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OUR 1510TH ISSUE 02.01.18 I’ve got a confession to make. I’m in the Secret Society. You know the one I’m talking about. Fox News and Congressman Devin Nunes have outed us now, so there’s no use in denying it. They’ve uncovered how the nefarious “deep state” — the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the liberal mass media — is secretly working to take down our peerless leader, President Donald J. Trump.

Fox and Nunes have had help, of course — from patriotic Russian bots, Julian Assange, and from the president himself, who was the first to point out that the institutions we once trusted — to keep us safe from enemies foreign and domestic, to insure justice is served, and to inform the public — are all now in cahoots with one goal: to destroy the president’s plan to Make America Great Again.

At our Secret Society meeting last week (I could tell you where it was, but I’d have to have you killed by an FBI agent), there was much concern about this. Several of our leaders actually said they thought the jig might be up.

First to speak was Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, who, let’s be honest, is one of our ringleaders. He told us the bad news — that the president and his minions were onto us. “They’ve figured out that Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, and I are lifelong Republicans in name only,” he said. “As you know, all of us really work for Barack Obama, the One True Kenyan …”

Chants arose in the hall — “THE ONE TRUE KENYAN! THE ONE TRUE KENYAN!” — but Mueller raised his hand, asking for silence.

“Yes, Obama is our leader, and he gave us a single instruction when he left office …”

“Take Down Trump!” we chanted.

“Take Down Trump!”

“Yes, but I have to be honest with you,” Mueller continued. “That task is getting more and more difficult. Trump is getting rid of us, one by one. If he can take me out, all is lost.”

Then CNN’s Wolf Blitzer took the podium. “My secret friends,” he began, “those of us manning The Situation Room are doing our best to get out damning information about this White House, but it’s Wolf getting tougher. Sean Hannity is on to us.

Blitzer Jeanine Pirro is chewing my butt like a pitbull. Tucker Carlson is one sharp cookie, despite that stupid bow tie. And don’t even get me started on Ann Coulter. He, er, she is a force to be reckoned with! Our measly ‘facts’ and ‘breaking news stories’ about Trump’s Russian connections don’t seem to faze these people. We’re calling in fresh pundits every day, but it doesn’t seem to matter.”

Gloom descended upon the room.

Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein then stepped forward, concern clearly etched on his face. “As we planned,” he said, “I’ve tried from the start to skew this investigation to bring down President Trump. First by appointing my friend, Robert, who despite his heroics in Vietnam and decades of service to presidents of both parties, is, as we all know, secretly a crook and a liberal — and one of our best, at that. But we are facing obstacles that we never dreamed of. This patriotic coalition of white supremacists, Russian bots, right-wing media, corporate billionaires, the NRA, and amoral Republican Congressmen may simply prove too much for us.

“Nothing seems to matter, any more,” he continued. “Trump can do anything. Yesterday, he decided to just flat refuse to enforce a Russian sanctions bill passed by Congress by a combined vote of 517-5! How does any president get away with that? It’s crazy. He just ignores legislation passed by Congress, destroys environmental regulations, tweets insane and verifiable lies, raves about an impossible-to-build wall, and still, we can’t stop N E WS & O P I N I O N him. He can have an affair with a porn star THE FLY-BY - 4 — A PORN STAR! — and the evangelicals NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 just love him more. It. Just. Doesn’t. Matter.

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N EVE R E N D I N G E LVI S People magazine recently interviewed Kent Ripley, an Elvis tribute artist who presided over three vow renewal ceremonies between David and Louise Turpin, the California couple accused of imprisoning and torturing their children in a “house of horrors.”

According to People, Ripley sang “Love Me Tender” as the couple approached the altar and “Viva Las Vegas” as they danced afterward.

“Just like most people [in that setting], you can see a little bit of emotion, and when you see that, you think that deep down, there’s some care, some love,” Ripley said.

“So with that you go, this is why they’re here.

“They’re telling each other that they still love each other. And in front of their children they’re saying that mom and dad still love each other. And to me, when you bring [13] children with you, and they’re sitting there with smiles on their faces, they’re saying that the parents love the children.”

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E LS EWH E R E, TN While Fly on the Wall’s focus is primarily local, every now and then something happens somewhere else in Tennessee that’s just too special to ignore.

Chad O. England, of Maryville, took the popular catchphrase “Jesus take the wheel” a little too literally last week.

England flipped his truck five times because, as he explained to the police, “Jesus was calling” and advising him to “let go.”

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Gateway, Trader Joe’s, and Trump Big project approved, TJ’s cometh, and Strickland meets Trump.

OVE RTO N GATEWAY O K’E D Despite pushback from some community members, plans to construct new townhouses and apartments on two vacant lots near East Parkway and Sam Cooper were approved last week by the Memphis Landmarks Commission.

Overton Gateway, proposed by developers Makowsky Ringel Greenberg LLC, is slated to cover just under seven acres of land on the north and south sides of Sam Cooper within the Lea’s Woods Historic District.

The northern part of the project will be a three-story apartment complex with 54 units and 66 parking spots.

The larger, southern portion will comprise 13 small, twoand three-story buildings, housing about 122 townhomes and apartment units, and 167 parking spots.

PAR K P LAN S Concerts and yoga classes could replace protests about Confederate statues this spring in Health Sciences Park and Memphis Park.

Memphis Greenspace Inc., the nonprofit that purchased the parks late last year, said last week it will pair up with the Downtown Memphis Commission for programming like concerts and yoga. Also, the group will work with the Memphis Medical District Collaborative to improve the streetscape on Manassas.

Greenspace plans to clean up the parks’ walkways, add seating and trash cans, as well as increase wayfinding and security measures.

TR AD E R J O E’S A G O, AGAI N A building permit was pulled last week for the store at 2130 Exeter in Germantown. The former Kroger location will get a $750,000 build out, according to the permit.

Store officials announced way back in the fall of 2015 that they’d bring a store to the Memphis area, but delays and pushbacks began almost immediately.

According to its website, 24 new Trader Joe’s stores either opened or were started last year from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Jacksonville, Florida, and from Los Angeles to New York City.

STR I C K LAN D M E ETS TR U M P Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland was one of a group of mayors to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington last week, according to the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative (MRCTI).

Strickland was among a group of mayors from up and down the Mississippi River to discuss a pending infrastructure plan for cities in the Mississippi River Valley.

In March, the group called for a nearly $8 billion government investment plan “to manage and protect the critical water resources” along the river. Congress has worked with the group to incorporate parts of the plan into funding bills, said Mayor Lionel Johnson of St. Gabriel, Louisiana.

The MRCTI mayors were to hear Trump’s new plan for river spending during the White House meeting Wednesday.

N O B O OZ E O N MAI N Open containers will not be permitted on Main after the Memphis City Council decided last week to do away with the proposed amendment.

Sponsored by councilman Martavius Jones, the amendment to the city’s Open Container ordinance would have allowed open plastic containers of alcohol on Main from E.H. Crump to A.W. Willis, as well as surrounding streets from Riverside to Danny Thomas.

But, after hearing downtown stakeholders and business owners’ concerns about the change and its possible negative safety, crime, and other implications, Jones withdrew the amendment.

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Some worry recent projects could “destroy” the city’s character.

The city’s urban core is a lava-hot market, but as some developers rush to cash in, some long-time Memphians worry that some of their projects are “destroying the characteristics of what Memphis is.”

Infill development projects, those built where something else once stood, are not new to the core, said Josh Whitehead, director of the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Planning and Development, but this recent trend is something new.

“The renewed interest in the core over the past few years, however, has been the most sustained and intense since the founding of the city,” Whitehead said.

But some new developments concern many who chose urban living and Memphis’ unique neighborhoods long before they became trendy, like Patrick Durkin, who chose Cooper-Young nine years ago.

He came home one Friday to find a demolition crew razing the home next door to his. No note. No nothing.

He later found that JBJ Properties Inc. planned to build four, “tall skinny” homes on the corner lot.

The homes are modern, two-story (tall) structures, narrow enough to fit four of them side-by-side on a traditional Midtown lot (skinny). In short, they look nothing like Cooper-Young homes.

“This is ultimately destroying our neighborhood and destroying the characteristics of what Memphis is,” Durkin said. “People come to Cooper-Young because it’s

fun and friendly. If I saw this [motions to the tall skinnies], I’d think, well, it might as well be Nashville.”

But a new set of laws may make it harder for developers to build whatever they want in Cooper-Young. The Land Use Control Board and the Memphis Landmarks Commission both approved rules creating the Cooper Young Historic Landmark District.

The designation would regulate demolition, new construction, and residential add-ons in the neighborhood. It only now needs approval from the Memphis City Council, which is slated to vote on the matter in the coming weeks.

Developers are also looking for council approval for

Patrick Durkin (left) and Olivia Wall and their “tall skinny” neighbors another controversial project in Cooper-Young. City Cottages wants to build 10, small, pre-fabricated houses on a now-vacant lot at Tanglewood and Elzey.

The homes are between 576 and 726 square feet, built in Osceola, Arkansas, by Little Custom Homes.

City planners said the homes are “similar in concept to modular housing,” homes fabricated somewhere else and assembled on site.

Midtowners on the Preserve Cooper-Young Facebook page, which Durkin and his girlfriend, Olivia Wall, established about nine months ago, say the tiny homes don’t fit the neighborhood, are “inappropriate,” and won’t even provide construction jobs here.

While the type of project may seem new, the council already approved a similar project for the same lot back in 2009. City Cottages says that precedent helps their cause and further precedent could help them bring the tiny homes to a spot close to the Highland Strip.

Precedent like that worries Brantley Elzey, a Midtowner, artist, and one-time, full-time architect.

“The bottom line is that all of the power is with the developers now,” Elzey said. “If you’re a citizen and you’re against [any new development], you’re somehow seen as automatically against development and against progress when, in reality, you’re for all those things, you’re for them being done a better way.”

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services at the lowest possible cost,” the governor said, “We’ve cut $578 million in taxes, including a nearly 30 percent cut to the tax that everyone pays, the sales tax on groceries. We’ve set a schedule to end the Hall income tax, and we have already eliminated the inheritance tax and the gift tax.”

Haslam did not fail to remind his listeners of his success last year in getting the passage of the IMPROVE Act, with its gas tax increase to fuel infrastruture improvements. “By providing a safe and reliable transportation network, we’re making sure the next generations of Tennesseans have access to the high quality jobs made possible by a robust transportation system.”

Beyond his litany of claimed accomplishments, Haslam put forth some goals for his last year and for whichever successor will be elected governor in 2018.

“This evening, I am proposing a bold new challenge. I want Tennessee to lead the nation in jobs, education, and government efficiency. I don’t just want us to compete; I want us to be the best. … But to lead the country, we must continue to push forward.”

Haslam pushed several new initiatives: e.g., a “Complete to Compete initiative, which, through appropriate levers and resources to students, will ensure that they start strong, receive support to stay on track, and make it to graduation day”; “the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018,” with an Bill emphasis on “responsible reHaslam forms that will focus the most significant state intervention on the most serious offenses”; and the new “TN Together, a comprehensive plan to end the opioid crisis that focuses on prevention, treatment, and law enforcement.”

Haslam concluded on a note of heady self-confidence; “[T]he momentum we have created will make us the most effective state government in the country. It has been my life’s greatest honor to lead the state I love for the past seven years. Will you join me in finishing what we began?

Tennessee, it is time to lead the nation. I believe we can, and I believe we will.”

While members of the General Assembly in general gave Haslam’s remarks respectful attention and occasional standing ovations, in the aftermath, many members of the Democratic political opposiion were not as enthusiastic, finding his prescription for curbing the state’s opioid epidemic vague and insufficient and criticizing the lack of anything else substantive in the State of the State about health care.

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NASHVILLE — Governor Bill Haslam’s State of the State address Monday night to legislators at the state Capitol was, in essence, a brag list.

Recalling his first State of the State back in 2011, Republican Haslam remembered, “I stood before you and said, if we will make the right plans and decisions, then the state of Tennessee can compete with any state in the nation.”

Haslam made it clear he thought he had succeeded. “We’re doing really well. In the short time we’ve worked together, we have become one of the best destinations to live, work, and raise a family.”

He continued with the kernel of his case: “Tennessee has a job growth rate greater than 17 percent, far above the national average, with nearly 400,000 net new private sector jobs created.

“We’ve added more than $1.3 billion into K-12 education, with nearly $450 million more going to teacher salaries. And thanks to the hard work and dedication of our educators and parents, and the additional accountability to our system, our children are the fastest improving students in the nation, across math, reading, and science.

“And you’d think we did all of this by raising taxes the way other states have, but in Tennessee, we’ve cut taxes by $572 million annually, with policies in place to reduce taxes even more in years to come.

“Additionally, we’ve cut year-to-year spending by $578 million. Most states would have found such a task insurmountable, but we didn’t just do these things, we did them while tripling the Rainy Day Fund and decreasing our debt.”

Haslam attempted to draw hard and fast connections between his education policies and job creation. “Our unemployment rate has dropped from 5.1 percent to as low as 3 percent, the lowest rate in our state’s 222-year history.

Simultaneously, “In education, Tennessee students are posting the largest gains in the country and the highest high school graduation rates the state has ever seen.

And while other states struggle to improve access to higher education, we created Tennessee Promise and Tennessee Reconnect, so that all Tennesseans have access to college, free of tuition and fees.”

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State of the State When Governor Bill Haslam gave his final State of the State address in Nashville on Monday night, he accentuated the positive, not unexpectedly. Haslam cited figures relating to job growth and educational achievement that seemed indeed to indicate a measure of progress. And, while his boast of having cut taxes is somewhat undermined — as is more generally the case with the tax cuts of President Trump, by the tilt of these advantages toward the wealthiest taxpayers (how many other Tennesseans have really had to worry about the inheritance tax, for example?) — the reduction on the state grocery tax is a legitimate advantage for everybody.

There have been clear failures among the first seven years of the Haslam administration, though, and the several Democratic legislators who pointed out afterward that the State of the State was conspicuously silent on the issue of health care were right on target.

Haslam might say, in his own defense, that his Insure Tennessee proposal of 2015 was a fairly strong, if belated, proposal, designed to tie into the billions of federal dollars that the Affordable Care Act would have made available for healthcare expansion in Tennessee. But Insure Tennessee was scuttled by Haslam’s fellow Republicans in the General Assembly, the same ones who had successfully pressured him to put off a decision on accepting ACA funding in 2013 or 2014, when he could have done so on his own initiative, unbound by the legislative straitjacket that was imposed on the governor’s freedom of action by 2015. That rural hospitals in Tennessee have failed for lack of access to ACA funding is one of the consequences.

Quite properly, the governor made reference in his address to the evergrowing opioid-addiction menace that looms over the state. As Haslam said,

“The opioid epidemic is crippling our state and our country.” But his answer to the dilemma is embedded not in concrete systematic proposal but in one of those cutesie catchphrases characteristic of the governor’s administration. As Haslam put it, “Last week, we announced TN Together, a comprehensive plan to end the opioid crisis that focuses on prevention, treatment, and law enforcement.” So far, the comprehensiveness of the plan is less notable than its vagueness.

That Haslam has all too often not been able to assert himself against special interests, such as the gun lobby and the partisan hardliners in his own party, has been one of the drawbacks of his administration, and that fact, understandably, was not included in the State of the State.

Much was said in the speech about education and the testing procedures imposed on teachers and students, but omitted was the loss of all collective bargaining opportunities for teachers, something imposed on the governor’s first education package in 2011 by then Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey. (Also omitted was any reference to the debacle suffered by the state when the agency entrusted with testing student performance proved unable to do so and defaulted on its contractual responsibilty.)

Still and all, Haslam has proven for the most part to be a well-intentioned chief executive, and many of the claims of progress made in the State of the State (see Politics, p. 7, for specifics) are no doubt justified or at least arguable.

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VI EWPO I NT By Juan Williams

We’re Getting Trolled ternet attacks by pitting Americans against Americans on race, religion, and immigration. The Russian goal is to polarize public opinion, undermine trust in elections, and weaken the U.S. as a world power.

Last week, Congress offered more proof of Russia’s success in damaging America by releasing documents from Facebook showing Russian agents behind 129 “phony event announcements during the 2016 presidential campaign, drawing the attention of nearly 340,000 users — many of whom said they were planning to attend,” according to The Washington Post.

In a December report, a former deputy director of the CIA and the former Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee wrote that there is “a perception among the media and general public that Russia ended its social media operations following last year’s election. …

Wrong.” Michael Morell and Mike Rogers said the Russian attacks on American politics “continue to this day.”

It is no surprise that, in the last year, the Russians smeared the FBI, according to Morell and Rogers, as well as lashing out at ABC News, and stirring fevered anti-immigrant passions by highlighting all violent acts by illegal immigrants.

The Russians even went after Congressional Republicans who dared to criticize Trump. The Russian social media attacks, Morell and Rogers wrote, targeted Senator John McCain after he voted down a Trump-backed bill to kill ObamaCare. The Russians also targeted GOP Senators Bob Corker, Lindsey Graham, and Jeff Flake whenever they expressed concern about Trump’s actions.

The Russian social media effort in support of Trump now enters a perilous stretch as Mueller readies for an interview with the president regarding his campaign’s ties to the Russians, and questions of possible subsequent obstruction of justice. Public opinion, so ably influenced by the Russians, will play an important role. Last week, a CNN poll found 78 percent of Americans believe Trump should testify under oath as part of Mueller’s probe.

Just 18 percent said he should not.

If Trump refuses to cooperate with the investigation, creating a clash over constitutional powers, public opinions, and support for the rule of law — across political lines — will be critical.

But those opinions will be under the influence of a hostile foreign power: Russia.

Juan Williams is an author and a political analyst for Fox News Channel.

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Did you see #SchumerShutdown trending on Twitter two weeks ago?

You got used.

Fake Twitter accounts linked to Russia — hundreds of fake accounts — pushed the #SchumerShutdown, according to a group monitoring foreign internet activity.

President Trump and Congressional Republicans reaped the political benefits of this Russian intelligence offensive.

Schumer and congressional Democrats backed down out of fear that they were losing public support based on social media activity.

In fact, subsequent polling showed most Americans blamed the shutdown on Trump as well as the Republican majorities who control the Senate and the House, but still cannot pass a budget or immigration reform.

Russia’s backing for Trump and the Republicans who support him on Capitol Hill gives the GOP no incentive to investigate, punish, or disrupt the Russian interference. And the Russian social media attacks continue with shameless regularity.

Around the same time they pushed #SchumerShutdown, armies of Russian bots and trolls on social media were also pumping up the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag, in support of the right-wing conspiracy theory that a classified memo on usage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reveals a shadowy “Deep State” cabal against President Trump.

The #ReleaseTheMemo offensive, pushed in part by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s operatives, is the latest effort to help Trump by disparaging the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller with bogus political narratives.

This was the same type of cyber-warfare used by Russia during the 2016 election to elect Trump and defeat Hillary Clinton, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.

Russia paid little price for that brazen interference in a presidential election. In fact, their intrusion achieved their desired outcome — Trump was elected. It worked.

They got away with it.

They have no reason to stop doing it and every reason to keep doing it.

In addition, congressional Republican leaders have continued to conveniently close their eyes to the Russian meddling with American democracy while Trump benefits from it. As the midterm elections approach, with control of Congress at stake, Russia can be expected to make a push to keep Trump-friendly Republicans in power.

This is already taking place, as the Russians have picked up the pace of their in-

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Russian social media “bots” are relentlessly pushing Trump’s attacks on the FBI and DOJ.

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Gebre Waddell’s Soundways

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How a software innovator from Orange Mound turned the music industry on its ear.

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ith last Sunday’s Grammy Awards now behind us, we can more easily imagine the many talents that fuel the music industry.

Along with headline-grabbing superstars like Bruno Mars, awards went to less celebrated roles, such as “Best Improvised Jazz Solo” and “Best Engineered Album” — offering some all-too-rare recognition for those who hone their craft over a lifetime, more for love of the art than any hunger for notoriety.

Waddell began grappling with the conundrum of how to make credits more ubiquitous nearly a decade ago, when he was making a name for himself as a music software developer and mastering engineer (about which he literally wrote the book, Complete Audio Mastering,, published by McGraw-Hill in 2013).

A few years later, DDEX, a consortium of music industry players, created the Recording Information Notification (RIN) standard for registering credits within audio files. But it was all hypothetical: There was no practical tool to make it happen.

“After the written standard was published,” Waddell explains, “it was getting into the end of that 12-month deadline, and if nobody implemented it, it would go under review, and basically it was gonna die. So I was like, well, ‘Let’s save it. Let’s do an implementation.’”

Last year, Soundways, the music software company Waddell co-founded with Chief Technical Officer Connor Reviere, launched a product known as RIN-M to industry insiders. The response was so enthusiastic that this month they are gearing up for the widespread release, including a platform on a dedicated website, of the product, newly rechristened as Sound Credit. It’s a potential game changer for music credits in the digital age. Indeed, with the rapid international adoption of the RIN-M prototype, it may have already changed the game.

“We released RIN-M, and within two weeks, we had users in 50 countries. Today, we have active users in 64 countries, and we are getting information and feedback from these users every day,” notes Waddell. There clearly was a hunger for such a system among music professionals, who naturally have a vested interest in maintaining a credit database. According to the business model, they will be the ones paying for Sound Credit. To the average consumer, it will be free.

While record labels, libraries, studios, and other institutions will pay a subscription fee for the right to submit and edit song credits, listeners will simply see an added “bitly” link adjacent to the track listing, which will take them to the Sound Credit website and an entire database of detailed credits, from personnel involved to the equipment used. Making this information freely accessible is a high priority for Waddell. “People are wanting to see this information, and it becomes a music discovery, too. It makes the story more real. It makes music more human and less of an abstract concept. You

start to get into the people behind this. And those stories are what have drawn so many people into music to begin with.”

Aside from last year’s industry-only adoption of Sound Credit, Waddell has been laying the groundwork for his game-changing software on other fronts. High-level talks with Apple and other tech giants last fall have helped shape the product for consumer use, and talks with Avid, parent company of ProTools, have helped them craft ways to make it attractive to the denizens of recording control rooms. Credits for songwriters, engineers, producers, musicians, and others can be associated with tracks even as they are being created in the studio. The goal is to interrupt studio workers’ workflow as little as possible.

But what of the credits for nearly a century of recordings pre-dating the RIN protocol? Waddell smiles craftily. “We have historical information on over 100 million songs,” but he’s hesitant to reveal how the data has been compiled. “We don’t want to introduce that into the public database yet, until after what we call the charter phase.

The charter phase of Sound Credit will be a time when we are making sure that this fits the needs of the present while also anticipating as much as possible about the future.

With database design you want to make sure that what you have is is pretty solid on the front end.”

If it rolls out this month as planned, and gains momentum, Sound Credit could easily become an industry standard — and a lucrative investment. “The closest company in this space is Gracenote. They are a music data company, and they were just recently acquired for $560 million,” Waddell explains. “Music data is big business.”

If profit was Waddell’s only motive, he would have left Memphis years ago, when big industry players were offering to buy the rights to the mastering and audio production software that Soundways was already marketing. Two years ago, Waddell made a life-defining decision: He would keep control of Soundways and keep it in Memphis.

His reasoning derives equally from civic responsibility and self-interest. He envisions the city once again making a name for itself as a home for innovators.

And even if we have no MIT, Waddell thinks it’s achievable.

Soundways RIN-M was “With tech, if you developed to help music don’t have a formal makers and music lovers keep education, it doesn’t track of song credits. matter as long as you have the experience and the ability. And I think that appeals to the Memphis spirit in a way. I heard Jim Dickinson describe us as ‘renegades.’ We make our own rules. We make our own paths, and that matches with the tech world — it’s such a perfect fit.”

“I feel like doing this project and doing it here in Memphis is part of what gives it its strength,” says Waddell. “If you’re in Silicon Valley, just making software and you’re just gonna say, ‘Yeah, we’re doing music credits today, and we’ll be doing medical records tomorrow.’ It’s nothing like hearing those vivid stories of people being affected by it, culminating over decades in music, and wanting to deliver something. There’s nothing like that motivation.”

Waddell also has some very personal reasons to ensure that artists get their fair shake. “Most people just need to see some sort of symbol that it’s possible. When people see a great bass player at church or a great drummer, and then they hear the stories of people going to Los Angeles and playing with Stevie Wonder, you see all these pathways out. And when I say out, I don’t necessarily mean just out of Memphis, but out of a bad neighborhood. I grew up in Orange Mound. You’re looking for ways to raise your prospects.”

Stressing the influences of his family environment, Waddell says, “A lot of talent has come out of Orange Mound. It has real historical significance with the black community. It was quite unprecedented.”

Not surprisingly, the role of an unacknowledged artist played a major role in Waddell’s upbringing. “My father [James Waddell] was a sculptor, but he struggled his whole life. He did two sculptures of Martin Luther King Jr. that are just amazing.

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Often, in the brave new world of maximum streaming and minimum liner notes, such critical team players get no public credit for their efforts, unless they receive a Grammy nod. For Gebre Waddell, who was attending the Grammys that night as president of the Memphis chapter of The Recording Academy, it must have been especially satisfying. The local music-engineering innovator is used to toiling behind the scenes, but has lately devoted most of his energy to one thing: creating a way to give credit where credit is due in the recording industry.

It is a topic dear to the hearts and wallets of many a musician, especially in the digital age. With the advent of music streaming services like Spotify, musicians, writers, and producers have seen royalty streams run dry in the past decade. Scores of them have been stirred to action, either in high-profile lawsuits from the likes of Neil Young, or through coordinated lobbying by The Recording Academy, the American Federation of Musicians, and other groups. Memphis’ 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen is one of several co-sponsors of the Fair Play Fair Pay Act, which aims to restore royalties to more equitable levels, closing loopholes that currently allow streaming or satellite services to pay next to nothing. In the meantime, the movement marked a major victory last Saturday, when the federal Copyright Royalty Board ruled in favor of a nearly 44 percent increase in royalty rates that songwriters receive from streaming services.

But the struggle for equitable pay for music innovators is far from over. And, as Waddell explains, it is a moot point if credits are not recognized in the first place.

This stems in part from the lack of any universal database for such minutiae. It can have career-damaging consequences. Brian Hardgroove, one-time member of Public Enemy, has noted, “There is a record I produced that won a Grammy, and because I was inadvertently left out of the credits, I missed out on having that award on my shelf.”

And, as Waddell says, the digital age has thus far not offered much hope for improvement. “It’s gotten worse, because 15 years ago, you could turn over a CD cover and look at the album credits. Today, if you stream something on Spotify you may not find that information at all.”

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yet my father struggled with depression, from never reaching any measure of success after [creating] these hundreds of sculptures in his lifetime. He didn’t have a talent for marketing, and not being able to reach an audience was a limitation.”

Waddell’s mother gave him a sense of those less fortunate around him. “My mother was a social worker for 30 years. She was familiar with the toughest situations, where children have been terribly abused or malnourished. She would bring that home with her.”

And having played in Memphis bands and engineering recordings since the age of 15, the crusade for credits took on a personal dimension. “Any night of the week, you can go out in Memphis and hear stories of broken friendships,” he says. “Coming from the perspective of the musician and the working artist. Ten-year friendships are broken because someone didn’t get proper credit on an album. You’re hearing that disappointment of a lost legacy. They put everything into their work, into their craft, and they don’t get credit.”

If the path from Orange Mound to software innovator seems unlikely, it was essentially a product of pure gumption. “We had a computer that none of my family wanted to 8:33:36 AM use,” Waddell recalls, “and so it was put in my room. It was an old Texas Instruments that I hooked up to a TV. It could take cartridges, but we didn’t have cartridges; we just had a book, and if you wanted to play a game, you had to type in the code. If you turned it off you had to retype it. So at six or seven years old, that was what I had to do.”

Such propensities led him to experiment with the internet in its earliest days. “I had a bulletin board system [BBS] before there were websites, before the World Wide Web was as we know it today. I was 13 years old and I ran a BBS on my parents’ fax line.

Once we started getting into the World Wide Web, I started getting into website design, and I did that throughout my teenage years, while also playing in bands.”

Waddell’s facility with the internet also gave him advantages as his love of music begin to take him into the realm of audio mastering. “I wrote an article I put on my website called ‘The Digital Publishing Standards,’ which started to get 50,000 to 100,000 hits a month. It attracted the attention of the Google search algorithm, and after a while, if you typed in ‘CD mastering’ into Google anywhere in the world, my website would be the first that would appear. And that allowed me to build out mastering clients in all these foreign markets. I was one of the first mastering engineers working that way, so it wasn’t uncommon for me, in my mid-20s, to work on an album for an artist in India in the same day that I would work on one from New Zealand. I pioneered that sort of international approach to to mastering.”

His interest and notoriety led to him to accumulate different perspectives on mastering, and his personal notes became the basis of what is now the chief textbook on the subject. Meanwhile, he dove into the realm of software design, as his book research and practical experience fed off each other. When the offers came in to sell the rights to his innovations, he held back and stayed put. Memphis is still where you’ll find him today, and, he says, where you’ll find him tomorrow. “Having a company from Memphis is such a strong symbol, so that was this big part of the decision to do my own company. I took a dive, I took the risk.

“I’ll never forget this: I went to an audio developers conference in London and I spoke at the conference. Afterward, I met someone from Google, and we had a few drinks, and I said to him, ‘I heard you say “y’all” a few times. You must be from the South.’ And he said, ‘In Silicon Valley, it’s really looked down upon. That accent does not work out there.’ You could just see it was a big issue for him, and he suppressed that accent as much as he could. And for me, that was a moment where I was like, ‘I want to do something where it’s undeniable that the technology is coming from here.’”

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I’ve Gotta Be Me

By Chris Davis

Sammy Davis Jr. always said the worst moment of his life didn’t result from bomb threats made against him and the venues he played. It wasn’t when he lost an eye in a car wreck, or even being forced to endure a barrage of racist jokes from his alleged friends as the guest of honor for the Dean Martin Celebrity roast. Davis, who was half-black, half Puerto Rican and a convert to Judaism, claimed the worst thing that ever happened was being called a sellout and booed by audiences that looked like him.

As a boundary-shattering singer, dancer, comic, impressionist, and star on both the Broadway stage and silver screen, Davis was one of the most gifted and giving artists of the 20th century. I’ve Gotta Be Me, the first major documentary to examine his life and career, screens at the Memphis Jewish Community Center as part of the month-long Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival.

With commentary by entertainment industry contemporaries like Jerry Lewis, Kim Novak, and Norman Lear, the film follows Davis, a member of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack, from his early days in Harlem where he was born into a family of Vaudeville showmen to the campaign trail embrace of Richard Nixon that got him booed. It’s a deep dive into the life of a rare talent negotiating a complicated social contract.

The fifth IJFF showcases 10 films screening at the JCC, Malco Paradiso, and Malco Ridgeway Cinema Grill. Other movies on tap include An Act of Defiance, an historical drama about Nelson Mandela and supporters staring down a death sentence after they are arrested by the apartheid South African government, and Big Sonia, which tells the story of a 91-year-old holocaust survivor who takes time away from the tailor shop she operates in a dying mall to revisit her past. The festival launches Sunday, February 1st, with Children of Chance, a drama about life in the children’s hospital in Nazi-occupied France.

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“The Familiar and the Sublime” L Ross Gallery, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception for new landscape works by Flyer friend Jeanne Seagle and Pam Hassler.

First Friday Woodruff-Fontaine House, 5-8 p.m.

Tonight’s First Friday is “Victorian Romance,” outlining the complex rituals of love during the Victorian era. Covers etiquette and Valentines.

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Love and hate as interpreted by the Rhodes Theatre Guild and Weightless Aerial Company.

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Smash Mouth (“I’m a Believer,” “Walkin’ on the Sun”) perform tonight.

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Ernest Withers’ photos helped define the civil rights movement.

Black Resistance

By Chris Davis Brooks Museum Chief Curator Marina Pacini wants to talk about a lesser-known photograph by Civil Rights photographer Ernest C. Withers, but she’s constantly drawn back to the famous image of striking sanitation workers with signs reading, “I Am a Man.” “They look like a wall,” she says, impressed by Withers’ uncanny ability to stand shoulder to shoulder amid so many other photojournalists shooting the same image, and to take the definitive shot. “They seem impenetrable,” she says.

The Brooks Museum acquired all the photos from the Withers retrospective “Pictures Tell the Story,” and a number of additional shots after acquiring images from The Memphis World, an African-American newspaper published from 19311973. With more that 150 Withers photos in its permanent collection, the museum is now committed to developing a series of exhibits looking at the full range of Withers’ work which documented Memphis music, the Negro Baseball League, and everyday life in Memphis’ African-American community during the mid-20th century. But the first of these exhibits, coordinated to coincide with MLK50, is titled “Black Resistance: Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement” and focuses on Withers’ most iconic pictures, all of which were snapped over a period of three months in 1968.

“We selected a few pre-1968 images,” Pacini says. “One of the photographs is from March 1960. It’s the arraignment of the sit-in demonstrators arrested at Memphis Public Library. It was part of the LeMoyne and Owen college students protesting not just at library but also at the Brooks Museum and various downtown businesses. At the end of year, that protest led to the integration of both the Brooks Museum and Memphis Zoo.

WEDNESDAY February 7 Bike to Brunch Revolutions Community Bicycle Shop, 8:30 a.m.

A bike ride to brunch. Today it’s to the popular new restaurant Sunrise.

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The Italian Girl in Algiers Germantown Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $30 Opera Memphis presents this Rossini comedy. Before the show, there will be a Mediterranean food festival in the lobby, starting at 5:30 p.m.

Heartbreakers Burlesque RockHouse Live, 8-11:30 p.m., $15-$80 Holiday show with burlesque, belly dance, and fire breathing.

Naturally 7 Halloran Centre, 7:30 p.m.

A performance by this celebrated a cappella group, known for their instrument sounds.

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Winter Garden Games Memphis Botanic Garden, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., $10 In anticipation of the Winter Olympics, participants compete in a bounce obstacle course, hula hoop, giant games, and more. Medals will be awarded.

Ten Things You Should Know about the Universe The Orpheum, 7 p.m., $39 Cosmic knowledge from the popular astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Master Taster’s Club Peabody Corner Bar, 5:30 p.m., $25 The wine-tasting series returns for 2018. Tonight the theme is “For the Love of Wine.” Includes light bites from Peabody chefs.

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Armie Hammer (left) and Timothée Chalamet spend a summer in the Italian countryside in Call Me by Your Name.

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Preston Shannon Memphis lost one of the great ones last week.

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or nearly 30 years, Memphis musisinger Shirley Brown on the chitlin’ circuit before cian Preston Shannon plied his craft striking out on his own. on Beale Street. A top-notch guitar If you talk to Shannon’s bandmates and peers, player and entertainer, Shannon’s three words dominate the conversation: Talent. Genability to combine raspy, soulful erosity. Support. Bassist John Williams, who backed vocals, stinging guitar riffs on his Shannon at Rum Boogie in the late 1980s, rememhollow-bodied Gibson 335, and a sense of showmanbers the guitarist as “a great entertainer who had the ship that was equal parts T-Bone Walker and Prince, total package — the chops and the vocals. Maybe he earned him the sobriquet King of Beale Street. His could’ve had more success out of town, but Preston presence there was only outshone by his reputation wanted to make noise for Memphis, to stay here and as a musician who always paid attention to younger make it happen,” Williams says. “He always took care talent and seemed more than willing to lend a helping hand.

Preston Shannon Diagnosed with cancer last summer, Shannon quit performing before the holidays and passed away on Monday, January 22nd, at the age of 70. At his funeral last Saturday, he was eulogized as “an ambassador of Memphis who was comfortable anywhere in the world.”

Shannon was born October 23, 1947, on the outskirts of Memphis in Olive Branch, Mississippi. Interviewed for a 2016 Living Blues cover story, Shannon recalled picking cotton as a youth in Olive Branch and tuning into music by Albert King, B.B. King, and Bobby “Blue” Bland over a transistor radio. “At nine, I could go to the field and play in the cotton, but when I turned 10, they gave me my own personal sack,” Shannon recalled. “We could only listen to music of his band here. If he went to Europe by himself, he when we’d go to sleep at night.” always made sure we had plenty of work while he His family settled in the southwest Memphis was gone. Even when he had to quit playing for good, community known as Boxtown when Shannon was he made sure that Tommy [Peters, manager of B.B. 11, and he soon began performing music in the King’s] kept the band on. They’re still there every Church of God in Christ (COGIC). By the 1960s, he Sunday and Wednesday.” was guitarist for a group called the Memphians, who Trumpeter Marc Franklin, who gigged with Shanrecorded a seldom-heard LP at Royal Studios and non for years, says that Shannon brought authentic released three sought-after singles, including a funk blues back to Beale Street. “Preston was that performinstrumental called “Breakdown.” In the 1970s, he er who really wanted to make people happy. He was played in a bar band called Amnesty and backed R&B so good at reading audiences and interacting with

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them. Modern blues has lost some of that. Now, it’s a lot of guitar shredding and screaming. Preston taught me how to put on a good show over and over again, whether it was for 20 people or 2,000 people.”

Jackie Clark played bass behind Shannon from 1999 until 2012, and produced his last album, 2014’s Dust My Broom. During his tenure with Shannon, Clark recalls a veritable who’s who of special guests who sat in with the group, including Tom Jones, Darius Rucker, and Buddy Miles.

“The funny thing about Preston is that he was successful in his own way, even though he never achieved mainstream success,” says Clark. “He wasn’t affiliated with a label, and he handled his own business. Sometimes it seemed like he preferred to protect his own band rather than become famous. He was happy when he was onstage, and everything he did was authentic. It was all about the feeling. He knew how to captivate a crowd with his energy, and even though I didn’t have the best stage presence when I started out with him, my energy was always high because of his energy. That was the draw.”

Dropping in on one of Shannon’s gigs, “was like walking into a party,” guitarist Joe Restivo says, noting that Shannon was constantly employing young up-and-comers to keep his band fresh — and making the rounds to other clubs after his own gig ended for the night.

“He was legitimately interested in what guys like me were doing,” Restivo says. “He’d see me on the street and ask, ‘Where ya going, how ya been?’ It wasn’t just small talk — I’d tell him about a gig John Williams and I were going to have, and he’d actually show up. Some artists of his stature might not do that.

He’d say something like, ‘I like you, young man. Keep it up!’ Maybe he’d sit in with us, or I’d end up doing some pick-up gigs with him. It meant a lot.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule February 1 - 7 Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

B.B. King’s All Stars Mondays.

Blue Note Bar & Grill

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

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August Burns Red Thursday, Feb. 1, 6:30 p.m.; Y&T Tuesday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m.

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

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

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

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

Blues City Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe Patio

138 BEALE 526-3637

162 BEALE 521-1851

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

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152 BEALE 544-7011

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

182 BEALE 528-0150

Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sensation Band Friday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m.midnight, Saturday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m.-midnight and Sunday, Feb. 4, 7-11 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Tuesday, Feb. 6, 7-11 p.m.; Gracie Curran Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. and Sundays, 3-7 p.m.; Myra Hall Band Friday, Feb. 2, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Little Boy Blues Saturday, Feb. 3, 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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

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Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays,

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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 855 KENTUCKY

Nancy Apple Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Jack Rowell and Triple Threat Friday, Feb. 2, 9 p.m.; Shad Storey Saturday, Feb. 3, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

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

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

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

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

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

DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library

Mollie Fontaine Lounge

First Thursdays Friends-Tribute to New Orleans Thursday, Feb. 1, 6-8 p.m.

679 ADAMS 524-1886

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

Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, Feb. 1, 8-11 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, Feb. 2, 9 p.m.; Rants Saturday, Feb. 3, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; The Rants Band Saturday, Feb. 3, 9 p.m.-midnight; David Collins & Frog Squad Sunday, Feb. 4, 6-9 p.m.; Russell Lee Wheeler Monday, Feb. 5, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Growlers Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Naturally 7 Saturday, Feb. 3, 7 p.m.

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299

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

3030 POPLAR 415-2700

Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight.

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

Andy Haze Thursday, Feb. 1, 6 p.m.; Jason Da Hater Friday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m.; Mainstream Project, Sons of Primps, Daytime Drama Friday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m.; On and Ohn, Guaranteed Wax Saturday, Feb. 3, 9 p.m.; HEELS, Mishka Shubaly Sunday, Feb.

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New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

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

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8 p.m.-midnight; Juke Joint Allstars Friday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m.midnight; Myra Hall Saturday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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Tony Manard Thursday, Feb. 1, 6 p.m.; Dead Soldiers Thursday, Feb. 1, 9 p.m.; Fuel on Fire Friday, Feb. 2, 6:30 p.m.; The Michael Brothers Saturday, Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m.; Thumpdaddy Saturday, Feb. 3, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, Feb. 4, 11 a.m.; Jeffrey and the Pacemakers Sunday, Feb. 4, 4 p.m.; Marcella and her Lovers Sunday, Feb. 4, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith Monday, Feb. 5, 6 p.m.; McKenna Bray with Richard Alan Ford Tuesday, Feb. 6, 5:30 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Tuesday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesday, Feb. 7, 5:30 p.m.; Christopher Pietrangelo Wednesday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m.

978 REDDOCH 767-6940

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

University of Memphis

Mortimer’s

The Bluff

590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

535 S. HIGHLAND

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

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

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

Owen Brennan’s

RockHouse Live

THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

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

Summer/Berclair Cheffie’s Cafe

Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Mondays Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Shelby Forest General Store

483 HIGH POINT TERRACE 202-4157

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

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

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

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Smash Mouth Saturday, Feb. 3, 8-9:30 p.m.

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

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

Minglewood Hall

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1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

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Waker Friday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m.; CCDE and friends - Bob Marley Tribute Saturday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke with Public Record Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Senses Nightclub 2866 POPLAR 249-3739

Triple S 1747 WALKER 421-6239

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

East Memphis Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-6993

Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Unique Saturday Saturdays, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

Sounds Good Memphis

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

831 S. COOPER

Empty Atlas, Grandpa Grew Trees & Alex Fraser Saturday, Feb. 3, 8-11 p.m.

Two Rivers Book Store 2171 YOUNG 630-8088

Terminus: A Spontaneous Sound Event Saturday, Feb. 3, 2-3 p.m.

The Cadillac Three Friday, Feb. 2.

The Hut 475 WEST VALLEY

Ladies Night Live with Robert Kimbrough Sr. BluesConnection Friday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

Tunica Roadhouse 1107 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 662-363-4900

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Raleigh

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

Railgarten

North Mississippi/ Tunica

Live Music Thursdays, 5 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays.

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.

The Phoenix

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

6565 TOWNE CENTER, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-5362200

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

1532 MADISON 726-0906

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

Fox and Hound Tavern

Midtown Crossing Grill

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Tailight Rebellion Tuesday, Feb. 6.

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

11695 HWY. 70, STE. 101

P&H Cafe

Germantown

Dan McGuinness

Dantones Band Friday, Feb. 2, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

4212 HWY 51 N

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

3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

The Legacy Bar & Grill

2149 YOUNG AVE 347-3965

Toni Green’s Palace

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Cordova

Wang’s East Tapas 6069 PARK 685-9264

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

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

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; The Ruckus Saturday, Feb. 3, 4-7 p.m.; Five O’Clock Shadow Saturday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m.; Giant Scream Super Party Sunday, Feb. 4, 4 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland/Lakeland Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub 6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

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

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Frayser/Millington

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Blues Jam hosted by Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; LORD TRACY Friday, Feb. 2, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Mic Night and Steak Night Tuesdays, 6 p.m.midnight.

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas

Live Music Thursdays, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Fridays, 9 p.m.

Live Music Saturdays, 9 p.m.

Bartlett

EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery

Pop’s Bar & Grill

Hadley’s Pub

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

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

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Brian Johnson Band Friday, Feb. 2, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Brian Johnson Band Saturday, Feb. 3, 9 p.m.; Furious George Monday, Feb. 5, 9 p.m.; The No Hit Wonders Wednesday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m.

Harpo’s Hogpin 4212 HWY 51N 530-0414

6365 NAVY 872-0353

Kimistri Friday, Feb. 2, 7 p.m.

Southland Park 1550 N. INGRAM, WEST MEMPHIS, AR 800-467-6182

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

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CALENDAR of EVENTS: FEBRUARY 1 - 7 Cannon Center for the Performing Arts The Juneteenth Story Play, www.thecannoncenter.com. $15. Fri., Feb. 2, 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.

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

Circuit Playhouse

Perfect Arrangement, inspired by the true story of the American gay rights movement. Classic sitcomstyle laughs give way to provocative drama as two “AllAmerican” couples are forced to stare down the closet door.

Adult situations and language. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $35. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m.

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51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery

Charlotte’s Web, based on E.B. White’s loving story of the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a little gray spider named Charlotte.

Recommended for grades 1st–6th. Reservations required. www.eacc.edu. $5.

exhibition of mixed-media works and paintings not previously displayed from Memphis College of Art BFA show. Fri., Feb. 2, 7-9 p.m.

The Evergreen Theatre

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

JustLarry’s Mayhem 2018, variety show featuring burlesque, comedy, dance, magic, circus, and monkeys. The performances are 18-plus. www. theatreworksmemphis.org. $20. Fri.-Sat., Feb. 2-3, 8 p.m.

L Ross Gallery

Opening reception for “The Familiar and the Sublime,” exhibition of drawings and paintings by regional landscape artists Jeanne Seagle and Pam Hassler. www.lrossgallery.com. Fri., Feb. 2, 6-8 p.m.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Hattiloo Theatre

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Sunset Baby, dynamic play about fathers and daughters sears with wit and wisdom the brutal politics of freedom. www.hattiloo.org. Through Feb. 11.

Leontyne Price Library at Rust College

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

McCoy Theatre

pool (no water), explore the tension between the successful and the jealous using acrobatics, aerial, and broken bodies. www.rhodes.edu. Free. Feb. 2-3, 7:30 p.m.

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

Playhouse on the Square

Once, tale of a Dublin street musician who’s about to give up on his dream when a

The Italian Girl in Algiers at Germantown Performing Arts Center, Feb. 2nd and 3rd beautiful young woman takes a sudden interest in his love songs. Adult situations and adult language advisory. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $25-$45. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays. Through Feb. 11.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

Fences, set in the 1950s, the evolving African-American experience is explored as a former star of the Negro baseball league is excluded from the major leagues during his prime. www.theatrememphis. org. $25. Sun., 2 p.m., Fri.,

Sat., 8 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m. Through Feb. 4.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

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Artist reception for “Mississippi Women in Blues,” exhibition of photos, films, and other archival material provided by private collections and learning institutions focusing on Holly Springs residents, musicians Ellen Jefferies and Mary Coleman. fancymag.com. Thurs., Feb. 1, 5-7 p.m.

150 RUST (662-252-8000).

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Art After Dark

Java Cabana

Opening reception for “The Good. The Bad. The Ugly,”

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WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

will be open late. Featuring light refreshments, entertainment, and a cash bar. Free with admission. Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m.

Shoot & Splice: For The Love of Cinema with Rashna Richards

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

“Beneath the Surface: Life, Death & Gold in Ancient Panama”

This Exhibition was organized by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology

Exhibition of finds from Precolumbian cemetery of Sitio Conte in central Panama, a mysterious and complex society that thrived there more than 1,000 years ago.

Ongoing.

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

Casting Demonstration Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.

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

Cooper-Young Art Tours For more information, featured artists, and pop-up performances, visit website.

First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

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

Crosstown Arts Digital Lab

Six-station computer lab supports Memphis’ creative community by providing artists and musicians full access to industry-standard art- and music-making technology.

Tuesdays-Thursdays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sponsored by:

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Seeking intern to assists registrar/librarian in cataloging and rehousing periodicals in the library collection. For more information and application, visit website. Through Feb. 1.

Monthly filmmaking forum.

Richards will discuss what it means to teach Film and Media Studies in the 21st century.

Tues., Feb. 6, 6:30 p.m.

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

Sonnet Contest

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

WWW.RHODES.EDU.

Talk at Two: Eugenia Errázuriz and Parisian Musical Modernism by Jeremy Orosz

Robert Fogelman collection.

Ongoing.

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

Art Village Gallery

“Out of Africa,” exhibition of contemporary artwork by four emerging artists, including Nigerian-born artists, Adewale Adenle and Norbert Okpu, and international rising stars, Robert Pruitt and Miles Regis. www.artvillagegallery.com. Through March 3.

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

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

Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library

Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Music Theory, University of Memphis speaks on topic exploring the role Errázuriz played in the lives and works of musicians active in Paris during this period. Free with admission. Sun., Feb. 4, 2 p.m.

“Conversations: Art+Music+Poetry,” exhibition of work by Carpenter Art Garden youth and Lonnie Holley. www.memphislibrary. org. Feb. 1-Jan. 28.

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

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

Works of Heart

Valentine art show and auction features works from over 100 leading regional artists.

Complimentary beer, wine, and appetizers. Benefits the Memphis Child Advocacy Center. Free preview Feb. 5-9. $75-$200. Feb. 5-9, 9 a.m.4:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (888-4342), WWW.MEMPHISCAC.ORG.

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

3030 POPLAR (415-2700).

Bingham and Broad

2563 BROAD (323-3008).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School “beginnings,” exhibition of new works by the Artists Group of Memphis. www. buckmanartscenter.com.

Through Feb. 26.

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

Clough-Hanson Gallery

“Supreme Being: The Symmetry of What You Saw and What You Say,” exhibition of “undisciplinary” works

by Rashayla Marie Brown using a diverse array of media including writing, photography, voiceover acting, and an

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Feb. 1-28.

installation. Through Feb. 16.

150 RUST (662-252-8000).

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

Marshall Arts Gallery

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

Crosstown Concourse

“Don’t Look for My Heart,” exhibition of a canopy of black garments that loom over a pond of demolished confections, evoking a scene of quiet despair and a state of ruin by Terri Phillips. www.crosstownarts.org. Through March 11.

“Imprismed,” exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and digital objects that constructs a dialectic between the repression and cultivation of psycho-sexual energies through the ages by Emily C. Thomas. www. crosstownarts.org. Through March 11.

“Material Equivalence,” exhibition of new work by Memphisbased artist Pam McDonnell.

Curated by Anna Wunderlich. www.crosstownarts.org.

Through March 11.

“Two Stories of Iceland,” exhibition of small paintings and drawings, a narrative exploration of Icelandic stories and landscape by Elizabeth Alley. www.crosstownarts.org.

Through March 11.

“Wish Book: William E. Jones,” exhibition of new work. www. crosstownarts.org. Through Feb. 11.

N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

“Dimension,” exhibition of paintings on panel and velum

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Botanic Garden

by Jared Small. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through Feb. 3.

“Talk Talk Talk: Late 70’s,” exhibition of wood sculpted canvas paintings and woodcuts from 1970s by Ted Faiers. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Feb. 6-March 17.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“The Real Beauty: The Artistic World of Eugenia Errázuriz,” exhibition traces the life of the influential Chilean expatriate patron of the arts and her impact on 20th-century design through her belief in highquality minimalism. www. dixon.org. Through April 8.

“Dixon Dialect: The Susan and John Horseman Gift,” exhibition of 28 works by 25 American and European artists donated to the Dixon’s perma-

“The Familiar and the Sublime” by Jeanne Seagle and Pam Hassler at L Ross Gallery nent collection by Susan and John Horseman. Showcases each work in the gift. www. dixon.org. Through April 1.

Paula Kovarik, exhibition of fiber art. www.dixon.org.

Through April 1.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery

“Delta Woman’s Joy,” exhibition of work by Cheryl Moore. www.eacc.edu. Through Feb. 2.

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

Eclectic Eye

“Relief,” exhibition of papercut maps by Katie Maish.

(276-3937), www.eclectic-eye.

com. Free. Through Feb. 14.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

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

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Fratelli’s

“Local Color,” exhibition of paintings of local landmarks by students under the direction of Fred Rawlinson. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through Feb. 28.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

Barry Buxbaum and Ray Vunk, exhibition of mixed media on panel. Through Feb. 23.

44 HULING (576-0708).

Java Cabana

“The Good. The Bad. The Ugly,” exhibition of mixedmedia works and paintings not previously displayed from Memphis College of Art BFA show. Feb. 2-April 4.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

L Ross Gallery

“The Familiar and the Sublime,” exhibition of drawings and paintings by regional landscape artists Jeanne Seagle and Pam Hassler. www.lrossgallery.com. Feb. 1-24.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Leontyne Price Library at Rust College

“Mississippi Women in Blues,” exhibition of photos, films, and other archival material provided by private collections and learning institutions focusing on Holly Springs residents, musicians Ellen

“Escape Into Illusions,” exhibition of paintings incorporating unconventional materials — objects and items that would otherwise be discarded — to add texture and life

by Sandra Horton. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Feb. 2-28.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Rotunda Projects: Lisa Hoke,” exhibition of over-the-top installation of recycled and repurposed materials reflecting aspirations for the work and fears of expecting too much.

Through June 3.

“Black Resistance: Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement,” exhibition focuses on and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the events from March 27 through April 8, 1968.

Feb. 3-Aug. 19.

“About Face,” exhibition located in the Education Gallery high-

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“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).

Metal Museum

“Alchemy4,” exhibition of contemporary enamels produced in the last two years with 150 objects created by 98 students in accredited degree programs throughout the world. www.metalmuseum.org. Through April 29.

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

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Playhouse on the Square

“The Laser Show: New Works by Adam Hawk,” exhibition of new works that deftly employs technological and traditional processes. (726-4656), mca.edu/event/laser-show-new-works-adamhawk/. Through Feb. 25.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Ross Gallery

“The Sunny Side,” exhibition of recent porcelain and stoneware by Niles Wallace, professor of ceramics at University of Memphis. www.cbu. edu/gallery. Through March 1.

“Forge Cast Fabricate,” exhibition of work by Metal Museum artists Lewis Body, Sarah Dorau, Kacy Ganley, Kevin Burge, Lori Gipson, Anastasia Green, Eva Langsdon, Jim Masterson, Jeannie Tomlinson Saltmarsh, and James Vanderpool. www.cbu.edu/gallery. Through March 1.

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

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum

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

826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

Talbot Heirs

Rise 2018

Performance by Collage Dance Collective. $25.

Sun., Feb. 4, 2:30 p.m.

CANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 5251515), WWW.THECANNONCENTER.COM.

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Game Show at the Concourse, Hollywood style game show. Be a part of the studio audience for a chance to play “Musical Chairs,” “Man & Wife,” “HIGH or LOW,” “Price Check,” “Useless Information,” and more with Myron Mays. (451-9711), www.whatshappeningmyron.com. Free. Thurs., Feb. 1, 6-8 p.m.

Memphis Made Brewing Company

Bits on the Table, a weekly comedy workshop by the Comma Comedians. (207-5343), www.memphismadebrewing.com. Free. Mondays, 5-7 p.m.

768 S. COOPER (207-5343).

New Daisy Theatre

Comedian Poundcakes’ Laugh in the ’90s Birthday Bash, comedian, writer, and actor from Memphis. (901.525.8981), www.newdaisy.com. $25. Sat., Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m.

330 BEALE (525-8981).

Rockhouse Live Midtown

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Mono-Slam, open to all performers. You can select your own or choose from a list of monologues. Visit website for more information. www.hattiloo.org. $5.

Mondays, 7 p.m. Through March 5.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Poplar-White Station Branch Library

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

5094 POPLAR (682-1616).

Head Ass, a variety show/pajama party hosted by comedians Judaea Driscoll and 901DaytripN. (3906560). $5. Sun., Feb. 4, 7-10 p.m.

2586 POPLAR.

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Debra Edge Art. Ongoing.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

TOPS Gallery

“La Bohème,” exhibition of new film and sculpture works by Brooklyn-based artist Motoko Fukuyama. www.topsgallery.com. Through March 10.

400 S. FRONT.

Tops Gallery: Madison Avenue Park

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. Ongoing.

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

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Meet Isabella, Gina Lollobrigida’s identical cousin. She’s out to rescue her fiance, escape from pirates, and teach a wanna-be philanderer what it means to mess with an Italian. $35-$89. Fri.-Sat., Feb. 2-3, 7:30 p.m.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), WWW.OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG.

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THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

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“La Bohème,” exhibition of new film and sculpture works by Brooklyn-based artist Motoko Fukuyama. www.topsgallery.com. Through March 10.

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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson:“Ten Things You Should Know About the Universe”

Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival

First Friday: Victorian Romance

90 Days

Booksigning by Cynthia Amis Dickerson

Author discusses and signs The Sun, Cat and Dog bilingual children’s book. Sat., Feb. 3, 12-2 p.m.

SOUTH MAIN BOOK JUGGLER, 548 S. MAIN (249-5370).

Covering topics that everyone who is cosmically literate should have at their fingertips. $39. Wed., Feb. 7, 7 p.m.

Booksigning by James E. Cherry

THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (5253000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS. COM.

Author discusses and signs Edge of the Wind. Tues., Feb. 6, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Paul Kenny

Author discusses and signs Impromptu Friday Nights.

Thurs., Feb. 1, 6 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Stephan Labossiere

Author discusses and signs The Man God Has for You. Sat., Feb. 3, 4 p.m.

BARNES & NOBLE, 2774 N. GERMANTOWN (386-2468).

Booksigning by Steve Yarbrough

Author discusses and signs The Unmade World. Fri., Feb. 2, 6 p.m.

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A variety of genres from all over the world. The festival opens February 1st at 7:30 p.m. with Children of Chance at Malco Paradiso. Visit website for additional film schedule and locations. $5 members, $7 nonmembers.

Feb. 1-27.

WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG/FILM.

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Cleveland Street Market Closing Sale Through Feb. 4.

CLEVELAND STREET FLEA MARKET, 438 CLEVELAND (276-3333), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Soul Market

Enjoy vendors with unique products, great food, music, and more. Saturdays, 12-4 p.m.

THE DEN, 656 MARSHALL (773-738-9019).

Teach901 Educator Job Fair

Speak with representatives from several different education groups hiring for various schools all over Memphis.

Free. Wed., Feb. 7, 6-8 p.m.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE (FORMERLY SEARS CROSSTOWN), N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.TEACH901.COM/HIRINGEVENTS.

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Midtown Memphis course and festive post-race party in Crosstown Concourse. $50.

Sat., Feb. 3, 8 a.m.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE (FORMERLY SEARS CROSSTOWN), N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.CROSSTOWN10K.RACESONLINE.COM.

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2018 Bluff City Fire & Ice Polar Bear Plunge

Take a dip into the Mighty Mississippi, enjoy the chili cook-off, and lots of exciting fun to benefit Special Olympics Greater Memphis. Sat., Feb. 3, 2 p.m.

MUD ISLAND RIVER PARK, 125 N. FRONT (576-7241), WWW.SPECIALOLYMPICSMEM.ORG.

Celebrate proper courting etiquette and secret languages of love. Collection pieces will be on display. $15. Fri., Feb. 2, 5-8 p.m.

Story of love, integrity, and compassion exploring a beautiful couple’s relationship and their life-altering decision after 90 days of dating. Free.

Sat., Feb. 3, 2-4 p.m.

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

THE HAVEN MEMPHIS, 206 G.E. PATTERSON (417-8754), WWW.REDPUMP.ORG.

Heartbreakers Burlesque

Bilal: A New Breed of Hero

Annual Valentine’s Day show.

Hugs, kisses, and scornful misses. $15-$80. Sat., Feb. 3, 8-11:30 p.m.

One boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted and taken far from home. $10. Fri., Feb. 2, 7-9 p.m.

ROCKHOUSE LIVE, 5709 RALEIGHLAGRANGE (501-691-6230).

MALCO WOLFCHASE GALLERIA, 2766 NORTH GERMANTOWN PARKWAY (854-4897), BILALMOVIE.COM.

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Indie Wednesdays: International Shorts

Science of Beer

Rescheduled from Jan. 12th.

Drink and learn about beer.

Enjoy eats. $35-$65. Fri., Feb. 2, 6:30 p.m.

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

Superb Owl Party at Celtic Crossing

Catch the big game and enjoy specials and giveaways, door prizes, and raffles. Indulge in classic game day grub and special game-day deals. Sun., Feb. 4, 5-11:45 p.m.

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

Selection of International Shorts submitted to the 2017 Indie Memphis Film Festival, curated by Brighid Wheeler.

Wed., Feb. 7, 7 p.m.

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

MLK50 Social Justice Film Fest: The Assassination Tapes

Documentary follows the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike, leading up to King’s assassination. Introduction by Dr. Aram Goudsouzian, Department of History. Free.

Wed., Feb. 7, 4-6 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, NED R. MCWHERTER LIBRARY (678-4484), LIBCAL.MEMPHIS.EDU.

The Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival: The Children of Chance This film screening is the first in this year’s festival. $5-$7.

Thurs., Feb. 1, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

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The Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival: The Midnight Orchestra Features Marcel Bothol, celebrated musician and native Moroccan. $5-$7. Tues., Feb. 6, 7:15-9:15 p.m.

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Wilson’s characters are pressed to create their own mythology in order to survive in a world they are constantly reminded they didn’t create. To that end, Fences’ Troy Maxson is a former Negro League star, accidental labor leader, and myth-maker of the first order. As Troy, Willis Green blows through the show like a category-5 hurricane. He’s supported by a strong cast that includes Jessica Johnson as Troy’s wife Rose and Justin Raynard Hicks in an unforgettable turn as brother Gabe, a combat veteran whose head wound left him in a state of perpetual childhood.

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Oh, baby. Decked out in fuck-me boots and the war paint of a professional trickster who lures Johns into her car in order to rob them, Morgan Watson’s Nina is as hard and multifaceted as a cut diamond.

It’s hard to eclipse actors as strong as TC Sharp and Emmanuel McKinney, who hold their own as Nina’s long-absent father and gangsta boyfriend, respectively. But whether she’s rolling her eyes and saying “I love you” or holding forth on what it really

means to be “children of the revolution,” it’s hard to take your eyes off Watson long enough to look at anybody else.

Dominique Morisseau’s play Sunset Baby is set just after the death of Nina’s mom, a one-time Civil Rights icon named Ashanti X who struggled economically, becoming a crack addict in later years.

Now that she’s dead, her papers are worth more than she ever was, and Nina’s longestranged father shows up looking to get back into his daughter’s life. And for letters Ashanti X had written to him while he was in prison.

Sunset Baby is a GenX story looking at lives shaped by a stalled Civil Rights movement, when protest gave way to politics and old heroes became fringe figures and outlaws. It’s a little play telling a big story.

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’ve seen a number of inspiring shows, but it’s not often that a piece of musical theater literally inspires me to leave the theater and do something. But after seeing Once, I went straight home and fixed the badly buzzing pickguard on a neglected old mandolin that’s hung untouched on my bedroom wall for a year or more, just waiting for a bit of TLC. Then, because the sad Irish ballad of a show I’d just watched looked like so much fun to perform, I sat down and learned some sad Irish ballads.

Once gets its hooks in deep during the pre-show. While the audience is still being seated, the full cast of actor-musicians launch into a fiddle-sawing, guitar-picking, mandolin-strumming, box-banging, foot-stomping, and tin whistle-tooting jam session. When showtime finally rolls around, the joyful music practically gives birth to the storytelling.

Once introduces viewers to a depressed young songwriter who lives with his old Da above the shop where they make Hoovers that don’t suck anymore suck proper again.

His girl’s left him for New York, and nobody’s listening to his music except for the struggling Czech immigrant who becomes his muse and chief motivator. It’s an inside out romance, funny, bittersweet, and lovingly staged.

Conor Finnerty-Esmonde and Lizzy Hinton charm as the leading Guy and Girl, but this is an ensemble show where every actor’s a musician and every musician an actor. The secret star is a simple wooden stage that looks like it was designed to maximize the warm sound of acoustic instruments and lightly amplified human voices. It’s like listening to a guitar played inside a bigger guitar.

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The property is composed of four grain bins. Two smaller ones make up the kitchen. The biggest, at 36 feet, is used for the main dining/bar area, and there’s another small bin outside, used as a bar.

Mac Hopper, an owner of the restaurant, says as a former farm boy, the idea of the bins appealed to him.

He also notes using them is pretty dang cheap, too.

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In addition to the grain bin bar, outside there’s a couple of fire pits and waterfalls, and the yard is circled overhead by a bluff that will be closed off for private parties. Side yards offer hints of future soccer and yard games.

Andy Knight, formerly of Loflin Yard, serves as chef. “Southern deli — that’s what it is,” says Knight. “True Southern-style cooking involves long cook times, grilling out, smoked foods.”

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The menu features such true-blue sides as dilled cucumber & tomato salad, mac & cheese, black eyed peas, and buttermilk cornbread. Entrees include grilled pimento cheese with fried green tomato (!), pork belly BLT, and a terrific-looking buttermilk chicken sandwich. They also offer, like any good place wanting to show off their Southern bona fides, a fried bologna sandwich.

The restaurant has a late-night menu with a trio of burgers and loaded fries.

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Jeff Watkins met JoBeth in the ninth grade. Their paths separated for 35 years, until they met up again by chance in the Atlanta airport.

The Watkins have since married and pledged to find something to do together in their retirement. (Aw!) “We like spending time together,” says Jeff. That thing is the Grecian Gourmet Taverna, to be located at 412 South Main. They already have a head start, selling their Grecian Gourmet dips, desserts, and take-andbake dishes at local farmer markets and area grocery stores.

Right now, work is being done on the space, which is next door to Art Village. The space is pretty — light floors, punched tin tiles on the ceiling. They plan to add a trio of coolers, an awning to cover the patio, raised seating at the window for people watching. There will be a huge chalkboard menu board and food art like paintings of eggplants and arugula.

They will follow a fast-casual plan,

with ordering at the counter, which includes bar orders. Jeff envisions the Grecian Gourmet as a European street cafe sort of space. He sees diners getting a carafe of wine and relaxing on the patio.

The menu is JoBeth’s domain.

Right now, it features the classics — Spanakopita, Moussaka, Pastitso, Dolmathes, Lamb Sliders, and gyros.

Sides include Tabbouleh, Greek and cucumber salads, plus there’s Baklava for dessert. The coolers will contain grab-and-go items.

At the beginning, they’ll be open for lunch and dinner, with roughly the same menu and Sundays reserved for specials. JoBeth sees her special spatchcocked chicken, Grecian platters, and Lamb Paschou on the Sunday menu. Eventually, they’ll offer breakfast with homemade Greek yogurt.

The Watkins feel like they’ll be filling a need for a good Greek place. “We felt we developed a niche,” Jeff says. “We dreamed of having a place like this.”

Soft opening for Grecian Gourmet begins February 15th, with a grand opening set for March 10th.

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I’m waiting for the avocados resting on my countertop to ripen enough to create a round of avocado margaritas.

There are dozens of recipes online, but the best one, inspired by a margarita served at Austin’s famed Curra’s Grill (which will forever be known as the restaurant where I dined at a table next to Randy Travis) is found on Bon Appetit’s website. You simply puree one pitted and peeled avocado with tequila, a little triple sec, lime juice, fresh cilantro, a pinch of cayenne, and plenty of ice. If sugar is an issue, skip the triple sec.

Make a low-carb “purple drank” by combining blackberries, ice, and freshsqueezed lime juice in the blender. Add the clear liquor of your choice. The tartness will cause you to sip slowly and savor the taste. That’s a good thing — it’s easy to get sloshed when you don’t have a carbohydrate foundation to absorb all the alcohol. Your liver metabolizes slower when it has ample supplies of glycogen, a byproduct of glucose that is derived from sugar and carbs. When you’re eating low-carb, any alcohol in your system will be instantly metabolized, which makes you feel drunker sooner.

If wine is your thing, drink Champagne, which has just 1.5 grams of carbs per fiveounce glass.

Sauvignon Blanc is your next best bet, coming in at 2.7 grams of carbs. If you’re a red wine lover, go for the Pinot Noir, which has 3.4 grams of carbs.

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Food-wise, that means bread, pasta, and some vegetables are out. Thankfully, I can still drink, within reason, but those missing carbs are making me a cheap date, indeed. And the amount of protein I’m eating makes finishing even one glass of booze a Herculean feat.

If you’re doing a modified Whole 30, keto, or a straightforward low-carb diet, it can be difficult to navigate your way through a bar menu. Anything with a nectar or juice base is off limits.

Diet colas are allowable, but be careful — all that fake sweetener can lead to cravings for the real thing.

I’m still routinely sipping on my gin and diet tonic water, with a splash of lime. But I’ve discovered that as my taste buds change, I really prefer the tartness of tequila and club soda.

Other liquors that work on a low- or zero-carb diet are rum and brandy. Try mixing any of these with soda, seltzer, or diet tonic water. Garnish with lime, fresh cucumber slices, a sprig of mint, basil, or even rosemary.

Online, I found a recipe for a sugarfree gin fizz that contains just one gram of carbs. I skipped the teaspoon of artificial sweetener and combined two ounces of gin, ½ ounce lime juice, and an egg white in a cocktail shaker.

I shook for two minutes, then poured the now-frothy concoction into a chilled glass and topped it with club soda. The cocktail was a fancy addition to the bunless lamb burger I grilled for supper one warmish evening last week.

White Russians are also a no-brainer for low-carb drinkers, thanks to the heavy cream included in the recipe. The adaptation I found online at Verywell.com requires that you make your own low-carb coffee liqueur several weeks before drinking, so consider yourself warned.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Summer Love Call Me by Your Name serves up luscious amore among the ruins.

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by Your Name is about, for better and for worse.

Seventeen-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) has a life many would envy. His parents are archeologists and academics who split their time between teaching in America in the spring and fall and living in a haphazardly

restored villa in northern Italy in the summer. His father (Michael Stuhlbarg) supervises underwater archeological digs around the Grottos of Catullus, while his mother (Amira Casar) translates German poetry in the apricot orchard. Elio is a budding concert pianist, and his summertime life is split between practicing his music and lounging around various picaresque lakes with other displaced teenagers. But Elio, being a teenager, describes his idyllic existence as “waiting for the summer to be over.”

Every summer, a grad student stays with the family at the villa for six weeks, using the time to work on their thesis. This year it’s Oliver (Armie Hammer), a linguist who easily passes the father’s test questions about the etymology of the word apricot. Since it’s 1983, Oliver is a fan of Giorgio Moroder and the Psychedelic Furs, an awkward dancer, and a total hunk. Elio has to move to the guest bedroom when Oliver arrives, so at first he’s a little resentful of the newcomer. But that resentment quickly turns to fascination, and more. Being 17, Elio is in the midst of a sexual awakening — in other words, he’s super horny all the time.

His dalliance with Marzia (Esther Garrel), a young Parisian girl who, like him, is in town for

Timothée Chalamet (left) and Armie Hammer star in Luca Guadagnio’s new film, Call Me by Your Name, based on the novel by André Aciman. the summer, is turning hot and heavy. But it’s his attraction to Oliver that is the biggest surprise of his short life.

Fortunately for Elio, it turns out that Oliver is bisexual, too, and he’s noticed his young housemate’s attraction.

Their age difference — Oliver is postgraduate while Elio is high school aged — and the fact that he is a guest in his teacher’s house make him very reluctant to act on his attraction, so he spends the first few weeks of his working vacation chasing Italian girls around the village. But as time passes, their mutual attraction overcomes their reason, and the pair start an affair for the ages.

Call Me by Your Name is the third film in what director Luca Guadagnino calls his “Desire trilogy.” As exemplified by his previous work, 2015’s A Bigger Splash, the through line seems to be beautiful people hanging out in Italy alternately trying to and not to have sex with each other.

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Beyond the sexual, the biggest desire the film will inspire is the desire to visit Italy. Cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom plays with the soft but brilliant Lombardi light to create images that seem like a moving Renaissance painting, or a two-hour travelogue with Italian sexytime interludes. The story was adapted from the novel of the same name by André Aciman, with a screenplay by James Ivory, the 89-year-old producer, director, and writer of Merchant Ivory fame. The production company was responsible for a string of high production value period pieces in the

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In these trying times, when half the nation seems to have gone insane, everyone not in a coma seems to be searching for a way to relax. Some choose vigorous exercise, which can end in pain and regret. Others might enjoy listening to soothing music, if any exists, or keeping a journal, which is like seeing a shrink without the appointment, bill, or condescension.

Rather than elevate my blood pressure by discussing the idiots and assholes that populate Maharishi our current administration, I thought I might offer a balm for the troubled mind and discuss Mahesh Yogi my experience with meditation. All I knew about the subject was that the Beatles had become interested in Transcendental Meditation (registered copyright, but since I don’t have that symbol on my keyboard, I’ll use an asterisk), or TM*, from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1967.

The Maharishi, known at the time as the “giggling guru” for his numerous television appearances, developed TM* in India in 1956, but after meeting the Beatles in London, he began making an enterprise of it. When the Beatles and their wives, along with the Farrow sisters (for whom John Lennon wrote “Dear Prudence”), visited the Maharishi in his ashram in India, the mystical glow faded after the Holy Man hit on Mia Farrow.

The band walked away disillusioned. Although the discipline of meditation dates back 5,000 years, the Maharishi’s meditation technique caught fire in those halcyon days of spiritual discovery, guaranteeing effortless inner peace, at a price. In 1968, the Maharishi began training TM* teachers from his new global headquarters in Seelisberg, Switzerland, and sent them forth to pacify the world.

When I was in the midst of my tortuous decade trying to write country songs in Nashville, I reached the point that if I heard one more song celebrating poverty and ignorance, I was going to lose it. I was in desperate need of stress relief, and TM* was literally the only game in town. Encouraged by a friend who had even moved his family up to Boone, North Carolina to live in a TM* community, I signed up for a course. I knew nothing of meditation or its Eastern origins, and unlike the wizened sage you now witness before you, I had everything to learn. I don’t think I’d even had dinner in an Indian restaurant. My particular impression of Hinduism was a religion with multitudes of goofy-looking gods and goddesses with animal characteristics standing in awkward positions. Since TM* is rooted in the Hindu faith, I approached my lessons with some apprehension. The six-day course cost $250 and could only be taught by a certified TM* instructor, in my case a soft-spoken young man flush with serenity.

The meditation classes were easy enough, based on a repetitive phrase that centered the mind. Practicing for 20 minutes, twice a day, was prescribed to ease stress and anxiety. The big payoff, or mystic goody, was the mantra, a sacred incantation chosen exclusively for you, based on your personal interview with the teacher. For initiation day, I was instructed to bring a clean handkerchief, flowers, some fruit, and naturally, the course fee. A makeshift alter was erected with a peach crate and a bedsheet. On the wall above was a creepy photo of an old, white-bearded man, who was the Maharishi’s guru. I was admonished to never utter my mantra aloud, lest I tarnish it and strip it of its power. The Maharishi said, “Using just any mantra can be dangerous. Mantras commonly found in books can cause a person to withdraw from life.” When the big moment finally came, I was asked to bow before the guru’s photo and receive my mantra.

I initially balked at bowing before anybody but I figured I’d come this far, so I lowered my head. I was hoping for something cool, like “Shanti,” but the teacher leaned forward and whispered in my ear, “Hrring.” Since it was chosen especially for me, who was I to disagree? I chose a comfortable chair in my bedroom and began to practice.

Focusing squarely on the third eye, I began to silently recite, “Hrring, Hering, Herring.” I just spent $250 so I could recite a word that sounded like Jewish smoked fish. I told my teacher that my mantra was making me laugh and could I please have another, but I was assured that this was mine and to work with it.

Some time later, I received a call from my old friend Mac, who said, “I heard you took TM*; what’s your mantra?” I was appalled, “I can’t tell you my mantra. I was sworn to secrecy.” Mac said, “If you tell me yours, I’ll tell you mine.” I reluctanty agreed saying, “Mine’s Hrring.” Mac burst into laughter. “What’s so funny?” I asked. He replied, “Mine is Shrring.”

I came to realize that there are a multitude of ways to meditate and the Maharishi had turned TM* into a for-profit, international franchise, much like Weight Watchers — or psychiatry. TM* was quick to reassure its customers that their fees covered not only the initial training, but a lifetime follow-up, like a Kenmore warranty.

Even financing is available. In 1984, Omni magazine published an article by “disaffected TM* teachers” listing 16 mantras used by the organization, contradicting the fable that the result was dependent on a trained teacher’s choice. A 2007 study found that details of training and knowledge for TM* teachers are kept private and potential franchisees are required to sign a “loyalty-oath employment contract.”

Fortunately, effective meditation doesn’t require the $960 currently being charged for TM* classes.

By the time of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s death in 2008, TM* had become an empire worth an estimated $4 billion, including the Maharishi International University, now The Maharishi University of Management on 381 acres in Fairfield, Iowa. The compound in North Carolina called Heavenly Mountain unfortunately went bust.

Built as a TM* community in 1998 for 40 million dollars, the site sold at auction in 2012 for $3.9 million and is now the Art of Living Retreat Center, offering weight loss, detox, yoga, and meditation for an all-inclusive fee. Just YouTube “meditation,” and you don’t have to pay for it. Meditation really works, but it takes the sort of consistent self-discipline that I utterly lack. Which reminds me, there’s a Xanax prescription that I need to refill.

Randy Haspel writes the Recycled Hippies Blog.

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