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

OUR 1515TH ISSUE 03.08.18 What are the odds of a Dick’s and Hicks news cycle?

You remember that, right? It was long ago and far way — last week, during those few hours we were worried about corporate responses to the NRA and the latest departure of a key staffer from the Trump White House.

Yeah, good times. I’m already feeling nostalgic. But those magic moments were quickly eclipsed as Vladimir Putin announced soon thereafter that Russia had developed new invincible, unstoppable nuclear weapons that put our way of life in jeopardy. The U.S., said Putin, had no way to defend itself against these horrific weapons. The Free World would be putty in his hands. Mwah ha ha!

To his credit, President Trump quickly responded — tweeting at 5:40 a.m. the following day that “Alex” Baldwin’s impersonation of him on Saturday Night Live was really bad and urging that SNL bring back Darrell Hammond.

As I write this, more than a week later, the president still hasn’t deigned to acknowledge that our global arch-enemy’s president has threatened us with annihilation.

But again, it’s last week’s news. Since then, at least 119 other crazy things have happened to divert our attention.

Keeping up with this administration is like playing three-dimensional Whack-A-Mole.

There’s always a fresh distraction: Will he fire Jeff Sessions? Is Jared Kushner’s security clearance in jeopardy? Will General McMaster leave? Will any more members of Trump’s campaign team cop a plea? Is there a new wrinkle in Porn Star/Playmate-Gate? Will Trump play golf again this week? (Duh.) Oh, and now we’re going to have a trade war.

Let me quote the president’s latest diplomacyby-Twitter statement: “The United States has an $800 Billion Dollar Yearly Trade Charlie Sheen Deficit because of our ‘very stupid’ trade deals and policies. Our jobs and wealth are being given to other countries that have taken advantage of us for years. They laugh at what fools our leaders have been. No more!”

No more, indeed. Nope, nobody’s laughing at our leaders now. At all. Well, maybe some are. To quote columnist Eugene Robinson: “I spent years as a foreign correspondent in Latin America. To say we are being governed like a banana republic is an insult to banana republics.”

Trump added, in a following tweet: “When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win.”

This is the kind of deep policy thinking Trump is famous for, and it quickly provoked responses from all of our allies and trading partners, because when you declare war, it’s always best to do so against your friends.

Trump’s war proclamation paid immediate benefits, however, as Swedish appliance manufacturer Electrolux announced the following day that it would delay a $250-million investment to expand and modernize a plant in Springfield, Tennessee.

“We are putting it on hold,” company spokesman Daniel Frykholm said. “We believe that tariffs could cause a pretty significant increase in the price of steel on the U.S. market.”

Canada and Great Britain also expressed outrage and threatened counter-measures.

So much winning. It’s like we’re all in an episode of Two and Half Men and Trump is Charlie Sheen. Actually, now that I think about it, that’s scarily accurate.

But in truth, I don’t believe we should get all that excited over Trump’s N E WS & O P I N I O N trade war bloviations. Three weeks THE FLY-BY - 4 ago, he met with members of Congress NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 and vociferously backed immigration POLITICS - 7 reform, only to reverse himself a couple EDITORIAL - 8 days later after meeting with GOP VIEWPOINT - 9 leaders. And just last week, Trump COVER - “THE KING OF accused Congressional leaders of being (MEMPHIS) BEERS!” “afraid” of the NRA and urged them

BY TOBY SELLS - 10 WE RECOMMEND - 14 to insist on gun reform. That lasted 24 MUSIC - 16 hours, as Trump reversed himself the MUSIC FEATURE - 17 next day after he met with the NRA. At AFTER DARK - 18 this point, I think it’s pretty clear that CALENDAR - 22 Trump “policy” pronouncements are BOOKS - 30 just noise.

FOOD NEWS - 31 Robinson was right: We are being SPIRITS - 33 governed like a banana republic, and, FILM - 34 frankly, that’s an insult to bananas.

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DAM M IT, GAN N ETT Hey, kids! What say we document some of the weekly atrocities wrought by USA Today’s Commercial Appeal?

Like, remember that time when they totally identified Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood as Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda?

March 8-14, 2018

And, not to nitpick, but there’s a considerable difference between expecting “six inches or rain” and expecting “six inches of rain.”

One’s a great reason to stay indoors, the other’s just a reason.

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N EVE R E N D I N G E LVI S The best King-of-Rock-and-Roll related headline from the past week comes to us courtesy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: “Guy running for Congress named Elvis Presley does a mean Elvis Presley.”

Star-Telegram reporter Matthew Martinez looked outside the Lone Star state to report on Elvis D. Presley, who’s running as a Libertarian candidate for Arkansas’ U.S. House District 1.

Elvis D. is a resident of Star City (where else?) and has also run for governor, and land commissioner, but would probably settle for just being your Teddy Bear.

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Pilgrims, DACA, & the Cook Congress comes to Memphis, a DACA win, & a brand new look.

C IV I L R I G HTS R E M E M B R AN C E A group of about 30 members of Congress began a civil rights pilgrimage at the Lorraine Motel and Mason Temple in Memphis last week to commemorate the civil rights movement, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination 50 years ago.

The annual Faith and Politics Institute’s Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage has been going on for years, but this is the first time the group has made a stop in Memphis.

The group led by Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia, also visited Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham in Alabama.

Both the Mason Temple and the Lorraine Motel were also recently added to the U.S. Civil Rights Network.

A X I N G TH E ACA? Tennessee joined 20 other states last week asking a federal court to render the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional.

Tennessee’s Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III said without the individual mandate, the law is unconstitutional and he wants to kill it.

The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Texas, and on it, Tennessee joins Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

The original ACA carried a mandate that everyone in the United States carry health insurance or face a penalty in the form of an extra tax. Last year, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which repealed the penalty for the individual mandate.

This, Slatery said, is the heart of the argument to kill the ACA. S MALL WI N FO R D R EAM E R S “Dreamers” won a small victory last week after the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear a case that ruled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program unlawful.

Lower courts blocked President Donald Trump’s attempts

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to block the program. DACA provides protection for about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children.

Trump went directly to the Supreme Court to try to get those rulings overturned, skipping a federal court of appeals. The high court ruled last week that an appeals court should hear the case first.

Gina John, advocacy coordinator at Latino Memphis, said the fight isn’t over because there are still no permanent protections for DACA recipients.

“Finding a legislative solution is the end goal,” she said.

N EW LO O K FO R TH E C O O K The Cook Convention Center will look vastly different than it does now, if its developers have their way. Interior and exterior improvements to the huge building will total about $175 million.

Its final design was slated for a revote this week at Downtown Memphis Commission’s (DMC) Design Review Board.

Based on the developers’ application to the review board, the main building looking south on Front shows a new skin on the building and an improved streetscape. The Main Street side would also get a whole new look in the developers’ plan, including the addition of outdoor seating and, possibly, a bike share station, while the Cook’s interior would be brighter and airier than before.

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Experts say FedEx lost its battle over NRA discounts.

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When the fight came to its door, FedEx Corp. took a stand, but it didn’t win and its performance got a C-, according to a panel of business experts organized by Drexel University.

Hometown giant FedEx spent most of last week in a back-and-forth (fight) over its partnership with the National Rifle Association (NRA). The Memphis shipper gives discounts to NRA members and, amid intense national pressure to drop them, FedEx said it would continue the relationship.

The NRA stood firm against any kind of gun reform after a gunman shot and killed 17 people in a Florida high school two weeks ago. Angry calls rang out to boycott the NRA and any business it works with.

Since then, more than a dozen companies cut ties with the NRA: Delta Airlines, United Airlines, Hertz, MetLife, Best Western, and more. The NRA called it “a shameful display of political and civic cowardice.”

After days of silence on the matter, FedEx issued a statement last Monday saying it would keep the discounts in place, though it differed from the NRA on gun policy. The company is “a common carrier under federal law and therefore does not and will not

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deny service or discriminate against any legal entity regardless of their policy positions or political views.”

The day after the statement, the company clarified that the discounts weren’t for the NRA, but for its members. Also, FedEx pointed out that the NRA uses UPS for shipping from its online store. Also, FedEx said it has never given any donations or sponsorships to the NRA. The day after that clarification, FedEx issued another statement clarifying its original point. FedEx and UPS, it said, “are obligated to provide service to shippers engaged in lawful conduct.”

UPS — in the same swirl of controversy — said it would continue to ship NRA gear but would not disclose the terms of its contracts.

A panel of 21 business experts from universities like Oxford, Cornell, Columbia, Georgetown, and

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Princeton said the moves “won’t help either company win over the public.”

The Real Time Expert Poll periodically grades companies that take political stands, and also rates those companies on transparency, consistency, and more. It is administered by Drexel’s Institute for Strategic Leadership in partnership with the American Marketing Association.

Panelists said neither company made their motivations clear. While one panelist gave FedEx credit for “courage” for keeping “political issues out of its decision making,” another said “FedEx is linking itself to values many will see as problematic in the long-term.”

“Both companies appear to have been caught off-guard on this issue,” says Daniel Korschun, an associate professor at Drexel’s LeBow College of Business, and lead administrator of the poll. “In what appears to be lack of foresight, both FedEx and UPS have been forced to mitigate risk rather than reaffirm a longer-term strategy.”

The stances “are unlikely to win over much of the public,” Korschun said. “In the end, the greatest beneficiaries may be competitors such as DHL and the U.S. Post Office.”

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within county government and with other governmental entities, while Roland emphasized his experience as a “full-time commissioner with part-time pay” for the last eight years.

Both boasted of their roots with ordinary citizens, and both expressed a determination to buttress education and industrial expansion. Touliatos stressed a need to lay a strong foundation in pre-K education. Roland made his usual case for tax increment financing (TIFs) as an alternative to payments-in-lieu-of taxes (PILOTs). He got the most animated response from the crowd when he attacked what he called “a culture of corruption” in Shelby County, in which “the same 10 people have been getting all the sweet milk.”

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Further forums and debates are to be expected in the next few weeks, especially for countywide candidates, whose moment of reckoning with the voters will culminate in the May 1st party primaries, less than two months away.

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A definitive public exposure of candidates for office in 2018 still remains to be accomplished. But several preliminary efforts in that direction took place during the past week or so — a Thursday morning showcase of Democratic women candidates at the City & State coffee house on Broad; a Thursday night forum that attracted a decent-sized crowd and two Republican mayoral opponents at Mt. Moriah East Baptist Church; and a massive turnout on Saturday at the University of Memphis for candidates for virtually every position on the ballot.

At the Thursday night forum, WMCTV anchor Kontji Anthony moderated a guarded discussion of issues by the two candidates for Shelby County Mayor — Terry Roland and Joy Touliatos — who answered an invitation to debate from Diversity Memphis. And on Saturday those two candidates and scores of others — most of those running for election this year — joined a throng of campaign supporters and attendees at large in the ballroom auditorium of the University of Memphis for a meet-and-greet affair co-sponsored by the Tennessee Nurses Association and the League of Women Voters.

The latter affair was basically a schmooze-fest that culminated in a parade of candidates across the UM stage as their names were called by moderator Greg Hirsch of WREG-TV. Nobody got to speak to the entire assembly, but there was ample conversational opportunity out on the jam-packed floor. And the mere fact of showing up and being seen surely paid dividends — pointedly so for GOP gubernatorial candidate Diane Black, who arrived somewhat late but, to all appearances, unflustered, after her car was involved in a collision caused by an errant vehicle operated by the Tennessee Department of Transportation at mile marker 24 of I-40.

At the Thursday night forum, Roland, currently a Shelby County Commissioner, and Touliatos, who serves as Juvenile Court Clerk, are both candidates for the Republican nomination for County Mayor, and while neither of them broke any new ground or made any waves in their remarks, they had the opportunity to present coherent profiles of themselves as they fielded questions put by Anthony and audience members.

Touliatos stressed what she said would be her ability to “build relationships”

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Tragedy in Nashville For all the eternal mutual jealousies afflicting Tennessee’s two preeminent cities — Memphis and Nashville — there are very few here on our end of that dichotomy who are enjoying the state’s latest scandal, the one that this week ended in the resignation of the capital city’s mayor, Megan Barry.

Barry had served honorably and well on the Nashville-Davidson Metropolitcan Council in the years just before her election as mayor in 2015 in a hotly contested multi-candidate race. Circumstances have not been especially kind to her since that victory. The entire state — in fact, the nation — grieved with her following the loss of her son Max, who died in Denver, Colorado, in 2017, as the result of a drug overdose. The scandal, stemming from an affair she had with her assigned police bodyguard, followed not long thereafter Technically, the cause of Barry’s fall may have been the fact that she had to acknowledge — via a nolo contendere plea — felony theft by virtue of having illegally expended taxpayer money on the bodyguard, Nashville police sergeant Robert Forrest.

In reality, her disabling weakness was an affair of the heart — one that threatened to make her an unwitting counterpart to the excesses that have been subject to much public condemnation in this age of #MeToo and Time’s Up sentiment. Recognizing the connection, Barry said upon resigning that she did not want to linger lest she further “muddy the #MeToo movement.”

Barry’s fall and disgrace is conspicuously more tragic than the case of one of her predecessors as chief executive of Nashville. That would be Bill Boner, who was forced into

retirement in 1990 after a reckless affair with a country music singer that drew national headlines. One of the many differences between the two cases was that no one had thought of the aptly named Boner as a potentially significant political force on the American political scene. Barry, on the other hand, as a Democratic progressive in the South and consequently as a bridge between factions of her party, had been seen as a likely candidate for national office at some point. She was certainly regarded as a forward-looking executive as mayor, and leaves behind her a $5.4 billion mass-transit proposal for the voters of her city to dispose of in a referendum to take place on May 1st.

Nashville voters will also have the opportunity to select a replacement for Barry this year in a special election, which is likely to be a rerun of the 2015 contest which had drawn a fair number of the capital city’s big names, many of whom will get to try again. What is it they say about an ill wind that doesn’t blow somebody some good?

For our part here in the Bluff City, having seen many of our own prominent public officials separated from their reputation and their careers during the Tennessee Waltz affair and related scandals of the current century’s first decade, we know how it feels, Nashville, and we don’t feel the least bit superior in virtue. We are all human. That was Megan Barry’s unshakeable curse. And our own.

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VIEWPOINT By Richard Cohen

WICKED HAS LANDED IN MEMPHIS

Art of the Feel President Trump follows a life-long credo: Everyone has their price.

The account of the 2007 vodka event comes from The New Yorker, wherein the indefatigable Ronan Farrow tells the tale of Karen McDougal, Playboy’s 1998 Playmate of the Year. McDougal claims she had an affair with the future president and, like another alleged Trump mistress, porn actress Stormy Daniels (who was also at the vodka party), got a payoff to guarantee her silence. McDougal says hers was arranged through American Media Inc. — the publisher of the National Enquirer — whose chief executive is Trump friend David Pecker.

Farrow is a careful journalist who last year helped expose Harvey Weinstein as an alleged sex thug. Along with The New York Times, Farrow transformed Weinstein from movie titan to rehab patient and set off a cascade of charges that threatens to take down more men than the 1918 flu pandemic.

Farrow’s latest article is solidly reported but hardly advances our deep understanding of Trump. The Wall Street Journal had earlier published the bones of this story.

Still, the most attentive and apprehensive of Farrow’s readers have got to be that clutch of evangelical Christian leaders

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JFK had his own troubled relationship with virtue — he was no slouch in the mistress department.

who endorsed Trump’s presidential bid and have stuck with him ever since. Their hypocrisy is being sorely tested. After all, McDougal appears believable. She handwrote a contemporaneous account of her alleged affair, which was examined by The New Yorker and found, as the lawyers say, dispositive. One can easily challenge her sanity — she actually liked Trump — but not her honesty. It’s impossible to read McDougal’s story and conclude that she was a one-off — or, if Daniels is included, a two-off.

According to Farrow, the admirably loyal Keith Schiller, Trump’s longtime bodyguard and, for a brief and shining moment, a White House aide, facilitated Trump’s assignations with multiple women. Are there others? I shudder at the thought. And so, I bet, do certain evangelical leaders who, having jumped into bed with Trump, must wonder who else is in it.

In a recent interview with Politico, Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council and a frequent White House visitor, acknowledged the fuss around Daniels but gave Trump a “mulligan.” The past is past. In the present, Trump prays with Perkins and, most important, has proclaimed himself unequivocally antiabortion — and so, when his presidency is finished, will be the federal judiciary.

This is the great trade-off: the lives of the unborn (in pro-life speak) for everything else — Daniels and McDougal and the bevy of women who alleged that Trump assaulted them and the Access Hollywood tape and the incessant lying and vulgarities. For all the grotesqueries past and present, a mulligan.

But evangelical support for Trump has softened. Eighty percent of white evangelicals went with Trump in the general election, but by the end of last year their support was down to around 60 percent.

Additional scandals may erode it further, but regardless, the once morally certain pro-Trump evangelical leaders stand exposed of a shocking cosmopolitan relativism. The best they can do is double down by, say, likening Trump to JFK. What’s the difference? Glad you asked.

Kennedy’s astonishing antics were neither known at the time nor acknowledged by religious leaders or other politicians.

He got no mulligans. Trump, however, audaciously confronts. Just as he allegedly paid off women for their silence, he has effectively paid off the conservative religious movement and, for that matter, much of the Republican Party. A lifetime in real estate has taught him an invaluable lesson: Everyone has a price.

NEWS & OPINION

On April 29, 1962, John F. Kennedy gave a White House dinner for Nobel Prize winners. The president famously observed that his guests were “the most extraordinary collection of talent … that has ever been gathered together at the White House — with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

Many years later, in 2007 to be exact, Donald Trump hosted an event in Los Angeles to launch his brand of vodka.

At his table were his eldest son and his daughter-in-law — as well as Trump’s alleged mistress du jour and Kim Kardashian. Thomas Jefferson, likely, was not mentioned.

Of course, JFK had his own troubled relationship with virtue — he was, we now know, no slouch in the mistress department. But when it comes to a guest list, nothing in the annals of presidential biography quite compares to that L.A. event. It turns out, though, that the Kardashian phenomenon — she became famous that very year because of a leaked sex tape — has lasted longer than Trump Vodka. In retrospect, it’s a wonder she’s not president.

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THE KING OF (MEMPHIS) BEER!

Meddlesome’s 201 Hoplar wins the Flyer ’s second annual Beer Bracket Challenge.

March 8-14, 2018

Meddlesome Brewing’s 201 Hoplar is the best beer in Memphis, according to the 2,344 voters in The Memphis Flyer & Aldo’s Pizza Pies’ 2018 Beer Bracket Challenge.

Meddlesome is a relative newcomer to the Memphis brewing scene, a plucky upstart from the Dirty ’Dova. Oh, wait, Dirty Dova is another Meddlesome IPA. We are here to talk about 201 Hoplar, the IPA that won Memphis hearts — and the 2018 trophy.

The 201 Hoplar IPA is “everything Memphis is,” according to Meddlesome.

It’s “strong, flavorful, and an unforgettable experience.” Dosed with chinook and Columbus hops, the beer is “oozing with resin, pine, grapefruit, and ripe pineapple.”

Meddlesome owners Richie EsQuivel and Ben Pugh created 201 Hoplar to “be exactly what a West Coast IPA should be.” It’s not “over-the-top bitter” on the front end, and the slightly fruity flavors roll in right after that for an accessible, easy-drinking IPA. Meddlesome opened last year in Cordova, just a stone’s throw from the Shelby Farms dog park. But their fans hit our poll with enthusiasm and pushed 201 Hoplar past many Memphis craft beer powerhouses.

The brewery is a dream project for EsQuivel, a former brewer at Boscos Brewing, and Pugh, a former brewer at Rock’n Dough Pizza & Brew Co. Rising to the top of the bracket so fast was surprising to Pugh, but a welcomed surprise.

“It’s taken us aback, honestly,” Pugh said. “We’ve only been open about eight months, and we did not expect it. Once we saw we’d made it to the finals, we were pumped that we’d even made it that far.”

Our trophy — the VanWyngarden Cup (so named because it’s an old ice bucket that the Flyer editor donated) — has rested in a place of honor for the last year.

Wreathed in a crown of hops, the cup sat high above the beautiful taproom bar at Ghost River Brewing Co. That company’s classic golden ale, simply called Gold, 10 won our inaugural challenge last year.

“We had a great year, showing off the trophy and being the King of Memphis

Tessa Pascover celebrates the “hand-crafted beer revolution” at Young Avenue Deli.

Beer,” said Suzanne Williamson, Ghost River’s vice president of marketing, giving a nod to the headline of our cover story last year.

Williamson said Ghost River had fun with the bracket again this year and plans to bring the trophy back to “its true and rightful home,” next year.

The Flyer’s Beer Bracket Challenge was broken up into four categories — light beer, dark beer, IPAs, and seasonals.

We asked our breweries to submit their beers in those categories. Beer lovers know the bracket categories are broad.

Dozens of different beer styles reside in each one. We wanted to meet Memphis beer drinkers where they were. Our beer scene is growing and so are the palates of Memphis beer drinkers. (See our story.)

As our scene changes, so, too, may our bracket.

In the meantime, we knew, for example, that a Kölsch couldn’t (and shouldn’t) compete head to head with a different style, like a pilsner. So, to ensure some kind of objectivity, I pulled an Aldo’s Pizza Pies staff hat over my eyes and blindly picked the match-ups out of a cup. And I did it on Facebook Live. Drinking beer, talking beer, and looking silly on the internet? It was a dream job no one ever told me existed.

With the bracket set, our voters did the rest. Hundreds of votes were cast during each round, for a final total of 12,837 individual votes (with about 1,000 more voters than last year).

On its way to the top, 201 Hoplar defeated Boscos Restaurant & Brewing Co.’s legendary Hop God in the first round of IPA voting. Voters floated it through two more rounds, besting High Cotton’s amazing IPA and Wiseacre’s heavyweight Ananda.

In the Final Four, 201 Hoplar faced Wiseacre’s Tiny Bomb, which might be continued on page 12

The Memphis brewing scene is continuing to grow and change. Two new “People in Memphis are figuring out what craft beer is,” York says. “It’s mainly breweries have recently opened — Meddlesome and Crosstown Brewing. Other word of mouth. It’s that tried and true story … ‘I had a buddy pressure me and new beers enter the Memphis market all the time from regional craft breweries here I am.’” like Devil’s Backbone Brewing and Green Flash Brewing (both from Virginia) or “The local breweries had a big impact,” Pascover says. “The college crowd Perennial Artisan Ales out of St. Louis. were always the domestic beer drinkers, and they didn’t really know about Consider this a sort of “State of Memphis Beer” story. I talked with folks at the [craft beer]. Now, they come in and they want a Wiseacre or a Ghost River. The city’s big draft houses — the Flying Saucer, Young Avenue Deli, and Hammer and local breweries have definitely developed the local market.”

Ale — beer people who have been watching the scene here for years. I also got “Memphians realized they didn’t have to be pigeon-holed into a pilsner,” Eble some insights from two people who helped shape the Memphis craft scene and says. “You can move into a pale ale with some hops in it or a stout or something have started new careers as sales reps for out-of-state, regional brands. dark or barrel-aged. It’s a progression of taste. You start seeing funky things like There is now a “great flood of folks thirsty for craft beer” pouring into the sours staying on the market because people’s tastes have changed.” downtown and Cordova locations of the Flying Saucer, says co-founder and beer But Schlabs says beer drinkers here (like drinkers in most markets) still want expert Keith Schlabs. While the Saucer concept was embraced when it opened in session beers. “People want that yellow, fizzy pint at the end of a long day of work,” May 1997, craft beer wasn’t an easy sell. he says. “It’s our mission and duty to make sure that that yellow, fizzy pint is “We had 80 taps full of offerings, many of which were available to the people something that’s consistently well-made by someone who has worked their butt off of Memphis for the first time,” says Schlabs. “However, we were battling the ‘bitter for craft beer, someone who needs our business and someone we want to support.” beer face’ campaign, where anything that wasn’t a mass-produced adjunct lager or a light lager was ridiculously painted as ‘bad beer.’”

Memphis has seven independent companies brewing beer: Boscos, Ghost River, Bitterness wasn’t understood, making it hard to sell hop-forward styles High Cotton, Wiseacre, Memphis Made, Meddlesome, and Crosstown. Nashville like pale ales and IPAs, Schlabs says. Even filling the Saucer’s massive tap wall has about 20. Little Rock has seven or so, and the state of Mississippi has about 18, was a challenge. Rogue, Anchor, and Breckenridge dominated its 80 taps, and according to Beer Advocate. But do numbers like that really matter? the rest were sourced by Gene and Steve Barzizza and the Memphis team at Not according to Taylor James, who became a sales rep for San DiegoSouthwestern Distributing. based Ballast Point Brewing last year. “San Diego,” he says, “has about 150 But the Saucer persisted and “we saw rocket growth once the craft beer breweries, and all of them are good. Memphis has come a long way, but there movement kicked into high gear,” Schlabs says. “Some thought this was a fad, but is still a long way to go.” we knew it was not. Small brewery tap rooms are growing and this could impact At the Saucer, Schlabs says his crew is still pushing beer drinkers to discover our growth.” new tastes — to attract new craft fans and keep the old ones When Tessa Pascover, general manager of the Young interested. “The onset of fruited, tropical IPAs is a good Avenue Deli, started as a waitress in 2010, Budweiser, Bud JOB ONE WITH THIS example of the industry making efforts to appeal to an Light, Michelob, and Killians still had spots on its draft wall. extended range of palates,” Schlabs says.

BRACKET WAS TO Craft beer now dominates its 35 taps with one exception, Pascover says the Deli is riding the craft beer trend and HAVE FUN. BEER IS Pabst Blue Ribbon. is constantly looking for the next great beer. She remembers FUN, AND WE “Nowadays, after what I call the ‘hand-crafted beer when IPAs where the thing, then it was sour beers, and “last revolution,’ there’s a new brewery that comes to town and new year it was fruit in beer, like watermelon-lime pilsner, or WANTED TO HAVE breweries [at the Deli] all the time,” Pascover says. “There are raspberry truffle stout, or a pineapple passion fruit IPA. This FUN WITH BEER. a ton of new options, and it’s just a really exciting time.” year its going to be hazy, juicy IPAs, filled with fruit.”

BASKETBALL FANS In 2013, local brewers High Cotton, Memphis Made, Eble believes the Memphis craft beer scene still has a GET A BRACKET and Wiseacre opened within six months of each other. It lot more room to grow. “Consumers have been exposed to EVERY YEAR. BEER craft’s panoply of flavors and nobody is going to say, ‘Well, was a sort of explosion for Memphis beer, first ignited by DRINKERS SHOULD I’m going to start drinking Bud again.’” here by Boscos and Ghost River. That new growth was an inspiration for Kevin Eble and David Smith, who opened But the “craft beer” scene of the past changed HAVE ONE, TOO. what was then called The Growler in Cooper-Young. At the significantly when macro breweries (like those who make time, most Memphians didn’t really know what a growler Bud, Miller, and Coors) started snapping up smaller was. The name was changed to Hammer & Ale, but the core mission — a focus on breweries, scaling up their production, and shipping those “craft” brands into craft beer — remained the same. markets like Memphis. Crafty-looking brands like Goose Island, Elysian Brewing, “Our whole thing is that you can come in and get everybody’s stuff,” Eble or Lagunitas may look like they were made at the cool brewery down the road, says. “The breweries, obviously, are limited [to their own beers] but we’re lucky but their owners are likely jet-setting hedge fund managers. enough to sell everybody’s beer. People started grabbing onto it pretty quickly “This [craft beer] heritage we’ve spent so many years to build is being and accepting craft beer as something important.” threatened,” Greg Koch, co-founder of craft beer stalwart Stone Brewing, said in a When Memphis offerings changed, so did its beer drinkers. Civic pride in local recent video. “Big beer [sales have] been flat or declining and they’ve gone out in brews swelled. You can drink Memphis beer in Memphis like never before. With the craft world and made acquisitions.” So now, “craft” breweries is the preferred brewery taprooms, you can consume a local brew steps away from where it was nomenclature for locally owned, hands-on companies like High Cotton or born. It doesn’t get more local than that.

Wiseacre, and independents are opening like crazy.

Taylor James helped found and form the Madison Growler (the growler “I believe the number I heard was a new brewery opens in America every 11 station inside the Madison Cash Saver) and make the grocery store a craft beer hours now,” says Schlabs. “When we started Flying Saucer in 1995, there were destination. He’s seen first-hand how Memphis beer drinkers’ tastes have become 2,000 or so, and now there are over 7,000. Too much of a good thing can start to more sophisticated. be bad.” But that’s not a concern in Memphis, yet.

“Sour beers were something that, four or five years ago, you would have put “I don’t think we’ve plateaued in Memphis by any means,” says York, now a in the Memphis market, and it would have just sat there,” James says. “People sales rep with Hattiesburg-based Southern Prohibition. “The more breweries would have been like, ‘You’re trying to sell me something that’s sour?’ Then that pop up, there is going to be more competition. You’re going to start to I would’ve explained that it’s not like sour candy but it’s because brewers put see breweries realize the other steps they need to take to compete.” bacteria in the [beer]. Then they’re down the aisle running away from you and James says education will continue to be the key. But craft breweries like looking for something else.”

Ballast Point are also beginning to make beers that meet entry-level consumers at, But if you were drinking beer last spring and summer, you know that sours well, the entry levels — with light pilsners and lagers. were “the thing.”

The best ingredient for Memphis beer is always going to be Memphis, says So, how did Memphis beer drinkers evolve from “Lite” drinkers to appreciators Eble. “The local stuff is better because you know the people who made it, and of, say, a bacteria-borne sour beer? For Cory York, formerly with Ghost River, it you know where it was made. That’s better than some guy at Budweiser just comes down to education. following a recipe.”

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continued from page 11 considered the Michael Jordan of the Memphis beer market, but they pulled off the upset of the tournament. In the end, 201 Hoplar faced Wiseacre’s Astronaut Status, a barrel-aged Imperial stout out of the seasonal category.

Except for the IPA category, Wiseacre dominated this year, winning the other three categories: Tiny Bomb in light, Gotta Get Up to Get Down in dark, and, of course, Astronaut Status in seasonal.

It should also be noted that newcomers YOU CAN DRINK Crosstown Brewing fielded a team of four MEMPHIS BEER beers at the same time they were opening IN MEMPHIS LIKE their brand-new brewery close to (you NEVER BEFORE. WITH guessed it) Crosstown Concourse.

BREWERY TAPROOMS, Owners Will Goodwin and Clark YOU CAN CONSUME A Ortkiese joined us for a brief talk during our Facebook Live event at Aldo’s. The LOCAL BREW STEPS guys are passionate. The brewery is AWAY FROM WHERE IT massive, and the beers are good. Look WAS BORN. IT DOESN’T for Crosstown to show up bigly on next GET ANY MORE LOCAL year’s bracket.

THAN THAT. Yes, we know we’re not the first to “bracket-ize” beers. The idea has been used in other alt-weeklies around the country. Heck, the Memphis Craft Beer blog ran Malt Madness in 2015. Consider our hats tipped all around. Job One with this bracket was to have fun. Beer is fun, and we wanted to have fun with beer.

Basketball fans get a bracket every year. Beer drinkers should have one, too.

What we never want to do with this bracket is to make it seem like Memphis breweries are seriously pitted against each other. Sure, they compete, but from the stories I’ve heard, brewers and breweries in Memphis help each other out, trading knowledge and equipment and drinking each others’ brews. We are not creating some fictional friction. Again, we’re just having fun.

Whether you like bracket contests or not, remember: The best beer in Memphis will always be your favorite.

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The Residents

Barclay Roberts and Molly McFarland

By Chris Davis

The Nether director Tony Isbell compares the play’s virtual world of dark fantasy fulfillment to the boundarypushing online community Second Life where users create new identities, build new relationships, make new families, and pursue new occupations. “Only in Second Life you’re still playing around with avatars,” Isbell says, shifting gears and comparing a trip into the Nether to adventures on the holodeck in Star Trek: The Next Generation. “It’s a place with no consequences,” he says listing only a few of the attrocities considered in Jennifer Haley’s speculative 90-minute dystopian detective drama and the ethically confounding internet of tomorrow.

“Murder,” he says. “Pedophelia.”

The Nether’s set at an unspecified time in a near future. There are very few trees left and not much vegetation.

“In other words, the way the world might look in another 20 or 30 years if we’re not careful,” Isbell says. “People have begun to live more of their lives in a perfected online world virtually indistinguishable from real life.”

Conflict arises as a shadowy authoritarian group seeks to acquire the code for a virtual realm called The Hideaway.

With a cast of Memphis A-list actors including Barclay Roberts, Stephen Garrett, and Jillian Barron, The Nether is the biggest show yet attempted by Quark, a troupe of likeminded artists dedicated to producing “Small, essential theater.”

“It’s very lean writing,” Isbell says, trying to describe just how much information Haley’s packed into her award-winning script. “I know people say that about plays all the time, but there’s no fat.”

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FRIDAY March 9

Bash & Pep Rally Minglewood Hall, 4 p.m.

A fund-raiser featuring Baby Los, Deemula, Mudbruddabo, Lil Tru, Ace, 2l’s, Odd Ambitions, and more.

The Drowsy Chaperone Theatre Memphis, 8 p.m.

The record of an old fictitious musical comes to life in this comedy exploring and spoofing musical genres.

The Chaos and the Cosmos: Inside Memphis Music’s Lost Decade 1977-1986 Stax Museum of American Soul Music, 6:30 p.m.

A look back at the music and the music makers struggling to be heard during the ’70s and ’80s.

Food truck heaven — Soi No. 9 and New Wing Order Food News, p. 31 SATURDAY March 10 Drink-N-Draw Ghost River Brewing, 7 p.m.

Drawing games and more with DJ Carla Worth and prizes.

Drafts and Laughs XIII Memphis Made Brewing, 7:30 p.m.

A comedy showcase. Tonight’s event features comics from Dallas.

An Evening with David Wilcox Folk All Y’all Listening Room (11 W. Huling), 7:30 p.m., $40 Concert by folk master David Wilcox.

MidSouthCon Memphis Hilton, 9 a.m., $35 A multi-genre science-fiction convention.

Chicken gizzards, Tarzan, and Lady Parts

Laugh Riot

By Chris Davis

It happens every December, according to Memphis comic Katrina Coleman, who’s returned to her role producing the Memphis Comedy Festival following a year’s hiatus. In advance of the big show, one Chicago comedian sends her the same message: “How about them gizzards, tho?”

“That’s right,” Coleman says. “I’m pretty sure the only reason he keeps coming back to the festival is to eat Jack Pirtle’s chicken gizzards.”

Coleman’s identity protected gizzard fiend is just one of 42 comics performing in 15 shows at the 7th annual Memphis Comedy Festival.

“We were really swinging for the fences,” Coleman says of festival headliner Lizz Winstead, a co-creator and head writer for The Daily Show. Winstead also started Lady Parts Justice, a comedy-forward activism project identifying itself as, “The first not-safe-for-work, rapid response reproductive rights messaging hub.”

“We host a Lady Parts Justice taco festival in Memphis,” Coleman says, assuring that the yearly festival doesn’t discriminate against sausage tacos or other taco-identifying sandwiches.

Anybody who’s ever wondered what it might be like to see filmmaker Craig Brewer roasted by the characters in his own films will appreciate a special Memphis-specific show hosted by Character Assassination. “They’re a roaming band of crazies out of Chicago and Louisville, Kentucky, who put on roasts as fictional characters,” Coleman says. She’s pretty sure Tarzan will show up to roast Brewer. “A personification of the P&H Cafe will probably show up too,” she adds.

The Memphis Comedy Festival’s Midtown locations include TheatreWorks, the Hi-Tone, Midtown Crossing, and the P&H Cafe.

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Living the Legacy Today: MLK at 50 Temple Israel, 5:30 p.m.

A panel discussion on the progress in the civil right movement 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.

“Virginia Overton” Catalogue Release Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis, 5-7 p.m.

A release of a 50-page catalogue featuring Overton’s work. Overton will sign the catalogue and will give a talk about her work.

Bubble Guppies Live!: Ready to Rock Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 6 p.m., $22-$68 Fantastic fish fun during this musical show.

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie Paradiso, 7:05 p.m.

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his weekend’s IRIS Orchestra program is an American tribute with all works from the first half of the 20th century. But a thoroughly 21st century presence will come with guest performer Julia Bullock interpreting several tunes.

Bullock is a rising star: The soprano is the recipient of the 2016 Sphinx Medal of Excellence and other major awards. Critics have praised her powerful emotional presence revealed in performances in operas and with symphonies worldwide.

She recently immersed herself in Josephine Baker: A Portrait by composer Tyshawn Sorey. The operatic study of the iconic singer was presented at the 2016 Ojai Music Festival and helmed by acclaimed director Peter Sellars. At this weekend’s concerts, Bullock will perform two songs popularized by Baker: “J’ai deux amours” and “La Conga Blicoti.”

Bullock didn’t like it when a college teacher compared her to the legendary singer during a voice lesson. “I didn’t want to be thought of as simply a ‘black singer,’” she says. “But I discovered where the paths of our lives paralleled in some respects, and was moved by the fact that she placed her role as an entertainer alongside her work as an activist and humanitarian. The themes of exploitation, demoralization, and discrimination that followed much of Baker’s life were something I wanted to look at onstage, because strangely, by deciding to go into a field that is predominantly run, produced, written, and performed by white people, that helped me want to take ownership of all that I am — a woman of mixed heritage [white and black], who has many influences and doesn’t need to deny any of them.”

Bullock wanted to explore the themes of exploitation and objectification, particularly of black women. “Baker was the perfect vehicle,” she says, “because of how inviting and innocuous seeming her material was — most people only remember Baker as a black Venus in a banana skirt.” The New World Symphony invited Bullock to perform Baker’s songs on one of their club concerts, and they commissioned the orchestrations of the two songs she’ll be performing with IRIS. Sellars took an interest and offered to work with her on developing the program.

“I spent hours researching all of Baker’s recordings, organizing them by themes, and sitting with Tyshawn to talk through the music that I most wanted to reimagine,” she says. “I continue to edit the text and experiment with different cuts.”

Bullock is also performing the Gershwin classic “Summertime,” and she says, she has to remind herself that it’s a lullaby, not a show piece. “I approach this material like everything else,” she says. “The lyrics are what inspired the music [other than Brahms — he wrote his melodies first and then found poems to accompany them]. But either way, I must ensure that the text and vocalism exist side by side and that one doesn’t overshadow or overwhelm the other.”

Michael Stern, the music director of IRIS, met Bullock when they performed Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 together at the Young Concert Artists Gala in New York in 2016. He wanted her to perform with IRIS, and the scheduling finally worked out — and Knoxville is also on this weekend’s program.

Bullock’s journey began in a home where the arts were essential.

“Music was always playing in my house,” she says. “My father had a beautiful baritone voice and played several instruments as an amateur; and my mother loved to dance, so I’d go with her to tap classes and shuffle along in the back before I was enrolled myself.”

And her influences?

“I’d say the performer who first influenced me was Tina Turner,” Bullock says. “I’d simply weep if I met her today — yes, I am that big of a fan.” Other singers who got her attention from the first listen are Regine Créspin, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, and Kathleen Ferrier.

“They were all great communicators,” she says. “There was a passion and ferocity in their delivery; there was a clarity in their sound, and a focus of intention.”

It wasn’t until well into her teens that she began to get into classical music. “I was floored by the intensity of the material, both musical and poetic,” she says.

From this emerged her own intellectual grounding in her art. “My parents instilled the credo that if I’m not providing a service in my work, then it’s not worthy work,” she says. “There are invaluable byproducts from making music that make it vital. Music helps us listen more closely, it encourages us to engage with one another and ourselves, it asks us to act with intention and make choices, despite not knowing the future outcome.”

The IRIS Orchestra, with guest performer Julia Bullock, performs 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Germantown Performing Arts Center.

Tickets are $45-$65 Saturday and $40-$60 Sunday. Info: irisorchestra.org and (901) 751-7500.

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or the sculptors or the painters or the photographers or whatever. Our little group of people included Dickinson, [Sid] Selvidge, Lee Baker, Mud Boy, Alex [Chilton], John Fry, Knox Phillips, Bill Eggleston, and Tav [Falco]. We all wanted to create art. I just kinda fell into photography.”

Now, we’re all the beneficiaries of Rainer’s chosen path, as the Stax Museum of American Soul Music opens Rainer’s exhibit, “Chaos and the Cosmos: Inside Memphis Music’s Lost Decade, 19771986,” this Friday.

“There’s great pictures of Sam Phillips,” Rainer says. “There’s pictures of Willie Mitchell and Al Green in the control room at Hi; Knox and Jerry in the control room at Phillips; Alex and Jim in the studio; Johnny Woods and Furry [Lewis] when we recorded the Beale Street record.”

That 1978 record marked a turning point, where the fringe took up the mantle as guardians of both past and future. “I mean, think of what would have happened if we hadn’t fought to keep them from letting the Orpheum be bought by the Jehovah’s Witnesses!” Rainer exclaims.

“And there’s a big thanks due Jim, because he went down there to those guys at the Memphis Development Foundation and struck a deal to make this Beale Street Saturday Night record to raise money to restore the Orpheum.”

It was that concert that seemed to chart the course for independent music-makers in the city. While Mud Boy, Chilton, and Falco ultimately became guiding stars of the “guerrilla” music that has come to define 21st century Memphis, there was little inkling of such possibilities at the time. “Looking back on it,” says Rainer, “it still blows my mind.”

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or many Americans, the death of Elvis Presley in 1977 marked the end of an age of innocence in rock-and-roll. But it had more significance in Memphis, a capstone on a series of events that decimated the musical momentum the city had gathered in previous decades.

Pat Rainer, who documented those times in her photography, puts it this way: “Stax was bankrupt, Beale Street was boarded up, the major record labels had moved out, and it was like, ‘Wait a minute!

We’re still here!’ Jim Dickinson coined the phrase that what we did was ‘guerrilla video’ or ‘guerrilla recording.’ I was his disciple, and I would have walked the fires of hell for him.”

Rainer, a Memphis native who studied radio, TV, and film production at Memphis State University, was dissatisfied with academia and struck out on her own, working in record stores and falling in with a tight-knit community of bohemians and creators who came to define the post-Elvis era. She worked at the Yellow Submarine record shop on Poplar, whose owner, Jim Blake, would eventually start the maverick independent label, Barbarian Records. “Blake founded the company when Dickinson told him, ‘You know, you should make a record of Jerry Lawler and sell it at the wrestling matches.’ And I saw a light bulb go off over Blake’s head. The three of us kinda pitched in together, but Blake was the figurehead.”

The Lawler records sold, helping to fund hours of recording sessions by Dickinson, Lesa Aldridge, the Klits, and others — mostly unreleased. The label was emblematic of a whole scene germinating through the 1970s. “It was a community of artists who all worked in concert with one another, whether it was the musicians

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule March 8 - 14 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

Live Music WednesdaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Live DJ Wednesdays-Sundays, 11 p.m.; Third Floor: DJ Tubbz Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill

Handy Bar

341-345 BEALE 577-1089

Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

200 BEALE 527-2687

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

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

Blues City Cafe

Itta Bena

138 BEALE 526-3637

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

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

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

Chris Gales Solo Acoustic Show Mondays-Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/acoustic

Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

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

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Saturday, March 10, 8 p.m.midnight.

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

Bad Boy Bill & Richard Vission Saturday, March 10, 10 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Friday, March 9, 4:30-7:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 10, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; FreeWorld Friday, March 9, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, March 10, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sensation Band

Sunday, March 11, 7-11 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Gracie Curran Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. and Sundays, 3-7 p.m.; Delta Project Friday, March 9, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Fuzzy Saturday, March 10, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Sensation Band Monday, March 12, 8 p.m.midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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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.

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1911 POPLAR 244-7904

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.

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Belle Tavern 117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

Bourbon and Jazz with Quelude Sundays, 2:30-5:30 p.m.

Boytoy with Champagne Superchillin’ Friday, March 9; Marcella and Her Lovers Saturday, March 10; Devil Train Monday, March

Shred Flintstone Thursday, March 8, 9:30 p.m.; Pyramid Scheme feat. IMAKEMADBEATS Friday, March 9, 9:30 p.m.; Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires with Dirty Streets Saturday, March 10, 10 p.m.; Obscura: A Gothic Affair Sunday, March 11, 9 p.m.; Keep Flying with Indeed, We Disgress Monday, March 12, 9 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Andrew Pope Friday, March 9, 6:30 p.m.; The Super 5 Friday, March 9, 10 p.m.; The Bluff City Bandits Saturday, March 10, 6:30 p.m.; Frankie Hollie & the Noise Saturday, March 10, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, March 11, 11 a.m.; Memphis Ukulele Band Sunday, March 11, 4 p.m.; Vista Kicks Sunday, March 11, 8 p.m.; Memphis Knights Big Band Monday, March 12, 6 p.m.; Swingtime Explosion Big Band Tuesday, March 13, 5:30 p.m.; Jake Allen Tuesday, March 13, 8 p.m.; 3RD Man Wednesday, March 14,

1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; New Wave Rebellion, Outer Ring Saturday, March 10; Community Center, Beg, Not Tight Sunday, March 11; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Pixel Grip, Pop Ritual, Faulter Tuesday, March 13; Chris Watts, Tony Manard, Kitty Dearing Wednesday, March 14.

East Memphis Agavos Cocina and Tequila 2924 WALNUT GROVE

Miguel Angel Valdez Sunday, March 11, 5:30-8 p.m.

Wang’s East Tapas 6069 PARK 685-9264

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

Poplar/I-240 East Tapas and Drinks 6069 PARK 767-6002

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

Eddie Harris Thursdays, Fridays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Van Duren Solo Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.

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

Neil’s Music Room

Fleet Foxes Saturday, March 10, 8 p.m.

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

The Brian Johnson Band Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Barrett Baber Friday, March 9, 9 p.m.; Pulse: A Tribute to Pink Floyd Saturday, March 10, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Sunday, March 11, 5-9 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Center for Southern Folklore 123 S. MAIN AT PEABODY TROLLEY STOP 525-3655

Evening with Zeke Johnson Saturday, March 10, 8-11 p.m.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Nancy Apple Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Daniel McKee and Friends Friday, March 9, 9 p.m.; Keith Blanchard Saturday, March 10, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Bartlett Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

Earnestine & Hazel’s

3663 APPLING 385-6440

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

BPACC Youth Theatre: GODSPELL Friday, March 9, 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 10, 2:30 p.m.

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

Faith Baptist Church of Bartlett

130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

3755 N. GERMANTOWN 386-4785

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

Big Daddy Weave Concert with Brandon Heath Friday, March 9, 7-10 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

1801 EXETER 751-7500

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

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

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

The Po Boys Friday, March 9, 8 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill Saturday, March 10, 8 p.m.

South Main Folk All Y’all Listening Room 11 W. HULING AVE

An Evening with David Wilcox Thursday, March 8, 7:30-10 p.m.

Ghost River Brewing 827 S. MAIN 278-0087

Sunday Evening with Country Duo Sunday, March 11, 5-7:30 p.m.

12; Conner Station with the Crooked Spines and Dave Cousar Tuesday, March 13; Some Sons of Mudboy Wednesday, March 14.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, March 8, 8-11 p.m.; Risky Whiskey Boys Friday, March 9, 9 p.m.; Java Trio Saturday, March 10, 9 p.m.; David Collins & Frog Squad Sunday, March 11, 6-9 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesday, March 14, 6-8 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

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

Memphis Comedy Festival Friday, March 9, 7 p.m. and Saturday, March 10, 7 p.m.; Adult Mom And The Kids Sunday, March 11, 8 p.m.; PUJOL, China Gate, Melinda, Sarah Cozart & Christine Garaugno Monday, March 12, 8 p.m.; Sinema, St. John Band Tuesday, March 13, 9 p.m.

5:30 p.m.; The Memphis All Stars Wednesday, March 14, 8 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Natalie James and the Professor Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; “The Happening” Open Songwriter Showcase Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room

Murphy’s

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Kolby Oakley Thursday, March 8, 6 p.m.; The ShotGunBillys Thursday, March 8, 9 p.m.;

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Steven King Band Saturday, March 10, 10 p.m.

1589 MADISON 726-4193

Hash Redactor with Bugg and Deviant Sunday, March 11.

P&H Cafe

North Mississippi/ Tunica Horseshoe Casino & Hotel AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS 1-800-303-SHOE

Gary Allan Saturday, March 10.

Minglewood Hall

Marcella and Her Lovers Sunday, March 11, 4-7 p.m.; The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, March 11, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

1927 MADISON 726-4372

Live Band Karaoke with Public Record Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Bash & Pep Rally Thursday, March 8, 4 p.m.; Blac Youngsta Album Release Concert Friday, March 9, 8 p.m.; Beware the Ides of March Saturday, March 10, 3 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

IRIS Presents: America in Song featuring Julia Bullock Saturday, March 10, 8-10 p.m. and Sunday, March 11, 2-4 p.m.

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

Memphis LIVE MondaysSundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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BPACC Youth Theatre Godspell, tale of friendship, loyalty, and love based on the hit Broadway musical. Parables are told through song, dance, and a good dose of comic timing. www.bpacc.org. $10-$15.

Fri., March 9, 7:30 p.m., Sat., March 10, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., March 11, 2:30 p.m.

3663 APPLING (385-6440).

Hattiloo Theatre

Selma: A Musical Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., originally written in 1976 to honor Dr. King’s bravery, many of the messages still resonate with activists today. www.hattiloo.org. Through March 18.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

1000 CAMPUS (870-338-6474).

Playhouse on the Square

Laughter on the 23rd Floor, take a trip inside the writer’s room to witness the wacky antics and crazy arguments that happen on the 23rd floor. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $25-$40. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through March 25.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

The Drowsy Chaperone, a man puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording “comes to life” and a masterful madcap evening lovingly pokes fun at the musical theater genre. www.theatrememphis. org. $30. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m.

Through March 31.

Newsies Auditions, story is set in 1899, New York City, which got its news from an army of ragged orphans and runaways called newsies. One of them dreams of a better life.

Performs Aug. 24-Sept. 16. www.theatrememphis.org. Sat., March 10, 9:45-10 a.m., and Sun., March 11, 5:15-5:30 p.m.

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“A Potpourri of Art”

Featuring local artists Cherie Robinson, Joy Phillips Routt, Missy George, Lynn Reed, Phyllis Boger, Libby Anderson, James Blythe, and Caroline Brown showcasing their artwork. Free. Through March 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282), WWW.STGCHURCH.ORG.

Ag Day Student Art Contest

Calling all 3rd through 12th graders in Shelby and DeSoto Counties. Seeking entries in six categories: drawing, painting, collage, photography, graphic design and short video.

Theme is “Farm of the Future.”

Through March 9.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (757-7777), WWW.AGRICENTER.COM.

Art & Soul 901 Live!

Art exhibition with live soul and hip-hop performances. $10. Wed., March 14, 8:30 p.m.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

Spamalot, comedy that follows King Arthur and his Knights on their quest for the Holy Grail. On their journey, they encounter strange places, even stranger characters. (6106076), ruffin.theater/. $10.

Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

Through March 17.

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

113 W. PLEASANT (504-8889).

1500 UNION (278-6868).

The Historic Ruffin Theater

The Orpheum

Wicked, www. orpheum-memphis.com. $49.

Through March 25.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Phillips County Community College

March 8-14, 2018

foundation.org. Fri., March 9, 6:30-9 p.m.

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

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

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Thur.-Sat., Mar. 8-10, 7:30 p.m.

Mary Poppins, starring Elizabeth Garcia in Lily Peter Auditorium. Enjoy this smash Broadway hit featuring memorable songs from one of

ANF Architects

Opening reception for “Gentle Gestures,” exhibition of new works by Don DuMont. www. anfa.com. Fri., March 9, 5:307:30 p.m.

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

Opening reception for “The Chaos and the Cosmos: Inside Memphis Music’s Lost Decade, 1977-1986,” exhibition of photography by Patricia Rainer when musicians struggled to be heard and a city fought to reclaim its mantle as the home of rock-and-roll/blues/soul.

(261-6338), www.soulsville-

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

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

Casting Demonstration Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.

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Author Robert Gordon will discuss his new book and chat with Patricia Rainer about her new exhibition. Free. Fri., March 9, 7:30-9 p.m.

STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC, 926 E. MCLEMORE (261-6338), WWW.SOULSVILLEFOUNDATION.ORG.

The Moonpie Project Presents Casey Kawaguchi Artist talk for new mural on view in Crosstown Arts alley from Mar. 19 through the end of May. Tues., March 13, noon.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE (FORMERLY SEARS CROSSTOWN), N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Panel Discussion for “The CLTV”

Exhibition motivated by the question “What does liberation mean for a young black artist in Memphis?” Tues., March 13, 6 p.m.

CLOUGH-HANSON GALLERY, RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000), WWW.RHODES.EDU.

Ongoing.

“Gentle Gestures” at ANF Architects, Friday, March 9th

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

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School “Modern Take on a Fresco and marciART,” exhibition of paintings by Lou Ann Dattilo and jewelry by Marci Margolin Hirsch. www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through April 16.

Pi(e) Day at the Brooks

Celebrate National Pi Day and Lisa Hoke’s “Pie in the Sky,” currently on view in the museum rotunda, with pi and pie-related activities. Wed., March 14, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

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

Clough-Hanson Gallery

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

“The CLTV,” exhibition motivated by the question, “What does liberation mean for a young black artist in Memphis?” www.rhodes.edu.

Through March 23.

Tour: “African-Print Fashion Now!” with Andrea Fenise

Guided tour of exhibition by special guest, Andrea Fenise, local professional stylist and creative entrepreneur. Wed., March 14, 6:30 p.m.

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

Crosstown Concourse

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

“Virginia Overton” Catalogue Release

Produced in conjunction with the exhibition “Virginia Overton,” a 50-page illustrated exhibition catalogue will be available to the public. Overton will sign copies and give gallery talk. Tues., March 13, 5-7 p.m.

FOGELMAN GALLERIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, 3715 CENTRAL (678-2216), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

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1500 UNION (278-6868).

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

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

“Gentle Gestures,” exhibition of new works by Don DuMont. www.anfa.com. March 9-April 5.

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

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

Through March 11.

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

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

Curated by Anna Wunderlich.

Through March 11.

“Two Stories of Iceland,” exhibition of small paintings and

drawings, a narrative exploration of Icelandic stories and landscape by Elizabeth Alley. www. crosstownarts.org. Through March 11.

N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

“Talk Talk Talk: Late ’70s,” exhibition of wood sculpted canvas paintings and woodcuts from 1970s by Ted Faiers. www. davidluskgallery.com. Through March 17.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

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

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

by Susan and John Horseman.

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Through April 1.

Paula Kovarik, exhibition of fiber art. www.dixon.org. Through April 1.

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of work by Charlie Ivey and Virginia Schoenster, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

FireHouse Community Arts Center

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

“I Am Here,” exhibition of work by Najee Strickland, Immon Johnson, Rahn Marion, and Naima Peace. www.mbaafirehouse.org. Through April 30.

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

Ongoing.

WKNO Studio

“Portraits in Soul: Rare Images from the API Archive,” exhibition of 30 20 x 20 images from original promo photographs of Stax artists. www.wkno.org.

Through March 30.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

L Ross Gallery

“Glimpses of the Space Between,” exhibition of paintings and drawings by Anne Davey and Jil Evans. www.lrossgallery.com. Through March 31.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Black Resistance: Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement,” focuses on and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the events from March 27 through April 8, 1968. Through Aug. 19.

“African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style,” exhibition of dynamic traditions of African dress featuring colorful, boldly patterned printed cloth highlighting the interplay between regional preferences and cosmopolitanism.

Through Aug. 12.

“Rotunda Projects: Lisa Hoke,” exhibition of overthe-top installation of recycled and repurposed materials reflecting aspirations for the work and fears of expecting too much. Through June 3.

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

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

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Art of Science,” exhibition showcasing the beauty of science and the power of art. Featuring scientific imagery reinterpreted by local area fine artists. www.mca.edu. Through April 18.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

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

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

Through April 22.

Memphis Made Brewing Company

Drafts and Laughs XXI, see comedians from all around the country. www.memphismadebrewing. com. Free. Sat., March 10, 7:30-9:15 p.m.

768 S. COOPER (207-5343).

TheatreWorks

Opening Showcase: Memphis Comedy Festival, www.theatreworksmemphis.org. $10. Thurs., March 8, 6:30 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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March Madness Comedy Explosion Featuring the Greek Comedy Tour, enjoy an evening of laughter with host Christopher Columbus. www.orpheummemphis.com. $30-$45. Sat., March 10, 6:30 p.m.

225 S. MAIN (529-4299).

Memphis Comedy Festival, four-day festival of stand-up comedy, Improv, podcasts, open mics, informational seminars, featured shows, and fun. Visit website for more information. www.memphiscomedyfestival.com. March 8-11.

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Spillit Slam: Stuck in the Middle, opportunity to share five minutes of you with a room full of kind folks who appreciate stories. www.spillitmemphis. org. Sat., March 10, 7 p.m.

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Author reads and signs Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music’s Hometown featuring Memphis music. Books and soundtrack LPs will be

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Ross Gallery

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Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum

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

826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“The Chaos and the Cosmos: Inside Memphis Music’s Lost Decade, 1977-1986,” exhibition of photography by Patricia Rainer. www.staxmuseum. com. March 9-July 31.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

TOPS Gallery

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

400 S. FRONT.

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

151 MADISON (340-0134).

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“Riding the Bevel,” exhibition of work by artists from the Mid-South Woodturners Guild in the gallery foyer. www.cbu.edu/gallery. March 9-April 24.

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Walking tour of the region’s old-growth forest. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.

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For girls ages 12-18 years old. Featuring motivational speakers, workshops, panelist, mentors ready to equip girls to the next level, and honors 5 GirlPreneurs from the City of Memphis. $25. Sat., March 10, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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r. David Evans of the University of Memphis, using the kind of reverent tones one usually associates with a place of worship, was the first person in Memphis to tell me about the sweltering July day in 1975 when Memphis blues guitarist Furry Lewis, packed among a star-studded lineup, opened for the Rolling Stones and stole the show.

Since then, a parade of Memphians have recounted the time they waited in the field of a hot, crowded stadium to see the Rolling Stones. But only writer and filmmaker Robert Gordon, in his new book, Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music’s Hometown (Bloomsbury Publishing), made the day so vivid I could imagine the sweat on my skin — and the chills that might have run down my spine when Lewis began to play.

Gordon describes Lewis’ set as a ground zero meeting-point with the blues and with all kinds of underground music, and a different side of life that acts as a breeding ground for artists. The young writer was aware of the blues, but not that he shared time and space with living legends. The event, which serves as Gordon’s entrance into a wider world, is the reader’s introduction to Memphis Rent Party.

“Furry not only made me question my assumptions,” Gordon writes, “he made me aware of the privilege that produced them.”

Memphis Rent Party is a collection of interconnected profiles and interviews about the musicians who live and work in Memphis, and those who were drawn here to record, to live, or to lose themselves. The material, some of which was previously unpublished, has been collected from Gordon’s notes and interview transcripts, from Oxford American, from the liner notes of albums, from LA Weekly and The Memphis Flyer.

Though taken from various sources and covering a wide range of styles, the common thread linking the chapters of Memphis Rent Party is a distinctly Memphis orneriness. Everyone who steps into the spotlight in Gordon’s collection shares a compulsion to do things her own way, to dance to his own off-tempo beat, trends and audiences — and success — be

damned. Whether it’s the plug being pulled on a raucous Mudboy and the Neutrons mid-show, Alex Chilton’s punk-like antics on stage with Panther Burns, or Junior Kimbrough’s droning, 15-minute version of “All Night Long,” the musicians highlighted in Memphis Rent Party go where few else dare, dancing on the edge with eyes closed, jiving to the pulse of a beat only they hear. “Jim [Dickinson] helped me understand the Memphis aesthetic as the inverse of a hit factory like Nashville.

Oddballs and individuals thrive here, not homogeny,” Gordon writes. “That doesn’t mean Memphis doesn’t want hits. It means Memphis insists on dictating its own terms, delivered via take it or leave it.”

The subjects, though united by a shared rebelliousness, are nonetheless varied.

Memphis Rent Party is no blues biography or soul exegesis. The subject is neither Stax nor Sun, but a range of artists as diverse and multifaceted as the Bluff City itself.

The Tav Falco interview resonates with a “pleasing intensity,” but Cat Power’s interview is heartbreakingly intimate, so unguarded that Gordon recalls, “I worried at the time that I shouldn’t publish this and I contacted her longtime press agent.” The profile on soul singer James Carr smashes the reader to pieces. Producer and musician Jim Dickinson is a recurring character in these pages, appearing only to break off a line of sly wisdom before shuffling off the page.

Memphis Rent Party succeeds in describing the particulars by examining the circumstances that helped produce them.

It is impossible to study Memphis music divorced from the economic and social conditions that allowed these sounds to thrive, so at times, this collection is a study of the South, of its mores and norms, its casual cruelties and discriminations. But, as Gordon writes of the blues (and surely the same can be said of all music), “[b]lues is the mind’s escape from the body’s obligation. Blues amplifies the relief whenever and wherever relief can be found. The scarcity of that respite makes it ecstatic.”

Reading, signing, and music celebrating the release of Robert Gordon’s collection Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music’s Hometown at Ernestine & Hazel’s, Saturday, March 10th at 8 p.m.

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bers. You can opt for fried chicken or tofu in this dish. The Basil Chicken features stir-fried ground chicken with garlic, chilies and Thai basil served over jasmine rice and a fried egg. Among the noodle dishes are the Fat Rice Noodles with seasonal vegetables and mushroom soy sauce and pork or tofu and the Khao Soi Noodles, a curry soup with pickled mustard greens, onions, and lime. Sides include some excellent vegetable spring rolls and potstickers. The menu extends to very sweet/ bitter Iced Thai tea and Iced Thai coffee and coconut Thai Sticky Rice with fruit for dessert.

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New Wing Order, Cole Forrest and Jesse McDonald’s team, scored first at the Memphis Hot Wings Festival in 2015 and 2017. Their winning wing was a hybrid of Buffalo and barbecue. They worked on it for a year, asking their friends for feedback. All they heard was praise.

Of course, the Memphis Buffalo is on the menu of New Wing Order’s new food truck, set to launch in September. You can get that in sandwich form (fried chicken with pepper jack cheese served with ranch) or via sauce for your hot wings.

Forrest says the truck is “real-time market testing.” They plan to have the truck at Court Square, St. Jude, in the medical district, and the Food Truck Park on Winchester.

But let’s get back to that menu. There’s not only barbecue nachos topped with queso and an Alabama white barbecue sauce (!) but also hot wing nachos. The hot wing nachos use the boneless wings, of course. And the truck will serve both.

Forrest calls himself a purist, one who likes the boned wing and points out that the boneless wing is not a wing at all but the chicken breast. Six piece traditional (boned) wings go for $7, boneless $6.

That goes up to 18-piece for $17 and $14.

A hot wing combo (four traditional, six boneless) with fries and a drink will set you back $10.

Among the sauces are the Memphis Buffalo, Tennessee Teriyaki, Lynchburg Fire, and Cajun Honey Hot. Barbecue sauces are mild, hot, chipotle honey, and Alabama white, Buffalo sauces are classic, hot, and inferno. There are seasonings as well: Backyard BBQ, lemon pepper, garlic parmesan, and ragin’ Cajun.

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“We are Soi 9, representing authentic food loved by pauper to prince, from our Soi to your street!” says Mai. You can generally catch Soi No. 9 at Court Square on Thursdays and in front of UT Medical on Madison on Mondays and Tuesdays. facebook.com/soinumber9

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“Soi” means street, explains Mai. “Nine, pronounced Gao, happens to be the number of our late and beloved King Rama and is the Thai word for ‘going forward’.”

Go forward they did in a great brightorange converted school bus. They’ve kept the menu small, the better to concentrate on the dishes “we do really good,” says Mai. The rice bowls include Khao Mun Gai, steamed chicken with fresh ginger, garlic, soy over ginger rice and cucum-

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Jelly Shot Test Kitchen is a revelation. Recipes are sorted by alcohol and theme. A quick glance at St. Patrick’s Day cocktails led me to Irish Car Bomb Jelly Shots (two layers consisting of Guinness beer and Baileys Irish Cream), Pistachio Pudding Shots (vodka, milk, and instant pistachio pudding) and Lucky-tini o’ the Irish (pear-flavored vodka, Midori, and diet Sprite).

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Next time I host brunch, I’m determined to make Bloody Mary Jell-O Shots. I found directions on the website The Improv Kitchen, but you can use your own Bloody Mary recipe. Mix together the non-alcoholic ingredients in a pot over medium heat, add a packet of unflavored gelatin, and stir until it’s dissolved. Let the mixture cool for one minute, then add vodka. Pour the liquid into celery stalks, let set, and then trim the celery into smaller pieces. To borrow the sage words of Jerry Thomas, it sounds like a “very agreeable refreshment” indeed.

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ast weekend, I watched the Academy Awards with friends who planned a snacks and drinks menu that referenced every Best Picture nominee. There were deviled eggs (The Shape of Water), wafer crackers (Lady Bird), and more.

When Jordan Peele won an Oscar for Get Out (Best Original Screenplay), our intrepid hostess brought out a tray of sweet tea Jell-O shots, a nod to a pivotal scene in the movie, when one character uses a cup of tea and a spoon to put another character under involuntary hypnosis.

The shots, a combination of vodka, black tea, sugar, and lemon Jell-O, were sophisticated and delicious. I’ve enjoyed Jell-O shots in Dixie cups and tiny plastic tubs, but these were the first I’ve seen served in hollowed-out lemon wedges.

It’s an easy trick: You slice lemons in half, remove the insides, and pour in your shot recipe. Once the Jell-O sets, you cut each lemon half into smaller wedges. It seems that Jell-O shots, once relegated to the fraternity party and spring break circuits, have somehow become more refined in recent years.

Excited, I perused an online article about Jell-O shots by historic gastronomist Sarah Lohman, who pens the fascinating blog Four Pounds Flour. Lohman discovered — and summarily recreated — what is likely the grandfather of the Jell-O shot, a drink called Punch Jelly that she found in the pages of Jerry Thomas’ 1862 book How to Mix Drinks.

Of the cocktail, which was made from dark rum, cognac, lemonade, and gelatin (likely calves foot jelly, originally), Thomas wrote, “This preparation is a very agreeable refreshment, but should be used in moderation: The strength of the punch is so artfully concealed by its admixture with the gelatin, that many persons, particularly of the softer sex, have been tempted to partake so plentifully of it as to render them somewhat unfit for waltzing or quadrilling after supper.” Thomas, known as the father of American mixology and a New York saloon owner, was clearly onto something.

On the recipe website Tablespoon. com, I found the elegant Bramble JellO Shot, a two-layer drink crafted by renowned bartender and Cosmopolitan creator Toby Cecchini. Its base is a sour layer that consists of gin, lemon juice, sugar, and unflavored gelatin. On top rests a blackberry layer, made from blackberry liqueur and grape Jell-O.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

The Russians Are Coming Jennifer Lawrence collects kompromat in Red Sparrow.

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The Russians had been such good villains for us, the yang to our yin. The Soviets of movie lore were just as capable and well funded as their Western counterparts,

but their fanatical adherence to an ideology we only half understood made them much more ruthless. Where would James Bond be without From Russia With Love?

Rotting away in some flea-bitten colonial capital, keeping the locals subdued for the Queen, probably. The Russian threat, even dressed up as SPECTRE, gave him purpose and meaning. In the post-Cold War period, Bond would fight international criminal cartels and terrorists, but it just wasn’t the same. Nobody had that bad guy zing like the Russkies.

Well I’ve got good news for fans of international intrigue and the possibility of death by cleansing nuclear fire! The Russians are back! And this time they’re sexier than ever! We’re talking Jennifer Lawrence sexy here, people. Lawrence, fresh from dumping Darren Aronofsky because he Would. Not. Shut. Up. about their arthouse embarrassment mother!, plays Dominika Egrova, a made-up name for a Bolshoi ballerina if ever I heard one. Dominika is nearing the peak of a promising career on Moscow’s biggest stage when a gruesome injury throws her life into ruins.

Her father is dead, her mother is an invalid, and, as anyone who has recently watched I, Tonya could tell you, there’s not much of a job market for hobbled ballerinas. That’s when her uncle, Ivan Dimitrevich

Jennifer Lawrence stars in Red Sparrow, based on the best-selling espionage novel of the same name.

Egorov (Matthias Schoenaerts) makes her an offer she can’t refuse.

Let me pause here to say I love the character of Ivan, and not just because he has the laziest possible made-up name for a Russian bad guy. Everything about Schoenaerts as Ivan is designed to push your Bond movie buttons. If this were 1963, he would be working for the KGB. As it is, he works for the SVR. Even his haircut and the impeccable tailoring of his suits resemble Red Grant, Bond’s nemesis in From Russia With Love.

If Schoenaerts is Red Grant, then Charlotte Rampling is Krebs, the matronly SPECTRE agent with the switchblade shoe. Rampling is even called “Matron” by the collection of would-be super spies in the notorious school where Dominika is sent to learn her trade craft, which consists mostly of picking locks and being very sexy. “The Cold War did not end!” she exclaims, before making Dominika and a tovarisch date raper with the completely authentic name Dimitri Ustinov (Kristof Konrad) strip and get it on for the class.

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Here’s the thing about Red Sparrow. It’s completely ridiculous, way too long, and yet also, somehow entertaining. A lot of that probably comes down to Lawrence, who pretty much just brazens her way through the proceedings with her movie star’s physical confidence. Lawrence earns her paycheck, which, given the nude scenes, must have been substantial. And really, isn’t elevating mediocre material by sheer charisma pretty much the job

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I can’t help but think Red Sparrow works as well as it did for me because I watched it right after reading The New Yorker’s extended exegesis of the Steele Dossier. It may make for an eye rolling film plot, but blinding powerful men with boobies and then blackmailing the hell out of them apparently works like a charm.

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THE LAST WORD by Maya Smith

Challenges Ahead

Close to 30 congressmen visited Memphis last week as a part of a yearly civil rights pilgrimage.

Led by Representative John Lewis of Georgia, the group usually stops in Alabama to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” a day in 1965 when peaceful protesters were beaten by police during a march from Selma to Montgomery.

This year, in light of it being the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination, the legislators made a special stop here at the Mason Temple, where King gave his final speech, and then at the Lorraine Motel at the National Civil Rights Museum, where King was shot and killed a day later.

Both of the local spots are being added to the U.S. Civil Rights Network, a collection of places deemed significant to the narrative of the civil rights movement.

The network was recently established under President Donald Trump to demonstrate a “commitment to continue telling these stories for generations to come.” But, as we look back and tell these stories, we must ask ourselves if we are being retrospective for the sake of being retrospective, or are we looking back with the intent of progressing forward?

Will these same legislators take the actions necessary to keep progress alive?

Dr. King knew taking on the battles of the future was more crucial than dwelling on those of past. His message was always forward focused.

In his final book Where Do We Go From Here?, he presented an analysis of the country’s race relations in the wake of the Civil Rights and Voting Acts passing.

He talked about what it would take to guarantee that the rights won under these acts would be enforced by the government. He foresaw the social and economic struggles that would arise post-civil rights movement, but I wonder if he thought most of those obstacles would still stand tall today.

Attaining better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and equal education are all the challenges King talked about in his book and the ones that still ring familiar to so many in 2018.

King’s life ended right as he was turning his attention from fighting for civil rights to economic rights with the “Poor People’s Campaign.” His next fight was going to be against poverty. That was 50 years ago, and we’re still fighting economic disparities today.

This became even more evident when the findings of a poverty report done by University of Memphis professor Dr. Elena Delavega in collaboration with the National Civil Rights Museum was presented last week.

The Poverty Report: Memphis Since MLK takes a look at poverty rates and other economic indicators since 1968, comparing African Americans and whites living in the county. Though it shows African Americans have seen growth economically, educationally, and vocationally, the 27-page report is full of startling statistics about the current poverty rates in Shelby County.

Here are a few of the most disturbing findings: • The poverty rate for African-American children in the city is 48.3 percent. That’s higher than it was when this data was first collected by the Census Bureau in 1980. Meanwhile, only 11.4 percent of white children grow up in poverty here.

• The median household income for African Americans here is half that of white households.

• Per capita, African Americans earn $19,421 compared to the $41,135 earned by white Shelby Countians.

• In the county, only 8 percent of whites live below the poverty line, while 29 percent of African Americans are living in poverty.

The report also cites that the incarceration rate for African Americans has increased 50 percent since 1980. Twice as many blacks are going to jail and prison, and the negative effect this has on the unemployment and poverty rate of African American communities is no surprise. Taking a black man from his home only compounds high childhood poverty rates in those communities.

It all has to change — the wealth gap, the disproportionate incarceration rates, the inequality. It’s been 50 years since King led thousands of sanitation workers through the streets of downtown Memphis, demanding better working conditions and higher wages.

Half a century later, Memphians of color are still fighting.

Something’s got to be done to reverse the generational cycle of poverty in this city. Because like King said, economic rights are both civil and human rights.

Maya Smith is a Flyer staff writer.

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Congressmen visit the National Civil Rights Museum

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MAYA SMITH

As we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, we need to look forward as well as to the past.

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