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BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN Editor SUSAN ELLIS Managing Editor JACKSON BAKER, MICHAEL FINGER Senior Editors TOBY SELLS Associate Editor CHRIS MCCOY Film and TV Editor ALEX GREENE Music Editor CHRIS DAVIS, MICHAEL DONAHUE MAYA SMITH, JOSHUA CANNON Staff Writers JESSE DAVIS Copy Editor JULIE RAY Calendar Editor

OUR 1505TH ISSUE 12.28.17 Last Wednesday night was a historical one for Memphis. Late in the afternoon, the city council passed a resolution selling two city parks to a recently created nonprofit group called Greenspace. Those two city parks just happened to have the city’s two remaining Confederate war memorial statues standing in them: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis. Within minutes of Mayor Strickland’s signing of the papers confirming the sale, the physical removal of the statues was underway. Word spread quickly through social media, and crowds gathered to watch the first of the statues — that of Forrest and his horse in Health Sciences Park — get lifted off his pedestal and taken away to an undisclosed location. Shortly thereafter, Jefferson Davis’ statue in Memphis Park downtown suffered the same fate. The moves set off a spirited reaction locally and drew national attention from the likes of The New York Times, the Washington Post, and several national news networks. I spent 20 minutes on the phone with a Times reporter who was seeking to get, as reporters are wont to do, the “mood” of the city. The mood — and reaction — hereabouts, to put it mildly, was mixed. A survey of comment sections on local media websites made that abundantly clear. Many Memphians, including me, were proud of their city for standing up to the Tennessee Historical Commission, which had at first denied the city’s request to take down the statues, then stone-walled and delayed further action with procedural moves. Their belief, and mine, is that the city — any city, really — should have the right to control its own parks, including the contents thereof. The city council, mayor, county commission, and even the governor had all expressed a similar opinion: They thought the city had a right to take down the statues. When the state continued to put sand in the gears of that process, the city found a creative work-around and did what it wanted — and honestly, what I suspect the majority of its citizens wanted. Those opposing the removal of the statues resurrected the usual arguments, the most common one being: You’re removing history. This is true, in a sense. In taking down the Forrest statue, the city was removing a historic monument to the Jim Crow era, one that was erected half a century after the Civil War to intimidate the city’s black residents. In taking down the Jefferson Davis statue, the city was removing “history” in the form of a statue that was erected in 1964, a century after the Civil War, at a time when the Civil Rights movement was riling the South. It was another middle finger to the city’s African-American majority by the white power structure in place at the time. So yeah, all those zillions of folks who got their history from walking past those two statues every day will have to settle for reading a book. Bummer. Meanwhile, the 65 percent of the city’s residents who, when they went to these city parks, had to look at monuments honoring men who fought a war to keep them in human bondage, will no longer have to do so. Another (very) common criticism was: “I guess now that the statues are taken down, all the city’s crime and poverty problems will go away.” No, they won’t. But we’re N E WS & O P I N I O N working on it. And those of us who are THE FLY-BY - 4 committed to this city — black and white NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 and brown — are trying to pull together POLITICS - 8 to lift Memphis, one step at a time. This EDITORIAL - 10 city is rising and changing. Get behind it, VIEWPOINT - 11 or get out of the way. COVER - “2018 — THE YEAR AHEAD” I was also struck by the fact that many BY FLYER STAFF - 12 of the comments on various websites NEW YEAR’S GUIDE- 16 denigrating the city’s decision came AFTER DARK - 18 from people who don’t live here, and/ MUSIC - 20 or have moved away. The tone was often CALENDAR - 21 something to the effect of: “I’m so glad I FOOD - 24 moved away from that place.” To which SPIRITS - 25 I humbly respond: At least we agree on FILM - 26 something. C L AS S I F I E D S - 28 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 31 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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DAM M IT, GAN N ETT! The Commercial Appeal’s been going through changes since its acquisition by media giant Gannett Co. Layoffs were followed by an announcement that the company will sell the paper’s longtime home at 495 Union. Reduced security and shortened business hours prompted an ominous staff memo from Executive Editor Mark Russell: “If you are worried about working in your department alone after, say, 6 or 7 p.m., please consider leaving at 5 to work from a coffee shop, home, or some other location …”

A few months later, The Commercial Appeal honored Memphis’ best workplaces by handing out plaques with pictures of Nashville on them. TH E B I G O N E! The year’s most pulse-pounding local news spot was WREG’s story of a grandmother risking everything to save her grandchild from the terrifying maw of a five-foot hole. “It seems shallow, but there’s much more to this hole than what meets the eye,” a WREG reporter said of the five-foot hole. “All I could say was ‘Lord, take me and not my grandchild,’” Grandma said. By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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Protests, the Aquifer, and Statues We took to the streets, a water war raged, and Jeff and Nathan came down. JAN UARY Citizens and stakeholders debated a plan that would expand Turner Dairy in Midtown. Planning work got underway to design a new parking lot for the Memphis Zoo, which would end parking on the Overton Park Greensward. Environmentalists here protested the nomination of Scott Pruitt, Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Students from the University of Memphis, Christian Brothers University, LeMoyne-Owen College, and Rhodes College walked out of classes, protesting the inauguration of President Donald Trump. More than 3,000 marched from the D’Army Bailey Court House to the National Civil Rights Museum Saturday in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington. The Sierra Club and Protect Our Aquifer filed a lawsuit to challenge the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) plan to drill wells into the source of Memphis’ drinking water. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland convened a task force to develop the Memphis riverfront. Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) CEO Ron Garrison resigned following his arrest for allegedly patronizing a prostitute.

what leaders called a “historic transformation” of the paper. AP R I L State wildlife officials responded to a sighting of a bear in North Memphis. Officials unveiled a $214 million, four-year plan to modernize Memphis International Airport. Wiseacre Brewing chose not to expand in the Mid-South Coliseum. MAY The “Tom Lee Storm” left 188,000 homes without power, the third-largest event in Memphis history. United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with Memphis leaders, drawing a protest. Jared McLemore, local audio engineer and musician, committed suicide by setting himself on fire at Murphy’s. Novel, a new bookstore with local investors, announced it would take over some of the old Booksellers space in Laurelwood. Louis Graham resigned as editor of The Commercial Appeal.

JUNE Mark Russell was named the new executive F E B R UARY editor of The Commercial Appeal. Thousands marched to the National Civil Tropical Storm Cindy left more than 8,500 Rights Museum to protest executive orders on Memphians marched (top); without power. immigration and refugees signed by Trump. and city officials proposed Gannett Co. announced it would sell The changes for the Coliseum. The project to put apartments and retail Commercial Appeal office building at 495 space on the site of the shuttered hotel at Union Union. and McLean re-emerged. MATA officials promised trolleys would return later in the Memphis Police Department director Michael Rallings summer. defended the use of a so-called “blacklist” of people who had to ServiceMaster officials opened the first portion of its new be escorted inside city hall. building in the Peabody Place mall. Plans to build “I Am A Man Plaza” emerged from the The “Tom Lee Storm” caused about $15.1 million in UrbanArt Commission (UAC) and the city of Memphis. damages. Trolley testing began and MATA officials said they’d be back within 12 months. J U LY Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) found no detectable MAR C H traces of arsenic or lead in drinking-water wells close to where Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich took a the TVA found groundwater toxins. private reprimand for her conduct in the murder trial of Noura Plans emerged for a 108-unit apartment complex to be built Jackson. on the corner of Madison and McLean. Club owner/deejay Robert Raiford passed away. Chicago-based Studio Gang unveiled its plan for a connected City leaders said they would continue to push for the removal Memphis riverfront. of the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue. continued on page 6 Nearly 20 were laid off at The Commercial Appeal, beginning

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continued from page 4 Terrence Patterson resigned his post as president and CEO of the Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC). Restaurateur Ronnie Grisanti passed away. AU G UST Memphis in May brought a $111.9 million economic impact to Memphis. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam urged members of the Tennessee Historical Commission (THC) to act on Memphis’ request to remove the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Crosstown Concourse opens. Graceland leaders proposed a new $50 million, 6,200seat arena. Though, the leaders pulled the proposal after pressure from the Memphis Grizzlies. Memphis City Council members were presented four options for the removal of the Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis Protestors held rallies around the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue. City officials re-opened a planning process for the MidSouth Fairgrounds. Plans were revealed for a $70 million project to turn historic properties in the Edge district into residence, office, and retail spaces. S E PTE M B E R The Tennessee Historic Commission (THC) said it would not vote on removing the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue during its October meeting. Gary Rosenfeld was named MATA’s new CEO. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art officials

announced that they were considering moving the museum from its 101-year home in Overton Park. Loeb Properties got a $3.3 million tax break to build a $24.2 million hotel in Overton Square. More than 150 faith leaders signed a letter supporting the removal of the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue. Renovation work began on the Cook Convention Center after the council approved $21 million for the project. MLGW officials said some 40,000 homes and businesses lost power in the wake of Tropical Depression Harvey. O CTO B E R Memphis College of Art (MCA) officials announced the school would close. Amazon won $15 million in tax breaks for a distribution center that would employ 600. The city council called for backup plans if the city’s waiver with the THC was voted down. A freshwater aquarium was pitched as a new attraction for Mud Island River Park, as the council considered a tourism development zone (TDZ). The THC voted down Memphis’ waiver request to remove the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue. The University of Memphis started construction of a land bridge, amphitheater, and parking garage, part of its $66 million Master Campus Plan. A new advisory team was announced to lead the project to expand the zoo’s parking lot and end Greensward parking. The city council offered Amazon $50 million if would locate its new headquarters here.

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N OV E M B E R Bill Cosby’s star was removed from the sidewalk in front of the Orpheum Theatre. Council members weighed a move to allow open containers of alcohol on Main Street. An adminstrative judge was set hear the city’s request to move the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue. The council asked the mayor for a back-up plan. MLGW announced new, higher utility rates for 2018. Jennifer Oswalt was chosen as the new president and CEO of the DMC. Elvis Presley Enterprises said it would challenge the Memphis Grizzlies’ non-compete agreement that is blocking it from adding a concert hall to Graceland. Owners of the Windjammer Restaurant and Lounge announced it would close. The council ended the Beale Street Bucks program. City officials said they would mothball the Mid-South Coliseum in a new, $160 million redevelopment project that would transform the Mid-South Fairgrounds as a youth sports destination. D EC E M B E R Trump priorities fueled the arrest of 20 undocumented workers here. Ground broke on the I Am A Man Plaza. Billy R. Turner was indicted for the Lorenzen Wright murder. Wright’s wife, Sherra, was also arrested in connection to the crime. MATA said the return of the vintage, steel-wheeled trolley will be delayed until April 2018. Statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis came down after city officials sell Health Sciences Park and Memphis Park to a nonprofit group. Treat the condition- Transform your life! Are you dependent or addicted to •painkillers •opiates •methadone •heroin?

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For politics, 2017 was a year of numerous preamble events that will continue as major influences in Election Year 2018. in the year, but the mayor was considered by many to be a tacit supporter of, or at least acquiescent in, the council’s unanimous decision at year’s end (angering a significant corps of activists) to re-submit for a new referendum an experiment in Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), planned for the 2019 election cycle and authorized by a prior referendum of the city electorate in 2008. Meanwhile, Luttrell and the county commission were able to agree on a few matters in the course of the year, including the establishment of new, more inclusive standards for contracting with locally owned small businesses (LOSBs) and enterprises operated by women or minorities (MWBEs). And the two branches of county government were able to concur on a 2017-18 fiscal budget that contained both employee pay raises and a modest decrease in the property-tax rate. Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell was locked into a power struggle with the County Commission for most of 2017. But the year also saw the continuation — and, in some ways, the worsening — of an ongoing power struggle between the county mayor and the commission. Stemming originally from disagreements about the disposition of surplus county funds in fiscal 2015-16, the schism had come by 2017 to be a no-holds-barred dispute over essential prerogatives and the balance of power itself. One objective desired by a bipartisan commission majority was the appointment, after the model of the Memphis City Council, of an attorney who would function at the service of the commission alone. This aim was foiled by the administration, which cited the county charter as calling for the county attorney, a mayoral appointee, to represent both the executive and legislative branches. Unsurprisingly, County Attorney Kathryn Pascover concurred. As a stopgap, the commission was allowed to employ

On the state front, the General Assembly was moved, after extensive debate and compromise, to approve an increase in the state gasoline tax proposed by Governor Bill Haslam as a means of pursuing overdue improvements in roadways and other aspects of state infrastructure. The Republican-dominated legislature, often given to silliness and parochialism, acted constructively in other ways as well. Turned back — at least for the session — were a bill that would confine transsexuals to bathrooms of their birth gender, a “natural marriage” proposal aimed at invalidating same-sex unions, and an “open carry” gun bill. Other questionable bills did make it through the filter of common sense, however — including one, billed as a hearing-protection measure, that would allow unbridled sale of silencers for firearms. And on the session’s last day, a fateful measure obliging Memphis to submit a de-annexation plan on short order or submit to a Draconian plan of the rural-dominated legislature’s devising made it through both chambers. Those are some highlights of the political year, and many of them will continue to cast their shadow on election year 2018, as matters unfold.

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So they are gone now — finally — the misguided memorials to Nathan Bedford Forrest, soldier, KKK leader, and slave trader, and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Their images have been removed, not by outside edict — in fact, contrary to outside edict — but by the clear and obvious will of the local populace. The strategy of selling the parks to a nonprofit group, which, in turn, would remove the offending statues had been under consideration for months, though the city’s leaders had meanwhile gone through the hoops prescribed by the state, dutifully and patiently. It had become evident, though, that, in this case as in many, many others, the concepts of local option and home rule itself were going to be smothered in bureaucracy and thwarted by the domineering machinery of state government. Given next year’s oncoming 50th anniversary commemoration of Martin Luther King’s mortal sacrifice here, it was not to be tolerated that Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis should be allowed to continue in their perches of honor and their symbolic oversight of the city and its physical horizons. Not only city and county government and a spirited group of activists led by the likes of Tami Sawyer and Earle Fisher, but a broad consensus of the population at large had made clear their determination to do an about-face on the discredited past and to head into the duration of the 21st century and beyond with what Abraham Lincoln termed a “new birth of freedom.” Or, as Mayor Jim Strickland put it in announcing last week’s action: “The statues no longer represent who we are as a modern, diverse city with momentum.

As I told the Tennessee Historical Commission in October, our community wants to reserve places of reverence for those we honor. … Though some of our city’s past is painful, we are all in charge of our city’s future. Black and white, young and old — every single one of us. That’s the symbolism for which I want this day to be remembered.” It remains to be seen what future statuaries or memorials, if any, will take the place of these repudiated ones, but there is a measure of honor to be shared in the present — by the mayor and public officials and citizen activists. And even, to a certain extent, by those elsewhere, such as outgoing Governor Bill Haslam and various candidates for office, who at least lent their rhetorical support to the cause of human justice and to the power of people at ground level to control their destiny and shape their community’s public spaces. There should be no recriminations against those who resisted this overdue change and profess themselves saddened by it. As Strickland said, “we are all in charge of our city’s future,” and the march forward should exclude none. In removing the images of reactionary sectarianism, we have at last opened the way for all of us to progress together. As Dr. King said in his “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, delivered at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, “Free at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

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Cynics see the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe as one of the great hoaxes in history. The lessons from Alabama are simple and clear: People who have been pushed to the margins in a political system that favors the rich and the well-connected can and will fight back. People don’t need Moore’s brand of disapprobation and false moralism. They need better public schools, a higher minimum wage, and wider access to effective, affordable health care. The 16th century Mexican miracle taught resignation after an overwhelming military defeat followed by the gradual development of a new sociopolitical structure. The December 12, 2017 miracle in Alabama offers a different set of lessons. It shows people will organize and resist through the established political process. When astoundingly unfit candidates appear, it’s only a matter of time before the voters make them disappear. Michael J. LaRosa is a Rhodes College professor.

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Moore’s loss is still nothing short of miraculous. Few people expected Moore, an Evangelical Christian dogged by sexual abuse allegations, to lose. But the voters there were more motivated by Christ’s “Sermon on the Mount” than the candidate’s mandates against gay people and against Muslims. And then there’s the truly zany speech by Kayla Moore on the eve of the election when she told a bemused crowd, “One of our attorneys is a Jew!” The statement — the delivery — must have been lifted from central casting on a Mel Brooks movie set. But it wasn’t. The strong turnout and organization by the state’s AfricanAmerican voters was no miracle. It was the result of a fed up electorate unwilling to accept Moore in the U.S. Senate. With 26 percent of the state’s population, these voters delivered Doug Jones’ victory and left Moore seething. He has yet (as of this writing, on December 20th) to concede the race.

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The Virgin of Guadalupe and Roy Moore’s political defeat in Alabama are two miracles that share more than a common date. Guadalupe appeared December 12, 1531, in Mexico, and some 486 years later, people there, in Central America and even parts of the southwestern United States still give thanks for her 16th-century intercession. Two weeks ago, on the Day of the Virgin, much of the U.S. and the world breathed a sigh of relief when Judge Moore’s planned ascendance to the U.S. Senate was interrupted by the electorate. While election clerks counted ballots in Alabama, our city’s changing and dynamic demography was on full display at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Central Avenue. The packed cathedral celebrated the apparition of the Virgin with songs, prayer, processions, and a Catholic mass spoken and sung solely in Spanish. Rev. Francisco González, an auxiliary bishop from Spain who is based in Washington, D.C., delivered a sermon that was peaceful yet political. He reminded the crowd that “God doesn’t ask for a Green Card when he invites you into Heaven.” On a cold Tuesday night, the warmth and tranquility within the building was moving, memorable — particularly to this writer, a lapsed Catholic of divergent doctrine, beyond redemption. According to legend, Guadalupe, the Virgin Mary incarnate, appeared to a poor boy named Juan Diego on a hillside outside Mexico City. She arrived in Mexico at a time of existential political crisis, exactly 10 years after the Aztec Empire collapsed due mainly to a Spanish military incursion. Through Juan Diego, she instructed the Mexican people to persevere, and to accept the new social order with resignation. By today’s standards, that message sounds defeatist. Cynics see the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe as one of the great hoaxes in history. Others offer a more nuanced view and accept the Virgin as part of the long term restructuring of society that continues to this day. Miraculously, Mexico has held together, for better or worse, since the Virgin’s visit 486 years ago. Some of the same dynamics were present in Alabama, where

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BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT No franchise can deliver a blockbuster year after year, and while 2018 won’t see the opening of a Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid or a Crosstown Concourse, there is plenty of boom on the horizon. Central Station: Maybe the biggest development on the Memphis landscape next year will be the reopening of Central Station on South Main. Back in March 2015, Archie Willis, president of Community Capital, and Henry Turley, CEO of the Henry Turley Co., revealed a $55 million plan to the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) to transform its 103-year-old train station and surrounding area into a boutique hotel, restaurant, bar, and more. The project has also brought new apartments to the South Main area on the station’s campus. Dirt is now being moved on a five-screen Malco movie theater there, too. Officials hope to have the new Central Station opened by summer 2018.

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Tourism Development Zones: City officials went on a Tourist Development Zone (TDZ) blitz late this year. They hope to score a new TDZ for a $160-million re-development of the Mid-South Fairgrounds into a recreation and sports hub. They also hope to change an existing TDZ for downtown to include the Memphis riverfront, in order to build — possibly — an aquarium on Mud Island and a new home for the Brooks Museum of Art on Front Street, among other things. State officials were slated to

review these plans late this year and in early 2018. Other projects: Look for two new apartment buildings that will transform the corners of Madison and McLean, and Union and McLean. Work may begin next year on a plan to transform The Edge district, with a $70 million project that includes apartments, offices, and retail spaces. Dirt will be moved all around the University of Memphis campus next year, as the school follows its $66 million, five-year master plan that includes a new music hall, a land bridge over Southern Avenue, a parking garage, and more. Finally, you’re likely to see some big changes as you jet in and out of Memphis International Airport next year. Work is slated to begin on MEM’s $214 million plan to modernize its concourse. — Toby Sells RESTAURANTS AND DINING One of the most anticipated openings of 2018 is the Gray Canary in the Old

Dominick Distillery. It was a stroke of genius to recruit Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman for the job. The pair are concentrating on an open-fire concept. From the press release: “It’s a technique-driven restaurant, where we get to explore every style of cooking with fire, from flame to ember to smoke to ash.” It’s set to open in January. Chef Ryan Trimm will be in the kitchen at 117 Prime, a new steakhouse slated to open in spring at 117 Union, formerly the site of Belle Diner. The goal of 117 Prime is “to bring a traditional old-school-style steakhouse to downtown Memphis,” says Johnny Lawrence, director of operations for Across the Board restaurant group, which also includes Sweet Grass, Next Door, and Sunrise. The restaurant may be old-school, but it won’t look old-school. “The steakhouse is going to be a very elegant space, but we’re going to steer away from the ‘going into the steakhouse and it’s so dark in there you have to use a flashlight to read the menu.’” Their restaurant will be “light,

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POLITICS For the first time in many years, the preview of the coming year in politics will offer a plethora of competitive primaries and statewide races involving name candidates in both parties. No fewer than seven candidates — several of them with decent financial

I Am A Man Plaza backing and prospects — will be vying for the Republican nomination for governor in 2018, to succeed termlimited two-term GOP Governor Bill Haslam. Suiting out for this battle royal are Haslam’s former Commissioner of Economic Development, Randy Boyd; 4th District U.S. Representative Diane Black; state House of Representatives Speaker Beth Harwell; former state Senator Mae Beavers; former Trump campaign official Kay White; and Nashville-area businessman/rancher Bill Lee.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING OUR MANY MEMPHIS FRIENDS REAL SOON! Democrats, who now constitute the minority party in Tennessee and who in recent years have fielded noname candidates for state office, are attempting a rebound with two solid starters in their own gubernatorial primary: former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and state House minority leader Craig Fitzhugh. It appeared for a while that

Democrats might also manage a competitive primary for the U.S. Senate being vacated by Bob Corker, but Nashville lawyer and Iraq war vet James Mackler, a promising newcomer, finally saw discretion as the better part of valor and withdrew in favor of Phil Bredesen when the former Nashville mayor and two-term governor, the last Democrat to win statewide office, offered himself as a standard-bearer to his fellow partymates just before Christmas. As befits their majority-party status, Republicans will see a race featuring two serious candidates — 7th District U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn and former 8th District Congressman Stephen Fincher, with several wannabes filling out the ballot list. The local ballot has some fascinations, as well — with Shelby County Commissioner Terry Roland, County Trustee David Lenoir, and Juvenile Court Clerk Joy Touliatos competing for the GOP nomination for county mayor, while state Senator Lee Harris hopes to capture the Democratic nomination without a serious foe but, at year’s end was having to keep an anxious eye on the possibility of a race by Bartlett Bank president and former state representative Harold Byrd. Meanwhile, former city councilman and current Memphis Chamber of Commerce official Shea Flinn continues to hint at a race for county mayor as an independent.

Beyond these marquee races, the year promises some stout legislative tangles and at least one controversial referendum for city voters — a rerun of the successful 2008 referendum authorizing Instant Runoff Voting — in time for the Memphis city election of 2019. — Jackson Baker WHAT’S NEW DOWNTOWN The “I Am A Man” Plaza near Clayborn Temple is slated to open in conjunction with the citywide recognition of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination in Memphis. To commemorate the occasion, the National Civil Rights Museum will hold a two-day speaker symposium, followed by a time of musical and spoken tributes, and finishing with An Evening of Storytelling where living civil rights activists tell their stories of fighting social and racial inequality. The weekend of events will be themed on King’s final book, Where Do We Go From Here? The focal point of the commemoration will be the art plaza on the corner of Hernando and Pontotoc. The interactive art installation will acknowledge the historical significance of Memphis, the sanitation workers’ strike, and King in the Civil Rights Movement, while continued on page 14 COVER STORY m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

bright, airy, and open.” Crosstown Concourse has already added plenty to the culinary landscape, but it isn’t done. Hoping to open in late January is the Crosstown Brewery. The brewery was originally supposed to be inside the concourse, but that would have required removing one of the building’s necessary beams, so they opted for building an adjacent space west of the concourse. They hope to have the beer available around that same time. Set to open in March is Elemento Neapolitan Pizza, at the front of the building near the Next Door Eatery. Cocktail-centric space Atomic Tiki, with island-style food and drinks, is opening early in the year on Overton Park. Coming next spring is Hopdoddy, the Texas-based burger chain. The Memphis restaurant will serve the bleeding, plant-based Impossible Burger. Hattie B’s, the Nashville hot chicken place, is set to open in the old Curb Market spot on Cooper in early April. There will be seating for about 120 (with 60 of that outdoors), plus a cool retro design. Says Nick Bishop Sr., coowner, Hattie B’s Hot Chicken, “We are so excited about our Memphis opening in early spring. It’s such an honor for all of us at Hattie B’s to be a part of the community, and we look forward to seeing our many Memphis friends and meeting new hot chicken lovers real soon!” Eastward, the restaurant group behind Rec Room, Railgarten, Loflin Yard, and Bounty on Broad is planning something at 525 South Highland. Expected to open this winter. — Michael Donahue & Susan Ellis

continued from page 13 providing visitors interactions with art that inspires them to stand up for social justice and positive change. Vintage Trolleys: It’s been a long time coming, but the vintage trolleys are set to return to the Main Street tracks in April. And when they do, the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s CEO Gary Rosenfeld says, they will be much safer than the previous fleet of trolleys, which were discontinued after fires and other safety issues in 2014. The 100-year-old trolley cars are being reengineered from top to bottom, which includes new wiring, brakes, and tires. Alcohol on Main: You might soon be able to get off the trolley, buy a beer, and walk the length of Main sipping it, as the Memphis City Council is considering an amendment to a city ordinance that would allow just that. On January 9th, the council will take the third and final vote on whether to allow open plastic containers of beer, wine, and liquor on Main from E.H. Crump to A.W. Willis. — Maya Smith MUSIC

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As I scan the horizon ahead through the holiday haze, I spy 2018 sending up flares. Let’s look first to the live music scene. Ring in the new year with Quintron & Miss Pussycat at the Hi-Tone. Fast on their heels, the new year will offer sounds of the old, weird America, as our beloved Dead Soldiers do a set at Buckman Arts — a great space for listeners — while J.D. Wilkes

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will get so creaky-stompy at Lafayette’s Music Room that televisions may flicker. Meanwhile, Hi-Tone will host its Za Fest IV, rocking out and inward with edgy and/or emo music by Ten High, Faux Killas, Alyssa Moore, and others. January will also see an influx of blues players both famous and unknown, at the International Blues Challenge. This winter, expect a flurry of world class jazz, as the Germantown Performing Arts Center hosts Russell Hall, Storm Large, and John Scofield, capped off with the inventive and soulful Joe Restivo on February 9th. Shading into classical, Branford Marsalis will soon after be appearing with Memphis’ Iris Orchestra. The new listening room at Crosstown Arts is on every music fan’s mind, and I’m assured it will be open in 2018; meanwhile, their old space across Cleveland will host the intriguing Afrospace event, featuring “intergalactic sounds of the African diaspora” including Spekulate the Philosopher and others. Later in January, Crosstown will see a crack jazz quartet pay tribute to Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. A more dread beat will kick off 2018 at the New Daisy when Bob Marley’s original backers, the Wailers, take the stage, still boasting bassist Aston “Familyman” Barrett and guitarists Julian Junior Marvin and Donald Kinsey. And, dominating the skyline

in far-distant March, we’ll have George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic — start charging your flashlights. A month later, Mississippi’s Big K.R.I.T. will bring his politically conscious rap to the venue. As for local underdogs going global, the great Oblivians will reunite twice next year — at the Debauch-A-Reno (yes, in Nevada) in April and at the Primavera Sound festival (yes, in Barcelona) in June. Meanwhile, all our favorite dives, clubs, and house show hosts are gearing up for untold delights, and check the smartly-curated lineup for the River Series at Harbor Town when the nights get balmy. — Alex Greene

THE NEW LISTENING ROOM AT CROSSTOWN ARTS IS ON EVERY MUSIC FAN’S MIND. FILM The first interesting release of 2018 is on January 12th, with Proud Mary, Taraji P. Henson’s solo debut as a kickass blackspoiltation heroine. I have high hopes for that one. The same day sees Steven Spielberg’s The Post, the story of the Pentagon Papers, starring Meryl Streep as Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham, show in Memphis, and the advance word is extremely good. The next weekend, the highly acclaimed love story Call Me By Your Name hits town. After awards season calms down, we’ll get the year’s first Marvel movie, the highly anticipated Black Panther. And then everybody’s favorite softcore lifestyle porn series ends with Fifty Shades Freed. Whoopee! March looks pretty packed with Ava

DuVernay’s adaptation of the beloved science fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time, and Wes Anderson’s star-studded, stop motion, pup-stravaganza Isle of Dogs. Spielberg’s dive into metafiction, Ready Player One, could either work wonders or die in the Tomb of Horrors. April looks quiet, with only the potentially goofy Super Troopers 2 to provide laughs on 4/20, but the summer blockbuster season blows up early with Avengers: Infinity War on May 4th. Then geeks get to see if Kathleen Kennedy and Ron Howard successfully saved the troubled Solo: A Star Wars Story on May 25th. We crash into June with Deadpool 2, the all female heist picture Ocean’s 8, Pixar superhero sequel The Incredibles 2, Jurassic Kingdom, and Best of Enemies co-director Morgan Neville’s must-see Mr. Rogers documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? July 4th gives us Marvel’s Ant Man and the Wasp, before we will be asked to pretend to care about Mission Impossible 6, long gestating anime adaptation Atilla: Battle Angel, and the aptly named Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again! From there, things get hazy. The Coen Bros were brought in to save Universal’s Scarface remake, so keep your fingers crossed in August. There’s a Robin Hood reboot from Lionsgate in September. October opens big with Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born, Damien Chazelle directing Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in First Man, and Jamie Lee Curtis returning to the Halloween franchise. In November, we have another retelling of the X-Men: Dark Phoenix saga with Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner as Jean Grey, for which I feel 0 percent anticipation, and J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. The big year-end offerings will be Spider Man: Into the Spiderverse, Mortal Engines, Aquaman, and finally, the Freddy Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Will 2018 clear the high bar set by 2017’s film releases? Only one way to find out — go to the movies. — Chris McCoy

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule December 28 - January 3 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

The King Beez Thursdays, 5:30 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.

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

Blue Note Bar & Grill

Handy Bar

341-345 BEALE 577-1089

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

Blues City Cafe

Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

200 BEALE 527-2687

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

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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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.

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

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Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

162 BEALE 521-1851

Titanium Blue Thursday, Dec. 28.

126 BEALE 529-0007

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

King’s Palace Cafe David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe

138 BEALE 526-3637

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.

King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

BLACKOUT Sunday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.

162 BEALE 521-1851

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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,

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Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Friday, Dec. 29, 5:30-8:30

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule December 28 - January 3 Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Tuesday, Jan. 2, 9 p.m.; Animal Sounds, Geist, Jrew Wednesday, Jan. 3, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Royal Blues Band Sunday, Dec. 31, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.; The Rusty Pieces Sunday, Dec. 31, 8-11 p.m.

Center for Southern Folklore Hall

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Cowboy Mouth Thursday, Dec. 28, 9 p.m.; Amber McCain Band Friday, Dec. 29, 6:30 p.m.; John Nemeth Friday, Dec. 29, 10 p.m.; Avon Dale Saturday, Dec. 30, 6:30 p.m.; Amelia Eisenhauer

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Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

The Showboats Friday, Dec. 29, 8 p.m.; Graham Winchester & The Ammunition Friday, Dec. 29, 10 p.m.; Liberty Bowl Railgating Saturday, Dec. 30; Juke Joint Duo with Cedric Burnside and Lightenin’ Malcolm with R.L. Boyce Saturday, Dec. 30, 8 p.m.; NYE Free For All with Southern Avenue, Star & Micey, Stax Academy Alumni Band, Mark Edgar Stuart Quartet, DJ Pressure World Sunday, Dec. 31; Bowl Games Railgating Monday, Jan. 1.

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.

Cordova

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Huey’s Cordova

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Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Brian Johnson Saturday, Dec. 30, 8 p.m.; Natchez Brothers Sunday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

The Brian Johnson Band Sunday, Dec. 31, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Frayser/Millington Huey’s Millington 8570 US 51 NORTH,

Vintage Sunday, Dec. 31, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

Zeke Johnson Saturday, Dec. 30, 8-10 p.m.

Toni Green’s Palace 4212 HWY 51 N

Toni Green’s Palace MondaysSundays, 7 p.m.; Live DJ Thursdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Nancy Apple Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks & Her Assets Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Bobbie & Tasha Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Germantown Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Premiere Palace

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, Dec. 31, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

629 MONROE 725-5625

Glo Gala: Black & White Affair/ New Years Eve Celebration Sunday, Dec. 31, 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m.

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Big George Brock plays New Year’s Eve at Hambone Art Gallery Sunday, Dec. 31, 8 p.m.midnight.

Ghost River Brewing 827 S. MAIN 278-0087

Sunday Evening with Crockett Hall Sunday, Dec. 31, 5-7:30 p.m.

Landers Center (DeSoto Civic Center) 4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-280-9120

Holiday Hip Hop Festival Thursday, Dec. 28, 7:30-11 p.m.; Xscape, The Great Xscape Tour Saturday, Dec. 30, 7:30-11 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Disco Night with DJ Damp Velour Thursday, Dec. 28; NYE party with Marcella & Her Lovers Sunday, Dec. 31.

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel

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

The Isley Brothers Thursday, Dec. 28, 8-11 p.m.

The Cove

7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Huey’s Southaven

2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz w/ Ed Finney, Deb Swiney & David Collins Frog Squad Thursday, Dec. 28, 8-11 p.m.; Madison Blue Friday, Dec. 29, 9 p.m.; Risky Whiskey Boys Saturday, Dec. 30, 9 p.m.; New Year’s w/ David Collins & Frog Squad Sunday, Dec. 31, 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m.; Russel Lee Weaver Monday, Jan. 1, 6-9 p.m.; Ben MindenBirkenmaier Wednesday, Jan. 3, 6-8 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

& the Peruvian Farm Girls Saturday, Dec. 30, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, Dec. 31, 11 a.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, Dec. 31, 11 a.m.; NYE 2018 PARTY Sunday, Dec. 31, 6 p.m.; Kyndle & Adam Tuesday, Jan. 2, 5:30 p.m.; 3RD Man Wednesday, Jan. 3, 5:30 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Hi-Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Playa Fly, No Soda, Slick Sid and the Gangsterbillies, Shelby Forest Click Thursday, Dec. 28, 6 p.m.; Mystic Light Casino, Louise Page, the Outcry, Nonconnah Saturday, Dec. 30, 8 p.m.; Quintron and Miss Pussycatt, Jack Oblivian, Room Thirteen, DJ Damp Velour Sunday, Dec. 31, 10 p.m.; The Hannas, Blood Like Wine, Grandpa Grew Trees

Chinese Connection Dub Embassy with Roots Of A Rebellion Saturday, Dec. 30, 8 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Two Weeks Late, Ego Slip Saturday, Dec. 30; Dead Soldiers Sunday, Dec. 31; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Dave Wells, Brian McQuaid Tuesday, Jan. 2.

The Tower Courtyard at Overton Square 2092 TRIMBLE PLACE MEMPHIS, TN 38104

Acoustic Courtyard Last Thursday of every month, 6:309:30 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony Chapman, Charles Cason, and Miss. Joyce Henderson Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Spaceface Sunday, Dec. 31.

East Memphis Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House 551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

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

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

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

Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

6069 PARK 685-9264

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

War Saturday, Dec. 30.

Tunica Roadhouse

Mortimer’s

Wang’s East Tapas

Resorts Casino Tunica 1100 CASINO STRIP 866-707-7070

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590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

Hillbilly Mojo Sunday, Dec. 31, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Twin Soul Friday, Dec. 29, 9 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 30, 9 p.m.; New Year’s Eve Bash with Nuttin’ Fancy Band & The No Hit Wonders Sunday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.; The Brian Johnson Band Wednesday, Jan. 3, 8 p.m.

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays; NYE Moonshine Ball: Ying Yang Twins Sunday, Dec. 31, 11 p.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Blues Jam hosted by Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; The ShotGunBillys Friday, Dec. 29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; New Year’s Eve Bash with Jumpin’ Jimmy and FineLine Sunday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; Open Mic Night and Steak Night Tuesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.

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3. Mr. White Bear Bait 4. BÊNNÍ I & II 5. Sci Fi Industries SFIXX Ihcilon creates highly abstract ambient soundscapes, but the cumulative effect is not soporific. Instead, the intrusion of weirdly organic synthetic sounds makes for an unsettling, sinister undercurrent.

The Best of 2017 The top Memphis-related releases of the year.

aking stock of 2017’s music, it’s striking how, focusing only on works by Memphis artists, musicians, or producers, one is instantly in the realm of nationally or internationally renowned recordings. The albums listed below, which include bands with Memphis players integral to their sound, produced by Memphians, or released by Memphis labels, are just the tip of the iceberg.

December 28, 2017-January 3, 2018

Rock 1. Bash and Pop Anything Could Happen 2. Aquarian Blood Last Nite in Paradise 3. Pezz More Than You Can Give Us 4. Dead Soldiers The Great Emptiness 5. Namazu Works Cited Steve Selvidge is a key player in Tommy Stinson’s Bash & Pop, a perfect fit for the raucous chaos the ex-Replacement brings to their record.

Songwriters 1. Cory Branan Adios 2. Julien Baker Turn Out the Lights 3. Linda Heck Experimental Connections in the Memphis 4. Rob Jungklas Blackbirds 5. Margo Price All American Made Adios found Branan taking both his singing and narrative voice to a new depth and subtlety.

3. Dee Dee Bridgewater Memphis … Yes I’m Ready 4. Deborah Swiney I Remember Rio 5. Susan Marshall 639 Madison Charles Lloyd’s latest ranges from Coltrane-esque sonic wailing to the grooves of pure boogaloo. A must-have.

Soul & Blues 1. Robert Cray Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm 2. Don Bryant Don’t Give Up On Love 3. North Mississippi Allstars Prayer for Peace 4. Bette Smith Jetlagger 5. Love Light Orchestra feat. John Nemeth Live From Bar DKDC This is Robert Cray’s best work: he’s nurtured a more aggressive style, and he’s paired it with local funk masters.

R&B & Hip-Hop 1. Marco Pavé Welcome to Grc Land 2. Moneybagg Yo & Youngboy NBA Fed Baby’s 3. Various Artists Stuntarious, Vol. 2 4. Healy Subluxe 5. Yo Gotti I Still Am Mixing politically astute lyrics with imaginative, state-of-the-art production, Marco Pavé has crafted a sharp challenge to listeners: Forget the escapism of wealth and power fantasies and stay relevant to real struggles in the street.

Jazz 1. Charles Lloyd Passin’ Thru 2. Bob Dowell Mississippi Slide!

Electronica & Techno 1. Ihcilon Ihcilon 2. Nonconnah The Gloom & the Glowing

Singles & EP’s: 1. Gregg Allman “My Only True Friend” 2. SZA “Love Galore” 3. MonoNeon “Welcom 2 Whateva the Fyuck” 4. Hold Steady “Entitlement Crew” b/w “A Snake in the Shower” 5. NOTS “Cruel Friend” b/w “Violence” Allman soldiered through his last days with the worldly soul of his past glories, backed in part by some of Memphis’ finest players, especially on this first single. Beyond Category 1. MonoNeon A Place Called Fantasy 2. Robby Grant & Jonathan Kirkscey Duets for Mellotron 3. William Eggleston Musik 4. Tav Falco A Tav Falco Christmas Only in a year bursting with creativity could William Eggleston’s improvised synthetic/orchestral fantasias be overshadowed. MonoNeon exemplifies the creative wellspring of a true visionary. Ranging from jazz/funk to echoes of hip-hop.

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Liberty Bowl Stadium, Memphis vs. Iowa State, Saturday, December 30th at 11:30 a.m.

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. Sat., Sun., 2 p.m., and Fri., 7 p.m. Through Dec. 31. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

ART I ST R EC E PT I O N S

Circuitous Succession Gallery

Opening reception for “Uninhabitable,” exhibition of paintings and drawings on paper by Christopher St. John. www.circuitoussuccessiongallery.com. Sat., Dec. 30, 6:30-9 p.m. 1789 KIRBY PARKWAY.

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

Opening reception for Barry Buxbaum and Ray Vunk, exhibition of mixed media on panel. (5760708), Fri., Dec. 29, 6-9 p.m. 44 HULING (576-0708).

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

ANF Architects

“Flying Colors,” exhibition of works by Sally Hughes Smith. www.anafa.com. Through Jan. 12, 2018. 1500 UNION (278-6868).

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).

Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library

“Christmas in Memphis,” exhibition of photos. www.memphislibrary.org. Through Jan. 6, 2018. 3030 POPLAR (415-2700).

Bingham and Broad

“My Kin Is Not Like Yours,” exhibition of works by Debra Edge. Ongoing. 2563 BROAD (323-3008).

OTH E R ART H AP P E N I N G S

Art Trolley Tour

Tour the local galleries and shops on South Main. Last Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN.

Jazz-A-Fire

Performances and bring your own instrument to join. $12. Last Sunday of every month, 4-7 p.m. BRINSON’S, 341 MADISON (524-0104), WWW.MEMPHISBLACKARTSALLIANCE.ORG.

O N G O I N G ART

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

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. “Lavender’s Landscape,” exhibition of latex and urethane on panel, triptych large works by Anthony Lee. www.crosstownarts.org. Through Jan. 14, 2018. N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

“Dimension,” exhibition of paintings on panel and velum by Jared Small. www.davidluskgallery.com. Jan. 3-Feb. 3. 97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“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. 4339 PARK (761-5250).

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).

Fratelli’s

“From My Garden and Other Places by Zoe Nadal”, www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Jan. 3, 2018. 750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

Barry Buxbaum and Ray Vunk, exhibition of mixed media on panel. Dec. 29-Feb. 23. 44 HULING (576-0708).

Java Cabana

“Putting the Pieces Together,” exhibition of new paintings by Erica McCarrens. Through Jan. 24, 2018. 2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

Jay Etkin Gallery

“The Paper Show,” exhibition of new work on paper by RoyTamboli, Mary Long, Nathan Yoakum, Pam Cobb, Juan Rojo, Jay Etkin, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, and others. Through Jan. 15, 2018. 942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

Gallery Artists Holiday Group Exhibition, www.lrossgallery.com. Through Dec. 31. 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Marshall Arts Gallery

“Love of Art” and “Memphis,” exhibition of work by Nikki Gardner and Debra Edge by appointment only. (647-9242). Ongoing.

1726 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38104 901/274-3550 www.memphischoices.org

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Winter Wonders”, exhibition of work by the Memphis Artists Group. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Jan. 3, 2018. 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. 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

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Metal Museum

“Everyday Objects: The evolution and innovations of Joseph Anderson,” exhibition of works by artistblacksmith 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 illustration combined creating brightly colored cartoon style imagery. www. metalmuseum.org. Through Jan. 14, 2018. 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

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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.

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Overton Park Gallery

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

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum

826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

“Passages,” exhibition of landscapes by Robert Malone. (662-234-9090), Through Jan. 6, 2018. 150 COURTHOUSE SQUARE, OXFORD, MS (662-234-9090).

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. Through Dec. 31. 2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

Talbot Heirs

Debra Edge Art. Ongoing. 99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

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

Tops Gallery: Madison Avenue Park

WKNO Studio

151 MADISON (340-0134).

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

“Man Finds Meteorites in His Yard (This Is Planet Earth),” exhibition of new works by Josef Bull. Through Jan. 12, 2018.

Trezevant Manor Art Gallery

Artists’ Link Group Exhibition, Through Jan. 4, 2018. 177 N. HIGHLAND (325-4000).

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).

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

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Gun & Knife Show

$12. Sun., Dec. 31, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (7577777), WWW.RKSHOWS.COM.

Soul Market

Enjoy vendors with unique products, great food, music, and more. Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. THE DEN, 656 MARSHALL (773-738-9019).

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59th Annual Autozone Liberty Bowl

Iowa State v. Memphis Tigers $115. Sat., Dec. 30, 11:30 a.m. LIBERTY BOWL MEMORIAL STADIUM, 335 S. HOLLYWOOD (727-4344), WWW.LIBERTYBOWL.ORG.

Starry 4K Fun Run/Walk

Family friendly fun run is the last chance to see the lights of Starry Nights and all participants will receive a scarf. Sat., Dec. 30, 6 p.m. SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW. SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

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“LeMoyne-Owen College: A Beacon of Hope” Exhibition of a central institution in Memphis since its founding in 1871 as the LeMoyne Normal and Commercial School. Ongoing. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (6362362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

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Ring in 2018 with live music, dancing, fireworks, great food, and drinks. Free-$100 for club pass. Sun., Dec. 31. BEALE STREET, DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS (529-0999), WWW. BEALESTREETMERCHANTS.COM.

The Fitz NYE Party

Featuring party favors and champagne toast, midnight buffet, and more. Sun., Dec. 31. THE FITZ, 711 LUCKY LANE (1-800-766-LUCK), WWW. FITZGERALDSTUNICA.COM.

Glo Gala: Black & White Affair/New Years Eve Celebration

Featuring DJ Chris Cross, That Boy Cortez, DJ A-Wall, and Tay Keith. 21+ $10-$20. Sun., Dec. 31, 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m. PREMIERE PALACE, 629 MONROE (725-5625), WWW. EVENTBRITE.COM/E/GLO-GALA-NEW-YEARS-EVESOCIAL-CELEBRATION-FIGARO-CIGAR-LAUNCH-TICKETS-41120474446.

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Holiday attraction featuring themed areas including Snowy Nights in My Big Backyard, Sculptures Bright in the Sculpture Garden, and Trees Alight in the Conifer Garden with LED light show. Through Dec. 30. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

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Ring in the New Year at Flying Saucer Cordova’s Masquerade-themed party. Enjoy party favors, special beer tappings, midnight champagne toast, best-dressed contest, and photo booth. free. Sun., Dec. 31, 6 p.m.-1 a.m. FLYING SAUCER, 1400 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. (755-5530), WWW. BEERKNURD.COM.

NORML Memphis: Potluck Dinner and Meeting

RALEIGH BRANCH LIBRARY, 3157 POWERS (386-5333), WWW.MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.

Featuring special guest speakers, David Hairston and Matt Walczyk, from Safe Access Tennessee. Multiple door prizes from local and national vendors. Free-$5. Fri., Dec. 29, 6-8 p.m.

New Year, Nouveau at Flying Saucer Memphis

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Merry Movie

Holiday movie for the whole family. Popcorn and drinks served. Sat., Dec. 30, 10 a.m.

Shimmy your way into 2018 the most glamorous way possible with music, cocktails, and roaring 20s attire. Enjoy a free Champagne toast at midnight, and a prize will be given for best-dressed. Free$10. Sun., Dec. 31, 7 p.m.-2 a.m. FLYING SAUCER DRAUGHT EMPORIUM, 130 PEABODY PLACE (5238536), WWW.BEERKNURD.COM.

New Year’s Eve Bash at Main Event Entertainment

Fun-filled celebration with prizes, games, treats, and more. $40, $30 kids. Sun., Dec. 31, 9-1 a.m. MAIN EVENT ENTERTAINMENT, 7219 APPLING FARMS (372-5000), WWW.MAINEVENT.COM.

New Year’s Eve Dinner Capriccio Grill Includes entry to Peabody New Year’s Eve Party. Call fo reservations. $95. Sun., Dec. 31, 5-11 p.m.

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New Year’s Eve Dinner Chez Philippe

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Sponsored by Old Dominick featuring music by Southern Ave., Star & Micey, STAX Academy Alumni Band, Mark Edgar Stuart Quartet, and DJ Pressure World. Sun., Dec. 31, 7 p.m. RAILGARTEN, 2160 CENTRAL, WWW. RAILGARTEN.COM.

NYE Gala at The Guest House at Graceland

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NYE Moonshine Ball: Ying Yang Twins $20. Sun., Dec. 31, 11 p.m.

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Overton Square New Year’s Eve Bash

Neighborhood concert featuring The Dantones and DJ Bobby Smith. American Idol finalist Alexis Grace Music will emcee. Sun., Dec. 31, 9 p.m. OVERTON SQUARE, MIDTOWN, WWW.OVERTONSQUARE.COM.

Peabody New Year’s Eve Party Dance party featuring performances by the Garry

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Starry Nights

Magic of the holidays brought to life through the drivethrough display of twinkling holiday light displays, cozy campfires, and visits with Santa. $20 per car. Through Dec. 29, 6 p.m. SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Winter Film Fest

Back to back movie for the whole family. Enjoy and have fun watching our winter films for the holidays. Sat., Dec. 30, 1-3 p.m. RALEIGH BRANCH LIBRARY, 3157 POWERS (386-5333), WWW.MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.

Zoo Lights

Featuring lights on select nights, ferris wheel, and ice skating rink. For more information and schedule of events, visit website. Ferris wheel and ice skating open daily, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.. $7 members, $9 nonmembers. Through Dec. 30, 5:30-9:30 p.m. MEMPHIS ZOO, 2000 PRENTISS PLACE IN OVERTON PARK (3336500), WWW.MEMPHISZOO.ORG.

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An Evening of Irish Whiskey Tasting

Includes light hors-d’oeuvres plus a selection of four Irish whiskeys. $40. Thurs., Dec. 28, 6:30-9:30 p.m. CELTIC CROSSING, 903 S. COOPER (274-5151).

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017 was looking to make me a liar. In last year’s “Look Ahead” story, I had several places set to open that just barely made it this year. They include: Sunrise, the biscuit-centered breakfast place from Central BBQ’s Craig Blondis and Roger Sapp and Sweet Grass’ Ryan Trimm, which opened in late November; the food hall South Main Market, which held a grand opening on December 2nd with an opening roster of promising eateries; and the Liquor Store, from the same folks as City & State, which opened in November. One of the bigger food stories was related to the opening of the Crosstown Concourse building. Mama Gaia was the first out of the gate in early spring. They were followed by French Truck Coffee, Farm Burger, Next Door Lucky Eatery, MemPops, So Cat Nuts, Curb Market, and I Love Juice Bar. I frequent the place and pay — gasp! — $11 for a small smoothie from the Juice Bar at least once a week. Closing down and moving on: The first location of LYFE Kitchen in East Memphis closed in the fall. The second, in the Chisca downtown, closed for a short while Sunrise and reopened as a reinvented space with a new menu and new decor. Also seeing new life were Brass Door and the Riverfront Grill (now the Front Porch), both forced into shape by Deni and Patrick Reilly of the Majestic Grill. The much-beloved Elwood’s Shack was closed for several months after a fire in December. It reopened in March. Happy news: The Cosmic Coconut was turned into the City Silo, a vegan-forward space with several great, thoughtful dishes. The oldie but goodie Front Street Deli changed owners and reopened with a John Grisham-themed menu. More milestones: Beauty Shop marked its 15th year with beehives and 1997 prices. Jim’s Grill, the longtime place

for graduate lunches and Mother’s Day brunches, closed for good after an attempt at a revival by Alex Grisanti. Other Memphis favorites, the Peanut Shoppe on Summer closed earlier this month after 58 years and Spaghetti Warehouse closed after 30 years in downtown. A few things found life beyond the confines of this column. Let’s start with Meddlesome and its cheekily named 201 Hoplar IPA, which a lot of folks found problematic, while the vast majority really loved the name-play. (Also, the IPA is really good.) Another hit was the video by Michael Donahue of the “Pie Lady” Katherine Perry. Perry made her caramel pie and a few others and found an enrapt audience. That video had more than one million (!) views. David Scott of Dave’s Bagels is, how do we put it???, super-hot. And folks like his freshly made, truly excellent bagels, too. You can find them pretty much Elwood everywhere. Shack After pouring millions into the old 19th Century Club building to open the restaurant Izakaya, the owners quickly reconsidered the rather unfocused approach, reopening as the chiefly Japanese and quite good Red Fish. The popular food truck Sushi Jimmi found new life in a brick and mortar space on Poplar. The same goes for Riko’s Kickin’ Chicken, which opened on Madison near Cleveland. Lucky Cat gathered quite a following for its pop-ups before settling on a space at the corner of Cooper and Peabody. Nobody knows trouble like Taylor Berger. His grand vision for shipping crates serving as a venue was almost quashed as the some of the campus of Railgarten did not have proper inspection. It was all eventually worked out, and now the place serves as a happy meeting ground for young folks looking for fun.

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How to cope with the morning-after blues.

nderstand something, if you have a hangover, then you have poisoned yourself. Maybe not in league with strychnine, but you’ve got some toxins to work through. Obviously, the best thing for a hangover is not to get gassed the night before. If you can’t manage that, then cut this column out and stick it in the pocket of whatever it is you think you are going to wake up in on New Year’s Day. The ancient Greek god Dionysus is often pictured with a mitra around his head — a strip of tightly bound cloth to counter that pounding morning-after headache. If the god of the vine and ritual-madness can get a throbbing hangover, then mere mortals don’t stand a chance. Barring an antihangover hat handed down from Mount Olympus, let’s delve into some more modern cures.

The red pepper gives it bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it very invigorating after a late evening.” Not prone to original thought, Wooster says “I swallowed the stuff. For a moment I felt as if somebody had touched off a bomb inside the old bean and was strolling down my throat with a lighted torch, and then everything seemed suddenly to get all right. The sun shone in through the window; birds twittered in the treetops; and, generally speaking, hope dawned once more.” I’ve tried it a couple of times (scientific method, you see). It never worked quite as vividly at as it did for ol’ Bertie, but it did get the job done — and fast. This makes sense: the egg is a Wednesday thru Saturday 5pm til 10pm blob of protein to counteract the sugar Sunday 4pm til 9pm all the alcohol has been processed into, Make your reservation today by visiting the Worcestershire sauce has salt to southlandpark.com or opentable.com help retain water (dehydration is the See Player Rewards for details. Players must be 21 years of age or older real enemy), and red pepper sauce to game and 18 years of age or older to bet at the racetrack. Play responsibly; for help quitting call 800-522-4700. opens up the snoot for more oxygen. The pepper sauce also kills the crud associated with eating SOUTHL-59257 Flyer 12/28/17 Bourbon Street.indd 1 raw eggs. So will a shot of whiskey, which puts you into “hair of the USE OUR BUY ONE GET ONE COUPON dog” remedies. People FOUND HERE EVERY WEEK swear by the Bloody Mary, but for a number of reasons we aren’t going to suggest that route. Or a raw egg. Almost nothing beats a painfully hot shower, Gatorade (lots of it), and going back to bed. If you can’t go hide under the covers waiting for the cold embrace of death, you’ll likely run into other humans, which will aggravate the mental component of the hangover. Steel yourself to being cheerful — or at least likeably pathetic — despite your creeping cynicism about this grim world. This is not to lift your spirits, or anyone else’s. The point of the friendly disposition, however fake, is to manage people’s reactions to you. Social friction is not what you need right now. Honestly, if you already think that they are out to get you, do you really need proof? My mother has never had a hangover, avoiding them with the obvious technique of simply not drinking. It’s not in the spirit of this column, but I thought I should mention it.

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Kingsley Amis helpfully wrote about both the physical and mental aspects a hangover. Sure, your stomach is churning and you have a splitting headache, but there is that other part: a sort of vague, paranoid depression. He suggests that if you wake up with a hangover, have sex with the person next to you: It gets your heart rate up and will “tone you up emotionally.” Amis was a hard-won expert on drinking, but he doesn’t appear to have known much about relationships. For more single-handed hangover cures, the most famous was penned 101 years ago by P.G. Wodehouse in his first Jeeves and Wooster story “Carry On, Jeeves.” Bertie Wooster is feeling a bit ragged, and Jeeves appears at his door to whip up a cure of raw egg, Worcestershire sauce, and red pepper. “It is the Worcestershire that gives it its color. The raw egg makes it nutritious.

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2017: The Year In Film

Get Out: The Year’s Best

Taking stock of the big screen’s good and bad.

n America, it was the worst of times, but inside the multiplex, it was the best of times. Mega-blockbusters faltered, while an exceptional crop of small films excelled. There was never a week when there wasn’t something good playing on Memphis’ big screens. Here’s the Flyer’s film awards for 2017. Worst Picture: Transformers: The Last Knight — There was a crap-flood of big budget failures in 2017. The Mummy was horrifying in the worst way. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales sank the franchise. What set Michael Bay’s nadir apart from the “competition” was its sneering contempt for the audience. Most Recursive: The Disaster Artist — James Franco’s passion project is a great film about an awful film. He is an actor dismissed as a lightweight doing a deep job directing a film about the worst director ever. He does a great job acting as a legendarily bad actor. We should be laughing at the whole thing, but somehow we end up crying at the end. It’s awesome. Overlooked Gem: Blade Runner 2049 — How does a longawaited sequel to one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, directed by one of the decade’s best directors, co-starring a legendary leading man and the hottest star of the day, end up falling through the cracks? Beats me, but if you like

Dennis Villaneuve, Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, smart scripts, and incredible cinematography, and you didn’t see this film, rectify your error. Best Scene: Wonder Woman in No Man’s Land —The most successful superhero movie of the year was Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman. Midway through the picture, our hero leads a company of soldiers across a muddy World War I battlefield. Assailed on every side by machine gun fire and explosions, Wonder Woman presses on, never wavering, never doubting, showing the fighting men what real inner strength looks like. In this moment, Gal Gadot became a hero to millions of girls. Best Memphis Movie: Good Grief — Melissa Anderson Sweazy and Laura Jean Hocking’s documentary Good Grief rose above a highly competitive, seven-film Hometowner slate at Indie Memphis to sweep the feature awards. It is a delicate, touching portrait of a summer camp for children who have lost loved ones due to tragedy. Full disclosure: I’m married to one of the directors. Fuller disclosure: I didn’t have a damn thing to do with the success of this film. MVP: Adam Driver — Anyone with eyes could see former Girls co-star Adam Driver was a great actor, but he came into his own in 2017 with a trio of perfect performances. First, he lost 50 pounds and went on a seven-day silent

prayer vigil to portray a Jesuit missionary in Martin Scorsese’s Silence. Then he was Clyde Logan, the one-armed Iraq vet who helps his brother and sister Mellie rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Stephen Soderberg’s Logan Lucky. Finally, he was Kylo Ren, the conflicted villain who made Star Wars: The Last Jedi the year’s best blockbuster. Best Editing: Baby Driver — Edgar Wright’s heist picture is equal parts Bullitt and La La Land. In setting some of the most spectacular car chases ever filmed to a mixtape of pop sleeper hits from across the decades, Wright and editor Jonathan Amos created the greatest long-form music video since “Thriller.” Best Screenplay: The Big Sick — Screenwriter Emily V. Gordon, and comedian Kumail Nanjiani turned the story of their unlikely (and almost tragic) courtship into the year’s best and most humane comedy. Best Performance (Honorable Mention): Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks, The Return — David Lynch referred to his magnum opus as an 18-hour film, but Twin Peaks is a TV series to its core. The Return may be the crowning achievement of the current second golden age of television, but without MacLachlan’s beyond brilliant performance, Lynch’s take-no-prisoners surrealism would fly apart. I struggle to think of any precedent for MacLachlan’s achievement, playing at least four different versions

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I prefer to stay close to home during Toyotathon and avoid the throngs of holiday travelers scampering away for quality time with grandparents, in-laws, and other loved ones. But responsibilities at my day job called me to the friendly skies just as Happy Honda Days were heating up. I arrived at Memphis International Airport way early for my connecting flight to Orlando to allow myself plenty of time to endure the TSA cattle call and hoof it to the Starbucks in Terminal B. At the gate — the very last one in the terminal — I discovered I not only was one of the few solo travelers, I was one of the only ones not wearing a monogrammed outfit announcing my impending visit with Mickey and his friends. I wanted to be excited for the kids in their princess dresses and personalized mouse ears. But I was annoyed that the “quickest” route to DC takes me 850 miles south of there, and frankly, the children were no more chipper than I was. Their T-shirts said “Happy” but their attitudes were repping Grumpy. And why not? They know. Even when the Magic Kingdom is the destination, the journey is two hours in an oversized Pringles can with way too many humans crammed inside. Think about it. Technology and innovation have made our lives easier in so many ways. Yet air travel remains expensive and dumb. We’ve all heard the reason we have to remove our shoes in the TSA line: the “shoe bomber,” right? Richard Reid, the would-be terrorist, didn’t actually blow anything up. First, he tried to board a flight from Paris to Miami. Authorities pulled him aside because he looked unkempt and he didn’t check any bags on an international flight. They ended up delaying his flight a day. So he came back, boarded the plane, and guess what he did? A flight attendant followed a smoky smell right to him, with a lit match and his shoe in his lap. It didn’t detonate because the fuse was too wet. Sweaty feet save lives. Instead of banning matches, the newly created Transportation Safety Administration implemented random shoe checks. We didn’t start having to take off our shoes and place them in bins until 2006. Maybe the shoe industry should hire a lobbyist away from the NRA to help put an end to the ridiculous practice that unfairly vilifies footwear. After all, those guys are masters at changing the subject when a crisis necessitates new regulations. Shoes don’t kill people! Good guy with a shoe? Whatever. And the full-body scanners are so powerful they can see your cells, but I still have to take my computer out of my backpack? Right. Rarely am I as grateful for MEM’s relative chillness as when I’m chasing my belongings down a conveyor belt. But hey, at least I can use my phone as my boarding pass now! I followed the news about the Atlanta airport power outage with great interest. Every time I’ve been there, I’ve cursed whoever at Delta decided nobody can go anywhere without first visiting ATL. I’ve wondered how it can get worse, with its trams and Kilimanjaroesque escalator. We got our answer: an electrical fire that brought the entire operation to its knees with terrifying ease. As if airports don’t already bring out society’s worst impulses, see what happens when it’s dark, the complimentary wireless internet doesn’t work, and folks have no business being in Atlanta in the first place. Traveling can be fun! But travel almost always sucks. The stress of flying makes people act like idiots. It’s the only explanation I can muster for the tendency for passengers to stand up and rush the counter the moment the gate agent starts speaking. As if jumping up when they call for Diamond Elite Business Plus is going to make the plane take off faster. Everybody knows the plane’s probably overbooked and we’re all just holding out for enough vouchers to consider a later flight. So get comfortable with me and the other Budget Economy Bucket Seat travelers because this is going to take a while. Inevitably, these will be the same flyers who spring from their seats in row 209 as soon as the wheels hit the ground and the seat belt indicator goes dark. Or worse, the ones who clap their hands as if to congratulate the pilot for maneuvering a 20-yearold 737 through some clouds above Baltimore. They’re just on edge because they paid a small fortune for a terrible-to-mediocre experience that went about as well as they hoped it would. Aside from health care, and that’s a tirade for another day, where else is the ratio-of-cost-to-experience-quality so unbalanced? Jen Clarke is a digital marketing specialist and an unapologetic Memphian.

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