Memphis Flyer 4.07.16

04.07.16 1415TH ISSUE

FREE

The

Shackle

ANDREA MORALES

A private government contractor’s tracking device for non-documented immigrants is drawing criticism.

Steve Cohen on the Greensward P6 ⁄ Shab Chic Marketplace P7 Loflin Yard P38 ⁄ Eye in the Sky P41

GAIN THE EDGE. LOSE THE WEIGHT. A non-surgical weight loss balloon that can help you meet your goals.

Phillip R. Bowden, M.D.,P.A betterbodymemphis.com | (901) 272-7200

April 7-13, 2016

Register for a free seminar today!

BOWDEN

WEIGHT LOSS

BALLOON FDA Approved

2

For Important Safety Information visit obera.com

DESHAUNE MCGHEE Classified Advertising Manager BRENDA FORD Classified Sales Administrator classifieds@memphisflyer.com LYNN SPARAGOWSKI Distribution Manager ROBBIE FRENCH Warehouse and Delivery Manager BRANDY BROWN, JANICE GRISSOM ELLISON, ZACH JOHNSON, KAREN MILAM, RANDY ROTZ, LOUIS TAYLOR WILLIAM WIDEMAN Distribution THE MEMPHIS FLYER is published weekly by Contemporary Media, Inc., 460 Tennessee Street, Memphis, TN 38103 Phone: (901) 521-9000 | Fax: (901) 521-0129 letters@memphisflyer.com www.memphisflyer.com CONTEMPORARY MEDIA, INC. KENNETH NEILL Chief Executive Officer MOLLY WILLMOTT Chief Operating Officer JEFFREY GOLDBERG Director of Business Development BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN Editorial Director KEVIN LIPE Digital Manager LYNN SPARAGOWSKI Distribution Manager JACKIE SPARKS-DAVILA Events Manager KENDREA COLLINS Marketing/Communications Manager BRITT ERVIN Email Marketing Manager ASHLEY HAEGER Controller CELESTE DIXON Accounting Assistant JOSEPH CAREY IT Director KALENA MCKINNEY Receptionist

National Newspaper Association

Association of Alternative Newsmedia

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR • OUR 1415TH ISSUE 04.07.2016 “I can’t believe it’s not Buddha.” — frustrated monk “I’m trying to be Zen about it.” I hear this phrase, now and then. It’s often used as a way of saying, “I’m trying to control my emotions.” But “trying to be Zen” is an oxymoron. There’s no trying to be Zen. You’re here now. You’re already enlightened. The trick is realizing it. Which is hard.

A drive on any American roadway will certainly test your ability to control your emotions, and may have you praying to the deity of your choice. When I’m on an interstate, I like to set the cruise control a couple of miles over the speed limit and just roll. But it’s difficult to keep your groove when other drivers are cutting in and out in front of you or coming up fast behind you and riding your bumper.

It’s at those moments — when you’re in the passing lane trying to get around a semitruck and look in your rearview mirror and see a Dodge Charger grille three feet behind you — that you realize there are folks out there hoping to make you part of their NASCAR fantasy.

There was time when I might have slowed down in that sort of situation, just to tick ’em off, or maybe lightly tapped my brakes to scare the crap out of them. But not these days. Now I realize the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a car is a good guy with a car. Or, hopefully, a tree. So I speed up slightly, put on my turn signal, pass the truck, and get out of his way, leaving him to his imagination: If he can pass 8,046 more cars before he reaches Dyersburg, he wins. Or something.

Life is too short to waste emotions on anonymous idiots — especially when they’re behind the wheel and possibly armed. Life can get even shorter in that situation. A road-rage incident on I-240 last week resulted in the death of one motorist and, thankfully, the arrest of the two suspected of the shooting.

There have been two other road-rage shootings in Memphis since January. It’s becoming more and more common.

Fortunately, the state legislature is about to pass a law that’s intended to “cut down on road rage,” according to state Senator Frank Niceley (R-Bubbaville). It’s called the “Slow Poke bill” and will prohibit driving in the left lane of highways with at least three lanes in each direction, unless the driver is intending to pass.

That ought to fix the problem.

Unfortunately, this same bunch of statesmen has also spent the past five years loosening our gun laws to the point of unregulated madness. It’s led to High Noon on our highways. In fact, I’m surprised they didn’t attach an amendment to the bill allowing N EWS & O P I N I O N anyone impeded by a “slow poke” (no LETTERS - 4 doubt, a liberal) to shoot to kill if it THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 THE FLY-BY - 6 was in line with their “sincerely held POLITICS - 10 religious beliefs.”

EDITORIAL - 12 I say this because the state Senate VIEWPOINT - 13 has also just voted to designate the COVER STORY “THE SHACKLE” Bible as the official “state book,”

BY EILEEN TOWNSEND - 14 despite a 2013 ruling by the state WE RECOMMEND - 18 attorney general that such a ordinance MUSIC - 20 violates the Tennessee and U.S. AFTER DARK - 24 BOOKS - 28 constitutions. Jesus, take the wheel.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 29 I think I know where the real slow FOOD - 38 pokes are, and I’m trying to be Zen FILM - 41 about it.

THE LAST WORD - 47 Bruce VanWyngarden C L AS S I F I E D S - 43 brucev@memphisflyer.com

CHARLES WILSON APRIL 8

ERIC HUGHES BAND APRIL 9

JAMIE BAKER And The VIP’s APRIL 15 & 16

1-900-BAND APRIL 22 & 23

www.ballystunica.com Bally’s Tunica and RIH Acquisitions MS II, LLC have no affiliation with Caesars License Company, LLC and its affiliates other than a license to the Bally’s name.

Must be 21 or older.

Gambling Problem? Call 1-888-777-9696.

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

JUSTIN RUSHING Advertising Director CARRIE O’GUIN HOFFMAN Advertising Operations Manager JERRY D. SWIFT Advertising Director Emeritus KELLI DEWITT, CHIP GOOGE Senior Account Executives SHAWNA GARDNER, ALEX KENNER Account Executives CRISTINA MCCARTER Sales Assistant

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 9PM –1AM

CONTENTS

CARRIE BEASLEY Senior Art Director CHRISTOPHER MYERS Advertising Art Director DOMINIQUE PERE, BRYAN ROLLINS Graphic Designers

DMITRY RUKHLENKO | DREAMSTIME.COM

BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN Editor SUSAN ELLIS Managing Editor JACKSON BAKER, MICHAEL FINGER Senior Editors BIANCA PHILLIPS Associate Editor CHRIS MCCOY Film and TV Editor CHRIS SHAW Music Editor RICHARD J. ALLEY Book Editor CHRIS DAVIS, TOBY SELLS Staff Writers JESSE DAVIS, LESLEY YOUNG Copy Editors JULIE RAY Calendar Editor JOSHUA CANNON Editorial Intern

3

What They Said...

SHARE THE RIDE

Letters and comments from Flyer readers

Less Fuel….Less Pollution….Less Stress

and obstinate, and issue false information through the media to support their claim to the Greensward.

It’s way past time to act like a responsible adult, Chuck Brady, and join thousands of other Memphians who love their park and seek to become part of the solution to this controversial issue, and not part of the problem.

Gordon Alexander

PROGRAM

GREG CRAVENS

About Toby Sells’ post “Greensward Protest Caused ‘Almost Irreparable Harm’” …

A recent statement from the Memphis Zoo to the Flyer regarding last weekend’s protest on the Greensward was filled with false insinuations, halftruths, and outright lies, and I cannot let it be disseminated to the general public without responding.

Here is a portion of the zoo’s version of what transpired last Saturday: “Many families parked blocks and blocks away because they were directed by The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 protesters acting as zoo volunteers, For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 For Release Friday, February 26, 2016 only to arrive to see plenty of paved parking available but blocked by protesters. Still others were unable to visit the zoo at all.”

ACROSS 34 Right of way, at 63 Lost on purpose Edited by Will Shortz No. 0122 Crossword Wrong on all 1points. 2 31 ___ Green, 54 Like Charlie ACROSS law 3 4 2006 Bonda girl Brown’s kite, 1 Bread with 1 Viking girl in 64 Lost traction I am a proud member of the Free ultimately “How to Train 32 Chris who sang Your Dragon” “The Road to Large game 36 Greek liqueur pocketHell,” 1989 55 bass Parking Brigade. I was at the corner of 7 Intimates 65 Rio de Janeiro, 14 33 Tools with 56 Great-aunt 13 Comics tyke Galloway and McLean with my friends swiveling 37 □, △ or ○ “David 5 Ivan Terrible,inCopperfield” 15 Starling of book the blades for the 2016 last Saturday, and at no point did we and film 40 Directed for one 57 Saws 16 Epic number Olympics 17 39 On the Pacific, impersonate zoo employees.

What we 41 Fantasy sports 18 So-called “fifth option qtrs.”

DOWN did was work our tails off from10 a.m.

9 Positive, as an 1 Dandy wear say 42 Like some 19 Postwar additions and German to 12:45 p.m., directing cars to available 20 nickname attitudeeditions 2 Enveloped 40 Boss 20 Kenan’s sitcom 44 With 36-Down, parking on city streets.

Most of them 3 Byzantine art bit of clothes partner DOWN bit mending 14 Tiny building were from out of town, had no idea 21 Next 4 Pensioned: 42 Small hill 45 Like drafts 23 Irrelevant info Abbr. what allto the fuss was about and, when block 46 Abbr.

Emphatic type: 1 It’s not easy 24 Trinidad o 5 Light music Tobago source?43 Put money into, told, were horrified that the zoo would 47 Lance on a 25 Shot putters’ shoot park vehicles 6 Appealing bench 25 26 27 15 Down-on-his-luck needs? on 24 the grass. as a meter figure?

48 Snowflake or 26 Squash 7 Rice elbows, crystal shape wanderer We must have directed over 1,000 27 Unleashes (on) 2 Agenda listing e.g.

50 Outer limit 44 They know how 28 Its main zoo visitors to free 33parking, and a 8 Facility characters go 51 Functioning

BY PAULA GAMACHE 16 to hellFarewell againthat’s 9 Lilt bit toPUZZLE have a 34good 3 Tennille of pop Memphis police officer helped them 24 Bar-Ilan 40 Winter wear Old sandlot 10 Registers “bid” resembling University game ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE time the busy street 11 Big name in Captain overalls music’s cross student, e.g.

36 safely while a zoo car parts 35 Baroque S P L I C E A M S A T M 43 Graybeards employee stood there and took a video 29 Power inits.

17 Rebels 12 Automotive 36 sang See 44-Across 48 Boot & Tennille N O U G A T C U P S L O A 47 Smith beginning who in models S and of us working.

We probably brought in A W N U T S T R I M O T O R 1933 X Internet 49 Add 40 the theme37for C E D E F I R E O P A L S hookups?

19 Copenhageners, superfluous 14 For three, to an extra $10,000 for the very zoo that 30 “An ___ held by 4 “So be it!”

K R I S H N A A L O E stuff to Frédéric the tail is not 38 Fairly clean, so “Spectre” S M E L L Y T R A C T yet caught” (old seems to despise us. e.g. to speak 15 Chuck who 52 Some chess proverb) D O H S I D E S H A L L I pieces: Abbr. advised Nixon 43 stand their ground 5 Cry to theThough they did 39 Comic book I P A D L O T T O S O A K 17 French-48 Ages and ages writer with a 33 It’s named for 53 Period of V20 E N 2002 I A L B Tom A R S T M I Cruise speaking National Medal its five carbon veinticuatro on the Greensward, it is not true that E N G E L S E T T L E land where of Arts atoms horas cavalry John James T T O P film E A R L E S S sci-fi protesters blocked any zoo patrons 47 49 Sublime physical Audubon was Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past S T R E T C H E R N A P A born withusing paved parking. puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 6 It starts from A A A R A T E D A N I M A L performance …

Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.

N22 C R ___ B E RKhan G S E N E C A 22 Fashion designer The Memphis49 Zoo is50 held in Aries D O E T E E L O O S E D Crosswords for young nytimes.com/studentcrosswords . or a hint tosolvers: this 51 Lepore such low regard at this point simply 23 “___-Man,” 2015 puzzle’s circled 7 Assist with a they continue to be arrogant because superhero movie

Two solutions for the zoo: It should build its own parking with the support and help of the community for funding and planning, as any other responsible community partner would. Or they can choose the path they are on: spin, pivot, and lie to avoid the inevitable. The protests will continue, and eventually people will stop coming, thus also resolving the parking problem.

I’m good with either one.

Fitz Dearmore

MIDSOUTHCLEANAIR.ORG The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation

620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 For Release Monday, February 22, 2016

Crossword 1

2

3

4

5

6

13

7

14

16

22

12

24

26

28

27

29

30

31

33

April 7-13, 2016

11

20

23

25

32

34

35

36

37

38

40

41

42

44

45

46

47 51

10

15

19

21

48

49

52

54 56

24 Related to fireworks

9

Edited by Will Shortz

17

18

4

8

letters 57 Relish 58 Violent vortex

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if this whole zoo parking debacle turned out to be part of the conspiracy perpetrated by the old money, East Memphis land speculators and developers to diminish the livability of Memphis proper in order to continue to fuel their ill-conceived (yet so far perfectly executed) concept of “growth”? Or, more5correctly, what has8been spoon-9 6 7 fed to us as growth but in truth has resulted in nothing more than personal 15public expense.

16 gain at You hear the argument in the 18 news even now; it’s the underlying 19 truth behind “de-annexation” and “tax base.” This phenomenon, this 21 conspiracy, is precisely what has given us the precariously imbalanced 22 23 city we all know and love, with so much economic power focused out 29 of the East, while the vast28majority city (geographically speaking) is an economic wasteland.

34 Either way, you can rest assured that the real 37 forces 38 behind this situation have little or nothing to do with the big bad zoo bullying a bunch of peaceniks.

41 42 Ask yourself why so many politicians, people supposedly elected by you and 44 45 with46the me, are inexplicably siding zoo. Or why they seem not only deaf to reasonable compromise,48 but adamantly opposed to it? I’m not quite ready to watch it all go 52 to hell 53 just yet. I believe I shall take a stand.

Aaron James

39

43

50

53

55

57

heist, say

57

8 Like Santa’s cheeks

60

No. 10

3 35 39

54

58 61

1

62

5

5

NEWS & OPINION

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

fly-by

f l y o n t h e w a l l On the East Side { M AY O R S T U F F Last week, Hernando, Mississippi Mayor Chip Johnson told TV reporters that the nude photo he texted a girlfriend, while embarrassing, shouldn’t interfere with his performance running city government.

But what about everybody else’s performance?

Who can even think about mayor stuff when all they can think about is mayor stuff ? YIKES! W[TF]REG? According to an in-depth report by WREG, lunch hour was briefly disrupted at the Wendy’s on Winchester last Wednesday when employees got into an argument over a customer’s order. Grainy cell phone video made it difficult for the reporter to tell if “things got physical,” but it was clear to her that something went wrong with the French fries and people were yelling at each other “while helpless customers watched it all go down.”

April 7-13, 2016

W[TF]MC? WMC, the station that received international attention for its report on demonically possessed hair weaves, shared this story about a South Carolina woman who saw an angel climbing a rainbow.

Meanwhile, not a single Memphis TV station picked up U.K. tabloid reports about a Derbyshire man who saw Elvis in the fire of his woodburning stove.

6

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

Edited by Bianca Phillips

CITY REPORTER

By Bianca Phillips

Livable Memphis focuses on making the Clark Tower area more pedestrian-friendly.

Lots of consideration has been paid to making downtown and Midtown more walkable and bikeable, but now a busy, car-centric area of East Memphis is getting some attention.

Last week, Livable Memphis held MEMFix East, an urban revitalization event, in the Clark Tower/Brookhaven Circle area of East Memphis with a goal of gathering opinions from people who live, work, shop, and dine there on how to make that area more pedestrian- and bike-friendly.

Livable Memphis conducted short surveys with people at that event, and for those who couldn’t make it, the survey is now available on the Livable Memphis website.

“If you go behind the east side of Clark Tower, you can see where these businesses along Brookhaven Circle have created these back entryways to get onto the property without going up to Poplar and coming around,” said John Paul Shaffer, program director of Livable Memphis.

“There’s a desire to connect these pieces that are developed separately from one another. If you look at property maps of the area, you see all these weird driving lanes that don’t go through, and you have to make weird turns. It was developed in a piecemeal way.”

Carol Gaudet works in Clark Tower, and she said she’d love to see more clearly marked pedestrian walkways. She said she often walks to neighborhood restaurants for lunch.

“In this day and age, people tend to be impatient.

Pedestrians don’t necessarily have the right-of-way,” Gaudet said.

The Livable Memphis surveys complement a recent Blair Parker Design master plan that shows six kinds of pedestrian paths that could be built in and around the massive parking lot between Poplar, Mendenhall, Sanderlin,

and White Station.

Shaffer said making the Clark Tower area more pedestrian-friendly may mean simple fixes, like adding more walkways to better connect the individual properties, adding wayfinding signs that help office workers identify restaurants and shops they can walk or bike to, and reconfiguring a few parking spaces that are currently blocking walkways.

“In some cases, a parking spot here or there is blocking a pedestrian entrance, so we could just move that out and make the pedestrian access more visible,” Shaffer said. “That was the case between the iBank Tower and Whole Foods.

There was a parking space at the top of the new stairs by the patio. That spot got removed, and now you can see a clear continued on page 8

Q&A with Steve Cohen U.S. Representative and Midtowner Greensward politics is local for Ninth District Congressman Steve Cohen. He can see the Overton Park greenspace from his house. His walks usually take him around Rainbow Lake and the Old Forest. But he also loves the zoo. He sat on the Memphis Zoo board for nearly two decades, helping to raise $5.5 million for projects there.

His beloved park has become a protest zone with citizens inflamed about parking on the Greensward. Cohen helped forge a compromise between the zoo and protesters there a few weeks ago. The protest there last weekend was met with a show of force by police, which Cohen said was “way too much.”

He’s now trying to find federal money to assist in problem. He’s also encouraging all parties inflamed by the situation to “chill” and let the mediation process work. If it doesn’t work, “then olly olly oxen free,” Cohen says.

Here are some snippets of an interview with Cohen about the Greensward parking situation. Look for the full

Wayfinding sign from MEMFix East

LIVABLE MEMPHIS

THE

Questions, Answers + Attitude

Pop-Up Shop

{

A similar pop-up market in Brooklyn, New York

S POTLI G HT

By Joshua Cannon

test their hand at running their own shop,” Christion said. “Our mission is to give businesses a real shot at getting their brand out to the masses.”

Each shipping container will be designed by the vendor with assistance from Shab Chic’s design team. Shab Chic will cut doors and windows into the container, but will leave the decor to the vendor.

“Too much business without the creativity is a failure,” Chris-

tion said. “Too much shab and no chic, and it can’t work. It’s the yin and yang of style — the idea of mixing highs and lows to create your own following.”

Interested businesses can apply at shabchicmarketplace.com to be a vendor through Friday, April 8th.

April 8 and 9 • 8pm

Experience the funk and get down with these classic hits including Soul Finger, Shake Your Rump To The Funk, Freakshow On The Dance Floor and Too Hot To Stop.

Tickets: General Admission $25 • Reserved $35 VIP (1st Six Rows) $55

Hotel Packages: Friday $179 • Saturday $189

Purchase tickets at the Fitz Gift Shop, by calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000, or at ticketmaster.com.

Includes a deluxe room and two reserved show tickets.

To reserve a room and tickets call 1-888-766-5825 and mention code: CPBKay

Saturday, April 9 Noon – 6pm Fitz Casino & Hotel Front Lawn

FREEON

SS I G ADMIR KI N A P &

LIL ROUND S

THE GREATEST CRAWFISH FESTIVAL YET, AM E R IC A FEATURING: F INAL N IDOL IST Free outdoor concert by Memphis’ own, Lil Rounds Mouthwatering Crawfish & Barbeque Refreshing Beer Garden • Strolling Entertainers Festival Vendors and more • Fun for the entire family

Saturday, May 7 8pm GA $30 • Reserved $40 • VIP $50 Purchase tickets at the Fitz Gift Shop, ticketmaster.com or by calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000.

$179

HOTEL PACKAGE

Includes a deluxe room and two reserved show tickets. Call 888-766-5825 and mention code CPMMA

Must be 21. Management reserves the right to cancel, change and modify the event or offer. Tax not included on 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. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700.

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

A mobile marketplace built from reconstructed shipping containers will soon pop up in Memphis — if Shab Chic founders Brian Christion and Ebony Doss can nail down 16 committed vendors.

“We have high hopes,” said Christion, a 32-year-old Memphis native. “We know it can be done. It just needs a little push.”

Shab Chic can move forward with leasing property when Christion and Doss secure the vendors. More than 30 businesses have applied, and five are committed. They’ve scouted land in CooperYoung, along Broad, and in the South Main Arts District. Doss and Christion discussed hosting the marketplace in St. Louis, where Doss is from, due to interest from that city government to assist with the project. Christion says there’s been no dialogue between Shab Chic and the city of Memphis, but launching the marketplace in Memphis is a priority.

“The first choice for me is Memphis,” said Christion, who has a background in real estate and property management.

“Memphis has the most saturated amount of undiscovered talent in the country. We chose Memphis because of the demand for new and innovative outlets for creative business owners. ... I’d rather it be that Shab Chic kicks off in Memphis and other cities follow.”

If the project comes to fruition, Shab Chic Marketplace wouldn’t be the first pop-up shop Memphians have seen. It would, however, be the largest, based on the scale of their ambitions. The Marketplace will feature 16 vendors. Shops will range from clothing boutiques to art galleries and food vendors, each located in a repurposed shipping container. The Marketplace will also cycle through events like happy hours as well as movie and skate nights.

“We want to create a platform for creative, small business owners and the community,” said Doss, 35, whose professional background ranges from medical finance to event planning and promotion. “With a creative background, I want to push the bar and think outside the box. I’ve always wanted to do something huge, to promote creativity, art, music, and fashion.”

Doss and Christion share a mutual adoration for pop-up shops. Small businesses can often struggle through the traditional business model. By establishing a temporary location, vendors have more breathing room to grow their brand. The duo researched building homes from shipping containers, and that led to the idea of a “shipping container mall.” If the project works out, Shab Chic will exist in one area for six months, likely between May and October, and move to a different location every year.

“Businesses will finally have a place to

NEWS & OPINION

LEONEL LIMA PONCE

Shab Chic eyes Memphis for mobile marketplace.

7

“East Side” continued from page 6

“Q & A” continued from page 6

path to walk to Whole Foods.”

Once the results are in, Livable Memphis will turn them over to the property owners in that area, and any changes would fall to them. Clark Tower and iBank Tower owner and president of Florida-based In-Rel Properties Dennis Udwin is completely on board with making his property more walkable.

“As an owner, I have a stewardship and an obligation to the city of Memphis,” Udwin said. “If you look at some of the things that have happened, like the Whole Foods coming in and the Houston’s, the Malco, the [Double Tree] hotel, and this restaurant area in [Brookhaven Circle]. I think it’s time to pull the area together and make it more pedestrian-friendly and “I think it’s time to cycle-friendly. pull the [Clark Tower] “[We can do that with] pedestrian area together and walkways, better make it more lighting, better signage, pedestrian-friendly and more landscaping. If cycle-friendly.” you look at that parking lot, it’s just a mass of — Dennis Udwin asphalt. It should be softened, and it can be done with color, benches, landscaping, and fountains,” Udwin continued.

Udwin said the 35-story Clark Tower has a 65 percent occupancy rate, and the 22-story iBank Tower is 85 percent occupied. He thinks making the area more walkable and bikeable could improve occupancy.

Udwin is also currently pouring about $8 million into renovations at Clark Tower that include painting the exterior and renovating the elevators, lobby, and some of the restrooms.

interview online at memphisflyer.com later this week. — Toby Sells

2016 FESTIVAL MEMPHIS TENNESSEE

APRIL 8-10

Flyer: You live over there, so this really is a local issue for you, right?

Steve Cohen: Well, it’s been an issue for that reason and also because I was on the board of the zoo from 1989 to about 2006.

So, I got about 17 years with the zoo. …

I’ve got an investment in the zoo, which I think is marvelous, and I’ve got a real knowledge of and commitment to the park.

By living there, I see [parking problems] there all the time.

You mentioned some solutions in a Commercial Appeal op-ed way back in 1989. Would they still work?

I think they would all work. I think you can have trams to Snowden School, which is still available on weekends and during the summer months, which is the main time they’re needed. Trinity Church, their pastor is great, and he offered their church [parking lot]… on Saturdays and days during the week. I also think the [zoo] parking lot could be redesigned.

Have you weighed in with those involved in the current parking situation?

I have talked to some folks and will continue

to talk to some people and encourage there to be a successful resolution. I do think that [FedEx Corp. executive] Richard Smith is an essential party because he’s a young guy with a great future in this city, and he’s really smart and creative.

What do you think of the protesters?

I think the protesters are great. They’re bringing attention to [the issue]. They’re letting the zoo and the community know how much the park and green spaces mean to our city. [The protestors] need to remain restrained. They’ve been great with police.

The zoo needs to be a little restrained, too. I understand the zoo getting upset about the situation. But everybody needs to chill and realize that it’s probably going to work out and put our faith in the mediation. If the mediation doesn’t work, olly olly oxen free.

What did you think of the show of police force last Saturday?

[The horses] seemed to be a bit of an intimidation on Saturday. The helicopter was way, way too much. They had the cavalry, and the Air Force, and then they had some artillery. ISIS would have left.

But I have to give the protesters credit.

They stayed calm and kept to their original purpose of having fun, and playing Frisbee, and doing yoga. ISIS would have probably run away.

BRUBECK ART EXHIBIT, APRIL 1–MAY 29 Presented at the National Civil Rights Museum 450 MULBERRY ST. For ticket information call (901) 521-9699

FRIDAY, APRIL 8TH AT 7:30 PM AND SUNDAY, APRIL 10TH AT 2 PM Dave Brubeck’s “The Real Ambassadors” A Jazz Musical by Dave Brubeck Based on the life of Louis Armstrong

April 7-13, 2016

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 COOPER ST. Partnered with Opera Memphis For tickets visit: http://www.operamemphis.org or call (901) 257-3100

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 7:30 PM “To Hope,” A Mass by Dave Brubeck Brubecks Play Brubeck Darius, Chris, and Dan Brubeck with special guest Dave ‘O Higgins

CANNON CENTER, 255 N MAIN ST. For tickets visit: http://www.memphissymphony.org or call (901) 537-2525

Sponsored by: Rhodes College, Opera Memphis, SCS, Brubeck Institute MSO, National Civil Rights Museum

8

Get Your Bling For Spring

Memphis • 61 South McLean • 901.725.4200 Flyer-Quarter.pdf 1 3/31/16 4:24 PM

feathers smoothed daily Presenting Feathers Spa at The Peabody.

M

Y

CM

MY

CY

CMY

K

149 Union Avenue • Memphis, TN 38103 901.261.4400 • peabodymemphis.com

NEWS & OPINION

C

Feathers Spa at The Peabody provides the ultimate relaxing experience with services from deep tissue massage, facials, manicures and pedicures. Spa packages or single session treatments are available.

Mon. - Fri. 9am — 8pm Sat. 8am — 8pm Sun. 9am — 6pm For appointments: 901.261.4400

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

never feel ruffled again .

9

POLITICS By Jackson Baker

ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL USA APRIL 12, 15 UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY CENTER THEATER FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

#3

TUESDAY | APRIL 12 | 7 PM

Se Dio vuole (God Willing)

#3

FRIDAY | APRIL 15 | 8 PM

Io, Arlecchino (I, Harlequin)

#3 FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.memphis.edu/fl/italian/ Paid parking is available in the Zach Curlin Parking Garage next to the University Center Films are in Italian with English subtitles

STD TeST April 7-13, 2016

$55

Free IUDs

CHO CES

Memphis Center for Reproductive Health

10

1726 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38104 901/274-3550 www.memphischoices.org

Roland Makes His Move Cohen looks free and clear in the 9th; there’s a Shelby County traffic jam in the 8th.

Don’t look now, but the 2018 Shelby County mayor’s race has formally begun.

Shelby County Commission chairman Terry Roland has scheduled a “campaign kick-off event” for Saturday morning, from 8 to 10:30 a.m. at the Old Timers Restaurant in Millington.

Roland has been advertising his intent to run for county mayor for some time and, with this early announcement, clearly hopes to steal a march on the other known serious Republican entry, County Trustee David Lenoir. Roland says he hopes to unite the urban, rural, and suburban areas of Shelby County in common cause and to spur the county’s economic growth through aggressive use, a la metropolitan Nashville, of TIFF financing.

• “[FedEx Founder] Fred Smith treats packages better than Delta Airlines treats their passengers,” said Ninth District congressman Steve Cohen last Wednesday in a luncheon address to the Memphis Economic Club. Cohen thereby launched a dual complaint 1) at the failure of Congress to establish comfortable seating standards for air travel, and 2) at Delta, for closing down its Memphis hub and drastically cutting flights from Memphis International Airport.

The congressman was none too charitable, either, with President Obama, handing the president the following grades on an alliterative trio of issues Cohen has considered urgent: A on Cuba; C-minus on commutations; and D-minus on cannabis.

Cohen was kinder to himself, ticking off a list of things he’s accomplished, then mimicking Donald Trump’s voice to boast “lots of wins this year, and some of them were YUGE!” It is beginning to seem clear that, for the very first time since his initial successful congressional race in 2006, Cohen is actually going to get a pass this year. No serious challenger is in sight after the dropout, several weeks ago, of state Senator Lee Harris. M. LaTroy Williams, a perennial, has filed, as has Cohen. Justin Ford, a member of the well-known political clan and a Shelby County commissioner, picked up a petition in January, but there has been no obvious follow-through since.

Meanwhile, the 8th Congressional District Republican primary field contracted a bit, with the withdrawal last week of Shelby County Commissioner Steve Basar, who keeps running into closed lanes and traffic jams as he looks for a route upward and outward in his political career.

Since his narrow 2012 victory over former Commissioner Marilyn Loeffel in a special primary election to fill a seat vacated by Commissioner Mike Carpenter, pharmaceutical executive Basar has run into one roadblock after another in the process of inheriting Carpenter’s mantle as a Republican distrusted and regarded as a RINO (Republican in Name Only) by some other GOP members.

Basar was thwarted by fellow Republicans in two attempts to gain the commission chairmanship and votes with some consistency with commission Democrats. He has floated notions of running for Memphis mayor and Shelby County mayor and late last year had talked of opposing Cohen in the 9th District before the 8th District race opened up with the announcement of incumbent Stephen Fincher that he would not seek reelection.

Like several others, Basar declared his interest in the 8th District seat, but later determined that the road was overcrowded with better-funded opponents, five of them from Shelby County, where 55 percent of the district’s voters reside. Hence, his exit.

The next Shelby Countian who may be edged to the shoulder could be County Register Tom Leatherwood, once something of a GOP militant in the state Senate but in recent years seemingly content with a low-profile reputation as a competent and none-too-partisan administrator of his county office.

With some logic, however, Leatherwood seems to believe that he has enough wherewithal and residual support from outer-county conservatives to hold his own and perhaps sneak through to victory in the 8th District’s multi-candidate battle royale.

Another candidate with similar hopes of prevailing in the end, despite not being regarded just now as a favorite, is Memphis radiologist/ businessman George Flinn, a former county commissioner and frequent candidate who commands serious attention because of his oft-demonstrated ability to lavishly self-fund.

But most of the tout talk going on in local political circles concerns three

other Shelby Countians — County Mayor Mark Luttrell, state Senator Brian Kelsey, and former U.S. Attorney David Kustoff.

Luttrell became an instant favorite upon his entry into the race last month, mainly on the strength of his electoral track record, dominant governmental position, and preexistent political network in Shelby County. But he also has good connections in other parts of the district — Crockett County, where he was born and raised; Madison County, where he attended college at Union University, and Tipton County, where several of his near relations are prominent. And he has strong ties to the Sheriffs’ Association network through his stint as Shelby County sheriff.

Before Luttrell’s entry, Kustoff, who has scored well in his fund-raising efforts, seemed to be having good luck cornering the support of influential Shelby County Republicans, who value his work in numerous GOP campaigns, including his direction of the 2000 statewide effort of then presidential candidate George W. Bush. A good many local GOP activists appear to be holding fast for Kustoff against the magnetic draw of Luttrell.

And there’s Kelsey, an ambitious politician with a well-deserved reputation as a legislative wave-maker, especially among movement conservatives. In addition to his political base in Shelby County, Kelsey has support from Jackson GOP power broker Jimmy Wallace, who paved the way for Fincher’s campaign in 2010. And, though Kelsey’s maverick ways may have earned him as many detractors as allies in Nashville, he was the recent beneficiary of a big-ticket fund-raiser in the state’s capital, hosted by six fellow state senators across the GOP spectrum.

The superfluity (if you will) of candidates from Shelby County could be a threat to any and all of them, of course.

Jackson businessman Brad Greer entered the race with this salvo: “I am concerned that rural West Tennessee will not be adequately represented by the Memphis/ Shelby County lifelong politicians who have jumped into this race.”

Greer won a straw poll of Republican candidates at the recent Madison County GOP Lincoln Day dinner. There’s a possible parallel to the 7th District GOP congressional primary of 2002, when Kustoff, then-city Councilman Brent Taylor, and thencounty Commissioner Mark Norris split the county’s vote, allowing Nashville-area candidate Marsha Blackburn to claim a relatively easy win.

JACKSON BAKER

POLITICS

MEMPHIS UKULELE BAND APRIL 7

LAURELWOOD UNPLUGGED IN THE COURTYARD

JOIN US IN THE COURTYARD NEXT TO PANERA BREAD FOR AN EVENING WITH SOME OF MEMPHIS’ FINEST MUSICIANS. BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND ENJOY FREE LIVE MUSIC EACH THURSDAY IN APRIL 6PM-8PM.

BRENNAN VILLINES TRIO APRIL 14

MARCELLA & HER LOVERS APRIL 21

AVON DALE APRIL 28

LAURELWOOD SHOPPING CENTER POPLAR AT GROVE PARK ROAD S. LAURELWOODMEMPHIS.COM FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE CALL 901.682.8436

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

This month, the Shelby County Commission seems to be on trek … er, on track to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a famous cult TV show. That would be Star Trek, the subject of an anniversary celebration from 3 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 9th, at Laurelwood Booksellers.

According to a press release from the event’s moderator, assistant University of Memphis Law School dean and former Shelby County Commissioner Steve Mulroy, activities on that occasion will include “a trivia contest, a panel discussion featuring the Commercial Appeal’s John Beifuss, and the screening of an episode.”

The county commission could get into the act with the passage of a resolution declaring April 9th “Star Trek Day in Shelby County.” Such a resolution, recognizing the show as “‘pioneering television, using the metaphors of science fiction to explore social issues,’ as well as for its groundbreaking racially diverse cast” will be presented by Commissioner Reginald Milton, a self-professed Trekkie himself, at a committee session of the commission on Wednesday.

If all goes well and the resolution gets committee approval, it will be beamed up on the agenda and formally approved during the commission’s regularly scheduled public meeting next Monday. The resolution goes beyond this year and would mark April 9th as a date for annual observance of “Star Trek Day” in Shelby County. The first such observance was declared by the commission on April 9, 2014, which happened to be the last day as a member of the commission for Mulroy, an UrTrekkie and the sponsor of the resolution that year.

NEWS & OPINION

Ur-Trekkie Steve Mulroy

11

E D ITO R IAL

100 Days It has been 100 days since the formal ascension to the mayor’s office of former city Councilman Jim Strickland on New Year’s Day, and, though it wasn’t his formal “First 100 Days” address, which will occur soon, along with the mayor’s first budget message, members of the Rotary Club of Memphis got a preview on Tuesday.

Strickland eschewed grandiosity in outlining what he called the “big picture,” just as he had during last year’s mayoral race, when he campaigned on a triad of what could be called housekeeping issues — crime, blight, and accountability in government. On Tuesday, Strickland stated his goal as that of having the city be “brilliant at the basics.”

Crime control was, once again, at the top of that list, along with such other basics as attending to potholes, making sure the city’s 911 system was functional and responsive, and conforming to state law that now requires that Memphis, along with all other Tennessee local jurisdictions, must maintain its pension obligations in a condition of complete funding.

Those matters had to be dealt with “so that the great things in Memphis can grow and grow,” Strickland said.

One of the matters he considered in some detail was the specter of population loss, a circumstance the mayor saw as being the proximate cause of most urban decline in the nation and which had been an undeniable aspect of recent Memphis history. Strickland cited statistics showing that Memphis’ population, which stood at 650,000 30 years ago, had been maintained at that level only by means of continuous annexations.

Strickland noted that some 110,000 Memphis citizens (including, he said, his own parents) had left the city in the period from 1980 to 2010, and they had been replaced by as many newly annexed

residents in adjacent areas, not all of them — as introduction of a de-annexation bill in the current session of the General Assembly made clear — happy at the change in their status.

Hence the passage of legislation two years ago that blocks further urban annexations without a reciprocal vote of acceptance in areas about to be annexed, and hence also the more recent deannexation bill, which easily passed the Tennessee House and was stalled in a commmittee of the state Senate only via the strenuous efforts of a coalition partly engineered by Strickland.

That coalition — including representatives of Memphis and other city governments statewide, the Greater Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce, and influential bill opponents in the legislature and state government at large — succeeded in relegating the de-annexation measure to the limbo of “summer study.”

But the challenge of maintaining the city’s population and improving its economic base remains, Strickland said, who cited various programs, including a massive effort to increase the city’s police force and to hire a world-class police director, along with upgrades to the city’s transportation system, encouragement of universal pre-K, and an effort to regain Memphis’ lost reputation as one of the nation’s cleanest cities. (“Be Clean by 2019” is the slogan for that endeavor.)

There was a lot more to what the mayor said, but that idea of being “brilliant at the basics” is the key to all of it. We hope he succeeds. It will not be easy.

April 7-13, 2016

C O M M E N TA R Y b y D a n z i g e r

12

V I E W P O I N T B y Te d R a l l

THE BEST

If you suck at your job, you’ll get fired.

If you suck because you’re lazy, you’ll definitely get fired.

Unless you’re a member of the political and economic establishment of a disintegrating superstate. If you’re incompetent and indolent but reliably loyal and unquestioning, your sinecure in the system that props up the powers that be is safe.

The New York Times, an institution so beholden to the establishment that it subjects a major presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, to a virtual media blackout, is this week’s case study in establishmentarian unaccountability.

After effectively donating nearly half a billion dollars of media coverage to the campaign of Donald Trump, corporate media is finally beginning to wonder whether teeing the country up for its first potential bona fide fascist dictatorship was a good idea.

In the Times, reliably mistaken op-ed columnist David Brooks allowed that, just maybe, opinion mongers like him ought to have noticed the building voter outrage over “free trade” deals like NAFTA and TPP — agreements supported by him and his paper’s editorial board — that gutted America’s industrial heartland and are driving the Sanders and Trump campaigns.

“Trump voters are a coalition of the dispossessed. They have suffered lost jobs, lost wages, lost dreams. The American system is not working for them, so naturally they are looking for something else,” Brooks wrote on March 18th.

“Moreover,” continued the man who thought invading Iraq would be a cakewalk, “many in the media, especially me, did not understand how they would express their alienation. We expected Trump to fizzle because we were not socially intermingled with his supporters and did not listen carefully enough. For me, it’s a lesson that I have to change the way I do my job if I’m going to report accurately on this country.”

This is a stunning admission.

Let’s set aside the question of how likely it is that Brooks really will make the effort to get out more. (My guess: not very.) Why should the Times — and, more to the point, the readers whose paid subscriptions pay Brooks’ salary — keep a man on staff who admits that he sucks at his job because he’s too lazy to interact with the American people?

Brooks deserves to have plenty of company as he walks the unemployment version of the long Green Mile.

On March 28th, fellow Times

writer Nicholas Kristof went even further, in a piece titled “My Shared Shame: The Media Helped Make Trump.” “We were largely oblivious to the pain among working-class Americans and thus didn’t appreciate how much his message resonated,” Kristof wrote.

Most Americans are working class. In other words, Kristof and his colleagues admit they don’t cover the problems that affect most Americans. Again, why does he still have a job?

Believe it or not, there are scores — maybe hundreds — of opinion writers who do know what’s going on in their own country. They write well. They get stories right. They saw the Trump and Sanders populist phenomena coming. But you won’t find any of them in the print pages of major newspapers like the Times, or even in the low-pay ghettos of their web-only content.

Newsrooms at stodgy institutions like the Times have their token women and people of color.

Because you can’t be a good journalist and a shill for a corporate media obsessed with access to the powers-that-be.

As usual, in these moments of MSM navel-gazing, they almost get it right.

Kristof continues: “Media elites rightly talk about our insufficient racial, ethnic, and gender diversity, but we also lack economic diversity. We inhabit a middle-class world and don’t adequately cover the part of America that is struggling and seething.

We spend too much time talking to senators, not enough to the jobless.”

Class diversity is a real thing.

Newsrooms at stodgy institutions like the Times have their token women and people of color, but most are women and POC from well-off families. They attend expensive journalism schools with few graduates from poor families and struggling small towns. As Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton prove, coming from a traditionally disadvantaged group is no guarantee that someone understands or cares about the troubles of the economically oppressed.

More to the point, we need a new class of intuitive journalists. Men and women with empathy. People who have a clue about what’s happening in their own country.

Ted Rall’s next book is After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan.

IN TUNICA

TRACY MORGAN:

JENNIFER NETTLES

JASON BONHAM’S

BILL ENGVALL

PICKING UP THE PIECES APRIL 29

MAY 21

LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE JUNE 3

JUNE 17

GEORGE LOPEZ JULY 8

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

Why the corporate media completely missed the rise of populist candidates like Trump and Sanders.

ENTERTAINMENT

UPCOMING SHOWS APRIL 8 | BUDDY GUY MAY 28 | FOREIGNER JULY 22 | BRIAN WILSON PET SOUNDS 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

NEWS & OPINION

Blind Pigs

Tickets available online at Ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000.

Must be 21 years or older to gamble or attend events. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700. ©2016, Caesars License Company, LLC. All rights reserved.

269874_4.575x12.4_4c_V1.indd 1

13

3/24/16 4:04 PM

The

Shackle

A private government contractor's tracking device for non-documented immigrants is drawing criticism.

COVER STORY BY EILEEN TOWNSEND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREA MORALES

S

April 7-13, 2016

ofia Gonzales* had just gotten off a long shift at her weekend job when we met for coffee on a recent evening. The young woman, who carried herself with the confidence of a senior class president, was dressed in her work uniform: a T-shirt and black, bell-bottom pants. Despite being tired from work, Sofia introduced herself energetically, directing my attention to her feet. She explained, as she adjusted the fabric where it flared around her ankle, that she wore these pants for practical reasons. The loose fabric concealed a heavy, black device wrapped around her ankle. In Spanish, she called the device her grillete — or, in English, her “shackle.”

“I feel embarrassed,” Sofia told me through a translator, gesturing toward the plastic ankle bracelet. “This makes me feel like a delinquent. People look at me like I am a criminal.”

Sofia has no criminal record, neither in America nor in her Central American home country. She is a recent immigrant to the United States and is currently seeking asylum from violence that has affected her family. She wears the device, a GPS tracking bracelet, as a part of a controversial immigration initiative known as the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program. She wears the monitor 14 24/7, including when she sleeps and when she showers.

Sofia is one of 178 adults and juveniles in Memphis, and of

497 in Tennessee, and almost 50,000 nationally who wear GPS ankle monitors. None of those wearing the shackles are considered criminal risks by the U.S. government.

From outward appearances, Sofia’s life seems like that of a well-balanced 20-something. She has a job and legal authorization to work. She lives with a few family members in Memphis and enjoys playing sports, though her participation is hindered by the half-pound monitor. She is learning English.

Despite having to charge the monitor for several hours a day, which requires her to tether herself to an electrical outlet, she is able to lead a semi-normal existence. She says that she feels like, even though she has only been in Memphis for a short time, she has already accomplished a lot.

But, like many undocumented individuals, Sofia is afraid that she will be sent back to a dangerous city in her home country where she is under threat of violence and where her relatives have been killed. She says that she wants to go by the rules here, that she has been fastidious about following immigration restrictions and guidelines.

But while her case hangs in the balance, she is subject to what she, and others in her situation, see as a demanding, confusing, and unfair surveillance program.

“Why would I run away?” asked Sofia. “I don’t understand. I have done everything they asked. I want to be here.”

A BIG BUSINESS

The 24/7 GPS monitoring of undocumented individuals is still a relatively new feature of the immigration system.

The program was introduced in 2004 by Immigrations Customs and Enforcement (ICE) as a way to monitor and

A woman in Memphis stands for a portrait with the ankle bracelet she’s been ordered to wear

by Immigration Customs and Enforcement; Casey Bryant (below), an immigration lawyer with Latino Memphis, sits for a portrait in Memphis. control the movement of immigrants who the government determines have no right to be in the country, but who, for any number of reasons, are not detained. Many are women and children. Since its inception a decade ago, the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) has expanded by tens of thousands of participants. It is promoted by ICE as an “alternative to detention.”

Advocates for the supervision program point out that GPS monitoring bracelets have the potential to be

immigrant, undocumented families are paying for other family members’ detention.”

Elena Vargas says that, because of the monitor, she is ashamed to leave her house. more humane, especially for juveniles and caregivers, than federal detention.

They also point out that the program saves the government money. According to ICE, the average daily cost per ISAP participant is $4.45, whereas detention can cost the government over $150 a day per participant.

But the program has come under fire from human rights advocates — including groups such as the Women’s Refugee Commission, Detention Watch Network, and, locally, Latino Memphis — who see it as offering a wrongheaded “solution” to something that was not a problem in the first place. Asylum-seekers such as Sofia, according to advocates, are not what ICE refers to as “flight risks” and do not deserve 24/7 surveillance. Critics argue that ISAP exists not for security, but for intimidation and private profit.

The GPS supervision of migrants is big business and getting bigger every year.

ISAP makes millions of dollars each year for the private

contractor, GEO Group, that provides and monitors the bracelets. GEO Group is, according to their latest financial report, “the sixth-largest correctional system in the U.S. … including the federal government and all 50 states.”

In 2015 GEO Group’s total revenues were roughly $1.8 billion dollars. ISAP is one of its biggest contracts. GEO Care, the GEO Group subsidiary that operates ISAP, made more than $302 million for the company in 2015. ISAP is operated by a GEO Care subcontractor called BI, which stands for “Behavioral Interventions.”

Critics say that the profitability of the tracking program creates incentive to expand the program, which criminalizes asylum seekers. They also maintain that the way the program operates — locally, in Memphis, and nationally — can be opaque and even unconstitutional.

Casey Bryant, an immigration lawyer with Latino Memphis, says, “They say they are helping, but they are actually just violating people’s human rights and trying to redistribute costs to immigrant families. In effect,

Ana Ramirez* first came to the United States in the mid2000s. A young refugee from a war-torn state, Ana has lived without papers almost her whole life. She lived and worked as a domestic employee in an abusive situation in Mexico before migrating to the states. She now has school-aged American-citizen children. Her husband, also an undocumented immigrant, is the sole provider for her and the children.

A year ago, Ana left the states to see family in Mexico and attempted to return. Upon her re-entry, she was detained and released with an ankle monitor. She was told by ICE that ISAP was optional, but if she declined the ankle monitor she could be detained.

“When I first came to the country, I walked in the desert for three days and nights to get here. I felt free,” Ana says. “Now, with the grillete, I feel like a prisoner. I feel ashamed. I don’t leave my house.”

Ana’s story is similar to the other four women who agreed to be interviewed for this article, all of whom requested to remain anonymous for fear of negative ramifications to their immigration cases.

Compared to the younger Sofia, Ana has less mobility or agency. She has no means of regular transportation and cannot work. She is waiting for what’s known as a “credible fear interview,” which would establish in court that she has legitimate reason to fear a return to her home country.

A survivor of domestic abuse, Ana — and other women like her — is in a vulnerable position. She cannot speak English, and, though she has applied for work authorization, the stringent measures of ISAP would keep her from having a weekday job. She depends on her husband for transportation and support.

Unlike many, Ana does have legal counsel. She sought out a lawyer after an ICE officer told her, during a checkin, that she had to buy a plane ticket back to the country where she was born. When she said she did not have enough money to buy the ticket, she was told by ICE to go to a church and ask for charity. “I was scared,” Ana said. “I was confused.”

Since then, Ana’s lawyer has fought to get her case back into immigration court, where Ana could be granted asylum. In the meantime, Ana wears the monitor, which causes her headaches, and is often hot and uncomfortable around her leg. She says that the monitor is a source of constant stress.

But when asked whether, if she’d known she would be monitored, it would have dissuaded her from coming into the country to be with her children and husband, Ana’s answer is simple: “No.” continued on page 16

COVER STORY m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

WATCHED WOMEN

15

continued from page 15

AN UNCLEAR SYSTEM

Like all the women interviewed for this story, Ana does not know how or why her schedule of in-person checkins is determined. She also does not know why she was selected for monitoring, when others with her same immigration status do not wear the monitors. She does not know when or if it will ever be removed.

A spokesperson for ICE told the Flyer that “when determining whether or not an individual should be enrolled in the ISAP program, numerous factors are considered on a case-by-case basis. These factors include, but are not limited to: current immigration status, criminal history, compliance history, community or family ties, being a caregiver or provider, and other humanitarian considerations.” Each person’s specific requirements under ISAP are also determined on a case-by-case basis.

Ana has a particularly stringent regime of check-ins: Once a week, her husband takes her to the immigration office to see her assigned ICE officer, a process that can take between one and seven hours. Also once a week, on another day, a representative from the private security contractor visits her at home. The contractor searches her home, though Ana has not been told why.

Ana’s lawyer is concerned about the legitimacy of the home searches.

“They have no warrant to search her home,” says her lawyer, whose name is withheld to preserve Ana’s anonymity. “But they are working under ICE, and ICE is getting away with violating their constitutional rights. But

then when you go and complain, ICE tells you, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, this is in lieu of being detained.’ Well that doesn’t leave us with a lot of room to argue because we don’t want that for them, and they don’t want that for themselves. It is a hard case to make.”

Two of the four immigrant women interviewed for this story also reported that their homes had been searched.

Another woman, Elena Vargas,* said that the private contractor told her that she was a social worker when she came to her house. “She said she was a social worker,” Elena said, “but I knew she was not a social worker.”

When asked whether these searches were protocol, representatives from BI and ICE did not comment.

Once, when Ana was on her way to see her lawyer, a BI employee called and asked her where she was going. She felt intimidated. Said Ana’s lawyer of the incident, “They are watching them very, very closely.”

Bryant said that she had a client who’d been in the country for months and was called into the ICE office on routine business. There, her client was, without warning, given one of the monitors. Bryant said that she has had difficulty interacting with representatives from BI on behalf of her clients and was told that BI case managers “don’t speak to lawyers.” When Bryant asked the case manager direct questions, the contractor avoided eye contact and spoke only to Bryant’s client.

Said Bryant, “A lot of people have no idea why they got [the monitor.] They say, ‘They basically just slapped it on me.’ And, you know, you don’t just slap someone in jail. You don’t just throw them in there and not tell them why.”

A HISTORY OF ALTERNATIVES

The idea for alternatives to detention is nothing new, but the idea that those alternatives should involve 24/7 surveillance is something that emerged after 9/11, with the genesis of the Department of Homeland Security. Alternatives to detention (ATD) programs have grown and changed alongside greatly expanded immigrant detention programs.

Before 1996, the only non-citizens detained were those considered by the government to be a flight risk or a security threat. There were fewer than 10,000 beds reserved for detained immigrants in facilities around the country.

There are now more than 30,000 beds in facilities across the country, many of them in private facilities operated

by GEO and another private corrections company, Corrections Corporation of America.

Alternatives to detention programs have changed from focusing on social work to focusing on surveillance.

A 2012 report by the Rutgers School of Law-Newark Immigrant Rights Clinic, in conjunction with the American Friends Service Committee, contrasts the current iteration of ISAP with a pre-9/11 alternative, the Appearance Assistance Program, run by a group called the Vera Institute of Justice: “The program was intended as a true alternative to detention, in that the Vera Institute screened detained immigrants in New York and New Jersey to determine eligibility for release from detention and acceptance into the program. The program assessed its 500 participants individually to determine the best methods of supervision in order to ensure appearance for court hearings and compliance with removal orders …

"BEFORE 1996, THE ONLY NON-CITIZENS DETAINED WERE THOSE CONSIDERED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO BE A FLIGHT RISK." 901-278-8965

TuT-uncommon AnTiques 421 N. Watkins St Memphis, TN 38104

GRIZZLIES 5K 9 : 0 0 A M S AT, A P R . 9 Starting at $45, receive race entry, a Grizzlies 5K commemorative t-shirt,

• Huge selection of jewelry precious and costume, 1850 to 1950

plus a 2016 Playoff ticket. Benefiting the Memphis Grizzlies Foundation.

April 7-13, 2016

For more information or sign-up, visit grizzlies.com/5k

VS

| WARRIORS

• Retro Furniture

7 : 0 0 P M S AT, A P R . 9

• Pottery & Glass

Join us starting at 5pm for a party

• Collectibles & Art

on the Plaza and stay for Fan

We replace stones in costume jewlery.

Appreciation Night presented by First Tennessee featuring a Grizzlies

Wed - Sat 11-5 Sun 12-4

Poster for all fans in attendance.

901.888.HOOP | GRIZZLIES.COM

16 WAG_160407_FLYER_6.975x6.1.indd 1

4/1/16 3:33 PM

Over the course of three years, the Vera pilot program reportedly saved the federal government an estimated $4,000 per individual participant. Beyond being cost-effective, the AAP showed remarkable success in its goal of ensuring attendance at hearings.”

The Vera Institute’s program was aimed at making sure non-citizens met their court requirements. It did so successfully, without the need for surveillance, but surveillance by for-profit companies is becoming the norm in the international migration industry.

In an interview, Michael Flynn, executive director of the Global Detention Project, commented on the expansion of surveillance programs: “There is clearly and has been for the past 30 years an increase across the globe in using enhanced technology to ‘manage migration effectively.’ It runs the gamut from evasive and harsh practices such as ankle bracelets to things like exchanging databases across countries so that they can better identify people. This involves a lot of outsourcing [to private companies.] I’m not an anti-privatization activist, but one does have to wonder whether or not these practices are encouraged by companies that have something to gain.”

AN ENDGAME

All four women interviewed for this story expressed that, while the physical and time requirements of being monitored are burdensome, the hardest thing for them is the stigma of wearing the monitor.

“People look at me like I have murdered someone,” Elena said. “I don’t want to go to the hospital when I am sick, or to the grocery store.”

The women feel intimidated and confused — something that, according to immigrant rights advocates, seems to be part of the point. They cite the opaqueness of ISAP as part of what makes it intimidating.

The 2012 Rutgers report on ISAP highlighted a number of flaws in the program, including ICE officers’ lack of “clear and up-to-date” guidelines, a lack of a public and standardized assessment tool for who participates in the program, a lack of consistency, and the inhumanity of constant supervision. Rutgers put forth suggestions for more community-based models as well as greater transparency on the part of ICE. Those suggestions have not been answered, either nationally or in Memphis.

Meanwhile, since 2012, the number of men, women, and children enrolled in the 24/7 GPS supervision program has grown by 20,000. Sofia, Elena, Ana, as well as their children and families, wait to find out what will happen to them.

“I feel like this is pointless,” Sofia said. “I could cut it off. I could run. But I don’t want to.

So why are they doing this? It’s overdone. We get it. We are not supposed to be here.” *Names, details, and photos were edited to protect the identities of individuals in this story.

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m., $28 Consisting of musicians who met in Guinea refugee camps while fleeing attacks in their native country, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars turned their personal persecution and tragedy into gloriously uplifting music captured in studio albums and a documentary film. The band is a potent example of the redeeming power of music and the ability of the human spirit to persevere through unimaginable hardship, emerging with optimism intact.

Today, SLRAS is one of Africa’s top touring and recording bands with an encouraging message of hope, faith and joy.

For tickets

visit buckmanartscenter.com or call (901) 537-1483 60 Perkins Extended Memphis, TN 38117

Like us on Facebook!

APRIL 22 | LANDERS CENTER

PowerSharesSeries.com

COVER STORY m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

McEnroe Roddick Courier Philippoussis

17

steppin’ out

We Recommend: Culture, News + Reviews

Park View

Overton Park’s Old Forest

By Chris Davis

Do you know what’s really lurking in Overton Park? Well, other than protesters, grass parkers, policemen, and fence installers, etc.? This week, teams of scientists, naturalists, and volunteers will join forces in an intense, day-long effort to create a snapshot of the park’s biodiversity. The Memphis Urban BioBlitz is a race against time to document and identify as many different plants, animals, insects, fungi, and microbes as possible in Overton Park and other green spaces around Memphis including Lichterman Nature Center, T.O. Fuller State Park, Shelby Farms, and the Meeman Biological Field Station.

The BioBlitz is a decade-long collaboration between National Geographic and the National Park Service created to celebrate the Park Service’s centennial. This year, the program goes wide, moving out of the national parks and digging deep into the flora and fauna of more than 200 urban greenspaces coast to coast.

The Overton Park Conservancy has already launched a digital field guide listing more than 350 different kinds of plants, but according to spokesperson Melissa McMasters, “There’s a lot more we can learn about pretty much everything else.

“We’ll start out having tours focusing on different things: insects, birds, even mushrooms,” McMasters says. “So, not only is the public getting educated by these professionals, they’re able to document, photograph, and upload these photographs to a website called iNaturalist.org.”

McMasters says she’s got no idea what the BioBlitz may uncover, though there’s at least one animal on her wish list. “We know there’s a gray fox out there somewhere,” she says. “A couple of people have seen it, but nobody on our staff ever has.”

JUSTIN FOX BURKS

MEMPHIS BIOBLITZ, SATURDAY, APRIL 9TH AT LICHTERMAN NATURE CENTER, OVERTON PARK, AND MEEMAN BIOLOGICAL STATION. BIRDING BEGINS AT 8 A.M. EVERYTHING ELSE GETS UNDERWAY AT 9 A.M. FREE.

April 7-13, 2016

Take a page from their book — Literacy Mid-South in Overton Park.

Books, p. 28

18

THURSDAY April 7

FRIDAY April 8

Conversation with the Curator Metal Museum, 6 p.m.

Learn about the artist and check out the exhibit “F.I.R.E. Glenn Zweygardt: Then & Now” during this tour led by curator Grace Stewart.

Memphis Fashion Week Cadre Building, 8 p.m., $50 Includes fashions by J Brand, Hayley Paige, Abbey Glass, and Faherty Brand. The Emerging Memphis Designer Project show is Saturday at 8 p.m. at Memphis College of Art.

Solo Performances TheatreSouth, 8 p.m., $17-$23 Voices of the South celebrates its 20th anniversary with performances of Rebecca Fisher’s The Magnificence of the Disaster and Todd Berry’s Beyond the Box. Go to voicesofthesouth.org for a full schedule.

Goodnight Moon/Runaway Bunny The Orpheum, 6:30 p.m., $15-$20 Puppetry and original music bring these classic tales to life.

Loflin Yard is changing the landscape.

Food News, p. 38

“She’s Silver and Orange 2” Crosstown Arts, 6 p.m.

All-women group show featuring work by Nikkila Carroll, Margaret Davis, Vanessa Gonzalez, Leanna Hicks, Amber Shircliff, Jessica Budnick, and Megan Wilde.

Proceeds from sales go to Sister Supply.

The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) Theatre Memphis, 8 p.m., $25 Three actors take on Shakespeare during this comedy. Expect audience participation.

Momentum Michael D. Rose Theatre Lecture Hall, University of Memphis, 7:30 p.m.

Spring concert from the Department of Theatre & Dance featuring choreography from Sai Somboon, Lauren Stallings, Kristen Lucas, Nancy Shainberg Kline, and Jill Guyton Nee. Southern Junkers Market Agricenter International, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., $7 Featuring some 50 vendors selling vintage, repurposed, upcycled, and antique goods. Continues Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cultural Exchange

By Chris Davis

Everybody recognizes Dave Brubeck’s recording of “Take 5,” with its enticing two-chord vamp and bluesy, sax-driven melody. Not only is it the best-selling jazz single in history, for many years it was the frequently repeated theme for NBC’s Today show. But Brubeck’s career was long, and his catalog runs deep, as this week’s Brubeck Festival will show with performances of the late composer’s sacred and classical works, in addition to a jazz concert by his sons and a concert musical called The Real Ambassadors, which was originally developed as a collaboration with Louis Armstrong and his band.

Like most music fans, conductor, professor, and pianist William Skoog came to know Brubeck by way of his jazz recordings and performances. Then, as Skoog’s career evolved in a more classical direction, he discovered a “marvelous compendium” of choral and orchestral works.

“People don’t know that he wrote these major oratorios,” says Skoog, who became personally acquainted with Brubeck as the result of his interest in the lesser-known work. Skoog also conducted one of Brubeck’s major works for the Rhodes College Master Singers, which led to a relationship with the composer’s son Darius, and eventually to the creation of Memphis’ Brubeck Festival 2016.

“A lot of people don’t know this, but Dave was a major civil rights activist in his lifetime,” Skoog says, relaying the story of how, in the 1950s, Brubeck, then the leader of an integrated ensemble, refused to play the Monterey Jazz Festival because of a “whites only” rule. The Real Ambassadors is a loose retelling of the Louis Armstrong story with an emphasis on “cultural exchange” and how doors opened to the great jazz “ambassador” remained closed and locked for other African Americans.

BRUBECK FESTIVAL 2016 INCLUDES: BRUBECK ART EXHIBIT, APRIL 1ST–MAY 29TH AT THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM; “THE REAL AMBASSADORS,” FRIDAY, APRIL 8TH, 7:30 P.M., AND SUNDAY, APRIL 10TH AT 2 P.M. AT PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE; “TO HOPE,” A MASS, AND BRUBECKS PLAY BRUBECK CONCERT SATURDAY, APRIL 9TH, 7:30 P.M. AT THE CANNON CENTER.

WEDNESDAY April 13

Impossible Language story booth, 7-9 p.m., With poetry by Ada Limon, Adam Clay, and Michael Robins.

Cash’d Out Lafayette’s Music Room, 10 p.m.

A Johnny Cash tribute band called the “next best thing to Johnny Cash.”

Honeys on Tap! Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School, 8 p.m., $12-$20 A performance by Memphis professional tap dance company.

Includes hip-hop, spoken word, aerial-tap fusion, breakdance, and more. Encore performances Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Hopped II Memphis Made Brewing Company, noon-9 p.m.

Spring beer festival highlighting hoppy beers. Includes live music, giveaways, and food trucks.

Booksigning by Lula Flann Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 7-9 p.m.

Meristem Book Club (named in honor of the old Cooper-Young bookstore) hosts Lula Flann, author of the lesbian novel Buckled Down.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

SATURDAY April 9

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

Helen Mirren in Eye in the Sky, the film about drone warfare that aims to push your buttons.

Film, p. 41

19

M U S I C F E AT U R E B y C h r i s S h a w

Persistence Pays Star and Micey on their new album.

S

tar and Micey have been on a tear since recently releasing their new album produced by Grammy award-winner Mark Neill. I caught up with Nick Redmond and Joshua Cosby before they play a free show at Shangri-La this Friday to talk more about their new album and the process that led up to the creation of Get ’Em Next Time.

— Chris Shaw

April 7-13, 2016

The Memphis Flyer: How was Mark Neill involved with the recording of your latest album, Get ’Em Next Time?

Joshua Cosby: Neill produced the song “I Can’t Wait” at Royal Studios, and then we did the rest of the record at his place in Valdosta, Georgia.

Nick Redmond: It was a 30-day process in southern Georgia.

20

What was Valdosta like? Thirty days seems like a long time to record an album in such a small place.

Nick: The studio was called Soil of the South Studios, and it’s a oneroom studio modeled after Sun Studio.

It’s an old ballet studio, and when you walk in there, it looks like you’re walking into 1955. The place had rotary telephones, old Coke machines, and all the microphones were super old; it just feels like you enter a different time when you enter that room. We loved working with Mark because he’s wonderful and out of his mind.

Joshua: He dresses in black every day, with a little cross pin in his shirt.

And it looks like he’s always wearing the same pair of clothes. He has the Roy Orbison outfit down, and I

Star and Micey play Shangri-La Records this Friday. think he actually has Roy Orbison’s sunglasses that he wears every day.

How’d you guys land the music spot on the Memphis CVB commercial?

Nick: To be honest with you, Chris, I don’t really know. The only way it could have happened is if they approached us, but I don’t really remember how it all went down. We said yes, of course, because it was an honor. But honestly I don’t remember who was having lunch to make that happen for us.

Joshua: I think it came from the Grizzlies connection that we have. We played one of those Grizzlies games where you play on the balcony during a game. That may have opened the door.

That commercial has been running for like three years now, but they just keep putting us on.

What was your reaction the first time you saw the commercial?

Nick: I heard about the commercial from friends and family, but it was a year or so before I actually saw it, because I didn’t have a television at the time. I have a television now, but no cable. But don’t worry about me, I’m not just sitting alone in my apartment.

I’m doing fine.

Joshua: I felt excited about it but also insecure at the same time. I feel better about it when little kids like my nieces or the kids I’ve taught at the School of Rock come up to me and tell me they saw me on TV. It’s still an honor.

P E R S I S T E N C E P AY S

T H E U N I T E D S TAT E S A I R F O R C E B A N D

Would you say that the commercial has helped you guys in terms of exposure?

Nick: To be honest, man, we had toured for six years at that point, even quitting our jobs so we could just tour full-time. Without ever leaving the couch, that commercial has done more for us than any of that touring combined. The opportunities that came after that commercial spot have been crazy.

How would you describe the emotions that are at play on the new album?

Joshua: I think a big part of what’s conveyed on the album is a product of being with each other and the producer for 30 days straight. It got to be heavy.

We started to miss our families, and we were forced to come together in that room. There was a bit of a dirge, but we just played through the pain.

When you go on tour, you normally try to spend some time alone, but there was basically one coffee shop in Valdosta, so we always wound up at the same place. Being in the middle of nowhere in Georgia was also a factor.

At this point would you consider yourself a touring band based in Memphis, or a local band?

Nick: We will always be a local band, but we are a local band that had to go on tour to stay together.

Star and Micey at Shangri-La Records, Friday, April 8th, 7 p.m. Free

Thursday, April 14 at 7 p.m.

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts 255 N. Main St. Memphis, TN 38103 For FREE tickets, visit us at:

www.eventbrite.com SEARCH: Cannon Center www.memphistn-usafband.eventbrite.com Proudly sponsored by The Memphis Flyer ★ FREE Admission ★ Tickets required ★ No reserved seats

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

This new album was six years in the making. What took so long? Were you just touring constantly?

Joshua: I feel like it’s okay to talk about this now. We were in a record contract with Ardent, and it got real muddled up and tied up, and we were unable to release new music. In a nutshell, that’s the nicest way to say it.

It just about drove us mad; we almost gave up. When you’re writing songs and songs and you can’t release them, it’s frustrating. But we love Ardent records, and we hope they do well.

Nick: Sometimes things just come to an end, and luckily [the record label] Thirty Tigers swept in and fixed everything.

FREE CONCERT!

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Yeah, there are times when I’m watching a Grizzlies game and that commercial comes on four or five times.

Nick: My brother says the same thing, and he lives in Texas. I’ve honestly never seen it live. My dad taped it and showed it to me once.

Joshua: I should probably add that now I mute it when I see it.

w w w. u s a f b a n d . a f. m i l

21

L O C A L B E AT B y J o s h u a C a n n o n

Starlite Revue Returns Beale Street Caravan celebrates Delta music heritage.

A vision came to Reverend John Wilkins in a dream. He was playing at the Starlite Revue, a prominent charity-driven gospel and blues concert hosted by WDIA through the 1960s. Unique, however, was that rising Midtown Memphis musicians joined him onstage. The idea shook Wilkins from bed, and he called Kevin Cubbins, executive producer of the Beale Street Caravan public radio show. Inspired, they rebirthed the festival last year. Now, as Beale Street Caravan celebrates its 20th anniversary, the Revue will return April 8th to the Orpheum’s Halloran Centre. With performances from co-headliners Wilkins and Jimbo Mathus, as well as contemporary artists like the Bell Singers, the Revue will merge Delta veterans with up-andcoming musicians. The Flyer spoke with Cubbins about what he calls “the most infectious music on earth” and his plans for Beale Street Caravan’s future.

w Follo @

YER ISFLam for H P EM agr ils

M inst t deta on ntes co

TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT TICKETMASTER.COM • ALL TICKETMASTER LOCATIONS CHARGE BY PHONE AT 800-745-3000

GENERAL ADMISSION $15 • VIP $100

4.23.16 • DOWNTOWN • MEMPHIS ,TN

April 7-13, 2016

MISSISSIPPI RIVER PARK 11am - 8pm

22

FEATURING

NNUAL THE 14TH A

SIGN YOUR TEAM UP NOW, SPACE IS LIMITED!

www.southernhotwingfestival.com

The Memphis Flyer: How is preparing for the second annual Starlite Revue different from when you prepared for the first one?

Kevin Cubbins: I guess the biggest difference is that last year, me and Rev. Wilkins got inspired, winged it, and pulled it off by the seat of our pants. This year, it’s better organized, and WDIA has come on as a supporter.

How has the Beale Street Caravan grown over the past 20 years?

Public radio, overall, has been a pretty exciting and innovative space in the last decade. Our growth lately is more about catching up and getting plugged in to where we need to be and continuing to deliver high-quality content that focuses on the amazing music that flows from Memphis and the Delta region.

BSC is unique and extremely lucky in that while there’s plenty of programming dedicated to Americana, or whatever it’s called these days, and indie-type stuff, we’re basically the sole proprietors (on public radio) of gospel, blues, and soul.

Which is fine by me because it’s the greatest, most infectious, most evergreen music on earth. So I feel like we have a responsibility. It’s our mission to evolve as the landscape evolves and get this stuff out there.

This will be Rev. John Wilkins’ second time headlining. Why? And how did you decide who else would play?

The Starlite Revue is Rev. Wilkins’ party.

This is his vision. He called me one morning and said that he’d had a dream that night. A crystal clear dream. In that dream he was at the Starlite Revue, and he was playing with all of his friends just like he did back in the day. There were bands from Midtown playing, too. “White” bands.

He asked me to help him do this, and he said, “I know you know all those white kids in Midtown, and I know they probably don’t go to church much anymore, but I bet they did when they were little, and they probably remember the songs.

Get some of them involved and let’s make this happen.”

So I did. And that’s why the Reverend is headlining — it’s his vision. The other acts are longtime stalwarts of this absolutely unique, traditional gospel scene that thrives here and in North Mississippi and goes largely unnoticed by the mainstream.

And we have some local Midtown favorites thrown into the mix, too, to bring their take to the show.

Where did the name Starlite Revue originate?

There was an annual concert in Memphis, put on by WDIA, that featured the best in local blues and gospel. It was amazing, by all accounts.

What JazzFest is to New Rev. John Orleans in this day and Wilkins age, the Starlite Revue headlines the was to Memphis back in Starlite Revue the day. WDIA played a this Friday. very, very special role in the social fabric of this city in the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. That station is an irreplaceable part of Memphis history, and I wish more people understood that.

Of all that Beale Street Caravan has accomplished, what are you most proud of?

That’s tough. I mean, surviving for 20 years is a major accomplishment in public radio, and I have to credit our founders, who included Sid Selvidge, of course, for that. I’m always excited about what’s next.

Heck, I’m super excited about [an upcoming] radio show featuring the Walker Family Singers that we recorded on the front porch of Shangri-La Records. We have some new productions and initiatives we’ll be launching in the months to come — things that are pretty big steps for us.

I’m definitely proud of that.

The Starlite Revue featuring Rev. John Wilkins, Friday, April 8th at the Orpheum Halloran Centre, 7 p.m. $23.

WIN YOUR SHARE OF

100,000

$

Recent Winners!

You Could Be Next!

Saturdays in April • 7PM–11PM

HOT! HOT! HOT! SLOT GAME

Now Here!

Even more

See Guest Service Center for complete promotional rules and information. Must be 21 years of age or older. Must be a Bonanza Club Member.

Bally’s Tunica and RIH Acquisitions MS II, LLC have no affiliation with Caesars License Company, LLC and its affiliates other than a license to the Bally’s name.

Gambling Problem? Call 1-888-777-9696.

ballystunica.com

Pre-sale: pay your age (max $50) At the door: pay your age + $5 CONDOMONIUM is fun, provocative, a bit campy, and delivers messages that are important to the health of our community.

Local artists and designers create beautiful apparel and accessories using condomns and other materials.

SARA JANE AND FRANK GOODMAN

Tickets: memphischoices.org/condomonium

KC AND JEFF WARREN

Presented by

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

Warriors, what will you fight for?

23

BLACK VIOLIN BY COLIN BRENNAN

BUDDY GUY FRIDAY, APRIL 8TH HORSESHOE CASINO TUNICA

DISTURBED SUNDAY, APRIL 10TH NEW DAISY THEATER

BLACK VIOLIN SATURDAY, APRIL 9TH ORPHEUM

After Dark: Live Music Schedule April 7 - 13 Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

B.B. King’s Blues Club

1st Floor: Mercury Blvd.

Mondays-Thursdays, 711 p.m.; 1st Floor: Super 5 Fridays, Saturdays, 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m.; After Dark Band Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar 159 BEALE

Eric Hughes Thursdays, Fridays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke ongoing, 8:30 p.m.; Chris Gales Tuesday-Saturday, noon-8 p.m.

Handy Bar

143 BEALE 524-KING

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.

200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

Disturbed Sunday, April 10, 7 p.m.

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.

162 BEALE 521-1851

145 BEALE 578-3031

Mack 2 Band MondaysFridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m., and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Fuzzy Jeffries & the Kings of Memphis Friday, April 8, 6:3010:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Tuesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Saturday, April 9, 6:3010:30 p.m.; Sean “Bad” Apple Sunday, April 10, 6:3010:30 p.m., and Wednesday, April 13, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Mississippi Big Foot Thursday, April 7, 8:30 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Friday, April 8, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, April 9, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Grace Curran & the High Falutin’ Band Monday, April 11, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Wednesday, April 13, 8 p.m.midnight; Jeff Jensen Band Tuesday, April 12, 8 p.m.midnight.

Friday, April 8, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sean “Bad” Apple Saturday, April 9, 8 p.m.-midnight; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Monday, April 11, 8 p.m.midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

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

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

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

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

The Chaulkies Sunday, April 10, 8:30-midnight.

Memphis Sounds Lounge 22 N. THIRD 590-4049

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

The Orpheum 203 S. MAIN 525-3000

Blind Bear Speakeasy 119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays.

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

182 BEALE 528-0150

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

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Johnny Riley, Rodney Polk & the Moonshine Medicine Boys

Double J Smokehouse & Saloon

Memphis Symphony Orchestra - Brubecks Playing Brubeck Saturday, April 9, 7:30-9:30 p.m.;

Black Violin Saturday, April 9, 7-9:15 p.m.

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

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

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

April 7-13, 2016

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

King’s Palace Cafe

126 BEALE 529-0007

Kayla Walker Thursdays, 6-7 p.m.; Ruby Wilson and Family Thursdays, 7-9 p.m.; Susan Marshall Piano Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; Nat “King” Kerr Fridays, Saturdays, 9-10 p.m.; Susan Marshall Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m.

168 BEALE 576-2220

Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Friday, April 8, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, April 9, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson & The Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

King’s Palace Cafe’s Patio

Itta Bena

341-345 BEALE 577-1089

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

310 BEALE 654-5171

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

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

Hard Rock Cafe Lindsay Ell Thursday, April 7, 7 p.m.; The Everdeens Friday, April 8, 7 p.m.; IIIrd Class Saturday, April 9, 6 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill

Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cafe & Honky Tonk

GRIZZLIES VS. WARRIORS SATURDAY, APRIL 9

FAN APPRECIATION NIGHT presented by First Tennessee featuring a Grizzlies Poster for all fans.

901.888.HOOP · GRIZZLIES.COM

24

GRIZZ’S GARAGE SALE SATURDAY, APRIL 16

9AM AT FEDEXFORUM 15 seasons of t-shirts, hats, photos, furniture, autographed memorabilia, and more for sale BENEFITING ST. JUDE. GRIZZLIES.COM

JOURNEY & DOOBIE BROTHERS WEDNESDAY, MAY 25

These iconic groups are bringing the SAN FRANCISCO FEST 2016 tour with special guest DAVE MASON. TICKETS AVAILABLE!

CARRIE UNDERWOOD SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Seven-time Grammy winner and ACM Female Vocalist of the Year brings THE STORYTELLER TOUR to FedExForum.

ON SALE FRIDAY, APRIL 8 AT 10AM!

GET TICKETS AT FEDEXFORUM BOX OFFICE / TICKETMASTER LOCATIONS / 1.800.745.3000 / TICKETMASTER.COM / FEDEXFORUM.COM WHAFF_160407_Flyer.indd 1

3/31/16 2:44 PM

The Silly Goose

Dru’s Place

Murphy’s

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

1474 MADISON 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

1589 MADISON 726-4193

South Main

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

412 S. MAIN 901 552-4609

Neo Soul and R&B first Thursday of every month, 7-10 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

JEREMIAH CHIU

Chris Shaw’s Birthday w/ Kingpin Skinny Pimp, Cities Aviv, DJ Dark Allie, DJ Big B, DJ T. Roy Thursday, April 7; Jack Oblivian European Tour Kickoff Friday, April 8; John Paul Keith w/ Beale Street Caravan recording the show Saturday, April 9; Steve Selvidge Wednesday, April 13.

BITCHIN BAJAS AT MURPHY’S Bitchin Bajas was launched by Chicago musician and engineer/ producer Cooper Crain (who has recorded albums by Circuit Des Yeux, Moon Duo, Times New Viking, Running, and Endless Bummer, among others). The rock- and structure-resisting, mostly improvisational Bitchin Bajas (a trio of Crain, Dan Quinlivan, and Rob Frye) have amassed their own sizeable body of work that tastefully and sometimes beautifully reimagines a vast array of past-drone, minimalist, ambient, pastoral psych and electronic touchstones.

At its strongest (see 2014’s double-length, 77-minute self-titled album on Drag City), the trio adds and subtracts layer upon layer of synths, tape machines, assorted loop-generating effects and instruments, flutes, guitars, bass, organs, xylophones, field/found-sound recordings, processed vocals, and many other sources of sound to create rewarding experiences of pulsating and relaxing prettiness for the willingly immersive listener.

The most recent release by the band is a definite curveball and should no doubt increase the trio’s profile exponentially. Released on March 18th, Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties (Drag City/Palace Music) is a democratic and epic (nine tracks across an LP and 12” EP) collaboration between Bitchin Bajas and one of America’s most accomplished, unique, and timeless songwriters, Bonnie “Prince” Billy (Will Oldham). After the Bajas served as Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s crack backing band for a Record Store Day one-off in which the trio properly dialed back to allow for the singer’s unmistakable voice to take the wheel, the immensely-prolific Oldham invited the trio over to his house for a recorded jam session.

— Andrew Earles Bitchin Bajas and JJ Freeze, Tuesday, April 12th at Murphys, $5, 9 p.m.

Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Kirk Smithhart Friday, April 8; Richard James & the Special Riders Saturday, April 9.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

Moped10, the Painters CD Release w/ Seth Austin Thursday, April 7, 9 p.m.; VAS Album Release Show w/ Forrister and Laramie Friday, April 8, 9 p.m.; The Kickback: ’80s & ’90s Hip-Hop Saturday, April 9, 9 p.m.; The Golden Monica, Foxglove, Mike Hewlett Sunday, April 10, 9 p.m.; Repeat Repeat, Sleepwlkrs, the Big Empty Tuesday, April 12, 9 p.m.; La Pistola, Ese Wednesday, April 13, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Dark Horse Sunday, April 10, 4-7 p.m.; Some of the Sons of Mudboy Sunday, April 10, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room

2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Reach Friday, April 8, 10 p.m.; Grape Saturday, April 9, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Graber Grass Saturday, April 9.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

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

Sports Junction 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

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

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Jeremy Stanfill & Joshua Cosby Thursday, April 7, 6 p.m.; Selwyn Birchwood Thursday, April 7, 9 p.m.; Pam & Terry Friday, April 8, 6:30 p.m.; Roxy Roca Friday, April 8, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturdays, 11 a.m.; The River Bluff Clan Saturdays, 3 p.m.; Loveland Duren Saturday, April 9, 6:30 p.m.; Cash’d Out (A Johnny Cash Tribute) Saturday, April 9, 10 p.m.; Tom Lonardo Quartet Sunday, April 10, 11 a.m.; Memphis Ukulele Band Sunday, April 10, 4 p.m.; Marcella & Her Lovers Sunday, April 10, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Friends Mondays, 6 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Corb Lund Wednesday, April 13, 8 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

The Cove

Otherlands Coffee Bar

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

White Animals and Walrus Saturday, April 9.

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

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

East Memphis Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

The Werks “Inside a Dream” tour Wednesday, April 13, 8 p.m.

continued on page 27

Thursdays • April 14—August 18 $10-15 • FIRST 200 LADIES FREE • 6pm-10pm 4.14 The Molly Ringwalds & David Cook 4.21 Hollywood 4.28 Crusin' Heavy 5.5 Frankie Hollie and the Noise 5.12 M-80s 5.19 Twin Soul 5.26 Fifth Kind 6.02 Dantones 6.09 Swingin Leroy 6.16 Seeing Red #PBodyRoof • peabodymemphis.com

come early · stay late · turn up

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

Onix

Hi-Tone

Light Beam Rider w/ Terry Prince & the Principles Thursday, April 7; Joe’s birthday w/ the Fast Mothers Friday, April 8; The Independents w/ the Conspiracy Theory Saturday, April 9; Drunken Cuddle Sunday, April 10; JJ Freeze, Bitchin Bajas, Foster Care Tuesday, April 12.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

25

It's Tequila Time!

April 7-13, 2016

Join Memphis Flyer for the 2nd annual Margarita Festival. Sample from the city's best margo-makers. vote on your favorite, and a winner will be crowned at the end of this best 'rita fest.

SATURDAY

June18

3-6pm

Overton Park Greensward • memphismargaritafestival.com 26

Tickets going on sale soon

After Dark: Live Music Schedule April 7 - 13 continued from page 25

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Larry Raspberry & the Highsteppers Sunday, April 10, 8:30-midnight.

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

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

Hadley’s Pub

Huey’s Collierville

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Mixtape Thursday, April 7, 8 p.m.; Grand Theft Audio Friday, April 8, 9 p.m.; Swingin Leroy Saturday, April 9, 9 p.m.; The Line Up Sunday, April 10, 5:30 p.m.; Charlie & Juno All Star Experience Wednesday, April 13, 8 p.m.

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

The Deftonz Sunday, April 10, 8-11 p.m.

Cordova

Huey’s Germantown

Dan McGuinness

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

Six String Lovers Sunday, April 10, 8-11:30 p.m.

Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

GOSSETT FIAT March Mayhem!

590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

The Windjammer Restaurant

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Memphis Funk ‘n’ Horns Saturday, April 9, 8 p.m.; Flashback Sunday, April 10, 4-7 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Per Mo

$139 Winchester/ Hickory Hill Maria’s Cantinna 6717 AIRWAYS BLVD, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662) 772-5926

Full Effect Band Saturday, April 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Barbie’s Barlight Lounge 661 N. MENDENHALL

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

High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

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

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

Soul Shockers Sunday, April 10, 8-midnight; Karaoke Night Mondays, 8-10 p.m.

$12488 or Buy for

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

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

Huey’s Cordova

Mesquite Chop House

2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

RockHouse Live

The Dantones Sunday, April 10, 8:30-midnight.

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

5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

Frayser/Millington

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

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

Old Millington Winery 6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114

Ronnie Caldwell and Jojo Jefferies Sunday, April 10.

Shelby Forest General Store

Germantown

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Germantown Performing Arts Center

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Gary Keith Saturday, April 9, 12-3 p.m.; Robert Hull Sunday, April 10, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

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

Tunica Roadhouse Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Old Whitten Tavern Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

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

FT603620-MSRP 17645-DISCOUNT 1907-REBATE 1750-BONUS OF 500-SUBPRIME REBATE 1000-MUST HAVE CREDIT SCORE OF 620 OR BELOW-3000 CASH DOWN-75 MONTHS 3.25 APR-INCLUDES ALL REBATES & INCENTIVES-PF $498.75 EXCLUDES T,T&L-WAC-OFFER END 4/13/16

Owen Brennan’s

Summer/Berclair

7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

1901 Covington Pike • Memphis • Tn • 901.388.8989

THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

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

Huey’s Southaven

2015 Fiat POP

Midtown Opera Festival.

6069 PARK 767-6002

Hollywood Casino

Buddy Guy Friday, April 8.

Various locations SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION

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

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

AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS 1-800-303-SHOE

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

East Tapas and Drinks

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

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel

T.J. Mulligan’s

Poplar/I-240

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

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

1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke ongoing.

4840 VENTURE DR., SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5423

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

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

786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

The Fillin Station

Dantones Band Friday, April 8.

819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Mortimer’s

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

1801 EXETER 751-7500

Jesse Cook Saturday, April 9, 8-10 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

The Kymistry Band Sunday, April 10, 8-midnight.

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

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

Wadford’s Grill & Bar 474 CHURCH, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5861

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

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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

North Mississippi/ Tunica

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

Bally’s

The New Backdour Bar & Grill

CASINO CENTER DRIVE IN TUNICA, MS 1-800-38-BALLY

Charles Wilson Friday, April 8, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

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

302 S. AVALON 596-7115

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

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

Collierville

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

Bartlett

27

B O O KS By Richard J. Alley

Mob Mentality Literacy Mid-South holds flash mob.

April 7-13, 2016

28

illiteracy, crime, rampant obesity, income inequality, to name a few.”

Illiteracy is one link in the steel-fence barricade preventing people from improving themselves and society from rising out of the mire of poverty and crime and income inequality. According to Literacy Mid-South, 14 percent of Shelby County adults are at the most basic literacy level, while 22 percent function at a marginally higher level. Eighty-five percent of the adults who contact the organization for help read on a fourth-grade level. This makes it difficult for them to fill out job applications and to find a place in the workforce, leading to higher rates of poverty and crime. This is why the public display of reading is necessary and why offering free reading material, especially to children, is paramount.

To that end, Citizens to Protect Overton Park (CPOP) announced on Saturday that it would donate 100 books to Literacy Mid-South. That book, of

RICHARD J. ALLEY

W

ith hundreds of people gathered on the Greensward at Overton Park last Saturday, it was difficult to tell how many were there solely for the fourth-annual Literacy Mid-South Reading Flash Mob. Yet mixed in with the Frisbee throwers, the sun worshippers, the pet owners, and protesters was a healthy gathering of book lovers.

“Originally we came up with this idea when the flash mobs were really big,” Kevin Dean, executive director of Literacy Mid-South, says. “There was a reading sit-in elsewhere as a protest, and I thought, ‘Well why not just do some shared reading experience for people?’

So we got in touch with the Overton Park Conservancy and got the permit, and it’s just the perfect place for people to come and read. People are always out here reading anyway, so it’s just capitalizing on what’s happening here already.”

Literacy MidSouth was set up in the southwest corner of the lawn with a tent and tables full of books for children and adults free for the taking. On the northern end, a steel-fence barricade was erected to keep protesters and zoo parking separated.

Uniformed police stood in clusters on the far side of the fence in that dog-eared, wheel-rutted corner as one of their helicopters kept watch from the sky.

A rugby match took place nearby, women hula-hooped, artists sketched, and musicians played drums and guitars.

None of this was a distraction, though, for readers such as Allison Renner and her family. “We support Literacy Mid-South, and I’m getting my master’s in library science,” she says. “I’m very interested in promoting reading, so we try to help out however we can.”

In the fight against zoo parking on the Greensward, it has been questioned again and again on social media and in print how those who care can’t seem to care about any of the larger issues facing Memphis. Bruce VanWyngarden wrote in his letter from the editor in the last issue of the Flyer, “Well, of course, there are bigger issues. Lots of them: poverty,

course, is Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, with its cautionary tale of what happens when nature is taken for granted.

From where I sat among the readers last Saturday, three issues were being battled simultaneously — obesity, as people ran and walked and jumped; illiteracy, as families gathered for the Reading Flash Mob; and the Greensward issue, as citizens peacefully protested the parking of cars on the city’s lawn. There was even a group collecting canned goods for the Mid-South Food Bank in an event called “Feed the Need and Save the Greensward.”

So go ahead and add hunger to that list of Memphis problems being battled on the front lines of Overton Park.

We’ve made great strides in the past decade to come together and champion Memphis with a collective voice. Let’s keep that momentum going and tear down the walls that continue to hold us back as a city.

CALENDAR of EVENTS:

April 7 - 13

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

Circuit Playhouse

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

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

Through April 10.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Collierville Library

Upcycled Cinderella, the wacky duo Dustmop and Binny use household items, recycled objects, and physical comedy to create hilarious characters, inventive settings, and lively scenes. Performed in the Halle Room. www.colliervillelibrary. org. Free. Sun., April 10, 1:30 p.m.

91 WALNUT (853-2333).

Friendship Church of Christ

Auditions for Fiddler on the Roof, come prepared to sing at least 16 bars of one song of your choosing that demonstrates your vocal range and tone. For more information and audition forms, see website. www. kudzuplayers.com. Sat., April 9, 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.

3250 PLEASANT HILL.

David Lusk Gallery

807 WALKER (435-1000).

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

“Knotty Time” and “A Brightness of Hope,” exhibition of abstract new works by Pinkney Herbert and a new body of landscape paintings Bruce Brainard. www.davidluskgallery.com. April 12-May 14.

Theatre Memphis

The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged), comical parody as three actors take on William Shakespeare in an animated and shortened interpretation. Some scenes involve audience participation. An all-out, no-holds-“bard” good time. www.theatrememphis.org. $25. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through April 24.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Eclectic Eye

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

by Mary-Ellen Kelly. Through April 13.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreSouth

Beyond the Box, solo performance by Todd Berry about a man who spent his life following the rules, doing what was expected of him, and simply trying to fit in. www.voicesofthesouth.org. Fri., April 8, 8 p.m., and Sun., April 10, 8 p.m.

Magnificence of the Disaster , solo performance by Rebecca Fisher about her Southern family’s devastating journey from wealth and gentility to mayhem (and tragedy). www.voicesofthesouth.org. $23. Sat., April 9, 8 p.m., and Sun., April 10, 4 p.m.

INSIDE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (726-0800).

TheatreWorks

Civil Rights Civil Wrongs, five plays in one night depict aspects of the civil rights movement from 1958-1968 in Memphis.

Comedy is used to broach the pain of it all. (946-6140). $12$16. Fri., April 8, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Sat., April 9, 7:30-9:30 p.m., and Sun., April 10, 3-5 p.m.

Yeah Though We Walked, highlighting the civil rights movement through laughter featuring five original one-act plays. Performances are at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, 3 p.m. on Sunday. www. bluffcitytriarttheatre.com. $16.

Sat.-Sun., Apr. 9-10.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

April 10, 1:30 p.m.

Thurs., April 7, 6-9 p.m.

800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007).

ARDENT STUDIOS, 2000 MADISON (725-0855), WWW.ARDENTSTUDIOS.COM.

Olive Branch Country Club

Opening reception for “do it,” exhibition of flexible and open-ended artist instructions conceived and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. www.memphis. edu/amum. Sat., April 9, 4:307:30 p.m.

Artist reception for “Coterie of Artists — Gallery 12,” exhibition of paintings. Sat., April 9, 4-6 p.m.

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

Artist reception “Horses, Farms, and Fairy Tales,” exhibition of works by Janet Weed Beaver.

(458-2521), www.wkno.org/ gallery1091.html. Sun., April 10, 2-4 p.m.

ANF Architects

Artist reception for “Collective Exhibit” featuring Dolph Smith, www.anfa.com. Fri., April 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

7558 GERMANTOWN (662-895-1555).

WKNO Studio

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Crosstown Arts

Artist reception for “She’s Silver and Orange 2,” all female exhibition benefiting Sister Supply, a local organization that provides feminine hygiene products to women in need. Monetary and feminine hygiene products donations welcome. www.crosstownarts.org. Fri., April 8, 6-9 p.m.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

Artist reception for Noel Jones, exhibit of original works. www.krocmemphis.org. Sun.,

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

“Kin Killin’ Kin”

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

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

Third Annual Music Industry Mixer

Gathering of musicians, producers, engineers, and other service providers in the music industry in Memphis. Free food and beer.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

O N G O I N G ART

The Annesdale Park Gallery

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

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

The Blues Foundation

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

421 S. MAIN.

Circuit Playhouse

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

Through April 10.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Circuitous Succession Gallery

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

Through May 6.

“Bless This Mess,” exhibition of MFA thesis work by Holt Brasher and Sarah Best Johnson of the University of Memphis Department of Art. (678-3052), April 11-29. “/per’ sēv/ /tu/ /ik’ spōz/,” exhibition of MFA thesis photographic work by Mariah Selitsch Fyke and Katherine Stanley of the University of Memphis Department of Art. www.memphis.edu. April 11-29.

3715 CENTRAL.

Fratelli’s

“Bits and Pieces,” exhibition of collages by Phyllis Boger. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through April 27.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Java Cabana

“Unfolding Stories,” new works

by Erica McCarrens. Through May 5.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

continued on page 30

500 S. SECOND.

SEE IT AT THE PINK PALACE!

FREE TUESDAY AFTERNOONS 1-5PM P!NK PALACE MUSEUM

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

Mr. Provider, tells the story and honors the men who are trying to get it right on Father’s Day weekend. www.mr-provider. com. $27. Through June 18, 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m.

The Magnificence of Disaster at TheatreSouth Saturday and Sunday

LeMoyne-Owen College

Nothing Too Hard for God, a family struggles with death, secrets, and forgiveness. (9427396), $20. Sat., April 9, 6 p.m., and Sun., April 10, 3 & 6 p.m.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

This exhibition and its national tour were developed by The Field Museum, Chicago. Photo credits: NOAA Photo Library

TH EAT E R

Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101.

DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.

29

CALENDAR: APRIL 7 - 13 continued from page 29 L Ross Gallery

“Sanctuaries” and “Gathering with Old Friends,” exhibition of recent hand-pigmented papers and acrylics on canvas by Lisa Jennings and animal portrait paintings with a twist by Butler Steltemeier. www.lrossgallery. com. Through April 30.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Water Scenes in Oils,” exhibition of plein-air paintings by Matthew Lee. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through April 27.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis College of Art 2016 Spring BFA Exhibition: Part 1. Through April 18.

“Work by Dick Rhodes,” exhibition of plein-air landscape paintings. www.mca.edu.

Through May 7.

ART MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

142 CFA BUILDING · MEMPHIS, TN 38152

“Blooming,” exhibition of works by Kathleen Stern and Carol Lybanon. www.jccmemphis.org. Through April 29.

APRIL 9 – MAY 7

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

9 A.M. – 5 P.M.

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

“Inches From the Earth,” exhibition of work by contemporary metalsmiths inspired by the intimacy and preciousness of plant and insect life. www. metalmuseum.org. Through July 10.

OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, APRIL 8

· 4:30 – 7:30 P.M.

memphis.edu/amum/doit.php

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

NJ Woods Gallery and Design

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

2563 BROAD.

CROSS TOWN ARTS

Ross Gallery

do it is an exhibition conceived and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. do it and the accompanying publication, do it: the compendium, were made possible, in part, by grants from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and with the generous support from Project Perpetual and ICI’s International Forum and Board of Trustees.

April 7-13, 2016

Sponsored locally by the University of Memphis Student Activity Fee Fund.

30

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

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

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

APRIL 6 & 20

CHUCK MEAD

& HIS GRASSY KNOLL BOYS

Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum

“Goree Island,” exhibition of works by Frank Frazier celebrating the museum’s 160th anniversary and Africa in April. Through April 30.

826 NORTH SECOND STREET (527-3427).

Temple Israel

“Fabric of Survival: The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz,” exhibition of a collection of 36 hand-stitched fabric panels telling the story of a Holocaust survivor. Through May 13.

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

PO ET RY /S PO K E N WO R D

Crosstown story booth

Impossible Language, featuring award-winning poets Ada Limón, Adam Clay, and Michael Robins. impossiblelanguage.tumblr.com. Fri., April 8, 7-9 p.m.

422 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

1376 E. MASSEY (761-3130).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

DAN C E

Booksigning by Lula Flann

Honeys on Tap!

Memphis’ professional tap dance company perform a high-energy, innovative show featuring tap, hip-hop, spoken word, aerial-tap fusion, breakdance, contemporary, and belly dance/Tahitian. $12-$20. Fri., April 8, 8-10 p.m., and Sat., April 9, 2-4 and 8-10 p.m.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (302-5487), WWW.HOTFOOTHONEYS.COM.

Momentum

Spring concert featuring choreography by guest artists and University of Memphis faculty exploring the wide range of human experience expressed through movement, music, and spoken word. Fri., April 8, 7:30 p.m., Sat., April 9, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., April 10, 2 p.m.

ROSE THEATER, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS CAMPUS (948-0260), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

C O M E DY

Cafe Eclectic

Improv Comedy Show, www. wiseguysimprov.com. Second Saturday of every month, 8 p.m.

603 N. MCLEAN (725-1718).

Midtown Crossing Grill

A Yank and a British Bloke, intercontinental comedy team of Todd Gosser and the Gov’na featuring food and drink specials. $10. Fri., April 8, 8 p.m.

394 N. WATKINS (443-0502).

Author reads, discusses, and signs Buckled Down and the Mata Morrow Mystery series.

Wed., April 13, 7-9 p.m.

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

Booksigning by William Joyce

Author discusses and signs Ollie’s Odyssey. Wed., April 13, 6:30 p.m.

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

LECT U R E /S P EA K E R

Conversation with the Curator: Glenn Zweygardt

Join the curator as she gives a special tour of the exhibition “F.I.R.E. Glenn Zweygardt: Then & Now.” Learn about the artist, the artwork, and how an exhibition comes together.

Thurs., April 7, 6 p.m.

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

Gardens with Capability: 18th Century English Formal Gardens

Dominique Bellot will speak on topic including sharing historical knowledge and how guests can achieve a similar gardening look at home. Free.

Thurs., April 7, 11 a.m.-noon.

MORTON MUSEUM OF COLLIERVILLE HISTORY, 196 MAIN, COLLIERVILLE (457-2650), WWW.CI.COLLIERVILLE.TN.US.

APRIL 9

JAMES AND THE ULTRASOUNDS

4/6 CHUCK MEAD & HIS GRASSY KNOLL BOYS 8PM | 4/7 SELWYN BIRCHWOOD 9PM | 4/8 JOHNNY MAC AND THE HEART ATTACKS 10PM | 4/9 LOVELAND/DUREN 6:30PM JAMES AND THE ULTRASOUNDS 10PM | 4/10 MARCELLA & HER LOVERS 8PM | 4/11 JOHN PAUL KEITH & FRIENDS 6PM | 4/12 OFFICIAL MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES WATCH PARTY 7PM | 4/13 CORB LUND 8PM 2 1 1 9 M A D I S O N AV E N U E M E M P H I S , T N 3 8 1 0 4

F O R M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N V I S I T L A FAY E T T E S M U S I C R O O M . C O M

CALENDAR: APRIL 7 - 13

Learn about Alex Klahm’s meticulously crafted gold-leafed door, inspired by the floral designs of an 18th century Italian baptismal font. Sun., April 10, 2 p.m.

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

Featuring Shaykh Omar Suleiman, Sister Linda Sarsour, Br. Azhar Azeez, and Shaykh Yasir Qadhi speaking about spiritual development/Seerah of the Prophet, education, family, and more. $30. Sat., April 9, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (317-838 8129), WWW.ISNA.NET.

TO U R S

Stormy Falso

Chickasaw Heritage Park to Crump Park Tour with Jimmy Ogle

THIRD CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, 3535 CENTRAL (327-1318).

CHICKSAW HERITAGE PARK, EXIT 12C ON METAL MUSEUM DRIVE (604-5002), WWW.JIMMYOGLE.COM.

“Discover Your Relationship with God: 3 Simple Questions.”

Sat., April 9, 10 a.m.

C O N F E R E N C ES/ C O NVE NTI O N S

Gandhi-King Conference 2016

Themed “A Living Movement: Shaping a Just Future,” the Gandhi-King Conference features workshops, movement planning, skills-building workshops, and opportunities for action. Fri.-Sat., Apr. 8-9.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER, WWW.GANDHIKINGCONFERENCE.ORG.

Free. Sun., April 10, 2 p.m.

Downtown Walking Ghost Tour

Garden Tram Tours

Short tram tours with environmental tips and other fun facts about the garden. Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon Through April 30.

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

Japanese Gardens of Memphis Tour

See examples of Japanese architecture and gardens at the following addresses: 346 Waring, 6125 Green Meadows, and 5174 Walnut Grove. Final stop, Seijaku-en Japanese Garden celebrating its 50th Anniversary at Memphis Botanic Garden. $15. Sun., April 10, 1-5 p.m.

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

Old Forest Hike

Explore the macabre history of downtown Memphis with seasoned paranormal investigators. Visit sites of hauntings taken from local legends, official records, and paranormal investigations. $20. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Through Aug. 31.

TATER RED’S LUCKY MOJOS AND VOODOO HEALING, 153 BEALE (497-9486), WWW.HISTORICALHAUNTSMEMPHIS.COM.

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

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

continued on page 33

ALL BLUES WEEKEND

MOONSHINE

BALL

8PM • SECOND FLOOR DELTA BALLROOM Get plugged-in to Tunica Roadhouse’s new monthly concert series.

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT TICKETMASTER.COM OR BY CALLING 1-800-745-3000.

SIR CHARLES JONES APRIL 15

BOBBY RUSH APRIL 16

MOST DAMN FUN IN TOWN

Must be 21 years or older to gamble or attend events. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700. ©2016, Caesars License Company, LLC. All rights reserved.

3024_T3_9.35x2.95_Memphis_Flyer_V1.indd 1

3/29/16 10:44 AM

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

Inside the Collection: Alex Klahm

ISNA Striving for Justice Conference Tour

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Hopped II spring beer festival at Memphis Made Saturday

31

BMW Certified Pre-Owned

bmwusa.com/cpo

April 7-13, 2016

LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE FOR LESS THAN YOU THINK.

32

AS LOW AS 0.9% APR ON ALL BMW CERTIFIED PRE-OWNED MODELS. SPECIAL LEASE OFFERS AND COMPLIMENTARY SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE ON SELECT MODELS.*

ROADSHOW BMW 405 N. Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN 38018 901.365.2584 | roadshowbmw.com *As low as 0.9% APR on all model year 2012, 2013 and 2014 CPO models. Rates available from participating BMW dealers to eligible, qualified customers with excellent credit history who meet BMW Financial Services credit requirements. Other rates and payment terms available. Subject to availability. Visit your authorized BMW dealer for important details. Complimentary BMW Ultimate Care+ 1 for one year or up to 25,000 miles, whichever comes first, when the vehicle no longer qualifies for no-cost maintenance, on all model year 2012 and 2013 CPO 3 & 5 Series. The BMW Ultimate Care+ 1 covers all factory-recommended maintenance services as determined by the Service Interval Indicator. Specific additional items that need replacement due to normal wear and tear are also covered. Exclusions from coverage include: gasoline, gasoline additives, windshield washer fluid, fluid top-offs, battery, tires, wheels, wheel alignment and tire balancing. All work must be performed by an authorized BMW dealer. See the Service and Warranty Information booklet for specific terms, conditions and limitations. Further information can also be obtained from your authorized BMW dealer. Diesel vehicles: DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) replacement is covered only during the performance of an oil service.

DEF top-offs between oil services are not covered. Spark Plugs and Oxygen Sensor Service is eligible only when required within a Standard or Upgraded BMW Maintenance Program period, as outlined in the Service and Warranty Information booklet or when displayed in the Service Interval Indicator. APR and MPU offer valid through 5/31/16. ©2016 BMW of North America, LLC. The BMW name, model names and logo are registered trademarks.

CALENDAR: APRIL 7 - 13 Signs of Spring Walk

Meet in the visitor’s center and then walk the garden with Master Gardener, Judith Hammond.

Free with garden admission.

Sun., April 10, 1:30 p.m.

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

Tuesday Tour with Jimmy Ogle: Cotton Row

Crawfish, Corvettes, and Camaros

Featuring crawfish and barbecue, performances by Lil Rounds, beer garden, strolling entertainers, vendors, and more. Sat., April 9, 12-6 p.m.

THE FITZ, 711 LUCKY LANE (1-800-766-LUCK), WWW.FITZGERALDSTUNICA.COM.

Families Matter Family Fun Day

Sat., April 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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

Meet at the corner of Union and Front near the Cotton Museum. Tues., April 12, 11:45 a.m.

Hopped II

Spring beer festival featuring limited-release hoppy beers, live music from Big Barton and Burney Warren, glassware giveaways, food trucks (Hot Mess and Food Geek), and more. Free. Sat., April 9, 12-9 p.m.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, CALL FOR INFORMATION (6045002), WWW.JIMMYOGLE.COM.

E X POS/SALES

Commercial Drone Expo

Highlighting the commercial applications of drone technology, showcasing the uses for the general public, and facilitating a dialogue on the positive applications of this emerging technology. $50. Sat., April 9, 8 a.m.-1:45 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, MEMPHIS (678-2000), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU/FEDEX.

Unique Catering and Event Center Bridal Expo

Featuring over 20 vendors to plan a unique wedding day.

Free. Sun., April 10, 2-6 p.m.

UNIQUE CATERING AND EVENT CENTER, 2751 BARTLETT (937-0828), WWW.UNIQUECATERINGANDEVENTCENTER.COM.

MEMPHIS MADE BREWING COMPANY, 768 S. COOPER (207-5343), MEMPHISMADEBREWING.COM.

Memphis Arts Festival

Celebrate the culture and diversity of Memphis featuring West African drumming, Arabic guitar, lyrics of Marco Pave, artisans, vendors, food trucks, performances, kids activities, and more. Sat., April 9, 1-5 p.m.

Africa in April

Honoring the Republic of Tanzania with vendors, international music, and more.

Wed.-Sun., Apr. 13-17.

ROBERT R. CHURCH PARK, CORNER OF FOURTH AND BEALE, WWW.AFRICAINAPRIL.ORG.

Brubeck Festival

Includes exhibit of art at National Civil Rights Museum, jazz workshops, and musical performances. See website for schedule of events. Through May 29.

Over 60 national vendors with the best in Tennessee vintage, antiques, collectables, repurposed, upcycled, jewelry, handmade, MCM, paint demo’s, and vintage fashion show on Sat. $7. Fri.-Sat., Apr. 8-9, 9 a.m.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (412-5485).

Van Dorn Rides Again

Civil War re-enactors recreate General Earl Van Dorn’s raid on Holly Springs. Featuring battle re-enactments, camp visits, and other activities. See website for more information. $10. Sat.-Sun., Apr. 9-10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

S PO R TS / F IT N E S S

4th Annual Wesberry Golf Classic

Four-person scramble including lunch, an awards reception, putting and flight contests, door prizes, and giveaways benefiting SRVS Programs for People with Disabilities. $175 per player.

Mon., April 11, 10:30 a.m.6 p.m.

MORRIS PARK, POPLAR AND ORLEANS (734-644-1966).

Memphis Catholic 5K & Spring Festival

Conservation Challenge Hike

5K run or walk followed by a cookout and festival with fun activities. Sun., April 10, 2 p.m.

MEMPHIS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, 61 N. MCLEAN (276-1221), WWW.MEMPHISCATHOLIC.ORG.

Featuring two intimate chamber operas, family events, panel discussions, and late-night cabaret. See website for more information and schedule of events. Through April 10.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION (2024533), WWW.OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG.

EAST BUNTYN ART WALK 2016

MARSHALL COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 111 VAN DORN, HOLLY SPRINGS, MS (662-551-0076), HOLLYSPRINGSPILGRIMAGE.COM.

RIDGEWAY COUNTRY CLUB, 9800 POPLAR (312-6801), WWW.SRVS.ORG.

Midtown Opera Festival

F EST IVALS

Southern Junkers Vintage Market

ART • MUSIC • FOOD • FUN • OUTDOORS

SATURDAY, APRIL 16 FROM 1 TO 7PM

EastBuntynArtwalk.com The 2016 East Buntyn ArtWalk is funded in part by an Arts Build Communities grant — a program funded by the Tennessee General Assembly & administered in cooperation with the Tennessee Arts Commission & ArtsMemphis.

Get active and spend time outdoors as you learn how we interact with our environment here in the Mid-South. Selfguided tour features informative stations celebrating Earth Month. Through April 30.

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

Open Late: 11 AM- 3 AM

Discover the Art of Yoga

Enjoy the merging of yoga and the presenting exhibits that create an intimate setting of mindfulness and free expression. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6-7 p.m.

Delivery Late: 11AM – 2:15 PM & 5 PM – 2 AM

901.543.3278

CIRCUITOUS SUCCESSION GALLERY, 500 S. SECOND (470-3449642), YOURINNERYOGI.COM.

continued on page 34

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW. RHODES.EDU/EVENTS.

346 N. MAIN ST.

Memphis, Tennessee

WESTYSMEMPHIS.COM

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Win a Cadillac!

EARN ENTRIES NOW Drawing at 10pm on April 16th EARN 5X ENTRIES

on April 17th for May’s drawing

800.467.6182 • West Memphis, AR • southlandpark.com

33

See Player Rewards for details. Color and model may vary. Players must be 21 years of age or older to game and 18 years of age or older to bet at the racetrack. Play responsibly; for help quitting call 800-522-4700.

DNSOU-25829 4.7 Apr. Memphis Flyer Bonus NP Ad 9.35x2.95.indd 1

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

continued from page 31

3/18/16 10:43 AM

CALENDAR: APRIL 7 - 13 continued from page 33 Family Fun Hike

Educational recreation for adults and children of all ages. Second Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m.

SHELBY FARMS, VISITOR’S CENTER, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-7275), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Go Ape Treetop Adventure

Course in Shelby Farms Park open for its second season.

Ongoing.

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

Grizz 5K

Benefiting the Memphis Grizzlies Foundation. $45. Sat., April 9, 7:30 a.m.

FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE STREET, WWW.GIZZLIES.COM.

Memphis Redbirds vs.

Colorado Springs Sky Sox Thur.-Sun., Apr. 7-10.

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

Memphis Redbirds vs.

Oklahoma City Dodgers Mon.-Thur., Apr. 11-14.

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

Mind and Body Self Care

Light yoga and sound meditation. Learn how your body holds tension and stress and what movements alleviate some of these experiences and create an inner state of calm. Free.

Tues., April 12, 4:30-6 p.m.

Magic Carpet: Movin’ and Groovin’ with Memphis Music for Aardvarks

UNIVERSAL PARENTING PLACE, LEMOYNE-OWEN COLLEGE, 990 COLLEGE PARK (207-3694), WWW.SHELBYCOUNTYUPP.ORG.

Children ages 2 to 8 are invited to grab their magic carpet for an adventure with Music for Aardvarks. $5, Free for adults.

Sat., April 9, 10 a.m.

Sand Volleyball Tournament

Come join @901Volleyball for cash prizes to the King and Queen of the Beach. Online registration only. After party at Memphis Made Brewing Company. $20. Sat., April 9, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

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

Memphis Parent Cover Kids Contest

TOBEY PARK, FLICKER AT CENTRAL, 901VOLLEYBALL4-9.EVENTBRITE. COM.

Super Chevy Show

The largest collection of Chevrolet vehicles in one place featuring drag racing for cash prizes, swap meet, performance marketplace, and more. Adults $15 for Friday, $25 for Saturday, $15 for Sunday; $40 for threeday pass. April 8-10, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.

MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, 5500 VICTORY LANE (310-3634231), WWW.RACEMIR.COM.

Swim, Bike, and Run Clinics: 2016 Memphis in May Triathlon Through May 22.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW. PR-EVENTMANAGEMENT.NET.

M E ETI NGS

City of Memphis Housing & Community Development (HCD) Public Hearing

Community’s participation and comments will be heard on the proposed uses of federal funds that Memphis expects to receive.

The public hearing begins a 30-day comment period on draft plan. Thurs., April 7, 6-7 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700).

Raleigh Neighborhood Leadership Forum

The Raleigh Community Council will be hosting a leadership forum for neighborhood and other associations in Raleigh.

Thurs., April 7, 6:30-8 p.m.

RALEIGH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 3295 POWERS (213-6144), WWW.RALEIGHCCONLINE.COM.

Music for Aardvarks’ Magic Carpet at the Buckman Saturday Stroke Support Group

Provides helpful information for stroke survivors and caregivers. Call for more information.

Free. Second Tuesday of every month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Through June 14.

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

KIDS

After School Adventures Celebrate Earth Month with memorable family activities exploring unique areas of the garden. Stop in for a different adventure each week. Free to members or with paid garden admission. Mondays, 3:30 p.m.

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

See website for details. Through April 10.

Through April 30.

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

Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny

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

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia presents this innovative double-bill adaptation of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd’s beloved bedtime classics, Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. $15-$30. Fri., April 8, 6:30-8:15 p.m.

Summer Dance Class

Registration open for children ages 3-16. Camps begin on May 31. See website for more information and registration.

Through July 15.

BALLET ON WHEELS DANCE SCHOOL & COMPANY, 2085 MONROE, WWW. BALLETONWHEELS.ORG.

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

Hip-Hop Dance Class

For boys 5-10 years old. $75.

Through May 18, 6 p.m.

S P EC IA L EVE NTS

‘Great Gatsby’ USA Dance Ballroom Dance

BALLET ON WHEELS DANCE SCHOOL & COMPANY, 2085 MONROE, WWW.BALLETONWHEELS.ORG.

Roaring ’20s glam and bling attire, the EDD Jones Orchestra, dance mixers, hors d’oeuvres, and snacks you bring are appre-

Bachelorette Parties Girl’s Night Birthday Parties

WE ARE A LOCAL MALE REVUE THAT PREFORMS HERE IN MEMPHIS, TN. THE LORDS OF TEMPTATION ARE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU JOIN THEM AT A LIVE EVENT OR YOU CAN BOOK THEM PRIVATELY. HAVE A PARTY OR SPECIAL EVENT? WANT TO LEAVE YOUR GUESS SPEECHLESS FOR DAYS OR WEEKS AFTERWARDS? WE GOT YOU COVERED!

Call or go online to book today!!!

240-644-3240 We areWWW.LORDSOFTEMPTATION.COM a local Male Revue that preforms here in Memphis, TN. The Lords of Temptation are happy to have you join them at a live event or you can book them privately. Have a party or special event? Want to leave your guess speechless for days or weeks afterwards? We got you covered!

Call or go online to book today!!!

April 7-13, 2016

Like us on Facebook @ LT Presents

Follow us on Instagram & Twitter @ LTBRING-

240-644-3240

www.lordsoftemptation.com Like us on Facebook @ LT Presents Follow us on Instagram & Twitter @ LTBRING

34

CALENDAR: APRIL 7 - 13

11th Annual ForgetMe-Not Trivia Night and Silent Auction

Themed “Remembering When...From Green Stamps to Hot Pants!” Featuring Brother Ignatius as quiz master, Rob Grayson as emcee, auction, food, and more benefiting Alzheimer’s Day Services of Memphis, Inc. $30. Sat., April 9, 6 p.m.

TEMPLE ISRAEL, 1376 E. MASSEY (372-4585), ADSMEMPHIS.ORG.

Bountiful Blooms Exhibition

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

Through April 17.

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

Earth Month at the Garden

“Think Globally, Act Locally” by celebrating Earth Month with activities including yoga classes, tours, and other eco-friendly surprises. Follow us on FB and Twitter for environmentally-themed trivia,

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

Forging on the River

Stephen Lunn will be on-hand for a slide lecture, blacksmithing demonstrations, and a limited enrollment specialty workshop. Dinner and Auction on Sat., Apr. 16, 5-9 p.m. Wed.Sun., Apr. 13-17.

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

GAYla

Black-tie evening of friendship, entertainment, dancing, mingling, and making memories with Mid-South Pride. $35.

Sat., April 9, 7-11 p.m.

MEMPHIS HILTON, 939 RIDGE LAKE (684-6664), WWW.MIDSOUTHPRIDE.ORG.

Herbal Work Study: Vermicomposting

Work in the herb garden then learn about using earthworms to compost garden waste.

Everyone will go home with a handout that includes tips and general information. Worm bin available for $3. Sat., April 9, 8:30-11:30 a.m.

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

Overton Bark Adoption Tour

Thursday, April 28, 2016

In partnership with North Shore Animal League’s national Tour for Life adoption drive, Hollywood Feed will hosts an effort to connect the community with local animal adoption organizations. Free. Sun., April 10, 12-3 p.m.

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR.

Library Open House

Open house with free admission. Staff will present their progress on the latest library projects. Learn to use the online search tools to browse books, objects, or slides. Sun., April 10, 12-5 p.m.

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

Memphis Fashion Week

Cultivating and celebrating local fashion through designers, photographers, models, and boutiques benefiting Memphis College of Art fashion design classes and the Emerging Designer Project. Through April 9.

MAKE YOUR RESERVATION TODAY! For a full list of restaurant partners, visit

diningoutforlife.com/Memphis

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

Mid-South Witches Gathering

Thanks to our supporting sponsors!

Gather for a night of conversation, laughter, storytelling, and fun. Meetings are private, a safe

continued on page 36

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 8350 WALNUT GROVE (662-349-3720 OR 853-1413), WWW.USADANCEMEMPHIS.COM.

contests, and giveaways. Visit website for schedule of events and information. Through April 30.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

ciated. $12 ($15 nonmembers).

Sat., April 9, 7-10 p.m.

35

CALENDAR: APRIL 7 - 13 continued from page 35 place to meet others and be yourself. Witchy attire welcome. Free. Thurs., April 7, 7-9 p.m.

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

Overton Park BioBlitz

Help create a snapshot of all the living things in Overton Park. Search the Old Forest for plants, animals, and more and learn about all the nature in your backyard. Free. Sat., April 9, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

OVERTON PARK, EAST PARKWAY PAVILION (214-5450), WWW.OVERTONPARK.ORG/BIOBLITZ.

Rock the Runway Fashion Show

Featuring Brandice Henderson-Daniel, founder of Harlem’s Fashion Row, and Kimberly Goldson, New York fashion designer finalist of Lifetime’s Project Runway. $50. Sun., April 10, 4-7 p.m.

CANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (238-4728), WWW.MEMPHISALUMNAEDST.ORG.

Seasonal Stargazing

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

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

Soulsville, USA/Lemoyne-Owen Community Clean Up

Special emphasis on recycling. The City of Memphis will provide free recycling containers. For more information and to volunteer, email rebecca.soulsvilleusa@gmail.com. Sat., April 9, 9 a.m.-noon.

LEMOYNE-OWEN COLLEGE, 807 WALKER (435-1000).

Whet Thursday

Enjoy the museum after hours, participate in the foundry class, explore the galleries, enjoy a drink from the cash bar, food trucks, live music, and more.

Free. Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.

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

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

2nd Annual Spring for Forrest Cocktail Party and Auction

Featuring live music, food, beer and wine, auctions, and more benefiting the mission of the Forrest Spence Fund. $75. Fri., April 8, 6:30-9 p.m.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.FORRESTSPENCEFUND.ORG.

The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon at the Orpheum Friday Flying Saucer’s Founders Brewing Company Beer Dinner

Four-course meal paired with beers from the brewery. Clyde Willis, Tennessee sales representative for Founders, will be onsite to educate guests on the featured beers. $35 for UFO members, $40 for nonmembers. Sun., April 10, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

FLYING SAUCER, 1400 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. (755-5530), WWW.BEERKNURD.COM.

Wild World of Wine & Beer

Enjoy food, wine, beer, and a silent auction for artwork from some of the zoo’s very own artists benefiting projects here and around the globe. $50 members, $60 nonmembers. Fri., April 8, 7 p.m.

MEMPHIS ZOO, 2000 PRENTISS PLACE IN OVERTON PARK (333-6500), WWW.MEMPHISZOO.ORG.

Come & Play Our New Slots! ...and many more!

A K E Y R E WAR DS , PL ATI N U M & ACCESS

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE

2X

3X

4X

F I LM

Grandma

Outflix film about Elle Reid, a gay poet who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when her granddaughter unexpectedly shows up, needing 600 dollars before sundown. $7. Wed., April 13, 7 p.m.

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

The Keepers

TUESDAYS IN APRIL

Award-winning documentary about the work and personalities of zookeepers. Filmed by local indie filmmakers with exclusive behind-the scenes access at the Memphis Zoo. Through April 8.

A L L D AY • A L L M A C H I N E S

MALCO STUDIO ON THE SQUARE, 2105 COURT (725-7151).

POINT VALUE

POINT VALUE

POINT VALUE

Video Poker play earns half the stated amount.

MicroCinema: 2015 Best of Ottawa International Animation Festival

April 7-13, 2016

Wed., April 13, 7 p.m.

7 8 9 4 5 6 1 2 3 0

MELIE BIANCO HANDBAGS

Saturday, April 16 Be the envy of all your friends!

Earn 400 points playing slots or tables and choose your favorite style.

CRACK THE CODE AND WIN

$50,000 CASH INSTANTLY! Sign up for a Key Rewards card, earn 20 points while playing slots or tables. Then swipe your card and guess the seven-digit safe cracker code. If you don’t crack the code, you’ll still win prizes including up to $100 in Promo Cash, a free buffet or a complimentary room night.

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

National Parks Adventure 3D

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

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

Toy Story

Part one will be shown first and last weekend, part two will be shown second weekend, and part three will be shown the third weekend in April. 2D film. $9. Saturdays, Sundays, 4 p.m. Through April 24.

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

Wider Angle Foreign Film Series: The Lesson

36

Must be 21 and a Key Rewards member. See Cashier • Players Club for rules. Management reserves the right to cancel, change and modify the event or promotion with notice to the Mississippi Gaming Commission where required. Gaming restricted patrons prohibited.

Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700.

Desperate schoolteacher turns to loan shark for help out of financial woes, leading to a final tragic act.

Bulgarian with English subtitles. Free. Wed., April 13, 6-8 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2726).

Saturday, April 23 9 a.m. registration 10 a.m. start $15/ Free for children under 12 Church Health Center Wellness 1115 Union Avenue walkingasone.org

5 off

$

a full price adult ticket with promo code MFLYLTCW Limit four

THEATRE MEMPHIS presents “The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)” By ADAM LONG, DANIEL SINGER AND JESS WINFIELD • Director JEFF POSSON • Sponsored by GENE & SANDRA COCHRAN

APRIL 8 -24 Generous support provided by

more information at walkingasone.org

UNRIVALED PERFORMANCE. UNENDING APPLAUSE.

©2016

TICKETS: 901.682.8323 ONLINE theatrememphis.org

2/27/15 3:04 PM

OVERTON BARK ADOPTION TOUR

For more information visit: memphishumane.org

Visiting 53 Cities in 32 States, plus Washington, D.C.!

SATURDAY | APRIL 23 ORPHEUM THEATRE

@ Follow LYER SF I MEMonPTHwitter & ram Instaogntest c

Participating Shelter:

Presenting Sponsor:

Sponsor:

for tails de

- TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT TICKETMASTER.COM - ALL TICKETMASTER OUTLETS - ORPHEUM THEATRE BOX OFFICE : ANOTHER BEAVER PRODUCTION :

HOLLYWOOD FEED

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

The world’s largest cooperative life-saving adoption event.

Save a life today! Get Your Rescue On and adopt a new best friend!

1914 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN SUN, APRIL 10 12 PM - 3 PM

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

WAO.Flyer.AD_2.27.15.indd 1

For more information and tour adoption event details visit animalleague.org

#TourForLife2016

37

F O O D N E W S B y L e s l e y Yo u n g

“All food is motivated by the tailor-made grill/smoker forged in the Smoke House area of the site.”

’Cued Up

T

he dream team behind the Tennessee Brewery Untapped project is at it again, this time with a professional landscaper, a marketing guru, a crackerjack mixologist, and a veteran chef on board for something a little more permanent and just as distinct.

Loflin Yard, a new restaurant concept hatched from the minds of Andy Cates, Michael Tauer, Taylor Berger, Doug Carpenter, and Brad Barnett, is set to open its doors Thursday, on the old Loflin Safe & Lock site in the South End. “This is completely unique. There is nothing else like it in town,” Carpenter, principal of Doug Carpenter + Associates and an investor in the restaurant, says.

The establishment is spread across one acre situated at the corner of Carolina and Florida, backing up to railroad tracks, and across the street from South Junction Apartments.

Loflin Yard incorporates the ideas of a curated wine list with bottles corked on site, barrel-aged cocktails that rotate the spotlight, sharable plates that are all grill-inspired, and treating the landscape as the main character.

And the landscape is a diva.

The main site, called the Safe House, where the safe-and-lock business operated, serves as the bar, the food ordering station, and the wine “cellar,” with a customized wine rack displaying bottles for sale.

“You walk in and walk up to the cooler and shelves and pick out a bottle, take it to the counter, order your food, they cork the wine, and you go and sit and we bring you your food,” Carpenter says.

EXC I

LIVE EW LUNCH MEN N G U TIN CRAWFISH

BY THE BAG STRAIGHT FROM LOUISIANA

RESERVE YOUR BAG!

BY THURSDAY BY NOON FOR THE WEEKEND

Ethan Wilson grills the goods at Loflin Yard.

Behind the bar sit rows of tiny barrels housing custom, classic cocktails designed by Mary Oglesby, who five months ago emigrated from Milwaukee, where she worked in the craft cocktail sector for several years.

On first rotation of the barrel-aged cocktail concoctions are Sazerac, Tennessee Whiskey Old Fashioned, and Boulevardier, among others.

All food is motivated by the tailor-made grill/smoker forged in the Smoke House area of the site.

“They made a custom grill for this place. It is a beautiful piece of equipment. It’s set on an angle so that the grease drips down for re-basing, or mop sauce,” Carpenter says.

Grilled beef brisket, grilled pork tenderloin, grilled asparagus, roasted tomatoes, smoked wings, street corn, charred watermelon, grilled romaine lettuce — this is the infrastructure on which the menu is built.

HOME OF THE

Hungry ASK CHAR-GRILLED ABOUT OUR Memphis: OYSTER DOWNSTAIRS A Very Tasteful Food Blog PARTY ROOM.

PRIVATE PARTY SPECIALISTS

FRESH FISH DAILY

TRY OUR SUNDAY BRUNCH 11AM - 3PM.

by Susan Ellis

FREE PARKING • ON THE TROLLEY LINE WALKING DISTANCE TO FEDEX FORUM & BEALE ST.

299 S. MAIN ST. • OPEN DAILY AT 11AM 901-522-9070

PEARLSOYSTERHOUSE.COM

Dishing it out daily at

MemphisFlyer.com

April 7-13, 2016

547-7997

JUSTIN FOX BURKS

Loflin Yard opens this week.

SIGN UP NOW for monthly or season-long summer subscriptions

38

bringitfoodhub.com

’CUED UP

OPEN NOW

LA GUADALUPANA AUTHENTIC MEXICAN FOOD

HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 4-6PM

COME ENJOY THE HIGHEST RATED MEXICAN RESTAURANT IN MEMPHIS!

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

5848 WINCHESTER ROAD (901)365-4992

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

For dessert? S’mores, of course.

The chef? Andy Knight. You might remember him from Interim and Babalu and Bounty.

“It’s just cool folks across the board making this happen,” Carpenter says.

Patrons can opt to sit in the Safe House, with chairs salvaged from Christian Brothers University and fashioned for the bar, bistro-style tables, or dining tables, original tacking on the walls, and, of course, an old safe at the bar.

They can mosey outside onto the covered deck, complete with tin roof and a waterfall to set the mood.

Barnett, owner of the property and professional landscaper, took full advantage of the fact that the property includes an open basin of the Gayoso Bayou that runs under the city and is fed by a spring on the site, and created a waterfall using boulders and the existing culvert, calling it Loflin Falls.

The choices don’t end there. A large lawn with Adirondack chairs, bocce, horseshoes, and a possible badass sporting option that isn’t confirmed yet lead up to the Coach House, the old stable that once housed the Peabody Hotel carriage horses, which has been completely transformed with a covered porch and eventually with rolling glass garage doors.

“We’re not sure what we’re going to do with this yet. Possibly a live music venue or event space, or for overflow,” Carpenter says.

The can’t-lose location is just the sauce on the barbecue.

“The Harahan Bridge, which will open in October, is an easy route from here, as is Riverside Drive, so I think we will really strike a chord with folks down here as well as tourists.

We’re nestled right in the middle of all of this residential down here, so we’re like an oasis around these apartments where they don’t have yards or greenspace or a running water feature,” Carpenter says.

“Everyone we’ve brought through here has been completely mesmerized. Where else can you go and hear the waterfall and smell the smoker. We look for it to be pretty exciting, and it’s definitely a long-term venture,” he says.

Loflin Yard opens Thursday, April 7th at 7 W. Carolina. Hours are scheduled to run Mon. through Thurs. 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., Fri. 4 p.m. to 12 a.m., and Sat. through Sun. 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. For more information, visit loflinyard.com, or go to their Facebook page at facebook.com/loflinyard.

Loflin Yard, 7 W. Carolina, 249-3046

39

Locality ✴ Guide BARTLETT Abuelo’s Coletta’s Colton’s Steak House Dixie Cafe El Porton Gridley’s Bar-B-Q La Playita Mexicana Los Olas del Pacifico Memphis Mojo Cafe Pig-N-Whistle Saito Steakhouse Sekisui Sidecar Cafe Side Porch Steak House

CHICKASAW GARDENS/ U OF M A-Tan Avenue Coffee Bella Caffe Brother Juniper’s Camy’s The Choo Derae Restaurant El Porton El Toro Loco The Farmer Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Just for Lunch La Baguette La Hacienda Los Compadres Lost Pizza Co. Lucchesi's Beer Garden Medallion Osaka Pete & Sam’s Raffe’s Deli Republic Coffee Rock’n Dough Pizza Co. RP Tracks Woman’s Exchange

Let’s Have SOME FUN

APRIL 23rd

Southern Hot Wing Festival USE OUR BUY ONE GET ONE COUPON FOUND HERE EVERY WEEK

GET ONE

2 PC

April 7-13, 2016

DARK DINNER

FREE W/ PURCHASE OF ONE

2PC DARK DINNER & 2 MED DRINKS. WITH THIS COUPON. Dine In & Drive Thru

3571 Lamar Ave • 2520 Mt Moriah Drive Thru / Carry Out

1217 S. Bellevue 4349 Elvis Presley 811 S Highland 2484 Jackson Ave 1370 Poplar Ave • 890 Thomas

Facebook.com/Jackpirtles Twitter.com/Jackpirtles1957

40

Write Us: Customer2jackpirtles@Gmail.com Buses Welcome!

We Accept All Major Credit Cards

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

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

Bluefin Blue Monkey Blue Plate Cafe Blues City Cafe The Brass Door Burrito Blues Cafe Keough Cafe Pontotoc Capriccio Grill Central BBQ Chez Philippe City Market Cordelia’s Table Coyote Ugly Cozy Corner DeJaVu Double J Earnestine & Hazel’s Eighty3 Felicia Suzanne’s Ferraro’s Pizzeria & Pub Five Spot Flight Flying Fish Flying Saucer The Green Beetle Gus’s Fried Chicken Happy Mexican Hard Rock Cafe Huey’s Itta Bena Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Jerry Lee Lewis’ King’s Palace Cafe Kooky Canuck Little Tea Shop Local Gastropub Loflin Yard Lunchbox Eats LYFE Kitchen Maciel’s The Majestic Grille Marmalade McEwen’s Mesquite Chop House Miss Polly’s Mollie Fontaine Lounge Office @ Uptown Café Oshi Burger Bar Paulette’s Pearl’s Oyster House Pig on Beale Pink Diva Cupcakery Rendezvous Rizzo’s Diner Rumba Room Rum Boogie Cafe Scoops Parlor Sekisui Silky O’Sullivan’s Silly Goose South of Beale South Main Sushi Spaghetti Warehouse Spindini Tamp & Tap Texas de Brazil Tin Roof Tug’s Westy’s Yao’s Downtown China Bistro Zac’s Cafe

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

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

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

SOUTH MEMPHIS The Bistro Coletta’s Four Way Restaurant Interstate Barbecue Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Uncle Lou’s Southern Kitchen SUMMER/BERCLAIR Asian Palace Central BBQ The Cottage El Kora El Palmar Elwood’s Shack High Pockets Los Picosos Lotus Nagasaki Inn Pancho’s Panda Garden Queen of Sheba Taqueria La Guadalupana WEST MEMPHIS The Cupboard Pancho’s WHITEHAVEN China Inn Hong Kong Jack Pirtle’s Chicken O’ Taste & See Valle’s Italian Rebel WINCHESTER East End Grill Formosa Half Shell Huey’s Rancho Grande TJ Mulligan’s

F I L M R E V I E W B y E i l e e n To w n s e n d

Dronezzz Eye in the Sky misses the mark.

Helen Mirren (left) and Aaron Paul don’t even look excited about Eye in the Sky. of truth, let me instead direct you to some palatable Tim McGraw songs.

A more interesting film about the disconnected warfare might also include meta scenes in which, for 11 dollars a pop, an American moviegoing audience watches a fictional film about drone violence. It’s hard to feel, watching Eye in the Sky, like you are not somehow participating in the riddles of violence and scale that the movie attempts, but does not succeed, in answering.

Eye in the Sky Now playing Malco Ridgeway Cinema Grill

Knight Errant Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups is adrift in images.

When you regret the past, do you stare pensively at oceans while wearing Giorgio Armani? When you feel melancholy, do you express it by lounging in expensive apartments while burning through relationships with a series of models? When you think, is it only metaphorically, in terms like “Because I stumbled down the road like a drunk, it doesn’t mean it was the wrong one”? If so, Terrence Malick’s film Knight of Cups accurately describes your inner state, but everyone else it might leave cold.

Malick has always been interested in the strangeness of internal thought. The childlike killers in Badlands or the beatific soldier in The Thin Red Line were extremely specific characters even as their minds rambled into abstract philosophy and poetry. By contrast, Knight of Cups’ Rick (Christian Bale) is a man without qualities, who only stares continued on page 42

Needed: Men with type A+ and O+ blood to support malaria research.

If you are 18 years or older, in good health, and have type A or O positive blood, your blood is needed to support important medical research studies that could lead to prevention of malaria. You will be paid for doing something that could benefit mankind. For more information contact:

1256 Union Avenue, Suite 200 Memphis, TN 38104 901-252-3434

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

his character: At the start, we see Benson buying a doll for his daughter on the way into work. He realizes it is the wrong model of doll and asks a military assistant to replace it before he enters into the war room. At the close of the movie, [SPOILER AHEAD] just after we learn that Benson’s operation has killed the young Somali girl, the military assistant thrusts the correct model of the doll into Benson’s hands. Benson looks confused, then slightly horrified, then resigned. “Thank you,” he says.

Contained within a single, 12-hour military shift, Eye in the Sky follows the escalation of a planned “capture operation” in Kenya to a full-scale “elimination operation” when Col. Powell realizes that the subjects of the capture have on suicide vests. Military communication pings between two soldiers in Las Vegas, British and American politicians, and on-the-ground Kenyan spies. Meanwhile, we watch as young Somali girl, Alia, goes about her daily business: playing, reading, selling bread. We learn that her family are not militant. When Alia sets up shop next door to the military target, we get our ethical problem, contained within a single aerial shot.

From the get-go, it is easy enough to predict that the little girl is not going to get out alive. Alia and her family are tragic, sympathetic characters. But they, like everything else in Eye in the Sky, come off as canned. And that predictability, passable in rom-coms and sci-fi flicks, is a serious offense when you are trying to represent the very real lives caught up in hi-tech wars.

Eye in the Sky, in its attempts to frame everyone as just the right kind of ethical actor in a crazy world, is like The West Wing with more drones and fewer witticisms about the SATs. It plays on the most obvious of our sympathies (little girls are good; terrorists are bad; soldiers are just doing their jobs) and in so doing, 1) dismisses the more interesting underlying hows and whys of drone warfare, and 2) substitutes uninteresting fiction for facts. If you want facts, read journalism. Watch a documentary. Don’t listen to a character named General Frank Benson when he puffs up his chest and tells a crying female politician to “never tell a soldier he doesn’t know the true cost of war.” If that kind of sentimentality is your preferred mode

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

I

t took me a good five hours, a long bath, part of a novel, and a cute animal YouTube marathon to relax after seeing Eye in the Sky, the new movie about drone warfare. It is not a pleasant movie to watch — which is fine; a pleasant movie about drone strikes would be weird. But if a movie is going to deal in violence, you at least hope that there is a point. We should learn something. With Eye in the Sky, I’m not sold.

In a 2013 article for The Atlantic called “Killing Machines,” journalist Mark Bowden writes, “Drone strikes are a far cry from the atomic vaporizing of whole cities, but the horror of war doesn’t seem to diminish when it is reduced in scale. If anything, the act of willfully pinpointing a human being and summarily executing him from afar distills war to a single ghastly act.”

In theory, Eye in the Sky is a 102-minute exploration of the “single ghastly act” of a drone strike. Set between a British cabinet room, an arms sales conference in China, air force bases in Nevada and Hawaii, and a militarized Somali neighborhood in Kenya, the movie attempts to split the difference between the scale of drone warfare and the hyperlocality of the actual violence. We are asked to weigh the cost of one civilian girl’s life — the “65 percent chance of collateral damage” — against the military imperative to kill the terrorists. There is little movement throughout the film; instead, we get a thriller-esque focus on a few locations and characters. True to life, we often see what is happening through the lens of the drone.

Helen Mirren stars as Col. Katherine Powell, a British officer in charge of the time-sensitive operation to capture the terrorists. Either Mirren underplays the role, or the role is underwritten. Either way, the star power in the film is carried not by Mirren but by the late, great Alan Rickman, who stars opposite Mirren as Lt. General Frank Benson, the commanding officer in charge of clearing military decisions with the legal and political powers.

Rickman is great as Benson, even if you get the feeling that he can play the asshole-military-guy-who-is-notreally-an-asshole in his sleep. Both the film’s emotional depth and the rare moments of lightness are given to

41

FILM REVIEW By Ben Siler continued from page 41 and looks sad. The film details his Hollywood mid-life crisis with all the heft of an ad for clothing. Its beautiful landscapes look like a luxury car is about to pull up. The phrases that populate its inner monologues are so perversely scrubbed of anything approaching detail that they read like platitudes. Skilled actors show up and start to fill in that detail but are drowned out by wind or surf or their own voiceovers, which are phrases like “I was afraid when I was young. Afraid of life,” repeated without context. The intent seems to be to replace the day-to-day with the timeless, but it’s bland.

Bale thinks of himself as a knight from a childhood story about one who was bewitched and forgot his quest. Interspersed TOM HIDDLESTON

ELIZABETH OLSEN

with his thoughts are those of his father, brother, and girlfriends, as well as John Gielgud reading Pilgrim’s Progress and Ben Kingsley reading Biblical apocrypha and the Persian medieval philosopher Suhrawardi. Beneath these run a neverending array of interactions with women between chapter headings named after tarot cards. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant) constantly moves the camera, floating up and down bodies, away from and towards faces, in an effort to give static scenes excitement and interest. Many of the actors are comedians (Dan Harmon, Nick Offerman) or crusty old pros (Brian Dennehy, Armin Mueller-Stahl) who would be interesting to hear speak, but have little audible dialogue. We see their raw emoting under ambient noise and classical music. Come-

CHERRY JONES

BRADLEY WHITFORD

MADDIE HASSON

WRENN SCHMIDT

Christian Bale looks sad in Malick’s Knight of Cups. dian Thomas Lennon has described the process: He was thrown into a scene with Christian Bale with no explanation and told to improv.

Things that actors and models do when told to interact with no script include: playing with dogs, drawing in the sand, breaking chairs, breaking TVs, chasing each other with plants, making out in an empty bathtub, jumping in pools, aerial dance, ice sculpture, ballet,

putting their feet in the other’s mouth, and crying. Malick is excited about beaches, water, highway interchanges, children playing, models, and helicopters. Images of these recur and recur. My favorite shot is of a pelican that Bale and Wes Bentley momentarily follow on a pier. The camera stays on it for a few seconds, and its face has a lot of character.

The shots of expressways and cities at night recall Solaris and Koyaanisqatsi, two films which make the purely visual enthralling. Malick should follow his interest into the impressionistic and grandiose.

The funniest thing here is that Rick is a screenwriter in a film in desperate need of one. Or it would be funny, had I not learned that online. Despite the fact that Rick is often seen on film sets, the viewer is not able to discern his job.

Knight of Cups Now playing Malco Studio on the Square

“SEE IT FOR THE MAGNIFICENT TOM HIDDLESTON, WHO HONORS HANK WILLIAMS’ GREATNESS.” -Stephanie Zacharek, TIME

I SAW THE LIGHT

−

MOVIES

SINCE

1915

−

WWW.SONYCLASSICS.COM

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MARC ABRAHAM

Bartlett Collierville Cordova Memphis MALCO STAGE CINEMA MALCO COLLIERVILLE TOWNE CINEMA MALCO CORDOVA TOWNE CINEMA MALCO RIDGEWAY CINEMA GRILL (901) 681-2020 #20 (901) 681-2020 #12 (901) 681-2020 #13 (901) 681-2020 #19

VIEW THE TRAILER AT WWW.ISAWTHELIGHTFILM.COM

MEMPHIS FLYER (MEMPHIS, TN) THURSDAY 04/07 2 COL. ( 4.57" ) X 2 ALL.ISL.0407.MF

FS/JN

Ridgeway Cinema Grill

#1

CAFE • IMPORTED BEER & WINE • LUXURY SEATING

Demolition R The Boss R Hardcore Henry R Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice PG13 Zootopia PG

FULL MENU • IMPORTED BEER & WINE LUXURY SEATING

Eye in the Sky R I Saw the Light R Hello, My Name is Doris R My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 PG13

April 7-13, 2016

IMPORTED BEER & WINE • EXPANDED CONCESSIONS • LUXURY SEATING • ALL DIGITAL CINEMA •

The Boss R Hardcore Henry R Midnight Special PG13 God’s Not Dead 2 PG Meet the Blacks R Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice PG13 3-D Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice PG13 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 PG13

The Divergent Series: Allegiant PG13 Miracles From Heaven PG 10 Cloverfield Lane PG13 The Perfect Match R Zootopia PG London Has Fallen R Deadpool R

MALCO THEATRES CORPORATE EVENTS • MEETINGS CHURCH RENTALS • GROUP RATES EMAIL GROUPSALES@MALCO.COM

VIP MOVIE TICKETS & CONCESSION VOUCHERS

42

5101 Sanderlin Ave., Ste. 104b • Next to Fox & Hound

ORDER ONLINE AT MALCO.COM OR GROUPSALES@MALCO.COM

HELP WANTED • REAL ESTATE

PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000 a week. Mailing Brochures from home. Helping home workers since 2001. Genuine Opportunity. No experience required.

Start immediately. www.TheIncomeHub.com (AAN CAN)

EDUCATION AIRLINE CAREERS begin here - Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician.

Financial aid for qualified students.

Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN) SHELBY COUNTY SCHOOLS Is hiring exceptional educators!

Teaching positions available now.

Openings in Elementary, Special Education, Math, Middle Grades, and Physical Education. Must have bachelor’s degree with GPA of 2.75+.

Praxis Content Exam may be required.

Starting salary is $42,343. Send resume to:info@teachmemphis.org.

For questions call 901.416.1064.

GENERAL BRISTOL GARDENS APTS 3803 Given Ave. 1BRs $400 2BRs $450 Call 272-8658 or cell 281-4446

ANIMAL LOVERS Bring Your Dog to Work. Carriage Drivers needed downtown. Valid license required.

UptownCarriages.com 901-496-2128 COUNTER HELP Needed. Monday-Friday morning & every other Saturday. Apply at 114 Harbor Town Square.

EXPERIENCED PAINTER NEEDED FOR IMMEDIATE HIRE

LIT RESTAURANT SUPPLY Cashier & Stocker position available. Do you have experience organizing inventory in a freezer?

Fantastic Opportunity with Established Memphis Company! If you are a goal-driven person with strong leadership skills, please email your resume to: pboxer@ litsupply.com

HEALTHCARE BILINGUAL DENTIST Needed for Dental Office in South East Memphis Area. Send all inquires, Mail: P.O. Box 70406, Memphis, TN. 38107 Fax: (901)524-0976 or Call: (901)524-0970 GRACELAND REHAB & NURSING Center: We deliver the most advanced rehab and specialty care with compassion and enthusiasm!! RN/ LPN:FT-Day and Evening Shifts!!!!! $750 Sign on Bonus!!!!! CNA:FT/ PT/PRN-Day Shift!!!!! $500 Sign on Bonus!!!!!TN License/certification required for all nursing positions Must have at least one year LTC experience Email resumes to: sthompson@ platinumhrm.com Subject: Graceland/ Position Title Or Apply In person:1250 Farrow Road Memphis, TN 38116

CLEAN AND PINK Is a upscale residential cleaning company that takes pride in their employees & the clients they serve.

Providing exceptional service to all. The application process is extensive to include a detailed drug test, physical exam, and background check. The training hours are 8am-6pm Mon-Thur.

12$-19$hr. Full time hours are Mon - Thu & rotating Fridays.

Transportation to job sites during the work day is company provided.

Body cameras are a part of the work uniform. Uniform shirts provided. Only serious candidates need apply. Those only looking for long term employment need apply.

Cleaning is a physical job but all tools are company provided. Send Resume to cleannpink@msn.com COPELAND SERVICES, L.L.C. Hiring Armed State Licensed Officers/Unarmed Officers Three Shifts Available Same Day Interview 1661 International Place 901-2585872 or 901-818-3187 Interview in Professional Attire EXPERIENCED PAINTER Needed for immediate hire. Must have own transportation. Carpentry experience a plus. NO SUBS. Paid hourly. 901-827-1681

HELP WANTED

•Must Have Own Transportation •Carpentry Experience A Plus.

•NO SUBS. Paid Hourly

BEAUTY BAR AT CHICKASAW is hiring full time stylists! Must be licensed, motivated, and professional. We offer a sliding scale commission, technical training, and weekly pay. We Supply the Product. You Bring the Drive.

To apply create a free profile on.

BeautyCastNetwork.com including pictures of your work and why we should hire you. Jessica Richard Communications Director jessica@ beautycastnetwork.com www.beautycastnetwork.com

Call 901-827-1681

The Edison Premier retailers, chic eateries, fresh markets & live entertainment venues are just minutes away!

CALL TODAY! • 1BR $575-$615 • 2BR $635-$685 • 3BR $755-$785

HOSPITALITY/ RESTAURANT

Reduced deposit of $100

567 Jefferson AVE Phone - 901.523-8112 Email: edison@mrgmemphis.com

WOODTRAIL APARTMENTS Located within walking distance of U of M. Spacious 1 & 2BR apts, with great upgrades & remodeling to the flooring plans.

Each apt has no less than 1000 sq ft w. W/D conn. $625/mo + $300 dep.

Call 272-8658 Cell 281-4441

SAM’S TOWN HOTEL & Gambling Hall in Tunica, MS is looking for the next Direct Marketing Pro, is it you? We need someone who has excellent organizational skills, knows Direct Mail and Database Marketing, previous Casino Marketing experience preferred. Must have strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to meet deadlines in the fast paced casino environment, proficient in Microsoft Office, CMS and LMS. Must be able to obtain and maintain a MS Gaming Commission Work Permit, pass a prescreening including but not limited to background and drug screen. To apply, log on to boydcareers.com and follow the prompts to Tunica. Boyd Gaming Corp is a drug free workplace and equal opportunity employer.

Must be at least 21 to apply.

USIC LOCATE TECHNICIAN Daytime, full-time Locate Technician positions available! -100% PAID TRAINING - Company vehicle & equipment provided PLUS medical, dental, vision & life insuranceRequirements: Must be able to work outdoors HS Diploma or GED Ability to work OT and weekends Must have valid driver’s license with safe driving recordApply today: www.usicllc.com EEO/AA

BROADWAY PIZZA is now interviewing for new members to our team. All positions available.

Apply in person, no phone calls please. 2581 Broad; 629 S. Mendenhall, 10am-10pm.

HOUSEKEEPER ATTENDANT for small hotel with kitchens downtown Memphis. Duties require considerable physical activity including vacuuming, mopping, laundry, climbing stairs, etc. Must be detail oriented and dependable. Phone calls will be accepted Monday through Friday 8:00am to 11:00am. 901-326-7032.

MOLLY’S LA CASITA Line/Prep Cook & Hostess needed.

EXPERIENCED ONLY! Full-time.

References & Background check required. Must be willing to learn and work well with others!Apply in person ONLY! 2-5PM Daily. Molly’s La Casita 2006 Madison Avenue (Overton Square area)

RAFFERTY’S We are looking for service minded individuals, that don’t mind working hard. We work hard, but make $.

Apply in the store. 505 N Gtown Pkwy

TAMP & TAP Now accepting applications for Barista and for Kitchen Customer Service Specialists. Hiring at both locations Please apply in person Monday-Friday 2pm-4pm THE BLUE MONKEY Now Hiring experienced Servers & Line Cooks. Must be available nights & weekends. Apply in person only at Blue Monkey Downtown, 513 S. Front St. Monday thru Friday between 2-4pm. No phone calls please.

SALES/MARKETING CONTEMPORARY MEDIA, INC. (CMi), NOW HIRING SALES REP/ ACCOUNT REP Contemporary Media Inc., locally owned and operated publisher of Memphis magazine, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, and Inside Memphis Business is looking for a full-time salesperson to join our team. Must have proven sales experience, excellent communication skills (both written and oral) and be a selfstarter. Candidate must be highly organized and able to thrive in a high volume, fast-paced and team-oriented environment.

Knowledge of the local market a plus. Compensation package commensurate with experience, plus company paid benefits.

SKILLS NEEDED Print, digital, event sponsorship, and mobile selling experience High level cold calling Negotiation skillsHigh competency in MS Office or Google Drive products Ability to communicate effectively to a large group.Compensation package commensurate with experience, plus paid company benefits. Send cover letter and resume to: hr@ contemporary-media.com EOE. No phone calls please.

SPORTS TALK RADIO Advertising/Sponsorship Sales.

Excellent part-time income. Earn up to $1,800 1st month. Great Opportunity.

HOMES FOR SALE 2940 SOUTHERN Way cool condo in Gleneagles gated community (Southern & Goodwyn)2BR/1.5BA, fireplace, vaulted ceilings, private gardens, wonderful neighbors. $139,900!

Call Agent Pitts today!

901-355-5038 Marx-Bensdorf, REALTORS 901-682-1868!

DOWNTOWN APTS MINUTES FROM DOWNTOWN Come visit the brand new Cleaborn Pointe at Heritage Landing.

Located just minutes from historic Downtown Memphis. 2BR Apts & Townhomes $707; 3BR Apts & Townhomes $813. Community Room, Computer Room, Fitness Room. A smoke free community. 440 South LauderdaleMemphis, TN 38126 | 901-254-7670.

Line/Prep Cook & Hostess needed EXPERIENCED ONLY!

FULL-TIME References & Background check required.

Must be willing to learn and work well with others!

APPLY IN PERSON Monday through Friday 2pm - 5pm to complete an application No phone calls please.

2006 MADISON AVE. (Overton Square area)

R E S TAU R A N T S U P P LY

CAShiER & SToCkER PoSiTioNS AvAiLAbLE

if you have a strong work ethic and a good attitude, we would like to hear from you.

Apply in person at 309 Union Ave or send email to pboxer@litsupply.com

memphisflyer.com

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

REAL ESTATE

901 575 9400 classifieds@memphisflyer.com

43

HELPWANTED • REAL ESTATE

901 575 9400 classifieds@memphisflyer.com IT/COMPUTER

MIDTOWN APT

INVENTORY LOCATOR SERVICES, LLC 8001 Centerview Parkway, Suite 400, Memphis, TN seeks Data Architect II to establish the direction for the IT architecture, standards, design and implementation approaches for the company’s application systems and/or infrastructure; design a complete and complex framework, system or product; conceive basic system interfaces and business application prototypes; identify, analyze, and resolve system design weaknesses; influence the shaping of future products by contributing to the framework (architecture) used across multiple products or systems; provide technical expertise for next generation initiatives; responsible for scope related decisions and draws conclusions related to the design needs during program initiation and support the design phases; define processes for technical platforms, system specifications, input/output and working parameters for hardware and/or software compatibility; apply company policies and procedures to resolve issues; and complete special projects.Position requires Master Degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent, plus 2 years experience ( Bachelor Degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Systems, plus 5 years progressive experience is considered the equivalent of a master’s degree). Please send resume to Eva Cummins, 8001 Centerview Parkway, Suite 400, Memphis TN 38018

1307 VINTON 2BR/1BA, $600/mo. Call MTC (901) 756-4469

DOWNTOWN LOFT/ CONDO 665 TENNESSEE STREET 1BR/1BA, $1100/mo.Call MTC (901) 756-4469 THE WASHBURN Ideal Location. Stunning Spaces. One of a Kind. 60 S. Main St.Memphis TN. 901.527.0244thewashburn.com

EAST MEMPHIS HOMES FOR RENT 773 BERRY 2BR/1BA, CH/A, WD, hdwd flrs, appls, renovated bath. $875/mo.+ $500/dep.

901-328-8294

199 S. MCLEAN Completely renovated 2BR/1BA, gated, free wifi. Immediate availability. $995/ mo. Call Chelsea 461-2090 or Tom 483-7177.

CENTRAL GARDENS 2BR/1BA, hdwd floors, ceiling fans, french doors, all appls incl. W/D, 9ft ceil, crown molding, off str pking. $720/mo. Also 1BR, $610/mo. 8336483.

MIDTOWN APTS FOR RENT Large 1 Br. Midtown Apt. Off Overton Square. Water incl. $550. Huge 3Br. 2 Bth. Apt. Midtown area. 1 mile from Overton Park. Water/gas incl, gated, hardwood floors, CH/A, onsite laundry $695. 2Br. Apt. $525-$575.

Call 901-458-6648

ROSECREST APARTMENTS Your apartment home is waiting. Come live the difference. 1BRs starting at $650/mo.- Controlled access building- Beautiful Historic Midtown location- Community lounge & business center- Inviting swimming pool- 24 hour fitness center & laundry facilityBalconies- Fully equipped kitchensHuge closets- Recycling center Call 888.589.1982 M-F 10:30am -6:00 pm Saturday by appointment only. 45 S. Idlewild, Memphis, TN 38104 www.rosecrestapts.com

OWN A HOME FOR LESS THAN RENT OWN FOR LESS THAN AT WOLF RIVER BLUFFS OWN A A HOME HOME FOR LESS THAN RENT RENT AT WOLF RIVER BLUFFS AT WOLF RIVER BLUFFS BRAND NEW HOMES AT MCLEAN & JAMES RD. BRAND NEW HOMES AT MCLEAN & JAMES RD. BRAND NEW HOMES AT MCLEAN & JAMES RD.

MIDTOWN DUPLEX

SHARED HOUSING

CENTRAL GARDENS Duplex: Updated 2BR/1BA, all appls incl W/D. CH/A, fenced bkyd, 595 S. Rembert. $750/mo. O/A 351-2365

309 N. MONTGOMERY Room for rent with reduced rate for housekeeping assistance.

Call Walter 288-7512.

Laurie Stark

• 31 Years of Experience

• Life Member of the Multi Million Dollar Club • From Downtown to Germantown • Call me for your Real Estate Needs

5384 Poplar Ave., Suite 250, Memphis, TN 38119

(901)761-1622 • Cell (901)486-1464

       

3 BR, 2 BA 3 BR, 2 BA 3 BR, 2 BA standards EcoǦBUILD EcoǦBUILD standards = lower utility bills EcoǦBUILD standards = lower utility bills = mi. lower utility bills 5 from Downtown 5 from Square Downtown & mi.

Overton

5 mi. from Downtown & Overton Square & Overton Square

        

EnergyǦefficient deEnergyǦefficient design EnergyǦefficient design sign Monthly payments of Monthly of less thanpayments $600 Monthly payments of less than $600 less than $600 Open floorplan Open floorplan Open floorplan

WOLF RIVER BLUFFS: HOMEOWNERSHIP STARTS HERE WOLF RIVER BLUFFS: HOMEOWNERSHIP STARTS HERE WOLF RIVER BLUFFS: HOMEOWNERSHIP STARTS HERE Open House Every Sunday 2-4 Every p.m. Sunday Open House Open House uhinc.org 2-4 Every p.m. Sunday 2-4 p.m. uhinc.org uhinc.org

Jimmie Hopson Jimmie Cell (901)Hopson 335-5697 Jimmie Hopson Cell (901) Office (901)335-5697 794-9925 Cell (901) 335-5697 Office (901) 794-9925 Office (901) 794-9925

2940 SOUTHERN way cool condo in gleneagles

a gated community (Southern & Goodwyn) 2BR/1.5BA, fireplace, vaulted ceilings, private gardens, wonderful neighbors.

$139,900!

Call Agent Pitts today!

901-355-5038 Marx-Bensdorf REALTORS 901-682-1868!

Plant your Garden here at THE NEW HUNTINGTON HILL’S April 7-13, 2016

A PA R T M E N T S

44

and Bloom Great Savings!!!

1, 2, & 3 BEDROOMS

$99.00 MOVE IN SPECIAL & NO APPLICATION FEE

2872 COACH DR | MEMPHIS, TN 38128 CALL 901-372-9309

3707 Macon Rd. • 272-9028 lecorealty.com Visit us online, call, or office for free list.

Houses & Duplexes for Rent ALL AREAS Visit us @ www.lecorealty.com come in, or call Leco Realty, Inc. @ 3707 Macon Rd. 272-9028

REAL ESTATE • SERVICES

901 575 9400 classifieds@memphisflyer.com NICE ROOMS FOR RENT S. Pkwy & Wilson. Utilities and Cable included. Fridge in your room. Cooking and free laundry privileges. Some locations w/sec. sys. Starting at $435/mo. + dep. 901.922.9089

FURNISHED ROOM(S) For Rent $125-$150 weekly-Utilities Included! Fully equipped kitchen/ washer & Dryer/ minutes away from downtown, busline, food eateries, and convenient shopping.

Call 901-737-5800

MIDTOWN ROOMS FOR RENT Central Heat/Air, utls included, furnished. 901.650.4400

ROOMS FOR RENT Clean, furnished, CH/A, cable, utilities, WD included. Midtown. $110/ wk. Owner/Agent 901.461.4758

U OF M HOMES FOR RENT 500 S. PRESCOTT 3BR/2BA, Appliances included. Great neighborhood. $975/mo. 525-2525/ wkends 753-3722

SERVICES ARE YOU IN BIG trouble with the IRS? Stop wage & bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues, & resolve tax debt FAST. Call 844-753-1317 (AAN CAN)

VW • AUDI

FASHION REWIND Online Consignment & Resale.stores. ebay.com/fashionrewind

MINI•PORSCHE

German Car Experts

TAXES Personal/Business + Legal work by a CPA-Attorney. Bruce Newman (901) 272-9471. newmandecoster.com

Specializing in VW & Audi Automobiles

Also Servicing

Mini • Porsche Factory Trained Experience Independent Prices

TREAT THE CONDITION Transform your life! Are you dependent or addicted to painkillers, opiates, methadone or heroin?

SUBOXONE, ZUBSOLV, BUNAVAIL: Introduction, maintenance, medical withdrawal & counseling. Opiate dependence exists in all walks of life. Private, confidential, in-office treatment. Staffed by a suboxone certified physician.

Call (901) 761-8100 for more information.

4907 Old Summer Rd.

(Corner of Summer & Mendenhall)

(901) 761-3443 www.WolfsburgAuto.com

Call today for an appointment!

Transform Treat the condition- Transform your life! your life!

Are you dependent or addicted to Opiate dependence •painkillers exists in all walks of life.

•opiates •methadone •heroin?

Introduction, maintenance, Private confidential, medical withdrawal in-office treatment. & counseling.

Staffed by a suboxone Introduction, maintenance, certified physician. medical withdrawal & counseling.

SUBOXONE

SUBOXONE ZUBSOLV

We BUY/SeLL/TRADe LPS, 45S, 78S, CDS,DVDS, VHS, PoSTeRS, ARTWoRk, MUSiCAL & STeReo eqUiPMen T, CoLLeCTiBLeS, FURni TURe, CLoTHeS,& MUCH MoRe!

1916 MADISON AVE. WwW.SHANGRI.COM

Kimbrough Towers A Northland Community

Unique Community Features Include • Historic Central Gardens District • Controlled access building • Garage parking available • Parquet wood flooring • 9 foot ceilings • 24 hour Fitness & Laundry Centers • Private park with picnic & grilling • Central heat and air

Reserve your new home today at the historic Kimbrough Towers

888-446-4954

9 - 6 M,T,W,F Thursday 9 - 7 Saturday by Appointment Only www.KimbroughTowers.com

Staffed by

BUNAVAIL (901) 276-4895 for more information (901) 761-8100 for more information

ANNOUNCEMENTS

LOST AND FOUND

PREGNANT? THINKING OF ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. Void in Illinois/New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN)

BAM BAM I’m a handsome 1 yr old male and I need your help. My family moved away and left me in the backyard. If that wasn’t bad enough now I’m sitting in a shelter. I’m super sweet and I love other dogs. Please help me. Contact Ranise at K_sneed@att.net or call 901-337-3652 (cell) or 870-732-7599 (wk).

MASSAGE M.E. STUDIO TOM PITMAN MASSAGE Massage The Way You Like It. Swedish/Deep Tissue - Relaxation, Hot Stones. Credit Cards. Call 7617977. tompitmanmassage.com, tom@tompitmanmassage.com WILLIAM BREWER Massage Therapist (Health & Wellness offer) 377-6864

NUTRITION/ HEALTH ELIMINATE CELLULITE and Inches in weeks! All natural. Odor free. Works for men or women. Free month supply on select packages.

Order now! 844-244-7149 (M-F 9am8pm central) (AAN CAN)

APOGEE SOUND RECORDERS PRO-Tools 9. Up to 96 Tracks!

Perfect for CD projects, Singer/ Songwriters, Band Demos. Call or text 901.491.0415. apogeesound@yahoo.com

MUSICIAN’S EXCHANGE SHANGRI-LA RECORDS We Buy/Sell/Trade LPs, 45s, 78s, CDs, DVDs, VHS, Posters, Artwork, Musical & Stereo Equipments, Collectibles, Furniture, Clothes & Much More. 1916 Madison Ave. www.shangri.com

VIAGRA!! 52 PILLS for Only $99.00. Your #1 trusted provider for 10 years. Insured and Guaranteed Delivery. Call today 1-888-403-9028 VIAGRA!! 52 PILLS for Only $99.00. Your #1 trusted provider for 10 years. Insured and Guaranteed Delivery.

Call today 1-877-621-7013

Overton Place Communities Overton Place Communities Studios,1 1& & 2 bedroom Studios, 2 BR apartments, apartments, duplexes, and duplexes, and houses are homes are Now Available NOW AVAILABLE for occupancy! for occupancy!

1214 Overton 1214 Overton ParkPark 901/276-3603 (901)276-3603 Office hours – Monday – Friday 9 A.M. – 6 P.M. Office Hours: Saturday – 10 A.M. – 5 P.M. Monday-Friday Saturday: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Cost - $120.00/week

Hi I’m Bangle.

I’m a sweet 6 mo old girl who loves to play. I love everyone and I’m ready to find my forever home.

I have a fun personality that will keep you smiling every time you walk into the house.

Please come meet me!

TO ADOPT ME CONTACT RANISE AT K_SNEED@ATT.NET OR CALL 901-337-3652 (CELL) OR 870-732-7599 (WK).

TAXES *2016 Tax Change Benefits* Personal/Business + Legal Work By a CPA-Attorney Practicing in Midtown & Memphis Since 1989

(901) 272-9471 1726 Madison Ave

Bruce Newman | newmandecoster.com Midtown Friendly!

memphisflyer.com

MIDTOWN ROOM for rent near medical district. Very safe, private entrance. Very large bedroom. Fully furnished. Wifi. $120/ wk + dep. Utilities included.

901-725-3892.

SERVICES

ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM Browse hundreds of online listing with photos and maps.

Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: http://www.Roommates. com (AAN CAN)

45

DATING

901 575 9400 classifieds@memphisflyer.com

FREE TO LISTEN AND REPLY TO ADS Free Code: Memphis Flyer

FIND REAL GAY MEN NEAR YOU

(901) 888-0888 www.megamates.com

Meet sexy friends who really get your vibe...

Try FREE: 901-896-2433 More Local Numbers: 1-800-811-1633

vibeline.com 18+

April 7-13, 2016

FREE TRIAL

901.896.2438

WARNING HOT GUYS! Safe & Honest. Trusted & Discreet.

Memphis

Private, Personal Adult Entertainers 901.527.2460 46

Discreet Chat Guy to Guy

A.Aapris/Best Entertainment Agency

901.888.0888 FREE to listen and reply to ads!

FREE CODE: Memphis Flyer For other local numbers call: 24/7 Friendly Customer Care 1(888) 634.2628

18+

1-888-MegaMates ©2014 PC LLC

MegaMatesMen.com

2687

TM

TH E LAST WO R D by Tim Sampson

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I’m not exactly sure what to write here. It’s the wee hours of the morning on the 48th anniversary of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. My morning routine these days is to wake up at 6 a.m. and watch an hour of local news until the Today show comes on at 7 a.m., and then I switch to that and halfway watch it while talking incessantly to my cats, wondering when I’m going to get the wherewithal to clean up my bedroom, and making sticky notes for my front door reminding me not to leave the house without turning off the coffee pot.

But I’m up a lot earlier than usual this morning because someone sent me a text at 3 a.m. and that was it. Never could fall back asleep. And I wasn’t even aware that it was April 4th until I turned on the television. And the only thought racing through my mind, probably like many Memphians my age or older, was what Dr. King would think if he came back for a visit here today.

One of the first stories on the news was about a 22-year-old “caregiver,” who was arrested for savagely beating the elderly gentleman whose “care” was supposed to have been her job.

Somewhere in the midst of all this, she told another of the man’s caregivers, who noticed the abuse, “Yeah, I whipped his butt, and I don’t care who you go and tell.” And then she beat the man again a few days later, sending him to the hospital. I wonder what was and is going through her mind. She should be studied.

As of the end of March, there have been 60 murders in Memphis, twice the rate of Chicago. No telling how many cases of assault, domestic violence, weapons charges, etc. It would be too depressing — for me, anyway — to even know that information, much less compile it.

All you have to do is Google “Memphis church brawl” in Google News and check out one story with a video about a bunch of church members getting into a street fight after they all got out of church, pummeling each other and screaming and ripping each other’s clothes off in the street. Go ahead. Watch it.

Shoot-outs at McDonald’s. A former Memphis police officer arrested three times for stalking his ex-girlfriend. Man stabbed in South Memphis. Close friends involved in shooting; one dead, one in critical condition. High school student arrested for bringing loaded pistol to school in his backpack. Man arrested for bringing guns to church on Easter morning (and don’t even get me started on the legislators trying pass the law to allow guns in church). You know, of course, that it goes on and on and on and on.

I still don’t know what to write. I’m just imagining Dr. King being here again and what he would think. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

I don’t even know what to think about all this. In some ways I wish all the local media could come to a consensus to at least try not to give the violence in Memphis so much coverage to keep us all from becoming totally desensitized to it, but that certainly wouldn’t make it go away.

More and better jobs might put a dent in it, just because people wouldn’t have so much idle time on their hands to kill each other, and eliminating poverty, at least I think, would help end some of the violence.

I’m not brainy enough to know the answer to all this, although I know there has to be more than one answer. I do think that the entire criminal justice system needs to be shut down and reopened with a whole new plan. Too often it just makes people’s situations — and all of our lives —worse. There’s little-to-no rehabilitation. Inmates are treated like animals.

Guards, or at least a good number of them, are on private power trips or selling things to inmates. Mental illness is disregarded most of the time. The time period between court dates is a joke.

And there are so many people in jail for just having been caught with pot it’s ridiculous.

So, to all of you people with smarter brains than I have, what are we going to do? Things can’t keep going the way they are going. I know Mayor Strickland has at least been talking about these issues. And there are neighborhood associations and other organizations out there working to fix problems.

The thing that scares me the most, though, and that really haunts me, is that too many people don’t seem to have a conscience. That may be the problem that will be hardest to fix.

Shooting and killing someone over a trivial argument doesn’t seem to be unusual or shocking anymore. How in the world does anyone fix that? Do we need another Martin Luther King to dedicate his or her life to nonviolence?

I wonder what he would say.

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

ZRFPHOTO | DREAMSTIME.COM

Is there any answer to increasing violence, or is a lack of human decency the new normal?

THE LAST WORD

Savage City

47

MINGLEWOOD HALL

ON SALE FRIDAY: Rev. Horton Heat/Unknown Hinson [6/29] Shakey Graves [7/19] Jonathan Jackson + Enation [6/11] 4/14: Kane Brown w/ Smithfield (SOLD OUT) 4/15: RiFF RaFF 4/23: Lucero Family Block Party w/ St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Cory Branan, Mark Edgar Stuart & Young Valley 4/26: Citizen Cope 5/4: Lamb of God/Clutch/Corrosion of Conformity 5/5: Floetry w/ Kris Kelli 5/6: A Day To Remember w/ Parkway Drive & State Champs (SOLD OUT) 5/10: Deftones w/ Code Orange 5/18: Snarky Puppy 5/19-20: Magic Men 5/24: Haim 5/25: Hard Working Americans 8/16: In This Moment 8/18: Umphrey’s McGee

Just Announced: 5/3 - Jake Shimabukuro 5/7 - An Acoustic Evening with Eric Hutchinson 5/9 - Anders Osborne w/ Mark Edgar Stuart 5/13 - The Marcus King Band 5/19 - Marty Stuart 6/1 - Marc Broussard 7/3 - Yonder Mountain String Band Upcoming: 4/8 - Weekend Sessions feat. Roxy Roca 4/9 - Weekend Sessions feat Cash’d Out A Tribute to Johnny Cash 4/14 - Zoso - A Tribute to Led Zeppelin 4/16 - The Uncomfortable Tour feat Andy Mineo w/ Propaganda & GAWVI 4/17 - BlueTOM Records Presents Hear901 4/19 - Service Industry Night feat Faux Killas and Mike Hewlett & The Racket 4/23 - Frankie Ballard 4/29 - The Schwag -The Ultimate Grateful Dead Tribute Band 4/30 - B.o.B w/ ScottATL // Daisyland XL feat Dirty South 5/17 - Bands vs Food: Memphis May Fire, We Came As Romans, Miss May I, & For Today 5/21 - Slippery When Wet -A Tribute to Bon Jovi 5/24 - Bullet For My Valentine 5/31 - Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls 6/16 - An Evening With Chris Robinson Brotherhood 7/14 - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

1884 LOUNGE

4/6: Twiddle w/ Agori Tribe 4/13: The Werks w/ Backup Planet 4/19: Comedian Todd Barry w/ Dusty Slay 4/21: Elle King (Sold Out) 5/13: Unknown Mortal Orchestra w/ Whitney 5/17: Comedian Kyle Kinane 5/23 STRFKR & Com Truise 6/4: Walrus 13th Anniversary 6/12: Ray Wylie Hubbard 6/14: Built to Spill 6/19: Black Mountain 7/17: 10yrs w/ He is Legend & Spoken MORE EVENTS AT MINGLEWOODHALL.COM

Advance tickets on sale now at newdaisy.com or at the New Daisy box office

BARISTA NEEDED

MURPHY’S

Java Cabana Coffee House, 2170 Young Ave.

Pool Table • Darts • WI-FI • Digital Jukebox Visit our website for live music listings or check the AfterDark section of this Memphis Flyer KITCHEN OPEN LATE, OPEN FOR LUNCH! 1589 Madison • 726-4193 www.murphysmemphis.com

Part time including weekends. Drop off resume.

TUT-UNCOMMON ANTIQUES 421 N. Watkins St. 278-8965 1500 sq. ft. of Vintage & Antique Jewelry. Retro Furniture and Accessories. Original Paintings, Sculpture, Pottery, Art & Antiques. We are the only store in the Mid-South that replaces stones in costume jewelry.

YOUNGAVENUEDELI.COM 2119 Young Ave • 278-0034 4/6: $3 Pint Night!

4/7: Memphis Trivia League 4/9: White Animals and Walrus 4/16: MOONLIGHTING FOR A CURE: ST. JUDE BENEFIT SHOW

ROCKHOUSE LIVE

Kitchen Open Late! Now Delivering All Day! 278-0034 (limited delivery area)

GONER RECORDS New/ Used LPs, 45s & CDs. We Buy Records!

2152 Young Ave 901-722-0095

$CASH 4 JUNK CARS$ Non-Operating Cars, No Title Needed.

901-691-2687

DACH ORIENTAL IMPORTS Largest Martial Arts Supplier Since 1979

Kung Fu DVD’s $10.00 www.dach.us • 4491 Summer•901.685.3224 Tues – Sat 11:00 – 6:00

Coco & Lola’s

MidTown Lingerie in five Languages COSABELLA = HOT!! www.cocoandlola’s.com 5 ***** Star rated !!

710 S. Cox|901-425-5912|Mon-Sat 11:30-7:00

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN WEDNESDAYS! WITH

BUCCANEER LOUNGE since 1967 4/7: Final Drive, Dark Epiphany 4/8: Low Country Nationals 4/9: Dan Montgomery 4-7pm 1368 MONROE • 278-0909

WE BUY HOUSES! Cash in 7 Days!

Call 901-451-9289

CHIP N’ DALE’S ANTIQUES 3457 Summer Avenue • Memphis, TN 38122 901-452-5620 • INVENTORY ARRIVING DAILY

SPORTS TALK RADIO

Advertising/Sponsorship Sales Excellent part-time income. Earn up to $1,800 1st month. Great Opportunity. Call 901-527-2460

Midtown 2586 Poplar 324-6300 M - Open Mic Tu - Trivia Wed - Comedy Night & 5.99 Steak Th- Karaoke w/ DJ Egg Roll F - Rise From Silence Sat - Nu Augustine Sun -College Night Sycamore View 5709 Ral-Lag 386-7222 M - Karaoke & 5.99 Steak Night Tu - River Rat Poker Wed - Singers Anonymous Th - Karaoke w/ Ricky Mac F - Thunderdtruck Sat - Pulse Sun - Charlie Belt Duo Tix - rockhouselive.com

13th Annual Tupelo Film Festival April 14-16, 2016 at the Malco Tupelo Commons Cinema Special Events, Workshops and More!

Go to www.tupelofilmfestival.net

Legends Salon Hair Weave 1/2 price, Dreads 25% Off Spa Package: Mani/Pedi $30, Facials $15.

Call for appt, walk-in welcome. M-F, 9a-6p.

7 N. Third | 901.292.8835.

Specials with this ad only.

14th ANNUAL SOUTHERN HOTWING FESTIVAL

SEEING RED AT

PURPLE HAZE NIGHTCLUB

140 GEORGE W. LEE (ONE BLOCK SOUTH OF BEALE) | DOORS AT 9PM | STARTING APRIL 13TH

$5000 Cash Prize to Grand Champion!

Sat. April 23, 2016 at Mississippi River Park & Riverside Dr. Benefiting the Ronald McDonald House. Kids Get in Free! www.southernhotwingfestival.com

FANTASTIC SAM’S Looking for part-time & full time Hair Stylist.

Minimum 1 year experience. Sign on bonus with 6 month contract. Fri & Sat a must. Apply in person at 571 Erin Dr or call 901.683.8355.

I BUY RECORDS! 901.359.3102