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BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN Editor SHARA CLARK Managing Editor JACKSON BAKER Senior Editor TOBY SELLS Associate Editor CHRIS MCCOY Film and TV Editor ALEX GREENE Music Editor JULIA BAKER, MICHAEL DONAHUE MAYA SMITH, JON W. SPARKS Staff Writers JESSE DAVIS Copy Editor, Staff Writer JULIE RAY Calendar Editor JEN CLARKE, LORNA FIELD, RANDY HASPEL, AYLEN MERCADO, RICHARD MURFF, FRANK MURTAUGH, MEGHAN STUTHARD Contributing Columnists AIMEE STIEGEMEYER, SHARON BROWN Grizzlies Reporters ANDREA FENISE Fashion Editor KENNETH NEILL Founding Publisher

OUR 1608TH ISSUE 12.19.19 I long ago stopped arguing about abortion — or even discussing it — with folks who disagree with me. That’s because you can’t have a debate unless you first agree upon what you’re debating about. If one side thinks what you’re discussing is the murder of babies and the other side thinks you’re discussing a woman’s right to do what she wants with her own body, there’s literally nothing to debate. There is no common ground for discussion.

Nobody is going get themselves into a debate about whether we should murder babies because nobody thinks they’re in favor of murdering babies. And, conversely, if you think a woman’s right to control her body doesn’t include deciding on whether or not to have children, well, there’s no room for compromise there, either. Sure, you can argue about when a baby is a baby, but it never goes anywhere. It’s an intractable issue, each side set in its own corner.

A variation of this dilemma lies at the core of our current national malaise. We can’t come to a political consensus about anything because we are coming at our issues with completely different “facts.” Those who support the president and those who think he should be impeached are armed with contradictory information about who the president is, what the president has done, and whether his current behavior represents a grave danger to our democracy or a return to American greatness.

Those of us on the progressive side of the spectrum see this president as an unhinged, narcissistic man-child, a Russian puppet whose daily prevarications are obvious to anyone paying attention. His supporters see the president as a no-nonsense tough guy who’s “draining the swamp” and telling it like it is — a patriotic Christian who’s not even taking a salary.

The opposing realities extend to our opinions of the First Lady, our political parties, the Mueller Report, climate change, former President Obama, and of course, the necessity of impeachment.

Trump’s evangelical followers proclaim that he is an “imperfect vessel” sent by God to save us all.

Trump’s opponents point out his bribery payments to a porn star to keep quiet about a sexual episode that happened while the now-First Lady was pregnant. There’s nothing to debate between those competing views. Facts are no longer facts. “Truth” has become a function of ideology, and ideology is a byproduct of what our brains consume. We are tribes now, no longer the “United” States.

And that’s a real problem because the United States was created by optimists and idealists. The Founding Fathers believed in individual human worth and dignity. They trusted that the majority of Americans would do the right thing — that, over time, they would make the kind of decisions that would keep our nascent democracy intact — and our leaders on the straight and narrow.

For the most part, it has worked. Crooked and venal elected officials have come and gone throughout our history — on the local, state, and national level. Usually, they have been caught and forced out of office, sooner or later, by the combined forces of a free press, an engaged and informed electorate, and a judicial system that administers justice without fear or favor.

Now, our free press is corrupted and fragmented, leading to an engaged but often misinformed electorate. And the judicial system has been manipulated and politicized — from the Supreme Court on down — to a degree unseen in the lifetime of our republic.

So, what do we do? How do we correct the course of a country that’s strayed so far from its bedrock principles? The first step is acceptance of the problem: The divisions between our warring political tribes are embedded and not going away any time soon.

The next step is overcoming despair and negativity and replacing it with action. Speak your truth and work to make it reality.

Take solace and hope from the fact that millions of Americans are working for good: volunteering in the immigrant community, helping the homeless and hungry, pushing for equal rights for all, fighting N E WS & O P I N I O N THE FLY-BY - 4 against racism and gender bias, organizNY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 ing and registering voters, standing up for POLITICS - 8 what they believe. Thanks to our divisions, COVER STORY the country is seeing a surge of activism “FAITH COMETH BY HEARING” and a commitment to making things betBY ALEX GREENE - 10 ter. Rather than focusing on trying to win SPORTS - 14 WE RECOMMEND - 18 “debates” that are ill-defined, divisive, and AFTER DARK - 20 unwinnable, we need to keep our eyes on CALENDAR - 22 the prize and work for what is possible.

FOOD - 32 The American experiment isn’t dead. At BREWS - 33 least, not yet.

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VI R AL M U R AL A mural blew up on Reddit over the weekend. It was posted by u/ bigtomisin with the title “Mural I painted in Memphis, Tennessee.”

In one day, the post had more than 44,000 upvotes, 658 comments, and all the Reddit awards. The poster said it is “at Crosstown. They took it off the wall and hung it inside.”

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B I LLY B O B AT TH E Z O O On a Flyer story about a new bill that would allow the Memphis Zoo to sell alcohol, Jim Obranovich commented that it’d be fine but “only if it stays in the building or ‘beer tent’ where it’s purchased. … It’ll be a great day for the zoo when Billy Bob decides he wants to ride an elephant.”

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Zoo, Pork Report, & Biking Booze at Memphis Zoo, group critical of Memphis’ spending, and more bike facilities on tap.

B O OZ E AN D F I R EAR M S Selling alcohol at the Memphis Zoo would likely increase revenues, a spokesman said, but it may also be a way to stop allowing firearms on the property.

State Senator Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) announced last week that he’d filed a bill that would allow alcohol sales at the zoo.

The announcement came after a man shot himself in the leg in October while walking across the zoo’s parking lot. Firearms are allowed at Memphis Zoo. However, after the Clockwise from top left: brews at the zoo, a board game bar, getting Lyfted, gross incident, zoo officials said government spending, big plans for bikes, and children’s internet information they were reviewing the gun policy. open the city’s first board game bar in early 2020 near Nick Harmeier, chief marketing officer for the Memphis Chickasaw Crossing.

Zoo, said lawyers are still reviewing its gun policy and Taylor Herndon launched a campaign on Kickstarter in wonder if a new alcohol policy might sway it. hopes of raising $10,000 to open the bar, dubbed Board to Beers. The bar, which will serve wine, cider, and local beers, PO R K R E PO RT as well as food from local food trucks, will offer a library of The Beacon Center, a Nashville-based, free-market think more than 400 board games. tank lambasted several Memphis and Shelby County projects in the group’s annual Pork Report.

KIDS ONLINE The 2019 report is the 14th from Beacon and seeks to expose Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery joined 24 other “the top 25 most ridiculous instances of government spending AGs on a comment letter last week sent to the Federal Trade in the past year.” It is also “a call to action to the state and local Commission (FTC) urging an update to the Children’s governments to cut the waste from their budgets.”

Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). They want A few top examples of Memphis-area “pork” Beacon stronger rules prohibiting websites, mobile applications, and cited this year include $2 million of incentives to FedEx, other digital marketing companies from collecting personal $4.25 million for Bluff City Law, $75 million for Graceland, information from children under the age of 13 and using and $1.7 million for Wiseacre Brewing Co. that information to track children across the internet.

LYF T Lyft, the ride-sharing technology company, announced the winners of its fifth annual Lyftie awards Tuesday. Three destinations in Memphis won Lyfties as the most popular destinations here of 2019.

The winners for the 2019 Lyftie awards in Memphis are: the FedExForum, the Most Celebrated Venue; the Beale Street Entertainment District, Late Night Neighborhood; and Paula & Raiford’s Disco, the Most Celebrated Restaurant/Bar.

MORE MILES Over the next several years, Nicholas Oyler, bikeway and pedestrian program manager for the city, said the city will add an average of 20 miles worth of new bike facilities each year.

In 2020, Oyler looks forward to the completion of the Hampline in Binghamton, improvements on Jefferson, the installation of 500 new bike racks in the city, and the launch of a public safety education and awareness campaign around walking and bicycling.

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A new plan would inject treated wastewater into the city’s drinking water.

Carrier Corp.’s plan to inject 400 gallons of treated wastewater into the Memphis Sand Aquifer every minute was paused last Monday by the Shelby County Groundwater Quality Control (SCGQC) board.

The air-conditioning and refrigeration system manufacturer’s Collierville plant is a federal Superfund site with high levels of trichloroethylene (TCE) and hexavalent chromium, both toxins known to cause cancer and other illnesses. Both contaminants have been found in shallow parts of the aquifer under the plant.

Its current water-treatment process could be more efficient, a consultant to the company said. But the new plan would inject its treated wastewater deep into the aquifer, the source of Memphis’ famously pure drinking water. Experts at the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) familiar with the plan said the plan could put the “Memphis Sand Aquifer at risk of greater contamination.”

SCGQC board chairman Tim Herndon said, “What bothers me is that you’re saying, ‘Oh, yeah, just let us get started and let us dump all this stuff into our aquifer.’”

Many on the board had similar questions. Carrier’s request was paused until a later meeting in March.

Benjamin Brantley, working on the project for Carrier with environmental consultants Ensafe, said the company is not “recklessly dumping stuff

into the aquifer.” Instead, he said, the whole plan was created and vetted with Ensafe by officials with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

However, Herndon said he was skittish about those agencies as they installed an injection well on a nearby, contaminated Superfund site called SmalleyPiper without the groundwater board’s approval.

Carrier now cleans its water with onsite strippers and moves it to a Collierville-owned water treatment facility, adjacent to the Carrier site. That water is mingled with the rest of Collierville’s waste water and flowed into the Wolf River.

Carrier wants to move two wells farther south on its property off Byhalia Road, away from the Smalley-Piper site. The new wells would also pull water from the top of the aquifer where much of the contamination sits under the Carrier plant.

The plan would also allow its pumps to run all the time, cleaning more water. The water would filter through two towers where it would be stripped of contaminants, according Brantley. Then, the water would be pumped over to the water treatment facility owned by the city of Collierville. From there, it would be pumped into existing wells under the facility deep into the Memphis Sand Aquifer.

Brantley said the water that would be pumped

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into the aquifer would be cleaned to “drinking-water standards.” However, he admitted telling people they are drinking water from a Superfund site is a “tough sell.” He said, too, that pumping 200 million gallons of clean water back into the deeper parts of the aquifer would help to clean the aquifer.

The plan was denied by the Shelby County Health Department in October. It was then appealed to the groundwater board.

The SELC said Carrier’s plan is illegal, as “injection wells are expressly prohibited by Shelby County.”

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Vandy Poll: Rising Discontent State’s officials pass muster but Congress and the president seen more negatively; anxiety about guns, opioids, health care.

A new survey of Tennesseans’ opinions on several current policy matters indicates that the state still occupies a median place, more or less, in the spectrum of national opinion. The fall 2019 Vanderbilt University Poll polled 1,000 “demographically representative registered Tennessee voters” on subjects ranging from the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump to household issues and finds the state’s electorate to be hugging the middle lane of the road, as, historically, it most often has.

Regarding Trump, exactly half of the Tennesseans polled, 50 percent, expressed approval of the president, while 58 percent expressed disapproval of his efforts to persuade Ukraine to investigate potential Democratic opponent Joe Biden.

Thirty-eight percent affirmed a desire to see Trump impeached and removed from office.

“Something new we’re seeing is that he’s dropped about 10 points in the suburbs,” said John Geer, Dean of the College of Arts and Science, professor of political science, and co-director of the Vanderbilt Poll.

“This reflects a broader trend of suburban discontent with President Trump across the country.”

The state’s major statewide officials more or less passed muster with those polled. Governor Bill Lee’s approval rating was 62 percent, while U.S. Senators Lamar

Alexander and Marsha Blackburn earned scores of 46 and 44 percent, respectively.

The Tennessee legislature, meanwhile, was approved by 56 percent, while the U.S. Congress earned the approval of only 28 percent.

While a general feeling of optimism prevailed among those polled, a third of the voters remained concerned about the matter of making ends meet and the problem of how to pay for health care.

This latter feeling was especially strong in rural communities.

“When you ask people to evaluate something as complicated as the economy, you don’t actually know if they’re including themselves in the equation,” said poll co-director Josh Clinton, a professor of political science. “What this shows us is that even though most people feel like the state’s doing well, it doesn’t mean there aren’t still serious issues facing Tennesseans across the state — especially in rural areas.”

Anxiety was general across all demographic lines on matters such as the seriousness of the opioid crisis, the need for improved screening for gun purchases, and the importance of childcare, according to the poll. Sixty-nine percent of voters said drug and alcohol dependence is the biggest problem in their community, and 68 percent approved of raising the legal age for tobacco to 21.

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Republicans to shift Medicaid funding to a block grant model has generated more confusion than any other reaction, with 59 percent professing not to have an opinion about how TennCare should be funded.

On medical care in general, about a quarter of Tennesseans said they struggle with affording health care. Twenty-eight percent said they have unpaid medical bills, while 24 percent said they’ve put off care due to cost. There was a significant gender disparity, as well: While 17 percent of men said they’ve postponed care due to cost, 31 percent of women said they’d done so.

Undercutting their general optimism that the economy was promising, those polled nursed serious forebodings about their own predicaments. Thirtytwo percent of voters said they worried about paying for the basics, like food, shelter, utilities, and transportation, while 52 percent reported being worried about not having enough to pay for emergencies. Fifty-three percent worry about affording college and retirement. And while 56 percent said everyone has an equal chance to get ahead, 40 percent disagreed, saying that today’s economy rewards only the people at the top.

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86 percent — approved of background checks for gun show and private gun sales. The same proportion supported bans for people with certain mental health problems, while 68 percent supported the creation of a universal database to track all gun purchases. By contrast, only 51 percent supported a ban on assault weapons.”

As a corollary to the controversy that raged in Memphis before the removal of Confederate statuaries from Downtown parks, 76 percent of voters polled, with majorities from both parties, said a bust of former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest should be removed from the Capitol. Forty-seven percent said it belonged in a museum, while 29 percent said it should not be displayed at all.

Apropos the currently contentious issue of what the state should do about its nearly $1 billion in unspent federal anti-poverty funds, subsidized childcare emerged as the top priority by a significant margin. Fortyone percent, across all income and political backgrounds, chose childcare. The next most popular choice, job training, received 27 percent support, and the third, fighting the opioid epidemic, got 16 percent.

The poll showed that a current proposal of the Lee administration and legislative

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n covering the Memphis music beat, I talk to a lot of inspired artists — composers, singers, and performers who have rattled the world with their choice of notes, their tone. And they’ve worked in a variety of genres as sprawling as the city itself. But through all the conversations, all the life stories that come pouring out of them, there’s a common thread: church music.

Herman Green, recalling the days of his youth in the 1930s, before he’d ever imagined mastering the saxophone: “I played guitar with a blind pianist man named Lindell Woodson, who played piano for my stepfather’s church. I don’t even know how he could tell what key it was, but he’d get all over that piano like Art Tatum. And it was the Church of God, [claps and sings], you know? It was that kind of thing.”

Booker T. Jones, on his earliest years as a musician: “I want you to mention Merle Glover. She was the organist, and she played the pipe organ. That was the first organ I ever played, at Mt. Olive Cathedral, over by Porter School on Vance Avenue.

I was the pianist for the men’s Bible class.

10 I was there at 9 o’clock every Sunday morning for years.”

William Bell, reminiscing about “You Don’t Miss Your Water,” his first hit for Stax Records: “At that particular time, I had been singing secular music in clubs, but the training and the background was strictly gospel. Most soul singers and country singers, we all came out of church … You sang with the choir for a while, and those choir rehearsals taught you how to sing in tune and treat a lyric and express an idea. So all of that helped as we created a career.”

DJ Squeeky, producer of 8Ball & MJG and Young Dolph, recalls growing up playing drums at First Baptist Church on Beale Street, where his mother has always gone. His uncle was “cold” — a master of any instrument in the church, able to jump in and accompany any singer, on any song.

MonoNeon, trailblazing funk and avant garde bassist: “Eventually I started playing in church. That’s where I really got most of my skill from. Olivet Fellowship Baptist Church on Knight Arnold.”

Vaneese Thomas, noting how she and siblings Carla and Marvell grew up a little differently from most: “Our church was not the gospel experience people expect from Memphis. We grew up in a very straight-laced Baptist church. So we sang

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“Eventually I started playing in church. That’s where I really got most of my skill from.

Olivet Fellowship Baptist Church on Knight Arnold.”

nd that’s just a small sampling.

Everywhere you turn, the influence of African-American churches on the Memphis sound — even in the era of hip-hop — is inescapable. The church crops up in nearly every musician’s biography, yet remains under-recognized for what it is: a crucible for musical talent and skill without parallel.

In order to dig a little deeper into this milieu, I could think of no better guide than Kirk Whalum, composer, producer, and sideman extraordinaire, whose command of the saxophone has carried the tones and phrasing honed in his father’s church across the world.

“It’s that thing that we take for granted many times, but other people go, ‘Well, that’s just exactly what I need,’” Whalum reflects. “Whether it’s Quincy Jones — as many sessions as I’ve done with him — or many other artists, they hear Memphis in my sound. Not just Memphis, but Memphis church. And it’s specifically the black church. I mean, Aretha Franklin — her dad was pastoring a black church here.

And, you know, Maurice White and David Porter were singing in a black church

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et there’s another force at work here as well, something larger than oneself that players can reach for and one that often goes hand in hand with the church: family. This too arises over and over again in Memphis musicians’ stories, with such a diversity of what ‘family’ actually means that it need not be reduced to a simple Norman Rockwell image.

Musical families have marked the evolution of Memphis music since before that history was written. Herman Green never knew his biological father, Herman Washington Sr., a player in W.C. Handy’s band who was murdered when Green was only 2 years old. But his stepfather, Rev. Tigner S. Green, played a major role in his love of music.

Other Memphis families were even more legendary: the Newborns, the Jacksons, and the Thomases, from father Rufus to his three children, to name but a few.

The Whalums, of course, are a formidable musical force in this town, yet they are far from the only dynasty springing from a fortuitous union of both religious and filial continuity. Take the Barnes family: Deborah Gleese, daughter of Rev. James L. Gleese, was, for a time, a Raelette, one of the background singers for Ray Charles, before she married gospel singer Duke Barnes and family life demanded that she leave touring behind.

Converting to the Seventh Day Adventist Church, the couple sang

(opposite) The choir at Olivet Fellowship Baptist Church; (above) Barry Campbell with John Black and Austin Bradley

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“Whether it’s Quincy Jones — as many sessions as I’ve done with him — or many other artists, they hear Memphis in my sound. Not just Memphis, but Memphis church.”

and played around Memphis regulary, ultimately incorporating their children into the show. Today, the Sensational Barnes Brothers, brothers Courtney and Chris, are a gospel act in their own right on the newly minted Bible & Tire Recording Company, while their older brother Calvin is the Minister of Music at the Olivet Fellowship Baptist Church.

Seeing him lead the band this past Sunday was an excercise in polished euphoria. From the mellow background passages, bubbling under Dr. Geno Gibson’s sermon, to the band and choir syncing flawlessly with a spritely drum machine and video projections, the service was a master class in stage craft. In the context of references to young congregation members who had recently been murdered, and in Gibson’s unflinching critique of the New Jim Crow, the music’s shimmer was a welcome blast of ecstatic community.

Mostly, the service created a spirit of inclusiveness, and, it turns out, the church band is itself a testament to such openness.

Calvin Barnes, still a Seventh Day Adventist, is not a member of the church for whom he plays every Sunday. This is not uncommon. Jason Clark, executive director of the Memphis-based Tennessee Mass Choir, puts it this way: “Sometimes it’s difficult to find the level of talent you need right within a congregation.

Sometimes you have to be a part of a congregation that’s willing to support the

music industry financially, and that doesn’t always come from your home church.”

In the case of the Olivet Fellowship (which splintered from the New Olivet Baptist Church some years ago), that openness to outside talent extended to allowing one young drummer to rehearse his secular band in the church during off-hours. Calvin Barnes recalls meeting the drummer’s bass player, a kid named DJ, whose father was a well-known bassist already. “The first time I met him, he was playing with this little group, kids really, and some of them were members of my church. DJ was probably around 12 and came in with his bass bigger than him, and when he played it was like ‘Oh. My. God.’ He wasn’t as good as he is now, but he was playing like a grown man. At that time he was super shy. But when the church ended up losing our bass player, we said, ‘Why not DJ?’” Though DJ didn’t know the formidable gospel repertoire, he soon mastered it.

Calvin nurtured both his idiosyncracies and his ensemble chops. “I really took him under my wing,” says Barnes. “And on the music tip, I would challenge him. Because he’s always been that avant garde-in-themaking type. So when the pastor gets up to preach, musicians typically go off to the side because they’re done for the moment.

They just chill. Not him. He would sit there in his chair, turn his volume down, and start practicing bass. He’d do that through the entire sermon, every week. Over and over and over. And I would tell him, ‘You’re gonna be major.’”

As he coached the young bassist, little did Barnes realize that DJ’s idiosyncracies were what would lead him to greater renown. Some years later, DJ began posting YouTube videos of his more off-the-wall music, under the name MonoNeon. One such video caught the ear of Prince, who flew him to Paisley Park in Minneapolis to jam and record several times before the mega-star’s untimely death. Today, MonoNeon continues to ride that momentum, both with his own albums and in collaborative bands like Ghost-Note.

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hurch bands, it seems, are especially open to child prodigies. Jason Clark remembers well one young talent in particular: “When I played at Abundant Grace, close to 28 years ago, there was a young guy named Stanley Randolf, who was 9 years old. He was one of the most phenomenal drummers that I had ever heard. Now he’s Stevie Wonder’s drummer, to this day! We have quite a bit of those stories here.”

Clark himself is no stranger to being a prodigy nurtured by both a musical family and the church. Both playing in a church band and directing the Tennessee Mass Choir, which pulls talent from across the state to Memphis, he seems to have been destined for a life in music.

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group in their formative years. So those are the things I’m talking about when I say it’s all about that soul that you get from that place. And that makes its way into art.”

If Whalum takes a philosophical perspective on the idea, perhaps it’s a family thing, given that his late father, Kenneth Whalum Sr., once was pastor of the Olivet Baptist Church on Southern Avenue, and his brother, Kenneth Jr., now presides over that church’s latest incarnation, the New Olivet Baptist Church. It’s only natural that Kirk looks beyond the more superficial influence of, say, the gospel repertoire.

“I think it’s more of an approach. In white culture — what represents Western white culture? I think ballet. In ballet, the more intense you get, the higher you get: literally, physically higher. And the pinnacle of ballet is en pointe. You’re on your toes, you know, and you’re reaching for the sky. And just the opposite applies to African music. When you hear people talking about getting down, it’s like the pinnacle of the African musical experience: You’re almost on the floor.

You’re bending down all the way.

“I think that’s a good metaphor for the approach that you get from black music.

It’s not about someone ‘playing soulful,’ it’s about believing in something and being a part of something and someone. In this case, Jesus. That brings about a completely different approach. It’s not so much the technique or those other things that we all aspire to. The main thing is that feeling, that conviction.”

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Our mother passed away six years ago, so it was handed over to me when she passed. A lot of people remember her from back in the day, when she started the Fannie Clark Singers, produced by the late, great Willie Mitchell. It was a gospel group. I actually started out playing tambourine for the Fannie Clark Singers when I was 6 years old.”

Clark went off to a life in religious music and credits his success, in part, to time he spent at one of the city’s most pre-eminent musical ministries, Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church. “Dr. Leo Davis is one of the best Ministers of Music that I’ve worked under,” he says. “I know he singlehandedly trained a lot of musicians here in the city. And to this day, they have probably one of the top five bands in the city. I think that’s due to his leadership.”

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is not a prerequisite for thriving in the church music scene. “No, not really,” he says. “There of course are a few like that, but there are some who are just gifted.

There are some who went to school. That’s the beauty of church musicians. You get such a variety. That’s why our genre is more diverse than any other style of music. It encompasses jazz, to pop, to that gritty bluesy feel, to classical. I really credit that to the fact that not everyone grew up in church, just playing gospel music.

So you get this whole eclectic feel within the gospel arena. There are just so many different beginnings to it.”

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nd, as it turns out, there are happy endings as well. While church bands can foster talent in the making, they can also offer a haven to great players who once toured the world. Such was the scene I stumbled upon at the historic Mt. Pisgah Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church in Orange Mound, which only last month celebrated its 139th anniversary.

Attending their service on that Sunday was like turning the calendar back a half century. On either side of the 90-year-old building’s proscenium, high above the altar, were two vintage Leslie speakers,

hard-wired to a classic Hammond organ.

At the keyboard sat Winston Stewart, longtime member of the Bar-Kays throughout their ’70s and ’80s heyday.

Playing bass behind him was Barry Campbell, who was in demand as a New York session player for nearly 20 years, playing with the likes of Eric Clapton, David Bowie, and Quincy Jones. Together with drummer and singer Austin Bradley, guitarist John Black, pianist Davida Winfrey, and the earnest choir led by City Councilwoman Jamita Swearengen, they created magic.

As one friend noted, finding such talent in unassuming corners of the community is as Memphis as it gets. And it helped me appreciate the phenomenon of the church band as a haven as well as a hothouse for youth. As Campbell tells me, “When I was in New York, the music industry began to change. Everyone went for that MIDI programming thing, like with hip-hop and rap. And the rent in New York City kept going up. After a while I was like, ‘Why am I here?’”

So he returned to the community where he grew up. “It’s a church in the ’hood,” he says. “It’s old-school. It’s a good church.

Young people want that contemporary stuff, those mega churches with flat screens and big sound systems. But musically, at Mt. Pisgah we’re still kinda doing it the way they did it back in the ’60s and ’70s. We’re not really throwing in much of the jazz fusion that’s going on now. We’re more soul and blues-oriented. We don’t get into too much Kirk Franklin-type stuff because we don’t have a youth choir. Everybody in the choir is old enough to be my big brother or daddy or mama.”

Neither Campbell nor Stewart grew up playing in the church but came to it later in life. For Campbell, this was partly a practical matter. “Live music isn’t as popular as it once was. So a lot of musicians have gone to the church over the last 30 years. Once I came back, all my guys had a church gig. Every church had at least a bass drum and keyboard. Some churches even had synthesizers. Some had bands. I even knew white churches that had orchestras. It just expanded to where it’s a thing now.”

On this late autumn Sunday, I was glad it was a thing, as Winston Stewart coaxed waves of emotion from the Hammond organ in a minor key, playing even the drawbars’ shades of timbre deftly, while the bass and drums defined a slinky pocket.

Though Stewart’s a relative newcomer to the gospel idiom, it was clear that his lifetime of music and soul was pouring out of those speakers, as one extended organ showcase piece after another evoked waves of blues-drenched sorrow and joy.

It was then that the Reverend Willie Ward stepped up and quoted Romans 10:17. “Faith cometh by hearing!” he declared. Still recovering from the reverberating wooden chambers of the organ, bass, drums, and guitar, topped with those soaring voices, I was inclined to believe it.

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here was a time, not long ago, when naming a Memphis “Athlete of the Decade” was a onestop shop. Pick the best Memphis State basketball player, and you had your man. In the 1970s, it was Larry Finch. The 1980s had Keith Lee. Penny Hardaway dominated the 1990s, first as a Tiger All-American, then later as an NBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist.

It’s not so easy anymore. The Memphis sports landscape has gained new “scenery” since the turn of the century — including our own NBA franchise, and not just a Triple-A baseball team, but a soccer team, too, calling AutoZone Park home. The Memphis “AOD” for the century’s first decade was indeed a Memphis Tiger, but he wore a football helmet and shoulder pads — DeAngelo Williams setting rushing (and scoring) records on the gridiron that may never be broken.

In choosing this decade’s finest Memphis athlete, though, we find ourselves in a barstool debate involving four beloved stars who — together — made the Grizzlies indeed our NBA team. First, the runners-up: • The Griz revolution began when Mike Conley was drafted by Memphis with the fourth pick in Gasol the 2007 NBA draft. Considered undersized by some at the time, Conley played a gigantic role in 12 years as a point guard with more heart than his frame would seem to contain. He helped the Grizzlies beat the mighty Golden State Warriors twice in the 2015 playoffs after breaking his face in the previous round. It’ll be a while before his franchise records for games (788) and points (11,733) are broken.

• Zach Randolph arrived in 2009 with a checkered past, a reputation for causing as many problems off the court as he might solve on it. In eight seasons with the Grizzlies, “Z-Bo” became pure Memphis.

A two-time All-Star, Randolph was the first Grizzly to earn All-NBA recognition (third-team in 2011).

• Was there “Grit-and-Grind” before Tony Allen? It may have existed in some metaphysical form, but Mr. “First-Team All-Defense” spelled it out for Memphis and the NBA community at large. He played seven seasons with the Grizzlies,

and it’s no coincidence the team reached the playoffs in all seven.

Marc Gasol is the Memphis Athlete of the Decade. Acquired in a 2008 trade that sent his older brother, Pau, to the Los Angeles Lakers, Gasol transformed himself from a pudgy “little brother” stretching a uniform during his high school days at Lausanne to the 2013 NBA Defensive Player of the Year. (When Gasol jumped for the opening tip at the 2015 All-Star Game — he’s the only Grizzly to start in the event — he did so against Pau.) More than any of his “Fab Four” mates, Gasol embodied the city he represented for almost 11 full seasons, a player who found greatness more with effort and resolve than natural-born gifts.

In 2015, Gasol became the first Grizzly to earn first-team All-NBA honors and also graced a Memphis magazine cover as Memphian of the Year. He described for writer Kevin Lipe a distinctive synergy he felt with the city: “If you give all you have, Memphis will take care of you. The fans will appreciate that. They don’t get blinded by the flashes and the drama and whatnot. They appreciate hard work, and dedication, and that’s what they want. They want you to be fighting.

That’s what they like. So I respect that.”

A fractured right foot cost Gasol much of the 2015-16 regular season and the entire postseason, all but eliminating any chances the Grizzlies had of closing the gap on Golden State in the Western Conference. But he returned the following season, averaged a career-high 19.5 points and played in his third All-Star Game. And by that most workmanlike of basketball statistics — rebounds — Gasol is tops in Grizzlies history (5,942).

Ironically, the Memphis Athlete of the Decade finishes the 2010s in the uniform of the Toronto Raptors. The Grizzlies dealt the 34-year-old center north of the border last February in a move that signaled a transition for one franchise while completing what would become a championship roster for another. Gasol’s greatest professional dream may have been realized in Canada, but the man remains forever a Memphian, right down to his championship hardware. Engraved on the lavish ring he now owns as an NBA champion: “GRIT&GRIND.”

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By Julia Baker

Anyone who missed Elton John’s final stop in Memphis on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour this October can almost see the Rocket Man play this Friday at Almost Elton John & the RocketMen: The Christmas Extravaganza at Lafayette’s.

The group, led by tribute artist Jerred Price, will play the annual holiday show as part of its monthly residency, blasting hits like “Tiny Dancer,” “Crocodile Rock,” and “Bennie and the Jets,” mixed in with a couple of Christmas songs and one of Price’s favorites, “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding,” an 11-minute rock ballad from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

“It’s one of my favorites to perform because it goes from one end of the spectrum to the other,” says Price. “It goes from this dark, haunting-sounding song into a complete rock-and-roll jam session, and it’s just beautiful. So much fun.”

Price, who taught himself to sing and play Elton John covers at a young age, says he credits John for shaping him as a person.

“By far, he’s been my biggest influence as far as music, but also just as a human being with his humanitarianism and what he’s done for other people,” says Price.

Price has modeled his own humanitarian efforts after John, working as a commissioner for Memphis City Beautiful, a volunteer for numerous local organizations, and a fund-raiser for Elton John’s AIDS Foundation.

In addition to his philanthropic work, Price says he believes in giving back through his music.

“Music is the one thing when, at that moment, at least, people are smiling and they’re having fun,” he says. “And they don’t care if they’re sitting next to somebody that may not be the same color or political party as them.”

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A Christmas Carol Theatre Memphis, 630 Perkins Extd., 7-9 p.m., $35 A Memphis holiday tradition, this 42nd annual stage production of the Dickens classic follows holiday-hating Ebenezer Scrooge as he encounters the three Ghosts of Christmas. Show runs through December 23rd.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra FedExForum, 191 Beale, 7:30 p.m., $36.50-$76.50 Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of world-renowned TSO as they present an all-new rock opera, Christmas Eve & Other Stories, alongside a stunning light show, pyrotechnics, and more.

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Kirk Whalum presents A Gospel According to Jazz Christmas Crosstown Arts, 1350 Concourse, Suite 280, 8-11 p.m., $45 and up This 8th annual holiday event, presented by Grammy Award winner Kirk Whalum, features John Stoddart and Kevin Whalum, along with vocalist Maysa and guitarist Adam Hawley, on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage. Benefits the Room In The Inn. Big Top Tease: Vol VIII: Happy Holigays!

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Brian Hamilton

Bring Your Soul Local house DJs Brian Hamilton, Pat Allgood, and friends will bring their souls to the city this Saturday at CANVAS. The house music collective, otherwise known as Memphis House Mafia, hosts Soul in the City events at CANVAS the third Saturday of each month, emphasizing free musical entertainment for all.

“Making money has never been the goal,” says Hamilton. “It’s more about making music and sharing it with people.”

Hamilton was influenced to produce electronic music 25 years ago by local artist DJ David the Worm.

“My friend shared some of his mixtapes with me,” says Hamilton. “I listened to those, and I thought, ‘I’d like to do that, too.’”

Since then, Hamilton has used his previous experience playing piano, as well as tuba in high school band, to shape his electronic musical styles.

“People tend to go for the heavier electronic sounds,” he says. “I like music with soul, hence the name Soul in the City. I like music that has vocals, horns, and other real instruments mixed in with the electronic.”

Hamilton says he hopes to change peoples’ lives with music, just like it has for him.

“I enjoy making people dance and seeing people smile,” he says. “Knowing that something you created, someone enjoyed. And the few times people have come up to me and said that the things I did changed their life, that makes it all worth it.”

Anyone unable to make it to Soul in the City can catch Hamilton’s free set at New Year’s Eve with Iz & Diz at Alchemy on December 31st.

SOUL IN THE CITY AND HANDMADE HOLIDAY MARKET, CANVAS OF MEMPHIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21ST, 11 P.M., FREE.

SATURDAY December 21 Repticon Memphis Reptile Show Landers Center, 4560 Venture, Southaven, Mississippi, 10 a.m.5 p.m., $10-$15 (adult ticket) See live animals from around the world, purchase pets and pet products direct from experts, and learn about reptiles and exotic animals at seminars and demonstrations. Also on Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Lightsaber Dueling Rec Room, 3000 Broad, 7-9 p.m.

Are you ready for battle? BYOSaber for this free, friendly match, but Drunk Competition will have extra on hand for those in need. Happyhour drink prices for contestants.

May the Force be with you.

SUNDAY December 22 Goldie and Friends: The Anti-Christmas Show Young Avenue Deli, 2119 Young, 9 p.m., $5 Bah, humbug! Holiday cheer is strictly forbidden at this drag event featuring Goldie Dee, Allysun Wunderland, Holly Walnutz, Iris Lefleur, and more.

Winter Wonderland Silent Disco Highland Axe and Rec, 525 S. Highland, 9 p.m.-midnight, $10 Dance the night away — wearing headphones; no loud music here — with two DJs spinning tracks across three channels. Tune in to your favorite, put on your boogie shoes, and show the dance floor — and everyone else — who’s boss.

Blind Mississippi Morris Brass Note Ceremony Blues City Cafe, 138 Beale, noon-4:30 p.m.

The bluesman, named among the 10 best harmonica players in the world

by Bluzharp magazine, is honored with a brass note. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar starting at noon. Ceremony at 1 p.m., followed by live music, featuring the honoree himself, beginning at 1:30 p.m.

The Nutcracker The Harrell Performing Arts Theatre, 440 W. Powell, Collierville, 2:30 p.m., $20 Collierville Ballet presents a memorable performance of the holiday classic.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule December 19 - 25 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

The King Beez Thursdays, 5 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill 341 BEALE 577-8387

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

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

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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

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

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

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

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

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN 525-1515

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

Andrew Cabigao Sunday, Dec. 22, 10 a.m.

130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

South Main

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Jamie Baker & the VIPs Sunday, Dec. 22, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

The Lounge at 3rd & Court 24 N. B.B. KING BLVD 930-0793

L.A.P.D. Thursday, Dec. 19, 9 p.m.; John Williams and the A440 Band Fridays, 9 p.m.; John Paul Keith Saturday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m.; Soul Jazz Trios with Joe Restivo Sunday, Dec. 22, 7 p.m.

315 BEALE

168 BEALE 576-2220

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

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

7 W. CAROLINA

FreeWorld Annual Holidaze Celebration Friday, Dec. 20, 9 p.m.-midnight.

South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Joe Leathers and Friends Friday, Dec. 20, 7 p.m.

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Candace Mache Jazz Trio Dec. 20-21, 7-10 p.m.

Paulette’s 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.

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Goner Records Holiday Party Thursday, Dec. 19, 9 p.m.; Mark Edgar Stuart with Jimmy Davis Friday, Dec. 20, 8 p.m.; Super Low Friday, Dec. 20, 10 p.m.; Relentless Breeze Saturday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m.; Robby Grant Holiday Show Saturday, Dec. 21, 10:30 p.m.; Merry Sheiksmas with The Sheiks and Michael Donahue Wednesday, Dec. 25, 9 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

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 CMPLX 2234 LAMAR AVENUE

The Sub-Urban Tour: Don Lifted Saturday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m.

88 UNION

Richard Wilson Saturday, Dec. 21, 7-10 p.m.

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

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

Loflin Yard

Mesquite Chop House

Semi-Average Joe; Alex Butler Band Thursday, Dec. 19, 10 p.m.; Bluff City Bandits Dec. 20-21, 10 p.m.; Rodell McCord Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

Sunrise 670 JEFFERSON

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

183 BEALE 522-9596

Tin Roof

Jack Rowell Friday, Dec. 20, 8 p.m.; Meanwhile in MS Saturday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m.

Medical Center

Silky O’Sullivan’s 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.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Magic of Memphis Holiday Spectacular Saturday, Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 22, 2:30 p.m.

182 BEALE 528-0150

Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Saturdays, 4:30-8:30 p.m. and Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and Fridays, 4-8 p.m.; Jimmy James Band Dec. 20-21, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Soul Street Mojo Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

The Cove

B-Side 1555 MADISON 347-6813

Max Kaplan Band Thursday, Dec. 19, 9 p.m.; Dwayne Burnside Friday, Dec. 20, 9 p.m.; Glass Pax, Chad Pope Saturday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m.; John Németh and Friends Sundays, 6 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; David Cousar Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Outer Ring Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

December 19-25, 2019

Sean Apple Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 5-9 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 22, 5-9 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Landon Lane with Rodney Polk Mondays, 7-11 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Turnstyles Friday, Dec. 20, 9 p.m.; The Skitch Saturdays, 6 p.m.; Hurricane Elvis Saturday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m.; Jazz Jam with Frog Squad Sundays, 6 p.m.; Freeman Weems Mondays, 6 p.m.; Gayland Grooms Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Ben MindenBirkenmaier Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule December 19 - 25 Lamplighter Lounge

Huey’s Poplar

1702 MADISON 726-9916

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Music of Nat King Cole Friday, Dec. 20, 7 p.m.

Jeremy Scott, Ben Ricketts, Mars Hall Friday, Dec. 20, 7 p.m.; Damak, Elf Rage, Ibex Clone Saturday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m.

Crosstown Theater

P&H Cafe

1350 CONCOURSE

Kirk Whalum’s Gospel According to Jazz Friday, Dec. 20, 8 p.m.; Gamble Brothers Band, CYC Saturday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m.

1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rockstar Karaoke Fridays; Homeless for the Holidays Benefit Show Friday, Dec. 20, 6-10 p.m.; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND 454-7771

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Logan Garrett Saturday, Dec. 21, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

The King Beez Sunday, Dec. 22, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Guest House at Graceland 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-3322

Rob Haynes Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Live Music Mondays-Wednesdays, Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

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

Huey’s Collierville John Paul Keith Sunday, Dec. 22, 8-11:30 p.m.

Cordova

Growlers

Huey’s Cordova

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Ben Davis Jr. Thursday, Dec. 19, 8 p.m.; Trigger Hippy Friday, Dec. 20, 8 p.m.; Seth Winters Band Saturday, Dec. 21, 4 p.m.; Season’s Beatings Saturday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m.; Black Cream, Webbstar, DJ Juice the Great Sunday, Dec. 22, 7 p.m.; Beat Battle on the Bluff Monday, Dec. 23, 6 p.m.; How the Nupes Stole Christmas Party Tuesday, Dec. 24, 9 p.m.

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 318-3030

The Chaulkies Sunday, Dec. 22, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Frayser/Millington Huey’s Millington

Hi Tone

8570 HWY 51 N.

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

The Pistol & the Queen Sunday, Dec. 22, 6-9 p.m.

Medication III Thursday, Dec. 19, 9 p.m.; Land Divided, Oceans Divide Us, with Bravado, Flirting With Sincerity Friday, Dec. 20, 8 p.m.; Emo Night Memphis Presents: My Chemical Christmas Friday, Dec. 20, 10 p.m.; Memphis As Fuck Xmas Jam with Al Kapone Saturday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m.; HEELS Xmas Variety Show Saturday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m.; Paint & Get Lit Sunday, Dec. 22, 7 p.m.; Gangsta Boo, White Sosa Wednesday, Dec. 25, 10 p.m.

Pop’s Bar & Grill 6365 NAVY 872-0353

Possum Daddy or DJ Turtle Thursdays, 5-9 p.m.; CeCee Fridays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; Possum Daddy Karaoke Wednesdays, 6-10 p.m. and Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Royal Blues Band Sunday, Dec. 22, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

High Cotton Brewing Co. 598 MONROE 896-9977

Huey’s Germantown

Grateful Dead Tribute: The Schwag Monday, Dec. 23, 8 p.m.

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, Dec. 22, 8-11:30 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

North Mississippi/ Tunica

Dead Irish Blues Sunday, Dec. 22, 4-7 p.m.; The Bugaloos Sunday, Dec. 22, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

David Kurtz Thursday, Dec. 19, 6 p.m.; McKenna Bray Thursday, Dec. 19, 8 p.m.; Carlos Ecos Band Friday, Dec. 20, 6:30 p.m.; Almost Elton John & the RocketMen Friday, Dec. 20, 10 p.m.; Chris and Patrick Pietrangelo Saturday, Dec. 21, 10:30 a.m.; Visions of Christmas featuring Showtime and Friends Saturday, Dec. 21, 2 p.m.; The Rollin Rosatti Band Saturday, Dec. 21, 6:30 p.m.; Southern Creed Saturday, Dec. 21, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Turnstyles Sunday, Dec. 22, 4 p.m.; Madison Line Mondays Mondays, 6 p.m.; Christmas Eve Brunch with Joe Restivo Tuesday, Dec. 24, 11 a.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Fingertrick Wednesday, Dec. 25, 8 p.m.

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

D’Monet Saturday, Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m.

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Shelby Forest General Store

Collierville

1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 507-8030

Lafayette’s Music Room

Bartlett

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

John Németh Friday, Dec. 20, 8 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Saturday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m.; Mighty Souls 4 Sunday, Dec. 22, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Drag Night with Ms. Goldie Dee and Friends Saturday, Dec. 21, 10-11:30 p.m.

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe 663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

Live Music with DJ ALXANDR Fridays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Live Music with Coldway Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

East Memphis

Poplar/I-240

Hernando’s Hide-A-Way

Neil’s Music Room

3210 OLD HERNANDO 398-7496

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

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

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

East of Wangs 6069 PARK 763-0676

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

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

Larry Cunningham ThursdaysSaturdays; Aislynn Rappe Sundays; Keith Kimbrough Mondays-Wednesdays.

Derek Hoke Saturday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m.; Honky Tonk Wednesdays with Dale Watson & his Lone Stars Wednesdays, 9 p.m.midnight.

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

South Memphis FireHouse Community Arts Center 985 S. BELLEVUE 948-9522

Voices Open Mic Variety Show Third Friday of every month, 7 p.m.

TRIO PLUS Third Friday of every month.

Rock-n-Roll Cafe 3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

Elvis Tribute featuring Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Elvis Gospel Music Show Fridays, 1-2:30 p.m.

Landers Center 4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-280-9120

Q107.5 Jingle Jam Thursday, Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m.

Huey’s Southaven 7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

NightCall Sunday, Dec. 22, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 507-8030

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The 12 Dates of Christmas, a cast of family, friends, and suitors are remembered by Mary during one year — from Thanksgiving to another year’s Thanksgiving, and every holiday in between. playhouseonthesquare.org. Through Dec. 22.

Junie B. Jones: The Musical, it’s Junie B.’s first day of first grade, and a lot of things have changed for her: Junie’s friend, Lucille, doesn’t want to be her best pal anymore and, on the bus, Junie B. makes friends with Herb, the new kid at school. Also, Junie has trouble reading the blackboard, and her teacher, Mr. Scary, thinks she may need glasses. Throw in a friendly cafeteria lady, a kickball tournament, and a “Top-Secret Personal Beeswax Journal,” and first grade has never been more exciting.

Through Dec. 22.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Germantown Community Theatre

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“Spirit of Nature” by Anne J. Froning at Art Body Soul, through December 31st

demand parts in the Christmas pageant, the whole town panics. gctcomeplay.org. $20. Sun., 2:30 p.m., and Fri., Sat., 8 p.m.

Through Dec. 22.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).

Germantown Performing Arts Center Children’s Ballet Theater Nutcracker, gpacweb.net. $33. Sat., Dec. 21, 6 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 22, 1:30 p.m.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Landers Center

A Christmas Story: The Musical, dftonline.org. $22.

Sun., 2 p.m., Fri., Sat., 7 p.m., and Sat., Dec. 21, 2 p.m.

Through Dec. 22.

4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120).

The Orpheum

Hello, Dolly!, strongwilled matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi travels to Yonkers, New York, to find a match for the miserly “well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder. orpheum-memphis.com. $25$125. Through Dec. 20, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Dec. 21, 2 & 8 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 22, 1 & 6:30 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse 51

A Christmas Story, playhouse51.com. $10. Sun., 2 p.m., and Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m.

Through Dec. 22.

8077 WILKINSVILLE (872-7170).

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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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.

They meet the Lost Boys, fairy Tinkerbell, Princess Tiger Lily, and Captain Hook. playhouseonthesquare.org.

Through Dec. 29.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Tennessee Shakespeare Company

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, a sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mary Bennet has grown tired of her role as the dutiful sister, and as the family gathers for the seasonal celebration, an unexpected guest sparks her hopes for independence and possibly even love. tnshakespeare.org. $15-$39. Wed.-Sat., 7:30 p.m., and Sun., 3 p.m.

Through Dec. 22.

7950 TRINITY (759-0604).

Theatre Memphis

A Christmas Carol, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is approached by the ghostly vision of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him of an upcoming spiritual journey.

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PlayBack Memphis, bringing stories to life in a safe space to unlock healing, transformation, and joy. Families welcome. (207-3694), Free. Third Thursday of every month, 4:30-6 p.m.

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

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2119 YOUNG AVENUE LATE NIGHT FOOD: Kitchen open til 2am DELIVERY until midnight 7 nights a week

12/21: Drag Night w/ Ms Goldie Dee and Friends 12/31: New Year’s Eve w/ Spaceface

1024 SOUTH YATES (207-4161).

“Catalyst,” exhibition about the Memphis art scene surrounding the artist, writer, and South Main preservation and arts champion Robert McGowan (1947-2012). In 1987, McGowan co-founded the arts journal Number: Inc with fellow artists Don Estes and Cory Dugan (the founding editor).

In 1988, he opened the Memphis Center for Contemporary Art. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Jan. 11.

“MASKS: The Art of Disguise,” exhibition curated by the Honors Forum students in consultation with their professor Dr. Leslie Luebbers and the AMUM staff. Through Jan. 11, 2020.

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

Ongoing.

“IEAA Ancient Egyptian Collection,” permanent exhibition of Egyptian antiquities ranging from 3800 B.C.E. to 700 C.E. from the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology collection. Ongoing.

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

Art Village Gallery

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Children’s Ballet Theater’s Nutcracker at GPAC, Saturday, Dec. 21st, and Sunday, Dec. 22nd

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

“Spirit of Nature,” exhibition of ceramics and drawings by Anne J. Froning. Through Dec. 31.

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Two Rooms by Lee Blessing, portrait of solitude and devotion reverberating with today’s everyday headlines from the Middle East — a love story interrupted by the things we most try to ignore. theatreworksmemphis.org. $15. Fri., Dec. 20, 8-10:15 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 22, 8-10:15 p.m.

A Christmas Temptation, a gospel music stage play of a Christmas story that takes a twist when an engagement party gets very interesting when a present will not fit under the Christmas Tree. theatreworks. org. $20-$35. Fri.-Sat., Dec. 20-21, 7 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 22, 3 p.m.

“Out of Africa: Inhabitants of the Earth,” exhibition of work

by Nigerian artist Uchay Joel Chima. artvillagegallery.com.

Ongoing.

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

ArtsMemphis

“Unfolding: The Next Chapter in Memphis,” exhibition of visual art by local Memphis artists, curated by Kenneth Wayne Alexander. (578-2787), artsmemphis.org. Free. Ongoing, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

575 S. MENDENHALL (578-2787).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art “Chinese Symbols in Art,” ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. belzmuseum.org.

Ongoing.

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

Clough-Hanson Gallery

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Friedel Dzubas: The Ira A. Lipman Family Collection,” exhibition of 26 large-scale, fullyresolved abstract paintings by German-born American artist Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994).

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

“Abstract Expressionism: A Social Revolution,” exhibition of selections from the Haskell Collection. Through Jan. 5, 2020.

“Laurel Sucsy: Finding the Edge,” work by Sucsy, a Memphis-based artist. Inspired by nature and the objects she encounters in her daily life.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Life Visions,” exhibition of new work by Ollie Rodriguez.

Through Jan. 2, 2020.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Senior Thesis Exhibition, exhibition of work by Rhodes studio art majors Olivia Rowe, Charlotte Sechrist, Qian Xu, Sara Lynn Abbott, and Melissa Kiker. rhodes.edu/events. Ongoing.

Edge Gallery

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

FireHouse Community Arts Center

Crosstown Arts at The Concourse

“Asiko: Moments,” exhibition of new work by Olaniyi R. Akindiya Akirash. Through Feb. 9, 2020.

“Color Schemes: The Value of Intensity,” exhibition of new works by by Anthony Lee, Suzy Hendricks, Justin Bowles, and more. Through Feb. 9, 2020.

“Selected Animations,” exhibition of new work by Ezra Johnson. Through Feb. 9, 2020.

1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 (507-8030).

Folk Artists, exhibition of work

by Debra Edge, John Sadowski, Nancy White, Bill Brookshire, and other folk artists. Ongoing.

509 S. MAIN (647-9242).

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

Ongoing.

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Germantown Performing Arts Center “This is My Time: Clouds, Ghosts, and Other Musings,” new work by Kerry Peeples. gpacweb.com. Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Jan. 3.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

David Lusk Gallery

Graceland

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

“Broad Strokes,” exhibition of new work by Jared Small. davidluskgallery.com. Through Dec. 21.

Decadent Avenue

“WinterArts,” eleventh annual showcase of unique hand-crafted works by regional artists. winterartsmemphis. com. Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun., 12-5 p.m., Mon.-Wed., Fri., 10 a.m.-9 p.m., and Thurs., 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Through Dec. 24.

888 WHITE STATION.

“Hillbilly Rock,” exhibition featuring items from The Marty Stuart Collection. graceland.com. Ongoing.

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

“Averell Mondie: Five Years,” exhibition of photographs from the past five years. robinsongallery.com. Through Jan. 2, 2020.

44 HULING (576-0708).

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Metal Museum

“Master Metalsmith: Sarah Perkins,” exhibition of work by the 2019 Master Metalsmith.

For over 30 years, this exhibition series has honored the most influential metal artists of the day, bringing the work of internationally acclaimed metalsmiths to Memphis for solo exhibitions. Ongoing.

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Finds & Beyond,” group exhibition of unique, rare, vintage, and contemporary works.

Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Jan. 4.

David Hall, exhibition of watercolor works on paper. jayetkingallery.com. Ongoing.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

942 COOPER (550-0064).

Overton Park Gallery

L Ross Gallery

Dorothy Northern and Jennifer Sargent, exhibition of works.

Ongoing.

Holiday Group Show, through Jan. 4, 2020.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

Marshall Arts Gallery

Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum

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

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

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Rawlinson Atelier Exhibition,” husband and wife artists, Gary and Diane Dixon will be featured in their first two-person exhibition. Mondays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

“A Painter’s Journey,” exhibition of landscape Paintings by Matthew Lee. Through Jan. 5, 2020.

Twilight Thursdays, extended hours staying open till sunset.

Each week will have a different highlight from plants to pets. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Thursdays.

“Bicentennial Blues Bed,” new, year-long planting celebrating the Bluff City’s bicentennial,

826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

located just outside of the Four Seasons Garden. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Ongoing.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Photography in Memphis,” exhibition presents 41 works from the museum’s permanent collection by 26 artists — including William Eggleston, Ernest C. Withers, and William Christenberry — alongside 62 works by 30 artists who live in, have left, or visited Memphis. Through Jan. 19, 2020.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra at FedExForum, Thursday, December 19th “Arts of Global Africa,” exhibition of historic and contemporary works in a range of different media presenting an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry.

Through June 21, 2021.

“Claire Van Vliet: Illustrating Babel,” exhibition of an unbound book of 17 lithographs and one woodcut by Claire Van Vliet.

Through Jan. 12, 2020.

“Ernest C. Withers: Baseball Photographs,” exhibition that examines African-American identity and representation as captured through the lens of noted civil rights-era photographer Ernest C. Withers. Through July 5, 2020.

Rotunda Projects: E.V. Day’s “Divas Ascending,” artist E.V. Day has repurposed costumes to make a series of sculptures that transform familiar icons of women’s empowerment and entrapment into new objects that

confound conventional readings of these clichés. Through July 5, 2020.

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

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

“Map Series” and “Wandering in Color,” exhibition of work by by Kay Coop. stgchurch.org.

Through Jan. 12, 2020.

Artists’ Link Exhibition, artists such as Mike Moffitt and Becky Ross will showcase their talents.

24th of every month, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

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Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“Run This Town: Memphis Women of Soul,” exhibition of never-before-seen costumes, photographs, and other memorabilia, which tells the stories of 12 Memphis women and how they continue to shape the Memphis music landscape in the 21st century. Through March 31, 2020.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Sue Layman Designs

Sue Layman Designs Ongoing Art, exhibition of oil-oncanvas paintings featuring brilliant colors and daring geometric shapes. (409-7870), suelaymandesigns.com.

Ongoing.

125 G.E. PATTERSON (409-7870).

Talbot Heirs

Debra Edge Art, ongoing.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

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

Through Dec. 21.

400 S. FRONT.

Village Frame & Art

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

December 19-25, 2019

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Get swept back to a time of petticoats, top hats, and corsets with this interactive holiday experience. Family night on Saturday, December 14, 6-9 p.m. $25. Fri., Sat., 7-10 p.m. Through Dec. 21.

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

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Come together to dance away the decade and relive some of the best of ’70s soul music and disco. Dress of the era encouraged. $10. Fri., Dec. 20, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

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You Look Like, a monthly showcase of spite, battle of bitchery, and competition of “Oh, hell no.” Watch the quickest wits from all over the country talk mad shit. (2833814), $8. Third Saturday of every month, 9-11 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

Mon., Dec. 23, 7 p.m.

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The Dixon Book Club

Interactive discussion on great reads. For more information, email lschmidt@dixon.org.

Free with admission. Third Thursday of every month, 6-7:30 p.m.

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

Get Lit Book Club

Discuss monthly selections over a beer. Join the group on Facebook to learn more.

Free. Third Thursday of every month, 7-8:30 p.m.

GHOST RIVER BREWING, 827 S. MAIN (278-0087).

KIDS

PAW Patrol: Adventure Play

Free-flowing exhibit with activities encouraging teamwork, self confidence, and playing the roles of the rescuing heroes.

Included with museum admission. Through Feb. 2, 2020, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS, 2525 CENTRAL (458-2678), CMOM.COM.

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Back to the Moon: For Good

Planetarium show that lets the audience relive the thrills of lunar exploration. Various times, see website for details.

Ongoing.

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

City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign

The Poor People’s Campaign — a grassroots, multiracial movement — drew thousands of people to Washington, D.C., to demand social reforms while living side-by-side on the National Mall in a tent city known as Resurrection City.

This poster exhibition explores the history and legacy of this important moment in U.S. history. Through June 30, 2020.

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

Fab Fridays Laser Light Show

State-of-the-art laser light tribute shows in the planetarium.

Fridays, 7, 8 & 9 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

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

Firepit Fridays

Friday-afternoon gathering with firepits, free s’mores, hot cocoa, and more. Fridays.

Through Jan. 24.

RIVER GARDEN, 51 RIVERSIDE DRIVE (312-9190).

Lights Out December Glow Party Blacklights, glow, dancing, body paint, and more. Sat., Dec. 21, 9 p.m.

REC ROOM, 3000 BROAD (209-1137).

Sun, Earth, Universe

Museum exhibit about Earth and space. Ongoing.

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

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MEEMAN-SHELBY FOREST STATE PARK, 910 RIDDICK (800-471-5293), THREEBRIDGESKINDRED.ORG.

Christmas Eve Service Tues., Dec. 24, 5 p.m.

EPIPHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH, 7887 POPLAR (861-6227), EPIPHANYLU.ORG.

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Saturday, February 22 7 P.M. & 9 P.M. Millennium Theatre

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Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees

Teddy bears beckon, elves are busy at work, and penguins play in the snow. Santa cheerfully greets guests at the end of the forest and poses for holiday photos. Through Dec. 31.

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

Gifts of Green at the Garden

Seasonal pop-up shop featuring holiday, hostess, home décor, and membership gifts.

Through Dec. 29, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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

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Nightly LED light show incorporating old growth oak, sassafras, and elm trees.

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Star Wars Weekend at Black Lodge, Thursday, December 19th, through Sunday, December 22nd Rockin Around the Christmas Tree at Holiday Wonders at the Garden

Carol-oke fun — sing some classic carols on a special karaoke stage. Thurs., Dec. 19.

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

Santa’s Wonderland

Free photo with Santa and holiday games and activities.

Through Dec. 24.

BASS PRO PYRAMID, 1 BASS PRO (291-8200).

Starry Nights

Drive through thousands of twinkling lights. $15-$50. Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m., and Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 6-9 p.m. Through Jan. 3.

SHELBY FARMS PARK, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

TSO performs Christmas Eve and Other Stories. $36-$76.

Thurs., Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m.

FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE, FEDEXFORUM.COM.

Victorian Yuletide Exhibition

Mansion is dressed in holiday splendor for annual Christmas exhibition with a story in every room. Through Jan. 5, 2020.

WOODRUFF-FONTAINE HOUSE, 680 ADAMS (526-1469), WOODRUFF-FONTAINE.ORG.

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Capriccio Grill Christmas Dinner

Classic three-course lunch or dinner. Call for reservations. $52. Wed., Dec. 25, 12-10 p.m.

CAPRICCIO GRILL ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE, 149 UNION, THE PEABODY (529-4199), PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

Chez Philippe Christmas Dinner

Elegant four-course dinner.

Call for reservations. $98-$146.

Wed., Dec. 25, 3-8 p.m.

THE PEABODY HOTEL, 149 UNION (529-4000), PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

Christmas Brunch

Extravagant brunch buffet served in high style on the Mezzanine overlooking the Grand Lobby. $78, $28 kids. Wed., Dec. 25, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

THE PEABODY HOTEL, 149 UNION (529-4000), PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

Pumps & Pearls Holiday Luncheon

Benefiting Heal the Hood Foundation. $30-$100. Sat., Dec. 21, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

MEMPHIS HILTON, 939 RIDGE LAKE (684-6664).

Winter Solstice Tea Party

Fancy dress in historical or futuristic costume is strongly encouraged, but not required. $20. Sat., Dec. 21, 10 a.m.noon.

TWO RIVERS BOOKSTORE, 2171 YOUNG (630-8088), TWORIVERSBOOKSTORE.COM.

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Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn’t fit in, Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. $8-$10. Sat., Sun., 3-5 p.m., and Through Dec. 24, 3-5 p.m. Through Dec. 22.

CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362).

I Read That Movie at the Library: Cold Mountain

Civil War drama adapted from Charles Frazier’s debut novel about a wounded Confederate soldier who deserts. Discussion following the movie. Free. Sat., Dec. 21, 2 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2726), MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.

Polyester

Divine has a husband who runs a porno theater and two lousy children with serious problems of their own. $5.

Thurs., Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m.

CROSSTOWN THEATER, 1350 CONCOURSE, CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Star Wars Weekend

Weekend-long celebration of the Skywalker saga. Friday night at 9 p.m. is a Star Wars dance party and costume contest with special prizes for the winners. Free. Dec. 19-22.

BLACK LODGE, 405 N. CLEVELAND (272-7744).

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The Memphis Public Libraries’ Children’s Dept. and the Connect Crew will be leading a festive winterthemed storytime outreach in partnership with Crosstown Concourse. Join us on the Big Stairs on the second floor where we will enjoy a lively storytime followed by a family crafting activity.

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The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

Having received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Vocal Music Performance at LeMoyne Owen College, along with studying under some of opera’s greatest powerhouses such as Grace Bumbry, Vera Little, even abroad in Pisa, Italy under world-renowned Pilralba Sorga, the classically trained voice known as D’Monet cannot be defined as a Jazz, Rhythm, and Blues or a Pop singer, but she has redefined the meaning of the traditional soul artist in what she calls “Alkaline Music” (music that heals).

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ou’ll love Lucky Cat twice as much when High Noon — the second floor of the restaurant — opens at 2583 Broad.

“Our goal is to open on New Year’s Eve and have an opening party,” says chef/ owner Zach Nicholson.

Each floor will be different. “Upstairs is more of a traditional bar/lounge feel than downstairs,” he says. “The menu is going to be limited and focused more on creative small plates.”

This will be a late-night place — a place people in the service industry can embrace when they get off work. “On Friday and Saturday nights, downstairs closes for service by 10 p.m.,” Nicholson says.

“Whereas the upstairs will open for service around 8. Downstairs will no longer take guests after 10 p.m., but the upstairs will continue serving until 1 or 2 in the morning.”

Since he began the restaurant in December 2016, Lucky Cat has grown. Nicholson and his wife, Sara, began making and selling ramen dishes at Lucky Cat Ramen pop-ups around town, including at The Cove and Wiseacre Brewery, before moving into a temporary brick-and-mortar restaurant at 247 Cooper.

They moved into the present location — the former Jack Magoo’s — last year.

The Nicholsons knew they found the right home for their restaurant.

“We started our pop-ups on Broad, so it made a lot of sense for us to settle down on the street. We love the arts district and many people that own businesses here.”

The Nicholsons love the outdoor area and large patio and would like to eventually set up gardens there to grow their own herbs and vegetables.

The building covers 5,600 square feet.

“A building with that much space would give us the room to, over time, expand and explore other possibilities with the food,” he says.

They dropped “Ramen” from their restaurant’s name at the new location because they were serving more than ramen dishes. They wanted to feature a lot of

what could be found in a Japanese izakaya, which essentially is a Japanese gastro pub.

“Downstairs our cuisine is heavily Japanese in spirit with a focus on ramen, rice bowls, and bao buns,” Nicholson says.

“We serve a nice craft cocktail menu with a lot of Southeast Asian flavors as well as a selection of Japanese whiskies, sake, and local beer.”

Nicholson isn’t ready to reveal High Noon’s menu. “By no means are we going to be working with the Southeast Asian flavor palate we work with downstairs. It’s going to be a surprise,” he says. “It’s totally different ideas. We’ll work completely without restriction.

“We’ll reveal more hints as we get closer to the opening,” Nicholson adds.

“We want people to come in without any expectations.”

High Noon’s construction and design aren’t complete, but lighting fixtures, tables, chairs, and a 24-foot-long bar are in place — enough to seat 50 people, including 14 at the bar. Also ready for action is a vintage 1960s shuffleboard table Nicholson found on Craigslist.

“Some of the things I think are consistent with the downstairs are our use of wallpaper and dim, warm lighting,” Nicholson says.

“Beyond that, there are few similarities.

Ace-high at Upstairs has this High Noon incredible exposed brick, and we didn’t want to mess with that too much.

“We went with colors we felt connected to: different shades of greens, and gold and brass elements. There are some things that feel kind of Prohibition-era almost in design. Also, elements that pay homage to our love of two genres of filmmaking — the old Akira Kurosawa films and spaghetti westerns.”

High Noon seems a perfect fit to feature bands and other music acts. “Our goal is to eventually have live music,” Nicholson says. “The space itself has one end that is set up to be able to host bands.

We’re going to explore that and see what’s going to draw people to the space. We have a lot of musicians that work for us in the company, and their influences are going to be seen.”

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months, start there. I don’t know how healthy it is, but it packs the toasty taste and the heft of a porter. The oats add a silkiness and just a touch of sweetness to balance it out.

Young’s Oatmeal Stout is another great classic example of the style that’s widely available. And now you can even “shop local,” with Meddlesome’s Black Cat Moan oatmeal stout. They’ve gone old-school, with a velvety, chocolaty brew. If you are ever in the far east (of Memphis), it is absolutely worth the trip for a growler or two.

Wiseacre’s got a great stout, too, but like a lot of Wiseacre’s brews, it has a little twist. They are the M. Night Shyamalon of brewers. The first time I had their Gotta Get Up to Get Down coffee stout, a mob of us were at a friend’s cabin. We’d spent the night before around a camp fire, drinking too much and telling each other lies about college. (I have no idea why because we were all in the same class.) At any rate, the next morning we realized that no one had brought the coffee.

But someone had brought a case of Wiseacre’s coffee stout. Which, as long as we are talking local, is made with Memphis’ own Ugly Mug coffee.

Well, what can I say? Heads cleared, the pep returned to the collective step — it did the trick. Perhaps a little too well because we went water skiing in the rain, then thought some North Alabama cliff diving was a good idea.

I’m really not one to recommend hair of the dog — not because it doesn’t work, but because that sort of foolishness sets a problematic precedent. Still, Gotta Get Up to Get Down is actually a phenomenal hangover cure. I’m not proud of it, but I can say that it does pair well with scrambled eggs and slightly burnt bacon.

In my defense, the alcohol in these stouts isn’t terribly high, despite the hefty feel.

And they really aren’t made to be quaffed at speed. I suppose you could funnel one if you wanted, but the resulting belch would shake the windows and start rumors of a Delta Sasquatch. And who the hell needs that?

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ats have been used in brewing in Britain for hundreds of years for the simplest reason of them all — they were there. Literally, they were all over the place, and cheap. That swell “shop local” mantra loses some of its luster when that’s your only choice, so in the 1890s some clever Scot decided to market his beer out of the bargain bin and fetch a better price by selling it as a health drink. And why not? Oatmeal is healthy isn’t it?

Thus was born the oatmeal stout.

Ads ran from Edinburgh to London and all points in between touting its health benefits to invalids, the elderly, and young children. Very young, in fact. It was prescribed to nursing mothers. Nutritious stout was big business, too. Brewers protected recipes and trade names. There were lawsuits and fortunes made. There was also a generation of strangely mellow children.

The health claims may have been overstated, and parents began feeling that maybe they shouldn’t be quite so obvious about getting their children gassed. Oatmeal stouts, for the most part, didn’t really survive World War II. The style was brought back by Samuel Smith of Tadcaster, England.

The brewer started exporting to the U.S. in the mid 1980s — about the time American beer drinkers were deciding that while having two beers that tasted exactly alike cut down on nasty surprises, it cut down on everything else, as well. You can still get Sam Smith’s Oatmeal Stout all over town, and if you are looking for a great example of the style that goes well with the winter

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Me Too, Santa Claus Black Christmas puts a feminist spin on a horror classic.

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n his 1995 documentary, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, Scorsese pointed out that sometimes directors in the capitalist Hollywood system have to be smugglers of ideas. The popular perception of Douglas Sirk’s films of the 1950s, such as Imitation of Life and All That Heaven Allows, was that they were shallow weepies made for a none-too-bright female audience, and thus could be safely ignored. But if you looked closer, you would see that these melodramas also happened to be some of the most intelligent and insightful discussions of race and class in popular culture at the time. Artists like Sirk discovered that if the powers-that-be don’t take you seriously and the audience supports you, you can say whatever you want.

Horror has long been at the top of the genres that “serious people” don’t take seriously. There has been a long tradition of smuggling ideas in seemingly disposable horror films. They Live was a cheap exploitation movie starring professional wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, but John Carpenter always knew he was making a mutated version of Network. The recent art-horror

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movement has built on those pioneering moments, with films like Jordan Peele’s Get Out, a stiletto aimed at the heart of white supremacy.

Filmmaker Sophia Takal attempts something similar in Black Christmas. On the surface, this is a remake of the 1974 horror film by Bob Clark that is one of the major progenitors of the slasher genre — and a direct inspiration for Carpenter’s Halloween. (Clark, by the way, is better known as the director of another holiday classic, A Christmas Story.)

As with any good slasher movie worth its fake blood, Black Christmas starts with a murder. Lindsay (Lucy Currey) is walking home through the snowy campus of Hawthorne College. After apologizing to her sorority sisters for missing the holiday party, she is hunted down through the college’s gothic architecture by a trio of cloaked, masked figures.

Across campus at the MKE house, another clutch of sorority girls is plotting a stylish revenge. They’ve been invited to perform a skit at the AKO fraternity’s annual Christmas party, and they’re brewing up a doozy. Riley (Imogen Poots) was roofied and date-raped by the

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Imogen Poots (above) stars in the holiday horror remake, Sophia Takal’s Black Christmas. former AKO president Brian (Ryan McIntyre), but he was never brought to justice. So with her sisters Kris (Aleyse Shannon), Marty (Lily Donoghue), and Jesse (Brittany O’Grady), she has written an incriminating little Christmas carol, along with some provocative choreography, to deliver to the brothers.

The women smuggling an in-your-face tirade against rape culture into a modest holiday party production is a pretty good metaphor for what’s going on in this movie. While they’re getting ready at the AKO house, Riley goes looking for the prematurely drunk Jesse and stumbles into a fraternity ritual that’s apparently not in the official chapter literature. Pledges dressed in some familiar-looking cloaks kneel in front of a bust of college founder Calvin Hawthorne and are smeared with the black blood-like substance streaming from his eyes. It seems the advancement of patriarchy pedagogy requires the occasional blood sacrifice, and if that blood comes from the bodies of young co-eds

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You’d be hard-pressed to find a subgenre with misogyny baked in deeper than the slasher flick, which makes Takal’s overtly feminist appropriation of the form a pretty audacious move. On some level, horror films are the barometer of what people secretly fear at the time of their production, and it’s significant that this film’s violence ultimately flows from a backlash to speaking out about sexual assault. But Riley is no “final girl,” saved from sexually charged murder by her own purity and wits. Her solution to the mysterious killer(s) stalking the campus is to organize threatened women and fight back.

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who challenge male dominance, well, all the better.

Takal is an alum of multiple Indie Memphis festivals who first got attention in the lead role in Gabby on the Roof in July, the 2011 comedy that was smarter and more insightful than the festival circuit mumblecore movies it got lumped in with. Always Shine, her 2016 homage to Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, is one of my personal favorites of the last few years.

Takal has a strong affinity for her actors, and it shows in Black Christmas’ performances. Poots, with her square haircut and vulnerable affect, grows convincingly from wounded victim to avenger. Cary Elwes is especially strong as Professor Gelson, the Camille Paglia-quoting literature teacher with a secret knowledge of the more arcane and black magical aspects of Greek organization ritual.

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My back’s killing me. I’ve had a pinched nerve in my lower back for over two weeks now. I really don’t know how it happened. I think someone called my name and I turned around funny. I’m sure that dancing at my stepdaughter’s wedding only exacerbated the problem.

We knew the day was coming. We met the young man, they set the date, and we began our ever-growing neurosis about flying to California for the ceremony. The wedding itself was beautiful, but it was an endurance test to just get there. The airlines have stripped customer service to the marrow and just about everything surrounding the industry, from air fares to the sadists who populate the TSA, tests your tolerance and tries your patience.

Once an adventure, today’s air travel more closely resembles flying Trailways buses that were decommissioned in the ’70s. In order to maximize shareholder profits, seats are smaller in both width and legroom and an overweight person might have to slide into the tiny bathroom sideways. And the seats don’t tilt back anymore. Now I know how those prisoners who were tortured at Abu Ghraib felt.

For years after a particularly harassing and humiliating flight, we have tried to avoid air travel and drive whenever possible. But then we drove to Atlanta, and I took the wrong turn-off in Nashville and ended up driving around the city lost for an hour or so — and I lived there for nine years. So, Amtrak and Greyhound aside, if you have a long distance to travel, you’re pretty much captive to the airlines and you will obey the rules or else.

And they keep changing the rules. One fool tries to light his sneakers on fire and for the rest of our lives we have to tiptoe through security in our stocking feet. This trip, we were allowed to keep our shoes on but had to stand in that scanner that exposes your ass to some letch monitoring a flat-screen. I thought I saw him pocketing a printout. A necklace I was wearing set off the metal detector, and I was told to step to one side and wait for a uniformed pencil-neck to come over and pat me down. Melody said I was supposed to put my wallet and phone in a container instead of shoving my whole jacket through the X-ray device with all the stuff in the pockets. I was merely trying to be efficient.

We had an early flight to San Francisco with a layover in Phoenix, and I was surprised to find the gate was packed. The boarding process is totally stupid except no one’s bothered to tell them. Wouldn’t it make more sense to fill the plane back-end first? Then no one would be stuck in the aisle waiting on those passengers attempting to cram an overstuffed valise into an undersized overhead compartment. We brought wedding attire, which meant we had to check two bags at $30 a pop, and we still had carry-ons. Naturally, I drew the middle seat, which meant I had to jockey for the armrest with a stranger for several hours while sitting in a seat more suited for an anorexic aficionado of Deep Vein Thrombosis.

A Columbia School of Law professor has called these airline practices “calculated misery.” With only four airlines controlling 80 percent of air traffic, a wink and a nod translates into every flight slashing comforts to prod customers into paying extra for additional services, like legroom. We did get a small bag of pretzels and a coke, only not the full can. I asked Melody if she would call the stewardess over for a refill, but she told me that the proper term now was flight attendant. I said that, actually, they were air waitresses, to which Melody informed me that the acceptable term now was server. I implored, “Just please ask the soft-drink Nazi if I can have some more cola.”

The American Eagle airplane is the Ford Pinto of the air in that it should be discontinued for commercial use. Melody had insisted that I stop singing “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” by the time we actually got there, and the Xanax was wearing off. The walk to our connecting gate was like the Bataan Death March with a pinched nerve thrown in for laughs. No zippy little trams or golf carts, just us trudging along with grim reserve and bruised knees from lack of legroom.

Arriving in California was like being discharged from the Army.

When we reached the hotel, both of us were drained and ready to collapse only to find our room directly above the hotel’s ballroom where a wedding disc jockey was spinning hip-hop music so loudly he may as well have been set up in the bathroom.

I might have copped an attitude had our wedding not been so beautiful. The bride looked so gorgeous that I had to shed a tear. I think I must have snorted a little bit too because my future in-laws were patting my back and comforting me. The band at the reception was so good, I got up and danced, despite myself. My new son-inlaw’s father is a minister, and we were told he was very reserved. But by night’s end, Melody had the reverend up and dancing while the band sang, “We’re up all night to get lucky.”

When we returned exhausted to our room, another wedding DJ was blasting away in the ballroom below, and it was all about that bass. Our flights returning to Memphis were the same misery, only in reverse — and I got singled out by security again. We arrived exhausted and grouchy, collected our luggage, and walked an additional mile in the freezing cold to the long-term parking lot.

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12/18: $3 Pint Night!

12/19: Memphis Trivia League!

12/21: Drag Night w/ Ms Goldie Dee and Friends 12/31: New Year’s Eve w/ Spaceface Kitchen Open Late! Now Delivering All Day! 278-0034 (limited delivery area)

MEMPHIS MADE BREWING CO.

Tap Room Hours: Thurs & Fri 4-10 p.m., Sat 1-10 p.m., Sun 1-7 p.m.

768 S. Cooper * 901.207.5343

Kevin Cerrito Trivia, Thursdays, 7 p.m. Bingo, Friday, 8 p.m.

Fri 12/20, John Németh and The Blue Dreamers, 8p Sat 12/21, Ghost Town Blues Band, 8p Sun 12/22, Big Brass Brunch Buffet w/Mighty Souls 4, 11:30a - 3p Fri 12/27, The PRVLG, 8p Sat 12/28, The Showboats, 7p, Lucky 7 Brass Band, 9p Sun, 12/29, Big Brass Brunch Buffet w/Mighty Souls 4, 11:30a - 3p Tues 12/31, NYE Kids’ Bash, 3p, NYE 2020 Party - Daykisser, 9p, Star & Micey, 11p, DJ, 1a railgarten.com • 2166 Central Ave • 231-5043

GONER RECORDS New/Used LPs, 45s & CDs.

We Buy Records!

2152 Young Ave - 901-722-0095

HOLIDAY ARTIST MARKET Presented by MEMPHIS ARTS COLLECTIVE

JUST ANNOUNCED: Larkin Poe [3/13] V3Fights [2/29] 12/28: Tora Tora w/ Damon Johnson 12/31: New Year’s Eve: The SpeakEasy

Spectacular

1/18: WALE 1/23: NXTLive 1/25: Pegasus Krewe Mardi Gras Ball 2/7: Ryan Hurd w/ Niko Moon & Joey

Hyde

2/11: Highly Suspect 2/15: Ky-Mani Marley 2/18: Tori Kelly 3/3: Trippie Redd 3/12: Allen Stone 3/19: Eric Johnson 3/20: Frank Foster 5/27: Jacob Collier 6/19: Brian Culbertson

12/18: Paul Cauthen 12/27: Scarface w/ Live Band 1/23: Sunny Sweeney 1/30: The Comedians Following Tool MORE EVENTS AT MINGLEWOODHALL.COM

ALL ABOUT FEET $35-$55

Mobile foot care service, traveling to you for men & women, ages 50+. Over 25 years of experience. Traveling hours M-F, 9a-6p.

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Lucky Leaf Hemp Farms Your only locally owned, licensed growers/ processors in Memphis. Specializing in Full Spectrum CBD products. All Lab Certified for Strength and Purity. Retail available at luckyleafhempfarms.com or Wholesale.

Call 901-562-1204

TUT-UNCOMMON ANTIQUES 421 N. Watkins St. 278-8965

50% OFF ALL NECKLACES throughout Dec.

1500 sq. ft. of Vintage & Antique Jewelry.

Retro Furniture and Accessories. Original Paintings, Sculpture, Pottery, Art & Antiques.

We are the only store in the Mid-South that replaces stones in costume jewelry.

Nov. 29 - Dec. 24 • 3484 Poplar Avenue, Poplar Plaza ( formerly Spin Street Records).

Dec 21 Solstice party, 6‑9 pm Music By The Binghamsters

Hours: Mon-Sat 10:30-6:30; Fri til 7:00, Sun 12-5.

901-833-9533 | memphisartscollective.com

Coco & Lola’s MidTown Lingerie

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 21,000 sq ft. 100 + booths • 5855 Summer Ave. (corner of Summer and Sycamore View ) exit 12 off I‑40 | 901.213.9343 Mon‑Sat 10a‑6p | Sun 1p‑6p

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Social, Wedding, Ballroom & Latin dance lessons.

No partner necessary. www.DanceSmiths.com 901-371-9393

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WE BUY RECORDS 45’S, 78’S, LP’S

Don’t “give them away” at a yard sale We Pay More Than Anyone Large Quantities No Problem Also Buying Old Windup Phonographs Call Paul 901-435-6668

$CASH 4 JUNK CARS$ Non‑Operating Cars, No Title Needed.

901-691-2687

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WE HAVE STYLES TO FIT ALL WOMEN!!

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COME SHOP OUR NEW ARRIVALS!

cocoandlolas.com Memphis’ Top Lingerie Shop

Follow us on IG/FB/TW @cocoandlolas 710 S. Cox|901-425-5912|Mon-Sat 11:30-7:00

*TEAM CLEAN*

All natural cleaning for your home • office • studio environment Contact Candace @ 901-262-6610 or teamcleanmemphis@gmail.com

We offer a variety of products. Find our brand at: Foozie in Clark Tower, Blue Suede Do’s iBank building, South Main Hemp at 364 S. Front, Two Rivers Bookstore at 2172 Young Ave, and Oothones at 410 N Cleveland St. Find our skin care at Southern Leaf Hemp, Co at 4721 Poplar Ave. simplyhemp.shop 901-443-7157