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OUR 1501ST ISSUE 11.30.17 I have a friend (it’s Bianca Phillips) who notoriously holds on to outdated food.

One time, she told me that something was still good because the package wasn’t puffy yet. I just about fell over because I had heard this exact reasoning on an episode of Hoarders.

I get it. At any given time, my freezer is filled with leftover soups and disappointing bean patties. Last May, after the storm, I felt something like relief to dump all that food (except for that bag of IKEA meatballs). The decision had been made for me.

I had read years ago that hoarding is putting sentimental value on things that have no sentimental value. I believe it. A few years back when I moved, I got rid of about four boxes of sentiment. I had kept every letter I had ever received like someone someday was going to do my bio. I had all those school photos of folks whose names I’ve long since forgotten. I put it all in the trash can — the rolling city-issued kind. It filled the whole thing. I haven’t really thought of it since.

I have become something of the family’s Goodwill. Nine large boxes of various stuff from my mother’s move, more boxes of family photos from a brother. I have all of my late father’s diplomas in frames. What should I do with my late father’s diplomas in frames? Someone told me to take the diplomas out of the frames and put them all in an envelop. But then I would still have the diplomas. And the frames.

I’ve been recently looking at condos, ready to downsize again. One was in a great old building downtown. It had exposed brick and large windows with great light. It screamed character. I was even charmed by the view into a dank alley and the weird stain on the tub. But it had no storage. Where would I put the 80 years of family albums and three sets of dishes?

The other side of the hoarding coin is the idea that this will come in handy some day. Old towels. Stacks of magazines (New Yorkers, natch) to be read. All the ratty t-shirts I will paint in (I will never paint). The large, nice panini press I’ve used exactly twice — once with the person who gave it to me. The plastic bags and odd containers that multiply by the day. The baskets to put more stuff in.

I’ve been thinking about all the stuff we (I) accumulate. The company is moving from its longtime headquarters in about a month. I’ve gone through my drawers once, tossing business cards and dozens of those paper salt and pepper packages. I saved a tiny cartoon of a baby putting a fork in an outlet, a weird one-eyed chicken thing, a bag from the Peanut Shoppe with a cute peanut on it reading “Happiness is a Peanut” (so true), a little bag of blue rock candy made to look like the meth N E WS & O P I N I O N from Breaking Bad, a knife Bruce gave THE FLY-BY - 5 me to stab people.

NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 4 When I began here in the ’90s, the EDITORIAL - 8 bluff across the street was covered in VIEWPOINT - 9 trees where now mansions stand. There COVER - “THE WATER CITY” was some crime. We ate at Spaghetti

BY TOBY SALES - 10 Warehouse all the time. We had a party WE RECOMMEND - 16 in the parking lot when the trolley began MUSIC - 18 its Riverside loop. We’ve had plenty of AFTER DARK - 20 dock parties since. There’s been some ART - 29 FOOD - 30 arguments within these walls. But there’s SPIRITS - 33 been way more good work and lots of FILM - 34 laughter — those are the things worth C LAS S I F I E D S - 36 hoarding.

LAST WORD - 39 Susan Ellis ellis@memphisflyer.com Bruce VanWyngarden is on vacation this week. His column returns when he does.

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S PAC E B US According to The Daily Star, a daily tabloid newspaper published in the U.K., a recent “raft of UFO sightings included a “flying bus” over Mississippi.

The Mississippi couple who saw the skybus dismissed the sighting, believing the craft to be “some secret military aircraft probably headed to Memphis.”

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Statues, Booze, and Flyer 1,500 Statue work continues, open container floated on Main, and we hit a milestone.

WE I R D WR ESTLI N G Last week, thesportster.com, which self-identifies as “the world’s most entertaining sports website,” published a list titled “15 Wrestling Urban Legends You’ve Probably Never Heard Before.”

The wrestling clickbait repeated an oft-told tale about a disgruntled tag team that “to take a measure of revenge on [Jerry ‘the King’] Lawler,” used the Memphis wrestler’s signature crown for a toilet. It’s not a new story, of course, but if you haven’t read it, it’s still ew.

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B O OZ I N G O N MAI N? Open plastic containers of alcohol could soon be allowed on Main Street after a Memphis City Council committee began discussion on the topic last week.

The proposal would allow people to drink alcohol on Main from E.H. Crump to A.W. Willis. This, according to council member Martavius Jones, would spark further economic growth in that area, bringing in “a lot more vibrant businesses” on the street.

The council could take a first vote on the matter next week.

Before then, Jones was slated to meet with city adminstration officials, the Downtown Memphis Commission, Main Street restaurant owners, and other area stakeholders.

F LYE R AT 1,500 Last week, The Memphis Flyer turned 1,500.

That is, the Flyer on the stands last week was our

1,500th issue.

We celebrated by looking back on 15 of our favorite covers. They included our now-famous “WTF?” cover after the election of Donald Trump last year. We also loved covers covering basketball, weed, historic demonstrations, transgender issues, Elvis, and, of course, “The Adventures of Shirtless Man.” H O M E LES S WO R KS Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland expanded a program last week that employs homeless Memphians.

When it launched last year, the Work Local program ran just two days a week and paid participants $9 an hour. Now, it will run five days a week, paying workers $10 per hour, thanks to $175,000 of additional funding from the city’s Division of Public Works.

“This is city government at its best,” Strickland said about the move.

M LGW P R O POS ES I N C R EAS E Memphis, Light, Gas & Water (MLGW) rates may rise soon.

Water rates would go up 18 cents per meter per month to yield about $1 million annually to fund research into the Memphis Sand Aquifer. Electric rates and gas rates haven’t increased since 2004 and 2008, respectively, said MLGW CEO Jerry Collins, noting that the average utility bill for Memphis residents is about $34 less than it was 10 years ago.

But he said that stagnant rates have created a weakening financial position. The city council will have the final say on any increases.

For fuller versions of these stories and even more local news, visit The News Blog at memphisflyer.com

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LI STE D Memphis cracked the top-10 on Fodor’s 2018 “Go List,” a collection of “must see” tourist destinations.

Memphis was ranked at a respectable #6, just below Kuwait, and just above Armenia. So, yay?

STATU E VOTE D E LAYE D The city council delayed a vote that would require city administration officials to adopt a plan to immediately remove the Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis statues.

The Tennessee Attorney General has asked city officials to meet with the Sons of Confederate Veterans and descendants of Forrest to discuss possible future locations for the statue and graves of both Forrest and his wife. This meeting is set to happen no later than by the council’s next meeting on Tuesday.

Attorneys for the city are also trying to challenge the October vote of the Tennessee Historical Commission that denied the city’s waiver to remove the Forrest statue. Also, attorneys filed a motion with the Shelby County Chancery Court to declare the statue a public nuisance.

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N EWS TO US Many thanks to WREG for giving an old obscene gesture a new, decidedly modern context. Last week, Channel 3’s report about 40 pounds of marijuana found in a home in Southeast Memphis included this account: “No one answered the door when WREG knocked. But later, a silver F-150 pulled up, dropped a child off, and sped away. They made it clear WREG was not welcome by flashing a middle finger out the window.” Merp.

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November 30-December 6, 2017

Tennessee contributes to massive toxic plume in Gulf of Mexico.

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Follow that big, muddy Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, and you’ll find a dead zone the size of New Jersey.

Nutrients found in everything humans dump in the river — sewage, agricultural runoff, industrial waste, and more — stimulate the growth of algae, which sucks up much of the oxygen out of the water, killing fish and marine life in “one of the nation’s largest and most productive fisheries,” according to the United State Geological Survey (USGS).

That dead zone this year was 8,776 square miles, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The toxic plume stretches from the tip of Louisiana’s boot to the Texas coast, and in it, you can find Tennessee.

The state ranks seventh nationally in the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus, the nutrients that mainly contribute to the dead zone, it puts into the Mississippi River, according to figures from the USGS. The state is responsible for 5.5 percent of nitrogen in the river each year and 5.3 percent of the river’s phosphorus. Illinois leads this list, contributing a total of about 29 percent of those dead zone nutrients.

Most of the nutrients come from farms, especially from corn and soybean production, according to the USGS. Farmers spray fertilizers and other chemicals on their crops, and rain waters carry them into streams, which eventually drain into the Mississippi.

Nitrogen levels in the river were near the highest levels since scientists began measuring it in the river in 1997. Couple that with heavy rains in the Midwest earlier this year, and you get the record-breaking dead zone, according to NOAA. Efforts are ongoing to reduce the pollution and shrink the dead zone. A federal task force formed an action plan in 2008 and has reported its work to

Congress every year since then. Also, back in 1997, the federal government asked farmers in the Mississippi watershed to voluntarily reduce their pollution levels.

“The latest Mississippi River water quality measurements demonstrate that spending $46 billion since 1997 to encourage farmers to reduce farm pollution voluntarily simply has not worked,” according to Emily Cassidy, writing for the nonprofit Environmental Working Group.

The river is a funnel that drains about 1.2 million miles of all or parts of 31 states and two Canadian provinces.

Renée Hoyos, executive director of the Tennessee Clean Water Network, said the river drains about one-third of the nation, and the nation uses it as a “sewer.”

“By the time it gets to Memphis, it’s in pretty bad shape because it’s at the bottom of different sources of pollution that’s come to us from as far away as Montana,” Hoyos said.

Memphis has oft-times made that Mississippi River water worse.

The city now operates under a 2012 federal consent decree after a number of agencies alleged the city illegally allowed its sewer system to overflow into the river. In 2016, the city’s system spilled millions of gallons of untreated wastewater into the river. (See our cover story for more.)

Tennessee is not alone, though. In a 2016 study, the Mississippi River Collaborative found that no state has effectively reduced its nitrogen and phosphorus pollution. And it may not end soon.

“I honestly can’t see the [Environmental Protection Agency] under the Trump administration taking the steps necessary, such as setting enforceable limits on dead-zone-causing pollution, to reverse this alarming trend,” said Matt Rota, senior policy director for the Gulf Restoration Network.

Memphis Holiday Parade THIS SATURDAY DECEMBER 2, 2017 @ 2 PM PARADE STARTS AT: Intersection of Fourth Street & Beale St.

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Art Attack City Council Chair Berlin Boyd has described UrbanArt as a “quasi governmental” and failed organization. It’s a harsh, and not entirely accurate, assessment of a 20-year-old independently managed not-for-profit group that made Memphis a “percent for art” city, transforming the landscape and public expectations in ways that can only be understood by juxtaposing what was with what is now so ubiquitous it’s easily taken for granted.

Twenty years ago, public art in Memphis meant statues. More specifically, it meant bronze statues of “great men” like slave trader and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest and Confederate President Jefferson Davis. There were other, not entirely regrettable examples, of course.

Elvis Presley and W.C. Handy were both immortalized on Beale Street. Overton Park had its Doughboy, and the downtown waterfront had an obelisk dedicated to the selfless heroism of Tom Lee, “a worthy negro.” There were even a couple of modern works isolated on the North end of an entirely desolate Main Street mall, hidden from a majority of Memphians who’d been fleeing the decaying urban core for decades. But once you accounted for the musicians, heroes, war memorials, and idols to white supremacy, there wasn’t much else to brag about. Today, by comparison, a drive down James Road includes painter Jeffrey Unthank’s impressive, epically scaled history of Frayser. A visit to Overton Square brings drinkers, diners, and shoppers into contact with multimedia artist Kong Wee Pang’s sparkling bird mural and sculptures by Yvonne Bobo, in addition to all the actors and musicians populating Memphis’ once-empty, nowprospering music and theater district. The Benjamin L. Hooks branch of Memphis’ public library is an enchanted forest of ideas. Kindergarten students entering

Downtown Elementary are greeted by Lurlynn Franklyn’s fine mosaic floor.

These are just a few examples of what a “failed” organization has accomplished in two decades. The successful revitalization of abandoned neighborhoods like South Main, Broad, and Crosstown, are almost impossible to imagine uncoupled from the influence of UrbanArt and work by local, regional, and international artists.

UrbanArt, which is funded in part

by ArtsMemphis, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and by private donations, developed Memphis’ Percent for Art program with a complete awareness of just how easy it has always been for politicians to look serious and frugal by cutting apparent luxuries like art. That’s why percent for art funding was tied to a mere 1 percent of money already budgeted for capital improvements — money that would have been spent anyway, and without the transparency, community access, and public monitoring UrbanArt already brings to the table. Whether or not one loves every piece of public art that gets installed, the organization has repeatedly made its motivating point that artists are creative problem solvers and that makes public art a tremendous bargain.

In every case, public art requires political will because everybody’s a critic.

And, to give Boyd his due, more can always be done to create opportunities for local and minority artists while hedging against provincialism and cultivating a healthy mix of national and international influences. But in a relatively short amount of time UrbanArt has made Memphis better. That’s no fail.

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VIEWPOINT By John Marek

The Voter’s Will Making the case for instant runoff voting.

In the wake of Citizens United v. FEC and numerous restrictive voter ID laws that were passed across the country, elections are being bought and votes are being suppressed.

Well-funded interest groups contribute heavily to candidates, and these groups are able to buy local elections for much cheaper than they are able to buy state and federal seats because of the low turnout. It should come as no surprise that workers’ rights and labor interests have faded in influence over the past 40 years. While much attention has been given to the buying of elections on the state and federal level, it is rarely discussed on the local level. Special interests like Wall Street don’t stop at Congress; they go after local government control as well.

The Memphis City Council really has no business interfering with a process already chosen by the voters in 2008, and it is an attack on democracy and Memphians’ rights that IRV was not available during the 2011 or 2015 elections.

Let us come together and demand that IRV be implemented in 2019.

In the wake of Citizens United v. FEC and numerous restrictive voter ID laws that were passed across the country, elections are being bought and votes are being suppressed. The affront to IRV is no different except for the fact that we can actually do something about it since it is a local issue. IRV provides a more democratic system that will more truly represent the will of our city’s voters at a much cheaper rate.

For more information, please visit saveirvmemphis.com. Please email the entire council at IRV@saveirvmemphis. com, and ask them to respect the will of the voters and vote no on repeal.

John Marek is is a Memphis attorney, local activist, and former campaign manager for Congressman Steve Cohen.

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status quo are attempting to put their concerns in front of the concerns of Memphis voters by forcing an already debated and decided issue back onto the ballot. Councilman Edmund Ford Jr. and other elected officials are attempting to end IRV before voters even get a chance to use the method that they overwhelmingly supported in 2008.

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In 2008, 71 percent of Memphis voters agreed by referendum to rid ourselves of expensive low-turnout runoff elections through instant runoff voting (IRV). If implemented, this would save taxpayers $250,000 a year, and it would end run-off elections with as much as an 85 percent turnout drop-off from the general election.

Instant runoff voting allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference as opposed to only being able to vote for one candidate. Once the votes are tallied, if no candidate has a majority, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. The votes of the eliminated candidate would then be transferred to those citizens’ second choice for the seat. The votes are then re-tallied, and this process continues until a candidate has a majority of the votes, hence no need for the costly and mostly ignored runoff.

IRV has been implemented in 11 cities. Where IRV has been used, it has resulted in the election of more minority and female candidates— but only candidates supported by a majority of a district’s voters. It has also led to more positive campaigning.

If you’re an IRV candidate, you want to be the first choice of your base and the second choice of your rival’s base.

Thus, you don’t want to do attack-ad, mudslinging campaigns. As a former council candidate myself, I can tell you that our city’s elections would benefit from candidates having to not only garner their own base, but also get along well with their opposition.

IRV also increases opportunities for first-time, lesser-funded, lesserknown candidates. You don’t have to worry about “throwing away your vote” on a favorite underdog; you can rank the underdog first, and a “safer,” more established candidate second.

Why was the will of Memphis voters ignored until possibly now? Election Commissioners and others on the state level claimed that the “touch-screen” voting machines were not capable of allowing instant runoff voting, even though that was not actually the case. Recently hired county election administrator Linda Phillip has recognized IRV can be done with our current machines, and she plans to implement IRV in 2019 for the seven single-memberdistrict City Council races.

Now that the election commission has become part of the solution instead of part of the problem, incumbents worried about how IRV will affect the

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THE WATER CITY While Memphis is surrounded by water, much of it is in danger.

WATER DEFINES MEMPHIS.

November 30-December 6, 2017

Without the Mississippi River, the city would not exist at all. Its bones are formed as Nonconnah Creek and the Wolf River shape the I-240 loop.

The massive Memphis Sand Aquifer below the city promises a future when so many communities face historic uncertainty.

“We are a water city,” said Joe Royer, who owns Outdoors, Inc. and can frequently be seen paddling kayaks up and down the Mississippi River. “When it snows in Yellowstone [National Park], it flows by Tom Lee Park. When you’re watching Monday Night Football and it’s sleeting in Pittsburgh, it’ll come through Memphis.”

But much of the city’s waters face threats, old and new. And a cadre of locals is organizing to fight them.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) awaits testing results before it can pump 3.5 million gallons of Memphis water per day from the Memphis Sand Aquifer, the source of the city’s drinking water, to cool its new energy plant on President’s Island.

Citizens north of Memphis await word from state agencies to see if a site near their homes will host a pipeline that will dump 3.5 million gallons of wastewater every day into the Mississippi River.

And city officials in Memphis continue, under a federal mandate, to fix a broken wastewater system that has 10 dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into local waterways.

TVA AND THE MEMPHIS SAND AQUIFER

Raise the 57 trillion gallons of water from the Memphis Sand Aquifer to the surface, and it would flood all of Shelby County to the top of Clark Tower. This fact arises in almost every discussion of whether or not TVA should use Memphis drinking water to cool its new, natural-gas-fed Allen Combined Cycle Plant.

It’s a lot of water, which scores a point for TVA in discussions. And TVA’s proposed water draw wouldn’t be the biggest. (A local DuPont chemical plant sucks up 15 million gallons of aquifer water every day, according to local water experts.) But it’s not just any water.

Called “the sweetest in the world,” Memphis drinking water begins as rain in Fayette County and filters through acres of sand as it glugs slowly westward to Memphis. How slowly?

The aquifer water under downtown Memphis fell from the sky about 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, according to Brian Waldron, director of the Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research (CAESER) in the Herff College of Engineering at the University of Memphis. So, that water got its start very roughly between the time Homer wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey and the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.

That fact scores a point for local environmentalists who say the resource is rare, maybe priceless.

“It can be argued that 3.5 [million

gallons of water per day] is a drop in the bucket, but we must never forget that our resource is finite and that individually we can be good stewards of our groundwater,” Waldron wrote in an opinion piece for The Commercial Appeal.

Volume, though, has rarely been the main bone of contention in the many arguments that have roiled the aquifer debate since it really got started in 2016. Environmental groups and others are more worried that the TVA’s five 650-foot wells could draw toxins into all that “sweet” water.

That argument gained new ground this summer when TVA discovered arsenic levels in some wells around the energy plant were more than 300 times higher than federal drinking water standards. Lead and fluoride levels there were also higher than federal safety standards. The contaminated water sits under a pond that stores coal ash, the remnants of the coal TVA now burns for power at the Allen Fossil Plant. That pond is a quarter mile from those five wells drilled into the Memphis Sand Aquifer.

“We believe our public drinking water is our most valuable asset,” Ward Archer, founder of Protect Our Aquifer (POA), said during a water policy meeting last month. “If you really, really, really, think about it — and especially going forward — [water is] everything, and we have it in spades. But we have a lot of contamination threats.”

Archer formed POA mainly as a Facebook group in 2016 to spread the word about TVA’s plans to tap the aquifer.

He formally registered the group later so it could have legal standing to join a lawsuit with the local arm of the Sierra Club to stop TVA’s well permits last year.

Scott Banbury, the Sierra Club’s Tennessee Conservation Programs Coordinator, said his core argument against the TVA wells gets down to money versus people. “[Memphis-area customers] send $1 billion a year to TVA for our power,” Banbury said. “For them to not use wells that might compromise our drinking water would only cost $6 million. There are 9 million people in TVA-land that are required by federal law to pay the price for anything that TVA does.

“How does that math add up?” he continues. “I think it comes out to about 65 cents per year per person to make sure that we’re not messing up Memphis’ water. Sixty-five cents per person per year and you can do the right thing, the good thing.”

But TVA is required by the TVA Act (the federal law that created the organization) to provide power “at the lowest feasible price for all consumers in the Tennessee Valley,” according to an excerpt from an August TVA document called “Key Messages.”

TVA officials said in the document that its original plan (to use wastewater to cool the plant) would have required it to clean the water, adding an additional $9 million to $23 million annual cost to customers. They also looked to use water from McKellar Lake and the Mississippi Alluvial Aquifer. But all of these options, TVA

said, would have added costs and risked the reliability of the new plant.

“TVA is moving forward with the best option for consumers in a responsible manner that will be respectful of the Memphis Sand Aquifer and surrounding environment,” reads the document.

Memphis Light, Gas & Water did not find elevated levels of toxins in drinking water wells close to the TVA site last year. After that, TVA ran its five wells for 24 hours, but test results are not back yet.

In response to the discovery of toxins, TVA launched a deeper investigation into the safety of its five wells in late August, contracting with experts from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Memphis to map the underlying geology around the site to better understand the movement of the groundwater (and possible toxins) there. The day after that announcement, state officials said they had a good faith agreement with TVA that it wouldn’t use the wells until after the investigation was complete.

“As a state agency, we need very convincing evidence that the contamination in the upper aquifer does not seep into the lower levels,” Chuck Head, assistant commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC), said at the time.

That investigation was originally projected to take months to complete.

But when the plan for that investigation came out in mid-September, USGS

and the U of M researchers said they didn’t have enough time to gather enough data to make a clear judgment call on TVA’s wells by the time the agency planned to fire up the plant in December 2017.

“We have committed not to use the aquifer wells until testing shows it is safe to do so,” said TVA spokesman Scott Brooks last week. “We aren’t there yet. However, construction continues on the new gas plant, which is more than 90 percent complete. Our goal is still to have this cleaner generation online by the summer of 2018.”

More help may be on the way for the Memphis Sand Aquifer. Last week, MLGW and Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland proposed a water rate increase that would yield about $1 million each year for aquifer research.

About 18 cents would be added to each MLGW water meter each month for the research, to ensure our source of drinking water remains pure and is protected from potential contaminants,” reads the prosper resolution.

THE RIVER AND THE “POOPLINE”

Bottleneck blues played softly as John Duda’s paint-splotched hands worked on a single glimmer of Mississippi River moonlight. Hours of painting inches in front of a massive canvas yielded a scene of a riverboat chugging slowly toward Memphis, leaving a trail of ripples and sparkles.

Duda’s house in Randolph, about an

“And the state now has to run a sewage pipe from the site to the Mississippi River, costing more money and seizing homeowners’ property along the way via eminent domain,” Owen wrote in an opinion piece in The Jackson Sun. “All for a company that is only real in the imaginations of politicians and bureaucrats in Nashville.”

Backlash to the Randolph pipeline solution began this summer. Dozens showed up to oppose the project at TDEC meetings close to the site. A Facebook group called “Say No to the Randolph Poopline (Toxic Sludge)” was organized and quickly grew. But, again, volume is not the main bone of contention in the “poopline” argument with most. It is the location.

At the exact site of the proposed wastewater pipe, sandy beaches appear on the banks of the Mississippi during its regular flow. Duda said people come from near and far to camp at the site, launch kayaks, ride horses, and sit around bonfires. During a recent visit, beer cans, clay pigeons, spent shotgun shells, and ATV tracks evidenced some other, recent recreation.

The site seemed to be picked because it’s close to the where the Mississippi meets the Hatchie River. Flows from the two would help dilute the treated wastewater and send it downstream.

Duda said that plan might work when the water was high. But at low levels, an area between the Tennessee side of the river and a mid-stream island gets cut off.

“All of a sudden all of this water gets cut off, and that means 3.5 million gallons [of wastewater] will just be sitting in two, or three, or four pools down through here,” Duda said. “When it’s not mixing, they become cesspools, essentially. Whenever you go by any treatment plant cesspool area, what have they got around it? A chainlink fence with barbed wire to keep people out.”

Duda also feared the pipeline would drive away local wildlife — geese, bald eagles, deer, and more. Years of exposure to the heavy metals in the wastewater would eventually obliterate the spot for human recreation and for the miles of fertile bottomland farms around it for growing corn, soybeans, or cotton.

Environmental dangers loom beyond the spot, too, back along the 37 miles of pipeline that run from the proposed factory and the 30 bodies of water it would cross, said Hoyos.

“That pipe will be under pressure, so you may only notice a problem if it’s a big break,” she said. “But little leaks?

You may not notice them. There may be a pollution event that goes on for months and months and months and you may not be able to see them.”

The crowds at the meetings, the Facebook group, and the calls to state lawmakers all delayed a decision on the proposed pipeline last month. It was enough to earn a 30-day extension for continued on page 12

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John Duda’s house north of Memphis has a great view from the Second Chickasaw Bluff.

hour north of Memphis, is filled with his work, mostly scenes of Memphis, the riverfront, and Beale Street. But his finest work may be the view from his back deck.

After he bought the house about 11 years ago, he worked for years to clear kudzu and undergrowth from his spot on the Second Chickasaw Bluff to reveal an expansive view of the Mississippi River, the bluff, and bottom lands beyond. Duda’s view belongs on postcards, but it’s in peril. He shies away from attention, but his fight against that peril has brought him into the spotlight.

From his deck, he pointed to the exact site an 18-inch pipeline that could deliver 3.5 million gallons of industrial waste and treated sewer water into the Mississippi River right below his house.

“It won’t be good,” Duda said. “I understand it’s got to go somewhere and it meets the [Environmental Protection Agency] guidelines. But to put it at the head of a town that’s been here since 1830 or before then is kind of a slap in the face to the people who live here, and the people who visit here, and recreate here.”

Earlier this year, a state plan emerged that would run a pipeline 37 miles from the Memphis Regional Megasite in Haywood County to that spot into the Mississippi below Duda’s house. The pipeline would cross at least 30 bodies of water and carry an estimated 3 million gallons of industrial wastewater from the megasite every day. The pipeline would also carry about 500,000 gallons of treated sewage from the city of Stanton, Tennessee.

State economic development officials have worked for years to prep the 4,100-acre site with $143 million in infrastructure improvements in hopes of luring a large manufacturer to the state. While Toyota-Mazda recently passed on the site, state officials promise prospective clients “the best of everything you need,” including “the best partner, the best location, and the strongest workforce.” Last week, The Jackson Sun reported that state officials said the site needs an additional $72 million to complete work there.

The idea is “terrible, terrible, terrible,” “crappy,” or, simply, “the worst,” according to Renée Hoyos, executive director of the Knoxville-based Tennessee Clean Water Network (TCWN).

“The whole [megasite project] has just gone down this road where I think people are just like, ‘well, we’ve gone this far, how about this idea?’” Hoyos said in a recent interview. “And the ideas are just getting dumber and dumber. They’ve spent all this money, and still no one is coming. It’s not, ‘build it and they will come.’ They’re not coming. So, don’t build.”

Justin Owen, CEO of the Nashvillebased Beacon Center, a free-market think tank, recently called the megasite project a “boondoggle” and said that its failure so far was “legendary.”

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continued from page 11 public comment on the project. One of those voices for the delay was Shelby County Commissioner Terry Roland.

“This type of discharge will certainly negatively affect the commercial and recreational fishing near Shelby Forest, not to mention the wildlife, to include 43 species on the federal endangered list, popular swimming beaches, boating camping, etc.,” Roland said in a statement at the time.

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The feds have long been after Memphis city officials about its wastewater.

Back about 40 years or so, they forced city officials to treat it before they dumped it into the Mississippi River.

Since 2012, the federal agencies have required the city to spend about $250 million over several years to fix and upgrade its weak, leaky wastewater system so the city doesn’t spill untreated sewage into the river (which we have, still, a lot). The city now operates under a consent decree for the improvements agreed to by the TCWN, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice, TDEC, and the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General.

In 2010, federal and state agencies filed a formal complaint against the city alleging that “on numerous occasions since 2003” the city illegally spilled untreated sewage into state and federal waters. City officials “failed to properly operate and maintain [its wastewater] facilities” and allowed “visible, floating scum, oil, or other matter contained in the wastewater discharge,” into surrounding waters.

For this, the city paid a civil penalty of about $1.3 million to resolve the violation of the Clean Water Act. It also had to devise a plan to beef up its wastewater system and promise vigilance on clean water issues going forward. But vigilance doesn’t guarantee perfection.

In March and April of 2016, for example, two sewer pipes broke. Both were associated with the T.E. Maxson Waste Water Treatment Plant on President’s Island. One was eight feet tall and another five feet tall. When they broke, they dumped more than 350 million gallons of untreated wastewater into Cypress Creek and McKellar Lake.

(For perspective, the damaged Deepwater Horizon well spilled 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.)

The spill killed 72,000 fish, spiked levels of E. coli bacteria in the waterways, and left behind layers of sludge.

Later that year, a three-and-a-halffoot sewer pipe broke close to the M.C. Stiles Waste Water Treatment Plant north of Mud Island. Two-and-a-half million gallons of raw sewage dumped into the Loosahatchie River every day

for three days.

In all of the spills, the dirt banks around the pipes had eroded and the pipes broke under their own weight.

Correspondence from Memphis leaders show plans are in place to fix those pipes permanently. But Hoyos, with the Tennessee Clean Water Network, said spills like these are “not surprising.”

“You’re going to see [sewage] overflows because, as you’re tightening up a system in certain places, it really accentuates the weaknesses in other sections,” she said.

In a March 2017 letter to Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, an official with TDEC’s Division of Water Resources said that the city would not only fix the pipes, stabilize its banks, and closely monitor all of them, the city must pay the state damages for the 2016 spills. Those damages were figured at $359,855.98 “for ecological and recreational damage to Cypress Creek and McKellar Lake, excluding damages for fish killed as a direct result of the spill.”

City of Memphis Public Works Director Robert Knecht said the city is negotiating the terms of that agreement with the state. He said his agency doesn’t like raw sewage spills, of course, but that the city is responsible for 3,200 miles of sewer lines, with 2,800 of those miles of pipes within the city limits.

From them, the city’s two wastewater plants process about 60 billion gallons of wastewater each year.

Capital improvements needed for the city’s sewer system, he said, range from $850 million to $1.2 billion. While the consent decree mandated the city spend $250 million, Knecht said it’ll end up spending about $350 million simply because officials discovered about 25 percent more sewer infrastructure after the decree was signed.

THE WATER CITY

Many interviewed for this story said they would not swim in the Mississippi River, especially south of the Stiles Waste Water plant. TDEC advises that no one eat fish from the river. Hoyos said that the river drains one third of the United States and has “been used as the nation’s toilet.”

“By the time it gets to Memphis, [the river] is in pretty bad shape,” she said.

All that water, of course, drains into the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans. There, a “dead zone” bloomed this year the size of New Jersey, the largest on record. For more on this, check out a story in this week’s Fly By, page 6.

Still, given all the perils to the city’s water and waterways, Royer of Outdoors, Inc. believes in Memphis as a “water city” and that its natural resources will be key to its future, and not just for outdoorsy types. Digital technology has given most the ability to work almost anywhere and that puts Memphis in a “real competitive environment” for workers.

“And if the salary is even close, they’ll choose to go to the most livable city,” he said.

Next Chapter

The championship game is mere prelude for Tigers.

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his Saturday in Orlando, the Tigers will play the biggest, most significant game in the history of the program when they face UCF in the American Athletic Conference championship game. It’s big for what it represents on its own: the first time Memphis has played in a game structured to determine a conference champion. But it’s monumental for this long-suffering program for what would come with a Tiger win.

There are precisely seven bowl games that still matter: the AutoZone Liberty Bowl (played here in Memphis since 1965) and what’s now called the New Year’s Six (the Rose Bowl, Orange, Cotton, Sugar, Fiesta, and Peach). Two of the New Year’s Six bowls make up the relatively new national semifinals, with this season’s semis being played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena California, and the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.

Here’s the kicker: If Memphis beats the Knights this Saturday, the Tigers will earn the lone “Group of Five” berth in the New Year’s Six and play in the Peach Bowl on New Year’s Day. The odds of landing such a spot are tremendously long. Teams from the so-called Power Five leagues – the SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, and Pac-12 — fill 11 of the 12 New Year’s Six slots (and are virtually assured of the four national semifinal berths). This leaves 62 teams from the likes of the MidAmerican Conference, Conference USA, and yes, the AAC vying for a single, solitary chance to play on college football’s (almost) biggest platform. The 16th-ranked Memphis Tigers will earn that single, solitary slot if they can win their 11th game (and eighth straight) this Saturday.

The 2017 Memphis Tigers are already an historic team. Senior Anthony Miller has done to the program’s receiving records what

Mike Norvell prepares the Tigers for the next chapter.

DeAngelo Williams once did to the rushing marks. Sophomore Tony Pollard has returned four kickoffs for touchdowns (and six in two seasons) after no Memphis player returned as many as two for a century-plus. Only two other Memphis teams — in 1938 and 2014 — have won 10 games in a season. No Tiger team has played a game in December ranked among the country’s top 20 teams. Ever. But there’s more to be gained.

UCF is one of only two remaining undefeated teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Knight quarterback McKenzie Milton is one of the few men in the sport who can sling it with Tiger QB Riley Ferguson. The Tigers average 47 points per game (second in the country) and are six points from breaking the single-season mark of 522 (set in 2015), but UCF averages 48.2 points per game. Saturday’s showdown could damage the scoreboard at Spectrum Stadium.

A colleague recently suggested that the Tigers reaching the Peach Bowl would be better than the Memphis basketball team making the Final Four. And this is worthy of an actual barstool debate. College football now has its own “final four,” but a program like Memphis — not “Power Five,” remember — is all but excluded from consideration. So the holy grail of postseason events for Memphis football players is, indeed, a New Year’s Six bowl game. They literally (at least for now) don’t get any bigger.

“You embrace the emotion,” said a pleased-but-not-satisfied Memphis coach Mike Norvell after last Saturday’s win over East Carolina. “But this journey is not over. The next chapter is there in front of us, and it’s gonna take every bit of preparation that we have.

We’re playing a great football team. We have to go to work and put ourselves in position to be successful.”

To be bigger than a bowl game.

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Mallory Lewis & Lamb Chop

By Susan Ellis

Lamb Chop is a sweet, inquisitive little six-year-old girl lamb — the brainchild of ventriloquist Shari Lewis.

She was the star of The Shari Lewis Show in the early ’60s and, later, the PBS show Lamb Chop’s Play-Along in the early ’90s. Lamb Chop is a three star general and a cultural touchstone for those of us of a certain age.

She has testified before congress.

After Lewis’ death in 1998, Lewis’ daughter and Lamb Chop’s sister Mallory, took over the gig. She’ll be bringing Lamb Chop, who she has characterized as a liberal Jewish Democrat, to the Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center on Sunday, December 3rd.

Was it your mother’s intention for you to take over Lamb Chop?

Not at all. I was mom’s producer and head writer, but when Mom died, I knew I had no choice but to keep my little sister alive.

Are there certain rules for Lamb Chop, like Lamb Chop never interrupts or Lamb Chop never discusses politics?

Lamb Chop speaks her mind. But she DOESN’T curse.

Have you ever thought of expanding Lamb Chop’s story? Lamb Chop the Teen Years?

Nope, LC is always going to be 6. Her topics of interest, however, evolved as the world has changed. She is as relevant now as she was in 1957!

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THURSDAY November 30 Squirrel Nut Zippers: First Annual Christmas Caravan Tour Hi-Tone, 8 p.m.

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A tasting of four whiskeys with a selection of appetizers.

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Seamus Loftus and Deni and Patrick Reilly (l to r) revitalize the Brass Door.

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“Uninhabitable” Circuitous Succession Gallery (1789 Kirby), 6:30-9 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibition of works by Christopher St. John, an extension of the artist’s “Four Days After the Rabbit” show.

The rabbit represents fear and anxiety.

Phantom of the Opera The Orpheum, 8 p.m., $24-$129 The Andrew Lloyd Webber spectacle with the chandelier.

Booksigning by Russell Johnson Burke’s Book Store, 5:30 p.m.

Russell Johnson signs his new book, Memphis: Then and Now, featuring archival images from 1870s through the 1960s.

Yuletide Open House Woodruff-Fontaine House, 5-8 p.m The house is all decked out and includes an exhibit of old Southern Christmas traditions and customs, including Yuletide Masquerade.

I Am Irving Berlin: A Musical Revue Germantown Community Theatre, 7 p.m., $9-$13 A revue of the prolific songbook of Irving Berlin — “Blue Skies,” “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody,” “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm.”

Echols (left) and Jared

By Susan Ellis

George Jared is a journalist who moved to the area just before the horrific West Memphis 3 murders and covered the case for the Jonesboro Sun. Over the years, he went from being convinced that Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr., and Jason Baldwin were guilty of murdering the trio of 8-year-olds to thinking they were convicted on the basis of a false confession.

Jared interviewed Echols on death row. He has written, he says, more stories on the case than anyone else in the world.

The culmination of all this work is the recent publication of Witches in West Memphis: The West Memphis Three and Another Story of False Confession. He’ll have a booksigning at Novel on Saturday, December 2nd, 2 p.m.

The story of the West Memphis 3 has been told many times by now. How is your take unique?

I realized there was no scientific evidence tying them to the murders. My opinion morphed, and it was during this period that I interviewed Damien Echols while he still sat on Arkansas’ Death Row. Who are the “witches” of the title, and what does false confession have to do with the murder of the boys?

Many, including Damien Echols, have compared what happened to the West Memphis Three to the Salem Witch Trials, held about 300 years ago in Massachusetts. Supposed “witches” were burned at the stake with little or no proof of witchcraft, and often “false confessions” were leveled. In this case, there is no DNA or forensic evidence that ties the three to the murders. The center of the prosecution’s case is a confession by Misskelley. He confessed several times, and each time he got critical facts wrong. To those who think the men are guilty, these confessions are the smoking gun evidence, even though they are highly inaccurate.

Do you have a theory who killed the boys?

Many West Memphis Three supporters think a stepfather to one of the boys killed them. A hair that is a strong DNA match for him was found in a ligature that bound one of the boys, and another hair that could be a DNA match for his alibi witness was found on a tree stump next to where the bodies were dumped. I interviewed his wife numerous times and she told me she thinks he took part in the killings. I’ve interviewed him several times, and he has denied any role in the boys’ deaths.

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Tiny Temple Readings and Conversations Playhouse on the Square, 7 p.m.

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Stolen Faces Young Avenue Deli, 9 p.m.

Nashville-based band performs tribute to the Grateful Dead.

The Great Cable Cooking Show Contest TheatreWorks, 7:30 p.m., $20 Five C-list chefs compete to get their own cooking show. May the best sandwich-maker win.

Magic of Memphis Holiday Spectacular Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m.

Memphis Symphony Orchestra holiday concert featuring carols and Christmas classics. Encore Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

The Santaland Diaries The Circuit Playhouse, 7 p.m., $25 A holiday favorite, with your grumpy Elf Crumpet taking center stage as he recounts his time helping Santa at Macy’s. Brutally hilarious.

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Memphis, 2017 Talking Musik with William Eggleston.

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large portrait of Bach hangs in William Eggleston’s apartment; pivot to the left and you’ll see stacks of oscilloscopes and other electronic modules, green waveforms pulsing; pivot again and you’ll see his treasured Bösendorfer grand piano. Such disparate images capture both his love of music and the contradictions inherent in it. Of course, one must begin with the disconnect between his notoriety as one of the most compelling fine art photographers in the world and the fact that his latest project has nothing to do with photography at all — at least on the surface. His debut album, Musik, released last month on Numero Group’s Secretly Canadian label, explores his other great passion, one that blossomed long before he had his first camera.

“I began playing classical music

when I was about four,” he explains, adding that “I have an ability to play anything I’ve heard.” Indeed, he is completely self-taught. “We had a piano in the hallway of our home.

Whenever I’d pass through, I’d stop and play something.” Eventually, he deciphered musical notation, but his playing has always sprung from his ears more than his eyes. “People that are really good at sight reading, generally that’s the only thing they’re good at. Without the score, they can’t play a damn thing. Sight-reading is not musicianship to me.”

That’s a rare opinion for a classical music fan. Yet Eggleston listens to practically nothing else. He remains disdainful of most rock music, from Elvis Presley to Alex Chilton (despite having been a close friend of the Chilton family). And he’s even skeptical of jazz. This is especially paradoxical, as nearly all of Eggleston’s own

recorded output is entirely improvised.

Nonetheless, its closest stylistic affinity is with the harmonies and cadences of orchestral classical music.

For an artist who resolutely uses only real film stock, it’s ironic that his orchestral ambitions were made possible by modern digital synthesis.

In the early 1990s, after a lifetime of playing piano, Eggleston discovered the Korg 01/W sampling keyboard,

able to trigger hundreds of different orchestral sounds simultaneously with a split keyboard: cellos with the left hand, flutes with the right, and so on.

His love for finely crafted machines, from guns to cameras, now extended to the Korg. “It’s manufactured in Tokyo, but a hundred percent of it is a bunch of engineers in California,” he notes admiringly. “It makes maybe a billion different sounds. When this model of

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“The machine has a memory, but also it has a floppy disc drive. And once you cut the power off of the machine, the memory’s erased. If you’re lucky, you’ve made a disc from the memory, which sounds just like it did when played.” Eggleston would improvise one orchestral piece after another, compiling many hours of music.

His friends and family were the only listeners privy to these works, though readers of Robert Gordon’s It Came from Memphis got a taste from that book’s accompanying CD, which included an excerpt from the then-freshly recorded “Symphony #4, Bonnie Prince Charlie.”

(As Eggleston notes, “I’m very much interested in Robert Burns.”) But after that initial exposure and a flurry of such spontaneous “compositions,” Eggleston’s recorded output tapered off.

“Now, this release that these people are doing was not my idea. I had nothing to do with it,” he notes.

“This fellow, Tom Lunt, is the main force behind [Numero Group’s] productions. And he’s been here a lot of times. All told, we went through

something like 60 hours of music, all from floppy discs. I had tons of them.”

None of the music was recorded in a conventional sense. “They would say, ‘Well, you must overdub.’ No. It was just straight, accurate recordings of what was played.” Each floppy disc was a snapshot of what he produced when sitting at the Korg.

The snapshot metaphor is apropos, given the artist’s freewheeling approach to photography, whereby he riffs off images encountered in everyday life.

This tactic is especially apparent in the film Stranded in Canton, edited down from many hours of unstaged video footage that Eggleston shot on the fly in the mid-’70s. He is quick to affirm the similarity between improvised music and what Henri Cartier-Bresson called the “decisive moment” to which a photographer must always be attuned.

But don’t expect Eggleston to reprise his Musik in a live setting anytime soon.

“I don’t do public performances,” he says. “I really play for myself and a select group of friends that might drop in. I’m delighted to play for them. Concerts, public performances — not interested.

It wouldn’t be difficult. I don’t have any form of stage fright. So it wouldn’t mean anything to me, except a career like that is just a hell of a lot of trouble.”

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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, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill

162 BEALE 521-1851

Live Music WednesdaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Live DJ Wednesdays-Sundays, 11 p.m.; Third Floor: DJ Tubbz Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

FedExForum 191 BEALE STREET

Janet Jackson Wednesday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007

Adam Levin Thursday, Nov. 30, 7-10 p.m.; Jerred Price Friday, Dec. 1, 9-11 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 2, 9-11 p.m.; The Skitch Sunday, Dec. 3, 8-11 p.m.

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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

King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille

Blues City Cafe

Chris Gales Solo Acoustic Show Mondays-Saturdays, noon-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.

138 BEALE 526-3637

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King’s Palace Cafe Patio

341-345 BEALE 577-1089

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

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Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m. and Saturdays, 5:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. and Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.

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

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Sensation Band Tuesdays, Fridays, 7-11 p.m.; Fuzzy and the Kings of Memphis Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Chic Jones and the Blues Express Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; North and South Band Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

the Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. and Sundays, 3-7 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Friday, Dec. 1, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Juke Joint Allstars Saturday, Dec. 2, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Sensation Band Monday, Dec. 4, 8 p.m.midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room 168 BEALE 576-2220

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Myra Hall Friday, Dec. 1, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, Dec. 2, 8 p.m.midnight.

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

Curren$y Saturday, Dec. 2, 8 p.m.; SNAILS Tuesday, Dec. 5, 9 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; FreeWorld Friday, Dec. 1, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, Dec. 2, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sensation Band Sunday, Dec. 3, 7-11 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Gracie Curran Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson and

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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

Dec. 2, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks & Her Assets Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Bobbie & Tasha Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Earnestine & Hazel’s 531 S. MAIN 523-9754

Amber Rae Dunn Hosts: Earnestine & Hazel’s Open Mic Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

Magic of Memphis Holiday Spectacular Friday, Dec. 1, 7:309:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 3, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Center for Southern Folklore Hall 119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

Delta Cats, Billy Gibson & Linear Smith First Friday of every month, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Daddy Mack Blues Band Sunday, Dec. 3, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

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

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

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

Purple Haze Nightclub 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Nancy Apple Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Graber Grass Friday, Dec. 1, 9 p.m.; James Godwin Saturday,

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

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

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

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

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

Karaoke Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.; Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

David Collins Jazz and Deborah Swiney Thursday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, Dec. 1, 6-8 p.m.; Java Trio Saturday, Dec. 2, 9 p.m.; David Collins & Frog Squad Sunday, Dec. 3, 6-9 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesday, Dec. 6, 6-8 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

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Squirrel Nut Zippers: First Annual Christmas Caravan Tour Thursday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m.; Colter Wall, Ian Noe, Grace Askew Friday, Dec. 1, 8 p.m.; Memphis Roller Derby Presents: The HoHoHo Burlesque Show Saturday, Dec. 2, 9 p.m.; Guaranteed Wax Tuesday, Dec. 5, 9 p.m.; Roben X Wednesday, Dec. 6, 9 p.m.

The Tower Courtyard at Overton Square 2092 TRIMBLE PLACE

Acoustic Courtyard Last Thursday of every month, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Wild Bill’s

Fun-Filled Fridays First Friday of every month, 8 p.m.-midnight.

East Memphis Brookhaven Pub & Grill 695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 680-8118

Dantones Band Friday, Dec. 1, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Van Duren Solo Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Wang’s East Tapas

The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony Chapman, Charles Cason, and

Toni Green’s Palace

6069 PARK 685-9264

Songwriter Night hosted by Leigh Ann Wilmot and Dave “The Rave” Saturdays, 5-8 p.m.

Poplar/I-240

477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Lee Gardner Fridays, 6:30-9 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Tuesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.

East Tapas and Drinks

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

Cheffie’s Cafe 483 HIGH POINT TERRACE 202-4157

6069 PARK 767-6002

Eddie Harris Thursdays, Fridays,

High Point Pub Pubapalooza with Stereo Joe Every other Wednesday, 8-11 p.m.

4212 HWY 51 N

Toni Green’s Palace Mondays-Sundays, 7 p.m.; Live DJ Thursdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.; “All About Ms. Jody” Saturday, Dec. 2, 8 p.m.

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

Orion Weiss at IRIS Orchestra Saturday, Dec. 2, 8 p.m.-midnight and Sunday, Dec. 3, 2-6 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind

Huey’s Midtown

7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

1927 MADISON 726-4372

The After Dark Band Sunday, Dec. 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

The Amy LaVere Trio Sunday, Dec. 3, 4-7 p.m.; Miller and the Other Sinners Sunday, Dec. 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Lafayette’s Music Room

John Paul Keith Sunday, Dec. 3, 8-11:30 p.m.

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters Thursday, Nov. 30, 6 p.m.; Devil Train Thursday, Nov. 30, 9 p.m.; Makky Kaylor and the Swanky South Players Friday, Dec. 1, 6:30 p.m.; Jason Lee McKinney Friday, Dec. 1, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, Dec. 3, 11 a.m.; Reba Russell Sunday, Dec. 3, 4 p.m.; Marcella and Her Lovers Sunday, Dec. 3, 8 p.m.; Forest Fire Gospel Choir Monday, Dec. 4, 6 p.m.; Kyndle & Adam Tuesday, Dec. 5, 5:30 p.m.; 3RD Man Wednesday, Dec. 6, 5:30 p.m.; Emily Cavanagh Wednesday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m.

New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church 7786 POPLAR PIKE 754-3584

Mortgage Burning Celebration Concert.

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar 9087 POPLAR 755-0092

Live Music on the Patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Dan McGuinness

Midtown Crossing Grill

3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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.

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Hollywood Casino 1150 CASINO STRIP RESORT, TUNICA, MS 662-357-7700

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Live Entertainment Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Mulan Asian Bistro

7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Minglewood Hall Julien Baker, David Bazan, Pillow Talk Friday, Dec. 1, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Southaven The Dantones Sunday, Dec. 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

2149 YOUNG AVE 347-3965

Chris Gales Sunday Brunch First Sunday of every month, 12-3 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

River City Cadillacs Friday, Dec. 1, 6-9 p.m.; Dixie Dicks with Red Squad Saturday, Dec. 2.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Artist market Saturday, Dec. 2; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

The Phoenix Blues Jam Tuesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Live Band Karaoke with Public Record Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Raleigh Miss Joyce Henderson Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

6:30-9:30 p.m.; Van Duren Solo Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.

Young Avenue Deli

551 S. MENDENHALL 7628200

Neil’s Music Room

2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Stolen Faces Grateful Dead Tribute Band Friday, Dec. 1, 9 p.m.

Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt MondaysThursdays, 5-9:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

Howard Vance Guitar Academy

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

978 REDDOCH 767-6940

First Friday at Five Coffee House Concert First Friday of every month, 5 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Charley Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, Dec. 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Five O’clock Shadow Saturday, Dec. 2, 9 p.m.; Benefit for Allan Bone Sunday, Dec. 3, 4 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Owen Brennan’s THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

Lannie McMillan Jazz Trio Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Bartlett Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Steak Night with Tony Butler and the Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Robert Hull Sundays, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Cordova Huey’s Cordova 1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

Ghost Town Blues Band Sunday, Dec. 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Blues Jam hosted by Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; Brian Johnson Band Friday, Dec. 1, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Seeing Red Saturday, Dec. 2, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Mic Night and Steak Night Tuesdays, 6 p.m.midnight.

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas Southland Park 1550 N. INGRAM, WEST MEMPHIS, AR 800-467-6182

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

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Who Is Irving Berlin? A Musical Revue, www.gctcomeplay.org. Dec. 1-10.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).

Hattiloo Theatre

November 30-December 6, 2017

Take the Soul Train to Christmas, musical journey follows Granddad as he ushers his granddaughter and two of her friends back through time on the magical Soul Train. www.hattiloo.org. $30-$35.

Sundays, 3 p.m., Saturdays, 2 & 7:30 p.m., and Thursdays, Fridays, 7:30 p.m. Through Dec. 17.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

The Orpheum

The Phantom of the Opera, www. orpheum-memphis.com. $24 -$129. Sundays, 1 & 6:30 p.m., Saturdays, 2 & 8 p.m., Fridays, 8 p.m., and Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.

Through Dec. 10.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square

The Mid-South’s Finest Stereo & Turntable Selection

Peter Pan, life will never be the same for Michael, John, and Wendy Darling after Peter Pan visits their nursery window offering to take them to the magical world of Neverland. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $25-$40. Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m., and Fridays, 7 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

TheatreWorks

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THE CHOO, 3045 SOUTHERN (324-3246), WWW.MBAAFIREHOUSE.ORG.

The Moonpie Project Presents Elloo

Circuit Playhouse

A Christmas Carol, www.dftonline. org. $22-$30. Sundays, 2 p.m., Saturdays, 2 & 7 p.m., and Fridays, 7 p.m. Through Dec. 10.

901.636.2362

Fri., Dec. 1, 2 p.m.

3663 APPLING (385-6440).

Landers Center (DeSoto Civic Center)

P!NK PALACE MUSEUM

Memphis Black Arts Alliance Mural Unveiling

Snowkus Pokus, dazzling cirque, ballet, and incredible acrobatics will amaze, enchant, and inspire your imagination. www.bpacc.org. $30. Fri., Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

3050 Central Ave / Memphis 38111

THIRD, BARTLETT (1-908-907-6828), THEWRITERSBLOCK17.WIXSITE.COM/ AUTHORS.

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

Junie B. Jones, The Musical, adaptation of four of Barbara Park’s best-selling books brought to life in a genuinely comical musical. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $25-$40. Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays, Fridays, 7 p.m. Through Dec. 23.

The Santaland Diaries, with a healthy dose of sarcasm and snark, Crumpet manages to reveal the shortcomings of the hustle and bustle surrounding the holidays while reminding us of the true meaning of the season. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $25-$40.

Sundays, 7 p.m., and ThursdaysSaturdays, 8 p.m. Through Dec. 23.

Planetarium Show

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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The Great Cable Cooking Show Contest, five C-list chefs vie for the title of “Best Sammich Maker” and their own cable cooking show in Blandtown, TN, but not without a number of surprises. (946-6140), www.theatreworksmemphis.org. $20. Fri., Dec. 1, 7:30-9:30 p.m.,

Ongoing, rotating mural series curated by Michael Roy in memory of muralist Brad Wells. Food and drinks. Fri., Dec. 1, 5-7 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Next2Rock2017 Sat., Dec. 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 3, 3-5 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

L Ross Gallery

Opening reception for Gallery Artists Holiday Group Exhibition, www.lrossgallery.com. Fri., Dec. 1, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Megan Hurdle Studios

Artist reception for “Ethereality,” exhibition of dresses and paintings featuring signature mixed media of acrylic, oil pastels, gouache, metallic touches, and deep finishes

by Megan Hurdle. Thur.-Fri., Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

4145 GRANDVIEW (438-9467).

Memphis Botanic Garden

Opening reception for “Winter Wonders,” exhibition of work by the Memphis Artists Group. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Sun., Dec. 3, 3-5 p.m.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis College of Art

Artist reception for “Creativity and Inclusivity,” exhibition of work by artists from Memphis Center for Independent Living, Shelby Residential and Vocational Services, and Memphis College of Art. Lecture by Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. www.mca.edu.

Sat., Dec. 2, 5-8 p.m.

Opening reception for 2017 Fall BFA Thesis, exhibition of work from graduating seniors in the BFA program in conjunction with the Jan Hankins exhibit in the Alumni Gallery and the Creativity and Inclusivity exhibit in the Lower Gallery. (272-5100), www. mca.edu. Sat., Dec. 2, 6-8 p.m.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Overton Park Gallery

Opening reception for “Visual Poetry: Mundane Made Magical,” exhibition of photography by Jenn Billy Brandt. www.overtonparkgallery.com. Fri., Dec. 1, 6-8 p.m.

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

WKNO Studio

Opening reception for Bartlett Art Association, exhibition of work by Association members. www.wkno. org. Sun., Dec. 3, 2-4 p.m.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Opening reception for Jenn Billy Brandt at Overton Park Gallery, Friday, December 1st OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

Agnes Stark Pottery 2017 Annual Show and Sale

Fri., Dec. 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat., Dec. 2, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 3, 12-5 p.m.

AGNES STARK’S STUDIO, 12675 DONELSON, WWW.STARKPOTTERY.COM.

Art After Dark

Galleries and gardens will be open late. Featuring light refreshments, entertainment, and a cash bar. Free with admission.

Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m.

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

Call to Artists for Art Village Gallery Juried Group Exhibition

Opportunity for artists to contribute to the ongoing social and political discussion to inform and influence the perspective of others through art. For more information, visit website. Through Dec. 1.

WWW.URBANARTCOMMISSION.ORG.

Casting Demonstration Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

Cooper-Young Art Tours

For more information, featured artists, and pop-up performances, visit website. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Register as a solo artist, band, or fan for competition that ends with a national live finale in Los Angeles. For competition registration and fan voting details, visit website. Through Dec. 12.

WWW.981THEMAX.COM.

Practice the Art of Origami Join Sujatha Vasudevan and make origami ornaments. Learn how to make a five-pointed star, an origami wreath, and a 3D paper doll.

Materials provided. Wed., Dec. 6, 6-7:30 p.m.

COLLIERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 501 POPLAR VIEW PARKWAY (853-2333), WWW. COLLIERVILLELIBRARY.LIBCAL.COM.

Shoot & Splice: Cinema Trivia Party

Celebrate the end of another year with the Shoot & Splice fourth annual Cinema Trivia blowout with trivia master John Beifuss. Tues., Dec. 5, 6:30-9 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Sonnet Contest

Shelby County students are invited to submit their original composition for Rhodes College’s inaugural Sonnet Contest. Winners will receive a prize book and have their poem published. Submit by email, yearwoodl@rhodes.edu. Through March 2, 2018.

WWW.RHODES.EDU.

“Stargazer Garden” Flower-Folding

Stop by and fold a paper flower for collaborative art installation.

Mondays-Fridays, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE (FORMERLY SEARS CROSSTOWN), N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.CROSSTOWN-

COOPER-YOUNG DISTRICT, CORNER OF COOPER AND YOUNG, WWW.COOPERYOUNG.COM.

ARTS.ORG.

Crosstown Arts Digital Lab

Twenty-five artists create original works that explore today’s America. Featuring dance artists, local filmmakers, musicians, and artists.

Fri.-Sun., Dec. 1-3, 7-10 p.m.

Six-station computer lab supports Memphis’ creative community by providing artists and musicians full access to industry-standard art- and music-making technology. Tuesdays-Thursdays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

The Literary Pop-Up Shop

Featuring exhibits, book signing

by Ann Bates and others. Kidfriendly cup cake bar by Cup Cake Cutie and more. Free. Sat., Dec. 2, 12-5 p.m.

SINGLETON COMMUNITY CENTER, 7266

Up in Arms Collective Presents Response 2

CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

WinterArts

Unique handcrafted work by regional artists including a stellar collection of holiday gift ideas crafted in glass, metal, wood, fiber, and clay, plus jewelry and more.

Sundays, 12-5 p.m., Fridays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Thursdays, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Mondays-Wednesdays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Through Dec. 24.

CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 6

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“Desert to Delta: Saudi Contemporary Art in Memphis,” exhibition by 20 artists and a video artist collective from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. www.memphis.edu/amum.

Through Jan. 6, 2018.

“Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection.

Ongoing.

142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

“Chinese Symbols in Art,” ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. www.belzmuseum. org. Ongoing.

119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).

Bingham and Broad

“My Kin Is Not Like Yours,” exhibition of works by Debra Edge. Ongoing.

2563 BROAD (323-3008).

Brickwood Hall

“Triptych Memphis,” exhibition of work by London Thomas, Nicole Maron, Samilia Colar, Alesandra Bellos, Colleen Couch-Smith, Bree Mayes, and others benefiting Alzheimer’s & Dementia Services of Memphis. Through Dec. 17.

391 S. FRONT.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“From Trash to Treasure,” exhibition of new works by Frank Lilly. www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through Dec. 16.

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

Clough-Hanson Gallery

“Celebrating 100 Years of Women at Rhodes College,” exhibition of work by 12 current and former faculty alongside alumni, including Mary Sims, Erin Harmon, Alex Carter, Esther Ruiz, and Daisy Craddock. www. rhodes.edu. Through Dec. 2.

RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).

Crosstown Concourse

“Art/Race/Violence: A Collaborative Response,” exhibition of multidisciplinary art in collaboration with visual culture historian Dr. Earnestine Jenkins and artist Richard Lou. www. crosstownarts.org. Through Jan. 14, 2018.

N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

New Bronze Sculpture by Joyce Gingold. December 2-9.

“Angst,” exhibition of painted photographs by Catherine Erb. www.davidluskgallery. com. Through Dec. 23.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

“Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper,” exhibition of recreated historic fashions. www.dixon. org. Through Jan. 7, 2018.

“Boukay,” exhibition of mixed-media works by Justin Bowles. www.dixon.org.

Through Jan. 7, 2018.

“Made in Dixon,” exhibition showcasing the colorful and joy-filled artwork created by artists of all ages in the Dixon’s educational programs. www.dixon.org. Ongoing.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery

“Atmospheric Abstracts,” exhibition of abstract paintings

by Jaquita Phillips Ball. www. eacc.edu. Through Dec. 15.

EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR.

Eclectic Eye

“Skyward,” exhibition of ceramics and oil by Melissa Bridgman and Martha Kelly. www.eclectic-eye.com.

Through Dec. 29.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing.

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

“Lurkmoar,” exhibition of photographs, found objects, and written materials produced using a variety of processes for MFA thesis by Jesse DeLira. (678-2216), www.memphis.edu. Through Dec. 7.

“Still Strippin’,” exhibition of Fall 2017 BFA thesis work in a variety of media including painting and photography

by Devin Picchi, Amira Randolph, Kristin Smith, and Sadie Tomes. (678-2216), www.memphis.edu. Through Dec. 7.

3715 CENTRAL.

Fratelli’s

“From My Garden and Other Places by Zoe Nadal”, www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Dec. 2-Jan. 3.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Java Cabana

“Putting the Pieces Together,” exhibition of new paintings

by Erica McCarrens. Through Jan. 24, 2018.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Divisions,” exhibition of recent works by Pam Cobb. www.jayetkingallery.com.

Through Dec. 11.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

Gallery Artists Holiday Group Exhibition, www.lrossgallery.com. Dec. 1-31.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Marshall Arts Gallery

“The Forget Me Nots,” exhibition of works ranging from

large paintings to pedestal sculptures by Roger Allan Cleaves. (491-3647), www. marshallartsmemphis.org.

Through Dec. 8.

“Love of Art” and “Memphis,” exhibition of work by Nikki Gardner and Debra Edge by appointment only. (6479242), Ongoing.

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639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Winter Wonders,” exhibition of work by the Memphis Artists Group. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Dec. 1-Jan. 3.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Coming to America: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach, 1914-1945,” exhibition of sculptures. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through Jan. 7, 2018.

“About Face,” exhibition located in the Education Gallery highlighting the different ways artists interpret the connection between emotion and expression. www.brooksmuseum.org. Ongoing.

“Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis,” exhibition of works inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in southeastern Nigeria by Victor Ekpuk. www.brooksmuseum.org.

Ongoing.

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1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

2017 Fall BFA Thesis, exhibition of work from graduating seniors in the BFA program in conjunction with the Jan Hankins exhibit in the Alumni Gallery and the Creativity and Inclusivity exhibit in the Lower Gallery. www.mca.edu. Through Dec. 14.

“Creativity and Inclusivity,” exhibition of work created by artists from Memphis Center for Independent Living (MCIL), Shelby Residential and Vocational Services (SRVS), and Memphis College of Art. www.mca.edu.

Through Dec. 14.

Jan Hankins, www.mca.edu.

Through Dec. 14.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

“Everyday Objects: The evolution and innovations of Joseph Anderson,” exhibition of works by artist-blacksmith and sculptor highlighting utensils and functional objects. www.metalmuseum. org. Through April 22, 2018.

Master Metalsmith: David Secrest, exhibition by sculptor and blacksmith well known for his incorporation of textures and patterns in forged iron, fabricated steel and bronze sculptures, and furniture. www. metalmuseum.org. Through Dec. 31.

“The Tributaries: Zachery Lechtenberg,” exhibition of enameling techniques applied to jewelry and

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Nude Figure Drawing

6-8 pm Dec. 6

Opportunity for adults, Age 18+, to sketch the human figure from a live, nude model during Brooks’ fall exhibition, Coming to America: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman and Zorach, 1914-1945. Led by Sunny Montgomery. Free, no reservation required. Materials provided.

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illustration combined creating brightly colored cartoon style imagery. www.metalmuseum.org.

Through Jan. 14, 2018.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Mid-South Community College

“Horseshoe Lake: The Arkansas Delta Project,” exhibition of photographs by Jack Kenner. www. deltaarts.org. Through Nov. 30.

2000 W. BROADWAY, WEST MEMPHIS, AR ((870) 733-6722).

Overton Park Gallery

“Visual Poetry: Mundane Made Magical,” exhibition of photography by Jenn Billy Brandt. www. overtonparkgallery.com. Dec. 1-29.

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

Playhouse on the Square

“Wild in the City: Animals Real and Imagined,” exhibition of assemblages and paintings by Angi Cooper. www.playhouseonthesquare.org.

Through Dec. 31.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Ross Gallery

“Forgotten Fables and Footlong Fractals”, exhibition of works by Jimmy Crosthwait, including marionettes and Zen chimes, a series of pen-andink “maze” drawings, and sculptural pieces. www. cbu.edu/gallery. Through Dec. 6.

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

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum

“Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. Ongoing.

826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

“From Grandma’s Attic to Now,” exhibition of needlework by the Memphis Chapter of the Embroiderer’s Guild of America. www.stgchurch. org. Dec. 3-31.

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

Tops Gallery: Madison Avenue Park

“Man Finds Meteorites in His Yard (This Is Planet Earth),” exhibition of new works by Josef Bull.

Through Jan. 12, 2018.

151 MADISON (340-0134).

Village Frame & Art

“20th Century Memphis Photographs,” exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey and Virginia Schoenster, (767-8882), Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Gallery Artists, exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey, Virginia Schoenster, Lou Ann Dattilo, and Matthew Hasty. Ongoing.

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

WKNO Studio

“Somewhere In Time,” exhibition of photographs

by Karen Pulfer Focht featuring Memphis music images, smaller art, cards, and ornaments for sale. www.wkno.org. Through Nov. 30.

Bartlett Art Association, exhibition of work by Association members. www.wkno.org. Dec. 4-29.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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The timeless tale of Clara and her beloved Nutcracker. Traditional interpretation of this endearing holiday classic. $25-$35. Sat., Dec. 2, 5 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 3, 2 p.m.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483), WWW.ROUDNEVYOUTHBALLET.COM.

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Poetry Society of Tennessee Monthly Meeting, (3610077). First Saturday of every month, 2-4 p.m.

5094 POPLAR (682-1616).

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Booksigning by Darrell B. Uselton

Author discusses and signs Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Company.

Wed., Dec. 6, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by George Jared

Author discusses and signs Witches in West Memphis: The West Memphis Three and Another False Confession. Sat., Dec. 2, 2 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Larry Dodson

Author discusses and signs And the Band Plays On. Tues., Dec. 5, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Mike McCall

Author discusses and signs Catfish Days From Belzoni to the Big Apple. Sun., Dec. 3, 2 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Roger Kreuz

Author discusses and signs Getting Through. Fri., Dec. 1, 6 p.m.

November 30-December 6, 2017

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

Booksigning by Russell Johnson

Cancer Is a Drag: St. Jude Marathon Spirit Station

Author discusses and signs Memphis: Then and Now. Thurs., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m.

Cheer on the runners of the St. Jude Marathon and enjoy drag performances by Bella DuBalle and Freak Nasty. Vegan blueberry pancakes and bloody Marys will be served. Sat., Dec. 2, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

BURKE’S BOOK STORE, 936 S. COOPER (278-7484), WWW.BURKESBOOKS.COM.

Booksigning by the Society of Entrepreneurs

CROSSTOWN STORY BOOTH, 422 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW. CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Authors discuss and sign There’s Something in the Water. Thurs., Nov. 30, 6 p.m.

David Rogers’ Big Bugs

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

This nationally recognized traveling art exhibit features 10 giant wooden bug sculptures towering up to 18 feet tall.

Through Dec. 31.

Booksigning by Wesley, Roy Jr. and Alex Orbison Authors discuss and sign The Authorized Roy Orbison. Mon., Dec. 4, 6 p.m.

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

Distillery. Mon., Dec. 4, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

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City Tasting Tours

Savor tastings at five eateries, interact with chefs and managers, and sample local flavors while strolling down Main Street and enjoying new art installations and historic landmarks. WednesdaysSaturdays, 1:30 p.m.

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St. Jude Marathon Sat., Dec. 2, 8 a.m.

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Job Fair for Downtown Restaurant

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (901.264.5661).

Hiring all positions, front and back of house, for new restaurant opening in Old Dominic

Free. Sat., Dec. 2, 1:30-5 p.m.

Lamp Chop and Mallory Lewis

$15. Sun., Dec. 3, 2:30 p.m.

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“Pictures Tell the Story”

Students can reenact the historic “I Am A Man” photograph ad part of MLK50 Campaign.

School representatives must call the museum to schedule sessions. Through Dec. 31.

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Tennessee Shakespeare Company Education Programs

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Through June 30, 2018.

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Refreshments and good cheer provided. Open to members.

Visit website to become a member. Wed., Dec. 6, 4-6 p.m.

BARTLETT AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 2969 ELMORE PARK (3729457), WWW.BARTLETTCHAMBER.ORG.

Featuring an opportunity for students to participate in playshops, performances, and learn about TSC. For more

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

Freda Ward Marker Dedication Ceremony

Local LGBTQ advocates and historians Audrey May and Vincent Astor officiate blessing for 1892 murder victims. Visit website for more information.

Sun., Dec. 3, 2 p.m.

ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW.OUTMEMPHIS.ORG.

Friday Night Dance Party

Themed outdoor dance parties featuring illuminated dance floor, food vendors on site, and beer and wine available with a valid ID. Free. Fridays, 6-9 p.m.

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Mustard Seed Studio Holiday Show and Sale

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (6362362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Create holiday cards with Aundra McCoy on Saturdays, 3 p.m., and enjoy hat-making with Kay Durden on Sundays, 2 p.m. $20-$25 for workshops. Fridays, Saturdays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sundays, 1-7 p.m. Through Dec. 17.

Night Out With the Vets

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LGBTQ veterans will be offering up jello shots for a $1 donation each benefiting LGBTQ Veterans Alliance. $5. First Saturday of every month, 9 p.m.-midnight.

DRU’S PLACE, 1474 MADISON (870-740-2992), WWW. LGBTQVETERANSALLIANCE.COM.

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month Through Nov. 30.

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“A Spectacular Christmas!” $18. Sun., Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m.

LINDENWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 2400 UNION (4588506), WWW.LINDENWOODCC.ORG.

Starry Nights

Magic of the holidays brought to life through the drive-through display of twinkling holiday light displays, cozy campfires, and visits with Santa. $20 per car. Through Dec. 29, 6 p.m.

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Victorian Yuletide Open House

Sample some of Ireland’s finest whiskeys in a small group setting featuring four whiskeys to taste with a selection of appetizers. Thurs., Nov. 30, 7-9 p.m.

Free. Fri., Dec. 1, 5-8 p.m.

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Yule Market and Toy Drive

Handmade and vintage items and toy drive. Sat.Sun., Dec. 2-3, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

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Zoo Lights

$7 members, $9 nonmembers. Through Dec. 30, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Irish Whiskey Tasting Tour

CELTIC CROSSING, 903 S. COOPER (274-5151).

Memphis Magazine Readers’ Restaurant Poll

Make your love affair with Memphis food known. Visit website and vote on your favorite restaurants. Through Nov. 30.

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MEMPHIS ZOO, 2000 PRENTISS PLACE IN OVERTON PARK (333-6500), WWW.MEMPHISZOO.ORG.

Vesta Home Show: Home for the Holidays

Six homes showcasing the best in building, design, and technology. Through Dec. 10.

GERMANTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH, 9450 POPLAR (2607860), WWW.VESTAHOMESHOW.COM.

The Writers’ Block Literary Pop-Up Shop

Get up close and personal with local authors in the Greater Metropolitan area of Memphis and Texas. Sat., Dec. 2, 12-5 p.m.

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Bring a wrapped toy or cash donation for the cause. Snag a Stumblin’ Santa pint glass from November 18-December 2 benefiting Porter Leath. Sat., Dec. 2, 7 p.m.-2 a.m.

FLYING SAUCER DRAUGHT EMPORIUM, 130 PEABODY PLACE (523-8536), WWW.BEERKNURD.COM.

2017 Le Bonheur Holiday Tree Lighting

Featuring photos with Santa, holiday carols, Christmas crafts, cookies, hot chocolate, Le Bonheur Ornament Shop, and more as Le Bonheur patients light the tree with Magic Light Wands. Fri., Dec. 1, 5-7 p.m.

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Arkansas Symphony Orchestra: Home for the Holidays $25. Sat., Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m.

EACC FINE ARTS CENTER GALLERY, EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR, WWW.EACC.EDU.

Featuring Festival of Trees, Gingerbread Village, Model Train and Christmas Village, pictures with Santa, and Enchanted Forest Fridays when the sun goes down and the trees sparkle and shine. $6. Through Dec. 31.

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (6362362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Jingle Bell Ball

Children’s holiday gala featuring a winter wonderland. Benefits multiple organizations that help children with special needs. $15-$30. Sun., Dec. 3, 12:30-7 p.m.

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Lighting up the Season with Music

Benefit concert featuring live music, spokenword artist, dancers, and holiday shopping bazaar. Deborah Thomas will serve as mistress of ceremonies. $10 suggested donation. Sun., Dec. 3, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

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Memphis Chorale Presents a Christmas Festival Concert Free. Thurs., Nov. 30, 7-8 p.m.

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Showing Up Work by Pam Cobb.

Her work became more semi-abstract after she joined the Germantown Art League, where she remained until she went back to school at Memphis State University and got her master’s degree.

She sculpted and painted at MSU. “Most of it was fairly abstract, and most of it had to do with water.”

Over the years, Cobb taught at MSU, Shelby State Community College, and she founded the art department at Christian Brothers University.

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Her first of many Jay Etkin shows was in 1991.

She likes wooden doors. “I liked being able to mutilate the surface and dig into it and carve into it and everything. To this day, I paint on hollow-core doors that I get over at Home Depot. It’s not like a solid wood door. The door is like $25, and you can get more than one painting out of a door.”

She also did huge botanicals — like a painting of a geranium over gold leaf — and giant fruit.

Among the works in her new show are carvings made from 100-year-old wood. Most of the show is about “random vegetation. The carvings are about trees and water. Trees reflecting in the water, but you don’t even really see that.”

The show is “about the bayou. Out in the shallow areas around our little place at Pickwick, there’s all this random vegetation, and it just pops up here and there and I love it.”

Cobb found her mantra on TV. “My kids were watching The Jeffersons one morning in their pajamas in our den.

I was walking through the den and George Jefferson said something that has stayed with me most of my life. He said, ‘If you’re not going to leave your mark on the world, why show up in the first place?’ I have lived by that.”

Her legacy? “I want them to know that I want to wring out everything that is in me. I never want to stop.”

“Divisions” is on view through December 11th at Jay Etkin Gallery.

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am Cobb’s husband gave her a table saw for Christmas one year. He gave her a miter saw another year.

“I have this arsenal of tools you would not believe,” Cobb says.

She goes to Home Depot and buys doors and drill bits, but she’s not making home repairs. She’s making art.

Work by Cobb, who is exhibiting her paintings and sculptures at Jay Etkin Gallery, is included in corporate commissions in offices, banks, and lobbies, including the Westin Memphis Beale Street, and in public art projects, including her UrbanArt Commission sculptures at Cordova Library.

A Memphis native, Cobb took art class in grade school. “All they did was give us a piece of manila paper, and we had some crumbly crayons. I mean, that was the extent of the art.”

But she says, “I guess I realized early on that my pictures looked better than other people’s.”

Art was “just something I did with zero training.”

Her father “was a carpenter. Not by trade. But he built a room on the back of our house. He built a carport, patio.

And he didn’t have power tools. He cut the joists with a handsaw.”

Cobb helped. “I was handing him bricks when he was laying our patio.

And I just figured that’s what you did.

You grew up with your father building things. I have always felt extremely comfortable around tools.”

She met her husband when they were in college, where she was more interested in Alpha Gamma than acyclic oil. “I was sort of a proper sorority girl.”

Cobb majored in English, so she could teach school and put her husband through law school.

She began teaching in Fayette County after they were married. She taught art after her principal saw her do a giant frieze of a snow scene on butcher paper for her classroom. Her principal and some teachers also had her do portraits of their children. After school, she would “stay up at night and paint.”

Cobb began learning to paint from the owner of a Germantown art gallery after her husband graduated.

She began showing and selling her work — and winning awards — at outdoor festivals around the country.

“I was painting the obligatory wagon wheels and rustic things.”

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FOOD NEWS By Susan Ellis

Vegetable and Chickpea Balti

Raise the Bar News from the Brass Door and Pontotoc. ing, and equipment was updated. A new staff was hired. The Reillys sought to bring consistency to the pub’s hours, the service, and the food.

Some of the Brass Door’s tried-and-true favorites remain on the menu. The fried goat cheese is there, as are the hand-cut fries, Shepherd’s Pie, and the BELT sandwich.

One new dish is the Vegetable and Chickpea Balti. Balti is a Pakistani curry. This is Patrick’s nod to Birmingham, England’s soccer culture and its large Pakistani population.

They’ve also upped the Irish on their drinks menu. There’s Mangers Irish Cider and Murphy Goode wines. They’re also aiming to have the most extensive collection of Irish whiskeys in the city, including the Dubliner, Sexton, and Power’s John’s Lane. Among their speciality cocktails is the Caskmates Stout Pairing with Jameson Caskmates Stout mixed with Guinness and the Black Barrel Old Fashioned made with Jameson Black Barrel. There is, of course, Irish coffee.

One more thing: The Brass Door is now completely smoke-free, even the smaller side bar.

Deni says once word got out that they were

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he Gate Clock Bar in the Dublin airport is the place for those leaving Ireland to get their last real pint of Guinness. It was there, at around 6 a.m. some 15 years ago, that Patrick Reilly met Seamus Loftus. They were introduced by Patrick’s wife Deni.

A couple weeks ago, Loftus and the Reillys were at the bar at the Brass Door talking over, yes, a pint of Guinness. The Reillys, who own the Majestic Grille and run the Front Porch, were brought in as consultants to bring order at the Brass Door, which is owned by Loftus and Meg and Scott Crosby.

“It’s a selfish project for us,” says Deni. The Reillys felt a connection to the Brass Door. They loved the building, saw the potential. Downtown should have an Irish pub, they thought. A place where soccer fans can gather and watch the games. What the Brass Door needed, they believed, was just a little guidance.

“The team needed a new captain,” says Loftus.

“We found a new captain.”

The Brass Door, which had closed in July, reopened in early November. The pub was given a good clean-

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RAISE THE BAR reopening the place, she was flooded with texts and emails. “People have real feelings about this Irish pub.”

“It’s the old Door and the new Door,” Loftus says. “It’s the future and the past.”

Brass Door is open Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Thursday through Saturday, 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Special early-morning Saturday and Sunday hours for international soccer matches.

Daniel Masters has a lot on his plate these days. The owner of Silly Goose recently opened the jazz bar Pontotoc in the old Cafe Pontotoc space and is now making the finishing touches on Civil Pour, a bar inside the food hall South Main Market, which will have its grand opening on December 2nd.

Masters says that when the Cafe Pontotoc space opened up for rent, there was a lot of interest. He, for one, wanted a spot that was still downtown but a bit away from all the foot traffic where Silly Goose is located. He wanted spread his culinary wings a bit.

Masters is partnered with Jeremy Thacker-Rhodes and Matthew Thacker-Rhodes. They stuck with the name because they simply liked it. It means “land of hanging grapes” in Chickasaw.

Pontotoc opened in mid-October.

Chef Chris Yuer is in charge of the

kitchen. The menu can be described as Mississippi Southern: PBR Boiled Peanuts, Alligator Filet Fritters, Sister Schubert Beignet with sour cream gelato … There’s also duck confit, pot roast, and pork belly.

Pontotoc’s cocktail menu features the classics — Side Car, Manhattan, and Moscow Mule. And there are seasonal Old Fashioneds and Daiquiris. The winter Old Fashioned includes pecan bitters.

For the space, the owners carved a cute, sorta enclosed patio out front and brought in a large chandelier as a focal point for the interior. They took out a divider to make a larger dining space and covered up a window looking into the kitchen with a back mirror.

They added a piano, too, all the better for this jazz bar specializing in classic jazz from all eras. They’ll have live music Thursday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. and Friday through Saturday 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

As for Civil Pour, Masters says he’s still working on the identity of the place. He says he’s leaving the Jell-o shots at Silly Goose and is envisioning top-notch charcuterie plates and old school cocktails like a Sazerac made with French cognac.

Pontotoc is open Monday through Friday 4-11 p.m., and Saturday 2 p.m.midnight, and Sunday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

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bank” of the river Dordogne, in which case it’s reversed a bit with 70 percent Merlot and 15 percent Cabernets. The Brits call all of it a “claret” because they love to annoy the French. Penfold’s in Australia got its start making great French “style” wines down under and produce a Koonunga Hill Cabernet Merlot blend that is a nice stand-in for a Bordeaux with black currents and plum and a little oaky spice.

For a slightly earthier route, it’s hard to beat a Côtes du Rhône, which aren’t terrible expensive. By law, save a few small producers, Côtes du Rhônes are at least 40 percent grenache with at least 15 percent supplementary Mourdére and Syrah to finish out the blend. So just look for a grenache/Syrah blend, and you will have a good pretender for this stable of French wine.

A less “big” option, is a Beaujolais, which Karen MacNeil — who knows a lot more about wine than I do — described as the “the only white wine that happens to be red.” They tend to be light-bodied with a lot of fruit. The always trendy Beaujolais Nouveau is available only in the fall, and you aren’t doing it any favors by laying it up. Fortunately, standard Beaujolais are available all year round. They are largely made with the big, fruity gamay grape, but Beaujolais are made with a unique process called carbonic maceration, which involves fermenting the grapes in a carbon-rich environment before they are crushed. A good standin here would be to look for a gamay or a young Australian Shiraz. Or just open a bottle of gamay’s diva cousin, the Pinot Noir.

It’s worth noting that one of the reasons you hear a lot more about Pinot Noir is that the gamay was actually outlawed in 1395 by the Duke of Burgundy Phillippe the Bold for being “a very bad and disloyal plant.” And if that isn’t a reason to pop a cork of the stuff, I don’t know what is.

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y the time you read this, you will have mostly come out of that red wine- and tryptophan-induced coma into which you slipped sometime during the Detroit Lions’ game. While your post-meal memories might be a tad fuzzy, your motivation likely isn’t: That’s just what we do this time of year.

I’ve never been an unqualified fan of the hallowed holiday turkey, although my love of dressing is drastic.

For years, I’ve been trying to make lamb the go-to meal for the holidays on the grounds that it is so much better in every conceivable way. Since this genius has been largely ignored by both my family and in-laws, I’ve decided that if we are going to set the menu on autopilot with reliable standards, at least we can give a little more thought to our wine.

If white wine is your thing, that Chardonnay that you were drinking in the summer or the last fund-raiser you went to likely won’t stand up to that roast turkey or ham. Try a Pouilly-Fumé or a white Bordeaux as a dry and crisp alternative. Of course, it’s hard to beat Champagnes and sparkling wines for the holiday spirit.

For reds, a Bordeaux and a Côtes du Rhône are tasty on their own and play well with that rich holiday fare. If you like a little lighter style with more fruit, try a Beaujolais. These wines must come from their regions in eponymous France to be labeled, but if you know the varietals that go into these wines, you can get good pretenders from almost anywhere.

PouillyFumé and most white Bordeaux are made almost entirely out of Sauvignon Blanc grapes, so it’s easy to find a stand-in.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Candy Skulls Coco shows the secret to international success.

November 30-December 6, 2017

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ne of the biggest changes in the Hollywood film business is the increased importance of the international markets in studio balance sheets. It’s just not possible to make the math work on a $150 million budget (and the tens of millions of hidden dollars used for marketing and promotion) without selling a lot of tickets in Europe, Japan, South America, and, most importantly of all, China. Everybody likes explosions, good guys vs. bad guys, and sexy starlets. But there are some things that just won’t fly in Beijing — like comedies that are too dependent on the nuances of language. The complaint (which I frequently make) that big blockbusters have gotten stupider is only half true. In fact, they’ve just become easier to translate.

The chase for offshore money has inspired a number of strategies, such as releasing different cuts in different countries which feature more prominent roles for native language speakers, as happened in both Kong: Skull Island and Independence Day: Resurgence, resulting in crappy, disjointed editing.

But those results are considered a small price to pay for market flexibility, and the assumption is that white American audiences don’t want to watch Asian heroes and heroines. But it’s not just box office that the studios are after, it’s investment money, too. Attracting Asian capital by making Hollywood product designed for Asian audiences has led to such tone deaf debacles as Matt Damon fighting Mongol tentacle monsters in The Great Wall.

On the other hand, there’s Coco. The new film from Pixar is a master class in how to make stories with a definite cultural identity that have broad appeal to all audiences. Coco’s dual settings are Mexico and the hybrid Catholic/Mesoamerican afterlife hinted at by Dia de los Muertos iconography.

Putting a film in a holiday tradition is, of course, a time honored Hollywood trick that has brought us everything from Bing Crosby crooning “White Christmas” in Holiday Inn to Bruce Willis battling

terrorists in Die Hard.

Coco’s hero is Miguel, voiced by Anthony Gonzalez, a young boy born into the sprawling Rivera family. The clan’s stock and trade is shoemaking, a craft that has kept them afloat and prosperous for four generations. Miguel’s great grandmother Imelda (Alanna Ubach) was married to a musician who ran off to pursue his career after their daughter Coco (Ana Ofellia Murguía) was born. Ever since

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then, the family has operated on a strict no-music policy, forcefully enforced by Elana (Renee Victor).

But Miguel, naturally, loves music and has secretly become a skillful mariachi, and when he accidentally breaks a picture frame from the family’s Day of the Dead ofrenda, he discovers that his missing great grandfather probably became Mexico’s most famous musician, Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt).

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Coco is visually as sumptuous as anything Pixar or any other animation studio has ever produced. Director Lee Unkrich and the Pixar team of hundreds of animators of all possible specialities take complete advantage of the 4K format to bring sparkling lights and eye-popping color to every frame.

The facial animation, particularly when Miguel sings, is worlds better than even Unkrich’s last Pixar outing, Toy Story

3. Aside from the fact that virtually everyone involved is Latino, the story and characters are pretty standard Disney fare. Hector, for example, is basically a skeletonized Baloo the Bear from Jungle Book. But even if it’s formulaic, the formula is executed with love and care and extended to an audience which hasn’t had it before.

The wisdom of this strategy became obvious earlier this month, when it took Coco two weeks to become the highest grossing film in Mexican history. The real secret to making it in the globalized film market is there is no secret, just solid fundamentals and a dash of love.

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Can you believe (male politician, prominent businessman, or celebrity) (showed his penis to, inappropriately touched, or said repulsive things to) all those (women and/or girls, or men and/or boys)? We have to go with the Mad Libs format here for deadline’s sake, as the flood of sexual harassment and assault allegations washes up a new crop of creeps every day.

What a scary time it must be for men. Seeing their heroes fall, exposed as the predators they are — it must be so exhausting. Almost as exhausting as working twice as hard to earn half as much as less-qualified male colleagues who treat women like secretaries.

How does one live with the uncertainty as he awaits whatever bare-minimum consequence his behavior necessitates? It sounds downright frightening. Almost as frightening as walking alone at any time of day, right ladies?

It must be so unfair for men to have to answer for incidents that occurred 20, 40 years ago. Those were different times! Back then, men were men and gals weren’t allowed to wear pants. It’s almost as unfair as asking a victim “Were you drinking?” and “What were you wearing?” before “Are you okay?” even comes up.

Way to go, men. All these years, you could have been listening to women, treating us as equals instead of objects, and acting like civilized people whose mamas raised you right.

Now, the reckoning has arrived and the U.S.S. Patriarchy is on rough seas. You might be one of the “good guys,” but if you were surprised when every single woman you know shared a #MeToo story on Facebook, you are guilty by association. We’ve been trying to tell y’all, the filth is rampant. Now your favorite music, shows, and movies are tainted, and you can’t make Stuart Smalley jokes anymore. These are dark times indeed.

How do you cope in this brave new world, where all of a sudden it is NOT OKAY to casually strut around in an open bathrobe and honk-honk your co-workers’ breasts? Should you just adopt the “Mike Pence Rule” and avoid altogether the company of those temptresses who, as it turns out, do not inhabit this world merely for your pleasure? No. Instead of punishing women for your inability to act appropriately in mixed company, maybe just don’t be gross. We’re not going away, so figure it out, okay?

If “just don’t be gross” is too vague an instruction, here are some simple guidelines to follow.

First: If you think something might not be an appropriate thing to say, it probably isn’t. Ask yourself: Would I say this to my grandmother/a male friend/someone to whom I am not sexually attracted? If the answer is no, then you should definitely not say that. For example: “You cut your hair! It looks great!” is an acceptable way to compliment a friend, male or female, on a new haircut. Who doesn’t love a compliment? However, “You should call your mama and tell her thanks for giving you that ass” is not a compliment. It’s not okay. Creative, yes. Appropriate, no.

Second: Assume by default that nobody wants to see your sexual apparatus. Not on the street, not in your office, not in your car. Even if someone wants to, um, interact with it — she probably doesn’t want to see it even then. It’s not cute. Sorry.

Keep it to yourself. And definitely don’t send photos of it. 2a: If someone wants you to disrobe, you’ll know. These signals are hard to misinterpret. Pro tip: Err on the side of caution and keep your clothes on at all times.

Third: Don’t touch anyone without permission. Some people like to hug when they greet people or say goodbye. I think it’s a Southern thing. Not everyone’s okay with it, though. So just ask!

Say something like “It was so good to see you! Give me a hug!”

If the person says no, back off! If she obliges, give a brief polite hug. No hair-sniffing or putting your head on her shoulder or any weird stuff. This really isn’t complicated. The same thing goes for handshakes. No hand-kissing, no soft lingering two-handed business. Just shake hands like a person. Do not try to kiss anyone on the mouth. Finally, if you make an honest mistake — again, these situations usually can be avoided if you don’t presume everyone in the world wants to sleep with you — apologize immediately. Remember, don’t be gross. Hope that helps!

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Yesse Yavis, 8p. Sunday 12/2 - Brunch w/Titans v. Texans, 12p.

Paul Taylor’s Jazzorcism, 2 - 5p. Saturday 12/9 - Alvin Youngblood Hart, 8p Friday 12/15 - Mark Edgar Stuart, 8p Saturday 12/23 - Snowglobe, 8p

MEMPHIS ARTS COLLECTIVE HOLIDAY ARTIST MARKET Nov. 24-Dec. 24 • 1501 Union Ave. (near Kimbrough Towers).

Store Hours: Mon-Sat 10:30-6:30; Fri til 7:00, Sun 12-5. 901-833-9533 www.memphisartscollective.com