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Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote the line above in response to seeing a louse on a high-born lady’s bonnet at church. The point being, of course, that while we might think we’re looking pretty good, someone else might be noticing a flaw we’ve overlooked. The reverse is also true: Others may see virtues in ourselves we have taken for granted or forgotten we had.

Such was the case for me last weekend, when my mother, my brother, and his wife came to spend a few days with us. My brother is a Civil War and history buff, and they’d been traveling through Tennessee and Mississippi, visiting various battlefields and historic sites. They’d enjoyed the history lessons and the scenery but were less than impressed with the plethora of Confederate flags and bumper stickers they’d seen on cars and homes and businesses throughout their travels.

The people of the South, they thought, seemed to have regressed since their last trip through three years ago. Enter Memphis. After a couple of days, the dense canopy of oaks, the rambling houses and neighborhoods, the restaurants, the river views, South Main, and the friendly people they met everywhere they went worked their magic.

“This is no backwater town,” my brother said. “The difference between what we’ve seen on the road and here is really surprising.”

“Well,” I said, “we do have a Nathan Bedford Forrest statue, but it probably won’t be here the next time you come through.”

So we drove to see it. I remained in the car while Perry hustled over to the statue and took a couple of shots. Then, as a palate cleanser, we went to the National Civil Rights Museum.

I hadn’t been to NCRM since the renovation a couple of years back, and I want to tell you — all of you Memphians who haven’t been lately, or ever — get down there and see this museum. It’s so impressive now.

The visit begins in a room dedicated to the history of slavery, with a life-sized statuary of men in chains, in the position in which they were restrained for the trans-Atlantic journey.

Maps and interactive displays bring the evils of slavery to life in ways that will stay in your head for days. It should be a required experience for every American, and certainly every Southerner.

After a rather hokey short film, which was the only off-putting note of the entire experience, you journey ever-upward, through Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow era, and into the struggles of the 1960s. The museum’s former touchstones — Rosa Parks’ bus, the iconic lunch counter, the burned-out Freedom Rider bus, the Memphis Sanitation Department truck, Dr. King’s motel room — are all still there, but they’ve been enhanced with other exhibits and made more compelling and engaging.

As you leave the Lorraine Motel building, you are directed across the street into the former rooming house where James Earl Ray(?) pulled the trigger. It’s sobering to look out the sniper’s bathroom window at the balcony where Dr. King fell.

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About Toby Sells’ post, “House Dems Stage Sit-in for Gun Vote” …

A bunch of old folks with money and power decided to sit on the floor until their butts got numb, and then decided to call it off and congratulate themselves, as if they had actually accomplished something.

And they complained about Bernie Sanders being unrealistic and ineffective for the many months that he continued after they had anointed Hillary Clinton. Pathetic.

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TV LAND East Tennessee politician Rick Tyler isn’t disheartened by the negative publicity he’s received as the result of his race-bating billboard campaign to “make America white again.” On the contrary, the 58-year-old U.S. Congressional candidate who received only .05 percent of the vote in his previous campaign against Senator Lamar Alexander, says it was all part of his grand plan to do an “end run” around the “iron curtain of censorship” and dispense “hardcore” truth.

“Be assured, the response that has been engendered by the billboard is precisely what was expected and hoped for,” Tyler wrote in a loony rant that dismisses charges of racism because the “Caucasian race has been inordinately blessed and favored by the God of scripture.”

Tyler, who appears to have trouble distinguishing actual history from things he’s seen on TV, doubled down earlier statements about how the “Leave It to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet, [and] Mayberry America of old” were superior to today.

“Yes, that Norman Rockwell America was immensely preferable to the rapidly deteriorating culture now engulfing us,” Tyler wrote. “Only the ignorant and misguided would resist its restoration and resuscitation.”

MILES FILES Fly on the Wall is completely obsessed with WMC reporter Jason Miles’ determination to crawl under, into, and over things. So it was exciting to see him tweet “First degree murder suspect extracted from an attic. I get in one to help tell the story” because he’s never gotten in a murder suspect.

Turns out he was getting in an attic.

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University employees can begin carrying handguns on Friday.

Handguns will be allowed on the campuses of Tennessee’s public universities on Friday, and Memphis’ two biggest universities began registering employees wishing to carry this week.

State lawmakers passed the bill to allow full-time employees to carry handguns on public university campuses in May. Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam expressed concern about the legislation at the time but allowed the bill to become law without his signature.

The bill was opposed by the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) and the University of Tennessee (UT) system. The two organizations will manage gun-carry programs at the 46 institutions they oversee.

“Our police chiefs and public safety officers will face greater challenges when responding to emergency situations with the complexity this law adds to their responsibilities,” TBR interim Chancellor David Gregory said in May. Employees must have a state-issued permit to carry a handgun, and they must register with their school’s police department if they want to carry on campus. University of Memphis opened its registration process to employees Tuesday.

University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will open its registration process Friday.

Handguns cannot be carried into stadiums, gymnasiums, or auditoriums while school-sanctioned events are in progress.

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UTHSC, handguns cannot be carried into a hospital, student health or counseling center, or into an office that provides medical or mental health services.

U of M president David Rudd was expected to release a more detailed statement on the issue this week, but in a statement to the U of M campus community in May, he said “I don’t believe the presence of more weapons will make our campus safer.”

“The University of Memphis campuses have consistently been among the safest in the state, which is critical to student success,” Rudd said. “We believe our exemplary safety record is continued on page 7

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Domestic violence victims face additional challenges when abuser is a gang member.

In most domestic violence cases, there are two primary people involved — an abuser and a victim. But for those who are being abused by a gang member, there may be multiple abusers, according to the Family Safety Center’s Executive Director Olliette Murry-Drobot.

“It used to be that when an abuser was in a gang, there was a ‘hands-off ’ mentality, as the other members of the gang didn’t interfere in the relationship — it was the abuser’s woman, his business,” Murry-Drobot said. “But, that’s changed, and we have seen a lot more victims being further victimized by their abuser’s fellow gang members. While incarcerated, the abuser has ‘eyes’ on her at all times, receiving reports back about her whereabouts, who she’s spending time with, and such.”

None of the clients of Family Safety Center (FSC) of Memphis and Shelby County who are currently dealing with gang-related domestic violence were willing to speak with the Flyer, but Angie Galyean, an FSC navigator, spoke about her role helping these women escape from abusive situations.

“I notice in more of my higher-risk cases that there’s a gang affiliation there. When there is, there’s also an intimidation factor. You’re not just being intimidated by one

offender, you’re also potentially being intimidated by all the other gang members,” Galyean said.

She said gang members are often more violent as abusers, and they have access to more resources, such as guns and bail money from fellow gang members when the offender is locked up.

“If the offender is in jail, all he has to do is make a phone call to one of his fellow gang members, and they can reach out and threaten the victim,” Galyean said.

In non-gang-related cases, Galyean says the FSC will sometimes urge the victims to move across town to get away from their abuser. But in these gang cases, she said it’s not so simple.

“Here in Memphis, the gang members are everywhere, in every part of town. So we’ll encourage them to move some place out of town if that’s a good idea,” Galyean said. “But if their next best option is to go live with their cousin in Atlanta, that may not be a good idea either. If the offender is part of a larger gang, that gang will have reach into other major cities. It’s really difficult. I’m not going to lie.”

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Home Sweet Home Crosstown Concourse apartments go up for rent, preservationists fight to save Aretha Franklin’s birthplace.

• As of Tuesday morning, 165 apartments inside the revitalized Crosstown Concourse building were available for lease.

The apartments have been named Parcels at Concourse as an homage to the building’s former use as a Sears warehouse and shipping center. In the days when the building served as the Sears Crosstown headquarters, more than 400,000 square feet of the upper floors housed thousands of products that were packaged and shipped to customers.

Four different floor plans are available — the Crafton (a 540- to 740-square-foot studio), the Kismet (a 615- to 950-square-foot one-bedroom), the Americus (a 950- to 1,465-squarefoot two-bedroom), and the Greenview (a 1,900-square-foot three-bedroom).

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top out at $2,484 for the largest threebedroom. Some of the apartments will be ready by January or February. The $200 million renovation of the building, which developers have dubbed a “vertical urban village,” is expected to be complete by the first quarter of 2017.

Parcels residents will have access to restaurants (Kimbal Musk’s The Kitchen Next Door has already signed a lease), retail, art galleries, performance spaces, and the Church Health Center’s fitness and wellness centers (residents get a free fitness membership), which will all be located on the lower floors of the building.

“Parcels at Concourse is one of the most exciting aspects of the Crosstown development,” said Todd Richardson, co-leader of Crosstown Concourse.

“The mix of residents — artists, doctors, educators, and others who

embrace Midtown and downtown is going to be incredibly unique. But it’s the Concourse vertical village context, with restaurants, retail, galleries, performances, and a 25,000-square-foot fitness center that will make living at Parcels such a meaningful experience.”

They’ll also share space in the building with Crosstown Arts, Memphis Teacher Residency, Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare, City Leadership, Christian Brothers University, and a number of other health, arts, and education organizations to be located inside the building. If all goes as planned, there may also be a public high school located inside the building.

To inquire about leasing, visit the Parcels website (parcelsatconcourse. com), call 435-7796, or visit the leasing office at 430 N. Cleveland.

• Preservationists are expected to present their plan to salvage Aretha Franklin’s blighted birth home in Shelby County Environmental Court on Thursday morning.

At that point, Judge Larry Potter could either give the group more time to save the South Memphis shotgun house or go through with demolition.

Earlier this month, the Environmental Court put the home into a city receivership and ordered the home to be demolished. It was first declared a public nuisance in October 2012 due to its blighted state. The entire back half of the home was nearly destroyed by fire years ago, and one side of the roof over the porch is sagging.

South Memphis Renewal CDC was appointed a receiver for the property at 406 Lucy about a year ago, and Jeffrey Higgs of the LeMoyne-Owen College CDC informed the Environmental Court that his group would fund-raise and relocate the home. No physical progress has been made with that plan so far, so last week, a group of volunteers from Memphis Heritage worked to board up and stabilize the home.

Higgs attended a Memphis Heritage meeting about saving the home last week, and he said he has a $15,000 commitment to help stabilize the property, but he said he wasn’t at liberty to discuss those details.

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Stuart Dedmon is a U of M student, and he heads the Tennessee chapter of Students for Concealed Carry (SCC), which advocates for on-campus carry rights. He said the organization does not claim that on-campus carry will make campuses safer. Concealed carry is about personal protection, he said, not public protection.

“We realize that many individuals are uncomfortable with the thought of armed individuals on their college campus, but those same individuals worried about guns on campus are likely surrounded by licensed and armed individuals while off campus.,” Dedmon said.

Tennessee Senate Minority Leader Lee Harris, who is also a professor at U of M’s law school, surveyed 1,700 university faculty members across the state, and he said many criticized the move.

“Make no mistake. Special interest groups and the opinions of a very small minority of Tennesseans drive decisions like this one,” Harris said.

Southwest Tennessee Community College did not respond to an inquiry on this story.

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said Galyean, is the average age of these victims. She said, when there’s gang affiliation in a domestic violence situation, more often than not, the victims are teenagers. If they’re still in high school, moving out of the city isn’t an option. Teenagers can’t even get an order of protection on their own, but rather, their parents must file for the order.

Galyean said it’s hard to say how many such cases end up at the FSC — which helps women with protection orders, safety planning, housing, counseling, and other resources. That’s because some victims facing violence from gang members aren’t willing to tell their FSC navigator about the gang affiliation.

“There’s a fear that if they tell somebody, the gang may retaliate. The victims often have information about gang culture and illegal activities,” Galyean said.

When the FSC does know about gang affiliation, the center can work with the Memphis Police Department and Shelby County Sheriff ’s Department’s gang units.

“If it’s one gang member, it’s not considered gang activity. But if it’s two gang members, it is,” Galyean said.

“If that happens, we let the domestic violence units know, and they pass that along to the gang units.”

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Settle the Carson Matter!

There are, as it turns out, more guaranteed circumstances than the two most often noted: death and taxes. Right up there with those two, in terms of inevitability, is the fact of discord in state and local Democratic Party ranks.

The latest instance of such is contained in a letter dispatched to members of the Shelby County Democratic executive committee from state Democratic Party chair Mary Mancini. The letter deals with the long-festering case of former local party chairman Bryan Carson, who was forced to resign by the county committee in February of 2015.

The Mancini letter, in essence, mandates the terms of a resolution of the matter by the Shelby County party and provides a short deadline for doing so.

The executive committee’s action in early 2015 came after the county party had been fined by the Tennessee Election Registry for its failure to comply with financial reporting deadlines, and after Carson had been unable to account for the disposition of several thousand dollars in party funds. At issue also was the fact that the chairman had apparently switched bank accounts for the party funds without express authorization by the executive committee,

and had made several withdrawals from ATM machines without providing receipts.

The exact amount of the financial discrepancy has never been determined, but a preliminary audit performed by committee members at the time of Carson’s resignation estimated the unaccounted-for amount to be at least $6,000. Another ad hoc investigating group on the committee has since arrived at a higher estimate for the missing funds, in the vicinity of $25,000, but there has never been absolute agreement on the committee on the validity of either sum.

Through his attorney, Robert Spence, Carson admitted no wrongdoing but offered to settle the dispute by compensating the local party for the $6,000 sum at the rate of $100 a month. There is disagreement as to whether the full committee was ever apprised of the offer, which, in any case, ceased to be active.

Compounding the confusion was the fact that Carson’s elected successor as chairman, Randa Spears, as well as the local party’s first vice chair, Deidre Malone, both abruptly resigned their positions in April, each giving the press the answer of other obligations as the reason for their departure.

The Spears-led party had meanwhile missed another financial reporting deadline for this

year and had been assessed a fresh $10,000 fine by the Election Registry.

At its regularly scheduled monthly meeting on Thursday, June 2nd, the executive committee elected a new chairman, Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant Michael Pope, and acted on a motion by defeated chairmanship candidate Del Gill to prosecute Carson for embezzling the larger estimated sum. That motion passed, fairly handily, but there has been no formal action on the matter by the committee since.

All of that formed the background for the Mancini letter, dated June 24th, to the Shelby County executive committee, care of chairman Pope.

Mancini’s letter begins with a citation of party bylaws and state codes that, she says, assign her “both a supervisory and organizational role over each of the county executive committees that operate throughout the state.” The letter follows with a cursory and none too indulgent recounting of the Shelby County’s ongoing problems (“many years of dysfunction,” as she puts it).

Mancini then comes to the nut of the matter, prescribing a settlement in accord with the dormant offer made to the party by Mary Mancini

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State Democratic Party Chair Mary Mancini orders a $6,000 payback agreement to cover ex-chairman Bryan Carson’s funding shortfall.

POLITICS Carson through his attorney: “With a looming election that is shaping up to be of monumental importance for our state and our country, and for the health of your organization and executive committee, it is my responsibility to inform you that you must agree to the arrangement that Mr. Carson pay the amount of $6,000 at $100 per month for 5 years and be released from any additional claims and that Chairman Pope must sign all the necessary paperwork to honor that agreement or you will no longer be in compliance with your charter issued by the Tennessee Democratic Party.”

Ironically, perhaps, Mancini had been sounded out by disgruntled party members wondering if voluntary surrender of the local party’s charter might be a feasible option. She had always answered no to such inquiries.

The deadline for “signing the necessary paperwork and forwarding it to Mr. Carson’s attorney is Friday, July 1, 2016,” Mancini concludes.

Some party members are questioning Mancini’s authority to mandate an or-else solution of this sort, while others are ready to acknowledge that she has the right.

In any case, there is no pending meeting of the executive committee until the regularly scheduled one of Thursday, July 7th, and thus no opportunity for a committee vote before Mancini’s deadline.

Chairman Pope has indicated he is prepared to accept Mancini’s mandate, but his authority to do so without a committee authorization is questionable. To say the least, confusion persists.

Dynamic Duo: During his first several congressional terms after being elected in 2006, Ninth District

U.S. Representative Steve Cohen cemented an alliance with venerable Detroit congressman John Conyers (D-Michigan), who then served as House Judiciary Committee chairman and regarded the Memphis liberal, a committee member, as something of a protégé and journeyed to Memphis on Cohen’s behalf.

When the Republicans captured control of the House after the election of 2010, the Conyers-Cohen tandem was not heard from with the same intensity, but it still existed. This week, after the landmark Supreme Court decision striking down the severe restrictions on abortion clinics imposed by a Texas state law, Conyers and Cohen reasserted themselves as a duo.

In a joint press release, Conyers, in his capacity as ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Cohen, as ranking member of the Judiciary subcommittee on Constitutional and Civil Justice, hailed the court’s decision as a reaffirmation of “the fundamental constitutional right of women to make their own decisions about their health, their bodies, their families, and their lives.”

Said the two congressmen:“The court correctly saw the Texas law for what it was, which was an attempt to severely restrict abortion rights and not one to protect women’s health,” and that the Texas law “placed such substantial obstacles to a woman’s choice to have an abortion that its provisions were an ‘undue burden’ on women’s constitutional right to choose.”

The Conyers-Cohen press release highlighted one of the congressman’s built-in advantages in generating media.

Cohen has three opponents in the 2016 Democratic primary: Shelby County Commissioner Justin Ford, Larry Crim, and M. LaTroy Williams. Republican Wayne Alberson and independent Paul Cook will be on the November ballot.

More Fallout: The Supreme Court’s decision on the

invalidated Texas statute, incidentally, will almost surely have repercussions in Tennessee, where the General Assembly in recent years has enacted laws with provisions almost identical to those in the Texas law, which basically required doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and imposed rigid standards on abortion clinics resembling those for hospitals performing outpatient surgery.

Laws passed by the Tennessee legislature in 2012 and 2014 had made similar specifications, which have been challenged in the U.S. District Court in Nashville.

Promises, Promises: The fact that a freshman seat in the U.S. House of Representatives — to be one of 435 — is the equivalent of landing an entry-level job in the federal government, the continuation of which is entirely contingent on the good will (or passing whims) of voters back home, is often lost sight of in the heat of campaigning. Candidates want to suggest that they can, all by themselves, shift national policy, and who can blame them?

Along this line, it will be hard for any of his competitors to beat two claims made by 8th District Republican congressional candidate David Kustoff in a TV commercial that just hit the airwaves over the weekend.

The ad proclaims that Kustoff, the former U.S. Attorney for Western Tennessee, has impeccable credentials as a conservative and will, for example, oppose Obamacare, but it makes two additional claims that are unprecedented in their magnitude.

In the checklist of promises with which the commercial concludes, one learns that Kustoff will (drumroll) “end illegal immigration” and (thunder and lightning) “destroy radical Islamic terrorism.” Not to vote to do these things, mind you, but — well, just to do them.

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awakened fears in city circles that the long-blocked ambition of the then-wholly suburban Shelby County Schools board for special-school-district status would be enabled by the new legislature. Fairly or not, many residents of Memphis’ urban core believed that such an outcome would result in the diversion of significant state funding from city schools. Jones was a leader in moving for the MCS charter surrender that, in theory, would lead to the merger of city and county schools and the avoidance of any such fiscal dilution.

Subsequently, as a member of the blueribbon Transition Planning Commission that was created by the legislature, allegedly to “facilitate” the merger, Jones appeared to be on the side of those who took seriously the TPC’s ostensible mission of setting the stage for a successful union of the two existing systems. From the beginning, there were elements of a sham to the process, since the Norris-Todd bill which created the TPC seemed clearly designed to lead to a secession of the Shelby County suburban municipalities from the newly merged common district.

As we all know, that is how things ended up, with a fragmented local educational landscape, consisting of six suburban school districts and a rump version of SCS that served mainly Memphis and a bit of unincorporated county turf and was further balkanized by a galaxy of charter schools and a state-supported Achievement School District that gobbled up “nonperforming” city schools.

But there had been a brief moment when the prospect of a unified and

merged city/county school district seemed possible. That was when an initiative developed across various jurisdictional lines to name John Aitken, the respected superintendent of the old version of SCS, as superintendent of the unified new version. Unexpectedly, Jones, the presumed progressive and apostle of school unity, became one of the leaders of a stop-Aitken movement and made clear his loyalty to an urban faction that brooked no possibility of a compromise solution. The result was deadlock on the ad hoc provisional board then governing the public schools and the ultimate disintegration of the merged system.

Why do we bring up this unhappy history? Because once again we see Mr. Jones, now a member of the Memphis City Council, applying his talents, not to the process of unity but to that of parochialism in his sponsorship of a prospective referendum to force all city employees, including first responders, to live within the city limits — binding the Strickland administration’s hands and limiting its options as it strives, at a time of rising violent crime, to rebuild what is a seriously truncated police force.

The able councilman from Super District 8 still, as in his time on the school board, has stand-out moments — as when he, and he alone, demurred from the original Council vote to give the Memphis Zoo board total oversight over the Overton Park Greensward. But we think he’s wrong on the residency issue and urge his council colleagues — or the city’s voters, if it comes to it — to reject the proposal.

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How much difference is there between a “strong leader” and a “strongman”? all the promises before, but their jobs disappeared anyway.

So, when House Speaker Paul Ryan blathers on about the “dignity of work” while opposing an increased minimum wage, people intuitively understand how little the GOP has done for them. When conservative pundit David Brooks allows the phrase “creative destruction” to float so effortlessly across his lips when discussing technology’s elimination of jobs, workers hear that the elites don’t give a damn about the dislocation of fleshand-blood human beings.

What’s truly laughable is the GOP’s sudden interest in “conscience” as they try to engineer the ousting of Trump. Ever since LBJ’s civil rights legislation was passed, Republicans have been playing to the racial fears of the people whose jobs they were simultaneously helping CEOs to outsource. Now they’re unhappy with the GOP People’s Choice?

Insecure, fearful people are, by definition, not rational. They only know that once they had a secure place in society, and now they don’t.

I guess they’d like to forget that Reagan’s 1980 campaign was announced in Philadelphia, Mississippi — site of the murder of three civil rights workers in 1964. If that doesn’t explain their strategy, I don’t know what does.

Not that Democrats have much to brag about in protecting the interests of the everyday American. Their own standard bearer is pretty cozy with some of the same elites. If you doubt this, ask if Goldman Sachs would pay Hillary Clinton a quarter of a million dollars to take them to the proverbial woodshed.

Neither candidate is likely to significantly improve the outlook for the working and middle classes, but our descent into anarchy will be slowed if Clinton is elected. In the meantime, maybe we can avoid societal chaos by convincing former Trump supporters and other constituencies that our best shot at making this country great is by working to elect more “small d” democrats.

America is not so special that we cannot fall under the spell of a Hitler-like demagogue during uncertain times. Those times are here and that demagogue’s name is Trump.

Ruth Ogles Johnson is a frequent contributor to the Flyer.

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Donald Trump’s emergence as the presumptive GOP nominee should be anything but surprising, given the party’s racist strategy for the last 50 years.

What is shocking is that GOP leaders did not know this at the beginning of the campaign, which is a measure of how out-of-touch they are with the white working and middle classes. That any Americans voted for Trump is a measure of how desperate they are for change.

But voting for Trump because you want to shake things up is like burning your house down because you need to clean out your closets. A President Trump will almost certainly take us down the path to nationalist politics that could destroy our republic. And despite all the polling that indicates his support is waning, a Clinton landslide is far from certain.

In a recent interview on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show, Larry Pressler, a former Republican senator from South Dakota, mentioned his academic work as a Rhodes scholar on the German elections of 192728 and how our current political climate contains parallels. I am loath to compare politicians to Hitler, but it may be time to get over my squeamishness, because the wave of sentiment that has carried Trump this far is not unlike Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. And Germany’s elites objected to him, too.

All revolutions spring from dissatisfaction with the status quo. From Louis XVI’s date with the guillotine, to the murder of the Russian czar, to the overthrow of Batista in Cuba, citizens chose to man the barricades and risk death, rather than starving while the oligarchs stuffed their bellies.

Into this political maelstrom comes a Robespierre, a Lenin, a Castro — and the rest, as they say, is history. How much difference is there between a “strong” leader and a “strongman”?

My mother came of age in the Depression and regaled me with stories of how Germans would roll wheelbarrows of cash into stores in their efforts to stay ahead of an exchange rate that at its height in 1924, was 4.5 trillion German marks to one U.S. dollar. Then came Hitler, swept along by nationalist fervor and economic insecurity. Compare his propaganda regarding Jews with Trump’s on Hispanics and Muslims, and his promise to make Germany into a major power again, and one cannot easily ignore the parallels.

Insecure, fearful people are, by definition, not rational. They care little for what history has to teach — they only know that once they had a secure place in society, and now they don’t. They’ve heard

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n Friday, July 1st, grocery stores in Tennessee will begin selling wine.

Consider it the ripened grape of a years-long political battle, one that has created the biggest change in Tennessee booze laws since Prohibition.

Tennessee is now one of 40 states that allows wine sales in grocery stores. State lawmakers passed the legislation in 2014, and since then, lawmakers in Colorado and Pennsylvania have passed similar wine-in-grocery-stores bills. But before Tennessee passed its wine bill, it had been 24 years since the last time a state passed a law allowing grocery wine sales.

“So, we don’t really know what to expect,” said Elizabeth G. Mall, a sales representative with Delta Wholesale, Inc. “July 1st is going to happen, and it’ll open the floodgates. Then, we’ll see.”

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Nashville was cold on that Monday in early March 2014; “weather-worn” was how The Memphis Flyer’s Jackson Baker described it. But there were enough members of the Tennessee Senate to make a quorum. So, they got to work and passed SB 837, the “wine-in-grocery-stores bill,” on a vote of 23-4. It was a procedural move, really,

Ryan Gill (above) shows off local products at Doc’s; Sean Silk (below) pours a beer at Doc’s. and liquor stores to mark up wine 20 percent from the wholesaler’s price.

William Cheek, an alcoholic beverage law expert with Nashville’s Bone McAllester Norton law firm, said it’s an oft-forgotten part of the law. “The 20 percent markup is based on the mostrecent amount invoiced by the wholesaler,” Cheek explained. “For example, if a store buys wine at $5, the state minimum price is $6. If the store orders more of the same wine, and the wholesaler charges $6, all of the new and all old inventory in the store must be marked up to $7.20.”

Prices and more will be unveiled to all on July 1st, but one thing seems certain: For the first time in Tennessee, your bananas can ride in the same cart as your bottle of red.

Bracing for Impact

It shows just how far the wine bill has come. Novels could be filled with the words spilled over the wine issue in its nine years under legislative review in Nashville. and more — and they got a year to settle into their new situation. State coffers got — or will get — an estimated additional $13 million in tax revenues.

The religious right walked away emptyhanded.

Consumers will get added convenience and, perhaps, lower prices on booze across

the board. Wine economists (yes, that’s a thing) at Cornell University said in a 2011 study that allowing grocery sales of wine lowers beer prices by about 4 percent, wine prices by about 13 percent, and liquor prices about 2 percent.

However, the Tennessee wine-ingrocery-stores law requires grocery stores

Southwind Wine & Spirits on Hacks Cross is located right next door to Costco, which never mattered much in terms of competition until the bill passed allowing wine sales in grocery stores.

“It’s a total game-changer for us,” said Southwind general manager Ryan Gill.

“We’re going to have to transition to more liquor sales. We need to make sure we have a more knowledgeable staff that can give over-the-top customer service.”

Gill’s sentiments echo a widespread belief among local liquor store owners and retailers that, beginning July 1st, their businesses will be negatively impacted.

As a concession for liquor stores, the wine bill allowed sales of lower-alcohol beers, mixers, wine accessories, food, and other party supplies. Liquor store owners were allowed to diversify their products in July 2014, giving them a year’s head start.

Some stores, however, were limited on what they could add, based on space or competition from nearby grocery stores.

At Southwind, Gill says they can’t sell much low-alcohol beer because Costco has that market cornered, but the bill also allowed liquor stores to start delivering alcohol to events. Since Southwind provides the wine and liquor for the St. Jude golf tournament, Gill said that part of the business has helped some — but not enough.

“To be honest, our wine sales make 65 percent of our business, and everything they’ve given us in return might make up 5 percent. It’s not a fair trade,” Gill said.

“But at least we got something out of it.”

Joe’s Wines & Liquor in Midtown added a beer and wine growler station after the bill passed, and while owner Brad Larson admits that’s helped “keep our regulars satisfied,” he said the ability to add food and party supplies won’t make up for the business he expects to lose on wine sales. continued on page 14

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as the Senate had approved its version of the measure months before, as had the House. But the bill needed that final vote to reconcile the House and Senate versions, before it could head to Governor Bill Haslam’s desk. Haslam signed it into law on March 20th.

Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey was a prime mover of the bill and noted that it “allows for the expansion of consumer choice while protecting small businesses that took risks and invested capital under the old system.”

Ramsey’s quote was precise, exacting, the soundbite-iest soundbite you could possibly squeeze from a Christian, probusiness Republican. And it shows just how far the wine bill had come. Novels could be filled with the words spilled over the wine issue in its nine years under legislative review in Nashville. By 2014, the message had been so refined that Ramsey was able to crystallize it in one, easy-to-sell phrase.

Grocery store owners and liquor store owners (and both sides’ lobbyists) had clashed in the halls and great chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly since 2008. Grocery stores argued for “customer convenience” (code for “big business should be allowed to sell wine”).

Liquor stores argued the change would eat their profits, close their stores, and put thousands of Tennesseans out of a job (code for “breaking the decades-old monopoly liquor stores had held on wine sales”). Liquor stores were also helped by the unlikeliest of allies: the religious right.

During the debates, Randy Davis of the Tennessee Baptist Convention reminded legislators of the liquor-by-the-drink law they’d passed years before, which allowed cities to vote on whether to legalize liquor sales in restaurants. Davis was quoted in the Knoxville News Sentinel saying that the law had torn families apart and ruined friendships in Pigeon Forge. He wasn’t sure where wine-in-grocery stores would lead, but he begged lawmakers to vote against it.

The Tennessee Grocers & Convenience Store Association had formed a campaign for grocery sales called Red White and Food in 2007. The campaign had powerhouse partners such as Walmart, Kroger, BI-LO, Food City, Food Lion, Publix, and SuperLo Foods. Even with such big-business clout behind it, the issue (like a fine wine?) needed time to mature.

Red White and Food kept at it, bringing a new bill to Nashville every year. Most years it was all but dead on arrival. It got close in 2013 but was defeated in a House committee by one (flip-flopped) vote. At the end of that session, Ramsey, the powerful Speaker of the Senate, said that the bill had a real shot of passing in 2014. This gave the issue a name-brand, high-level push and nearly a year for the interested parties to sort it all out.

They came up with a compromise that promised a little something for almost everyone. Grocery stores got to sell wine. Liquor stores got to expand their offerings with beer, light food, mixers,

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“I never wanted to be a grocer, but we had to put in things like chips and dips, sausages, cheeses, spaghetti, and spaghetti sauce,” Larson said. “It’s like a mini-grocery.”

Buster’s Liquors & Wines underwent a major expansion that opened last December, adding about 6,000 square feet to the 10,000-square-foot space at Poplar and Highland.

“We were really fortunate as far as timing was concerned,” said Buster’s owner Josh Hammond. “The day the bill passed, we called up the folks next door and started discussions with them and Loeb Properties about acquiring that space.”

The expansion allowed Buster’s to more than double its cold storage, increasing space for beer and cold wines. They added a growler station with a Pegas growler fill that allows customers to store unopened growlers for a month. There’s also a new wine-tasting station featuring 12 wines at a time. Hammond said they’re not able to do tastings every night because of staffing issues, but he eventually aspires to that.

According to Hammond, the expansion, plus the ability to add new products, has boosted sales at Buster’s.

“It’s definitely helping. We’re already at about 5 percent of volume for beer sales and about 2 percent for food and accessories,” Hammond said. “We’re

carrying ice now and Yeti coolers. We just started carrying kegs this week.”

As for retaining wine customers, liquor store owners agree their edge may come from better customer service and competitive pricing. Some Kroger stores will have wine consultants but only the larger stores. In most grocery stores, customers will be left on their own to figure out what wine to pair with pasta or what wine is best for a pool party.

“I went in to Kroger the other day and asked for lentils, and a guy told me to try the frozen food section. So good luck with help finding a cabernet or a sauvignon blanc,” Larson said. “You’re not going to get any service at Kroger. I can tell you that.”

As for pricing, a provision in the bill requires all wine sellers — liquor stores and grocery stores — to mark up wines by 20 percent. But some liquor store managers say they’ll be able to sell wines cheaper because they can order more cases at a time.

“Where I think we have a bit of an advantage is we can store more cases than grocery stores, so whereas I might be able to buy 100 cases of a product, Kroger will not be able to because they don’t have the capacity to store those cases,” said Philip Forman, the general manager of Kirby Wines & Liquors. “The bigger deal we can buy, the better the price will be. We’re confident that, price-wise, they won’t be able to beat us.”

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Derek Stamper is a wine consultant at Kroger.

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You’ve got a shopping cart filled with pasta, tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, mushrooms, and fresh basil — everything you need to make spaghetti with homemade marinara. But what wine to pair with it? At most grocery stores around town, you’ll be left on your own to figure that out. But at 12 larger Shelby County Krogers, a full-time wine consultant will be on-site to offer help.

The consultants will be overseen by Lauren Obermeier, the adult beverage specialist for Kroger’s Delta Division, which includes five states. Obermeier is in charge of all alcohol sales in the division.

She explains what to expect from the new local Krogers’ wine selections and consultants. — Bianca Phillips Flyer: Will Kroger be carrying high-end wines or mostly just low-cost varieties?

Lauren Obermeier: We will have everything from entry-level wines to very rare, high-end wines that we will get on special release. We’ll also have exclusive wines just for Kroger.

Are the wine consultants experts hired from outside the store or promoted from within?

The wine consultants were all promoted from within Kroger, and they have taken more than 24 hours of classroom education and another four to six hours of online education for wine. There will also be continued education for our wine consultants in the store. They’re very knowledgeable

“It’s a weird time in our industry, and we were the only ones that opened coming right at the idea that wine will be in grocery stores.” about wine, and they’re ready to help and assist our customers and even teach them about wine.

What sorts of questions can the consultants answer?

Customers can ask them about pairings, what’s new in the market, what’s trending.

If they’re having a party, they can ask what wine they should buy? What kind of meat would you recommend to go with my chardonnay?

on Sundays since we cannot sell on Sunday. And there will be another day of the week, probably a Wednesday, that they won’t be there. Otherwise, they’ll be there from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. [depending on the day and the store]. We can only sell wine between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.

They can recommend food to buy with the wine you want or wine to go with the food in your cart. We also have [in-store] cheese shops, and the wine consultant can recommend what type of wine would go best with a certain type of cheese. We have a cheese master who can help our shoppers learn about the different cheeses that will go with wines.

Will Kroger stores have wine tastings?

Unfortunately, the bill doesn’t allow grocery stores to hold wine tastings in the store. We can taste steaks and cheese and all the food products. It would be such an added benefit if we were allowed to let our customers taste wine.

What hours will they be available?

The wine consultants won’t be in

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Because of all the uncertainty with the future of liquor store businesses, not many new stores have opened since the bill passed in 2014. But that didn’t stop Doc’s Wine, Spirits & More in Germantown, which opened last summer, right after stores were allowed to diversify products.

“It’s a weird time in our industry, and we were the only ones that opened coming right at the idea that wine will be in grocery stores,” said Gill, who, in addition to managing Southwind, also manages Doc’s.

To set themselves apart from nearby grocers, Doc’s is starting a weekly wine academy (with tastings) for customers, and they focus on selling locally made artisan goods, like meats from Porcellino’s Craft Butcher, Phillip Ashley chocolates, and caramels from Shotwell Candy Co. “We’re trying to create a more fun environment than just going into a store and grabbing a bottle of wine,” Gill said.

Will the new products, tastings, classes, lower prices, and customer service help the liquor stores retain their customers?

Only time will tell. Most local liquor store owners remain cautiously optimistic.

“We’re anticipating some of our business going away, but when the dust settles, after six months or a year, I think some of those people will come back, especially when they realize we’ll either match or beat their price,” Forman said.

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Have you ever wished you could see Memphis through the eyes of a tourist? Or maybe through beer goggles? Or better still, through the eyes of a tourist wearing beer goggles? If so, Meagan May of Backbeat Tours wants to help you fulfill that fantasy.

“One of our constant goals at Backbeat is to help locals play tourist in their own city,” she says. “We have music tours, history tours, ghost tours, walking tours, and bus tours.” Last year, over the Fourth of July holiday, Backbeat also launched its first beer tour — Red, White, and Brew. Now it’s back for a second installment and looks like it’s destined to become a semi-annual event.

“It was so wildly popular we ended up doing another one in November and started getting calls last month about the Red, White, and Brew tour for this year,” May says.

Backbeat’s Red, White, and Brew tour departs from B.B. King’s on Beale and goes straight to High Cotton Brewing Co. in the Edge neighborhood for a brewery tour, sample tasting, and souvenir glass. The next tasting, at Memphis Made Brewing in Cooper-Young, includes delivery pizza from Aldo’s.

“Last year, I think we had only one out-of-town couple, and the rest were locals,” May says. “That’s what we’re aiming for again this year.”

As is often the case with Backbeat, live music is provided on the bus.

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Sister Act the Musical hits Playhouse on the Square.

Theater, p. 24 THURSDAY June 30

FRIDAY July 1

SATURDAY July 2

Patriotic Pops Levitt Shell, 7:30 p.m.

A sing-along concert of true-blue American music celebrating the Fourth.

J. Raymond Mireles Retrospective Circuitous Succession, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibition of photographs documenting the American experience by San Diego-based artist J. Raymond Mireles. Mireles will give a talk at the gallery on Saturday, 6-8 p.m.

Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds Horseshoe Casino, 8 p.m., $35-$60 Performance by R&B star Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds.

“Vintagia” Found Memphis, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibition by Jana Wilson featuring mixed-media collages and works created from vintage pieces.

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The Last Word, p. 39

Bluff City Classic The Links at Overton Park, 8 a.m.

Twenty-hole tournament hosted by the Memphis Area Disc Golf Club.

Capone & Friends Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 8 p.m., $20 Comedy from Capone, “the Gangster of Comedy.”

Stars & Stripes Party Overton Square, 5:30-11 p.m.

Block party with a 5K, dancing, live music, children’s activities, and more.

Bill Gardell

Working-Class Humor

By Chris McCoy

“I started stand-up in 1987,” says Billy Gardell.

The transplanted Floridian got his start onstage during the height of the ’80s stand-up boom and achieved some success on the road before heading out to Hollywood in 1997 to try and make it in the movies. After years of bit parts and recurring roles on shows such as The King of Queens, Yes, Dear, and My Name Is Earl, in 2010, he landed every comedian’s dream job: a leading role on a primetime comedy called Mike and Molly. “It was 25 years to an overnight success,” he says.

Co-starring with another rising comedy star, Melissa McCarthy, for six seasons on CBS made Gardell famous. When the show’s finale aired last month, Gardell was already hard at work on another role that was very different from the Midwestern everyman familiar to his fans. The comedian has spent the last few months in Memphis playing Elvis’ infamous manager Col. Tom Parker for the CMT series Million Dollar Quartet. “It’s been wonderful,” he says. “The city’s been incredibly welcoming. Being able to film in the authentic places where some of those things happened really lends to the performance. … It’s a wonderful cast. I think we’re going to do something special for the city of Memphis.”

Gardell has also returned to his first love: stand-up comedy. “My stand-up show is about real life. It’s about being crazy when you’re younger, and then trying to step into being a father and a husband without being a hypocrite. I think that’s pretty relatable. It’s very working-class humor.”

For the show, the comedian takes inspiration from his life as a father to his son, William. “I’ve got a 13-year-old who just went into teenage mode. He sleeps until 1 every day, and all I get is one-word answers. He’ll get through it, though. He’s a good boy.”

Gardell will bring his comedy stylings to Minglewood Hall on Saturday, July 2nd. “I’m really looking forward to the show,” he says. “It’s gonna be nice. Most of our cast and crew are going to come, so it will be a big night.”

BILLY GARDELL AT MINGLEWOOD HALL, SATURDAY, JULY 2ND, 8 P.M., $35-$50

MONDAY July 4

TUESDAY July 5

Yonder Mountain String Band New Daisy Theatre, 8-11 p.m., $25-$30 Progressive bluegrass music tonight at the New Daisy.

Twilight Sky Terrace Fireworks Viewing Madison Hotel, 4 p.m Get one of the best views in town of the downtown fireworks. There will be themed cocktails and foods.

Guests are encouraged to wear red, white, and blue.

Booksigning by Brad Taylor Booksellers at Laurelwood, 6:30 p.m.

Taylor signs and discusses his latest Pike Logan thriller, Ghosts of War.

Fireworks Spectacular The Fitz, 6 p.m.

A pre-Fourth to-do with a dazzling fireworks display.

Memphis Redbirds vs.

Nashville Sounds AutoZone Park, 6:35 p.m., $9 Enjoy the game and the fireworks afterward.

Don’t Splash the Sasquatch!

Barnes & Noble Germantown, 11-11:30 a.m.

Storytime devoted to why one should not splash Senior Sasquatch.

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MUSIC By Chris Shaw

Summer Record Reviews Deering and Down return, and more.

Deering and Down — Know Rhyme Know Reason (BAA Music Group) The long-standing duo known as Deering and Down have been teasing a new album to their fan base for quite some time. The initial announcement came over a year ago in the form of a music video directed by Matteo Servente for the dreamy song “You’re the One.” After a few months, a second video appeared on YouTube, this time for the song “River City.” Then, in December, a video for “Pick a Knee” was released.

Finally, a year later, Deering and Down’s latest album, Know Rhyme Know Reason, is out.

Sort of. Lahna Deering and Neil Down played the Galloway House last weekend and made 100 limited-edition CDs for everyone in attendance.

The show marked the end of the “soft-release” schedule planned for the album by BAA Music Group, which gets its official release in August.

Recorded by Doug Easley, Know Rhyme Know Reason is Deering and Down’s boldest statement yet. Dave Shouse (the Grifters, Man Control) is featured as a special guest on the song “We Took a Walk,” adding just the right amount of weird to

Deering and Down’s brand of spacey indie rock.

The three songs that got the music video treatment are definitely the highlights of Know Rhyme Know Reason, but the record still has some gems on it, specifically the tracks “Spaced out Like an Astronaut” and “Honey if I Ring You.” If you missed out on the release show at the Galloway House, word is that the band will have a release show at Bar DKDC on Thursday, August 4th.

Recommended Song: “We Took a Walk” Mister Adams — To Drift Is Human (self-released) Adam Holton and company might not have set out to record a summer album of the contemporary-rock persuasion, but that’s what we get from To Drift Is Human, the first full length from his band Mister Adams. To Drift Is Human features 10 songs of carefree contemporary rock that would make as much sense live on Beale Street as it would in Otherlands.

The vocals on To Drift Is Human are reminiscent of Dave Matthews, but the

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SUMMER RECORD REVIEWS Memphis twang in the guitars assure the listener that this record was, in fact, created in the Bluff City. Holton’s main lyrical focus is love, but the song titles “Everyday Love,” “Lovin’ Hand,” and “Let Yourself Love Again” don’t exactly fit with the melancholy, borderline existential title for the band’s debut.

Despite it being their first album, Mister Adams has definitely found a groove that they’re comfortable with, and while To Drift Is Human won’t present the listener with anything they haven’t heard before, it’s the perfect album for front porch beer drinking or a weekend trip out of town. See what Mister Adams is all about when they play a record release show at Wiseacre on Saturday, July 16th.

Recommended Song: “Lovin’ Hand”

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Faux Killas — Time in Between (self-released) Faux Killas are self-described as a punk/R&B/soul band, but they have more in common with Mister Adams then they do, say, the Oblivians. Album opener “Amazing” almost seems like a fake-out track and sounds something like early U2 put through a modern indie-rock filter. Things only get weirder from there.

Track two is more of a straight-up rocker than “Amazing,” and features the falsetto vocals of singer Jeremiah Jones.

Track three, “Love Life,” features more falsetto from Jones, and you can bet that he probably had a Darkness CD rolling around his car at some point in his life. Shortly after recovering from the weirdness of the title track, comes the song “Shimmer,” a full-force burner with gravelly vocals and a simple but immediately recognizable Memphis garage-rock riff. Now we’re getting somewhere. The rest of Time in Between flits between the two types of songs introduced at the start of the album. There are equal parts memorable and “what the hell” moments on this 11-track album, but the song “Maurice” seems to reveal the true spirit that Faux Killas and Jeremiah Jones can conjure, and is without a doubt the album highlight.

On Time in Between, Faux Killas show the promise of a new-ish band that’s starting to find their sound. There are still a few kinks to be worked out, but that could be the biggest asset the band has going forward.

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The King Beez Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Backbeat Tours Red, White, and Brew Tour Saturday, July 2, 68:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.

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

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Nathan Belt and the Buckles Thursday, June 30, 9 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris

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The Johnny Go Band Thursdays, Sundays, 711 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, 711 p.m.

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

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DJ Tim Bachus Thursday, June 30, 9 p.m.; Jerred Price Saturday, July 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., and Sunday, July 3, 10 a.m.2 p.m.; Donnie Smith Saturday, July 2, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Yonder Mountain String Band Sunday, July 3, 8-11 p.m.

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Young Petty Thieves Thursday, June 30, 5-8 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Thursday, June 30, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

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

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

The Pistol & the Queen Sunday, July 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

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

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DAWN PATROL TOUR KICKOFF AT THE HI-TONE Memphis metal mainstays Dawn Patrol kick off their summer tour with a show this Thursday night at the Hi-Tone. The band will be heading out on a West Coast tour that sees them playing 14 shows in 16 days, heading as far west as Los Angeles before trekking through Arizona and into Texas. The band will also dip down into Florida on this relatively short tour, putting thousands of miles behind them in the process.

Since forming in 2012, Dawn Patrol have become one of the flagship bands representing the Memphis metal scene, and this will be the first time that Tommy Gonzales and company take their thrash metal to the left coast. The band should be more than capable of winning new fans over, as Gonzales is already an experienced thrasher after filling in on a European tour with New Jersey’s Condition Critical.

“I’ve always wanted to play out there because it’s new ground for us to touch as a band. There’s a lot of music going on out that way, so if we can gain a new fan base, that would be great. Plus, a California summer vacation sounds legit,” Gonzales said.

Co-headlining on Thursday night with Dawn Patrol is Classhole, the latest project from New Orleans club owner/metal enthusiast Matt “Muscle” Russell. Classhole feature members of the legendary Eyehategod and the band Mountain of Wizard, but there’s more allegiance to ’80s hardcore punk than sludge/stoner metal to be found in Classhole’s music. The band is currently on tour throughout the East Coast, with Thursday’s gig being the last show of a short, eight-day run.

Rounding out the bill is Hauteur, a Memphis band that recently released their debut EP. Hauteur should have copies of the cassette-only EP this Thursday, but the tape is also available online. Hard Charger was originally on the bill but have since dropped off. — Chris Shaw Dawn Patrol, Classhole, Hauteur, Thursday June 30th at the Hi-Tone, 9p.m. $10

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Steve Smith and the Meteors Sunday, July 3, 4-7 p.m.; The Royal Blues Band Sunday, July 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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Davis Coen Duo Thursday, June 30, 6 p.m.; Southern Ave. Thursday, June 30, 9 p.m.; Alexis Grace Friday, July 1, 6:30 p.m.; Cowboy Mouth Friday, July 1, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturdays, 11 a.m.; The River Bluff Clan Saturdays, 3 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m., and Saturday, July 2, 6:30 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Saturday, July 2, 10 p.m.; Joe Res-

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Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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Stax Museum of American Soul Music 926 E. MCLEMORE 946-2535

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

Patio Party with Juno Mars Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.

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Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

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

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

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Fun With Nuns Sister Act the Musical at Playhouse on the Square.

June 30-July 6, 2016

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grounded and human in a script that tries its best to turn all of its characters into sight gags. She’s also funny, and it’s no mystery to Memphis audiences what happens when she opens her throat to sing.

At the end of Sunday’s matinee, Kolheim improvised a lyric into the finale.

“You were fabulous,” she warbled to the audience. Judging by the warm response, the feeling was mutual.

Marc Gill doesn’t fare quite so well as Deloris’ killer boyfriend, Curtis. But the POTS heavy-hitter has been given the tonally impossible task of remaining dangerous while singing cuddly, selfconscious songs. His goons fare better because they’re never supposed to be anything but clowns, and Daniel Gonzalez’s Barry White-inspired take on “Lady in the Long Black Dress” may be Sister Act’s most memorable solo performance.

Soul, hip-hop, and nuns’ habits hit POTS.

Sister Act’s score is occasionally aspirational with fat-sounding numbers informed by Philly soul artists like Barbara Mason, Teddy Pendergrass, and the Delfonics. All this AM-radioinspired goodness is sprinkled in amid self-consciously silly “musical theater” numbers that aren’t quite deliberate enough to parody The Sound of Music.

And then, in the middle of it all, there’s the straight gangsta nun rap — an uncomfortable bit that elicits knee-jerk laughter. It’s also weirdly anachronistic for a show that, based on the historic papal visit it mentions and the fact that none of the nuns know what a disco ball is, seems to be set in 1979. At least Stover handles the hippity-hop assignment with Memphis-bred aplomb.

Painterly lighting designs by John Horan splatter across Jimmy Humphries’ fine, illustration-based scenery to make this Sister Act easy on the eyes. Rebecca Powell’s costumes take cues from the script’s John Travolta references and are built to highlight the dancers’ most shakable parts. It’s almost enough to send alert audience members straight to confession.

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can’t have been the only person still thinking about Sister Act the Musical long after the angelic voices faded at Playhouse on the Square and all the glittering black-andwhite habits were hung up for the night. It’s a thought-provoking piece of theater that raises many questions: • How many rhymes for genuflect are there?

• What decade is this show set in, again?

• Is there anything Claire Kolheim can’t do?

• Why is it funny when nuns act like normal people?

• What does it mean when authors write comic malaprops like, “incognegro?”

And that’s just for starters.

There’s no denying that the Sister Act movie franchise, and its seemingly inevitable musical adaptation, have a lot of fans who find something genuinely uplifting in the story of Deloris, the hard-partying disco diva who witnesses a mob-style execution performed by her boyfriend and hides out in a convent where she teaches rhythmically challenged nuns how to get funky Philly-style. But Sister Act has always had its share of textual problems too. The Whoopi Goldberg film was originally intended as a vehicle for Bette Midler, and, as New York Times critic Janet Maslin pointed out in her original 1992 review, the pseudonymously credited screenplay is peppered with awkward “Scenes that might have played as mere snobbery with Ms. Midler [but] now have a hint of racism.”

Maslin was being generous, and none of the things that gave her pause have been fixed in a stage adaptation that wears its cliches and cultural appropriations like a fur coat and stripper boots. The end result is a sometimes delightful, but mostly disposable Broadway hit that may attract and appeal to fans of the original films, but is unlikely to win over too many new converts.

Director Dave Landis keeps things moving with help from a solid band with a good feel for the musical’s more soulful numbers. Packing marquee performers like Irene Crist, Courtney Oliver, Sally Stover, and Mary Buchignani into the ensemble helps, and for all my complaints, this Sister Act ranks among the tightest and better-acted musical productions in a theater season defined more by ambition than quality.

Sister Act’s a show that’s made to be stolen by Deloris, and Kolheim is more than up to the challenge. She’s consistently

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Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library

The Wizard of Oz, excerpts from The Wizard of Oz. ShoWagon will perform the full show at Theatre Memphis. Groups must preregister for this event. www. memphislibrary.org. Fri., July 1, 11 a.m.

Fri July 8 | 4 - 8 pm FREE

3030 POPLAR (415-2700).

Germantown Community Theatre

The Grapes of Wrath. www. gctcomeplay.org. $13. Fri., Sat., 7 p.m., and Sun., 2:30 p.m. Through July 3.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park

EZURU: A Theatrical Circus Sensation, acrobatics, aerial, and comedy acts. (1-888-7477711), goldstrike.com. $10$20. Through July 17, 7 p.m.

1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS (1-888-24K-PLAY).

Sister Act. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $22-$40.

Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through July 10.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

Oliver!, musical that brings Charles Dickens’ timeless characters to life. www.theatrememphis.org. $30. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m.

Through July 3.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

The Outgoing Tide, in a summer home on the Chesapeake Bay, Gunner has hatched an unorthodox plan to secure his family’s future but meets with resistance from his family, who have plans of their own. $15. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m.

Through July 2.

Night Shift, after-hours cabaret and variety show featuring HEELS, Requiemma, Just Larry, Dan Castillo, and OAM Audio with hostess Katrina Coleman. (283-3814), www. theatreworks.com. $15. First Friday of every month, 11:45 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

Various locations

Casting call for A Change Is Gonna Come, domestic violence awareness stage play that will appear at the Women’s Theatre Festival July 15-16 at Hattiloo Theater.

Send email with subject “Memphis Casting,” acting resume, contact info, and headshots, vickielevans@ gmail.com. www.forgiven2.

com/cast-call.html. Through June 30.

Submissions open for Out of the Closet 10-minute play fest, plays may be comedy or drama. Both individual authors and collaborative teams are eligible. www.etcmemphistheater.com. Through June 30.

SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

“Neighbors” opening reception at Circuitous Succession Gallery Friday Cooper-Young Art Tours For more information, featured artists, and pop-up performances, visit website.

First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S

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

Circuitous Succession Gallery

Gallery Talk for “Neighbors”

Opening reception for “Neighbors,” exhibition of photographic compilation work by San Diego artist J. Raymond Mireles. www. circuitoussuccession.com.

Fri., July 1, 6-9 p.m.

500 S. SECOND.

Found Studio

Artist reception for “Vintagia!,” exhibition of original mixed-media collages and art works created from pieces of the past

by Jana Wilson. Opening reception will include live music and retro-d’oeuvres.

(607-1328), facebook.com/ foundmemphis. Fri., July 1, 6-8 p.m.

2491 BROAD (652-0848).

OTH E R A R T HA P P E N I N G S

Art Show

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Every other Sunday, 7-10 p.m.

CANVAS, 1737 MADISON (443-5232).

By San Diego artist J. Raymond Mireles. Sat., July 2, 6-8 p.m.

CIRCUITOUS SUCCESSION GALLERY, 500 S. SECOND, WWW. CIRCUITOUSSUCCESSION.COM.

Dynamic Art-Making Activities Live Performances Food Trucks This unique Community Day will celebrate the museum’s two summer exhibitions: Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars and Veda Reed: Day into Night, as well as Rotunda Projects: Yinka Shonibare MBE and the museum’s contemporary art collection.

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Includes all supplies and wine or bottled waters. $25. Last Thursday of every month, 7 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

CANVAS, 1737 MADISON (443-5232).

Writing & Coffee

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Crosstown Arts Gallery “Say Hello to America!” www.crosstownarts.org.

Through July 9.

422 N. CLEVELAND.

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“The Impressionist Revolution: Forty Years of French Art at the Dixon.” Through July 17.

Carlyle Wolfe, exhibition of line drawings from more than a decade of observing a variety of plant forms that grow throughout the Mid-South.

Through Aug. 7.

“Diamond Dust Shoes,” exhibition of Andy Warhol’s work on view in the Catmur Foyer. www.dixon.org. Through Aug. 1.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Cats and Quotes.” Through July 10.

“Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars Preview,” exhibition showcasing Moroccan-born, U.K.-based artist Hassan Hajjaj and the eclectic group of nine musicians from around the world whom the artist sees as his own personal “rock stars.” Through Sept. 4.

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

, July Friday

Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean 3D at the Pink Palace Museum

Booksigning by Joshua Hood

Author discusses and signs Warning Order: A Search and Destroy Thriller. Thurs., June 30, 6:30 p.m.

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

“Veda Reed: Day into Night,” exhibition of 29 paintings spanning 1956 to 2016. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through Sept. 4.

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1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Best in Class 2015/2016.”

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“Sankofa: An Ancestral Journey,” exhibition of works resulting from artist book Itshanapa. www.mca.edu. Through July 30.

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“Inches From the Earth.” Through July 10.

“Drawings of E.A. Chase: Designs of a Pioneer Modernist,” Through Oct. 2.

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Don’t Be Afraid of Blacksmith Comedy XXVI, the return of Andy Fleming. $5. Tues., July 5, 8:15 p.m.

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Minglewood Hall

Author discusses and signs Ghosts of War with special guest Mark Greaney. Tues., July 5, 6:30 p.m.

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

Billy Gardell, www.minglewoodhall.com. $35. Sat., July 2, 8 p.m.

1555 MADISON (866-609-1744).

Low-impact fun for dancers of all levels. No experience necessary. Technique, cardio, improvisation, drills, propwork, and more. Tuesdays, 7:30-9 p.m. Through Dec. 27.

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Go Ape Treetop Adventure

Course in Shelby Farms Park open for its second season.

Ongoing.

Proceeds from the tournament go toward upkeep of local courses and promoting the sport in the Memphis area. $35-$55 for tournament players. Sat., July 2.

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Memphis City Football Club

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Through July 2.

MIKE ROSE SOCCER COMPLEX, 9000 E. SHELBY, WWW.MEMPHISCITYFC.COM.

Memphis Redbirds vs.

Nashville Sounds July 4-6.

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Memphis Calligraphy Guild Monthly Meeting

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GERMANTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH, 9450 POPLAR (260-7860), WWW.CALLIGRAPHYGUILD.COM.

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Interactive summer learning program that encourages families to read, attend library programs and events, and explore city attractions free of charge. Prizes available for “Get Fit” themed summer activities. Free. Through July 31.

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Peabody Rooftop Party

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

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

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

Social Media Day Lunch & Learn

Panel discussion about social media featuring Kyle Veazey, George Brown, Julie Clement Cochran, and Emily Thomas. Thurs., June 30, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

GLANKLER BROWN, 6000 POPLAR (525-1322).

Social Media Day Trivia Contest

June 30-July 6, 2016

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— anonymous

hat’s a riff on the old Cheers theme song, of course. And, of course, it’s not true. You are not an alcoholic — not you! — just because the bartender looks up when you arrive and starts pouring your favorite libation. You’re not an alcoholic just because everyone at the bar turns and shouts your name when you enter. You’re a regular, just like they are. You’re walking into your home away from home, your family away from family. Your special joint.

And that’s what this new monthly column, “Bar Report,” is going to be about — a look into Memphis bars and pubs and the culture surrounding them. Flyer staffers are going to take turns writing the column. We’ll be talking about all kinds of stuff: What are the best bars for first dates? What makes a good sports bar? How do you find a bar that’s age appropriate? Is there one thing that all good bartenders have in common?

We’ll be writing about drink trends, seasonal beverages, day drinking, historic bars, bar hopping, ethnic bars, dive bars, high-end dining bars, seasonal drinks — you name it, and we’re probably going to cover it.

I was discussing “regulars” with a bartender friend the other day and thought maybe that would be as good a topic as any with which to kick off this column. It’s one of the things that isn’t discussed much but seems obvious on reflection: how various establishments become venues for particular age groups — how “regulars” select their venue. One bar might draw baby boomers while the place two doors down the street is filled with millennials. The choice gets made based on many factors: the kind of food, the music, the décor, the noise level, the proximity to other places. A craft brewery will draw a different crowd than a wine bar or a cocktail-centric bar, obviously. continued on page 33

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But the variations on a theme are almost endless: There are pickup bars, gay bars, wine bars, craft beer joints, live music clubs, dance clubs, after-hours bars, foodie bars, artisanal cocktail bars, Irish pubs, to name a few. Someone who’s out to meet strangers and drink themselves into a bed will go to a different kind of venue than the person who just wants a quiet joint where they can have a conversation with friends. A married couple in their 50s will want a different bar experience than two single women in their 30s.

One thing is certain, though: Regulars are the lifeblood of any drinking establishment. David Parks, who holds down the fort behind the bar at Alchemy, says “regulars represent 75 percent of my income, but it’s more than that. Some of them have become close friends — and friends with each other. A few even got married, with varying degrees of success.”

Allan Creasy is the bar manager at Celtic Crossing. He says regulars can make — or break — a bar: “If you walked into a bar, and it was perfect — had all your favorite drafts, had the televisions on exactly what you wanted to watch, there was a friendly bar staff — but if every person who started a conversation with you was an ass, you would stop going, eventually.

“Friendly regulars are worth their weight in gold,” he adds. “It’s impossible for me to chat with everyone and make drinks at the same time. A good regular is almost doing a part of my job for me, making the pub more of a home.”

Tyler Morgan and Justin Gerych man the bar at Cafe 1912. They will tell you the quiet backroom venue tends to draw a more mature crowd, seasoned Midtowners looking for decent food and friendly conversation.

On a recent night, when Morgan was pouring the drinks and the place was filled with regulars, a young couple walked in and took the last two seats at the bar. They were immediately peppered with friendly questions: “Where do you work?” “Where do you live?” “Do y’all like Midtown?” “How long have you been dating?” It was like they’d just come home from college and were dealing with nosy parents, probably not what they expected to encounter on a dinner date, but they endured the inquisition good-naturedly.

At one point, a geriatric-looking fellow — a regular, of course — stood up and adjusted his pants at the crotch.

“What are you doing, Richard?” asked his companion, slightly horrified.

“Adjusting my chemo bag and having another drink, goddammit.”

He then turned to the young couple and said, “I bet you two feel like you’ve just walked onto the set of Cocoon.”

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Poo-Poo Platter Independence Day: Resurgence will leave you questioning your life choices.

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’m on my knees in the handicap stall of the Paradiso men’s room. I’ve just seen Independence Day: Resurgence, so I’ve decided to drown myself in the toilet. I’m sure there are other, more dignified ways to end it all in a movie theater, but this feels appropriate.

A blue glow suffuses the stall. I turn to see the Force ghost of Will Smith’s character from the 1996 Independence Day standing there in his flight suit, helmet tucked under one translucent arm. “Hold on there, partner!” he says. “Crawl away from the toilet.”

“Will Smith!” I exclaim. “What are you doing here?”

“Technically I’m Capt. Steven Hiller, fighter pilot, alien puncher, world savior. Right now, I’m here to save you from drowning yourself in this toilet. You know you’re in the handicap stall, right? If you drown yourself here, some poor guy in a wheelchair is going to have to move your Brexit-ass out of the way to pee. And he’s got enough problems. So I need you to get up off this floor and go write that review of Independence Day: Resurgence.”

“Man, Roland Emmerich sure coulda used you

in that movie,” I say. “All he had was this guy, Jessie Usher, playing your son, who also happened to be a crack fighter pilot in the right place at the right time to fight alien invaders and save the world. But he was just a big slap of nothing. He didn’t even look like you. But you were too smart to get involved in that debacle, weren’t you?”

Force ghost Will Smith lights an ectoplasmic stogie.

“Scheduling conflict with Suicide Squad,” he says, chuckling. “So tell me, why are you getting ready to take the pee-pee plunge? Bad movie hurt your feelings?”

“Bad? I eat bad movies for breakfast. This … this was not a movie. This is a symptom of a diseased system. This is a third-generation simulacrum of other, better movies repackaged for the export market. You can actually see the places where they’re cutting in extra scenes for the Chinese, like when Rain Lao, the Chinese pilot played by an actress actually named Angelababy, is briefly seen giving the tail end of a speech in front of a giant Chinese William Fichtner, Jeff Goldblum, Brent Spiner have got to save the world from aliens (again).

flag. You bet that scene is a lot longer in Beijing. But it’s not going to help. Can you believe they actually expect to sell a Fourth of July-themed movie in China? And waitaminute, why are you a Force ghost?

That’s a Star Wars thing.”

“It doesn’t matter,” says Force ghost Will Smith.

“It’s just a trope you’re familiar with so I don’t have to spend time on exposition.”

“Exactly! I kept envisioning Roland Emmerich saying ‘It doesn’t matter,’ over and over again. How do we get Jeff Goldblum from Africa to the moon? Have the Hunger Games guy steal a space tug. It doesn’t matter. Brent Spiner’s been in a coma for 17 years, and now his previously unmentioned gay partner runs Area 51? Why not? It doesn’t matter. No Will Smith? Show a painting of him in the White House.

It doesn’t matter. Nothing matters. Just steal some beats from Star Wars, Alien, Starship Troopers, whatever, hit the four quadrants with your $100 million ad spend, and watch the sheep bleat in. There were five writers listed on this thing, and when the Save the Cat outline says to save a cat, they literally saved a cat. Except it was a dog, escaped from a school bus full of kids that Judd Hirsch brought to the big showdown with the aliens in Nevada salt flats for no reason! Nothing matters!”

I lunge for the toilet, but am brought up short by a glowing blue hand on my shoulder. “That’s why you’ve got to live! You have to write this review! Warn the world!”

“Oh yeah. Writing a bad review always works.

Plus, I got a mortgage. Thanks, Force ghost Will Smith! You saved my life.”

“All in a day’s work,” he says, turning to leave.

“Hey Will. Which headline to do like better: SHIT PARADE or POO-POO PLATTER?” “It doesn’t matter.”

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Corpus Delicti Paul Dano rides Daniel Radcliffe to freedom in Swiss Army Man. Swiss Army Man hits theaters with quite an advance buzz. Vanity Fair said it could be the strangest movie in the history of the Sundance Film Festival. I can’t say if that’s the case or not, but it’s certainly in the running.

The film was written and directed

by Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan, collectively known as Daniels. The duo of Daniels created the video for DJ Snake and Lil Jon’s megabit “Turn Down for What,” which is one of the most demented dance videos since Spike Jonze sent Christopher Walken flying through the air for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice.”

But if that’s not enough Daniels for you, the film stars another one. Yes, that’s Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, as Manny, the titular corpse whose advancing state of decomposition imbues him with strange powers.

The most senior member of the creative team not named Daniel, Paul

Dano, is the other half of this epic two-hander. He stars as Hank, an everyman stranded on an unnamed Pacific island. The brilliant opening images of various bits of trash Hank has sent floating into the sea with messages like “HELP ME” lead straight into a shot of the castaway fitting his neck into a makeshift noose. It’s a brilliant little bit of visual storytelling that condenses a whole story of hope and desperation into a few seconds. Just as Hank is about to step off into oblivion, he sees Manny wash up on the shore. Thinking his rescue is at hand, Hank narrowly avoids strangling himself, only to find that his would-be savior is not only dead, but also posthumously flatulent.

But Hank quickly discovers that Manny is so supernaturally flatulent that he is able to propel himself through the water, and thus does the guy who played Brian Wilson ride the corpse of the guy who played Harry Potter like a fart-powered jet ski to freedom.

Or so he thinks. Just getting to the mainland doesn’t solve Hank’s castaway problem. Now he’s lost in the coastal rainforest of the Pacific Northwest, with nothing but a stiff

for company. But Manny turns out to be a most versatile corpse, and when Hank the castaway starts talking to him out of desperation for human companionship, Manny eventually starts responding. Having hit the functional edge of their concept, Daniels turn Swiss Army Man into a kind of Man From Mars story. Manny has no memory of his life, but he has a lot of questions, which forces Hank to try to explain concepts like love and home and bus fare. Thus, the suicidal castaway and the flatulent dead guy regain the will to live together, and along the way figure out a kind of philosophy.

Hank’s arc is something akin to Tom Hanks’ travel from despair to joie de vivre in the 1990 cult classic Joe Versus the Volcano, and Hank’s habit of creating little worlds out of trash is very Michel Gondry. Swiss

Daniel Radcliff (left) and Paul Dano in a film about farts and friendship Army Man is a worthy successor to the great works of 21st-century surrealist quirk like Being John Malkovich. What at first seems like a premise that’s just strange for the sake of being strange opens up into a wider exploration of what it means to be alive, punctuated with fart jokes. Swiss Army Man is not quite an allegory, but it’s at least a rich, thoughtful film that shows what comedy can be capable of.

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Whoaaaa! I’ve been trying not to write much about Donald Trump because the idiot is getting way too much publicity, but I figured not many people pay attention to me, so I’m not adding to the media frenzy that much when I state that I really do think he might be the Antichrist.

I’m not a religious person, and I don’t know about all this Armageddon and heaven and hell and all that. And I was naive enough to think that, when he announced he was running for president of the United States, people would not get behind him the way they have. I, like many people, didn’t take him seriously at all, and just thought of him as bad entertainment, a train wreck hard not to stare at. I figured anyone who’d ever been to Trump Tower and witnessed how gaudy it is would know better.

But now that he’s on a world stage (well, at his Trump Turnberry golf course, one of several he has built in Scotland) offering up his rhetorical B.S. in support of the United Kingdom pulling out of the European Union — he’s actually become even more dangerous than he has been before now.

In my real job as PR guy for a major Memphis cultural organization, I deal with people from all over the world on a daily basis, especially the United Kingdom. We have a lot of U.K. journalists, filmmakers, bloggers, and others in the media whom I’ve become great friends with over the years, and they are absolutely mystified by the United States’ having someone like Donald Trump being in the position he’s in.

And now that he has come out with his unfettered-by-any-knowledge opinion that it’s great for Great Britain to pull out of the European Union, they hate him even more.

One friend actually just emailed me this morning, saying, “I honestly didn’t think this [pulling out] could happen. It makes me actually scared of Donald Trump.”

Why Trump decided to travel to Scotland to cut the ribbon on a golf course at the same time the United Kingdom is doing something more radical than anything it has done in 100 years is anyone’s guess, unless he just figured he would get more publicity if he rode on the coattails of an historic, controversial event that was getting the attention of the press all over the world.

And he did it in true, inexplicable Trump fashion. After circling his Scottish golf course in his G-TRMP helicopter, he landed to be met, as The New York Times reported, “much like the queen of England would be met, by staff members of Trump Turnberry — all clad in red ‘Make Turnberry Great Again’ hats — as well as two bagpipers in kilts who, along with Secret Service, preceded him up the sloping steps to his property. And he waxed proudly about his golf resort for more than 15 minutes, before finally taking questions on the seismic news of the day.”

While that may not be Antichrist behavior, it’s hard to make the case that it’s not pretty damn weird. Almost as weird as his referring to himself as “Scotch,” instead of Scottish.

His comments ranged from comparing renovating a golf course to making America great again to blaming Barack Obama for commenting on the U.K. pullout, even though he was standing there doing the same thing and had been doing it for a few days prior to his grand arrival, once someone in his campaign explained to him what “Brexit” meant.

While he heralded the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union as a catalyst that would drive down the pound and thereby drive more people to his Scottish golf courses (yes, it’s fine to scratch your head in public), he failed to mention that when building the Trump International Golf Links course near Aberdeen, Scotland, he sued the Scottish government for trying to build smart-energy wind farms that would block the view of the ocean from the courses, and psychologically tortured homeowners who refused to get their cottages out of his way. He promised 6,000 to 7,000 jobs for the development, which now has approximately 150 employees. And apparently, it gets few players because it’s built on shifting sand dunes and is usually shrouded in freezing cold fog.

One Scotch — oops, I mean, Scottish columnist wrote, “Some locals are puzzled over why Trump would build a golf course in a spot regularly shrouded in cold fog. It is fabulous news for the area, of course, and also for knitwear manufacturers, who will make a killing when the world’s top players step out on the first tee and feel as though their limbs are being sawn off by a northeast breeze that hasn’t paused for breath since it left the Arctic.”

So, all of you Trump supporters, this is the man you are backing to handle foreign policy for the United States? I think it might be the end times. Orlando, ISIS, Trump, the fact that Americans can buy a military assault rifle faster than you can get a drink in a crowded bar — it’s not looking good. I just hope Trump’s hair doesn’t turn out to be the mark of the beast.

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