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

OUR 1519TH ISSUE 04.05.18 When I’m on a plane, I like to catch up with the magazines that get stacked up on my bedside table. I always stuff a bunch in my backpack and consume them with my pretzels and club soda while hanging out back in 21C. On a flight last week, I was reading a New Yorker story about VA Secretary David Shulkin, and I was well into it before I realized it wasn’t about Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Shulkin/Mnuchin. Tomato/Tomahto. When it comes to President Trump’s cabinet, it’s getting really hard to keep up with who’s who and who’s in and who’s out — and who’s spent the most taxpayer dollars on lavish travel. These guys sure aren’t sitting back in Row 21, that I can tell you.

Honestly, it’s easy to get Shulkin confused with Mnuchin. Not only are their names sort of weirdly synchronic, they both like to take their wives on lavish vacations on taxpayer money.

Shulkin and his wife enjoyed a 10-day European vacation on our dime last summer and lied about it by having a staffer alter an email. They also accepted free tickets to Wimbledon, and Shulkin had his government staff act as his travel agency, planning all the fun places he and the missus could go visit. After an Inspector General’s report was released last week, Shulkin says he was fired. The White House said he “resigned.” Tomato/ Tomahto.

Mnuchin, you may recall, took his babe-ish wife on a military jet jaunt to watch last summer’s eclipse. After that, he requested a military plane to take his wife to Europe for their honeymoon. He still Steve Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton has his job.

And there’s EPA head, Scott Pruitt, who has spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on first-class travel because, well, someone might recognize him and bother him back there in the cheap seats. He’s also had his own private phone booth built at our expense (not weird, at all) and is under an ethics investigation for a sweetheart luxury apartment deal with a major lobbyist. And, for good measure, he went around a White House denial to engineer massive raises for two young female staffers.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke? He spent $12,350 on one charter trip to Montana, and tens of thousands more of our money island-hopping the Caribbean on a “fact-finding” tour in a private jet.

But the king of tax-paid travel is former secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, who spent more than $1 million of our money on domestic and international flights between May and September 2017. In addition, Price used White House-approved military jets for international travel to Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Proving that even Washington has limits, Price was forced to resign, but only after receiving the President’s Medal of Honor for Chutzpah.

Speaking of chutzpah … HUD secretary Ben Carson decided it was a good idea to spend $31,000 on a dining room suite for his office, then blamed it on his wife. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has billed taxpayers $58,000 in travel expenses, including one flight that cost $31,000, which, to be fair, is chicken feed for this bunch.

To her credit, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has not been busted for improperly using government money, but it may only be because she’s too dimwitted to figure out N E WS & O P I N I O N how to do it.

THE FLY-BY - 4 I could go on about Dr. Trump’s Cabinet NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 of Horrors, but really, I think the point is POLITICS - 8 made. The common denominator conEDITORIAL - 10 necting Trump’s administrators is that they VIEWPOINT - 11 are all rich, privileged, and used to living COVER - “ERNEST WITHERS the high life. Unfortunately for them, fedREDUX” eral officials are supposed to travel coach

BY ALEX GREENE - 12 WE RECOMMEND - 16 class on commercial air carriers whenever MUSIC - 18 feasible. For folks used to flying first-class AFTER DARK - 20 or on private or chartered aircraft, this is CALENDAR - 22 a major blow to their sense of self-worth.

ART - 30 Coach is for the hoi-polloi munching on FOOD - 31 dry pretzels in the back. You know, like you SPIRITS - 33 and me — the ones footing the bill for this FILM - 34 brazen corruption.

C L AS S I F I E D S - 36 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 39 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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DAM M IT, GAN N ETT It was one thing when The Commercial Appeal misspelled the name of former editor Angus McEachran in a tribute to the recently deceased newspaperman.

Sure, it was ironic because McEachran was such a stickler for details and famous for summoning reporters to a disciplinary event called “error court.” But who’s left at the CA who remembers Angus?

Certainly nobody at the Iowa hub where the paper’s edited knew the guy or gives a damn about Memphis stuff.

And, in fairness, McEachran is an unusual name and hard to spell, unlike the name of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., who was recently identified as “Marin” in a front page cutline.

April 5-11, 2018

In case you missed it during its short trip around the internet, this seemingly deleted tweet should be forever known as “The Memphis Conspiracy.”

So it goes: “ServiceMaster CEO Nik Varty brings in new crew of corporate execs to lead the Memphis.”

The Memphis welcomes its new overlords, presumably.

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VE R BATI M “Ifedigbo and Martin, while finetuning the Hood Incubator’s strategy in Oakland, have their eyes set on spreading the model to other cities statewide — and eventually to cities like Chicago, Detroit and Memphis.”

— Politico reports on the unbearable whiteness of legal pot and one company’s strategy to get ahead of the trend and change things.

By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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By Flyer staff

Riverfront, Bikes, & a Gator Changes ahead for RDC, bike share stations announced, an alligator in the Wolf.

R IV E R F R O NT C HAN G ES Big changes are underway for the Riverfront Development Corp.

(RDC), including an “aggressive” capital campaign, a name change, a new business plan, and, as announced last week, a new leader.

Carol Coletta, a native Memphian and a senior fellow at The Kresge Foundation, will lead the RDC as president and CEO. “Under Coletta’s leadership, the organization will focus more intently on making the riverfront a city asset that promotes racial and economic equity and greater community development in adjacent neighborhoods,” a statement from RDC reads.

B I K E S HAR E The locations of the first 60 stations for the bike-share system launching here in the spring were announced last week by Explore Bike Share (EBS).

The stations span from Uptown and Crosstown to Overton Square and Cooper-Young to downtown and South Memphis to West Memphis.

A single ride will cost $5, while weekly, monthly, and annual memberships range from $12 to $120. With each membership option, riders get unlimited 60-minute rides, as long as the bike is checked in at one of the 60 stations each hour.

CAM P US SAF ETY The University of Memphis reported criminal incident rate in 2017 was the lowest it’s been since 2001, according to a new report by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

The annual Crime on Campus report shows the type, volume, and extent of reported crimes on all Tennessee campuses. At U of M, there’s been a 13.5 percent drop in all reported criminal incidents.

The reported crime rate in 2017 was 12.7 per 1,000 students, compared to other large universities in the state, whose rates ranged from 13.8 to 46.4 incidents per 1,000.

The university reports that over the past five years, the school has had the lowest reported crime rates among the state’s 10 largest public and private universities.

S E C U R I N G S C H O O LS State officials will soon evaluate every Tennessee elementary and secondary school to identify areas of risk in a first-ever effort that comes during a national debate on gun violence.

Governor Bill Haslam announced the move last week.

It was one recommendation of three submitted to him by a school safety working group he established earlier this month. The group also suggested increasing resources for school resource officers and a statewide system for the anonymous reporting of security threats. Haslam’s 2019 budget includes $30 million to help pay for increasing security at schools.

ALLI GATO R S POTTE D Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) field agents shot and posted a video last week of a seven-foot alligator on the banks of the Wolf River in Fayette County.

Agents said it was the “latest sighting in one of several confirmed sightings of alligators in Southwest Tennessee.”

Alligators are expanding their range, TWRA said last week, and humans “must learn to coexist” with them.

S PO O F I N G S CAM M E R S The BBB of the Mid-South said Thursday it is getting reports of a new phone scam in which people are getting calls from their own phone numbers.

Called “neighbor spoofing,” scammers hide their real number in an attempt to get people to pick up their phones.

Then, the scammers try to solicit personal information.

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Gym brings rock climbing to the heart of Soulsville.

Memphis Rox Climbing + Community opened its doors earlier this month in the heart of Soulsville.

It’s the first of many projects planned for the area by Tom Shadyac, the Hollywood filmmaker with family and community ties to Memphis.

Shadyac, through his One Family Memphis nonprofit organization, built Memphis Rox, a 30,000-square-foot climbing gym with walls up to 45 feet high.

It’s the first phase of a One Family campus in the area. The next phase will include Mountaintop Media, a film studio and school.

Gym leaders Zack Rogers and Jon Hawk told us about climbing, the gym’s impact on the neighborhood, and what’s next for One Family.

— Toby Sells

April 5-11, 2018

Memphis Flyer: Why a climbing gym?

Zack Rogers: When Tom first entertained the idea of building a gym, he started by taking kids from the community on trips to Nashville and Colorado to climb so he could get feedback.

For the most part, rock climbing has been inaccessible to Memphians, but the response was really positive.

Rock climbing — at its core — is a sport that promotes cooperation and connectivity as opposed to competition.

It’s a lot like mentorship in that you’re able to learn from

your past experiences and failures and impart that knowledge onto others.

But in order to reach that ultimate goal of the summit, you must be completely in the present moment, only thinking about the next move you should take. Such is life.

MF: Is it a hard sport/activity to break into?

Jon Hawk: There are routes and wall angles available for all ages and abilities. What makes rock climbing special is that there’s not one age or build that is needed to be a proficient climber.

MF: What’s the end goal of the gym on a broader, community standpoint?

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Memphis Rox has 45-foot walls.

ZR: At Memphis Rox, there are no economic barriers. First and foremost, we’re a family institution that shows up as a climbing gym. No one is turned away, regardless of ability to pay.

Our suggested membership dues range from $55 a month to $10 to $12 for a day pass with annual options as well. But we’re reimagining currency on our campus.

It’s energy, it’s whatever you can provide. Five hours of community engagement over four weeks can be exchanged for a monthly membership.

Volunteer hours can be spent in Memphis Rox. It goes back to our mission — to build a family, connecting people to people, where we lift each other up.

MF: The gym is the first of many things you have planned. What’s next, and when is it coming?

ZR: Last year ushered in the first steps of phase two with Tom’s next film, Brian Banks.

A group of 30 students, 15 from LeMoyne-Owen and 15 from University of Memphis, shadowed industry professionals through the entire production.

Memphis Rox is our immediate meeting point, complete with a juice bar, workout and cardio equipment, and flex space for yoga and meditation.

Soon we’ll build a timeline for phase two, including a “pay-it-forward” restaurant, production studio, and art school.

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POLITICS By Jackson Baker

Works in Progress

APRIL 7-8 • 2018 A juried fined arts festival featuring artists from across America, live music and children’s art activities WEEKEND ALSO INCLUDES

Run Now Wine Later 5K + Santé South Wine Festival + OBO Tandem Cycling Rally R E N A I S S A N C E AT C O L O N Y PA R K

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R I D G E L A N D A RT S F E S T. C O M

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Love one another. It’s that simple.

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They wanted church to be relevant, not hip.

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In this week of worldwide remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., focused on his martyrdom here in Memphis, many eminent visitors will have come to celebrate his name and commemorate his mission. One of the first to speak on the subject was Eric Holder, the former U.S. Attorney General under President Obama.

Holder, introduced by the newly elected Democratic U.S. Senator from Alabama, Doug Jones, was keynote speaker at a Monday luncheon at the Peabody held in tandem with a twoday symposium co-sponsored by the University of Memphis Law School and the National Civil Rights Museum.

Holder reminded his listeners that, “Dr. King’s dream has not been fully realized,” further noting that there has been backsliding on voting rights, criminal justice reform, and the unexpected re-empowerment of white supremacists and white nationalists.

The struggle for social justice, Holder said, remains as difficult as it was during the time of King, who, he noted, was seen by many as a “threatening, polarizing, and disliked figure.”

“The age of bullies and bigots is not entirely behind us,” Holder continued.

“We have not yet reached the promised land.” He suggested that, as was the case with King, “it is necessary to be indignant and impatient so that it impels us to take action. … We cannot look back toward a past that was comforting to few. That is not how to make America great.”

Holder was complimentary toward Memphis. “I love this city, its energy, its sense of possibility, and its extraordinary progress,” he said, specifically paying tribute to the 901 Take ’Em Down movement for its successful agitation to remove symbols of Confederate domination from the Memphis landscape.

But he enumerated several problems still much in need of correcting, including continued economic inequality and systematic voter suppression and gerrymandering.

• The subject of voting rights was the subject of one of the most well-attended symposium panels conducted Monday, moderated by UM law professor Steve Mulroy. It was also one of the subjects on the mind of former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, now running as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate and one of the many political figures of note on hand for the MLK50 week of commemorations.

In an interview with the Flyer at the Peabody on Monday, Bredesen mentioned the existence of various “efforts to suppress African American voters [as] one of the things as senator I’d like to address.”

Bredesen said as the former state’s chief executive, he was able to solve vexing problems by governing from the middle, working with both parties, including those he called “economic Republicans.” If elected Senator, he said he would continue in that vein.

As a successful health-care executive before entering politics, Bredesen said he would address the issue of the nation’s medical insurance system, currently at risk because of uncertainty about the fate of the Affordable Care Act. “The act is still on the books,” he said, “and we’ve got to make it work.

As was the case Phil Bredesen with Medicare and at the Social Security,” he Peabody on added, “it requires Monday modifications.”

Bredesen sees his ability to compromise across the political aisle as an asset in his forthcoming Senate race against expected Republican foe, the ultra-conservative U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn, whom he currently leads in statewide polls.

• Meanwhile, retiring incumbent Republican Senator Bob Corker, the man whom Bredesen and Blackburn would replace, was also in town, addressing members of the Rotary club of Memphis on Tuesday and warning of a spendthrift Congress and the importance of the Iran nuclear pact. “The President should know: you can only tear up the agreement one time,” he said. (More at memphisflyer.com, Political Beat blog.)

JACKSON BAKER

Various political figures, here for MLK50, see further change as mandatory.

Jewish Buddhist Hindu Christian Islamic Memphian If we can sing along we can get along.

Join us for a free Interfaith musical celebration in Handy Park Pavilion on Beale Street.

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“He Has Left This Place” As the events and speeches and remembrances of this week have reminded us, it has been 50 years since the death of the great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He came to Memphis on a mission of social justice and

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redemption, on behalf of sanitation workers who were striking not just for better working conditions or on behalf of a union, but for simple human dignity and the right to say, in the famous words of signs carried en masse by the strikers and their supporters: I AM A MAN. Those 50 years ago, a young AfricanAmerican minister named Jesse Jackson was with King on his mission here, as he had intended to be on King’s forthcoming Poor People’s March in Washington, for which the sanitation strike had come to serve as something of a warmup. Jackson was with King also at the Lorraine Motel when he was struck down by an assassin’s bullet, to become a martyr to the various causes of compassion and Christian justice implicit in the mission of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

It was only appropriate that one of the first acts of commemoration in Memphis of King’s sacrifice should come on Easter Sunday, in a homily delivered by the Rev. Jackson, who in the intervening 50 years came to be a major avatar of social justice in his own right. And it was further appropriate that, bowed somewhat by advancing years and a newly diagnosed case of Pakinson’s disease, he should be delivering his message of remembrance and redemption to a predominantly white congregation at St. John’s Methodist church, symbolically bridging the racial gap that King had sought to eradicate and simultaneously expressing the sense of unity of blacks and whites and all human kinds that King thought

belonged to his last mission to eradicate the ultimate injustice of poverty.

At the conclusion of his homily, Jackson pointed out the resemblance of King’s fate in his last days to that of the Christ of the gospels. Memphis, he said, was where the great martyr found his Calvary. Foreseeing the crowds that were expected to be in attendance this week at commemorative ceremonies at the site of the Lorraine Motel, now the National Civil Rights Museum, Jackson said, “But he is not there. The stone has been rolled away.” The lies, animosities, jealousies, and attacks King endured in his life, not only from white racists but also from ambitious militants impatient with his nonviolent means, could no longer touch him in his resurrected state. “He has left this place.”

All of us, said Jackson, all who would dedicate themselves to justice, must go through a ritual crucifixion of sorts, followed by a triumphant resurrection of spirit. He led the congregation at St. John’s in a litany in which they repeated his words, which recapitulated a necessary cycle: “We must go through Friday to get to Sunday. We must go through suffering and doubt and fear and make tough choices. … In the tug of war for the soul of our nation, we must not go backward to hurt or hate. Thank Jesus. Long live Martin Luther King. God bless you!”

All things considered, and regardless of the various faiths of the attendees gathering here in Memphis, it was hard to imagine a more appropriate message to initiate this week of remembrance.

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VI EWPO I NT By Juan Williams

Swing Time Republicans face daunting prospects in the upcoming midterms.

Democrats will be marching out to punish Trump, but it is Congressional Republicans who will get trampled.

GOP losses in a special House race in Pennsylvania and the governor’s race in Virginia show support falling for GOP candidates among independent voters and suburban Republican women.

Republicans as well as Democrats see no end of talk about extramarital affairs, hush money, and the tightening noose of the Mueller probe.

It is no secret that top Republican lawyer Ted Olson and other experienced DC legal powerbrokers have declined requests to represent Trump. Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal pit bull lawyer, is radioactive over his role in the Stormy Daniels affair and may face legal exposure of his own.

Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in the closing stretch of the 2016 election campaign — money Daniels says was meant to keep her quiet about an affair with Trump. The Stormy Daniels lawsuit is a game-changer because Trump could be forced to give her lawyers a deposition about his sexual past — something that has the potential to set off more scandals.

The 2018 elections will be a referendum on Donald Trump. This is not about the Trump presidency but the man himself.

Without Hillary Clinton to demonize, Trump now faces one opponent he can’t beat: Himself.

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

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he was resigning just before The New York Times reported he discussed presidential pardons with lawyers for Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort — potentially proof of a conspiracy to obstruct justice. That led George Conway, another top Republican legal mind and the husband of Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, to tweet: “This is flabbergasting.”

Trump’s White House counsel Don McGahn has had to obtain his own high-priced D.C. lawyer to defend him in the Russia probe. This is the dark reality facing congressional Republicans with the midterms now seven months away.

The heart of their peril is fear of energized Democrats producing a big turnout. That fits with the big turnout for recent studentled marches for gun control.

The Democrats will be marching out to punish Trump, but it is Congressional Republicans who will get trampled. And what about swing voters?

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So far, 24 Republicans have announced their retirements from Congress this cycle. This number is the highest of any congressional cycle since 1973.

What was happening in 1973?

The Watergate scandal. It exposed the lies and cover-ups of Republican President Richard Nixon and forced his resignation.

In the 1974 midterm elections, 49 Democrats took House seats away from the Republicans, giving them more than a 2-1 majority in the lower chamber.

Democrats also gained four Senate seats, bringing them up to a total of 60 seats.

Democrats are praying for history to repeat itself with President Trump in the Nixon role.

Incredibly, Republicans seem to agree that 2018 will be a lot like 1974.

In addition to all the other retirements

by House Republicans, there is now talk of Speaker Paul Ryan possibly quitting, too. Ryan’s spokesman has denied he is considering resigning. But Nevada Congressman Mark Amodei, a very vulnerable Republican in the coming midterms, is on the record telling reporters that is what he is hearing from party colleagues.

Talk of Ryan’s departure is significant because lesser-known House Republicans have no reason to think they will survive if Ryan isn’t inclined to try to hold on.

Take a moderate Republican congressman like Pennsylvania’s Ryan Costello. He told MSNBC he is not running for reelection because Trump is making it impossible for House Republicans to do their jobs:“It’s very difficult for me to get [any] message out because we’re talking about Stormy Daniels or it was [fired FBI deputy director Andrew] McCabe.

Before that, it was [fired secretary of State] Rex Tillerson and where he heard the news that he was fired, and just one thing after another.”

Then there is Trump’s budget deal. It explodes the deficit he pledged to reduce.

Also, there is still no funding for any wall on the Mexican border. And don’t forget, Trump’s flip-flop on his promise to push for stronger background checks for gun purchases and to stop the sale of guns to people under 21.

Oh, and keep in mind that Trump’s approval ratings are historically low for a president who has only been in the White House a little more than a year.

Such bad numbers are usually reliable signs that the president’s party is in trouble in the midterms.

And who can ignore the resignation of Trump’s chief personal lawyer in the Russia probe, John Dowd? He announced

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Ernest Withers Redux

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on Logan was not feeling his best after a night listening to the blues on Beale Street. Needing a breath of fresh air, he laid down in the middle of the street. It was then, as he gazed from side to side, that he spotted a lit window featuring black-andwhite photographs.

“At that point I had a conversation with myself,” he says. “Am I here for the music?

Which I don’t get to see enough of. Or am I here for black-and-white photography, which is another love of mine. I wanted to go back to the clubs, but there was something that drew me to the front of the gallery. And as soon as I saw the photo of Dr. King, and then Tina Turner, and the Negro Leagues, I just had to go in. It happened to still be open. At 11 p.m., they were preparing for a party the next day.”

It would prove to be one example of the role serendipity has played in the preservation of famed photographer Ernest C. Withers’ legacy. For Logan was not just another tourist curled up on the pavement — he was the head of the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.

“I grew up in a family of collectors of black-and-white photography,” he says.

“So it’s in my blood.” As he discovered the breadth of Withers’ work that night, he began talking fervently with Rosalind “Roz” Withers, the photographer’s 12 daughter and the trustee of his estate. “I presented my credentials in photography

and art, and we started talking about the collection. And somewhere around midnight, she took me to see the archives.”

Stacks of boxes, containing Withers’ life work since the 1940s, were scattered in disarray. “It was at that point I realized, ‘Well, I have some expertise in this field.

And there’s many thousands of negatives and photographs that really need help.’ So that’s when I told Roz, maybe we should think about working together.”

The collaboration they imagined four years ago marked a turning point in the collection, helping to take the archive one step closer to becoming a world-class facility. With an estimated 1.8 million negatives and prints, it’s a daunting task, which the museum and archives, previously self-funded through sales of prints, was ill-equipped to tackle.

Once Logan’s foundation entered the picture, the archive could hire and train a staff. “My immediate concern was how they were stored and how to teach them a little bit more about conservation before we got into the archival side,” says Logan. “I really wanted to have pros come in to help.

And we happened to find this great group in Philly, the Conservation Center for Art and Historical Artifacts (CCAHA).”

After several visits from CCAHA, the staff was ready to manage the archives far more effectively. At last, Ernest Withers’

legacy was getting its due.

But what is that legacy, exactly? Though Withers produced many iconic images of civil rights leaders, musicians, and the Negro Baseball League, he did not receive recognition comparable to, say, Gordon Parks, until later in his life. Unlike Parks, he never worked in glamour photography, much less cinema. Indeed, it seems that making ends meet was always a struggle for Withers, possibly because his images circulated largely in the black press. For decades, his bread and butter came from his small Beale Street studio, photographing weddings, funerals, and other social functions. Deeply committed to his community, he never left behind the less glamorous work that his craft was rooted in, and he never really left Memphis.

Author Preston Lauterbach, whose forthcoming book, Bluff City, focuses in part on Withers’ place in Memphis history, notes that he grew up in a very communityminded family. “His family was really involved with stuff. His father ran a voting registration and polling place out of their home in North Memphis. And his father had a high-status, high-connection job.

And so he was definitely an operative of the African-American Republican machine, which also collaborated and participated with the Crump machine. So he was part of everything here.”

Rosalind Withers fills in some of the details: “My father grew up on Manassas.

And their home was torn down to make a parking lot for the church that he grew up in — the Gospel Temple Baptist Church.

It’s still there. His father was a postman, and he wanted his son to be a postman. His brother was an attorney; he had another brother that was a pharmacist, and they migrated to Washington, D.C. … But my dad was the picture-taker. So he wasn’t really considered to have the career that his brothers had.”

Nonetheless, Withers was enterprising.

His sister gave him a Brownie camera while he attended Manassas High School, and he made the most of it. “Marva Trotter-Louis, Joe Louis’s wife — she was a Halle Berry lookalike — came to the school. And my father was not on any yearbook committee or anything. But he got the courage, went up front, took pictures of her, and became the most popular guy in school, because everybody wanted a picture of her. So that

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The work of the famed civil rights photographer emerges from the darkroom — and into the light.

was the bite that got him.”

While stationed in the Pacific during World War II, Withers jumped at the chance to work in the photography lab.

“And when he learned how to develop in the army,” Rosalind recalls, “he would take pictures of the soldiers, develop them, and they would have pictures of themselves on this beautiful beach. He would get rolls of money, put it into the little canister that the film came in, and send it home to my mother. And she was getting these rolls and rolls. And see, that was the bite for her. So when he came back home, they thought, ‘How do we do that here?’ So, they started taking pictures at the Negro Baseball games. That’s when she began to help him.

Because she would dry them in the oven.”

From that point on, Withers was grounded in the local African-American scene. “He has 1.8 million images that we’re trying to digitize, archive, and identify,” says Rosalind. “And the largest body of work of that is the lifestyle material. … He was the community photographer. He covered social events. He covered civic events. And my father was always in churches. I mean we have the history of most of the churches in all of the communities.”

While the end result is a stunning social history of black Memphis, the photos haven’t bolstered his reputation as a fine art photographer. But with a new exhibit at Crosstown Arts, Rosalind hopes to change that.

While there are a few gripping images from the struggle for civil rights, most are of anonymous Memphians. “We don’t

really have captions because we want people to come tell us, ‘That’s my cousin. That’s my brother. That’s a relative.’ We want them to tell us who’s in these pictures. We also plan to travel with this exhibition.”

The support of the Logan Foundation is expected to lead to wider recognition of the sheer breadth of Withers’ work. “We want to continue to raise the awareness that this is a world-class collection,” says Logan, “and that it’s worthy of being in museums and private collections.”

Still, Withers’ most renowned works remain his civil rights photojournalism, which the Logan Foundation and the Withers Museum have prioritized. Thanks to the new funding and training, 12,000 previously unseen civil rights images have been archived and digitized, and will soon be available online in a searchable database.

Meanwhile, at the Brooks Museum of Art, some of Withers’ previously known works are being shown, using a handful of images curated in the late 1990s for a traveling exhibit and book, Pictures Tell the Story. This period marked the beginning of a greater appreciation of Withers’ work. The entire collection was ultimately purchased by the Brooks Museum. Yet the collection of newly digitized civil rights images dwarfs this earlier curation, expanding the sheer volume of his photojournalism a thousandfold.

What makes Withers’ civil rights work so compelling is its combination of intimacy and daring. His life of community involvement and activism was strictly regional, but it placed him in the heart of the national civil rights movement, enhanced by his personal connections and his work ethic.

As Lauterbach notes, “Withers was covering the Emmett Till trial, which is its

A reporter’s notebook, found in the Withers archives, details the beating of Morris Webb on March 28, 1968, alongside Withers’ image of Webb from that day. own incredible story; Withers was covering Montgomery, which is its own incredible story. Tent City, which was a major, important story that a lot of people don’t know about, Withers covered. And then of course he continued working throughout the Medgar Evers story. He went down to Philadelphia, he was in all of those hot spots. He was there, he was risking himself.

He was arrested in Memphis doing his job at a Walgreens sit-in in 1961; he was beaten and arrested in Jackson, doing his job as a photographer at Medgar Evers’ funeral in 1963; and he continued to put himself in risky situations.”

This is clear in one photo in the Brooks exhibit, “Policemen in Riot Gear, March 28, 1968.” A phalanx of officers runs along the

street, in riot helmets and gas masks, but one is closer to the camera than the rest, his glowering face and raised baton promising imminent danger to the photographer. As a portrait of unbridled hatred, it is without parallel. One shudders to imagine Withers’ resolve in holding his ground long enough to capture it.

The commitment apparent in Withers’ civil rights work made it all the more inflammatory when reporter Marc Perrusquia, working for The Commercial Appeal, published evidence in 2010 that Withers was a paid informant for the FBI during the 1960s. One historian called continued on page 15

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(left to right) MLK at Medgar Evers’ funeral; Operation Tent City, a major voting rights story from Fayette County that Withers covered for Ebony; Withers was also the official photographer for Stax Records’ Carla Thomas; Roz Withers, caretaker of the archives

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it “an amazing betrayal.” Interest was so great that Perrusquia ultimately published a book on the matter, A Spy in Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement, which was released last week. As a tale of investigative journalism, it is a powerful read: Gaining access to the FBI files on Withers required dogged persistence, and ultimately yielded hundreds of pages of documented meetings between Withers and local FBI agents.

But most of the people who worked with Withers at the time remain unfazed by the revelations. Reviewing the FBI dossier, it is difficult to ascertain any concrete harm that Withers did to civil rights organizations, such as the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), or local activists the Invaders, through his FBI reports. The New York Times quoted Andrew Young, who was a prominent member of the SCLC, as saying “It’s not surprising. We knew that everything we did was bugged, although we didn’t suspect Withers individually.” Indeed, Young has stressed that SCLC was transparent to a fault, feeling they’d be less endangered if the FBI was kept apprised of their activities.

Withers’ reports to the FBI, while giving some information on SCLC meetings, focused largely on the personal relations and foibles of local black activist group the Invaders (chronicled in a documentary film by Prichard Smith). Thinking that former Invaders, if anyone, would feel the greatest sense of betrayal at the hands of Withers, I spoke with onetime Invader John B. Smith, now residing in Atlanta.

“That son of a bitch!” Smith said of Perrusquia. “He’s making a living, trashing Mr. Withers. But Mr. Withers deserved admiration. Most people don’t recognize that he put his life on the line getting a lot of those shots. Traveling by himself to places where things happened that white people in the South did not want reported.

So it wasn’t like he was a paparazzi or some bullshit like that. This man was a very serious scholar, and he worked to bring truth in the face of a horrible history. I think he deserves a statue somewhere.”

If Perrusquia’s book stirred up resentment by seemingly redefining the life’s work of a heroic figure, it also left many wondering what motivated Withers’ involvement with the FBI. Given the paltry fees he received for his photojournalism, it’s no small matter that the feds paid him well.

We also have Withers’ own admission of his involvement, when his work first began to get wider recognition in 2000. “I always had FBI agents looking over my shoulder and wanting to question me. I never tried to learn any high-powered secrets. It would have just been trouble. I was solicited to assist the FBI by Bill Lawrence who was the FBI agent here. He was a nice guy but what he was doing was pampering me to catch whatever leaks I dropped, so I stayed out of meetings where real decisions were being made.”

Lauterbach also believes we have to consider the possibility that Withers saw the federal agency as a protection of sorts against local police. “There was this outcry: Where was the federal involvement in the Emmett Till case? People were pissed off about it, and called Hoover to task. Then you jump to Little Rock, where the federal support really did arrive. Well, Withers was in both of those places, so he understood the contrast, and a potential for federal help that was new. And by the time you get to Tent City in 1958-60, you have black journalists, among them Withers, who published photos from Fayette County in Ebony magazine, and Memphis office FBI investigators blowing the lid off a

voting rights discrimination case.” Indeed, Withers subsequently reported the police brutality he suffered in Jackson, Mississippi, to the FBI in 1963.

In any case, the revelations about FBI involvement, while casting a new light on FBI operations in Memphis at the time, seem destined to be a footnote to the undeniable power of Withers’ work. As Lauterbach notes, “I think his level of risk and sacrifice for taking photographs for publication of those stories is a fair balance to whatever people might suspect his FBI involvement means.” The risk — and the commitment — is palpable in the images.

Soon, in addition to the revamped archives and plans for traveling exhibits,

the Withers legacy will receive another bump of recognition with two films now being developed. Phil Bertelsen, whose film Chisolm ’72 won a Peabody Award, has been shooting in and around Memphis for a documentary on Withers’ life.

And, as Rosalind explains, a feature film, 68: I Am a Man. The Sanitation Workers’ Story, is also being developed, “along the same lines as Selma.” And this week, the film’s producers will gather people from all over the world to stage a recreation of Withers’ famous “I Am A Man” image, now expressing an international diversity.

Once that photograph is snapped, it will be further proof that Ernest Withers’ Memphis legacy has gone global.

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This year’s manifestation of the Midtown Opera Fest — The Opera 901 Showcase — finds a quintet of short Memphisspecific new works warming the crowd for a production of Alessandro Scarlatti’s irreverent 18th-Century sex comedy, “The Triumph of Honor.”

The preceding 901 Showcase is about as Memphis as you can get without somebody grilling ribs on stage. The lineup of short works include “Formidable,” which tells the story of a woman scattering her father’s ashes in the Mississippi and hiphop artist Marco Pave’s dystopian “Grc Lnd,” about a future outbreak of Yellow Fever and a rising tide of activism. “A Pretty Little Room” is technically set in Bolivar at the Western State Hospital for the Insane, while “Going Up” — originally created

by Opera Memphis as part of its Ghosts of Crosstown project — tells the story of an elevator operator working for Sears.

“Kayfabe” is subtitled “A Wrasslin’ Opera,” and unites libberetist Jerre Dye with composer, arranger, and old-school rocker Sam Shoup to tell the story of a pretty boy grappler called Face coming to grips with his personal demons and the big bad heel.

“This isn’t about an actual Memphis wrestler. It’s not about Jackie Fargo or Jimmy Hart,” says Shoup, a veteran of MTV’s weird video vanguard band the Dog Police and staff arranger for the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, New York Pops, and Memphis Symphony Orchestra. “But it is set in the Mid-South Coliseum in the 1970s. And let me tell you, it ain’t Mozart.

“I played in a lot of ’70s rock bands,” Shoup says, describing the opera’s attitude and sonic texture. “This show is 15-minutes of pure fun.”

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THURSDAY April 5

FRIDAY April 6

A Unique Designer Showcase Pipkin Building, 6:30 p.m.

A VIP dinner tonight by Acre kicks off this four-day event with a focus on interior design. Tickets for the showcase, Friday through Sunday, are $20.

A Concert for the Next 50 Years Clayborn Temple, 7-10 p.m., $19.68-$50 A concert by PRIZM celebrating the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. Dweezil Zappa New Daisy, 7 p.m.

Son of Frank brings his “Choice Cuts” tour to Memphis.

Eating You Alive Paradiso, 7 p.m.

Film about how what you eat can lead to poor health. Featuring Samuel L. Jackson!

Chinese Connection Dub Embassy Laurelwood Courtyard, 6-8 p.m.

The Laurelwood Unplugged in the Courtyard series returns.

Memphis Manifest Crosstown Arts (430 N. Cleveland), 6 p.m.

A look at freight culture and the graffiti world using model trains as a canvas.

An Act of God Theatre Memphis, 7:30 p.m., $25 God rewrites the Ten Commandments.

Harold Mabern McNeill Concert Hall (613 University), 7 p.m., $15 A concert by legendary jazz pianist.

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A Chevy-centric weekend with drag races, a swap meet, and marketplace.

Stories of the past help shape the future in Union.

Union!

By Chris Davis

Memphis sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker were crushed to death by a malfunctioning garbage truck on February 1, 1968. Less than two weeks later, 1,300 African-American men went on strike for fair wages, safe working conditions, and the simple recognition of their basic humanity. Few relics from the crossroads of labor and civil rights define the American condition as starkly as the printed signs reading, “I am a man.”

To commemorate the strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis for the last time, the historically significant Clayborn Temple is staging three preview performances of Union, a new piece of musical theater currently being developed with a national tour in mind.

Anasa Troutman says Clayborn Temple has been on a two-year journey. Troutman’s the CEO of Eloveate, a company working at the crossroads of art and community. She’s shared the journey, working with a creative team to tell the story of the sanitation workers and other activists who gathered at Clayborn. “Now we’re workshopping this musical in the space where it all began and inviting the community behind the scenes,” she says. “And we want the community to get involved.”

Union’s closing night has been imagined as an interactive event involving training before the show and a talk back with cast members and Black Lives Matter activists. “We’re not just telling a story of the past,” Troutman says. “We want to show how this story has shaped the future we’re building now in Memphis and beyond.”

Of course, it’s also a story of Memphis’ past and Troutman thinks the show has benefitted from deep connections to the source material.

“Two of our cast members are grandchildren of sanitation workers,” she says. “One’s grandmother still has an original ‘I am a man’ sign hanging in her garage.”

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Commemoration St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 11 a.m.

An interfaith event noting the faith leaders who supported the striking sanitation workers. Includes a block party, service, and march.

Dave Matthews Tribute Lafayette’s Music Room, 10 p.m.

Led by Aaron Tessis.

Shelby County Star Trek Day Fox & Hound (5101 Sanderlin), 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

A day with trivia contests, merchandise, Trekkie food, a town hall meeting, and more during this event devoted to Star Trek.

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2018 Annual Gala Celebrating Culinary Arts Germantown Performing Arts Center, 6:30 p.m., $250 A one-of-a-kind culinary celebration headed by Jose Gutierrez. Includes cocktails, big band music, and a live auction.

Art in the Park Memphis College of Art, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Crafts and artwork on display, along with food and live demos.

51st Annual Kite Day Church at the River, noon-2 p.m.

Fly your kites along the Mississippi River. Kites will be sold, and brown bag lunches will be available for purchase.

Grease Paradiso, 2 p.m.

The 40th-anniversary screening of this film.

“Green Lights and Life Lines” WKNO Gallery Ten Ninety-One, 2-4 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibition of mosaics, pottery, and paintings by Kristi Duckworth and terrariums by Nancy Morrow.

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the maverick stylist who earned his own measure of fame using fire instead of scissors to cut hair. Together, they launched a neighborhood food bank, but the Hayes/Warren alliance also existed to organize the black community against grievances that sound overly familiar in 2018: police brutality, workplace discrimination, and unfair housing.

“Whites did nothing for blacks till a few brave blacks used molotov cocktails and broke a few windows,” Hayes was quoted as saying.

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n September 1968, five months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and exactly one year before Hot Buttered Soul arrived in record stores, Isaac Hayes, the session player, songwriter, and emerging Stax solo artist addressed a meeting of Memphis’ Black United Front at Clayborn Temple.

Speaking on behalf of the Black Knights, he “cursed” a white power structure keeping “blacks in slavery.”

Hayes co-chaired the Black Knights with North Memphis barber Warren Lewis,

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BLACK MOSES on Hot Buttered Soul, an epically smooth trip from the steady boom-boomchick of the drums at the top of Hayes’ 12-minute acid-friendly run through Burt Bacharach’s “Walk on By,” to the gorgeous organ swell concluding his 19-minute adventure through the Jimmy Webb/Glen Campbell hit, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”? Rattling machine gun snares and unhinged keyboard freakouts add spice to the mature psychedelic cocktail and blend right in.

Hayes instinctively knew how to separate pop tropes from commercial standards.

That’s his revolution in the studio, along with a throwback sensibility prioritizing musicianship and arrangement (“headwise” or otherwise) over lyrics.

A month after “Theme From Shaft” was released in September 1971, and a month before it hit the top of the charts and Black Moses dropped, Memphis police beat a black kid named Elton Hayes to death. Unrest followed and Mayor Henry Loeb responded to a tense situation by enacting a 5 p.m.-7 a.m. curfew. The Black Knights, as documented in Rob Bowman’s book Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records, pushed back and Hayes personally took to the streets hoping to quell any potential violence.

Shaft earned Hayes an historic Oscar, and placed him at the edge of an emerging tradition that blossomed with soundtracks by Curtis Mayfield (Super Fly), Marvin Gaye (Trouble Man) and Bobby Womack (Across 110th Street). But the revolutionary Shaft sound was instantly absorbed into pop culture and two years later the wah-wah guitars sounded more kitschy than revolutionary when underscoring James Bond’s sexploits in Diamonds Are Forever or punching up the laughs on TV game shows like Match Game.

“The R&B feeling is still there,” Hayes told Rolling Stone in 1972, defending against critics calling him an acid casualty or describing him as the “black [Rod] McKuen.” “I’m not trying to purposely be different,” he said, sharing stories from the Memphis streets and confessing a lifelong affinity for hillbilly music, hit parade, bebop, jazz, and classical. “These are things I heard all my life,” he said.

Black Moses is four sides of Hayes’ signature raps folded into a collection of cover songs made famous by artists like the Carpenters, Curtis Mayfield, and Texas

crooner Ray Price. Hayes has described it as one of his most personal records and the packaging — some of the best ever assembled — is as revealing as the music.

Two discs are wrapped in a jacket that unfolds into an enormous cross-shaped poster with Hayes on both sides. On the front he’s robed and hooded like a prophet with his arms outstretched. He’s shirtless on the other side, wearing a collar, belt, and bracelets of heavy gold chain. Neither side looks quite “militant.” Both are radical as hell — just like these three reissues, back on vinyl and sounding great.

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“They [the police] were trying to provoke blacks into doing something so they could shoot them like dogs,” he was quoted as saying.

Shaft: Music from the Soundtrack has a reputation for urgency and grit — a tonal shift more related to the music’s narrative than Hayes’ personal activism. Skip Pitts’ famous crybaby wah-wah guitar line was built to highlight the relentless chasing that goes hand-in-hand with being a private dick who “won’t cop out when there’s danger all about.”

“Everybody thought I was being hip, but I was just following the action of the character,” Hayes once told an interviewer.

But he could have been writing his own soundtrack. “Shaft’s Cab Ride” shares sounds with hits from Stax’s early catalogue, and by the time listeners get to “Cafe Regio’s” on side two, Hayes is already back at the lounge, working a groove in the vein of Getz/Gilberto. “Soulsville” is the gem of side three, a lyric-driven number about a place where the rent’s always “two months past due in a building that’s falling apart.”

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Skip Pitts’ famous crybaby wah-wah guitar line was built to highlight the chasing that goes hand-in-hand with being a private dick who “won’t cop out when there’s danger all about.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule April 5 - 11 Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

Sean “Bad” Apple Thursdays, Sundays, 5 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 4 p.m.; Live Music Thursdays-Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; The Blues Players Club Thursday, April 5, 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 8, 8 p.m.; A.M. Whiskey Friday, April 6, 7 p.m.; DJ Ron Fridays, 11 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

B.B. King’s Blues Club

Itta Bena

143 BEALE 524-KING

145 BEALE 578-3031

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

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

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

168 BEALE 576-2220

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Friday, April 6, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Myra Hall Band Saturday, April 7, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

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

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

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

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Sensation Band Tuesdays, Fridays,

Big K.R.I.T. Wednesday, April 4; Dweezil Zappa Thursday, April 5, 7 p.m.; Gunna with Yung Mal & Lil Quill Friday, April 6, 7 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sensation Band Friday, April 6, 8 p.m.midnight and Saturday, April 7, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eric Hughes Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Gracie Curran Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. and Sundays, 3-7 p.m.; Little Boy Blues Saturday, April 7, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.midnight; Sensation Band

Monday, April 9, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and Friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Earnestine & Hazel’s

Silky O’Sullivan’s

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

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

183 BEALE 522-9596

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.

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

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

Belle Tavern

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

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

Brass Door Irish Pub

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. 774-6380

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

152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays; Carma Karaoke with Carla Worth Saturdays, 9-11 p.m.

Center for Southern Folklore Hall 119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

Delta Cats, Billy Gibson & Linear Smith First Friday of every month, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Clayborn Temple 294 HERNANDO

A Concert for the Next 50 Years: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Thursday, April 5, 7-10 p.m.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Nancy Apple Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Reba Russell Trio Friday, April 6, 9 p.m.; Jack Rowell and Triplethret Saturday, April 7, 9

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Sasha Aaron, Shannon LaBrie, Natalie Mae, Alex Bosworth, The Truehearts Friday, April 6; Memphis Songwriters Association Songwriter Challenge Showcase Saturday, April 7, 7 p.m.

Metal Museum Whet Thursday: Soulsville Spotlight feat. The MD’s Thursday, April 5, 5-8 p.m.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

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

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

Shannon LaBrie Friday, April 6, 8:30 p.m.

The Blues Club 1405 AIRWAYS

The Blues Spot TV Show Thursday, April 5, 8-11 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

Karaoke Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.; Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

Club Memphis 2790 PARK AVE 9016266763

Jungle Boogie Saturday, April 7, 11 p.m.

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

7-11 p.m.; Fuzzy and the Kings of Memphis Saturdays, 711 p.m.; Chic Jones and the Blues Express Sundays, 711 p.m.; North and South Band Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

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Growlers

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; St. John, Euphonic, and Bigger Fish Saturday, April 7; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

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

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Collierville

Laurelwood Shopping Center

Huey’s Collierville

422 S. GROVE PARK 682-8436

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

Memphis LIVE MondaysSundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Dantones Band Saturday, April 7, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Chinese Connection Dub Embassy Thursday, April 5, 6-8 p.m.

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Poplar/I-240

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland/Lakeland

East Tapas and Drinks

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

6069 PARK 767-6002

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

6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

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

Glass Mansions, On and Ohn Thursday, April 5, 9 p.m.; Jelly Roll, Struggle Jennings, MyNameKushy, Three G Thursday, April 5, 9 p.m.; Froggy Fresh, China Gate, Dave Bao Bao Friday, April 6, 7 p.m.; Those Damn Eyes, Audio Fox Sunday, April 8, 8 p.m.; Service Industry Appreciation Night with Dead Soldiers Sunday, April 8, 8 p.m.; Logan Magness Monday, April 9, 8 p.m.; Michigan Rattlers Tuesday, April 10, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Tab Benoit Thursday, April 5, 8 p.m.; Memphis Funk-NSoul Friday, April 6, 6:30 p.m.; Aquanet Friday, April 6, 10 p.m.; The Cold Stares Saturday, April 7, 6:30 p.m.; Aaron Tessis performing a tribute to Dave Matthews Saturday, April 7, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, April 8, 11 a.m.; Memphis Ukulele Band Sunday, April 8, 4 p.m.; Bonfire Orchestra Sunday, April 8, 8 p.m.; Memphis Knights Big Band Monday, April 9, 6 p.m.; Cody Joe Hodges Trio Tuesday, April 10, 5:30 p.m.; Elizabeth Wise Tuesday, April 10, 8 p.m.; 3RD Man Wednesday, April 11, 5:30 p.m.; The Memphis All Stars Wednesday, April 11, 8 p.m.

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Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

Railgarten

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

Rustenhaven Thursday, April 5, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Memphis Funk-N-Horns Saturday, April 7, 8 p.m.; Benefit for James Lott Sunday, April 8, 2-11 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

66 S. COOPER 726-4656

2160 CENTRAL

Paul Thorn Friday, April 6, 8 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke with Public Record Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill

Rhodes College West Campus

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

613 UNIVERSITY 843-3775

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

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Martin Sexton Thursday, April 5, 7 p.m.; Lil Skies Thursday, April

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Frayser/Millington

Harold Mabern Quartet Friday, April 6, 7 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony Chapman, Charles Cason, and Miss Joyce Henderson Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

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

Howard Vance Guitar Academy 978 REDDOCH 767-6940

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

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Amy LaVere Band Sunday, April 8, 8-11:30 p.m.

Amber McCain Trio Sunday, April 8, 6-9 p.m.

Toni Green’s Palace 4212 HWY 51 N

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

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

Roots of Gypsy Jazz Tuesday, April 10, 7 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Jamie Baker and the VIPS Sunday, April 8, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

St. George’s Episcopal Church 2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN 754-7282

Organ Concert by Alessandro Bianchi Sunday, April 8, 3-5 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Hollywood Casino 1150 CASINO STRIP RESORT, TUNICA, MS 662-357-7700

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

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

Terry and the Wallbangers Sunday, April 8, 8 p.m.-midnight.

East Memphis

Playhouse on the Square

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412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

2119 MADISON 207-5097

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

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Huey’s Millington

Reverend Horton Heat with Unknown Hinson & Igor & the Red Elvises Thursday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.; Short in the Sleeve with Dan Montgomery & Bailey Bigger Saturday, April 7, 8-11 p.m.; Chase Huglin Monday, April 9, 8 p.m.; Red Mouth Tuesday, April 10, 9 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Triathalon with Paul Cherry Wednesday, April 11, 9 p.m.

Buggaloo Sunday, April 8, 4-7 p.m.; Scott Thompson’s Dog Horse Rescue Unit Sunday, April 8, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

John Paul Keith Trio Sunday, April 8, 8-11:30 p.m.

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Summer/Berclair Cheffie’s Cafe 483 HIGH POINT TERRACE 202-4157

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

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Bartlett

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center 3663 APPLING 385-6440

Tayla Lynn Friday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.; Bartlett Community Concert Band Saturday, April 7, 7 p.m.

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Brian Johnson Band Friday, April 6, 9 p.m.; The Backstreet Crawlers Saturday, April 7, 9 p.m.; Jen Houston All Star Jam Sunday, April 8, 5:30 p.m.; Furious George Wednesday, April 11, 8 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2465 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR

Travis Tritt Saturday, April 7, 7:30 p.m.

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Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, April 5, 8 p.m.; Big Barton Thursday, April 5, 9 p.m.; The Skitch Friday, April 6, 9 p.m.; David Collins & Frog Squad Sunday, April 8, 6-9 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesday, April 10, 5:30 p.m.; Ben MindenBirkenmaier Wednesday, April 11, 6-8 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

5, 8 p.m.; The Sword, King Buffalo Tuesday, April 10, 7 p.m.

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Circuit Playhouse

James and the Giant Peach, when James is sent by his conniving aunts to chop down their old fruit tree, he discovers a magic potion that results in a tremendous peach, which launches him on a journey of enormous proportions. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $25$40. Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs.-Sat., 7 p.m. Through April 8.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

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Memphis Center for Reproductive Health

1726 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38104 901.274.3550 MemphisChoices.org

Clayborn Temple

Union: A New Musical, on April 4th, 2018, the eyes of the world will turn to Memphis as thousands gather to remember, embrace, and advance the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his assassination. (614-4294), www. claybornreborn.org. $20-$50. Fri., April 6, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

294 HERNANDO.

The Evergreen Theatre

Dragnificent 2018: Dragnificent Doo-wop, music from the ’50s and ’60s, the show includes original skits, production numbers, and group performances benefiting Alzheimer’s & Dementia Services of Memphis, Inc. www.theatreworksmemphis.org. $25. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through April 15.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

901-278-8965

TUT-UNCOMMON ANTIQUES 421 N. Watkins St Memphis, TN 38104

Germantown Community Theatre

First Date: A New Musical, www. gctcomeplay.org. Through April 8.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).

The Orpheum

Peter Pan, www.balletmemphis.org. $10-$75. Sat., April 7, 2 & 7:30 p.m., and Sun., April 8, 2 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Theatre Memphis

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An Act of God, it turns out that God is sinfully funny as he introduces a radical rewrite of the Ten Commandments. Sometimes using strong language and acerbic humor, he answers existential questions. www.theatrememphis. org. $25. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through April 22.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

BCTC Remembers …, performance about MLK’s impact in Memphis.

(946-6140), bluffcitytriarttheatre. zohosites.com. $15. Fri., April 6, 7:30-9:45 p.m., Sat., April 7, 7:30-9:45 p.m., and Sun., April 8, 3-5 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

A R TI ST R E C E PT I O N S

Art Body Soul Studio

Opening reception of Friday Nights at the Gallery, exhibition of local artist’s work. April features acrylic abstract paintings by Madeleine Newkirk. www.artbodysoulstudio.com. Fri., April 6, 6-8 p.m.

1024 YATES ( 901-336-7573).

“Under a Midnight Rainbow” by Chuck Johnson and Niles Wallace at L Ross Gallery, Friday, April 6th Bar DKDC

“Sweet Spot,” new work by Stacy Kiehl, Sunday, April 8, 6-9 p.m.

964 COOPER.

Crosstown Concourse

Artist reception for FocalPoint, exhibition of work by local artists and discover the new Roger Bacon Eyewear. RSVP by email, akerr@ focalpointcrosstown.com www. focalpointcrosstown.com/events.

Thurs., April 5, 5-7 p.m.

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Casting Demonstration

Art by Design

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

Featuring special presentations and activities including a talk by nationally acclaimed interior designer and author Marshall Watson, $20-$35. Fri., April 6, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat., April 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sun., April 8, 12-5 p.m.

N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

PIPKIN BUILDING, MID-SOUTH FAIRGROUNDS (578-2787), WWW.ARTSMEMPHIS.ORG.

L Ross Gallery

Art in the Loop

Artist reception for “Under a Midnight Rainbow,” exhibition of paintings by Chuck Johnson and ceramics and sculpture by Niles Wallace. www.lrossgallery.com.

Fri., April 6, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Marshall Arts Gallery

Artist reception for 2018 MCA MAT Thesis Graduate, exhibition celebration that honors all of the teachers that influence our hometown creative community, and includes community artists as well as graduate students. www.mca. edu. Fri., April 6, 6-8 p.m.

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery Opening reception for “Collaborations,” exhibition of work by 16 pairs of Midsouth artists. www. tennesseecraftsouthwest.com.

Sun., April 8, 1-3 p.m.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

WKNO Studio

Opening reception for Green Lights and Lifelines, exhibition of mosaics, pottery, and paintings by Kristi Duckworth and terrariums

by Nancy Morrow. www.wkno.org.

Sun., April 8, 2-4 p.m.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Featuring work in metal, glass, wood, clay, and fiber, jewelry, paintings, photography, and more including food trucks, swing performances, and classical music by area youth ensembles. Fri., April 6, 12-7 p.m., Sat., April 7, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sun., April 8, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

RIDGEWAY LOOP, EAST MEMPHIS, WWW.ARTWORKS.FOUNDATION.

Artist Playdate: “Barrier Free Art”

Interactive art and makeup event.

Makeup artists create art inspired makeup looks. Theme and inspiration will revolve around the gallery’s residence artist’s exhibit, “Barrier Free.” Sun., April 8, 3-6 p.m.

ORANGE MOUND GALLERY, 2232 LAMAR, WWW.ZARIELLE.COM.

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

Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.

Cooper-Young Art Tours

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

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

Latino Memphis Design Competition

Students in grades 9-12 are invited to showcase artistic skills of youth who can relate or are directly affected by the current immigration climate. For more information, visit website. Through April 5.

WWW.LATINOMEMPHIS.ORG.

Memphis Fashion Week

See both local and national designers on the runway. For more information and schedule of events, visit website. $60-$800.

Wed.-Sat., April 11-14.

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.MEMPHISFASHIONWEEK.ORG.

Memphis Fashion Week: Designer Talk

Join Ituen Bassey as she discusses her designs as they pertain to current exhibition. Free. Wed., April 11, 6 p.m.

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

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

Ongoing.

Memphis Manifest

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

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

Exhibition of HO scale graffiti, freight photography, track displays, and graffiti photography by multiple artists. Fri.-Sat., Apr. 6-7, 6 p.m.

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Galleries and gardens will be open late. Free with admission. Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m.

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

Talk: Emily Ballew Neff on the Future of the Brooks Museum Join the Brooks Museum League membership as they hear from Executive Director Emily Ballew Neff about the future of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Free. Fri., April 6, 10:30 a.m.

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

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Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“Monster Marks,” exhibition of work from Memphis collections that make us think about how we define monsters. www. memphis.edu/amum. Through July 28.

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

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“Rooted & Grounded,” exhibition of photos by GIRL 24. Documents teen girls and business women nominated and selected to share past and present stories told through hair and identity. MLK50 event. www.artsmemphis.org.

Through April 12.

575 MENDENHALL (521-0782).

ANF Architects

“Gentle Gestures,” exhibition of new works by Don DuMont. www.anfa.com.

Through April 5.

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“Modern Take on a Fresco and marciART,” exhibition of paintings by Lou Ann Dattilo and jewelry by Marci Margolin Hirsch. www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through April 16.

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

40th Anniversary presentation of Grease at Malco Paradiso, Sunday, April 8th at 2 p.m.

The Cotton Museum

“Went Out for Cigarettes,” exhibition of images and titles that explore and rediscover the American South with contradictions and hidden meanings by Ryan Steed.

Through May 31.

65 UNION (531-7826).

Crosstown Concourse

“Goodnight My Love,” exhibition of photographs from the Ernest Withers collection, including works from Withers’ archive of more than one million negatives that have never been seen by the public. www.crosstownarts. org. Through May 13.

N. CLEVELAND AT N. PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

Rob Matthews | Libby Johnson, www.davidluskgallery. com. Through April 14.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

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

Through April 8.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Spirit Animal,” exhibition series of wildlife portraits and silhouettes captured by acrylic paint on canvas by Karen Mulford. www.eclecticeye.com. Through April 11.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

“I Am Here,” exhibition of work

by Najee Strickland, Immon Johnson, Rahn Marion, and Naima Peace. www.mbaafirehouse.org. Through April 30.

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

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

“Flesh Out: Spring 2018 MFA Thesis,” exhibition of thesis work by Kelly Cook, Ellen Dempsey, Bienvenido Howard, Jennalyn Krulish, and Lacy Mitcham. www.memphis.edu. Through April 6.

3715 CENTRAL.

Jay Etkin Gallery

Jane Keltner, exhibition of paintings. www.jayetkingallery.com. Through April 14.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

“Under a Midnight Rainbow,” exhibition of paintings by Chuck Johnson and ceramics and sculpture by Niles Wallace. www.lrossgallery.com.

Through April 28.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

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

Through Aug. 19.

“African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style,” dynamic traditions of African dress featuring colorful, boldly patterned printed cloth highlighting the interplay between regional preferences and cosmopolitanism. Through Aug. 12.

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

Through June 3.

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

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

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FINAL NOTICE AND PUBLIC EXPLANATION OF A PROPOSED ACTIVITY IN A WETLAND AND FLOODPLAIN WITHIN THE WOLF RIVER BASIN IN SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE To: All interested Federal, State and Local Agencies and Groups or Individuals This is to give notice that Shelby County Government under Part 58 has conducted an evaluation as required

by Executive Order 11988, to determine the potential affect that its activity in wetlands and the floodplain will have on the human environment for the Wolf River Wetland Restoration and Greenway project under the HUD National Disaster Resiliency Grant, Contract Number B-13-US-470002.

Shelby County Government is proposing a series of open space and infrastructure project elements

that will help make the greater Memphis area more resilient in future disaster and flooding events. The Wolf River Wetland Restoration and Greenway activity encompasses improvements at three distinct locations – Rodney Baber Park, John F. Kennedy Park, and Orchi Road between Highland Street and Jackson Avenue.

For this notice, all three project activities are located within the Wolf River Floodplain. Additionally, there will be minor impacts on isolated wetlands. The Rodney Baber Park improvements will affect approximately 58.2 acres of floodplain and 0.79 acres of wetlands. The John F. Kennedy Park improvements will affect approximately 32.2 acres of floodplain and 0 (zero) acres of wetlands.

The Orchi Road improvements will affect approximately 2.5 acres of floodplain and 0.20 acres of wetlands. The following describes the project locations and their proposed improvements: The natural and beneficial functions of the floodplain and the wetlands will be marginally impacted by the proposed construction in the parks and along Orchi Road. In the parks, new wetlands and ponds will be created and the recreational features (sports fields, pavilions, etc.) designed to elevate them above the floodplain while preserving or replacing the existing adjacent floodplain area.

RODNEY BABER PARK Rodney Baber Park is located directly south of James Road, half a mile west of Hollywood and is bounded by McLean on the West and Interstate 40 on the South. The proposed concept plan for Rodney Baber Park will consist of up to four (4) soccer fields, one (1) baseball diamond, one (1) fishing lake, a large farmer’s market/festival pavilion and festival grounds, multi-use trails, one (1) proposed wetland with boardwalk, preservation of existing wetlands, a playground and shade structure, and the associated parking for the aforementioned facilities. It is anticipated that this activity will be completed over two phases of construction. The site will be terraced and tie into the existing grades along the identified T.V.A. easement. Approximately 19 acres will be raised above the floodplain and approximately 275,000 cubic yards of net fill will be required. Site grading up to the 100-year flood elevation will be balanced. The site will be graded down to match the existing elevation at the 250-foot wide T.V.A. easement along the southern portion of the property. Due to the increased elevations at Rodney Baber Park, a 1:1 stormwater mitigation will be required to compensate for the additional fill on-site in the existing floodplain.

The majority of the fill material required to meet the mitigation requirements will be taken from the proposed wetland and fishing lake in Rodney Baber Park and also from John F. Kennedy Park which will compensate for the 1:1 mitigation requirement.

JOHN F. KENNEDY PARK John F. Kennedy Park (Kennedy Park) is located south of Raleigh-Lagrange Road and northeast of Interstate 40 on a parcel owned by the City of Memphis. The property is roughly 260 acres, but the activity site will only disturb approximately 32.2 acres. The concept for Kennedy Park includes replacing five existing baseball/softball diamonds with approximately four soccer fields, a paved trail, which incorporates approximately 54,000 square feet of the proposed bicycle/pedestrian trails throughout the park connecting to the Wolf River Greenway, linking the park to the Midsouth Greenprint in two places. Some of the soccer fields will be re-graded to serve as detention during intense storm events. The site grading will result in a net excavation of approximately 155,000 cubic yards from the floodplain. The excavated material will be transported and used as fill in Rodney Baber Park. Two (2) new wetlands will be created south of the proposed soccer fields. The proposed improvements to Kennedy Park are anticipated to be completed in two phases of construction.

There are three primary purposes for this notice. First, people who may be affected by activities in wetlands and floodplains and those who have an interest in the protection of the natural environment should be given an opportunity to express their concerns and provide information about these areas. Second, an adequate public notice program can be an important public educational tool. The dissemination of information about wetlands and floodplains can facilitate and enhance Federal efforts to reduce the risks associated with the occupancy and modification of these special areas. Third, as a matter of fairness, when the Federal government determines it will participate in actions taking place in wetlands and floodplains, it must inform those who may be put at greater or continued risk.

Additional information on the proposal may be obtained by contacting Drake Danley at (901) 374-9109.

Comments may also be submitted via email at: Drake.Danley@kimley-horn.com

Written comments must be received by Shelby County at the following address on or before April 26, 2018:

Date: April 5, 2018

Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. Attention: Drake Danley 6750 Poplar Avenue, Suite 600 Memphis, TN 38138 during the hours of 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Attest: Mark H. Luttrell, Jr. Mayor Shelby County, Tennessee

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The construction documents for the Wolf River Wetland Restoration and Greenway project will be reviewed and coordinated with the City of Memphis, the Local Floodplain Administrator, to certify that these Phases will have no have no significant net effect on the designated wetland and floodplain.

Shelby County Government has reevaluated the alternatives to building in the wetland and floodplain and has determined that it has no practicable alternative. Environmental files that document compliance with steps 3 through 6 of Executive Order 11988, are available for public inspection, review and copying upon request at the times and location delineated in the last paragraph of this notice for receipt of comments. This activity will have no significant impact on the environment for the following reasons: 1. Earthwork operations in Rodney Baber Park are balanced up to the 100-year flood elevation (for every cubic yard of fill material added, there is a separate cubic yard of excavation elsewhere on the site.) The public-use site features at the park are being further raised above the floodplain, resulting in a net fill for the site.

2. Earthwork operations in Kennedy Park will result in a net excavation from the floodplain, providing additional storage on the site.

3. A detail wetland and waters delineation survey and report has been completed by Brophy-Heineke and Associates, Inc. to identify existing wetlands and water courses that would be impacted and affected by these improvements. The proposed site grading and location of features were altered to avoid impacts to existing wetlands and to minimize the impact to significant trees.

4. An Endangered Bat Habitat Survey is underway and will identify any potential tree snag habitat within the project sites. The site grading and site features will be adjusted to avoid removal of tree snags where possible. If avoidance is not possible, then then the site grading and features will be modified to limit the impact as much as possible.

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ORCHI ROAD Orchi Road is located east of Highland Street, north of Chelsea Avenue, and west of Jackson Avenue. During the 2011 storm event, stormwater collected on the north side of the Orchi Road and eventually overtopped the road and flooded 19 homes. The proposed activity entails construction of a flood control berm on the north side of Orchi Road, between Highland Street and Hanson Road. A land parcel owned by Shelby County north of Orchi Road will be utilized to create a wetland pond. This area will also serve as a detention facility to store the stormwater that was overtopping the roadway to prevent impacting additional properties. The excavated material will also provide fill material for the berm and fill at Rodney Baber Park.

Orchi Road will be reconstructed as a complete street with bicycle facilities along the north side of the road providing a direct connection from the surrounding low and moderate income (LMI) neighborhoods to the Wolf River Greenway. Sidewalks and street trees will be incorporated on each side of Orchi Road for pedestrian access.

Shelby County Government has considered the following alternatives and mitigation measures to be taken to minimize adverse impacts and to restore and preserve natural and beneficial values:

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Memphis College of Art

“From Hate to Hope”

Taste of Memphis

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

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

“Collaborations,” exhibition of work by 16 pairs of Mid-South artists. www.tennesseecraftsouthwest.com. April 5-26.

Born to Pakistani Muslim parents in the U.K. Kasim Hafeez was fully radicalized by the age of 18. Hear his story of how truth turned him from Anti-Semite to defender of Israel and Jewish people. Free. Mon., April 9, 7-8 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER (2681093), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

MLK50: “Where Are We Now? Race Relations and Identity Reflection by CBU Alumni”

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Free. Thurs., April 5, 6:30 p.m.

Ross Gallery

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, SPAIN AUDITORIUM, 650 E. PARKWAY S.

“Looking at the World,” exhibition of paintings

by Claudia Tullos-Leonard. www.cbu.edu/gallery.

Through May 2.

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

Midtown Opera Festival: 901 Showcase Visit website for schedule of events. April 6-14.

Neighborhoods, faith-based organizations, community development corporations (CDC), and many others come and participate. Fri., April 6, 5 p.m.

TIGER LANE, 335 SOUTH HOLLYWOOD.

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

Tour de Brewer and Bike Fest

Tour Memphis breweries and drink beer. Free, $12 for tour. Sat., April 7, 12-7 p.m.

MEMPHIS MADE BREWING COMPANY, 768 S. COOPER (2075343), WWW.MEMPHISMADEBREWING.COM.

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Down to Earth Festival

Celebrate sustainability at the Earth Day celebration featuring Junior Fishing Rodeo, high-adventure play, and eco-friendly vendors. Sat., April 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Memphis Riverfront Cup

SHELBY FARMS, VISITOR’S CENTER, 6903 GREAT VIEW DRIVE NORTH (767-7275), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Soccer teams will take the field at Tom Lee Park.

Free, $150 team entry. Sun. Through April 15.

Memphis Persian Festival

TOM LEE PARK, WWW.MEMPHISRIVERFRONT.COM.

Sun., April 8, 11 a.m.

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR, IRANIANSOFMEMPHIS.ORG.

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

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

Saturday, April 7

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

Noon – 6pm

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535)

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“20th Century Memphis Photographs,” exhibition

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Live Entertainment & DJ • Mouthwatering Crawfish & Barbeque • Refreshing Beer Garden • Festival Vendors • Family Fun Including Face Painting and Balloon Making • Live Radio Remotes: KIX 106 Noon–2pm I 98.1 The Max 2pm–4pm 103.5 WRBO 4pm–6pm Minors must be accompanied by an adult to attend the festival.

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

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

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Artist Marco Pavé introduces his latest original music creation with a message, a hip-hop opera. $33-$60. Sat., April 7, 7:30 p.m.

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

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Jam and Jokes, featuring Case, hosted by Prescott. www.fitzgeraldstunica.com. $20. Fri., April 6, 8 p.m.

711 LUCKY LANE (1-800-766-LUCK).

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Booksigning by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson

Author, in conversation with Ashley Poston and E. K. Johnston discusses and signs The Diminished. Tues., April 10, 6 p.m.

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (922-5526), WWW.NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.

FitzgeraldsTunica.com • 1-662-363-LUCK (5825) • Must be 21 and a Key Rewards member. See Cashier•Players Club for rules. While supplies last. Tax and resort fee not included in listed price. Advance hotel reservations required and subject to availability. $50 credit or debit card is required upon hotel check-in. Arrivals after 6pm must be guaranteed with a credit card.

Management reserves the right to cancel, change and modify the event or promotion. Gaming restricted patrons prohibited. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700.

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Memphis Fashion Week Designer Talk at Brooks Museum of Art, Wednesday, April 11 at 6 p.m.

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Tues., April 10, 7:05 p.m., and Wed., April 11, 11:05 a.m.

AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), WWW.MEMPHISREDBIRDS.COM.

Sista Strut 3K Breast Cancer Walk

Brings awareness about the issues of breast cancer in women of color and provides information on community resources. $15-$30. Sat., April 7, 8 a.m.-noon.

LIBERTY BOWL MEMORIAL STADIUM, 335 S. HOLLYWOOD (259-1300), WWW.MYV101.IHEART.COM.

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Shelby County Mayoral Debate

Join the Shelby County Republican Women’s Club for Republican mayoral candidate debate.

The meeting is free, stay for lunch at noon for $20. Free. Tues., April 10, 11 a.m.-noon.

GERMANTOWN COUNTRY CLUB, 1780 KIMBROUGH (268-1093), SCRWC.ORG/.

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FedEx St. Jude Classic Birdie Brigade Railgarten Takeover Event

Celebrating the start of golf season featuring a screening, games, prizes, food, fun, and a chance to get exclusive passes to the 2018 FedEx St. Jude Classic, along with some free swag. Sat., April 7, 2-5 p.m.

RAILGARTEN, 2160 CENTRAL, WWW.STJUDE.ORG.

First Friday: Tattered Treasures

Home to the most extensive Victorian-era textile and clothing collection in the South. $15. Fri., April 6, 5-8 p.m.

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

I AM A MAN Plaza Dedication Ceremony

Featuring food trucks, live performances, and open house. Thurs., April 5, 11:30 a.m.

CLAYBORN TEMPLE, 294 HERNANDO.

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The researchers would use your blood cells only for research and they would not be used to create a therapy for you.

Financial compensation is provided.

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Reflection Site/Plant Red Flowers for King

Rallying point for those who want to understand Dr. King’s impact on Memphis. Memphis City Beautiful is encouraging Memphis to plant red flowers. Seed packets available at MCB office, 664 Adams. Through April 30.

CORNER OF MLK BLVD AND 2ND STREET, CORNER OF MLK BLVD AND 2ND STREET, WWW.MLK50.CIVILRIGHTSMUSEUM.ORG.

Reform Cycle: Health Care as a Human Right Bike Ride Cheer on rider biking from Memphis, TN, to Byhalia, MS, for Health Care as a Human Right.

Costumes encouraged. Fri., April 6, 8:30-9:30 a.m.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (415-999-7716), WWW.REFORMCYCLE.ORG.

Voices for Justice in the Mid-South

Jubilee celebration followed by march to City Hall to hear Mayor Strickland and others. Free.

Sat., April 7, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

April 5-11, 2018

ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL, 700 POPLAR (527-3361), WWW.UMNC-MEMPHIS.ORG.

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8th Annual Bull Moose BBQ Benefiting Down Syndrome Association of Memphis Competition Friday with live band after dinner.

Saturday poker run sign-up starts 9 a.m. at Recycled Bikers in Collierville; kickstands up at 11 a.m. All you can eat barbecue, 5 p.m. Live music after judging. Fri., April 6, 8 a.m.-10 p.m., and Sat., April 7, 12-10 p.m.

BULL MOOSE LODGE, 950 MOOSE LODGE (282-6138), WWW.SOMERVILLEBULLMOOSE.COM.

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Sun., April 8, 2 p.m., and Wed., April 11, 7 p.m.

MALCO PARADISO CINEMA, 584 S. MENDENHALL (682-1754), WWW.MALCO.COM.

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ART By Michael Donahue

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hen she was six, Mary Crockett painted alongside her grandmother, watercolor artist Helen Panton.

But it wasn’t just the painting process that bonded them.

“I think she is such an appreciator of beauty and her visual life is important to her,” says Crockett, 26. “We have a lot in common in that. I feel that way, also.”

Crockett will share her appreciation of beauty when she opens Proud Mary at 433 North Cleveland near Crosstown Concourse. The shop, which will feature works by friends and others, is slated to open in late spring.

“There’s a lot of this in New Orleans.

It’s a retail and gallery space that exists to support emerging artists and designers.

The kind of designoriented things in here are kind of like the side projects of fine artists and designers.”

Opening a gallery/ shop wasn’t a lifelong dream. Crockett majored in studio art and art history at Loyola University in New Orleans. “I ended up focusing on metals and the sculpture that I made there ended up culminating with a lot of large-scale works that were cast in plaster and concrete. And kind of related to how time is recorded.

They were stratified.”

Sculpting was her favorite artistic expression. “I just love materials and figuring out how things work,” she says.

She likes minimalism. “Not necessarily for the aesthetics, but the intellectual underpinnings of it. That’s what I was looking at a lot. So, they ended up being some kind of geometric forms. But then I also was interested in that whole time and recording thing.”

Crockett used plaster and concrete as her medium. For some castings, she made molds from stones and rocks she collected from various places. She layered plaster and concrete “with different aggregates from different locations that may have had different textures and colors.”

She displayed those works on “very low, horizontal plinths.”

One of those pieces, 1/4 Fathom, is

in the art collection at Mississippi State University.

In New Orleans, Crockett worked as an art assistant to Lotte Geeven, artist in residence at May Gallery. She also worked with Julie Neill, who designs light fixtures.

And she worked at Parse Gallery, which some of her friends and mentors ran.

“That felt like a fun incubator space. And I showed work there sometimes.”

Crockett, who also helped build a Mardi Gras float in her backyard, loved it in New Orleans, but she moved back to Memphis because of an autoimmune disorder.

She wanted to get back to Memphis to rest, maybe get a studio space and start concentrating on her own work.

Crockett, who discovered the Crosstown space on Craig’s List, originally thought about using it as her studio.

Then she thought, “There’s room for a storefront. Memphis could use this.”

As to her criteria for what goes in Proud Mary, Crockett says, “My own taste will have something to do with it, but the goal isn’t to curate to a specific aesthetic. I think probably there is going to be some natural cohesiveness just because of where I’m situated Mary and who I’ve been Crockett’s exposed to.”

Proud Mary Out-of-town artists include jewelry maker Laila Lott, owner of Titty Hawk in Brooklyn.

New Orleans artists include Maria Sandhammer, who makes embroidered eye masks, and Jami Girouard, who makes jewelry and clothing, some of which is made out of Astro Turf.

Memphis artists will include Taylor Loftin and Leana Hicks.

So, why did Crockett choose “Proud Mary” as the name of her new place? “That song really relates to my vision for this place. The whole part about ‘keep on burning’ and all that hard work, not working for the man kind of thing. That’s basically what all these people do. And it also mentions Memphis and New Orleans, which is the genesis for all these relationships, basically. And my name happens to be Mary, which, I guess is okay.”

FOOD NEWS By Susan Ellis

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Fuel gets in the pizza game; Dodo straight out of Russia.

making would be a pretty decent pizza crust, he thought. He perfected his crust and then he started inviting people over for Pizza Cult, where folk got to try his creations for free. Gaines, who is vegan, perfected a melty vegan mozzarella with cashew and brown rice culture. Toppings could get creative — miso-soaked potatoes, lemongrass tofu, squash strips, etc.

He uses organic flour and a sourdough culture for his pizza crusts.

Gaines then reached out to Erik Proveaux, the owner of Fuel Cafe. He wanted to talk to Erik about opening his own restaurant. Proveaux discouraged him, telling him it was really hard. He suggested starting at the farmers market, which Gaines did.

The pair hooked back up again when Proveaux wanted to re-do Fuel’s menu.

For devoted Fuel patrons, the menu is no longer recognizable. The very popular

Dodo Pizza is a Russian-based pizza chain now in 11 countries with 330 locations. The first location in the United States was in Oxford, Mississippi, which opened in 2016. (They also serve pizza at the Ole Miss stadium.) The second area location is in Southaven. The third U.S.A. operation will be in Memphis at 6155 Poplar, set to open in May. Andy Kirievskiy, the franchisee, says when the Oxford store opened, Dodo offered one size, with no customizations or phone orders. He quickly learned that would not fly in America. “We were hit pretty hard,” he says.

The Memphis store will offer three sizes and a build-your-own option. Among the pizzas on the menu are the Meats, with pepperoni, ham, Italian sausage, and bacon; Chicken BBQ; Spinach Feta; Chicken Club; and Veggie with a ricotta sauce.

The idea to expand into the U.S.A. came from the editor of Pizza Magazine Quarterly, which is based in Oxford.

A writer for the magazine said Dodo founder Fedor Ovchinnikov “may just be the Steve Jobs of pizza.”

Kirievskiy says that Russia doesn’t have a pizza style, per se, like Chicago or New York. Instead, Dodo’s focus is on the best ingredients and business transparency. The restaurant’s financials are available online, and action in the kitchen is live-streamed. “Every customer can see how the kitchen works,” explains Kirievskiy.

One thing that Dodo had to figure out was what works in China and America, which they did.

“The things we do, we do well,” Kirievskiy says. dodopizza.com

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veggie burger is gone (though still available through the food trucks and frozen at the restaurant). The menu is now more vegan-friendly, though there is some fish and shellfish.

Beyond the pizzas, there’s polenta with chunky veggie stew, walnut loaf over smashed potatoes, and wild-caught cod for entrees. Sides include the very tasty pan-fried smelt, which can be substituted for oyster mushrooms, an herb lentil salad, and the Caesar-esque salad with a creamy tahini dressing. Among the sandwiches are a Banh Mi, a black-eyed pea falafel, and roasted veggie.

But this is about the pizza. When pressed to define his style of pizzas — is it artisan? — Gaines says, “It’s real.”

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utside Fuel Cafe, on Madison in Midtown, hangs a banner declaring “Weird Pizza.”

According to Don Gaines, who’s the slice guy at Fuel, the idea was to be playful, to note that you won’t find your Neapolitan pizza here. “We’re making our own version of pizza,” says Gaines.

Their own versions include the Carrot Hawaiian, with carrot ham (a Gaines invention) and pineapple; and Shroomsation, with mushroom cream, cremini, and oyster mushrooms.

Gaines says he got into pizza via baking bread. The sourdough bread he was

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S P I R ITS By Andria Lisle

A Taste of Harlem

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A trip to the legendary borough brings surprises.

Red Rooster, which is located on Malcolm X Boulevard between Sylvia’s and Corner Social, is also known for its drinks. Marcus Samuelsson, an Ethiopiaborn, Sweden-raised chef, restaurateur, cookbook author and TV personality, is a shots lover, a wine drinker, and a whiskey aficionado. He concocted a cocktail for the release of his 2012 memoir Yes, Chef that’s now on the menu at Red Rooster.

The recipe, which is also included in the restaurant’s eponymous cookbook, is a bracing medley of vodka, mint, honey syrup, pineapple juice, lime juice, and homemade ginger beer. It’s so refreshing that I had to order two at Ginny’s.

I was too busy eating to sample much else other than a few glasses of wine, drinks-wise, but just reading Red Rooster’s cocktail menu is an intoxicating experience. There are three “punches” on the menu — two, the Rooster Royale and the Rooster Punch, are variations on white and red sangria, respectively — plus the delicious-sounding Earl of Harlem

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I beseech you to pay Red Rooster a visit next time you’re in NYC. Back on the ground in Memphis, I can’t get Harlem off my mind. Easy research has yielded me an amazing update on a traditional cocktail dubbed, well, the Harlem Cocktail. The drink is simple and tastes of spring. Simply shake two ounces of gin with pineapple juice, lemon juice, Luxardo’s maraschino liqueur, and ice, then strain into a chilled glass. Add a few dashes of Angostura bitters. If presentation matters, garnish your glass with a wedge of pineapple. Put on some music — anything from jazz to hip-hop will do.

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t the end of March, I found myself in Harlem for 15 glorious hours. Trying to explain the plot twists that led to my trip there would take as long as the journey itself — suffice it to say that I accompanied Unapologetic artists IMAKEMADBEATS, A Weirdo From Memphis, Cameron Bethany, PreauXX, and C Major to a performance at Ginny’s Supper Club, located in the basement of Marcus Samuelsson’s famed Harlem eatery Red Rooster.

Ashamedly, it was my first trip to the northern New York City borough, which birthed the Harlem Renaissance and is home to the Apollo Theater, Minton’s Playhouse, and Strivers’ Row. Harlem is also, of course, legendary for the proliferation of speakeasies during Prohibition. A 1932 map of Harlem created by black illustrator E. Simms Campbell for a publication called Manhattan: A Weekly for Wakeful New Yorkers perfectly depicts the boozy, easy nature of the neighborhood’s nightlife, a must-see for wealthy whites of the era.

Today, cocktail culture is still king, despite the looming specter of Malcolm X, who warned African Americans against the dangers of drinking. The stretch of Lenox Avenue that intersects the east and west sides of Harlem might have been dubbed Malcom X Boulevard in 1987, but on my visit, I observed a street that’s home to dozens of upscale bars, including Gin Fizz, Corner Social, Barawine Harlem, and the Cove Lounge. Most establishments lean French, Southern, or Caribbean, cuisine-wise, with wine lists and cocktail menus that reflect each culture.

Soul food in Harlem is synonymous with alcoholic beverages. Take the legendary Sylvia’s Restaurant, founded by Sylvia Wood in 1962. Unlike Memphis’ most traditional soul food restaurants, at Sylvia’s, you can order up a cup of South Carolina Rum Punch to wash down your smothered pork chops or barbecued ribs.

The drinks menu at Sylvia’s is as fun to read as it is to sample. Cocktails are rated by exclamation points that run from “Whoa” to “Packs a punch” and “Knocks your socks off.” On the genteel side: Waiting to Exhale, a blend of vodka, Amaretto, Grand Marnier, Alizé (a Cognac-based liqueur), and punch. Guaranteed to knock your socks off: Devil in a Blue Dress, a heady mixture of vodka, rum, tequila, gin, Blue Curaçao, and Sprite.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Fanfic Nation Spielberg mines the past and present in Ready Player One.

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hen future digital archeologists look at the internet, I wonder what they will make of the millions of pages of stories about Kirk and Spock having sex. Or Buffy and Hermione’s doomed love affair. Or the novel-length work about wrapping Roy Orbison in cling film.

(Google it and weep for humanity.)

Fan fiction, as this stuff is loosely called, predates the internet, but it was only with the coming of the world wide web that the art form could flourish.

It’s not true that no one wants to read my carefully thought-out story of R2-D2’s rich inner life — maybe a hundred people would like it, and since they’re all on LiveJournal writing robosexual fantasies, I know where to find them.

Fanfic is a way for the consumers of popular culture to take control of it, even if it’s in a small, limited way. Its reputation for bad writing is wellearned, but it’s not all amateurs out there. The entire Fifty Shades of Grey franchise started life as as an extremely popular BDSM Twilight fanfic — author

E.L. James just changed vampires to rich people. But discounting Roy Orbison in cling film, fanfic’s crowning achievement is Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. Cline’s protagonist Wade Watts lives in the teeming slums of the ruined future, but escapes into The Oasis, a fully immersive virtual world populated by billions who act out their fantasies in real time. Wade is one of thousands of other players on a years-long quest to solve a series of puzzles set out by James Halliday, the system’s creator. Halliday’s obsession was popular culture he loved as a kid, so Ready Player One’s great game is steeped in 1980s references, from Dungeons and Dragons to Zork. The first to find the three hidden keys can unlock the “easter egg” and be awarded ownership of the entire system.

The late creator envisioned a Willy Wonka scenario, but control of this virtual world would be fantastically lucrative, so Innovative Online Industries (IOI) CEO Nolan Sorrento is spending a lot of money and manpower to leverage gaming as a form of hostile corporate takeover. When Wade makes a

breakthrough in the game, he becomes the target of Sorrento, who pursues him in both the virtual and real worlds.

Ready Player One is no literary masterpiece, but it is a good beach read. Once it became a bestseller, it was kind of inevitable that the film adaptation would be directed by Steven Spielberg, the man responsible for much of the ’80s aesthetic Cline is nostalgic for.

Spielberg got Industrial Light and Magic on board, and worked his wizardry. He and screenwriter Zak Penn sanded off the book’s rough edges and worked around the inevitable intellectual property licensing conflicts inherent in a story that climaxes with Voltron dueling Mechagodzilla. (There’s a glaring lack of Star Wars, for example, and Voltron is demoted to just “a gundam.”)

Eager as I was to see the director of Raiders of the Lost Ark bring D&D creator Gary Gygax’s trap-tastic Tomb of Horrors to life, Spielberg’s virtuosic comedy-

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Now that we’ve remembered, commemorated, and celebrated King, what do we do after April 4th? How will King’s dream and message continue to impact our lives and the decisions we make as a society? Will we learn from King and be bold enough to nonviolently and peacefully pursue our own dreams of a better America, or will we sit back and wait for someone else to come along and do it?

If you don’t think the dream of a single person or a group of people can cause dramatic shifts in society, then you aren’t paying attention. It happened before, and it can happen again. Just look at the recent actions of the surviving Parkland students, who are using a tragedy as an opportunity to push for changes they believe are necessary. Their cause is rippling through the country, gaining supporters, and turning heads.

Close to two million Americans turned out in 800 cities at the end of last month to march in solidarity with the Parkland students for gun control and the end of gun violence in schools. In Washington, D.C., 800,000 marchers fittingly gathered near the spot where King gave his famous 1964 “I Have a Dream” speech. There, the crowd listened to the dreams of those urging for gun control, including King’s own granddaughter.

It was a possible tipping point for gun-control legislation, and the countrywide demonstration has been cited as possibly the largest such protest in our country’s history. It’s just more evidence proving that one person, one cause, or one demonstration can catalyze a powerful and momentous dream, which, with enough momentum, can result in a significant change.

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When a single bullet was fired onto the balcony of room 306 at the Lorraine Motel 50 years ago, ending the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a dreamer was killed, but the dream wasn’t.

The dream didn’t die then, and it hasn’t died yet.

A plaque honoring King near the spot where he was slain, quoting the Bible, says it all.

It reads: “They said to each other. ‘Behold, here cometh the dreamer. Let us slay him and we shall see what becomes of his dreams.’”

You can slay the dreamer, but some dreams can never die, especially those of a man like King. In King’s short 39 years on Earth, not only was he able to motivate and lead thousands, he was also able to inspire a dream that would live on five decades later.

King wasn’t an ordinary dreamer; unlike most, he pursued his dreams with action and unwavering persistence.

From the time King was 17 years old, writing letters to editors of newspapers saying that blacks deserve the basic rights and opportunities of American citizens, to the day he died, during the midst of a fight for livable wages, King had a dream and stuck with it.

If there’s one thing that we can learn from King and other participants in the civil rights movement, it’s the notion of never giving up on what you know is right and just, no matter how unattainable it may seem.

Despite the general enemy-making nature of his work, which included threats and assaults, a bomb to his home, and multiple incarcerations, King’s resolve to fight for a better life with equal opportunities for African Americans never subsided.

Because his work and mission lived on and still lives on, King didn’t die a victim, but a victor. Perhaps King’s message is still so powerful today because it was different. Every action of resistance was rooted in love and carried out peacefully.

King wrote in the memoir Strides Toward Freedom that he understood nonviolence to mean “winning an opponent to friendship, rather than to humiliate or defeat him,” by using “weapons of love.”

He was teaching people who sought justice and equality to work against evil with dignity, pride, and respect because as he said, “the beauty of nonviolence is that in its own way and in its own time it seeks to break the chain reaction of evil.’’

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