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OUR 1661ST AND 1662ND ISSUES 12.24.20 “The sounds of music and the smell of barbecue will again rise from Tom Lee Park in May 2020 …”

“The biggest film weekend of the year looks to be the titanic matchup on December 18th, when Denis Villeneuve’s science-fiction epic Dune, Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story, and Memphis’ own Craig Brewer directing Eddie Murphy in Coming 2 America battle for box office supremacy. See you at the movies!”

“Memphis foodies have a lot to look forward to in the year ahead, including more French food, riverfront views, and even a brand-new brewery.” “… And there’s Bar DKDC, Lafayette’s Music Room, Wild Bill’s, B-Side, Hi Tone, Minglewood Hall, Murphy’s, Lamplighter, Blue Monkey, and many others, including the ever-reliable Beale Street. Get out there and keep live music alive!”

The preceding sentences were written by Flyer staffers in late December 2019, as they attempted to foretell what the forthcoming new year would bring. It was for a cover story called “2020 Vision,” though in hindsight it should have been called, “2020: ARGGGHHH MAKE IT STOP!!!”

We’d just had a great company holiday party, and things were looking pretty good for the Flyer. Ad sales were up. Our editorial staff was hitting on all cylinders. We had a snazzy Downtown office in the Cotton Exchange Building. Life was good.

If you’d told us a year ago that we’d be vacating our office in mid-March and not seeing each other in person again for months, we’d have thought you were nuts. How could we possibly do our jobs without an office? In my March column announcing the “temporary” shutdown of our office, I wrote: “I don’t know when we’ll all see each other in one place again. Weeks from now, I suppose.”

Or maybe a year from now? Who could have imagined? Not me, obviously.

It’s been nine months and counting so far, and it turns out we can put out a paper without an office. It’s not as much fun, but we’ve learned to work remotely via Zoom and Slack — two words that meant entirely different things to all of us a year ago. When we do go back to an office, it may be smaller. We’ve learned some things.

And 2020 was going to be a year of change for me, personally, as well. In the third week of January last year, I announced that, after 20 years of doing the gig, I would be retiring as editor of the Flyer. I was going to continue to write my weekly column, maybe take on some Memphis magazine work, pick back up on that novel I’d been fooling with, and get my wading boots wet more often. I was going to leave the editing and scheduling and hiring and firing to a new person, while I was still younger than the presidential candidates.

Oops. Turns out you really can’t change leadership in the middle of an existential crisis. You can’t bring in a new editor when they can’t even meet with their staff. You can’t make a pivotal hire when everything, including the future of the paper, is in doubt. So here I am. And glad about it. We’ll try again this year when it seems feasible.

So much about everyday life has changed in the past 12 months. Imagine how shocking it would have been to walk into Kroger a year ago and see everyone wearing a mask. Or imagine being told a year ago that you wouldn’t be able to go hang out at your favorite bar, or gather with your extended family for holidays. Imagine being told that in the year ahead the country would become so divided that even medical advice would become politicized, that the very reality of a death-dealing pandemic would be questioned and called a hoax. And imagine being told that some of those same questioners would rush to be first in line to get a precious vaccination on the pretense that they were doing so to convince others it was safe.

“I’ll use this last parachute just to show you it works.” Yeah.

But, politicized or not, the vaccine does offer the first real hope that this nightmare will end, that a year from now we’ll be back to some semblance of normal. I’m tired of social distancing. I’m tired of not seeing N E WS & O P I N I O N THE FLY-BY - 4 smiles. I miss my family and friends. I miss NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 6 live music, live theater, going to the movies.

POLITICS - 8 And yes, I miss bars and restaurants. I FINANCIAL FEATURE - 9 know this: When I get that vaccination, COVER STORY I’m going to hit the back bar at my favorite “2021: HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU” Midtown bistro and order the best steak

BY FLYER STAFF - 10 and best bottle of wine they’ve got. And HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE - 14 WE RECOMMEND - 16 then maybe do it again.

MUSIC - 18 This is our last issue of 2020. Thank CALENDAR - 20 you for all your support of the Flyer FOOD - 24 during this difficult time. We made it, BREWS - 25 and we’ll see you next year. And may it FILM - 26 be a better one this time around.

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LLOYD, LLOYD Lloyd Crawford was easily the mostfamous star of the MEMernet in 2020.

A video captured him confronting a Black Lives Matter supporter in Germantown, telling him, “I’d like you out of my town, quick.”

Crawford waddled away leaving many to wonder if he was drunk or (as one on Twitter speculated) he “shate his pants.”

TWE ET O F TH E YEAR “I thought for sure it would be a Trump war that would bring us ruin.

I would never have guessed it would be a plague.” — John Paul Keith E D I TO R’S P I C K

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COVID-19, Protests, and COVID-19 The virus dominated news in 2020, and Memphis (finally) understood that Black Lives Matter.

JAN UARY University of Memphis increased its minimum wage to $13.

State lawmakers filed bills against refugee resettlement, for chemical castration of some sex offenders, and against transgender student athletes.

The state Senate voted to allow private adoption agencies to discriminate against gay couples. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee later signed the bill into law.

Debate began for the possible removal of a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol Building.

Southland Casino Racing opened its book for sports betting.

F E B R UARY The Shelby County Health Department debunked a rumor that someone at 201 Poplar had coronavirus.

A Tennessee house committee reviewed a bill that would have labeled CNN and The Washington Post as “fake news.”

Gov. Bill Lee pushed to make Tennessee a constitutional gun carry state.

No COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Shelby County, but health officials monitored 20 people who recently returned from China.

MAR C H The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) planned to remove toxic coal ash from the Allen Fossil Plant.

The first Shelby County resident tested positive for coronavirus; 70 were quarantined.

Alisa Haushalter, director of the health department, said there was no immediate risk to the general public from COVID-19.

Governor Lee declared a state of emergency Thursday, March 12th.

A second case of coronavirus was confirmed here.

Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) suspended service cutoffs.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland ordered libraries and community centers closed and stopped issuing event permits.

State lawmakers cut short the 2020 legislative session.

A third case of COVID-19 was confirmed here.

A fourth case was reported.

Ten cases of COVID-19 were reported.

A drive-through testing site was established at Tiger Lane.

Strickland issued a state of emergency and ordered restaurant dining rooms to be closed.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris issued a state of emergency.

Memphis in May (MIM) halted 2020 events.

COVID-19 cases rose to 84.

Strickland issued the Safer at Home Initiative.

Shelby County and each of the county’s seven municipalities issued Stay at Home orders.

COVID-19 cases rose to 1,432.

AP R I L The Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) reduced service to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The Tennessee Supreme Court directed judges to reduce jail populations.

Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich released some incarcerated at the Shelby County Jail and dismissed hundreds of cases.

Memphis in May announced new fall dates for the 2020 festival.

Memphis nonprofit funding was down $32 million on COVID-19 concerns.

A federal district court blocked Governor Lee’s attempt to ban abortion because of the coronavirus.

COVID-19 cases totaled 1,807. Deaths totaled 38.

MAY Phase I of the Back to Business plan began.

Salons, barbershops, and gyms were allowed to reopen.

Beale Street reopened.

Southland Casino Gaming and Horseshoe Tunica reopened.

Graceland reopened.

Phase II of the Back to Business plan began.

The final concept for Tom Lee Park’s new design was unveiled.

COVID-19 cases totaled 3,877. Deaths totaled 88.

JUNE A protest in response to the recent deaths of Black people in America closed Union Avenue.

Gov. Lee authorized the Tennessee National Guard to respond to protests.

A nightly curfew in Memphis began to calm protests related to the police killing of George Floyd.

The nightly curfew was lifted.

A move to Phase III of the Back to Business plan was paused.

An all-white House committee voted to keep the bust of slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest in the Tennessee State Capitol.

Strickland said he was opposed to defunding the police department. continued on page 6

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Jennifer 27 Oswalt announced she was 28 leaving the Downtown Memphis Commission as president.

33 COVID-19 cases totaled 37,480.

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39 40 Operation LeGend brought 40 federal A federal judge sided with Tennessee agents to Memphis to reduce the city’s in an ongoing water-rights case from 42 violent crime rate.

Mississippi. 43 State lawmakers passed bills to crack A council member filed an ethics down on protesters. complaint against another member 45to trans46 insults hurled during a The $200-million project for profane form the Mid-South Fairgrounds into meeting. a youth sports destination was branded St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 51 announced they may52 as Liberty Park. researchers have 53 figured out how the pandemic virus kills and how to stop it.

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Ranked by Trip Advisor in the Top Ten Percent of all listed properties, the museum features films and exhibits that weave a fascinating story of an icon and his birthplace. Make sure to also stop at nearby Mississippi Blues Trail markers that further explain the important music heritage of the area.

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POLITICS By Jackson Baker

Obstacle-Course Year

December 24, 2020-January 6, 2021

Politics in 2020 was impacted by COVID-19 and a shaggy-dog presidential election.

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Politics so often is a matter of timing and deadlines.

Such-and-such a date for announcing a candidacy.

Such-and-such a date for filing.

There’s a withdrawal deadline. A schedule of fundraisers, campaign kickoffs, and headquarters openings. The start of early voting, election day itself. And if all goes well, a time and date for one’s inauguration and/or public swearing-in.

All that regularity and the established calendar of publicly shared functions were skewed big-time in the shaggy-dog story of 2020 — a year in which pestilence stalked the land and drove everyone apart from one another, and the biggest race of all, that for the presidency, was made anti-climactic by the refusal of the loser to admit to the plain and obvious results.

Still and all, some things got accomplished — the most significant of which was the American voters’ decisive rejection of the Trump presidency, a reality-TV show characterized by its total denial of reality, never more so than in an unending election aftermath in which the unfrocked leader, naked as a jaybird, cried foul and continued to clamor for the cloak of high office long after it made any sense to do so.

Indeed, one of the unresolved mysteries at year’s end was the question of whether on January 20th of the new year, Donald Trump will voluntarily take his leave or have to be frog-marched out of the White House. In any case, Democrat Joe Biden will be inaugurated, and with him, hopefully, an era of comparative sense and empathy.

Another matter yet to be resolved was that of which party would control the U.S. Senate, a question that won’t be answered until January 5th via the outcome of two runoff elections in the state of Georgia, a state that went blue in the presidential election and seems destined to become the kind of political bellwether that Tennessee itself used to be when the tide of power would shift back and forth between Republicans and Democrats.

The Volunteer State itself has become so predictably right-wing and Republican that not only could no ranking Democrat be found to oppose Trump’s hand-picked Senate candidate, former Ambassador and state official Bill Hagerty, but the exemplars of GOP-dominated state government — legislative, executive, and, in the case of the state Attorney General, quasi-judicial — all willingly followed the

Trump line, even to the extent of blessing his rebellion against the outcome of a Constitutional election.

Once again, despite spirited challenges

by Democrats in legislative races, several of them right here in Shelby County, the Republicans held onto their supermajority in the General Assembly. At the congressional level, both local U.S. Representatives, Democrat Steve Cohen in the 9th District and Republican David Kustoff in the 8th, held serve against what were basically nominal challenges. Cohen and his congressional counterpart in Nashville, Jim Cooper, were the only Democrats to maintain a position of political prominence statewide.

Governor Bill Lee monitored the pandemic but proved loath to establish much beyond minimal voluntary safety mandates.

At all levels of government in 2020, the specter of COVID-19 made its presence felt, accounting for bursts of financial largesse and sporadic action. Governor Bill Lee monitored the pandemic but proved loath to establish much beyond minimal voluntary safety mandates. The legislature responded to the emergency with a lengthy recess of several months (one which set aside resolution of several controversial matters) and resumed in mid-summer to convert a $200 million infrastructure allotment into a COVID emergency fund. Memphis and Shelby County both profited but had to fight for their share. Both governments also benefited from the federal CARES act and established a joint task force. County government in particular weighed in on anti-COVID efforts via consistent Health Department directives, and at year’s end, amid a new spike in cases, county Mayor Lee Harris and Bartlett Mayor Keith McDonald were leading the drive for a statewide mask mandate.

Efforts to upgrade local election machinery foundered during 2020 due to fundamental disagreements between activists seeking the transparency of paperballot voting systems and county election administrator Linda Phillips, who, backed by an Election Commission majority, preferred ballot-marking devices. Meanwhile, vigorous legal efforts by local plaintiffs had broadened the availability of mail-in balloting, providing a way station of sorts toward change in voting procedures.

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uthors of history, sociology, political science, and economics books will feast on the impacts and unintended consequences of the 2020 COVID pandemic for years. Rarely in world history has an event created this much structural change.

At home, kitchens have become DoorDash staging areas. Corporate offices have become home offices.

Front porches have become shopping carts. At work, headquarters have gone remote. We measure commuting in steps not stoplights. Virtual has become vital for all businesses. In government, central banks have pledged to create inflation rather than fight it. Federal legislators have abandoned deficit spending constraints. Recessions have been outlawed. COVID swept through our public and private institutions with hurricane-force winds, bringing chaos and destruction. Fortunately, in a system as dynamic and resilient as the U.S. economy, chaotic destruction becomes creative reconstruction.

World War II ended in 1945, after claiming more than 400,000 American lives. During that period, the sluggish post-depression U.S. economy reoriented population and manufacturing to the coasts to support the war effort. Productivity surged. Fiscal policy became ultraexpansionary as deficits vaulted from 4 percent of GDP in 1941 to 27 percent by 1943. Monetary policy also became ultra-expansionary, as M2 money supply grew almost 25 percent. For the period, U.S. industrial production doubled, U.S. corporate profits doubled, and wages rose 50 percent.

This occurred despite rationing restrictions. Consumer savings rates hit 21 percent, as fear and restrictions stockpiled consumer demand. Once the fighting stopped, spending levels surged. Factories retooled from ammunition to appliances and from tanks to automobiles. Economic productivity in the United States entered a golden age. Between 1940 and 1960, the U.S. economy grew from $1.2 trillion to $3.2 trillion for an annualized growth rate of 5 percent.

COVID will likely end in 2021, after claiming over 400,000 American lives. Just as the industrial response to WWII led to population migrations to

the coasts, the technological response to COVID has led to population migrations away from urban centers.

Technology utilization rates have soared as e-commerce and Zoom have replaced superstores and business commutes. Fiscal stimulus has inflated the U.S. deficit from 4.5 percent to 18 percent in 2020, while total M2 money supply has ballooned by 26 percent.

Personal incomes for all Americans have risen 8 percent this year despite high unemployment rates. Household net worth has risen 5 percent this year, so far, to an all-time high. Just as fear and rationing encouraged higher savings rates in WWII, shutdowns and lockdowns today have led to personal savings rates near 14 percent. Even still, total retail sales hit record highs in June. With vaccines in distribution, economists predict GDP growth of 4.5 to 5 percent for 2021, which is more than double our pre-COVID run rate. Recent productivity measures suggest GDP could remain above trend for years.

World War II ended in 1945, after claiming more than 400,000 American lives.

Bottom line: In 2020, the U.S. went to war with COVID-19. Not since WWII has the nation fully engaged systematically in the defeat of a foreign adversary. The mobilization of the industrial economy then resembles the mobilization of the technological economy now. Population migration to the coasts to work at factories then resembles population migration away from the urban centers to work on laptops now. Historic growth in the money supply and deficit spending then resemble historic growth in the money supply and deficit spending now. After WWII, many economists forecasted a post-war hangover and a slowdown in U.S. productivity. The opposite occurred.

The end of WWII ushered in a prolonged period of productivity growth and well-above-trend economic growth.

Textbooks refer to the period from 1940 to 1960 as our economic Golden Age. As we look ahead to the end of the war on COVID, history may not repeat, but we expect it to rhyme.

David S. Waddell is CEO and Chief Investment Strategist at Waddell & Associates. Sources: St. Louis Fed Database, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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2021: Here’s Looking at You WITH 2020 IN THE REARVIEW, WE’VE SET OUR SIGHTS ON BETTER DAYS AHEAD.

December 24, 2020-January 6, 2021

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f 2020 was the year of despair, 2021 appears to be the year of hope.

Wanna see what that could look like? Cast your gaze to Wuhan, China, birthplace of COVID-19.

News footage from Business Insider shows hundreds of carefree young people gathered in a massive swimming pool, dancing and splashing at a rock concert.

They are effortlessly close together and there’s not a mask in sight. Bars and restaurants are packed with maskless revelers. Night markets are jammed.

Business owners smile, remember the bleak times, and say the worst is behind them. How far behind? There’s already a COVID-19 museum in Wuhan.

That could be Memphis (once again) one day. But that day is still likely months off. Vaccines arrived here in midDecember. Early doses rightfully went to frontline healthcare workers. Doses for the masses won’t likely come until April or May, according to health experts.

While we still cannot predict exactly “what” Memphians will be (can be?) doing next year, we can tell you “where” they might be doing it. New places will open their doors next year, and Memphis is set for some pretty big upgrades.

But it doesn’t stop there. “Memphis has momentum” was Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s catchphrase as he won a second term for the office last October.

It did. New building projects bloomed like the Agricenter’s sunflowers. And it still does. Believe it or not, not even COVID-19 could douse developers’ multimillion-dollar optimism on the city.

Here are few big projects slated to open in 2021:

RENASANT CONVENTION CENTER Throughout 2020, crews have been hard at work inside and outside the building once called the Cook Convention Center.

City officials and Memphis Tourism broke ground on a $200-million renovation project for the building in January 2020. The project will bring natural light and color to the once dark and drab convention center built in 1974. The first events are planned for 10 the Renasant Convention Center in the new year.

Memphis International Airport (above); The Memphian Hotel

MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Expect the ribbon to be cut on Memphis International Airport’s $245-million concourse modernization project in 2021.

The project was launched in 2014 in an effort to upgrade the airport’s concourse to modern standards and to right-size the space after Delta de-hubbed the airport.

Once finished, all gates, restaurants, shops, and more will be located in a single concourse. The space will have higher ceilings, more natural light, wider corridors, moving walkways, children’s play areas, a stage for live music, and more.

COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE The beautiful new building on the corner of Tillman and Sam Cooper is set to open next year in an $11-million move for the Collage Dance Collective.

The 22,000-square-foot performing arts school will feature five studios, office space, a dressing room, a study lounge, 70 parking spaces, and a physical therapy area.

THE MEMPHIAN HOTEL A Facebook post by The Memphian Hotel reads, “Who is ready for 2021?” The hotel is, apparently. Developers told the Daily Memphian recently that the 106-room, $24-million hotel is slated to open in April.

“Walking the line between offbeat and elevated, The Memphian will give guests a genuine taste of Midtown’s unconventional personality, truly capturing the free spirit of the storied art district in which the property sits,” reads a news release.

Watch for work to begin next year on big projects in Cooper-Young, the Snuff District, Liberty Park, Tom Lee Park, and The Walk. — Toby Sells

BOOK ’EM After the Spanish flu epidemic and World War I came a flood of convention-defying fiction as authors wrestled with the trauma they had lived through. E.M. Forster confronted colonialism and rigid gender norms in A Passage to India. Virginia Woolf published Mrs. Dalloway. James Joyce gave readers Ulysses. Langston Hughes’ first collection, The Weary Blues, was released.

It’s too early to tell what authors and poets will make of 2020, a year in which America failed to contain the coronavirus. This reader, though, is eager to see what comes.

Though I’ve been a bit too nervous to look very far into 2021 (I don’t want to jinx it, you know?), there are a few books already on my to-read list. First up, I’m excited for MLK50 founding managing editor Deborah Douglas’ U.S. Civil Rights Trail, due in January. Douglas lives in Chicago now, but there’s sure to be some Memphis in that tome.

Next, Ed Tarkington’s The Fortunate Ones, also due in January, examines privilege and corruption on Nashville’s Capitol Hill. Early reviews have compared Tarkington to a young Pat Conroy. For anyone disappointed in Tennessee’s response to any of this year’s crises, The Fortunate Ones is not to be missed.

Most exciting, perhaps, is the

TAKE ME OUT WITH THE CROWD Near the end of my father’s life, we attended a Redbirds game together at AutoZone Park. A few innings into the game, Dad turned to me and said, “I like seeing you at a ballpark. I can tell your worries ease.”

Then along came 2020, the first year in at least four decades that I didn’t either play in a baseball game or watch one live, at a ballpark, peanuts and Cracker Jack a soft toss away. The pandemic damaged most sports over the last 12 months, but it all but killed minor-league baseball, the smallbusiness version of our national pastime, one that can’t lean on television and sponsorship revenue to offset the loss of ticket-buying fans on game day. AutoZone Park going a year without baseball is the saddest absence I’ve felt in Memphis culture since moving to this remarkable town in 1991. And I’m hoping today — still 2020, dammit — that 2021 marks a revival, even if it’s gradual. In baseball terms, we fans will take a base on balls to get things going before we again swing for the fences.

All indications are that vaccines will make 2021 a better year for gathering, be it at your favorite watering hole or your favorite ballpark. Indications also suggest that restrictions will remain in place well into the spring and summer (baseball season). How many fans can a ballpark host and remain safe? How many fans will enjoy the “extras” of an evening at AutoZone Park — that sunset over the Peabody, that last beer in the seventh inning — if a mask must be worn as part of the experience? And what kind of operation will we see when the gates again open? Remember, these are small businesses. Redbirds president Craig Unger can be seen helping roll out the tarp when a July thunderstorm interrupts the Redbirds and Iowa Cubs. What will “business as usual” mean for Triple-A baseball as we emerge from the pandemic?

I wrote down three words and taped them up on my home-office wall last

AutoZone Park (above); Julien Baker

March: patience, determination, and empathy. With a few more doses of each — and yes, millions of doses of one vaccine or another — the sports world will regain crowd-thrilling normalcy. For me, it will start when I take a seat again in my happy place. It’s been a long, long time, Dad, since my worries properly eased.

— Frank Murtaugh FILM IN 2021: DON’T GIVE UP HOPE “Nobody knows anything.” Never has William Goldman’s immortal statement about Hollywood been more true. Simply put, 2020 was a disaster for the industry.

The pandemic closed theaters and called Hollywood’s entire business model into question. Warner Brothers’ announcement that it would stream all of its 2021 offerings on HBO Max sent shock waves through the industry. Some said it was the death knell for theaters.

I don’t buy it. Warner Brothers, owned

by AT&T and locked in a streaming war with Netflix and Disney, are chasing the favor of Wall Street investors, who love the rent-seeking streaming model. But there’s just too much money on the table to abandon theaters. 2019 was a record year at the box office, with $42 billion in worldwide take, $11.4 billion of which was from North America. Theatrical distribution is a proven business model that has worked for 120 years. Netflix, on the other hand, is $12 billion in debt.

Will audiences return to theaters once we’ve vaccinated our way out of the coronavirus-shaped hole we’re in?

Prediction at this point is a mug’s game,

but signs point to yes. Tenet, which will be the year’s biggest film, grossed $303 million in overseas markets where the virus was reasonably under control. In China, where the pandemic started, a film called My People, My Homeland has brought in $422 million since October 1st.

I don’t know about y’all, but once I get my jab, they’re going to have to drag me out of the movie theater.

There will be quite a bit to watch. With the exception of Wonder Woman 1984, the 2020 blockbusters were pushed to 2021, including Dune, Spielberg’s West Side Story remake, the latest James Bond installment No Time to Die, Marvel’s much-anticipated Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick, and Godzilla vs. Kong.

Memphis director Craig Brewer’s second film with Eddie Murphy, the long-awaited Coming 2 America, will bow on Amazon March 5th, with the possibility of a theatrical run still in the cards.

There’s no shortage of smaller, excellent films on tap. Regina King’s directorial debut One Night in Miami, about a meeting between Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown, premieres January 15th. Minari, the stunning story of Korean immigrants in rural Arkansas, which was Indie Memphis 2020’s centerpiece film, lands February 12th. The Bob’s Burgers movie starts cooking April 9th. And coolest of all, next month Indie Memphis will partner with Sundance to bring the latest in cutting-edge cinema to the Malco Summer Drive-In. There’s plenty to be hopeful for in the new year.

— Chris McCoy

LOOKING AHEAD: MUSIC We usually highlight the upcoming hot concerts in this space, but those are still on the back burner. Instead, get a load of these stacks of hot wax (and streams) dropping next year. Remember, the artists get a better share when you purchase rather than stream, especially physical product like vinyl.

One of the biggest-profile releases will be Julien Baker’s Little Oblivians, due out on Matador in February. Her single “Faith Healer” gives us a taste of what to expect. Watch the Flyer for more on that soon. As for other drops from larger indie labels, Merge will offer up A Little More Time with Reigning Sound in May (full disclosure: this all-Memphis version of the band includes yours truly).

Closer to home, John Paul Keith’s The Rhythm of the City also drops in February, co-released by hometown label Madjack and Italian imprint Wild Honey. Madjack will also offer up albums by Mark Edgar Stuart and Jed Zimmerman, the latter having been produced by Stuart. Matt Ross-Spang is mixing Zimmerman’s record, and there’s much buzz surrounding it (but don’t worry, it’s properly grounded).

Jeremy Stanfill mines similar Americana territory, and he’ll release new work on the Blue Barrel imprint.

Meanwhile, look for more off-kilter sounds from Los Psychosis and Alicja Trout’s Alicja-Pop project, both on Black & Wyatt. That label will also be honored with a compilation of their best releases so far, by Head Perfume out of Dresden.

On the quieter side of off-kilter, look for Aquarian Blood’s Sending the Golden Hour on Goner in May. Bruce Watson’s Delta-Sonic Sound studio has been busy, and affiliated label Bible & Tire Recording Co. will release a big haul of old-school gospel, some new, some archival, including artists Elizabeth King and Pastor Jack Ward, and compilations from the old J.C.R. and D-Vine Spiritual labels. Meanwhile, Big Legal Mess will drop new work from singer/songwriter Alexa Rose and, in March, Luna 68 — the first new album from the City Champs in 10 years. Expect more groovy organ and guitar boogaloo jazz from the trio, with a heaping spoonful of science-fiction exotica to boot.

Many more artists will surely be releasing Bandcamp singles, EPs, and more, but for web-based content that’s thinking outside of the stream, look for the January premiere of Unapologetic’s UNDRGRNDAF RADIO, to be unveiled on weareunapologetic.com and their dedicated app. — Alex Greene CHEWING OVER A TOUGH YEAR Beware the biohazard.

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forthcoming Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda prose anthology, expected February 2nd. The anthology is edited by Memphis-born journalist Jesse J. Holland, and also features a story by him, as well as Memphians Sheree Renée Thomas, Troy L. Wiggins, and Danian Darrell Jerry.

“To be in pages with so many Memphis writers just feels wonderful,” Thomas told me when I called her to chat about the good news. “It’s a little surreal, but it’s fun,” Jerry adds, explaining that he’s been a Marvel comics fan since childhood.

“I get to mix some of those childhood imaginings with some of the skills I’ve worked to acquire over the years.”

Though these books give just a glimpse at the literary landscape of the coming year, if they’re any indication of what’s to come, then, if nothing else, Memphians will have more great stories to look forward to. — Jesse Davis

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that pops into my head when thinking about restaurants in 2020 are the contagionesque geo-domes that Karen Carrier set up on the back patio of the Beauty Shop.

A clever conceit, but also a necessary one — a move designed to keep diners safe and separated when going out to eat. If it all seems a little bizarre, well, that’s what 2020 was thanks to COVID-19.

We saw openings, closings, restrictions, restrictions lifted, restrictions then put back in place; the Memphis Restaurant Association and Shelby County Health Department arguing back and forth over COVID guidelines, with both safety and survival at stake; and establishments scrambling to find creative ways to drum up business. The Beauty Shop domes were one such example. The Reilly’s Downtown Majestic Grille, on the other hand, transformed into Cocozza, an Italian ghost concept restaurant put into place until it was safe to reopen Majestic in its entirety. Other places, like Global Café, put efforts in place to help provide meals to healthcare professionals or those who had fallen into financial hardship during the pandemic.

Unfortunately, not every restaurant was able to survive the pandemic. The popular Lucky Cat Ramen on Broad Ave. closed its doors, as did places like Puck Food Hall, 3rd & Court, Avenue Coffee, Midtown Crossing Grill, and many others.

But it wasn’t all doom and gloom.

Working in the hospitality business requires a certain kind of resilience, and that showed up in spades. Many restaurants adapted to new regulations quickly, and with aplomb, doing their best to create a safe environment for hungry Memphians all while churning out takeout and delivery orders.

And even amid a pandemic backdrop, many aspiring restaurateurs tried their hand at opening their own places. Chip and Amanda Dunham branched out from the now-closed Grove Grill to open Magnolia & May, a country brasserie in East Memphis. Just a few blocks away, a new breakfast joint popped up in Southall Café. Downtown, the Memphis Chess Club opened its doors, complete with a full-service café and restaurant. Down in Whitehaven, Ken and Mary Olds created Muggin Coffeehouse, the first locally owned coffee shop in the neighborhood.

And entrepreneurial-minded folks started up their own delivery-only ventures, like Brittney Adu’s Furloaved Breads + Bakery.

So what will next year bring? With everything thrown out of whack, I’m loath to make predictions, but with a vaccine on the horizon, I’m hoping (fingers crossed) that it becomes safer to eat out soon, and the restaurant industry can begin a long-overdue recovery. And to leave you with what will hopefully be a metaphor

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Geodomes on the back patio of The Beauty Shop for restaurants in 2021: By next summer, Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman’s Hog & Hominy will complete its Phoenician rebirth from the ashes of a disastrous fire and open its doors once again.

In the meantime, keep supporting your local restaurants! — Samuel X. Cicci “YOUR TICKETS WILL BE AT WILL CALL” Oh, to hear those words again, and plenty of arts organizations are eager to say them.

The pandemic wrecked the seasons for performing arts groups and did plenty of damage to museums and galleries.

Not that they haven’t made valiant and innovative efforts to entertain from afar with virtual programming.

But they’re all hoping to mount physical, not virtual, seasons in the coming year.

Playhouse on the Square suspended scheduled in-person stage productions until June 2021. This includes the 52nd season lineup of performances that were to be on the stages of Playhouse on the Square, The Circuit Playhouse, and TheatreWorks at the Square. It continues to offer the Playhouse at Home Series, digital content via its website and social media.

Theatre Memphis celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2021 and is eager to show off its new facility, a major renovation that was going to shut it down most of 2020 anyway while it expanded common spaces and added restrooms and production space while updating dressing rooms and administrative offices. But the hoped-for August opening was pushed back, and it plans to reschedule the programming for this season to next.

Hattiloo Theatre will continue to offer free online programming in youth acting and technical theater, and it has brought a five-week playwright’s workshop and free Zoom panel discussions with national figures in Black theater. Like the other institutions, it is eager to get back to the performing stage when conditions allow.

Ballet Memphis has relied on media and platforms that don’t require contact, either among audience members or dancers. But if there are fewer partnerings among dancers, there are more solos, and group movement is well-distanced. The organization has put several short pieces

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POLITICS Oyez. Oyez. Oh yes, there is one year out of every four in which regularly scheduled elections are not held in Shelby County, and 2021 is such a year. But decisions will be made during the year by the Republican super-majority of the state legislature in Nashville that will have a significant bearing on the elections that will occur in the three-year cycle of 2022-2024 and, in

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fact, on those occurring through 2030.

This would be in the course of the constitutionally required ritual during which district lines are redefined every 10 years for the decade to come, in the case of legislative seats and Congressional districts. The U.S. Congress, on the basis of population figures provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, will have allocated to each state its appropriate share of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. And the state legislature will determine how that number is apportioned statewide. The current number of Tennessee’s Congressional seats is nine. The state’s legislative ratio is fixed at 99 state House members and 33 members of the state Senate.

Tennessee is one of 37 states in which, as indicated, the state legislature calls the shots for both Congressional and state redistricting. The resultant redistricting undergoes an approval process like any other measure, requiring a positive vote in both the state Senate and the state House, with the Governor empowered to consent or veto.

No one anticipates any disagreements between any branches of government. Any friction in the redistricting process will likely involve arguments over turf between neighboring GOP legislators. Disputes emanating from the minority Democrats will no doubt be at the mercy of the courts.

The forthcoming legislative session is expected to be lively, including holdover

issues relating to constitutional carry (the scrapping of permits for firearms), private school vouchers (currently awaiting a verdict by the state Supreme Court), and, as always, abortion. Measures relating to the ongoing COVID crisis and vaccine distribution are expected, as is a proposal to give elected county executives primacy over health departments in counties where the latter exist.

There is no discernible disharmony between those two entities in Shelby County, whose government has devoted considerable attention over the last year to efforts to control the pandemic and offset its effects. Those will continue, as well as efforts to broaden the general inclusiveness of county government vis-à-vis ethnic and gender groups.

It is still a bit premature to speculate on future shifts of political ambition, except to say that numerous personalities, in both city and county government, are eyeing the prospects of succeeding Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland in 2023. And several Democrats are looking at a potential race against District Attorney General Amy Weirich in 2022.

There are strong rumors that, after a false start or two, Memphis will follow the lead of several East Tennessee co-ops and finally depart from TVA. And meanwhile, in March, the aforesaid Tennessee Democrats will select a new chair from numerous applicants.

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Museums and galleries, such as the Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, National Civil Rights Museum, and the Metal Museum are functioning at limited capacity, but people can go and enjoy the offerings. The scope of the shows is limited, as coronavirus has put the kibosh on blockbuster shows for now. Look for easing of protocols as the situation allows in the coming year.

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If you saw some guy pointing a cardboard toilet paper tube at you, you’d probably laugh, ham it up, and go along on your way. That’s what most of Czech outsider artist Miroslav Tichý’s subjects did.

Jay Etkin of the Jay Etkin Gallery has an exhibition of drawings and photographs on loan from the Cavin-Morris Gallery. The New York gallery is known for exhibiting artists from around the world, specializing in self-taught artists who make art independently of the art world.

“I feel very honored to have these drawings and photographs,” says Etkin. “Though I tried to get a homemade camera on loan, the Cavin-Morris Gallery turned me down. I don’t blame them.”

Once he discovered the works, Etkin wanted Memphis to know this voyeur photographer who took thousands of pictures of women in his hometown in the Czech Republic. His cameras were constructed using cardboard tubes, tin cans, and other at-hand materials. Most of his subjects were unaware that they were being photographed, striking poses when they sighted Tichý, not realizing that the camera he carried was real.

The brilliance of the photographs is that they are skewed, spotted, and badly printed. His primitive equipment and a series of deliberate processing mistakes were meant to add poetic imperfections.

Tichý has said, “If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.”

Stop by Etkin’s gallery to bid the works farewell and revel in the perfectness of imperfection.

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Clueless 25th Anniversary Malco Paradiso Cinema, 584 S. Mendenhall, Sunday, Dec. 27, 1 p.m., and Mon., Dec. 28, 7 p.m., $15 As if! It’s not easy being the most popular girl at Beverly Hills High.

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Magnolia & May New Year Dinner Magnolia & May, 718 Mt. Moriah, Monday, Dec. 28, 7-9 p.m., $90 Say goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021 with a private, socially distanced four-course dinner/ champagne event.

Find Your Creative Connections Online from Arrow Creative, arrowcreative.org, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 4 p.m., free with registration Grab a drink and meet on Zoom with Kylie Hodges from Wingwoman Collective to make new connections for the new year.

Munch and Learn: “Illuminations and Illustrations” Online from Dixon Gallery and Gardens, dixon.org, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1 p.m., free with registration Grab lunch and join the lecture via Zoom with Martha Kelly, Memphis artist and illustrator.

Meet and Greet: Winter Axe League Autobahn Indoor Speedway and Events, 6399 Shelby View, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 7-9 p.m., free Throw axes, learn from axe coaches, learn about how the league works, and meet and talk with other league members. League starts Jan. 6.

Holiday Whiskey Tasting Celtic Crossing, 903 S. Cooper or online from celticcrossing.com., Wednesday, Dec. 30, 7 p.m., $50 Join in person at the pub or virtually and venture through a lineup of three whiskeys with the owner, DJ Naylor.

AutoZone Liberty Bowl Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, 225 S. Hollywood, Thursday, Dec. 31, 3 p.m., televised on ESPN Celebrate the patriotic spirit of America as two of college football’s top teams battle in the 62nd annual AutoZone Liberty Bowl.

New Year’s Eve on Beale Beale Street, Downtown Memphis, Thursday, Dec. 31, free This year’s festivities will be held in individual businesses. Visit bealestreet.com for a list of open businesses and activities.

The Countdown Cabaret

Spotlight 2021 We’ve been missing our friends this year, and our usual haunts. You don’t have to miss your local theater family though. Ring in the new year with your friends at Playhouse on the Square for a countdown to 2021.

“We can all agree it’s been quite a year,” says Marcus Cox, director of community relations, in a recent press release. “Come ring in the new year with your friends at Playhouse on the Square as we count down to 2021.”

Not only is Playhouse counting down to the new year, join the local theater on their Facebook or YouTube channel to count down the top-selling shows in their 51-year history with vignette-style performances for each show.

This one-of-a-kind digital event will prepare you for other surprises coming soon from Playhouse. 2021 will also usher in the first Playhouse online gift shop. Items will be updated throughout the year and will feature limited-edition merchandise for live productions. You’ll find colorful masks with the Playhouse logo, along with T-shirts, sweatshirts, fanny packs, and more.

More spotlight series will follow in January, including a season reveal and game night. Keep an eye out for upcoming events, including more POTS in the Vault archive performances on social media channels.

Play it safe online with Playhouse in the new year.

WINTER SPOTLIGHT SERIES: THE COUNTDOWN CABARET, ONLINE FROM PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, PLAYHOUSEONETHESQUARE.ORG, THURSDAY, DEC. 31, 10 P.M., FREE.

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Wild Bill’s NYE 2020 Wild Bill’s, 1580 Vollintine, Thursday, Dec. 31, 6-10 p.m., $20 Enjoy blues music by The Juke Joint AllStars BandStand Entertainment, food, and door prizes throughout the night. Guests will also enjoy a champagne toast to ring in the new year.

First Day Hike Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, Shelter #2, Friday, Jan. 1, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., free Join Ranger Harris and SIR Rosenthal for a first hike of the new year. Activities include animal programs, bonfire, hot cocoa, prizes, giveaways, and music.

“The Bible in the Medieval World” Online from Dixon Gallery and Gardens, dixon.org, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2 p.m., free with registration In this talk, Frans van Liere, author of An Introduction to the Medieval Bible, will explore some facets of the influence of the Bible in the Medieval world.

New Year’s Eve Culinary Extravaganza Wilson Theater, 1 Jefferson, Wilson AR, Thursday, Dec. 31, 7 p.m., $250 Enjoy a six-course, wine-paired dinner prepared by Chef Roberto Barth, followed by a ball featuring live entertainment, a champagne toast, and surprises. Costumes encouraged.

Movie Club Virtual Screening: Zappa Online from Indie Memphis, indiememphis.org, Friday, Jan. 1, $12 Documentary about the maverick musician Frank Zappa. Crafted from over a thousand hours of mostly unseen material from Zappa’s personal vault.

Beginners Yoga Series Downtown Yoga, 515 S. Main or online @ downtownyogamemphis.com, six-week series starts Wednesday, Jan. 6, 6:45 p.m., $75-$120 Join Amy Hutcheson for this beginners’ yoga series and learn proper alignment, breathwork, and safe movement. In-studio or virtual options are available.

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December 24, 2020-January 6, 2021

You Make Me Feel (Fat Possum) Don Bryant. Classic soul, delivered with a heartfelt panache that few singers can pull off these days. “Your Love is Too Late” or “Cracked Up Over You” evoke a ’60s and ’70s Hi Records sound, with horn riffs and the driving beat of Howard “Bulldog” Grimes. Bryant howls on the uptempo tracks, but the standout may be “Don’t Turn Your Back on Me,” which begins with only solo guitar and Bryant’s voice, so like a fine liqueur.

The Music Stands New Memphis Colorways.

An eclectic tour de force

by Memphis’ favorite multi-instrumentalist, Paul Taylor. From pitchperfect Memphis power pop, to singer/ songwriter acoustic forays, to art-rock instrumentals, Taylor evokes all with a startling musical imagination, his craft taking him to a land of heartfelt song.

Crew Vibez Chinese Connection Dub Embassy. The standouts are the politically charged songs like “Dem A Callin’ (Flodgin’)” and “Warzone,” but the group aims to open both minds and hearts here. Many of the tracks, from lead single “Honey” to “Melanin Queen” or “So Grateful,” explore a sound that combines classic “lover’s rock” with drum-machine-heavy dance hall beats.

Optic Sink (Goner) Optic Sink. With stark electronic minimalism, this mixes synthesizer lines with clean, cold drum machine beats and a touch of percussion. It’s the touches of freestyle synth playing that really bring the soulfulness, even as Natalie Hoffmann’s singing blurs the lines between human and machine.

Nothing But Love: The Music of Frank Lowe (Mahakala) Kelley Hurt, Chad Fowler, Chris Parker, Bernard Santacruz, Anders Griffen, Bobby Lavell. Who knew that Memphis produced one of the leaders of free jazz, Frank Lowe, who played with both Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane? This group of players did. Some were in the local jazz scene of the ’90s, meeting and playing with Lowe at the time. Now they carry those lessons forward with a perfect balance of cacophony and a soulful, Southern lyricism.

Rawer Than Raw Bobby Rush. In a tribute to the great Mississippi blues artists who inspired him, with a few originals thrown in as well, Rush accompanies himself on guitar and harmonica, his foot stomping the beat. It’s stark, but both his playing and his singing dig deep. And the native wit of originals like “Garbage Man” makes them timeless.

Meanwhile Chris Milam. Bringing a new subtlety to his writing and arranging, Milam inadvertently made the perfect album for quarantine. “I wanted it to sound as human and vulnerable as possible,” he says. “So a lot of warm sounds, a lot of acoustic instruments. Somehow we settled on that combination of trumpet and cello.”

Don’t Walk the Darkness (Big Legal Mess) Will Sexton. Backed by the Iguanas, this reveals Sexton’s deep knowledge of New Orleans music, with a side of Tex Mex, country, and rock. Having written “Don’t Take It From Me” with Waylon Jennings almost 20 years ago, the singer/guitarist finally gets it

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down on tape, with results equally dark, soulful, and fun.

Folk Beef Mark Edgar Stuart. This EP perfectly captured the way many coped with a year from hell, tackling new lyrical territory like white privilege (“Color Wheel”) or income disparity (“99 Percentile Blues”) with Stuart’s clever good humor, lightened further with moments of bliss at home and in the hood (“Happy at Home,” “Faxon Wizard”).

Trouble (Goner) Rev. John Wilkins. The son of blues and gospel legend Robert Wilkins, this giant mixed the sacred and profane with grace, and this swan song was his greatest achievement. The title track captures these dark times with fire-and-brimstone passion and a churning groove like a freight train, and, with his daughters lending their voices, this album is a fitting tribute to a life well-lived.

Singles Julien Baker - “A Dreamer’s Holiday”; Bailey Bigger - “Weight of Independence”; Stephen Chopek - “Unspoken Hopes”; PreauXX & AWFM - “10K”; Talibah Safiya - “A Wild One,” “The Great Disguise,” “Ten Toes Down”; Webbstar - “South Memphis Woman.”

Reissues and Archival Releases Van Duren - Are You Serious? and Idiot Optimism (Omnivore); Andy Grooms Grateful to Burn (Small Batch); Impala Teenage Tupelo (Chaputa); The Last Shall Be First: The JCR Records Story, Volume One (Bible & Tire); Jack Oblivian - The Lone Ranger of Love (Black & Wyatt); The Scruffs - Teenage Tragedies 1974-1979 (MonoTone/Pop Supérette).

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Order your book today benefiting local artists and journalism. $35. Ongoing.

A Holiday Cabaret, celebrate the season with a perfect blend of music, jokes, and stories to get you in the mood for the holidays. hattiloo.org.

Free. Ongoing, 7 p.m.

Sarafina!, past production about human rights in the 21st century, written by Mbongeni Ngema. Ongoing.

God’s Trombone, enjoy the original production of inspirational sermons by African-American preachers reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of spirituals. Free. Ongoing.

Iola’s Southern Fields, enjoy an online past performance drawn from the writings of Ida B. Wells. Free. Ongoing.

MEMPHISMAGAZINESTORE.COM.

Memphis Modern Market Crafts Fair Pop Up Shop

Featuring MAC Artists Angi Cooper, Jan Shivley, and Jana Wilson. Fri., Sat., 10:30 a.m.5 p.m., and Sun., 12-5 p.m.

Through Dec. 27.

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

Metal Museum Online

Peruse the art and craft of fine metalwork digitally. Featuring past gallery talks from previous exhibitions, interviews with artists, and demonstrations, including “Beauty in the Boundary,” the museum’s exhibition of gates and railings. Free. Ongoing.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Kudzu Playhouse

Kudzu Playhouse Virtual, join Kudzu social media for donation-based classes, games, scholarship opportunities, and more. Download the app for more fun theater activities and information. Ongoing.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Monthly Art Give Away

The gallery is giving a work of art to a lucky visitor each month. Drop off your business card or 3x5 card with contact information for a chance to win. Through June 30, 2021.

P.O. BOX 47 (888-429-7871).

The Orpheum

Orpheum Virtual Engagement, join Orpheum staff, artists, and students for activities, interviews, and more on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Visit website for more information. Ongoing.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

December 24, 2020-January 6, 2021

Playhouse on the Square

Playhouse on the Square at Home, a series of digital content through POTS website and social media platforms.

View past performances, engage in quizzes, enjoy digital playwriting, and more. Free.

Ongoing.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

A Christmas Carol On the Air, experience the full joy of the holidays and relive memories of Christmases past in the convenience of your own

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

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Exhibition of works by Bartlett Art Association members at Gallery 1091, through Wednesday, December 30th home. theatrememphis.org. $20. Through Jan. 3, 2021.

Online on Stage, a Theatre Memphis Facebook group that serves as a clearinghouse for performers wanting to share their talents. Featuring storytime, readings, or performance art. Ongoing.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

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2020 Artist of the Year Award Nominations

Email or mail nominations.

Include name and email address of the artist plus processing fee of $10 per nominee.

Artist cash prize $500. $10.

Through Dec. 31.

MID-SOUTH ARTIST GALLERY, 2945 SHELBY (409-8705), MID-SOUTHARTIST-GALLERY.PIXELS.COM.

3rd Space Online

Visit Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn for exciting activities and relief efforts from the local creative community.

Ongoing.

Arrow Creative Online Store

All sales benefit local creatives.

Shop locally made jewelry, candles, greeting cards, soaps, and more. Ongoing.

ARROW CREATIVE, 2535 BROAD, ARROWCREATIVE.ORG.

Holiday Artist Market

Through Dec. 24.

3484 POPLAR, FORMERLY SPIN STREET MUSIC, 3484 POPLAR (327-8730).

Shoot & Splice

Discussion with Memphis-based cinematographer Ryan Earl Parker. Tuesday, Jan. 5. 7 p.m.

INDIEMEMPHIS.ORG.

3RDSPACEARTS.ORG.

MID-SOUTH ARTIST GALLERY, 2945 SHELBY (409-8705).

Open on Main: My Memphis View Art & Gallery

Visit artist Mary-Ellen Kelly online for “My Memphis View” products, including books, prints, T-shirts, drink coasters, and posters.

Featuring virtual gallery tour.

Ongoing.

MY MEMPHIS VIEW ART & GALLERY, 5 S. MAIN, MARYELLENKELLYDESIGN.COM.

The Peace Project

Hear the peace offerings made up of artists’ voices, instruments, ambient noises, and reverberations in a healing space, featuring work by Hank Willis Thomas. Ongoing,

6 a.m.-6 p.m.

MEMPHIS PARK (FOURTH BLUFF), FRONT AND MADISON, MEMPHISRIVERPARKS.ORG.

Pinot’s Palette Virtual Paint

Register online for Zoom invite and an emailed supply list.

Don’t forget the wine. Visit website for dates and times, $15. Ongoing.

PINOTSPALETTE.COM.

Watercolor Florals 101 Shelby Brown, studio artist at Arrow, has made a PDF of steps, techniques, and a 25-minute video tutorial to teach you how to make watercolor florals. $10-$50.

Ongoing.

ARROW CREATIVE, 2535 BROAD.

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Arrow Creative

“On Your Mark,” exhibition of works by Shelby Brown in the virtual Mary and Mike Conley Gallery. arrowcreative.org.

Through Dec. 31.

2535 BROAD.

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

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

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

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

ArtsMemphis

“Unfolding: The Next Chapter in Memphis,” exhibition of visual art by local Memphis artists, curated by Kenneth Wayne Alexander. artsmemphis.org. Ongoing.

575 S. MENDENHALL (578-2787).

Binder Projects

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74 FLICKER STREET (634-1698).

Clough-Hanson Gallery

“Quarantine Couple,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Lacy Mitcham Veteto and Gregory Allen Smith. Curated by Ben Aquila. Visit Facebook page to view virtually. rhodes.edu. Ongoing.

“Second Life, Third Life,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Meredith Potter, Melissa Wilkinson, and Emily C. Thomas. Curated by Roland Donnelly-Bullington. Ongoing.

“Interiors: A Study of Domestic Quarantine,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Paula Kovarik and Sophia Mason.

Curated by Jenna Gilley. Ongoing. “playground,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Elizabeth Alley and Susan Maakestad. Curated by Dresden Timco.

“Home is Where the Art Is,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Nick Peña, Ryan Steed, and Nancy Cheairs. Curated

by Julia Conway. “Eyesolation: Seeing and Looking in Quarantine,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Melissa Dunn, Alexander Paulus, Emily C. Thomas, Mary K VanGieson. Curated by Katie Clark. Ongoing.

“Landscapes in Isolation,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Clare Johnson, Maysey Craddock, and Susan Maakestad.

Curated by Caroline Koch. Ongoing.

“All by Myself,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Jesse Butcher and Emily C. Thomas.

Curated by Marlo Morales. Ongoing.

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

Crosstown Concourse

“Nightlife,” exhibition of an outdoor light installation by Lake Roberson Newton. Ongoing.

1350 CONCOURSE.

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“The Beauty of Calligraphy,” exhibition by the Memphis Calligraphy Guild, celebrating calligraphy and the resulting gestural art. Through Jan. 3, 2021.

“Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible,” exhibition of the first handwritten Bible that interprets and illustrates scripture from a contemporary perspective. A reflection of a multicultural world and strides in science, technology, and space travel.

Through Jan. 10, 2021.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery

“Grounded and Growing”, exhibition of acrylic paintings that examine systems of nature and environmental issues by Jessica Mongeon. Through Dec. 31.

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

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“Recent Still Lifes,” exhibition of recent work by Christina Huntington. Through Jan. 10, 2021.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Fratelli’s

“Rawlinson Atelier Studies,” exhibition of watercolors from demonstration studies. Through Jan. 21, 2021.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Gallery 1091

Bartlett Art Association, exhibition of works online by BAA members. wkno.org. Through Dec. 30.

WKNO STUDIO, 7151 CHERRY FARMS (729-8722).

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Revealed,” exhibition of photographs and drawings by Chzech outsider artist Miroslav Tichy.

Through Jan. 16, 2021.

Permanent Collection: “The Flow Museum of Art & Culture,” Ongoing.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

Holiday Group Exhibition, lrossgallery.com. Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Dec. 24.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden

Plein Air Exhibition, through Jan. 2, 2021.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Arts of Global Africa,” exhibition of historic and contemporary works in a range of different media presenting an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry. Through June 21, 2021.

“Power and Absence: Women in Europe,” exhibition explores the representation of women in Europe from around 1500 to 1680, known as the Renaissance and Early Baroque period. 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. Ongoing.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Intrepidly Yours,” exhibition of Spring 2020 BFA work by last graduating class. mca2020bfa.com.

Through Feb. 28, 2021.

Mid-South Artist Gallery

Jean Wu, ongoing.

Michelle Lemaster, exhibition of works by local featured artist. midsouthartist-gallery.pixels.com.

Ongoing.

Pat Turner, ongoing.

Jon Woodhams, ongoing.

Marina Wirtz, ongoing.

Sandra Horton, exhibition of works by featured artist. Free.

Ongoing.

Becky McRae, exhibition of works by featured artist. mid-southartistgallery.pixels.com. Ongoing.

2945 SHELBY (409-8705).

Tops Gallery

Luther Hampton, exhibition of 17 sculptures made between 1968 and 2000. By appointment. Through Dec. 31.

400 S. FRONT.

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Nutcracker: Land of Sweets The timeless tale of Clara and her beloved Nutcracker will stream online this year, featuring unlimited viewing throughout the run. $25. Through Jan. 2, 2021.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (5371483), BUCKMANDANCE.COM.

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Find Your Creative Connections

Grab a drink and meet on Zoom with Kylie Hodges from Wingwoman Collective to make new connections for the new year. Free with registration. Tues., Dec. 29, 4 p.m.

ARROW CREATIVE, 2535 BROAD, ARROWCREATIVE.ORG.

Munch and Learn: “Illuminations and Illustrations”

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Grab lunch and join the lecture via Zoom with Martha Kelly, Memphis artist and illustrator. Free.

Wed., Dec. 30, 1 p.m.

Memphis Heritage

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

“Newman to Now” Virtual Exhibit, exhibition of historic photographs taken by Don Newman between the 1940s and 60s and contemporary photographs of the same sites taken by photographer Gary Walpole to explore continuity and change in Memphis’ built environment. memphisheritage.org. Ongoing.

2282 MADISON (272-2727).

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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).

Winter Axe League Meet and Greet at Autobahn Indoor Speedway, Wednesday, December 30th, 7-9 p.m.

Tours for Very Small Groups

Elmwood Cemetery’s staff is ready to take you and your very small group on a tour around the grounds in groups of 9. Masks required. $5. Ongoing, 10 a.m.

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

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Gifts of Green at the Garden

Seasonal pop-up shop inside the garden’s newly renovated visitors center.

Through Dec. 30, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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

Holiday Artisan Market

Shop Levitt Shell-inspired works from local makers. Through Dec. 31.

LEVITT SHELL, 1928 POPLAR AVENUE (9012722722), LEVITTSHELL.ORG.

WinterArts

Showcase of exceptional and unique hand-crafted works by regional artists. Mon.-Thurs., Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Fri., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Through Dec. 25.

SHOPS OF SADDLE CREEK, 7509 POPLAR AVENUE, SUITE 1 (753-4264), WINTERARTSMEMPHIS.COM.

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Aim to Maintain

Determine your own goal for yourself, whether it is monitoring your weight, physical activity, limiting sugar intake, or something else. Get tips and challenges and check in weekly for random drawing entries via the Kroc Center of Memphis Facebook page. Through Jan. 3, 2021.

THE SALVATION ARMY KROC CENTER, 800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007), FACEBOOK.COM/KROCMEMPHIS.

Ballet Memphis Online Pilates and Ballet Classes

Classes offered include Espresso Flow, Stretch & Burn, Fascial Fun, Intermediate/Advanced Ballet, Intermediate Mat Flow, and Get Moving. $10. Ongoing, 7:30 a.m.5:30 p.m.

BALLET MEMPHIS, 2144 MADISON (737-7322).

C A L E N DA R: D E C E M B E R 2 4 - JA N UA RY 6 A Virt-Yule Concert

Pre-recorded virtual performance by Germantown Community Chorus and Germantown Symphony Orchestra. Advance ticket required. PWYC. Through Dec. 26, 7-9 p.m.

(682-8247), GERMANTOWNCHORUS.COM.

Wonderland: An Interactive Holiday Photo Experience

Zoo Lights

Our Virtual Yoga Downtown on Instagram Live, Tuesdays at 6 p.m.

A winter wonderland of over 1M lights, activities, Santa Claus, and more. Visit on select nights. Zoo Lights closed Dec. 24 and 31. $10. Fridays-Sundays, 6-9:30 p.m., and Mondays, Tuesdays, 6-9:30 p.m. Through Jan. 3. or in person at the historic Evans Chapel. Sundays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., and Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

GERMANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 2363 GERMANTOWN, GERMANTOWNPRES.ORG.

Meet and Greet: Winter Axe League

Throw axes, learn from axe coaches, learn about how the league works, and meet other league members.

Wed., Dec. 30, 7-9 p.m.

AUTOBAHN INDOOR SPEEDWAY & EVENTS, 6399 SHELBY VIEW (300-3195), AUTOBAHNSPEED.COM.

Our Virtual Yoga Downtown Join Charlie Baxter Hayden for yoga on IG Live, @downtownmemphis. Tues., 6 p.m.

DOWNTOWNMEMPHIS.COM.

Virtual Training & Group Fitness

YMCA of Memphis & the MidSouth offers workouts for anyone to try at home. Workouts include yoga, barre, Boot Camp, exercises for active older adults, and Les Mills training. Visit website to join. Free. Ongoing.

YMCAMEMPHIS.ORG.

Wolf River Group Run

All paces welcome. Run 3-5 miles along the Germantown Greenway or the Wolf River Trails. Free. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Through Feb. 10.

“The Negro Motorist Green Book”

Exhibition highlighting an annual guide started in 1936 that helped African Americans travel the country and was a resource for the era’s Black-owned businesses. $10.

Through Jan. 3, 2021.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

Season of Light

Trace the history and development of many of the world’s most endearing holiday customs. $8. Sun., 2:30 p.m., Wed.-Fri., 11 a.m. & 2:30 p.m., and Sat., 11 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.

Through Dec. 26.

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

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Christmas Movies

Free. Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.

Through Dec. 31.

RAILGARTEN, 2160 CENTRAL.

Delight at Concourse

BREAKAWAY RUNNING GERMANTOWN, 1223 S GERMANTOWN (754-8254), BREAKAWAYMEMPHIS.COM.

Marvel at the over 100-foot-tall twinkling light installation in the Central Atrium, enjoy pop-up dining areas, and rock out to live music pop-ups. Through Jan. 31, 2021.

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CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE.

Churches from the Presbytery of the MidSouth: Sunday Worship Livestream

Combined livestream worship.

Visit website for more information and livestream link. Sun., 11 a.m.

IDLEWILDCHURCH.ORG.

Virtual-T

Weekly Zoom gathering for anyone 18+ who identifies as a member of the trans or GNC community. For login information, email ahauptman@outmemphis. org. Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

OUTMEMPHIS.ORG.

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Lament to Hope: Prayer and Reflection

Participate in a community-wide call to prayer and reflection during the month of December online

Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees

Exhibit benefiting Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. Photos with Santa, pandemic style, with Santa behind a Plexiglass shield that looks like a holiday snow globe.

Wednesdays-Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

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Holiday Lights at Crosstown Concourse Enjoy a magical forest of multihued, twinkling holiday trees, and moving holiday-themed projections, along with holiday lighting installations. Fri., Sat., 5:30-8:30 p.m. Through Dec. 26.

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MAM Christmas Store

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Memphis Flyer Ugly Sweater Photo Contest

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Orion Starry Nights

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Stroll, dine, shop in Memphis’ brightest and most beautifully lit neighborhood for the holidays.

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A weekly mobile food pantry organized by Memphis Dawah Association and Mid-South Food Bank. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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says his family meal will include “toro, the belly part of bluefin tuna,” and “uni — sea urchin.” They also will have salmon and “maybe yellowtail.” Sinh also is going to make a couple of special sushi rolls and “throw some ribeyes on the grill.” Dessert will be Chè Thái, a Vietnamese dish that includes jackfruit, lychee, and longan, mixed with milk or half and half along with coconut milk.

Chef Ryan Trimm, chef/proprietor of restaurants including Sweet Grass and Sunrise Memphis: “Every year I do non-traditional. This year, I’m doing Beef Wellington and crab legs, as well as a few other things.” For dessert? “My mom makes cookies. We just eat cookies.”

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eck the table with something different this holiday season. Chefs, cooks, and bakers shared with us some of their non-traditional cuisine from Christmas, past and present.

Ben Smith, chef/owner of Tsunami: “For Christmas Eve dinner, I do what I call a ‘groasted’ leg of lamb. Short story is that one Christmas my oven went out, but I’d already purchased a leg of lamb to roast.

In an attempt to save the meal, I stoked up the grill, threw a cast iron roasting pan on the grids, and got it super hot. Then I threw the leg of lamb in the pan and seared it on all sides, put the lid on it, and continued to grill-roast it to medium-rare.

It was so good, I now do it every year.”

Justin Hughes, Chickasaw Country Club pastry chef and owner of The Wooden Toothpick: “I will be serving chocolate pecan pie this year. It’s a regular pecan pie with pecans, brown sugar, vanilla extract, dark corn syrup, and eggs, etc. I use dark semi-sweet Callebaut melting chocolate and mix it in with my graham cracker crust. After the pie is complete, I drizzle chocolate on top.”

Jakenesia Winder, owner of Bundt Appetite: “We normally do a Christmas day brunch. My peanut butter pancakes with Bananas Foster sauce is something I make every year.”

Miles Tamboli, owner of Tamboli’s Pasta & Pizza: “I’m having a very nontraditional Christmas this year. Given the state of the pandemic, I’m electing not to get together with the Tambolis. I hope other folks decide to stay safe, too, but I’m not implying anyone should forego a hearty meal. I’m all for folks downsizing a turkey to a chicken (which is what my household did for Thanksgiving).”

Spencer McMillin, author of The Caritas Cookbook: A Year in the Life with Recipes, will be serving spaghetti squash carbonara. With the exception of not using eggs and using spaghetti squash in place of wheat pasta, this dish, which is in his cookbook, has all the ingredients of a carbonara, McMillin says. Why does he like it? “Simple. Creative. Very wintry.”

Peggy Brown, chef/owner of Peggy’s Heavenly Healthy Home Cooking: “Turkey pot pie. We feed the homeless Christmas day.” In addition to giving out coats, blankets, caps, gloves, socks, and shirts at the restaurant, Brown will serve her pie, which includes mixed vegetables, from “three big pans.”

Jimmy “Sushi Jimmi” Sinh, sushi chef at Saito 2 Hibachi & Sushi in Arlington,

Chef Justin Hughes with his chocolate pecan pie

Tim Bednarski, owner of Elwood’s Shack, prepares bacon-wrapped quail. This includes a marinade made of pineapple juice, soy sauce, and brown sugar, a mixture of cheddar, pepper jack, and cream cheese, and the dry rub used on pork and other meat at Elwood’s. “It’s one of my favorite things on the planet,” says Bednarski, whose birthday is on Christmas.

B.J. Chester-Tamayo, chef/owner of Alcenia’s, says her tradition probably now has become non-traditional.

Ambrosia was a traditional dish at her family holiday meals. “The only time my mom ever made it was at Christmas.” But, she says, “I’d be surprised if many people do it now. ’Cause people have gotten away from tradition.”

The sweet concoction is made with oranges, apples, fruit cocktail, and a dab of sugar and coconut. Chester-Tamayo, who adds nuts and marshmallows to hers, made some ambrosia Sunday, but she was afraid people would eat all of it before Christmas.

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I hope that you pour your She Devil into a glass: It tastes better than way, and with a name that clever, there is no way you wouldn’t use it on Aunt Pidge when you let fly. The possible overstep is understandable; these people have been mercifully free of your company for the better part of a year, so you have a lot of aggravation to dispense.

Besides, Zoom holidays are a new medium: Any actor worth their salt will tell you that acting for stage and the camera are two entirely different art forms. So what if you play the part a little large? It happens.

Assuming that you don’t actually hate your family and they in turn still harbor some affection for you, despite

that unique stamp you put on things, you might find that an apology is in order later. If this becomes the case, let me suggest a beer that just gives you some holiday feelz (note the z) that you might actually rememberz later.

Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan Brown Ale comes in at a more neighborly 4.5 percent ABV, which will help you manage your Ps & Qs just enough to calm your nerves, while explaining your appalling behavior to your horrified grandmother or impressionable nieces and nephews.

As far as I know, it’s the only beer that uses whole roasted pecans in the brewing process — so it’s a unique brew, literally. Located down in Kiln, Mississippi, it takes locally sourced to a new level and gives the beer a nutty and deep flavor. And, just like that cousin home from college who wants everyone to know that he’s far too cool for family but won’t log off, it is lightly hopped, so a lot of that caramel comes through. It also sets the sort of holiday tone in a situation where a pecan pie isn’t forthcoming.

Not after what you said about it.

While it is very interesting, Southern Pecan isn’t likely to ever be one of my go-tos. That sweetness does lend it to pairing well with savory foods, though. A friend of mine told me it goes well with Thai food. So maybe if Aunt Pidge’s driedout turkey isn’t on the table, call up Bhan Thai and give it a whirl.

These two beers are polar opposites, but either is a tasty choice. The difference between the two goes beyond the flavor to a matter of utility: Ones tastes like pecan pie served at gatherings of people who haven’t raised self-medication to a performance art. She Devil, on the other hand, is a spanking beer for a holiday to remember (except by you). If nothing else, it’s an example of honest marketing.

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h, you mighty Nimrod you! You made an ass out of yourself on the family holiday Zoom call, didn’t you? I get it, the digital age is no excuse for being any less annoying to your relatives than when you’re in the flesh. Or perhaps you are brave enough to ford the in-person get-together — if so, arm yourself with Meddlesome Brewing’s spanking yet dangerous She Devil Belgian Golden Strong. You picked it because the name reminds you of your Aunt Pidge, and as it is a hefty 8 percent ABV, it’s medicinal. It doesn’t taste too “big” and is very good. A little too refreshing, because suddenly you might go off on an unholy mission to turn the ordeal into a sort of Festivus “airing of grievances.”

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FILM By Chris McCoy

2020 on Screen

The best and worst of film and TV.

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here’s no denying that 2020 was an unprecedented year, so I’m doing something unprecedented: combining film and TV into one year-end list.

Worst TV: Space Force Satirizing Donald Trump’s useless new branch of the military probably seemed like a good idea at the time. But Space Force is an aggressively unfunny boondoggle that normalizes the neo-fascism that almost swallowed America in 2020.

Worst Picture: Tenet Christopher Nolan’s latest gizmo flick was supposed to save theaters from the pandemic. Instead, it was an incoherent, boring, self-important mess. You’d think $200 million would buy a sound mix with discernible dialogue. I get angry every time I think about this movie.

December 24, 2020-January 6, 2021

Best Memphis Film: We Can’t Wait Lauren Ready’s Indie Memphis winner is a fly-on-thewall view of Tami Sawyer’s 2019 mayoral campaign.

Unflinching and honest, it’s an instant Bluff City classic.

Best Performance by a Nonhuman: Grogu, The Mandalorian In this hotly contested category, Baby Yoda barely squeaks out a win over Buck from Call of the Wild. Season 2 of the Star Wars series transforms The Child by calling his presumed innocence into question, transforming the story into a battle for his soul.

Most Inspiring: Hamilton The year’s emotional turning point was the Independence Day Disney+ debut of the Broadway mega-hit. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop retelling of America’s founding drama called forth the better angels of our nature.

Best Documentary: Film About a Father Who More than 35 years in the making, Lynne Sachs’ portrait of her mercurial father, legendary Memphis bon vivant Ira Sachs Sr., is as raw and confessional as its subject is inscrutable. Rarely has a filmmaker opened such a deep vein and let the truth bleed out.

Best Comedy: Palm Springs Andy Samberg is stuck in a time loop he doesn’t want to break until he accidentally pulls Cristin Milioti in with him. It’s the best twist yet on the classic Groundhog Day formula, in no small part because of Milioti’s breakthrough performance.

It perfectly captured the languid sameness of the COVID summer.

Best Animation: Soul Pixar’s Pete Docter, co-directing with One Night in Miami writer Kemp Powers, creates another little

(above) Rhea Seehorn and Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul; (below) Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton slice of perfection. Shot through with a love of jazz, this lusciously animated take on A Matter of Life and Death stars Jamie Foxx as a middle school music teacher who gets his long-awaited big break, only to die on his way to the gig. Tina Fey is the disembodied soul who helps him appreciate that no life devoted to art is wasted.

Best Performance: Jessie Buckley, I’m Thinking of Ending Things Buckley is the acting discovery of the year. She’s perfect in Fargo as Nurse Mayflower, who hides her homicidal mania under a layer of Midwestern nice. But her performance in Charlie Kaufman’s mind-bending psychological horror is a next-level achievement. She conveys Lucy’s (or maybe it’s Louisa, or possibly Lucia) fluid identity with subtle changes of postures and flashes of her crooked smile.

MVP: Spike Lee Lee dropped not one but two masterpieces this year. Treasure of the Sierra Madre in the jungle, the kaleidoscopic Vietnam War drama Da 5 Bloods reckons with the legacy of American imperialism with an all-time great performance by Delroy Lindo as a Black veteran undone by trauma, greed, and envy. American Utopia is the polar opposite; a joyful concert film made in collaboration with David Byrne that rocks the body while pointing the way to a better future. In 2020, Lee made a convincing case that he is the greatest living American filmmaker.

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Best Picture: Shirley Elisabeth Moss is brilliant as writer Shirley Jackson in Josephine Decker’s experimental biographical drama.

Michael Stuhlbarg co-stars as her lit professor husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, who is at once her biggest fan and bitterest enemy. Into this toxic stew of a relationship is dropped Rose (Odessa Young), the pregnant young wife of Hyman’s colleague Fred (Logan Lerman), who becomes Shirley’s muse/punching bag. If Soul is about art’s life-giving power, Shirley is about art’s destructive dark side.

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Best TV: Better Call Saul How could Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s prequel to the epochal Breaking Bad keep getting better in its fifth season? The writing is as sharp as ever, and Bob Odenkirk’s descent from the goofy screwup Jimmy McGill to amoral drug cartel lawyer Saul Goodman is every bit the equal of Bryan Cranston’s transformation from Walter White to Heisenberg. This was the season that Rhea Seehorn came into her own as Kim Wexler. Saul’s superlawyer wife revealed herself as his equal in cunning. If she can figure out what she wants in life, she will be the most dangerous character in a story filled with drug lords, assassins, and predatory bankers.

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THE LAST WORD By Greg Graber

The King of West Memphis As I look out the window from my second-story office at the school where I work, I see children running around on the playground. Despite the fact that it’s a cold December morning, they are yelling and jumping without a care in the world. There’s one kid in particular I am looking for — the kid who wears shorts no matter what time of year it is. You know the one. After glancing around for a minute, I spot him. He reminds me of Jarman.

I first met Chris Jarman just over 20 years ago, when I moved back to Memphis after living away for many years. He was friends with one of my co-workers at a community college in West Memphis. The three of us would eat lunch together almost daily at what had to be one of the world’s worst Chinese buffets.

I had no idea that he was somewhat of a big deal on the radio in Memphis — a member of the popular “Wake Up Crew” on Rock 103. His approachable manner and humble demeanor were endearing. And then there was his wicked sense of humor. … No human being ever made me laugh as much as Jarman. I remember going back to work after our lunch sessions with my sides and stomach hurting. Anything was fair game for Jarman, but he was never mean-spirited. In fact, he was often the butt of his own jokes.

Jarman never met a stranger, and was usually the loudest person in the room. His circle of friends was vast — from blue-collar workers to celebrities and civic leaders. As our friendship grew, we started hanging out on weekends. It never ceased to amaze me that when we walked into a bar, virtually everyone knew and loved Jarman. Even more impressive was just how seldom he had to pay for his own drinks! It wasn’t his celebrity. It was because he was a genuine soul who never forgot a name or a face. He would greet everyone with a big ol’ bear hug and a beaming smile that would make you feel like you were the only person in the world that mattered. In a world full of phonies, Jarman was authentic.

Having lived away from Memphis for so long, I didn’t know many people when I returned. Hanging out with Jarman helped me to socialize and meet folks. I was the type of person who cared too much about what people thought about me. Jarman was the opposite. His West Memphis rock-and-roll persona was in sharp contrast to my preppy, uptight, boy-from-the-suburbs vibe, but he loved me just the same. Being around him and his “live and let live” way of life forced me to unwind a bit and get out of my stifling comfort zones.

There are so many stories about Jarman I could tell, but many would not be suitable for this page. One of my favorite memories was when he accompanied me and Holly (now my wife) on our first date. He and my co-worker set us up, and I’m still not sure if he came along because he was worried for her or for me! Holly and I have now been married for 17 years, so I guess he knew what he was doing.

One time, I was hanging out with him in the Rock 103 radio studio on Beale Street. I mentioned that my brother’s band was playing across the street. Jarman proclaimed that we were going to go over there and watch the concert for a bit. Before I could even ask how he planned to do that, he put on three of the longest classic rock songs he could find: “Aqualung,” “2112,” and “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.”

“Let’s bolt!” he proclaimed, scampering out into the cold night air in his shorts across Beale Street. The mental image of his big ass booking it down to the juke joint in shorts on a cold January night still makes me laugh. He was living his best life, moment by moment, and it was awesome.

Like most people, I don’t hang out in bars as much as I did in my younger days. But every now and then, I would run into him somewhere, and he’d give me the big ol’ bear hug, and we would laugh about the old days. It always filled my heart with joy to see him. On occasion, we would text about a song I heard him play on the radio or about a college basketball game. He suffered with skin cancer over the years, the damage on his face clearly visible and a bit worse each time I saw him. It never seemed to dampen his zest for life.

Two days ago, my phone started blowing up from friends I had not heard from in years. I was shocked and saddened to find out that Jarman had passed away. Like thousands of others who considered Jarman a friend, my heart was shattered. We never think that someone with a spirit so large is mortal like the rest of us.

Down on the playground, the boy sporting the shorts comes back into focus. I nickname him “little Jarman” in my mind. The King of West Memphis may be gone, but he is not forgotten. RIP, my brother.

Greg Graber, the author of Slow Your Roll — Mindfulness for Fast Times, teaches mindfulness and Social & Emotional (SEL) skills to schools, sports teams, and organizations around the world. He is Director of SEL at Lausanne Collegiate School.

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Greg Graber (left) with Chris Jarman

THE LAST WORD

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Remembering Chris Jarman.

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