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Georgia O’Keeffe, Hibiscus with Plumeria, 1939, Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Sam Rose and Julie Walters, 2004.30.6 © 2018 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ON VIEW THROUGH FEBRUARY 24, 2019 RELATED EVENTS Wed, Jan 9, 6 p.m. Café Conversations with Dr. Patricia Daigle, Director, the Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis Sun, Jan 20, 1 p.m. Gallery Talk with Rick Pudwell, Director of Horticulture at Memphis Botanic Garden Wed, Feb 13, 5:30 p.m. Reception 6:30 p.m. Talk: O’Keeffe and New Mexico with Emily Ballew Neff, Executive Director Wed, Feb 20, 6:30 p.m. Gallery Talk with Beth Edwards, Professor of Painting at the University of Memphis Thu, Feb 21, 2 p.m. Tea & Tour for Seniors Sun, Feb 24, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Last day to view

Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai‘i was organized by The New York Botanical Garden, and was curated by Theresa Papanikolas, Ph.D. Travel of this exhibition is made possible by the NEH. Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai‘i is sponsored by Debi and Galen Havner and Kay and Jim Liles, with support from SunTrust Foundation.

Wednesday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Thursday – Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Free admission every Wednesday.

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

OUR 1557TH & 1558TH ISSUES 12.27.18 & 01.03.19 Whew. Another year under our belts at the Flyer. That makes 29, if you’re counting. And we are. In fact, in February, we’ll celebrate our 30th anniversary as Memphis’ only independent, locally owned weekly paper. That’s a long time in newspaper years, especially these days. It’s the kind of anniversary that makes an editor want to take stock of things, and maybe even brag a little.

Each year, I collect a stack of the past 52 issues on my office desk, and every December I look through them, trying to get a perspective on the year’s work. In 2018, we instigated a series of stories called the Justice Project — in-depth investigations on issues such as food deserts, environmental racism, the Memphis immigrant community, and the Memphis City Council’s attempts to end-run democracy, to name a few.

We also published insightful cover stories on the Midtown “skinny houses” building boom, the fight over the future of the Fairgrounds, the member/board/employee struggles at WEVL and the Children’s Museum of Memphis, and the burgeoning reboot of our riverfront.

As I look back on the year, I’m proud of our commemorative MLK issue and the retropective look we took on the work of Ernest Withers. And our annual 20<30 issue has become a community project that’s grown by leaps and bounds each year.

When it comes to politics, I don’t think anyone in town can top the Flyer and Jackson Baker for local coverage and insights. Just sayin’. Actually, I can say similar things about all the Flyer staffers. And maybe I just will.

Associate editor Toby Sells is as solid as they All of us want to come, an ace reporter who pulled together thank all of you who many of the stories mentioned above and edits the Fly-By news section. No one in town tops keep picking up the Chris Davis for theater, entertainment, and Flyer each week. media coverage — not to mention, he’s one funny dude. Music editor Alex Greene is hardwired into the scene as only a long-time musician can be. Chris McCoy absolutely owns the local film beat. Fight me. And Maya Smith has emerged as one of the city’s best young reporters; she can tackle anything you throw at her. And we’ve thrown a lot at her.

Helping to pull it all together is long-time managing editor Susan Ellis, who helms our entertainment, arts, books, and food coverage, and copy editor and calendar editor Jesse Davis. And, of course, there’s Michael Donahue, who graces this week’s cover and is our writing Jack of all trades — and the life of 1,000 parties.

Andrea Fenise is our fashion editor, which, if you’ve seen how we dress, you would know is a necessary thing. In sports, Frank Murtaugh covers all things Tigers and Redbirds like the roving outfielder he once was, and newcomer Anthony Sain is now helming our Grizzlies coverage.

That’s a solid damn team and I’m proud and privileged to work with all of them.

As I look at the past year’s covers, I’m also struck by how much fun we have around here. Consider our hard-hitting cover story on … cheese dip. Or the annual barbecue issue, or our in-depth look at the city’s best hamburgers, or our first annual Dog Issue. Arf! Then there’s, well, beer. We like beer. Do you like beer? I like beer. So, in March, we do an annual beer bracket challenge to determine the city’s best craft beer. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has been invited to be a guest judge this year. We haven’t heard back from him yet, but we’re sure it’s just an oversight.

We also won a boat-load of regional and national writing awards in 2018. Fact.

But enough about us. None of this would happen without your support. All of us want to thank all of you who keep picking up the Flyer each week. Our 90-percent-plus pickup rate is the envy of alt-weeklies around the country. And thanks go also, of course, to the folks who pay our bills — our advertisers in print, online, and at our events. We love you and appreciate what your support means.

I’d also like to thank the 275 (and counting) members of our Frequent Flyer program — folks who support what we do with their monthly pledges. (Go to support. memphisflyer.com, if you’d like to learn N E WS & O P I N I O N more — or better — join them.)

THE FLY-BY - 4 NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 I could keep name-checking our POLITICS - 7 staffers — art director Carrie Beasley and VIEWPOINT - 9 her team; ad director Justin Rushing and COVER STORY the sales crew — but I’m running out of “2019: THE YEAR AHEAD” space. Look just to the left of this column,

BY FLYER STAFF - 10 at the masthead, and you’ll see everyone NEW YEAR’S EVE GUIDE - 14 involved in making the Flyer happen.

WE RECOMMEND - 16 MUSIC - 18 Blow them a kiss.

AFTER DARK - 19 We’ve got great plans for the year CALENDAR - 22 ahead, including a print redesign in the MEDIA - 30 next few months. Join us; 2019 is going FOOD NEWS - 31 to be great. And thanks again for keeping SPORTS - 33 us flying.

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YEAR IN FLY It’s yet another year’s-end column looking back at the best, worst, and stupidest moments of the last dozen months.

Of course, by “best” your pesky Fly on the Wall means the best of the worst. (Except for that one time when Memphis successfully removed its Confederate statues, and somebody changed the Wikipedia page for an unreconstructed and mostly vindictive Tennessee House of Representatives to read, “We got tricked by a city we hate, now we’re mad.” That was pretty awesome.)

FOTW had its finest moment digging deep into claims by U.S. Rep. Diane Black that grocery store porn is a “big part” of the “root cause” of school shootings. We visited many grocery stores and pharmacies but just couldn’t find the dirty. We did find copies of Hog Hunting, Sniper, Guns & Ammo’s AR-15 Pistol Edition, and other periodicals showcasing big weapons on their covers. Hawt.

2018 was mostly spent documenting the hazards of out-of-town editing as illustrated by Memphis’ Gannett-owned newspaper, The Commercial Appeal. Like when they mistook Memphis’ popular, all-dude band Lucero for Mexican superstar Lucero, a female vocalist. Or that time when they named Harding Academy student Lauren Deaton, Volleyball of the Year.

Lastly, WMC deleted a tweet reading “Nashville is Still Trash,” claiming it didn’t represent the station’s “values or views.” They are now dead to us.

By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

Questions, Answers + Attitude Edited by Toby Sells

Y E A R T H AT W A S

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Statues, Scooters, & Surveillance The statue fight continued, we scooted, & MPD watched it all.

JAN UARY Officials unveiled a plan for the Memphis Zoo’s new parking lot, which included paving green space and taking about 2.4 acres of parkland.

Downtown stakeholders discussed allowing open containers on Main Street, but the idea was nixed later.

Memphis was passed over for Amazon’s new headquarters despite offering an incentive package worth about $70 million.

J.T. Young was chosen as the new CEO of Memphis Light, Gas & Water (MLGW).

F E B R UARY The Memphis City Council approved a one-year, 2 percent rate hike on MLGW’s gas and electric rates.

The Tennessee Comptroller reviewed the transactions that allowed city officials to sell three Memphis parks and remove Confederate statues and later deemed them lawful.

Hundreds marched demanding a $15 an hour minimum wage.

The council voted to remove several “offensive” murals installed by Paint Memphis.

The Tennessee Attorney General requested execution dates for eight death row inmates.

FedEx Corp. refused to axe discounts to the National Rifle Association (NRA) but said its positions on gun policy differed from the gun rights group.

MAR C H Angus McEachran, once an editor of The Commercial Appeal, passed away.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) said it would not operate wells drilled into the Memphis Sand Aquifer and, instead, would buy water for its plant from MLGW. Mid-South students joined a national walkout to protest gun violence.

Ground broke on the new $28 million Raleigh Town Center.

The Tennessee Supreme Court began setting execution dates for death row inmates.

Will Batts announced he was leaving his post as executive director for OUTMemphis.

The Riverfront Development Corp. was rebranded as Memphis River Parks Partnership, and the new group would be led by Kresge Foundation senior fellow, Carol Coletta.

Memphis Rox opened in Soulsville.

Thousands (including Senator Bernie Sanders) rallied and marched to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

AP R I L A week of events commemorated the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death.

The city council approved Cooper-Young’s historic district status.

State lawmakers voted to take $250,000 from Memphis because city leaders removed Confederate statues.

A new law allowed liquor stores to be open seven days a week and for grocery stores to sell wine on Sundays.

Trolleys returned Downtown.

MAY Graceland officials and Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland squabbled over a project to build a new performance and convention center in Whitehaven.

Phillip Spinosa resigned from his position on the city council to join the Greater Memphis Chamber.

The council gave historic district protections to Speedway Terrace.

Strickland signed a letter of intent with two companies to redevelop 100 N. Main building as the new convention center hotel.

A court ruled that the city’s sale of two Downtown parks and the removal of Confederate monuments from them was legal, dismissing a lawsuit initiated by the Sons of Confederate Veterans Forrest Camp.

Ford Canale was installed to fill Spinosa’s empty council seat.

Explore Bike Share launched.

JUNE Federal officials approved a $71 million project to upgrade Lamar Avenue.

Stormy Daniels brought her “Make America Horny Again” tour to The Pony.

Protesters called for an end to the separation of immigrant families at the U.S. border.

Bird debuted its electric scooters on the streets of Memphis.

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and killed in Downtown Memphis.

TVA’s controversial plan to pump from the Memphis Sand Aquifer.

Hundreds rallied against Trump’s immigration policies.

Strickland proposed de-annexing two areas in East Memphis.

The Daily Memphian, a new online news source, was unveiled.

Memphis Greenspace cleared out the remaining Confederate memorabilia from Memphis Park “to say goodbye to the past.”

State officials were ordered to stop revoking driver’s licenses from those who can’t pay traffic-ticket fines and fees after a lawsuit filed by Just City and others.

O CTO B E R Nuclear Development LLC told the city council the city could save about $500 million per year if it bought its electricity from the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant.

Voters complained that the three council-related referenda on the November ballot were misleading. Early voting samples replaced key words from the actual ballot. Election machines here could also bump Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Karl Dean to a second page.

National Civil Rights Museum leader Beverly Robertson was picked to be Greater Memphis Chamber’s interim president and CEO. Mighty Lights, the new lights on the city’s bridges, went live.

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AUGUST Sports betting began in Tunica under new laws in Mississippi.

Lee Harris was elected as Shelby County Mayor.

REI opened.

A court case began to determine whether or not the city of Memphis violated activists’ First Amendment rights with a system of surveillance that included extensive monitoring of social media.

State lawmakers found 538 excep-

tions to the state’s Open Records Act. Aretha Franklin passed away.

The Friends of WEVL called for change at the volunteer radio station.

SEPTEMBER Restaurateur Bud Chittom passed away.

XPO warehouse workers filed a complaint about working conditions.

A modernization project kicked off for Memphis International Airport.

Purple Haze closed after a string of violence in and around the club.

A Memphis Police Department (MPD) officer turned off a body-worn camera during the shooting of Martavious Banks.

Facebook asked the MPD to cease using fake accounts for surveillance.

Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary was shot

NOVEMBER The University of Memphis won a $5 million contract to study the Memphis Sand Aquifer.

Memphians said no to extending term limits for the mayor and city council, repealing instant runoff voting, and eliminating runoff voting altogether.

State officials gave the first of two approvals needed for a Tourist Development Zone that would transform the Mid-South Fairgrounds into a youth sports destination.

The city council began what would become a long, contentious process to fill one of three empty council seats.

Later, they decided to stall the process until next year.

Wiseacre Brewing Co. announced plans to build a new, bigger brewery close to South Main.

DECEMBER XPO announced new policies on working conditions after Congress members threatened an investigation.

Descendants of Nathan Bedford Forrest filed a suit for the alleged desecration the family’s gravesite.

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POLITICS By Jackson Baker

A Transitional Time The year 2018 was marked with instances of activism and diversity.

Senator — 7th District U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn, a right-wing populist — triumphed handily over their Democratic opponents, gubernatorial aspirant Karl Dean and Senatorial candidate Phil Bredesen. Both losers were former Nashville mayors. Early in the century, Bredesen managed to secure two consecutive terms as governor as an old-fashioned conservative Democrat.

Moreover, the political exigencies of the year seemed to have extinguished the relative moderation of the statewide Republican office-holders who were in power at the beginning of 2018. Governor Bill Haslam, who had attempted, in what may have been too feckless a manner, to accept the opportunity for Medicaid expansion offered by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), delivered his final State of the Union address in January. His successor Lee would propose such seemingly retrograde notions as universal gun carry and educational vouchers and declared himself opposed to Medicaid expansion.

Senator Bob Corker, another relative moderate, was widely considered to have bowed out of a reelection bid in 2018 due to the near-certainty of a challenge from Blackburn, and, though his Senatorial colleague Lamar Alexander, celebrated for his willingness to work across the aisle, faced no immediate challenge, Alexander announced in December that he would not run for reelection in 2020, leaving the way open for another fire-breather.

Charles Burson, the former state attorney general who served as Vice President Al Gore’s chief of staff, appeared at Memphis’ Novel bookstore in December on behalf of his book, The Ground Game, a work of photojournalism that continued on page 8

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Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris (here with supporters) reflected the blue wave that swept Shelby County.

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In what may have been something of an omen, the first significant local event of the political year 2018 was the death on January 4th, at the ripe age of 100, of Lewis Donelson, legal and civic eminence, political pathfinder, and patriarch of both the Shelby County and Tennessee Republican parties.

Donelson, who hand-picked such Republican standard bearers as Howard Baker and Lamar Alexander, transformed the state GOP from an insignificant relic of the Reconstruction period into a dominant mainstream party. But he also lived to see that party, in the age of Donald J. Trump, morph from his own brand of moderation into an instrument he feared had become intolerant, monolithic, and regressive.

If there was a predominant leitmotif in the subsequent year’s politics, it concerned whether that state of affairs would continue or yield instead to the restoration of a two-party political system, which, more than the supremacy of a given party, had been the true object of Donelson’s life-long activism.

That was the overriding political question of 2018, and the year would produce competing and contradictory answers to it.

In one sense, the concept of a “blue wave” favoring Democratic revival moved from the status of a speculation to one of reality in the course of the year’s several electoral cycles. But in another sense, this regeneration seemed confined to the metropolitan areas of Memphis/ Shelby County, where Democrats swept the county general election and showed surprising strength in suburban legislative races, and in Nashville/Davidson County, where Democrats maintained their local hold on legislative races and, as one Flyer story noted, no avowed Republican even ventured to run for a county office.

In the state as a whole, however, Republicanism — and a conservative version of it, at that — continued to prevail and even extend its dominance. The GOP’s nominees for governor — Franklin businessman Bill Lee, a newcomer and pleasant personality — and for U.S.

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A TRANSITIONAL TIME By Jackson Baker continued from page 7 chronicled the 2016 presidential election.

He told the audience at his reading that the future would require yoking together the traditional power politicians of the Democratic Party and the progressive activists who have emerged in the movement for resistance to Donald J. Trump.

There are certainly several of the latter on the scene in Shelby County.

After becoming unmistakably visible in the successful effort to force removal of Memphis’ Downtown Confederate monuments, Tami Sawyer ran for and won a race this year for the Shelby County Commission, where she continues to call for overdue reforms. Other members of her progressive cohort have joined with more traditional politicians, like University of Memphis law professor Steve Mulroy, a former commissioner himself, and an exponent of voting reforms, to call to account the members of the Memphis City Council, grown notorious in the service of in-group politics.

Council sessions during the year involved numerous verbal battles between the body’s dominant business-friendly bloc and critical attendees who challenged the council’s endorsement of referenda that would nullify earlier referenda in favor of term limits and ranked-choice voting, a process designed to eliminate the need for sparsely attended runoff elections. The regressive referenda were defeated, but a new, still unresolved battle was joined over the issue of electing new members to replace departed ones rather than submitting the matter to an appointment process under the de facto control of the dominant council bloc.

When a deadlock — essentially between black and white members — ensued for 100 votes on what was intended to be the council’s first appointment decision, that

conundrum was destined to be resolved in the new year.

Chancellor JoeDae L. Jenkins was kept busy during 2018, having to rule on disputes between citizens — mainly Democrats in particular and AfricanAmericans in general — who feared that the Shelby County Election Commission was practicing subtle and not-so-subtle forms of voter suppression. Jenkins did his best to clear the way for an untroubled turnout for Shelby County’s several elections.

The activism of the year had, earlier in April, joined memorably and more seamlessly with world history and the evolution of human ideals during the weeklong commemoration called MLK50. On April 6th, the date on which, a half century ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel, a host of dignitaries — including Dr. William Barber, Al Green, Jesse Jackson, and Bernie Sanders — joined city officials in a day-long commemoration of the slain martyr at the National Civil Rights Museum.

The year was also marked with transitions in the lives of influential local citizens. Johnnie Turner, longtime head of the local NAACP, resigned her position as a state representative, one which she assumed a decade earlier upon the death of her husband Larry Turner.

And besides that of the aforementioned Donelson, were several other important deaths of politically active Memphians, including those of Democratic activist Lois Freeman, and Republican legislator Ron Lollar.

There were other memorable personalities and moments, in addition to those mentioned here, and the year ahead — which includes the 2019 city election — will bring even more to the fore. We’ll do our best to let you know about them.

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We can all agree the City Council is going through a rough patch right now — in fact, a rough year. From unpopular charter amendments to unpopular refusals to resign to unpopular (and potentially illegal) public expenditures on the recent referenda to an inability to appoint a successor to Bill Morrison, I must admit I have some sympathy for the remaining 10 members of the council.

It’s still our duly elected and sworn municipal government, however, and it has plenty of work to do. Voters spoke loudly and clearly in the last election: We want instant runoff voting (IRV). Voters have run the gauntlet twice on the issue, but there are certain members of the council who would prefer to drag their feet rather than enact policy to provide for a smooth transition.

The 2008 IRV charter amendment directs the Shelby County Election Commission to “adopt regulations consistent with the procedure above to facilitate implementation of instant runoff voting.”

Still, elections administrator Linda Phillips has indicated that there are some issues on which she’d like official guidance from the city council. Whether that’s really a legal requirement, it would still be good to get the council to weigh in on these issues, rather than letting the Election Commission, or a judge, make the call.

These issues are all merely technical, and none are complex. They include how many candidate rankings are allowed; what to do in the case of a tie; and how to handle such obscure technical matters as “batch elimination.”

None of these issues is terribly complex. Both the 2008 and 2018 IRV campaigns described the voting process as including only three rankings, instead of allowing as many rankings as there are candidates. Indeed, that’s all that’s technically feasible using the current machines. So we can conclude that the voters contemplated the choice of ranking up to three candidates. This will save time and money while still giving voters greater choice than is currently available in the traditional runoff system.

Tie-breaks, thankfully, are incredibly rare. In fact, we’re not aware of any instance in the last few decades where an American IRV election resulted in an exact tie. But just in case, the city council can decide what to do. The options can be grouped under two category headings: random and non-random. Many municipalities draw lots or flip coins in order to determine who can proceed from a tied position.

Tennessee law, however, directs municipal governing bodies, here the city

council, to cast deciding votes in the event of a tie. IRV allows for other methods, as well, including counting the votes those candidates received in prior rounds to determine which is most preferred.

Batch elimination simply describes the process where candidates who have no mathematical chance of winning are, in the event of a second round of counting, eliminated all at once rather than one at a time, with all of the ballots for those candidates automatically assigned to the voters’ second choice. This is merely a procedural decision; it would not actually affect the outcome of any election. But until we have voting machines that will do the counting for us, the city council may wish to err on the side of too much transparency and require that, in hand-counted IRV elections, candidates are eliminated one at a time, according to the IRV formula. (By the next council election in 2023, we will have new machines and could choose to opt out of hand-counting ballots.)

There is no need to reinvent the wheel: We have the option of adopting policies that have proven successful nationwide.

These are some of the biggest issues that the council must address. Save IRV Memphis stands ready to assist the Election Commission and the council by connecting them with experts on best practices that have served municipalities using this voting method. There is no need to reinvent the wheel: We have the option of adopting policies that have proven successful nationwide.

In the past year, we learned that the city council used our tax dollars to pay for, among other things, a lobbyist to try to get IRV outlawed statewide. They also granted themselves nearly $40,000 to engage in a directed and biased political campaign masquerading as a public education effort.

It doesn’t matter. The people have spoken. Now is the time to put past campaign acrimony behind us and proceed with the people’s business. The Memphis City Council should provide any necessary guidance. Please call the council at (901) 636-6786 and demand they implement instant runoff voting for the next council election, and commit at least $40,000 to educating voters about IRV in the 2019 election.

Aaron Fowles is the president of Save IRV, Inc.

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POLITICS As the year 2018 began to fade into the archives, a new year and very likely a new and unpredictable new era were beginning to emerge. To be sure, there were some personalities and issues that would carry over into 2019. One was Jim Strickland, the mayor of Memphis since his inauguration on January 1, 2016, who was active in the waning days of the old year, raising money and pressing the flesh for a reelection campaign that is already well under way and, superficially at least, seemed destined to be invincible.

Strickland, a genial, giant-sized man, is armed with a fresh poll showing his approval ratings to loom large over any and all potential opponents. Former Mayor Willie Herenton, one declared opponent, can match Strickland in height and more than match him in mayoral tenure (17-and-a-half years, beginning with his 1991 election as the city’s first elected black mayor). But Herenton’s stock had run low indeed by the time of his 2009 resignation (or “retirement,” as he chose to call it), and his dismal, underfunded comeback attempt in 2010, a challenge to 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen, resulted in a five-to-one wipeout. So far, there is no detectable groundswell whatsoever for his current, second comeback attempt — apparently fueled by his stated desire, in the wake of this year’s MLK anniversary events, to carry on the Great Martyr’s crusade. In that regard, it augurs badly for Herenton that the reelection bid of Strickland, who is white, is underscribed by a generous portion of the city’s African-American office-holders.

Nor is there any sign of momentum for Memphis Police Association president Mike Williams, whose own crusade on behalf of equity for his union members is only modestly buttressed by support from a small community of activists and dissenters.

Yet who knows, really? Surely one of the lessons of the 2016 presidential election, with its come-from-nowhere Trump 10 win, is that politics — all politics — is undergirded by tectonic plates that can

Mayor Jim Strickland at year-end reception with (l to r) School Board member Kevin Woods, state Representative Larry Miller, and School Board member Michelle McKissack. shift unexpectedly. Speaking of which, there’s a whole lot of shaking goin’ on with the Memphis City Council, where three of the body’s 13 seats are vacant and must be filled with interim occupants even before all 13 seats come open in the quadrennial city election of 2019. A deadlock between a mainly white faction responsive to the city’s business elite and an African American bloc espousing the cause of grass-roots nominees has so far frustrated agreement on council-named appointees, and sentiment at year’s end was building toward a possible special election early in the new year.

Shelby County government meanwhile seems to be on an unusually harmonious path, as new county Mayor Lee Harris attempts to build support for an ambitious reform agenda by mending fences with a county commission whose holdover members are veterans of a prolonged struggle for dominance with former Mayor Mark Luttrell. Harris’ gamble is that allowing the commission its own legal counsel and other concessions will not tilt the power balance against him.

On the state front, a special election for the state Senate seat vacated by newly confirmed federal Judge Mark Morris is the only local electoral matter on tap for 2019. A new Democratic momentum in 2018’s legislative races did not transform the fact of a Republican super-majority in Nashville, and the appealing personality of new Republican Governor Bill Lee co-exists with his espousal of educational vouchers and open-carry gun legislation and his resistance to Medicaid expansion.

These and other positions carry the seeds of a contentiousness that could curtail Lee’s political honeymoon in the legislative session of the 2019 General Assembly. — Jackson Baker THEATER Calm down, people. I know you’re so excited to have an opportunity to see Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical theater phenomenon when it comes to the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis. But here’s the catch: Hamilton’s not rolling into town until July 2019, individual tickets have yet to go on sale, and no date for individual

ticket sales has even been announced yet.

Flyer readers have been calling in or emailing, outraged because they’ve gone online to buy Hamilton tickets only to find third-party websites charging $600 or more per ticket. These sites aren’t legitimate, and it’s not too difficult to predict that anybody who advance purchases a bogus ticket at that price will be sorely disappointed when the show finally comes to town.

To help combat the problem, the Orpheum has added the following information to its website: “An on-sale date for single tickets has not been set, and individual tickets are not available through any verified ticket seller. Please note: Any ticket obtained prior to the official Orpheum Theatre Box Office and Ticketmaster on-sale period for this show is counterfeit or is being resold by a thirdparty vendor at potentially inflated prices.”

With Ballet Memphis having moved into its new Overton Square facility in August 2017, and the Tennessee Shakespeare Company moving into Ballet Memphis’ old Trinity Road building in time to open its 2018-19 season, there are currently no major moves in the works, for the first time in several years. Tennessee Shakespeare is, however, halfway through a capital campaign to fully renovate the interior of a space that was designed with dancers, not actors in mind.

Circuit Playhouse Incorporated, the parent organization of Playhouse on the Square, launched in November 1969, so anticipate opportunities to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary in 2019.

Theatre Memphis is also approaching a major milestone. The East Memphis playhouse launched in 1920, and is entering its 99th year of existence. That sets local theater lovers up for two solid years of celebrating the lively arts in Memphis.

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August looks pretty dire unless you’re a Dora the Explorer fan. I’m telling you right now I’m not sitting through another Angry Birds movie. September will no doubt be dominated by the scary clown sequel It: Chapter Two. October kicks off with Will Smith playing clones in Ang Lee’s Gemini Man and the godforsaken Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix.

November sees Ahnold back as the Terminator, a Sonic the Hedgehog film, and schlockmeister Roland Emmerich remaking the World War II drama Midway. Bet instead on Rian Johnson’s star-studded murder fest Knives Out. The box office matchup of the year comes in December when the Taylor Swift-led adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats bows on the same weekend as J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode IX. And finally, Greta Gerwig helms a promising Little Women with Saoirse Ronan as Jo, Emma Watson as Meg, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March.

The Citizen, Madison@McLean, Union Row, One Beale, Hyatt Centric, and the Mid-South Fairgrounds — will Memphis “build up, not out” in its 200th year? concept between Union and Madison in the Edge District. Developers DSG want the $5 million Ravine to be the Edge’s true gathering spot with an active retail plaza, kid-friendly play structures with water features, flexible seating, an amphitheaterstyle performance venue, and festival and event spaces. Phase one of the project is expected to be finished in May. Construction of a new seven-story, 109room hotel was set to begin in the Edge this winter and wrap as early as 2020.

Renovations continue at Central Station, to transform the century-old train station into a hotel, restaurant, and retail space. Malco officials recently told The Commercial Appeal its new Downtown theater could be open by the end of 2018.

Finally, construction was set to begin on Wiseacre’s new 43,500-square-foot brewery and taproom close to South Main sometime this winter.

None of this is even to mention the ongoing, $1 billion expansion of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Phew. Buckle up, y’all. — Toby Sells FILM The biggest event in Memphis film due in 2019 will be Craig Brewer’s Dolemite Is My Name. Written by The People vs.

O.J. Simpson’s Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the biopic stars Eddie Murphy as pimp-turned-blacksploitation auteur Rudy Ray Moore. With a generous budget and a supporting cast that includes Chris Rock, Snoop Dogg, and KeeganMichael Key, this Netflix production

promises to be epic. The street date is still up in the air.

January 4th brings the Memphis release of If Beale Street Could Talk. Barry Jenkins’ brilliant followup to Best Picture winner Moonlight is a must-see. Later in the month, we get Samuel L. Jackson in Glass, the sequel to M. Night Shyamalan’s best movie, Unbreakable.

February looks wintry with an unwanted remake of the 1990 mindbender Jacob’s Ladder and James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez’s live-action anime adaptation Alita: Battle Angel. A possible bright spot is The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. March will be ruled by the superhero blockbuster Captain Marvel.

I’m sorry, but the first images from Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo adaptation look hideous.

Big studios come out swinging in April, with DC’s Shazam and reboots of Pet Sematary and Hellboy, before Avengers: Endgame blows everything else out of the multiplex. I’m most excited for It Follows director David Robert Mitchell’s longdelayed neo noir Under the Silver Lake.

May has Pokemon: Detective Pikachu and a third John Wick film, but I’ll be lining up for Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

In June, Dark Phoenix takes another crack at the best X-Men storyline, in which Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner does Jean Grey’s heel turn. July 4th weekend brings Spider-Man: Far From Home, then later in the month Quentin Tarantino’s Manson Family epic, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

CITY GOVERNMENT Council Conundrum: The Memphis City Council, down three members, is slated to fill its three vacancies at the first meeting of the year on Tuesday, January 8th. The council began its attempt to fill the first of the three, the District 1 seat vacated by Bill Morrison, in late November. As of press time, the body has been at a deadlock and unable to reach the necessary seven votes for any one candidate.

Both of the top two contenders for the seat are out of the running, as Lonnie Treadaway pulled his bid for the seat, and Rhonda Logan was eliminated. Only Tierra Holloway, Paul Boyd, Mauricio Calvo, and Danielle Schonbaum remain as candidates for the District 1 seat.

The council has been unclear about how it will move forward with filling the position, if they will consider the aforementioned candidates, or if the application process will be re-opened.

The vacant District 6 and Super District 8-2 seats, which were slated to be filled at the council’s most recent meeting, will also be addressed at the January 8th meeting.

At this point, after the council has had hours of debate and is still seemingly unable to reach a decision for the District 1 seat, some Memphians, including representatives with the Memphis chapter of the NAACP, are calling for a special election to fill all three positions.

Tension has been a constant in the council chambers throughout the process, with accusations of racism and gerrymandering being thrown at council members, outbursts from onlookers, and spats among members. The fate of the 10-member council for 2019 is unknown.

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million-dollar price tags seemed to fall out of the sky in 2018. So, take a drive around town and take some mental images. This is all about to change, y’all. And 2019 is the year we’ll really start seeing that change, especially in the Downtown skyline and the ever-bustling Midtown.

One Beale: Dirt is slated to finally turn next year on the nearly 15-year-old One Beale project at Beale and Riverside. The latest version of the plan puts construction at $225 million and includes a hotel, apartments, restaurants, retail, and more. The first, $130-million phase of construction is set to begin in January.

It’ll bring a 227-room Hyatt Centric hotel, 227 apartments, and a 475-space parking garage. That phase is expected to be complete by 2020.

Union Row: The Daily Memphian called the $950-million Union Row project the largest mixed-use project in Memphis history. Marinate in that a minute.

Roughly centered at Union and Danny Thomas, the 29-acre Union Row project is expected to bring a mix of retail (including a grocery store), residential, a garage, office space, and a hotel. But it’ll also bring parks, public spaces, and pedestrian connections to more points Downtown. More than half of the lots Big River Partners want to build on are vacant. The company is hoping to get $100 million in public help for the project. Should it get it, the company will begin closing on the properties in February and begin construction in June.

The first phase is expected to open in August 2021.

Mid-South Fairgrounds: All right, no dirt is gonna move at the MidSouth Fairgrounds next year, but paper might. City leaders have worked for years on a project that would transform the now-sleepy Fairgrounds into a youth sports destination. The possibly $181 million plan includes an $80 million youth sports complex, a parking garage, upgrades to the Liberty Bowl, basketball courts, a track, a soccer and football field, and more.

City leaders scored a huge win in 2018 as state officials approved a new Tourist Development Zone for the project.

The move allowed city officials to start collecting commitments of the $61 million in private funds needed to fuel phase two of the project. State finance officials will only sign off on the $90 million in bonds city leaders will issue for their part of the project if they can raise those private funds. So, state officials are slated to vote on the plan again next year.

Other projects: Expect to see work crews in the Memphis Zoo parking lot this year as its re-do is expected to forever halt overflow parking on the Overton Park Greensward by 2020.

Look for the grand openings of two high-profile apartment projects started in 2018 — The Citizen at McLean and Union, and the five-story Madison@ McLean.

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The Memphis 3.0 plan largely revolves around improving public anchors — centers of community activity — in the city’s core and surrounding neighborhoods. In sum, the plan focuses on connectivity, opportunity, and land, touching on everything from transportation, safe streets, housing, parks, the environment, as well as access to fresh food, jobs, and education.

Public comment on the plan, 11:35:24 AM which will be reviewed by the Office of Comprehensive Planning, is accepted through February 8th via email, mail, or fax. If adopted by the Memphis and Shelby County Land Use Control Board and subsequently the Memphis City Council, the plan will be the guiding document for the city’s future development and investments for the next 20 years.

Bag Tax: The bad news is you could start paying seven cents for every plastic bag you get from certain stores. The good news: The environment could benefit.

At its January 22nd meeting, the city council is set to vote on the third and final hearing of a city ordinance that would implement the seven-cent tax at stores that have more than 2,000 square feet of space or are part of a chain.

Seniors and those in the SNAP program would be exempt from the fee.

The council said the motive behind the move is not to make a profit, but to help sustain the environment. Specifically, council chairman Berlin Boyd said he wants the ordinance to protect the city’s waterways, which he claimed are overly polluted by plastic bags.

Local environmentalists such as Scott Banbury with the Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club, agree that plastic bags are a problem and that taxing them is a good step toward addressing the issue.

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releases all the time, but a few on the 2019 horizon have us especially impatient. Next month, Big Star’s Live on WLIR, recorded during the band’s final tour in 1974, will be available again thanks to Omnivore Recordings. February will see the release of previously unheard tracks by Alex Chilton. Songs from Robin Hood Lane (Bar/None) mixes tracks from his Clichés album with others featuring the singer and a full jazz band, lending his distinct voice to standards like “Look for the Silver Lining.” Also in February, the soundtrack for Waiting: The Van Duren Story, a documentary about the songwriter, will drop before the film itself. It collects choice tracks from his debut, Are You Serious?, with a few from later in his career.

Goner promises new albums from both Hash Redactor and NOTS in the months to come, and Negro Terror, the AfricanAmerican hardcore band, whose live shows have everyone flipping, promises a new work, Paranoia, sometime next year. Finally, the City Champs have been playing again, most notably in a show with Al Kapone at the Railgarten. Could a new album be far off? And what Champ collaborations does this portend?

Speaking of live shows, GPAC promises eclectic fun with shows ranging from the Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra, to Shawn Colvin with Amy LaVere and Will Sexton, to Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. The Bar-Kays will be bringing the funk to Soulsville’s “Staxtacular” event, February 8th. The Buckman Arts Center will bring eclectic shows into the spring, including the intriguing “Italian World Music” of Newpoli. And in April, the old reliable Lucero Family Block Party will take over the Minglewood Hall environs once again.

Speaking of spring, the Beale Street Music Festival should be interesting in May, as they coordinate with designers overseeing the remodel of Tom Lee Park.

Performers have not yet been announced, but tickets are on sale. The Levitt Shell will no doubt bring another jam-packed schedule of musicians of all stripes to Overton Park for music under the stars. As will the Live at the Garden concerts.

Despite rumors to the contrary, September’s Gonerfest 16 is on! The new year will also bring events celebrating the record store/label’s quarter-century mark.

And, finally, MemphoFest looks to be back at Shelby Farms for another year.

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Plans for Beale Street Landing, which once held Front Porch, are fuzzier. The site is currently being used for special events and is part of the overall Memphis River Parks Partnership (MRPP) overhaul of Tom Lee Park and other Downtown public spaces. In 2019, the MRPP plans to set up Beale Street Landing as an “engagement center.” According to George Abbott of MRPP, “Quality food and beverage options will be a part of the new park experience, but we’re not sure yet how they will be provided — and what role [Beale Street Landing] will play in that.”

Other spaces up for grabs include the old LYFE restaurant Downtown, Paulette’s/ Stanley BBQ in Overton Square, Indian Pass near Overton Square, and Strano in Cooper-Young.

A few projects that were set for 2018 have spilled into 2019. David Scott of Dave’s Bagels, announced his brick-andmortar spot earlier this year. He says he’s still working on it. Bogard was supposed to go into the old Paulette’s/Stanley BBQ spot, but that project fizzled after a couple partners backed out of the deal. But don’t count Bogard out yet. They are aiming for a spring or summer opening in an unnamed location. Porch & Parlor, going in the old Bar Louie space, is now looking at a spring opening. It’s set to start its construction phase in January.

Rizzo’s on South Main will be closed for a few weeks for some necessary renovations. A leaking wall caused damage to the electrical system and the floor.

Michael Patrick says the restaurant will be closed, starting in early January and probably throughout the month. Patrick has been actively feeling around for places to hold pop-up shops. He says his main concern is keeping his staff intact. “I have a great team,” he says. “I don’t want to lose them.” The goal is have to restaurant back open by Valentine’s Day. Salt/Soy, Nick Scott’s sushi pop-up, is making it permanent with a brick and mortar restaurant somewhere in CooperYoung. And Pop-a-Roos, the gourmet popcorn seller, is due to set up shop some time in January at Crosstown Concourse in the spot vacated by So Nutz.

— Susan Ellis

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Counting down to 2019.

You survived the holidays without cracking under the pressure — or stabbing your unruly uncle who won’t stop bringing up politics at the dinner table. No, I do not want to hear just one more thing about “Pizza-Gate,” Uncle Rob. And you made it through the rest of 2018. That alone is cause for celebration, and your trusty Flyer calendar editor (that’s me) is here to help guide you through the last night of the year. Without further ado, here’s our guide to New Year’s events in and around Memphis.

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310 Beale (300-6788) New Daisy Theatre Daisyland presents the fourth annual New Year’s Eve Blackout!, featuring DJs Z-Dougie, Oh Losha, Finn, Defcon Engaged, and more. Doors at 9 p.m. $12-$25. 330 Beale (525-8981)

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Tin Roof Glow Co, Max Victory, and Desire perform. Fast passes and booth rentals are available. 315 Beale (527-9911) DOWNTOWN Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid The Lookout at the Pyramid offers the chance to spend the holiday at the pinnacle of style at the top of the Pyramid, with a four-course meal, live music, and complimentary toast at midnight. Reservations required: (800) 225-6343 to reserve your spot. $125.

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Ghost River Brewing Co. Celebrate Ghost River’s 10 year anniversary on New Year’s Eve. On December 31st, 2007, Ghost River brewed its first beer, the South Main Pale Ale, and the brewers are bringing the inaugural beer back to celebrate a decade of locally brewed beer. 827 S. Main (661-4976) Loflin Yard The evening’s festivities include bonfires, s’mores, drink specials, and more.

7 W. Carolina (524-0104) The Peabody Hotel This year’s high-energy party includes performances by Garry Goin Group, Seeing Red, and DJ Epic. The party will be hosted throughout the Grand Lobby and Mezzanine of the “South’s Grand Hotel,” with the bands playing in the Continental Ballroom. The Rene Koopman Trio will perform classics in the Corner Bar. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. 149 Union (529-4000) MIDTOWN Ballet Memphis The Phoenix Club presents the Suit and Sequins party at Ballet Memphis’ elegant digs in Overton Square. General admission includes an open wine and beer bar, late night hors d’oeuvres, and a champagne toast at midnight. $75-$150.

9 p.m.-1 a.m. 2144 Madison (737-7322) Beauty Shop A celebration with a four-course dinner and live music by Gary Johns & His MiniOrchestra. 966 Cooper (272-7111) Black Lodge From its new location on N. Cleveland, Black Lodge presents a party with music by a resurrected Dead Soldiers, an album release and music by Ben Abney & the Hurts, with Lipstick Stains, Shamefinger, and 1,000 Lights. “We’re all excited to get to play together again,” says Dead Soldiers guitarist and vocalist Benjamin Aviotti of the band’s reunion show. “Our hiatus continues indefinitely after this, but as we’ve said before, we’re not done. We all have projects in the works. It probably won’t be [Dead Soldiers’] last show ever, but what if it is?” $10. 9 p.m.

405 N. Cleveland Blue Monkey The Smiths/Morrissey tribute group Louder Than Bombs performs.

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Celtic Crossing Cooper-Young’s neighborhood bar is setting up tents to accommodate the crowd. The celebration includes music from a live band and a DJ, a champagne toast at midnight, a prix-fixe menu, and more. $10. 903 Cooper (274-5151) Hattiloo Theatre The FunkSoul New Year’s Eve party is a full night of mini-concerts and comedy in Hattiloo’s theater-turned-dance hall. An on-site bistro will offer an à la carte menu designed by some of Memphis’ finest chefs. $150. 37 Cooper (525-0009) Hi-Tone Get an early dose of strange and unusual by starting the year off with performances

by Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Jack Oblivian, and Three Brained Robot. Will it rock? Oh, yes. Will Quintron break out the Weather Warlock act? There’s only one way to know for sure. $20.

412-414 N. Cleveland (278-8663) Lafayette’s Music Room Pearl and Almost Famous perform. The event features reserved seating “Vegas style,” with hors d’oeuvres, champagne toast, and party favors. $80. 2119 Madison (207-5097)

Minglewood Hall Friends for Life presents Pink Champagne, a high-energy New Year’s Eve dance party.

“We’re performing on stage with these giant champagne glasses I’ve constructed,” says Dara Garbuzinksi of Sock It to Me Burlesque.

With performances by DJ A.D., Goldie Dee & Friends, the boys of Ballet Memphis, the aerialists of QCG Productions, and the aforementioned burlesque beauties of Sock It to Me Productions. $20-$60.

1555 Madison (312-6058) Playhouse on the Square The Germantown Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity hosts its firstannual Nupe Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball with complimentary hors d’oeuvres. $50.

9 p.m.-2 a.m. 66 Cooper (725-0776) Railgarten Midtown’s backyard is celebrating with live music from Porch Pigs and Walrus, champagne, and a photobooth. 2166 Central (504-4342)

Rec Room Live music from PXLS and a complimentary champagne toast.

3000 Broad (209-1137)

EAST MEMPHIS Gold Club Free champagne toast and balloon drop at midnight. 777 N. White Station (682-4615)

Second Line Celebrate with a patio party, live DJ, a buffet, and a champagne toast at midnight. $30. 2144 Monroe (590-2829)

Old Whitten Tavern Live music by Bob and Susie Salley, with a champagne toast at midnight. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. 2465 Whitten Road (375-1965)

Young Avenue Deli The Deli invites Memphians to celebrate in comfort with a pajama party sponsored by Wiseacre Brewing and Sipsmith Gin, with a champagne toast at midnight.

2119 Young Avenue (278-0034) SOUTH MEMPHIS Guest House at Graceland The VIP Celebration includes a dinner buffet for two, dancing with live music from Party Plane, a cash bar, and a champagne toast at midnight. The grounds will still be decked out for the holidays, Christmas at Graceland-style. $125.

8 p.m.-1 a.m. 3600 Elvis Presley Boulevard (443-3000)

WEST MEMPHIS Southland Gaming & Racing With a $25,000 Cash Ring in the New Year Hot Seat, and five winners will receive $2,019 at 11:30 p.m.. 1550 N. Ingram (800-467-6182) TUNICA, MS Horseshoe Casino Includes overnight accommodations and a $50 spa credit. 1021 Casino Center Drive (800-303-7463) Hollywood Casino Thumpdaddy and Roxy Love perform.

1150 Casino Strip Resort Boulevard (800-871-0711) Tunica Roadhouse Silk and Sir Charles Jones perform.

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By Chris Davis

And there came a day unlike any other (except for the last time Marvel Universe Live came to town), when Earth’s mightiest heroes were united to perform an arena-sized show featuring motorcycle stunts, massive CGI projections, explosions, and even more explosions. On that day, the Avengers of Marvel Universe Live! were born. The massive touring show coming to the Landers Center, has often combined Marvel’s trademark characters in ways that ownership rights and studio wrangling has made impossible in the cinematic universe. It pairs Avengers with the Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Fist, and Black Panther, and it pits this superhero supergroup against classic villains the Lizard, the Black Cat, all the forces of Hydra, and sometimes gravity.

The latest iteration of Marvel Universe Live! is a fast-paced and action-packed race against time to keep the sorcerer supreme, Dr. Strange’s mystical Wand of Watoomb from falling into the hands of Norse God of mischief, Loki, who also died in Infinity War. Clearly, this stuff all happens outside of continuity.

Marvel Universe Live! is a frenetic endeavor mixing extreme gymnastics, motorcycle stunt riding, web-swinging, pyrotechnics, and non-stop fight choreography. Just how big is it? Since Mighty Heimdall died in Avengers: Infinity War, and there’s nobody available to open the Bifrost bridge for the purpose of magical teleportation, it takes 30 trucks to move the the high tech stage and gear from town to town.

A Helicarrier or Quinjet would probably make transportation easier, but sadly they don’t yet exist in the real world.

December 27, 2018-January 9, 2019

MARVEL UNIVERSE LIVE AT THE LANDERS CENTER, DECEMBER 28TH-30TH. TICKETS START AT $20. WWW.MARVELUNIVERSELIVE.COM

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A year in media — 2018 revisited Media, p. 30

All the eats from 2018 Food News, p. 31

Free shipping isn’t really free.

The Last Word, p. 39

FRIDAY December 28

SATURDAY December 29

MONDAY December 31

TUESDAY January 1

AutoZone Liberty Bowl Rodeo Agricenter International, 7p.m., $10 Just one event in Liberty Bowl weekend. It features bull riding, bareback bronc riding, steer wrestling, and barrel racing.

Among other Liberty Bowl events is the parade down Beale on Sunday, December 30th, starting at 3 p.m. and, of course, the football game, where Missouri takes on Oklahoma State.

The Four Tops Horseshoe Casino, 8 p.m., $24 A performance by the Four Tops, the group behind such hits as “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” and “Reach Out I’ll Be There.”

Immaculate Conception P&H Cafe, 8 p.m.-3 a.m.

As new year’s should be spent, honoring our queen, Madonna.

Presented by Louise Page, Josh Stevens, Gus Carrington, and Zackary Bratton. With DJ Bloody Elle & DJ One A Day.

4th Annual Polar Wolf Plunge Wolf River Access (Moscow, TN), noon This oughta get the blood flowing.

Greet the new year with a quick dip into the river. Includes hot beverages, food, and a bonfire.

Hosted by the Wolf River Conservancy.

Home Free Cannon Center, 7 p.m., $17-$35 A post-Christmas Christmas show featuring a five-piece live band.

Called a “slam-dunk smashing success of a show.”

New Year’s Eve Various locations and times Get the what’s what on New Year’s Eve, starting on page 14.

Tribute to Townes Van Zandt Lafayette’s Music Room, 4 p.m.

A tribute concert in honor of this Texas songwriter.

Singing in the Rain

Movie Move

By Chris Davis Blame it on Hamilton. The Orpheum’s summer film series is no more, due, in part, to the fact that Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical’s coming to camp in Memphis for almost the entire month of July. As it happens, this is great news for fans of old movies who like to see their favorite flicks projected on the big screen. Instead of being confined to the hotter months, Movies at the Orpheum is now a year-round film series, and the new tradition gets underway Friday, January 11th with the classic Hollywood musical, Singing in the Rain.

Singing in the Rain’s a perfect film to launch with. When it came out in 1952, The Orpheum was Malco’s Downtown movie palace. And the best thing about this tuneful story, apart from the all the fancy dancing and great chemistry between its principal players, has always been its delicious film-on-film satire. Singing in the Rain is a movie about movies and about how Hollywood transitioned from silence to sound, starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, and, perhaps most importantly, a flickering silver screen. With wall to wall standards like “Good Morning,” and “Make ’em Laugh,” some singing along seems likely.

There’s no official schedule yet, but Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny team up in Space Jam Friday, March 15th, and, in celebration of Memphis’ bicentennial, the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line screens Friday, April 26th.

Additional dates and titles will be added throughout the year.

“SINGING IN THE RAIN” AT THE ORPHEUM THEATRE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11TH 7 P.M. $8 FOR ADULTS AND $6 FOR CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER. ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM/MOVIE.

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SUNDAY January 6

Beer & Hymns Midtown Crossing Grill, 5:30 p.m.

A monthly gathering. Beer will be consumed and hymns sung. But no preaching.

Historic Memphian Theatre Elvis Tour Circuit Playhouse; schedule tour: 725-0776 Tour a spot frequented by Elvis.

The Art of Dinner Church Health Nutrition Hub, 6 p.m.

The cuisine of Thailand will be highlighted tonight during this class. On the menu: spring rolls with tofu; chicken pho soup; shrimp stir fry; and mangos foster with ice cream.

30 First Jokes Hi-Tone, 8 p.m., $5 Comics present their first joke of the year. With Katrina Coleman, Joshua McLane, Richard Douglas Jones, Kristen McGill, Lisa Michaels, and many more.

Booksigning by Brooks Lamb Novel, 2 p.m.

Brooks Lamb signs and discusses her book Overton Park: A People’s History, a historic look at the park’s remarkable past.

Elvis in Las Vegas Cannon Center, 7:30 p.m.

A performance by Terry Mike Jeffrey with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra of Elvis’ most beloved hits.

Back When Mike Was Kate TheatreWorks, 2 p.m.

A man seeks to reconnect with a woman who’s now a man.

Winner of the New Works@The Works playwriting competition.

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MUSIC By Alex Greene

The Year’s Best Ten innovative Memphis albums from 2018.

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es, some incredible archival compilations were released this year, such as Robert Gordon’s Memphis Rent Party, the lost Zuider Zee demos of Zeenith, or Stax ’68 and The Stax/Volt Singles, Vol. 4 from the Soulsville archives. But Memphis is a city of innovators.

Blocboy JB - Simi (Bloc Nation) Riding the words “901 Shelby Drive, look alive!” to global dominance, this is an encyclopedia of innovative sounds. Producer Tay Keith is all over it, from the Drake hit to the hallucinatory sci-fi thug opera “Shoot.” Rife with the N-word, the B-word, and other words whose initials we can’t even print, Blocboy’s rhymes conjure visions of thug life both uproariously fun and surreal.

Harlan T. Bobo - A History of Violence (Goner) Lyrics and chord changes that are unsettling but so right for the melodies, a band chomping at the bit to release industrial-strength noise, unexpected tender flourishes: This is classic Bobo and more, as he surveys human venality and the brooding legacy our children will inherit.

Stephen Chopek - Begin the Glimmer (Self-released) With one well-crafted tune after another, there’s a shimmering quality to Chopek’s strummed acoustic guitar, nestled in punchy grooves with his drum, bass, keyboards, and minimal lead guitar. Chopek’s plainspoken voice floats over it with slightly skewed or historical lyrics worth puzzling over.

Faux Killas - Chiquita (Self-released) If you like early Roxy Music and the Damned, well-crafted songs with spirited vocal harmonies, and atonal synth squeals over Memphis-rocking guitar riffs — and you should — this is for you.

Though the production/mastering is muted, that’s easy to fix: Just add volume.

Impala - In the Late Hours (Electraphonic) The band’s postmodern view of the surf-and-crime jazz universe contains multitudes: surf/crime hybrids (“Prime Directive”), Cuban (“En Las Altas Horas”), R&B bar brawl music, and classical (“Hall of the Mountain King”).

Much comes down to John Stivers’ guitar work, but the ensemble’s contributions, including tasty horn parts, are perfect.

Jonathan Kirkscey - Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Back Lot) This soundtrack to the Mr. Rogers film of the same name is technically by “various artists,” but, aside from three tunes by Rogers himself, this is all Kirkscey. Much here expands on the minimalist, hypnotic territory Kirkscey’s mined earlier, but newly lyrical lands are explored as well. “Koko,” with its tender, tentative harp, will get you tearing up over a gorilla.

Lucero - Among the Ghosts (Thirty Tigers) The band frames noirish vignettes with their mighty rural-route rock. Each song unfolds like a short story, mixing foreboding and regret with a longing for home.

Musically, it’s like minimalist Springsteen, stripped of ornamentation, leaving a multi-textured, propulsive drive, as characters fight for survival.

Marcella & Her Lovers - Got You Found (Selfreleased) In an earlier era, this album would have gone gold, perhaps mistaken as another single from the Staple Singers. That’s literally true on “Where You Are” — but only after a heartfelt intro of Louisiana accordion and voice. Indeed, Marcella Simien’s singing propels the whole thing through Afropop, funk, and soul.

Motel Mirrors - In the Meantime (Last Chance) With a creative grasp of rootsy grooves, respect for telling lyrics, and fine duet harmonies, this record could have been made in the ’50s. If there are telling details of more modern attitudes, as in Amy LaVere’s defiant-yet-affectionate “Things I Learned,” most sentiments here are timeless. And their rocked-up cover of the Western Swing classic “The Man Who Comes Around” proves it.

Unapologetic - Stuntarious, Vol. 3 (Unapologetic) This collective strikes again with all its ingenuity, humor, and groove intact. The beats, crazy samples, electronic textures, and occasional jazz changes keep your ears alert; and the lyrics go to unexpected places: self doubt, the vagaries of time, eliminating waste in triumph over one’s foes. Cameron Bethany’s voice takes his tracks to hairraising high points, like “There.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule December 27 - January 9

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.; P.S. Band First Wednesday, Sunday of every month, 7 p.m.; Brimstone Jones First Saturday of every month, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill 341-345 BEALE 577-1089

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 27, 5 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 29, 12:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 30, 12:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 31, 5 p.m., and Saturday, Jan. 5, 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m.; Eskimo Brothers Thursday, Dec. 27, 9:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 28, 9:30 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 29,

Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

Sean Apple Thursdays, 5 p.m.; Blues Players Club Thursdays, Sundays, 8-10 p.m.; DJ Ron Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.; DJ Mad Efx Sundays, midnight; A.M. Whiskey Trio Mondays, Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007

Amber McCain Saturday, Dec. 29, 8-11 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 6, 7-10 p.m.; Lance and Madison Sunday, Dec. 30, 7-10 p.m. and Thursday, Jan. 3, 7-10 p.m.; New Year’s Eve Roaring ’20s Party Monday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Jared Price Friday, Jan. 4, 9 p.m.midnight, and Saturday, Jan. 5, 9 p.m.-midnight.

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Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

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, noon-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/ acoustic Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

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.; Debbie Jameson Friday, Dec. 28, Saturday, Dec. 29, Sunday, Dec. 30 and Monday, Dec. 31.

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.

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

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, Jan. 5, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Saturday, Dec. 29, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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Pam and Terry Friday, Dec. 28, 5-7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 29, 4-7:30 and 4:30-7:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 30, 4:30-7:30 p.m. and Monday, Dec. 31, 5-8 p.m.; FreeWorld Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m.-midnight, Saturday, Dec. 29, 8 p.m.-midnight, Monday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Friday, Jan. 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, Jan. 5, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and Sunday, Dec. 30, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and Plantation Allstars Tuesdays, 7-11 p.m. and Monday, Jan. 7, 7-11 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; James Jones Fridays, 4-8 p.m., Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m.-midnight, Saturday, Dec. 29, 8 p.m.-midnight and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Saturday, Dec. 29, 4-8 p.m.; New Year’s Eve with Eric Hughes Band Monday, Dec. 31, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and Tuesday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sarah Smith Friday, Jan. 4, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-3 a.m.,

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and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Blues City Pastry Shop & Coffee Bar 153 S. MAIN 576-0010

Hi-Jivers Thursdays, 8 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

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

Brinson’s 341 MADISON 524-0104

Break From Memphis Monday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m. and midnight.

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

Elvis in Las Vegas Saturday, Jan. 5, 7:30-9 p.m.

Carolina Watershed 141 E. CAROLINA

Josh Cosby and Jeremy Stanfill Saturday, Dec. 29, noon; Blackwater Trio Saturday, Jan. 5, 6 p.m.

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

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

Dirty Crow Inn

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

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

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

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

The Jason Foree Band Sunday, Dec. 30, 8-11:30 p.m.; Terry & the Wallbangers Sunday, Jan. 6, 8-11:30 p.m.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

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

The Orpheum 203 S. MAIN 525-3000

Willie Nelson & Family Saturday, Jan. 5.

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

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

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Hillbilly Mojo Thursday, Dec. 27, 7 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 5, 9

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p.m.; Jimbo Mathus Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m.; Jack Rowell Saturday, Dec. 29, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and Friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.; Po Boys Thursday, Jan. 3, 7 p.m.; Blackwater Trio Friday, Jan. 4, 8 p.m.

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CIRQUE DU SOLEIL JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 3 One of the best-loved Cirque du Soleil productions, Corteo, is coming to Memphis.

Tickets available!

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

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

5 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 28, 12:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 31, 12:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 4, 5-9 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 5, 5-9 p.m.; Hillbilly Casino Saturday, Dec. 29, 9:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 30, 5 p.m., and Monday, Dec. 31, 5 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Thursday, Jan. 3, 8 p.m.-midnight; Jason James and the Delta Beats Sunday, Jan. 6, 5-9 p.m. and Monday, Jan. 7, 7-11 p.m.

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Regina’s 60 N. MAIN

Open Mic Night Saturdays, 4-7 p.m.; Richard Wilson Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.; Swing Dance with Le Tumulte Noir Saturday, Jan. 5, 6-9 p.m.

Sleep Out Louie’s 150 PEABODY PL SUITE 111 ENTRANCE ON, S. 2ND ST

The Rusty Pieces Friday, Dec. 28, 6-9 p.m.

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

Heath and Bobbie Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Ted Horrell and Monday Night Card Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m.; Vintage Saturday, Dec. 29, 8 p.m.; Turnstyles Friday, Jan. 4, 8 p.m.; Laramie Renae Duo Saturday, Jan. 5, 8 p.m.

Medical Center Sunrise 670 JEFFERSON

Brian Sable Sunday, Dec. 30, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; Eric Hughes Sunday, Jan. 6, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

2119 YOUNG AVENUE 901-278-0034 • 901-274-7080 youngavenuedeli.com Monday thru Sunday 11AM - 3AM

December 27, 2018-January 9, 2019

LATE NIGHT FOOD: Kitchen open til 2AM DELIVERY until midnight 7 nights a week

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125+ BEER OPTIONS w/ New beers every week

TRIVIA Thursday Nights 8pm-10pm

with Memphis Trivia League

AVAILABLE FOR DRAFTS HOLIDAY PARTY RENTAL HAPPY HOUR 12/31: New Year’s Monday - Friday 4PM-7PM PM $2 dollar domestic Eve Pajama Party bottled beer and $3 well liquor ROTATING

$3 BLOODY MARY’S

AND MIMOSA’S Sundays 11AM-3PM

PINT NIGHT Wednesdays 7PM-Close 20

DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS Monday - Friday

Sponsored by Wiseacre & Sipsmith Gin, 9pm, No Cover. Champagne Toast at Midnight. Come in your house shoes!!!

1/12: Goldie Dee & Friends Y2K Drag Show 2/2: Pretty Things Peep Show

Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, Jan. 4, 9 p.m.; The Skitch Saturday, Jan. 5, 6 p.m.; Lucky 7 Brass Band Saturday, Jan. 5, 9 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

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

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursday, Dec. 27, 8 p.m. and Thursday, Jan. 3, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck & Friends Friday, Dec. 28, 9 p.m.; The Whiskey Chute Smugglers Saturday, Dec. 29, 9 p.m.; David Collins Frog Squad Sunday, Dec. 30, 6 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 6, 6 p.m.; Ben MindenBirkenmaier Wednesday, Jan. 2, 6 p.m. and Wednesday, Jan. 9,

Thank You Friends: An Alex Chilton Birthday Bash featuring The KLiTZ and Friends Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m.; Avon Dale and Petty Gene Saturday, Dec. 29, 8 p.m.; The i96FM New Year’s Eve Party featuring Blvck Hippie, Rattlesnake Whip, Tentative, Wine Witch, and more Monday, Dec. 31, 6 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Acid Carousel, Grant Carr Wednesday, Jan. 2, 8 p.m.

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

Playa Fly Thursday, Dec. 27, 9 p.m.; Total Chaos, Negro Terror, Random Conflict, Lipstick Stains Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m.; My Friend Chris and 5 Stories Friday, Dec. 28, 9 p.m.; Terry Pince & the Principles, Nordista Freeze, Future Crib Saturday, Dec. 29, 9 p.m.; Emo Night Memphis Saturday, Dec. 29, 9 p.m.; Zo and Carmen Rodgers with Chinese Connection Dub Embassy Sunday, Dec. 30, 9 p.m.; Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Jack Oblivian, and Three Brained Robot Monday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.; Hannya Chaos,

After Dark: Live Music Schedule December 27 - January 9 Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Alexis Grace with Nick Black Thursday, Dec. 27, 9 p.m.; Memphis Showboats Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Friday, Dec. 28, 10 p.m.; UCPWS Real Memphis Wrestling Saturday, Dec. 29, 7 p.m.; Lil Al & G Reub Saturday, Dec. 29, 9 p.m.; FamJam NYE Monday, Dec. 31, 3 p.m.; NYE with Walrus and Porch Pigs Monday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown

Snap Saturday, Jan. 5, 9 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.

Open Flame Bar & Grill

Collierville

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Settlers Sunday, Dec. 30, 4-7 p.m.; Five O’Clock Shadow Sunday, Dec. 30, 8:30 p.m.-midnight; Fingertrick Sunday, Jan. 6, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

3445 POPLAR SUITE, 1

Randal Toma Fridays, 6:309 p.m.

1927 MADISON 726-4372

Huey’s Collierville 2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

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

Live Entertainment MondaysSaturdays, 8 p.m.; Tammi Savoy & Chris Casello, Jittery Jack & Amy Griffin, Sean Mencher, and Dale-vis & Celine-lee Tuesday, Jan. 8, 7 p.m.; Karaoke hosted by DJ Maddy Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

The Dantones Sunday, Dec. 30, 4-7 p.m.; The John Paul Keith Band Sunday, Dec. 30, 8:30 p.m.midnight; Davis Coen & the Change Sunday, Jan. 6, 4-7 p.m.; LAPD Sunday, Jan. 6, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

Charvey Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, Dec. 30, 6-9 p.m.; Amy LaVere Band Sunday, Jan. 6, 6-9 p.m.

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Memphis Soul Revue Sunday, Dec. 30, 6-9 p.m.; Soul Shockers Sunday, Jan. 6, 6-9 p.m.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Jamie Baker & the VIPs Monday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Frankie Holly & the Noise Sunday, Jan. 6, 8-11:30 p.m.

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

Randal Toma Thursdays, 6-8 p.m.; Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill

North Mississippi/ Tunica

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Natalie James and the Professor Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; “The Happening” Open Songwriter Showcase Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Beer + Hymns Friday, Jan. 4, 5:30-7 p.m.

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

Juke Joint All Stars Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; 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.

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

1532 MADISON 726-0906

East of Wangs 6069 PARK 763-0676

Lee Gardner Fridays, 6:30-9 p.m.; Randal Toma Tuesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

2149 YOUNG AVE 347-3965

Rock Star Karaoke Fridays; Immaculate Conception: A Madonna Tribute Monday, Dec. 31; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Lipstick Stains Sunday, Jan. 6; Kurt Vise with Pastel Fractal Wednesday, Jan. 9.

East Memphis

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; KO & the Crew’s “Rent Party” - A ’90s Tribute Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.; Neutral

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

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

Howard Vance Guitar Academy 978 REDDOCH 767-6940

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

School of Rock Memphis

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel

400 PERKINS EXTD 730-4380

Songwriting Two-Day Workshop Thursday, Dec. 27, 12-3 p.m. and Friday, Dec. 28, 12-3 p.m.

Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Poplar/I-240 Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Thump Daddy Saturday, Dec. 29, 8 p.m.; Benefit for Steve Cobb Sunday, Dec. 30, 3 p.m.; NYE with Memphis Funk N Horns Monday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Natchez Saturday, Jan. 5, 8 p.m.; Mo Boogie Sunday, Jan. 6, 6-10 p.m.

Juno & Zack Wednesday, Jan. 2, 8 p.m.; The Brian Johnson Band Friday, Jan. 4, 7 p.m.; Shotgun Billys Saturday, Jan. 5, 9 p.m.; Area 51 Sunday, Jan. 6, 5:30 p.m.; A.M.Whiskey Wednesday, Jan. 9, 8 p.m.

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

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

AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS 1-800-303-SHOE

The Four Tops Saturday, Dec. 29.

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

The Jason Foree Band Monday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; The Pistol & the Queen Band Sunday, Jan. 6, 8-11:30 p.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

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

Minglewood Hall

P&H Cafe

Five O’Clock Shadow Monday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, Jan. 6, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

Cedric Burnside Thursday, Dec. 27, 8 p.m.; Devil Train Friday, Dec. 28, 6:30 p.m.; Drunk Uncle Friday, Dec. 28, 10 p.m.; Steve Hopper & the Wolf Island Band Saturday, Dec. 29, 2 p.m.; Blue Day Saturday, Dec. 29, 6:30 p.m.; Twin Soul Saturday, Dec. 29, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Alexis Grace Sunday, Dec. 30, 4 p.m.; Bonfire Orchestra Sunday, Dec. 30, 8 p.m.; New Year’s Eve 2019 featuring Pearl and Almost Famous Monday, Dec. 31, 6 p.m.; New Year’s Day Brunch with the Memphis Jazz Alliance Tuesday, Jan. 1, 11 a.m.; A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt Tuesday, Jan. 1, 4 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesday, Jan. 2, 5:30 p.m.; Memphis Funk-N-Soul Friday, Jan. 4, 6:30 p.m.; Groovement Friday, Jan. 4, 10 p.m.; Ashton Riker Saturday, Jan. 5, 6:30 p.m.; Thumpdaddy Saturday, Jan. 5, 10 p.m.; Sweet Megg & the Wayfarers Wednesday, Jan. 9, 8-11 p.m.

Mulan Asian Bistro

Huey’s Cordova 1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 318-3030

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Generation Gap with Brenna Clark, Erich Rosenthal Friday, Dec. 28, 6 p.m.; Tora Tora with The Dirty Streets Saturday, Dec. 29, 7 p.m.; New Year’s Eve Spectacular: Pink Champagne!

Monday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-3 a.m.

Cordova

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

Lafayette’s Music Room

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Frankie Holly & the Noise Sunday, Dec. 30, 8-11:30 p.m.; John Paul Keith Band Sunday, Jan. 6, 8-11:30 p.m.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Capitol Offense, Two-Piece, Defy the Architect, Knoll Thursday, Jan. 3, 7 p.m.; Brando’s Birthday Show Friday, Jan. 4, 8 p.m.; Tom Skeemask Friday, Jan. 4, 9 p.m.; 30 First Jokes Saturday, Jan. 5, 8 p.m.; Jake “The Snake” Roberts: Dirty Details Tour Monday, Jan. 7, 7 p.m.; Deathcrown, Epoch of Unlight, and Hellthrasher Tuesday, Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m.; Mo Stroemel with Patrick O’Connor Wednesday, Jan. 9, 8 p.m.

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CALENDAR of EVENTS: DECEMBER 27 JANUARY 9 T H E AT E R

New Discovery Christian Church

Auditions for Mamma Mia!, this production is Rated PG-13 and is open to ages 15 and older as of show opening. No roles have been pre-cast. There are no roles for young children.

Please refer to character breakdown for details www. kudzuplayers.com. Sat., Jan. 5, 9 a.m.

961 VINSON ROAD.

The Orpheum

Les Misérables, set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice, and redemption. $25-$125. Tues.-Sun., 7:30 p.m. Through Dec. 30.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square

Peter Pan, www.playhouseonthesquare.org. Through Dec. 30.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

TheatreWorks

Back When Mike Was Kate, four years ago, Kate and Howard parted ways; he brokenhearted, she determined to find her true self. Yesterday, Howard found Kate again: as the tender transgender drifter Mike. Now, Howard will do anything to win back the heart he covets, even if the love of his life is no longer the girl he knew. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $25. ThursdaysSaturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Jan. 27.

December 27, 2018-January 9, 2019

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

David Lusk Gallery

Opening Reception for “Transition,” exhibition of new work by Veda Reed. www. davidluskgallery.com. Fri., Jan. 4, 5-8 p.m.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Eclectic Eye

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

DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Art Trolley Tour

Tour the local galleries and shops on South Main. Last Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN.

Casting Demonstration Saturdays, Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

Opening Reception for “Green Zazen,” exhibition of works by Kristi Duckworth and Nancy Morrow. This peaceful exhibit encourages visitors to slow down and embrace natural colors and textures. Fri., Jan. 4, 6-8 p.m.

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

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

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

OT H E R A R T HAP P E N I N G S

Acrylic Painting with Gay Rhodes

Join Instructor Gay Rhodes for this four-session painting series where students will gain new skills from the instructor’s 20-plus years of teaching experience. $150 members, $175 non-members. Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Through Jan. 30.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4128).

The Art of Bonsai

Learn about the living art of bonsai with Fred Nowak. Bring a sack lunch, or enjoy a box lunch from Fratelli’s in the Garden. Call 636-4100 for more information. Free with regular admission. Wed., Jan. 9, noon.

Opening Reception for “Transition” by Veda Reed at David Lusk Gallery, Friday, Jan. 4th

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

Gallery Talk

Museum staff speak on topics including current exhibitions and works from the permanent collection. Meet in the lobby of the main building before the talk begins. Free. Saturdays, Sundays, 2-2:30 p.m.

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

Jazz-A-Fire

Performances, bring your own instrument to join. $12. Last Sunday of every month, 4-7 p.m.

BRINSON’S, 341 MADISON (5240104), WWW.MEMPHISBLACKARTSALLIANCE.ORG.

Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest

Winning authors will be honored with a $200 gift certificate to Novel. For more information, contest rules, and submis-

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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C A L E N DA R: D E C E M B E R 2 7 - JA N UA RY 9 continued from page 22 sion, visit website. Through Aug. 31, 2019.

WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM.

Open Late

Galleries and gardens will be open late. Free with admission. Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m.

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

O N G O I N G ART

Art Body Soul Studio

Matthew Lee, exhibition of new works. Through Dec. 31.

1024 SOUTH YATES (207-4161).

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

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

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

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

Ongoing.

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

Crosstown Arts at The Concourse

the beauty in women of color.

Through Jan. 31, 2019.

1350 CONCOURSE AVE., SUITE 280.

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

44 HULING (576-0708).

Jay Etkin Gallery

Crosstown Concourse

“R&D,” a collection of artwork from the fall 2018 University of Memphis sculpture students.

Ongoing.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

Marshall Arts Gallery

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

1350 CONCOURSE AVE.

David Lusk Gallery

“Transition,” exhibition of new work by Veda Reed. Jan. 3-Dec. 26.

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Botanic Garden

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Eclectic Eye

“Year One,” exhibition of work

by Jill Samuels that utilize acrylic, watercolor, maps, and embroidery thread in their creation.

Through Jan. 2, 2019.

“Green Zazen,” exhibition of works by Kristi Duckworth and Nancy Morrow. This peaceful exhibit encourages visitors to slow down and embrace natural colors and textures. Jan. 4-Feb. 13.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Edge Gallery

Folk Artists, exhibition of work

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

509 S. MAIN (647-9242).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

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

December 27, 2018-January 9, 2019

“Brick Fiction,” exhibition of work by Carrie Rubinstein.

Through Jan. 27, 2019.

“Homeward Bound,” exhibition of works addressing the complex theme of “home.” Through Jan. 27, 2019.

“Origami in the Garden,” exhibition of 24 museum-quality outdoor sculptures depicting origami-inspired works crafted by artists Kevin Box, Te Jui Fu, Beth Johnson, Michael G. LaFosse, and Robert Lang. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through March 24, 2019.

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Germantown Performing Arts Center

“Art Out Loud! A Reflection of Student Voices,” by ACT-SO of Memphis (AfroAcademic,Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics).

(751-7500), www.gpacweb.com/ art-exhibits/. Every 24 days, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Graceland

“Hillbilly Rock,” exhibition featuring items from the Marty

MIDTOWN LINGERIE

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NAUGHTY & NICE

@COCOANDLOLAS

“Green Zazen” by Nancy Morrow and Kristi Duckworth at Eclectic Eye, Friday, Jan. 4th Stuart Collection. www.graceland.com. Ongoing.

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

Black Winter Artist Reception, exhibition of work by Ollie Rodriguez, reflections of feminine strength that emphasize

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Outings Project,” exhibition of paintings from museum walls onto the streets, creating an opportunity to discover, appreciate, and understand artwork in a new way by French artist Julien de Casabianca. www.brooksmuseum.org. Through Jan. 6, 2019.

“Arts of Global Africa,” exhibition of historic and contemporary works in a range of different media presenting an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through

June 21, 2021.

“A Buck & a Half Apiece,” exhibition of photographs by Ernest Withers. www.brooks.org.

Through March 20, 2019.

Rotunda Projects: Federico Uribe, exhibition of magical creatures and playful installations from everyday objects. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through Oct. 11, 2019.

“Talking Continents,” exhibition of large-scale sculptures and installations that use language, history, literature and psychology to draw attention to the barriers that separate and divide humanity by Jaume Plensa. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through Jan. 26, 2019.

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

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

Ongoing.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Enough: A Me Too Exhibition,” exhibition of work that aims to provide a voice, a wall, and a safe space to make artistic voices regarding sexual assault heard and embraced. Over 25 artists participating. (272-5100), mca. edu/event/enough-me-too-

C A L E N DA R: D E C E M B E R 2 7 - JA N UA RY 9 exhibition/. Jan. 7-27, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

“Master Metalsmith: Lisa Gralnick,” exhibition of jewelry and sculpture in addition to previous work from the series, “Scene of the Crime.” Shown publicly for the first time and featuring oversized jewelry as sculptural installations. www.metalmuseum.org. $6. Through Jan. 13, 2019.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

National Civil Rights Museum

“I AM A CHILD,” exhibition of photographs to shed light on the immigrant family separation at the U.S.-Mexican border. More than 30 blackand-white images. www.civilrightsmuseum.org.

Through Dec. 31.

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

Overton Park Gallery

Exhibition of works by Dorothy Northern and Jennifer Sargent. Ongoing.

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

Playhouse on the Square

“The Dance of Color,” exhibition of work by Dottie Harness in the lobby gallery. Through Jan. 1, 2019.

“The Financiers and Other Fanciful Creatures,” exhibition of mixed-media collage assemblages by Angi Cooper. Through Jan. 1, 2019.

“I Can See Clearly Now,” exhibition of paintings by Jan Carnall in the cafe lobby gallery. (726-4656), Through Jan. 1, 2019.

“Quiet Moments,” exhibition of paintings by Joy Phillips Routt in the downstairs west gallery.

Through Jan. 1, 2019.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Proud Mary

“Maddie Stratton: Women & Florition,” exhibition of 16 paintings by New Orleans-based artist. (2492532), Through Jan. 3, 2019.

433 CLEVELAND (249-2532).

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum

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

826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

Diocesan Art Exhibit, the free exhibit will feature works from artists throughout the diocese and will range in form from painted pottery to photography to mixed media. (754-7282), Through Dec. 31, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

ing pole dancing, aerial arts, burlesque, belly dancing, contortion, and more. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $140 VIP Table. Sat., Dec. 29, 5-8 p.m.

GROWLERS, 1911 POPLAR (244-7904), POLELUMINATI. COM.

Premiere Palace Ballroom

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

629 MONROE AVENUE (725-5625).

Calvary Episcopal Church Tours

Swing Dance with Le Tumulte Noir

Monthly swing dance. Beginner lesson 6-7 p.m.; dance with live music 7-9 p.m. No partner or experience needed. $10. Sat., Jan. 5, 6-9 p.m.

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Brooks Lamb

RUMBA ROOM, 303 S. MAIN (205-799-8449).

Author discusses and signs his new book, Overton Park: A People’s History. Sun., Jan. 6, 2 p.m.

C O M E DY

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (922-5526), WWW.NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.

Local

Comma Comedians Present: 1,2,3 Comedy, Every other Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

95 S. MAIN (473-9573).

vorite works of art or plants in the garden. Your lunch will be waiting for you after tour. Thurs., 11:45 a.m.

LOL Comedy Show: New Year’s Edition, get ready for a comedy show with some of Memphis’ most talented comedians. Sat., Jan. 5, 7 p.m.

TO U R S

Bite-Sized Tours

Order lunch from Park & Cherry, and then Dixon staff members and docents will lead a tour of their fa-

Docent-led tours discuss stained glass windows, architecture, and symbols in Christian art. Free. Second Wednesday, Sunday of every month, 11:15 a.m.

CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 102 N. SECOND (525-6602), WWW.CALVARYMEMPHIS.ORG.

City Tasting Tours

Savor tastings at five eateries, interact with chefs and managers, and sample local flavors while strolling down Main Street. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1:30 p.m.

WWW.CITYTASTINGTOURS.COM.

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2018 NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY CELEBRATE AT FITZ! Monday, December 31 • Live Entertainment on Stage Bar all night • DJ STORMY on the Casino Floor • Party Favors • Midnight Champagne Toast & Balloon Drop • Special New Year’s Eve Buffet

Atlanta’s Own DJ STORMY on the Casino Floor

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

Sue Layman Designs

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

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

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

Talbot Heirs

Debra Edge Art, ongoing.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

TOPS Gallery

“Version Version,” exhibition of work by Kevin Ford, paintings and drawings exploring the experience of perception. www.topsgallery.com. Through Jan. 26, 2019.

400 S. FRONT.

Tops Gallery: Madison Avenue Park

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

“Banner for the Lost Sea,” exhibition of work by Corinne Jones. www.topsgallery.com. Through Jan. 26, 2019.

151 MADISON (340-0134).

Village Frame & Art

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

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

WKNO Studio

December Show, exhibition of works by members of the Bartlett Art Association. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Dec. 28.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Garden docents will focus on the cutting garden each week on Saturday morning. Meet in the Catmur Foyer to see the large urn design and start tour.

Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

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

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Historic Memphian Theatre Elvis Tour

Now Open!

Visit our locations at:

3157 POPLAR AVE 901-590-3075 680 N GERMANTOWN PKWY SUITE 42 901-453-6600 1076 GOODMAN RD E 662-470-6497

In ’60s, the theater was frequented by Elvis Presley and his friends for private movie screenings and parties. Tours can be scheduled by calling 725-0776 or by emailing marcus@playhouseonthesquare. org. $5. Jan. 5-8.

CIRCUIT PLAYHOUSE, 51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Old Forest Hike

Walking tour of the region’s only urban old-growth forest. Last Sunday of every month, 10 a.m.

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour

See what used to be, Memphisstyle, with Mike McCarthy.

Call to schedule a personal tour. Ongoing.

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AUTOZONE LIBERTY BOWL, 335 S. HOLLYWOOD, WWW.LIBERTYBOWL.COM.

Meristem Women’s Book Club

Read and explore written works by women and LGBT authors. Second Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.

OUTMEMPHIS: THE LGBTQ CENTER OF THE MID-SOUTH, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

Nashville Songwriter’s Assn. Intnl. (NSAI) Memphis Chapter Meeting

Lessons and discussion on songwriting. Share songs in progress and provide feedback.

Bring a song to share and eight-10 copies of your lyrics.

Every third Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

OFF THE SQUARE CATERING, 19 S. FLORENCE (361-0584), WWW. FACEBOOK.COM/NSAIMEMPHISCHAPTER.

Republican Women of Purpose

Former State Representative Steve McManus, former Shelby County Commissioners George Chism and Heidi Shafer, and Covington businessman Paul Rose will speak. Reservations required. $25. Wed., Jan. 2, 10:30 a.m.

TOURNAMENT PLAYERS CLUB, 3325 CLUB AT SOUTHWIND (604-9520).

KIDS

New Year’s at Noon

This party has been a CMOM tradition for over 25 years.

With a DJ, a dance floor, hula hoops, and temporary hair dye.

Free with museum admission.

Sat., Dec. 29, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

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

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Faith Circle: Metanoia House

For those who struggle to cope with addiction, either personally or through the addiction of a loved one, friend, or colleague. Twice a month on Friday evenings in Schaeffer Memorial Chapel. 18+ Every other Friday, 6:30 p.m.

Through Jan. 11.

KINGSWAY CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 7887 POPLAR (683-3505), WWW.EPIPHANYLU.ORG.

GFWC Metro Memphis Woman’s Club

Volunteer community service organization for Memphis women. Monthly guest speaker, service project, and other activities. Projects include domestic violence, advocates for children, arts, and more.

Free. Fourth Thursday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m.

COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER, 3475 CENTRAL, WWW.GFWC.ORG.

Memphis Astronomical Society January Meeting

A free seminar on “How to Set Up and Use Your New Christmas Telescope.” The meeting will be held in the Assisi Hall Science Auditorium, Room 155. Fri., Jan. 4, 8 p.m.

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3335).

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AutoZone Liberty Bowl Rodeo

Featuring top performers from around the country competing in events such as bull riding, bareback bronco riding, steer wrestling, and barrel racing. $10. Fri., Dec. 28, 7 p.m.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, SHOWPLACE ARENA, 105 S. GERMANTOWN.

Community Cooking Classes

Each class includes simple, healthful concepts you can practice in your own kitchen, strategies for meal planning and shopping on a budget.

Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-noon Through Feb. 12.

CHURCH HEALTH CENTER, 1210 PEABODY (272-0010).

Downtowners’ Bike to Lunch

Mid-day bicycle ride with Revolutions Bicycle CoOp. Meet at the northwest corner of Front and Monroe and ride with Downtowners to a restaurant within 15 minutes of The Fourth Bluff. First Tuesday of every month, 11:45 a.m.1:15 p.m.

COSSITT LIBRARY, 33 S. FRONT (726-6409), WWW.REVOLUTIONSMEMPHIS.ORG.

Drunk Debate

Audience and judges listen in as two contestants square off pro and con on controversial topics. Prizes go to top three debaters. Thurs., Dec. 27, 7-9 p.m.

LOFLIN YARD, 7 W. CAROLINA.

Drunk Pictionary

The round format is: Stick figures are life (beginner), I draw outside the lines (intermediate), and Pollock would be proud (hard as $#%@ round).

Wed., Jan. 9, 7 p.m.

REC ROOM, 3000 BROAD (209-1137).

Guided Meditations

Includes a sitting meditation and a walking meditation designed to increase balance and stability. Visit link to download guided meditations to your mobile device. Ongoing.

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

“LeMoyne-Owen College: A Beacon of Hope”

Exhibition of a central institution in Memphis since its founding in 1871 as the LeMoyne Normal and Commercial School. Ongoing.

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

Marvel Universe Live

A touring live-action arena show featuring Marvel Comics characters. $23-$93. Dec. 2830, 7 p.m.

LANDERS CENTER (DESOTO CIVIC CENTER), 4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (1-800-745-3000).

Night Out With the Vets LGBTQ veterans will be offering up jello shots for a $1 donation each benefiting LGBTQ Veterans Alliance. $5.

First Saturday of every month, 9 p.m.-midnight.

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

VolunCheers

Drinks and snacks are provided for volunteer happy hour to help a different organization with a specific task each month. Usually held the second Tuesday each month. For location and time, see website.

Ages 21+ Second Tuesday of every month.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW. VOLUNTEERODYSSEY.COM.

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4th Annual Polar Wolf Plunge

Join the River Guides and Conservancy friends as they gather on the banks of the Wolf River to celebrate the arrival of 2019 in true Wolf River Conservancy style. For more info, please visit: wolfriver.org/ calendar. Free. Tues., Jan. 1, 12-2:30 p.m.

WOLF RIVER ACCESS, 1580 BATEMAN ROAD (452-6500).

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Tues., Jan. 8, 12:30 p.m.

Includes new cocktails, new bar menu, and a family style, dinner.

Raw bar and a list of cocktails, beer, and wine priced $10 or under will also be available. Call or visit website for reservations. $40. Sundays, 3-9 p.m.

The event includes a dinner buffet for two, dancing with live music from Party Plane, a cash bar, and a champagne toast at midnight. $125. Mon., Dec. 31, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

Four-day celebration of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock-andRoll, including the Elvis Birthday Bash, Elvis Birthday Proclamation Ceremony, a special Tupelo excursion, and more. Jan. 5-8.

GUEST HOUSE AT GRACELAND, 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322), WWW. GUESTHOUSEGRACELAND.COM.

GUEST HOUSE AT GRACELAND, 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322), WWW. GRACELAND.COM.

Expanded family, couples, and group-oriented holiday event with new areas and special event nights. It features four distinct areas catering to different interests: Snowy Nights, Trees Alight, City of Memphis Christmas Tree, and TruGreen Under the Stars Outdoor Lounge. Through Dec. 31, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Magic & Mystery of Christmas

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

OVERTON SQUARE, MIDTOWN, WWW.OVERTONSQUARE.COM.

(TICKETS, 525-1515), WWW.THECANNONCENTER.COM.

Fun holiday activities throughout the month including a Santa Scavenger Hunt for prizes.

Through Dec. 30.

Memphis Arts Collective Holiday Artist Market

Over 30 artists are featured in many different media. MondaysThursdays, Saturdays, 10:30

a.m.-6:30 p.m., Sundays, 12-5 p.m., and Fridays, 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Through Jan. 3.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE AVE. (833-9533), WWW. MEMPHISARTSCOLLECTIVE.COM.

Nupe Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball

The Germantown Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, hosts its first annual Nupe Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball with complimentary hors d’oeuvres. $50.

Mon., Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Starry Nights

Features more lights and fun, including a Build-A-Bear workshop, Lights by the Lake walking path, Candy Cane Train rides, Santa photos, a petting zoo, carriage and hayrides, holiday shopping, and more. Through Dec. 28, 6 p.m.

SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG/STARRY-NIGHTS.

Suits and Sequins

General admission includes open wine and beer bar, late night hors d’oeuvres and champagne toast at

Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

PYRAMID WINE & SPIRITS, 120 AUCTION (578-2773).

Sunday Supper Series

GRAY CANARY, 301 FRONT, WWW. THEGRAYCANARY.COM.

Wok’n in Memphis Brunch Pop Up

Brunch pop-ups featuring American Chinese food plus delicious drinks. $12. Sundays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

THE SILLY GOOSE, 100 PEABODY PLACE (206-930-5569), WWW.WOKNINMEMPHIS.COM.

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Holiday Wonders at the Garden

CANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN

midnight. $85-$150. Mon., Dec. 31, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

VIP New Year’s Eve Celebration

Elvis Presley Birthday Celebration

$20. Fri., Dec. 28, 8 p.m.

Friday Night Wine Tasting

BALLET MEMPHIS, 2144 MADISON (737-7322).

GUEST HOUSE AT GRACELAND, 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Home Free: A Country Christmas

Annual Polar Wolf Plunge at Wolf River Access, Tuesday, January 1st at noon

Flight Tour: A Taste of Memphis

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Up to 16 people per bike enjoy a flight of local spirits and brew during this two-hour pub-crawl with Sprock n’ Roll’s bike bar to Old Dominick Distillery and Ghost River Brewing Tap Room. BYOB, but no glass tour. $315-$400. Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 12-8 p.m., and Sundays, 12-5 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

January Giant Screen Film Festival

DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS, VARIOUS LOCATIONS (500-7101), WWW. SPROCKNROLLMEMPHIS.COM.

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

Movies for the festival include Wild Africa 3D, National Parks Adventure 3D, Tiny Giants 3D, Flight of the Butterflies 3D, and Prehistoric Planet: Walking with Dinosaurs 3D. Movie schedules and show times are available at www.memphismuseums.org.

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he big media suspense story of 2018 came to an end Wednesday, August 8th when the board of Tribune Media voted to terminate a controversial and law-bending $3.9 billion merger with Sinclair TV. This deal would have made WREG Channel 3, Memphis’ top-rated TV news station, a Sinclair property, and Memphis a new market for a company with unprecedented national reach and defined by a history of delocalization and forced right wing content.

Now, with Sinclair solidly in the rearview mirror, Tribune has entered into a new agreement with another giant, Nexstar.

This latest development could alter the Memphis media landscape considerably.

According to a Bloomberg report, Nexstar plans to stay just below the FCC ownership cap by divesting in 13 markets.

One of these markets will almost certainly be Memphis, where the company already owns WATN-24 and WLMT-30, which function as a content/ staff-sharing duopoly.

In print — if that’s the right descriptor — the year’s biggest news was the birth of a new, ambitiously scaled digital-only news source. The Daily Memphian launched online in September. Executive editor Eric Barnes said the venture became necessary when Memphis’ traditional “newspaper of record,” the Gannett-owned Commercial Appeal, lost considerable editorial autonomy. Many of the new startup’s first hires were marquee reporters and columnists siphoned away from the CA — refugees from the increasingly non-local local newspaper. This harvesting of established talent allowed the new enterprise to generate considerable local interest, but it also resulted in an exciting new thing looking a lot like the declining newspaper that made The Daily Memphian a necessity.

The second biggest news in print is The Commercial Appeal’s comeback after being displaced by a parent company eager to sell the real estate, and relieved of its institutional memory and talent by a new startup.

Losing so much top-of-payscale reporters and columnists allowed the hobbled daily paper to staff up like it hasn’t been able to in years. And, while it’s still plagued by embarrassing mistakes, the result of a careless and clueless out-of-town editing process, the CA still managed to break the most

relevant and change-making investigative report in recent memory.

“For the dozens of children currently separated from their families while awaiting trial inside the Shelby County Juvenile Court and Detention Center, the cost of calling home often presents a barrier to keeping in touch with their parents,” Sarah Macaraeg wrote in a detailed report showing how Shelby County’s contract with phone service provider GTL brought in a million dollars annually. Within a week, steps were taken by County Mayor Lee Harris and Commissioner Tami Sawyer to make phone calls from juveniles to their parents or guardians cost-free.

Gannett Co’s Q3 earnings contained some good news for The Commercial Appeal’s parent company. Digital revenue is up by $3.3 million over last year. Unfortunately, digital gains couldn’t keep pace with the $5.5 million in revenue lost from declining circulation.

Publishing revenue is down $43.9 million with advertising and marketing taking a $26.5 million hit.

The disappointing economic news arrived shortly after Gannett’s latest letdown to loyal print subscribers. Deadlines weren’t extended to alThe Daily low for even rudimenMemphian tary coverage of the midterm elections.

Following the Q3 report, Gannett sent out a company-wide memo offering early retirement to employees 55 or older who’ve been with the company for at least 15 years.

Then, USA Today Network president Maribel Wadsworth, told Gannett employees it was time, “to think about our overall cost structure in alignment with profitability.

“We will be a smaller company,” she said, promising there would be no major layoffs before the holidays. What happens in January remains to be seen.

The Daily Memphian isn’t the only ambitious launch of 2018. Storyboard Memphis is a new monthly printed paper featuring original urbanist-oriented reporting and a curated selection of news stories taken from Memphis area websites.

More good news: ProPublica, the Pulitzer-winning digital newsroom, selected Wendi Thomas and her MLK50 Justice Through Journalism project to join its Local Reporting Network. Thomas described the announcement as a “vote of confidence in the importance of this work.”

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The deals, the launches, and good reporting of 2018.

Take a Seat Looking back at the food news of 2019.

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ell, 2018 can go ahead and take a flying leap. It was sort of a grim year in general and for the Memphis food scene particularly.

We’ll start with the bad news.

RIP Bud Chittom died in September. He was eulogized as a legend, the force behind some 50 area restaurants — Blues City Cafe and Earnestine & Hazel’s among them. Gary Williams, chef/owner of the Creole restaurant DeJaVu, passed away in early December. He was remembered for his kindness and sense of community and was sent out in style with a second line parade in front of his restaurant.

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Big River Distilling introduced its Blue Note Bourbon earlier this year. It’s from the folks behind Pyramid Vodka.

Media Last spring, rumblings of a new media venture grew louder and louder.

Details about the online-only nonprofit Daily Memphian came out slowly, as it was revealed that three big-name Commercial Appeal writers were jumping ship. Among them was the food writer Jennifer Biggs.

Jennifer Chandler, well-known in Memphis food circles, took over for Biggs at The Commercial Appeal.

Also last spring came the news that the food-centric journal Edible Memphis was being revived by Bill Ganus. Ganus assembled a crack team, with Brian Halweil as editor in chief and Stacey Greenberg as managing editor. The first order of business was to create a social media presence for Edible Memphis. Its Instagram is newsy and has broken a number of stories. The first issue of the new Edible Memphis is set to hit the stands in January.

New Tunes The Vault announced its new branding as a “gastropub.” With the new moniker comes new hours and new menus. Sleep Out Louie’s is back. The bar, known for its laid-back Sleep Out Louie character and its cast-off ties, opened in Peabody Place last spring. Caritas Village reopened with a new executive director Mac Edwards, formerly of the Farmer. Like

Ripped It makes you want some booze, doesn’t it? You’re in luck as a new law passed last spring allowing wine and liquor to be sold in liquor stores on Sunday.

Wine will be sold on Sundays in grocery stores starting in January.

Crosstown Brewing, selling their signature beers Siren and Traffic, opened in February at the Crosstown Concourse campus. Originally, they had planned to be inside the concourse, but logistics and those huge pillars made constructing a separate building to the west of the concourse a

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A number of restaurant breathed their last breath or were on life support as of press time. Places that closed include: LYFE Kitchen, The Kitchen, Fino’s on the Hill, Old Zinnie’s, and Fuel.

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’Burbs Collierville had its restaurant game upped with the addition of P.O. Press Public House and Provisions and Raven & Lily. P.O. Press is in the former site of the Collierville Herald and before that a post office. It serves upscale Southern food. At Raven & Lily, they serve what the owner describes as “modern Southern comfort” food.

And, finally — finally! — Trader Joe’s opened in Germantown after some doubt that it ever would. Its opening wasn’t wrinkle-free, however. There was some tiny hoopla about the store handing out reusable bags printed with “Nashville.”

Hot Mess There was a bit of an uproar when Gibson’s Donuts opened its doors to and provided one of its precious donuts to the horrible Marsha Blackburn. The owners countered that they weren’t hosting Blackburn per se, and, in any case, Blackburn was treated like any other customer.

Racks, a Hooters-like barbecue restaurant, opened in Southaven.

From Scratch The Crosstown Concourse has been the source of a lot of food news over the past year. Opened this year were Elemento Pizza, which adheres to Neapolitan standards, and Global Cafe, which serves a delightful selection of foods from Nepal, Syria, Sudan, under the supervision of refugees from those countries. Lucy J’s Bakery also opened. All its workers earn a living wage. Saucy Chicken took over the space once occupied by the all-organic, vegetarian restaurant Mama Gaia.

Also opened this fall is Today and Always, a plant-based cafe which feeds participants of Crosstown Arts’ resident program for free. Chef Raymond Jackson has noted that working under the no-meat edict has stimulated his creativity, which shows in such dishes as its vegan pimento cheese dip and the chicken fried tofu. Bart Mallard is in charge of Crosstown’s Art Bar, which serves creative drinks, such as the Meditation of the Copulating Lizards, in the loungiest of lounge spaces.

Milk Dessert Bar serves over-the-top desserts as well as sentimental favorites.

Featured on the menu is a cookie dough flight. Fam, a casual noodle restaurant, opened Downtown recently, and Mahogany, an upscale Southern restaurant with a movie theme opened in East Memphis in November.

Gray Canary, the latest from Michael Hudman and Andy Ticer, opened in January in the same building as Old Dominick Distillery. Its m.o. is that everything is cooked over an open fire.

The setting, with a river view, is smokin’ hot, too.

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he five most memorable too infrequent) of Donna Smith. But sporting events I on this night, I confess to staring more attended in 2018: than a sportswriter should during game 5) Redbirds 4, action. For there on the Tiger sideline — Oklahoma City 3 finally, after making us wait more than (September 9th) — seven months! — was coach Anfernee There are no analytics that measure “The “Penny” Hardaway. The announced Stubby Touch.” But it was on full display crowd (15,231) made it feel like a major in Game 4 of the Pacific Coast League conference clash in late February, and semifinal series between the Redbirds not merely Tennessee Tech on the other and Oklahoma City Dodgers. Leading bench, the Tiger football season still going the series two games to one, with a strong. Senior forward Kyvon Davenport chance to advance to a second straight scored 30 points and grabbed 10 rebounds championship series, the Redbirds fell to help Memphis win Penny’s first game behind, 3-1, in the top of the 10th inning as a college coach. But the star of this (in a game scheduled for seven innings as show was wearing a coat and tie, a new era part of a potential doubleheader). With dawning only a few feet from where I sat. two outs and two strikes, Alex Mejia 2) Redbirds 5, Fresno 0 (September drilled a line drive single just over the 15th) — Randy Arozarena drilled a threeglove of the Dodger second baseman to run homer in the first inning and a twodrive in the tying run. An intentional run bomb in the eighth. Jake Woodford walk to Max Schrock ensued and forced pitched seven shutout innings. And the Memphis manager Stubby Clapp to Memphis Redbirds clinched their send his pitcher to the plate, second straight PCL title (and Penny having exhausted his first at AutoZone Park since Hardaway supply of bench players.

2000). Despite suiting Giovanny Gallegos up 66 players over the clubbed a ball into the course of the season left-centerfield gap for and sending only the series clincher. It two position players was his second at-bat — Wilfredo Tovar in seven professional and Tommy Edman seasons. The Stubby — to the field with 2017 Touch. championship credentials, 4) Tigers 52, Houston 31 Memphis ended another season (November 23rd) — Teams that start with champagne showers. Having won league play 1-3 are not supposed to play Game 3 with the first squeeze play of for a conference championship. But their season (Mejia drove in Edman), thanks to help from other middling teams the Redbirds made the celebration seem in the American Athletic Conference’s almost formulaic.

West Division, the Tigers found 1) St. Jude Marathon (December 1st) themselves playing favored Houston for — If you don’t get a lump in your throat a chance to face undefeated UCF in the at the sight of thousands of runners on AAC title game. The Tigers’ incomparable Riverside Drive — all for the kids at St. running-back duo of Darrell Henderson Jude Children’s Research Hospital — your (178 yards, two touchdowns) and Patrick throat isn’t designed properly. My wife, Taylor (128 yards, two touchdowns) Sharon, ran this year’s marathon, her were too much for the Cougars. Three first (at age 50). Attending a marathon of the tandem’s four scores came in the as a spectator is somewhat similar to a fourth quarter after Houston had tied the golf tournament, except the athletes are, game at 31. Oh, and Tony Pollard was you know, running. I caught a glimpse of there with 116 receiving yards, 83 on the Sharon (she claims she saw me) on Front ground, and a 37-yard kickoff return.

Street, early in the race. Then I did my Stars were shining this Friday afternoon own jogging, first to Riverside (around at the Liberty Bowl, and Memphis indeed mile 7), then to Carolina Avenue. From clinched a second straight division crown. there, I drove to Midtown, where I saw her 3) Tigers 76, Tennessee Tech 61 closing in on mile 20 on North Parkway.

(November 6th) — I’ve sat courtside at All the while, other spectators were Memphis Tiger basketball games for the ringing bells, flashing signs of support, better part of two decades. I’ve been able and calling these runners what they are: to read tattoos on the likes of Derrick heroes. It’s the single greatest sports day in Rose and Will Barton, hear the screams Memphis, Tennessee, and may not need of John Calipari and the cheers (alas, the “sports” qualifier.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Chaos, Power, and Love The best (and worst) films of 2018.

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f there is a common theme among the best films of 2018, it’s wrenching order from chaos. From Regina Hall trying to hold both a restaurant and a marriage together to Lakeith Stanfield navigating the surreal moral minefields of late-stage capitalism, the best heroes positioned themselves as the last sane people in a world gone mad.

2018. The star of the story of how humans first domesticated dogs is a Czech Wolfhound named Chuck, who dominates the screen with a Lassie-level performance.

Chuck and his co-star, Kodi Smit-McPhee, spend large parts of the movie silently navigating the hazards of Paleolithic Eurasia, and the dog nails both stunts and the occasional comedy bits. Chuck is a movie star.

Worst Picture: Fifty Shades Freed In her epic deconstruction of the final installment of everyone’s least favorite BDSM erotica trilogy, Eileen Townsend called Fifty Shades Freed a “sequence of intentionally crafted visual stimuli” that “bears coincidental aesthetic similarity to a movie … But I believe Fifty Shades Freed is nonetheless not a movie at all, but something far more pure — a pristine document of the market economy, a kind of visual after-image created as an incidental side effect of the exchange of large sums of capital…We literally cannot perceive the truest form of Fifty Shades Freed, because to do so, we would have to be money ourselves.”

Best Scene: The Family Meeting, If Beale Street Could Talk Most of Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel is an intimate, tragic love story between Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne) and Fonny Hunt (Stephan James). But for about 10 minutes, it becomes an ensemble dramedy, when Tish has to tell, first, her parents that she’s pregnant out of wedlock with a man who has just been arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, then his parents. If you pulled this scene out of the film, it would be the best short of 2018.

Best Performance by a Nonhuman: Chuck, Alpha Director Albert Hughes’ Alpha is a sleeper gem of

Best Memphis Movie: Rukus Brett Hanover’s documentary hybrid had been in production for more than a decade by the time it made its Mid-South debut at Indie Memphis 2018. What started as a tribute to a friend who had committed sui-

cide slowly turned into a mystery story, an exploration into a secretive subculture, and a diary of growing up and accepting yourself.

MVP: Michael B. Jordan Michael B. Jordan played a book-burning fireman with a conscience in HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 adaptation and the heavyweight champion of the world in Creed II. But it was his turn as Killmonger in Black Panther that elevated the year’s biggest hit film to the realm of greatness. Director Ryan Coogler knew what he was doing when he put his frequent collaborator in the the villain slot opposite Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa, making their personal rivalry into a battle for the soul of Wakanda.

Best Performance: (tie) Regina Hall, Support the Girls and Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade In a year full of great performances, two really stood out. In Support the Girls, Regina Hall plays Lisa, a breastaurant manager having the worst day of her life, with breathtaking technique and empathy. We agonize with her over every difficult decision she has to make just to get through the day.

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Once in a while, a movie comes along that fills a hole in your heart you didn’t know you had. Morgan Neville’s biography of Fred Rogers appears as effortlessly pure as the man himself. Mr. Rogers’ radical compassion is the exact opposite of Donald Trump’s performative cruelty, and Neville frames his subject as a kind of national surrogate father figure, urging us to remember the better angels of our nature.

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If you’ve logged onto your Amazon Prime account the last few weeks to order your holiday gifts, you may have browsed through all of Amazon’s finely curated online deals. From gift guides to “last-minute” deals, the online super-retailer can be overwhelming, sending you through a sea of recommended products and leaving you to explore the site for hours on end. We’ve all probably started with a simple phone case search and ended up reading reviews for heated, battery-powered jackets that are waterproof and windproof.

Did I recently learn there’s a market for that? Yes, I did. But in Memphis, where we can experience all seasons in a week (or a day), I doubt it’s a significant one.

Expediency is one of many allures of online shopping. We can browse a site and make quick decisions on what we want to purchase without ever having to get up from our seat. Amazon even has the option for “1-Click Ordering” which I can see as very dangerous grounds for impulse buyers. We see it, we want it, and as we add it to our cart, we can expect it to arrive in two business days.

Generally, you won’t find folks reviewing catalogs of products but rather shopping online through store websites and mobile apps. To be fair, I’ve never been much to review a catalog of anything, except Aldi’s four-page spread highlighting next week’s selection of deals, so I am reflecting on observations of young folks adding to their Urban Outfitters shopping cart during classes and lectures and middle-age folks shopping for matching polos for their partners on Vineyard Vine’s mobile site. For those who find themselves last-minute shopping for holiday or birthday gifts, I get it. “FREE two-day shipping” is a saving grace. But as we turn the pages to 2019, one small thing we must reconsider is what this hot button actually means.

“Free” shipping isn’t ever free. By that, I don’t mean the actual cost of having a Prime account that affords such a luxury of expedited shipping. I’m talking about the human cost. While technology is surely affecting much of the presence of human labor through, for example, self-checkout and other automated-type kiosks, we still find that the on-the-ground movement of products from one point to the next requires people to physically do that work. E-commerce companies depend on this type of labor in warehouses to move and distribute their products. As a distribution center, Memphis’ employers and employees especially know this to be true.

We now expect that our purchases arrive at our doorstep in the same week. We have gotten so used to the ease of one-click ordering and two-day shipping that we forget the work that is required for it get there. For folks working in warehouses, this expectation of expediency has a real physical and mental toll. While we can see that e-commerce companies are becoming successful businesses, the profits of this success do not reach the people who make it all possible.

On the business side, companies speak about the increasing labor costs as dialogue spreads on what should be minimum wage, but the reality is that the cost of labor has always been there. It has just been significantly undervalued because human labor is undervalued. When we talk about cost of labor, rarely do we bring up or question the cost of these massive bonuses that executives and CEOs receive.

Arguments against living wages that keep up with inflation suggest that increasing wages of workers will hurt the business, but these company executives know that increasing wages won’t necessarily affect the cost for the consumer but will instead cut into their personal bonus checks. The real cost to the consumer happens when wages stay below the living wage measured for a specific city and state. We as consumers and taxpayers pay for what companies such as Amazon refuse to because it cuts into their profit margins, but in particular, the individual executive profits. When workers aren’t compensated fairly and their wages aren’t adjusted like those executive salaries, then their dollar is stretched thin. They have to carefully choose where to put their money, whether it be food, housing, health, or savings. Putting more into one bucket may mean needing to find available public services and programs to help out with the other. I say “available” because at the state of where many public programs are now … well, they could definitely be better. We still do not allocate adequate funds in the city’s budget to address homelessness, and for folks who may have access to forms of housing, the conditions of the housing are not necessarily livable (i.e. slumlords and section eight housing in Memphis).

The one-click options for fast shipping distract us from the many steps that happen between placing our order and receiving it. The influx of warehouse job positions, similarly, are appealing, but we must question how companies are not only compensating their workers but also treating them. At the end of the business day, and into the late shifts for many warehouse workers, what happens in the warehouse and in other sectors of the labor market, the violation of humane working conditions, wage theft, lack of concern for worker health and safety, affects us all.

Aylen Mercado is a brown, queer, Latinx chingona and Memphian pursuing an Urban Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies degree at Rhodes College.

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