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This week I’m going to cut to the chase and use my space here to highlight reporting I think everyone in the U.S. should read. I’m speaking of the recently published Rolling Stone article by Hunter Walker titled “Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff.”

I just reread the article, and it left me feeling utterly unsurprised but no less disgusted. There’s a lot of information to digest, but the crux of the matter is, as Walker writes, that “multiple members of Congress were intimately involved in planning both Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss and the Jan. 6 events that turned violent.”

To confirm this information, Walker talked with two sources who helped plan the pro-Trump rallies in Washington, D.C., which took place — and, some say, helped instigate — the violent storming of the Capitol later the same day. Because of the ongoing investigation into the Capitol attack, the sources were granted anonymity.

“I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically,” one of the sources is quoted as saying. “[T]he pair both say the members who participated in these conversations or had top staffers join in included Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas).”

Seven members of Congress were willing to put their coworkers in danger, to abandon the rules and guiding principles of democracy to achieve their ends.

One, Arizona’s Rep. Gosar, allegedly offered blanket pardons for other, unrelated investigations as an incentive to get the two sources to help plan the rallies. If these claims are found to be true, these representatives must be expelled immediately, and they should face criminal charges.

Washington’s Rep. Pramila Jayapal tweeted, sharing the Rolling Stone article, and said, “On January 6th, I didn’t know if I would make it out alive.” To return to an oftrepeated word these days, causing your coworkers to fear for their lives hardly reeks of “bipartisanship.”

By this point, more than nine months after the event, there is ample evidence that the attack on the Capitol was not random. Reporting from The New York Times shows smartphone tracking data in time lapse showing people departing the rallies and heading straight to the Capitol. It seems clear that the levels of involvement varied — some elected officials were involved directly, while others seem to have delegated the work to their aides. Some people seem to have just spoken publicly about the “stolen” election, letting others fill in the blanks in their own minds.

Whatever their connection to the events, they must face consequences. If this is swept under the rug, that amounts to a tacit approval.

What would happen if I used this column space to advocate for violence? Let’s say, for example, that I spent weeks writing about another Memphis media organization, alleging some sort of wrongdoing there? Then, once I had whipped my readers into a froth, I wrote that we couldn’t “let them get away with it,” that we wouldn’t “take this lying down”? If someone read between the lines and acted on the orders they thought I had given, albeit on the sly, wouldn’t I be expected to share some of the blame?

In Tennessee, it would seem that our options are somewhat limited. Most of our elected representatives either already believe that the events of January 6th must be investigated and that N E WS & O P I N I O N consequences should be meted out, or THE FLY-BY - 4 NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 6 they claim nothing untoward happened POLITICS - 8 at all. Just a normal protest. Nothing to SPORTS - 9 see here. Call them anyway. Write to ROMANCE LANGUAGE - 10 them anyway. The least we can do is be COVER STORY loud. Be louder than a group of internet “MISSISSIPPI RIVER SCHOOL” nerds who don’t like the look of a movie

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C OVI D C U LTU R E WAR Tennessee Republicans pulled a double switcheroo in Nashville last week, twisting a special session on economic development into a Covidculture war zone.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee called a special session of the Tennessee General Assembly to review an $884 million incentive package to bring a Ford Motor Co. manufacturing facility to the Memphis Regional Megasite in Haywood County.

House Republicans’ first switcheroo came as they brought a bill during that session against employers from asking employees for proof of a Covid vaccine.

Switcheroo No. 2 came during the debate on that bill. After a brief recess, the GOP brought a surprise amendment to the bill to disallow Clockwise from top left: school districts from mandating face Establishment of Big River Park masks. announced; cost of Ford special The bill failed as it had no sponsor session turned Covid war in the Senate. Lawmakers were set for another special session on Covid issues this week.

B LU E OVAL C ITY State lawmakers approved an $884 million incentive package to bring Ford Motor Co. to West Tennessee last week.

The incentive package will bring a $5.6 billion investment to Haywood County. The 4,100-acre site — now called the Memphis Regional Megasite — will be renamed Blue Oval City, a nod to Ford’s iconic logo. On 3,600 acres of the massive site, Ford will build its electric F-150 trucks, and SK Innovation will build batteries and other electronic components.

The factories will bring 5,800 jobs to West Tennessee, the largest job announcement in Tennessee history. Tennessee officials competed with those in 15 other states for the project. State Sen. Ed Jackson (R-Jackson) was told Ford said Tennessee’s site and incentive package was “heads and shoulders above the rest.”

More than $383 million of the incentive package will be used by the state to build roads, infrastructure, and even a trade school on the site. The rest — $500 million — will be given to Ford as a grant.

However, state Sen. Bo Watson (R-Hixson) explained that “we’re not writing a $500 million check and giving it to them.” As Ford spends money to build its facility, the state will reimburse them for the costs, up to $500 million. The agreement includes

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clawbacks, too. So, if Ford doesn’t create the amount of jobs it promises, they’ll lose some of the money given to them. All of it, Watson said, was a way to ensure Ford completes its commitments to the state.

All of the money will come from state surplus funds of about $2 billion. Lawmakers said no taxes will be raised to fund the project and will generate far more in taxes than it will cost the state up front. Lawmakers predict the project will add $22.4 million directly to state coffers each year. It is expected to grow the gross state product by $3.5 billion each year.

B IG R IVE R G I FT A $1 million gift will establish Big River Park on about 1,500 acres of land along the west side of the Mississippi River.

The move will purchase land now in the hands of multiple owners. That land is primarily between the Hernando DeSoto Bridge and Big River Crossing on the Harahan Bridge. Buying the land and stitching it together will help ensure that it is conserved and protected for recreational and outdoor needs of the region.

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Clues dropped about the next Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) directive indicate citizens will be wearing face masks for a little while longer.

Dr. Michelle Taylor, the SCHD director, would not divulge specifics about the new directive last week — or give a direct answer on face masks — but said her department will use data to make the decision and “we’re not there yet.”

Taylor said about 13,000 Shelby County citizens have not had Covid or the Covid vaccine and are still vulnerable to infection. Also, about 92,000 children aged 5 to 11 are not yet eligible for a vaccine.

Add them together, and she said about 25 percent — one in four — of the county’s population could still get the virus.

“With that in mind,” she said, “we are asking people to be patient with us. We want to protect everyone in the county. We know people are tired of the 19-month marathon, but if we keep those mitigation efforts in place a little longer, especially for the upcoming holiday season, and we get that 5- to 11-year-old age group vaccinated, then we can start to talk about easing restrictions.”

The clues about a further mask mandate come at a time of a weeks-long fall of just about every Covid data point in Shelby County. The seven-day rolling average of new cases, the reproductive rate of the virus, hospitalizations, and the number of new cases are all falling routinely from the Delta-variant surge this summer. One figure — the weekly positivity rate of new tests — rose

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The new health directive is expected late next week as the current directive is set to expire.

Taylor said her department is readying for the arrival of vaccine doses for kids aged 5 to 11. SCHD is in constant communication with the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) on a distribution plan. Just as with the early roll out of the adult vaccine, Tennessee will get an allotment of pediatric doses just like other states. SCHD will be able to preorder doses “very soon,” Taylor said.

The SCHD has also been working with local businesses in preparation of a proposed federal rule on vaccine mandates. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has proposed a vaccine or weekly testing mandate for all companies with more than 100 employees. Taylor said she’s urged businesses to talk with their lawyers on the best way to comply with the proposal. A draft of the rules was delivered to the White House last week, prompting a host of meetings with companies and trade groups in preparation.

However, some mask mandates and potential vaccine requirements may be in jeopardy as the Tennessee General Assembly was slated to meet this week to tackle these Covid issues.

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On a Zoom call with reporters following Four other individuals are mentioned the news of the indictment, Kelsey defiantly but uncharged in relation to the professed his innocence. “Look, this is circumstances of Kelsey’s action, one of nothing but a political witch hunt. The whom is Amanda Bunning, Kelsey’s Biden administration is trying to take me wife, who was director of government out because I’m a conservative and I’m the affairs for the American Conservative No. 1 target of the Tennessee Democratic Union, a participating organization in the Party. I won my seat [by] only 51 percent reorienting of campaign funds. to 49 percent last time, and the Democrats think this will make the difference. They’re • As was noted here last week, incumbent wrong. These 5-year-old, unfounded Sheriff Floyd Bonner saw a serious roadallegations have been block to his re-election reviewed and re-reviewed. removed when the They were wrong then, Republican Party of Shelby and they’re wrong now.

County disclosed that it I’m totally innocent, and would offer no opposition I look forward to being to the election of Bonner, cleared at trial.” who will run again, as in Among other things, 2018, as a Democrat. BonKelsey’s reminder that he ner will have at least one only won by a whisper the opponent, though: Keisha last time out is a unique Scott, a 25-year veteran PHOTO: JACKSON BAKER boast for a candidate. And of the Sheriff ’s DepartKelsey on Zoom call clearly, as his statement ment, who will run as an with reporters following indicates, the senator has independent, indicating indictment more things to worry that her concerns include about than his electoral the issue of jail reform. future. He is in immediate jeopardy of At the moment, Sheriff Bonner losing his chairmanship of the influential is appealing a federal consent decree Senate Education Committee; according to requiring the Sheriff ’s Department to the Senate’s code of ethics, he has 10 days reform its procedures so as to end what to ask for a hearing before an automatic federal Judge Sheryl Lipman calls the suspension of his chairmanship takes effect. “deep peril” afflicting inmates and visitors Kelsey was indicted, along with alleged to the jail facility, which has attained only a co-conspirator Joshua Smith, a Nashville 25 percent rate of vaccination for Covid-19. social club owner. The five counts of the Judge Lipman has termed the Sheriff ’s indictment charge that, beginning in Department’s response to the situation as February 2016 and continuing through woefully inadequate. mid-October 2016, Kelsey and Smith The consent order was the result conspired with others to violate federal of litigation on inmates’ behalf by the campaign finance laws to secretly and American Civil Liberties Union of unlawfully funnel “soft money” (funds not Tennessee. subject to the limitations, prohibitions, The executive committee of the Shelby and reporting requirements of the County Democratic Party has scheduled a Federal Election Campaign Act) from review of the jail matter for its forthcoming Kelsey’s Tennessee State Senate campaign November meeting.

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Henigan has as a Tiger signal-caller. Turns He was followed by Riley Ferguson, out it’s Henigan’s present that is pivotal. who played in all 26 games over his two seasons (2016-17) as a Tiger. Then Brady • When watching a football game, our White made 39 consecutive starts from eyes tend to follow the ball. From the snap 2018 through the 2020 campaign. All of into the quarterback’s hands, to a running which made last Friday’s contest at UCF back perhaps, or through the air toward a … disorienting. receiver. Defy this instinct when the Tiger With freshman Seth Henigan sidelined defense is on the field and follow Memby a right-shoulder injury (suffered in phis linebacker J.J. Russell (number 23) the Tigers’ win over Navy on October and/or safety Quindell Johnson (15). This 14th), sophomore Peter Parrish took the tandem of tacklers is having an extraordifield to lead the Memphis offense. How nary season. They each have instincts for disorienting was the Parrish start? Rewind ending a play that I’m not convinced can to August, during be taught. Russell leads the Tigers’ preseason the American Athletic camp, and you’d find Conference with 86 the LSU transfer fourth tackles (53 of them on the QB depth chart, solo), and Johnson is behind not only Henisecond with 73 (47 gan but also Arizona solo). They’ll be playtransfer Grant Gunnell ing in the NFL in the and redshirt freshman near future. Keep your Keilon Brown. Injuries eyes on them while and circumstance you can.

(Brown transferred) conspired, leading • Memphis is part to a 24-7 loss to the of an exclusive club, Knights that dropped one of only five FBS Memphis to 4-4 on the football programs to season. have won at least eight Parrish had his games every year since moments in Orlando.

2014. You’ve heard of PHOTO: LARRY KUZNIEWSKI He offered a threat the other four: AlaSeth Henigan running the ball that bama, Clemson, GeorHenigan can’t match. gia, and Oklahoma. To He led the Tigers with make it eight straight 60 rushing yards, despite yardage lost on seasons, the Tigers must win their final six sacks counting against his total. Parrish four regular-season games (against SMU, completed 31 of 48 passes but averaged East Carolina, Houston, and Tulane), or only 4.5 yards per attempt. Most damagwin three of them and then win a bowl ing to the Tiger attack, he was unable to game. It’s an unlikely scenario for a team find Calvin Austin down field, subtracting that’s lost four of its last five games but one of the country’s most dynamic “chunk should be prime motivation for a program play” artists from the Memphis arsenal. that feels snubbed by the Big 12’s recent (Austin caught seven passes but for only expansion. (The “Power 5” league is ab44 yards.) A pair of second-half deflected sorbing UCF, Cincinnati, and Houston … interceptions erased chances for the Tigers but not Memphis.) It will be interesting to to reduce their deficit on the scoreboard, count the attendance when SMU visits the or perhaps even steal a win. first week in November, almost precisely Henigan’s injury is classified as “daytwo years after the epic Tiger win with to-day,” and he has two full weeks to heal ESPN’s College GameDay crew in town. before the Tigers return to play (NovemWhat a difference two years can make.

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Crush One crushaholic’s confessions of being divorced, single, and overwhelmingly lucky in love.

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f I wrangled all the romantic encounters I’ve had in the past five weeks, I would seem ridiculous to you. The last five years? You’d think I was daft.

A crushaholic. A codependent. A masochist. A machine. How could anyone look romance in the face — in so many different faces — and not turn to salt when it sours?

What kind of person could wake up and march through the rituals of dating again: texting through the butterflies, dressing for dinner, singing the familiar date duets of sibling names, favorite bands, career milestones, pet peeves, major losses, and the embarrassing hope of one day making a life with someone you just met?

Before five years ago, I wouldn’t believe it. I was married. I’d entered my first real relationship at 18 years old, and it managed to last until 27. In that relationship, I grew up. I learned how to share bills. I learned how to plan meals and iron perfect creases into slacks. I learned how to take someone to the hospital in an emergency. I learned how to confess when my body was doing something decidedly gross. I learned how not to mention — out of the kindness of my heart — when my partner’s body was doing something decidedly gross. I learned how to reveal my fantasies to someone I had to look in the eye every day for presumably the rest of my life. I grew up in other ways: I began my careers in education and publishing. I learned how to drive. I discovered how much I sucked, and then I started therapy.

Eventually, mundane conflicts became irreconcilable. Then, like many: I had a loving marriage that failed.

Failure is a harsh word that someone landed on to describe a break-up. I had an amicable divorce. He’s still among the first people I call for career advice or after an accident. When you’re having coffee together at Waffle House after signing away your lifetime commitment, you’re family.

At a certain point, I had to wonder: Is a bond that brought you joy but didn’t end in partnered bliss a personal shortcoming? Is an ended relationship a failure?

Before it ended, I was afraid no one would ever love me again. I’d had a rough childhood that lacked closeness and affection. I spent a lot of time alone with my drawings or stolen library books, and I won over my teachers to cope. The partner who became my husband was the first person who made me feel understood. All of the

evidence suggested I was blowing my one shot at love — that prized grail of the television shows and movies and books that raised me.

I was dead wrong.

Just three weeks after moving to Memphis, someone I’d met on my first night out at the Lamplighter drunkenly yelled, “I’m in love with you!” outside of a bar at a Jack Oblivian show, and I was Midtown baptized. The rest is the history with which I come to you, dear reader.

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The years have been stormy weather. I’ve been ghosted. I’ve been broken-hearted.

I’ve been deceived. I’ve ridden the low hum of casual disappointment. I’ve talked to friends, I’ve talked to shrinks, and I’ve consulted the stars. I’ve been spun on dance floors. I’ve been driven to buy groceries in freak Memphis snowstorms. I’ve been inspired. I’ve been respected and deeply listened to. I’ve had my wildly imperfect body worshipped. I have been loved. And I’ve done a lot of loving; therefore, I’ve done a lot of losing.

As of a few months ago, I am once again freshly single, and I am once again, dating.

The last one wasn’t suited for the unique demands of being my life partner. The next may not be. I can’t help but feel like the struggle of love — finding and keeping it — isn’t a failure, but a fortune of mine that, like all else, won’t last forever. There will come a time when the phone stops ringing.

So now, I am open to love like a holy fool. The romantic relationship — not critical to leading a fulfilling life, but mysterious and beautiful — a reason to leap if ever there was one.

Join me.

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COVER STORY

BY MICHAEL DONAHUE

MISSISSIPPI RIVER SCHOOL

Memphis landscape painter Matthew Hasty’s “The Illusion of Permanence” is on view at L Ross Gallery.

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atthew Hasty did not get his art degree from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Sarasota, Florida. He got a bachelor’s in fine arts from the Ringling College of Art and Design, which, coincidentally, is also in Sarasota.

When he tells people where he went to art school, Hasty says, “People think it’s a clown school.”

And, he adds, “I probably would have done better as a clown. I think clowns make more money.”

Despite the geographical and Ringling connection, Hasty doesn’t include any 12 clowns in his painting repertoire. His works, which are reminiscent of 19th-

century Hudson River landscapes, are more likely to linger on vivid sunsets and images of the Mississippi River. But he has also worked on Elvis-themed paintings, including one of Graceland’s Jungle Room, as well as Sun Studio and scenes from his European travels.

Commenting on Hasty’s work, noted artist Dolph Smith says, “I don’t just view them with pleasure and profound admiration. I always wish I was there. I don’t stand in front of them. I enter them. I actually feel them.”

His work has graced the official RiverArtsFest posters and is included in collections at Germantown

ARTWORK: MATTHEW HASTY

(above) Sawmill Break captures the luminosity of the local nature; PHOTO: JAMIE HARMON

(left) Matthew Hasty

Performing Arts Center, International Paper Company, Methodist Shorb Tower at Methodist University Hospital, and others.

Hasty is exhibiting 19 of his paintings in his show, “The Illusion of Permanence,” which runs through November 20th at L Ross Gallery.

Finding a Palette Hasty was still searching for his voice, his own particular style, but most of his work took the form of realism. “I did a lot of figurative work. I loved the Flemish masters like Jan van Eyck,” he says. Rembrandt was one of Hasty’s favorite painters “of all time.” A portrait of a stranger can be something boring to

look at, but not when Rembrandt painted it, Hasty says. “The way he handled paint was so luscious. You can just get lost in somebody’s nose.”

Or, Hasty continues, enraptured, “just a shadow of someone’s lace collar. They’re just magnificent.”

During that time, Hasty experimented

with a subject that has occupied artists since the dawn of time. He painted “a lot of religious, kind of allegorical things, but still kind of angry.” He did a dark painting of Adam and Eve. Adam is eating an apple that’s “glowing, radioactive,” Hasty says. “Nobody wanted that. A relative of mine said, ‘Why don’t

ARTWORK: MATTHEW HASTY

PHOTO: DAVEY MANN

(above) Memphis Rising (study), the poster for the 2021 RiverArtsFest

(below) Hasty’s art at Shorb Tower at Methodist University Hospital

you paint things people want to look at?’ So, I reflected on that and I was like, ‘Maybe you’re right.’”

He landed a show at the old The Wall Street Gallery in Huntington, Long Island. His pieces, which included a whimsical, dreamlike painting of a man getting shot out of a cannon at a circus, “were a little less angry” than some of his other work.

Hasty sold a handful of paintings during that time. “The guy I worked for, the house painter, my boss, bought a few paintings.”

Moon Over Memphis In his late twenties, Hasty moved back to Memphis. He worked on some murals and did some gilding and column marbleizing for one of the Wonders: The Memphis International Culture Series exhibits. But, he admits, “I didn’t have any kind of real plan.”

Hasty was commissioned to do murals for people’s homes. He also did a lot of interior painting of crown moulding and gilding for designers William R. Eubanks and Warner Moore.

They helped him get his artwork placed in some of the homes they were working on, Hasty says.

He began showing his paintings with artist David Mah at Mah’s studio. “I would paint rice fields. And the river has been a long-term subject, and cotton fields. I still paint cotton fields.”

Sometimes he’ll say, “If I see one more cotton field … ” but before finishing that sentence, he adds, “It’s keeping the lights on. People love it.”

He did a lot of Mississippi River paintings for people who live on the bluffs. And he painted landscapes for hunters. “Hunters will say, ‘Come paint my hunting holes.’”

The hunting paintings were popular with women as well as men. “Women like it ’cause it looks pretty and guys like it because it looks like where they go continued on page 14

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Workshopping A native Memphian, Hasty chose Ringling over other schools, including Memphis College of Art, when he was 19. The choice was based on a simple equation. “There was a beach in Sarasota,” he says. “There was an art school.”

He originally studied graphic design at Ringling, but, he says,“I would have gone crazy trying to do graphic design.

It’s too disciplined, I think, at the heart of it. You’re basically trying to please a client all the time. Which is still kind of what you do, I guess.

“Looking back, I wanted more of an atelier education, how they would have taught you in France. It’s just a workshop. The word means ‘workshop.’

It’s more of a rigorous training where they teach you how to use the materials.”

According to Hasty, an atelier education is the opposite of being “thrown into a classroom” where a teacher will say, “Just go outside, make a landscape, come back, and we’ll do a critique.” The Memphis-based artist says that method is “not teaching anybody anything.”

Hasty moved to New York after he graduated. “I wanted to get into Leo Castelli’s gallery, but that was ambitious.

It was the most famous gallery, to me, at the time.”

Instead of getting his work in the gallery that represented artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, and other notables, Hasty became a house painter. “At least I didn’t have to get different clothes. I didn’t have to wear a tie.”

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MISSISSIPPI RIVER SCHOOL continued from page 13 hunting. So, I feel like I’m checking two people’s boxes.”

The moon is one of Hasty’s favorite subjects. “Like the blue moon we had the other night. The moon is so arresting to see when it’s full. It always inspires me to make another one. I’ve painted this moon quite a lot. I’ve painted the moon over Italy, France.”

He did a painting of Sun Studio at night “with the eclipsed moon above Sun Studio.”

“People are inundated with images all day with TV. Images are coming at you from every angle — your phone, your iPad. You can scroll and look at your phone all day.

I try to make things that calm you down or make you feel serene.”

Hasty, who has only done “a handful of portraits,” says, “Why would I try to get in that world when there are people doing those paintings far and away better than I could do?”

He’d like to do some work that incorporates physics. “To do a piece that’s connected to the quantum world of particles, but utilizing painting. Two dimensional or three dimensional pieces. I can do everything I know how to do.

Drawing, oil painting, or gilding, or sculpture, wood carving — incorporate all that into a body of work that has something to do with physics.”

The Illusion of Permanence Hasty’s show at L Ross Gallery includes his landscapes, sunsets, and river scenes. Explaining the show’s title, “The Illusion of Permanence,” Hasty says, “It’s a different way of saying change is the only thing that’s constant. Even these paintings that capture a sunset. At some point they’re just going to be dust in the wind.”

Also at the gallery are prints of Hasty’s RiverArtsFest posters for 2020, which never took place because of the pandemic, and the recent 2021 event.

Describing Memphis Rising, the 2021 poster, Hasty says, “I’ve never painted 14 the Hernando DeSoto Bridge. When the bridge got broken and nobody could

use it, you realized what an important structure that is for just this area. The country, almost. It sort of crippled this region to not have that bridge working.”

The Gloaming is the title of the 2020 poster. “A hazy sunset over the river.”

The 2020 painting is the “sun going down on 2020,” Hasty says. The 2021 poster, on the other hand, depicts its subject on the upswing, with “the moon rising over Memphis. We’re growing and this town is becoming more significant.”

L Ross Gallery owner Laurie Brown says, “In addition to the beauty and technical skill of Matthew’s paintings, such that one feels they could just walk

into the landscape, his work also deeply connects viewers with their past. It’s a privilege to hear the stories of fondly remembered grandparents, vacation travels … that visitors to the gallery share with me.”

Voyage of Life: Childhood Hasty began painting when he was in diapers, but his medium was a bit unconventional.

According to his father, Hasty painted on the wall near his crib. “I painted with my poop, basically,” Hasty says.

And, he says, “My dad tells the story, but I think he intends for it to embarrass me. But now I have embraced it as my first artistic outlet. To use that medium on the wall outside my crib.”

Hasty drew a lot as a child. “Oil paint, markers, and charcoal and watercolors, just the gambit of art supplies.”

He did figurative work growing up.

“I found a piece recently in a book my mom had. I must have been 10. I got into Queen and, apparently, drawing them on stage with guys playing guitar. People are a centimeter tall.”

But, he says, “It doesn’t show any real promise. There’s no indication I might be good at art. It’s very childlike. Like a 10-yearold did it.” Which, of course, is the case.

His mother was an artist, Hasty says.

“My mom had zillions of books and there was art all over the house.” He describes

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Hasty paints Downtown Memphis’ skyline. her paintings as “weird, surreal work. It wasn’t sellable.”

His mother, who was never able to be serious about her art, had to “get a real job,” so she worked as a cosmetic buyer for the old McRae’s department store.

They moved a lot because of her job, so Hasty lived in Fort Worth, Dallas, and other places.

His artwork in his twenties was similar to his mother’s. “Lots of death, angst-filled paintings that were almost like a heavy metal album cover. A friend of mine used to call it ‘zombie porn.’”

Sunset on a River The artist has come a long way from centimeter-tall rock stars and faux heavy metal album art; Hasty now sells his work all over the country. The late John Prine owned one of his paintings, Hasty says. “It’s a landscape. I think it’s a sunset on a river. Not a huge one.”

The wife of the late singer-songwriter bought the painting at a gallery in Nashville, says Hasty, who later met Prine. “I got to meet him backstage at the Ryman. He wanted to meet me, which is so far out. I could have died after that. I play his songs all the time.”

Prine was excited to meet him, Hasty says. “His wife said, ‘This is Matthew.’ He kind of perked up and lunged at me, shaking my hand. He’s one of my heroes. He said, ‘I wake up every day and see your painting.’ I was like, ‘Please write a song about it.’ I mean, just the fact that John Prine woke up every day and saw my painting filled me with just the biggest joy in life.”

When he’s not painting or meeting his heroes backstage at the Ryman, Hasty enjoys traveling to Europe. “I’ve been working on these little panels and painting places I’ve traveled recently: France, Spain, Italy, Cuba.

“I started bawling at The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault in the Louvre. I used to see it in the books. Just epic.”

He loves to paint works

by Rembrandt. He’s tried to paint Rembrandt’s selfportraits “half a dozen times just to see if I could do it.

Like a violinist tries to play a Paganini piece.”

Hasty now works out of his studio at Marshall Arts. “Somehow, I’ve been able to keep myself alive just by making paintings. I think I was just trying to make my mom proud of me. Which I think she was.”

His mother died three years ago. “She got breast cancer, but it came back in her spine. I still feel like she’s with me.

I talk to my mom so much. I feel like she’s my Obi-Wan Kenobi. I think she communicates with me still.

“I always felt terrible my mom didn’t follow her dream. Knowing that kind of pushed me as an artist. I think that was my mom’s intent.”

L Ross Gallery is at 5040 Sanderlin Avenue, No. 103; (901) 767-2200.

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A graveyard smash, caught on in a flash, ’tis the season of the Monster Mash. And, wa hoo, for us living beings, Central Station Hotel is ready to mash along with us.

This year, the historic hotel is hosting its first-ever monstrous dance party with live music and themed food and drinks. Costumes are encouraged, for later in the night, a costume contest will take place, and who doesn’t want to want to face one of man’s biggest fears — being judged by others — on this night of fright? Judges — whose identity Jeremy Sadler, general manager of the hotel, withholds for the sake of intrigue — are looking for creativity, originality, and overall spook factor. Winners may be privy to one of the night’s giveaways, including a hotel stay or food and beverage credit.

“Bar staff will also be decked out in their favorite costumes, with some staff in deadly attire serving our house-made poisons around the lounge,” Sadler says. Created

by Cooper Bradshaw, manager of the hotel’s Eight & Sand bar, the poison menu, aka the drink menu, includes the Graceland Ghost, Poisoned at the Play, Stax Slasher, and Murder on Main. “My favorite has to be Poisoned at the Play,” Sadler says of the concoction of absinthe, mint, lime, gin, and chartreuse.

Joining in on the fun are DJs Jake One and Supreme La Rock, both hailing from Seattle, the home of the Cullen vampires. “It is a rarity that Jake does solo DJ sets.

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VARIOUS DAYS & TIMES October 28th - November 3rd United Housing Inc.’s Fright at the Brewery Memphis Made Brewing Co., 786 S. Cooper, Thurs., Oct. 28, 5-8 p.m., $25 Add some boos to your brews at United Housing’s annual celebration.

Wear your best Halloween costume, enjoy food and brew, and learn about providing quality housing opportunities for families underserved by the traditional homeownership industry. One drink and one meal are included in the ticket price. Order tickets online at eventbrite.com. Tickets will be $30 at the door.

Book + Author: Gregg Hurwitz novelmemphis.com, Thurs., Oct. 28, 6 p.m., free Novel has partnered with Macmillan for this virtual book club, featuring a discussion on Hurwitz’s first book of six in his bestselling thriller series Orphan X, which centers around Evan Smoak, a recruit in the topsecret operation designed to create assassins. Following a discussion with fellow author Mark Greaney, book club members can participate in a live Q&A. Register online at Novel’s website.

Halloween Scavenger Hunt for Kids Fire Museum of Memphis, 118 Adams, Fri.-Sun., Oct. 29-31, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., free All children can get in for free with a ticket request on Eventbrite.

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Memphis Music on Main Street Main Street, Fri., Oct. 29, 5 p.m., free To close out October and the celebration of Memphis Music Month, local acts will perform on two outdoor stages throughout the evening.

Shockheaded Peter TheatreWorks, 2085 Monroe, Fri., Oct. 29, 8 p.m., $15 Opening this weekend, this musical is an adaptation of Der Struwwelpeter, an 1845 German children’s book of short stories by Heinrich Hoffman. In this darkly witty adaptation with songs, puppetry, and vignettes, a sinister yet incompetent MC leads the audience through the tale of a childless couple who has their fondest wish granted in the most delightfully dreadful way imaginable. Performances will be on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through November 14th.

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By Abigail Morici Wood Booger, Skunk Ape, Grassman, Wild Man, Sasquatch, Yeti — you’ve heard of the species in one way or another. “I just go with Bigfoot. It kinda gets it all done,” says Toby Sells, organizer of Memphis Bigfoot Festival. “I love the description of the thing — it’s like ‘walkie-talkie,’ tells you exactly what it is.”

In 2017, Sells, who is also the Flyer’s news editor, pulled off his first Bigfoot Festival in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Patterson-Gimlin film, perhaps the most well-known and the only non-debunked footage of Bigfoot. “I really only expected like eight or so Bigfoot nerds to show up,” Sells says. “But to my surprise, 300 to 400 people came.”

This year, though, the festival is limited to 200 people due to Covid concerns, but the agenda for the day will be just as fun with costume and howling contests, a roundup of Bigfoot news from the past two years, an in-person appearance by renowned cryptozoologist Lyle Blackburn, and a virtual appearance by Pamula Pierce Barcelou, who restored and re-released her father’s film, The Legend of Boggy Creek (the docudrama that made Sells fall in love with Bigfoot back in the third grade). But the best part, Sells says, is at the end of the day, when festival-goers can take over the mic and tell their own Bigfoot encounter stories.

“You know there’s a monster in the woods; it’s scary and fun,” Sells says. “And it’s like if we see a Bigfoot, do we kill it for science to take it seriously? So far, the answer’s been we leave it alone. We don’t have a body yet, but that’s what fuels the mystery, right?”

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Kayak Memphis Halloween Sunset Tour Mud Island Boat Ramp, Sat., Oct. 30, 5-7 p.m., $20-$75 Paddle down to the southern point of Mud Island for the best view of the sunset over the Mississippi River.

7th Annual Memphis Monster Mash Bradford-Maydwell House, 648 Poplar, Sat., Oct. 30, 9 p.m., $25 Stir up some ghosts at the mansion, which will be decked out from floor to ceiling in Halloween decor. Memphis’ hunkiest bartenders will serve drinks from the open bar as you take in the costume contest, drag show, and more. Benefiting the Mystic Krewe of Pegasus Memphis as they raise money for Hope House, whose mission is to improve the quality of life for HIV-affected individuals and their families. The event is 21+. Purchase tickets online or at the door.

Interfaith Covid-19 Memorial Service Church Health, 1350 Concourse, Tues., Nov. 2, 5 p.m.

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With her new LP, Alicja-pop is Howlin’ from a place of nature.

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f you find yourself in the waiting room of the Utopia Animal Hospital, cast your eye over the informal exhibit of nature-inspired artwork there.

The studies of wolves, foxes, and other creatures in near-tropical landscapes dotted with neon trees and flowers will draw you into their own universe. But what’s really striking is the art’s backstory: It’s all created by badass no-wave rocker Alicja Trout, perhaps best known as Jay Reatard’s collaborator in the Lost Sounds, later a key creator behind such propulsive bands as the River City Tanlines and the Sweet Knives.

Completists also know of Trout’s other works, which mine a different sonic territory, going back to the sweetly naiveyet-arch synth-pop of The Clears, and her solo singles on Loverly Music, under the name Alicja. That side of Trout, now known as Alicja-pop, was still going strong in 2016 with the release of Rats (Home Recordings 2009-2013), its sounds echoed by cover art depicting the artist up against a wall with a synth. Reflecting on the look and feel of that album, Trout says she was striving “to make a cover that fit the aesthetic of the music I was associated with.”

Which brings us to Howlin’, Alicjapop’s new LP on Black and Wyatt Records, which sports a cover more in-line with her fantastical animal studies from Utopia. The songs, too, have an earthier feel, even if the overall mix of guitar-driven and synthdriven music is consistent between both albums. (Indeed, the versions of “Shadow Hills” on both releases are nearly identical.)

And the album is already turning heads.

As Henry Rollins himself has said, “Howlin’ is not only a great collection of songs, but balances her considerable skills excellently.

It’s a very cool record.”

“Balance” is the key. Though Rats certainly featured guitar-heavy rockers, Howlin’ ventures further into the sonic possibilities of the guitar, from the classic rock strut of “Glass Planet, Blank Space Mind” to the wistful ostinatos of the title track. And there’s ecological balance as well: Both the album cover and the title song reflect Trout’s deepening embrace of the nonhuman world, or what Trout calls “natural inspiration.”

“It could just be progressing through life, getting older. I used to love city life, but the noise started driving me nuts,” she says.

In contrast, she found respite in nature.

“There’s an escape when you cultivate your

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Alicja Trout wild garden. And I’ll obsess on different animals.” One need only look at her paintings of dogs, wolves, and foxes to see it. “They’ve always interested me as being the top of the food chain before humans came and controlled all that. They’re the main balancer in the ecosystem, the wisest hunters. They have a complex group and pack. And they also get along with humans.

Even going as far as human children being raised by wolves. People don’t give canines credit for their abilities and sensitivity. So I think some of that little world was getting incorporated into the art.”

By “art,” Trout means both her visual and musical ventures. Taking it a step further, she considers the creative act itself to be an expression of nature. “Just making music, what’s guiding you?” she asks. “It’s nature that’s guiding you. How do you pick what chord goes next? And why do those three or four or five chords all sound good together?

It’s just something having to do with nature, the same way you throw a bunch of zinnia seeds in the ground and they all grow together, all a little different, yet similar. And

everyone agrees that they’re pleasing: The bees and different creatures come to them, and this different system is going on. I think it’s related.”

That natural reverie may be why, when asked if these songs emerged from the isolation of quarantine, Trout can’t quite say. “I just try to go into this space of alone time where it’s almost like meditation, except you’re doing something the whole time. And I really can’t place where I was in time at the time because the memory in my head is just this space of recording.

It has nothing to do with what’s going on around me. So the memories from 2015 and 2018 and 2021 would all look the same in my head.”

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

Oct. 28 - Nov. 3

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

“47 Rockets”

Work by Raina Belleau and Caleb Churchill. Through Nov. 19.

2021 PROJECTS

“A Walk in the Park”

Work created by Larry Hughes in art residencies at several national parks and monuments.

Monday, Nov. 1-Nov. 30.

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“Better Than a Stick in the Eye”

Exhibition of sculptures by Greely Myatt. Carved and assembled wood, viewed as “short stories.” Through Nov. 20.

DAVID LUSK GALLERY

“Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights” This exhibition is the first of three that examine the AfricanAmerican experience in the visual arts through the last 70 years of the 20th century.

Through Jan. 2.

October 28-November 3, 2021

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Claudia Keep

Exhibition of paintings.

Through Nov. 6.

TOPS GALLERY

“Fearsome Flora and Graveyard Flowers”

Pieces by Jimmy Crosthwait, complementing The Little Shop of Horrors. Through Dec. 29.

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE

“Kaleidoscope”

Exhibition of work by members of The Artists Group of Memphis. Online viewing only.

Through Oct. 31.

WKNO.ORG

Master Metalsmith: Kim Cridler | Held

An annual exhibition celebrating the most influential contemporary metal artists. Ongoing.

METAL MUSEUM

“Mourning Memphis”

Hear the tales of the first families while viewing a beautiful Victorian mourning collection.

Through Oct. 31.

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.

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Larry Hughes’ Autumn Cypress, Chickasaw Garden is on view as a part of WKNO’s virtual gallery.

“On Christopher Street” Exhibition of portraits of transgender residents by Mark Seliger. Through Jan. 9.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART

“Painted Odyssey”

Exhibition of paintings by NJ Woods. Through Oct. 31.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

“Realism”

Exhibition of work by Memphis artist Catherine Vaughn.

Through Oct. 29.

THE GRANGE AT WILSON GARDENS

“Sacred Faces: Masks of West Africa”

Experience the spirit of Africa.

Through Nov. 30. JAY ETKIN GALLERY

“The Photographer’s Shadow”

Exhibit centers the role of the caretaker and explores the implications of deep devotion.

Saturday, Oct. 30-Dec. 11.

CLOUGH-HANSON GALLERY

“The Yellowing”

Exhibition of installation, painting, film, and sculpture works

by Emily C. Thomas. Through Oct. 31.

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“Wanderings - Boger, Free, and Stern”

How did three artists navigate a pandemic year? By wandering.

Monday, Nov. 1-Nov. 30.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

“Yin & Yang: Duality of Structure and Expression”

Exhibition of watercolors by Mary Anne McCraw and Howard Carman. Through Oct. 30.

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Seeking new painters to submit their work to a juried painting competition. Through Oct. 31.

Closing Reception for “Realism”

Exhibition of work by Memphis artist Catherine Vaughn. Friday, Oct. 29, 6-8 p.m.

THE GRANGE AT WILSON GARDENS

Open House: “Better Than a Stick in the Eye”

Exhibition of sculptures by Greely Myatt. Saturday, Oct. 30, noon-3 p.m.

DAVID LUSK GALLERY

Memphis Botanic Garden will once again host its seasonal pop-up shop. Monday, Nov. 1-Dec. 30.

FA M I LY

Chick-fil-A Southaven Superhero Fall Festival

Bring the family and join Chick-fil-A Southaven and Superhero friends for a night of interactive fun and great food. $10. Thursday, Oct. 28, 5-8 p.m.

BROWN MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

Flower Tots

Story time for pre-K and kindergarten-aged children (with an adult) followed by a motion activity or show and tell. Thursday, Oct. 28, 10-11 a.m.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

Halloweekend at the Disney Archives Exhibit

Tour the “Inside the Walt Disney Archives” exhibit during this Halloweekend celebration. Saturday, Oct. 30-Oct. 31.

KangaZoo Outback Experience

Meet one of Australia’s largest marsupials, the red kangaroo. Free. Through Oct. 31.

MEMPHIS ZOO

Wacky Hollow

Features a life-sized board game for the whole family. Through Nov. 28.

THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS

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Halloween Scavenger Haunt for Kids

A special scavenger haunt for all little trick-ortreaters. Free. Saturday, Oct. 30, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

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B O O K EVE N TS

Book + Author: Gregg Hurwitz

A virtual discussion with the author of the bestselling Orphan X series. Thursday, Oct. 28, 6 p.m.

NOVEL

Memphis Reads

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

Through Oct. 31.

C O M E DY

Open Mic Comedy

Hosted by John Miller. Free. Tuesday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m.

HI TONE

C O M M U N I TY

Community Garden Day in Orange Mound

A great community service opportunity. Sunday, Oct. 31, 9-11 a.m.

ORANGE MOUND COMMUNITY GARDEN

Interfaith Covid-19 Memorial Service

A time of reflection and remembrance to honor those we have lost to COVID-19 across Shelby County. Tuesday, Nov. 2, 5 p.m.

CHURCH HEALTH

South Memphis Senior Walking Club

Earn a free Fitbit after one month of walking.

Tuesday, Nov. 2, 8-9 a.m.

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Bigfoot Festival

All things Bigfoot. Saturday, Oct. 30, 4-8 p.m.

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Individual chefs or cooks vie for the prize. Free, $20/sample. Saturday, Oct. 30, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

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Movies in the Park: Coco

Grab your blankets and enjoy the movie. Saturday, Oct. 30, 4 p.m.

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Raising funds for St Jude Children’s Hospital. Slow and fast riders are welcome. Sunday, Oct. 31, 2 p.m.

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MHBC CLUBHOUSE

Ales for Alzheimer’s at The Arcade

Kayak Memphis Halloween Sunset Tour

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Thistle & Bee Annual Luncheon

Mid-South Maze

Benefiting the Alzheimer’s Association. Friday, Oct. 29, 6-9:30 p.m.

Featuring Meredith May, author of The Honey Bus. Thursday, Oct. 28.

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Zootoberfest

Guests can purchase a commemorative stein to sip beer from while they enjoy a fall afternoon at Memphis Zoo. $12. Saturday, Oct. 30-Oct. 31, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

MEMPHIS ZOO

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Health and Wellness Series Join health and wellness classes including yoga, reiki, and more.

For schedule visit levittshell.org.

Through Dec. 12.

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Fright Lights Halloween Laser Shows

The laser light show has a second showing at 9:30 p.m. Ages 5 and up. $10. Friday, Oct. 29, 8 p.m.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY

Fright-tober

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8 • 8 PM

Featuring spooky, kid-friendly matinees at 2 p.m. and spookier adult-themed horror films in the evenings at 7 p.m. Tickets are free, but capacity is limited. Registration is required. Saturday, Oct. 30.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE

Halloween Hike

A not-so-spooky walk through the garden. $5, $10. Saturday, Oct. 30, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Hightailers Halloween Ride

Costumes encouraged, candy provided. Saturday, Oct. 30, 5-7 p.m.

Memphis Botanic Garden’s Gifts of Green pop-up will feature an assortment of plants and pots, perfect for gifts.

Zoo Boo

Candy stations, magic shows and straw mazes make up just a portion of what is offered. $13, $15. Friday, Oct. 29-Oct. 31, 6-9:30 p.m.

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901 FC vs. Indy Eleven Saturday, Oct. 30, 6 p.m.

AUTOZONE PARK

Lane College Dragons at Memphis Tigers Mens Basketball Sunday, Oct. 31, 1 p.m.

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Memphis Grizzlies vs. Miami Heat

Features corn cannon, haunted maze, and hayrides. Through Oct. 31.

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Rocktober Bouldering Competition

Bouldering only. Divided into men’s and women’s categories. Costumes are encouraged. $25. Saturday, Oct. 30, 5-9 p.m.

HIGH POINT CLIMBING AND FITNESS MEMPHIS

Shelby Forest Trail of Terror Prepare yourself as dark forces are unleashed to make your worst nightmares come true. $15. Friday, Oct. 29-Oct. 30, 7-11:30 p.m.

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Spooky Science Spectular

Trick or treat for children with disabilities. The event is free for those with disabilities. Thursday, Oct. 28, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.

Surprising, challenging, illuminating, or inspiring talks on varied topics. $570. Saturday, Oct. 30.

Featuring food, drinks, music, dancing, and reverie. $100. Saturday, Oct. 30, 6:30-11 p.m.

JAMES LEE HOUSE

Toxic Masculinity Halloween Party Wear your most butch leather, creepiest sportswear, craziest cargo shorts, or whatever wild zombie punk looks you can find. Saturday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.

THE PUMPING STATION

Trick or Treat at CMOM

Put on your costumes and head to CMOM for a day filled with Halloween treats. Friday, Oct. 29-Oct. 30, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

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In This Moment

Ballet Memphis returns with a captivating mixed-rep bill. $35.

Friday, Oct. 29-Oct. 30, 7:30-9 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 31, 2-3:30 p.m.

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Pagliacci

Riveting dramatic storytelling, lush orchestration, and scintillating vocal writing. $50. Friday, Oct. 29Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m.

Shockheaded Peter

Adaptation of an 1845 German children’s book about the disastrous consequences of misbehavior. $25.

Friday, Oct. 29-Oct. 30, 8 p.m.

THEATREWORKS

Urinetown, The Musical

Set in the future when the country has had a 20-year drought that has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. Through Nov. 7.

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The James Lee Hallow Masquerade

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m.

S P EC IA L EVE NTS

Adult Disney Trivia Night

Test your Disney knowledge. Free.

Thursday, Oct. 28, 7-9 p.m.

GRACELAND

Collierville Cruise Night

Check out some of the best rides the Mid-South has to offer with Memphis Street Rods. Wednesday, Nov. 3, 5-8 p.m.

COLLIERVILLE TOWN SQUARE

Drunk Spelling Bee

A night of drunken foolishness and a spelling bee. Winner receives $100 cash prize. $10. Friday, Oct. 29, 8 p.m.

THE COMEDY JUNT

After-Hours Tour of Elmwood Cemetery

Take a walk through the cemetery after the gates are closed. Friday, Oct. 29-Oct. 31, 4:30-6 p.m.

ELMWOOD CEMETERY

Lichterman Nature Center Talk & Walk Series

Learn about and meet some insects and arachnids then go on an insect hunt. $10. Saturday, Oct. 30, 9 a.m.

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House Ain’t a Home In Kate Cayley’s short story collection, forgiveness and salvation are searched for and found in unexpected places.

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t a time when once-in-a-lifetime climate catastrophes are more and more commonplace, where each election is framed as a battle for the nation’s soul, it’s understandable that salvation is an idea with no little allure. So it’s no surprise that Kate Cayley’s Householders (Biblioasis), which the acknowledgments point out the author edited in March 2020, is a short story collection much preoccupied with salvation.

In Cayley’s collection of haunting short stories, mothers attempt to save daughters from the evils of contemporary living, and then from scarcity and hunger; daughters attempt to save mothers from lonely deaths in antiseptic nursing homes; and there is even a woman who disguises herself as a nun.

The stories in Householders form an interconnected narrative. Some tell parts of a larger story through a lens that spans decades and different perspectives, while others are connected only tangentially.

The first story in the collection, “The Crooked Man,” is one of the latter. It tells of a gentrifying neighborhood and stands as a warning against assumptions. With a struggling family working to make ends meet and to make a place for themselves, there’s a whiff of Sarah Langan’s fabulous Good Neighbors in some of the plot turns and settings, but Cayley makes the story all her own.

Her characters are often portrayed at extremes — living on a religious commune, engrossed in the self-contained world of academia, surviving on welfare and at the edge of town in a trailer slowly being reclaimed by the hills. Sometimes they live two lives, like the protagonist of “Pilgrims,” one of the most immediately compelling stories in the collection, in which the unnamed protagonist poses as a nun for an online blog. Her life can be divided into sections, a clearly demarcated before and after, and then there is the saintly life of Sister Bernadette, distinct from the protago-

nist’s actual identity.

“She wanted to be offered a pure sympathy,” Cayley writes in “Pilgrims.”

“Now she wanted people, but no one she actually knew, because they knew her as herself—shy, not always truthful, envious of whatever she was not, stupid about men.”

If salvation and forgiveness are motifs of Householders, so, too, are past lives and former identities. Often, Cayley’s characters, flawed but sympathetic, feel they must jettison versions of themselves to be saved, whether spiritually or in a more tangible, mundane way. Several of the stories follow Naomi (formerly known as Nancy) and her daughter Trout. The two are inhabitants and, later, refugees from the religious commune known as the Other Kingdom. Both worlds offer something the other lacks.

Naomi doesn’t miss the mindless consumption of contemporary society while living in the Other Kingdom, but she worries that they may never do better than subsist there.

Back in the city, she misses the closeness of the commune, the feeling of family, but she can at least eat a full meal.

Eventually, the Covid pandemic makes its way onto the pages of Householders, often mentioned in passing, almost on the margins. At the Other Kingdom, Saul believes the pandemic is a sign of the end times, but Trout thinks that little in life is so obviously divided into phases — the beginning, the end. “Outside, away from their rarefied stale air, she’d come to feel that everything was not so decisive. That everything that pulled one way also pulled in another.”

In Householders, people leave often, but some people stay. Forgiveness is much sought after but rarely given freely, so Cayley writes with a passion that seems to extend that longed-for forgiveness to her characters when they cannot bring themselves to do it for themselves. People are pulled one way, but also in another, and, as in life, find themselves somewhere between extremes.

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FOOD By Michael Donahue

All in the Family Will Hickman is back at Erling Jensen’s.

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hanks to ravioli, Will Hickman Erling’s. “He is one of my mentors. I is the new chef de cuisine at seriously respect him because he pushes Erling Jensen: The Restaurant. you so hard.”

“My first real experience Jensen, who forced him to grow as a with cooking was raviolis,” says cook, is “above and beyond a mentor.”

Hickman.

He taught him: “It’s always better to be He added all the right ingredients — prepared and be ready before somebody garlic, thyme, and other spices — to make asks for something. The customer, the the sauce. But he just threw everything person who’s working next to you, your into the pasta water instead of tomato boss, the dishwasher … As long as you are sauce. “It just stunk up the house,” he says. mentally prepared or physically prepared, But Hickman, who was 7 at the time, for that matter, you can give them continued to cook. something better than they’re expecting.”

Since working with Jensen, he says, Hickman left Erling’s, where he had “I’m more versed in French, but Italian risen to chef de cuisine, and moved to and Cajun Creole are close to my roots.”

Boston, where he worked at Bar Boulud, Growing up, Hickman “loved drawing owned by noted chef Daniel Boulud. and creating things. That’s Hickman said, “I will work sort of what drove me to for you for free. Just teach the restaurant business. I me stuff and we’ll go from really enjoy the passion, there.” the heat, the pressure, but He learned one of at the same time creating Boulud’s recipes for something beautiful.”

Edible Fireworks. “You Working as manager take calcium carbonate and kitchen prep at and dump the different Pickwick’s The Historic solutions into it table-side, Botel, which was owned and it flavors whatever by his dad, the late you’re doing. And it shoots Darrell Hickman, was his out sparks.” first job at 14.

After returning to PHOTO: MICHAEL DONAHUE Newby’s, his next Memphis, he was cooking Will Hickman restaurant job, “wasn’t as at a country club when much of a culinary challenge as it was Jensen called him and said, “Are you a physical challenge. It was you making still on the market?” Hickman said, a few orders here and there, and you’re “Absolutely. You need me and I’m coming.” performing barback and bartender duties.

Jensen “takes care of his family, but also On the unfortunate occasion, you’re the the people who work with him. That’s why bouncer as well.” it becomes a family. Because we see the On his off time, he cooked for his people we work with more than we see friends. “I was teaching myself to cook at our actual families. It’s unfortunate, but the time. I hadn’t gone to culinary school that’s the restaurant business.” yet. I was doing it to better myself. I was Hickman already has ideas as chef de actually passionate about it because it cuisine. “I’m looking at expanding the made me happy.” seafood menu. Right now, we have only He studied at the old L’Ecole Culinaire. two things we’re offering.”

“It was useful because I got to network He also feels there is a “lack of with people like Rick Farmer and Ben authentic French. … Meaning, there’s no Smith. And I got to learn from them.” sweetbreads. And the foie gras should be Hickman worked at Flight Restaurant different. Now that we’ve turned into fall, and Wine Bar, where he moved from garde bourguignon. That’s a really great dish.” manger to fish and grill. He later landed And, later, they might even do Edible a job as garde manger at Erling Jensen’s, Fireworks, he says. but, he says, “I thought I was totally out of Hickman is happy to be back working my league and I was shittin’ kittens. I was with Jensen. “I’m ecstatic. It actually feels nervous. I didn’t think that I could do it.” normal again.”

Erling Jensen: The Restaurant is at 1044 He worked with Justin Young, owner S. Yates Road; (901) 763-3700. of Raven & Lily, when Young was at

FILM By Chris McCoy

Behind Blue Eyes Director Denis Villeneuve conquers the space epic Dune. why it has long been considered unfilmable. Long passages take place entirely within the minds of the characters. The galaxy lacks advanced computers or cute robots because of an ancient jihad. There’s a thousandyear eugenic breeding program by the Bene Gesserit, a cabal of space witches, to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, a psychic super-being who will access the genetic memories of the entire human race and impose “benevolent” rule on the galaxy. That’s a lot to explain to a 10-year-old squirming in a theater seat.

Not that filmmakers haven’t tried. Watch the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune for the story of the first failed attempt.

In 1984, David Lynch got a crack at it and failed spectacularly — the best way to fail. In 2000, the SyFy Network produced a successful Dune screen adaptation by spreading out the sprawling story into a miniseries. Now, it’s Denis Villeneuve’s turn in the barrel.

Going in, Villeneuve looked like the best person for the job. Arrival is one of the best science-fiction films of the 21st century, and Blade Runner 2049 is a minor classic. To do Dune right requires a big bet and patient hands. At $165 million, this pandemic-delayed epic is much cheaper than the average Pirates of the Caribbean installment.

Unlike Disney’s Depp-driven wank-fests, every cent is on the screen. This Dune is one of the most beautiful sci-fi films ever

(above) A sandworm prepares to attack; (below) Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) face their fates. made. Villeneuve looks to Lawrence of Arabia for inspiration (David Lean turned down Dune in 1971) and riffs on other cinematic fence-swings like Apocalypse Now and Eisenstein’s “Odessa Steps.” The production design, from mountain-sized spaceships to the dragonfly-like ornithopters, is immaculate. None of the actors are just collecting paychecks. Timothée Chalamet plays Paul Atreides, the deeply conflicted revolutionary leader, as the callow youth of Herbert’s novel. He’s mostly along for the ride as galactic events unfold around him, until he embraces the bloody destiny he fears. Rebecca Ferguson gets the juiciest role as Lady Jessica, the concubine who forces the hand of the Bene Gesserit out of love for Duke Leto (a pitch-perfect Oscar Isaacson). Josh Brolin and Jason Momoa play Paul’s military mentors, while Javier Bardem comes in late as Stilgar, the Fremen leader who will join Muad’Dib’s jihad.

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cience fiction claims to be about tomorrow, but it’s usually about today. Predicting the future requires seeing the present clearly; if the artist gets it right, their vision will last. That’s the secret of the success of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune. It’s set about 8,000 years in the future, but underneath all the sandworms and psychic messiahs, the human dynamics still feel spot on. Competing interest groups recognize a choke point in society and battle to control it. The decidedly Arabic intonations of the Fremen, the indigenous population of the desert planet of Arrakis, are not an accident. Eight years after Dune’s publication, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries instituted an oil embargo that severely disrupted the economies of the West, destabilized the colonial world order the great powers had been building for 400 years, and set the stage for decades of conflict.

In Dune, the equivalent of oil is spice, a psychedelic drug that enhances psychic abilities (it was the ’60s, after all), allowing specially trained addicts to navigate faster-than-light spaceships and enabling the development of a sprawling interstellar empire. Spice can be found on only one planet in the Imperium, so Arrakis (aka Dune) becomes the focus of great power politics, war, betrayal, and rebellion.

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Dune is an epic 156 minutes long, but only covers about the first half of the first book. That’s a lot of table-setting, but the story’s complexity needs room to breathe — especially since Villeneuve tells it without the dozen layers of voice-over Lynch required. It’s engrossing enough to sustain attention, except for one thing: Hans Zimmer’s score is awful. I like ambient music, but Zimmer’s whoopee cushion subwoofer

schtick gets old quick.

Music aside, the spectacle is unparalleled, and Herbert’s story still resonates.

Two of Villeneuve’s images swirl in my mind: Duke Leto striding down a spaceship ramp to the tune of space bagpipes, confidently leading his family — and the empire — to ruin in the desert; and Paul’s recurring vision of his future, where piles of burning bodies stretch to the horizon.

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This October, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I encourage you to take a moment to think about how breast cancer has affected your life. If you haven’t been directly affected by the disease, it’s likely that a friend, family member, neighbor, or coworker has.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the United States and one of the most fatal. According to Susan G. Komen, one in eight women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. The disease doesn’t just affect women, though — in 2021, it’s estimated that there will be more than 2,600 new cases of invasive breast cancer in men in the U.S. Breast Cancer Awareness Month was established in October 1985 to encourage women to get regular mammograms. It now also aims to teach the importance of breast cancer research, as well as how to support survivors and those going through treatment and honor those who lost their lives to the disease.

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There are several ways to reduce your risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer. One key factor is to maintain a healthy lifestyle, which includes being physically active, maintaining a healthy weight, limiting alcohol, and eating fruits and vegetables.

There are several ways to get involved and support breast cancer awareness year-round. Encourage the women (and men) in your life to know the warning signs and seek medical attention when changes are noticed. Donate to organizations that are funding scientific research and helping patients navigate one of the toughest journeys of their lives. Or, if you know someone who is battling breast cancer, reach out to tell them you are on their team and offer to help them in any way you can.

Consider getting involved in a community event during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to show your support and help raise money for the fight against breast cancer. For example, the Susan G. Komen More Than Pink Walk takes place October 30th and is a “walk where you are” event this year. We’re lucky to have generous support from our community and local sponsors to help us raise awareness and fundraise for the cause.

Since its founding, Komen has funded nearly $1.1 billion in research and more than $2.2 billion in education, screening, and treatment, serving millions and advancing efforts to end breast cancer. In 2021, Komen awarded 30 grants totaling $14 million to researchers — including three at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville.

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Tim Newman is the Susan G. Komen state executive director for Tennessee.

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