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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR • OUR 1410TH ISSUE 03.03.2016 In 1961, at the end of his two terms in the White House, President Dwight D. Eisenhower offered this warning to the American people: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.”

There is little doubt that Ike’s words were prescient. The influence of the military-industrial complex has helped keep the U.S. in a more or less permanent state of war in the years since his speech, the most egregious example being the disastrous Bush-Cheney-Halliburton Middle East adventurism in the early years of this century.

But there’s a relatively new force that’s shaping American politics and power, one that’s even more pervasive and potentially more damaging. You could call it the “entertainment-industrial” complex, and it was openly spoken to this week by CBS CEO Les Moonves, who said in a speech in San Francisco: “Donald Trump is damn good for business; the money’s rolling in.”

Moonves continued: “I’ve never seen anything like this, and this is going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald.

Keep going.”

The bottom line, literally, is that Trump is making millions of dollars for the entertainment-industrial complex. Putting Trump on the air is good business for all the networks, and the more Trump is on the air, the more his loony, crude, racist act gets normalized — and the higher his poll numbers rise. It’s the most profitable reality show in history, and it doesn’t cost the networks a thing — except their credibility. But who cares, at this point?

The networks certainly don’t, as Moonves went on to make clear. He proclaimed ad sales this season have been incredibly strong, due to an election cycle filled with insults, profanity, and controversy. “It may not be good for America” he said, “but it’s damn good for CBS.” This level of political discourse is not good for America. And it was predicted 30 years ago in a book by Neil Postman called Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Postman warned about the trend of TV news being packaged as entertainment, with theme music, flashy graphics, anchors with movie-star looks, and breathless, dramatic reporting designed to draw viewers, night after night.

Nailed it, Neil.

At some point, the difference between TMZ news and NBC news gets blurred.

To the undiscerning viewer, The Bachelor and The Donald are equally N EWS & O P I N I O N entertaining — and equally “real.”

LETTERS - 4 There’s a reason you see “man on the THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 street” interviews with people who can’t THE FLY-BY - 6 name the vice president or tell you who POLITICS - 10 EDITORIAL - 12 won the civil war. John Kasich? Are you VIEWPOINT - 13 kidding? Is he on Duck Dynasty?

COVER STORY They can, of course, tell you The “MEET THE NEW MEAT” Bachelor’s name, and they sure as hell

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Letters and comments from Flyer readers Our violent crime rate is second only to Detroit (12 percent lower), and our police force is 25 percent smaller, based on the total number of officers.

Oakland and St. Louis have similar crime rates, but their police forces are significantly smaller. Oakland’s ranks are one-third the size found in Memphis. Milwaukee rounds out the top five violent-crime-rate cities, and their force is 10 percent smaller.

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About Toby Sells’ story, “Lawmakers Consider Bills on Bikes, Historical Markers, and Skunks” …

Translation: “No Gas Tax for Bike Lanes,” written and paid for by the Koch Brothers’ Banana Brand Banana Republics. Where the Bananas Don’t Grow on Trees; They Legislate™.

“No Removal of Historical Markers,” doesn’t apply to the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue, since it’s not in honor of a conflict. It’s in honor of a man.

“Legal Skunk Ownership,” leads to the next step: skunk-fighting rings.

Jeff

Barf, try adjusting those numbers by geographical size.

Oakland = 78 square miles St. Louis = 66.2 square miles Milwaukee = 96.8 square miles Detroit = 142.9 square miles Memphis = 324 square miles That is the problem. Memphis has annexed like a madman, and now officers are stretched too thin. MPD has to provide police protection for 324 square miles. Kind of hard to do when you run off 400 officers (and another 150 are on the DROP, ready to retire soon). The City Council created this problem and refused to listen to officers who said they would leave if the city changed the benefits.

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LEGENDARY LEGENDS A digital report that appeared on The Commercial Appeal’s website last week received attention across social media for recounting the epic tale of UT-Knoxville student Patrick Goswitz, the Sigma Chi frat brother who invited porn star Cherry Morgan to a formal dance last weekend.

“UT fraternity brother declared ‘a legend’ for date with porn star,” was originally published by the Knoxville News Sentinel and tells the touching story of young Goswitz, who was, in fact, described as a “legend” as a result of his date with Morgan, a Knoxvillebased actress famous for appearing in adult films where, like many porn stars, she gives blowjobs to plumbers, pizza guys, and other dudes who deliver.

The astonishing saga of Goswitz and Morgan was told using quotes from blogs and social media and is most notable for containing the worst sentence in the history of print journalism: “Goswitz told [Dan] Regester [of the website Total Frat Move] via an Instagram interview uploaded on TFM that he had invited Morgan to the formal via a message on Facebook and she sent him ‘her digits’ and accepted.”

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The largest generation is reshaping the Bluff City.

Having lived in five other states before landing in Memphis, Jenni Kowal follows one rule: Arrive with few expectations.

“I’ve only been in Memphis for a week, but it feels like years,” Kowal, 24, said. “I came here for the people. I knew from [friends] that Memphis was a great place but also a troubled place. There is a lot of heart here. It is the most diverse place I’ve ever lived in and provides a lot of opportunity to serve the community because there is a greater need here.”

Kowal is among a slew of millennials who are relocating to the Bluff City. Memphis falls only behind Atlanta, Georgia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the third-most popular city for millennials to purchase a home in 2016, according to research from Realtor.com. With a median list price of $164,000, affordable housing makes life easier for debtstrapped twenty-somethings.

From Overton Square to the potentially soon-to-be revitalized Mud Island Park, redevelopment has bolstered economic growth in the Mid-South. Sprawling obstacles, however, can’t be overlooked. Almost 30 percent of Memphians lived in poverty in 2014, according to numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. More than 13 percent of those ages 16 to 24 don’t work or attend school. To boot, the U.S Department of Agriculture defines Memphis as a food desert — only seven of the 77 high-poverty neighborhoods in the city are within reasonable reach of a full-service supermarket.

Those statistics can be improved with elbow grease.

Danielle Inez understands this. Through her organization Millennials for Memphis, Inez aims to engage the more than 200,000 millennials living in Memphis. Millennials have surpassed baby boomers as the largest generation.

By focusing on government engagement, community development, and economic empowerment, Inez hopes millennials can give the city a makeover over the next five to 10 years.

“I want to see a much more developed network of neighborhoods that also share resources,” Inez said. “Our inner-city neighborhoods — from the Mound to South and North Memphis — all have a degree of attractiveness that is almost hidden from entrepreneurs. I’d like our city to make better use of technology. [We need] more neighborhood hotspots, easier online tools for basic government obligations, more integration, and support for mom-and-pop businesses.”

Committed residents spent decades developing CooperYoung into a vibrant neighborhood. Likeminded urban planning should go hand-in-hand with millennials buying homes in the city, said University of Memphis social work professor Elena Delavega.

“The problem exists when we create exclusive zones that are prohibitive to the poor and completely push them out of their neighborhoods,” Delavega, the co-director of the MidSouth Family and Community Empowerment Institute, said.

Q&A with Tina Sullivan Executive director of Overton Park Conservancy Overton Park held the city spotlight again this week as the battle for the Greensward hit Memphis City Hall, a battle that could get national exposure as the park will soon be featured on a new, national PBS series called 10 Parks that Changed America.

In January, Mayor Jim Strickland requested the Overton Park Conservancy (OPC) and the Memphis Zoo enter into a mediation process to resolve the dispute about the zoo using the grassy area for overflow parking. Council members were to be updated Tuesday on the mediation process and to consider a resolution to give control of most of the Greensward to the zoo.

That vote was scheduled after press time.

The Greensward parking issue boiled over in January as the zoo removed some trees in the area to make way for easier access to parking ahead of this spring’s opening of the zoo’s new Zambezi River Hippo Camp exhibit. That action sparked protests from citizens and a lawsuit from the zoo to establish its right to control the Greensward. OPC answered that suit with its own claim for Greensward rights.

Meanwhile, OPC conducted a traffic and parking study of the park, and its consultants issued options, ranging from new bike lanes to a new smartphone app, to alleviate pressure.

Expect the park to get more attention — with or without the continuing imbroglio — after it appears on 10 Parks that

Changed America, scheduled to debut on WKNO on Tuesday, April 12th. We sat down with OPC executive director Tina Sullivan to discuss it all. — Toby Sells Flyer: What are your thoughts on Overton Park’s current controversy?

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“Ideal communities are mixed communities that include a wide range of people of all races and income levels. Economic integration in neighborhoods benefits the poorest people living in communities.”

Millennials face a pivotal opportunity in defining the city’s next step, according to Inez. Nate Packard, a Memphis artist, echoes the sentiment.

Memphis is malleable, he said, waiting to be carved.

“New York and Los Angeles are oversaturated with young creatives looking to make a name for themselves,” Packard, 23, said. “Competition is high, but success is much less common. Being in Memphis, a city with a much less competitive nature, lets me focus on my work. It gives me a greater chance to be noticed for that work.”

The Memphis narrative has shifted from self-criticism to pride and hope, said Leslie Gower, the vice president of marketing and communications for the Downtown Memphis Commission. Millennials are capitalizing on the momentum.

“Millennials like to be change agents,” Gower said. “They are looking for ways to advance, connect with, and contribute to their community. Downtowns are magnets for millennials. In five to 10 years, we will see more people working downtown — particularly start-ups, creatives, and entrepreneurs. We’re finally becoming ambassadors of our own city and sharing our story. People outside of Memphis are taking note.”

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What makes the park significant enough to be included in the new PBS film?

The park’s prime location has made it a target for development through its entire history. It has been protected only through people standing up and asserting that green space, whether that be the Old Forest or the Greensward, has value to the community.

The national spotlight will soon be on Overton Park again. What story does our city want to tell? Do we want to invest in our treasured public assets?

Or do we want to let them slide further into decline by implementing poorly planned, make-do solutions?

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Prosecutors prepare to defend themselves on ethics charges in the Noura Jackson trial. attorney Jef Feibelman in his response to the TBPR. “Explicitly and implicitly they have found otherwise.”

Jones said he got the witness statement during the trial and put it in the flap of a trial notebook and forgot about it, though he did mean to turn the evidence over to Jackson’s attorneys. Jones’ attorney Brian Faughnan argued Jones’ action was

“unintentional and inadvertent.” As such, he said it would be unfair to so strictly enforce court rules against Jones for an “innocent” mistake.

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Two of Shelby County’s top prosecutors fired back last week at a state board that claims both should be disciplined for breaking ethics rules in the 2009 murder trial of Noura Jackson.

Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich and Assistant District Attorney Stephen P. Jones were both targeted for discipline by the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Board of Professional Responsibility (TBPR) in January. The Tennessee Supreme Court admits attorneys to practice law in the state, and its TBPR oversees and disciplines those attorneys for violations.

The TBPR opened investigations on Weirich and Jones in 2014. In a January 2016 petition, it claimed that Weirich violated Jackson’s constitutional right to silence in her trial when Weirich implored Jackson: “Just tell us where you were! That’s all we’re asking, Noura!”

The TBPR found that Jones withheld a key witness statement during the trial, evidence that could have helped Jackson’s defense. Both of these infractions swayed the jury’s decision in the trial, according to the TBPR, and might have unnecessarily sent Jackson to prison.

Jackson’s defense attorneys have said Weirich’s statement poisoned the jury against Jackson, as it appeared that Jackson did not want to answer Weirich’s question. Weirich said she was only reciting testimony from a witness in the trial, which is allowed by court rules.

In ordering Jackson a new trial in 2014, Tennessee Supreme Justice Cornelia Clark wrote that the statement withheld by Jones could have been used by Jackson’s attorneys “to bolster its attack upon the thoroughness of the police investigation and to argue” that the statement could have pointed to another suspect. Jones said while he did withhold the statement, he didn’t do it intentionally.

Both Weirich and Jones filed formal responses to the TBPR in the past two weeks. Both said they should not be punished by the TBPR. Both said they will not accept the board’s recommended discipline, a censure, which is a public rebuke of their actions that comes with some small fees and fines but no suspension of their law licenses.

Both said they will, instead, fight the rulings altogether in separate hearings that work much like criminal trials with witness testimony, evidence, and attorneys. The hearings are not open to the public. Taking the cases to trial, in essence, could result in harsher punishments for Weirich and Jones.

“No court has ever stated that Ms. Weirich acted with intent or was guilty of any ethical misconduct,” wrote Weirich’s

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Some 257,209 early votes were cast statewide in the Republican primary, as against 128,374 in the Democratic primary. That’s roughly a two-thirds tilt toward Republicans, a piece of math that would seem to coincide with (901) 725-1717 the statewide shift of voter sentiment 2430 Poplar Avenue to the GOP in recent years — a Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region www.plannedparenthood.org/memphis trend that accelerated with the 2008 general election, when Republicans won a majority in the state House of FLYER_quarter_MCMW_1015.indd 1 10/19/15 6:35 AMRepresentatives to go with one already achieved in the Senate.

Two years later, with then-Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam as their nominee, the Republicans won the governorship over Mike McWherter of Jackson.

The GOP edge in early-voting stats would also seem to reflect the disproportionate amount of time that Republican presidential candidates spent in Tennessee or adjacent areas.

All five remaining Republican hopefuls — businessman Donald Trump, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, Ohio Governor John Kasich, and retired surgeon/author Dr. Ben Carson — made appearances in the state in the run-up to this week’s primary.

Kasich, Trump, and Carson were all in Memphis on get-out-the-vote business this past weekend — Kasich for a well-attended town hall at the Central Avenue Holiday Inn on Friday, Trump for one of his patented monster rallies at the Millington Jetport hangar on Saturday, and Carson for a round of visits to churches and a local veterans’ service center on Sunday.

Active headquarters operations are up and running — within a block of each other on Poplar in Midtown — for the two remaining Democratic presidential candidates, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

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the course of her campaign, appearing at LeMoyne-Owen College for a rally last November and speaking at two local churches — Greater Imani Church and Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church — this past Sunday. Husband Bill Clinton, the former president, addressed a large crowd at Whitehaven High School last month on his wife’s behalf.

Sanders has been rumored as coming to Memphis once or twice but has not yet shown. The senator had also been scheduled for a visit to Tennessee State University in Nashville in January but evidently changed his plans and was represented there by campaign aide Matt Kuhn of Memphis, among others.

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County Mayor Mark Luttrell • As expected, Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell has thrown his hat into the ring as a candidate for the soon-to-be-vacant 8th District congressional seat. The mayor’s bid, which was not unexpected, was announced at a Reagan Day dinner of Madison County Republicans in Jackson on Monday night.

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reelection, the field of Democrats has not developed in kind.

Shelby County assistant District Attorney Michael McCusker had indicated an interest in running as a Democrat but late last week bowed out, saying, “Simply put, I do not believe I can properly balance both the demands of my career and my family life with a campaign of this magnitude.”

Luttrell’s race is good news for Shelby County Commission chairman Terry Roland, who, in something of a ripple effect, would become interim County Mayor should Roland still be chairman if Luttrell wins the congressional race and has to resign his mayoralty in January 2017. That circumstance would require that Roland’s colleagues elect him to a second straight term as chairman this September, a real possibility for someone with his deal-making and arm-twisting skills.

Whoever gets to be interim mayor (for a charter-mandated 45 days) would have a leg up when the County Commission then chooses someone to serve out the balance of Luttrell’s term.

There is an irony in that fact, in that the mayor and the chairman have been seriously at odds for months over issues relating to which branch of county government should have priority over the other. Conflicts have raged over matters ranging from the reliability of the administration’s accounting statistics to the issue of whether the commission is entitled to have its own attorney.

But there has clearly been a thaw in their relations of late. Luttrell told the Flyer last week that Roland was one of the people he consulted in advance of his decision to make the congressional race.

And at the Shelby County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day banquet the weekend before last, the mayor, speaking from the dais, threw a verbal bouquet Roland’s way, calling him a “great chairman.” The mayor coupled that with a similar grace note for GOP Commissioner Heidi Shafer, Roland’s ally in the procedural wars with Luttrell.

Just as Roland, who has planned a race for County Mayor in 2018, might profit from a Luttrell victory in the congressional race, so would Shafer’s ambitions gain from a win by another congressional candidate, state Senator Kelsey.

Shafer, who served two consecutive terms as Commission budget chair, raised eyebrows last fall when she opted to shift to the chairmanship of the legislative affairs committee. But the change, she confided, was in line with her intent to run for the legislature at the soonest feasible opportunity. A Kelsey win for Congress, and his subsequent departure from his Senate seat, would

from Soulsville in Memphis were on Tuesday’s schedule to testify in a hearing before the house Criminal Justice subcommittee on a bill — HB 2483, sponsored by Representative Raumesh Akbari (D-Memphis) — that would reduce fees to have criminal records expunged after successful completion of a pretrial diversion program.

Also to be heard by the subcommittee were HB2370, which would increase penalties for assaults against correctional officers, and HB2043, which would eliminate penalties for persons substituting prayer for a child’s medical or surgical treatment.

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occasion a special election and give her that opportunity.

Roland, incidentally, is in line for a possible serendipity in yet another political lottery. He has become West Tennessee chairman of the Trump campaign and was principal organizer of Trump’s giant rally in Millington last weekend. Whatever the local dividends might be from a Trump victory, either in the nomination process or for the presidency itself, Roland would likely be first in line to receive them.

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and we invite you to join us for a little bit of post-election armchair-quarterbacking: On the Republican side, is there an alternative to Donald Trump?

There are things we find attractive about Ohio Governor John Kasich, who seems unique among the GOP contenders in that he appears to be both an experienced administrator and a pragmatic centrist, not a trash talker, a negativist, or a partisan demagogue.

But maybe the punditocracy has it right: Only the Mambo Brothers, right-wing Senator Ted Cruz or former Tea Party darling and now ad hoc establishmentarian Senator Marco Rubio are serious alternatives to Trump.

The trouble with Trump, when you get down to it, is that he has no fixed principles. Like a hypocritical preacher, he can preach the world round or he can preach it flat. He can be free-trade or protectionist, pro-choice or prolife, “liberal” or “conservative.” In one campaign, he can rebuke Mitt Romney for advocating self-deportation of illegal immigrants; in another campaign, his own, he can advocate forced deportation on a massive scale. He is what you want him to be, and he wants everybody to want him to be something, namely, president of the United States. That, we hazard, is why he had so much trouble repudiating David Duke to Jake Tapper on CNN once he’d heard that Duke had endorsed him. He’d want the Miley Cyrus vote, too, if he thought he could get it.

Trump is all over the map. That said,

we wonder if that gives Rubio and Cruz, who restrict themselves more or less to one side of the map, the reactionary one, any claim to superiority over Trump. The Donald tries to go along to get along. He will, for example, give lip service to the GOP shibboleth that “Obamacare” should be abolished, but he hints that he might replace it with something amorphous that sounds like universal health care. There is no such ambivalence on the part of Rubio and Cruz; they would insist on a full return to the Darwinian system of health-tothe-highest-bidder medical rationing.

And on the Democratic side, is there any alternative to Hillary Clinton?

We find much to admire in Secretary Clinton. She is strong, determined, and resourceful (all adjectives that she earned all over again in her redoubtable 11-hour standoff of a GOP lynching party at last fall’s Benghazi hearing).

A little too calculating sometimes, and almost clam-like in her selfcontainment, but she’s smart and vetted, and her heart is in the right place — or near it — on numerous humanitarian and social issues.

In fact, she seems right on so many things that we find it frustrating that she can’t be as simple and direct and, as they say, proactive on the issue of economic inequality as Bernie Sanders can. And because he can, frankly, we’d just as soon the Democratic contest went on long enough for the right kind of osmosis to occur between her point of view and his. Regardless of which one wins.

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VIEWPOINT By Gary Kroeger

The Greatest What?

Republicans love to tout Ronald Reagan as an economic achiever; the facts tell a different tale.

In theory, Reagan could say they were tax cuts, since the total percentage was lower, but the new tax burden fell on everyone but the wealthy.

It must be said that the widening gap between the rich and poor had already begun during the 1970s, before Reagan’s economic policies took effect. However, it must also be stated that Reagan’s policies exacerbated that trend. When Reagan left office there were 7 million more Americans living in poverty than when he started.

Reagan remains popular as the anti-tax hero despite raising taxes 11 times over the course of his presidency — in the name of fiscal responsibility. Overall, the 1982 tax increase undid about a third of the 1981 cut. Even Reagan admitted that his greatest regret was having tripled the national debt and turning the United States into a debtor nation for the first time.

Reaganomics was a short-term fix with long-term negative consequences. The proof of Reagan’s successes and failures will not be revealed by polls, party rhetoric, or platitudes. They are there for seriousminded people to view and decide for themselves.

Greatest president since FDR? Depends on your income.

Gary Kroeger is a former member of the Saturday Night Live cast, now an advertising executive in Iowa and a Democratic candidate for Congress. This essay is condensed from a version posted on his blog.

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But there was a virus deep within Reagan’s great plan: There wasn’t enough revenue to pay for his defense initiatives and for the government programs that he supported. So along came the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, the largest peacetime tax increase in history.

He then sold Congress and the American public on the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which “simplified” the tax code while raising the bottom bracket tax rate by four percent and lowering the top rate another 22 percent. In theory, he could say that they were tax cuts, since the total percentage was lower, but the new tax burden fell to everyone but the wealthy.

Democrats were on the Trickle Down Train, as well — proof of the historical journey toward oligarchy that has seen a 250 percent increase in the wealth of the upper class over the past three decades.

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In a 2014 Quinnipiac poll of American voters, those surveyed concluded that President Barack Obama has been the worst president in post-World War II history. They ranked President Ronald Reagan, icon of so much Republican rhetoric in this (as in every other) election year, as the greatest. It isn’t hard to dismiss this sort of faux information as meaningless, but I must admit that a wave of dark energy coursed through my veins.

It made me want to hold a nationwide webinar where I show America how, under Obama, unemployment is well below where it was when the recession started and how deficit spending is down.

I want to remind Americans that millions more Americans can live without the fear of losing everything due to illness.

Then I want to show them stock market graphs, deficit gaps, and unemployment figures from 2001 through 2009 and ask them again: “Who was the worst president?”

As troubling to me as the Obama-fail was in the poll, even more troubling was the Reagan canonization.

The Legend of Reagan grows because the Republicans have not had a legend since Lincoln. They marginalized Eisenhower during his eight years of presidential prosperity because America had also moved to the left, and Republicans created a more extreme ideology in order to define some relevance — ergo the second Red Scare, McCarthyism, Goldwater conservatism, and the great alliteration himself: The Ronald Reagan Republican Revolution.

I contend that Reagan’s greatness is a fable woven from selective memory to put a noble face on failed policy.

To be sure, in 1980 (Jimmy Carter’s last year in office) inflation averaged a very high 12.5 percent, and America was heading into a recession. Carter’s failed economic policy was the perfect platform for the Reagan myth to begin upon. Reagan immediately implemented supply-side economic policies — which meant tax cuts across the board — and expanded the tax base to offset the resulting revenue loss.

“Reaganomics” entered our lexicon, and certain economic indicators began to improve. During Reagan’s administration, the unemployment rate averaged 7.5 percent over eight years, after reaching a high from the recession in 1982 of 10.5.

Reagan’s legacy was set halfway through his first term, because he was the man who lowered taxes and turned the tide of recession. Production was up, unemployment was down. Mount Rushmore couldn’t be far behind!

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Meet the New Meat

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ost barbecue restaurants have a cartoon pig logo — a dancing pig, a cool pig in sunglasses, a pig in a chef hat. Some restaurants even have a pig statue as a mascot.

But Baby Jack’s BBQ owner Will Clem envisions someday having a live pig as a mascot — the same pig where the meat served in his Bartlett restaurant would come from.

“The animal could stay there and be the spokesperson, the mascot. You could point to him and say, ‘That’s where your meat came from.’ We could have a pig mascot, and he’d still be alive,” says Clem, who opened Baby Jack’s on Summer in 2012.

No, they wouldn’t be slicing cuts of meat from a live pig. What Clem is suggesting is growing meat in a lab using a few of the pig’s cells. It sounds like science fiction, but Clem also has a background in tissue engineering, and, when he’s not busy running a barbecue restaurant in Bartlett, he’s part of a team of scientists at Memphis Meats, a San Francisco-based tech start-up that is growing meat using cells extracted from from live animals.

The Memphis Meats team prefers to call their product “cultured meat” rather than “lab meat,” and it’s grown in incubator tanks over a period of weeks. They say the end product looks and tastes exactly like meat from a slaughtered animal, but the animal doesn’t have to die, and the process is more environmentally sustainable than conventional farming.

“The global demand for meat is increasing significantly over the next 30 years. It will double by 2050, and that’s a much faster pace than the current meat industry can sustain,” says Uma Valeti, the CEO and cofounder of Memphis Meats. “Much of that is related to scarcity of resources and how much land, water, and energy it takes to grow one pound of meat, whether that’s beef cattle or a different meat.”

Memphis Meats’ prototype product is a beef meatball, and they say hamburgers, sausages, and hot dogs are next. But Clem envisions someday being able to serve Southern-style smoked pork sandwiches made from cultured meat, and he’d even like to tackle baby back ribs — bones and all. Memphis Meats was only founded a few months ago, and they expect it will be several years before their products are cost-competitive enough to bring to market. But Valeti says that day is coming.

“We’re building a new type of agriculture, and I see the current meat production industry embracing it because this is a way for them to feed the masses in the future

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A biotech start-up with Memphis ties is “farming” meat for the future.

and introduce some innovation into an industry that hasn’t seen innovation for centuries,” Valeti says.

From Memphis to San Francisco Memphis Meats may have “Memphis” in the name, but the actual work is being done in San Francisco. They chose the name Memphis Meats as a way to pay homage to Memphis’ barbecue culture.

“We wanted to bring the strength of innovation from Silicon Valley and the meatloving culture of Memphis together,” says Valeti, a former cardiologist.

Clem, one of the company’s cofounders and tissue engineers, is the local tie. He grew up in Alabama, surrounded by barbecue. His grandparents founded the Whitt’s Barbecue chain, which grew to more than 40 locations around the South. But the young Clem was drawn to the science world and went off to the University of Michigan to earn his master’s degree and then the University of Alabama at Birmingham for a PhD in tissue engineering.

He wound up in Memphis with a career The Memphis Meats as a human tissue engineer for Wright team prefers to call Medical. But Clem couldn’t resist the siren song of barbecue, and he soon found their product “cultured himself back in the restaurant industry. meat” rather than “lab He opened Baby Jack’s (named after his younger son) in 2012 as a side project, meat,” and it’s grown in but business picked up so much that he incubator tanks over a eventually left Wright Medical to operate period of weeks. the restaurant full-time.

He was drawn back into the science world, though. Last fall, he got a phone call from an old college friend, Nick Genovese, another of Memphis Meats’ cofounders.

“I met Nick when we were in business school in Birmingham in 2007 or 2008. He was already talking about this cultured meat idea back then,” Clem says. “Fast forward about 10 years, and I’m carrying boxes into the restaurant. We’d just signed a lease on a second store in Arlington, and we were two to three weeks from opening it. And Nick calls and says, ‘Well, I’m ready. Let’s start that cultured meat company.’”

Clem dropped everything and was on his way to Minneapolis, where Genovese and Valeti were, the next day. The Memphis Meats project was so important to Clem that he had to put the Arlington Baby Jack’s opening on hold, and he also left his son Nathan, who was 4 months old at the time, and wife behind in Memphis.

The team — Valeti, Genovese, and Clem — formed a business plan and proposal and applied to IndieBio, a business incubator in San Francisco. They were accepted into the four-month program, so they headed to California to get started on developing a cultured meat prototype. By “demo day” — when all the incubator participants pitch their businesses to investors — on February 4th, they’d already secured $2.75 million in funding, which exceeded their goal of $1.5 million.

Much of that money is coming from New Crop Capital, which, according to its website, “invest[s] in talented, focused entrepreneurs whose products or services replace foods derived from conventional animal agriculture, which we view as an antiquated and inefficient food production system with serious vulnerabilities.”

Bruce Friedrich is the managing trustee of that venture capital firm. Friedrich also serves as the executive director of the nonprofit Good Food Institute, which provides strategic support and promotion for companies working on cultured meat products and plant-based meat, milk, and egg products.

“They are creating meat that tastes the same as the meat from farmed animals, but this is more sustainable,” Friedrich says about why his firm got behind Memphis Meats.

Genovese knows a thing or two about conventional farming. The stem cell biologist grew up on a poultry farm, helping his family raise chickens, before going on to become a bioprocess technician with a doctoral thesis in cancer biology. The self-professed meatlover is now a vegetarian pioneering more sustainable ways to produce meat.

Valeti is a former cardiologist, and he says growing cultured meat isn’t unlike the work he used to do in the medical field. “We use cells to regenerate heart muscle in patients who have had heart attacks. If we’re injecting cells into the hearts of humans to grow new muscle, why couldn’t we apply the same technology to growing meat?”

How It’s Made What Memphis Meats is doing with cultured meat isn’t unlike what Clem was doing with human tissue in his Wright Medical days or what Valeti was doing with his heart patients.

“You start with a small number of cells, even just a single cell taken from the muscle.

That can be pork, beef, chicken, or you can be really fancy and have some type of exotic meat, like lion or something. Who knows?” Clem explains. “We multiply those cells in incubators, and you can turn a few cells into many. It takes about one to three weeks.”

The meat is grown in tanks that Clem says are similar to something you’d see in a craft beer brewery.

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Will Clem points to the new blank menu at Baby Jack’s, where prototype products may be featured; Clem opened Baby Jack’s BBQ in 2012.

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this is the same thing, only it’s growing beef, pork, or chicken,” Clem says.

Friedrich furthers the the craft beer analogy by envisioning a day when people can tour cultured meat factories.

“One of the selling points of cultured meat is that, because it’s brewed in fermenters, there is total transparency,” Friedrich says. “Right now, good luck getting into a modern farm or slaughterhouse. Other than a few free-range operations, the vast majority of farms are not good experiences, and that’s true for all slaughterhouses. But you could take a tour of a cultured meat factory, just like you can tour a brewery.”

The slaughterhouse is completely out of the equation for cultured meat, since the cells can be taken from a minor biopsy procedure. The animal doesn’t have to die, and for the consumer, there’s less risk of contamination.

“From a health perspective, there are a “A lot of restaurants number of risks in how meat is produced.

There are antibiotics pumped into animals have a beer tank in raised in confined spaces,” Valenti says. the corner, and they’re “And, even with grass-fed animals raised brewing an IPA. organically on free-range pastures, there is a risk of fecal contamination and bacteria Well, this is the same in the process of slaughter. There is also less thing, only it’s growing risk of epidemics, like swine flu and avian flu, that are occurring because of how meat beef, pork, or chicken,” farming is done these days.”

Clem says.

The cultured meat process uses far less resources than factory animal farming, making it an environmentally sustainable alternative. To feed the global demand for meat, the current system often requires deforestation to make way for grazing land, and mass quantities of water are used to grow the crops used to feed livestock, he says.

“It takes about 23 calories of grain to make one calorie of beef. We love meat, but at the same time, we can’t sustain to produce it,” Valeti says.

Culturing meat releases 90 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than traditional factory farming, Valeti says, meaning it has far less impact on climate change.

Cultured meat is also much safer, Clem says, since it’s created without bacteria.

“If I have a pound of hamburger sitting on the table, everybody knows that’s hazardous.

You can get food poisoning from raw meat, and you have to cook it to kill the bacteria,” Clem says. “But cultured meat is aseptic. It’s made without bacteria, and there’s no chance

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(L to r) Morgan Reese, Uma Valeti, Nick Genovese, and David Kay of food poisoning. The safety of it is a huge advantage.”

But how does it taste?

“I would say it’s indistinguishable. I wouldn’t say it’s better or worse than meat. It’s the same thing,” Clem says. “A lot of companies in San Francisco are trying to make meat alternatives, like with tofu and things, and it’s pretty tough to make those [foods] taste like meat. But the advantage of this is it is meat. We don’t have any formulation to do. We just take our traditional recipes and cook them the same way our grandparents did.”

Memphis Meats employed a chef to create an authentic Italian meatball with their prototype beef. A video on their website shows the meatball frying in a pan, and a tester who tries a bite reports, “It tastes like a meatball. It’s good.”

Meat of the Future It may be a few years before consumers can decide for themselves how cultured meat tastes. First, Memphis Meats has to get the price down to a reasonable level. The first meatball cost the company $18,000 to produce, but they say that included the startup costs.

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“The first iPhone cost millions of dollars to produce. The first TV probably cost a ton to produce. The first of anything costs a lot of money,” Friedrich says.

The company has a goal of getting cultured meat to market in five years, but at first, it still may cost a bit more than conventionally produced meat. However, in 10 years, they say it should be pricecompetitive or even cheaper than meat produced from slaughtered animals.

“That could happen much more quickly if, say, Bill Gates decided that he wanted to put some resources into this. It’s really just a function of time and money,” Friedrich says.

Winning Gates’ support isn’t unfeasible. The billionaire business magnate has already invested in at least two plant-based meat and dairy start-ups — Hampton Creek (maker of the vegan Just Mayo spread) and Beyond Meat (which creates plant-based chicken and beef alternatives).

Thanks to Clem’s involvement, Memphians may get the first taste of Memphis Meats’ products. Friedrich said he thinks a few prototypes may be available in Clem’s restaurant in about three years.

“We installed a blank menu [at Baby Jack’s BBQ] to prepare for it. It’s been a conversation starter, and we’ve been telling our customers about our Memphis Meats story,” Clem says. “Hopefully, we can start bringing some prototypes here, and we can cook them up.”

Those early prototypes will include the meatball, as well as hamburgers, hot dogs, and sausages. Clem says they’ve started with those ground meat products because they’re easier to produce at a benchtop scale, but as the operation grows, he says the sky’s the limit for what they can produce. Clem has experience growing human bone at Wright Medical, and he says that same process could be used to grow animal bones for cultured pork ribs or chicken wings.

Although the team expects some ethical vegetarians and vegans — those who choose not to eat meat because an animal has to be slaughtered — will consume their products, the target customers are the meat-eaters who are interested in safer, more sustainable meat.

Because of that, Memphis Meats is growing cultured meat with the exact same fat content of conventionally farmed meat.

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Perhaps the biggest question facing Memphis Meats is whether or not there’s a market for cultured meat. Will people eat it? Will the science freak them out?

The Flyer took an informal Facebook survey of Memphis eaters, and responses were all over the board.

“As a non-vegetarian and avid sci-fi guy, I’d totally eat it,” wrote James Sposto, a local entrepreneur and producer of the FOMO Fest music festival. “Cells are cells, and cultured meat would taste the same as regular meat without the cruelty or environmental impact. Do you have any idea how much methane cows produce? Huge greenhouse gas emitter. And pigs are smart as hell.”

Cooper-Young resident David Rupp agreed with Sposto in fewer words: “Fire up the grill,” he wrote. And Jason Hodges, a St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital employee, wrote that he would try it since “it can’t be any worse than anything else I’ve ever consumed.”

But others just couldn’t stomach the thought of eating meat grown in a lab. Yoga teacher Tammy Dingman says she can’t “wrap her head around meat processed from cells.” Political writer Cheri DelBrocco wrote that the whole idea seems “very Twilight Zone-y” and that she didn’t think she’d eat it.

Chef Gary Williams, who owns DeJaVu Restaurant, says he just isn’t sure about cultured meat.

“I would need more research, more proof. This is a different beast,” Williams says. “I’d have to see it in front of me and look at the texture. I would just need more information.”

One well-known chef who asked to remain anonymous said the science would be “great if we find ourselves in a world food crisis, but I could never see a scenario Memphis Meats has where, when people have a choice, they to get the price down would go into a restaurant and ask for the spaghetti and meatballs grown in a to a reasonable level. test-tube.”

The first meatball cost A few local vegans and vegetarians have the company $18,000 weighed in as well. Some say, although they support the idea of producing more to produce, but they sustainable meat, they personally wouldn’t say that included the eat it.

“I wouldn’t eat it because, after almost start-up costs. a decade of veganism, I’ve lost my taste for meat. But I’m very excited about this. If it reduces animal suffering, I’m all for it,” local vegan Tiffany Lindfield wrote on Facebook.

Kristie Jeffrey, who owns Imagine Vegan Cafe, expressed support for the idea but said she wouldn’t eat cultured meat.

“I’m comfortable with where I am, and I don’t have any desire to eat anything that came from an animal again. But I would encourage meat-eaters to try it. Factory farming has to end somewhere, and I would love to see that happen in our lifetime,” Jeffrey says.

Other vegetarians and vegans couldn’t get over the sci-fi factor.

“You’re playing God, and I don’t agree with that. It sounds like a science experiment, and my body isn’t a science experiment,” says Cassi Conyers, who owns the vegan bakery and restaurant Pink Diva Cupcakery.

Valeti said meat-eaters who label cultured meat as “franken-food” or “test-tube meat” should be reminded that “there is nothing natural about the current meat that is available on the market.”

“There’s nothing natural about chickens being grown six to seven times larger and faster than in nature. There’s nothing natural about packing 1,000 pigs in a feces-filled barn and pumping them with antibiotics. There’s nothing natural about growing turkeys to be so top-heavy they cannot stand up to breed,” Valeti says. “We need to rethink what is considered natural and not natural.”

Cultured meat may have been considered science fiction 20 years ago, Valeti says, but it’s real now. Besides Memphis Meats, three other companies in New York, Israel, and the Netherlands are also working on getting cultured meat to the masses.

As for Memphis Meats, Clem says they’re currently recruiting some of the world’s leading scientists to help them scale up production, and they plan to run the business from San Francisco for the foreseeable future. Clem will continue to travel back and forth from Tennessee to California as needed, but over the next couple of weeks, his full attention will be directed elsewhere.

Remember that second location of Baby Jack’s he put off opening to go work for Memphis Meats? It’s opening in Arlington “any day now,” he says.

“Hopefully, this is the first expansion of many,” Clem says. “We are planning to cover the city of Memphis in Baby Jack’s. We’ll have one on every street corner.”

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But I stayed, of course, and had a big night and a mighty hangover, but, still, it was fine.

My relationship with alcohol has changed. Dry January was like spending time in a new city. It changes your perspective, and you may act differently when you go home.

I still love drinking, but I watch myself now. I can have a few beers and back off the throttle. I’ve found that a weight workout at the Kroc Center can cure a hangover better than endless gallons of Mountain Dew and sausage grease.

I did kill those four birds, by the way.

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My friends got me hammered on my 21st birthday. I haven’t looked back much since. That said, I’ve never been a problem drinker, just a social drinker (a very social drinker, perhaps).

My unhealthy drink-and-hangover cycle ran full tilt during the holidays, enough so that I grew a bit tired of it all. A friend of mine said he was, again, doing Dry January. No drinking for the entire month, he said. Sounds terrible, I said. Later, I thought about my full-tilt drinking cycle and wondered what would happen if I just stepped off the hamster wheel.

I could kill four birds with one stone: lose weight, quit smoking, save money, and cut back on drinking. But I also just wanted to see if I could do it, to shut down one of the biggest social avenues of my life and find a new path.

I did some research, weighed the benefits and the downsides, and pulled the trigger — no drinking at all for the first 31 days of 2016.

The first days were weird, just getting used to the idea and thinking of all the dry days before me. But as the days progressed, I got into the groove. Not drinking was a bit like a school uniform.

It was a little bland, but I never had to guess what I was doing on a particular evening.

And it was great. My head was as clear. I had full nights of black, dreamless sleep. I enjoyed uninterrupted family time. I wrote. I worked out. I ate right.

I read books, one in particular. (Pro tip: don’t read The Shining during Dry January. I followed along as alcoholic Jack Torrance slowly lost his grip on reality while attempting a white-knuckle sobriety trip inside a cabin-fever nightmare.)

The parallels got weird, even though I wasn’t a drunk like Jack. But it all started to set in — the cabin fever, (redrum), the bleak winter, (redrum) the cold, the sameness of the days (redrum), the virtues of being on “the wagon,” the monotony (REDRUM!).

But I never felt the strong pull to drink. Also, I didn’t envy the people I’d see through the windows of Sweet Grass Next Door or on the patio of Celtic Crossing, my local pubs. I honestly thought I would have a really hard time with Dry January. That I didn’t was a surprising and utter relief.

As the month drew to a close, I grew anxious about picking up my drinking life. But I wasted no time getting back to it. I met friends at Celtic Crossing on Monday, February 1st.

I had just read the scene in The Shining where Jack talks with Lloyd, the phantom bartender. I walked into Celtic and there was Lloyd, my Lloyd, the Celtic’s manager, standing behind the bar. (REDRUM!)

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Jerred Price Is No Honky Cat

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By day, Jerred Price is a mild-mannered insurance adjuster. By night, he’s Almost Elton John, pounding out hits like “Daniel,” “Pinball Wizard,” and “Rocket Man” at the Hard Rock Cafe.

“Since I was 4 years old, my mom raised me on Elton John,” Price says, recounting his origin story. As a kid, he found John’s outlandish stage costumes “very intriguing.” Piano lessons followed, but he hated them.

He didn’t like the strictness or care about proper hand usage. So he quit. “Mama, I don’t like this,” Price said, explaining how he sat down at the piano by himself and started learning how to play all of his favorite Elton John songs by ear. “And not just Elton John,” he adds, “but Billy Joel, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard too.”

Initially, Price resisted the urge to put on a feather boa and impersonate his musical hero at parties: “I said, no way. That’s so cliche. I don’t want to do that kind of stuff.” But eventually he caved to pressure, donned a pair of furry glasses, and went to work on the party circuit. He’s been in residence at Memphis’ Hard Rock Cafe for two years now, playing two shows a month as both Elton John and as himself.

“It’s fun,” Price says. “Elton’s almost 70 now, so we can’t see him in eight-inch platform shoes anymore. He outgrew all of that.” But you can almost see it Saturday, March 5th, when Almost Elton John sits down to the keyboard and crocodile rocks.

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THURSDAY March 3

FRIDAY March 4

The Big Fake Wedding Prop Cellar, 7-9 p.m., $25 A bridal show featuring — yep! — a big, fake wedding with ceremony, dinner, and reception.

Booksigning by Julia Baird The Halloran Centre, 7:30 p.m.

Julia Baird, sister of John Lennon, signs copies of her book Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon. Held in conjunction with the Mersey Beatles concert.

Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play!

The Orpheum, 6:30 p.m., $15-$20 Formal Elephant Gerald and fun Piggie are best friends who are putting on a musical. They will be expecting audience participation.

Homeroom Midtown Crossing Grill, 7:30 p.m., $5 A comedy show built around the theme of school.

Get ready to eat out for Memphis Black Restaurant Week!

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Talk by Ken Robison Annesdale Mansion, 11 a.m.

Ken Robison talks about how he restored the historic Annesdale Mansion.

All the Way Playhouse on the Square, 8 p.m., $22 Political drama about Lyndon B. Johnson.

“do it” Crosstown Arts, 6-9 p.m.

A collaborative show between the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, U of M Lambuth campus, and Crosstown Arts, based on a famous open-ended concept where artists are given instructions to create works. Participating artists include Corkey Sinks, Terri Jones, Terry Lynn, Johnathan Payne, and Cat Peña.

“Dorothy’s Bathroom” Found, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception for new work by Adam Farmer.

“Night Shift”

Flying High Again The members of Memphis’ FreakEngine improv company called it quits last summer, and after 18 uninterrupted years of late-night insanity at TheatreWorks, Memphis found itself without a regular midnight show. But nature hates a vacuum, and it didn’t take long for a coalition of vaudeville types to dream up “Night Shift,” an everevolving variety show to take its place.

Callie Compton’s company Weightless Aerial had been around for about a year when the time slot become available. “When we saw FreakEngine was abandoning that spot, we immediately started talking to people about how we might fill it,” she says. The result was “Night Shift,” a monthly multi-media event hosted by Memphis comedian Katrina Coleman.

“Every show we do has a story,” Compton says. This time around, the story is a period piece about a young man looking for love in the 1980s. “But we have so many different kinds of artists we work with, and it’s always different every time.”

In addition to performing with traditional hoops and silks, two members of Weightless work with aerial straps that hang like ribbons made from seatbelt material. “It’s incredibly difficult,” Compton says. “The silks are beautiful and elegant, but this is stronger. It’s more focused on the performer and less on the apparatus. With so much less going on, you can really see the movement and the strength.”

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National Parks Adventure 3D CTI 3D Giant Theater, 9:45 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m.

Opening day of this IMAX film covering such parks as Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, Yosemite, and Arches.

Free Man of Color Hattiloo Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $13-$26 A freed slave is taken under the wing of a college president, and expectations on both sides are challenged.

“Kin Killin’ Kin” National Civil Rights Museum, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., $12-$15 An exhibit of work by James Pate, from his “KKK” series, examining youth and gun violence.

Cognac, Cars, & Cigars LAZ Parking Garage rooftop (200 S. Second), 5-9 p.m., $100 An evening of cognac and premium cigars, plus luxury cars. Benefiting Make-A-Wish Mid-South.

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Cracking the Cosmic Egg Australia’s Wolfmother returns to Memphis.

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n 2005, Sidney, Australia’s, Wolfmother arrived when one rock heyday was in its 11th hour and another underground metal-originated movement was just about to find wider-scale popularity. This fortuitous timing and combining of influences from both movements brought quick success to the power-trio, which was sustained until after the release of its second album Cosmic Egg in 2009.

The past five years have seen some ups and downs for the festival-favoring, hard-rock/’70s-metal endeavor of founder Andrew Stockdale and different backing lineups, but it looks like the recently released Victorious might help return at least some of the spotlight the band enjoyed earlier in its career.

There’s no doubt that the 2000-2005 era was one defined by near or full-on mass acceptance of guitar bands offering up their version of a style that was already well-established by whatever underground movement happened to respectively birth and develop it over the preceding years. This gave us the Strokes and Interpol, plus brought the White Stripes and the Hives up from their more grassroots origins. A ton of other bands and factors played into this as well, but by mid-decade it had given way to a widespread re-embracing of heavier fare, thus giving different modicums of higher exposure and success to Dead Meadow, Queens of the Stone Age, the Sword, Sweden’s Witchcraft, and, in some indirect manner, this helped contribute to the blindsiding megasuccess of the far more commercially viable Wolfmother.

Guitarist/vocalist/principle songwriter Andrew Stockdale, bassist/keyboardist Chris Ross, and drummer Myles Heskett cherry-picked the right characteristics from both the former “new rock” era and the latter “retro-metal” salad days, and the Wolfmother name came not long before playing their first live show in spring of 2004. Signed to Australian major-label imprint Modular Recordings by August of that same year, the trio released their debut four-song, self-titled EP a month later, and it gained respectable purchase on the ARIA Australian Singles Chart. The EP was recorded in Detroit

by Dirtbombs bassist Jim Diamond, best known for recording the first two White Stripes albums then suing the post-fame version of the duo over crediting disputes (Jack and Meg won the dispute).

Wolfmother

Wolfmother toured for months in support of the EP and signed an international record deal with Modular parent label Universal Music Group. The trio’s self-titled, full-length debut was released in Australia at the end of October 2005 and elsewhere around the world on subsequent dates. Recorded by indemand, hard-rock/metal producer Dave Sardy, the album was certified 5x platinum in Australia as well as gold in the U.K. and U.S. by 2007, where it peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200. Much of the stateside success was due to the 2006 mega-hit “Woman” (the fourth single released from the album), which took the 2007 Grammy award for “Best Hard Rock Performance.”

Wolfmother is a deft, hard-rock repurposing of the White Stripes, is stuffed to the gills with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin riffs, and is presented as a more melodic, less “scary,” and much more commercially viable stoner-metal package than what the Sword or High on Fire had to offer. Tall, skinny, well-dressed, and coifed somewhere between Grand Funk Railroad’s Don Brewer and the MC5’s Rob Tyner, Stockdale added the appropriate guitar moves and cut a figure built for the festival stage. Once the debut broke in the U.K. and U.S. by mid-2006, Wolfmother was soon assuming prime slots at festivals around the world. The band followed up the album with the four-song Dimensions EP in 2006, then a live video album titled Please Experience Wolfmother Live in 2007 and contributed the song “Pleased to Meet You” to the Spider-Man 3 soundtrack that same year.

In early 2008, Wolfmother’s label announced via press release that “irreconcilable personal and musical differences” had ended the band. However, Wolfmother’s sophomore follow-up album was already in the works, and after a brief spell with the Raconteurs drummer, Patrick Keeler, Stockdale reassembled what he called “Wolfmother Phase II,” a quartet with Ian Peres on bass/ keyboards, Aidan Nemeth on second guitar, and Dave Atkins on drums. The lineup was made official by January of 2009, and, later that year, the longer, heavier, and all-

around bigger Cosmic Egg appeared and peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard 200 and sold boatloads in Australia.

As a sign of the changing musical landscape, the next few years were not as commercially fruitful for Wolfmother, and Stockdale had to steer the band through more lineup turmoil and other challenges. He released what was to be the band’s third album, 2013’s Keep Moving, under his own name, then two months later resurrected the Wolfmother moniker for a string of live dates. In March of 2014, Wolfmother’s third proper full-length, New Crown, was released out of nowhere as a digital download on Bandcamp. Self-produced and self-released without any promotion, the album still sold well in Australia and cracked the Billboard 200 at No. 160.

Signaling a return to the band’s earlier years, this month the fourth Wolfmother album, Victorious, was released by Universal Music Enterprises (or UMe). It was recorded by noted producer Brendan O’Brien (also former vice president of Epic Records) at Henson Recording in Hollywood. Stockdale wrote everything on the album and performed all of the vocals, guitars, and bass himself, with keyboards contributed by regular touring bassist Peres and drums handled by Josh Freese and Joey Waronker.

The tour that brings Wolfmother to Memphis is known as the “Gypsy Caravan Tour” and will feature a trio configuration of the band with Peres on bass and Alex Carapetis on drums.

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Keeping It Visible Ken Steorts on Visible Music College’s new Center for Memphis Music.

Memphis Flyer: What all will the new Center for Memphis Music offer? How will it improve your reach to students?

Ken Steorts: Most young people do not really know the music history of any area, much less a new area they move to for college. Memphis has great history but also great life in the starting up of bands locally today. The Center for Memphis Music will allow scholarships for students to research and remind people about Memphis music of all styles. The Center will help with content and programming for radio and internet and work with Madison Line Records to promote new artists. This work in turn lets other students know about the college and helps in recruiting high-level students to Memphis and retaining them in this area.

I read that the Center will allow “regular scholarly activity around Memphis Music Legacy.” How will it solidify Visible’s commitment to the past, present, and future of Memphis music?

Much of the beauty of Memphis music history is the interaction between various groups in different styles of music and the way that can be a positive factor for the community. Having students spend their internship hours, research papers, and summer work hours on Memphis music topics will help the whole music community.

We’ve done this kind of work off the radar since 2000.

We want to name the efforts, focus scholarship dollars and time toward it, and keep our focus on Memphis as our hometown, even as we plant smaller campus locations away from here. Those students can also come into Memphis to study and contribute from other campuses.

How did your relationship with the Mike Curb Institute develop? What opportunities will grow from the partnership?

What Mike Curb has done at Rhodes is a boost to the Memphis music scene. We’ve done projects together, like bringing Rosanne Cash here and exchanging students.

Students will get to see other campuses and relate with different levels of professionals, educators, and long-time musicians. They’ll be able to do shows, research, and per-

form together. We are hopeful to play shows with the Curb Institute and others when there is any opportunity.

How does working with other organizations help Visible College?

We are a very small and young college with little resources. Our main energy is in the people and time to love and nurture music. We love working with other organizations because people meet our students and see the vision for a dedicated Christian music college.

Where will the other centers be located, and will they be any different from this one?

Very different. We are vetting the rollout timeline and purpose for the remainder of the year. The other three will be very diversely focused. Two of them will likely be in other locations than Memphis. That’s why we wanted to lead with the hometown Center for Memphis Music. We have a very diverse student body, and interests range from blues to Christian worship to all styles.

Of all that Visible College has accomplished, what are you most proud of?

I am most proud of the work we do with raising musicians to be successful people with their music and careers — placing them into bands, studios, churches, and teaching. They’re being visible.

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Ken Steorts is on a mission from God, so to speak. Steorts founded the Visible Music College in 2000 to create an academic environment where students could marry spiritual and professional growth. Visible celebrated its 15th anniversary last year. The college has launched Madison Line Records, an affiliate label that signs student bands and gets them on the road, and established campuses in Chicago, Dallas, and Germany. Visible will now open four Music Centers to further spur student research and creativity, and recently opened one at Visible’s downtown Memphis location. — Joshua Cannon

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Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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.; DJ J2 Fridays, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.-5 a.m.; The 901 Heavy Hitters Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Flyn Ryan Fridays, Saturdays, 2:30 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

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The King Beez Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.

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

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

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Blake Shelton Thursday, March 3, 7:30 p.m.; Winter Jam 2016 Tour Spectacular Saturday, March 5, 6:45 p.m.

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The Johnny Go Band Thursdays, Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Rob Haynes & the Memphis Flash Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.; The Memphis House Rockers Saturdays, 3-7 p.m., and Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.; Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 Sundays, 3-7 p.m., and Mondays, 7-11 p.m.

Bad Boy Matt & the Amazing Rhythmatics Tuesdays, Thursdays-Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007

Sam Mooney Friday, March 4; Jerred Price as Almost Elton John Saturday, March 5, 9-11 p.m., and Sunday, March 6, 3-5 p.m.; Seeing Red Sunday, March 6, 6-8 p.m.

162 BEALE 521-1851

King’s Palace Cafe’s Patio Mack 2 Band Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Jeffries & the Kings of Memphis Thursdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Nate Dogg and the Fellas Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; McDaniel Band Saturdays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m., and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Chic Jones Sundays, Tuesdays, 6:3010:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Wednesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

3/3 PAUL THORN 8PM | 3/4 JOHNNY MAC & THE HEART AT TACK 10PM | 3/5 WILLIAM CL ARK GREEN 10PM | 3/6 BRIAN JOHNSON BAND 8PM | 3/7 THE Blues City Cafe RUST Y PIECES 6PM | 3/8 MASON JAR FIREFLIES 138 BEALE 526-3637 Itta Bena 8PM | 3/9 DEERING & DOWN 8PM Brad Birkedahl Band Thurs145 BEALE 578-3031 Susan Marshall Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

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days, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

183 BEALE 522-9596

Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., and Sundays, 4-9 p.m.; Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-3 a.m., and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

Bryson Tiller Wednesday, March 9, 7 p.m.

182 BEALE 528-0150

David Bowen Thursdays, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Nancy Apple Thursday, March 3, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

162 BEALE 521-1851

Silky O’Sullivan’s

Rum Boogie Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe

200 BEALE 527-2687

Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sean “Bad” Apple Friday, March 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursday, March 3, 8 p.m.-midnight, Friday, March 4, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Gracie Curran & the High Falutin’ Band Monday, March 7, 7-11 p.m., and Tuesday, March 8, 7-11 p.m.; Little Boys Blue Wednesday, March 9, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Friday, March 4, 8 p.m.-midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Monday, March 7, 8 p.m.-midnight;

MARCH 5

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

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

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

Live Pianist Thursdays, 5:308:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-9 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and MondaysWednesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.

The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

Old School Blues and Jazz Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.

Purple Haze Nightclub

Brinson’s 341 MADISON 524-0104

Melting Pot: Artist Showcase Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

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

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

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299

140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.; Neo Soul Saturdays featuring Tamara Jones Monger, Carmen, Pat Register, and more first Saturday of every month, 7-10:30 p.m.

Riverfront Bar & Grill 251 RIVERSIDE

Local Music Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Mersey Beatles Friday, March 4.

Rumba Room

Huey’s Downtown

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

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

Memphis Sounds Lounge

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

The Chaulkies Sunday, March 6, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

22 N. THIRD 590-4049

Grown Folks Music first Thursday of every month, 7:30 p.m.

WILLIAM CLARK GREEN

The Silly Goose DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

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JAMIE HARMON

DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

MISOMI BENEFIT AT THE HI-TONE The third annual MISOMI (Memphians in Support of the Mentally Ill) benefit takes place this Saturday at the Hi-Tone. Put together by Graham Winchester — the organizer behind the Memphis Does Bowie benefit that generated nearly $20,000 for St. Jude — MISOMI features a whole slew of popular local bands, in addition to art, clothing, and food available for purchase. All proceeds from the show will go to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), and a $10 donation is required upon entry. As far as benefits go, Winchester has proven he’s capable of throwing great ones, and his connections to the Memphis music scene give him the ability to curate a lineup that few others could fathom or pull off.

Jack Oblivian is the biggest name on the bill, but other premier local acts include the jam band Devil Train, downer punks True Sons of Thunder, overall weirdos Zigadoo Moneyclips, and garage rockers the Sheiks. Also set to play are Crockett Hall, Brandon Taylor, Chickasaw Mound, Doctor Brown, the Incredible Hook, Kitty Dearing and the Dagnabbits, Los Cantadores, the Maitre D’s, Office Buildings, Southern Avenue, and Winchester and the Ammunition. The show will take place in both rooms of the Hi-Tone, with non-stop music happening from 8:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.

With so many great local bands in one place and all the money going to an amazing cause, there’s really no reason not to stop by the Hi-Tone at some point on Saturday night. As for Graham Winchester becoming one of the best local show promoters in town, many of us are left wondering one thing: What will he do next? — Chris Shaw The 3rd annual MISOMI benefit, Saturday, March 5th at the Hi-Tone.

9 p.m. $10.

South Main Onix 412 S. MAIN 901 552-4609

Neo Soul and R&B first Thursday of every month, 7-10 p.m.; Smooth Jazz Fridays first Friday of every month, 8-11 p.m.; R&B first Saturday of every month, 8-11 p.m.

Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

James and the Ultrasounds Friday, March 4; Mighty Souls Brass Band Saturday, March 5; Graham Winchester Wednesday, March 9, 7:30 p.m.

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538

Two Peace Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Ross Rice Friday, March 4; Titanium Blue Saturday, March 5.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Country Fried Friday with Big Barton Friday, March 4, 9:30 p.m.; The Lesser Knowns Saturday, March 5, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard James Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Ukulele Club Jam Tuesday, March 8, 7 p.m.; Anne Schorr Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

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

Coyote Union, Zigadoo Moneyclips, Faith Evans Ruch Thursday, March 3, 8 p.m.; Roots of a Rebellion with Chinese Connection Dub Embassy Friday, March 4, 9 p.m.; MISOMI benefit Saturday, March 5, 9 p.m.; Rock Eupora with Ugly Girls & Gopes Busters Sunday, March 6, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; GOSH PITH Tuesday, March 8, 9 p.m.; Matthew & the Arrogant Sea, Charley Crockett Wednesday, March 9, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Deering & Down Sunday, March 6, 4-7 p.m.; Laura Rain and the Caesars Sunday, March 6, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Paul Thorn Thursday, March 3, 8-11 p.m.; Loveland Duren Friday, March 4, 6:30 p.m.; Johnny Mac and the Heart Attacks Friday, March 4,

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Memphis Ukelele Meetup Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

That 1 Guy Tuesday, March 8, 8 p.m.; Wolfmother: The Gypsy Caravan Tour Wednesday, March 9, 7 p.m.

Sports Junction 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Live DJ Fridays.; Live music Saturdays.; Karaoke Wednesdays.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

The Soul Connection Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

University of Memphis Triple S 1747 WALKER 421-6239

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

East Memphis Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School 60 N. PERKINS EXT. 537-1483

“Youth Classical Concert” Friday, March 4, 7-8:15 p.m.

Murphy’s

Dan McGuinness Pub

1589 MADISON 726-4193

4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

Earl the Pearl & the People of the Blues Friday, March 4, 6-9 p.m.; Toy Trucks with Radio Ghost and Crockett Hall Friday, March 4, 9 p.m.; The Alps Saturday, March 5; Indeed, We Digress with Braver and Shamefinger Wednesday, March 9.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

New Artists Weekend Friday, March 4, 8 p.m., and Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight; Terry Prince & the Principles, the Conspiracy Theory Wednesday, March 9.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Memphis Songwriters Association second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9 p.m.

Acoustic with Charvey Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

El Toro Loco 2809 KIRBY PKWY. 759-0593

Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

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

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

Howard Vance Guitar Academy 978 REDDOCH 767-6940

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

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, March 6, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturday, March 5, 11 a.m.; Pam & Terry Saturday, March 5, 6:30 p.m.; William Clark Green Saturday, March 5, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Jeffrey and the Pacemakers Sunday, March 6, 4 p.m.; Brian Johnson Band Sunday, March 6, 8 p.m.; The Rusty Pieces Monday, March 7, 6 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesday, March 8, 5:30 p.m.; Mason Jar Fireflies Tuesday, March 8, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Deering & Down Wednesday, March 9, 8 p.m.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule March 3 - 9

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

Shady Grove Presbyterian Church

RockHouse Live

Bartlett Municipal Center 5868 STAGE

Grif ’s Gifts Live - Welcome to the Stage Mondays-Sundays, 6-7:30 p.m.

5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

A Fund-raising Event Promoting Diversity in Classical Music Saturday, March 5, 2-3:30 p.m.

Fitz Casino & Hotel 711 LUCKY LN., TUNICA, MS 800-766-5825

Beat Generation Sunday, March 6, 8-11:30 p.m.

Huey’s Cordova

Ice Bar & Grill

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

JoJo Jeffries and Ronnie Caldwell Sunday, March 6, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

5530 SHADY GROVE 683-7329

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Unwind Wednesdays Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.

6069 PARK 767-6002

Carlos & Adam from the Late Greats Thursdays, 7-9 p.m.; Elizabeth Wise Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.

Hollywood Casino

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

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

Juno Marrs Sunday, March 6, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Neil’s Music Room Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Susanne Jerome Taylor Band Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.; Savannah Long Sunday, March 6, 6-9 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Mesquite Chop House 5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

Pam and Terry Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.

THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

Barbie’s Barlight Lounge 661 N. MENDENHALL

Possum Daddy’s Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

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Hadley’s Pub

Whitehaven/ Airport Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant 4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

Karaoke with DJ Stylez Thursdays, Sundays, 10 p.m.

March Music Calendar Wednesdays-Sundays.; Charlie Belt and Friends Thursday, March 3, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Brian Johnson Band Friday, March 4, 8 p.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Saturday, March 5, 9 p.m.; The Original Sunday Funday with Almost Famous Sunday, March 6, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

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

Sign & Drive Zero Down!

GOSSETTHYUNDAI.COM

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Karaoke with Ricky Mack Mondays, 10 p.m.1 a.m.; Open Mic with Susie and Bob Salley Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Shelby Forest General Store

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

Mesquite Chop House

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Collierville

Germantown

Huey’s Collierville

Germantown Performing Arts Center

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

The Dantones Sunday, March 6, 8-11:30 p.m.

Lucius E. & Elsie C. Burch Jr. Library 501 POPLAR VIEW, COLLIERVILLE 457-2600

Lily Afshar Saturday, March 5, 4-5 p.m.

Cordova Bahama Breeze 2830 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 385-8744

Karaoke Mondays, 8-11 p.m.

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Wadford’s Grill & Bar

GOSSETT HYUNDAI

4148 WALES 373-0155

Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.1 a.m., and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

6565 TOWNE CENTER, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-536-2200

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

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

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

Poplar/I-240 East Tapas and Drinks

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

1801 EXETER 751-7500

Memphis Symphony Orchestra Paul & Linnea Bert Classic Accents Series: Vivaldi’s Seasons Sunday, March 6, 2:30-4:30 p.m.; ArtSavvy - International Series: Irish Music Traditions Tuesday, March 8, 7-8 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Soul Shockers Sunday, March 6, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Pam and Terry Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.

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

Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.; Half Step Down Fridays, 7-10 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica The Crossing Bar & Grill 7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242

Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

474 CHURCH, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5861

662DJ, Karaoke/Open Mic Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

Raleigh Mugs Pub 4396 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 372-3556

Karaoke Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Open Mic Blues Jam with Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas Southland Park Gaming & Racing 1550 N. INGRAM, WEST MEMPHIS, AR 800-467-6182

DJ Crumbz Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Club Night Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Dantone’s Band Friday, March 4, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., and Saturday, March 5, 10 p.m.2 a.m.; Live Band Karaoke Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Boot Scootin’ Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

The New Backdour Bar & Grill 302 S. AVALON 596-7115

Ms. Ruby Wilson and Friends Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke with Tim Bachus Mondays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

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hat happens when a bit of harmless Mary Queen of Scots cosplay results in a near beheading? To find that out, you’ll need to reserve tickets for Lettice and Lovage, an intensely British comedy that was first staged in 1987 but feels like it might have been written with modern Memphis in mind. If you’re the sort of person who’s ever signed a petition to save the Nineteenth Century Club, or carried a sign to protest parking on the Overton Park Greensward, or gotten verklempt because some solid piece of architecture was demolished to make room for a Family Dollar, the jokes will resonate. To make things even more Memphis-esque, there’s a magnificent ritualized #wigsnatch near the end of act two.

Lettice and Lovage playwright Peter Shaffer is best known for weighty dramas like Equus and Amadeus, but the man could flat write a gag. If Lettice seems like a trifle compared to his more frequently produced tragedies, it’s a funny trifle, and more than a little wise.

The New Moon Theatre Company’s current production may be austere, but it’s “enlarged, enlivened, and enlightened” in every way by a pair of finely tuned performances from Sarah Brown and Anita “Jo” Lenhart. Their meandering scenes are a real treat for theatergoers with a taste for quirk.

Brown plays Lettice Douffet, a tour guide with a flair for the dramatic, a lust for the life less “mere,” and a terrible reputation for straying from history’s facts whenever the facts are too damn boring to repeat in front of a live audience. Lettice’s gross historical embellishments bring her into conflict with Lenhart’s Lotte Schoen, an administrator for the historical preservation society who seems buttoned up but is truthfully on the verge of complete radicalization.

Shaffer’s comedy of little old ladies planning acts of violent terrorism is bottom-heavy and wears out its welcome somewhere in the middle of an ample third act. Brown and Lenhart are so full of life and fun to watch it doesn’t matter.

Lettice and Lovage at TheatreWorks through March 13th.

Marriage to an Older Woman isn’t “mustsee” theater. John Fritz’s obscure-for-a-reason play introduces us to Babs, a 73-yearold free spirit who upsets her daughter by marrying a wealthy but uptight 60-yearold stranger on a cruise ship. It’s situation comedy that plays like the never-aired pilot to a failed Love Boat spin-off. It’s not unwatchable, but it’s not a strong “hello” for Memphis’ newest theater company, Cloud 9.

Marriage to an Older Woman was originally produced in Memphis by Playwrights Forum and is fondly remembered in some circles due to strong performances by a pair of actresses who are no longer with us: Dorothy Blackwood and Laurie Cook McIntosh. Cloud 9’s cast is capable, but it’s not Blackwood/McIntosh capable, and the material isn’t strong enough to merit revival.

It’s been said — and rightly, I think — that you shouldn’t produce a gun on stage unless somebody’s going to use it. Something similar might be said about the half-dozen ukuleles and other musical props decorating the set of Marriage to an Older Woman, a play that, as near as I can tell, has absolutely nothing to do with ukuleles or music of any kind. Nevertheless, various instruments hang on the wall and lurk in corners, waiting for somebody to pick them up and make noise. The play has even less to do with Marty Robbins, the great country crooner whose face is conspicuously displayed on the back wall like the picture of Tom Wingfield’s absentee father in The Glass Menagerie. Just as the presence of a firearm might create a sense of impending danger, these kinds of props create a different kind of anticipation that competes with the script for attention. Unfortunately, the promise of song and some textual connection to the famous El Paso balladeer is more intriguing than anything that ever happens in the play. It’s an itch that’s never scratched in a show where even the longest scene transitions occur in silent blackouts.

Marriage to an Older Woman at Evergreen Theatre through March 6th.

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Marriage to an Older Woman, while on a cruise, 73-year-old Babs falls in love with Carl, 13 years her junior, and they elope.

Upon returning home, the infatuation fades, but not the comedy. (272-9323). $10-$15.

Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 5 p.m. Through March 6.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Playhouse 51

Catch Me If You Can, mystery comedy full of murder and whodunit. www.playhouse51. com. $12. Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., and first Sunday of every month, 2 p.m. Through March 13.

8077 WILKINSVILLE (872-7170).

Playhouse on the Square 4th Annual “NewWorks @ TheWorks” Competition, two scripts will receive full productions during the 2017-18 season and cash prizes. See website for full details. $15. Through May 30.

All the Way, political drama set in November 1963. An assassin’s bullet has just catapulted Lyndon Baines Johnson into the presidency, a man with a towering ambition and appetite, embroiled in the Civil Rights Act. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $22-$30. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through March 26.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Poplar Pike Playhouse

The Little Mermaid, www.ppp. org. $15. Thursdays-Saturdays.

Through March 12.

GERMANTOWN HIGH SCHOOL, 7653 POPLAR PIKE (755-7775).

Shady Grove Presbyterian Church

Theater auditions/workshops: The Fix Is In, Our Own Voice Theatre Troupe is seeking men and women of all ages for original production. Rehearsals will begin Mar. 7 and performances, May 6-21. (274-1000). Free. Sat., March 5, 4-6 p.m.

WKNO Studio

Lettice and Lovage, expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, Lettice Douffet is an enthusiast of history and the theater. As a tour guide at Fustian House, she theatrically embellishes its historical past. (494-8657), www. newmoontheatre.org/. $15-$20.

Fridays, Saturdays, 8-10 p.m., and Sundays, 2-4 p.m. Through March 13.

Night Shift: ’80s in the Air, circus meets theater in this wickedly wild, loosely scripted show, featuring sky-high aerial acrobatics and sketch comedy with all the nostalgia and rock of the ’80s.

(569-4305), www.theatreworksmemphis.org. $15. First Friday of every month, 11:30 p.m.-3 a.m. Through Dec. 2.

Night Shift, after-hours cabaret and variety show featuring HEELS, Requiemma, Just Larry, Dan Castillo, and OAM Audio with hostess Katrina Coleman.

(283-3814), www.theatreworksmemphis.org. $15. First Friday of every month, 11:45 p.m.

Opening reception for new works by Tim Andrews and Joel Hilgenberg, www. wkno.org. Fri., March 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Artist Talks & Performance: “do it”

Exhibition of instructions by nearly 300 artists, choreographers, writers, and poets featured in more than 50 exhibitions worldwide. Sat., March 5, 5-7 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S

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

Circuit Playhouse

Dale Anderson, exhibition of new photographic works. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. Fri., March 4, 6-7:30 p.m.

Celtic Crossings: The Art of the Celtic Knot

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Crosstown Arts

Artist reception for “Crosstown Outside In,” oils on canvas by Tom Stem depicting the recent transformation of Crosstown.

Fri., March 4, 4-6 p.m.

Opening reception for “do it,” exhibition of instructions by nearly 300 artists, choreographers, writers, and poets featured in more than 50 exhibitions worldwide. www. crosstownarts.org. Fri., March 4, 6-9 p.m.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

5530 SHADY GROVE (683-7329).

Opening reception for Richard Knowles’ “A Creative Life: 1934-2010” at L Ross Friday

L Ross Gallery

Found Studio

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

394 N. WATKINS (443-0502).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

Ross Gallery

Opening reception for “Dorothy’s Bathroom,” new work by Adam Farmer. Fri., March 4, 6-8 p.m.

2491 BROAD (652-0848).

Java Cabana

Opening reception for “Unfolding Stories,” new works by Erica McCarrens. Fri., March 4, 6-9 p.m.

Opening reception for “A Creative Life: 1934-2010,” exhibition honoring the late Richard Knowles. www.lrossgallery.com.

Fri., March 4, 6-8 p.m.

Artist reception for MGAL Star Artist Exhibition, winners will be announced. (921-1767), mgal.org. Thurs., March 3, 5:307:30 p.m.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Midtown Crossing Grill

Artist reception for Lindsey Jenkins, exhibition of colorful, abstract, and non-representational works. Thurs., March 3, 6:30 p.m.

Opening reception for “James Crews: A Retrospective,” exhibition of paintings, prints, and works on paper. www.cbu. edu/gallery. Fri., March 4, 5:307:30 p.m.

Join the Calligraphy Guild as Peggy Kunkel demonstrates the techniques of drawing a Celtic knot. Supplies on hand. Free.

Mon., March 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

GERMANTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH, 9450 POPLAR (652-8013), WWW.CALLIGRAPHYGUILD.COM.

Cooper-Young Art Tours

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

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

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

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

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An evening of painting, dining, raffles, and fun benefiting the Grace House of Memphis. $60.

Wed., March 9, 6-8 p.m.

PINOT’S PALETTE, 5040 SANDERLIN, SUITE 111 (761.0012), WWW. PINOTSPALETTE.COM.

“Home Is Where the Art Is”

Indoor art fair presents an added dimension to the MidSouth Home Expressions Showcase.

Fri.-Sun., Mar. 4-6.

LANDERS CENTER, 4660 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120), WWW.LANDERSCENTER.COM.

“Kin Killin’ Kin”

Exhibition on youth and gun violence in our communities.

March 5-April 29.

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

Open call for Memphis LGBTQ Artists

Looking for artists who explore LGBTQ themes in their work to participate in a project that integrates art and outreach in LGBTQ communities. For more information, call or email rogap16@rhodes.edu.

Ongoing.

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (860-304-4773), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

Open call for “Queer On!” Scripts

New Works Competition focusing on Queer Youth Theatre will accept 10-minute plays/ pieces for review. For more information and submission guidelines, visit website or email carly@playhouseonthesquare.org. $5 entry fee per submission. Through April 30.

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

Randall Goosby: Meet the Artist Q&A

Fund-raising event promoting diversity in classical music featuring Randall Goosby, Arthur Hart, and PRIZM alumni. Sat., March 5, 1:30 p.m.

SHADY GROVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 5530 SHADY GROVE (683-7329), WWW.PRIZMENSEMBLE.COM.

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The Annesdale Park Gallery

“Viewfinders: Music & Motion,” exhibition featuring work by Peter Barta, S.Julian Jenkins, Jenn Billy Brandt, Dr. Tom Gettelfinger, Fred Toma, and Ebet Roberts. A portion of the proceeds benefit Church Health Center. www.annesdaleparkgallery.com. Through March 8.

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

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

Ongoing.

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

Banks House Gallery & Gift Shop

DeSoto Arts Council Winter Show, www.desotoarts.com.

Ongoing.

564 W. COMMERCE.

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).

The Blues Foundation

“Cast of Blues,” exhibition of blues musician life casts by Sharon McConnell-Dickerson. www.blues.org. Through April 30.

Locally sponsored by:

421 S. MAIN.

Box Gallery

“Psi Ops,” exhibition of photography by Jesse DeLira.

Through March 8.

And see a show in our brand new Planetarium!

3715 CENTRAL.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“Artworks by EMYO,” exhibition of works by Emily Ozier. www.buckmanartscenter.com.

Through April 4.

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

Cafe Pontotoc

“Exploration in Imagination,” exhibition of mixed-media works by Elayna Scott, inspired by nature and her travels.

Ongoing.

314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

Circuitous Succession Gallery

Lawrence Jasud, www.circuitoussuccession.com. Through March 14.

500 S. SECOND.

David Lusk Gallery

“OPENING: David Lusk Gallery 97 Tillman,” exhibition of a group of work specifically showcasing the history and future of the building. Through March 5.

“Trending Geometric” and “Now Here Then,” exhibition of work by Kit Reuther and Huger Foote. www.davidluskgallery.com.

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The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Amalgamations,” exhibition of digital reimagining of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens permanent collection by Joshua Brinlee. Through April 3.

“Painting American Progress: Selections from the Kattner Collection and More,” exhibition of The Nina and Keith Kattner Collection of American paintings, on long-term loan to the Dixon, offering incredible examples of American art.

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Pinkney Herbert, exhibition of abstract paintings. Through April 3.

“The Voyage of Life,” exhibition of four allegorical landscapes

by Thomas Cole (1801-1848). www.dixon.org. Through April 3.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Shaken, Not Stirred,” exhibition of mixed-media works

by Mary-Ellen Kelly. Through April 18.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

“The Marketing of Perception,” exhibition of recent works exploring issues of race, image, and appropriation by Lawrence Matthews III. www.memphis. edu. Through March 4.

3715 CENTRAL.

Memphis Botanic Garden

“The Memphis 10,” exhibition of paintings by a group of artists. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through March 28.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Clare Leighton and Thomas W. Nason: Common Threads,” exhibition by masters in the medium of wood engraving, exceptional in expressing the simplicity and integrity of rural subjects. www.brooksmuseum. org. Through March 13.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Littoral Drift,” exhibition of works by photographic artist Meghann Riepenhoff. Through March 26.

“Blood Works,” exhibition of self-portrait paintings by Tim Andrews addressing the personal and societal implica-

Morton Museum of Collierville History

“Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation,” personal accounts, artifacts, and films from a 13,000-acre tobacco plantation in Robertson County examining the institution of slavery and its impact on the state and the nation. colliervillemuseum.org. Through March 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

196 MAIN, COLLIERVILLE (457-2650).

NJ Woods Gallery and Design

“Dog Gone It,” exhibition of work by Debra Edge. Ongoing.

2563 BROAD.

Soulsville, USA Towne Center Building

“Frozen Landscapes,” exhibition of multi-media work by Judith Dierkes. www.judithdierkes.weebly.com. Through March 31.

915 E. MCLEMORE.

TOPS Gallery

“A Piece Is Loose,” exhibition of paintings by Kevin Ford. www.topsgallery.com. Through April 4.

400 S. FRONT.

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Enjoy an evening of classical music and dance for the entire family to enjoy. Free. Fri., March 4, 7-8:15 p.m.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (870.4348), WWW.BALLETONWHEELS.ORG.

Places

An Evening with Ballet Memphis:

Night of drinks, discussion, and dance with the brilliant minds behind Ballet Memphis’s latest show. Fri., March 4, 7 p.m.

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

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“James Crews: A Retrospective” at CBU’s Ross Gallery Friday Hyde Gallery

2016 Art Education Thesis Exhibition, www.mca.edu.

Through March 8.

INSIDE THE MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART’S NESIN GRADUATE SCHOOL, 477 S. MAIN.

Jay Etkin Gallery

David Hall. www.jayetkingallery.com. Through March 10.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

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Representing individuals with Down syndrome in the area of the performing arts. Celebrated for their musicality, inspiration, and ability to shape the culture of their community one step at a time. $15. Thur.-Fri., Mar.3-4, 7-8:30 p.m.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

HUTCHISON SCHOOL, 1740 RIDGEWAY (761-2220), WWW. FACEBOOK.COM/COMPANYDDANCERS.

Metal Museum

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“Residence of the Heart,” exhibition of jewelry using contemporary gold granulation techniques by Douglas Harling.

Through March 6.

“Taiwan International Metal Crafts Competition,” exhibition of objects and jewelry promoting the metal crafts of Taiwan. www.metalmuseum. org. Through March 13.

Dancers, athletic prowess, bold music, and commanding choreography are the hallmarks of this jazz-based company and dance ensemble. $28. Thurs., March 3, 7-9 p.m.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Noble Sounds Orchestra and the Bankers. Semi-formal attire. BYOB. $10. First Sunday of every month, 2-6 p.m.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1486), BUCKMANARTSCENTER.COM.

Shrine Tea Dance

AL CHYMIA SHRINE CENTER, 5770 SHELBY OAKS (377-7336), SHRINE-DANCE-MEMPHIS.COM.

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The Cove

Comedy with Dagmar, open mic comedy. www. thecovememphis.com. Sundays, 7-9 p.m.

2559 BROAD (730-0719).

Flirt Nightclub

Trippin on Thursday, hosted by K-97 Funnyman Prescott. Thursdays, 6 p.m.

3659 S. MENDENHALL (485-1119).

Hi-Tone

Don’t Be Afraid of the Comedy, Memphis, Mon., March 7, 9 p.m.

412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE).

Midtown Crossing Grill

Homeroom: Back by Popular Demand, stand-up and chaos as comedians face challenges themed around school. The action is completely unpredictable, but the result is a fun-filled show unlike any seen before. $5. Fri., March 4, 7:30 p.m.

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Julia Baird

Author and sister of John Lennon signs Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon in conjunction with concert by the Mersey Beatles. Fri., March 4, 7:30 p.m.

THE HALLORAN CENTRE, 225 S. MAIN (529-4299), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

Insect Pests of Ornamental Plants

Panel discussions feature Memphis leaders talking about issues facing our community and how people are running straight toward issues rather than complaining or inaction. Tues., March 8, 6:30-9 p.m.

MCLEAN BAPTIST CHURCH, 815 N. MCLEAN (274-3766), WWW.SERVE901.ORG.

Meet in the Halle Room with Chris Cooper and take a look at the different types of insects and the damage they can cause to plants. Get helpful advice on control. Wed., March 9, 3 p.m.

LUCIUS E. & ELSIE C. BURCH JR. LIBRARY, 501 POPLAR VIEW, COLLIERVILLE (457-2600), WWW.COLLIERVILLELIBRARY.ORG.

Brooks Museum League Meeting

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Advocating for the Marginalized: A Panel of Memphis Leaders Who Stand Up for the Vulnerable

Themed “Everything You Need to Know About Your Old House.” $50 members, $65 nonmembers.

Mondays, 7-8:30 p.m. Through March 31.

Ken Robison, owner of Annesdale Mansion, will discuss the journey of this magnificent estate and his vision. Fri., March 4, 11 a.m.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

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MEMPHIS HERITAGE, 2282 MADISON (272-2727), WWW.MEMPHISHERITAGE.ORG.

394 N. WATKINS (443-0502).

The Orpheum

Brian Regan, one of the most respected comedians in the country and a legendary performer. (5253000), www.orpheum-memphis.com. $42.50. Sat., March 5, 8-10 p.m.

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203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

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1532 MADISON (726-0906).

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Melting Pot: Artist Showcase, open mic night hosted by Darius “Phatmak” Clayton. $5. Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

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1747 WALKER (421-6239).

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Marcus Orr Center for the Humanities Lecture: Dr. Sally Haslanger

Ghost Hunter Class and Investigation

Memphis Sales & Management Career Fair

Titled “Beyond Belief: Racism and Social Critique,” guest speaks on topic. Free. Thurs., March 3, 5:30 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER, 255 UNIVERSITY CENTER, PARIS THEATER, MEMPHIS.EDU.

Munch and Learn

Bring your own lunch; sodas and water will be supplied. Guest speakers talk about various subjects in the Hughes Pavilion.

Free with gallery admission.

Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m.

Two-hour class and investigation hosted by a real paranormal investigator and TAPS family member at a site which was the scene of a brutal murder in 1918. $20. Sat., March 5, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

THE BROOM CLOSET, 546 S. MAIN (497-9486), WWW.HISTORICALHAUNTSMEMPHIS.COM.

Tours at Two

Join a Dixon docent or member of the curatorial staff on a tour of the current exhibitions. Free for members. $5 nonmembers.

Tuesdays, Sundays, 2-3 p.m.

Bring 10-15 resumes, dress business professional, and meet with hiring managers. Email resume to 11056-36-mh2006@ apply.maxhire.net. Wed., March 9, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

DOUBLETREE HOTEL, 5069 SANDERLIN, HIRELIVE.COM.

The MidSouth Home Expressions Show $8. Fri.-Sun., Mar. 4-6.

LANDERS CENTER, 4660 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120), WWW.LANDERSCENTER.COM.

S PO R TS / F IT N E S S

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

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

Walter Brueggemann: “How Do we Read the Bible Faithfully in the Midst of a Predatory Economy?”

Celebrate 40 years with garden docents who will be available to discuss plants and design representative of Memphis shade garden conditions. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon. Through Dec. 31.

Open for its second season in Shelby Farms Park. Ongoing.

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

Open house for beginners who want to get fit dancing. Sat., 7 p.m. Through March 5.

Walter Brueggemann, Old Testament scholar, minister, and author of more than 100 books, will speak on topic. Reception/book signing to follow in Cheney Parish Hall. Free.

Thurs., March 3, 7-8:45 p.m.

CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION, 4645 WALNUT GROVE (767-6987), WWW.HOLYCOMMUNION.ORG.

Woodland Garden Tours

Woodruff-Fontaine House Ghost Tour

Unique, dimly lit tour of the 1871 Victorian Village mansion with special emphasis on the family members who lived and died in the mansion. $25. Sat., March 5, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

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

Go Ape Treetop Adventure

SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.GOAPE.COM.

Let’s Square Dance

BARTLETT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 5676 STAGE (373-4497).

Semmes Murphey Foundation 5K Run

Benefiting the Semmes Murphey Foundation’s research, innovation, education, and care. $25. Sat., March 5, 9-11 a.m.

SEMMES MURPHEY CLINIC, 6325 HUMPHREYS (259-5319), WWW.SEMMES-MURPHEY.COM.

Tai Chi

Near Woodland Discovery Playground. $8. Wednesdays, 3 p.m.

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

Walk in the Park

Meet at temporary Visitor Center. Sundays, 2:30 p.m.

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

Yoga at the Garden

For all ages and levels with instructor Melissa Wiggins. $5 members, $8 nonmembers.

Thursdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Through April 28.

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

Yoga Tune-Up Tuesday: “Slow Flow” Gentle Yoga $10. Tuesdays, 5:45 p.m.

QUAN AM MONASTERY, 3500 S. GOODLETT (679-4528), WWW.BUDDHISTMEMPHIS.COM.

Yoga with Deborah Elam Eliminate stress, increase strength and flexibility, and improve mind-body con-

nection. In the Story Telling Room. Bring your own mat. No registration. Walk-ins to room capacity. Free. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Through March 30.

LUCIUS E. & ELSIE C. BURCH JR. LIBRARY, 501 POPLAR VIEW, COLLIERVILLE (457-2600), WWW.COLLIERVILLELIBRARY.ORG.

M E ETI N G S

Read and explore written works by women and LGBT authors.

Second Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

Stroke Support Group

BIM Focus Group

Presentation and discussion of BIM issues facing members/architects as well as our corporate partners in the design and construction fields. Free for members, $20 nonmembers.

Tues., March 8, 11:30 a.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS HOLIDAY INN, 3700 CENTRAL (678-8200), WWW.AIAMEMPHIS.ORG.

Free Tax Services for Working Families

Available to qualifying families at Binghampton Development Corporation, Streets Ministries, Ed Rice Community Center, and Church Health Wellness Center. Through April 15.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, CALL FOR INFORMATION (844-829-3786), WWW.IMPACTAMERICA.COM/FREETAX-SERVICES/.

Memphis Astronomical Society

Held in the Assisi Hall Science Auditorium. First Friday of every month, 8 p.m.

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

Meristem Women’s Book Club

Helpful information for stroke survivors and caregivers. Call for more information. Free.

Every second Tuesday, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Through June 14.

METHODIST HOSPITAL SOUTH, 1300 WESLEY (516-3726), WWW.METHODISTHEALTH.ORG.

KIDS

Cookies with Cookie Monster

Enjoy cookies, free ice cream with three-bag purchase, and pictures with Cookie Monster.

Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.

MAKEDA’S COOKIES DOWNTOWN, 488 S. SECOND (644-4511), WWW.MAKEDASCOOKEIS.COM.

Elephant and Piggie’s: We are in a Play!

Elephant Gerald is an elephant, lumbering, formally attired, and prone to melancholy. Piggie is a piggie: perky, smiley, full of fun. Total opposites? No way. $15-$30. Thurs., March 3, 6:458:15 p.m.

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

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Social Skills Class

Build the foundation for play and social interaction for children on the Autism spectrum. $150 per month. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

ABA DEVELOPMENT, 7953 STAGE HILLS (634-8005), WWW.ABADEVELOPMENT.ORG.

Storytime: Strictly No Elephants

Story about a boy who wants to bring his pet elephant to Pet Club Day. Unfortunately, Pet Club doesn’t understand that pets come in all shapes and sizes, just like friends.

Free to attend. Tues., March 8, 11-11:30 a.m.

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

Storytime: What a Wonderful World

First recorded in 1967 by Louis Armstrong, the song is a poignant message of hope for people everywhere. With bright, beautiful art, this book is perfect for sharing. Sat., March 5, 11-11:30 a.m.

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

S P EC I A L EVE N TS

Applications for the Step Ahead Scholarship Available to female Shelby County residents aged 17 to 30 with plans to attend an accredited university, community college, licensed career college, or technical school. See website for more information. Through April 15.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW. ASTEPAHEADFOUNDATION.ORG.

Arbor Day Celebration

Join us in the Visitors Center for coffee and light refreshments, then gather at the planting site for a brief ceremony. Pick up a tree map for a self-guided tour of the garden’s 130+ species of trees. Free. Fri., March 4, 10 a.m.

“Astronaut”

Eat Right to Fight Hunger Gala

Shows what it takes to become an astronaut. Experience a rocket launch from the inside.

Explore amazing worlds of inner and outer space. Through June 3.

Come dressed in your best Hollywood-inspired attire featuring music, dancing, auction, food, wine tasting, and more benefiting Hope House. $65.

Fri., March 4, 7-11 p.m.

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

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

The Big Fake Wedding

Bridal show alternative in the form of a big, fake wedding.

Enjoy a ceremony, dinner, and dance-party reception while truly experiencing the wedding vendors in action. $25. Thurs., March 3, 7-9 p.m.

PROP CELLAR, 4726 POPLAR, WWW.THEBIGFAKEWEDDING.COM.

Bountiful Blooms Exhibition

Enjoy the colorful blooms of spring with mixed bulb display throughout the gardens. Along with the usual masses of tulips and daffodils, other bulbs of interest will celebrate spring.

Through April 17.

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

Exploring Fort Pillow: Site of African-American Memories

John Lennon’s sister, Julia Baird, at the Orpheum Friday Collecting the Missing Pieces

Exhibit showcasing artifacts purchased for RACE Collecting Plan, including the “I AM A MAN” placard, slave shackles, “Jim Crow” alphabet plate, 1930s handmade quilts, Harper’s Weekly, and more. $12.25. Through May 1.

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

Meet at the college and travel to Henning, TN. Participants will engage in observations, interviews, intergroup exchanges, reflective thinking, and if they choose, reflective writing. Free.

Mon., March 7, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

LEMOYNE-OWEN COLLEGE, 807 WALKER (300-0340), HTTPS://WWW. FACEBOOK.COM/ASALHMEMPHIS.

“Firefall”

Journey throughout Earth’s violent history and see the impacts from comets and asteroids that have shaped earth’s surface. A reminder of our own humble beginnings in the hostile environment of space. $7. Through June 3.

First Friday: Little Angels

Display of 19th-century christening gowns featuring refreshments, tours, and traditional Victorian christening customs. $15. Fri., March 4, 5-8 p.m.

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

Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters

Immense geological and meteorological forces shaped our planet and our world. Explore the fascinating science behind natural phenomena and their impact on human lives. $12.75.

Through May 1.

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

One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure

Join Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu. Together they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the moon, where they discover how different it is from Earth. $7. Through June 3.

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

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

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Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.

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“Voices of the Civil Rights Movement”

Submissions for Redefining Home Challenge

Monetary awards will be made to three juried winning entries. The first-place winner’s designs will be incorporated into a currently existing home and publicly unveiled to provide an experiential learning opportunity for the general public. See website for more information and submission guidelines.

Through April 19.

AIA MEMPHIS OFFICE, 511 S. MAIN (525-3818), AIAMEMPHIS.ORG.

Seasonal Stargazing

Hop through constellations, learn cool star names, and groove to planetarium space music in this fulldome audiovisual experience. $7. Through June 3.

Interactive exhibit featuring two video archives within a walk-up kiosk combining two media projects and commemorating the 50th anniversary of the march on Washington. Ongoing.

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

Women’s Mysteries Ritual: Honoring Nehalennia

Join the Fellowship of Avalon for their quarterly women’s rituals led by Rev. Sarah. All rituals are open to anyone aged 18 and over. Bring a chalice if you have one. Free. Thurs., March 3, 7-9 p.m.

THE BROOM CLOSET, 546 S. MAIN (497-9486), WWW. THEFELLOWSHIPOFAVALON.COM.

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

Cognac, Cars, & Cigars

H O L I DAY E V E N TS

Preaching Series and Waffle Shop

Talks by spiritual leaders from all denominations and a menu featuring waffles and salad plates. Offered every Wed., speaker beginning at 6:30 p.m. See website for more information.

Wednesdays, 5:15 p.m., and Tuesdays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Through March 18.

Cognac samples and a premium cigar and some of the hottest cars from Gossett Porsche and Audi benefiting Make-A-Wish Mid-South. $100. Sat., March 5, 5-9 p.m.

LAZ PARKING GARAGE ROOFTOP, 200 S. SECOND (259-1300), WWW.COGNACCARSANDCIGARS.COM.

COMEC Give Back

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

Present flyer at Wolfchase location for 10 percent of food purchase to benefit COMEC. Thurs., March 3, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

F O O D & D R I N K E V E N TS

CHILI’S, 1260 N GERMANTOWN PKWY (756-7771), CHILIS.COM.

Bendy Brewski Yoga

Yoga and beer pairing. Beginner-friendly, fun yoga followed by a pint. No experience necessary. No watchasana. $15. Thursdays, 6-8 p.m.

HIGH COTTON BREWING CO., 598 MONROE (896-9977).

Memphis Black Restaurant Week

Allows Memphians to support minority-owned eateries. Enjoy $15 two-course lunches and $25 three-course dinners. March 7-13.

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

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Documentary about Peggy Guggenheim, who was an heiress to her family fortune and became a central figure in the modern art movement. $9. Wed., March 9, 7-8:45 p.m.

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Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D

Experience a year in the life of dinosaurs. $9.

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

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Wider Angle Foreign Film Series: The Chambermaid

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High-priced call girl helps shy, voyeuristic hotel housekeeper explore the world of S&M. German with English subtitles. Free. Wed., March 9, 6-8 p.m.

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“I focused on Midtown and downtown because of easy access,” Daniels says.

She tried to mix it up cuisine-wise to keep the African-American restaurant scene from seeming boxed-in.

“I didn’t want it to necessarily be soul food, because that’s what it’s generally known for,” Daniels says.

Scoops specializes in savory and sweet crepes and gelato, and the HM Dessert Lounge offers unique savory cupcakes as well as desserts such as key lime cheesecake.

Each restaurant will offer a specialized menu of two-course lunch specials for $15 and a three-course dinner for $25.

“I wanted to keep it as easy as possible,” Daniels says.

Daniels, who has worked in the world of fund-raising, conference planning, and event planning, found it impossible to resist the community spirit of Memphis.

“I’m from Atlanta, and I moved to Memphis in 2009. This is a culture that supports local business, and I volunteer for a lot of different organizations,

so I bought into the culture here immediately,” she says.

She says she sees MBRW as an annual event and hopes to grow it each year and let it do the work she set out for it to do.

“We have a committee, and we’ll be collecting data from the week, looking at the numbers and how much spending power it has brought. Then we will take that data and make it bigger and better going into the next year,” she says.

“It makes me feel good to be able to create a week that brings attention to these restaurants and hopefully get them some new customers.”

For a list of restaurants, their locations, and the menus, visit blackrestaurantweek.com.

Peas and carrots. Chocolate and peanut butter. Coffee and cigarettes. Some things are just made for each other.

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“My friends and I go every day. We have a strategy. We save our money.

We do the whole nine yards,” Daniels, public relations coordinator for the Workforce Investment Network, says.

At the same time, the Atlanta native has a strong appreciation for the sense of community her new hometown of Memphis practices, and she wanted to get in the middle of it. So she came up with the idea of developing a dining week for minority-owned restaurants and has dubbed it Memphis Black

Restaurant Week.

“There wasn’t a place to go and get the numbers, but African-Americanowned restaurants are few and far between,” Daniels says. “I thought why not bring some awareness to those restaurants and get people spending money there. A lot of people don’t know who they are.”

The first annual Memphis Black Restaurant Week will run March 7th through 13th.

Eight local African-Americanowned restaurants are participating.

They include: Scoops Parlor at 106 E. G.E. Patterson; the HM Dessert Lounge at 1586 Madison; DeJaVu at 51 S. Main; Onix at 412 S. Main; Evergreen Grill at 300 S. Main; Mot & Ed’s at 1354 Madison; the Bistro

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The Flyer took one for the team and labored through a cumbersome amount of research, came to the same conclusion, and wanted to offer to its readership the same divinely inspired coupling while serving a good cause.

On Saturday, April 16th, the first Bacon & Bourbon event will take place downtown at the Memphis Farmers Market at Central Station, located at the corner of S. Main and G.E. Patterson.

“They just go so well together,” event planner Jackie SparksDavila says.

For just $35, bourbon enthusiasts, or pork enthusiasts, or some combination of the two, will receive a sampling card with 10 bottles marked on it.

Bourbon reps from all over the country will be stationed throughout the market to keep the alcohol flowing and talk about their product, while 20 local restaurants will serve up pork-inspired dishes and show off their bacon expertise.

Confirmed restaurants so far include: Central BBQ, Celtic

Crossing, the Brass Door, Bardog, Aldo’s Pizza Pies, Paradox Catering, IPOP Gourmet Popcorn, Ray’z World Famous Dr. Barbecue, and Broadway Pizza.

Attendees will be able to sample as many of the bacon dishes as they can stand, and if after 10 shots of whiskey, the party just ain’t over, there will be a cash bar with alcohol available for purchase.

Papa Tops West Coast Turnaround will provide their usual bourboninfused ballads and such, and if bacon is bourbon’s soul mate, its mistress will be lurking somewhere on the premises, as there will also be a cigar-rolling station.

Bacon & Bourbon is presented

by The Memphis Flyer, Roadshow BMW, Miss Cordelia’s, and Southland Park Gaming and Racing, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Memphis Farmers Market.

The event is 21-and-up only, and ticket prices will increase closer to the event.

“We do expect to sell out. Tickets are limited,” Sparks-Davila says.

For more information and to purchase tickets, go to memphisbaconandbourbon.com.

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COLLIERVILLE Bangkok Alley Bonefish Grill Booyah’s Cafe Grill Cafe Piazza Ciao Baby!

Corky’s Ribs & BBQ El Mezcal El Porton Firebirds Gus’s Fried Chicken Huey’s Jim’s Place Grille La Hacienda Mary’s German Restaurant Memphis Pizza Cafe Mulan Asian Bistro Pig-N-Whistle The Sear Shack Sekisui Silver Caboose Square Beans Coffee Whaley’s Pizza Wolf River Cafe CORDOVA Bombay House Bonefish Grill Butcher Shop Corky’s Ribs & BBQ Crazy Italians East End Grill El Mezcal El Porton Flying Saucer Fox & Hound Friday Tuna Gus’s Fried Chicken Huey’s iSushi Jim ’N Nick’s Bar-B-Q La Hacienda Pasta Italia Petra Cafe Presentation Room Sekisui Shogun Skimo’s TJ Mulligan’s DOWNTOWN Agave Maria Alcenia’s Aldo’s Pizza Pies Alfred’s The Arcade Automatic Slim’s Bangkok Alley Bardog Tavern B.B. King’s Blues Club Bedrock Eats & Sweets Belle Bistro Bleu Blind Bear Bluefin

EAST MEMPHIS 4 Dumplings Acre Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen Another Broken Egg Cafe Asian Palace Bangkok Alley Belmont Grill The Booksellers Bistro Broadway Pizza Brookhaven Pub & Grill Buckley’s Grill Buntyn Corner Cafe Carrabba’s Italian Grill Casablanca Cheffie’s Café Ciao Bella City East Bagel & Grille Corky’s Ribs & BBQ Dan McGuinness Pub Dixie Cafe El Mezcal El Porton El Toro Loco Erling Jensen Fino’s Folk’s Folly Foozi Fox & Hound Fratelli’s The Grove Grill Gus’s Fried Chicken Half Shell Happy Mexican Hog & Hominy Houston’s Huey’s Interim Jack Pirtle’s Chicken

Jim’s Place Restaurant & Bar Julles Posh Food Co. Las Delicias Lisa’s Lunchbox LYFE Kitchen Lynchburg Legends Mac’s Burgers Marciano Mayuri Indian Cuisine Mellow Mushroom Memphis Pizza Cafe Mi Pueblo Mortimer’s Mosa Asian Bistro Napa Cafe New Hunan Old Venice Pizza Co. One & Only BBQ Patrick’s Porcellino’s Craft Butcher Rotis Cuisine of India Sakura Sekisui Pacific Rim Soul Fish Cafe Sports Bar & Grille Swanky’s Taco Shop Tamp & Tap Triad Three Little Pigs Bar-B-Q Tokyo Grill Whole Foods Market GERMANTOWN Asian Eatery Belmont Grill Chili’s Corky’s Ribs & BBQ El Porton Germantown Commissary Las Tortugas Mellow Mushroom Memphis Pizza Cafe Mister B’s Mulan Asian Eatery New Asia Petra Cafe Royal Panda Russo’s Sakura Soul Fish Cafe Staks Swanky’s Taco Shop West Street Diner MEDICAL CENTER Evelyn & Olive Sabrosura Trolley Stop Market MIDTOWN Abyssinia Alchemy Aldo’s Pizza Pies Alex’s Tavern Al-Rayan Bar-B-Q Shop Bar DKDC Barksdale Restaurant Bar Louie Bari Ristorante e Enoteca Bayou Bar & Grill Beauty Shop Beeker’s Belly Acres Bhan Thai Blue Monkey Blue Nile Boscos Squared Bounty on Broad Broadway Pizza The Brushmark Cafe 1912 Cafe Eclectic Cafe La Roux by DeJaVu Cafe Ole Cafe Society Casablanca Celtic Crossing Central BBQ City & State City Market The Cove The Crazy Noodle The Cupboard Dino’s Grill Ecco on Overton Park El Mezcal Fino’s from the Hill Frida’s Mexican Restaurant Fuel Cafe Golden India Hammer & Ale The HM Dessert Lounge Huey’s I Love Juice Bar Imagine Vegan Cafe India Palace Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Jasmine Thai Java Cabana Kwik Chek LBOE

Local Gastropub Mardi Gras Maximo’s Memphis Pizza Cafe Midtown Crossing Molly’s La Casita Mot & Ed’s Muddy's Mulan Asian Bistro Murphy’s Next Door Old Zinnie’s Otherlands Payne’s P&H Cafe Peggy’s Red Zone Relevant Roasters Restaurant Iris Robata Ramen & Yakitori Bar Saigon Le Schweinehaus Sean’s Cafe The Second Line Sekisui Side Street Grill Slider Inn Soul Fish Cafe Stone Soup Cafe Strano Sicilian Kitchen Sweet Grass Tart Tsunami Young Avenue Deli PARKWAY VILLAGE/FOX MEADOWS Blue Shoe Bar & Grill Leonard’s Pancho’s POPLAR/I-240 Amerigo Benihana Blue Plate Cafe Brooklyn Bridge Capital Grille China Dragon Fleming’s Frank Grisanti’s Heritage Tavern & Kitchen Humdingers Moe’s Southwest Grill Mosa Asian Bistro Owen Brennan’s River Oaks Salsa Seasons 52 Wang’s Mandarin House RALEIGH El 7 Mares Hideaway Restaurant & Club Los Reyes SOUTH MEMPHIS The Bistro Coletta’s Four Way Restaurant Interstate Barbecue Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Uncle Lou’s Southern Kitchen

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

The Gods Must Be Crazy Gods of Egypt is a boisterous, baffling would-be epic.

Gerard Butler glowers his way through the film; Élodie Yung (below right) as the Goddess of Love

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still remember the excitement I felt seeing the first trailers for 2004’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Kerry Conran’s film had a visual style derived from the pulp sci-fi of the prewar era, complete with ray guns, rockets that were silver and shaped like rockets, and giant transforming robots that evoked the Fleischer Studios classic animated Superman serial. The special effects were done entirely by CGI — there were almost no sets built, with the actors working in empty rooms against green screens, which promised a cheaper, more flexible way of making images of epic scope. The film’s aesthetic sense was unlike anything else in theaters at the time. Sign me up.

But once I saw the film, it became clear that the filmmakers had put so much energy into perfecting the visual aspects, they neglected to write a script.

And while the design sense was near perfect, the technology to seamlessly integrate CGI images and real characters just wasn’t as good as advertised. I was incredibly disappointed.

You’d think I would have learned my lesson, then, when I saw the first trailers for Gods of Egypt. The imagery looks like nothing else in theaters. Better yet, it wasn’t based on either Marvel or DC intellectual properties, but the rich, and to Western eyes, bizarre world of ancient Egyptian mythology. Sure, it was clear this was going to be a big ole cheese plate, but it seemed like the pieces were in place for something different and entertaining.

It must have seemed like that to Australian producer/director Alex Proyas, too, whose directing credits include The Crow, the underrated Dark City, and the massively overrated I, Robot, which came out in 2004, the same year as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Take the Egyptian pantheon — Ra, Horus, Hathor, Osiris, and Set — and their mythic sibling rivalry for the throne of Egypt, reserve plenty of render time for your computer graphics people, and boom, instant blockbuster.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the pyramids. Proyas made exactly the same mistake as Kerry Conran: He didn’t hire a writer — or rather, he hired Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, who penned

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my personal worst film of 2014, Dracula Untold.

I’ll give the writers this much credit: Gods of Egypt is a step up from their entry in the vampire story sweepstakes. Dracula Untold was a work of gutwrenching stupidity, whereas Gods of Egypt is just drooling tedium.

The intended hero is Bek (Brendon Thwaites), an acrobatic thief free from the burdens of personality and charisma. We meet him stealing a dress for his lady love Zaya (Courtney Eaton) to wear to the coronation of Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) as king of Egypt, and thus, the entire world. Like The Witch, Gods of Egypt is firmly within the point of view of the place and time in which it’s set. This is effective in The Witch, because it evokes terrors made obsolete by the Age of Reason. It doesn’t work in Gods of Egypt because the writers just shoved Egyptian mythology through a Save the Cat screenplay formula and knocked off early for cannabis smoothies. The gods Horus and Set (Gerard Butler) assume winged form and dogfight with magic fire lasers as Apophis the Giant Worm of Chaos literally drinks the Nile River in the background, and yet it’s deathly boring.

But it’s not just the screenwriters’ fault — there’s

plenty of blame to go around for this debacle. The gods are arrogant and powerful beings who walk among mortals for some mythically obscure reason, but there’s little difference between Coster-Waldau’s portrayal of the alleged hero Horus and Butler’s glowering, testosterone-poisoned Set. With their birthright rule and golden blood, Proyas wrings fascist overtones out of the gods’ struggle for power.

Nor will love save us: Horus and Hathor (Élodie Yung) have no visible chemistry — the jerk-god hero’s idea of romance is humiliating the Goddess of Love by repeatedly dunking her in pools of water.

The occasional attempts at humor fall completely flat, but in the screening I attended, there were plenty of laughs. This is the kind of film where a major character’s death was met with an audience member loudly exclaiming “You have got to be KIDDING me!”

I wish I were, intrepid filmgoer. I wish I were.

Gods of Egypt Now playing Multiple locations

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Four girls, all single, struggle to find love in Brooklyn. But maybe their friendship is all they really needed.

How To Be Single is an attempt to recreate the Girls equation, only with women characters whom focus groups deem likable. We first meet Alice (Dakota Johnson) in voiceover, recalling the time her freshman year she met cute with her college boyfriend Josh (Nicholas Braun), locking herself out of her dorm room when, oops, her towel got caught in the door, and uh-oh, she’s naked! And so is he! In front of all these people! But by graduation, it’s time to take a little hiatus, just so she can be sure he’s the right guy to spend the rest of her life with. Besides, she’s going to be living in Brooklyn with her rich OBGYN sister Meg (Leslie Mann), working as a paralegal, so who knows what could happen?

The first thing that happens is she meets Robin (Rebel Wilson), her legal firm coworker who shows her the places in the office where the security cameras can’t see. Robin is on a quest to “bang her

How To Be Single isn’t all bad. Christian Rein’s cinematography is above average, and Christian Ditter has some nice directorial flourishes, such as the Diary of a Teenage Girl-inspired onscreen graphics and fluidly staged apartment-decorating scene. Johnson manages to rise above the material, seemingly eager to portray a human being after her star-making turn as a fantasy projection device in Fifty Shades of Grey. Wilson also manages to hold her dignity, scoring with the requisite, Judd Apatow-inspired, unedited string of improv jokes. When Johnson plays straight woman to Wilson, it’s apparent that a two-hander comedy starring those two actresses with the same director/ cinematographer combo could potentially

Dakota Johnson in How To Be Single work pretty well.

But this is not that movie, and no amount of “hey, at least they seem to be trying” can excuse the phoned-in plotting and prefab, contrived wish-fulfillment that passes for a screenplay. I realize I’m not the target audience for How To Be Single, but if I were, I would feel insulted.

Carrie Bradshaw, where are you when we need you?

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way through Brooklyn,” and drags Alice along with her. When Alice decides she’s sown enough wild oats, she discovers that she has blown it with Josh and must navigate life on her own. Meanwhile, Lucy (Alison Brie) is using a more exact approach. She’s got a database. To get a strong enough wi-fi signal on her brand new MacBook Pro (TM), she’s got to sit at the bar manned by Tom (Anders Holm), a guy Robin describes as a “palate cleanser, a sexual sorbet.” Copious drinking and sexual hijinx ensue, that eventually snare David (Damon Wayans Jr.), a successful professional something-or-other raising a cute young daughter on his own.

How To Be Single is a TV series trapped in a movie’s body: Specifically, it’s Sex and the City, only with computers, because we hear that’s how the kids are hooking up these days. It’s based on a book by He’s Just Not That Into You author Liz Tuccillo, who, surprise, got her start as a writer on Sex and the City.

The shapeless plot seems to be composed from a handful of rejected storylines from the seminal, fin de siècle HBO series. For example, the film’s only title card cuts out the middle of Alice and David’s relationship with a simple THREE MONTHS LATER, skipping all that pesky character building that on TV would have been a half-season arc.

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TH E LAST WO R D by Susan Wilson

Wiped Out!

THE LAST WORD

Do you use the toilet? Are you filthy rich? Do you wish you could make going potty more difficult and time-consuming? Have I got the thing for you!

Joseph’s is toilet paper. Except it’s not. It’s an experience. It’s a “microcosm of form and function” made from “tender virgin newgrowth fibres.” Even better, “the dendritic structure of the inner core provides optimal absorption while the outer layers act as moisture barrier for wet use.” All this is according to the — admittedly beautiful — Joseph’s website.

And that’s just the wipe! We haven’t even gotten to the “hypoallergenic debriding and detoxifying cleanser,” or the moisturizer with “soothing and nourishing emollients,” that “are quickly absorbed by the skin and support the immune system by enhancing the skin’s resilience as a protective barrier.” And, as if that’s not enough, the moisturizer’s “delicate fragrance completes the feeling of pristine perfection.”

Are you with me?

This is a dry adult butt wipe that can be moistened and then used to apply moisturizer to your delicate chapped ass. As my friend Steve Steffens said, it’s for the delicate sphincter.

Now, ladeez, we all know we stink. And we know our gynecologists beat us with their specula whenever we mention something about cleaning our netherlands with anything that “debrides,” but did I mention you’re stinky?

So. I suppose Joseph’s eliminates the need to bathe, and it’s a good thing. You’ll need the time you normally spend in the shower for the entire process of spritzing the cleansing tonic onto a wipe as many times as it takes to feel clean and then using yet more wipes when you apply the moisturizer for protection. You don’t just hop into the restroom. You have an entire Swiss glacial butt facial experience when you have to pop into the gents’ at Bass Pro. This stuff really needs to be seen to be believed. Joseph’s comes to you packaged like a beautiful box of chocolates. The pads are quilted, downy, and plush.

They’re wrapped up with a satin bow. The cleanser and moisturizer are packaged like luxury cosmetics — which I suppose they are.

What would you pay to bathe your tuchus with the fibers of virgins?

How about $275?

I’ll just wait while you get up from the floor, resuscitate yourself, and clean the coffee off the table where you just spit it out.

That’s two months of fresh, clean, moisturized buttocks. If you’re not totally committed, you can get the starter kit for only $110. It doesn’t say how long that lasts. I guess it depends on how much Taco Bell you eat.

Let’s say you LOVE the Joseph’s Badonkadonk Bedewing System. It’s not gonna fit on a standard toilet roll holder. It’s not on a roll, because that’s disgusting.

No, you need to consult the Joseph’s Furniture collection. Yes, that’s right. The website has a furniture section. Toilet paper website. Furniture section. Just want to make sure you wrap your brain around that. If you’re a true connoisseur of the Joseph’s system and want to telegraph your love for nature, let me recommend The Joséphier in Natural Warped Ebony Macassar for only $1,100. For your beach house, you can just use the basic brushed stainless for only $550. For your sex room or men’s club (often the same thing), I recommend the hand-wrapped leather model for $950.

You know what I love about this stuff? Everything.

I really super-love how the Joseph’s site makes this huge deal of how natural and environmental it is as opposed to regular toilet paper for troglodytes and oil-guzzling hillbillies. Why should I walk up to Dollar General and get a vulgar 12-pack of Charmin Basic that’s wrapped in a disgusting petrochemical skin when I could spend upwards of $1,300 on a twomonth supply of wipes wrapped with a ribbon, cleanser, and moisturizer packed in plastic that’s then wrapped for shipping, put in a plane, flown from Switzerland, stuck on a diesel truck, and delivered to my door where it’s placed in a dead-tree or cowhide holder and bolted to the wall. Plus, I gotta have a maid whose only job is to retie that bow after each of my four children (Chard, Proton, Toile, and Glacier) has had a dump and flushed.

I love that the starter kit is supposedly going into the swag bags at the Oscars. I LOVE the idea of George and Amal arguing about who’s going to run over to Geneva to pick up a pack of tender virgin cellulose because SOMEONE forgot to get it when he was in Zurich last week and SOMEONE ELSE had to use Cottonelle and is now going to have to book a SECOND ANAL BLEACH THIS MONTH because of the redness, YOU CAD! Joseph’s, if you’re listening. I will totally be your spokesbutt.

Susan Wilson writes for yeahandanotherthing.com and likethedew.com. She and her husband Chuck have lived here long enough to know that Midtown does not start at Highland.

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