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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR • OUR 1413TH ISSUE 03.24.2016 We’re reading and hearing a lot about “electability” these days, which is broadly defined as “fitness or ability to get elected to public office.” That covers a lot of Tarmac, to say the least. For example, ingrained party affiliations, gerrymandering, and family or religious affiliations can make a candidate electable for state or local office, but he or she may have little electability in a national contest.

Witness Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Anyone with a minimal ability to read character can see that he’s, well, just creepy. He has a base of right-wing, evangelical voters and not much else. His chances of winning 51 percent of the voters in a national contest are nil.

Cruz could easily be president of Utah and the Confederacy, but unfortunately for him, the rest of the country still exists.

The bottom line is, Cruz lacks “cool,” and cool wins elections. And by cool, I mean, basically, being comfortable in your own skin. President Obama has been the coolest president of my lifetime. He smiles and laughs a lot. He doesn’t get flustered in public. He doesn’t gratuitously insult or flatter. His speaking pattern is masterful, full of seemingly thoughtful pauses that lead to complete sentences. You may not like what he says, but he says it well. Our next president will not be as cool.

Oh, sure, other factors are important — competency, experience — but I’m convinced that cool, or its corollary, “likability,” is how we most often elect our president. In a national election, you need to win across a broad landscape, millions of people of all ethnicities and political persuasions, a large percentage of whom, unfortunately, are not particularly well-versed on the issues. It’s been said, ad nauseum, that voters are drawn to someone they could “sit down and have a beer with.” And it’s true, especially in this era of 24-hour media coverage, where candidates are exposed to public scrutiny as never before.

If you’re not cool, you can’t hide it.

Reagan was cooler than Carter and Mondale. George H.W. Bush was cooler than Dukakis (though there was something of a coolness deficit in that contest). Bill Clinton was cooler than the elder Bush and Dole. Like or not, George W. Bush was cooler than Gore or Kerry, who were smart, but stiffs. And, it goes without saying, John McCain and Mitt Romney were no match for Obama’s cool.

Bernie Sanders is the coolest of the remaining candidates. It’s a crotchety cool, but he comes off as authentic. Hillary Clinton is not cool. She is, by her own admission, “not a good politician,” and her speaking style, while substantive, can be abrasive and mannered.

Fortunately, if she gets the nomination, she’ll probably be going up against the uncoolest candidate of my lifetime — Donald Trump.

Trump is a siding salesman, full of bluster and insults, with no coherent national or foreign policy positions that anyone’s been able to discern, unless you consider, “We never win. When I’m president, we’re going to win” some sort of policy.

N E WS & O P I N I O N Non-doctrinaire swing voters look for LETTERS - 4 likability, certainly, but if they can’t have THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 that, they look for competence and sanity.

THE FLY-BY - 6 And they don’t want an uncool jerk as POLITICS - 10 EDITORIAL - 12 president. As Jeb(!) Bush said to Trump, VIEWPOINT - 13 “You can’t insult your way to the presidenCOVER STORY cy.” Trump has basically insulted himself “IT CAME FROM NASHVILLE” out of the presidency, turning vast constituBY JACKSON BAKER - 14 NEWS COMMENTARY - 19 encies against himself and his party. The STE P P I N’ O UT last poll I saw had Trump’s unfavorability WE RECOMMEND - 20 rating among likely voters at 67 percent!

MUSIC - 22 If the Republicans nominate Trump (or NCAA BRACKET - 24 Cruz), they’re looking at a GoldwaterAFTER DARK - 26 BOOKS - 30 level wipeout election, no matter who the THEATER - 31 Democrats select.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 32 Hopefully, such a result would make FOOD - 38 Trump go away for good — which would FILM - 41 THE LAST WORD - 47 be cool with me.

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Letters and comments from Flyer readers the best talent home, not chase them away. Pastner needs to GO, GO, GO! DatGuy Dedric Lawson has done his year of indentured servitude, and there’s not much promise of improving his position next year, while there’ll be plenty of opportunity to suffer an injury. He should take as much money as he can get. Whoever gave Pastner that contract should foot the bill to buy him out of it.

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About Frank Murtaugh’s post, “Memphis Tigers Post Mortem” …

Josh Pastner is my guy. He’s 38, a great recruiter, has gotten us to the tourney three times, and is destined to make a great run because he’s a great coach.

How stupid will Memphis look if he leaves and gets that run for another school? I’m a true fan of Memphis, but unfortunately our fans will turn their backs on you the minute things aren’t going the way they imagined it.

We’ve got to go through it to get to it. If we bring another coach in, we lose the recruits coming in, and to recruit a decent team will take a couple years or more. No one said it was easy, but for the sake of Memphis, Tiger fans need to be patient and loyal. Go Tigers, go!

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If you’re Pastner, you’d be crazy to take another job. Where else are you going to get that level of salary guaranteed for the next four years? If he walks away, he leaves $10.6 million on the table. If I’m him, I’m staying until they either fire me (and pay me), or until the contract runs out. I might leave if I’m down to the last year in my contract. In that case, I could pass up $2.6 million in the final year, if I got a nice $1.5 million gig with a fresh start.

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It seems to me that there’s a parking solution that would be acceptable to the Memphis Zoo and the Overton Park Conservancy: Couldn’t overflow parkers be directed to the nearby Center City Shopping Center? All it would take is a shuttle, charging a nominal fee, to ferry zoo-goers from the shopping center to the zoo’s front gate. The Greensward could 5 6 7 8 9 be preserved (as it should be; the zoo has taken over too much of the park), and the 15 have parking for busy days. 16 zoo would Cheryl M. Dare

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21 The cover of the November 14th Time magazine had Senate Majority Leader 22 23 Mitch McConnell’s face on it. The caption read “Change.” That’s because Mitch and 28 promised 29 other Republican leaders to cooperate and work with Democrats for the good of the country.

34 For the last two years, Republican politicians have done the exact 37 opposite, 38 obstructing President Obama at every turn.

McConnell said he was going to “teach 41 the GOP a new word: ‘Yes.’” The “Party 42 of No” had no intention of honoring this 44 45 46 promise.

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f l y o n t h e w a l l Bad Words { BUILD-A-MULE WTTE-TV Columbus reports that a plan to transport drugs to Memphis was thwarted when a shipping clerk got suspicious and discovered a bottle of liquid codeine inside an adorable teddy bear.

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HAI R STO RY WMC-TV’s investigative story about demonically possessed hair weaves has gone international. Last week The Sun, the UK’s largest daily tabloid, reported a “massive spike” in crimes related to the “beauty business” in Memphis. The Sun excerpted passages from WMC’s original report and quoted a local hairstylist saying “selling hair is like crack.” Which it is because … we give up.

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D A I LY O U T R A G E Sometimes you tell a bad joke.

Sometimes you tell a joke so bad somebody calls the police. Memphis law enforcement is currently investigating Facebook user Jaton Justsilly Jaibabi for posting a picture of two small children with their hands and mouths duct-taped and a caption reading, “Kids for sale, 45% off because they bad.” On one hand, duct-taping your kids up hostage-style is probably never a good idea, even if you’re just trying to score a couple of thumbs ups and maybe a laughy face. On the other, your Pesky Fly is thankful there were fewer people on Facebook when his children were in the larval stage.

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CITY REPORTER B y To b y S e l l s

Government officials let the public know what they really think.

“Asshole.” “Kiss my butt.” “I could care less.” “Don’t flatter yourself.”

These are comments lawmakers and a government attorney recently said or wrote directly to taxpayers.

• Tennessee state Sen. Todd Gardenhire, who infamously called a Tennessee taxpayer an “asshole” last year during the Insure Tennessee debate, had terse words last week for Memphian Steve Levine.

During a debate on Gardenhire’s bill that would prohibit the use of state gas tax funds for bike lanes, a fellow lawmaker told Gardenhire that he’d received numerous emails about the bill.

Gardenhire joked that that was “what the delete button” was for.

Levine wrote Gardenhire an email calling his sentiment “glib” and a “slap in the face” to his constituents. Gardenhire responded, noting “The day you start receiving 350 to 400 emails a day, call me so I can sit and watch you read every one of them.”

Levine wrote him back to say “I don’t feel sorry for you” because responding to constituents is “part of the job” and that he was glad that his email somehow rose above the others.

“Don’t flatter yourself,” Gardenhire wrote from his official state email address.

“Not only will I delete this email after I send it, Sen. Todd Gardenhire but you will be blocked. You made my day.”

Gardenhire had not responded for comment by press time.

“It was absolutely an inappropriate response coming from an elected official,” Levine said. “My opinion and hope is that someone in a public service position would accept that others will disagree and that correspondence is part of the job.”

• Memphis City Council attorney Allan Wade apparently did not mince words with a Memphis taxpayer three weeks ago, as the Greensward-Memphis Zoo parking debate raged at Memphis City Hall.

Kathy Ake wrote a post on Nextdoor titled “me and Allan Wade” in which she told Wade “you should be ashamed” for allegedly colluding with Memphis Zoo leadership. Ake confirmed

Q&A with Angie Odeh Social secretary of Muslims in Memphis Since 2003, two years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Muslims in Memphis (MIM) project has been working to dispel myths and negative stereotypes about Islam and the Muslim community.

They’ve made strides, MIM representative Angie Odeh says, but misinformation still permeates society — 55 percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Islam, a YouGov poll found. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s recent call for a ban on all Muslim immigrants entering the United States has further fueled Islamophobia.

In an attempt to counter that, MIM will host its inaugural MusliMeMfest on March 26th at Agricenter International. The Flyer spoke with Odeh about MIM’s plan to educate people in a light, fun environment and how Memphians can further bridge communities throughout the Mid-South. — Joshua Cannon Flyer: What can people expect at MusliMeMfest?

Angie Odeh: We will have a silent auction of arts and crafts where the proceeds will go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. There will be food and dessert vendors from different nationalities. We will have family fun activities including hot-air balloon rides. You might want to stop by our Q&A table to stump the imam with any question you’ve wanted to ask. A bazaar will have things both exotic and domestic. There will be ethnic dancing and poetry recitation. The poetry will be judged by live judges, and listeners in the audience will be able to text their votes in.

In such a hostile political climate, with Trump spewing misinformation and hate speech about Muslims,

what are some of the biggest myths about Islam and Muslims that need to be dispelled?

Some have said we hate America. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Muslims in Memphis love America. Many of us are from here and are not foreigners. For us, we have chosen this as a religion, but we were raised in this country and love it.

Others come as immigrants, like our ancestors, and just want to be able to achieve their dreams as others who have come before them. Our religion tells us that when we go to a new place to live that we are under the authority of that government and that we must obey the laws of that new place.

What steps can Memphians take to bridge communities of different backgrounds and faiths?

When the only knowledge we have of other groups is from the small sampling in the media, we will always come to the wrong conclusions. It may start with demonizing one group, but when that is allowed to happen, all groups are vulnerable. We have to

the incident with the Flyer.

“He stopped, backed up and said ‘Are you talking to me?’” Ake wrote. “I said yes. He looked at me and said ‘You should kiss my butt.’”

Ake said she has heard nothing from city council members or Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland since the incident.

Wade would not confirm that the situation happened.

“I have no comment on any private conversations that I may or may not have had with someone ‘who made a comment to me’ outside of the public meeting context,” Wade said in an email to the Flyer. “I hear a lot of ‘comments’ that cannot be repeated in polite company.”

• Last week, a Mississippi state legislator told a taxpayer she should move out of the state.

According to a story from Jackson’s The Clarion-Ledger, freshman Rep. Karl Oliver told a resident in an email that she and he have “different political views,” and he noted that she wasn’t a Mississippi native.

“I appreciate you going to the trouble to share [your opinion] with me, but quite frankly, and with all due respect, I could care less,” Oliver said in an email. “I would, however, recommend that there are a rather large number of like-minded citizens in Illinois that would love to see you return.”

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How has MIM brought visibility to the Memphis Muslim community?

We have had a strong interfaith movement that has allowed us to get to know each other. One part of that movement has been MIM. Through our various events over the years, we have tried to show who we are in a desire to be integral members of the community. Our mosque open houses, like one that we had on March 5th, are one example of bringing visibility to our Muslim community. Five of the area mosques were open for tours, talks, Q&A, and, as always, great food.

The response from our non-Muslim neighbors was so great.

We are working with Heartsong Church on a community park called Friendship Park. Throughout the year, we offer free health fairs with screenings.

We have a discounted Muslim clinic, and we have a food pantry serving the needy.

Additionally, we have many physicians, teachers in all levels of academia, and businesses. St. Jude’s funding arm is ALSAC, which stands for American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities.

Many, if not most, of the American Lebanese Syrians are Muslims.

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Gardening group evicted from their plot in Washington Bottoms.

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Last Saturday, despite the chill in the air, a few plants were beginning to spring up in the mostly barren raised beds in a community garden plot at Court and Watkins.

But the people who planted them won’t have a chance to tend to or harvest their crop this year. Without much explanation, the Washington Bottoms Community Garden crew has been evicted from the land they’ve tended to for the past several years.

The garden has served not only as a place to grow food but also a meeting place for Homeless Organizing for Power and Equality (H.O.P.E., the group behind the garden) and the residents of the mostly low-income, international community in Washington Bottoms. But earlier this month, the property owner posted signs all around the garden ordering the crew to evacuate the land.

“I was there all the time, and I met some fabulous people working in the garden. We had a lot of great times together. We celebrated birthdays there and holidays. We had a snowball fight and movie nights,” said Antonio Harris, a member of the H.O.P.E. garden crew. “I wish the garden wouldn’t go away. It’s a sad situation, and I hate that we have to leave.”

Last Saturday, the H.O.P.E. garden crew gathered one last time at the garden. A few tended to burgers and hot dogs on a charcoal grill while others played badminton.

Neighborhood kids sang Taylor Swift songs on a karaoke machine.

A laminated sign stapled to the hand-painted Washington Bottoms

Members of H.O.P.E. at the garden farewell party last weekend Community Garden sign read “The property owner advises that fences will be erected on this property within 7 days of this notice. Please immediately remove all wanted personal belongings or they will be removed by the owner.”

That property owner is Tennessee Health Management, the management group over Court Manor Nursing Home. Court Manor was located on that plot of land years ago, but the building was torn down and relocated downtown. The vacant plot is one of many empty plots in Washington Bottoms. Most were once home to apartment buildings that were torn down to make way for a planned bigbox retail development spearheaded

by Florida-based WSG Development.

The plan failed when WSG defaulted on their loan during the recession.

About 18 acres of the WSG property was purchased by Kroger last year, but the Washington Bottoms Community Garden plot is still owned by Court Manor. Last year, garden crew members met with representatives from Kroger to request that, if Kroger also purchased their garden land, that they be allowed to stay until any new development began.

“Kroger told us they intended to buy the property, but they said they shouldn’t develop it for another five years, so we were talking about a land use license,” said H.O.P.E. garden crew member Jamie Young.

A spokesperson for Kroger said

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they don’t have a contract on the land, and they were only made aware the group was being evicted when H.O.P.E. sent Kroger an invite to the garden’s farewell party.

A representative from Tennessee Health Management, Jonathan Cooper, also would not confirm any sale of the garden land.

“No final decision has been made on a sale. All we’re trying to do is make the area safe and secure,” said Cooper, when asked why the H.O.P.E. garden crew was being kicked out.

Young said the group actually had Court Manor’s blessing to garden there, and in the past, had been praised by the company for making the land, which previously had a reputation for being a high-crime area, safer by keeping it occupied.

The garden became so accepted by the people living in the neighboring apartments that they’d often send their kids over to help H.O.P.E. members work in the garden. And neighbors would often attend movie nights, fund-raisers, and other events H.O.P.E. held there.

“When we started, the land was completely littered with trash and junk car parts and broken glass and couches. There were a couple nights there that we heard gunshots. There was a history of gang violence right on that corner, and the surrounding apartments were mostly minorities living at a level of poverty,” said H.O.P.E. garden crew member Dallas Holland. “And then one day when we were out there, I heard laughing and kids running around and music. We were blowing giant bubbles with a bubble gun, and it was the moment that it hit me that this was more amazing than we ever meant it to be.”

The garden crew would like to move to another plot in Midtown, but they haven’t found a space that’s convenient for H.O.P.E. members, some of whom are homeless, or for Washington Bottoms residents, many of whom do not have transportation.

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Second Efforts Insure Tennessee and Cuba-USA relations revisited; Memphis Democrats honor their own.

The deannexation bill that was temporarily stalled in the state Senate on Monday of this week was, as this week’s Flyer cover story (p. 14) documents, the subect of concerted resistance activity on the part of Memphis legislators, city council members, and representatives of the Greater Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce.

Many of the same legislators were part of another never-saydie effort, this one mounted by the House Democratic Caucus, which got behind an effort by House Democratic leader Craig Fitzhugh (D-Ripley) to enable a nonbinding resolution for a statewide referendum on Governor Bill Haslam’s moribund Insure Tennessee proposal.

That proposal, which would have allowed some $1.5 billion in federal funds annually to further Medicaid expansion in Tennesee, has been so far bottled up by the Republican super-majority in the

General Assembly. And Fitzhugh’s resolution itself was routed off to the limbo of legislative “summer study” as a result of a procedural gambit employed by Representative Jeremy Durham (R-Franklin), who was formally ousted from his House leadership positions recently because of allegations involving improper activities involving interns and female staffers.

Memphis representatives Joe Towns, Larry Miller, and G.A. Hardaway were among those speaking on behalf of reactivating Insure Tennessee legislation at a press conference last week in Legislative Plaza.

• Ninth District Congressman Steve Cohen began the week as a part of the entourage that accompanied President Obama on his historymaking trip to Cuba, where the president furthered the official CubaU.S.A. relations he reopened last year.

The trip was the second one to Cuba for Cohen, who also was part of a delegation accompanying Secretary of State John Kerry to the Caribbean island nation in 2014. The Memphis congressman obviously went to some considerable effort to get himself

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Mazzei related the essentials of a tale familiar to those Memphians who were readers of a Cohen profile that appeared in the Flyer’s sister publication, Memphis magazine, in 2001. After noting that the young Cohen, who had always aspired to an athletic career himself, had been afflicted by polio at the age of 5, Mazzei goes to observe: “His parents, lifelong baseball fans, took young Steve, hobbled with crutches, to see Mom’s hometown Chicago White Sox at a Memphis exhibition game. Steve made his way near the field to plead for autographs.

“That’s when a pitcher, Tom Poholsky, handed him a real Major League baseball. It wasn’t from him, Poholsky told him. It was from an outfielder who couldn’t give the boy the ball himself because this was Memphis, in 1955, and the outfielder was black. The first black White Sox, in fact.

“His name: Minnie Miñoso. A native of Perico, Cuba.”

The young Cohen was struck by the fact that Miñoso, who for obvious reasons became something of a personal idol for him, had been so inhibited by restrictions that were part of an outmoded way of life, and his lifelong emotional attachment to the great Miñoso, who died only last year, ensued.

“I learned from Miñoso about civil rights, and I learned from Miñoso about Cuba, and I learned from Miñoso to be nice to kids,” Cohen said to Mazzei, who disclosed also that the congressman had toted a Miñosoembossed White Sox baseball cap to Cuba on the Kerry trip with the aim of getting it to current Cuban president Raúl Castro.

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And there is the fact that, when Cohen was growing up, his family lived in Miami, the American city closest to Cuba and one containing a huge number of exiles from that nation.

But there’s more to it than that — as those Memphians know who were privy to an old AOL email address used by Cohen, one that employed a variant on the name of former White Sox baseball star Minnie Miñoso, who happened to hail from Cuba.

The backstory involving Cohen and Miñoso was uncovered this week for readers of the Miami Herald by reporter Patricia Mazzei in a sidebar on Obama’s trip to Cuba.

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involved with both missions. Why Cohen’s more than usual interest in the matter?

Well, first of all, the congressman has long advocated a normalizing of relations with Cuba, which became estranged from the United States during the height of the Cold War when Cuban ruler Fidel Castro instituted what he termed a communist revolution and cozied up to the Soviet Union, then a superpower antagonist to the U.S. Cohen has favored rapprochement and an end to the still-active trade embargo on political and economic grounds, pointing out that the Cold War, at least in its original form, is long gone and that American enterprises, in Memphis as well as elsewhere, stand to prosper from improved relations between the two countries.

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As this week’s Flyer cover story notes, the city of Memphis — in the judgment of numerous spokespersons for city interests — may have dodged another bullet in the General Assembly this week. This was a bill, the product of longstanding collaboration between various opponents of urban expansion in Tennessee, that would have crippled the efforts of Memphis to right itself and resolve what was already a difficult financial predicament even before the advent of the bill.

The bill, still not formally dead, is a measure to facilitate de-annexation by residents of incorporated cities. It was proposed by two House members from the Chattanooga suburbs who two years ago had succeeded in establishing the principle of consent on the part of residents about to be annexed. The new bill has, in the lexicon of our time, gone a bridge too far beyond that. It would allow referenda on the part of residential areas annexed since 1998 to de-annex themselves, even if, in the words of Memphis Chamber of Commerce head Phil Trenary, the results would be “swiss cheese” urban maps, with gaping holes marking where formerly contiguous Memphis neighborhoods had existed side by side.

3:07 PM In the case of Memphis, there would be gaping holes in the city’s financial resources as well. Even those legislators who favored the bill — including suburban Shelby County legislators who helped to get it passed in the House of Representatives last week — acknowledged that it would occasion a $28 million annual loss in property tax and local-option sales tax revenues for the city.

And the bill’s proponents made no pretense of applying an objective standard to all urban areas in Tennessee. It singles

out Memphis and four other areas — Knoxville, Chattanooga, Kingsport, and tiny Cornersville — as liable for redress penalties on account of allegedly “egregious” annexations of adjacent territories. That these annexations were all performed in perfect compliance with the letter of Tennessee law was of no matter to the authors of the bill. Nor was the fact that the bill would up-end the long-standing provisions of Public Law 1101, a.k.a. the Urban Growth Act, a compromise arrangement agreed upon in 1998 among representatives of Tennessee’s urban, suburban, and rural constituencies.

The Urban Growth Act was the result of positive and coordinated effort. The current attempt to dismantle it, which the de-annexation bill would achieve, is the consequence of ex parte vengefulness, by way of contrast.

Luckily, as detailed in the cover story, various representatives of Memphis and Shelby County interests mounted a coordinated effort of their own to get the bill sent back to committee this week, and, as of this writing, the chances of positively amending the measure seem good. Only one thing is lacking, a joining in the effort by representatives of Shelby County government per se. And that, we have the right to hope, will be forthcoming.

After all, it would be county government that would have to shoulder the financial burden of, say, 150 additional Sheriff’s deputies, and as many new vehicles, in order to police the newly deannexed areas. We’re all in this together, and that’s the moral of the story.

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Assuming the court rules in favor of the administration, about 50,000 individuals will be affected in Tennessee — thousands of whom reside here in Memphis. Mayor Strickland can lead by preparing for this eventuality, supporting the residents who hope to apply for DAPA. Folks will need to prove that they’ve resided here permanently since 2010, which can be demonstrated through documentation —utility and cable bills, for example. The mayor and others can and should facilitate this process by setting up clinics and organizing teams of attorneys and other concerned citizens to support those who hope to apply for DAPA. Supporting DAPA makes political and economic sense: It is estimated that, over a 10-year period, DAPA could add an additional $2.65 billion to the state’s GDP. In this season of political irrationality, where fear of immigrants and a return to nativism has taken hold, we hope the Supreme Court can tune out the national noise, the anti-immigrant churn that’s absorbed us at this moment. Moments, thankfully, are only temporary, but the difference DAPA provides — for millions — would endure.

Bryce Ashby is a Memphis-based attorney and board member at Latino Memphis; Michael J. LaRosa is an associate professor of history at Rhodes College.

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We’re hopeful that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of the administration and against the 26 fractious states that seem motivated by politics, determined to characterize Obama as a sort of emperor-president who rules by fiat. These same states did not file any similar lawsuits against Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush when they committed to “family fairness.”

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The Supreme Court will soon hear a pivotal immigration case.

On April 18th, the Supreme Court will hear U.S. v. Texas, an immigration case that has emerged out of continued and increasingly pernicious immigration anger enveloping American society.

The case is complex, and the ruling could affect 5 million people living in America, with direct implications here in Memphis. U.S. v. Texas reflects growing tension between the courts and the executive branch — tensions rooted in the political polarization that defines our nation at this time in history.

In November, 2014, President Obama announced a new program called DAPA — Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (and Lawful Permanent Residents). This executive action would allow about 5 million people — parents of children who are United States citizens — to apply for a three-year work permit upon successful completion of background checks. The program is designed as an extension of the popular and successful 2012 executive action called DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. More than 1.2 million DACA applications have been approved, which means youngsters are obtaining work permits (working and paying taxes) and seeking postsecondary educational opportunities.

The day before DAPA was to go into effect, in February 2015, federal District Judge Andrew Hansen, from Brownsville, Texas, issued an injunction which immediately halted implementation of DAPA. Hansen, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, has been a strong critic of federal immigration policy and leans toward anti-immigration nativists in his writings and opinions. The 26 states that brought the legal action — led by Texas — essentially “shopped for” and found a sympathetic judge and venue to plead their case.

The Obama administration argues — reasonably — that it has been forced to act via executive action because Congress has refused to fix what all sides concede is a badly broken immigration system.

In 2013, Obama supported a moderate, comprehensive immigration reform that was passed by the Senate but not even considered by an increasingly partisan, anti-Obama House, controlled at that time by Speaker John Boehner.

Three years earlier, the Senate defeated the “Dream Act,” which would have allowed youngsters brought to the U.S. by their parents to seek citizenship upon completion of high school, on the condition they would agree to spend

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IT CAME FROM NASHVILLE!

March 24-30, 2016

The dreaded de-annexation bill got sent back to committee, and Memphis lives to fight another day.

Legislators, along with Council and County Commission members, protested the de-annexation bill last week; (right) Strickland with media in Nashville last week.

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funny thing happened on the way to the latest legislative effort to humble Memphis and put the city in its place. The effort itself, or, more properly, the legislators behind that effort, were the ones who got a lesson in humility and about the limits of power. This time.

Nothing is impossible, and some variant of the de-annexation bill (HB0779/ SB074) that set out to strip Memphis of a fifth of its population and an even greater share of its treasure may yet find itself thrust into the light of day. But surely not in its original form.

In that form, the bill, the brainchild of two suburbanites from the Chattanooga area, state Representative Mike Carter (R-Ooltewah) and state Senator Bo Watson (R-Hixson), would go well beyond a measure passed two years ago by the 14 Hamilton County duo. Their 2014 bill established for the first time the right of residents of areas eyed for annexation by adjacent cities to hold a binding consent

vote on the matter.

The new Carter-Watson bill was designed to go even further: It would allow the residents of any area annexed by one of five target cities since 1998 to de-annex themselves upon presentation of a petition for an enabling referendum by only one-tenth of their populations, followed by passage of the referendum by a simple majority vote.

The consequences to Memphis if the bill were passed were estimated by city officials to be enormous, with potential revenue losses in property tax and local-option sales tax proceeds going as high as $78 million annually. Even the minimum estimate of $27 million acknowledged by the bill’s proponents was staggering. And the city stood to lose a major hunk of its population — 110,000 residents, most of them taxpayers of some means — leaving behind a disproportionately poorer population in a city already hard-pressed to meet its

That was then, this is now. Memphis was not alone in its opposition, as was evidenced when the Senate, after taking up the bill on Monday, chose to send it back to the body’s State and Local Committee for reconsideration. The countervailing forces to the bill are mounting, and they are by no means small-time.

They start with Governor Bill Haslam, a former mayor of Knoxville, who had early on made known his misgivings about the bill — which are personal, institutional, and political all at once — and who does in fact have resources, including a veto power, capable of blunting or blocking the current bill.

The governor is still keeping his own counsel on the matter of a veto, but, having made known his “concerns” about the de-annexation bill last week, made a point of repeating them at some length in remarks to reporters on Monday, acknowledging that other cities — Knoxville, Chattanooga, Kingsport, and (asymmetrically) tiny Cornersville — were also targeted. “As I said before,” he reiterated, “I do have a concern about … the impact on Memphis’ finances.”

Also concerned, and publicly so, was Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey, the state Senate speaker, the man whom many see as the ultimate arbiter of hot-button issues in Nashville. Ramsey, too, weighed in against the bill, and, pointedly so, on Monday morning, the very day of reckoning, when the bill was scheduled for the state Senate floor.

He was opposed to the bill and would vote that way, Ramsey told reporters.

He reminded them he had supported the 2014 measure establishing the right of consent for citizens in areas about to be annexed. “We set a line in the sand that from this point forward, anybody that’s annexed has the right to vote on this. But now we’re reaching back to get those that were annexed, legally under the law, by contract.”

The lieutenant governor pointed out that there was already a way for residents to seek de-annexation if the annexing cities “are not fulfilling their plan of services.” The new bill from Carter and Watson was therefore unnecessary, said Ramsey, admitting that he was further annoyed that the bill’s framers had included Kingsport, from his own Senate district, in the bill without his foreknowledge.

As Ramsey noted, the bill was not statewide in its scope. It was confined to five urban areas whose annexations of adjacent territories were labeled “egregious,” a subjective word of dubious legal application that, on the face of things, makes the proposed legislation subject to charges of unconstitutionality.

The bottom line was that the five targeted cities had all operated properly under the law. Whence, then, this allegation of egregiousness?

Dismembering the city and pillaging its revenue base is definitely counter to the Memphis agenda.

A little background: The current bill can be seen as an effort to nullify Public Law 1101 of 1998, a legislative action that was hailed in its time as a “great compromise” and that had stood intact until Carter and Watson began trying to dismantle it.

Public Law 1101 was the product of unprecedented compromise and coordinated drafting efforts involving the state’s urban, suburban, and rural interests. It directly followed upon the first major assault upon Memphis’ annexation prerogatives, the so-called “Toy Towns” bill of 1997, soon to be renamed by Memphians as the “City Killer” bill.

Toy Towns was a sleight-of-hand bill moved unobtrusively through the legislature in the 1997 session by longtime Senate Speaker/Lt. Governor John Wilder, whose intent was merely to facilitate an incorporation process for the newly established community of Hickory Withe, whose residents feared possible

annexation by any one of several larger towns in Fayette County.

It was a “caption” bill, whose formal description was opaque enough to disguise the fact that it would have established a ridiculously low population threshold, so that the tiny community could incorporate.

To make a long story short, sharp eyes in suburban Shelby County noticed the new incorporation threshold and saw that it could apply universally throughout the state. Whereupon a frenzied race began to incorporate among literally dozens of neighborhoods on the fringe of Memphis that saw a way to avoid ultimate takeover by Memphis.

Then-Mayor Willie Herenton, in perhaps his finest hour, resolved to challenge the Hickory Withe law and fought it all the way to the state Supreme Court, winning there, ultimately, and putting a halt to the proliferation of “toy towns” on the borders of Memphis. It was a defense not only of Memphis but of urbanism itself in Tennessee. The City Killer, a monster which would ultimately have threatened the integrity and strangled the growth potential of every city in the state, had been slain.

It was not a one-sided triumph, however. The sequel was Public Law 1101 the next year, limiting each of the state’s municipalities, including the several in Shelby County, to specific, restricted annexation reserves and establishing an orderly process for all annexations in the future.

The peace was kept in Shelby County on the suburban front until the schoolmerger crisis of 2010-13, when, in the wake of a defeated city/county consolidation referendum in the election of 2010, the surrender of the Memphis City Schools charter presented the county’s suburban municipalities with the prospect of automatic school consolidation and a threat to what they saw as a challenge to their integrity. The result was the Norris-Todd bill, which slowed down the merger process and ultimately allowed the suburbs the right to form independent urban school systems of their own.

Then came the Carter-Watson bill of 2014, ensuring the principle of consent for an area about to be annexed. So far, so good. The balance of power between city and suburbs was being kept. Until 2016 and HB0779/SB074.

It surely was a help to opponents of the Carter-Watson bill that eminences such as Haslam and Ramsey could be counted in opposition. But the staving off of the bill in the Senate on Monday also owed much to the lobbying efforts in Nashville of Memphis City Council members, acting in coordination with a delegatgion from Rep. Curry Todd of Collierville the Greater Memphis Area Chamber was a leading bill proponent. of Commerce and the Strickland administration.

As Chamber head Phil Trenary said, “We all were aware of each other’s efforts and worked together, talking to as many senators as possible. We were told when we got here that we had a maximum of nine votes in the Senate against passing the bill. We managed to get that up to 19.”

The collective lobbying effort, Trenary said, had essentially been a matter of convincing the legislators that the bill threatened the financial health of Memphis and that what threatened Memphis financially was also menacing to the fiscal and social health of Tennessee at large.

The council members who contributed to Monday’s lobbying effort were Kemp Conrad, Worth Morgan, and Philip Spinosa, all members in good standing of the same military-industrial-chamber-council complex that partisans of the Overton Park Conservancy and the park’s Greensward were uttering not-so-tender things about just two weeks ago, when the council passed a resolution giving Memphis Zoo management control over the Greensward space.

Okay, the military-industrial reference is tongue-in-cheek, but it already seems clear that the city council elected last year — with much support, financial and otherwise, from the city’s business elite — is capable of organizing collective operations a) on behalf of an agenda that the majority perceives as being in the interests of Greater Memphis and b) in opposition to efforts by others that run counter to that agenda.

And dismembering the city and pillaging its revenue base is definitely counter to the Memphis agenda. Mindful, no doubt, of the historic Memphis-Nashville rivalry and of the fact that “Nashville” is used symbolically (as in the headline of this article) of efforts, often confrontational to Memphis, arising from state government, Trenary made a point of noting the helpful efforts behind the scenes continued on page 17

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basic service obligations.

Mayor Jim Strickland, whose victory in last fall’s city election was due in no small part to his pinpointing of the city’s increasingly vulnerable circumstances, put it this way on a visit to Nashville last week: His city was already in fiscal crisis — facing $20-$40 million in various necessary upgrades for pensions, police and fire services, and the like. Memphis could lose another $15 millon annually if ongoing legislative efforts to abolish the state’s Hall Income Tax should succeed.

And the $27 million from de-annexation would be on top of that.

To be sure, the de-annexation bill had a provision that de-annexed citizens would continue paying taxes for a pro-rated share of general obligation bonds relating to the establishment of city services and capital improvements in their areas, but, as Strickland pointed out, there were other expenses that would be left uncompensated, relating to utilities, pensions, and OPEB (other post-employment benefits) obligations.

Arguments of the same sort were put forth by those legislative members of the Shelby County delegation hailing from Memphis. Eventually they would have their effect, but not before last week’s passage of the de-annexation bill in the state House by a convincing margin of 65 to 24.

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Senator Yager putting the brakes on de-annexation bill. existence of such negotiations. “It was our understanding that the bill would just affect those two areas,” he said, and he went so far as to state, “I would agree to those two if that would resolve the issue.”

Trenary, too, said that re-casting the bill in that form might be one acceptable way out of the current confrontation, although there remains strong sentiment, both within the Memphis legislative contingent and the city council, against any concessions at all on areas already annexed by the city.

In any case, it ain’t over ’til it’s over. And, as of this writing, the issue of the de-annexation bill, though stalled, has not reached the final stage. Matters could be resolved to everybody’s satisfaction. And if not? Beyond what the legislature decides to do is the prospect of a gubernatorial veto, if the bill remains offensive to Haslam — and the near certainty of a long round of litigation.

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of business and government leaders in Nashville in the fight against the deannexation bill. Members of the Nashville legislative delegation were also active, along with their Memphis counterparts, in resisting the bill.

And the actual mechanism that took the bill off the Senate floor and staved off a floor vote on Monday came on a motion by Senator Ken Yager of Kingston, chairman of the body’s State and Local Committee, who found the version that passed the House last week to be “totally unacceptable … bad law and bad policy.”

Yager based his objections mainly on the bill’s singling out of five cities of the 350 or so municipalities in Tennessee and its use of the hazy term “egregious” to describe annexations by those cities.

After Senate sponsor Watson quarreled with that judgment and after a good deal of ensuing to and fro in debate, the Senate agreed to suspend the rules and refer the bill for reconsideration to Yager’s committee, which scheduled it for a specially called session on Wednesday at noon.

After the Senate vote, Trenary expressed the hope that deliberations on the bill might continue beyond Wednesday, given what he reckoned were a great number of people, not only from Memphis but from elsewhere in Tennessee, who would presumably want to offer testimony relating to the potentially harmful consequences of the de-annexation bill.

The bottom line is that this latest monster to arise out of state government to menace Memphis has been contained but not yet eliminated.

Not everyone perceives the de-annexation bill to be a monster, of course.

Among the partisans of the bill who spoke for it in the House last week were such suburban Shelby County representatives as Mark White of Germantown and Curry Todd of Collierville, both of whom, like Carter and Watson, see the measure as constituting justified redress for citizens who never got to vote on their annexations. In an exchange with Strickland on the matter during the mayor’s appearance before a lunch of the Shelby County delegation at Tennessee Tower last Wednesday, Todd alluded to purported behind-the-scenes negotiations between representatives of the city and proponents of the bill that would have confined its application to the areas most recently annexed by Memphis: South Cordova and the Windyke-Southwind area.

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f Mallory Kathleen Maxey had been born in Switzerland, it is likely she would be alive today. But she had the bad luck of being born in the United States.

We don’t tend to think of being born here as a disadvantage, and that is particularly true when one reflects on how many millions of people try to enter this country every year—legally or otherwise. They come here because, as one of the least corrupt nations on earth, America is the envy of the world in terms of individual rights and the rule of law.

But one of the ways in which we might as well be living in the developing world is our treatment, or, should I say, non-treatment of drug addicts. Here in America, we view those caught in the vise grip of addiction as either criminals or sinners, with prison or indifference being our only two responses. In this era of bipartisan support for prison reform, true change will happen only if we are also willing to discuss remedies for drug addiction, which is a principle driver of incarceration rates.

If you do not recognize Mallory’s name, it is because you missed the heartbreaking account last spring by Commercial Appeal journalist Ron Maxey of the first anniversary of her death from a heroin overdose — shortly before her 27th birthday. I thought about her as I read a recent report about the increasing number of heroin deaths here

in our region.

And why might she still be alive had she been born in Switzerland, or Portugal, or any number of other European countries? Because there, drug addicts are seen as patients deserving of care and compassion rather than condemnation and punishment.

In Switzerland, if you are a registered heroin addict, you are allowed to get your pharmaceutical-grade heroin free of charge at a clean, safe clinic. And each time you are injected by a medical professional, you are offered treatment. You may decline help, and there are no punishments forthcoming — other than the punishment that is drug addiction itself.

In countries where decriminalization has been tried, overdose deaths and homelessness have declined, as have the property crimes associated with feeding one’s habit.

Treatment is up dramatically, and the degradation that comes with doing whatever must be done to acquire the next fix is eliminated. Too, it doesn’t take a math prodigy to see how much money isn’t being spent on the extensive law enforcement system that is necessary to keep drug use “criminal.”

By the way, even European opponents of decriminalization have had to admit that none of the doomsday scenarios they predicted came true.

Experts in the field of heroin addiction explain that an overdose is more likely when an addict begins using again after a period of abstinence. This is because the amount necessary to achieve the desired results when using regularly is higher, and so it is easy to misjudge the dose. Which is probably why Mallory, like so many other addicts, died just when she seemed to be turning her life around.

Winston Churchill said: “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything else.” Like so many problems here in the richest country on earth, we reject the idea that America can be taught anything by anyone else in the world, whether it is universal single-payer health care, an affordable college education for our young, or to see drug addiction as a public health issue rather than a criminal one.

The drug war has cost billions of dollars and done nothing to stem either the supply or the demand, making criminals out of vast numbers of our poor, while consigning wealthier addicts to a life of misery and likely early death. All in the name of some Puritanical idea of morality that says addicts are transgressors who must feel the sting of the lash in order to find redemption.

Maxey ended by saying that if telling his family’s story would help just one person, then there might be good to come of it. So let’s help him find some meaning in the loss of his beloved Mallory and perhaps save other parents from a similar nightmare by talking about the myriad solutions that have been utilized successfully elsewhere and begin implementing them here.

But first we must abandon our stupid ways of dealing with addiction instead of abandoning the addicts and those who love them.

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Well Suited

By Chris Davis

On a steamy afternoon in Boca Raton, Florida, in the days before air conditioning, Joseph Haspel went swimming in the ocean fully clothed. After emerging from the water, Haspel, a master tailor from New Orleans in town for a trade show, told onlookers not to worry. “This suit will be dry in 15 minutes and ready to wear again without cleaning or pressing,” he said, returning the beachfront hotel, where seersucker, Haspel’s revolutionary new fabric, was introduced. Milk & Sugar: The Complete Book of Seersucker, a new book by Memphis attorney Bill Haltom, opens with this story and traces the history of seersucker from its humble beginnings as a lightweight working-man’s fabric to Hollywood and the halls of Congress.

“I’ve heard it called the Memphis summertime tuxedo,” says Haltom, who co-founded the annual seersucker flash mob which takes place in the Peabody Hotel on the Friday before Labor Day. “It’s just so comfortable,” he gushes, explaining his favorite fabric’s enduring post-air conditioning appeal. “If you’re the chairperson of the board you can wear it to the annual meeting, or you can take the tie off and wear it to a backyard cookout.”

Haltom thinks, under the right conditions, seersucker can even work miracles. “In Washington in the 1990s, liberal Democrat Dianne Feinstein and conservative Republican Trent Lott came up with Seersucker Thursdays in the United States Senate, which they discontinued a few years ago. In the book I quote Senator Lott: ‘We balanced the federal budget during the time of Seersucker Thursdays. I don’t think that’s a coincidence.’”

Burke’s Book Store is hosting Milk & Sugar’s official release Saturday, March 26th at 2 p.m. Although it may be a few hours before Easter and months before Labor Day, attendees are encouraged walk on the wild side and wear their favorite seersucker outfits anyway.

OFFICIAL RELEASE FOR “MILK & SUGAR: THE COMPLETE BOOK OF SEERSUCKER” AT BURKE’S BOOK STORE SATURDAY, MARCH 26TH, 2 P.M. FREE

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Old fairy tales get a little freaky in Into the Woods.

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THURSDAY March 24

FRIDAY March 25

1351 Steam Locomotive in Collierville Morton Museum of Collierville History, 11 a.m.-noon John McKenney gives a talk on the history and mechanics of the steam locomotive Frisco 1351. A tour of the locomotive follows.

“White Out” Circuitous Succession Gallery, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception for an exhibit of new paintings by Susan Maakestad.

Booksigning by Chris Offutt story booth, 6 p.m.

Chris Offutt signs his latest book, My Father the Pornographer: A Memoir about how he inherited and then went through his father’s erotic writings.

Billy Joel FedExForum, 8 p.m., $29.50-$124.50 “Piano Man,” “Pressure,” “Big Shot,” “Only the Good Die Young,” “Uptown Girl” … we could go on and on listing Billy Joel’s hits.

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Come on and take a JoyRide — meet Memphis’ newest food trucks.

Food News, p. 39 SATURDAY March 26 Pageant Circuit Playhouse, 8 p.m., $40 Musical about six woMEN vying for the title of Miss Glamouresse.

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Family Egg Hunt Memphis Botanic Garden, 1-4 p.m.

Annual Easter egg hunt with agefriendly areas, live music, photos with the Easter Bunny, concessions, crafts, lawn games, and more.

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Grass Huggers

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Nothing brings Memphians together like good food, good music, and an opportunity to publically demonstrate to prevent cars and car-related interests from wrecking Overton Park. This Easter Sunday, while others are parading about in their finest seersucker, hunting eggs, and driving the 240 loop in their fancy Easter bonnets, friends of Overton Park can gather at the Hi-Tone Cafe for an all-ages fund-raiser benefiting both the Overton Park Conservancy legal fund and the Get Off Our Lawn initiative to prevent overflow zoo parking on the Greensward.

Conceived by singer and multi-instrumentalist Marcella Simien, and arranged by drummer-turned-frontman Graham Winchester, In Sod We Trust is an epic, six-hour concert showcasing some of Midtown’s most creative musicians, including sets by both of its organizers.

A $10 donation at the door buys access to all the music and vending.

Bands scheduled to appear include Artistik Approach, Chickasaw Mound, Chinese Connection Dub Embassy, Dave Cousar, Faux Killas, Hope Clayburn, Marcella & Her Lovers, Southern Avenue, Tony Manard, Winchester and the Ammunition, Zigadoo Moneyclips. Participating Vendors: Dirty Cotton, Eponymous Print Co., Farmhouse Marketing, Guerilla Stone, MEMPopS, Shangri-La Records, Sushi Jimmi, and Yanni's Food Truck.

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5K Bunny Run and 1-Mile Fun Run Cancer Survivors Park, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., $10-$30 Annual event with the Easter Bunny, an egg hunt, face painting, food trucks, music, and more.

Mojo of Midtown Awards Bash Circuit Playhouse, 6-9 p.m., $40 Celebrating the best of Midtown.

This year’s recipients include Ekundayo Bandele, June West, Indie Memphis, and Ardent Studios.

Great River Indoor Food Truck Festival Memphis Cook Convention Center, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., $5 An indoor food truck festival featuring more than a dozen trucks as well as vendors selling vintage and handmade goods. There will be live music as well.

Retroactive Tower Room, 6:30-9 p.m.

Performing “vintage tunes with a twist.” Includes happy-hour drink prices, small plates, and one of the coolest views in Memphis.

Senior Arts Series Theatre Memphis, 1-3 p.m., $5 Includes a performance by Joyce Cobb and the Boscos Trio singing songs about the river and Ron Jewell as Mark Twain.

Dreams Rewired Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 7 p.m., $9 A documentary tracing the desires and anxieties connected to our devices, starting in the 1880s.

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Chris Maxwell Returns The prolific musician on the Gunbunnies, working with Amy Schumer, and his latest solo effort, Arkansas Summer.

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hris Maxwell will make his way through Memphis this week for a show on Saturday, March 26th at Otherlands. Maxwell is currently touring in support of his new solo album, Arkansas Summer, but he might be best known around these parts as the leader of the Little Rock alternative band the Gunbunnies, which cut its 1991 debut Paw Paw Patch here in town with legendary local producer Jim Dickinson. After migrating north, Maxwell made a name for himself playing guitar for the New York band Skeleton Key, and, as a part of the music production team the Elegant Too, he has also collaborated with folks like They Might Be Giants, Yoko Ono, and Iggy Pop as well as created music for the TV shows Bob’s Burgers and Inside Amy Schumer. Maxwell spoke to

the Flyer earlier this week. — JD Reager The Memphis Flyer: The Gunbunnies were recently described to me as the “only band out of Little Rock to ever make it.” Do you think that’s a fair description?

Chris Maxwell: Ha! No, not a fair description, especially when you consider Evanescence sold around 20 million records. What is true is we were the first band to get a major label deal out of Little Rock — I’m not sure how important that is, but at least it’s more accurate.

How did you get paired with Jim Dickinson?

Our manager, Jon Hornyak, knew Jim. I had two dream producers. It was between him and T Bone Burnett.

I ended up feeling better about Jim. Those records he made, especially Big Star’s Sister Lovers and the

Chris Maxwell plays Otherlands this Saturday.

Replacements’ Pleased to Meet Me and even Toots Hibbert’s Toots in Memphis record were all big influences. To me, T Bone was more of a songwriter. Jim seemed like a mad, musical Sherpa.

That’s what I wanted. Jon sent Jim my home demos, and he dug it.

What was it like to work with him?

It was one of the most bizarre,

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CHRIS MAXWELL RETURNS educational, stoned, and fun experiences of my life. Jim always showed up in some badass outfit. Then he’d start off every day telling some incredible story about someone like Aretha Franklin or Sam Phillips. It was inspiring to say the least. He taught us how to think like artists. He introduced me to the “happy accident.” He taught me music is something you conjure like a spell.

How much time did you spend hanging around Memphis?

We lived in Memphis for the couple of months we recorded. It was an incredible time to be there. Overton Park was having shows every weekend.

Tav Falco took our band photos, Robert Gordon wrote our bio, and we played shows with Alex Chilton. It doesn’t get any better than that.

Were you surprised at the overwhelming viral reaction to the song “Milk Milk Lemonade,” which your production team did last year with the comedian Amy Schumer?

That was a shock. I think [it got] four million hits in 24 hours? Something like that. “Milk” mostly came from my partner Phil [Hernandez]. He’s an amazing drummer and programmer.

I worked with Amy on her vocals, and she was extremely sweet. She loved our track. We’ve just written and recorded another song for this upcoming season as well as produced one other track.

What inspired you to create Arkansas Summer?

It all started with the birth of my son. After Skeleton Key, I had gotten

so involved in film and TV that I let my songwriting recede into the background. When Angus was born, I taught myself to fingerpick, and these songs about my life started coming out.

When the song “Arkansas Summer” came to me, I realized I was making a record. That song became the heart of the record. I realized I had these stories, and I wasn’t telling them.

How did you record it?

It started in an Airstream I bought from Ethan Hawke after his divorce from Uma Thurman. Then, as it evolved, I moved into a couple of real studios that are minutes from my house: Dreamland and Applehead.

Eventually I sold the Airstream and built a studio at my house where I finished recording and mixing everything.

It was a difficult process mainly due to the fact I write and record all day for my real job. That made it difficult to find the energy to write and record my own music. More often than not there was no gas left in the tank. But once I saw the thing that it was going to become, I kept pushing and finding the cracks to wedge in time.

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How is that different from your usual songwriting?

It’s craft vs. art. Those things aren’t exclusive of each other, but the ratios are different depending on what you’re going for. If I’m writing an end credit for Bob’s Burgers, I have a very specific aesthetic that I’m working with. I

can bring all of my experience as a songwriter to bear, but I’m digging around in my soul for the meaning.

Also, with songwriting, the words and stories inform the music as opposed to most of the work-for-hire composing, which is underscoring a movie. I have certainly brought a lot of my song craft to composing, and, likewise, a lot of the tools I use in composing have had an impact on how to underscore the narrative in a song.

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

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

Blue Note Bar & Grill Queen Ann and the Memphis Blues Masters Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cafe & Honky Tonk

162 BEALE 521-1851

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

New Daisy Theatre ’90s Baby Ultimate Lip Sync Battle Thursday, March 24, 7:30 p.m.-midnight; The Wonder Years Friday, March 25, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Mississippi Big Foot Thursday, March 24, 8 p.m.; Sean “Bad” Apple Friday, March 25, 5:308:30 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Friday, March 25, 9 p.m.1 a.m., and Saturday, March 26, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Gracie Curran & the High Falutin’ Band Monday, March 28, 711 p.m., Tuesday, March 29, 7-11 p.m., and Wednesday, March 30, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall

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182 BEALE 528-0150

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Delta Project Friday, March 25, 8 p.m.; Little Boys Blue Saturday, March 26, 8 p.m.midnight; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 79 p.m., Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., and Sundays, 4-9 p.m.; Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.3 a.m., and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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Live Music Thursdays, 7-11 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

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

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Beat Generation Sunday, March 27, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

315 BEALE 527-9911

Rumba Room

Brooke Eden Thursday, March 24, 7 p.m.

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Blind Bear Speakeasy

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

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

The Silly Goose

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.

145 BEALE 578-3031

Susan Marshall Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

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South Main Sounds Songwriter Night #23 Friday, March 25, 7-9:15 p.m.

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Terry Prince & the Principles Movie Night Thursday, March 24, 8:30-11 p.m.

Marcella & Her Lovers Saturday, March 26; Jack Oblivion Saturday, March 26; Linzee Butler Wednesday, March 30, 7:30 p.m.

Bayou Bar & Grill 2094 MADISON 278-8626

Abita Big Easy IPA Tour Stop Tuesday, March 29, 8-8:30 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown

Otherlands Coffee Bar

1927 MADISON 726-4372

641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Reemus Bo Deemus Friday, March 25; Snozzberry Saturday, March 26.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

Cutees, the Head Thursday, March 24; The Scam Friday, March 25; Incredible Hook Saturday, March 26; Choper Sunday, March 27; Faith Evans Ruch Sunday, March 27, 5-7 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Accidental Field Trip Friday, March 25, 10 p.m.; Hope Clayburn’s Soul Scrimmage Saturday, March 26, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard James Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Anne Schorr Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

R.J. Mischo and His Red Hot Blues Band Sunday, March 27, 4-7 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Young Petty Thieves (Duo) Thursday, March 24, 6 p.m.; Southern Avenue Thursday, March 24, 9 p.m.; Heath & Danny Friday, March 25, 6:30 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Friday, March 25, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturdays, 11 a.m.; The River Bluff Clan Saturdays, 3 p.m.; Pam & Terry Saturday, March 26, 6:30 p.m.; Graham Winchester Band Saturday, March 26, 10 p.m.; Easter at Lafayette’s Sunday, March 27, 11 a.m.11 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Jeffrey & the Pacemakers Sunday, March 27, 4 p.m.; Jeff Austin Band Sunday, March 27, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Friends Mondays, 6 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesday, March 29, 5:30 p.m.; Jason D. Williams Tuesday, March 29, 8 p.m.; Abita Big Easy IPA Tour Stop Tuesday, March 29, 8:30-9:15 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Brennan Villines Wednesday, March 30, 8 p.m.

Local Gastropub 2126 MADISON 725-1845

Abita Big Easy IPA Tour Stop Tuesday, March 29, 9:15-10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Midtown Crossing Grill

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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

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

Automagik, Sleepwlkrs, wARM Thursday, March 24, 9 p.m.; Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires, Mike Hewlett & the Racket Friday, March 25, 9 p.m.; Peelander Z, Richard James & the Special Riders Friday, March 25, 9 p.m.; The Roomsounds, the Broadcast Saturday, March 26, 9 p.m.; Citizens to Preserve Overton Park / Greensward Awareness Fund-raiser Sunday, March 27, 2 p.m.; Good Vibez Tuesday, March 29, 8 p.m.; Mac Sabbath, Mung Wednesday, March 30, 9 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Autolux, Eureka the Butcher Friday, March 25, 8 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Chris Maxwell of the Gunbunnies, Paul “Snowflake” Taylor Saturday, March 26, 8 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

Triple Threat Concert Thursday, March 24, 7 p.m.midnight.

Sports Junction 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

The Pollies Saturday, March 26, 10 p.m.

University of Memphis Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

East Memphis Clark Tower TOWER ROOM, 5100 POPLAR

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American Dischord Thursday, March 24; Rough Hearts Friday, March 25; The Fast Mothers Saturday, March 26.

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PURGEFEST AT SHANGRI-LA Shangri-La’s annual Purgefest is once again here, and the record store will be giving away thousands of LPs and CDs for the reasonable price of one whole dollar. Because the record store has a constant flow of used singles, LPs, CDs, tapes, magazines, speakers, and turntables coming through their doors, a purge is necessary to keep the store’s content where it needs to be.

To celebrate the annual clear-out, Shangri-La has enlisted some of the best locals around with Richard James & the Special Riders, blues band Southern Avenue, and Billie Dove. Richard James has been making noise in Memphis for years, and his weekly gigs at the Cove and the Buccaneer are as unpredictable as they are entertaining. Mixing elements of rockabilly, garage rock, and punk, James is the working man’s Tav Falco, and his sets are everything but dull. Southern Avenue might qualify as a supergroup, having taken the 2016 International Blues Challenge by storm in addition to playing regularly at places like Lafayette’s Music Room. Southern Avenue guitarist Ori Naftaly has an interesting story, having first come to Memphis from his home country of Israel to participate in the 2013 International Blues Challenge. Naftaly ended up in the semifinals of that challenge, making him the first person from his country to place that well in the competition. Naftaly now calls Memphis home, and his band also features sisters Tierinii and Tikyra Jackson, and bassist extraordinaire Daniel McKee. Rounding out the bill is Billie Dove, a roots-rock group that features longtime Memphis rocker Jim Duckworth.

— Chris Shaw Purgefest at Shangri-La Records, Saturday, March 26th at 11 a.m.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule March 24 - 30 RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland

Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Mondays-Thursdays, 59:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar

6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

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

Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Roxi Love Friday, March 25, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Mic Mondays Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

The Pistol & the Queen Sunday, March 27, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Bluff City Soul Collective Sunday, March 27, 8-11:30 p.m.

GOSSETT FIAT March Mayhem!

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Settlers Sunday, March 27, 4-7 p.m.; The Jumpin’ Chi-Chi’s Sunday, March 27, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Brian Johnson Band Friday, March 25, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Dantones Band Saturday, March 26, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Dan McGuinness 3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 6565 TOWNE CENTER, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-536-2200

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

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

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

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Southaven

TJ Mulligan’s

7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Pamela K. Ward Sunday, March 27, 8-11 p.m.; Karaoke Night Mondays, 8-10 p.m.

1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Mystery Machine Band Saturday, March 26, 9:30 p.m.1:30 a.m.

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The Windjammer Restaurant 786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

Karaoke ongoing.

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

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

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Backstreet Crawler Saturday, March 26, 8 p.m.; Sax on Sunday: Straight-Ahead and Mainstream Jazz fourth Sunday of every month, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Owen Brennan’s THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

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

Summer/Berclair Barbie’s Barlight Lounge 661 N. MENDENHALL

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

High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Pubapalooza with Stereo Joe every other Wednesday, 8-11 p.m.

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

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

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Wadford’s Grill & Bar

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Whitehaven/ Airport

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

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

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

Bartlett

Shelby Forest General Store

Bumpus HarleyDavidson

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

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

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas

2160 WHITTEN 372-1121

Collierville

Mesquite Chop House

Southland Park Gaming & Racing

Brian Johnson Saturday, March 26, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Huey’s Collierville 2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Scott and Vanessa Sudbury Thursday, March 24, 8 p.m.; Almost Famous Friday, March 25, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, March 26, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; The Line Up Sunday, March 27, 5:30 p.m.; No Hit Wonders Wednesday, March 30, 8 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, March 27, 8-11:30 p.m.

Cordova Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Ice Bar & Grill

474 CHURCH, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5861

4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

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

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

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

North Mississippi/ Tunica

Huey’s Cordova

Bally’s

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

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Six String Lovers Sunday, March 27, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Jamie Baker & the VIP’s Friday, March 25, 9 p.m., and Saturday, March 26, 9 p.m.

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

Live Band Karaoke Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

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

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

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B O O K B y A s h l e y R o a c h - Fr e i m a n

Dreaming Stranger, new poems by Adam Clay.

March 24-30, 2016

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dam Clay’s Stranger is his third full-length collection after The Wash and A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World. In Stranger, Clay revisits the voice of Hotel Lobby, a speaker who experiences the everyday in overlapping juxtapositions of observation, memory, and thought. The speaker often wears the protective ache of solitude and questions himself and his shifting environment. In Stranger there is a settled-in feeling and a sense of growth — even mythmaking. Or mapmaking. Clay writes: “I’d like to make a map not of the land/but of the path I took to arrive in this place/a map with no idealized purpose,/a map of a thousand airless pines.”

The ambulatory poems here explore a world in blue, gray, and bronze, a palette of cloud, reminiscent of Larry Levis. The poetic line is often a wandering razor with the rightward lean of Charles Wright, but the measured voice is wholly Clay’s.

That I would place a young poet such as Clay in the company of these two greats says something of the sureness of his voice, allowing him to steadily circle and interrogate the language of sky, home, and fishing line.

Clay has blurred the tension between the wooded and human worlds with a blend of surrealism and wonder. The purpose of the bird and river imagery is rarely to make a comparison but to push through ecological awareness into language — though the awareness is present also. What I love about Clay’s swift navigational shifts in space (in one poem from Hotel Lobby: snow, Memphis weeds, a sky folded in on itself, sleep, memory, a hand held in Boston) is the way the words intend intensely. Clay’s poems have a dream quality, and like any good dream that haunts your morning, most take more than one reading to suss out. They’re worth it though — you don’t walk away empty-headed.

Clay develops darkness more fully in Stranger. Fear and longing are soft spots in the consciousness of the speaker, though approached with the deep tenderness of familial love. There is the reality that this world is not the speaker’s choice of worlds, but this is the given world, a world of knowing and not knowing, and it is the one he, his wife, and daughter must live, grow, and create in. Growth, language, observation, and creation all intermingle in “Upper Peninsula.” Clay writes “Myths start somewhere” and:

Our daughter grows like that very question: she invents music, sounds, words—water finds a way— and a bird cannot be anything more than itself anymore.

A few lines later: … I did not know that fourteen lines would not be enough to contain what we knew was true but were too ashamed to ask.

The speaker is referring to the birth of the daughter here, and of meeting the boundaries of poetry as a container for expression. The question of form is asked repeatedly in the book, form as a boundary imposed on a poem, but also the form of a room, or a home lived in and left behind.

Form is also a word and its limitations to describe or impart. Clay prods at the purpose of form and considers it strange.

Form, however, is not just a container, but also a verb, a way of making, and making is important here. The act of creation is illustrated especially in the figure of the daughter who has “enough mysticism / for us all,” who, in the act of learning and inventing language, invents and holds the world in all its wonder and sadness, and is one reason for both hope and concern.

Did I say these poems were darker?

Let me reconsider. They are concerned, interested, and question the extent to which words are capable. Fatherhood de-familiarizes comfort, and the borders of the world are dark. The poems refer to school shootings, environmental degradation, things difficult to make meaning from.

However, Clay writes, “I’m calling out to you/as if we’re building a nest, one word at a time.” These poems are not about statements, but about dreaming, like Gillian Welch suggests, of the highway back.

Adam Clay is reading with Ada Limón and Michael Robins at the Impossible Language poetry reading April 8th, 7 p.m., at story booth in Crosstown Arts.

Ashley Roach-Freiman is a librarian and MFA candidate at the University of Memphis. She coordinates and hosts the Impossible Language reading series.

T H E AT E R B y C h r i s D a v i s

Cautionary Tales Into the Woods, All the Way, and Free Man of Color.

Charles Smith’s Free Man of Color is a melodrama more relevant than well-told.

It’s the story of a slave with uncommonly kind masters who, as a newly freed man, is given a chance to attend college. It’s also a story of 19th-century liberalism, and a man of learning who staked his reputation on the progressive belief that, with the proper education and rigorous training, exceptional Christian males of African descent might one day go back to Africa, conquer other brown people, and rule over them as God intended.

Although Free Man of Color is inspired by the true story of John Newton Into the Templeton, who attended Woods at university in Ohio, Smith’s Theatre play is essentially a work Memphis of historical fiction. That doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Templeton, played with boundless decency by Bertram Williams, is invited to live with university president Robert Wilson, who treats his precocious student like a son when he’s not treating him like the Elephant Man. Wilson’s wife, played with chest-thumping authority by Kilby Yarbrough, Jane is a period-perfect hysteric, forever on the verge of going all “Yellow Wallpaper” in the absence of agency and purpose. She creates more context by voicing her concerns for Native Americans who are hunted like coyotes.

Michael Ewing is ramrod straight as Wilson, a self-enamored political animal with a gift for otherizing.

Free Man of Color wants more dynamic treatment but still succeeds in leaving audiences with plenty of food for thought.

Free Man of Color at the Hattiloo Theatre through April 3rd

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All the Way is an overstuffed sausagegrinding play about President Lyndon Johnson’s first 11 months in the White House. It begins with Kennedy’s assassination and ends with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and LBJ’s election.

George Dudley is always a pleasure to watch on stage, and his LBJ is no exception. Curtis C. Jackson and John Maness stand out as NAACP leader Roy Wilkins and FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. Greg Boller relishes his time inside the skin of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, and Michael Detroit makes a sympathetic, if never entirely convincing, Hubert Humphrey. The women of the ’60s are finely represented

by Claire Kolheim, Irene Crist, and Kim Sanders. Unfortunately, this enormously scaled show requires more than acting.

All the Way should make us see that soldiers are blown up in boardrooms not on battlefields, and how even progressive politics can play out like a slow-motion lynching. It should make us flinch and look away often. It never does, but it’s an election year, which may put audiences in the mood for a three-hour reminder of the days when even an oil-funded politician as crude and bullying as Donald Trump could dream of a “more perfect union” and get elected.

All the Way at Playhouse on the Square through March 26th

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JACK YATES

W

ith Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim takes audiences on a musical, psycho-sexual romp through the pages of Grimms’ Fairy Tales. The Sweeney Todd composer’s take on bedtime stories like Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella is less like an animated Disney musical than Hitchcock shocker. The irony is that when Into the Woods became a film, Disney made it. While Theatre Memphis’ lush, color-saturated production is not a copy of the film, it has a post-Disney feel.

Theater Memphis’ Into the Woods is nothing short of lovely, with lush storybook designs by Jack Yates complemented

by Jeremy Allen Fisher’s even lusher lighting. Voices are strong, the orchestra sounds fantastic, and the acting is solid.

Renee Davis Brame may be the best wicked witch Memphis has seen to date, which is no small compliment considering how frequently the show is produced.

Imagine Bette Davis eating Bernadette Peters to absorb her superpowers.

She shares the stage with a strong ensemble that includes Lee Gilliland and Lynden Lewis as the Baker and his wife, and Cody Rutledge as a dimwitted giant-killer named Jack.

Into the Woods is relentlessly modern, putting it at odds with Theatre Memphis’ production,which is only intermittently so. The things that make the show so sumptuous dull the musical’s sharpest edges and un-sex it. What’s left remains gorgeous and exuberantly performed.

Into the Woods at Theatre Memphis through April 3rd

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Circuit Playhouse

Pageant, musical comedy about a beauty pageant unlike any other as six beautiful woMEN vie for the title of Miss Glamouresse. Judges are selected from the audience. No two performances are the same. $22-$40. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through April 9.

Pinkalicious the Musical, based on the popular children’s book, this family-friendly musical centers on Pinkalicious, who can’t stop eating pink cupcakes. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $22-$30. Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m. Through April 10.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Germantown Community Theatre

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, musical comedy based on the 1988 film of the same name about two con artists out to swindle a woman. She’s not your average mark. www.gctcomeplay.org. $26. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m. Through March 26.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (754-2680).

Hattiloo Theatre

Free Man of Color, a freed slave is taken under the wing of a college president, and expectations on both sides are challenged. Thursdays-Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Through April 3.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Playhouse on the Square

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

Through March 26.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

Into the Woods, storybook fantasy and musical journey with an original story based on several Brothers Grimm fairy tales. www.theatrememphis.org. $30.

Sundays, 2 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Through April 3.

Senior Arts Series, celebrate the Southern experience and life on the Mississippi River featuring Memphis vocalist Joyce Cobb with her band the Boscos Trio and the witticisms of Mark Twain portrayed by Ron Jewell. www.creativeagingmidsouth.org. $5. Wed., March 30, 1-3 p.m.

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

Ongoing.

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

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

Ongoing.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

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

TheatreWorks

The Blues Foundation

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

Through April 30.

1 in 10: Perspectives from the LGBT Society, series of short monologues from the LGBT point of view. Many humorous and some quite touching. www.etcmemphistheater.com. $20. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m.

Through March 26.

421 S. MAIN.

Box Gallery

4th Annual Best of Memphis, exhibition juried by Lauren Kennedy of Southfork and the UrbanArt Commission.

Through April 5.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

Circuitous Succession Gallery

3715 CENTRAL.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

Opening reception for “White Out,” exhibition of new paintings by Susan Maakestad. www. circuitoussuccession.com. Fri., March 25, 6-9 p.m.

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

Through April 4.

500 S. SECOND.

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

Circuit Playhouse

OTH E R A R T HA P P E N I N G S

Art Trolley Tour

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

SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN.

Hands-on Activity

Family-friendly, all ages handson activity. Learn how to etch on aluminum using similar techniques as exhibiting artist, Douglas Harling. $10. Last Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Through Jan. 19.

Mojo of Midtown Awards Bash Wednesday, March 30th at Circuit Playhouse “Kin Killin’ Kin”

Exhibition on youth and gun violence in our communities. Through April 29.

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

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Meet James Pate in conversation about his work in the series “Kin Killin’ Kin” and the tough issues surrounding gun violence in our communities. Thurs., March 24, 6-8 p.m.

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

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

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The Annesdale Park Gallery

“Someone Could Be Anyone,” exhibition of images by Emily Moll Wood. www.annesdaleparkgallery.net. Through April 12.

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

Dale Anderson, exhibition of new photographic works. www. playhouseonthesquare.org.

Through April 10.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Circuitous Succession Gallery

“White Out,” exhibition of new paintings by Susan Maakestad. www.circuitoussuccession.com.

March 25-May 6.

500 S. SECOND.

CALENDAR: MARCH 24 - 30 Crosstown Arts

“do it,” exhibition of instructions by nearly 300 artists, choreographers, writers, and poets featured in more than 50 exhibitions worldwide. www. crosstownarts.org. Through April 2.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

David Lusk Gallery

“Trending Geometric” and “Now Here Then,” exhibition of work by Kit Reuther and Huger Foote. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through April 9.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

L Ross Gallery

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

Through March 26.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden

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

Through March 28.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis College of Art

“Work by Dick Rhodes,” exhibition of plein air landscape paintings. Through May 7.

“Blood Works,” exhibition of self-portrait paintings

by Tim Andrews addressing the personal and societal implications of living with hemophilia for 54 years, and with HIV and hepatitis C for more than 30 years. Through March 26.

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

2016 Spring BFA Exhibition: Part 1, www.mca.edu.

March 30-April 18.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

MGAL Star Artist Exhibition, www.mgal.org.

Through March 30.

Memphis/Germantown Art League Star Artist Gallery Show, (761-0810), jccmemphis.org. Through March 31, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

“F.I.R.E. Glenn Zweygardt: Then & Now,” featuring work from periods before and after the artist’s retirement. Through May 22.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

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

“Painting American Progress: Selections from the Kattner Collection and More,” exhibition of the Nina and Keith Kattner Collection of American paintings, on long-term loan to the Dixon, offering incredible examples of American art. Through April 3.

Pinkney Herbert, exhibition of abstract paintings.

Through April 3.

“The Voyage of Life,” exhibition of four allegorical landscapes by Thomas Cole (1801-1848). www. dixon.org. Through April 3.

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4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Shaken, Not Stirred,” exhibition of mixed-media works by Mary-Ellen Kelly. Through April 13.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

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Mosal Morszart, exhibition of work in honor of Black History Month extended. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Through March 31.

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

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The University of Memphis BFA Art Thesis: “In Flux,” exhibition of work by nine graduating seniors. Through April 1.

3715 CENTRAL.

Germantown Performing Arts Center

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“Close Scapes,” exhibition of works by Maritucker Hanemann. www.gpacweb.com. Through April 4.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Java Cabana

“Unfolding Stories”, new works by Erica McCarrens.

Through May 5.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

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Jay Etkin Gallery

“Spring,” exhibition of recent works by Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Sammy Peters, Bill Gingles, Scott Bergey, Johnny Taylor, and others. www.jayetkingallery.com. Through April 5.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

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

2563 BROAD.

Ross Gallery

“James Crews: A Retrospective,” exhibition of paintings, prints, and works on paper.

(321-3243), www.cbu.edu/ gallery. Through April 14.

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

Soulsville, USA Towne Center Building

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

915 E. MCLEMORE.

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“Scientific Evidence of Life on Earth During Two Millennia,” exhibition of photography by Terry Manning. www.soulsvillefoundation.org. Through March 30.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Theatre Memphis

Into the Woods Art Exhibition, juried art by MCA students.

The 18” x 24”, framed originals are available for purchase for $275 each with prints at 9” x 12” available for $20 each, unframed. www.theatrememphis. org. Through April 3.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

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

400 S. FRONT.

Chris Offutt signs his memoir at Crosstown story booth March 24.

WKNO Studio

New works by Tim Andrews and Joel Hilgenberg, www. wkno.org. Through March 31.

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Brinson’s

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483), WWW.BUCKMANARTSCENTER.COM.

341 MADISON (524-0104).

Featuring guest artists and performers. $25-$35. Sat., March 26, 2:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Cherry Burlesque

Burlesque ball hosted by Julie Wheeler. $10-$20. Last Saturday of every month, 8:30 p.m.

EARNESTINE & HAZEL’S, 531 S. MAIN (523-9754), WWW.THEJULIEWHEELER.COM.

Dance and Movement

Open to the general public including people with disabilities.

Minimum age 18. Stephanie Hill instructs free-form dancing, line dances, partner, and solo dance routines. Free. Last Tuesday of every month, 10 a.m.-noon Through May 31.

LEWIS CENTER FOR SENIOR CITIZENS, 1188 N. PARKWAY (289-4968), WWW.SRVS.ORG.

C O M E DY

The Cove

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

2559 BROAD (730-0719).

Midtown Crossing Grill

The Tuna Boyz Worldwide, featuring Eric Sorgel and Dan Alten, awarded the Best Newcomer Award at the Kent Carney Awards for Comedic Excellence. $5. Thurs., March 24, 7:30 p.m.

Mo Alexander, nationally touring headliner and local comedy legend. $10. Sat., March 26, 8 p.m.

394 N. WATKINS (443-0502).

Strictly Hip-Hop Sunday, featuring open mic, live band, and DJ. $5, ladies free. Sundays, 5 p.m.

Java Cabana

Open mic nite, www.javacabanacoffeehouse.com. Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Bill Haltom

Author discusses and signs Milk and Sugar: The Complete Book of Seersucker. Wear seersucker attire and have a picture taken in seersucker-inspired photo booth. Sat., March 26, 2-4 p.m.

BURKE’S BOOK STORE, 936 S. COOPER (278-7484), WWW.BURKESBOOKS.COM.

Booksigning by Chris Offutt

Author discusses and signs My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir. Thurs., March 24, 6 p.m.

CROSSTOWN STORY BOOTH, 422 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

LECT U R E /S P EA K E R

1351 Steam Locomotive in Collierville

John McKenney presents a lecture on the history and mechanics of steam locomotive Frisco 1351 followed by a tour of the steam engine on Town Square. Free. Thurs., March 24, 11 a.m.-noon.

MORTON MUSEUM OF COLLIERVILLE HISTORY, 196 MAIN, COLLIERVILLE (457-2650), WWW. COLLIERVILLEMUSEUM.ORG.

2016 Memphis Heritage Preservation Series

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Themed “Everything You Need to Know About Your Old House.” Panel presentations will include modernizing kitchen and bath, opening space while respecting integrity, windows, and more. $50 members, $65 nonmembers.

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

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

A Jew in South Africa

Dr. Jonathan Judaken of Rhodes College will speak on his childhood in the Lithuanian Jewish community of South Africa, drawing implicit comparisons to the Jim Crow South. Free. Tues., March 29, 7:30-9 p.m.

BETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE, 6675 HUMPHREYS (683-3591), WWW.BSHOLOM.ORG.

CALENDAR: MARCH 24 - 30 Munch and Learn

Bring your own lunch; sodas and water will be supplied.

Guest speakers talk about various subjects in the Hughes Pavilion. Free with gallery admission. Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m.

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

A State of Empowering Conversation

Various topics hosted by Davin and Gwen Clemons, motivational speakers and life coach facilitators. Registration online.

Mon., March 28.

NO.2 VANCE, 325 WAGNER, WWW. RELATIONSHIPUNLEASHED.COM.

TO U R S

Elmwood 101

Winding carriage paths, a canopy of 1,500 trees, and Victorian-age monuments are all featured during this 90-minute walking tour. $15.

Sat., March 26, 10:30 a.m.

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

Woodland Garden Tours Celebrate 40 years with garden docents who will be available to discuss specific highlights in the Woodland garden.

Emphasis on plants and design representative of Memphis shade garden conditions. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon Through Dec. 31.

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

Woodruff-Fontaine House Ghost Tour

Enjoy a unique dimly lit tour of the landmark Victorian Village mansion, completed in 1871, with special emphasis on the family members who lived and died in the mansion. $25. Sat., March 26, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

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

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Jobs & Careers Week

Several representatives from different companies and organizations will be present throughout the week with

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Go Ape Treetop Adventure

Course in Shelby Farms Park open for its second season.

Ongoing.

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

In His Steps 5K

$25. Sat., March 26, 8 a.m.

CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 4488 POPLAR (6833521), WWW.CUMCMEMPHIS.ORG.

Memphis Roller Derby Double Header Amateur women’s flat-track roller derby league. $10. Sat., March 26, 6-10 p.m.

PIPKIN BUILDING, MID-SOUTH FAIRGROUNDS, MEMPHISROLLERDERBY.COM.

NPC Elite Physique Championships

Featuring men’s bodybuilding, physique and classic physique, women’s bodybuilding, figure, bikini and physique. $25-$35.

Sat., March 26, 6-11 p.m.

MINGLEWOOD HALL, 1555 MADISON (268-5721), ELITEPHYSIQUECHAMPIONSHIPS.COM.

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Tai Chi

Classes held near Woodland Discovery Playground. $8.

Wednesdays, 3 p.m.

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

Wheelchair Basketball Tournament

Memphis Rollin’ Grizzlies take on corporate teams in an annual wheelchair basketball tournament to benefit the Arc Mid-South, which serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. $5.

Sat., March 26, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Unique two-hour class and investigation hosted by a real paranormal investigator and TAPS family member. Meet and investigate a site which was the scene of a brutal murder in 1918. $20. Sat., March 26, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

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

Old Forest Hike

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

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

Tours at Two

Join a Dixon docent or member of the curatorial staff on a tour of the current exhibitions.

Free for members. $5 nonmembers. Tuesdays, Sundays, 2-3 p.m.

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

COSSITT LIBRARY, 33 S. FRONT (415-2766).

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Great River Indoor Food Truck Festival

Featuring food trucks, live music, a craft beer garden, and a marketplace of locally made craft goods benefiting the Hospitality Hub of Memphis, $5.

Sat., March 26, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (576-1200), WWW.MEMPHISCONVENTION.COM.

Indie Memphis Festival Kick-Off Party

Announcing 2016 fall dates and venues and kicking off the “call-for-entries” for filmmakers in Memphis and around the world to submit their films for consideration. Tues., March 29, 5:30 p.m.

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

MusliMeMfest

Featuring food, vendors, guest speakers, hot air balloons, and more. Free. Sat., March 26, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (452-2151), WWW.MUSLIMSINMEMPHIS.ORG.

Wild Fire Wrestling: Tough Luck Thurs., March 24, 6 p.m.

MINGLEWOOD HALL, 1555 MADISON (866-609-1744), WWW.MINGLEWOODHALL.COM.

Yoga at the Garden

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

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

Through April 28.

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Ghost Hunter Class and Investigation

information regarding jobs and careers. Call for updated information. Mon.-Fri., Mar. 28- Apr. 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

RAYMOND SKINNER CENTER, 712 TANGLEWOOD (507-8569), WWW.THEARCMIDSOUTH.ORG.

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

Yoga with Deborah Elam

Learn how to eliminate stress, increase strength and flexibility, and improve mind-body connection. Meet in the Story Telling Room. Bring your own mat. No registration. Walk-ins to room capacity. Free. Wed., 6 p.m. Through March 30.

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

April 16, 2016 / 7 - 10 pm / Playhouse on the Square KIDS

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Art to Grow for Teens

Learn the art of printmaking in this workshop led by the Dixon Gallery. Students ages 12-18 will also learn about the

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Warriors, what will you fight for?

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

Memphis Parent Cover Kids Contest

Want to see your child on the cover of Memphis Parent? Entry fee is $15 per child. Entrants are automatically entered in a drawing for gifts and prizes.

See website for details. Through April 10.

WWW.MEMPHISPARENT.COM.

Partners for Progress 19th Annual Youth Symposium

Focus on some of the prevalent concerns that negatively impact youth including drugs, violence, bullying, abuse, low self-esteem, suicide, teen pregnancy, and more. For ages 12-18. Meals served. Free. Sat., March 26, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

ST. JAMES AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 600 N. FOURTH, WWW.OSIGEPISTOLEUS.WIX.COM.

Spring Break Adventure Camp

Campers ages 6-9 will go on fun adventures through the garden with active, crafty, nature-based experiences. A different theme every day. See website for registration and more information. Mon.-Thur., Mar. 21-24, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

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

Spring Break Camp

For grades 3-6. See website for more information and registration. $125 members, $150 nonmembers. Mon.-Fri., Mar. 21-25, 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Nature Photography Garden Cleanup

4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Sign in at horticulture before heading out to the garden.

Participants/volunteers should bring hand tools, (bypass pruners, loppers, hand saws) water, and a hat. For more information, email chris.obryan@ memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Every other Wednesday, 9 a.m.-noon.

Storytime: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Tues., March 29, 11-11:30 a.m.

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

Storytime: What to Do with a Box

If you give a child a box, who knows what will happen next? It may become a library or a boat.

It could set the scene for a fairy tale or a wild expedition. Sat., March 26, 11-11:30 a.m.

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

Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters

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

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

Through May 1.

Youth Symposium

Male and female youth are invited, but some topics will specifically focus on young girls, ages 13-17. Community partners help develop young people educationally, socially, and emotionally. Free. Sat., March 26, 9 a.m.-noon.

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

One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure

CUMMINGS STREET MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, 8800 WINCHESTER (591-8910).

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“Astronaut”

Shows what it takes to become an astronaut. Through June 3.

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

Bountiful Blooms Exhibition

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

Through April 17.

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

Citizens to Preserve Park/ 3/3 PAUL THORN 8PMOverton | 3/4 JOHNNY MAC SPARK.ORG. Greensward Awareness HEART AT TACK 10PM | Fund-raiser 3/5 WILLIAM CL ARK Spring to Art Camp SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.SHELBYFARM-

Lecture on the history of steam locomotive Frisco 1351 at Collierville Town Square March 24

Family Safety Center Benefit: Love Doesn’t Hurt

Collecting the Missing Pieces

CLUB SPECTRUM, 616 MARSHALL (292-2292), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

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

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

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“Firefall”

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

Mojo of Midtown Awards Bash

Celebrate the people and organizations that have helped make Midtown Memphis the authentic and vibrant center of our city. Wine, beer, heavy hors d’oeuvres, and live music. $40.

Wed., March 30, 6-9 p.m.

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

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Seasonal Stargazing

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

Shelby County Real Estate Road Show

Shelby County Tax Sale has moved to an online-only format. Join us to learn more about how the tax sale and land bank processes work. Thurs., March 24, 2:30-4 p.m.

MEMPHIS AREA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, 6393 POPLAR (432-4884), WWW.ROADSHOWMEMPHIS.EVENTRBRITE.COM.

“Voices of the Civil Rights Movement”

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

Ongoing.

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

“Women of Courage in Memphis”

Exhibit includes courageous women who made an indelible impact on our history such as Ida B. Wells, Mary Church Terrell, Julia B. Hooks, Lucie E. Campbell, and others. Through March 31.

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Woodruff-Fontaine All Access Investigation

Three-hour lights-out, all-access investigation at the historic Woodruff-Fontaine House.

Attendees must be 18 years of age. Bring digital audio recorder and camera. $25. Sat., March 26, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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20th Annual 5K Bunny Run and 1-Mile Fun/Run Includes Easter Bunny, egg hunt, games, face painting, food trucks, music, and prizes.

Awards will be given in 15 age categories. Benefits SRVS Kids and Families. $10-$30. Sat., March 26, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

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Dixon Easter Egg Hunt Light refreshments will be provided. $8 members, $10 nonmembers. Sat., March 26, 10:30 a.m.

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Doubletree Hotel Easter Buffet

Featuring omelet station, waffles, seafood, pork loin, fried chicken, turkey, artisan breads and pastries, cheeses, crudite, fruits, and more. $32.99, adults, $15.95 for kids, Free for kids under 6. Sun., March 27, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Easter Hollow

Featuring Easter fun egg hunts, carnival games, inflatables, and petting zoo. The Easter Bunny will also be making his annual visit. Free. Sat., March 26, 25 p.m.

Family Egg Hunt

Age-friendly areas, live music, magic, and a 96-acre hunt with prizes for the adults as well. Sat., March 26, 1-4 p.m.

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Holy Week at St. Mary’s For list of events, visit website.

Through March 27.

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Service of the Cross

Lindenwood Chancel Choir, orchestra, soloists, baritone Laurence Albert, and Chris Nemec provide music and seven area clergy will deliver meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ. Fri., March 25, 5:30 p.m.

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2nd Annual Cookies on Tap

Drop-in tasting event will feature a flight of four beers that have been expertly paired with a Girl Scout Cookie that brings out the flavor profile, style, and taste of the cookie and beer duo. $20. Thurs., March 24, 4-7 p.m.

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Abita Big Easy IPA Tour Stop

Abita Beer brings the music of the Young PinStripe brass band, free samples of new Big Easy Session IPA, giveaways, and beads at Bayou Bar & Grill, Lafayette’s Music Room, and Local on the Square. Free. Tues., March 29, 8-10 p.m.

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Bendy Brewski Yoga

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Beginner-friendly, fun yoga followed by a pint. No experience

Over 10,000 eggs will be dropped at the Big Kroc Egg Drop March 26.

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The Stirring

Featuring music, faith, art, and atmosphere. Thurs., March 24, 7 p.m.

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Cookies on Tap

Girl Scouts Heart of the South’s Troop 901 is partnering with High Cotton Brewing Co. to offer a palate-pleasing experience.

Local brews will be paired with Girl Scout Cookies for a unique taste treat. $20. Thurs., March 24, 4-7 p.m.

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Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market

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Vine to Wine: World of Wines

Sample wines from around the world along with light hors d’oeuvres at the first event of our 2016 wine-tasting season. Must be 21 to attend. $30 members, $45 nonmembers. Tues., March 29, 6-8 p.m.

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Ultimate off-trail adventure into the nation’s awe-inspiring great outdoors and untamed wilderness. Through Nov. 11.

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Three Tough Guys

An ex-con who has been granted an exemption from canon law to become a priest.

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used to grumble at grocery stores that sell broccoli heads shaped like lollipops, in which tiny crowns sit atop lanky, woody stems. I have even gone so far as to break those stems off, right there in the produce aisle, and leave them in the cooler while I only purchased the heads. And I felt completely justified in doing so. The grocer was trying to charge me crown prices for something that was mostly stem.

They weren’t going to play me like that.

It isn’t news to me that the stems are edible. Until recently, I haven’t been inclined to eat them, much less do work to prepare them. By work, I guess I just mean peeling them, something I’m happy to do with onions. But onions are necessary, while broccoli stems are a burden, precisely because they are edible. You can’t throw them away without wasting food.

My relationship with broccoli stems has recently changed. I now eat them, and not out of guilt, but desire.

This shift began when I was at the farmers market recently, hanging out near the end of market like I do, waiting for the deals to come to me. Sure enough, a farmer offered me the rest of his broccoli — about 20 pounds — for 20 bucks. It was a screaming deal on fresh, organic broccoli, and I accepted without hesitation.

Back in the kitchen, I broke the crowns into florets and prepared them for freezing. After blanching them for three minutes in boiling water, I plunged them into cold water to cool them quickly and fix their bright green color. Then I packed them into quart freezer bags.

When the steam dissipated and my bags of blanched broccoli were in the freezer, I still faced a pile of broccoli stems, feeling annoyance and guilt. One I could have tossed to the chickens without an issue, but such a mountain of stalks had to be climbed.

I had been operating under the assumption that the stems are not only less tasty than the crowns, but offer fewer nutrients too, and are more labor-intensive to cook. It turns out broccoli stems have nearly the same nutrients as the crowns, plus more fiber. Those nutrients include sulforaphane, a substance that has been shown to protect against several types of cancer. Broccoli is also suspected to help rid the body of toxins, thanks to a large study in a polluted area of China. So anything you can do to eat more broccoli and throw away less is going to be good for your body as well as your wallet.

While there is the extra labor involved in peeling the stalks, in some ways they are

Broccoli stems — get ready to learn to love them.

also more forgiving to prepare. They aren’t as easy to overcook as the florets, which turn a dark shade of green and become mushy and bitter, while the stems only get sweeter with prolonged cooking.

As for the flavor, it’s neither better nor worse, but different. And delicious.

Since the fateful farmers market when I acquired all of that broccoli, I’ve made broccoli stem and scallop fried rice, broccoli stems with Ethiopian berbere spices, broccoli stem chips, Thai-style coconut curry with broccoli stems, broccoli stems with bacon, as well as my two favorites: broccoli stem soup and stir-fried broccoli stems with hoisin sauce. Not once during this binge did I feel that I was eating a second-class vegetable. Those stems were so good, in fact, that I think some different vocabulary is in order, words that convey the dignity and supreme edibility that these plant parts deserve.

Thus, I’m going to start calling them broccoli hearts, and the slices thereof: medallions. And today I’m the proud owner of a few bags of blanched broccoli heart medallions in the freezer, alongside the crowns. Knowing what I now know, don’t be surprised if I reach for them first.

Here are my two favorite recipes for broccoli hearts. Both can be made with fresh broccoli stems, or with broccoli heart medallions from the freezer.

(This holds true for cauliflower stems.)

STIR-FRIED WITH HOISIN SAUCE Ingredients 5 broccoli stems 1 clove garlic, minced 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon chili flakes, or a crushed dried chili pepper (optional)

1 scallion, chopped Oil or bacon, for the pan Method Peel and slice the broccoli stems. To be extra fancy, slice them on an angle.

Cook the stems in oil or bacon for about five minutes, until soft, on medium.

While they cook, combine soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and sugar.

Add the garlic and chili flakes, and stir it around. After about a minute, add the sauce mixture. Stir-fry for another minute.

Remove from heat. Garnish with chopped green onions, and serve.

BROCCOLI STEM SOUP This soup has turned out to be the only way my kids will ever eat any form of broccoli. It works as a great chilled soup in summertime and would be lovely served warm in the colder months. It’s similar to vichyssoise.

Ingredients 5 broccoli stems, peeled and chopped into medallions 2 medium carrots, sliced 2 medium potatoes, sliced 1 medium onion or leek, sliced 2 cloves garlic, minced ¼ cup red lentils A pinch of fennel seeds Beef, chicken, or veggie stock Cream, sour cream, or mayo as a garnish (optional) Method Add all of the ingredients to a pan, and cover them with stock by at least an inch.

Grind in a generous amount of black pepper. Simmer until soft. Let cool to the point where it can be pureed. Puree. Serve with cream, sour cream, or mayo.

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Fried plantains ($3), chicken, beef, veggie, or dessert empanadas ($5-$6), yucca ($5), and papa rellenas, or stuffed potatoes, Padilla-Anderson is doing what she knows.

“I moved to Memphis nine years ago from Tampa Bay. I grew up in the restaurant business with my grandmother, and she taught me all her great recipes,” Padilla-Anderson says.

She’s worked in the local restaurant scene for most of her tenure here, including the Cove and Chiwawa, until one day she took a leap.

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At least four dozen, as a matter of fact, with the list tirelessly expanding. Two new food trucks have caught the eyes of Memphians as of late, with a flurry of Facebook posts and tweets and Instagramming broadcasting where to find them and what’s good.

JoyRide and RAWK’n Grub have joined the ranks of the food truck experience, and just in time for two upcoming food truck festivals — the Great River Indoor Food Truck Festival and Marketplace, this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Cook Convention Center, and the Midsouth Food Truck Festival on Saturday, May 7th at Tiger Lane.

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continued from page 39 she says. “I had no idea this was what I was going to be doing. I always planned on opening a restaurant by the time I was 40,” Padilla-Anderson says.

She’s 41.

In addition to the catering she’s been called in for, Padilla-Anderson sets up on Tuesdays at Audubon Park from around 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and at the same time in Court Square on Thursdays.

She has a presence on all the usual suspects — joyridememphis.com, facebook.com/joyridememphis901, and @ joyridememphis.

“It’s been great. I’ve put myself out there, and people love the food,” she says.

Steph Cook is finally following his dream of running a food truck. This winter he launched RAWK’n Grub, which presents gastro-pub food using raw, local ingredients with rock-and-roll-themed handles.

“We play with comfort food and put a rockstar spin on it,” Cook says.

His No. 1 seller are his C.C. Sliders, made with ground beef chuck, which Cook grinds himself, sirloin brisket, chorizo, and applewood smoked bacon topped with tomato chutney and chipotle aioli ($8.50).

Or his Cheesy Like Sunday Morning, his version of the old standby, grilled cheese, which is layers of smoked gouda pimiento and cheese and fontina grilled on thick-cut wheatberry bread ($7.50).

Cook is not new on the Memphis food scene either, opening Memphis MoJo Cafe in Bartlett as well as cooking at eighty3 in the Madison and Hog & Hominy.

He’s been spotted at the Ridgeway Loop, the Baptist Memorial Hospital campus, St. Jude, and other locations, changing it up to keep people interested.

He lists his weekly schedule on his website, rawkngrub.com, or on Facebook, facebook.com/RAWKn-Grub-FoodTruck, and hopes to go 24 hours.

“We’ve been catching a lot of traction.

We’ve had good responses on Facebook, and we just started getting on Yelp,” he says. “I love it. I’m having a blast.”

The Great River Indoor Food Truck Festival and Marketplace happens this Saturday in the Memphis Cook Convention Center from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Look for more than 14 food trucks, a beer garden featuring local brews, live music by eight local performers, and local vendors. Tickets are $5, which goes toward the Hospitality Hub. For more information, visit the Great River Indoor Food Truck Festival and Marketplace Facebook page or go to www.ticketoven. com/foodtruckfestival for tickets.

For more information about the Midsouth Food Truck Festival in May, go to http://www.midsouthfoodtruckfest. com. Admission is $5, $2 for kids ages 5 to 12.

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Return to the Ring Wrestling documentary Memphis Heat is back for an encore screening.

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should promote it with a documentary to get the word out. I looked around for people to work on the film, and called Chad Schaffler, because I knew he was a filmmaker, and he was working on a Good Luck Dark Star video at the time. I called and asked if he knew anyone who would like to work on a low-budget documentary, and he said ‘Yeah, me!’ It worked out great. Chad took the ball and ran with it.

He tracked down a lot of these guys. We didn’t even know who was alive at the time. We had a punch list of people we wanted to interview, and he found most of them. We got the Coliseum opened through the film commission, and interviewed a bunch of them at once. Lawler was one of the guys we interviewed, and he opened up his little book of phone numbers and shared that with Chad. He tracked down a number of these guys in Nashville and North Carolina. Handsome Jimmy Valiant was in West Virginia.”

Released in 2011, Memphis Heat had a successful four-week run at Studio on the Square. “We knew it was a great film, with great subject matter, but we didn’t really know where it would go. We toured it through the South in movie theaters, and that went really good in Memphis, Nashville, and Atlanta. It’s such a huge learning curve to do something like that when you’re starting out with a $5,000 budget documentary. It got the word out. Even if people didn’t get out to see it, it helped build awareness for the film.”

This week, on the fifth anniversary of the film’s opening, Memphis Heat will return for an encore screening at the Malco Paradiso in conjunction with the release of its soundtrack album, produced by Doug Easley and featuring the River City Tanlines. It’s a good chance to get caught up on a unique bit of the city’s

history, with a great piece of Memphis filmmaking.

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The Future Is Stupid The Divergent Series: Allegiant fails in new, exciting ways.

For the last decade, publishers and producers have been desperate to emulate the success of Harry Potter.

What made The Boy Who Lived into an international phenomenon that launched the most successful young adult series in history and eight movies that were not only financially successful and generation defining, but also fun to watch? For a while, they thought they had found it in The Hunger Games, but even though the films helped launch Jennifer Lawrence’s career and made a truckload of money, they just weren’t very good and limped across the finish line with last year’s hopelessly compromised Mockingjay-Part 2.

Successful young adult novels translate kids’ life experience into allegory. One thing Potter and Veronica Roth’s 2011 novel Divergent have in common is a sorting mechanism, where kids are put into groups that determine the future paths of their lives. At Hogwarts, it’s a magic hat. In Roth’s post-apocalyptic Chicago, it’s an aptitude test that determines which faction they will join in the controlled community of survivors. In this age of continued on page 42

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he furor over the future of the MidSouth Coliseum has been one of Memphis’ defining civic kerfuffles of the decade. Over its five-decade history, it has been the venue for concerts by the likes of Elvis, the Beatles, and David Bowie, as well as Tiger basketball games and graduations. But the thing the Coliseum is the most famous for is not Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis. It’s wrestling. Throughout the 1970s, the round house was the site of epic weekly battles between the likes of Tojo Yamamoto, Bill Dundee, and the King himself, Jerry Lawler. Their images went out over the airwaves to millions of households all over the South and Midwest and made folk heroes and villains out of an unlikely cast of characters.

In 1974, Sherman Willmott came to Memphis from Connecticut as an impressionable child, only to discover the joys of TV wrestling. “When we moved here, my sister and I had never seen anything like it,” he says. “We watched cartoons, and then afterwards wrestling came on. Our minds were blown. My sister was crying and screaming because George Barnes and Bill Dundee had put Tojo in the ropes, and one of the guys from Australia — Barnes and Dundee were from Australia — was jumping off the top rope of the ring and hitting Tojo with a chair. We couldn’t believe the referee would let this go on.”

From that moment on, Willmott would be a fan of what he calls “soap opera for the working man.” Professional wrestling was already a national phenomenon in the 1970s, and Memphis was the closest thing there was a national capital for the “sport.”

“Lawler is particularly talented with ring technique,” Willmott says. “These guys are so good they don’t even look like they’re working an act. That’s what made it so believable.”

In the 1990s, Willmott founded Shangri-La Records, which brought Memphis alternative music into the national spotlight. His Shangri-La Projects label has produced books on Memphis history, many with local author Ron Hall. “After we did the Garage Rock Yearbook, he threw this thing out to me that he was working on a coffee table book on wrestling.

I went to his house to check out the pictures he had acquired, and the ephemera and the ads for the book, and it blew my mind. Ron had grown up here in the 1960s in Memphis as a fan of Billy Wicks and Sputnik Monroe and these guys who were before my time here in Memphis. Growing up with wrestling here in Memphis was awesome. It was a fun little book project to do. Ron brought the ’60s feel to the book project, which was a lot different from the ’70s. In the 1970s, they started doing the music and the more outrageous stuff like scaffolding matches, that originated here in Memphis. They would tie people into the ring with chain-link fences and things like that. The book project was just a fun deal, and I thought maybe we

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy continued from page 41 high stakes standardized testing, one can see how that would strike a chord with teenage audiences.

That was two movies ago. When the third Divergent film, Allegiant, opens, the caste system has been smashed by Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) and her brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort), semichaste boyfriend Four (Theo James), and frenemies Peter (Miles Teller), Marcus (Ray Stevenson), and Christina (Zoë Kravitz). In the power vacuum left behind after the collapse of the faction system, Four’s mother Evelyn (Naomi Watts), the former insurgent leader, has become a demagogue, holding show trials that involve injecting suspects with truth serum and shooting them in the head when they “confess.” Evelyn has the city in lockdown, but Tris and Four are determined to leave the walled perimeter to investigate the message from the outside world they received at the end of Insurgent. Rebelling against their former allies, they break out of the city’s walls and find new and startling secrets about the true nature of their world.

Or at least the secrets are supposed to be startling. In practice, the bland new villain David (Jeff Daniels), head

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Hot Fun in the Summertime People under 40 are in for a treat this summer. A new reality show combining the very best of Survivor, Jackass, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, will begin July 18th and run through the 21st. It promises to be the television event of the year, and you don’t even need cable. The macabre spectacle known as the Republican National Convention will be held in Cleveland earlier than usual this year, so as not to step on the TV ratings for the 2016 Olympics. The Democrats follow suit a week later in Philadelphia, so everybody can jet off to Rio de Janeiro and bring back the Zika virus.

The GOP’s soiree will take place in the Quicken Loans Arena, which seems a bit insensitive, considering their quadrennial gala will be held in a sports arena owned by a mortgage company that was sued by the government for “knowingly violating underwriting practices (and) issuing hundreds of defective loans.” But it all makes sense when you discover the arena is owned by Cleveland Cavaliers owner and heavy Republican donor, Dan Gilbert, a billionaire businessman and chairman of Quicken Loans, who accepted a government bailout for his mendacious operation. So that’s a good start on what will be the billionaires’ political convention.

Several pundits are predicting that the cyclone that’s about to devour Cleveland will be comparable to the 1968 bloody Democratic convention in Chicago. The greatest similarity is that we get to sit on the couch with our popcorn and watch the implosion of a major political party. The differences, however, are many. The national mood leading up to Chicago can best be described as incendiary. LBJ announced he would not run for reelection in March. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April, followed by the murder of Robert Kennedy in June.

The best hope for peace was Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, who came to the convention with the most delegates. Every manner of protester flooded into Chicago: radicals, moderates, anti-war activists, hippies, Yippies, and the Black Panther Party. Mayor Richard J. Daley was the law, mobilizing the National Guard and the Chicago police with orders to “shoot to kill” arsonists, and “shoot to maim” looters. This emboldened the cops to commit sanctioned brutality against the loathed, long-haired intruders. For the next three days, while the Democratic Party was disintegrating inside the hall, blue-helmeted riot police removed their badges and went on a rampage, wading into the protestors with sadistic zeal, cracking skulls and bloodying campaign volunteers, men and women alike.

In the end, party bosses chose Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who had not entered a single primary, as the nominee. Because their candidate was crushed by the party machinery, a whole generation took their ball and went home, sitting out the election and enabling the reign of Richard Nixon and setting off another five years of bitter anti-war protests. Like Mick Jagger said, “You can’t always get what you want.”

This year, it’s the Republicans who are in chaos. With tempers boiling, talk of a brokered convention and an insider “Stop Trump” movement, there’s every potential for violence. Only this time, the violence will be inside the convention. While a delegate might mention the word “riot” under his breath, Trump just comes right out and predicts it. When Donald Trump speculated that if he doesn’t get the nomination, “I think you’d have riots. I’m representing … millions of people,” he virtually invited every Tea Party yahoo, Klansman, white supremacist, and open-carry gun neurotic to come to Cleveland. For certain, protesters will descend righteously into the city where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was murdered by a policeman (who was previously declared “emotionally unstable”) for brandishing a toy, airsoft pistol in a public park.

Black Lives Matter will be in force. So should the many groups publicly denigrated by Trump: Mexicans, African Americans, Asians, war heroes, women, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Seventh-day Adventists, Mormons, the disabled, and the poor. This time, however, law enforcement will be overseen by the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service (if we can keep them away from the prostitutes) and not the trigger-happy Cleveland police.

So buckle up, this is going to be ugly. So far, it looks like the only people who will speak on behalf of Trump are Dennis Rodman, Sarah Palin, Mike Tyson, Chris Christie, and Omarosa. Maybe they could get the Cliven Bundy militia to prerecord a message of support which could then be read by Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson.

The strange thing is the rules committee is not bound by rules, so they can make them up as they go along. There are two scenarios here: Trump loses the nomination and begins rampaging around the land like the Cloverfield monster, or Trump wins the nomination, but the GOP announces a third-party candidate so as not to let the country fall into the hands of a sociopath who once said, “It really doesn’t matter what (the media) write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”

Who can argue with logic like that? Except, imagine for a second if that quote came out of the mouth of Barack Obama. Rednecks would be locking up their daughters. No matter how repulsive Trump is to his fellow GOP presidential candidates, almost all of them have pledged to support the party’s nominee.

Go ahead and nominate his ass. His hate-filled reality show will be renewed for 12 more weeks, then the voters can cancel him for good — and maybe the Republican Party, as well.

Randy Haspel writes the “Recycled Hippies” blog, where a version of this column first appeared.

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