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A recent email I received: “I am writing you from an online marketing company, working in partnership with a company specialized in diamond appraisals. That company also writes some articles and reports about jewelry and watches.

“I consider ‘Memphis Flyer’ very interesting because of both your content and your target. I would like to offer you an article, to be published on your website in exchange for mentioning the company as a source. I was wondering if you accept this kind of collaboration and what are you prices for it.”

Clearly spam, right? But what is interesting to me is that I received a very similar email, except that this person worked for a boat dealership and would we like articles about boats? Is this the new Nigerian prince? And where have all the Nigerian princes gone? What is the latest scam?

Gather round, kiddies, and let me tell you about the olden days.

Back then, if you did an innocent internet search for something like “school uniform,” dozens of porn websites would rapidly appear on your screen in an effect, I think, called waterfalling. It was terrifying.

And then all the spam. So much spam. Tons and tons from porn actors and so many Nigerian princes.

So, one day, as an experiment of sorts, I decided to write back to the spam, maybe about a dozen in all.

I only heard back from two. One, of course, was the Nigerian prince, who was very enthusiastic about my interest.

(Just as an aside: Tim Sampson told me that he would write the Nigerian princes and invite them to live with him.) The prince told me that going forward I needed to keep this just between him and me. I emailed back and said that I was so excited I told everybody. Lots of exclamation points in that email. And then I never heard back. So rude for a prince.

The other was from a screenwriting contest. It had said that the deadline was a week away, and I wrote them to say that I needed at least two weeks. In return came a chiding that said if I got two weeks then all the other contestants would want two weeks and did I think that was fair and blah blah blah. I still get emails from them.

So back to the present. I’ve recently gotten into listening to digital books N EWS & O P I N I O N (sometimes I slip and call them LETTERS - 4 books on tape), and, to some degree, NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 4 podcasts. Some of the podcasts THE FLY-BY - 6 recommended to me include Books POLITICS - 12 on the Nightstand, Cultish, Lore, 99% EDITORIAL - 14 Invisible, Slate’s Culture Gabfest, VIEWPOINT - 15 Limetown, and others. Now, let me COVER STORY - “WHERE THERE’S recommend one to you: The Flyer SMOKE, THERE’S BARBECUE”

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About Old Navy’s ad …

I read where an ad run by Old Navy which featured an interracial family caused the company to see an explosion of racist trolls in their Twitter mentions.

Old Navy was accused of promoting miscegenation, of ramming interracial marriages down people’s throats, of running a disgusting ad, and so forth.

There was also calls for a boycott of Old Navy stores.

I cannot understand the hate of people who would condemn an ad that shows that love knows no color.

Racism is clearly not dead, but I pray that the racists who made their hate-filled comments about a beautiful ad are from a group of citizens that is shrinking and that will one day disappear.

I will be shopping at Old Navy soon.

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About Toby Sells’ story, “Council Readies for Greensward Mediation Deadline” …

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14 has had over 200 years of 15“Mr. America President.” Isn’t it about time for “Madam 18 President,” seeing that the population of America is 50 percent female? Let’s put biases and partisanship aside 21 22 and look at 23 what the country needs.

First, Hillary Clinton is simply a better 26 27 choice for president than Donald Trump.

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Homicide Spike Memphis homicide rate has nearly doubled since last year.

On March 28th, 22-year-old Reginald Burke was shot while driving near the I-240 North/I-40 East flyover, the apparent victim of a road rage incident between himself and Tarrance Dixon and Robert Chaney, both 21.

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MILES FILES Fly on the Wall was convinced that WMC reporter Jason Miles was fearless.

Time and time again, he’s illustrated how far he’ll go to get a story. He’s crawled under cars. He’s crawled under buildings. He’s stuck his head through pet doors. Once upon a time, he even chest-bumped a police officer on Beale.

Last week, Miles showed the limits of his bravery by choosing not to visit the Streets Ministries headquarters on Vance to report on a colorful mural that artist Erin Miller Williams had spent the last three days painting. “Well, I’m not standing right next to that mural tonight because, quite frankly, we wouldn’t feel completely safe,” Miles said. Williams’ mural is 25 feet tall, 35 feet wide and says “Hope will lead us there.” Jason won’t, apparently.

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Burke’s murder is one of 79 homicides in the city so far this year, a number that’s nearly double from 2015’s 47 homicides to date. According to statistics released in April by the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission, the murder rate was up 69 percent over 2015 and 43 percent over 2006 (the year the commission launched their Operation Safe Community crimefighting plan).

Those high homicide numbers continued on page 11

turns to her dashing husband and says “I read where you were shot in the tabloids.” Nick answers “That’s not true. They never came anywhere near my tabloids.” WREG similarly reported that a woman was “recovering after she was shot in the Nutbush area.” Some people were outraged when pictures of the suggestive report circulated online because, no matter how ill-considered the teaser might have been, the story was serious.

A similar situation resulted when Commercial Appeal reporter Ron Maxey waxed poetic in his story about a Memphis family marking the mysterious disappearance of a relative by releasing balloons. According to Maxey, the family “watched the 30odd balloons drift slowly away until they vanished into a clear blue sky, much as James Irby Jr. did three years ago Wednesday.”

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

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Overton Park’s “perfect storm” passes, Greensward mediation costs rise, and a Brady-case defendant is convicted again.

• OPC said earlier in the week that costs for the mediation process were at $37,000 since January, noting that “those costs will only increase.”

OPC and Memphis Zoo officials entered into mediation talks in January at the urging of Mayor Jim Strickland. The content of those talks are private, but Strickland announced last month that the zoo and OPC had agreed to a plan that would yield 325 new parking spaces without building a parking structure.

OPC’s mediation costs are on top of the $75,000 it spent conducting its transportation and parking study earlier this year. Together, these costs have unexpectedly surged OPC’s budget up by 14 percent.

• On Saturday, Michael Rimmer was convicted again of the 1997 death of his former girlfriend, Ricci Lynn Ellsworth, in a case previously overturned because of allegations that lawyers in the Shelby County District Attorney General’s (SCDAG) office hid evidence from Rimmer’s defense team.

District Attorney General Amy Weirich recused her office from the case. Special prosecutors from Nashville were brought in to handle the state’s case against Rimmer.

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• Shuttle buses, bicycles, pedestrians, and a new traffic pattern calmed the bluster of what Overton Park officials said was a “perfect storm” for the park, a weather-perfect Saturday packed with events that attracted thousands.

Latino Memphis celebrated Brazil with food, music, and a 5K run.

Memphis College of Art students took exams and celebrated with an Art in the Park event. Beignets, chicory coffee, and more were served at Cafe Du Memphis, an annual fundraiser to benefit homeless families. The Memphis Zoo’s new Zambezi River Hippo Camp drew thousands.

Overton Park Conservancy (OPC) officials worried that the events would jam the park, but they had a plan. Oneway streets and off-site shuttles were launched in a traffic experiment.

“We were happy to see full buses and lots of cyclists and pedestrians, and the one-way configuration and closure of Old Forest Lane resulted in fewer cars having to turn around in traffic after being unable to find spaces,” the OPC said.

at the Memphis Inn in February 1997. Her body was never found, but there were blood spatters and signs of a struggle at her motel office. Rimmer and Ellsworth had dated, but he was later convicted for raping her.

After he was released and Ellsworth went missing, Rimmer was arrested in Indiana driving a stolen car with

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“Many moms return to work in as little as two weeks,” Stiles said. “It’s hard to see returning to work and pumping. How is a mom who works in the hub, a warehouse, the tarmac, or at McDonald’s going to imagine pumping? [Memphis] needs to be sure all city facilities have lactation access, not just City Hall. …

One big area of opportunity is in a more supportive maternity leave policy.”

Meanwhile, the breastfeeding coalition and other advocates are doing all they can to make breastfeeding in public more commonplace. Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women is sponsoring what may turn out to be the largest breastfeeding event in the city this year. On August 6th at Trinity Baptist Church, breastfeeding moms from across the Mid-South will come together for Latch On Memphis, an attempt to break the record for the most mothers simultaneously nursing.

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On Trinity Poole’s bicep, there’s a tattoo of a mother breastfeeding her child in a ring sling. It symbolizes dual passions — breastfeeding and baby wearing.

“I got it because those two things have been a very big part of bonding with my son,” said Poole, 36, who has an 18-month-old son and a daughter due in October. “My first resource was my sister Meredith, who became passionate about nursing in public and breastfeeding rights when she had her youngest daughter. It sparked an interest in me.”

Mayor Jim Strickland recently signed a pledge to make Memphis a more supportive environment for breastfeeding mothers. Immediate steps include a lactation support policy for city offices, which would require designated storage for breast milk in workplace refrigerators and an employee orientation. And eventually, the policy will lead to the opening of lactation rooms at City Hall. Strickland did not respond to a request for comment.

If 90 percent of mothers exclusively breastfed for six months, the United States would save $13 billion and 911 lives per year, a Cambridge Health Alliance found. Though infant mortality stems from widespread issues, breastfeeding is known to lower the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Enter the Shelby County Breastfeeding Coalition, an advocacy group comprised of nurses, certified lactation consultants, breastfeeding peer counselors, dietitians, nutritionists, and, of course, mothers.

“Breastfeeding is important because of the significant health benefits,” said Coalition Chair Allison Stiles, a physician who practices breastfeeding medicine.

“There’s less of all types of infections for the baby: less infant mortality, less obesity, less Type 1 and 2 Diabetes. As well as for mom — fewer sick days, lower insurance costs, less breast cancer, Type 2 Diabetes, and less obesity.”

Shelby County reports some of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the United States and an infant mortality rate that has long exceeded national numbers. The Centers for Disease Control’s target infant mortality rate is six deaths per 1,000 live births. In 2014, Shelby County’s rate dropped from around 14.9 to 9.2 deaths per 1,000 live births — the lowest in the last 100 years.

Though Tennessee has laws in place to support and protect breastfeeding mothers, the Coalition goes to bat when those laws are violated, Stiles said. They once had a case where a mother was told she couldn’t nurse at a daycare. Another mom was told she couldn’t breastfeed at a downtown courthouse. There’s also a lack of opportunity at the workplace — though Tennessee laws require flexible time for mothers to pump in a private space.

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Additionally, the program offers youth an outlet during the summer through its “twilight basketball” games in the abovementioned target communities.

“We need to align our resources throughout the city. We can’t put everything on the backs of the police officers,” Mays said. “We’re in a state now where we must pay attention or we will lose a lot of youthful assets in our community. We need to not judge and be willing to reach out to those who will

“Rundown” continued from page 7 Ellsworth’s blood in the back seat.

However, during the investigation, SCDAG veteran prosecutor Thomas Henderson failed to give eyewitness identifications of other suspects to Rimmer’s attorneys.

This broke Brady laws that govern criminal court cases, and Rimmer’s conviction was overturned because

of it. The Tennessee Supreme Court investigated the action.

The court ordered a public censure of Henderson. Weirich pulled Henderson from the Rimmer trial but did not order any further punishment for him.

Rimmer was sentenced to death by the jury Saturday. It was the third time he had received the death penalty in the case.

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appear to be skewing the overall violent crime data, pushing citywide major violent crime up by 16 percent from January to March 2016 versus the same period in 2015. And homicides haven’t seemed to slow in April or May either.

“It is almost impossible to predict when a homicide will occur. There is no statistical data that will alert us when someone has made the decision to commit murder,” said MPD Interim Director Michael Rallings.

Of the 79 homicides so far, 55 of the murders have been solved by the MPD, 42 arrests have been made, and three warrants have been issued for suspects who remain at large. Four of the 79 homicides have been ruled as justified by the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office. In 34 of the 79 homicides, the victim and suspect knew one another. Only 11 of the 79 homicides are believed to be gang-related.

“By saying gang-related, I mean the suspect, victim, or both are known gang members, and the homicide occurred due to some type of gang activity,” Rallings said.

Rallings said 65 of the 79 murders to date involved firearms.

Reginald Memphis Gun Down, a Burke program that launched in 2012 under former Mayor A C Wharton’s Innovate Memphis accept help.” (formerly the Mayor’s Innovation Rallings echoed Mays’ statement, Delivery Team), has made it a goal saying that the police can’t curb to reduce gun violence in the city. violence without help from the The program’s 901 Bloc Squad sends community. At a press conference last reformed gang members into highweek, Rallings urged citizens to alert crime areas in Frayser, Orange Mound, police any time they see an altercation South Memphis, and the Mt. Moriah occurring or someone suspicious in corridor to connect with those who are their neighborhoods. caught up in the gang lifestyle.

“It takes everybody working “They’re trying to show diplomacy together to make this a safe and influence these young people who community,” Rallings said. “People are gang-involved to put their guns are waiting on the police to solve all down and resolve conflict in other ways,” these problems, but the police are just said Memphis Gun Down Director one aspect. The clergy, everyone in the Bishop Mays. educational system, and individuals in Memphis Gun Down also has the community all play a part.”

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Health-Care “Road Show” Off to Good Start There has been no shortage of skeptics about the bona fides of the health-care task force recently appointed by state House Speaker Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) to look into the matter of an alternative to Governor Bill Haslam’s “Insure Tennessee” proposal for federally funded Medicaid expansion, which was dead on arrival upon its presentation to the General Assembly in last year’s sessions of the General Assembly.

Criticism came from both left and right. Early on, state Democratic Party chair Mary Mancini seemed to dismiss it out of hand in a press release titled “A Task Force Called Meh,” in which she said, “It doesn’t have any actual policy or concrete meeting dates. It doesn’t have the will to actually, you know, do anything. … Once again we are a witness to the failure of the Republican majority to lead.”

Nor was everybody in the state Republican Party exactly blissful about the task force’s creation. At a meeting of the National Federation of Independent Business in Memphis last week, two key GOP state Senators were less than enthusiastic. “It remains to be seen how serious this is as a task force,” said Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown), the state Senate’s Judiciary chair. “I find it curious that the House now has this road show,” said state Senator majority

leader Mark Norris (R-Collierville), referring to a series of public hearings the task force has begun statewide.

(Both GOP Senators, it should be noted, were vehement opponents of “Insure Tennessee.”)

To be sure, the task force has evolved since Harwell put it together in early April. Back then, it consisted of four House members, all Republicans: Cameron Sexton of Crossville, the task force chairman, who chairs the House Health Committee; Steve McManus of Memphis, chair of Insurance and Banking Committee; Roger Kane of Knoxville; and Matthew Hill of Jonesborough.

Since then, the Speaker, acquiescing to pressure to diversify the group, has added state Rep. Karen Camper (D-Memphis) and one member from the state Senate, Richard Briggs (R-Knoxville), a physician. Crucially, perhaps, both Camper and Briggs were supporters of “Insure Tennessee.”

The reconstituted task force began holding its public hearings in Nashville last week and intends to hold several more before preparing Scott Barber, CEO of Decatur County General Hospital, testifies about funding shortfall.

legislative recommendations, which chairman Sexton says he hopes to have ready by June.

On Monday afternoon, three members of the task force — Sexton, Camper, and McManus — were on hand at the University of Memphis University Center, where they were joined by panelists and audience members representing a diverse group of respondents, including hospital spokespersons, representatives of ad hoc health providers, and prospective patients.

In the spirited discussion that ensued for two hours, there was some evidence that, the critics of left and right notwithstanding, the task force might indeed be up to something serious. A key moment came at the very close of things, when McManus, who in 2015 had adopted an adverse position on “Insure Tennessee” and chaired a brief hearing of his committee to an inconclusive end, responded to some passionately expressed testimony by uninsured and under-insured attendees, mostly low-income people who had invested some hope in the prospects for Medicaid expansion through “Insure Tennessee.”

“We’re going to have something for you,” McManus said, in an emotional

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• “Give a mouse a cookie…”: Given the factional divisions on the Shelby County Commission, such as they are, it is a rare thing indeed that Heidi Shafer, the East Memphis Republican who so often speaks for what is arguably the Commission’s dominant coalition, should quote with approval Steve Basar, a fellow Republican but one who often sides with another, predominantly Democratic group.

But so Shafer did on Monday, in the course of her current effort to retard — or at least subject to serious vetting — a proposal to assist the office of District Attorney General Amy Weirich with backup to help process the future use of body cameras by local law enforcement, primarily the Memphis Police Department.

A condensed version of the Basar remark cited by Shafer would go something like this: “Give a mouse a cookie, and he’ll ask for a glass of milk. Then he’ll want another cookie.” And this de facto little aphorism was employed by Shafer as a warning against what she called “mission creep” in the matter of funding Weirich’s office.

office in the amount of $143,378. By the time of Monday’s meeting, the issue of direct new funding was off the table — replaced by an offer from the administration of Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell to shift residual money in the county’s fund balance to provide “temporary support staff for body camera rollout.”

That support would total out, as finally agreed to by the Commission on Monday, to about $25,000 from the fund balance.

And that amount, as Shafer reminded an acquiescent administration CAO Harvey Kennedy, would have to be shared with the Public Defender’s office, which, according to state law, is entitled to funding equivalent

to 75 percent of any sums appropriated to a District Attorney General’s office.

Enough stop-gap money will be shifted to endow three temporary employees for the D.A.’s office, along with two for the Public Defender’s office, for a period of roughly a month to assist with body-cam rollout.

To stick with the aforementioned Basar analogy, that compromise solution is less a cookie than a crumb, and it’s a clear signal that, with stiff funding increases sought by the Sheriff’s Department, and even stiffer ones sought by Shelby Couty Schools, the D.A.’s office will face difficulty during forthcoming budget negotiations in getting much more for the body-cam matter.

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statement of his own. Asked later if he thought his group would give serious reconsideration to some version of the governor’s plan. “Absolutely, we will,” he said, adding, “Let’s face it. Back then the matter was a political football.” Meaning that its coupling with the Affordable Care Act, better known among Republicans as “Obamacare,” had doomed the proposal to partisan treatment by the General Assembly’s GOP super-majority.

Typical of a potential sea change among Republicans was a lament by panelist Ron Kirkland, a Jackson physician who ran for Congress in the 8th District GOP primary in 2010, that more than $1 billion annually in Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding had been lost to the state by its failure to endorse “Insure Tennessee.” As Kirkland put it, “We’d have been jumping up and down if that much money was available to the [West Tennessee industrial] mega-site!”

And numerous of the medical-community representatives noted that Medicare funding allotments for Tennessee had been scaled down under the ACA with the idea of fleshing them out again with the Medicaid-expansion component of the Act. Subsequently, the Supreme Court’s ruling that the latter component was not mandatory upon individual states had allowed Tennessee and various other states to opt out of Medicaid expansion, with the unintended consequence of reducing overall medical funding.

Overall, the discussion on Monday seemed pointed more toward solutions of this and other dilemmas than to recapitulating various rhetorical talking points.

Perhaps this is one road show that might lead to something real and tangible on the main stage of Tennessee government.

The fuller argument, as she and other skeptics have developed it in two of the Commission’s mid-week committee sessions and two of the body’s regular public meetings, boils down even further to a fairly simple formulation: “Why us?” — the idea being (a) that the impetus for use of body cams came from the MPD and city government, and (b) the District Attorney General’s office is a creature of state government, not county government.

Ergo, why should county government have to foot the bill?

That argument has found enough buyers so far to have stymied the initial proposal for a fuller funding of the D.A.’s

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In any case, now that we’ve reached a point on the calendar where the sun is more or less reliably shining, let us submit the idea to the proof test.

What’s new? Between the previous warm season and the one we’re now enjoying, the University of Memphis has acquired new coaches for its two major sports programs — football and basketball. One of the newbies is Tubby Smith, who won an NCAA basketball championship at Louisville some years ago and who, as recently as last season, was named “Coach of the Year” for his work at Texas Tech. Considering that, only weeks before Smith was snagged, UM’s basketball program seemed incurably bogged down, with two straight seasons without a post-season tournament for the Tigers and a contract with then Coach Josh Pastner that had come to seem over-endowed (to many disappointed boosters, anyhow), Smith’s acquisition does indeed seem to make the sun shine brighter.

And, on the football side, there’s new coach Mike Norvell, the former offensive coordinator at Arizona State, who comes in this year to replace Justin Fuente, who, in his brief tenure, had returned the University’s football program to a measure of the sunshine it had seemed to lose in the several previous years and had won a) 19 games in a two-year span, b) a conference championship, and c) a major bowl game. Can Norvell do as well? By the reckoning of several people equipped to judge such things, Norvell’s first recruiting class may

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be the most promising in the nation, and, in a self-introduction of sorts to the Rotary Club of Memphis on Tuesday, the 34-year-old Norvell, the self-described “youngest head coach in college football,” certainly seemed convincing as he talked up his team as a family and promised to lead his young charges to the “next step” on their lives and to “excellence on the field, in the classroom, and in the community.”

A tall order, maybe, but even in making his case, Norvell lit up the room. It is easy to imagine him doing the same on the practice field.

And sometimes old wine comes in new bottles and seems the riper and better for it. At the very time that political figures in Tennessee and various presidential candidates in the nation at large have been urging a revision of our criminal justice system, here comes what we judge to be a bright new idea from former Memphis schools superintendent, former Memphis mayor, former charterschool entrepreneur Willie Herenton, who two weeks ago proposed an innovative scheme to house youthful offenders in pleasant, rehab-focused local surroundings, near their homes and loved ones, rather than in faroff, menacing penal institutions that double as crime schools.

Worth a try, we say, and, best yet, Herenton, who hopes for official state support, isn’t asking local taxpayers to foot the bill.

Let the sun shine in: That’s not exactly a new idea, but it’s still a good one.

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Tear It Down, Start Over A veteran Shelby County Democrat has a radical prescription for his party. the party at a moment’s notice) and because — as all who can read a newspaper know — we apparently cannot keep financial accounts, who in their right mind would give the SCDP one red cent?

This issue has been exacerbated in recent weeks by further negative publicity about unexplained financial shortages under a previous party administration and with the resignation of SCDP chair Randa Spears, who left due to an increased workload at her day job.

Yes, in seven of those years (19972003 and 2014), I sat on the executive committee, and I have to take partial responsibility for what has occurred.

The fact remains that, with no money coming in or any real reason for there to be any money coming in, the local party, in a county with the largest Democratic voting bloc in the state, finds itself completely irrelevant.

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This is why I respectfully request that the Tennessee Democratic Party and its very able current chair, Mary Mancini, put this body out of its (and our) misery and pull its charter. We really have to destroy the Party in order to save it. Get a group of good Democratic lawyers, along with solid Democrats, young and old, who have campaign experience, to rewrite the bylaws in order to drive out the leeches of the party and, for stability’s sake, to have the same number of Executive Committee members season after season.

And let’s give them time to do it.

For heaven’s sakes, the Party nominee for president will carry Shelby and four other counties regardless if there is a SCDP structure in place. Same with the legislators, same with the Congresspeople.

Every second we wait is a second that we fail to have a real Democratic Party structure in the largest Democratic Party in the South outside Atlanta (Florida never counts), and we cannot truly hope to reestablish Democratic strength in Tennessee until this happens.

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What separates the current version of the Shelby County Democratic Party (SCDP) into camps is that we have no clue what we stand for. You have the old-guard white liberals who fought against the county-primary idea in the ’80s, and there are the people who came into power with Mayor Willie Herenton in the ’90s who want to hire their folks over the old folks.

Say you are in the middle of a countywide campaign, and you are attempting to ask a friend or neighbor to vote for a Democratic candidate for one of the county offices. You get into the spiel before you are stopped and told this: “Look, I vote Democratic in the legislative and executive races, but I have a spouse/child/sibling/parent/ friend who works in that office, and if the Democrat is elected, they lose their job, and they really need it. I just can’t go there with you.”

What on earth can you say to that?

Let’s look at another major problem we have: Because of the way legislative districts are drawn, there are rarely competitive races in the general elections any more. Look at this year.

Outside of District 96, where Democrat Dwayne Thompson will be challenging Republican incumbent Steve McManus, what seat has the possibility of changing hands in November? None.

The races are all in the primaries, which hurts because Democrats do not turn out in the primaries, thinking that the only races that matter are in November. Because our countywide races are in August, we start out at a disadvantage. Not only that, but our incumbent legislators, who are trying to turn out their voters but not those of their primary opponent, aren’t really much help. Frankly, they don’t turn out their folks in November any more, because they have already been reelected at that point.

So what does all this have to do with the SCDP? With no real strong figure in charge, the party’s executive committee is filled with the people who are looking to make money off the party on one side, and, on the other, the Old Guard who want to elect Democrats but are outvoted and overrun by those who obsess over procedural matters.

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Teams. Tents. T-shirts. Team stickers.

Private Port-A-Potties. Multi-night parties (and even unofficial party nights).

These are now some very basic staples of the Memphis in May (MIM) World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

But they weren’t always staples. Someone had to invent this stuff, right? You know who invented it? Rednecks.

Call them innovators. But Pete Gross and Woody Coleman self-identify as Rednecks first. They founded the 16 Redneck BBQ Express, the very first team to ever compete at (what locals call)

Redneck BBQ Express founding members Pete Gross and Woody Coleman look over memorabilia.

Barbecue Fest or, more simply, Barbecue.

When the Rednecks fire up their grills this weekend, it’ll be the team’s 39th appearance at the 39th annual Barbecue event. While they look like pros now, the first year in the lot in front of the Orpheum Theatre was very different.

They had a Dodge van with a canopy and a stereo, coolers, and a grill. They were cooking a whole hog so they had to get started on it Friday night to be ready for the competition Saturday. So, they did what they always did — they invited all their friends down to drink beers.

That night, some of the festival organizers dropped in to check the lot.

They found Gross, Coleman, and all their pals “ just having a ball,” as then-MIM president Lyman Aldrich told Memphis magazine in 2006. Seeing those Rednecks, just doing what they do, sparked the idea in Lyman that Barbecue could be a multinight event.

“They said, ‘Who are you guys?’” Gross remembers. “What do you mean? We’re just a bunch of guys called the Redneck BBQ Express. Y’all said you’re having a barbecue contest. Well, we’re here.”

They were the only team. Everyone else registered as solo competitors. Thus, the first real Barbecue team — the prototype for what we all know today — was born.

Few rules governed that first festival, Coleman says. Samples were given out freely to everyone. And judging was done right by the grill, no formal sit-down necessary. Coleman took a “Redneck

nap” in the van in full view of the judges that year, and, after a day of handing out samples, “our hog looked like a ravaged dog,” Gross says. They came in 10th of 16.

The Rednecks had also decided to print up T-shirts for the festival. They printed more than they needed, decided to sell them, and, thus, Barbecue T-shirts were born.

The festival was moved to Tom Lee Park the next year, and all the teams for two years cooked under an enormous, circusstyle tent. Tired of fighting the smoke and the haze, the Rednecks decided to get a tent of their own.

“Everybody was like, ‘What are y’all doing out there?’” Gross recalls. “Then, they all moved out and got tents of their own, and then the big structures started.”

The “sticker phenomena” — once a huge deal at Barbecue — came from the Rednecks. Even the idea of starting the party on Tuesday night began with the

Ribs, ribs, and more ribs

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Express (though, partying commences nearly every night after Saturday load-in these days).

But it wasn’t like they planned to innovate. It’s just that when Gross and Coleman begin talking, they devise brand new ways to have fun. Hang out with them. You’ll feel it and see it in action. As for fun, that’s their main goal at Barbecue.

Winning really does take a back seat with the Rednecks.

In their time, they’ve watched Barbecue change, and they wish MIM would create a commercial division for the die-hard, bigmoney, high-tech teams that show up to win. They praise the creation of the Patio Porker division, in which amateurs can compete on a smaller budget and scale.

What have they got to show for it all?

Gross and Coleman can spin an absolutely true, absolutely hilarious, beer-soaked, high-volume, high-times, rough-androwdy tale of human celebration, as easy as

Mark Renaud is not exactly a newcomer to Barbecue Fest. He says that he’s cooked at the contest and ones like it for 20 years.

This year, however, he’s bringing a new team with a new focus.

Whole hog had been the game at past contests — top 10 but never the grand prize. Under the corporate sponsorship of the St. Louis-based restaurant Pappy’s Smokehouse, Uncle Charlie’s Ribs will focus on ribs. Uncle Charlie is a nod to Adam Wainwright, the Cardinals pitcher who is a friend of Pappy’s owner, Mike Emerson. (Uncle Charlie is slang for curveball, a Wainwright specialty.)

Pappy’s is a Memphis-style barbecue restaurant specializing in ribs. According to Renaud, Pappy’s introduced the Southern-style barbecue to a region where most barbecue was in the heavy-smoke Kansas City tradition. They turn out about 500 ribs a day.

Uncle Charlie’s will be competing with Pappy’s ribs.

“The only thing to do in Memphis,” Renaud says, “is to compete against yourself. The ribs have to be absolutely perfect.”

There’s also what Renaud calls the “dog-and-pony show” aspect of the contest — the on-site judging. Renaud says he’s particularly adept at presentation for the on-site.

“You have 15 minutes with that judge one-on-one,” Renaud explains. “There are three facets to it. One is the actual visual as you walk into the spot. We want them to feel like they’re sitting down in their own kitchen. Second thing is getting their attention, where they lock into you and aren’t daydreaming. And then there’s the

product. When I do presentations, I start at the cooker, make them really hungry, and get them to the table about five minutes in, and then I basically hand feed them. My job is to make sure they don’t forget me, no matter how many spots they go to.”

As for the team’s chances? “I’m extremely comfortable,” Renaud says.

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Rob Reinhardt is a Canadian Prometheus.

Okay, maybe that’s an overstatement. He didn’t bring fire to the Great White North, exactly, but Reinhardt, an award-winning pitmaster who’s participating in his first Memphis in May World Championship

Barbecue Cooking Contest, did introduce Saskatchewan to the manifold pleasures of Southern-style ’cue cooked low and slow over a hardwood fire.

“We do have certain traditions in Canada,” Reinhardt says. “The West Coast Aboriginal community does smoked salmon. And we have lots of varieties of cured and smoked pork. But nothing resembling Southern barbecue existed here until enthusiasts and backyarders started spreading the word.” Gas grills, Reinhardt adds, had previously been the tool of choice for cooking meat outdoors. “Now, barbecue and barbecue traditions are growing like crazy.” continued on page 18

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breathing. Well, that, and the camaraderie of the 85-or-so Rednecks who have been on the team roster over the years.

Why do they do it?

“Because we can,” Gross says.

How long will they do it?

“As long as I can,” Coleman says.

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Deep Purple — “Smoke on the Water”: Okay, this one was pretty obvious, and the folks running the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest must have thought the same thing, as this was the slogan for the competition a few years ago. Nevertheless, if the opening riff of this Deep Purple song doesn’t get you pumped to eat some ’cue, you might be vegetarian.

Oblivians — “Call the Police”: “We don’t give a damn where you’re from,” sings Greg Cartwright on this cover of the Stephanie McDee classic. Let those lyrics serve as the welcome anthem to all travelers hitting Barbecue Fest, because you’re all MidSoutherners this weekend.

There are references to plenty of Southern and Cajun food, including Oblivians chicken wings, crawfish, and jambalaya, and when Cartwright sings “You better call your wife, call your bossman, cuz we ain’t ever comin’ home,” you better believe he means it.

Creedence Clearwater Revival — “Proud Mary”: No barbecue is complete without a little Creedence. While many of their songs would fit perfectly in a porkcentric playlist, this one is especially fitting for cleaning a plate down by the mighty Mississippi.

Wendy Rene — “BBQ”: “I like barbecue, you like barbecue, we all like barbecue,” sings Wendy Rene on this Stax Records single from 1964, and sometimes it’s just that simple. This classic Rene track was made for every summer cookout, so add some Memphis flavor to your party and dig in.

Frayser Boy — “It’s Da Summa Tyme”: This might be a “deep track” from Frayser Boy’s catalog, but it’s arguably one of the best songs about spending the summer in Memphis. His line “Y’all about to barbecue, shit, I’m ’bout to roll through” perfectly captures the sentiment felt by most, if not all attendees at this year’s World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

Ted Nugent — “I Love My BBQ”: I’m only including this song in the playlist because it is so completely terrible that it must be heard to be believed. The Nuge loves his barbecue, so let him have it, I guess? Pull up a chair because ol’ uncle Ted has a beer for you, just don’t try to talk to him about animal rights while he’s eating.

Best line: “A tossed salad might make you weak. I like to kill ’em and grill ’em.”

Whatever you say, Ted. Tom T. Hall — “That’s How I Got to Memphis”: This classic Tom T. Hall song is fitting for any trip to the Bluff City, but the lines “I haven’t eaten a bite or slept in three days and nights” are especially relevant to this weekend’s festivities. While I’m not suggesting you fast until the competition begins this Thursday, it may be good to lay off the barbecue while you wait for the gates to open at Tom Lee Park.

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continued from page 17 Reinhardt was always an avid and adventurous home chef, but until he made the switch to full-time barbecue cook and instructor four years ago, he was employed as a business analyst for a steel company.

It was a good gig with a comfortable salary, nice benefits, and occasional travel opportunities, but something was missing.

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In Canada, barbecue is a very seasonal career choice. “People only seem to be interested in this sort of thing during the summer, with almost no demand January through March,” Reinhardt says. “But we've learned how to appreciate that.” He’s also learned how to appreciate the rapid growth of Canadian barbecue culture.

“In my hometown of 200,000 people, there are now five different businesses offering Southern-style barbecue catering,” Reinhardt says. “A lot of people would look at that level of competition as a stress factor.

But I think more people doing barbecue raises the awareness. Competition is a good thing. I keep my knives sharp and make sure I’m putting out a good product.”

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THE NAME GAME Rob Reinhardt a real barbecue restaurant like I’d seen on TV and thought I’d try it out,” he says.

After an order of beef brisket and pork ribs, nothing would ever be the same.

In 2006, Reinhardt hired a retired welder from Beausejour, Manitoba, to build a trailer-mounted offset smoker.

Two years later, he upgraded to a 22-foot catering rig, formed the Prairie Smoke & Spice company, and entered the world of

The Bastey Boys, The Count Bastie Porkestra, Magically Piglicious, Squeal Street, Crosstown Neighborhood BBQ Cooking Team … Okay, so maybe not so much that last one, but you get the gist. A good barbecue team name, be it crude, punny, or funny, captures the joy of the contest.

The Usual Saucepects is one of those big operations: multi-level structure, huge banners. The team started last year with members from other teams, including Slab Yo Mama. They placed 10th in the

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Memphis Barbeque Supply The shelves at Memphis Barbeque Supply are stocked with bottles of local sauce and dry rubs, most of which is from local barbecue teams with names you know if you pay attention to Memphis in May results: Sweet Swine O’ Mine, Killer Hogs, Porkstars, and others. The latest and greatest (and biggest) smokers are presented on the showroom floor like upscale automobiles.

A wall of wood ensures you can get any smoke flavor profile you’d like, from standards like apple, mesquite, and cherry to blends like “Memphis Smoke,” a mixture of pecan and hickory. The wall on the other side is covered in any piece of cooking hardware you can imagine, from high-tech digital meat thermometers to spatulas emblazoned with the LSU logo.

Jimmy Shotwell and his business partner, Chris West, opened the store two years ago because, well, it just made sense in Memphis.

“We had furniture places [that sold smokers] and had outdoor fireplaces and your big box stores, but we did not have [a store with] everything but the meat — charcoal, wood, run, sauces — just a place dedicated to barbecue,” Shotwell said.

The Charcoal Store Pert Whitehead has been involved in the charcoal business since about 1975 and has run the Charcoal Store in its current location on Florida Street since 1999.

“I’ve had people standing right here from Norway, Belgium, Denmark, a bunch of people from California, probably about every state,” Whitehead said.

He said “all the tops” in Memphis will cook with his Chef’s Delite brand, but he also carries lump charcoal, blended briquettes, and wood of all types.

He sells mostly to restaurants (noting Tops Bar-B-Q and the Rendezvous as customers) and to shops like Memphis Barbeque Supply. He does sell to individuals and some barbecue teams, but he doesn’t push that part of the business, he said. — TS

rib category.

Matt Savard of the Usual Saucepects says, “We wanted to do it bigger and better.

Push the limits — scaffold, lights, sound.”

He says the name was his girlfriend’s idea. He works in marketing and knows a good draw. Folks clamored for their T-shirts and other merchandise. Interest sparks more interest, which may, in turn, lead to more opportunities to help defray the $60,000 cost the team spends being in the contest.

Deeez Butts is made up of members from the local National Guard. Dale Burkett says that once they had enough members for the team, they set about for a name. One night, a team member and his wife were going through old ’80s hair band CDs fishing about for ideas, according to Burkett. “Somehow, he went from ’80s hair bands to Dr. Dre’s The Chronic album, and on that album, there’s this [comic skit] ‘Deeez Nuuuts,’ and he just replaced, obviously, ‘nuuuts’ with ‘butts’ for barbecue, and that’s how we came to be.”

It’s a perfect fit, Burkett says.

“It reflects what our team is,” Burkett says. “We like to let loose and party because we work really hard. We fly a lot of missions, so we don’t like to take it too seriously. We like to have fun and eat good barbecue.”

Last year, a video went viral of a man doing the “Deeez Nuuuts” routine. “That made our team get really noticed a lot more last year,” Burkett says. “People were stopping by our tents and taking pictures with our banner and wanted to buy our T-shirts.”

Yes, Deeez Butts is notorious. Says Burkett, “The funny thing is, this being our fifth year, every time I go to the team meetings to pick up our packages or go to Sam’s Club, they may not remember me specifically, but once I tell them the team name, they’re like, oh yeah, I know who you are.” — SE

WHO’S THE PIGGIEST OF THEM ALL? The Swinos won last year’s Miss Piggy Idol contest. They placed the previous two years.

“We try really hard to put on a very fun, very creative, very original show,” says team president Matthew Heffington. “We don’t play to the judges. We don’t play to the competition. We like to do it our way.”

The Swinos have a team band named Tender to the Bone, a rotating crew of six, who are charged with coming up with the

“Per our attorney’s advice, we are the Band Formerly Known as Tender to the Bone,” Taylor says.

“We are triple-crown champions. We have nothing to prove anymore. This is about the people. Pork the record industry, and long live Prince,” Taylor continues.

Taylor says they start about two weeks in advance of the contest, picking a theme by throwing rib bones at a target on the wall.

And the choreography? “Tight undergarments and man fat,” Taylor answers.

He then reiterates what the attorney has said about the Band Formerly Known as

The Swinos Tender to the Bone. And “Pork the record industry.”

Is this a hint? “Absolutely not,” Taylor says. “No. No one in their right mind would touch Prince.” — SE

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Last year, it was a porkified version of the history of rap. One year, it was Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” (“Beanz and Slaw”).

“The approach is to reach into the landscape of pop culture, take into account who’s playing at Barbecue Fest,” Heffington says. “We take into account our locality and, obviously, food. It’s all about paying your respect to the pig gods and putting out your best artistic version of your team and how you feel about the year.”

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In an age when lawmakers across the country are continually trying to chip away at women’s reproductive rights and when a certain Republican presidential candidate regularly calls women names like “bimbos” and “fat pigs,” it’s easy to forget how far women’s rights have come.

But “Beers with Pioneers,” a new monthly summer discussion series (with free beer!) hosted by Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region (PPGMR), will pay homage to the Memphis women who paved the way for equality, all the while giving younger folks a look into what some of feminism’s pioneers were up against.

The first event is scheduled for Tuesday, May 17th at Amurica and will feature former Memphis Panel of American Women member Jocie Wurzburg and Cara McLane of Lady Parts Justice.

“We just want to talk about the then and now and what strives we’ve made. We want to honor the women who were doing this work in the ’60s and ’70s who set the stage for those of us who are doing it now,” said Aimee Lewis, PPGMR’s vice-president of external affairs.

The local Panel of American Women was founded in 1968, after Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination, and through it, white and black women of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish faiths came together to spark conversations across the city about race and religion. Wurzburg will be discussing her work on the panel, and she’ll be juxtaposed with McLane, a comedian and Planned Parenthood volunteer who works with Lady Parts Justice (a group of comics and writers using comedy and digital media to speak out against the erosion of reproductive access). After their discussion, which will be moderated by Black Lives Matter organizer Tami Sawyer, the floor will open for a Q&A. Throughout the event, free Ghost River beer will be flowing. And there will be food trucks parked outside. Future “Beers with Pioneers” events are set for June 21st, July 14th, and August 23rd.

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World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest Tom Lee Park, 11 a.m., $5 The most glorious time of the year for barbecue lovers. A packed park, a smoke-filled sky, and hot competition mark this annual event. Read more about it on page 16.

Spring Rural Route Studio Tour Studio of Deborah Fagan Carpenter (4881 Canada, Lakeland), 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Featuring paintings by Deborah Fagan Carpenter, sculpture by Jimmy Crosthwait, and pottery by Agnes Stark. Continues through Sunday.

UpRise Memphis Arts Festival Court Square, 2-7 p.m.

Event “promoting greater appreciation of the arts through exposure and education.”

Peabody Rooftop Party Peabody Hotel, 6-10 p.m., $10 Tonight on the menu is, appropriately enough, Memphis barbecue (including meatballs!).

Performing is ’80s band M80s.

Comic Book Hardcore Malco Summer Drive-in, Dusk, $10 Time Warp Drive-in presents Sin City, The Crow, Blade, and Tank Girl.

Cooper-Young Pup Crawl Cooper-Young Gazebo, 6-9 p.m.

Cooper-Young restaurants offer dog-themed drinks during this pub crawl benefiting the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County.

Work by Caleb Sweazy story booth, 5-8 p.m.

An exhibition of hand-crafted pieces made by local woodworker Caleb Sweazy.

Ruby Bridges Reading Festival National Civil Rights Museum, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

This festival promotes reading and is hosted by activist Ruby Bridges Hall and actress Kathy Bates.

Includes book giveaways and more.

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If you’ve seen the film, you know the classic screwball setup: Unlucky playwright lands gangster producer; gangster producer casts untalented girlfriend; things get dangerous; hilarity ensues. The only real mystery here is why it took so long for Woody Allen’s film Bullets Over Broadway to be reimagined as a blockbuster musical. Well, maybe there’s one other mystery, for the critics, at least: Why did Allen’s creative team repurpose songs from the 1920s instead of creating an original soundtrack?

According to associate director Jeff Whiting, the show needed a sense of authenticity. “It’s set in 1929 just before the big stock market crash, so really the height of the roaring ’20s, and it was important that the music, and everything about the show, was really authentic. We weren’t trying to do a parody of gangsters and the mafia,” Whiting adds. “We wanted to do it in a realistic way.”

When Broadway director Susan Stroman asked Whiting to join the creative team, it took him about half a second to say yes. He’d been a huge fan of the 1994 film starring John Cusack and Dianne Wiest. “It’s just a fun idea,” he says, recounting brainstorming sessions where Allen, a jazz player and aficionado, would suggest old chestnuts and obscure songs known only to collectors of brittle old 78-r.p.m. records.

Swing dancing, Charlestons, and foxtrots are all represented in a score that informs Bullets’ athletic choreography.

“Near the end of act one, all the gangsters in the town do a tap number,” Whiting says, explaining how the dance numbers help to define even the show’s most roughneck characters. “At first, the concept seemed kind of odd. But over time the sound and rhythm of the feet became quite aggressive. And it really did match the heartbeat of the show.”

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SUNDAY May 15 Mid-South Bike Bash Southern Thunder Harley-Davidson, 9 a.m.-11 p.m.

Includes an appearance by the Busted Knuckles Stunt Tour, a police motorcycle skills demo, food trucks, vendors, live music, and more.

Smokey Robinson Gold Strike Casino, 8 p.m., $79.95-$109.95 Performance by legendary soul singer Smokey Robinson — “I Second That Emotion,” “The Tracks of My Tears.”

Dirty Words Cordova Branch Library, 3-5 p.m.

This could be interesting: a “poetic exploration of taboo subjects.”

Cracker Jack Collectors Association 21st Annual Convention Embassy Suites, 9 a.m.-noon The public is invited to check out Cracker Jack memorabilia from the 1890s to present day.

Black Soap Remix Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 3 p.m., $35 The continuation of Flo Roach’s drama following a young couple who may be brother and sister (!).

Gallery Talk Metal Museum, 2:30-3 p.m.

Artist Glenn Zweygardt talks about his work in “F.I.RE. Glenn Zweygardt: Then & Now” and discusses his inspirations and process.

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Angry Angles — Angry Angles (Goner Records) The latest Jay Reatard reissue from Goner Records focuses on almost all the recorded material from one of his most underrated bands: Angry Angles.

In a feature on the Angry Angles that appeared in the Flyer in January, Goner Records co-owner Zac Ives called the band “the perfect time for Jay,” as it marked an important period in his career. Angry Angles would be the last time Reatard ever wrote songs with someone other than himself, save for a few appearances by drummer Billy Hayes on the Matador Records singles and a couple recording sessions with Seth Sutton (Useless Eaters) that were never released.

The 17 tracks on Angry Angles span the band’s short but productive career that included the release of a handful of singles and a couple live recordings that weren’t available until now. While a couple of these songs would wind up on the seminal Jay Reatard album Blood Visions, Angry Angles serves as a window into the world of one of Memphis’ most prolific and popular songwriters of the last 20 years. Songs like “You Fell In,” a track about the ’70s horror movie The Pit, and “She’s Dead” have long been buried treasure featured on the Memphis garage punk map but were widely unavailable due to the songs’ being released on small-run singles. Then there are the cover songs, the amazing “Blockhead” (Devo), “Memphis Creep” (Oblivians), and “The 15th” (Wire) all point to not only what was influencing the Angry Angles, but also to the direction that Jay Reatard’s solo years would take.

While the Reatards reissues showed a young delinquent honing his craft and the Lost Sounds reissue showcased an “I can do anything” mindset, the Angry Angles album shines light on a local artist who was about to explode on the national scene before burning too bright.

The street date for Angry Angles is Friday, May 20th, but Goner Records has been selling the album since Record Store Day. If you’re lucky, this piece of Memphis history may still be available on limited color vinyl. One can only hope Goner will dig up some unreleased Final Solutions songs next.

Favorite Song: “You Fell In” The Bo-Keys — Heartaches by the Number (Omnivore Recordings) Recorded locally at Electrophonic Studio, Heartaches by the Number is the third album from local soul group the Bo-Keys. Produced by Emmy winner Scott Bomar, the 10-track album is a genre-bending experience that features originals as well as covers by artists like Swamp Dogg and Merle Haggard.

Local guitar player John Paul Keith joins the Bo-Keys on this album, and other guests include the Masqueraders and Hi-Records artist Don Bryant.

With the intent of sounding like a collection of songs you’d hear on a jukebox in a honky-tonk bar in Mississippi, Heartaches by the Number mixes original Bo-Key songs with country standards from Hank Williams, as well as songs by Bob Dylan, Charlie Rich, and Ray Price.

While this could be dismissed as a cover album, the Bo-Keys put their

Favorite Track: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” Alicja-pop — Rats: Home Recordings 2009-2013 (Certified PR Records) Alicja Trout has been quietly creating off-kilter pop songs under the name Alicja-pop for the past seven years.

Recorded in her home, the 10 songs on Rats: Home Recordings 2009-2013 showcase the singer’s versatility as a songwriter, as the tracks are far removed from her bands like River City Tanlines, Lost Sounds, or Fresh Flesh.

“I come from loud rock-and-roll bands like Lost Sounds and River City Tanlines, but I have another side. I love pop hooks and fun melodies. I love keyboard icing and lyrics about sweet love. These are my songs I never really intended for anyone to hear. I was just making sounds for my own enjoyment,” explains Trout on the liner notes of this album. While this must be the most “chill” record Trout has released, it’s still a complex creation, with the vibe of the album changing direction with each passing song. “Close ur Eyes” features tons of analog synth with a jangly guitar riff buried underneath, while “I Play the Fool” finds Trout doing her best pop croon over a classic Memphis garagerock riff.

One of Trout’s best qualities as a songwriter is her ability to make writing music seem so effortless, and that skill is on full display throughout Rats. Sure, it’s a compilation of four years of songwriting, but there is a cohesiveness here that holds these oneand-done songs together.

If anything, Rats shows that Trout can venture into new musical territory without sounding like she’s just goofing around in a home studio. The song “Shadow Hills” is probably the most far-removed from the bar-rock anthems she created with the River City Tanlines, as it moves into some baroque pop territory. The liner notes imply that record label Certified PR chose 10 songs out of a plethora of home recordings Trout has accumulated over the years, meaning there’s got to be more gems sitting around somewhere.

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the years that’s served me well, allowing opportunities to learn a lot and work with a ton of extremely talented people.”

Now Miller will be devoting a great deal of his energy toward booking and promoting shows at Lafayette’s (though he will also be staying on at Shangri-La and Misspent).

Early on, patrons complained about volume levels in Lafayette’s as well as the occasionally odd/out-of-place booking, and the bands complained about sound issues and occasionally unengaged crowds. Most, if not all, of the technical issues have since been resolved, and Miller intends to address the other issues with a more focused, Memphis-centric approach to booking and event planning.

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Three weeks ago, the resurrected Overton Square music venue and restaurant Lafayette’s Music Room made a significant organizational change, hiring longtime Memphis music supporter John Miller as its new director of events.

Miller, a native Memphian and former lawyer, has spent the last decade or so working behind the scenes in the local music business. In 2007, he was hired by the label Archer Records to work on copyrights, publishing, and project management. He then moved to the nowdefunct Memphis Music Foundation in 2010 as a coordinator for the nonprofit group’s Music Resource Center.

“I jumped at the chance to work with an even more diverse scope of local artists,” Miller says.

“There was also a good team in place there [at the Memphis Music Foundation], most of whom I still work with in some capacity from time to time.”

After four years of service that saw Miller consult and advise countless local musicians on a variety of projects, as well as represent the Memphis music scene at big-time music conference trade shows like South by Southwest and the National Association of Music Merchants, the Memphis Music Foundation was absorbed into David Porter’s Consortium MMT, and Miller was temporarily left without a steady paycheck. But rather than pack it in for another career or city, Miller hung around. He founded his own seven-inch vinyl singles label, Misspent Records, and then started working behind the counter at Shangri-La Records, where he has risen to the title of general manager.

“Having never been on the retail side of music sales, it seemed like a great opportunity to learn another side of the business, and again work with some really solid Memphis folks,” Miller says.

In that time, Miller continued to work with local musicians on everything from legal issues, to booking, to distribution, all for little or no reward. Last year, he also curated musical acts for the Indie Memphis Film Festival, creating much-needed paying gigs for many local musicians.

“Memphis is full of people who volunteer their time for causes and needs across the board,” Miller says. “You’re never promised success, financial or otherwise, and it may sound cliche, but choosing to invest yourself in something you care about and seeing it grow can be its own reward. I’ve always believed that it’s more important to put in the work and see where it can go rather than sit around and worry about the ultimate outcome. Over

Lafayette’s Music Room been and should be a place where great Memphis musicians can be heard any day of the week,” he says. “That’s the goal going forward for sure. We’ll still host out-of-town touring bands that are a good fit, but we want to make sure that we feature the depth and breadth of talent that lives, works, and plays right here at home.”

Whether this new approach to talent buying clicks at Lafayette’s remains to be seen, but, regardless, Miller will continue to work for and on behalf of Memphis musicians.

“Misspent has a few things on the horizon right now,” Miller says. “I’ll still be up at Shangri-La a good amount. I really enjoy being able to work there and meet folks from around the globe who are drawn to the current and historical music scenes we have. Hearing their excitement about finally being in Memphis helps keep a perspective on how fortunate I’ve been to work with the musicians in this town.”

“Now I find myself booking for Lafayette’s. I like new opportunities, and in Memphis it seems like there is always something different to do if you’re willing to take a chance and see where it goes.”

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152 BEALE 544-7011

1st Floor: Mercury Blvd.

Mondays-Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; DJ Dnyce Thursdays, Sundays, 11 p.m.; Super 5 Friday, May 13, 7 p.m.; 3rd floor: DJ Tubbz/ Crumbz Fridays, 10 p.m.; 1st Floor: DJ Tubbz Fridays, Saturdays, 11:30 p.m., and Mondays-Wednesdays, 11 p.m.; Nothin Fancy Saturday, May 14, 7 p.m.; 3rd Floor: DJ Crumbz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; After Dark Band Sundays, 6 p.m.

Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar 159 BEALE

Eric Hughes Thursdays, Fridays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke ongoing, 8:30 p.m.; Chris Gales Tuesday-Saturday, noon8 p.m.

Handy Bar

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cafe & Honky Tonk 310 BEALE 654-5171

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

200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Hard Rock Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe

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162 BEALE 521-1851

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

126 BEALE 529-0007

Say Something Thursday, May 12, 6 p.m.; Brandon Cunning & the Hard Rocks Friday, May 13, 7 p.m.; Fingertrick Friday, May 13, 9 p.m.; American Fiction Saturday, May 14, 7 p.m.; Terry

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Harry Fontana Thursday, May 12; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m., and Saturdays, 5:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.,

and Saturdays, 12:30 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe’s Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

Mack 2 Band MondaysFridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m., and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Friday, May 13, 6:30 p.m.; Fuzzy & the Kings of Memphis Saturday, May 14, 6:30 p.m.; Sean “Bad” Apple Wednesdays, Sundays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Tuesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

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

Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sean “Bad” Apple Friday, May 13, 9 p.m.; Metropolitan Avenue Saturday, May 14, 8 p.m.; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson & the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

Weekend Series feat. Marcus King Band with Moreland & Arbuckle Friday, May 13, 8-11 p.m.; Daisyland XL feat.

Breathe Carolina Saturday, May 14, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.; Mike Judy Presents Bands vs. Food: Memphis May Fire & We Came As Romans Tuesday, May 17, 6-11 p.m.

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Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Young Petty Thieves Thursday, May 12, 5:30 p.m.; Joanne Shaw Taylor Thursday, May 12, 9 p.m., and Friday, May 13, 9 p.m.; Pam & Terry Friday, May 13, 5:30 p.m., and Saturday, May 14, 5:30 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Saturday, May 14, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Monday, May 16, 8 p.m., and Tuesday, May 17, 8 p.m.; Little Boys Blue Wednesday, May 18, 8 p.m.

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

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Friday, May 13, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Mambo Combo Saturday, May 14, 3-7 p.m.; Little Boys Blue Saturday, May 14, 8 p.m.; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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

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

Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays.

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN TICKETS, 525-1515

Memphis Symphony Orchestra First Tennessee Masterworks Series: Mahler’s First Saturday, May 14, 7:309:30 p.m.

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

J. Train Blues Band Saturday, May 14, 8 p.m.

Double J Smokehouse & Saloon 124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

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

M AY 13

MILES NIELSEN & THE RUSTED HEARTS

5/11 BALLROOM THIEVES 8PM | 5/12 DAVIS COEN 9PM | 5/13 MILES NIELSEN & THE RUSTED HEARTS 10PM | 5/14 MEMPHIS FUNK-N-HORNS 10PM | 5/15 THE WAMPUS CATS 8PM | 5/16 JOHN PAUL KEITH WITH SPECIAL GUEST JOHN NEMETH 6PM | 5/17 TRAVIS ROMAN 5:30PM | 5/18 BREEZE CAYOLLE & NEW ORLEANS 5:30PM 2 1 1 9 M A D I S O N AV E N U E M E M P H I S , T N 3 8 1 0 4

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

MORELAND & ARBUCKLE BY GAVIN PETERS

MORELAND & ARBUCKLE FRIDAY, MAY 13TH NEW DAISY THEATRE

SMOKEY ROBINSON SATURDAY, MAY 14TH GOLD STRIKE CASINO TUNICA

The Peabody Hotel

Hi-Tone

Murphy’s

149 UNION 529-4000

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

1589 MADISON 726-4193

Useless Eaters & the World Friday, May 13; NOTS European Tour Kick-Off with DJs M Cyrus and T Swift Saturday, May 14; Some of Mudboy Wednesday, May 18.

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA AT THE 1884 LOUNGE Pysch-pop band Unknown Mortal Orchestra hit Memphis this Friday for a show at the 1884 Lounge inside Minglewood Hall. The project of songwriter Ruban Nielson, Unknown Mortal Orchestra have been rising in the indie-rock ranks since forming in 2011 by fusing the weirder parts of psych rock, indie rock, and R&B. The band’s 2015 album, Multi-Love, served as Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s coming-out statement, and the title track from Multi-Love is one of the most original indie rock songs of the last five years.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s latest creation is the result of musicians who are completely confident in their abilities and not afraid to turn the conventional indie/ psych-rock world on its head. Their songs consistently change on a dime, but while Unknown Mortal Orchestra definitely fit the mysterious, left-field persona they’ve developed over the past few years, the band still keeps their main priority obvious when playing live: They just want you to dance. Jagjaguwar (Small Black, Sharon Van Etten, Foxygen) released their last two albums, but it wouldn’t be a stretch at all to see Unknown Mortal Orchestra signed to a major label in the near future.

On tour with Unknown Mortal Orchestra is Chicago indie band Whitney.

Formed by ex-Smith Westerns members Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich, Whitney have generated a remarkable amount of buzz for a band that hasn’t released a debut album, but if their single “No Woman” is any indication, the hype is well-deserved.

Ehrlich also spent time in Unknown Mortal Orchestra, connecting the dots to this stacked tour that stretches across the country. Whitney’s debut album is out this June on Secretly Canadian. — Chris Shaw Unknown Mortal Orchestra, May 13th at Minglewood Hall. 7 p.m., $15.

Earnestine & Hazel’s

Huey’s Downtown

Purple Haze Nightclub

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

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

Harbor Town Amphitheater 740 HARBOR BEND ROAD

Harbor Town River Music Series Saturday, May 14, 6 p.m.

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, May 15, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

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

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

DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538

Half Step Down Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.

Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Southern Avenue Friday, May 13; Kirk Smithart Saturday, May 14.

Earworms Thursday, May 12; Shamefinger with HEELS Friday, May 13; Jocephus, George Jonestown Massacre, Luke John Saturday, May 14; Nihil, Native Blood, Chokehold Prophecy Tuesday, May 17.

Off the Square Catering 19 S. FLORENCE 728-6085

Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) Memphis Chapter third Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Huey’s Midtown

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Greg Cartwright and Friends Sunday, May 15; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

1927 MADISON 726-4372

Papa Top’s Westcoast Turnaround Sunday, May 15, 4-7 p.m.; The Chaulkies Sunday, May 15, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Sports Junction 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Lafayette’s Music Room

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

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

Sunday Brunch with Joyce Cobb Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 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.; Reach Friday, May 13, 10 p.m.; Poodle Brandy with Faith Ruch Saturday, May 14, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Jeremy Stanfill & Joshua Cosby Thursday, May 12, 6 p.m.; Miles Nielsen & the Rusted Hearts Friday, May 13, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturdays, 11 a.m.; The River Bluff Clan Saturdays, 3 p.m.; Reba Russell Trio Saturday, May 14, 6:30 p.m.; Memphis Funk-NHorns Saturday, May 14, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Jeffrey & the Pacemakers Sunday, May 15, 4 p.m.; The Wampus Cats Sunday, May 15, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Friends Mondays, 6 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

University of Memphis Newby’s 539 HIGHLAND

Short in the Sleeve Thursday, May 12, 10 p.m.-midnight; Terry Prince & the Principles, Strange Wave Connection Saturday, May 14, 10 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill

Ubee’s

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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

521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

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

Minglewood Hall

East Memphis

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Whitney Friday, May 13, 7 p.m.; Fevertree Saturday, May 14, 7 p.m.; SCM Awards Sunday, May 15, 4 p.m.; Kyle Kinane Tuesday, May 17, 7 p.m.; Snarky Puppy Wednesday, May 18, 7 p.m.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School 60 N. PERKINS EXT. 537-1483

Leo Kottke Friday, May 13, 8-10 p.m.

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Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

The Blasters with Richard James and the Special Riders Thursday, May 12, 9 p.m.; Grosser, Hotel, Sidewayz, Hippy Soul Friday, May 13, 9 p.m.; Ben Miller Band with the DagNabbits Saturday, May 14, 9 p.m.; John the Conquerer, Stone Rangers Sunday, May 15, 9 p.m.; Muuy Biien with Holy Gallows and Jack the Giant Killer Monday, May 16, 9 p.m.; My Jerusalem with the Band Camino Tuesday, May 17, 9 p.m.; Seven Days Lost Wednesday, May 18, 9 p.m.

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Rooftop Party: M-80s Thursday, May 12.

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

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

JoJo Jeffries & Ronnie Caldwell Sunday, May 15, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

Haystack Bar & Grill

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

6560 HWY. 51 N. 872-0567

Rants Band Saturday, May 14, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

Old Millington Winery

GOSSETT MAZDA 1870 COVINGTON PIKE • 901.388.8989

6069 PARK 767-6002

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Germantown School of Rock Saturday, May 14, 2-4 p.m.; Plaques & Tangles Saturday, May 14, 8 p.m.; Flashback Sunday, May 15, 4-7 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.

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

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

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

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

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Neil’s Music Room

Maria’s Restaurant

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

J.R.’s Bar & Grill

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

6439 SUMMER 356-2324

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

Deering & Down Sunday, May 15, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Night Mondays, 8-10 p.m.

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

661 N. MENDENHALL

Ghost Town Blues Band Thursday, May 12, Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14; Smokey Robinson Saturday, May 14, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Southaven

East Tapas and Drinks

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

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

7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Poplar/I-240

Barbie’s Barlight Lounge

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

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

‘Jukebox’ Turner and Hot Grits Sunday, May 15.

Slap Junior Band Saturday, May 14, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

Summer/Berclair

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

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

6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114

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

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

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Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Charlie Belt & Friends Thursday, May 12, 8 p.m.; The Nuttin’ Fancy Band Friday, May 13, 9 p.m.; Swingin’ Leroy Saturday, May 14, 9 p.m.; Almost Famous Sunday, May 15, 9 p.m.; Wolf River Rednecks Wednesday, May 18, 8 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Shelby Forest Pioneers Sunday, May 15, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Collierville Huey’s Collierville 2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Six String Lovers Sunday, May 15, 8-11:30 p.m.

Cordova Huey’s Cordova 1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

Larry Raspberry & the Highsteppers Sunday, May 15, 4-7 p.m.; 2 Mule Plow Sunday, May 15, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

The Pistol & the Queen Sunday, May 15, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

The Dantones Sunday, May 15, 8-11:30 p.m.; Patio Party featuring Deering and Down Wednesday, May 18.

Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

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

Mesquite Chop House 3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

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

4788 BETHEL 662-890-5612

Graham Road Band Saturday, May 14, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

North Mississippi/ Tunica

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

Bally’s

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas

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

Jamie Baker & the VIP’s Friday, May 13, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster Saturday, May 14, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove 6285 SNOWDEN, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662) 892-2660

Chris Stapleton Friday, May 13, 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

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

Frayser/Millington

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Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

May 12 - 18

T H EAT E R 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. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $22-$35. Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through May 15.

Opening reception for Beth Okeon, exhibition of acrylic and multi-media work on canvas. Sun., May 15, 4-6 p.m.

Opening reception for Fred Rawlinson and Mike Moffitt, www.krocmemphis.org. Sun., May 15, 1:30 p.m.

Metal Museum

Memphis, musical based loosely on Dewey Phillips. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $22-$40. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through May 29.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

Hay Fever, each member of the eccentric Bliss family invite a guest to their country house and expose their own world. Family melodramas cause the visitors to band together to plot their escape, unnoticed by the feuding relatives. www.theatrememphis. org. $25. Sun., 2 p.m., Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m. Through May 15.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

The Fix Is In, noir detective, Jinx Deuce, has had it with trouble. Dope, drink, and dames have him hooked, and now the cops have their hooks in him. $10-$12. Fridays, 8-9:30 p.m., and Saturdays, 8-9:30 p.m. Through May 21.

Exhibition of objects of inspiration from the Cleveland Street Flea Market transformed into new works of art.

Thurs., May 12, 5:30 p.m.

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

The Orpheum

Playhouse on the Square

Talks for “Belongings II: Repurposed”

262 S HIGHLAND (324-2221).

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

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.MCA.EDU.

The Farmer

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Bullets Over Broadway, story of a young playwright who, in desperate need of financial backing for his next show, accepts an offer he can’t refuse from a mobster looking to please his showgirl girlfriend. www.orpheum-memphis.com. $25-$125. May 16-22.

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

“Pairings”

Gallery talk and reception with Glenn Zweygardt, hear the stories behind each piece as Zweygardt explains his process and inspirations. www. metalmuseum.org. Sun., May 15, 2:30 p.m.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Southside Gallery

StarLight Event Center

Artist reception for Black Art Experience (B.A.E), featuring wine and food sampling, live painting, $5 painting raffle, visual art show, jewelry artist, culinary artist, and makeup artist. (517-4130), $20. Sat., May 14, 6-9 p.m.

895 N. WHITE STATION.

Studio of Deborah Fagan Carpenter

Artist reception for 2016 Spring Rural Route Studio Tour, exhibition of paintings

by Deborah Fagan Carpenter, sculpture by Jimmy Crosthwait, and pottery by Agnes Stark. (384-9132), www. faganart.com. Fri., May 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat., May 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sun., May 15, 12-5 p.m.

4881 CANADA, LAKELAND.

Reception for work

by Beth Okeon at the Farmer Sunday OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

Art After Dark

Galleries and gardens will be open late. Featuring light refreshments, entertainment, and a cash bar. Free with admission. Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m.

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

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. Through May 31.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM, MUD ISLAND RIVER PARK, 125 N. FRONT (576-7232), WWW.MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.

Digital Media Senior Showcase

Showcasing films created by seniors in the Digital Media and Animation programs featuring a collection of eight films by students Elyssa Davis, David Hook, Melanie Morrison, Charles Scaife, Roxanne Simmers, and others. Fri., May

“Flying Colors: Asafo Flags of the Fante,” exhibition prepared

by University of Memphis students. www.memphis.edu/ amum. Through Oct. 1.

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

Ongoing.

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

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

TENT AT MADISON AND COOPER, WWW.BALLETMEMPHIS.ORG.

The Blues Foundation

A juried exhibition exploring the current (absurd?) state of the American political landscape. See website for submission information. Through May 15.

150 COURTHOUSE SQUARE, OXFORD, MS (662-234-9090).

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

Food series for a new generation, each beer tasting will be paired with a creative and contemporary new short dance work to be held on the grounds of the future Ballet Memphis site. Sat., May 14, 8 p.m.

Artist Submissions for “Say Hello To America!”

Artist reception for Younok Jung, exhibition of mixed-media works. www.southsideartgallery.com. Thurs., May 12, 6-8 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

May 12-18, 2016

13, 6 p.m.

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Woodworking Show

Peruse fine woodworking designed and handcrafted by Caleb Sweazy. Thurs., May 12, 5-8 p.m.

CROSSTOWN STORY BOOTH, 422 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

O N G O I N G ART

The Annesdale Park Gallery

“Primal Rhythms,” exhibition of abstract paintings by Jennifer Bowman and primal figures by Sandy Starbird. www.annesdaleparkgallery. com. May 18-June 20.

1290 PEABODY (208-6451).

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

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

“Screamin’ the Blues,” exhibition of photography by Françoise Digel. www.blues. org. Through Sept. 2.

421 S. MAIN.

The Caritas Village

Guy Church, exhibition of drawings. www.topsgallery. com. Through May 29.

2509 HARVARD (324-5246).

Crosstown Arts

“Belongings II: Repurposed,” exhibition of objects of inspiration from the Cleveland Street Flea Market transformed into a new work of art. www.crosstownarts.org.

Through May 14.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

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. Through May 14.

“New Paintings,” exhibition of new landscape paintings

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“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.

ing work from periods before and after the artist’s retirement. Through May 22.

“From the Drifted Ashore House,” exhibition of works in metal and wood from artist Corrine Hunt, of Vancouver. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. www.memphisinmay. org/events. Through May 31.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Eclectic Eye

NJ Woods Gallery and Design

Playhouse on the Square

Temple Israel

66 S. COOPER (726-4656)

1376 E. MASSEY (761-3130).

Ross Gallery

TOPS Gallery

“Côte d’Azur, France,” exhibition of work from students and faculty who recently traveled to France’s Mediterranean coast. www.mca.edu.

Through June 5.

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

Ongoing.

2563 BROAD.

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

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Olive Branch Country Club

Southside Gallery

Beth Okeon, exhibition of acrylic and multimedia work on canvas. May 15-Sept. 5.

“Coterie of Artists — Gallery 12,” exhibition of paintings. Through July 30.

7558 GERMANTOWN (662-895-1555).

“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.

“Call of the Clay,” exhibition of works by Agnes Gordon Stark. www.cbu.edu/gallery. Through May 26.

“Sea and Stone: Ceramics and Sketches,” exhibition of work by Melissa Bridgman. www.eclecticeye.com. Through June 8.

The Farmer

“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.

400 S. FRONT.

Younok Jung, exhibition of mixed-media works. www.southsideartgallery.com. Through June 4.

150 COURTHOUSE SQUARE, OXFORD, MS (662-234-9090).

262 S HIGHLAND (324-2221).

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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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“Out of Africa,” exhibition of paintings from latest safari in Africa and other adventures by Debbie Richmond. (682-9901). Through May 31.

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“Light From My Window,” exhibition of naturallight, still-life photographs by Jon Woodhams. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through June 1.

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750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Spotlight Series,” exhibition of series I includes recent paintings by Ray Vunk and Barry Buxbaum plus VUNKBAUM: a Collaborative Work.

Series II includes recent paintings by Maggie Russell. www.jayetkingallery.com. Through May 31.

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Fred Rawlinson and Mike Moffitt, www.krocmemphis.org. May 15-June 6.

“My Element,” exhibition honoring regional artist Annabelle Meacham. www.lrossgallery.com.

Through May 28.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Lush Interiors,” exhibition of vibrantly colored mixed-media works by St. Francis Elevator Ride. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through June 1.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Cats and Quotes,” exhibition featuring felines from a variety of periods, offering a chance to see how different artists have depicted cats and their varied relationships with human beings over time. Through July 10.

“Early Learners Explore the Environment,” exhibition showcasing a five-week program of art-making activities built specifically for early learners around various ecological themes.

Through June 26.

“Rage of the Ballet Gods,” exhibition comprised of four figures from Yinka Shonibare MBE’s series. www.brooksmuseum.org. Through Nov. 6.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis Center for Independent Living “The Tribute,” exhibition of portrait as tribute to Deborah Cunningham and other works in honor of the 10th anniversary of the civil rights law for people with disabilities by Sher Stewart. Through May 20.

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“In the Garden,” exhibition includes free admission to the Metal Museum, specialty alcoholic drinks, beer, and wine. (774-6380). Through July 31.

“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.

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Caleb Sweazy’s woodwork at Crosstown’s story booth this Thurs. and Fri.

“Capture Canada,” exhibition of photography connecting artists in Montreal with Memphis. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute memphisinmay.org/events.

Through May 31.

audience. (415-2764), Free.

Sat., May 14, 3-5 p.m.

sert will be provided. Sat., May 14, 11 a.m.

8457 TRINITY (REGISTRATION, 754-8443).

Java Cabana

LUCIUS E. & ELSIE C. BURCH JR. LIBRARY, 501 POPLAR VIEW, COLLIERVILLE (901 457-2600), WWW. COLLIERVILLELIBRARY.ORG.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

“Race Along the River: Getting to the Finish Line Together”

Open mic nite, www. javacabanacoffeehouse.com.

Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

296 ADAMS (525-4751).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Village Frame & Art

Booksigning by Rien Fertel

Gallery Artists, exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey, Virginia Schoenster, Lou Ann Dattilo, and Matthew Hasty. Ongoing.

Author discusses and signs The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog. Sun., May 15, 2 p.m.

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

WKNO Studio

Artists’ Link Spring Mix, exhibition featuring painting, photography, sculpture, jewelry, and more by over 40 artists. (458-2521), www. wkno.org/gallery1091.html.

Through May 31.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

DAN C E

Baila! Memphis

Weekend of instruction, performances, and social dancing for all Latin dances featuring nationally and internationally known artists from across the U.S. Learn more about salsa, bachata, and Kizomba. Fri.Sat., May 13-14, 9 p.m.

RUMBA ROOM, 303 S. MAIN (523-0020), WWW.BAILAMEMPHISPRODUCTIONS.COM

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

Ole!: Cinco de Mayo

Featuring ballroom-recorded DJ music, surprise showcase, dance mixers, and more.

Fiesta attire encouraged. $10 members, $13 nonmembers.

Sat., May 14, 7-10 p.m.

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

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Cafe Eclectic

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

The Cove

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

2559 BROAD (730-0719).

Midtown Crossing Grill

Dave Ross, of Comedy Central and IFC’s Comedy Crib, performs with Jane Haze and Amanda Walker. $5. Thurs., May 12, 7:30 p.m.

394 N. WATKINS (443-0502).

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

603 N. MCLEAN (725-1718).

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Brinson’s

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

341 MADISON (524-0104).

Canvas

Open Mic, Sundays, 9 p.m.

1737 MADISON (443-5232).

Cordova Branch Library Dirty Words: Poetic Exploration of Taboo Subjects, write with more passion, connect more with your writing, and deepen your effect with the

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AIA Luncheon Speaker Series

Selected leading architect Bruce Kuwabara KPMB Toronto and recipient of the RAIC Gold Medal speaks. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. $20.

Through May 14, 11:30 a.m.

UNIVERSITY CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 1346 CENTRAL (722-3700), WWW. MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.

Lecture addressing issues of racial disparities in opportunities and health outcomes to start a conversation about practical steps we can take to help all our people live longer, healthier lives by Dr. David Sweat. Free. Mon., May 16, 7-9 p.m.

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

C O N F E R E N C ES/ C O NVE NT I O N S

21st Convention of the Cracker Jack Collectors Association

Public is invited to browse, walk down memory lane, and experience Cracker Jack prizes and memorabilia from the 1890s to the present. Come be a kid again and join the fun.

Free. Sat., May 14, 9 a.m.-noon.

EMBASSY SUITES, 1022 S. SHADY GROVE, WWW. CRACKERJACKCOLLECTORS.COM.

Lunch & Learn Gardening Series

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Naturelle Cosmetique Meet & Greet

See 10 historic sites. For locations and more information, see website. Lunch on Saturday available for extra fee. $25. Sat., May 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sun., May 15, 1-5 p.m.

BILLS MCNEAL HISTORIC DISTRICT, BOLIVAR, TN, WWW.HISTORICBOLIVARTN.COM.

Old Forest Hike

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

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

Signs of Spring Walk

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

Free with garden admission.

Sun., May 15, 1:30 p.m.

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

The Trees of Elmwood

A Level II Arboretum walking tour. Learn about the almost 1,500 trees, some older than the cemetery itself.

Register online or call. $10.

Sat., May 14, 10:30 a.m.

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

Ashley Perry conducts live product demo, Q&A session about the brand, and product sample giveaways. Fri.-Sat., May 13-14, noon-3 p.m.

CURB MARKET, 596 S. COOPER (421-1597).

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9thAnnual Miracle in May Community Day and Tent Revival

Includes health fair, blood drive, blood pressure screenings, HIV testing, mobile mammography, activities for the kids, face painting, free food, and music to kick off revival, May 15-29. Sat., May 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., and May 15-29, 7 p.m.

GREATER FAITH TABERNACLE, 905 E SHELBY (345-9959).

F.I.R.E. 2016 & Family Fun Day

Day of fun, fire, food, and hands-on activities. Through May 14.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (7746380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

Gumtree Festival

Two-day outdoor juried fine art festival sale and celebration of the visual and performing arts around the Old Courthouse in downtown Tupelo. Sat.-Sun., May, 14-15.

VARIOUS TUPELO LOCATIONS, DOWNTOWN TUPELO, WWW.TUPELO.NET.

Herb Festival

Celebrate the wonders of herbs and the beauty of the herb garden, with a day full of herb-related activities. Sat., May 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Hosted by Kathy Bates and Ruby Bridges-Hall and featuring book giveaways, dancers, magic, and more.

Sat., May 14, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Promoting appreciation of the arts and exposure to education. Sat., May 14, 2-7 p.m.

COURT SQUARE, AT N. MAIN AND COURT (503-3242).

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3rd Annual Miracle Milk Stroll

Walk around the park to show excitement and solidarity for national fund-raising and awareness campaign benefiting Human Milk Banking Association of North

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

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OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (5134922), WWW.BESTFORBABES.ORG.

Barre None

Saturdays, 8 a.m.

THE SALVATION ARMY KROC CENTER, 800 E. PARKWAY S. (7298007), WWW.KROCMEMPHIS.ORG.

Family Fun Walk for Children’s Mental Health Awareness

Featuring a bounce house, games and prizes, door prize drawings, and a ton of fun for everyone. $15-$35. Sat., May 14, 9 a.m.-noon.

NAMI MEMPHIS, 5830 MT MORIAH #6 (725-0305), WWW.FACEBOOK. COM/NAMIMEMPHIS.

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.

Sacramento Kings May 14-17.

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

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

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE

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Teen & Mother Zumba

Teens, preteens, and adults are invited to come in and Zumba, receive healthy information, and learn the importance of our bodies and why we should exercise everyday. $5 adults, Free for teens. Sat., May 14, 9:45 a.m.-1 p.m.

pet-centric vendor booths, clinics, and silent auction.

Leashed pets welcome. Sat., May 14, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

S P E C IA L E V E N TS

“50 Years of Star Trek”

See a different Star Trek movie every Saturday and Sunday in May and visit the Star Trek CTI 3D Giant Theater lobby display every day in May. See website for movie schedule.

Through May 31.

ARENA AT SOUTHAVEN, 7360 HWY. 51, SOUTHAVEN, MS.

Peabody Rooftop Party

WHITE STATION CHURCH OF CHRIST, 1106 COLONIAL (438-0153).

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

Each week features entertainment, themed snack buffet, and drink specials. $10-$15.

Thursdays, 6-10 p.m. Through Aug. 18.

M E ETI NGS

Bikesmith Pump Track Grand Opening

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

Nashville Songwriters Assn. Intnl. (NSAI) Memphis Chapter

Lessons and discussion on songwriting. We share songs we’ve been working on and provide feedback to grow in our craft. Bring a song to share and 8-10 copies of your lyrics.

Third Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

OFF THE SQUARE CATERING, 19 S. FLORENCE (615-430-7390).

KIDS

Collierville Youth Fishing Rodeo

Bring your own tackle and bait. Prizes awarded by age.

Sat., May 14, 8 a.m.

JOHNSON PARK, COLLIERVILLE (457-2770).

Featuring food trucks, door prizes, and more. Sat., May 14, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Poker for Pooches

Benefiting SOAR Doggy Rescue. Includes food and beer and bourbon bar. Grand prize is a 50-inch TV. Other great prizes as well. $50. Sat., May 14, 6 p.m.-midnight.

THE CHURCH ON THE SQUARE, 1567 OVERTON PARK (552-3401), WWW.BIKESMITHTRUCK.COM.

Common Table Health Alliance 2016 Annual Meeting

Opportunity to address some of Shelby County’s health concerns. The topic is “Childhood Obesity: Have We Finally Turned the Corner?” Keynote speaker is interim president and CEO of Trust for America’s Health. $75. Thurs., May 12, 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

RACQUET CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 5111 SANDERLIN (684.6011), WWW. COMMONTABLEHEALTH.ORG.

Mid-South Bike Bash

Includes stunt performances and live music from Rustenhaven and the Dantones. Sat., May 14, 9 a.m.-11 p.m.

SOUTHERN THUNDER HARLEY-

The CooperYoung Pup Crawl is happening this Thursday.

DAVIDSON, 4870 VENTURE (662-349-1099).

Mutts in May

Fund-raiser for the Tunica Humane Society and the Savior Foundation featuring appetizers, drinks, live music, and a silent auction. $25. Sun., May 15, 3-6 p.m.

ECCO, 1585 OVERTON PARK (281-9552), WWW.THESAVIORFOUNDATION.ORG.

National Adoption Weekend with Memphis Pets Alive!

Help us kick off PetSmart’s National Adoption Weekend with a fun Friday night of finding some felines their forever homes. Fri., May 13, 6-8 p.m.

PETSMART, 5883 POPLAR (5415415), MEMPHISPETSALIVE.ORG.

North Mississippi Adoption Drive

More than a dozen local rescue groups and nonprofits with pets available for adoption. Enjoy music, food trucks, working dog demonstrations,

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

The Smoke Experience Launch Party

Female-only society for lady cigar enthusiasts featuring stogies and fellowship with on-the-hour smoke tips by cigar aficionado Robb Hunter.

Applications and details for the society on this day. Sat., May 14, 1 p.m.

BURNING DESIRE SMOKE EMPORIUM, 8968 HIGHWAY 64 (305-6522), WWW.BURNINGDESIRECIGARS.COM.

Stories Told 100 Years

Exhibit showcasing the contributions of the Jewish community through the inter-

Voted #1 in America

“Best Ribs” by the Food Network

May 12-18, 2016

1782 Madison | 272-1277 | www.dancingpigs.com

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C A L E N DA R: M AY 1 2 - 1 8 esting history of the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. A part of the Memphis in May International Salute. Through May 31.

MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.

Whet Thursday

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

Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.

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

FO O D & D R I N K EV E N TS

Beers With Pioneers

Discussion and Q&A with Jocie Wurzburg (formerly of the Panel of American Women) and Cara McLane of Lady Parts Justice, moderated by Planned Parenthood’s Tami Sawyer. Food trucks and free beer. Tues., May 17, 6 p.m.

AMURICA WORLD HEADQUARTERS, 410 CLEVELAND.

Cooper-Young Pup Crawl

Ten Cooper-Young restaurants and bars will offer special canine-themed drinks and donate 10 percent of sales. Participants should first stop at the gazebo at Cooper Street and Young Avenue to

get a free wristband. Thurs., May 12, 6-9 p.m.

Cinema of Canada

COOPER-YOUNG HISTORIC DISTRICT, WWW.COOPERYOUNGFESTIVAL.COM (937-3943), BIT.LY/ HSMSCPUPCRAWL.

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.

Saskatchewan Smokers Featuring Canadian team with pitmaster Rob Reinhardt, award-winning barbecue chef and instructor from Prairie Smoke & Spice. World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

May 12-14.

MALCO STUDIO ON THE SQUARE, 2105 COURT (725-7151), WWW. MEMPHISINMAY.ORG/EVENTS.

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Donna Tart’s 773-page novel had a buzz, more even than City on Fire and its reported $2 million advance for Hallberg (did I mention this is his first novel?), and I read both books expectantly, the way my kids eagerly anticipate a vacation to the beach. What they don’t anticipate is the long, seemingly endless road trip it takes to get to that destination. Indeed, the reading of Goldfinch and City both elicited more than one “How much longer?” and “Are we almost there?” from me.

More than editing, though, I think it’s a problem with publishing. Every so often one of the big five houses, in a snit over the media’s fascination for Amazon’s attempts to conquer their world, feels the need to say, “Look at us!

We’re still relevant! Look what we can do!” And in those moments, they woo agents and they create bidding wars and they manufacture hype for a novel the size of a toaster oven and a writer yet to prove his worth. That novel becomes the binge-watching of the publishing world.

But then again, I’m probably just bitter. Because in the months it took me to read City on Fire, along with work and television, I also finished writing my own novel. That 243-page manuscript is currently treading in the query-andrejection pool of publication. So if publishers can pay $2 million for a book, then good for them. And good for us, too, because we need more compelling stories, well-formed characters, and strong voices such that City on Fire and The Goldfinch offer, regardless of the road it takes to get there.

Once I (finally) finished City on Fire, I had to give this book, which had lived on my nightstand for so long, a home. To do so, I displaced much slimmer volumes of Camus, Morrison, and Fitzgerald. Is it worthy? Does its heft make it a better book than these? I’m afraid it’s not even in their weight class.

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My wife asked me this question one night recently as I turned to page 745.

I began reading City on Fire (Knopf)

by Garth Risk Hallberg when it first came out. That was back in October of last year, and I’ve only just finished. I’m a notoriously slow reader, and this tome is 944 pages. Still, I should have finished it earlier. Why didn’t I? Things got in the way: Work. Kids. I clicked around on Facebook, made a tweet or two. I bingewatched House of Cards and Daredevil.

We started and finished every season of Black Sails in the time it’s taken me to read this book.

These are the things that go into making us who we are, the DNA of our personalities. Okay, maybe not marathon viewings of Netflix, but certainly real-life interactions and the discussion of television over beers at a local taproom.

Just as these are the ingredients that go into making us the gumbo of who we are, writers cobble such details together to create characters and plot lines. Many times, reams of paper are used, flash drives filled, whole novellas written in creating the backstory for characters.

Most of the time, these are pages for a drawer or the trash. But sometimes all of that backstory makes it into print — necessary for the reader’s understanding or not — to flesh out a 944-page novel.

A long book isn’t necessarily a bad thing, unless the story drowns in the undulating waves of exposition, digression, and flashback, and I’m afraid that’s what’s happened with City on Fire.

Hallberg is a gifted writer and builds a dramatic and detailed backdrop of 1970s New York, which unfortunately loses its focus as the action drags. In the final section, there is a sense of urgency that propels us toward the climax, but it feels like an afterthought to all that’s come before.

The storylines in Hallberg’s debut novel are compelling. The characters are fully formed. The voice is strong.

The gumbo is delicious. My issue is with the editor who left the directions for the sausage-making right there on the wrapper for us all to see — every character’s backstory, every subsubplot’s arc.

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fter two long years of putting in some long hours, their dream has been realized for business partners Rob Coletta and Brandon Knight.

The pair recently opened Canvas, a bar-slash-music venue-slash-gallery-slashlive art forum.

“It’s an interactive arts lounge,” Coletta says. “It’s a place where we invite musicians, artists, and creative people to perform and create under the same roof.”

This is not their first go-round with the concept.

The two operated a similar venture downtown, Memphis Rehearsal Complex, for a few years until the opportunity “expired,” according to Coletta.

They immediately began looking for their next spot, and the house at the corner of Madison and Evergreen became available when Echoes of Time antiques

moved across the street.

“We were just driving by and saw it,” Knight says.

They immediately signed a lease, but the place was far from move-in ready.

The house is more than 100 years old.

“We took out part of the chimney and reinforced it with steel. We had to do new plumbing, electric work, heating and air.

We put in a brand new sidewalk all the way around,” Knight says.

They also put in a patio, which seats 40 in addition to the 50-seat indoor area.

Canvas features a seasonal drink menu with the first incarnation including Mud Island Tea, Painted Mule, and Purple Drank, all around $8 or $9.

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“We want to keep the focus on the art,” Coletta says.

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Canvas is open 4 p.m. to midnight every day, with the kitchen open late.

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He came for a visit and left with a vision.

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He describes it as a “five-star dive bar.”

It took him five months to build everything out, with a new bar and walls covered in old pictures and insignia he’s collected over the years.

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The print of Cosmo Kramer came with the place.

“It was in the women’s restroom, but I thought his place was out here so everyone could see him,” Atkinson says.

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“I wanted to be open for Memphis in May,” he says.

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Marvel Strikes Back Captain America: Civil War blasts the super heroic competition.

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How far along are we on this wave of superhero movies? I date it from Bryan Singer’s X-Men in 2000, although you could argue that it goes back to Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman. The studios have refined the hit-making formula, crowding all other genres out of the blockbuster space. Only Star Wars brings in that kind of business, and, as great as The Force Awakens was, it clearly showed the marks of the Disney/Marvel method. As long as the returns remain good, the culture will be papered with comic book movies — and with Captain America: Civil War opening to $673 million on a $250 million budget, there’s no sign the returns are going to fall off any time soon.

Constraints breed creativity, and as formulaic as bigtime superhero movies have become, Kevin Feige has a good process in place that both delivers the corporate goods and encourages filmmakers to do good work. Two of the Jon Favreau/Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man movies have been exceptional, but the real heart of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s overarching narrative is the Captain America franchise since Chris Evans was introduced as Steve Rogers in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger. Directed with a classical flair by Joe Johnston, The First Avenger established Captain America as a link to the country’s most heroic period: fighting the Nazis to save freedom. Steve Rogers has become a stand-in for America’s best version of ourselves. Whether it’s a super weapon in the hands of the Red Skull in his first film or an unaccountable surveillance state in Winter Soldier, how he reacts to the problems thrown at him is in accordance with the best angels of our civic religion.

Much of the credit for the success of the Captain America movies must be laid at the feet of Evans, who plays Steve Rogers as empathetic and fundamentally decent but with a strong sense of melancholy befitting a man out of time. The series has also been bolstered by strong direction, first from Johnston and then from Joe and Anthony Russo, who plunged the stalwart super patriot into a world of spy vs. spy intrigue in The Winter Soldier. The best superhero stories come when the heroes are confronted with challenges they are not well-equipped to face and a villain

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with enough vision to turn the heroes’ strengths into weaknesses. Captain America, the super soldier created to fight the Nazis, the ultimate external threat, found new depth when he had to tease out friend from foe inside the government he has sacrificed everything to serve.

The Russos are back at the helm for Civil War and have once again tried to tie into the zeitgeist of a divided America. 2016 gives us two blockbusters about superheroes fighting each other. The first was Zac Snyder’s dismal Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Civil War is much better in every respect, largely living up to Winter Soldier.

To defeat Superman, you must put Lois Lane in danger.

He’s too powerful to beat on his own, so you have to trick him into making mistakes. Similarly, the way you defeat Captain America is to put Bucky Barns (Sebastian Stan), aka the Winter Soldier, in danger. Bucky is Steve Rogers’ only link to the life he left behind in the 1940s, and Rogers feels partially responsible for Bucky getting the Soviet super soldier treatment that transformed him into a brainwashed assassin. When Civil War opens, Bucky’s been lying low since his escape at the end of The Winter Soldier.

Captain America and his revamped crew of Avengers — Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Vision (Paul Bettany), and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) — are engaged in their usual business of keeping the world safe by chasing the fabulously named superterrorist Brock Rumlow (Frank Grillo). But, as usual when an “enhanced persons” donnybrook breaks out in an urban area, there are col-

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There are two sides to every story — Chris Evans (above) as Captain America; Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle as Iron Man and War Machine.

lateral casualties. In this case, a delegation of development workers from the reclusive African kingdom of Wakanda, the source of the world’s vibrainium, the material that Captain America’s shield is made from. The king of Wakanda, T’Chaka (John Kani) leads a movement to bring the Avengers under the formal control of the United Nations, and other countries, seeing the devastation wrought in the Avengers’ former battlegrounds, quickly come on board.

After Tony Stark is confronted by the mother of a young man killed during the final battle of Avengers: Age of Ultron, he decides to back the UN resolution, known as the Sokovia Accords after the city that Ultron levitated into oblivion. But Steve Rogers disagrees. The Avengers were created to keep the world safe from superpowered bad guys, and Rogers is absolutely sure that he is the only person qualified to determine when and how those threats can be identified and neutralized. He and Stark are already on the outs when a truck bomb blows up the United Nations meeting on the Accords, and his old friend Bucky is tagged as the guy to blame. Rogers is torn between loyalties to his friend, to his government, and his own moral sense, and his path splits the Avengers into factions: the Iron Man-led, pro-accord forces, which include Black Widow, Vision, War Machine (Don Cheadle), and T’Challa, (Chadwick Boseman), aka Black Panther, the son of the slain Wakandan monarch who has vowed to kill Bucky. Standing with Captain America are Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Scarlet Witch, Ant Man (Paul Rudd), and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). To tip the odds in his favor, Stark tracks down Peter Parker (Tom Holland), who has only been Spider-Man for six months, and recruits him with an offer of a new spider suit.

The introduction of Spider-Man, the Marvel comic book empire’s greatest character creation, is just one demonstration of how superior the Marvel touch is to the DC regime. The Russos know we’ve seen Spider-Man’s origin story onscreen twice in this century, so when Stark asks Parker how he got his powers, he just mumbles “It’s complicated,” and leaves it at that. Holland’s version of Parker is closer to Toby Maguire’s goofy persona than the Andrew Garfield iteration, which is a big improvement.

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Boseman’s Black Panther is a welcome addition to the MCU. He gives T’Challa a regal bearing that suggests he would fit in on Game of Thrones. The end of Civil War charts an interesting future for him, which we’ll get to see more of in his solo movie scheduled for 2018.

The centerpiece of Civil War is a great set piece inside the evacuated Leipzig airport where the two factions go at it for what feels like a good 15 minutes. Here the Russo’s major inspiration for the film comes into focus. The Empire Strikes Back brought moral complication into the Manichaean Star Wars universe, and Civil War attempts to do the same by making Rogers choose between competing goods at every turn. While defending Winter Soldier from Iron Man, Captain America says he’s doing it because Bucky

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Civil War is massively overstuffed with characters and fragmentary storylines intended to connect to the bigger universe but which bogs down the present story. Captain America: Civil War is a fun time at the movies, and among the best of its breed, but you can be excused if you feel superhero fatigue setting in.

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Happy Holidays One thing I love about people in New Orleans is the way they treat every seasonal event like a holiday. It’s totally normal, even custom, to be greeted with a “Happy Mardi Gras!” “Happy Jazz Fest!” or simply “WHO DAT!” depending on the season. Along with a trunkful of craft beers and several bags of locally-made tortilla chips my husband loves, I’ve decided to bring the tradition home with me after my most recent trip to that other river city.

So, Happy Barbecue Fest, errrbody!

Though the air feels a little less electric (and a lot less polluted by yellow towel lint) without a Grizzly contribution to downtown’s bustle and buzz, this time of year is peak Memphis. Barbecue Fest combines several of my favorite things: people watching, smoked meats, and pig puns galore.

Barbecue Fest is a time to take inventory of personal relationships.

It’s about catching up with old friends, whom you may not have seen since the last drunken Thursday night spent at the terrifyingly wobbly three-story tent with the slushie machines. It’s best to send a text a few days or even weeks in advance so as not to seem too obvious, but there’s no room for shame when you’re on the prowl for wristbands. Those things are currency more precious than gold. If you can’t get into a tent, you might as well stay home. Once, I saw a woman salvage a discarded wristband from the dirt like she was Gollum and the One Ring was forged from a flimsy piece of paper from Oriental Trading Company.

Now that’s shameless.

Speaking of tents, it’s a time to redefine what constitutes a “tent.” Fifty-one weeks out of the year, a tent is a 10x10-ish nylon dome you camp in. During Barbecue Fest, a tent is a massive structure with scaffolding, plywood floors, and two flights of steel stairs that ought to require a waiver to climb. Some have nicer televisions with bigger screens than the one in my living room. Some have sound systems that could fill a large nightclub’s dance floor with sound.

Barbecue Fest is a time for adventure and stepping out of your comfort zone. Try something new — like an entry in the “Anything But” category! Or a shot of Fireball, poured down an unsanitary block of ice, into the mouths of you and the new best friend you just met. It’s a time for hopeful optimism, as you say a quick prayer that the porta potty you choose is suitable for human occupancy.

Sometimes, Barbecue Fest introduces you to a new side of people. You might learn a longtime friend is actually a gifted barbecue chef who’s been holding out on you for years.

Most people only reveal their drunk side, though. How many of us have watched in bemused admiration as Jane from accounting finally let her hair down after a few Jell-O shots? (Sorry, Jane — you only made me swear I wouldn’t tell your supervisor.)

It’s a time to create the memories that either last forever, or that are conveniently erased by the combined effects of power-drinking and neglecting to take advantage of the omnipresent pulled pork, ribs, and sausage that comprise the entire raison d’être for that glorious event.

Maybe you’re on a team, and Barbecue Fest is about finally showing off the results of months spent testing temperatures and tweaking rub recipes. It’s about taking a few days off from the 9-to-5 grind of your day job to build a “tent” and enjoy some time down by the river.

I hate to use the term “only in Memphis,” but does any of the above sound like a good time anywhere else? Maybe not on paper. But there’s something about that view of the river, the aromatic haze that clouds several downtown blocks, and the growing assortment of clever civicminded bootleg T-shirts. The sight of a lone flip-flop in the mud, left behind by someone who obviously enjoyed her first Barbecue Fest, evokes the comfortable familiarity of home.

So I’m looking forward to seeing y’all down by the river. Or if I don’t, remember to check the weather forecast before you head out. Bring toilet paper, just in case. Carefully consider your choice of footwear. Keep tabs on your Jell-O shot/mystery punch/brown liquor/all of the above consumption, and drink some water. Don’t forget to eat something: You’re surrounded by food, for heaven’s sake. Be prepared to spend big bucks on an Uber. It’s still cheaper than a DUI. Just take it all in, cut loose, and enjoy yourself. Happy Barbecue Fest.

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2865 Kirby Parkway (off 385-North of Quince in front of Kroger) • 901-756-1993 • Fax: 901-757-0275 • Shop Inventory Online: www.KirbyWines.com 901-452-5620 INVENTORY ARRIVING DAILY

EVERTHING ON SALE!

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2865 Kirby Parkway

HAVING A PARTY? KIRBY WINES CAN NOW DELIVER

(off 385-North of Quince in front of Kroger) ALL YOUR PARTY NEEDS 901-756-1993 • Fax: 901-757-0275 Shop Inventory Online: www.KirbyWines.com *Contact us for more info PRICES ARE GOOD THRU 05/14/16

TUT-UNCOMMON ANTIQUES 421 N. Watkins St. 278-8965 1500 sq. ft. of Vintage & Antique Jewelry.

Retro Furniture and Accessories. Original Paintings, Sculpture, Pottery, Art & Antiques.

We are the only store in the Mid-South that replaces stones in costume jewelry.