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The Gannett Company, owners of USA Today and 107 other daily papers in the U.S., became the proprietors of the Memphis Commercial Appeal last Friday. The CA purchase was part of a $280 million deal that included the Milwaukee Journal, the Knoxville News Sentinel, and 30 other dailies and weeklies. Gannett now owns the principal newspaper in many major cities, including Louisville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Des Moines, Phoenix, and Nashville.

Over at 495 Union, the official response was upbeat. CA publisher George Cogswell wrote: “Please know The Commercial Appeal, commercialappeal.com, and our digital apps are still your locally produced, hometown sources of news. Same staff. Same leadership. Same focus on issues important to Memphis. Still part of this city’s heartbeat. Only stronger.”

I hope he’s right, but Gannett’s track record says otherwise.

Writer Jim Hopkins worked for Gannett for 20 years. Since he left the company in 2010, he’s reported extensively on their methodology and corporate culture. Last summer, Hopkins told Milwaukee journalist Bruce Murphy that between 2008 and 2012, Gannett reduced total employment at its newspapers from 45,000 jobs to 25,000 jobs.

More from Murphy’s story: “Gannett ... uses large scale and centralized operations to cut costs. ... It buys newsprint and office supplies in bulk for all papers, has a few regional customer service centers to replace all the newspaper circulation departments, has giant page production hubs which include centralized copy editing, has cookiecutter websites for each newspaper (for ease of selling ads nationally), and installs a similar editorial approach at every newspaper.

“Typically a newspaper’s publisher and editor are replaced to facilitate all the change.” Ouch.

I hope that doesn’t happen. I think the CA has improved greatly under editor Louis Graham. And after weathering several rounds of layoffs over the past decade or more, it’s again become a reliable and readable paper, with a number of excellent columnists and reporters.

Gannett papers use USA Today stories for national and international news, which will be a departure from the wire services the CA currently uses, but the big issue is how much of a commitment the new bosses will make to sustain local coverage.

Will they keep the voices readers have grown familiar with? Will they refrain from further reducing reporting staff? Again, I fervently hope so. Every city needs a strong and vital daily newspaper.

The Flyer wouldn’t be the same without our familiar bylines: Jackson Baker, Bianca Phillips, Chris Davis, Toby Sells, Chris McCoy, Chris Shaw, Susan Ellis, to name a few — even that editor guy who writes this column. Readers want continuity and familiarity; they learn to trust writers and columnists whose names they know.

We are committed to being relentlessly local in our focus, and we appreciate the support we get from our readers — those who pick up our papers (at a 93 percent rate) each week, and the hunN EWS & O P I N I O N dreds of thousands who visit memphLETTERS - 4 isflyer.com each month. We also owe a THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 huge debt of gratitude to those advertisTHE FLY-BY - 6 ers who use us to fuel their businesses, POLITICS - 10 EDITORIAL - 12 and who support us (literally) and keep VIEWPOINT - 13 this locally owned alternative voice COVER STORY alive and kicking. It takes a village (or a “CAN A WILD CARD medium-sized city) to make it all work, TRUMP THE OPPOSITION?”

BY JACKSON BAKER - 14 and we’re truly grateful.

SPORTS - 18 Meanwhile, let’s hope the CA’s corpoWE RECOMMEND - 20 rate overlords handle their Memphis acMUSIC - 22 quisition with respect for its traditions, AFTER DARK - 26 CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 31 culture, institutional knowledge — and FOOD - 38 its “heartbeat” — namely, its readers and FILM - 40 employees.

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Where is the independent study that shows that the Memphis Zoo contributes $90 million to the local economy? Zoo people keep quoting that, but where is that number coming from?

The city budgets over $3 million to the zoo to operate annually; the zoo collects between $650,000 to $1,000,000 in annual parking fees (to park on land owned by the city/taxpayers), and taxpayers subsidize the zoo’s utilities. So it costs the city of Memphis/taxpayers anywhere between $4 million and possibly twice that when you factor in utility subsidization annually.

There are two types of tourists: day tourists who come to the zoo and then take their tired kids home (that’s zero in additional revenue to what they spend at the zoo itself) and then those who come to Memphis and do other tourist things (Graceland, Stax, Sun, Beale Street, barbecue, etc.). The zoo isn’t the only driver of that tourism. So what is the real economic impact, and where is the proof?

On the other hand, the annual property taxes from area codes 38104 and 38112 — those immediately adjacent to the zoo — bring in over $18 million annually to the city. And these are people who live, work, eat, shop, and play in the city every day.

Why is the council chasing tourists when they should be serving the residents?

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of Overton Park since 1982. During that time, every part of the park — the zoo, Shell, museum, Old Forest, trails, rest 5 6 7 8 9 rooms, playgrounds, and gardens — has been significantly improved thanks to 15 city government, the zoo leadership and 16 donors, the Overton Park Conservancy, volunteers, and activists who each played19 18 an important part.

Sam Cooper, the landscaped east21 ern approach to Overton Park, is a big improvement over blighted Broad Street 22 20 years ago. And on the west side,23 the abandoned expressway corridor is now 28families.

29 Unless you full of new homes and were in Memphis in those days, you can’t imagine how different 34it was. It’s hard to think of another Memphis success story as satisfying and38 broad-based as this one.

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“SENSORED” Rep. Barbara Cooper and Rep. Johnnie Turner of Memphis and Rep. John Ray Clemmons of Nashville filed a hostile work environment complaint against Rep. Susan Lynn last week after she gave members of the Tennessee’s General Assembly a DVD titled “America’s Mosques Exposed! Video Evidence They Are War Factories.” In her response, the Mt. Juliet legislator misspelled “censor” three times and said she was trying to help a preacher share information any person googling things like “Mosques are war factories” might find on the internet.

“A citizen who was unable to get to the capitol on his own asked for me to distribute a video for him. Therefore, I take full responsibility for the distribution of the video. I saw no reason to sensor [sic] the individual. … The individual is a preacher, an historian, and an author. The legislature … is a forum for ideas and a place to share information on all subjects. We do not sensor [sic] information and we do not sensor [sic] citizens.”

Lynn, who shared the anti-Muslim propaganda and may not know what the word she misspelled means, continued, “On many occasions I too have received information from both legislators and citizens that I found offensive. But I did not run off and file a lawsuit in an attempt to make political hay. I simply discarded the material.”

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NEVERENDING ELVIS Over the past month, Fly on the Wall has highlighted several stories about the decline of Elvis culture in Las Vegas. That shouldn’t be mistaken for a decline in Elvis culture generally. In this past week alone, Scotland hosted a three-day Elvis festival, and Miley Cyrus got an Elvis tattoo shaped like a heart. Or maybe a tongue.

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Memphis Zoo supports garage, The CA is sold, and leadership changes come for the Urban Child Institute.

News that has potential to leave long-lasting change in Memphis dropped last week on several stories that we’ve been following.

• The Memphis Zoo sounded its support Saturday for elements of the Overton Park Conservancy’s (OPC) parking and traffic study, including the possible construction of a parking garage.

Zoo officials said the study presents “a great opportunity for collaboration” and hoped that dialogue between the zoo and OPC will bring long-term solutions to the park’s parking troubles.

Among the suggestions zoo officials support are the creation of parking smartphone app, sharing parking information online, more bike and pedestrian entrances to the park, finding more on-street and off-site parking, reconfiguring the zoo’s surface lot, and the construction of a “tasteful, environmentally friendly parking structure on Prentiss Place,” which is now a zoo surface lot.

Zoo officials said they’d like to use the 16-acre Memphis General Services maintenance area on the east side of the park.

There they believe 650 parking spaces could be created with enough space left for a large, open green area they would call “Greensward II.”

Zoo officials announced Saturday that they would allocate all the money they collect from Greensward parking — about $25,000 annually — for restoring and repairing the Greensward and for a long-term parking solution.

Mediation between the zoo and OPC continues, while lawsuits from each side citing Greensward control remain open in court.

• The Commercial Appeal (and many other newspapers) were sold last week to Gannett Co. Inc., the largest newspaper company in the country, in a deal worth $280 million. The close of the deal signals major changes ahead for Memphis’ major daily newspaper, though details of those changes remain to be seen. continued on page 9

Q&A with Mario Hurtado Co-founder of Clean Line Energy If all goes according to plan, 400,000 megawatts of low-cost wind power from the Oklahoma Panhandle will be pumped into the Mid-South by 2020, allowing residents to power their homes and businesses with eco-friendly renewable energy.

The Plains & Eastern Clean Line, a 700-mile overhead, direct-current transmission line that begins on a wind farm in Oklahoma and culminates at a converter station near Millington, won a major approval from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) late last month. That approval clears the way for construction of the line, which is set to begin in late 2017.

“West Tennessee and Memphis will be the hub, not just for transportation and logistics, but also for renewable energy,” said Clean Line Energy co-founder and executive vice-president of development Mario Hurtado, referencing the Millington area substation the company will build for the project. The wind energy will be sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which provides power to Memphis Light, Gas, and Water customers and other utilities across the South. — Bianca Phillips continued on page 9

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Rhodes College students prepare taxes for low-income Memphians. es): “[These] by far have the most regressive effect on the poor and lower middle class. No matter the individual’s income, these taxes are assessed on consumption and therefore affect more adversely those making low incomes who consume all they earn.”

Avery Stewart, 22, a senior commerce and business major, previously took Thompson’s Individual Federal Income Tax class before enrolling in Taxation and the Working Poor. Stewart, who volunteered six hours per week and on multiple Saturdays, says the course gave her a new perspective.

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What’s rewarding, Thompson said, is seeing students gain a better understanding of taxation methods and the obstacles some people face.

“I like to think that the students leave with a solid understanding of taxation of all types and how it affects all areas of our population,” Thompson said. “[The program does] no harm, only good.”

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Tax preparation might appear dull on paper. But for Rhodes College Professor Ferron Thompson, who teaches a course called Taxation and the Working Poor, the memorable moments he’s shared with his students are too numerous to count.

“When a student comes back [to the same class] the second year and works without credit so that they can continue to give back to the community, that is a reward within itself,” Thompson said.

Thompson’s course, which is open to Rhodes students of all majors, began last spring with 32 students who assisted about 400 local, low-income taxpayers. Their work resulted in $762,000 in refunds and $120,000 in saved tax preparation fees.

This year, 28 students have prepared 667 tax returns, which resulted in $1.6 million in refunds and saved people $150,000 in tax fees.

Most of Thompson’s students come through the door with little to no knowledge about taxation. Not only do those students learn to become certified tax preparers, they also examine how the U.S. federal tax system affects low-income communities while breaking down misconceptions about the lives of the working poor.

“A popular misconception is that the working poor are there by choice,” Thompson said. “[That] they are lazy and have no ambition to better themselves. The fact is that opportunities to change their ‘lot in life’ are difficult to find.”

A bulk of the required work is volunteering — filing community members’ taxes and preparing their returns. Students volunteer at the Binghampton Development Corporation, Ed Rice Community Center, Church Health Wellness Center, and Street Ministries. The program will soon expand to three additional sites.

“Very few students have had the need to take a look at taxation and how it affects them and others,” Thompson said. “The biggest stride we achieve is to make them aware of how taxes affect everyone in all walks of life with an emphasis on the working poor.”

There are three types of tax in Tennessee. Thompson said federal income tax has little effect on the poor: “They don’t make enough to be liable for tax under the current progressive system of standard deductions and exemptions.”

Payroll taxes affect everyone who works (the current withholding rates are 6.2 percent for Social Security and 1.2 percent for Medicare): “In theory, these are not true taxes as they do provide a future benefit to those who pay them. The way the Social Security system has been abused makes the assurance of those future benefits unknown at the present time.”

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It is easy to assume, however, that The Commercial Appeal will look different, changing to the Gannett style akin to Nashville’s The Tennessean and the national USA Today.

Gannett has, in the past, made major cuts to newsroom staff, though company leaders said before the deal was done that they would leave all current news staffers in place for at least a year.

Gannett ran a full-page ad in Sunday’s Appeal with the headline “Today Marks a New Day.” The ad noted that the newspaper was now part of the “largest nationwide news organization” through the USA Today network. Its top priority, they said, will be “to you and what matters most in your community.”

Flyer: How would you explain the Clean Line Energy project?

Mario Hurtado: This project is basically a super-highway or pipeline, but in the form of electric transmission to take the cheapest energy in the country and get it, in the most efficient way, to Arkansas, Tennessee, and the rest of the Mid-South.

An hour of wind energy from the Panhandle costs about two cents [to produce] and two cents to get it to TVA and the rest of the Southeast. Four cents for wind energy on a long-term basis with zero emissions, we think is a very good deal.

Wind energy is extremely inexpensive right now, and part of that has to do with federal policy. For people in the Tennessee Valley, that means the opportunity to save billions of dollars on their electric bills.

• Leaders announced a “new direction” for the Urban Child Institute (TUCI) on Friday.

Meri Armour, CEO of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, will serve as interim CEO of TUCI after acting president and CEO Henry G. “Hank” Herrod announced his retirement Friday. Armour will serve in the role until a new director is hired.

TUCI board members voted to reduce other staff positions “to reflect the new direction of the organization.” Staff positions and placements are being finalized but several positions will remain.

The Memphis non-profit organization has been long criticized for not giving away its vast reserves to organizations that could help needy children here. Criticism also focused on the big salaries paid to its top executives, including Herrod.

Late last year, TUCI founder and CEO Eugene Cashman announced his retirement. Then, TUCI chairman Dr. Hershel “Pat” Wall announced his retirement from the board.

In January, Bank of America executive Jill Crocker took the reins as TUCI board chairman, and the board announced a new gifting strategy. It would give away five percent, or $8 million, to “community organizations working to support children’s needs” in 2016.

Was the DOE approval the last hurdle?

This is the last regulatory approval, but we still have some permits to get on the environmental front. We have some commercial engineering milestones. This approval from the federal government allows us to do a lot of the work we need to do in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Some Arkansas property owners protested the project because they didn’t want a transmission line going over their property. Are you still work-

ing to get permission to build the line through Arkansas?

There are more than 2,000 parcels on the transmission line, and we have to talk to every one of those landowners. We’re working very hard to start that conversation. We need to continue to do that, which is why we have time now to purchase more right-of-way and make sure people understand our compensation package for easements and how we want to treat them fairly and compensate them properly to build a transmission line on their land.

When the transmission line gets built, the landowners still own the property. They just give a limited permission for that transmission line to be there. And it takes up very little land on the ground because most of it is in the air.

Once the line is built, people can still farm on [the land], ranch on it, or use the property however they want. We are paying them the full market value for square footage for that rightof-away. We pay based on the market value of the property, and in addition to that, every year the project receives revenue, they will receive a piece of that revenue for having granted the easement for the transmission line.

How is this more eco-friendly?

We’re connecting to a power source, which is wind energy, that doesn’t have any emissions and has a very low impact. This country has been shifting from coal-fired power generation, from boilers that burnt coal, to [power] generation that is much cleaner.

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April 14-20, 2016

It has often been remarked that — the current fatigue with incumbents notwithstanding — the best way of running for a public office is to hold one already. Such would seem to be the case with Mark Luttrell, Shelby County’s incumbent mayor and the presumptive man to beat in the highly competitive Republican primary for the 8th District congressional seat.

How this maxim seems to work was demonstrated Tuesday, when Luttrell was invited to share his tidings with members of the Rotary Club of Memphis at the University Club, one week after his Memphis counterpart, Jim Strickland, had appeared. As was the case with Strickland, the county mayor was asked to deliver a non-political address, and, in keeping with the request, proceeded to deliver a nuts-andbolts summary of his governmental situation.

He did so, and, unlike Strickland, was able to issue a series of optimistic financial forecasts. No looming deficits (something of a budget surplus, in fact), no prospect of a tax increase, and the good news that the Shelby County economy, after years of conteracting, had actually grown to the tune of one

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whole percentage point.

It was only in the brief Q&A that followed Luttrell’s remarks that he got a bona fide political question, and it was to the point: Why was he running?

The mayor seemed grateful for the opportunity to explain. First of all, he was term-limited as mayor, and he still maintained an urge to serve. Secondly, as a native of Crockett County and other points in the district, he was, he said, “the only one in the race who was deep roots” in both the urban and rural spheres. He had waited, he said, a month or so after incumbent Stephen Fincher announced he would not run again “to see who would step up” and decided it needed to be himself.

Never was a collective “dis” delivered more gently.

• Meanwhile, David Kustoff, one of the four other major rival entries from Shelby County and the one, his supporters insist, who is the

true rival to Luttrell for the affections of Shelby County Republicans in the 8th, promptly set out to nourish those roots with a three-day tour of the district.

The tour began Monday in Covington, continued to Somerville, and finally to Germantown, for an opening of the candidate’s Poplar Avenue headquarters. Some 125 supporters and observers were on hand, as former Shelby County Mayor Jim Rout and Shelby County Commissioner Mark Billingsley took turns introducing Kustoff, a former U.S. Attorney for Shelby County.

Kustoff ’s tour continues on Tuesday, with stops in Jackson, Huntington, Camden, Paris, Dresden, and Alamo. On Wednesday, the candidate will be in Dyersburg, Tiptonville, Union City, Trenton, and Brownsville.

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primary victories, and then gradually pulling away until sometime in midMarch or mid-April, when it would all be over. Everybody, at that point, it was presumed — pundits and public alike — would be settling into the Masters or the NBA finals or some other form of mass entertainment and forgetting about presidential politics until the conventions rolled around.

Typically, of course, the conventions are glittering public events that serve mostly to display a parade of luminaries. For years, they have pretended to be about crucial decisions but have largely been ceremonial — something akin to the Country Music Awards.

But this year, for a variety of reasons, neither party has really settled on a candidate, and, for the first time in something like 40 years, there will be at least one convention where the central issue remains to be decided. That’s the Republican Convention in Cleveland, where, to our eyes, at least, eccentric neophyte Donald Trump, who somehow got to be the GOP’s frontrunner, has as much chance of getting out of town with his chances intact as the late, lamented Donner family had of getting to the West Coast safe and sound.

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And this is just the Republicans.

The Democrats, too, as of this writing, still have a contest going.

If it weren’t for that essentially un-Democratic business of having several hundred establishment types licensed to vote as “super-delegates,” balancing out the rude efforts of the people to decide soething, ol’ Bernie Sanders, with his simple and direct message of “End Economic Inequality Now,” might actually have a chance.

(Gee, maybe he still does, anyhow.)

In any case, for all the wailing, hand-wringing, and gnashing of teeth in the two parties, we pronounce ourselves delighted. Most of us have no actual memory of things being decided in smoke-filled rooms (Heck, most of us don’t have much memory of smoke!), but the whole notion of competitive conventions, smokelsss or otherwise, strikes us as the soul of romance, the kind of political noir we’ve been waiting for all our lives.

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VIEWPOINT By Norman Solomon

The Sanders Shift How the media are changing the narrative about “feeling the Bern.” how Bernie Sanders sounds angry.

On “Morning Edition,” NPR political reporter Mara Liasson told listeners that “Bernie Sanders’ angry tirades against Wall Street have found a receptive audience.” Meanwhile, without anger or tirades, “Hillary Clinton often talks about the fears and insecurities of ordinary voters.”

The momentum of the Sanders campaign will soon provoke a lot more corporate media attacks along the lines of a Chicago Tribune editorial that stated that the nomination of Trump, Cruz, or Sanders “could be politically disastrous,” adding that “wise heads in both parties are verging on panic.”

The Tribune editorial warned that “as a self-declared democratic socialist,” Sanders “brandishes a label that, a Gallup poll found, would make him unacceptable to nearly half the public.”

A strong critique of such commentaries has come from the media watch group FAIR, where Jim Naureckas pointed out that “voters would not be asked to vote for ‘a socialist’ — they’d be asked to vote for Bernie Sanders. And while pollsters don’t include Sanders in general election matchups as often as they do Clinton, they have asked how the Vermont senator would do against various Republicans, and he generally does pretty well.”

In mass media, the conventional sensibilities of pundits like Brooks and Krugman, reporters like Liasson, and outlets like the Chicago Tribune routinely get the first and last words. In this column, the last ones are from Naureckas: “When pollsters match Sanders against the four top-polling Republican hopefuls, on average he does better than Clinton does against each of them.

“Actually,” Naureckas, concluded, “the elements of Sanders’ platform that elite media are most likely to associate with ‘socialism’ — things like universal, publicly funded healthcare and eliminating tuition at public colleges — are quite popular with the public, and go a long way to explain his favorable poll numbers.”

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For a long time, a wide spectrum of establishment media insisted that Bernie Sanders couldn’t win. Now they’re sounding the alarm that he might. And, just in case you haven’t gotten the media message yet — Sanders is “angry,” kind of like Donald Trump.

Elite media often blur distinctions between right-wing populism and progressive populism, as though there’s not much difference between appealing to xenophobia and racism and appealing to those wanting social justice and humanistic solidarity. In the real world, the differences are vast.

Donald Trump is to Bernie Sanders as Archie Bunker is to Jon Stewart. Among regular New York Times columnists, aversion to Bernie Sanders has become more pronounced at both ends of the newspaper’s ideological spectrum.

Republican Party aficionado David Brooks (whose idea of a good political time is Marco Rubio) warned that his current nightmare for the nation is in triplicate: President Trump, President Cruz, or President Sanders. For Brooks, all three contenders appear equally awful; Trump is “one of the most loathed men in American public life,” while “America has never elected a candidate maximally extreme from the political center, the way Sanders and Cruz are.”

That “political center” of power sustains huge income inequality, perpetual war, scant action on climate change, and reflexive support for the latest escalation of the nuclear arms race.

Meanwhile, liberal Times columnist Paul Krugman (whose idea of a good political time is Hillary Clinton) keeps propounding a kind of trickle-down theory of political power, in which “happy dreams” must yield to “hard thinking.”

An excellent rejoinder has come from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

“Krugman doesn’t get it,” Reich wrote.

“I’ve been in and around Washington for almost 50 years, and I’ve learned that real change happens only when a substantial share of the American public is mobilized, organized, energized, and determined to make it happen.”

Reich added: “Political ‘pragmatism’ may require accepting ‘half loaves’ — but the full loaf has to be large and bold enough in the first place to make the half loaf meaningful. That’s why the movement must aim high — toward a single-payer universal health, free public higher education, and busting up the biggest banks, for example.”

But for mainline media, exploring such substance is lower in priority than facile labeling and horseracing and riffing on

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erry Roland, the second-term member of the Shelby County Commission from Millington, became the first declared candidate for county mayor on Saturday before a packed house at the city’s Old Timers Restaurant.

He told the crowd, which included public officials, old friends, and active supporters, that Memphis and its suburbs depend on each other, because “other cities and states are eating our lunch.”

He lamented the county’s dependence on ad valorem taxation (sales taxes plus property taxes) and local government’s reliance on PILOT agreements to attract industry, and he discoursed at large on what Shelby County needed to do to catch up with its neighbors.

As he would put it later on in an interview with the Flyer at his commission office, “I’m tired of Nashville looking down their nose at us. I want to bring Memphis and Shelby County back to prominence.

There’s no reason we can’t rival Nashville.”

As he told the crowd at Old Timers: “We need to start getting along. The good Lord ain’t going to have us roped off.

Basptists, Methodists, black folks, white folks, we’re going to be all-together folks, at the end of the day.”

Roland’s opening was an impressive performance, all things considered. He was folksy, ingratiating, benevolent, and expansive — all of which things he can be.

He can also be volatile and abusive at times — something he admits to and says he’s trying to repair and making progress on.

Elected ... in a second term ... Roland has moved steadily from what appeared to be the hard right to a more centrist position.

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OPPOSITION? Commission chairman Terry Roland is first to declare for the county mayor’s race.

“I might not have much book sense, but I’ve got a whole lot of common sense,” he declared in the Flyer interview. In that conversation he would reveal some surprising and previously unkown details about himself: He was, for example, from the age of 14 until the end of his 20s, a professionally competing rodeo cowboy.

“I was all over the United States and Canada, everywhere from the Calgary Stampede to Cheyenne Frontier Days, bull dogging, calf roping, and barebacking on broncs. I got my share of trophies and belt buckles.” He got his share of broken bones, too, and was once saved from what could have been a fatal stomping from a bull by Lecile Harris, a renowned rodeo competitor who managed to free him from the harness he was trapped in.

Having finally “got too old” to continue with that life, Roland returned to Shelby County, managing the family service station and store in Millington, attending the University of Memphis, and getting married. He had a brief career as a rockand-roll singer and can play the piano well, having taken piano lessons for 12 years.

Roland came to public notice quickly, once he was elected to the County Commission as a Republican in 2010. He famously (and vociferously) advocated various causes dear to suburbanites and conservatives — notably the creation of suburban municipal schools after the city/ county school merger brought about by the Memphis City Schools board’s surrender of its charter, only weeks after he began his service on the commission.

As chairman of the commission’s legislative affairs committee, Roland journeys often to Nashville, where he lobbied hard for the municipal systems.

“We’re going to bomb your Hiroshima,” he once declared to commissioners whose loyalty was to a unified Shelby County Schools system.

Elected chairman in a second term by a commission he much prefers to the one that existed in his first term, Roland has moved steadily from what appeared to be the hard right to a more centrist position.

He was the major force galvanizing the commission to call for passage in Nashville of Governor Bill Haslam’s Insure Tennessee proposal, and, while he lobbied the General Assembly for the recently proposed deannexation act, which was relegated to “summer study,” he did so on the grounds that a modest downsizing would improve Memphis’ finances. He opposed the bill in the more comprehensive form it was originally introduced in.

He is currently concerned with moving away from the use of PILOTs (paymentin-lieu-of-taxes) to attract industry and with paring down the OPEB (other postemployment benefits) associated with the demise of the city schools inherited by the county school system. He advocates TIF (tax incremental financing), a more payas-you-go method, rather than PILOTs to develop the inner city.

There are still vestiges, though, of the unruly Roland who, being mercilessly heckled by other GOP Commissioners at a meeting of the Collierville Republican Club in 2012 for his advocacy of single-district reapportionment, threatened to knock one of them, Chris Thomas, “out of your chair” and had the cops called on him.

That’s one of the things he was asked about in the Flyer interview, which took place on Monday in Roland’s commission office: Roland: That was all part of my maturity process. The debate was actually about the suburbs being underserved and how single-member districts would provide better representation. What was really going on was the Republican Party in East Memphis was not wanting to lose a commissioner. I was actually fighting my own party! This term, we don’t fuss and fight any more, with 13 single-member districts.

You’ve got to be able to navigate and negotiate with people. You’ve got to be able to turn a corner. Let me put it this way: If Eddie Jones is successful in his district, we’re

all successful. I’m not an ‘I and me’ guy. It’s always ‘us and we.’”

Jones, an inner-city Democrat, had initially voted for Roland’s fellow Republican Steve Basar for chairman last September. Basar, as vice chairman the year before, had expected to be elected chairman then, but, to his surprise, suffered a defection by several fellow Republicans.

In the end, Democrat Justin Ford had been elected chair for 2014-15; in the wash, Ford became, in effect, a member of the GOP coalition, while Basar began acting in common cause with Democrats.

Reminded that Basar had been chairman just long enough to call his wife and tell her the good news, Roland unloosed a chuckle that bordered on a guffaw — something he routinely did when reminded of some “bad boy” maneuver that he had pulled off.

Roland was asked about the volatility of his relationship with Steve Mulroy, a liberal Democrat who left the commission in September after serving his two terms and making an unsuccessful run for mayor.

Roland: Mulroy always wanted to play party politics. I’m not going to begrudge him about that. Everything down here ain’t always Republican and Democrat, though.

He always wanted it to be that way. Now, he’s probably a good lawyer and a great teacher. That last commission, there was always something: Mulroy, or Henri Brooks always stirring something up, or Ritz.

The reference was to Mike Ritz, an influential Republican member from 2008 to 2014, who, like Mike Carpenter, a GOP member before him, and Basar afterward, had incurred resentment among Republican members for making common cause with Democrats. In the case of Ritz, most of that came from his resistance to the formation of independent suburban school districts after the Memphis City Schools board surrendered its charter.

Roland: I mean, no sooner did we have our feet on the ground [in September 2010] when we had Electrolux and Mitsubishi one week and surrendering the school charter the next week. Everything was very adversarial. I’ll be honest with you. I made mistakes. I still make mistakes. But I’ve

matured a whole lot.

He mentioned Walter Bailey, a senior inner-city Democrat.

Roland: Walter is somebody I really confide in. He kind of reminded me of my Daddy some. If I’m wrong, he’ll tell me.

Back to Mulroy. There had been a notorious incident in which, Mulroy said at the time, Roland had accosted him in the commission library and challenged him to “go outside,” where they would settle their differences with fisticuffs.

Roland: Naw. I had this set of boxing gloves that somebody gave me. Steve comes through and says, ‘You wanna box?’ I said, ‘Sure, we can do it for charity and use the money to pay down the debt.’ Why would I jump on somebody like that? But listen, if I’m wrong, I’ll apologize, and I’ll tell you I’m wrong. I’ve learned you’ve got to have thick skin to be in office.

One thing that Roland and Mulroy consistently differed on was issues relating to the LGBT community, starting with Mulroy’s sponsorship of an anti-discrimination resolution in 2009. Roland’s aversion to legislating on behalf of gays has continued to the present, with his vote earlier this year against a grant to a local LGBT organization for a program to assist the homeless.

Roland: I think that was money supposedly for [gay] kids that their parents kicked out. I’m not one on social issues. I’ve got family that’s gay. I don’t judge anybody. I just don’t want people to use us to push their agendas. I don’t discriminate with anybody over anything. When they say what they’re going through is what African Americans went through, that bothers me, because it’s not the same.

Another thing me and Steve differed on was Planned Parenthood versus Christ Community Health Center.

The issue, in 2011, was whether Planned Parenthood, the traditional recipient, should be awarded another contract to deal with Federal Title X pass-through funds, or whether CCHC should receive them.

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Republican administration in Nashville, was opposed to Planned Parenthood as recipient, because of the organization’s identification with abortion services, although the Title X grant was for other health-related services, not abortion.

CCHC got the grant, with Mulroy, on grounds that he was satisfied that CCHC would provide their clients with information on where abortion services could be had, being a late convert. Roland was reminded of Mulroy’s change of mind Roland: That’s because I called his priest.

He came down in smoke. [Whence came a cascade of guffaws from Roland.] There’s more ways to skin a cat than one.

(Mulroy disputes this account, saying he was impressed by CCHC’s multiple office facilities and had accepted CCHC’s assurances, which later he found to have been misleading.)

Although Roland was first out of the gate for the county mayor’s race in 2018, it is generally supposed that County Trustee David Lenoir will be a serious rival for the Republican mayoral nomination. Roland’s comment on that was succinct.

Roland: Lenoir will have establishment connections, that’s for sure. But, up until eight years ago, David did nothing for the Republican Party. I go back 30 years with the party. This is blue collar against blue blood.

He’s a banker, he comes from banker family.

I come from a service station.

One of Roland’s activities this year is his local chairmanship of the Trump for President campaign. He was asked how his involvement came about.

Roland: I just got sick of both sides, Democrat and Republican, doing nothing.

I sent papers in to be a delegate for Trump.

The secretary of state said, ‘You already turned in papers for [Marco] Rubio. Zach Wamp [a Rubio backer whom Roland had supported for governor in 2010] took it for granted I was for Rubio. I said, just wait a minute, now! I just think this country needs a huge change. I don’t agree with anybody 100 percent. In Trump’s case, that’s some of the tone. I don’t think on all of the issues, he’s well versed. Does that make sense?

At Roland’s Saturday opening in Millington, a backer shouted out at one point in his praise a slogan that sounded like a perfect bumper sticker: “The best of Trump and none of the worst!” Roland beamed when reminded of that. And he went on to dilate on things he did and did not have in common with the New York developer who is clinging to a lead in the GOP race for the presidential nomination.

Roland: I’m not against Hispanics. But, I’ll tell you, there’ve been five cases in the last two months of Hispanics hitting people in traffic. They don’t have driver’s licenses or insurance. They can go to DeSoto County [Mississippi] and get a tag with just two letters, a light bill, or something else. That’s why all the illegal Hispanics over here are driving with DeSoto County tags. The police

won’t take them to jail as long as you’ve got uninsured motorist on your insurance. With everything else, we’re losing revenue from them going down there to get their tags.

I’m all for immigration, but I know people working for years trying to get naturalized, and they’re bypassed by the illegals. And Syria. That country’s in an uproar. We’ve got to vet those people [seeking asylum] before we let them in.

I’m for bringing jobs back to the U.S. There are all these shell corporations offshore. You get on the phone to a help desk and get somebody from Thailand.

And there are so many people over here out of work who need jobs! We’ve got hungry and homeless people here. The Bible says charity shall start at home. We need to make sure all our people are taken care of.

One thing people don’t know about me is that for 20 years I’ve been on the board of Professional Care Services. That’s a mental health provider. One reason why a lot of our jails are full is that the country doesn’t do nearly enough for the mentally ill. We can pay for their treatment, or we can pay for jailing them, one or the other.

One of Roland’s duties as Trump’s man in Shelby County has been to vet people wanting to fill at-large positions as Trump delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July. There had been allegations from the local Trump camp that the party establishment had filled some of the blanks with people of no long-term loyalty to Trump. One of these was the party’s national committeeman, lawyer John Ryder from Memphis, who doubles as the RNC’s general counsel.

Roland: Oh, he’s alright. Anyhow, I can also keep him from being on the rules committee. So he better play fair.

All of that was a different world from the commission, where, he argued, things should be as non-partisan as possible.

Roland: I’m against partisan primaries. I wish we could do away with them. Think of how much money it would save us.

I’m a realist. To get along in this world you’ve got to be willing to make concessions and work with people, not like what’s happening in Washington now. I couldn’t care less what party people are. I have a lot of Democratic friends who want to vote for me.

I admit to being something of a character.

And I don’t use the best of grammar sometimes. It’s from being a people person, and I sometimes use it [the vernacular] for effect. It has to do with my roots. Folks don’t want to know how smart you are.

He spoke of growing up in Tipton County, just over the line from Millington, where his family eventually moved.

Roland: I was the only white kid. I grew up with the Sneeds, the Nathniels, and the Masons [names of black families, some of whose members attended his Millington opening]. Make sure you have me say this: There’s nothing like the love I have for this county and this city and the people in this county and this city.

And then: But if you rattle my chain …

He let the sentence lapse and let go with one of his extended guffaws.

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He and JaMychal Green are quickly forming chemistry as a frontcourt duo, and it’s been a joy to watch Martin start to get comfortable on the floor during an NBA game.

I caught up with Jarell before a Grizzlies’ practice, and we talked about the D-League, about playing with Vince Carter and Zach Randolph, and about his late discovery of basketball.

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Kevin Lipe: So first off, did you think you’d be playing this many minutes this year? Or did you think you were going to be more in the D-League?

Jarell Martin: I knew that coming in I wasn’t going to be able to play that many minutes, because I did my research, and they don’t give rookies a lot of playing time, usually. It’s just great being out there, being able to be with the team and contribute, and just going out there and playing.

that, giving back. Don’t do all the club scene and stuff. Just when you’re out on the road, go to a nice restaurant, maybe go see a movie, stuff like that.

You came to basketball late. When did you start playing? Junior year?

Yeah, junior year of high school I started playing organized ball. I was into other sports. You know, I ran track, and I played football as well. And my high school coach grabbed me and wanted me to play, so I did, and I really fell in love with the game.

Do you feel like you’ve had more to learn than other rookies because of that?

No, I’m a guy that picks up on things really fast. I definitely think I’ve caught up with the other guys. I’m like a sponge.

Obviously Zach Randolph is one of the great big men in the game. How much have you learned from him?

Man. I love Zach’s game. I really study it and try to take pointers from him. And really work on my face up and learn from him, and the way he takes his time and uses his jab to perfection. He’s really patient. That’s something I’m trying to add into my game, being real patient, see what the defense gives me before going.

You’ve also been playing a lot of minutes with JaMychal Green. You guys have got a little bit of chemistry going lately.

When there’s two guys out there who work their butts off, the chemistry will be there. We both just run the floor hard, and we’re young guys who want to show this organization what we can do.

This team has a lot of guys who have been around a long time, like Vince Carter. How has that been, having him around?

Oh, it’s been great. Vince is always coming to me, talking to me during the games, telling me things that I can do.

You know, just teaching me the ropes of the game at the NBA level.

What’s the biggest difference in playing in a D-League game and then playing in an NBA game?

In the D-League, it’s kind of like you’re playing a pickup game in a gym somewhere. It’s really fast. Everybody’s just getting up and down the floor. In the NBA, guys take their time, they don’t rush, they move the ball a lot. In the NBA you have to play a team defense, but in the D-League it’s more man to man.

Do the veteran guys help you as much off the court as they do on? You guys live a unique life. Have the older guys helped you make that transition, too?

Oh yeah. They all guide me, things to do off the court and stuff. Doing the right things, working hard, staying in the gym, and they do a great job of

So what’s the big thing you want to work on this summer?

I want to be the best player I can be, so I’m trying to work on everything. My defense, my offense, being able to play facing up to the basket, being able to back down and play on the block. My body, getting healthy, all of it.

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MLGW spokesperson Beverly Perkins won’t comment on Mayor Jim Strickland’s lip-syncing skills.

“We just don’t know yet,” she says. “We’ll have to wait and see.” Strickland, Memphis rapper Al Kapone, TV personality Gina Neely, auto dealer Mark Goodfellow, and Memphis broadcast vet Bev Johnson will square off at the Hard Rock Cafe in an all-out, lip-sync battle against the finalists in Lip Sync Plus, a competition sponsored by MLGW and MIFA to raise money and awareness for MLGW’s Plus-1 program for customers experiencing economic emergencies.

In 1982, MLGW developed Plus-1 to provide financial utility assistance for customers in crisis. “Maybe they lost their job,” Perkins says. “Or there was a medical emergency, or they were robbed.” MLGW customers participate in the program by adding a dollar or more per month to their utility bill. MLGW turns that money over to MIFA who screens requests and administer the funds.

“Unfortunately, last year MIFA got around 17,000 requests,” Perkins says. “And due to limited funds, we’re only able to assist about 3,000 customers.”

Celebrity lip-sync artists have their work cut out for them. Winners of the Lip Sync Plus preliminary round include “Super Freak” Aristarchus Neely; David Page, who showed up with Prince’s “Chocolate Box”; and Latasha Peeples, who donned a bolero hat and white gloves and hiccuped her way through Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror.” But the contestant to beat is the fast-talking Carlie Lawrence, who rolled her eyes, banged on her chest, and executed a perfect take on Karmin’s tongue-twisting “Look at Me Now.” LIP SYNC PLUS GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE HARD ROCK CAFE THURSDAY, APRIL 14TH, 7 P.M. $30 PER TICKET OR TWO FOR $50. MIFA.ORG

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THURSDAY April 14

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“A Century of Fashion” Annesdale Mansion, 11 a.m., $75 A fashion show featuring vintage clothes by Paul Thomas. Part of the Brooks Museum’s 100th anniversary celebration.

“Knotty Time” David Lusk Gallery, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception for new works

by Pinkney Herbert. Also opening is “A Brightness of Hope,” landscape paintings by Bruce Brainard.

Peabody Rooftop Party The Peabody, 6 p.m., $15 The Peabody kicks off its rooftop parties tonight with music by the Molly Ringwalds and special guest David Cook, winner of American Idol’s season seven.

Egg The Halloran Centre, 6:30 p.m., $15-$30 Three bird friends and an egg learn about growing up and leaving the nest.

Forging on the River Metal Museum, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Annual event featuring a weekend full of workshops, demos, lectures, a dinner, auction, and more. This year’s featured artist is Stephen Lunn.

A Streetcar Named Desire Germantown Community Theatre, 8 p.m., $24 Stella! Tennessee Williams’ play about a woman on the edge and raw emotions.

Erik Larson Christian Brothers University Theater, 7 p.m.

Memphis Reads presents this event with Erik Larson, author of the bestseller Dead Wake.

Volunteer Plant Sale Lichterman Nature Center, 9 a.m.

Includes a large selection of butterfly plants. Experts will be on hand to answer gardening questions.

Celebrate culture at Africa in April.

Africa in April

Did you know that Tanzania boasts both the highest and lowest points in all of Africa? At 5,895 meters, Mount Kilimanjaro is a towering presence in the north, while the bed of Lake Tanganyika dips more than 350 meters below sea level. It’s a topographical metaphor for a country plagued by crushing poverty but rich in culture and tradition. The heavily agrarian nation — birthplace of Bongo hip-hop and Queen frontman Freddie Mercury — is also the honored country for Memphis’ Africa in April Cultural Awareness Festival, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this spring.

Africa in April was founded in 1985 by the husband-and-wife team of Dr. David and Yvonne Acey. The goal is to promote Memphis while celebrating the global impact of African culture. The four-day event, which runs from Wednesday, April 13th to Sunday, April 17th, emphasizes “cultural diversity and ethnicity including music, cuisine, education, economics, transportation, technology, history, fashion, demonstrations, arts, crafts, and creative performances.” It’s when Robert R. Church Park gets extra colorful — absolutely packed with food and vendors and dancing and music.

Each day of Africa in April has its own theme. Friday is children and seniors day; Saturday is dedicated to health, wellness, and community; Sunday is devoted to international music.

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SATURDAY April 16 East Buntyn ArtWalk St. James Anglican Church (461 S. Prescott), 1-7 p.m.

Annual neighborhood-wide art walk, where front yards become temporary galleries.

Duets for Mellotron Crosstown Arts, 8 p.m., $15 A performance by Jonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant and two Mellotrons — a cassette player-like machine with a keyboard.

Mahalia The Cannon Center for Performing Arts, 7 p.m.

A gospel musical honoring Mahalia Jackson.

Condomonium Playhouse on the Square, 7-10 p.m., Pay Your Age (max $50) Popular annual fashion show featuring designs made from condoms. Includes food from local restaurants, specialty cocktails, and guests get to vote on their favorite designs. More info at memphischoices.org/condomonium.

Mrs. Murray’s Supper Club Clark Opera Memphis Center, 5:30 p.m., $75 A dinner fund-raiser for the Germantown Community Theatre named in honor of the theater’s resident ghost.

19th Annual Rites to Play Rhodes College, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Annual children’s carnival featuring a dunk tank, a giant chess set, a maypole, a petting zoo, and more.

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his Friday night, Riff Raff, aka Jody Highroller, aka the Peach Panther, aka Iceberg Simpson, aka the Versace Python, aka the Turquoise Tortoise, aka the Flamboyant Flamingo will descend upon Minglewood Hall. Born Horst Simco, Riff Raff first entered the American consciousness when he appeared on the second season of the MTV show From G’s to Gents, complete with a giant MTV logo freshly tattooed on his neck. Though Riff Raff was eliminated from the show during the second episode, the damage was already done, and his brand was born.

After mixing it up with Soulja Boy’s label S.O.D. Money Gang, Riff Raff collaborated with big name artists like Action Bronson and Diplo before signing a multi-record deal with Diplo’s label Mad Decent. Most recently, Riff Raff announced a partnership with the BMG label, a deal worth $4 million.

The deal will launch his new label Neon Nation Corporation and put him and his longtime manager Russell Redeaux at the forefront of an empire investing in music, movies, and talent from across the globe.

Simply put, Riff Raff is a walking billboard for MTV spring-break culture, but while he’s collaborated with plenty of flash-in-the-pan MCs

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(Kitty Pryde, Deezus), his staying power is something to behold.

After all, it’s certainly no easy feat for a white guy with cornrows to stay relevant with rhymes that were undoubtedly conceived on a steady diet of Xanax and prescription cough syrup. If America is ever put under a microscope by an alien life form, rest assured Riff Raff will break the petri dish. In celebration of Riff Raff coming to Minglewood Hall for the first time, I’ve selected a few of his more poetic lyrics for further evaluation.

Lyrics: “When I got grown and dropped out of school, nobody was broke but me, but now they all wanna roll with me.”

Song: “Time” Ah, the perils of fame. You’d think the Peach Panther would welcome a posse of like-minded individuals, but apparently even Riff Raff can tell when people are out to abuse his wealth.

This lyrical revelation comes from the 2014 song “Time,” one of the only R&B songs that Riff has created and a track that would surely make someone like Uncle Kracker proud.

Lyrics: “I done fucked around and sang a hook like Anita Baker.”

Song: “Tip Toe Wing in My Jawdinz” Let’s get one thing straight. At no

VERSACE PYTHON point in his career will Riff Raff sound anything like Anita Baker. Ever. That being said, the intro to “Tip Toe Wing in My Jawdinz” is one of Riff ’s most recognizable choruses and kicks off a pretty amazing song where he talks about his collection of Jordan brand shoes and how he used to drive a Ford Focus but still rocked Jordans. Who can’t relate to that?

Lyrics: “Rap game Tony Danza with the hot handles. No tint on the glasses, Colonel Sanders.”

Song: “Doctor Pepper” Although it would be impossible to scour the annals of YouTube to be 100 percent certain, I think it’s a pretty safe bet that Tony Danza and Colonel Sanders have never been mentioned in the same song, let alone the same line. Does Tony Danza even have hot handles? How can we ever know? And why has Colonel Sanders never worn sunglasses? These are the questions Riff Raff ’s genius lyrics bring to mind, among many, many other things.

Mind=blown.

Lyrics: “I can freestyle to a dolphin and a tambourine.”

Song: “Aquaberry Dolphin” Wait, what?

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Lyrics: “I’m catchin’ interceptions on you innocent pedestrians.”

Song: “How to be the Man” This is one of Riff Raff ’s strongest lines on his debut album Neon Icon and touches on his propensity to use sports references in almost every one of his songs. Throughout his musical career, Riff Raff has claimed (either on social media or in song) that he could have played for the Los Angeles Lakers, the San Diego Chargers, the Oakland Raiders, the Toronto Raptors, and the Los Angeles Clippers. With all that talent possessed by one man, I suppose we’re all lucky he decided to stick to the rap game, although I think getting him in the NBA celebrity game during All-Star Weekend is a no-brainer at this point.

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Lyrics: “I’m at a slumber party. Girls only got you mad, but you can sleep outside. Here’s my Versace sleeping bag.”

Song: “Tip Toe Wing in My Jawdinz” Here we get a glimpse into what a generous soul Riff Raff really is. He knows the girls are only interested in what the Cranberry Vampire has to offer, but he’s still willing to give up his designer sleeping bag just so you don’t sleep out in the cold. After all, he could have just kicked you out of his party.

Generous with his designer goods whilst also being a sex symbol? What a guy.

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Record Store Day 2016

April 14-20, 2016

For Shangri-La Records, prepping for Saturday’s 9th annual Record Store Day means opening a few hours early.

“We said 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., but usually we open a little earlier because of the big line of people. As soon as we’re ready, we let them in. I think last year we opened at 8:30 a.m.,” Shrangri-La Records owner Jared McStay says.

Bolstering the lot of official Record Store Day titles Shangri-La plans to have on hand Saturday will be a major increase in the rest of the store’s stock of new vinyl.

“We’ve done a lot of other ordering and will have more new inventory than we’ve ever had,” explains McStay.

“We ordered direct from Sundazed, Matador Records, Merge Records, a few one-stops, and a cool import wholesale house, to name a few distributors. I’m making a big bet on Record Store Day this year, as we pretty much over-ordered, but it’s usually a good day. I don’t know if you’d call it a store-wide sale, per se, like our ‘Purgefest’, but we’ll also be putting out bins of good discount records that we’ve never had out before.”

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After “excuse me,” “can I squeeze in there?” and “sorry” have been politely uttered into an ambient drone for five or six hours, a veritable parking lot minifestival will commence at 2 p.m. with Toy Trucks, followed by Fresh Flesh, and Jana Misener — formerly of the Memphis Dawls. Next up will be Tim Prudhomme’s recently conceived band, Dimplebones.

Headlining the afternoon will be James and the Ultrasounds, the band’s first local appearance since returning from a European tour.

Wedged in between Prudhomme’s Dimplebones and the latter is the reunited original lineup of McStay’s primary musical endeavor, the Simpletones. One of the true gems to come out of the Memphis underground scene of the ’90s, the first incarnation of the trio featured McStay on guitar and vocals, Jim McDermott on bass, and Mark Miller on drums. This version released the Joe’s Cool Sign demo

tape and a clutch of fidelity-challenged but fantastic 7”s between 1991 and 1994 before switching monikers to the less litigious “The Simple Ones.”

“We’ve been practicing most of what’s on the Joe’s Cool Sign demo tape and a lot of what’s on our three 7”s that came out before our Shangri-La releases for what will hopefully be a good 30-minute set,” McStay says. Last but not least, Shangri-La’s parking lot Record Store Day extravaganza is dubbed “Jughead Fest” due to its falling on McStay’s birthday (origins of the nickname are unclear).

It will be no sweat to split one’s afternoon between Shangri-La and what’s planned a mere 1.6 Midtown miles away at Goner Records. Timed with cross-rocking between the two destinations in mind, Goner will be presenting a three-band bill at the Cooper-Young Gazebo that kicks off at 1 p.m. with Austin, Texas’ Nameless Frames, a garage-y, post-punkish trio with a debut, self-titled full-length on Super Secret Records released this past February.

At 2 p.m. will be the live experience that is Aquarian Blood, the extra-Ex-Cult project of J.B. Horrell and his wife Laurel that not only debuted on vinyl with a 7” that was Goner’s official Record Store Day 2015 release but, more importantly, had its first full-length scheduled for release on the label later this year.

Then, at 3 p.m., the venerable Tyler Keith & the Apostles will rock the Cooper-Young intersection an hour closer to its future Sunday morning hangover.

Regarding the hours leading up to the music, Goner will be accenting their Record Store Day haul (which will in turn be YOUR haul, or part of it) with a bulking up of store stock, which means more of the best prices on great used vinyl that one could hope to find on a nationwide level.

Oxford, Mississippi’s participating venue, End of All Music, is giving goodie bags (of limited edition store-related swag) to customers who purchase records throughout the day and will certainly be stocking nearby Fat Possum Records’ three Record Store Day titles: the 10th anniversary edition of Jay Reatard’s amazing Blood Visions LP on white vinyl (also includes a 7” of Blood Visions demos), a 12” EP of a Daft Punk edit medley of five Junior Kimbrough songs into one 15-minute piece of music (the b-side is etched), and the Junior Kimbrough Tribute LP featuring Iggy Pop, the Black Keys, Spiritualized, and others (on clear vinyl).

For other End of All Music-related Record Store Day news, make sure to check out the store’s blog.

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

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.

Driftwood Ramblers Friday, April 15, 7 p.m.; Mickey Utley Band Sunday, April 17, 7 p.m.; Memphis Music Monday third Monday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill

Itta Bena

341-345 BEALE 577-1089

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

310 BEALE 654-5171

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.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

Hard Rock Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe’s Patio

126 BEALE 529-0007

162 BEALE 521-1851

145 BEALE 578-3031

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.; Susan Marshall Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.; Nat “King” Kerr Fridays, Saturdays, 9-10 p.m.; Susan Marshall Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m.

Mack 2 Band MondaysFridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m., and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Tuesdays, 6:3010:30 p.m., and Friday, April 15, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Chic Jones & Blues Express Sunday, April 17, 6:30 p.m.; Sean “Bad” Apple Wednesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

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

Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson & the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

New Daisy Theatre

Silky O’Sullivan’s

330 BEALE 525-8981

183 BEALE 522-9596

Zoso (a Tribute to Led Zeppelin) Thursday, April 14, 8-11 p.m.; The Uncomfortable Tour feat. Andy Mineo with Propaganda and Gawvi Saturday, April 16, 7-10 p.m.; Hear901 Music Festival Sunday, April 17, 6:30 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe

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

182 BEALE 528-0150

Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursday, April 14, 8 p.m.-midnight, Friday, April 15, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, April 16, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Brian Keith Wallen Friday, April 15, 5:308:30 p.m., and Saturday, April 16, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Brandon Santini Monday, April 18, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Tuesday, April 19, 8 p.m.-midnight; Jeff Jensen Band Wednesday, April 20, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Friday, April 15, 8 p.m.midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.midnight, and Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299

The Milk Carton Kids Thursday, April 14, 8-10:15 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Dark Horse Sunday, April 17, 8:30-midnight.

The Lookout at the Pyramid 1 BASS PRO DRIVE 291-8200/620-4600

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

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays.

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

Fred Live @ the Pyramid Friday, April 15, 6-9 p.m.

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

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

Purple Haze Nightclub 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

J Train Blues Band Saturday, April 16, 8-11 p.m.

DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.

Double J Smokehouse & Saloon

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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.

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

April 14-20, 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.

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Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Evergreen Presbyterian Church

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Marcella & Her Lovers Friday, April 15; Clay Otis & Brother’s Keeper Saturday, April 16; Luke White with Some of Mudboy Wednesday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.

Blue Monkey

The Buccaneer

2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

1368 MONROE 278-0909

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Peel & Roman Friday, April 15; Paul Taylor Saturday, April 16.

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

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

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.

Minglewood Hall

521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

Kane Brown Thursday, April 14, 7 p.m.; Riff Raff Friday, April 15, 8 p.m.; Todd Barry Tuesday, April 19, 7 p.m.

Rhodes College Orchestra and Wind Ensemble Concert Wednesday, April 20, 7:309:30 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Lord Almighty with Stone Rangers Thursday, April 14; River City Cadillacs Friday, April 15, 6-9 p.m.; Nameless Frames Friday, April 15, 10 p.m.; Hauteur with Regal Stretch Saturday, April 16; Another Green World with Stone Rangers Wednesday, April 20.

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

Dayseeker Thursday, April 14, 9 p.m.; SVU Album Release Friday, April 15, 9 p.m.; Avon Dale, Slow Motion Riot Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.; Christworm, Namazu, Broke Sunday, April 17, 9 p.m.; Immortal Bird, Pyrrhon, Holy Gallows, Brian Hillhouse Monday, April 18, 9 p.m.; Mobley with Chris Milam Tuesday, April 19, 8 p.m.; New Years Day, Sylar, My Enemies & I, Blameshift Wednesday, April 20, 5 p.m.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Will Kimbrough Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

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

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Scott Holt Band Sunday, April 17, 4-7 p.m.; The Reba Russell Trio Sunday, April 17, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Rhodes College, Tuthill Performance Hall 2000 N. PARKWAY 843-3000

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

University of Memphis

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

613 UNIVERSITY 274-3740

Chris Johnson & Zack Mack Thursday, April 14, 6 p.m.; The Dustbowl Revival Thursday, April 14, 9 p.m.-midnight; Reba Russell Trio Friday, April 15, 6:30 p.m.; Col. Bruce Hampton Friday, April 15, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturdays, 11 a.m.; The River Bluff Clan Saturdays, 3 p.m., and Sunday, April 17, 4 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill & Joshua Cosby Saturday, April 16, 6:30 p.m.; Dead Soldiers Saturday, April 16, 10 p.m.; Tom Lonardo Quartet Sunday, April 17, 11 a.m.; Orgone

Moonlighting for the Cure — Benefiting St Jude Children’s Research Hospital Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL AT LAFAYETTE’S MUSIC ROOM Americana roots rock band the Dustbowl Revival play Lafayette’s Music Room this Thursday night. Formed in Venice Beach in 2007, the Dustbowl Revival came together after band leader Z. Lupetin, a transplant from the Midwest, posted a Craigslist ad seeking musicians who were interested in string-band and brass-band traditions. Since then the band has been playing on front porches and festivals and everywhere else in between.

The eight-person band recently released their fourth studio album With a Lampshade on, a record that fully showcases the band’s strength as a live act.

With a Lampshade on features a mixture of live and in-studio recordings, with the live songs recorded by Alex Chaloff at the Troubadour (L.A.) and the Great American Music Hall (San Francisco), and the studio tracks recorded by Matt Marinelli at Coral Sound in Long Island City, New York.

By mixing up the album with live and studio tracks, With a Lampshade on perfectly captures the band’s strength as a live act, but the studio tracks hold their own as well. This latest album sees the band blazing through original songs and folk traditions alike, and their take on “Old Joe Clark” sums up the band’s take on Americana swing perfectly. While the band’s other albums had more of an old-time feel, With a Lampshade on finds the Dustbowl Revival hitting a much more soulful vibe while they sing stories about preachers, drinkers, lovers, and everything in between. — Chris Shaw The Dustbowl Revival at Lafayette’s, Thursday, April 14th, 9 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Rhodes Chamber Music Concert Thursday, April 14, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Sports Junction 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

Ubee’s Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.2 a.m.

East Memphis Brookhaven Pub & Grill 695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 680-8118

Dantones Band Friday, April 15, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

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

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, April 17, 8:30-midnight.

Laurelwood Shopping Center 422 S. GROVE PARK 682-8436

Brennan Villines Trio Thursday, April 14, 6-8 p.m.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

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Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; The Chinese Connection Friday, April 15, 10 p.m.; The Bluff City Backsliders Saturday, April 16, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Marlowe Shepherd Monday, April 18, 8 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Sunday, April 17, 8:30-11:30 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Friends Mondays, 6 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesday, April 19, 5:30 p.m.; Black Oak Arkansas Tuesday, April 19, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys Wednesday, April 20, 8-11 p.m.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule April 14 - 20 Bartlett

Collierville

Frayser/Millington

T.J. Mulligan’s

Hadley’s Pub

Huey’s Collierville

Old Millington Winery

1817 KIRBY 755-2481

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114

The Windjammer Restaurant 786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

Karaoke ongoing.

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

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

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Band of Brothers Saturday, April 16; Benefit for West Tennessee Veteran’s Home feat. Memphis All Stars, Reba Russell Trio Sunday, April 17, 3 p.m.; Debbie Jameson Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Charlie Belt & Friends Thursday, April 14, 8 p.m.; Section 8 Friday, April 15, 9 p.m.; Cruising’ Heavy Saturday, April 16, 9 p.m.; No Hit Wonder Wednesday, April 20, 8 p.m.

Six String Lovers Sunday, April 17, 8-11:30 p.m.

Dr. David Evans and Elmo Lee Thomas Sunday, April 17.

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Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

Germantown Performing Arts Center

RockHouse Live

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

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

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6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

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

Gold Strike Casino 1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-24K-PLAY

Gladys Knight Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.

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

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

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

JoJo Jeffries & Ronnie Caldwell Sunday, April 17, 8-midnight; Karaoke Night Mondays, 8-10 p.m.

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

Barbie’s Barlight Lounge

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

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

5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

Summer/Berclair

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

Mesquite Chop House

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

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

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

Owen Brennan’s

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

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

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

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

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Side Car Cafe 2194 WHITTEN 388-0285

Brian Johnson Band Wednesday, April 20, 7-11 p.m.

819 EXOCET 624-9060

1801 EXETER 751-7500

Huey’s Cordova

Branford Marsalis Quartet Thursday, April 14, 7:309:30 p.m.

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

Huey’s Southwind

Wendy Dewitt & Kirk Harwood Sunday, April 17, 4-7 p.m.; Grassfire Sunday, April 17, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Woodland Hills Ballroom

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

10000 WOODLAND HILLS 754-2000

Candace Mache and Swing & Sway Sunday, April 17, 5-8 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Bally’s CASINO CENTER DRIVE IN TUNICA, MS 1-800-38-BALLY

Jamie Baker & the VIPs Friday, April 15, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, April 16, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

The Pistol & the Queen Sunday, April 17, 8:30-midnight.

The Crossing Bar & Grill

Huey’s Germantown

Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Graham Road Band Friday, April 15, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

The Dantones Sunday, April 17, 8-11:30 p.m.

Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

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

7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242

Dan McGuinness 3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-8907611

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

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

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

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

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

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Briarcrest Christian School

Aladdin Jr., based on Disney’s animated film, a flying carpet ride filled with music, adventure, and favorite songs.

(765-4600), www.briarcrest. com. $15. April 14-16, 78:30 p.m., and Sat., April 16, 2-3:30 p.m.

6000 BRIARCREST.

Germantown Community Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire, story of fragile Southern belle who gets a gritty life lesson in the steamy underbelly of 1940s French Quarter life. www.gctcomeplay.org. $24.

Sundays, 2:30 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Through May 1.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (754-2680).

Hattiloo Theatre

Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, conclusion to the Brother/Sister plays is a coming-of-age story about a young gay man in the South. www.hattiloo. org. $18-$28. Sundays, 3 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Through May 8.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

McCoy Theatre

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a colorful group of mid-pubescents

Pilobolus brings avant-garde dance to GPAC Saturday.

competes for the title of supreme spelling bee champ.

2 p.m. Sunday matinee. www. rhodes.edu/mccoy. $10.

Thursdays-Sundays, 7:30 p.m.

Through April 24.

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

Theatre Memphis

The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged), comical parody as three actors take on William Shakespeare in an animated and shortened interpretation. $25. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Through April 24.

Auditions for Beauty & the Beast, musical based on Disney’s popular film. For audition details, visit website. theatrememphis.org. Sat., April 16, 9-9:15 a.m., and Sun., April 17, 4:45-5 p.m.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreSouth

Beyond the Box, solo performance by Todd Berry about a man who spent his entire life following the rules, doing what was expected of him, and simply trying to fit in.

Fri., April 15, 8 p.m., and Sun., April 17, 8 p.m.

Magnificence of the Disaster, solo performance by Rebecca Fisher about her Southern family’s devastating journey from wealth and gentility to

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Thurs., April 14, 8 p.m., Sat., April 16, 8 p.m., and Sun., April 17, 4 p.m.

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

TheatreWorks

The Offering, the ’70s in New York is the setting for sexual and psychological dominance that takes four people to places they didn’t plan to go.

(946-6140), www.bluffcitytriarttheatre.zohosites.com. $12-$20. Sundays, 3-5 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 8-9:45 p.m. Through May 1.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

The Annesdale Park Gallery

Opening reception for “Place Keepers,” exhibition of paintings by Jana Travis and Elizabeth Garat. (208-6451), www. theannesdaleparkgallery.com.

Fri., April 15, 6-8 p.m.

Volunteer Plant Sale:

HalF-Price Sale:

Friday, april 15, 2016: 9am - 5pm Saturday, april 16, 2016: 9am - 1:30pm

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Plant Sale list at:

5992 Quince Road Memphis, TN 38119

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

Box Gallery

Opening reception for “Excessive Tendencies,” exhibition of new work by Paige Ellens and Emilio Norman. www.memphis.edu/amum.

Fri., April 15, 5-7 p.m.

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3715 CENTRAL.

Clough-Hanson Gallery Artist reception for 2016 Senior Thesis Exhibition, www.rhodes.edu. Fri., April 15, 5-7 p.m.

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

Crosstown Arts

Artist reception for “The Ancestors Remind Us,” exhibition of work by Terry Lynn, Vitus Shell, Siphne Aaye, Lester Merriweather, and Lawrence Matthews. www. crosstownarts.org. Fri., April 15, 6-9 p.m.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

David Lusk Gallery

Opening reception for “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. Fri., April 15, 6-8 p.m.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Eclectic Eye

Opening reception for “Sea and Stone: Ceramics and Sketches,” exhibition of work

by Melissa Bridgman. www. eclectic-eye.com. Fri., April 15, 6-8 p.m.

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All students are challenged academically on their level, whether it’s regular academics, gifted, or special education. The famous “Hyde Library” is technology based with more than 99,000 volumes of books and computers for student use. Computer labs, computers in the classrooms, and lap-tops for middle school students to take home to become technologically advanced are available. At Southern Avenue Charter Schools all elementary students take Spanish. All students are required to participate in one of the following Creative Arts Programs (Kaleidoscope): STEM, Chorus, Dramatic Arts, Digital Music, Group Piano, Photography, Ballet, Dance, Taekwondo, or a variety of sports, such as, Soccer, Basketball, Track.Arts Many supportstudents programs available At Southern Avenue Charter School’s and Creative Program, areare required to participate in for parents and students: Before after school care; free breakfast, lunch, two of theand following Kaleidoscope fresh fruit/vegetables, snack Arts) and supper; uniforms for new students; etc.

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Artist reception for “Bless This Mess,” exhibition of MFA thesis work by Holt Brasher and Sarah Best Johnson of the University of Memphis Department of Art. www.memphis.edu. Fri., April 15, 5-8 p.m.

Artist reception for “/per’ sev/ /tu/ /ik’ spoz/,” exhibition of MFA thesis photographic work by Mariah Selitsch Fyke and Katherine Stanley of the University of Memphis Department of Art. www.memphis.edu/fogelmangalleries. Fri., April 15, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Germantown Performing Arts Center

Artist reception for “The Time Catcher,” exhibition of photography by Karen Pulfer Focht, former Commercial Appeal staff photojournalist.

(751-7500), www.karenpulferfocht.com/blog/ karenpulferfochtphotos. Sun., April 17, 4-6 p.m.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

OTH E R ART HAP P E N I N G S

Artist talk for “A Brightness of Hope” Exhibition of a new body of landscape paintings Bruce Brainard. Sat., April 16, 11 a.m.

DAVID LUSK GALLERY, 97 TILLMAN (767-3800), WWW.DAVIDLUSKGALLERY.COM.

Duets for Mellotron

Unique performance of keyboard instrument invented in the 1940s to reproduce the sound of acoustic, electromechanical, or synthesized instrument. Digital projections complement the music. $15-$30. Sat., April 16, 8 p.m.

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

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

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

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The Annesdale Park Gallery

“Place Keepers,” exhibition of paintings by Jana Travis and Elizabeth Garat. www.annesdaleparkgallery.com. April 15-May 11.

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“do it,” exhibition of flexible and open-ended artist instructions conceived and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. www.memphis.edu/amum.

Through May 7.

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

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“Collective” exhibit featuring Dolph Smith, www.anfa.com.

Through May 5.

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

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

The Blues Foundation

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

421 S. MAIN.

Box Gallery

“Excessive Tendencies,” exhibition of new work by Paige Ellens and Emilio Norman. www.memphis.edu/amum.

April 14-May 2.

3715 CENTRAL.

Circuitous Succession Gallery

“White Out,” exhibition of new paintings by Susan Maakestad. www.circuitoussuccession.com. Through May 6.

500 S. SECOND.

David Lusk Gallery

“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. Through May 14.

NJ Woods Gallery and Design

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

2563 BROAD.

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

Eclectic Eye

Olive Branch Country Club

“Sea and Stone: Ceramics and Sketches,” exhibition of work by Melissa Bridgman. www.eclectic-eye.com. April 15-June 8.

“Coterie of Artists — Gallery 12,” exhibition of paintings.

Through July 30.

7558 GERMANTOWN (662-895-1555).

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

“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). Through April 29. “/per’ sev/ /tu/ /ik’ spoz/,” exhibition of MFA thesis photographic work by Mariah Selitsch Fyke and Katherine Stanley of the University of Memphis Department of Art. www.memphis.edu. Through April 29.

3715 CENTRAL.

Fratelli’s

“Bits and Pieces,” exhibition of collages by Phyllis Boger. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Through April 27.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Germantown Performing Arts Center “The Time Catcher,” exhibition of photography by Karen Pulfer Focht, former Com-

Ross Gallery

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

(321-3243), www.cbu.edu/ gallery. Through April 14. mercial Appeal staff photojournalist. www.gpacweb.com.

Through May 1.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Java Cabana

Memphis College of Art

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

“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).

“Water Scenes in Oils,” pleinair paintings by Matthew Lee. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Through April 27.

“The 77 Day Siege of Khe Sanh” at the Morton Museum Thursday.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

“Unfolding Stories,” new works by Erica McCarrens.

Through May 5.

L Ross Gallery

Memphis Botanic Garden

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.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

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

Metal Museum

“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.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

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

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 fabric panels telling the story of a Holocaust survivor. Through May 13.

1376 E. MASSEY (761-3130).

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

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WKNO Studio

“Horses, Farms, and Fairy Tales,” exhibition of works

by Janet Weed Beaver. (4582521), www.wkno.org. Free.

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7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Pilobolus

Avant-garde dance company shows the human body to be the most expressive, universal, and magical of media. $25. Sat., April 16, 8-10 p.m.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), WWW.GPACWEB.COM.

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Cafe Eclectic

The Wiseguys Present: Storytellers Unplugged. $5. Third Saturday of every month, 10:30 p.m.

First Baptist Church

Rickey Smiley, get your praise break on. (1-800-838-3006), www.brownpapertickets. com/event/2512830. $30-$65.

Sun., April 17, 4-6 p.m.

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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.

Booksigning by Erik Larson

Brubeck Festival

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY THEATER, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3369), WWW.THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

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

Booksigning by Michael Thompson

Celebration of art and community, with homeowners hosting regional artists in their front yards, creating an open-air bazaar of galleries. Work includes pottery, stained glass, jewelry, and more. Sat., April 16, 1-7 p.m.

Author discusses and signs Dead Wake. A Memphis Reads event, tickets include a paperback copy of the book. $15. Fri., April 15, 7 p.m.

Author discusses and signs The Rector. Sat., April 16, 2 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Nikki Pope and Courtney Lance

Authors discuss and sign Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope: Stories of Surviving Wrongful Conviction. Sat., April 16, 1-3 p.m.

SOUTH MAIN BOOK JUGGLER, 548 S. MAIN (249-5370).

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

East Buntyn ArtWalk

EAST BUNTYN NEIGHBORHOOD, 461 S. PRESCOTT (690-1028), EASTBUNTYNARTWALK.COM.

Hear 901 Festival

University of Memphis record label provides an environment for students with a real-world approach when dealing with promotion, management, and production of a live musical event. $8.

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NEW DAISY THEATRE, 330 BEALE (525-8981), WWW.BLUETOMRECORDS.YAPSODY.COM.

Maria Montessori School Regatta and Duck Race

Canoe and kayak race on the Wolf River Harbor, wacky boat race, and rubber duck race. Compete for championship T-shirts and trophies created by the students at the Maria Montessori School.

Sat., April 16, 9:30 a.m.5 p.m.

MARIA MONTESSORI SCHOOL, 740 HARBOR BEND (527-3444), WWW. MARIAMONTESSORISCHOOL.ORG.

Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival

Benefiting Porter-Leath. Sun., April 17, 4-6 p.m.

WAGNER PLACE, BETWEEN UNION AND BEALE, WWW.PORTERLEATH.ORG.

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Competition in two divisions for kids 5-18 years old. Sat., April 16, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

GREENLAW MAM, 190 MILL (949-1309), WWW.SKATELIFEMEMPHIS.ORG.

Earth Day 5K

After the race, runners are invited to take a tree home to green up their community.

All proceeds benefit Shelby Farms Park Conservancy. $30. Sun., April 17, 10 a.m.

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

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Fun Run

Three-mile fun run and after party featuring free Memphis Made beer, giveaways courtesy of Fleet Feet, snacks from the Cosmic Coconut, and juice discounts. Wed., April 20, 6:30 p.m.

I LOVE JUICE BAR, 553 S. COOPER (612-2720), WWW.ILOVEJUICEBAR. COM/MIDTOWNMEMPHIS.

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.

Memphis Redbirds vs.

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

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

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19th Annual Rites to Play: Medieval Memphis

Children’s carnival featuring a giant chess set, dunk tank, inflatable jousting ring, maypole, petting zoo, and more.

Free. Sat., April 16, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

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

Egg

Join three madcap birds grappling with growing up and giving in to their natural instincts to take flight on a rustic set constructed out of twigs, feathers, and shell. $15$30. Fri., April 15, 6:30-8:15 p.m., and Sat., April 16, 11 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

THE HALLORAN CENTRE, 225 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

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“The 77 Day Siege of Khe Sanh” Skip Funk will speak about his Vietnam experience at Khe Sanh, during the 1968 Tet Offensive. Free. Thurs., April 14, 11 a.m.-noon.

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

Bountiful Blooms Exhibition

Enjoy the colorful blooms of spring. Through April 17.

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

A Century of Fashion

Celebrate Memphis Brooks Museum of Art’s 100th anniversary featuring tour, champagne cocktail, luncheon, and fashion review. $75. Thurs., April 14, 11 a.m.

ANNESDALE HISTORIC MANSION, 1325 LAMAR (212-5489), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUMLEAGUEMEMPHIS.ORG.

Chucalissa Spring Family Fun Day

Featuring spear throwing, planting the Three Sisters (Corn, Beans, and Squash), crafts, nature hike, and more in honor of Earth Day. Free with museum admission. Sat., April 16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

C.H. NASH MUSEUM AT CHUCALISSA, 1987 INDIAN VILLAGE (785-3160), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

Condomonium

Annual fashion show featuring designs made from condoms. Benefiting CHOICES. Sat., April 16, 7-10 p.m.

Pay Your Age (up to $50).

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (355-4981), WWW.MEMPHISCHOICES.ORG.

Forging on the River

Stephen Lunn will be onhand 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. (7746380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

Hollywood Feed Dog Wash

Bring your dog to have them washed and dried by volunteers. $10 donation benefits the Savior Foundation. $10.

Sun., April 17, 12-4 p.m.

HOLLYWOOD FEED, 5502 POPLAR (249-5691), WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ HOLLYWOODFEEDPOPLARYATES.

LipSync Plus Grand Championship

Winners of an online lipsyncing contest will perform live and compete against local celebrity lipsyncers for the Lip Sync Plus Grand Championship benefiting the Plus-1 program. $50. Thurs., April 14, 7 p.m.

HARD ROCK CAFE, 126 BEALE (529-0007), WWW.LIPSYNCPLUS.COM.

Mrs. Murray’s Supper Club

Featuring dinner by Coletta’s Italian Restaurant and auction items, benefiting Germantown Community

CALENDAR Theatre. $75. Sat., April 16, 5:30 p.m.

CLARK OPERA MEMPHIS CENTER, 6745 WOLF RIVER PARKWAY, WWW.GCTCOMEPLAY.ORG.

The Naturalists Know

Visit with Tennessee naturalists stationed throughout the garden to learn about trees, birds, butterflies, and more. Sun., April 17, 1-3 p.m.

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

Peabody Rooftop Party

Each week features entertainment, themed snack buffet, and drink specials. $10-$15. Thursdays, 6-10 p.m. Through Aug. 18.

THE PEABODY, 149 UNION (529-4000), WWW.PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

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7th Annual Memphis Brewfest

Celebration of beer, Memphis style. $44$100. Sat., April 16, 4-7:30 p.m.

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

Bacon & Bourbon

Featuring bacon-inspired dishes, distilled spirits, music by Papa Top’s West Coast Turnaround, and cigar rolling from BeLeaf Cigar Company benefiting Memphis Farmers Market. $35. Sat., April 16, 6-9 p.m.

MEMPHIS FARMERS MARKET, PAVILION OF CENTRAL STATION, S. FRONT & G.E. PATTERSON AVE, WWW.MEMPHISFLYER.COM.

Downtown Olympics 2016

Teams compete in beer drinking Olympic games for medals and bragging rights benefiting the Urban Bicycle Food Ministry. If you are interested in participating or have any questions, send an email to downtownolympics@gmail.com. Sat., April 16, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

DOUBLE J SMOKEHOUSE & SALOON, 124 E. G.E. PATTERSON (347-2648).

Edible Landscaping Talk and Cocktails with Rosalind Creasy

Evening of food, cocktails, plants. auction, prizes, and informative talk on the benefits of integrating herbs and edible plants into ornamental landscapes. $25 members, $35 nonmembers.

Thurs., April 14, 6-8:30 p.m.

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

Harbor Town Crawfish Festival

Live music and crawfish benefiting Mid-South Food Bank. $5 or 2 canned goods. Sat., April 16, 12-7 p.m.

HARBOR TOWN AMPHITHEATER, 740 HARBOR BEND ROAD, WWW.HARBORTOWNMEMPHIS.COM.

Healthy Memphis Food Festival

Le Bon Appetit

Variety of award-winning chefs, mixologists, pastry chefs, and TV personalities for a culinary presentation benefiting the pediatric rehabilitation facility at Le Bonheur’s new Outpatient Center East. $250-$500. Sat., April 16, 7 p.m.

PIPKIN BUILDING, MID-SOUTH FAIRGROUNDS, LEBONAPPETIT.ORG.

Taste of Memphis

Enjoy food from over 25 local restaurants, wine pull, and silent auction benefiting Memphis Urban Young Life. $20. Thurs., April 14, 6:30 p.m.

CENTRAL STATION, 545 S. MAIN.

Thirteenth Annual Gumbo Fest

Amateur cooking contest for gumbo, chicken wings, and more. Music by the Patio Pirates. $5.

Sat., April 16, 12-7 p.m.

LOIS WALLIN RICH CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 1800 N. MISSOURI ST., HOLIDAY PLAZA MALL, WEST MEMPHIS, AR (870) 735.1134), WWW.WMCOC.COM.

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Italian Film Festival Fri., April 15, 8 p.m.

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

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After earning his degree in psychology from the University of Memphis, he went to work at a halfway house in the Pacific Northwest that, in effect, was a working farm.

“It was a residential facility for mentally ill people where we grew our food, raised chickens and milk goats, and made our own bread. The person behind it was of the philosophy that nature has therapeutic effects,” Schutt says. “That was where I learned to garden and take care of animals, and it stuck with me. I have always done something with soil in my hands.”

Schutt now has two farms — a 1,600acre chemical-free, sustainable, free-range livestock farm in Dancyville and a certified organic produce farm in Whiteville, both operating under the name Winchester

Pamela Rains (above, right) welcomes Midtowners to Curb Market — the new grocery store.

Farm — and his own philosophy.

“I’m a long-term fan of Wendell Berry, and he says eating is ultimately an agricultural act. That has stuck with me,” Schutt says.

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“I’m hoping word will spread that it’s good to shop locally not just because it feels good, but also because it’s the right thing to do. It’s rebuilding the food economy and shifting the paradigm,” Schutt says.

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Meat from Schutt’s farm, processed meats prepared by employees of Sweet Grass, produce from six local farms, flowers, cheeses, non-homogenized milk, sauces, honey, pickles, jelly, coffee — nearly everything is grown or made within 100 miles of the market’s front door.

“In one case, it’s from three houses down,” Rains says.

Even their employees are about as local as they can get.

“We did our hiring straight out of the neighborhood. Most of our employees are able to walk to work,” Rains says.

They also carry soaps and other personal care items and serve up grab-andgo and deli food prepared on site with the idea of catching produce before it goes into the trash, and they plan on growing their offerings as more and more producers make themselves known.

“I had no idea the extent to which there are small craft makers. People have been coming out of the woodwork,” Schutt says.

“It’s very gratifying.”

Schutt has known the value of a local meat market for local farmers for years.

“I’ve been trying to develop markets for chemical-free beef and selling to various restaurants, but it’s so difficult. The best

way to do it is to have your own meat market,” he says.

It took his life coming full circle to finally take the leap.

“I was on vacation in the Pacific Northwest [last summer]. I was reading the newspaper online, and I read where the Easy Way on Cooper was for sale. I called my lawyer friend and said to make a really good offer,” Schutt says. “We got the deal done while I was 2,500 miles away. It was like it was laid there in front of me.”

Schutt, who also owns the Daily News Publishing Co. Inc., sees his endeavor as an opportunity to turn the tables on industrialized agriculture.

“From a food justice aspect, this is also social justice. I know that having a retail outlet for smaller growers to sell their products locally is a way to improve and create a local food economy where all the money stays in the local economy,” he says. “Most people don’t realize that because they want their food the fastest and cheapest they can get it, that our food system, our soil is being destroyed, and our water is being polluted.”

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Night Flight Midnight Special channels classic Spielberg.

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here was a time when the mission of science fiction was to produce a “sense of wonder” in the audience.

You can see this in the works of masters like Ray Bradbury, who was able to effortlessly translate the terror of the unknown into the joy of discovery.

Arthur C. Clarke was at his best when creating stories of exploration where there was very little conflict between the humans who set themselves against the vast strangeness of the universe.

This kind of sci-fi, which became much rarer after the ascendence of Philip K. Dick’s paranoid worldview, was reflected in some of the great films of the 20th century.

In the hands of a master, like Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Steven Spielberg in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, film is the perfect medium for conjuring up secular religious awe. In lesser hands, the lack of overt conflict can get boring.

There’s no shortage of conflict in Midnight Special, the new film from Jeff Nichols, the Little Rock writer/ director, who is the brother of Memphis rock star Ben Nichols, lead singer of Lucero. Alton Meyer (Jaeden Lieberher) has been kidnapped by his father Roy (Michael Shannon), and they are on the run, with Lucas (Joel Edgerton) along for muscle.

But it’s soon apparent that this is no ordinary domestic conflict gone bad. Alton, who wears blue swim goggles, can’t go out in the daytime, and avoids too much stimulation by obsessively reading comic books, is a willing accomplice in his kidnapping. And the people they’re running from are a dangerous cult, whom we meet when the FBI raids their church service.

They look like a fundamentalist Mormon or Mennonite congregation, but their scripture is a strange techno-gibberish that lead FBI investigator Paul Sevier (Adam Driver) reveals

as classified satellite communications that were apparently intercepted by Alton’s brain.

That’s not the only weird thing Alton’s brain can do. When he gets too stimulated or emotional, blinding light shoots out of his eyes, like the kids in the immortal, 1960 British horror film Village of the Damned. And, most importantly, for the cult that sprang up around him, he can induce ecstatic visions in other people during intense, mutual trances. But each supernatural experience drains Alton a little bit more, and it’s clear from his pale, shaking frame that he can’t take much more. Roy has studied Alton’s revelations and, after reuniting him with his mother, Sarah (Kirsten Dunst), is determined to get the boy to a mysterious set of coordinates in three days, where they believe the boy’s salvation is to be had.

Lieberher is a gifted child actor who wowed in his

Adam Driver hunts that sci-fi “sense of wonder” in Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special. film premiere opposite Bill Murray in St. Vincent, and his otherworldly stare is at the heart of making Midnight Special believable. Nichols, who also wrote the film, is clearly riffing on Close Encounters and E.T., and for stretches of the film, he achieves the tricky tone of sci-fi wonder, thanks mostly to his well-designed shot choices and spare but effective special effects. But Spielberg’s classics also had flashes of humor and an undercurrent of raw-edged family drama. Midnight Special has one, slack-jawed gear.

Dunst, Edgerton, and the evil cultists all carry the same glazed, far-away look on their faces for most of the film. Worst of all is Shannon, who appears to be reprising his role as General Zod’s corpse in Batman v Superman. Driver is, once again, the best actor in the film, and Nichols gives him a little more room to be playful.

As demonstrated by the Syfy Channel’s recent failed attempt to adapt Clarke’s masterpiece Childhood’s End into a miniseries, the “sense-of-wonder” stories are difficult to translate for our more cynical times. Midnight Special is uneven, but just successful enough to suggest that there’s room in contemporary sci-fi for more positive, contemplative films.

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Hardcore Henry is a first person sci-fi action movie. Its story is seen from the perspective of a camera in the eyes of an amnesiac cyborg who wakes up in a futuristic lab, which is instantly raided by bad guys. He escapes, to discover the lab is actually a plane. He falls to the highway below, where he is surrounded by more bad guys. Then, off the highway to the car park below, only to encounter more bad guys. This goes on for the entire running time. It is exhausting.

The imagery is playfully influenced by first-person shooter video games.

Henry is mute, and the people he encounters speak in the helpful, exposition-friendly manner of nonplayer characters. They repeat who the bad guy is, what Henry’s current goals should be, and cheekily hand him iPhones with maps. Slowly we

Henry plays a very grown-up game of Who’s Got Your Nose. is set to Queen. The opening credits, similar to Deadpool’s recent ones, are slow-motion wounds made to the velvet sounds of the Stranglers’ “Let Me Down Easy.” The contrasting tones were a welcome reprieve from the nonstop sameness.

Most of the soundtrack is loud, modern rock, which goes well with gunfights. The predominant mood, revealed during a shootout in an upscale brothel, is ironic, decadent, aspirational, and hetero. The prostitutes all wear matching black lingerie and blonde wigs; like the incoming S.W.A.T. team, they are supposed to all look

alike. The Jimmy of this section has a dragon belly tattoo and snorts cocaine to power himself up for battle. But it’s a little too distant because of the lack of personality in every other face. In a video game, sex and violence with and against the anonymously uniformed are both abstract, because the sexy and murdered aren’t completely lifelike, and performative. Hardcore Henry pales a little because you’re in less control than a video game. It’s always the same speed; it’s always the same tone.

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notice many of these are the same person, Jimmy (Sharlto Copley), a seemingly immortal character who keeps reappearing after being blown up and set on fire. The bad guy, Akan (Danila Kozlovsky), a well-dressed man with strange eyes and perfect hair who shows up every few scenes to show off his telekinetic powers, deliver one-liners, and kill bystanders. (We also notice we are in Russia, which produces odd touches like a tough guy’s transparent trenchcoat.) The movie follows our hero, or point of view, down hallways with guns firing from the bottom of the frame as he blasts waves of henchmen.

Unlike real-life body cam and GoPro footage, there’s never a dull moment. Gaps where dialogue might slow are covered at first by digital camera glitches, then by regular jump cuts. Henry only slows down to punch, hit, kick, or receive information. Most locations are replaced by another in less than two minutes. The movie’s at its best when this is humorous, as when Henry hides in a kiosk and shares an awkward moment with a woman listening to pop, or scales a building to interrupt a couple smoking pot on their couch. A climactic battle

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Hold on for your life — Hardcore Henry is a wild ride. continued from page 41 are punctuated with over-the-top gore, Henry’s eyes can’t cut to a close-up. What registers instead is movement, every punch and duck.

This becomes disorienting. It works better in small doses, as with director Ilya Naishuller’s music videos for his

band, Biting Elbows, that inspired the film. And the sense of off-kilter Slavic security footage works better in Russian dashcam videos, where the everyday and the absurdly violent are more balanced and succinct.

There are good touches. Henry’s wife is bland until the plot subverts her role. Copley is fun, a solo Peter Sellers without a straight man. Lady in the Lake, an early point-of-view noir, is referenced. Naishuller’s professed love of Reservoir Dogs is signaled by a Tim Roth cameo.

But what this film really needed to borrow from Tarantino is his multiplicity of viewpoints.

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Bottom Feeders Not wanting to be outdone by Mississippi and North Carolina in the Great Southern Race to the Bottom, Tennessee’s state legislature last week decided it was time to revisit the issue of where people go to the bathroom. After designating an official state rifle and making the comically unconstitutional proclamation that we Tennesseans are officially Bible-readin’ folk, the Joint Committee on Bumpkin Behavior convened and resolved that we need to work a little harder if we want to be a true national joke.

So last week HB 2414 and SB 2387 — the “bathroom bill” previously sent to summer study in March after opposition from businesses, civil rights groups, legislators from both parties, and anyone with a brain — swung that stall door wide open once again. If passed, the law would require students in Tennessee public schools and universities to use the facilities corresponding with the sex listed on their birth certificates. Not the gender they express and with which they identify, but the check mark beside M or F on a document that they received at birth.

I doubt the sponsors, Senator Mike Bell of Niceville and Representative Susan Lynn of Mt. Juliet, have actually met a transgender person. Otherwise they would understand just how ridiculous and illogical the bill is. Then again, something tells me the “2006 Recipient of the Rush Limbaugh Feminazi Resistance” and the lead sponsor of the 2014 “Religious Freedom Act” probably don’t care. If the bill succeeds, they’ll get right to work on expanding it.

Supporters of the bill claim transgender students using the bathroom where they feel most comfortable “risks bodily exposure to the opposite sex.” In other words, it’s got nothing to do with keeping transgender people safe, though they’re the ones being harassed. It’s about protecting the delicate sensibilities of pearl-clutching Philistines who struggle to accept the fact that some people are different from them.

I have so many questions I don’t even know where to begin. How will this be enforced? Will ushers guard all restroom doors, checking birth certificates? That’s one way to create jobs, I guess. Or will transgender people have to wear some kind of patch so everyone knows what equipment they’re packing “down there”? That oughta keep them real safe. What could possibly go wrong?

Will there be a hotline number one can call to report seeing a hot dog where only buns are permitted? Would I be thrown in the slammer for choosing to use the unoccupied men’s room rather than waiting in line for the ladies’? Whatever, it’s usually cleaner anyway. What about parents with young children, or people caring for special-needs or disabled family members?

Legislators have not answered these questions, because this isn’t about safety. There are already laws that prohibit someone from entering a public restroom to hurt, harass, or invade the privacy of another person. And guess who they protect? Everyone. This bill, and laws like it in Mississippi, Georgia, and North Carolina are about discrimination. They’re about making people feel othered and unwelcome.

Privacy in public restrooms is a nonissue. It’s a right-wing dog whistle that has the potential to cause a lot more damage than “but what if somebody sees a penis?” ever could. Aside from being immoral and repressive, it’s bad for business. The bill puts Title IX funding in jeopardy — that’s $1 billion federal dollars for secondary and post-secondary education. Sorry, students: We’re just trying to keep you safe.

And let’s not forget the lost revenue from tourism, conventions, events, and businesses. Those precious millennials that cities are so obsessed with luring? Kiss them and their money goodbye, too.

Even if the bill does not become law, state legislators are making it clear that a) they’re bigots, b) they’d rather let everyone know they’re bigots than deal with legitimate policy concerns, c) they don’t actually care about their constituents, other than the fellow bigots who keep voting for them. And they’re making it harder and harder to rationalize living in the South.

Come to Tennessee! We’ve got gorgeous weather, majestic parks, and attitudes straight out of the 1950s … uh, did we mention the weather?

Please get it together, Tennessee lawmakers. Your civilized citizens are counting on you. Work on setting the state on a path forward instead of backwards. If that’s too difficult, maybe work on selecting an official State Cheese Dip or something. The obvious choice is Pancho’s, by the way.

Jen Clarke is an unapologetic Memphian and digital marketing strategist.

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