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As everyone knows by now, gender- and genre-bending musician Prince died unexpectedly at his home in Minneapolis last week at the age of 57. It came as a tremendous shock, with the story first breaking on TMZ, then hitting social media and spreading like spilled mercury before more reputable media outlets confirmed the worst. Instantly, the world rushed to honor Prince’s memory and his music. Thousands of people posted links to their favorite Prince performances. Hundreds of musicians — professional and amateur — posted videos of themselves playing Prince songs. Cities around the world lit their bridges, overpasses, fountains, obelisks, and various other civic edifices purple. Self-professed nerds, weirdos, and shy people praised Prince for his bravery in flouting gender and racial stereotypes, and for giving them the courage to become themselves. Movie theaters announced free showings of Purple Rain. It was a sad, sad a day for everyone. Saddest of all, I think, is the fact that Prince didn’t live long enough to meet me. No doubt, he probably read my columns online, and I’m sure he laughed at some of my Twitter witticisms (I mean, who wouldn’t?), but the Purple One and I never could manage to get together IRL. I feel sad that he didn’t get to know my talented and beautiful children, all grown now. Nor did he get to meet my gorgeous and brilliant wife. (I think the two of them would have gotten along famously. She loves “Little Red Corvette.”) And I regret that I never got to grill my famous Korean spareribs for him while we chilled together on the back patio. Okay, I know, I know, I shouldn’t make Prince’s death about me. That’s terribly wrong. But so is the fact that literally within five or six hours of the news of his death, the Prince internet tsunami turned from real sadness and sincere tributes to Facebook clickbait memes like: “Which Prince Song Was Written for You?”; “10 Things You Didn’t Know About Prince”; “The Last 6 CDs Prince Purchased”; and “Wow, I Didn’t Know Prince Wrote That Song!” It turned to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer mourning the man responsible for the seminal “Purple Haze” album. It turned to Memphis television reporters broadcasting themselves lip-synching Prince songs. Prince even got “quoted” in a local meme as supporting the “no parking on the Greensward” movement. Then came the “humor.” Pictures of Prince on the $20 bill, suggesting we make it worth $19.99. Har. Or, “Why is Prince dead when the Kardashians are still alive?” Finally, there was the transgender-bathroom meme suggesting we should all just “Potty Like It’s 1999.” Just stop, already. Prince’s life and music meant something to millions of people. There’s no denying he was a musical genius — a man who could play any instrument and who N EWS & O P I N I O N cranked out dozens of brilliant pop LETTERS - 4 records. He defied gender norms and THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 made it look natural. By all reports, he THE FLY-BY - 6 was also a good person, who quietly POLITICS - 10 EDITORIAL - 12 gave large amounts of money to VIEWPOINT - 13 charities. He was respected and beloved COVER STORY in his home town of Minneapolis, which “ON THE ROAD, ON THE BEACH, also says something good about him. ON THE RISE” BY CHRIS SHAW & JOSHUA CANNON - 14 But in 2016, everyone’s a pundit, a WE RECOMMEND - 18 critic, a comedian — or a salesman. BEALE STREET MUSIC FEST GUIDE And whether it’s just for fun or for ego - 21 gratification, or worse, for profit and MUSIC - 45 AFTER DARK - 46 exploitation, everybody wants a piece of CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 50 the action. FOOD - 56 Guess it’s just a Sign O’ the Times. FILM - 57 THE LAST WORD - 63 Bruce VanWyngarden C L AS S I F I E D S - 59 brucev@memphisflyer.com
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Friedrich Nietzsche (or Kelly Clarkson or Kanye West) said it best: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” As LGBT Tennesseans (and especially transgender Tennesseans) faced one of the worst years for anti-gay and anti-trans legislation, the local trans community has begun to band together. Last week, the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center (MGLCC) hosted the first meeting of the center’s new transgender committee, which was immediately followed by a transgender flag-raising ceremony. The trans flag consists of five horizontal stripes — two in light blue, two in pink, and a white strip across the center. “We had a transgender flag here before, but it was much smaller than the rainbow flag, and it was in rags and tatters,” said Kayla Gore, the transgender service specialist at MGLCC. “We wanted to make sure the trans community felt welcome here. Now, from down the street, you can see our flag and know that you’re welcome here.” Gore said MGLCC is starting a new support group for transgender men, who were previously lacking their own group, on Friday, April 29th. And she said the center formed its new transgender committee to help the community stay informed about future statewide political threats or local issues. “It’s good to have organization when there’s so much stuff going on. If we’re not organized, we’re not going to be prepared for what’s coming,” Gore said. The “stuff going on” that Gore is referring to includes a number of anti-LGBT bills that were considered in the now-adjourned General Assembly this past session. A bill that would have banned transgender students at public schools and universities from using the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity was pulled by its sponsor, Rep. Susan Lynn, at the last minute. But another bill, which has come to be known as Hate Bill 1840 by its opponents, that passed has potential to negatively impact the LGBT community in Tennessee. That bill, which, at press time, was still awaiting Governor Bill Haslam’s signature or veto, allows counselors to deny service to any client who conflicts with the counselor’s “sincerely held beliefs.” The bill could have far-reaching impact, but Tennessee Equality Project (TEP) Executive Director Chris Sanders said the LGBT community is intended as the
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FIRST PERSON Pictures or it didn’t happen. Isn’t that what they say these days? But mobile phones didn’t have cameras in 1997, and the phone I answered that sweaty August morning was attached to the wall. My friend Kelly was calling because she had news she thought I’d want to know. “PRINCE IS PLAYING A SECRET CONCERT AT THE NEW DAISY TONIGHT! OMG!” she exclaimed. Well,
she didn’t say “OMG.” Nobody said “OMG” back then. But that was the gist. Kelly didn’t have details. She wasn’t 100 percent sure if Prince was really playing a second show following his big concert at the BassPro Shops (formerly known as the Pyramid). But the last time Kelly was 99 percent sure about something, the two of us went to the Peabody Hotel, called the front desk from a pay phone, asked for Tom Waits’ room, and Waits answered. Words like “magic” are overused, but there was alchemy involved in
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thing was said about “nursery rhymes,” and then, with increasing confidence, the two men started improvising together. I wish I could tell you what was said and sung, but the details have slipped away. All that remains is the memory of a grin so big it threatened to crack my face and a similar memory of so many other people wearing the same dopey expression. I’ve got no pictures, but I swear to God (and Wendy and Lisa too), it happened. You’ll just have to trust me and the few hundred other people lucky enough to get a call. By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.
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what happened at the New Daisy that night. Wearing shiny lavender jammies, Prince owned the stage, running through songs like “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker,” “Baby I’m a Star,” and “1999.” He covered James Brown, Parliament, and the Staples Singers. The highlight of the show, however, was when Prince introduced his special guest, 80-year-old Stax royalty Rufus Thomas. Then the unflappable Purple One proceded to nerd the hell out, saying he didn’t ever want his time with Rufus to end. There was conflict too. And drama! When Prince encouraged Thomas to cut loose and freestyle, he balked: “Oh no.” There was a back and forth between the two musical icons. Some-
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primary target. “Conceivably, sexism and racism are sincerely held principles, too. At this point, it’s so wide open, it’s ridiculous, and it defeats the purpose of having a counseling code of ethics,” Sanders said. According to Sanders, the LGBT community in Tennessee has “never had a year like this” in regard to anti-LGBT legislation and says that’s likely due to backlash from the U.S. Supreme Court decision last year legalizing same-sex marriage. Earlier this year, the Tennessee House passed an anti-same-sex marriage resolution condemning the Supreme Court decision. Sanders said he’s expecting the transgender bathroom bill to be back next session, and TEP is working to strengthen ties with religious organizations that may help them fight such bills in the future. “We want to engage members of conservative denominations who are tired of religion being used for discrimination,” Sanders said. Next time around, TEP may have some help from a new political coalition that’s forming in Memphis. The West Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (TTPC) has started a Facebook page and plans to hold its first meeting soon. “We’ll meet once a month to update everyone on political news, and we’ll be looking at local trans issues or school issues. We want to get people together to stand against any anti-trans legislation that comes up,” said Victoria Hester, the assistant coordinator for the coalition. The local coalition is affiliated with the statewide TTPC, which also has factions in East and Middle Tennessee. An older version of the West Tennessee group disbanded years ago.
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$7.5 million for the Memphis Area Transit Authority, and money for extending wireless internet to community centers, new SkyCop cameras, and more. • The Memphis City Council approved a massive, $200 million development north of Shelby Farms Park last week in a move that frustrated many area residents. Parkside at Shelby Farms would sit on about 55 acres at the corner of Whitten and Mullins Station. It would include high-rise apartment buildings, many smaller, “garden style” apartment buildings, a swimming pool, a clubhouse, and thousands of square feet for retail and office space. The property was zoned only for single-family homes. But the city council changed that to allow the project to go through, despite more than an hour of pleas from neighbors to stop the project. Those neighbors worry that the project will disrupt their quiet community and drive property values down. • A new gravel path appeared last week on the Greensward at Overton Park, and someone vandalized the Memphis Zoo sign over the weekend. The path angered park advocates, who worried the path signaled the zoo’s long-term use of the space for overflow parking. Zoo officials said they simply “re-graveled” the path after days of heavy rains. Red paint was splashed on the Overton Park sign at Sam Cooper and East Parkway, and a vandal scrawled the word “no” over the zoo’s logo. The sign was cleaned up Saturday by a park advocate. • The Memphis Zoo gave media tours of its new Zambezi River Hippo Camp. The $22 million exhibit will open soon and is the first new exhibit since Teton Trek opened in 2009. • Ikea gave the media a peek at the construction of its Memphis store on Germantown Parkway this week. The store is slated to open this fall. • Parking spots will become mini parks this week “in a city where public parks are sometimes turned into parking lots.” Park(ing) Day commences Thursday in conjunction with the Urban Land Institute’s RegionSmart planning summit. Six parking spaces in front of the Orpheum Theatre will become free, family-friendly micro-parks.
Q&A with Mary Skinner and Dan E. Pomeroy Staff from the Tennessee State Museum
How do you tell a state’s long and varied story through artifacts? Dan Pomeroy: In order to be prepared to tell this full story, the State Museum has been aggressively and selectively adding to its collection of objects and artifacts for the last four decades. This collection contains artifacts relating to notable personalities, such as presidents and governors, but also includes items designed to tell the story of other aspects of Tennessee, such as Native Americans, urban centers, business, manufacturing, labor, immigration, African Americans, art, crafts, music, children, home life, rural communities, women, sports, and common soldiers. These and other stories obviously intersect and are interwoven, which is part of the challenge to museum interpretation.
How is the museum determining what to fit and what to leave out? MS: It is impossible for any museum with a collection as large as ours to put everything on exhibit for public view at one time. That is why the new museum will have separate galleries that will allow visitors to explore specific periods and themes more deeply — including our Civil War history, music, art and cultural issues of the day. These exhibits will be easier to change and update as we continue to acquire new artifacts.
What do you think visitors will take away about Tennessee? DP: The ultimate goal is to create as complete a story as possible for the people of Tennessee and for our state’s visitors. Tennessee’s story is a critical and significant part of America and the world, and, taken as a whole, it should be a source of pride and empowerment to Tennesseans everywhere. This may be particularly important for the tens of thousands of school children who will visit the State Museum.
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Flyer: When outsiders think of Memphis, they often think of Elvis and barbecue. How will the museum break that cliché in what’s represented about the city? Mary Skinner: The State Museum traces the roots of its large collection back to 1818 and has been collecting artifacts pertinent to the telling of Tennessee’s history for almost 200 years. We literally have hundreds of objects (furniture, art, textiles, musical items) from Memphis in our collection, including a 1919 American LaFrance Type 45 triplecombination fire engine, an 1860s Rococo Revival mirror from the Hunt Phelan House, a collection of Ernest Withers’ civil rights photographs, a document signed by Abraham Lincoln concerning Civil War government in Memphis, and paintings by Carroll Cloar. The list goes on and on.
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A new $160 million Tennessee State Museum will open in 2018 at Nashville’s Bicentennial Mall. The 137,000-square-foot facility will house artifacts from across the state, and each city will get its own chronological exhibit. The museum broke ground earlier this month, and now its staff is on a statewide tour to inform residents of Tennessee towns and cities of the museum’s progress. The tour stopped in Memphis earlier this week The Flyer spoke with the museum’s community officer Mary Skinner and Chief Curator Dan E. Pomeroy about the hurdles of the expansive project and what sort of representation Memphis will have. — Joshua Cannon
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Transitions General Assembly closes, County Commission defers, and 8th District hopefuls count their money. There was a feeling of something like anti-climax last week, as the Tennessee General Assembly called it quits. The customary post-session press conference involving Governor Bill Haslam and the legislature’s Republican leaders was a relatively perfunctory affair compared to those of previous years. What dominated that occasion was not so much commentary on the events of the late session, as the imminent leave-taking of state Senate Speaker/Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey, who will be retiring this year, and who received hearty send-offs from his fellow leaders. Missing from the press conference was House Speaker Beth Harwell, who was substituted for by House Speaker Pro Tem Curtis Johnson (R-Clarksville), who kept his silence. Other attendees were House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick (R-Chattanooga) and Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris (R-Collierville), a likely future candidate for governor who, as a prelude, may attempt to succeed Ramsey as Senate speaker. Late in the session, Norris had played a key role at several key points. Though formally one of the Senate’s co-sponsors of a de-annexation bill that was rushed through the House, Norris was a subtle force in making sure the bill received line-item vetting in the Senate’s State and Local Committee and that opponents of the measure from Memphis got a fair — and, as it turned out, successful — shot at derailing it. Norris was also a vocal opponent of a bill to make the Holy Bible the official state book. Though the bill passed both chambers, it was vetoed by Haslam, whose opposition survived a veto-override vote in the House. The scuttling of the Bible bill and of
the so-called “bathroom bill,” which would have forced transgendered people to use the public lavatories of their birth gender, were among the terminal acts of this year’s General Assembly. Other dramatic late actions included the passage of legislation starting the clock on eventual abolition of the Hall Income Tax on interest and dividends and passage of yet another gun bill, this one allowing full-time employees to carry concealed weapons on college campuses. Haslam, who has previously disapproved gun bills extending carry rights into various public spaces but has not yet vetoed one, is said to be considering a veto of this one. At the session-ending press conference, Haslam touched briefly on his two major successes — passage of comprehensive public-safety act and a major increase in funding for public education. • More is Less: There’s a catch of sorts to the education increases, however — one that got a bit of exposure on committee day of the Shelby County Commission last Wednesday. During an audio feed from Nashville, Chip Smith, a member of the lobbying team employed by the county, was grilled by commissioners about the level of spending routed toward public schools in Shelby County. Commission education committee chair David Reaves, in particular, asked Smith about a change in the funding formula that reduced by a factor of 75 percent what had been a Cost Differential Factor (CDF) applied to state funding allocations to counties with large urban populations. The result, said Reaves, was that while Shelby County Schools and the county’s six suburban school districts would be receiving more money in the coming year, it would be proportionally less than the McCormick, Johnson, Haslam, Ramsey, and Norris wrap up the legislative session in Nashville.
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“Jackson” is, after all, one of the most thoroughly embedded names in the landscape of Americana. But, beyond that, the issue is more nuanced than a simple recitation of Andrew Jackson’s grave misdeeds would indicate. The victory of Jackson’s ragtag army over a disciplined British force at the Battle of New Orleans remains one of the signal events of American history. His presidency, moreover, was characterized by systematic efforts to democratize the office (for whites, anyhow) and, a century before FDR, to combat and diminish the power of organized money. Less known is the fact that, 35 years before Fort Sumter, Jackson preserved the Union by backing down the first attempt at secession by South Carolina. For that matter, if we are to cleanse the national honor roll of slave-holders, what should we do with the name of our national capital? George Washington, too, was an offender on that count. Let us be real here. Grant, Sherman, Lee, Jackson — they all did things on the battlefield that would have made George “Blood and Guts” Patton turn his head. Woodrow Wilson quite literally set back the progress of desegregation in his time. But just as there are no saints in our national pantheon, there are no Hitlers, either. So Andrew Jackson will be moved to the back side of the $20 bill, and the front side will become Tubman’s. That seems about right.
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Restless Bedfellows Both political parties have internal tensions these days, and they’re fact-based. other, a bill enshrining the Holy Bible as the official state book. Leaving aside the very real civil-liberties and First Amendment aspects inherent in both bills, the aforementioned corporate interests opposed them both because they were, in simplest terms, bad for business. The Republican Party’s right-wing populists, on the other hand, favored the two bills as emblematic of their “values” issues, in defense of which they had drifted away from what they saw as an over-secularized, over-diverse Democratic Party. This time, there was no powerful lobby like the NRA intervening, and business (aided by the Democratic minority) won, forcing the eventual scuttling of both bills. But there will be other such battles on the state front — each corresponding in rough (if inexact) ways to the current national schism between Trump supporters and the GOP establishment.
If all this bodes ill for the future unity of the Republican Party, the Democrats have their own fissures to worry about. The presidential-primary contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders has outlined an ongoing struggle within the Democratic Party as well — one similar in some ways to that afflicting the Republicans. Sanders is clearly on to something with his unflagging emphasis on the core issue of economic inequality. He’s the one attracting the multitudes, building out from that central issue, while Clinton’s political base is more a matter of putting together a collection of special interests, patchworkstyle, working from the outside in. Many of these she shares with Sanders — blacks, gays, women, civil libertarians, low-income voters, et al. — but one of them is hers alone: big money. She is still the likely primary winner, but her ties to the financial establishment leave her dependent on the amorphous appeal of “diversity” instead of the central one of reform. If not this year, down the line, the Democrats in Tennessee as elsewhere will have to have their own internal reckoning. Senior editor Jackson Baker is the Flyer’s political columnist.
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Anybody who’s been paying the slightest bit of attention to Tennessee state government in recent years has surely noticed that we have what amounts to one-party government. Republicans run the roost, and Democrats are a rump group with minimal numbers and no power. This state of affairs has existed for less than 10 years. Going into 2008, the year of Barack Obama’s election as president, Tennessee still had a nominally Democratic governor in Phil Bredesen, control of the state House of Representatives, and nearparity in the state Senate, where Republicans had the narrowest possible majority. The turnover of a handful of seats in 2008 gave the GOP a majority of one in the House. It was only in the presidential off-year election of 2010 that the Republicans essentially swept the Democrats in legislative races and took firm control of both houses. That year, the gubernatorial race was basically a three-way affair involving Republicans Bill Haslam, Zach Wamp, and Ron Ramsey, with the general election contest between primary winner Haslam and Democrat Mike McWherter being a no-contest walkover for the GOP. President Obama was reelected in 2012 with no help from Tennessee, an erstwhile bellwether state which at that point had firmly realigned with the Deep South politically. In the off-year election of 2014, the Republicans won their present supermajority. End of story? Nope. What has gone on since has been the slow, but now obvious, development of a fissure in state Republican ranks. As it turns out, nature not only abhors a vacuum; failing an iron-handed dictator, it pretty much rejects a monolith, too, and, under easy-going Republican Governor Haslam, the natural yin and yang of things has begun to reassert itself. Among state Republicans, this fragmentation first became noticeable in several of the legislative fights over gun bills — particularly those imposing official toleration of concealed weapons on or around business property. Those battles pitted Republican legislators loyal to (or indebted to) established corporate interests against Tea Party insurgents who were susceptible to the blandishments (or threats) of the faux-populist NRA. The estimable journalistic-workhorseturned-occasional-columnist Tom Humphrey did an insightful take this past weekend about a legislative Republican split over two matters — one, the so-called “bathroom bill” that would force transgendered persons to use only the public lavatory facilities of their birth gender; the
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Courtney Barnett is getting ready to board a plane somewhere on the West Coast when her manager hands her the phone. She sounds tired and in a bit of a haze, which is understandable, considering she’s been on the road almost nonstop for the past two years. In the time that’s led up to our phone call, Barnett has gone from one of Australian indie rock’s best-kept secrets to a Grammy-nominated household name. 14 Her deadpan vocal delivery and witty lyrics have pushed her to the forefront
of a modern music movement that sits somewhere in between mainstream rock and the type of stuff you hear playing at Urban Outfitters. But there’s something more intelligent and authentic about Barnett’s music, something that sets her apart from the pack. Growing up in Pittwater, Australia — a port town about an hour outside of Sydney — gave Barnett her small-town charm and provided endless experiences that would later serve as song fodder. “[Pittwater] was far up from town, so that probably made my imagination run a little bit more. It was kind of harder to do things with friends after school and stuff,” Barnett explains. “We were around lots of bush, and me and my brother would run around a lot in the water. We were very outdoorsy. I
reckon that helped start my creativity a little bit better than sitting in front of the TV would have.” Barnett sharpened her chops in the Melbourne grunge band Rapid Transit and played with psych-rockers Immigrant Union as well as lead guitar on her girlfriend Jen Cloher’s album, In Blood Memory. But even though she’s a gifted guitarist, Barnett is most known for her lyrics. “Pedestrian at Best,” the breakout hit from 2015’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, comes across like a smarter “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for a new generation of alt-teens. Her greatest attribute as a songwriter is how effortlessly she seems to spit out sharp lyrics. “I guess I write lots of different stuff,” she says. “I do a lot of journal writing, and I write short stories that don’t turn into
anything. I don’t think I’m as disciplined as I could be or should be. I don’t really have a solid writing schedule.” When it comes to writing lyrics, there isn’t a set formula in place either, but she does cite Jonathan Richman, Patti Smith, and Leonard Cohen as some of her favorite lyricists. When I ask whether the lyrics or the song comes first, Barnett says, “It depends on the situation. It’s different every time. I let my mind wander under some kind of subconscious stream, and I see what comes out. Sometimes I start with a song title, and that gives it a direction; other times I start with a narrative. I always have to be singing about something though; songs about nothing piss me off.” Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit and 2013’s double EP, A Sea of Split Peas, were both released
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on Milk! Records, a small label founded by Barnett and Cloher in their living room. The label remains fiercely indie since Barnett has risen as a high-profile songwriter, and she laughs when I ask if the record label has become a subsidiary of something bigger. “It’s pretty small,” she says. “We run it ourselves and fund it ourselves, and we work with about seven bands. Me and Jen and a couple of my friends do it. I think it’s like the best thing in the world. I get to release my music and my art and my friends’ art. I don’t have any interests in forfeiting those things for money or for success,” she adds. “I have enough money to do what I want to do. It’s comfortable and lets me be artistic.” Some of Barnett’s best songs are about the more mundane aspects of existence.
“Depreston” sounds like a classic love song on the surface, until you dig deeper and realize that she just made you have feelings about a percolator that makes great lattes. With the ability to romanticize inanimate objects, you’d think that the road could take its toll, especially on someone who enjoys the little things that come with a stable lifestyle. Barnett doesn’t see it that way. “We’ve been touring nonstop for the past two years. It has ups and downs, but I’m traveling the world, playing my songs to people, and that’s kind of really good,” Barnett says. “It’s a weird life. We’ve become a weird family because we spend more time with each other than we do with our partners. I’d never thought I’d have enough money to travel outside of Australia. I always assumed I’d never get to leave. And now
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we’ve traveled the whole world.” Barnett is getting ready to board that plane when I ask her in what setting she most prefers performing her music. This is an artist whose music works as well in a DIY basement venue as it does being blasted out of festival speakers at Coachella. “I think my favorite kind of show is a tiny club full of people with their hands on the stage. But we are lucky that we’ve been able to do both, because fests are just as fun. We played this beautiful theater last night, and that was amazing, but you’re on stage to play these songs to people no matter where you are, and that’s pretty fucking cool.” Perhaps that’s the most compelling thing about Barnett. Whether she wanted to or not, she’s become modern rock-androll’s great equalizer, taking her brand of
With a legendary career that’s lasted nearly 50 years, we could dedicate this entire issue of the Flyer to Neil Young, and there would still be plenty more of his story to tell. The Canadian-born Young is one of the greatest songwriters in rock-and-roll history, and his signature vocal style is one of the most recognizable in music. Like the Grateful Dead or the Rolling Stones, Young has a following that’s as devout as they come, meaning that you don’t often hear, “Yeah, I only like a couple of his songs” when the conversation is about ol’ Neil. While other popular artists have had to reinvent themselves multiple times to stay relevant in the mainstream, Young has stuck to his guns as a left-field songwriter. That’s not to say the man’s perfect (The Shocking Pinks, anyone?), but he is reliable. Even that album has one of the best recorded versions of his hit “Wonderin’.” Young also has some interesting Memphis ties, having toured with Booker T. and the M.G.’s as his backing band in 1993. Young’s long career has already been written about, dissected, and criticized at great length, so I decided to focus on two Neil Young albums that changed my perception of what classic rock could be. Here’s hoping he plays anything off either of these records when he headlines Beale Street Music Fest Friday night. On the Beach (Reprise Records, 1974) If you ever find yourself planning a playlist for a road trip, this album needs to be in your rotation. On the Beach perfectly captures Young’s ability to write personal lyrics and his willingness to talk shit to those who’ve wronged him in some way. “Walk On,” the first song on the album, immediately addresses his critics or past friendships that have turned sour. There is plenty of lyrical gold on this album, from the biting lines of “Revolution Blues” (most likely inspired by his visits with Charles Manson) to the prophetic lines on “For the Turnstiles.” This is classic “negative” Neil Young, but the songwriting and guitar playing is so mesmerizing that you almost forget that these are, for the most part, sad or angry songs. While On the Beach wasn’t as commercially successful as Harvest or After the Gold Rush, the record is widely considered one of his best albums by fans and critics, even if it wasn’t widely available until decades after it was released. Zuma (Reprise records, 1975) Deciding to rank this album below On the Beach was difficult, but since I heard On the Beach first, I suppose it’s only fair to call this continued on page 16
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my second-favorite Neil Young record. The album artwork has a vibe of “this is so ugly it must be good” going on, but what’s inside is pure gold. Album opener “Don’t Cry No Tears” is an absolute killer; the lyrics tell a gut-wrenching tale of a woman who has moved on. The song is as depressing as they come, but maybe that’s the best thing about this era of Young’s music — he made being depressed and negative acceptable, cool, and perhaps most important, marketable. Most modern, politically correct music writers would probably classify Zuma track “Stupid Girl” as sexist, but some of the best rock-and-roll has always been controversial (See “Under My Thumb” by the Rolling Stones or “All This and More” by the Dead Boys). And no, I’m not comparing Neil Young to the Dead Boys, but the point is that you don’t have to be in a great mood to write a great song. — Chris Shaw
Julien Baker is on her way to Indianapolis, Indiana, where she will begin a 13-day tour that ends at Beale Street Music Festival. She’s been reading a lot. One book is about straight-edge hardcore. Another is a historical analysis of emo, Nothing Feels Good — fitting for a musician whose Instagram bio reads, “Sad songs make me feel better.” She’s also reading articles about punk. On April 29th, she’ll open Beale Street Music Festival on the same stage where Neil Young will later headline. Just a few years ago, Baker played most of her shows in a suburban living room in Memphis’ Smithseven House. Now, she’s navigating a transition from her DIY roots to a critically acclaimed music career whose trajectory seemingly has no ceiling. “In an interview Aaron Weiss (of MewithoutYou) did with BadChristian, he said, ‘I feel like I’m always striving, and I’m always doing it wrong,’” Baker says. “But I’m obsessed with striving.’” “I feel like I mess up a lot. The existential pressure, as the opportunities grow and I get to do more things, like play bigger cap venues, that increases the level to which I have to be very intentional about how I am using these opportunities. Am I just letting them fall on me — or employing them for some greater cause?” I first met Baker at a now-defunct church called Veritas, which occupied a room at the Butcher Shop on Germantown Parkway. She was 14 years old and not much shorter than she stands today. “Celtic Thunder,” hollered worship leader Charlie Shaw, calling her to the impromptu stage. Between her long red hair and her skill set on the mandolin, the nickname stuck. After church ended that day, Baker told
me she was starting a band called the Star Killers with some Arlington High School friends. They later changed their named to Forrister, and she still plays with them. At the time, I played in a band called Wicker that frequented the Skate Park of Memphis. Created by Smithseven Records founder Brian Vernon, it served as the house band for a nonprofit label that gave most of its money to charity. The skate park was Baker’s stomping ground, too, and we soon became friends. She says those formative years with Smithseven — and her friendship with Vernon — still shape her perception of success, even as she struggles to identify what it means to be successful. “I feel like I could have turned out more judgmental, more self-destructive, and more embittered if I had not been exposed to Smithseven’s overarching positive-punk ideology,” Baker says. Among those who knew her in Memphis, there was no question that Baker would catch national attention. The question, simply, was when? The answer came after she uploaded nine harrowing songs she’d written while studying at Middle Tennessee State University. Titled Sprained Ankle, each track on the album details with vivid imagery a difficult point in Baker’s life following a relationship gone south and the distance between herself and Forrister. The LP’s sound is rooted in her favorite artists, musicians like Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan and Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard. Her melodies are delivered in the same shaky-but-sturdy strength that graced the Smithseven House for so many years. Then, 6131 Records signed Baker and rereleased the album, which garnered critical praise. The New York Times called it one of the best albums of 2015. But Baker felt guilty. “One time, I started crying when NPR put a song up, because I was like, ‘Why? This should be me and Forrister, and it’s not,” Baker says. “Shaun [Rhorer of 6131] was like, “‘No, you need to be doing as well as you can with this and seeing how far it will go, because that’s just more doors opened up for Forrister. Look at the big picture. What could you achieve if you gave in a little bit to gain a little ground?’” As her career continues to pick up steam, publicists, managers, and agents have opened new doors. The new connections have broken down misconceptions Baker held about the music industry: “These people aren’t chewing their stogies and waving their briefcases around,” Baker says. “They don’t play an instrument, but they are equally as passionate about music. “Everybody I meet is so non-competitive,” Baker says. “Maybe I come off as obviously green and people feel responsible for preserving that. Sharon sent me a message one time … the last line was ‘A lot of people are going to want things from you. I just want to be your friend.’ Seeing that kind of willingness to work together is absolutely inspiring.” — Josh Cannon
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The setting: a community with a popular water attraction. The conflict: There’s something dangerous lurking in the water. One man knows the truth, but vested interests warn that panic can be expensive. No, I’m not talking about Steven Spielberg’s famous shark flick. Nor am I referring to some future Michael Moore documentary about public utilities in Flint, Michigan. Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play, An Enemy of the People, may not be as well-known (or action-packed) as Jaws, but it tells the kind of political horror story modern audiences will immediately recognize. An Enemy of the People, as adapted by Death of a Salesman playwright Arthur Miller, arrives in Memphis courtesy of regional veteran Marler Stone and his newly christened CentreStage Theatre company. It tells the story of Dr. Stockmann, who discovers that his town’s public bath is badly contaminated. He’s initially thanked for his vigilance but ultimately opposed by the very people he sought to protect. Over the course of the play, Stockmann discovers just how hard it can be to stand alone, especially when the truth is unpopular. At 78, Stone shows few signs of slowing his artistic output. “There are a lot of plays I want to do,” he says, rattling off a list of classic shows ranging from Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge to the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Carousel. “I want to do things that are relevant,” he says. Stone marvels that An Enemy of the People was admired both by Miller, a lion of the literary left, and by objectivist icon Ayn Rand. “I wondered why,” he says.
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(Park)ing Day Halloran Centre parking lot, noon-6:30 p.m. Parking spaces are reimagined into micro-parks during this familyfriendly event. Art by Design Propcellar, 6-9 p.m., $20-$250 Interior designers created vignettes inside the showroom. Event raises funds for local arts. Continues through Saturday.
Dining Out for Life Various locations and times Restaurants donate a portion of their proceeds today during this annual event benefiting Friends for Life. Participating restaurants include Cheffie’s, Rizzo’s, the Farmer, Beauty Shop, Imagine, Hog & Hominy, Pink Diva Cupcakery, and Ecco. For a full list of restaurants and more information, go to diningoutforlife. com/memphis. Booksigning by Michael Graber Burke’s Book Store, 5:30 p.m. Michael Graber signs and discusses Going Electric: Tales of Innovation from Where Rock ‘n’ Roll Was Born.
“Belongings II: Repurposed” Crosstown Arts, 6-9 p.m. Opening reception for this group show featuring works inspired by or starting as goods from the Cleveland Street Flea Market. Also opening is “The Moonpie Project,” an interactive mural work by Birdcap and Ninjacat. The Schwag New Daisy Theatre, 10 p.m., $10 A concert by this Grateful Dead tribute group.
Beale Street Music Festival Tom Lee Park, 2 p.m., $45 This year’s lineup includes Neil Young, Beck, Paul Simon, Courtney Barnett, and Julien Baker. For more, go to page 14. Lurlynn Franklin G Factory (484 S. Front), 6-8 p.m. Opening reception for new works by Lurlynn Franklin.
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Welcome to Beale Street Music Festival, a three-day party jam-packed with some of the best bands in the world. This year, Memphis in May salutes our neighbors up north, and to celebrate, we’ve got Neil Young — aka Canada’s greatest living songwriter — on hand with his band, Promise of the Real. Big-name artists like Beck and Paul Simon are also in town, as well as some of the best local bands Memphis has to offer. There are plenty of musical highlights to check out before the fest starts each day, so be sure to visit places like Sun, Stax, and Shangri-La before enjoying the best music festival in the Mid-South. In the pages ahead, we’ve given you information on every single band playing, so pick out your favorites, make a commitment to catch an artist you’ve never heard of before, and let’s get rollin’ on the river! — Chris Shaw
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FEDEX STAGE JULIEN BAKER
6 P.M. Memphis’ biggest breakout star of 2015 keeps killing it, landing a spot on Beale Street Music Fest after a solid year of touring and seeing her name in every musicmedia outlet that’s relevant. Her first album, Sprained Ankle, made plenty of yearend lists, but we were already onto Baker before she became a media darling. See our cover story on her from last summer for proof.
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TRAMPLED BY TURTLES
7:30 P.M. Minnesota’s Trampled by Turtles have seen their fair amount of success since forming in 2003, and the alt-country band will be setting out on a long tour with the Devil Makes Three shortly after their performance on Friday night. No stranger to festivals, the band has also played San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Firefly Festival, Rock the Garden, and the All Good Music Festival.
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GRACE POTTER
9 P.M. Multi-instrumentalist Grace Potter has collaborated with musicians like Kenny Chesney and the Rolling Stones. No stranger to the festival circuit, Potter’s band the Nocturnals played more than 200 shows on the road as they gained traction and signed with Hollywood Records.
NEIL YOUNG & PROMISE OF THE REAL
10:40 P.M. Neil Young. On the river. The first night of Beale Street Music Fest. Do we really need to tell you to be there? Do you like music? Good answer. We thought we were about to have a problem. In all seriousness, if this doesn’t get you excited, you may need to check your pulse.
THE STRUTS
6:10 P.M. British rock band the Struts kick things off on the Rockstar Energy Drink stage, and you can expect these glam rockers to bring the heat to Tom Lee Park. CONTINUED ON PAGE 26
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YOUNG THE GIANT
7:40 P.M. Young the Giant sound big enough to fill an arena and structure their songs in a way that feels fitting for a club. Their electric sound pulls influence from bands like Muse, while their indie sensibilities are akin to Grouplove.
PANIC! AT THE DISCO
9:10 P.M. Hot on the heels of the Fall Out Boy-led, mid-2000s emo wave, Panic! At the Disco released their debut 2005 album, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, when the band’s members were fresh out of high school. Since then, only one of the original members — Brendon Urie — remains in the band, but he and his new bandmates are still pushing out baroque pop that sounds like it was recorded in 2005 (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing).
WEEZER
10:50 P.M. These platinum-selling pop-punkers have been at it for over 20 years, releasing hit after hit in between throwing parties on cruise ships and collaborating with current stars like Best Coast. Weezer will be on tour with Panic! At the Disco, who are also playing Friday night.
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6:10 P.M. Coleman Hell wins the “coolest-named hometown” award this year, as he hails from a place called Thunder Bay, Ontario. Keeping with the Canadian theme of this year’s Memphis in May, Coleman Hell is sure to bring the thunder when he plays his brand of indie pop/EDM on Friday night.
GIN BLOSSOMS
7:35 P.M. If the 1990s had a soundtrack, it’d be filled with Gin Blossoms songs — “Hey Jealousy,” “Found out About You,” “Follow You Down,” “Til I Hear It From You” … the list could go on. Fun fact: Although the alt-rock band is from Tempe, Arizona, all of the above hit songs were recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis.
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9:15 P.M. Memphian Mavis Staples will surely take the Bud Light stage by storm when she performs on Friday night. Staples was a late addition to the Beale Street Music Fest lineup, and she adds to an already stacked opening night lineup.
TRAIN
10:55 P.M. Roots-rock icons Train need little introduction since crafting the mega hits “Meet Virginia” and “Drops of Jupiter.” There’s a reason these San Francisco boys are headlining the Bud Light Stage on Friday night. Expect a moving performance from these platinum-selling artists.
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6:15 P.M. Ghost Town Blues Band once again perform at Beale Street Music Fest, and their latest album, Hard Road to Hoe, is still a local favorite.
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2:30 P.M. Nashville indie rockers Escondido kick things off on Saturday at the FedEx stage. Formed in 2011, the band’s latest album, Walking with a Stranger, is out now.
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4 P.M. LunchMoney Lewis represents a small but talented pool of hip-hop acts at Beale Street Music Fest. The Miami-born MC has had over 15 millon streams on Spotify, and his list of collaborations includes a song with Memphis’ own Juicy J.
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5:35 P.M. New Orleans-based ’90s altrockers Better Than Ezra are perhaps best known for their 1995 single “Good,” but the band has continued to make music over the years, and they’ve developed a loyal following of fans (who call themselves Ezralites — seriously, look it up).
CYPRESS HILL
7:15 P.M. Who can forget the group that sang “Tell Bill Clinton to go and inhale?” Other than Snoop Dogg, no other artist or group personifies what it means to be a stoner better than Cypress Hill, the group that brought you songs like “Hits from the Bong,” “Superstar,” and “Dr. Greenthumb.” Cypress Hill were the first Latino-American rap artists to go platinum, and their music is immediately recognizable, as is B-Real’s high-pitched vocal approach. Get ready to go insane in the membrane.
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8:55 P.M. The Barenaked Ladies bring the ’90s nostalgia to the FedEx stage on Saturday night. These tongue-twisting Canadian lyricists are anything but one-hit wonders, having released their 12th album last spring.
MEGHAN TRAINOR
10:40 P.M. It’s all about the bass when Saturday’s headliner takes the FedEx stage. Meghan Trainor has a Grammy nomination and two Billboard awards under her belt, and her second album Thank You will be released less than two weeks after her Beale Street Music Fest appearance.
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2:20 P.M. Little Rock, Arkansas, rock band Amasa Hines call their brand of music “psychedelic afro-futurism,” but get to the Rockstar Energy stage early to check out this relatively unknown band in person and decide for yourself.
THE FRONT BOTTOMS
3:50 P.M. Since 2007, New Jersey-bred indie band the Front Bottoms have traveled from humble, DIY beginnings to the festival circuit — hitting Coachella and, now, Beale Street Music Festival.
HOUNDMOUTH
5:25 P.M. Rough Trade recording artists Houndmouth have been at it since 2011, but the band really started picking up momentum with the release of 2013’s From the Hills Below the City. Much like their label mates, Parquet Courts, Houndmouth has appeared on plenty of late night shows, including the Late Show with David Letterman and Conan.
MOON TAXI
7 P.M. Nashville’s Moon Taxi also earned a spot on Coachella, and their Daybreaker tour sees the band getting a slot on Beale Street Music Fest. Active since 2006, the band played the Late Show with David Letterman and has had television placements from companies like BMW, HBO, the MLB, and the NFL.
MODEST MOUSE
10:30 P.M. Like this year’s other headliners, Modest Mouse is a band that needs no introduction. Formed in 1992, Modest Mouse continually reshapes rock music while simultaneously influencing wave after wave of indie bands. From wellknown tracks like “Float On” to deep cuts from their earlier releases, point to any Modest Mouse album, and a devoted fan will give you something to appreciate. Study up, and be there when they take the stage. CONTINUED ON PAGE 35
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8:40 P.M. Violent Femmes are no strangers to Memphis, having played the iconic Antenna club and, more recently, the Mud Island Amphitheatre. The band has been active since 1980 and are best known for their quirky hit “Blister in the Sun,” although they’ve also had hits with “Kiss Off ” and “Gone Daddy Gone.”
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7:25 P.M. Grammy Award-winners Los Lobos need little introduction, having been at it since the ’70s. Their Tex-Mex rock-and-roll has been celebrated by fans for decades, and in 2015 the band was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. CONTINUED ON PAGE 36
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5:40 P.M. Americana-folk artist Lucinda Williams’ set will likely be a collection of the slowburning country grievances and blues-infused, slice-of-life songs she does so well. In 2002, TIME named her “America’s best songwriter.” Any self-respecting country fan should catch her set while the sun sets over the Mississippi River.
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9:10 P.M. The king of Memphis has been on a tear lately, releasing hit after hit of club-ready, social-media-referencing rap songs. If Yo Gotti keeps up his summer show at Mud Island, this could mean that two epic outdoor Gotti concerts are heading your way soon. Yo Gotti put the city on his back, and his love for Memphis is well-known. Don’t miss Yo Gotti, and remember, it goes down in the DM.
JASON DERULO
10:50 P.M. Jason Derulo spent years writing songs for artists like Diddy and Lil Wayne, but he always wanted to step into the spotlight. One of the few R&B artists coming to Beale Street Music Festival, Derulo’s radio-ready pop songs sound like he took notes from Chris Brown and Sean Kingston.
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2:15 P.M. As one of 14 children born to R.L. Burnside, Duwayne Burnside picked up the guitar at a young age. Since then, he’s played with the North Mississippi Allstars and Junior Kimbrough, in addition to playing big-name festivals like Bonnaroo.
CHARLES WILSON
3:50 P.M. Charles Wilson, better known as Uncle Charlie to his fans, was the singer of the Gap Band before going solo and racking up 11 Grammy Award nominations. Artists like India Arie and Jamie Foxx have paid tribute to Wilson, but even without the admiration from big name musicians, Wilson’s extensive catalog speaks for itself.
JACK SEMPLE
5:30 P.M. Another representative of Canada (the 2016 Memphis in May tribute country), Jack Semple was the lead singer of the band the Lincolns before forming the Jack Semple Band and releasing eight albums, including two live records.
SHUN NG & MAGIC DICK
7:10 P.M. Legendary harmonica player Magic Dick recently teamed up with Shun Ng to create one of the most unique duos in recent memory. The two play stripped-down versions of blues standards as well as originals, and Shun Ng’s staggering guitar work will leave you begging for more.
LUTHER DICKINSON
8:55 P.M. Luther Dickinson might be best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist in the North Mississippi Allstars, but he’s made a name for himself as a solo artist as well. Keep your fingers crossed that Dickinson brings frequent collaborator (and Music Fest performer) Mavis Staples on stage for a song or two.
ANA POPOVIC
10:45 P.M. Memphis guitar slinger Ana Popovic has shared the stage with the likes of Buddy Guy and Zakk Wylde. Her latest album TRILOGY was produced by Grammy Awardwinner Warren Riker.
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2:15 P.M. Those Pretty Wrongs feature Jody Stephens of Big Star and Luther Russell. The band’s debut album is out later in May via Burger Records, the hip California label that started as a cassette label and has morphed into a West Coast institution. Fans of Big Star, take note.
BLACKBERRY SMOKE
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3:45 P.M. Blackberry Smoke have blown up over the last few years, touring with the Zac Brown Band and having their music featured on the EA Sports video game Madden NFL 16. Their fourth studio album Holding all the Roses debuted at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums Chart, and their fan base just keeps growing. Expect this set to get rowdy.
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5:25 P.M. A side project of Black Keys vocalist Dan Auerbach, the Arcs’ bind soul and psychedelic rock to create something similar to EL VY or the Districts. Unlike, but not far from, the Black Keys, Auerbach’s new band relies more on rhythm than the blues. Their latest single, “Lake Superior,” was inspired by the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer.
COLD WAR KIDS
7:05 P.M. Cold War Kids have actively toured and cranked out piano-driven pop songs since 2004. Most likely, you’ll be singing along to a slew of songs you didn’t know you knew.
BECK
8:50 P.M. Beck is back, only this time he’ll be at Tom Lee Park instead of the Mud Island Amphitheatre. The Los Angeles singer/songwriter always puts on a great show, and his collaboration with Jay Reatard was proof that while Beck is definitely big time, he still keeps his ear to the underground. Anyone who was at his Mud Island show knows that Beck is not to be missed.
… ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK STAGE THE LONE BELLOW
2:45 P.M. Brooklyn’s Lone Bellow bring their alt-country to a festival audience that knows a thing or two about the genre, but that shouldn’t stop the band from kicking off a great lineup on the Rockstar Energy Stage. The band’s latest album, 2015’s Then Came the Morning, was released on Descendant Records, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment.
INDIGO GIRLS
4:15 P.M. Lesbian folk rockers Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been besties since elementary school, and they began performing together when they were in high school. Since then, they’ve released 14 albums (the latest release came last year) and have remained politically involved in all sorts of causes ranging from LGBT equality and environmental protection to Native American rights and protesting the death penalty. CONTINUED ON PAGE 42
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NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS
6 P.M. There might not be a festival more fit for Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats than Beale Street Music Fest. Something reminiscent of the Stax sound is ingrained in their music, and the Night Sweats provide the palette for a pensive Rateliff to wail over. Do not miss this band.
PAUL SIMON
7:35 P.M. Paul Simon has been a hit factory since the ’60s, cranking out songs like “Mrs. Robinson,” “The Sounds of Silence,” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” He was awarded the first Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007 and has written music for Broadway and television. He’s been on Saturday Night Live 14 times and has 12 Grammy awards, making him one of the most successful artists on the entire Music Fest lineup.
3:40 P.M. Alex da Ponte just released her latest album, and the local artist is one of many worth catching over Music Fest weekend. On All My Heart, da Ponte wears her emotions on her sleeve, making for an earnest and honest album that will get stuck in your head after only a couple listens. Her song “Nevermind” is already a local hit, but don’t expect da Ponte to stay local for long.
THE JOY FORMIDABLE
5:15 P.M. Welsh alt-rockers the Joy Formidable recently released their third album, Hitch, and the band has a knack for recreating some of the things that made ’90s alt rock so memorable.
COURTNEY BARNETT
6:55 P.M. Courtney Barnett had a spectacular 2015 due to her amazing album Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit. We had her album and her Third Man Records single as some of our favorites of the year, so we’ll take credit for this one. You’re welcome.
BASTILLE
8:35 P.M. British indie rock powerhouse Bastille have sold over 5 million records, and their follow-up album to 2013’s Bad Blood is highly anticipated. With millions of fans across the globe, Bastille are definitely one of the biggest bands performing this weekend.
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2:15 P.M. These Memphians might be unknown now, but if they keep landing spots on music festival main stages, they may not be underground for long. Look for a debut album from the Band CAMINO sometime this summer.
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10:15 P.M. Russian-born/German-raised electro-house DJ Anton Zaslavski (better known as Zedd) has made a name for himself in the EDM scene by combining the beat-driven nature of house music with catchy pop melodies and lyrics by popular artists, such as Selena Gomez, Foxes, and Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams. The Grammy winner’s late-night performance will likely turn Tom Lee Park into a giant rave, so bring the glowsticks.
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Brandon Santini purchased his first harmonica at the age of 15 at a music store in Piedmont, North Carolina. Engulfed in the blues, Santini studied harp legends like James Cotton and Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. After founding his band Delta Highway in 2003, Santini relocated to Memphis, where he became a regular performer on Beale Street. With three albums under his belt, Santini and his band continue to inject a fresh spirit into the Delta blues.
JOHN PRIMER 5:20 P.M. When it comes to no-frills blues music, John Primer gets it done and does it well. No surprise why — Primer learned slide guitar from Muddy Waters’ sideman Sammy Lawhorn. A steward of the Chicago blues, Primer has played with the likes of Waters, Willie Dixon, and Magic Slim. JOHN NÉMETH 6:55 P.M. Boise, Idaho, bluesman John Németh relocated to Memphis in 2013 and linked up with Scott Bomar at Electraphonic Recording, where he immediately began cutting an album. His latest record, 2015’s Memphis Grease, was named the “Best Soul Blues” album by the Blues Music Awards. BERNARD ALLISON 8:30 P.M. Influenced by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, as well as older players like Lightnin’ Hopkins and B.B. King, Bernard Allison grew up with the blues thanks to his dad, Chicago bluesman Luther Allison. Allison has been at it since 1990, releasing over 15 albums of his signature style of electric blues. Locations in Southaven, Horn Lake and Memphis. Open 7 days a week!
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Lamb of God Returns level for six years, releasing several demos, two split-EPs, and one self-titled, full-length debut in 1999 before a name change to Lamb of God was implemented based on a desire to avoid being misinterpreted as a Satanic metal band. The next album and first to carry the Lamb of God moniker was 2000’s New American Gospel. A progressive combination of rewired and intensified thrash metal informed deeply by Pantera’s mid-tempo groove and breakdowns, New American Gospel appealed out of the gate to a fan base that would grow behind the band’s next two years on the road.
Lamb of God 2003’s As the Palaces Burn attracted some nice reviews in mainstream media outlets like Rolling Stone and scored high in the metal press’ year-end tallies. The Lamb of God sound was well-established by this point and filled a need with its less cartoonish, more streamlined metal onslaught that spoke to both young and old fans of the form, unlike the then-waning silliness of Slipknot or the overt faux intensity of System of a Down. The increased airplay of the album’s three singles laid the groundwork for Lamb of God’s proto-breakthrough, Ashes of the Wake, their first for major label Epic Records. It debuted at No. 27 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of over 35,000 and remains the band’s best-selling back catalog title as it approaches gold certification. But Lamb of God’s next two albums, 2006’s Sacrament and 2009’s Wrath, would secure the band’s status as a
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global force and perhaps the biggest Trojan horse to sneak otherwise mainstream-untenable elements of metal extremity to a wide audience since Pantera’s similar coup during the ’90s. Both album’s debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and had first-week sales of over 60,000 and collectively yielded three Grammy nominations for Best Heavy Metal Performance for “Redneck” (perhaps Lamb of God’s best-known calling card) in 2007, “Set to Fail” in 2010, and “In Your Words” in 2011, respectively. This period brought many other next-level “firsts,” and the band spent the better part of six years on the road and satiated fans between studio efforts with two live album/DVD titles. In 2010, the band released the 10-year anniversary Hourglass career retrospective that featured a much-drooled-over “Super Deluxe” edition packaged in a big coffin. The package contained a three-CD anthology, a career-covering vinyl box set, The Art of Lamb of God book, a 4-by-6 “Pure American Metal” flag, and, most notably, a Mark Morton Signature Series Jackson Dominion D2 guitar. The aforementioned seventh album, Resolution, was released in January of 2012 and added some thrashier guitar riffs and song structures to Lamb of God’s meat-and-potatoes metal to keep things out of an artistic rut. Then, as covered previously, everything went to hell a few months later, and a short hiatus followed as the band waited for the outcome of Blythe’s case and figured out what to do next. For a minute, Lamb of God’s future as an active band was up in the air, but the five-some returned to the studio, and out came last year’s VII: Sturm und Drang, an album informed by the inevitable influence of Blythe’s situation but also one with more sonic surprises than the band is known for. The record included the distinct vocals of guest Chino Moreno of the Deftones on a track, plus Blythe’s most extended venture into clean singing on the song “Overlord”. Lamb of God, Corrosion of Conformity, and Clutch, Wednesday, May 4th at Minglewood Hall. 6:30 p.m. $37, all ages.
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s arguably one of the biggest acts to emerge from the mid-’00s “undergrounding” of high-profile metal, Lamb of God was riding its long and continuing ascent in June 2012 when attention on the band began to increase exponentially on the back of a most unfortunate turn of events. A good six months into the touring cycle behind his band’s seventh studio album, Resolution, Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe was arrested by Czech police on suspicion of manslaughter and charged with “committing intentional bodily harm.” The charges concerned a concert from two years earlier when a fan sustained head injuries (immediately leading to a coma and eventual death several weeks later) after being pushed from the stage by Blythe. Lamb of God was caught totally by surprise, as they didn’t even remember the specific show and were unaware of the damning European press coverage following the event, or that the Czech police had already investigated and charged Blythe, simply because no one was contacted by the United States Department of Justice after the D.O.J. turned down overseas requests for assistance. Blythe was swiftly put behind bars in a Czech prison for what remained an open-ended incarceration, due to the challenges of meeting a bail figure that was repeatedly increased. Thus began an unpredictable and authentically dramatic saga unlike any other in metal’s long and dark history of finding itself on the wrong side of the law. In March of 2013, after a six-day trial that could have easily ended badly, the Czech court arrived at a verdict that removed Blythe’s criminal liability regarding the incident. Many readers might be aware of how things played out, as there was much media coverage and an astonishing amount of support that traversed and transcended the metal community. The Richmond, Virginia, band formed as Burn the Priest in 1994 and operated at the underground DIY
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Gary Hardy and the Memphis 2 Thursday, April 28, 6-9 p.m.; Karaoke Thursdays, TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Mandi Thomas Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; The 901 Heavy Hitters Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.2 a.m.; Flyin Ryan Fridays, Saturdays, 2:30 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.
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The King Beez Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.
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Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Red Letter Day Friday, April 29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, April 30, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson & The Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.midnight.
Blind Mississippi Morris Friday, April 29, 5 p.m., Saturday, April 30, 5:30 p.m., and Sunday, May 1, 12:30 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Friday, April 29, 9:30 p.m., and Saturday, April 30, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Saturday, April 30, 12:30 p.m., and Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.
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The Johnny Go Band Thursdays, Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Rob Haynes & the Memphis Flash Fridays, Saturdays, 711 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.
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Eric Hughes Thursdays, Fridays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke ongoing, 8:30 p.m.; Chris Gales Tuesday-Saturday, noon-8 p.m.
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Queen Ann and the Memphis Blues Masters Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
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The Schwag: The Grateful Dead Experience Friday, April 29, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.; Beale Street Music Festival AfterParty presented by WEB Friday, April 29, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.; STFU Tour featuring B.o.B with ScottyATL and London Jae Saturday, April 30, 6:30-10 p.m.; Dirty South Saturday, April 30, 10 p.m.; Jake Shimabukuro Tuesday, May 3, 8-11 p.m.
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Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Tas Cru & His Band of Tortured Souls Friday, April 29, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Saturday, April 30, 8 p.m.-midnight; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
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Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursday, April 28, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam & Terry Friday, April 29, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; FreeWorld Friday, April 29, 9 p.m.1 a.m. and Saturday, April 30, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Gracie Curran Saturday, April 30, 4:308:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 711 p.m.
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Rum Boogie Cafe
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4/27 POLYRHY THMICS 8PM | 4/28 NIKO LYRAS CD RELEASE PART Y 8PM | 4/29 BIG BARTON 10PM | 4/30 JACOB STIEFEL & THE TRUTH 10PM | 5/1 MARCELL A & HER LOVERS 8PM | 5/2 JOHN PAUL KEITH WITH SPECIAL GUEST MARCELL A SIMIEN 6PM | 5/3 TRAVIS ROMAN 5:30PM | 5/4 SISTER SPARROW & THE DIRT Y BIRDS 8PM
Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall
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.
Paulette’s RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300
Live Pianist Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-9 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and Mondays-Wednesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.
Purple Haze Nightclub 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139
DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.
Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020
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Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.
Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.
163 BEALE 523-9782
Blind Bear Speakeasy 119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435
Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813
A. Schwab America’s Blues & Cheesehead Blues at A. Schwab Saturday, April 30, 1-6:30 p.m.
Live Music Fridays.
M AY 8
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F O R M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N V I S I T L A FAY E T T E S M U S I C R O O M . C O M
2119 MADISON 207-5097
Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; John Paul Keith Friday, April 29; Adam Heart & the Heart of Memphis Band Saturday, April 30.
Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222
Sunday Brunch with Joyce Cobb Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909
KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD AT THE HI-TONE Melbourne, Australia’s King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard hit the HiTone this Tuesday night in support of their latest LP, Nonagon Infinity. Since forming in 2010, the psychedelic powerhouse has released album after album of interweaving prog rock, working with labels like Castle Face, Heavenly, and, most frequently, Australia’s Flightless Records. King Gizzard have made a name for themselves by taking the writing approach of bands like Thee Oh Sees and putting it in a blender with a few prescriptions of Adderall. The songs are spastic yet complex, and listening to a complete album by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard can definitely prove to be an aural endurance test. On record, the band’s songs run together seamlessly, but catching the sevenmember band live is where their music is best experienced. Having toured the U.S. multiple times since blowing up in 2013, the band is a finely tuned machine when it comes to their live show, and their unusually large lineup (complete with two drummers) effectively freaks audiences out before completely winning them over. Touring with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are Geelong, Australia, psych wonders the Murlocs, who are also on Flightless Records. While King Gizzard explore the frenetic elements of psych rock, the Murlocs explore the more traditional, 13th Floor Elevators-esque side of the genre. Both bands are at the top of the greater Australian psych scene, but their different approaches to the same genre are a testament to the versatility of what’s been cooking down under since bands like Tame Impala and Royal Headache opened the door for smaller, independent Aussie acts. Locals Spaceface also play this Tuesday night gig. — Chris Shaw King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, May 3rd at the H-Tone. 9 p.m. $10. The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915
DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.
The Peabody Hotel
South Main
Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
South Main Sounds
3030 POPLAR 415-2700
550 S. MAIN 494-6543
Trolley Night Music Fest at South Main Sounds Friday, April 29, 5:30-7 p.m.
149 UNION 529-4000
5 Fridays of Jazz every other Friday, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538
Half Step Down Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.
Rooftop Party: Cruisin’ Heavy Thursday, April 28.
Tom Lee Park OFF RIVERSIDE DR.
Beale Street Music Fest 2016 Friday, April 29, 2 p.m. until Sunday, May 1.
Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830
DJ Dropout Boogie Friday, April 29; CATL with Goner Records DJs Saturday, April 30.
Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.
Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151
DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.
The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719
Ed Finney & the U of M Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 9 p.m.; The Pistol & the Queen Friday, April 29, 10 p.m.; Paulette Saturday, April 30, 9:30 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.
Hi-Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE
Huey’s Midtown The Royal Blues Band Sunday, May 1, 4-7 p.m.; Le Temulte Noir Sunday, May 1, 8:30 p.m.midnight.
MIDTOWN
Stax Music Academy Spring Concert Sunday, May 1, 4-6 p.m.
P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906
Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight; Oz Oz, Zigadoo Moneyclips Wednesday, May 4.
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.
University of Memphis
Lamplighter Lounge
Ubee’s
1702 MADISON 726-1101
Terry Prince & the Principles Saturday, April 30, 10 p.m.
521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900
Memphis Acoustic Music Association (Overton Chapel)
East Memphis
Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.
Dan McGuinness Pub
53 EAST PARKWAY 274-1626
Kingfish Thursday, April 28, 8 p.m.; Cities Aviv, RPLD GHSTS Thursday, April 28, 9 p.m.; Generic 99¢ Dance Party with DJ Witnesse & more Thursday, April 28, 10 p.m.; Mishka Shulaby, Star Anna, HEELS Friday, April 29, 8 p.m.; Too Ugly Ent Presents: $UICIDEBOY$, Pyrex Pirates Friday, April 29, 8 p.m.; Shantasy Island and Textbeak with Strooly Saturday, April 30, 9 p.m.; OBN III’s, Hank Wood and the Hammerheads, Evil Army Sunday, May 1, 9 p.m.; Chelsea Wolfe with A Dead Forest Index Monday, May 2, 9 p.m.; King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard with Murlocs and Spaceface Tuesday, May 3, 9 p.m.; Blondi’s Salvation Wednesday, May 4, 9 p.m.
1927 MADISON 726-4372
Johnny Mac Thursday, April 28, 5:30 p.m.; Niko Lyras – CD Release Party Thursday, April 28, 8 p.m.; Ashley McBryde Friday, April 29, 6:30 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, April 29, 10 p.m.; Chris “Cj” Johnson (of American Idol) Friday, April 29, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturdays, 11 a.m.; The River Bluff Clan Saturdays, 3 p.m.; Heath n’ Danny Saturday, April 30, 6:30 p.m.; Jacob Stiefel & the Truth Saturday, April 30, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Pearl Sunday, May 1, 4 p.m.; Marcella & Her Lovers Sunday, May 1, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Friends Mondays, 6 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesday, May 3, 5:30 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds Wednesday, May 4, 8 p.m.
Overton Square
Harpeth Rising Saturday, April 30, 8-10:30 p.m.
4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711
Midtown Crossing Grill
Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House
Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.
394 N. WATKINS 443-0502
Memphis Ukelele Meetup Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m.
551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200
Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Mondays-Thursdays, 59:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.
Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744
Steak N’ Burger 2016 Feat. Penny Hardaway & Chris Vernon Tuesday, May 3, 6 p.m.; Lamb of God, Clutch, Corrosion of Conformity Wednesday, May 4, 6:30 p.m.
Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013
Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.
Murphy’s
Huey’s Poplar
1589 MADISON 726-4193
Death Index with Ex-Cult Thursday, April 28; Legpit & 199X Friday, April 29; The Fast Mother CD Release Saturday, April 30; Condition Critical Tuesday, May 3; Everdeens Wednesday, May 4.
4872 POPLAR 682-7729
Six String Lovers Sunday, May 1, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.
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After Dark: Live Music Schedule April 28 - May 4 continued from page 47
Avon Dale Thursday, April 28, 6-8 p.m.
Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321
Van Duren Solo Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481
Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.
The Windjammer Restaurant 786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044
Karaoke ongoing.
Poplar/I-240 East Tapas and Drinks
Arlington/Eads/ Oakland Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub
7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770
7350 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 266-2626
Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Gary Keith Saturday, April 30, 12-3 p.m.; Rebecca and Friends Sunday, May 1, 12:30-3:30 p.m.
Coffeehouse Appearance featuring Anti-Twilight Dark Band Wednesday, May 4, 7-8:30 p.m.
Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034
Young Petty Thieves Sunday, May 1, 8-11:30 p.m.; Patio Party featuring the Patio Pirates Wednesday, May 4, 5-8 p.m.
North Mississippi/ Tunica The Crossing Bar & Grill 7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242
Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight.
6230 GREENLEE 592-0344
Live Music Thursdays, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Fridays, 9 p.m.
Dan McGuinness
GOSSETT MAZDA 1870 COVINGTON PIKE • 901.388.8989
3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611
Acoustic Music Tuesdays.
Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 6565 TOWNE CENTER, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-536-2200
Live Music Thursdays, 5 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays.
Hollywood Casino
6069 PARK 767-6002
1150 CASINO STRIP RESORT, TUNICA, MS 662-357-7700
Carlos & Adam from the Late Greats Thursdays, 7-9 p.m.; Elizabeth Wise Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.
Live Entertainment Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
Neil’s Music Room
Huey’s Southaven
5727 QUINCE 682-2300
7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097
Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Suburban Trunkmonkeys Saturday, April 30, 9 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
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Lannie McMillan Jazz Trio Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Summer/Berclair Barbie’s Barlight Lounge 661 N. MENDENHALL
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Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.
Juno Marrs Sunday, May 1, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Night Mondays, 8-10 p.m.
Mesquite Chop House 5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467
Pam and Terry Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.
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
Whitehaven/ Airport Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant 4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159
Karaoke with DJ Stylez Thursdays, Sundays, 10 p.m.
Bartlett
Collierville
Frayser/Millington
Hadley’s Pub
Huey’s Collierville
Old Millington Winery
2779 WHITTEN 266-5006
2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455
6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114
Charlie Belt and Friends Thursday, April 28, 8 p.m.; Almost Famous Friday, April 29, 9 p.m.; Full Circle Saturday, April 30, 9 p.m.; The Nuttin’ Fancy Band Sunday, May 1, 5:30 p.m.; Bike Night with No Hit Wonders Wednesday, May 4, 8 p.m.
The Dantones Sunday, May 1, 8-11:30 p.m.
Old Whitten Tavern
Huey’s Cordova
2800 WHITTEN 379-1965
Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.1 a.m.
RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222
Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Mondays Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Cordova Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 819 EXOCET 624-9060
Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m. 1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885
J.P. Soars & the Red Hots Sunday, May 1, 8:30 p.m.midnight.
Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423
Unwind Wednesdays Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.
Tommy and Roy Akers Sunday, May 1.
Mesquite Chop House
Germantown
Pam and Terry Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.
Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500
IRIS: Jonathan Biss Saturday, April 30, 8 p.m., and Sunday, May 1, 8 p.m.
Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911
Soul Shockers Sunday, May 1, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.
3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661
Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar 9087 POPLAR 755-0092
Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.
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 Music Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Wednesdays, 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.
m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m
422 S. GROVE PARK 682-8436
Neshoba Unitarian Universalist Church
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Laurelwood Shopping Center
Shelby Forest General Store
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CALENDAR of EVENTS:
April 28 - May 4
T H EAT E R
Center Stage Dance
Auditions for The Outsiders, for more information and registration form, visit webite. www. kudzuplayers.com. Sat., April 30, 10 a.m. & 4 p.m. 131 W. CENTER (662-298-3069).
Circuit Playhouse
The Country House, a group of creative artists have come to their summer home during the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Everyone is forced to come to terms with the roles they play in each other’s lives. $22-$35. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through May 15. Junie B. Jones, the Musical, adaptation of four of Barbara Park’s best-selling books. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $10. Sat., April 30, 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. 51 S. COOPER (725-0776).
Germantown Community Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire, story of fragile Southern belle who leaves the family plantation and moves to New Orleans to live with her sister. She gets a gritty life lesson in the steamy underbelly of 1940s French Quarter life. www.gctcomeplay.org. $24. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2:30 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).
Hernando High School Performing Arts Center
Disney’s the Little Mermaid, www.newdaytheatre.org. Sun., 2 p.m., Fri., Sat., 7 p.m., and Thurs., April 28, 7 p.m. Through May 1.
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Ongoing, rotating mural series curated by Michael Roy in memory of muralist Brad Wells. Fri., April 29, 7-10 p.m.
The Salvation Army Kroc Center
Fiddler on the Roof, www.stagedoormemphis.org. Pay what you can. April 29-May 8, 2:30 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 7 p.m. Through May 8.
CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.
National Ornamental Metal Museum
800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007).
Landers Center
The exhibit showcases works in metal and wood from artist Corrinne Hunt, of Vancouver. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. May 1-31.
Seussical Jr., www.landerscenter. com. $12. Fri.-Sun. Through May 1. 4660 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120).
METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW. MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.
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. Who will win the battle? Adult situations and strong language. (946-6140), www.bluffcitytriarttheatre.zohosites.com. $12-$20. Fri., Sat., 8-9:45 p.m., and Sun., 3-5 p.m. Through May 1. 2085 MONROE (274-7139).
A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S
Crosstown Arts
Opening reception for “Belongings II: Repurposed,” exhibition of objects of inspiration from the Cleveland Street Flea Market transformed into new works of art. www.crosstownarts.org. Fri., April 29, 6-9 p.m. 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).
G Factory
Artist reception for Lurlynn Franklin. (614-9445), gfactorymemphis.com. Fri., April 29, 6-8 p.m. 484 S. FRONT (615-482-2777).
Inspiration Art Gallery (Wolfchase Galleria)
Artist reception for Zac Kinkade, nephew of Thomas Kinkade will be signing and sketching his “Noah’s Ark” and upcoming “Route 66” paintings for purchasing collectors. Original oil paintings and sketches available. (257-1212), www. thomaskinkadememphis.com. Sat., April 30, 1-4 p.m. 2760 N. GERMANTOWN PARKWAY, SUITE 112 (257-1212).
Artist Submissions for “Say Hello To America!”
A juried exhibition exploring the current (absurd?) state of the American political landscape. See website for submission information. Through May 15.
Memphis College of Art, Nesin Graduate School
Artist reception for 2016 Spring MFA Thesis Exhibition: “Hueman,” www.mca.edu. Fri., April 29, 6-9 p.m. 477 S. MAIN.
Midtown Framer & Art
Artist reception for “George Hunt Tribute to the Blues: Paint & Paper,” exhibition of original paintings, posters, and limitededition prints. (335-8841), georgehuntart.com. $60. Thurs., April 28, 4-7:30 p.m. 1523 UNION (335-8841).
WKNO Studio
Artist reception for Artists’ Link Spring Mix, exhibition featuring painting, photography, sculpture, jewelry, and more by over 40 artists. (458-2521), www.wkno.org. Sun., May 1, 2-4 p.m. 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).
OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS
Art by Design
Three-day event series to raise money for local arts. Featuring a dozen of Memphis’ most sought-
LAST CHANCE TO SEE IT! Ends May 1 P!NK PALACE MUSEUM
CROSSTOWN ARTS GALLERY, 422 N. CLEVELAND, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.
Reception for Artists’ Link Spring Mix at WKNO Studio Sunday
SEE IT AT THE PINK PALACE! This exhibition and its national tour were developed by The Field Museum, Chicago. Photo credits: NOAA Photo Library
April 28-May 4, 2016
805 DILWORTH LANE, HERNANDO, MS.
Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101. DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.
after interior designers to create one-of-a-kind “vignettes” within a gallery showroom. $20-$250. Thurs., April 28, 6-9 p.m., Fri., April 29, 7-10 p.m., and Sat., April 30, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. PROP CELLAR, 4726 POPLAR (578-2787), ARTSMEMPHIS.ORG.
Art Trolley Tour
Tour the local galleries and shops on South Main. Last Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN.
“Brushes & Blossoms”
Paintings by noted local artists will be on display with a floral interpretation of each painting by a member of Hernando Civic Garden Club. $15. Sat., April 30, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. BANKS HOUSE GALLERY & GIFT SHOP, 564 W. COMMERCE (662-404-3361).
Call to Artists for UrbanArt Public Art
Artist opportunities for murals, sculptures, and more. See website for registration and more information. Ongoing. VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW. URBANARTCOMMISSION.ORG.
Cultures on Cloth
Exhibit is a collection of native textiles and prints from Baker Lake in the arctic region of Canada. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. May 1-31.
O N G O I N G ART
The Annesdale Park Gallery
MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM, MUD ISLAND RIVER PARK, 125 N. FRONT (576-7232), WWW.
“Place Keepers,” exhibition of paintings by Jana Travis and Elizabeth Garat. www.annesdaleparkgallery.com. Through May 11.
MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.
1290 PEABODY (208-6451).
Hands-on Activity
Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)
Family-friendly, all-ages handson activity. Learn how to etch on aluminum using similar techniques as exhibiting artist, Douglas Harling. $10. Last Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Through Jan. 19. METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), METALMUSEUM.ORG.
“Kin Killin’ Kin”
Exhibition on youth and gun violence in our communities. Through April 29.
NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), WWW.CIVILRIGHTSMUSEUM.ORG.
The Moonpie Project Unveiling
A new interactive, collaborative mural by Birdcap + Ninjacat.
“Flying Colors: Asafo Flags of the Fante,” exhibition prepared by University of Memphis students. www.memphis.edu/ amum. Through Oct. 1. “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. 142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).
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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. Through May 2.
Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis
Germantown Performing Arts Center
“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. “/pərəsēv/ /tu/ /ikəspōz/,” 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.
Frame Corner Inc.
“Out of Africa,” exhibition of paintings from latest safari in Africa and other adventures by Debbie Richmond. (682-9901). Through May 31. 5056 PARK.
“The Time Catcher,” exhibition of photography by Karen Pulfer Focht, former Commercial Appeal staff photojournalist. www.gpacweb.com. Through May 1. 1801 EXETER (751-7500).
Memphis Center for Independent Living
“The Tribute,” exhibition of portrait as tribute to Deborah Cunningham and other works by Sher Stewart in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Civil Rights law for people with disabilities. Through May 20. 1633 MADISON (726-6404).
Java Cabana
“Unfolding Stories,” new works by Erica McCarrens. Through May 5. 2170 YOUNG (272-7210).
L Ross Gallery
Memphis College of Art
2016 Spring BFA Exhibition: Part 2. Through May 7. “Work by Dick Rhodes,” exhibition of plein-air landscape paintings. www.mca.edu. Through May 7.
“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.
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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.
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The Dixon Gallery & Gardens
“The Impressionist Revolution: Forty Years of French Art at the Dixon.” Through July 17. “Made in Dixon,” exhibition of artwork created in the Dixon’s 18 educational programs. www.dixon.org. Through May 15. 4339 PARK (761-5250).
Eclectic Eye
FireHouse Community Arts Center
Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing. 985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).
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“Sea and Stone: Ceramics and Sketches,” exhibition of work by Melissa Bridgman. www.eclectic-eye. com. Through June 8.
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“Blooming,” exhibition of works by Kathleen Stern and Carol Lybanon. www.jccmemphis.org. Through April 29. 6560 POPLAR (761-0810).
Metal Museum
“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. “F.I.R.E. Glenn Zweygardt: Then & Now,” featuring work from periods before and after the artist’s retirement. Through May 22. 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).
Olive Branch Country Club
“Coterie of Artists — Gallery 12,” exhibition of paintings. Through July 30. 7558 GERMANTOWN (662-895-1555).
Playhouse on the Square “Côte d’Azur, France,” exhibition of work from students and faculty who recently traveled to France’s Mediterranean coast. www.mca.edu. April 29-June 5. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).
Ross Gallery
“Call of the Clay,” exhibition of works by Agnes Gordon Stark. www.cbu.edu/gallery. Through May 26. 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).
WKNO Studio
“Horses, Farms, and Fairy Tales,” exhibition of works by Janet Weed Beaver. www.wkno. org/gallery1091.html. Free. Through April 28. 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).
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Cherry Burlesque
Burlesque ball hosted by Julie Wheeler. $10-$20. Last Saturday of every month, 8:30 p.m. Through April 30. EARNESTINE & HAZEL’S, 531 S. MAIN (523-9754), WWW.THEJULIEWHEELER.COM.
Dance Night
Evening of dancing with music provided by the Jim Mahannah Band or Wally and Friends. $5. First Tuesday of every month, 7-10 p.m. BAKER COMMUNITY CENTER, 7942 CHURCH, MILLINGTON, WWW.MILLINGTONTN.GOV.
Romeo and Juliet
1376 E. MASSEY (761-3130).
April 28-May 4, 2016
TOPS Gallery
“Island States,” exhibition of free-standing sculpture by Jim Buchman, LaKela Brown, Josef Bull, Renee Delosh, Anne Eastman, Derek Fordjour, Corinne Jones, Brad Kahlhamer, Seth Kelly, and others. www.topsgallery.com. Through June 11. 400 S. FRONT.
Tvesco
“Capture Canada,” exhibition of photography connecting artists in Montreal with Memphis. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute memphisinmay.org/events. May 1-31. 296 ADAMS (525-4751).
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In conjunction with MIM Festival to celebrate the outstanding architecture and design of the celebrated country. Explore the architectural, cultural, social, and economic environment of Canada. RSVP required. $20. Tues., May 3, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. UNIVERSITY CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 1346 CENTRAL (525-3818), WWW.AIAMEMPHIS.ORG.
An Evening with Glennon Doyle Melton
Award-winning “Momastery” blogger, will speak about her upcoming book Love Warrior. Ticket includes copy of book. $42. Fri., April 29, 7-9 p.m. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 166 POPLAR (525-5619).
Guest Lecturer
Eddie Paul, Head of Bibliographic and Information Services speaks on Jewish Public Library’s
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER (327-2473), WWW.THEARCMIDSOUTH.ORG.
Women’s Leadership Program
Target key business leadership competencies on a professional and personal level through the following highly interactive experiences. Receive one-onone coaching after. $600. Thurs., April 28, 1-6 p.m., and Fri., April 29, 8:30 a.m.-noon. NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), WWW.WINWITHHR.COM.
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Downtown Murder Investigation and Ghost Tour
Join us for a unique two-hour tour and investigation of a site which was the scene of a brutal murder in 1918. Hosted by paranormal investigator and TAPS family member. $20. Sat., 7:30-
Thurs., April 28, 7:30 p.m. PHILLIPS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1000 CAMPUS (870-338-6474), WWW.WARFIELDCONCERTS.COM.
Don’t Be Afraid of Memphis Comedy, featuring 21 comics. This show will be recorded for an album. Be a part of it. www. hitonememphis.com. $5. Wed., May 4, 8:15 p.m.
Strictly Hip-Hop Sunday, featuring open mic, live band, and DJ. $5, ladies free. Sundays, 5 p.m.
Mint Cream Vintage Expo at Tad’s Imaginarium Saturday institutional history and identity within Canada. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. Tues., May 3. MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), WWW.MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.
Booksigning by Michael Graber
Author discusses and signs Going Electric: Tales of Innovation From Where Rock ‘n’ Roll Was Born. Thurs., April 28, 5:30 p.m. BURKE’S BOOK STORE, 936 S. COOPER (278-7484), WWW.BURKESBOOKS.COM.
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AIA Luncheon Speaker Series
Selected leading architect Bruce Kuwabara of KPMB Toronto and recipient of the RAIC Gold Medal speaks. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. $20. May 3-14, 11:30 a.m. UNIVERSITY CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 1346 CENTRAL (722-3700), WWW.MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.
Lunch & Learn Gardening Series
Gardening talks presented by local Master Gardeners in the Halle Room. Drinks and dessert will be provided. Sat., April 30, 11 a.m. LUCIUS E. & ELSIE C. BURCH JR. LIBRARY, 501 POPLAR VIEW, COLLIERVILLE (457-2600), WWW.COLLIERVILLELIBRARY.ORG.
C O N F E R E N C E S/ C O NVE N T I O N S
“I Matter” Conference
Legal and educational options for people with disabilities transitioning into adulthood. Speakers include Kathleen Gomes, Ruby Wharton, Deborah Brooks, Robert Donati, Dr. Chrisann Schiro-Geist, and Maurice Williams. $25. Sat., April 30, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
9:30 p.m. Through April 30. THE BROOM CLOSET, 546 S. MAIN (497-9486), WWW.HISTORICALHAUNTSMEMPHIS.COM.
Downtown Walking Ghost Tour
Explore the macabre history of downtown Memphis with seasoned paranormal investigators. Visit sites of hauntings taken from local legends, official records, and paranormal investigations. $20. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Through Aug. 31. TATER RED’S LUCKY MOJOS AND VOODOO HEALING, 153 BEALE (497-9486), WWW.HISTORICALHAUNTSMEMPHIS.COM.
Evening Stroll at Elmwood
Twilight walking tour through the grounds of the cemetery given by Elmwood’s executive director Kim McCollum.. Register online. Tours sell out quickly. $20. Fri., April 29, 6 p.m. ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW.ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.
Garden Tram Tours
Short tram tours with environmental tips and other fun facts about the garden. Fri., 10 a.m.noon Through April 30. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW. MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.
magic show, picnic lunch, Sunday church service, and screening of Remember the Sultana commemorating the 1865 Sultana steamboat disaster. Free. Sat., April 30, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sun., May 1, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. MARION COURTHOUSE SQUARE, DOWNTOWN MARION (870-7396041), MARIONARCHAMBER.ORG.
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Go Ape Treetop Adventure
Course in Shelby Farms Park open for its second season. Ongoing.
SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.GOAPE.COM.
Memphis Redbirds vs Omaha Storm Chasers May 2-5.
AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), WWW.MEMPHISREDBIRDS.COM.
Memphis Redbirds vs Round Rock Express
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Health and Wellness Expo
AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), WWW.MEMPHISREDBIRDS.COM.
Featuring vendors, food, classic cars, and a vintage fashion show. Free. Sat., April 30, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
341 MADISON (524-0104).
B O O KS I G N I N G S
DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS, VARIOUS LOCATIONS (604-5002), WWW.JIMMYOGLE.COM.
Mint Cream Vintage Expo
412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE).
Brinson’s
Meet at the Orpheum Theatre, Main and Beale. Free. Tues., May 3, 11:45 a.m.
ST. ANDREW AME CHURCH, 867 S. PARKWAY E. (948-3441), WWW.MEMPHISBLACKEXPO.COM/ WORKFORCEREADY.
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Pre-registration and attendance at Apr. 23 seminar required for job fair. See website and link for more information and registration forms. Sat., April 30, 9 a.m.-noon.
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1532 MADISON (726-0906).
VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, HTTPS:// WWW.EVENTBRITE.COM/E/LADIESDAY-OUT-SHOPPING-EVENTS-THRIFTRESALE-SHOPPING-TOUR-TICKETS-22598305139.
The Memphis Black Expo Job Fair
AL CHYMIA SHRINE CENTER, 5770 SHELBY OAKS (377-7336), WWW. SHRINE-DANCE-MEMPHIS.COM.
Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.
Meet tour bus at Target, 5959 Poplar for discounts, prizes, refreshments, and boxed lunch. Stops include Sugar Plum Consignments, His & Her Consignment Boutique, Clothes Mentor, and Goodwill Bartlett. $38. Sat., April 30, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
THE GREAT HALL AND CONFERENCE CENTER, 1900 S. GERMANTOWN.
Featuring Noble Sounds Orchestra and the Bankers. Semi-formal attire. BYOB. $10. First Sunday of every month, 2-6 p.m.
P&H Cafe
Ladies Day Out Shopping Event: Thrift and Retail Shopping Tour
Thurs., April 28, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Shrine Tea Dance
Temple Israel
“Fabric of Survival: The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz,” exhibition of a collection of 36 hand-stitched fabric panels telling the story of a Holocaust survivor. Through May 13.
Architects of the World Lecture Series: Bruce Kuwabara
Memphis Roller Derby Double Header: Memphis Hustlin’ Rollers vs. Red Stick All Stars & Blues City Bombers vs. Twin City Knockers Amateur women’s flat-track roller derby league. $10. Sat., April 30, 6-10 p.m. PIPKIN BUILDING, MID-SOUTH FAIRGROUNDS, MEMPHISROLLERDERBY.COM.
Swim, Bike, and Run Clinics: 2016 Memphis in May Triathlon Through May 22.
VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW. PR-EVENTMANAGEMENT.NET.
TAD’S IMAGINARIUM, 343 MADISON.
RWOP Rummage Sale
Thurs., April 28, 12-7 p.m., Fri., April 29, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sat., April 30, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. CITY SHOPPING CENTER, 642 E. POPLAR.
Spring Job Fair
Explore employment opportunities. Fri., April 29, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. RIVERSIDE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, 3560 S. THIRD (789-4570).
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Vendors from around the MidSouth will display handmade crafts and boutique items. Other attractions include live music and entertainment, carnival-style food vendors, and kids’ activities. Sat., April 30, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. HISTORIC DEPOT SQUARE, ARLINGTON, TN (867-4980), WWW.TOWNOFARLINGTON.ORG.
Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival
Fri.-Sun., Apr.29-May 1.
TOM LEE PARK, OFF RIVERSIDE DR., WWW.MEMPHISINMAY.ORG.
Sultana Heritage Festival Featuring Civil War vendors, historians, period music and
KIDS
Grand Tea Party & Play Date
Children ages 3 and up can dress up as a favorite princess and enjoy face and nail painting, tattoos, and treats. $20. Sat., April 30, 1:30-3 p.m. HEARTSONG CHURCH, 800 HOUSTON LEVEE (755-6332), WWW.BALLETONWHEELS.ORG.
Home School Day at Graceland
Opportunity to enhance a child’s knowledge of the history and culture that helped shape music around the world. Enjoy a day full of learning, creating, and rock-and-rolling. $25. Fri., April 29, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. GRACELAND, 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322), WWW.GRACELAND.COM.
Introducing our Children to Music
Musicians will lead free family concerts along with an instrument petting zoo. Sat., April 30, 1 p.m. WHITEHAVEN BRANCH LIBRARY, 4120 MILLBRANCH (396-9700), WWW.IRISORCHESTRA.ORG.
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Celebrates the legacy of philanthropy and leadership by honoring women who have made significant contributions to the community. Featuring keynote speaker Robin Meade. $125. Fri., April 29, 11:30 a.m.1:15 p.m. MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (578-9346), WFGM.ORG.
“Astronaut”
Shows what it takes to become an astronaut. Through June 3.
MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.FAMILYSAFETYCENTER.ORG.
“Firefall”
Journey throughout Earth’s violent history and see the impacts from comets and asteroids that have shaped Earth’s surface. A reminder of our own humble beginnings in the hostile environment of space. $7. Through June 3. SHARPE PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
Flower Celebration
Celebrate human hope and decency and the inherent worth and dignity of every person. Bring a flower to share (optional). Sun., May 1, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. NESHOBA UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, 7350 RALEIGHLAGRANGE (266-2626), WWW. NESHOBAUU.ORG.
I Walk the Line Party
Honoring the 60th anniversary date of the Sun record release I Walk the Line with fundraising going toward a Johnny
SHARPE PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
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Exhibit showcasing artifacts purchased for RACE Collecting Plan, including the “I AM A MAN” placard, slave shackles, “Jim Crow” alphabet plate, 1930s handmade quilts, and more. $12.25. Through May 1.
April 28-May 4, 2016
NONJUDGMENTAL, CONFIDENTIAL CARE.
MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
Earth Month at the Garden
“Think Globally, Act Locally” by celebrating Earth Month with activities including yoga classes, tours, and other ecofriendly surprises. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for environmentally-themed trivia, contests, and giveaways. Visit website for schedule of events and information. Through April 30.
BlueCross BlueShield, Cigna, Humana, TRICARE, United Healthcare, and all TennCare plans accepted. No insurance? Free and discounted services available.
MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.
Empire Memphis: Official Watch Party
Wednesdays, 4-10:30 p.m. Through May 11. MYNT LOUNGE, 4205 HACKS CROSS (714-365-6441), WWW.EVENTMEMPHIS.COM.
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Featuring performances by Shimmy Mob-Memphis and Grand Theft Auto Memphis. $50. Fri., April 29, 6:30-9 p.m.
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 (5294000), PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.
Stories Told 100 Years
Exhibit showcasing the contributions of the Jewish community through the interesting history of the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. A part of the Memphis In May International Salute. May 1-31. MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.
Dining Out for Life
Restaurants donate a portion of their proceeds from either lunch or dinner to benefit Friends for Life. Thurs., April 28.
Featuring exclusive books and art not found in chain stores and special activities all day. Sat., April 30.
Collecting the Missing Pieces
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The Booksellers Independent Bookstore Day Celebration
THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), WWW.THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.
attend the event to have their portfolio reviewed and tour studios of current MFA students. Program tracks include Illustration, Metals, Painting/ Drawing, and Studio Art. Fri., April 29, 6-9 p.m.
VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, DININGOUTFORLIFE.COM/MEMPHIS.
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Dining Out for Life at various restaurants Thursday Cash statue at the Galloway, the site of his first performance. $5. Sun., May 1, 1 p.m. THE GALLOWAY HOUSE, 1015 COOPER ST.
Independent Bookstore Day at Burke’s Book Store
All-day celebration and special prize drawings. Sat., April 30. BURKE’S BOOK STORE, 936 S. COOPER (278-7484), WWW.BURKESBOOKS.COM.
“Lace Up”
Exhibit celebrating Canada’s love of ice skating. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. May 1-31. BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700), MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.
Miss Rhomania Debutante Ball
Celebrating the excellence of young women ages 12-18 benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, March for Babies, the United Negro College Fund, and Sigma Gamma Rho scholarships. Includes meal and entertainment. $45. Sat., April 30, 6-9 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS HOLIDAY INN, 3700 CENTRAL (678-8200).
Open House for Graduate MFA Programs
Individuals interested in the college’s MFA programs can
Blues
America’s Blues and Cheesehead
Award-winning official documentary of the 2016 International Blues Challenge. There will also be live music by Theo “The Boogieman” Dasbach. Free. Sat., April 30, 1-6:30 p.m. A. SCHWAB, 163 BEALE (314-337-4923), WWW.AMERICASBLUESMOVIE.COM.
Cinema of Canada
Selected Canadian films will be screened in conjunction with the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa and Indie Memphis. Memphis in May salute to Canada event. $10. Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Through May 31. MALCO STUDIO ON THE SQUARE, 2105 COURT (725-7151), WWW. MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.
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ussell Smith, Miss Cordelia’s general manager, was impressed with the store’s history as a leader in the locally sourced food movement, but felt it had missed some key opportunities. “Having a local meat source is something I was always interested in,” Smith says. “We had the equipment. It was just a question of figuring out how to shift from conventional beef and pork that comes in a box to bringing in sides of beef and whole hogs.” To that end, Aaron Winters is one of Smith’s secret weapons in the campaign to enhance his store’s image. Winters has been charged with transforming the store’s meat counter into a craft butcher shop stocked entirely with locally sourced meat in addition to a range of house-made sausages, salumis, and smoked delicacies ranging from bacon to spicy tasso ham. “With his background as a chef, Aaron’s been an awesome fit,” Smith says, describing the shift from buying primal cuts to sides of beef and whole hogs. “His cooking ability allows us to use all the animal — especially with hog because of the things you cure and things you smoke.” “We only use farmers we know,” Winters says. He’s spent time working at Claybrook Farms, Newman, and Homeplace to determine whether or not the operations are truly sustainable. “I want to know the animals have had a happy life,” he says. Even the humble ground beef at Miss Cordelia’s is currently being processed from a dry-aged cow. “So it’s not the yuck and the trim that’s been sitting in a bag for six months,” Winters says. It may not always be evident on grocery store shelves, but there’s so much more to a cow than ribeyes, strips, chuck roasts, and tenderloin. Winters’ array includes lesser-known cuts like the bavette, inside and outside skirts, and spider steaks — the stuff people don’t know because it usually ends up in grind. Similarly, Winters, who trained in Italy, breaks his pigs down in a more European fashion. Nothing goes to waste. Soup bones not being frozen and sold are roasted and turned into rich, house-made stocks. Smoked ham hocks, bacon, and maple breakfast sausage are available all the time. “I love tasso,” says Winters, who’s made his own version of the South Louisiana delicacy a staple of Miss Cordelia’s meat counter. “People think of it as a super spicy, smoked little chunk of meat that they
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throw in greens or red beans. My method is a little bit different, so you can slice and put it on sandwiches without completely blowing your head off.” Beer brats and sweet Italian sausages are kept in stock due to popular demand, but Winters is always making specialty flavors that rotate in and out and run the gamut from Cajun spice, to an Argentinian chorizo. “I’m making head cheese, pork terrines, capicola, and chicken liver mousse pâté,” he says, announcing plans to add even more specialty items like house-made ham, finocchiona, and lardo di Colonnata. Winters and Smith are working together to build synergy between Miss Cordelia’s meat counter and its deli. Although only a few items are currently available, a new sandwich menu is on the works. Future offerings will include a pressed Cuban sandwich with cured Cuban-style pork, sour orange, cilantro, peppers, housemade ham, and pickles. “I want people to tell me what they want,” says Winters, who enjoys preparing custom sausages and other items for his customers. “It’s an interesting challenge to make people forget what they think they know about us,” Smith says. “Fair or not, this store has always had a reputation for being expensive. What I’m learning, the longer I’m here, is that the thing we can’t compete on are conventional groceries. I can’t sell Cheerios the way Kroger sells Cheerios. “But we can do stuff like this that just blows other groceries out of the water, and we can be very affordable about it.” Miss Cordelia’s Grocery, 737 Harbor Bend, 526-4772, misscordelias.com
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12 Angry Punks Patrick Stewart leads a skinhead attack in Green Room.
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Patrick Stewart in Green Room and the pizza parlor gig only paid out $8 each. The mohawked promoter, Tad (David Thompson), feels guilty and sets them up with a show at a club 90 miles away where his cousin works. “Just don’t talk about politics, and you’ll be fine,” he warns. As with everyone else who has ever told a punk band not to talk about politics, his warning falls on deaf ears. When they arrive, they find that the venue where they’re booked is not so much a punk club as it is a white power movement compound hidden in the middle of the Oregon woods. Naturally, they open their set with a cover of the Dead Kennedy’s “Nazi Punks Fuck Off,” which is certainly the punk thing to do, but not the best choice in terms of long-term survival. Still, by the end of the set, they seem to have won over the crowd and are feeling pretty good about the situation until they return to the green room and find the lead singer of the headlining band standing over a dead girl with a knife in her head. At this point, Green Room shifts gears from Decline of Western Civilization in the PacNor to a claustrophobic cross between 12 Angry Men and Assault on Precinct 13. Just when it looks like things can’t any worse for the band, Saulnier pulls continued on page 58
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here’s nothing a group of musicians love to do more than swap stories about bad gigs. The guitarist got drunk and puked onstage. The promoter was a crook. A brawl broke out. But in the long and sordid history of bad shows, I dare say none comes close to what happens to the punk band the Ain’t Rights in director Jeremy Saulnier’s new film Green Room. When we meet the Ain’t Rights — Pat (Anton Yelchin), Sam (Alia Shawkat), Reece (Joe Cole),
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Amber, a local punk desperate to escape the skinhead underground, outshine their male compatriots, most of whom read as transparent murder fodder or inhuman killing machines. Green Room is billed as a “horror thriller,” and Saulnier, whose previous work was the acclaimed indie Blue Ruin, can throw a jump scare with the best of them. But there’s quite a bit of 1970s-era hostage movies like Dog Day Afternoon in Green Room’s DNA, so I would hesitate to call it horror. The director’s primary concern is ratcheting up the tension, one excruciating turn at a time. His most effective weapon is his grungy sound design that he uses to incorporate wailing feedback as a plot point and the goopy plop of a disemboweling for shock points. The director clearly has a broad knowledge of and affection for this musical milieu, which makes the whole proceedings feel more real and grounded and helps audiences gloss over the occasional logical lapse. Green Room is punk as hell, and it makes me eager to see Saulnier’s next outing. Green Room Opens Friday Malco Paradiso
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My friend Desi is a Southerner stuck in Chicago for 20 years now. He pines for, well, pines. Specifically the piney woods of Mississippi where we grew up. I periodically remind him about humidity, the fact that the bugs are going to be big enough this summer to saddle and ride to work, and that our legislators are more interested in our bathroom habits than paved roads. I’m not trying to talk him out of it; I’m being realistic. After 20 years the memories of home are more of the misty, water-colored variety. CRAWFISH! SPIDER LILIES! SCREEN DOORS! But I would love for him to move to Memphis so I’d have an opportunity to make him some shrimp and grits. Mine are outstanding. There is a chicken recipe which has been printed and reprinted and shared a million times. It’s called Engagement Chicken, and it first appeared in Glamour magazine about 30 years ago. Supposedly your boyfriend will propose to you after eating this chicken. I’ve not made this particular chicken, but I’ve made roast chicken with lemon. That’s what this is. I don’t want to say bad things about this chicken, but I generally eschew any item of food, clothing, or scent that purports to be a marriage trap. It is my foolish belief that marriage is a sacred institution into which both parties should be scared witless to commit themselves. Having said that, I’m aware my husband and I are married because of my shrimp and grits. We courted each other by fixing dinner. Fast forward a few years, and Chuck’s birthday was approaching. He wanted shrimp and grits. I did not have my own recipe, but I knew there was only one place to go: Oxford. I used John Currence’s recipe as my base. I changed it up a little, but my deepest held conviction about shrimp and grits is that the closest a tomato should get to it is in the salad you serve on the side. Yada yada yada, we were married four months later. I don’t tell that story so that desperate young women will sear millions of pounds of shrimp in an attempt to walk down the aisle via an unsuspecting stomach. No, I tell this story because I like to take every opportunity I can to brag about my shrimp and grits and because Desi sent me a recipe for a dish which uses — siddown, this is big — Shrimp and grits instant grits. I KNOW! I clutched my pearls, too. Listen, I’m not going to lie. I’m down with the quick-cooking grits even though, honestly, no kind of grits takes that long to make. But instant? ARE WE ANIMALS? I looked at the comments about this dish expecting to hear a chorus of disdain for instant grits, and there was some of that. But the singers hitting the back of the house were doing so with an old-fashioned grits bashing. Gross! Grits are disgusting! Shrimp with grits?! To you gritsbashers out there I say, shuddup. Do you eat polenta? Of course you do. Polenta is faincy. A fancy name for grits. It’s all corn mush! So those — ugh! — tubes of polenta you get in the produce section and take home to be all international? Why? You wouldn’t buy a premade tube of oatmeal would you? It’s all mush like every farmer has eaten for centuries in this country, Europe, Africa, and I could go on. This is humble food we’re talking about. The great thing about it is that you can dress it up with vegetables, or cheese, or lots of cheese, or cheese and lots of garlic. And you can, I suppose, eat it with cream and sugar, but I don’t know why you’d want to. If you are so inclined as I was, make what the cooking magazine referred to as braised short ribs and root vegetables on a bed of Stilton polenta and garnished with gremolata, but I knew was just pot roast with cheese grits and garnished with lemon zest and parsley. Maybe the problem isn’t the grits themselves; it’s food with such working-class ties. Eating hand-cut buttermilk scones with Vermont cheddar pimento cheese and house-cured ham is a whole different experience than serving cathead biscuits with your mama’s pimento cheese and country ham. One is not better than the other. You may be more comfortable eating catfish goujons with capered aioli and black-eyed pea caviar, but it’s still fried catfish with tartar sauce and black-eyed pea salad. Do you really want to associate with people who are so filled with first-world ennui they can’t enjoy a damn bowl of grits? Such people should be thumped soundly and percussively upon the gourd. Besides, as Desi reminded me, “Telling someone to ‘kiss my polenta’ just doesn’t have the same effect.” Susan Wilson writes for yeahandanotherthing.com and likethedew.com. She and her husband Chuck have lived here long enough to know that Midtown does not start at Highland.
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