicing songwriting. I was just practicing writing. And my wife said, “Why don’t you make that into a book?”

I had a number of accomplished writers offer to write or help me write it. But I read some autobiographies of some very close friends, and the problem was, all the events were accurate, and the facts were accurate, but the voice was just not their voice. So that’s why I decided I’d just like to, right or wrong, do it in my own voice.

Reading the book, one thing that strikes me is the importance of families to the Memphis scene. The Steinbergs, the

Newborns, the Jacksons, and your own.

I’m glad you picked that up. It’s amazing, how there’re a lot of indications of that. It’s in the language. The use of words. And a lot of it is in the nice sense of community, of well-meaning activities for young people in Memphis that I took advantage of.

I’m curious about your approach to minimalism, your restraint, through so much of the Stax material. You never really tried to play like, say, a Jimmy Smith.

It was a convergence of attitudes, fortunately, for me, when I got to Stax. It was always underneath the surface, but it came out into the open with Al Jackson Jr., and Duck [Dunn] and Steve [Cropper] in particular, and also Jim Stewart. We actually talked about it. We didn’t use the term minimalism, but it was almost like, “Keep it simple, don’t play too much.” It’s almost like there’s a spiritual revelation or accomplishment in simplicity.

People don’t talk about your piano playing much, but that’s as much your instrument as the organ.

Yeah, I am first and foremost a pianist.

I do Hanon scales maybe twice a week or more. That’s my go-to when I want to whip myself into shape. The first time that music evoked an emotion in me was hearing my mother play Debussy, Liszt, and Chopin on the piano. Very emotional stuff.

You were relatively young when you moved out west. What does Memphis mean to you today?

Sometimes, when I’m preaching about how great it is to have come from Memphis and how lucky I was to have been born there, someone might say, “Well, I come from Cincinnati, and it’s great to be from there too!” But I do feel that Memphis is special, and I’m thankful that I grew up there and got my musical start there. And Time Is Tight is sort of a tribute to that, I think.

An Evening with Booker T. Jones, with Daily Memphian reporter Jared Boyd, takes place at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, 926 McLemore Ave., Friday, November 1st, at 7 p.m.; doors open at 6 p.m. Free.

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CROSSTOWN CREEP SWEEP TRUNK OR TREAT

Bring your little ghouls and goblins to Crosstown Concourse this Halloween for trick-or-treating on the plaza. Volunteers will park their cars on the plaza and fill their trunks with candy. Live music by Almost Elton John and a Thriller dance flash mob.

TIME: 7:30pm - 9:30pm Central Atrium FREE

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Female artists of all genres and women who work in the arts sector are invited to join us for cocktails and conversation at Art Bar at Crosstown Arts. Come a little early (and bring the kids) for Creep Sweep Trunk or Treat on the Concourse plaza from 4-6 pm. Kids are allowed at the cocktail hour as well.

FREE

Crosstown Arthouse presents HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) Thu Oct 31st 6:00pm - 8:00pm Crosstown Theater FREE

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In HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) is an eccentric millionaire who rents a reportedly haunted mansion for one night under the pretense of hosting a party for his wife, Annabelle.

CROSSTOWN ARTS

11.01

PAUL TAYLOR & THE PRVLG Fri Nov 1st 7:30pm - 10:00pm The Green Room $10

11.03

Sun Nov 3rd 6:00pm - 8:00pm Crosstown Theater

$45

Join Grammy-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum for Kafé Kirk, a monthly jazz series in Crosstown Theater featuring musical and spiritual collaborations with special guest artists.

ISABEL THESELIUS: BABY ON BOARD

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Tues Nov 5th 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm 430 gallery

FREE

Works by Crosstown Arts resident artist Isabel Theselius.

Isabel Theselius is a Swedish artist, currently based in the U.S., whose work takes many forms but continually investigates mortality, desire, memory, and more recently, superstition.

CROSSTOWNCONCOURSE.COM/EVENTS

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COMMUNITY FLASH MOB MUSIC

BY ALMOST ELTON JOHN KAFÉ KIRK with HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL at CROSSTOWN THEATER special guest BOB JAMES

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Join multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, and producer Paul Taylor and indie-pop duo The PRVLG at The Green Room for a special performance.

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THE PRVLG FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST THE GREEN ROOM AT CROSSTOWN ARTS

LOVELAND DUREN WITH LIAM GRUNDY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD OVERTON CHAPEL

IMAKEMADBEATS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE

After Dark: Live Music Schedule October 31 - November 6 Polk Mondays, 7-11 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

The King Beez Thursdays, 5 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Brimstone Jones First Saturday of every month, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; P.S. Band First Wednesday, Sunday of every month, 7 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill

October 31-November 6, 2019

191 BEALE

Casting Crowns, Hillsong Worship, Elevation Worship Friday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m.

Handy Bar

168 BEALE 576-2220

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Lazer Lloyd Saturday, Nov. 2, 8-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe

Blind Bear Speakeasy 119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub

182 BEALE 528-0150

200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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

Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-11 p.m.

152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays; Carma Karaoke with Carla Worth Saturdays, 9-11 p.m.

Center for Southern Folklore Hall

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall

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

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

King’s Palace Cafe

119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

182 BEALE 528-0150

Delta Cats, Billy Gibson & Linear Smith First Friday of every month, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m.

Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Saturdays, 4:30-8:30 p.m. and Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Band Sundays, 8 p.m.midnight; Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Soul Street Mojo Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

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

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

162 BEALE 521-1851

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

The Halloran Centre

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

Blues City Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe Patio

Tin Roof

Huey’s Downtown

138 BEALE 526-3637

162 BEALE 521-1851

315 BEALE

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Sean Apple Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, Saturdays, 5-9 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Saturdays, 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Landon Lane with Rodney

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

Michael Rotundo Thursday, Oct. 31, 10 p.m.; Matt Bennett Nov. 1-2, 6 p.m.; Dumas Walker Band Nov. 1-2, 10 p.m.; Jerry Patton Sunday, Nov. 3, 2 p.m.; Rodell McCord Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Paulette’s

Bar DKDC

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

964 S. COOPER 272-0830

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

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

Rev Neil Down and Band Saturday, Nov. 2, 8-11 p.m.; Rev Neil Down and Band Saturday, Nov. 2, 8-11:30 p.m.

South Main South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Nashville Songwriter’s Assn.

Intnl. (NSAI) Memphis Chapter Meeting Every third Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

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

341 BEALE 577-8387

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King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

225 S. MAIN 525-3000

Saturday Series: Fiesta con Sonia De Los Santos Saturday, Nov. 2, 10 a.m.

Royal Blues Band Sunday, Nov. 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

Dim the Lights featuring live music and DJs First Saturday of every month, 10 p.m.

1884 Lounge 1555 MADISON 609-1744

Smells Like Nirvana Friday, Nov. 1, 9 p.m.; Moonshine Bandits, Sara Ross Saturday, Nov. 2, 9 p.m.

B-Side 1555 MADISON 347-6813

Louder Than Bombs Thursday, Oct. 31, 9 p.m.; Louder Than Bombs Thursday, Oct. 31, 9 p.m.; The Return of Misterioso, Frog Squad, New Saturn Collective Friday, Nov. 1, 10 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; David Cousar Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Outer Ring Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Mary Gagz and Her Gaggle of Drags Mondays, 8:30-11 p.m.; The Tennessee Screamers Wednesday, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.; Ladrones, Los Gueys, The Sheiks Wednesday, Nov. 6, 10:30 p.m.

Black Lodge 405 N. CLEVELAND 272-7744

Louise Page, Rosey Thursday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Big Barton Friday, Nov. 1, 9 p.m.; Short in the Sleeve Saturday, Nov. 2, 8p.m.; Gayland Grooms Tuesday, Nov. 5, 6.m.; Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck Fridays, 6 p.m.; The Skitch Saturdays, 6 p.m.; Jazz Jam with Frog Squad Sundays, 6 p.m.; Freeman Weems Mondays, 6 p.m.; Comedy Open Mic with Spencer Geno Mondays, 8 p.m.; Ben MindenBirkenmaier Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

The Devil in Me Slipknot Tribute, Burn the Witch, Mudhole, The Murdering Crows Thursday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.; Day of the Dead Friday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m.; Memorial Show for James

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule October 31 - November 6 continued from page 18 K. Manning Nov. 2-3, 6 p.m.; The Hollywood Horses, Snuffy Monday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m.; Sean K. Preston & the Loaded Pistols Tuesday, Nov. 5, 7-11 p.m.; Cane Hill, Barren Arrows, Riptide Wednesday, Nov. 6, 8 p.m.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts 1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280

Paul Taylor and The PRVLG Friday, Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m.

Hi Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Devil Train, Freeloader Thursday, Oct. 31, 9 p.m.; Dead and Company Stream Party Friday, Nov. 1, 5 p.m.; Solar Powered Love Friday, Nov. 1, 10 p.m.; The Big Bad, The Wailing Banshees Saturday, Nov. 2, 10 p.m.; The Kickback Saturday, Nov. 2, 10 p.m.; Hovvdy, Kevin Krauter, Caroline Says Sunday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m.; Wolves at the Gate, My Epic, Comrade Monday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m.; Devendra Banhart, Black Belt Eagle Scout Tuesday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m.; The Coathangers, Control Top Wednesday, Nov. 6, 10 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown

1927 MADISON 726-4372

October 31-November 6, 2019

John Paul Keith Sunday, Nov. 3, 4-7 p.m.; Big Al & the Heavyweights Sunday, Nov. 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Seeing Red Halloween Party Thursday, Oct. 31, 9 p.m.; Debbie Jamison Band Friday, Nov. 1, 6:30 p.m.; Bluff City Bandits Friday, Nov. 1, 10 p.m.; Seeing Red Acoustic Saturday, Nov. 2, 10:30 a.m.; Memphis Second Line Jazz Band Saturday, Nov. 2, 2 p.m.; Blackwater Trio Saturday, Nov. 2, 6:30 p.m.; Triple Annie Saturday, Nov. 2, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Jeffrey & the Pacemakers Sunday, Nov. 3, 4 p.m.; Madison Line Mondays Mondays, 6 p.m.; Justus Brothers Tuesday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m.; Shooter Jennings, Mike & the Moonpies Wednesday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m.; Shooter Jennings, Mike & the Moonpies Wednesday, Nov. 6, 8 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill

Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Strobobean Wednesday, Nov. 6, 10 p.m.

Playhouse on the Square 66 COOPER

Stuntarious IV Release: A Night of Disruption feat.

IMAKEMADBEATS Friday, Nov. 1, 8:30 p.m.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Tony Manard & the Big Ole Band Friday, Nov. 1, 8 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony Chapman, Charles Cason, and Miss Joyce Henderson Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Juke Jam Sundays, 4 p.m.

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Beer and Hymns Friday, Nov. 1, 6-7:30 p.m.; Natalie James and the Professor Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; “The Happening” Open Songwriter Showcase Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Overton Chapel 2160 CENTRAL

Loveland Duren, Liam Grundy Sunday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rockstar Karaoke Fridays;

University of Memphis

East Memphis

Guest House at Graceland

Germantown

Al Chymia Shrine Center

3600 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-3322

Germantown Performing Arts Center

5770 SHELBY OAKS

Torch Song: A Concert of Timeless Tunes Sunday, Nov. 3, 4-6 p.m.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School 60 N. PERKINS EXT. 537-1483

Star & Micey Friday, Nov. 1, 8-10 p.m.; Leo Kottke Saturday, Nov. 2, 8-9 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar

Bartlett Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Five O’Clock Shadow Sunday, Nov. 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Steak Night with Tony Butler and the Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Poplar/I-240

Cordova

Neil’s Music Room

Huey’s Cordova

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 318-3030

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

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

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, Nov. 3, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova 8071 TRINITY 756-4480

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND 454-7771

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Boos and Booze with DJ Logan Garrett Friday, Nov. 1, 9 p.m.; Neutral Snap Saturday, Nov. 2, 9 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Justin Hayward Friday, Nov. 1, 7-10 p.m.

Whitehaven/ Airport Graceland Soundstage 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY

Melissa Etheridge Saturday, Nov. 2, 7-10 p.m.

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

Hillbilly Mojo Sunday, Nov. 3, 6-9 p.m.

1801 EXETER 751-7500

Germantown Symphony Orchestra’s 2019 Young Artists Concert Friday, Nov. 1, 8-9:30 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, Nov. 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

The Chaulkies Sunday, Nov. 3, 8-11:30 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Gold Strike Casino 1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-245-7829

Trace Adkins Saturday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Open Mic Night and Steak Night Thursdays, 6 p.m.midnight; Blues Jam hosted by Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

“Tree of Life” at TOPS Gallery, featuring works by regional artists, through Saturday, December 21st First Sundays: 30 Years Better

What started 30 years ago is back, featuring work from old and new local painters, jewelers, photographers, sculptors, and more. With open guitar pull and Memphis drum tribe. First Sunday of every month, 3-8 p.m.

Through Dec. 29.

The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus, when school is out, there’s nothing to do and the desert sun beats down hot, Sheila and her friends find themselves in search of something — anything to bring the desert landscape to life. $10$15. Sun., Nov. 3, 2:30 p.m.

3663 APPLING (385-6440).

Hattiloo Theatre

Eclipsed, story of the captive wives of a commanding officer in the rebel army during the Second Liberian Civil War. A young woman simply referred to as “The Girl” has recently been abducted by the C.O., and two of his older wives do what they can to help and care for her. Just as The Girl begins to adjust to life at the compound, the entire community is thrown off balance when a

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

The Orpheum

The Book of Mormon, this outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the good word. orpheum-memphis.com. $29$150. Nov. 5-10.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School Opening Reception for “From Texas to Tennessee,” exhibition of new work by Susan Mahoney Crook. Fri., Nov. 1, 5-7 p.m.

60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).

DCI Gallery

Opening Reception for “New Works by Sydney Gruber,” exhibition of new works by the artist. Fri., Nov. 1, 6-8:30 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

776 BROOKHAVEN.

Theatre Memphis

Germantown Performing Arts Center

Cats, musical is based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. An urban alley comes alive after dark, with cats of all types, shapes, and sizes.

They are gathering for the Jellicle Ball, during which one cat will be allotted an extra precious life. $35. Through Nov. 3.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

Opening Reception for “Interwoven,” exhibition of new work by Angi Cooper. Sat., Nov. 2, 5-7 p.m.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

L Ross Gallery

Opening Reception for “Circumnavigation,” exhibition of new work by Pam Hassler.

lrossgallery.com. Fri., Nov. 1, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

Opening Reception for “MGAL Juried Winter 2019 Exhibition,” exhibition of works by the MemphisGermantown Artists’ League, juried by gallery owner Laurie Brown. stgchurch.org. Free.

Sun., Nov. 3, 6:30-8 p.m.

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

“My Memphis View,” exhibition of new work by MaryEllen Kelly. Through Nov. 6.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Landscapes from a Different View,” exhibition of new work

by Jim Henderson. Nov. 3-30.

“Bicentennial Blues Bed,” new, year-long planting celebrating the Bluff City’s bicentennial, located just outside of the Four Seasons Garden. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Ongoing.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

Artist Talk: Terry Lynn

Memphis artist Terry Lynn discusses his exhibition of new works on paper. Free. Sat., Nov. 2, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

DAVID LUSK GALLERY, 97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Cassandra King Conroy

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

Eclectic Eye A R T I ST R E C E PT I O N S

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

O N G O I N G ART

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

fourth wife returns from the battlefield, after having escaped the army camp to fight as a soldier in the resistance.

Through Nov. 10.

An R-Rated Magic Show, side-splitting comedy and mindblowing magic are brought into the spotlight as comedy magician Grant Freeman brings his unique, raunchy show full of surprises to Memphis. $20. Nov. 1-2, 7 & 9 p.m.

Author discusses and signs Tell Me a Story: My Life With Pat Conroy. Tues., Nov. 5, 6 p.m.

“Earth and Water,” exhibition of new work by Carroll Todd.

Through Nov. 16.

“Touch the Sky,” exhibition of new work by Terry Lynn.

Through Nov. 16.

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

The Evergreen Theatre

WESTY’S, 346 N MAIN (543-3278).

David Lusk Gallery

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C O M E DY

TOPS Gallery

“Tree of Life,” group exhibition featuring the works of Hawkins Bolden, Margaret Coleman, Floyd “Pussum” Glover, Edwin Jeffrey, Eddie Lee Kendrick, Joe Light, Georgia Speller, and Henry Speller.

Through Dec. 21.

400 S. FRONT.

Booksigning by Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne

Author discusses and signs her new book Holding on to Nothing. Mon., Nov. 4, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Jami Attenberg

Author, in conversation with Alice Bolin, discusses and signs her new book All This Could Be Yours. Wed., Nov. 6, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Norman Adcox

Author discusses and signs his new book My Dog, My Love, My Best Friend. Sun., Nov. 3, 2 p.m.

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

LECT U R E /S P EA K E R

David Sedaris

The author of Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day and regular National Public Radio contributor speaks, following the release of his newest book, Calypso. $55-$75. Sat., Nov. 2, 8 p.m.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500).

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

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

DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.

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CALENDAR: OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 6 continued from page 21 An Evening with Booker T. Jones

Stax legend Booker T. Jones of Booker T. & the MGs in conversation with Jared Boyd about Jones’ long-awaited memoir, Time Is Tight: My Life Note by Note, and his life and career.

Fri., Nov. 1, 7-9 p.m.

STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC, 926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Massing of the Colors

Jeffrey W. Hughes will speak at a ceremony honoring veterans.

Free. Sun., Nov. 3, 2-4 p.m.

ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282), STGCHURCH.ORG.

National Geographic Live: Pink Boots and a Machete

Behind-the-scenes stories fresh from the front lines of exploration. This interactive speaker series includes a Q&A session and an opportunity to meet the explorer. Sun., Nov. 3, 4-5:30 p.m.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), GPACWEB.COM.

C O N F E R E N C ES/ C O NVE NTI O N S

My Sister’s Keeper

October 31-November 6, 2019

Annual symposium to equip and empower black women leaders for healing and wholeness. The symposium will

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Opening Reception for “New Works by Sydney Gruber” at DCI Gallery, Friday, November 1st, 6-8:30 p.m.

include sessions on being a caregiver, self-advocacy, and emotional wellness. Free. Sat., Nov. 2, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

METHODIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, 1265 UNION, METHODISTHEALTH.ORG.

S P EC IA L EVE NTS F ES TI VA LS

Childhood Vaccination Event

Dia de los Muertos

Holiday celebrated annually in Mexico and parts of the United States honoring deceased loved ones. The parade begins at Overton Square, and the festival takes place at the Brooks Museum. Sat., Nov. 2, 11 a.m.

Parents and caregivers can learn more about the importance of childhood immunization and help get their child up-to-date on CDC-recommended vaccinations, if applicable. Sat., Nov. 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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

WESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, 4480 WESTMONT (416-8000).

Healthy Food Festival

In partnership with the Memphis Medical District Collaborative, the Memphis Urban League Young Professionals presents a festival to celebrate the healthy food options Memphis has to offer. $10. Sat., Nov. 2, 12-6 p.m.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE AVE., MEMPHISULYP.ORG.

Mobius Theory Spaceport and Holiday Market One-of-a-kind shopping experience featuring live music, more than 20 artists and vendors, food trucks, beer, and free desserts.

Featuring music by Mama Honey, Tony Manard, QCG Productions, and DJ 5&Dime. Free. Sat., Nov. 2, 1-8 p.m.

CROSSTOWN BREWING CO., 1264 CONCOURSE (529-7611).

H O LI DAY EVE NTS

S PO R TS / F IT N E S S

Big River Crossing Half Marathon and 5K

Racers cross the Mississippi River along its longest pedestrian bridge. All race proceeds will benefit Peer Power, a Memphis nonprofit that recruits and trains high school and college students to tutor and mentor their peers.

Sat., Nov. 2, 8-11 a.m.

BIG RIVER CROSSING, CHANNEL 3 DRIVE, BIGRIVERCROSSING.COM.

Memphis Grizzlies vs.

Houston Rockets Mon., Nov. 4, 7 p.m.

FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE.

Memphis Grizzlies vs.

Minnesota Timberwolves

KIDS

FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE.

Science activities including making homemade ice cream and exploring microscopes.

Sat., Nov. 2, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Wed., Nov. 6, 7 p.m.

Memphis Grizzlies vs.

Phoenix Suns

$7-$150. Sat., Nov. 2, 7 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 2, 7 p.m.

FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE.

Memphis Tigers vs. South Carolina State Bulldogs Tues., Nov. 5, 7 p.m.

FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE.

Memphis Elementary School Science Challenge

Costumes & Cocktails on the River: Halloween Happy Hour Edition

Third annual party with an open buffet, open bar, live entertainment, DJ, vendors, costume contest, in a safe and mature adult atmosphere. Event is for age 25+. $35. Thurs., Oct. 31, 6:30-11 p.m.

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Fund-raiser for the farmers market, with food from Felicia Suzanne. $50. Sun., Nov. 3, 5-9 p.m.

409 S. MAIN, SOUTH MAIN ARTS DISTRICT (866-348-2226).

Trick-or-treating for little ghouls and goblins . Volunteers will park their cars on the plaza and fill their trunks with candy.

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Halloween Bash and Costume Contest

Fifth annual party and contest with drink specials, a costume contest at midnight with a grand prize of a Budweiser bike and music from DJ Hush. $5. Thurs., Oct. 31, 9 p.m.

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Five percent of sales will be donated to Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF in support of Hurricane Dorian Relief Efforts.

DJ Eggroll set from 9 p.m.midnight. Costume contest winners and prizes will be announced at 11 p.m. 0. Thurs., Oct. 31, 8-11:59 p.m.

“Interwoven” by Angi Cooper at Germantown Performing Arts Center, Saturday, November 2nd, 5-7 p.m. needs. Sun., Nov. 3, 1-5 p.m.

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Mid-South Maze

This year, the seasonal corn maze pays tribute to Memphis’ soccer stars with a 901 FC-shaped layout. The maze is haunted on Fridays and Saturdays — and on Halloween night. $8. Wed.-Fri., 4-10 p.m., Sat., 12-10 p.m., and Sun., 12-8 p.m. Through Nov. 3.

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The Monsters Ball

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Maria Montessori School Bicentennial Bash Silent Auction

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Sat., Nov. 2, 6-10 p.m.

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Filmmaker Morgan Neville profiles cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, an eclectic group of musicians who tour worldwide. Free.

Tues., Nov. 5, 7-8:30 p.m.

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Combined Public Notice [1] Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact on the Environment; and [2] Notice of Intent to Request Release of Funds

The proposed project includes watershed restoration within the Big Creek Wetland and Restoration Project area and seeks to improve Millington’s resilience to future flooding and alleviate current flooding conditions of surrounding communities by establishing a large floodway between the existing levee north of Big Creek and Paul Barrett Parkway. This would allow flood waters to bypass the community and provide flood protection for nearby neighborhoods and the Naval Support Activity Mid-South. The Big Creek Activity would also provide broader community benefits through connectivity of greenway trails, walking paths, multipurpose fields and other recreational amenities.

The project has been developed and is designed to address flooding issues by improving the community’s resilience to future flooding and alleviating current flooding conditions of adjacent communities. Although the primary purpose of the project is to alleviate current flooding conditions of adjacent communities, this project also intends to restore and enhance the existing floodplain and natural aquatic systems. Restoration and enhancement of the adjacent floodplain’s natural conditions will include transitioning some of the currently drained (previously converted) wetland soils into native herbaceous wetlands.

Grade controls, where appropriate, will be installed. These controls will lead to enhanced stabilization of the stream channels, reducing upgradient erosion and downstream sediment loading. North of Big Creek, improvements to the existing levee and the construction of a pump station and supporting flood control elements are also planned.

The proposed actions would include grading, filling and earth moving to lower land elevations and provide additional floodwater conveyance and storage.

Recreational activities, including multipurpose fields and trails, are planned throughout the project area. In addition to trails, other recreational amenities such as am amphitheater, playground, and disc golf course are to be included in the Big Creek Wetland and Restoration Project. As part of the project, tree planting will occur for any cleared area to ensure no net loss of the tree canopy.

Shelby County will work with property owners to acquire or establishment easements needed for the development of the Big Creek Wetland Restoration Project.

Project Location Descriptions: The proposed project is located within Millington, Tennessee and is bounded by Big Creek to the North and Paul Barrett Parkway to the South, Sledge Road to the East and US Highway 51 to the West.

Estimated Funding Sources: Funding Source: U.S. Department of HUD National Disaster Resilience Grant Funds Estimated Funding: $25,146,022.00 Funding Source: State of Tennessee Estimated Funding: $6,000,000.00 [1] FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT It has been determined that the proposed project will not constitute an action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment and, accordingly, Shelby County has decided not to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 as amended ([P.L. 91-1 190, 42 U.S.C. 4321-4347, January 1, 1970, as amended by Pub. L. 94-52, July

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

Environmental Review Records are on file and available for public examination and copying upon request at the Shelby County Department of Roads, Bridges and Engineering, 6449 Haley Road, Memphis, TN 38134 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. No further environmental review of this project is proposed to be conducted prior to the request of release of Federal funds.

All interested agencies, groups, and persons disagreeing with this decision are invited to submit written comments for consideration by Shelby County Department of Roads and Bridges. Comments may not be sent by facsimile (fax).

Such written comments should specify that these comments are to be considered for the FONSI and should be received at Shelby County Department of Roads, Bridges, and Engineering 6449 Haley Road, Memphis, TN 38134 on or before November 25, 2019. All such comments so received will be considered and the County will not request release of Federal funds or take any administrative action on the proposed project prior to November 25, 2019.

[2] NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS [NOI / RROF] At least one day after the termination of the public comment period for the FONSI, but not before comments on the FONSI have been considered and resolved, Shelby County will submit a Request for Release of Funds [RROF] and Certification to HUD. By doing so, the County will ask HUD to allow it to commit funds to the project, certifying that [1] It has performed the environmental review prescribed by HUD regulations [“Environmental Review Procedures for Title 1 Community Development Block Grant Program” -24 C.F.R. Part 58, and [2] Shelby County and Lee Harris in his official capacity as Mayor consent to accept the jurisdiction of the federal courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review or resulting decision making and action. The legal effect of the certification is that by approving it, HUD will have satisfied its responsibilities under the National Environment Policy Act, thus allowing the County to commit Community Development Block Grant funds to the project.

HUD will accept objections to its approval of the release of funds and Shelby County’s certification for a period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only on one of the following bases: [a] that the certification was not in fact executed by the Certifying Officer; [b] that applicant’s Environmental Review Record for the project indicated omission of a required decision, finding, or step applicable to the project in the environmental review process required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58, [c] the grant recipient or other participants in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; or [d] another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality.

Objections must address specifically the RROF separately from the FONSI comments and these comments must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedure [24 CFR Part 58] and may be addressed to the U. S. Department of HUD, Office of Community Planning and Development, Knoxville Field Office, John J. Duncan Federal Building, 710 Locust Street S.W., Suite 300, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902-2526.

Objections to the release of funds on bases other than those stated above will not be considered by HUD. Potential objectors should contact HUD to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

Lee Harris, Mayor Shelby County, Tennessee

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and the hot line, and “just tried to learn everything that I could,” he says.

He then moved to the old Porcellino’s Craft Butcher, which also was owned

by Ticer and Hudman. He joined a new band, Pillow Talk. They recorded their full-length album in Tolono, Illinois, with Matt Talbott, vocalist/guitar player from Hum, at Talbott’s “really cool, crazy studio.”

“That was definitely the coolest adventure music ever took me on,” he says.

Eight months later, Patterson moved to The Gray Canary, where he began as a cook working on the open fire hearth. He joined Overstayer, a hardcore band, a few months later.

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ailey Parks Patterson spent much of his 26 years trying to figure out if he wanted a career in food or music.

Patterson, now sous chef at The Gray Canary, says, “I’ve always been a big dude. I’ve always liked food. I always wanted to eat and try new things.”

But he also loved playing music after he learned to play bass in high school and joined his first bands, Voltron and Up-State.

He spent two semesters at Southwest Tennessee Community College, but he dropped out because he “couldn’t find the motivation.” He just wanted to play music.

Patterson’s first restaurant job was at Ubee’s. “Driving food around town and prepping hamburger balls,” he says. “Just goofy little things. Washing dishes.”

Six months later, he began cooking, then working as daytime manager and tending bar. “I did everything in a restaurant real quick. Figured it out slightly enough to where I was like, ‘I like this.’ It felt good doing it.”

Working at a restaurant gave him “a weird sense of confidence,” he says.

Two years later, Patterson left Ubee’s and got a job as a pizza cook at Hog & Hominy, where he worked with owners Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman.

“I got to work right next to them in the kitchens a lot and learn straight from them. Learning from Mike Hudman how to extract pizza dough was pretty cool.

Especially for a 22-year-old.”

He created his first pizza when the restaurant was closed because of snow.

He and a couple of other cooks came in to feed the yeast starter. “We made some dough, and we were like, ‘We might as well start the oven and cook some pizzas.’ I threw some stupid stuff on a pizza.”

It was a hit. “It was like Canadian bacon and red sauce and some cheese.

And some lemon zest and something else.

Nothing fancy by any means. But Mike was like, ‘Hell, yeah. Snow Day Pie.’ For whatever reason, the bacon was sliced real thin and it curled up. He just freaked out.”

They ran the Snow Day pizza as a special for several weeks after the restaurant re-opened.

“It definitely fired me up,” Patterson says. He still wanted to play music, but he says, “It made sense for me to be in a kitchen because it’s like-minded people.

It’s like a judgment-free zone. Everyone does their own thing, looks their own way, says what they want. We’re pirates.”

Patterson progressed to salads, desserts,

Patterson quickly moved from cook to chef tournant, the person under the sous chef. That’s when he decided his focus was going to be on cooking instead of music. “I felt like it really clicked,” he says.

“Because I always knew this is a cool thing I can do. And I feel like I’m good at it. And I’ve made my way.

“I see kids my age or older or younger coming in fresh out of culinary school who just can’t hang,” he says. “They know they have good information, but when it starts going, they can’t because they’ve never worked in a serious restaurant.

So, all of the sudden it’s like, ‘I need this right now. Hey, I need this. Where’s that?

This doesn’t taste right. Redo it.’ And they go down.”

Two months ago, Patterson was made sous chef.

So, how does he identify himself? A chef or a musician? “A chef,” Patterson says. “That’s the first time I’ve said that, but I guess that really is what I’m doing now.

And what I want to do.”

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No Ordinary Love

Indie Memphis has always championed first-time filmmakers.

Chyna Robinson got the opportunity to make her first feature No Ordinary Love (Saturday, November 2nd, 10:30 a.m.) after her short film, “Greenwood: 13 Hours,” garnered 23 awards on the festival circuit. “My executive producer, Tracy Rector, is the chair of the board for a women’s shelter and service provider in Fort Worth, Texas,” she says. “She approached me and asked if I would be interested in making a film about intimate partner violence and domestic violence, and I jumped at the opportunity.”

No Ordinary Love tells the story of two women, Elizabeth (April Hartman), the wife of a pastor (Eric Hanson); and Tanya (DeAna Davis), the wife of a policeman (Lynn Andrews III). When Elizabeth, a counselor at her husband’s church, notices that Tanya has a black eye, she starts asking questions about how it happened, only to discover that the only thing the church authorities are interested in is whether or not the wife is submitting to her husband. The two women at first believe they only need to work harder at loving their husbands, only to find themselves sinking deeper into cycles of abuse that become life-threatening.

Robinson says it was important to her to get the details right. “I was able to speak with the volunteers

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Director Paul Duane had long been watching Drummond with fascination.

“His exploits were legendary, and he was the kind of guy who could send a band to play in Greenland or Papua, New Guinea, just because he felt the line they were on was important,” Duane says. “I was looking for someone to make a film about someone — knowing it would be a long haul as they always are — who might be inspiring, or at least fun to spend that continued on page 28

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Drummond’s latest long-term art project involved traveling around the world to various locales and performing seemingly mundane tasks, like building a bed or shining shoes, in public. Duane decided to follow Drummond with a camera, just to see what happened. “We all have things in our lives we are inexplicably attached to,” says Duane. “Bill likes baking, knitting, carpentry, shining shoes. He’s doing these things because they have meaning to him. Whether they mean anything to anyone else is secondary, really. The acts in themselves aren’t significant, but maybe the decision

to make them important in his life, the conscious decision to foreground them, is what matters.”

Duane enlisted Memphian Robert Gordon as producer for Best Before Death (Friday, November 3rd, 9:30 p.m.). “I see Bill’s art as creating ephemeral communities and holding them together as long as possible,” says Gordon. “Whether it’s passersby who become briefly engaged or the neighbors near his basecamp, he weaves a group of strangers into a fleeting tapestry, into one of those giant soap bubbles that you try to keep from bursting. Bill, of course, refuses to explain himself.”

Duane says Best Before Death is a different kind of documentary. “People laugh a lot, which is rare for a film about conceptual art, I think. It’s funny, and to some degree it’s (and I hate this phrase, but it’s been used a few times about the film) life-affirming.”

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I always face a moral dilemma when approaching an intersection where I see someone with a “Homeless” or “Hungry” or “Anything Helps” sign.

The first thing I feel is pity, sadness. It never fails. And then perhaps to make myself feel better, I begin to wonder if what they’re saying is true. Are they really homeless? If I give them cash, will they use it for food or another necessity or for something else? Drugs, beer?

Occasionally, I will scrape together whatever I can find and offer it to them. But mostly, I avoid eye contact, staring off into space as I anxiously wait for the light to change. There are times when I don’t have any cash or honestly I’m just too wrapped up in my own day to care about anyone else or to make room in my heart for more of the world’s misfortune.

And other times, without even knowing a person’s story, I find myself judging. After looking the person up and down, assessing the state of their clothes, the penmanship on their cardboard sign, the look in their eyes, I wonder how they let their lives get to this point. Maybe my judgment is a means to avoidance.

Then for a moment, as I pull off in my climate-controlled car with food, water, and everything else I need perfectly attainable, I feel a certain sense of shame and guilt. I could have helped, but I didn’t. Why? Because I judged someone I didn’t know. Because I was too busy thinking of myself and my problems.

Even on days when I am feeling particularly generous and I’ve offered a dollar or whatever else I have to give, there’s still a feeling of inadequacy as I drive off, moving on with my day and leaving them behind. Nothing I can do in those moments will give that person what they really need — a bed, a warm meal, and a place to call home.

My two dollars won’t drastically change their lives. In the big scheme of life, two bucks is a drop in the bucket of what they really need. But it’s this type of thinking that keeps me and maybe others from doing what they can, when they can, how they can.

And even if a couple of bucks won’t solve all their problems, it is something. If nothing else, it’s an acknowledgement.

It acknowledges that they are a real human being who, for whatever reason or because of whatever unfortunate life circumstances they’ve faced, is in a pretty desperate situation.

Whatever the case, as fellow human beings and fellow Memphians, it’s remiss of me and, dare I say, of you, to pass these people on a daily basis without offering so much as a smile. We all can do better.

Memphis has been ranked one of the country’s most philanthropic cities in the past. In 2017, a study from The Chronicle of Philanthropy named Memphis the most charitable city in the country. I wonder though, how much more charitable Memphis would be if we gave without judgment, without apprehension, and without expectations.

There are everyday needs all around us and tangible ways to meet them. There are people literally standing on a street corner right now in the cold, in the rain, in real need. If not a dollar, then buy them a hot coffee or a hot meal or give them a sweater from the bag of clothes you were going to donate anyway. Beyond that, there are a plethora of ways to help out those in need in the city all year-round, but especially now as the holiday season approaches.

Make a meal, deliver a meal, volunteer, tutor, mow your neighbor’s lawn, read to kids, pick up trash. There is something that you and I both can do today. We don’t have to wait until we’re richer or have more time or more energy or more motivation. We can do it now, and we should do it now. Let’s stop staring off into space and begin doing something kind for someone in need. It’ll feel good, I promise.

Maya Smith is a Flyer staff writer.

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