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Do you double-screen? By that, I mean do you watch television with your laptop open or your phone in your hand? According to a report this week from Accenture Consulting, 87 percent of Americans watch TV with another screen in use. We’re Tweeting, posting on Facebook, texting, and reading online articles while catching the latest episode of The Bachelorette, or whatever. We’ve become multi-taskers, even as we goof off. Multi-goofers?

And not only are Americans double-screening, they’re continuing to turn away from traditional television viewing — watching a show as it’s broadcast in its original timeslot — at prodigious rates. According to the Nielson ratings, traditional TV viewing in 2016 is down 11 percent from 2015.

The trend is being driven by young people (I refuse to use the “M” word), who are turning from traditional television in droves, eschewing cable and satellite packages for streaming subscriptions of various kinds and free internet options.

The Nielson Report for the first quarter of 2016 showed that Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 watched an average of 15 hours of traditional television a week. Compare that to the 50-to-64 age bracket, which watched an average of 50 hours of traditional television a week.

It’s easy to see that a generational watershed moment is coming for television and cable networks that will be similar in impact to the sea change that has deconstructed the daily newspaper business in the past decade or so. Our consumption of media will continue to “silo” for the foreseeable future.

The trend has been somewhat masked this year because of the presidential race — and Donald Trump — which has brought record increases in viewership and revenues for cable news outfits such Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. Fox News, in fact, is having its best year ever, averaging over 2.37 million viewers in primetime, which surpassed former cable viewing leader, ESPN. Of course, compared to network news ratings Walter in the years before cable Cronkite and the internet fragmented the American viewing audience, that number is a pittance.

CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, for example, once averaged 30 million viewers a night.

Television news then was a family banquet, one where we all shared the same meal. It’s now a takeout pu-pu platter.

And those seemingly healthy Fox News numbers mask another issue that the fair-and-balanced folks will have to deal with very soon: The median age of their viewers is 68 — mostly male, mostly white, mostly conservative. That means more than half of Fox News viewers are over 68. To say that the network is facing a demographic challenge in the next few years is an understatement.

To the extent that they watch cable news, CNN is the choice of most younger viewers. But at 1.4 million total viewers a night, it’s a bite of leftover dim sum.

It’s gotten so that we only come out of our silos when events force us to do so.

A major disaster, a mass shooting, a terrorist attack, a Super Bowl — or possibly a presidential debate — can lure us away from the mind candy we feed ourselves all day long. Not much else.

I guess the silver lining is that the devices we use to cocoon ourselves are also the very things that bring us together instantly — that alert us to events and update us on breaking news faster than N E WS & O P I N I O N LETTERS - 4 Walter Cronkite ever thought about doTHE FLY-BY - 5 ing. When Gene Wilder died this week, POLITICS - 8 I knew the details of his passing within EDITORIAL - 10 minutes. Within a half-hour, I’d seen links VIEWPOINT - 11 to his best scenes and to tributes from COVER STORY - “A NORVELL APPROACH” dozens of people. I could pick and choose

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AFTER DARK - 20 And maybe that’s the “news” of the BOOKS - 24 future — instant and self-selected.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 26 FOOD - 31 Maybe we should all start thinking of SPIRITS - 33 ourselves as little cable networks.

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Purely from an economic standpoint, it makes tons of sense. How much of our public resources are dedicated to pot “criminals”? How many people are we paying to incarcerate due to breaking marijuana laws?

If it’s legal, instead of paying all these prices, you can regulate and tax the product. You create legal industries, where the businesses, employees, and consumers all pay taxes on the transaction. Today, those transactions are all tax-free. Also, by not loading up the population with criminal records, you make people more employable, which is a good thing for the economy as a whole.

I’ll also add that the advent of synthetic marijuana and the continual chase to ban new strains of that is a spin-off of having marijuana be illegal.

If marijuana is legal, people don’t need to seek a “legal” alternative substance.

Those synthetic marijuanas are getting more and more dangerous the more that they keep banning the new combinations used.

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V E R B AT I M “If you are buying ALCOHOLE [sic] please have a picture ID ready. You will not be able to purchase any alcohol products if you don’t have a valid ID to show. You have to show your ID every time your [sic] buying alcohol even if you come here 20 times a day you will be asked to show an ID.” — Excerpt from a note posted at a convenience store on Winchester near Perkins.

For being such a short message, there’s an awful lot to unpack here. But the big takeaways are, it’s conceivable somebody might attempt to buy booze 20 times in 24 hours. Also, “alcohole” is probably the greatest misspelling in the history of spelling. We’ve all known an alcohole at some point in our lives. Many of us have even been one.

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“Why give someone the opportunity to sell drugs from their automobiles, because that’s what they’re going to do?

This resolution is dealing with the devil.” — Memphis’ always succinct, always on point City Councilman Joe Brown objects to decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana, because to do so would open a terrifying floodgate of car-based pot peddling and, even worse, — dope trucks! Or something like that. Also, the devil is scary.

M E M P H I S TO O Whenever you’re feeling down about the Bluff City, think of this and take comfort in knowing that, for all of our many problems, we’re not that Memphis. According to a newspaper report “Dollar General Opens to Much Fanfare in

Memphis, [Michigan].”

“It’s beautiful,” an actual townsperson was quoted as saying.

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Delivery trucks block downtown street lanes.

A Memphis business owner once said you could get away with murder downtown as long as you turn on your flashers.

Deliveries to restaurants and office buildings often bring big trucks to a halt on major thoroughfares like Front or Union during peak drive times. The truck drivers will brake, turn on their flashers (or hazard lights), hop out of the cab, open the cargo door, and unload their haul for as long as it takes — all the

while blocking a lane of traffic.

“I work downtown, run into it every day, and can’t stand it,” said Memphian Ryan Jones. “There’s got to be an alternative.”

It’s not murder, of course, but Memphis Police Department (MPD) officers are, indeed, instructed to look the other way when it comes to delivery trucks stopped downtown. MPD Major Keith Watson said Memphis is an old city, its streets aren’t as wide as others, and his department has to help facilitate commerce downtown.

“We have to keep the city and the downtown area thriving because that’s what it takes,” Watson said.

Truck drivers know the police won’t ticket them for on-street parking, Watson said. However, MPD will take action if a truck is completely blocking traffic, threatens traffic safety, has been abandoned, or does not have its hazard lights flashing.

Watson said civilian drivers just have to be careful. If a truck is blocking a lane of traffic, drivers should pull around them and “if they’re able to drive on paved streets without going off the pavement, then it’s a win-win situation for everyone.”

“I would advise the citizenry or those individuals who may continued on page 6

Q&A with Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States Last August, former President Jimmy Carter announced that he had stage IV metastatic melanoma — a type of skin cancer — that had spread to his liver and brain. In November, despite his poor health, Carter traveled to Memphis to announce that he’d be back this summer for Habitat for Humanity’s 33rd annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project.

“I told the news reporters I’d be back next year. I didn’t know if I was going to come back or not,” said Carter last week from the Memphis worksite. He’s cancer-free now, thanks to a new cancer drug called Keytruda.

Carter, his wife Rosalynn, and country stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood spent all of last week in Memphis helping more than 1,500 volunteers for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis build 19 new homes in Bearwater Park, just north of Uptown. They also worked on 10 neighborhood beautification projects in Uptown and six “aging in place” projects.

Last Thursday, after wrapping up a day’s work in the Memphis heat, Carter took a few minutes to talk with the Flyer about cancer, his work with Habitat, his Sunday school classes, and the current presidential election season. — Bianca Phillips Flyer: What’s it like getting back to good health after such a scare?

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cancers in my brain. I was prescribed some new medicine, and it worked on me, thank goodness. But I’m still checking my cancer status pretty regularly. So far, I’ve been very lucky.

You’ve been doing these annual Habitat projects since 1984. How did you get started with Habitat?

We had worked on Habitat projects in our local town for a couple of years. Then, [Habitat] had a very serious problem in New York City, and we thought we’d get maybe six people to go with us. But continued on page 6

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experience this to just have a little patience and allow commerce and trade to occur,” Watson said. “If they partake in any of these businesses or companies that are recipients of these deliveries, it’s needed.

We have to allow it to occur.”

Almost anyone who has driven in downtown Memphis has come across a truck blocking traffic. But Terence Patterson, president and CEO of the Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC), said he hasn’t heard any complaints about it.

“It’s urban living, and there are certain things that have to take place,” Patterson said. “But, no, I haven’t heard any complaints about [delivery trucks] stopping traffic or there being any safety concerns about it.”

Patterson is willing to help, though, and said anyone with concerns about idled delivery trucks should contact his office.

Memphis is certainly not the only city dealing with downtown deliveries.

“Q & A” continued from page 5 we got 42 people to go up with us, and it’s grown from there. We went back to New York the second year and Chicago the third year. Then we started going overseas every other year, so we’ve been to 14 foreign countries, some of them several times. The largest we had was 14,000 volunteers at one time, and we built 293 houses in five days.

That was in the Philippines.

Are there any Habitat homeowners whose stories have stuck with you?

I met one [future Bearwater Park Habitat homeowner] here Monday morning, and he told me that seven years ago, he was living under a bridge. He was addicted to drugs, and he decided to turn his life around. He got a job at a fast food place, and now he’s in charge of Chick-fil-A’s kitchen. He told me about all the different sandwiches that Chickfil-A makes.

What construction skills are you best at?

The detail work. I’m a furniture maker.

I make beds and chairs. So I like the detail work at the end of a project. Today, I’ve been putting on siding, and the first day, I got make the walls. I can do the whole thing.

You teach Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. Are you there most Sundays?

We try to be in Plains on most Sundays.

When I’m not there on Sunday, the town kind of dries up. Nobody’s going to the local restaurants. But when I’m there, we

The Federal Highway Administration said trucks delivering in downtown areas across the country cause 947,000 hours of vehicle delay annually.

Many cities have issued special guidelines for downtown delivery trucks drivers. In Columbia, Missouri, for example, smaller trucks are urged to use public alleys for loading and unloading.

But New York City and Pensacola, Florida, are taking it a step further.

Last year, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) gave the cities $200,000 for pilot programs testing an off-hours delivery program. The funds will help businesses there to re-tool their operations to make and receive deliveries at night when traffic counts are low.

DOT officials said if the program is successful, it could be launched in other cities, like Memphis.

“Moreover, it can become part of the solution to the larger congestion problem, bringing relief to people tired of spending hours stuck in traffic every day,” DOT said in a blog post.

have anywhere from 200 to 850 visitors coming to Plains. We only have 650 residents to start with, so we double the size of the town when I teach Sunday school.

What do you make of this presidential campaign season?

It’s been an unprecedented campaign season. The standards of campaigning and criticizing your opponents have never been this bad. There’s been a massive infusion of money into campaigns from very wealthy people, so the [wealthy] have a lot more influence now. Once the campaign is over and the candidate goes into office, no matter which party they represent, they’ll have very rich people who helped them get into office, and now they’ll have access to them and their lobbyists. The average family doesn’t have lobbyists to take care of them.

That’s been the cause of a growing disparity in income between the richest people and the poorest people.

Who are you voting for?

Well, I’m a Democrat, and I’ve always been a Democrat.

Have you had any time to explore Memphis?

We’ve been to Beale Street. We went to Central BBQ. We had a visit to the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid, and we went up to the top. It’s one of the most remarkable stores in the world, and it’s right here in Memphis. It’s a wonderful tourist attraction y’all have. I’m an outdoorsman — a hunter and a fisherman.

[We’re staying] on the 18th floor of a hotel, and when we got to the top of the Pyramid, we could look down on our hotel room. And it’s a wonderful view of the Mississippi River.

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MATA details new routes and route adjustments.

“To bring it back as it was, we would need $3.5 million dollars of new funding,” Lancaster said. “However, with the way things have been restructured, it would be a challenge. But we may be able to add some additional service to complement what used to exist.”

MATA will accept feedback on December’s proposed adjustments until September 7th. Additionally, the MBRU will host a demonstration calling on MATA to restore the 31 Crosstown Route on Saturday, Sept. 17th from 11 a.m. to 2 pm. at the New Chicago Community Development Corporation.

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“Those neighborhoods have seen a lot of decline,” said Justin Davis, secretary of the MBRU. “There are eight new routes … a lot of those are out East and in the southeast. Our concern is if we’re taking all of this energy to put all of these routes in the east and southeast, are we putting the same effort into North and South Memphis? New Chicago, transit-wise, is almost entirely isolated. If you don’t have a car, you pretty much can’t leave.”

Lancaster said it took $3.5 million dollars to service the 31 Crosstown route before it was eliminated.

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As rain beat against the windows of the Airways Transit Center last Thursday, Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) officials provided details and received feedback on a series of service adjustments that could begin by December.

The changes, affecting fixed-route bus service, will include eight new bus routes, 11 routes with timing adjustments, 10 routes with increased frequencies and span of service, 14 routes with routing adjustments, and one discontinued route that will have service replaced by others.

The adjustments represent about $500,000 in added service grants from the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program.

MATA officials say the proposed changes will improve service by simplifying routing and increasing productivity, but riders who attended the meeting expressed exhaustion and confusion over the adjustments. That puzzlement appeared at times to be a miscommunication between officials and bus riders. At other points, though, the frazzle felt as though it was brought on by how complicated the city’s bus system can be — even without the changes.

“All these changes being made might be great for someone, but I don’t know who is benefiting,” said Leonard Ewing, a member of the Memphis Bus Riders Union (MBRU). Ewing was concerned that a change to the 57 Park route eliminating service to a portion of Lamar at Bellevue would affect him. “It might be rain-storming like it is today, and I’ll have to jump off this bus and take another bus and then hop on another bus — rain, shine, sleet, or snow — if I want to get to work.”

MATA’s Planning Manager John Lancaster, the session’s mediator, said a newly adjusted Route 56 to Lamar will pass by Bellevue and add service on Sundays.

A lack of Sunday service, particularly along Route 19 Vollintine, leaves residents who are dependent on the transit system stuck in their neighborhoods, said MBRU co-chair Cynthia Bailey.

“I’ve had a lot of riders in the community come to me that want to go to church or go visit family on Sundays,” Bailey said.

“It’s almost like you can’t get out. If you have business, there’s the number 8 and route 52. But you’ve got elderly people who can’t walk that far. I’m hearing about the new 45 Appling Farm route … but it’s not benefitting the community.”

The Memphis Bus Riders Union has also created a petition to bring back the 31 Crosstown route, which was cut in 2013.

Members say it was instrumental in connecting two high-poverty neighborhoods, New Chicago and Riverside, with the rest of the city.

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As Labor Day approaches, both local parties get ready for an expected bump in attention to the presidential race.

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The tradition of presidentialelection years holds that the American electorate really doesn’t begin to pay serious attention to the candidates’ campaigns until Labor Day has come and gone. That holiday happens this weekend, and the local branches of the two major parties got a running start on things with events held last week.

The Republicans brought out some of their leading lights Tuesday night at the annual Master Meal banquet of the East Shelby Republican Club, the county’s largest. First up on the dais at the Great Hall in Germantown was David Kustoff, who recently won the GOP nomination for the 8th District congressional seat and, given the Republican propensities of that district these days, has every expectation of serving in Washington next year.

Kustoff made it clear that he hopes to do so in tandem with a President Donald J. Trump, to whose candidacy he gave unstinting verbal support. Though the brash New York billionaire has had highly publicized trouble gaining traction, even in pockets of his own Republican base, Kustoff said predictions of a Trump defeat

by Hillary Clinton were the results, essentially, of myopia on the part of an unsympathetic media, and he called the roll of candidates, ranging from Ronald Reagan to current Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, who, he said, had won out despite negative forecasts in the press.

Kustoff’s commitment to the cause of Trump was further embodied in the opening on Wednesday night of this week of a “combined election headquarters” at 1755 Kirby Parkway, housing the “Kustoff for Congress” campaign as well as Trump’s Memphis-area efforts and the campaigns of other local GOP candidates.

Also toeing the line for a top-to-bottom Republican effort at the Master Meal were state Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris, Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell, and visiting state GOP executive director Brent Leatherwood, although Luttrell, who had also sought the GOP nomination in the 8th, gallantly focused most of his praise on Kustoff.

Perhaps the most telling commentary Tuesday night came from Shelby County Commissioner Terry Roland of Millington, who earned a Trump-like shoot-from-the-mouth reputation of his own during his rise as a political figure.

Against all expectations, Roland, who has

already launched a campaign to be elected county mayor in 2018, became something of a conciliator — enough so that, as he neared the formal end of his one-year term as chairman on Monday of this week, he received standing ovations from his commission colleagues at each of the legislative body’s last two public meetings.

By way of suggesting that Trump’s own rough edges might smooth out during a term as president, Roland, who is West Tennessee chairman of the Republican nominee’s campaign, said of Trump, “Folks, six years ago, that was me!”

• For their part, a sizeable swath of the county’s Hillary Clinton supporters turned out last Wednesday night at a standingroom-only meeting of the Germantown Democratic Club that required the opening of a partition to combine two separate meeting rooms at Coletta’s Restaurant on Appling Road.

The brash New York billionaire has had highly publicized trouble gaining traction, even in pockets of his own Republican base.

Among those present for the occasion were Tyler Yount of Chattanooga, a statewide organizer for the Clinton campaign, and Rickey Hobson of Somerville, the Democratic nominee in the 8th District congressional race. Although attendees of the recent Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia were there to recount their experiences at the convention, the main focus of the meeting was that of organizing a get-out-the-vote effort in Shelby County.

Although the long-troubled Shelby County Democratic Party organization is temporarily defunct after its decertification week before last by state Democratic chair Mary Mancini, and apparently won’t be reconstructed until a local party convention can be held in March, various informal Democratic groups — the Germantown Democrats, the Democratic Women of Shelby County, and the county’s Young Democrats among them — seem intent on organizing a significant GOTV effort.

According to Germantown Democratic Club president Dave Cambron, a headquarters to house a coordinated local Democratic campaign will be opened on Poplar soon.

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Three for Three When it comes to fast-breaking issues in a year of change, the presidential race ain’t got nothing on local government in Memphis and Shelby County. Last week alone featured decisive and potentially transformational action on a trio of matters — two on the part of the Memphis City Council, another within county government.

The council was the scene of key votes on marijuana and residential requirements for city police. The most surprising perhaps — and certainly the most controversial — was Councilman Berlin Boyd’s proposed ordinance to decriminalize modest marijuana use, providing police with the alternative of writing tickets, much in the manner of traffic offenses, rather than arresting users under the state’s criminal statutes.

To the consternation of professed traditionalists on the council and, as it developed, of Police Director Michael Rallings, the Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee voted 5-2 to support the ordinance, which is due for its first of three required readings on September 6th. We anticipate that emotions will run, er, high on that date in City Hall. Rallings has already resolved to do what he can to defeat the ordinance, and Governor Bill Haslam, on a visit to Memphis last week, also made known his opposition.

Opponents on the council, like Joe Brown, summoned up the specter of Demon Weed, but Boyd convinced a major of committee members that recreational use of marijuana is no gateway to hard drug use and that rigid employment of criminal penalties has resulted in instances of severe injustice, especially to young African Americans in Memphis.

At a time when numerous states as well as the seat of national government,

the District of Columbia, have chosen to liberalize their attitudes toward marijuana, we find it both encouraging and timely that Boyd is giving Memphis the opportunity to at least rethink the matter.

If Rallings was upset over this Council action, he was relieved about another — the council’s vote last week to reject an ordinance that would have restricted his potential department hires to persons living within the city limits of Memphis.

At a time when the buffing up of police ranks with quality recruits is a matter of increasing urgency, it would have been folly to impose so potentially crippling a curb on Rallings’ (and Mayor Jim Strickland’s) prerogatives, and the council recognized that fact resoundingly with a 10-2 no vote.

County government had its moment of clarity, too, at a committee meeting on Wednesday when officials of Mayor Mark Luttrell’s administration and an apparent commission majority read the riot act to representatives of American Medical Response (AMR), whose request for post-contract modifications that would double the county’s costs smacked rather obviously of bait-and-switch tactics. The upshot is a likely move by the county toward creating its own ambulance service — thereby underscoring in practical terms the difference between government’s straightforward mission to perform public service and the potential risks and derelictions to be encountered within the all-too-prevalent practice of outsourcing that mission.

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The Justice Department’s decision to stop using for-profit prisons is just the first step.

Recently, the Justice Department announced that the federal prison system would distance itself from privately owned prisons. The gradual implementation will take five years and instructs officials to not renew contracts or to limit the power of private companies in these “contract prisons.” This tangled relationship began at the federal level in 1997. But in many ways, the privatization of prisons is homegrown Tennessee politics.

Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the first and largest private prison company in the U.S., felt the aftershock of the news with a 35 percent drop in stock prices.

The Justice Department determined that private prisons were neither more cost-effective nor safer than governmentrun facilities. In an eight-category analysis, inspectors found that contract prisons lagged behind their publicly run counterparts. This included a higher rate of assaults directed at prisoners and staff.

The Justice Department decided that contract prisons are a poorer option than government-run prisons.

This wasn’t the message touted by government in the 1980s. CCA first emerged in Nashville.

Its cofounder, Tom Beasley, began his career under Tennessee politician Lamar Alexander. Within two years of its founding, many Republicans and Democrats at the state level owned stock in the upstart company that was generating substantial profits from the incarceration business.

The company also capitalized on growing discontent and legal qualms about state prisons. A series of riots in 1985 shook Tennessee politics. Lawsuits had already snaked their way through the courts, and an investigation found prisoner living conditions “shocking” and “unsafe.” The investigation cited recently enacted tough-on-crime measures as the major factor in a massive prison population boom. In the late 1970s, Alexander ran on a tough-on-crime platform that put people in prison and kept them there for longer.

Prisoners had begun airing their grievances to local newspapers. Prisoners at four locations burned facilities, took hostages, demanded a live press conference, caused more than $11 million in damages, and attracted national attention. The state’s leaders decided Tennessee needed to unload its prison problems.

Enter CCA. The governor’s wife, Honey

Alexander, and Speaker of the House Ned McWherter quickly dumped their CCA stock to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest. Then, in a swiftly called special session, Governor Alexander endorsed a full buyout of Tennessee prisons by the private company, calling this new alternative “cheaper and better.”

Other politicians and legislators questioned the legality of the deal but paid no mind to the implications of turning the prison system into a for-profit business.

After revisions, the state legislature struck down the buyout proposal.

Although the full buyout never happened, the slow encroachment of private companies into prisons soon became a reality as the legislature approved the takeover of several state facilities. Republican members of the state legislature supported the move. Democrats largely accepted it and provided no viable alternative. Although prisoners and state prison workers protested privatization, politicians in Tennessee remained silent.

Those opposed to private prisons have gained important allies in recent months. For the first time, a presidential

hopeful from a major party has made a serious call to do away with contract prisons. And although Bernie Sanders’ run for president is over, there is a political opportunity for Democrats to fight prison privatization, especially in light of the Justice Department’s decision.

The move to end the relationship between federal prisons and private companies is an important step, but it’s not where privatization began, nor is it where it should end. More than 30 years ago, the Democratic Party’s silence on the issue in Tennessee allowed prison privatization to take hold. The Justice Department’s decision affects only a fraction of prisoners living in private prisons. Most prisoners are still held at state-level prisons, where CCA began and is still a dominant force.

The same criticisms that the Justice Department acknowledged regarding privately run federal prisons hold true for their state counterparts. Ending the forprofit business model of incarceration at the state level is a battle that must be fought in state legislatures around the country.

Andrea L. Ringer is a PhD candidate in the history department at the University of Memphis.

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A Norvell Approach The new Tigers coach aims to build upon the most successful two-year run in Memphis football history.

Mike Norvell (left) promises fast-playing Tigers this season; the Tigers gear up for a (with hard work and a little luck) successful season.

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The University of Memphis football program is auditioning. Surely you’ve heard the whispers — loud as sirens — that the Big 12 Conference is evaluating expansion. One of the fabled “Power Five” conferences that award member schools the largest stacks of TV and sponsorship revenue, the Big 12 has had but 10 members since Missouri and Texas A & M departed for the SEC before the 201314 academic year. In the interest of gaining ground — particularly when it comes to revenue — on college football’s other conference titans (SEC, ACC, Big Ten, and Pac 12), the Big 12 is accepting hugs and kisses from schools desperate to land one of possibly four (but at least two) invitations for membership.

This, friends, is the U of M’s last, best chance to become a member of the NCAA’s ruling elite. (At least until further expansion creates “Super-Power Conferences.” Just wait. It’ll happen.) And qualifications for this form of exclusivity are wrapped in and around football. So consider the 2016 Tiger season 12 a 12-game (hopefully 13-game) casting call. In the spirit of the league Memphis is pursuing, here are 12 storylines to follow.

issing Pieces: Let’s get this out of the way. Several familiar (and historically significant) names from the 2015 season are no longer on the Tiger roster. Quarterback Paxton Lynch — a first-round NFL draft pick — has essentially taken Peyton Manning’s spot on the roster of the Super Bowl champions.

Also gone are an all-conference tight end (Alan Cross), all-conference tackle (Taylor Fallin), a pair of Lynch’s favorite targets (Mose Frazier and Tevin Jones), and a running back who finished second on the team last season with 389 rushing yards (Jarvis Cooper). And, oh yeah, coach Justin Fuente — architect of the most significant turnaround in the program’s history — is now the boss at Virginia Tech. To act as though the 2016 Tiger season will be merely a continuation of last year’s success would be to insult the legacy of these departed difference-makers. The hope must be that the bar has been raised and secured high enough for new differencemakers to emerge.

A Golden Era Is Upon Us (Maybe): The Tigers won more games over the last two seasons (19) than in any other two-year period since football was first played by the U of M in 1912. With seven wins this season, a new standard would be established for a three-year period. (The Tigers won 25 games from 1961 through 1963.) College football absolutely drips with the words “tradition rich.” There are programs, sadly, that are tradition poor.

Success has been infrequent and scattered over the 104 years Memphis has suited up a football team. What we’re seeing these days — remember that 15-game winning streak and beat-down of Ole Miss? — is the

closest the Tiger program has come to the dawn of a significant era. Can it be golden?

The Norvell Way: Filling a departed coach’s shoes has not been difficult, historically, at Memphis. Typically it’s more like flip-flops, with a broken strap. But following Fuente will be different. Mike Norvell is the youngest of 128 coaches in FBS. At age 34 (he turns 35 in October), he’s less than two years older than DeAngelo Williams. The list of former wide receivers (like Norvell) who have found success as head coaches is a short one. But you’ve heard of Bear Bryant. (Hall of Famer Raymond Berry took the New England Patriots to Super Bowl XX; we’ll ignore the result.) Norvell insists his Tigers will play fast, particularly on offense where he built his credentials as a coordinator under Todd Graham, most recently at Arizona State.

“We’re gonna push the pedal to the metal, play as fast as we can,” Norvell says.

“The way we practice and train, everything we do is focused on tempo. It’s an offense built for playmakers, and we have some guys here who can be very impactful.”

Among the playmakers Norvell considers integral this fall are tailbacks Doroland Dorceus (698 yards as a sophomore last year) and Darrell Henderson (a freshman), multipurpose threat Sam Craft (back from the basketball court), and receivers Anthony Miller and Phil Mayhue. With a pair of veterans — Trevon Tate and Gabe Kuhn — manning the tackle positions up front, the Tiger offense has the potential for star power. But if it’s going to approach 40 points a game (like the 2015 edition), a rookie will lead the way.

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they bring a pressure we can’t pick up.

Based on the read-aspect of the offense, it’s unstoppable. And very fast.”

Fill Those Seats! While the Tigers were winning those 19 games the last two seasons, the U of M sold just under half a million tickets for 12 games at the Liberty Bowl. (465,917 to be exact, or an average of 38,826 per game.) Last year’s attendance total of 262,811 established a new record for a six-game home season, and the average attendance of 43,801 was the highest since the stadium opened in 1965.

These are great numbers by the standards of Memphis football, but they must continue to grow. With new seatback sections added, the Liberty Bowl’s capacity is now 56,862. If the program is to convince the Big 12 it’s worthy of membership, 50,000 fans on game day should not be exceptional. Consider: Last November, 55,212 fans showed up to see Memphis

Fall is for football, and, as the season approaches, Coach Norvell and the Tigers are pushing themselves to bring us a heaping helping of wins. play Navy. (Navy! No SEC team on the other sideline.) It was the largest crowd to see a Tiger football game without an SEC foe since 1989. It’s not just the team auditioning folks.

Miller Time: A year ago at this time, Fuente described wide receiver Anthony Miller as “different from anyone else we have.” And Miller had yet to catch a pass in college. As a sophomore, the pride of Christian Brothers High School hauled in 47 passes and averaged 14.7 yards per catch. He caught five touchdown passes but was one of 12 players to reach the end zone on the receiving end of a Lynch toss.

Look for Miller to be a more frequent target this season and for numbers that will capture more national attention. Ferguson has already described Miller as “the best receiver I’ve ever thrown to.” (The Memphis program has seen only one 1,000-yard receiver: Isaac Bruce in 1993.) Ferguson points to junior Phil Mayhue as another valuable target, a possession receiver who will extend drives with his route running and sure hands. When asked about Daniel Montiel, Ferguson says, “We’re gonna use the tight end a tremendous amount.”

Kickers Can Be Stars: Close football contests are often won (and lost) with the kicking game. Memphis has featured the American Athletic Conference’s Special

Teams Player of the Year all three years of the league’s existence. Punter Tom Hornsey took the prize in 2013, and kicker Jake Elliott has earned the honor each of the last two seasons. Elliott and punter Spencer Smith were two of the four Tigers named first-team All-AAC after the 2015 campaign. Elliott converted 23 of 28 fieldgoal attempts last year (including nine of at least 40 yards), and Smith averaged 47.2 yards per punt, with 18 traveling more than 50 yards and 10 punts that pinned the Tiger opponent inside its own 10-yard line.

Elliott has his sights set on the Lou Groza Award, given annually to the nation’s top kicker and first won by the U of M’s Joe Allison in 1992.

Defensive Matters: The 2015 Tigers set a program record by scoring 522 points (40.1 per game). And it’s a good thing, because the Memphis defense gave up 355 (27.3 per game), an increase of 40 percent over the previous season (253 points).

This is a trend Norvell and new defensive coordinator Chris Ball would like to reverse. When asked about playmakers on the defensive side of the ball, Norvell starts with linebacker Genard Avery and safety Jonathan Cook (a transfer from Alabama).

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Paxton Who? “When I got here,” says Norvell, “I told the guys, if there’s one position I’ll guarantee competition, it’s quarterback.” Junior-college transfer Riley Ferguson — a member of the Tennessee program in 2013 — took the lead last spring in the Tigers’ quarterback derby, and last week Norvell named him the starter for Saturday’s opener.

Ferguson has size (6’4”, 190 lbs.) and put up solid numbers last fall at Coffeyville (KS) Community College: 67.8 completion percentage, 326.9 yards per game, and 35 touchdowns. As Norvell puts it, the Memphis quarterback will be “the guy who can truly manage the offense . . . play within the system.”

Ferguson is blessed with arm strength — a must at this level — but it’s a more intangible quality that has impressed his coach. “He came in and had a really nice mentality in how he positioned himself with the team,” Norvell says. “Guys like him as a person, but when he’s on the field, it’s all business.”

And why exactly is Ferguson a Memphis Tiger? “[Norvell] is a young coach, and I feel like I connected with him,” says Ferguson, who had been disappointed with his options after Coffeyville until Memphis swept in. “I felt I could be open with him and tell him my story, what I’ve been through. When he showed me the offense, that made me love [Memphis] even more. There’s nothing a defense can do to stop it. The only time the defense can be right is if I make a wrong read or

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the other day with a 450-pound bench and 600-pound squat. He’s one of the strongest human beings I’ve been around. He’s moving better than ever. Arthur Maulet is a guy who can be a playmaker for us.

I like our defensive front. We’ve got guys up there who can create havoc. [Defense] is our most experienced group, and they have a better sense of what they can do.”

Senior linebacker Jackson Dillon has compiled 20.5 tackles behind the line of scrimmage over his three seasons as a starter and aims to finish his college career with a third straight winning season, something that hasn’t happened at Memphis since 2003-05. “This is probably the best defense I’ve been a part of,” says Dillon. “Getting off the field after third down, that’s the biggest priority. Winning first and second down.”

Circle the Dates: The Tigers have an early bye week (Week 2) but seven home games. They travel to Ole Miss on October 1st (after beating the Rebels at home last year) and host Houston on November 25th (after losing to the Cougars last year in Texas). The top two teams in the AAC East will visit the Liberty Bowl (Temple on October 6th and USF on November 12th), but the Tigers must face Navy and Cincinnati on the road. The Tigers need a strong start and have three winnable home games to start the campaign (SEMO, Kansas, and Bowling Green).

The Memphis program has seen only one 1,000-yard reciever — Isaac Bruce.

Ground Control: With a former receiver calling the shots, count on the Memphis offense taking to the air with regularity.

But even with the departures of Cooper and Jamarius Henderson (320 rushing yards last season), the Tigers’ ground attack is versatile and deep. Junior Doroland Dorceus led the team with 661 yards a year ago and ran for eight touchdowns. In many offenses, Dorceus would be a threat for 1,000 yards. But Sam Craft is back from the hardwood for his senior season, and freshman Darrell Henderson (from South Panola High School) is expected to get his share of carries. So the Tigers could match last season’s ground production (179.5 yards per game) but without a 1,000-yard rusher for a seventh consecutive season.

Four Words: Smart. Fast. Physical.

Finish. These are the areas of emphasis Norvell has implemented, and they’re not all that different from the style of play Fuente preached for four seasons (and to profound success the last two years). A fast team, Novell believes, will hit harder and more often, making for a physical style that

will be felt throughout a stadium.

“We judge the finish as strictly as anything in this program,” he adds. “We want to be better at the end than we are at the beginning.” A decent strategy, whether you’re measuring a half, a game, or an entire season.

status is a motivator for the Tiger coaching staff and players, but not a distracting one.

“I don’t care what [the polls] say,” Dillon says. “They’re just people in suits, making suggestions. They’re not out there at practice, sweating, working.”

“It’s not unexpected,” Norvell says. “We know there are challenges in front of us. If we continue to grow as a football team, we have a great opportunity to put ourselves in a position to be a contender. Last year, we were 8-0 and in prime position but didn’t finish the way we needed to. We’ve got to build ourselves and show that we’re worthy of the respect that’s out there. There’s an anxiety. You’re anxious for the season.

You’re anxious to see the development of

Underdogs, Now and Forever: In its annual preseason poll, voters (among media) placed the Tigers third in the AAC’s West Division, behind Houston (the overwhelming favorite) and Navy.

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players, how everything comes together for this specific team. I think we have a chance to do some great things.”

The beauty of college football is that we spend a long offseason and six days a week talking about what could be, what might be, or what should be. Then game day arrives, and the young men in helmets and shoulder pads actually make something happen. Perhaps a year (or two) from now, the Memphis Tigers will be picked to finish fourth or fifth in a division of a new Big 12.

Or perhaps they’ll be defending another AAC championship. For now, though, there’s football to be played. A welcome season in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Folk Yeah

Hattie Childress

By Chris Davis

Of course, there will be music. There’s always music at the Center for Southern Folklore’s Memphis Music & Heritage Festival, often more than 100 performers in all. But where there’s music, there are also memories, and this year’s festival honors the life and legacy of Hattie Childress, a perpetually youthful storyteller, artisan, and cook whose wonderful quilts were only surpassed by her fantastic chow-chow. Childress, a festival mainstay who’s been showing work and selling canned goods through the center since the 1980s, passed earlier this year at the age of 92.

Childress was the daughter of sharecroppers. She grew up working in the kitchen with her mother and grandmother and watching the two women sit close together in the wintertime making quilts. As a young woman, she came to Memphis to escape domestic abuse. In 2006, her quilts were exhibited at the Brooks Museum in a show called “Blocks and Pieces.” Childress will be remembered at this year’s Music and Heritage Festival with a display of her quilts.

The downtown festival has become a Labor Day tradition and celebration of all things regional, from art and dance to music and cuisine. Every genre of music has been welcomed including blues, soul, gospel, and country, with plenty of rock, bluegrass, some jazz, and even a touch of pure Memphis weirdness. Over the years, it has showcased artists ranging from big-panty provocateur Bobby Rush to garage-rock heroes the Oblivians, to Stax legend Carla Thomas.

Memphis’ reputation as a music town is such that a complete lineup is seldom announced or marketed in advance, but some artists scheduled to appear at this year’s event include Joyce Cobb, Elmo and the Shades, Domingo Montes, and the Bell Singers.

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THURSDAY September 1

FRIDAY September 2

Cash Unchained: The Music of Johnny Cash & June Carter Lafayette’s Music Room, 6 p.m.

The tour kicks off tonight and features Ransom Harmony and the Highwaymen.

30 Days of Celebration Shelby Farms, 9 a.m.

Shelby Farms launches 30 days of free events with a ribbon-cutting at Heart of the Park. For a full list of events go to shelbyfarmspark.org.

Rob Zombie’s 31 Paradiso Cinema, 7 p.m.

Film about five carnival workers who are kidnapped the night before Halloween.

901 Day Celebration Loflin Yard, 4 p.m.

Choose 901 hosts this party.

Includes goods by Phillip Ashley, Paper and Clay, and others and music from Marcella and Her Lovers and Jeremy Stanfill. A dance party ends the evening.

Styx Horseshoe Casino, 8 p.m., $68 Power rock rules tonight in Tunica.

First Friday: Rest in Peace Woodruff-Fontaine House, 5-8 p.m.

Kim McCollum will talk about the history of Elmwood Cemetery. In conjunction with the museum’s Yellow Fever exhibition.

Zoo Brew Memphis Zoo, 7-10 p.m., $40 Annual party featuring beers from around the world.

Beauty & the Beast Theatre Memphis, 8 p.m., $30 Musical based on the Disney classic film.

Rock for Love 10 Hi-Tone, 7 p.m.

Annual rock-and-roll fund-raiser kicks off tonight. Read more about it on page 18.

School Daze

Stone Soul Movies

By Chris Davis

After 42 years and three locations, WLOK’s annual Stone Soul Picnic has settled into Overton Park and is steadily evolving into a Stone Soul weekend. In addition to Saturday’s picnic and a musical lineup featuring 24 gospel artists performing onstage at the newly renovated Levitt Shell, WLOK has partnered with the Brooks Museum to create the WLOK/Brooks Museum Black Film Festival.

The inaugural festival is modest in scope, showcasing two comedies, a concert film, and a stone cold classic. The first WLOK/ Brooks Museum Black Film Festival kicks off Friday, September 2nd at 3 p.m. with a screening of Spike Lee’s 1988 musical comedy School Daze. The social satire stars Larry Fishburne as “Dap” Dunlap, a politically active student at a traditionally black college, and Lee as Dap’s diminutive cousin “Half-Pint,” a Gamma Phi Gamma Pledge. School Daze is followed by an even more musical offering: Wattstax. In 1972 Memphis’ Stax records took its whole roster of recording artists to L.A. to play a day-long benefit concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Performers included Rufus and Carla Thomas, Isaac Hayes, the Staples Singers, and many more. The resulting film is one of the all-time great concert documentaries.

Saturday’s film offerings are Life and Imitation of Life. The first is a 1999 dramedy set in the 1930s. It stars Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence as a pair of New Yorkers who find themselves working hard labor in a Mississippi prison. The festival concludes with Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk’s romantic drama about mothers, daughters, and many shades of inequality. Though dismissed by critics as common melodrama during its original theatrical release, Imitation of Life’s treatment of American life in the 1950s earned it a second look and a place in the National Film Registry as a work of cultural and historical importance.

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WEDNESDAY September 7

Day of Mindfulness in Memphis Church of the River, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Find inner peace and then project it out to the world during this event led by the monks and nuns of Magnolia Grove Monastery.

Outflix Festival Ridgeway Cinema Grill, 7 p.m., $10 Annual LGBTQ film festival kicks off tonight with a screening of Girls Lost about three bullied teen girls who find a plant that changes their gender.

Live Up Festival Hi-Tone, 5 p.m., $10 Annual reggae festival featuring MD & Cobalt Blue, Jo’shua Odine, Chinese Connection Dub Embassy, and others.

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Delta Fair Agricenter International, 2-11 p.m.

The fair returns with rides, pig races, loads of food that may or may not be a good idea, appearances by the Four Tops and Skai Jackson, and much more. Check out the full lineup at deltafest.com.

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MUSIC By Chris Shaw

10 Years of Rock

Julien Baker

Your Guide to Rock for Love 10.

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ow in its 10th year, Rock for Love has become one of the most successful local music festivals around. The premise is simple: get some of the best local bands together to raise money for the Church Health Center — the largest faith-based health-care organization of its kind in the country. Last year the festival raised $50,000 for the Church Health Center, bringing the total amount raised by Rock for Love over the last decade to more than $250,000.

While each and every band brings something unique to the table, I’ve selected a handful of must-see acts each day at Rock for Love. With breakout stars like Julien Baker alongside local favorites like Mark Edgar Stuart and Star and Micey, the Rock for Love weekend kicks off a spectacular month

of Memphis music that includes Cooper-Young Fest and concludes with the 13th annual Goner Fest.

Friday, September 2nd.

Graham Winchester — arguably one of the hardest working men in local music — was tapped to curate night one of Rock for Love at the Hi-Tone. The kick-off show features an all-local lineup of Winchester and the Ammunition, Chickasaw Mound, Mark Edgar Stuart, the Subtractions, J.D. Reager & the Cold-Blooded Three, Faux Killas, Big Baby, Devil Train, and DJ Andrew McCalla. Fun Fact: Each band will only be playing songs that were recorded in Memphis.

All the bands on Friday’s bill are worth checking out — and for only $10 at the door, you should plan on staying the whole time, but you’ll definitely want to get there early to check out opener Mark Edgar Stuart. The singer-

songwriter recently released the great “Don’t Blame Jesus” single as a follow up to his excellent 2015 album Trinity My Dear, and national outlets like NPR and Paste Magazine have started to realize what Memphians have known for years — the man can write a damn good folk song.

The Faux Killas play at 10 p.m. on Friday, and their recently released album Time in Between serves as a primer for the Killas’ unpredictable and unruly live shows. Front man Jeremiah Jones has a voice that you won’t soon forget, and his backing band is starting to hit their stride after a couple

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Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks also continue their reign of 2016 terror. The band took Europe by storm with newly acquired member Seth Moody, and after releasing the excellent Lone Ranger of Love album, they might just be the best rock-and-roll band in Memphis. Star and Micey have also had a busy year, and the band is a perfect choice to close out the exceptional music weekend known as Rock for Love.

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Saturday, September 3rd.

The second day of Rock for Love offers up a double header, first at Loflin Yard and later at Otherlands Coffee.

Loflin Yard will feature Crockett Hall, Southern Avenue, HEELS, and Papa Top’s West Coast Turnaround. Fresh off signing a record deal with Stax/ Concord Music Group, Southern Avenue are the must-see band of the afternoon. We gushed about Southen Avenue in our Summer Music Issue (just prior to their getting signed), and the hype is real. They are hands-down one of the best bands in Memphis right now. They go on at 3 p.m. on Saturday, but the show starts at 2 p.m.

Later on at Otherlands, Me and Leah, the Dead Soldiers, and Julien Baker are set to play. Set times haven’t been announced for the Otherlands show, but it has been confirmed that Baker will play early in the night. With a breakout year in 2015 that made way for festival dates this summer, Baker is

far and away the brightest star on the Rock for Love 10 lineup. Given that she’s played major festivals and opened up for some of the biggest bands in her genre, seeing her in an intimate setting like Otherlands should be spectacular.

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THE 30TH ANNUAL MEMPHIS MUSIC AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL The Center for Southern Folklore will turn two blocks of Main Street into a street festival this Labor Day Weekend, complete with live music, arts and crafts, dancers, and chefs from around the city.

Founded in 1972, the Center for Southern Folklore is a nonprofit that documents and presents the music, culture, arts, and rhythms of the South.

Center for Southern Folklore Executive Producer Judy Peiser said the Memphis region is what makes the festival so special.

“This year marks our 30th festival. The first was produced in 1982 on Mud Island. From 1988 to the present, we used Court Square, Beale Street, and Main Street as the festival backdrop,” Peiser said.

“The Festival reaffirms the abundance of musical talent and this region’s love of music.”

The two-day festival will feature four outside stages in addition to two indoor stages at the Center for Southern Folklore. While the complete lineup has yet to be announced, festival highlights include Joyce Cobb, Elmo and the Shades, Domingo Montes, the Bell Singers, and Lonnie Harris.

The festival will also honor those who have passed on but where integral to the Center for Southern Folklore, including board member Deanna Lubin and quilt maker and storyteller Hattie Childress. Yvonne Sunshine Pascal, the founder and director of the Millennium Madness Drill Team and Drum Squad, will also be honored. All events at the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival happen between Union and Peabody Place, and all are free to attend.

Over 100 performers, chefs, craftspeople, and dancers are scheduled to appear over the 48-hour shindig. For a complete list of bands and activities, visit www. southernfolklore.com. — Chris Shaw The 30th Annual Memphis Music and Heritage Festival, September 3rd and 4th at the Center for Southern Folklore. 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. All ages.

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

Dantones Friday, Sept. 2, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

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

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

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Ground Zero ZERO BLUES ALLEY, CLARKSDALE, MS 662-621-9009

Titanium Blue Saturday, Sept. 3, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

East Tapas and Drinks 6069 PARK 767-6002

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

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Backstage Pass Saturday, Sept. 3, 8 p.m.; Altar’s Ego, Reach Sunday, Sept. 4, 59 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 610 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS 1-800-303-SHOE

Styx Friday, Sept. 2.

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

Hillbilly Mojo Sunday, Sept. 4, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Night Mondays, 8-10 p.m.

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

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

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

Summer/Berclair

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Barbie’s Barlight Lounge

Raleigh

661 N. MENDENHALL

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

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

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

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

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Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Charlie Belt and Friends Thursday, Sept. 1, 7 p.m.; The Brain Johnson Band Friday, Sept. 2, 9 p.m.; Rewind Saturday, Sept. 3, 9 p.m.; Shotgun Billys Sunday, Sept. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Nuttin’ Fancy Band Wednesday, Sept. 7, 8 p.m.

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

The Dantones Sunday, Sept. 4, 8-11:30 p.m.

Memphis All Stars Sunday, Sept. 4, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Old Whitten Tavern

Cordova

4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

Collierville Huey’s Collierville

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

King Beez Sunday, Sept. 4, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown

Ice Bar & Grill Unwind Wednesdays Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.

Mesquite Chop House 3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

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

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

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

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

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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

Karaoke with Tim Bachus Mondays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

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t’s that time of year again, book lovers. Time to climb off the sofa, turn off your reading lamp, put down your cheaters, and slip from the cozy warmth of your favorite coffee shop. But don’t leave your books behind. Bring them with you to the Mid-South Book Festival.

This year’s festival takes place over five days beginning Wednesday, September 7th and should be every bit as exciting as last year’s, an affair that saw 80 authors and nearly 5,000 attendees. It was a great showing for an event in only its second year of existence.

For this, its third year, there are close to 100 authors and speakers, including Phyllis Dixon (Down Home Blues), book editor George Hodgman, Joshua Hood (Warning Order), and Ed Tarkington (Only Love Can Break Your Heart). Sure to attract a large audience is Lauren Groff, author of the wildly popular novel Fates and Furies, a finalist for the National Book Award and Amazon’s pick for Best Book of the Year. She’ll be in conversation with author and festival chair Courtney Miller Santo Saturday at 2:30 p.m. on the main stage at Playhouse on the Square.

In addition to Groff, one of the panels Santo is most excited about is Making Memphis, which includes writers with a local connection who work in the genres of poetry, nonfiction, thrillers, and speculative fiction. “One of the themes the committee and I talked about was really being more inclusive in the types of writers and genre of writers that are coming, and acknowledging that people read for all kinds of reasons and it’d be best to really be broad in bringing people in,” Santo said. “We have one of the premier editors of science fiction, Sheree Thomas. We have a couple of poets on the panel as well as Josh Hood, who writes military thrillers. I’m always saying that Memphis is a storyteller’s town.

I’m very excited to see people come together and talk about storytelling.”

Saturday is full of panel discussions at Playhouse on the Square and across the street at Circuit Playhouse. These include: The Word (Memphis’ longestrunning open mic event that features a live band), Echoes of History (three writers discuss their stories of war and why they wrote them), Crowd Control (influential bloggers discuss how to stand out among the online crowd), and Impossible Language (selections

from the ongoing poetry reading series), among many others.

Prior to Saturday, Literacy Summit 2016 will be held on Wednesday, September 7th. Literacy Mid-South is in the business of improving people’s lives through improving literacy rates, and the summit brings together “nonprofit and government agencies, community advocates, volunteers, and parents to network, develop new skills, and share promising practices.” The featured speaker will be Yolie Flores with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading. There is a $10 registration fee for this event.

Friday night, in the Event Room at Playhouse, will be Words Matter, a collaboration that begins with a literary contribution from a writer before a team of artists and performers molds those words into their own creation.

Visual artists, musicians, dancers, actors,

and filmmakers express their creativity through the author’s language. Tickets for this event are $25 in advance and $40 at the door.

Sunday sees the inaugural Student Writers Conference, meant to help young writers age 12 to 17 grow and succeed in their craft. Registration fee is $10 with scholarships available as needed.

This year’s festivities promise to outshine those before it, and the future of the festival is bright. Santo talks of spinning it into its own nonprofit and hosting an even greater diversity of presenters and attendees. “We’d like to keep it open and inclusive, and we’re talking to our community about what it’s needing,” she said. “My craving with being an author is to have good stories to tell, and that’s the center of the MidSouth and Memphis for me — the idea of storytelling.”

For more information and full schedules, please visit midsouthbookfest.org.

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September 1 - 7

TH EAT E R

Circuit Playhouse

Disgraced, a Muslim-American lawyer and his wife enjoy a comfortable life on New York’s Upper East Side. A co-worker and her husband come to dinner, leaving relationships and beliefs about race and identity irrevocably damaged. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $15$40. Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Sept. 4.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Hattiloo Theatre

The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, powerful musical that dramatizes the turbulent story of the legendary Empress of the Blues, whose life was as large and as outrageous as her talent. www.hattiloo.org. $20-$30. Sun., 3 p.m., and Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m. Through Sept. 4.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

New Discovery Christian Church

Aladdin, Jr., theatrical education program for students ages 6 and up. Performance by students on December 17. www.kudzuplayers.com. Thursdays, 5-6:30 p.m. Through Dec. 17.

961 VINSON ROAD.

Playhouse on the Square

Mamma Mia!, on a small Greek island, Sophie dreams of a perfect wedding that includes her father giving her away. She doesn’t know who he is and discovers three possible fathers. She secretly invites all three to the wedding. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $20-$45. Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Sept. 4.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

Beauty and the Beast, brings to life the timeless story of a selfish and hot-tempered prince who is turned into a hideous monster and must win the affection of a beautiful, young girl in order to regain his humanity. www.theatrememphis.org. $15-$30. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Sept. 25.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

A Cool Glass on the Bluff II, journey through Memphis in song, featuring Linda Herring. (9466140 ), $15. Fri., Sept. 2, 7 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

Bingham and Broad

Artist Reception for new works by Kenny Hays, www.binghamandbroad.com. Fri., Sept. 2, 5-8 p.m.

2563 BROAD (323-3008).

Cooper Walker Place P!NK PALACE MUSEUM

Opening reception for “Emery Franklin’s Beautiful World,” Fri., Sept. 2, 6 p.m.

S e p t e m b e r 1 - 7, 2 0 1 6

1015 S. COOPER (303-990-3999).

David Lusk Gallery

Opening reception for “I Will Have to Tell You Everything” and “Preserved,” exhibition of abstract works by Hamlett Dobbins and architectural inspired works by Peter Fleming. www.davidluskgallery.com. Fri., Sept. 2, 6-8 p.m.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Found Studio

Artist reception for Alex Warble, exhibition of surreal and humorous-style paintings. Fri., Sept. 2, 6-8 p.m.

2491 BROAD (652-0848).

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

Cooper-Young Art Tours

For more information, featured artists, and popup performances, visit website. First Friday of

Opening reception for “I Will Have to Tell You Everything” and “Preserved” at David Lusk Gallery, Friday

every month, 6-9 p.m.

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

First Fridays on Broad

Shops stay open late for added summer fun. First Friday of every month. Through Sept. 30.

BROAD AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT, BETWEEN HOLLYWOOD AND COLLINS, WWW.BROADAVEARTS.COM.

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Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

“Frontiers,” exhibition of paintings, building off of earlier photographic work, and video works that address issues of labor and migration, by Rodrigo Valenzuela. www.memphis.edu/fogelmangalleries.

Through Oct. 14, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

“Infoxication,” exhibition of recent works featuring sound, light, and video installations by Ruben Garnica. www.memphis.edu/fogelmangalleries.

Through Sept. 9.

3715 CENTRAL.

Fratelli’s

“Wonders of Heaven and Earth,” exhibition of impressionistic and light-filled landscape paintings

by Lois Pittman. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Sept. 2-28.

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

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For more information and scheduled community performances, visit website. Sept. 1-30.

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C O M E DY

Hi-Tone

Don’t Be Afraid of Blacksmith Comedy, featuring the stand-up comedy of Brandon Sams, Will Loden, and John Simmons. $5. Mon., Sept. 5, 8:15-9:30 p.m.

412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE).

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

Stewart Huff Live, hilarious show with Memphis’ funniest comedians, featuring Stewart Huff.

(574-4368). $10. Wed., Sept. 7, 9-11 p.m.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

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The Children of Abraham: An Interfaith Dialogue

Memphis Botanic Garden

An interfaith dialogue and panel discussion between Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders in our community to understand how the three faith traditions have roots in Abraham, intersect, and offer opportunities for dialogue. Free. Tues., Sept.

6, 7-9 p.m.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282), WWW.STGCHURCH.ORG.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

“Labor,” exhibition of intricate cut-paper images

by Katie Maish. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Sept. 2-Oct. 1.

Memphis Jewish Home

“The Art of Zoe Nadel” show and sale, (756-3273), Through Nov. 30.

36 BAZEBERRY (758-0036).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

“September Song,” exhibition of work by Judy Norcifora, Lisa Balton, Julie Hooker, Sandra Hill, Milton Ruiz, Susie Richmond, Joy Phillips Routt, Phyllis Boger, Denise Bovo-Fischer, Charlene Graves, Linda Lucchesi, Ron Olson, Dina Phillips, and Cherie Robinson. www.stgchurch.org. Sept. 1-25.

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

First Friday: Rest in Peace

Kim McCollum will be speaking on the history of Elmwood and how the Rural Cemetery Movement established the oldest and finest cemetery in Memphis. Refreshments served. $15 per person.

Fri., Sept. 2, 5-8 p.m.

WOODRUFF-FONTAINE HOUSE, 680 ADAMS (526-1469), WWW.WOODRUFF-FONTAINE.ORG.

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Sat., Sept. 3, noon.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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“My Favorite Images,” exhibition of photography and cinematography by Bill Carrier. www.wkno. org. Sept. 5-29.

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Rock for Love

Benefiting Church Health Center. Fri.-Sun., Sept. 2-4.

Memphis Music & Heritage Festival

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.CHURCHHEALTHCENTER.ORG/ROCKFORLOVE.

Celebrating the music, culture, arts, and rhythms of the Memphis/Delta region. Sat.-Sun., Sept. 3-4.

Unity Block Party: Mending the Bond

SOUTH MAIN AND PEABODY PLACE, DOWNTOWN, WWW.SOUTHERNFORLKLORE.COM.

Family-friendly environment with free food and entertainment and opportunity to show our city officials love and gratitude. Fri., Sept. 2, 4 p.m.

Outflix Film Festival

Featuring 12 features, six documentaries, and 14 shorts. See website for film schedule and festival passes. Wed.-Sun., Sep. 7-11.

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR, WWW.OVERTONPARK.ORG.

WLOK Stone Soul Picnic and Film Fest

MALCO RIDGEWAY FOUR, 5853 RIDGEWAY CENTER PARKWAY (681-2046), WWW.OUTFLIXFESTIVAL.ORG.

Four films are free at Brooks and picnic is at Levitt Shell featuring gospel performances. Fri.-Sun., Sept. 2-4.

LEVITT SHELL, OVERTON PARK (272-2722), WWW.WLOK.COM.

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14th Annual Chick-fil-A 5K

Starts at Gayoso and Front and ends at AutoZone Park, benefiting Junior Achievement of Memphis.

Mon., Sept. 5, 8 a.m.

AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), WWW.CHICKFILA5K.COM.

Go Ape Treetop Adventure Ongoing.

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

Grand Opening: King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille

$25. Fri.-Sat., Sept. 2-3, 7:30 p.m.

KING JERRY LAWLER’S HALL OF FAME BAR & GRILLE, 159 BEALE.

ModNationals Race and Car Show $25-$75. Sept. 2-4.

MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, 5500 VICTORY LANE, WWW.RACEMIR.COM.

M E ETI N G S

AMA Memphis September Luncheon

Three local social media and marketing experts discuss “Case Studies in Memphis Social Media: What Works, What Doesn’t, And Why.” $15 members, $25 nonmembers. Thurs., Sept. 1, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

UNIVERSITY CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 1346 CENTRAL (722-3700).

Republican Women of Purpose

Featuring guest speaker Dr. Candice McQueen, Tennessee Commissioner of Education. Reservations are required. Call for more information. $25.

Wed., Sept. 7.

TPC AT SOUTHWIND, 3325 CLUB AT SOUTHWIND (854- 6674).

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

901 Day at Loflin Yard

Celebrate 901 Day with Choose901 featuring Memphis-themed drinks and food available for purchase, live music from Artistik Approach, Jeremy Stanfill, and Marcella and Her Lovers, and goodies from local vendors. Free. Thurs., Sept. 1, 4-10 p.m.

LOFLIN YARD, 7 W. CAROLINA, WWW.CHOOSE901.COM.

Day of Mindfulness in Memphis

The monks and nuns of Magnolia Grove Monastery present an opportunity for all to learn how to cultivate peace in ourselves, offer peace to the world, and

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Sept. 2-11.

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

Dog Day at the Garden

Four-legged-friendly event for dogs and their faithful owners. $5 members, $10 nonmembers. Sat., Sept. 3, 2-5 p.m.

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

Exposure on 901 Day

Celebration of all things Memphis featuring 150+ local organizations, businesses, and hidden gems.

Feast your eyes on fireworks, live performances, local music, and local-celebrity kickball game. Thurs., Sept. 1, 6 p.m.

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

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Meet at AutoZone Front Porch at the First Tennessee Foundation Visitor Center to kick off 30 days of celebration, which will feature 30 days of free events.

Thurs., Sept. 1, 9 a.m.

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

CALENDAR: SEPTEMBER 1 - 7 Scenes of the Dinosaurs

Travel back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the earth and get closer than you ever could have imagined. Visit the life-like dinosaurs and interactive learning stations that will inspire and engage all the senses. Free for members. Through Oct. 2.

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

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901 Day at Huey’s

Kick off Rock for Love 10 weekend with a portion of proceeds on all local Memphis draft beer purchased at Huey’s Midtown benefiting Church Health Center. Thurs., Sept. 1, 11-midnight.

Journey to Space 3D

Experience space flight history and the space shuttle program as we strap into our seats for humanity’s next stop, Mars. See website for dates and times. $9.

Through Nov. 18.

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

Living in the Age of Airplanes

Experience the age of flight and its impact upon commerce and culture. See website for dates and times. $9. Through Sept. 11.

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Kimbal Musk admires the beautiful view from The Kitchen.

of The Kitchen, a “world-class neighborhood restaurant,” in the new FedEx Events Center in Shelby Farms Park.

“Memphis picked me,” Musk said at a recent fund-raiser for his nonprofit, The Kitchen Community.

In addition to creating homey, community-focused, and locally sourced restaurants, Musk, Matheson, and Lewin have developed The Kitchen Community, a series of outdoor Learning Gardens built at schools around the country to encourage healthy eating in students by incorporating the gardens into the curriculum.

It was the Learning Gardens that brought Musk to Memphis. And, of course, more kismet meetings centered around food.

“I was at a dinner, and I was sitting next to a great philanthropist from Memphis.

I was telling him about our Learning Gardens, and he asked if I would consider building them in Memphis,” says Musk, who has a culinary degree from NYC’s French Culinary Institute. “I told him, ‘Sure, if someone will fund it.’ He said, ‘What if I funded it?’”

So far, Musk and company have built 65 Learning Gardens at Shelby County Schools, Jubilee Catholic Schools, and the Achievement School District, with three more approved so far. Their goal is to build 100 in Memphis.

A percentage of proceeds from the restaurants, which include The Kitchen community bistros, Next Door community pubs, and the Boulder-only Upstairs cocktail lounge, fund the Learning Gardens, as do various fund-raisers throughcontinued on page 32

AT YOUR TAILGATE Humphrey Folk shared the celebrated taste of Folk’s Folly hand-cut prime steaks with the world.

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The lap belonged to chef Hugo Matheson, and the Lab to Kimbal Musk and Jen Lewin. The three (not sure if the Lab was invited) ended up having dinner that night, prepared by Matheson, and the idea of opening a neighborhood restaurant that builds community around eating healthy food was born. Since that day in 2002, the dynamic trio has opened eight restaurants in Boulder, Denver, Fort Collins, Chicago, and Glendale. This week, they added Memphis to the roster, with the opening

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But back to the restaurant.

The 5,000-square-foot, 128-seat bistro keeps as its theme simple, clean, fresh, and local, preparing dishes like Sweet Corn Ravioli or Summer Melon & Country Ham using seasonal ingredients from local farmers, ranchers, and purveyors in and around Memphis.

And while the signature dishes such as the hand-cut garlic fries, the tomato soup, the mussels, and the Sticky Toffee Pudding will most definitely knock your socks off, the view might just be the main attraction.

Situated in the brand-new, eco-friendly FedEx Events Center as part of the $70 million Heart of the Park reimagining project near completion in Shelby Farms, the restaurant is almost entirely flanked by windows. That’s an important feature, because it sits on the southeast end of the newly expanded Patriot Lake, which recently grew from 52 acres to 80. Sunset views for days, people. There’s also a covered patio with tables and couches and lounge chairs facing the lake with western views.

With such competition, the interior needed some show stoppage, and it does not disappoint, with a blend of contemporary and rural styles that use reclaimed barn pendants, handmade wrought iron

pipe sconces, and handcrafted dining tables made of reclaimed heart of pine.

Diners who stop by on Monday nights can opt to eat at the community table in the private dining room, where they are seated with strangers, and, who knows, might come up with the next idea that will change the world.

“My time in Memphis has been magical,” Musk says. “Memphis is historically an amazing food town. I want to give people a place they can go and get food that nourishes their body while creating local relationships.”

The Kitchen is the first of three endeavors Musk and his business partners have planned for Memphis. Next will be The Kitchenette, a grab-and-go cafe in the new Shelby Farms Visitors Center, and they will open one of their Next Door community pubs in the Crosstown Concourse building next year.

The Kitchen is open for dinner only until after Labor Day. Then its hours are lunch Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., brunch Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and dinner Sunday and Monday, 5 to 10 p.m., and Tuesday through Saturday, 5 to 10 p.m.

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Horse Play

A mobile bar for your next event? Genius.

the-hay chic, with rough wood paneling behind the beer taps. But there’s still plenty of room for a full bar.

I went with the charming Mrs. M to the Barnwall Event Co. launch party the other week out in Eads. First of all, this thing is not as large as you are likely imagining: The trailer fits in a regularsized patio. In fact, it looks entirely normal, except there’s a bartender inside.

What can I say? The setup works. It offered an interesting focal point as we stood around in the country eating … well, hoisting a drink and talking and wearing boots. The implications for all of this, now that fall — more to the point, football season — is here, are intriguing.

People get married, companies throw get-togethers, and charities have fundraisers. The trailer, Paige tells me, is available for those and all sorts of other events: Carnival, St. Crispin’s Day, tailgating, you name it.

For example: You may really want to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day, but throwing a first-rate hootenanny is likely going to ruin the first week in November for you, because it’s work to throw a party. Which is where the simplicity of a moveable bar for hire — about the size of a mini-van but more chic — comes into play. You can focus on the effigy-burning while the guy in the horse trailer handles the drinks.

A couple of millennia ago, our protoEgyptian drank some old, milky water that had somehow learned to talk back.

It was a good move, and a brave one, too.

The Barnwall Event Co. bar/horse trailer may not be as accidental or bold, but still, it’s pretty damn clever. Wish I’d thought of it.

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nnovation is swell. However, a word of warning: When innovating in the realm of booze and booze delivery systems, don’t overthink it. The guys from Brew Dogs making beer out of Welsh seaweed aren’t innovating; they are trying to fill airtime. The best innovations are, more often than not, the simplest.

One generally accepted historical theory is that beer was invented by the Egyptians, accidentally. You can’t get more simple than that. And it goes without saying that whoever said, “Hey guy! All your barley got soaked with rain, and now the water is all fizzy and weird. Let’s drink it!” was almost certainly not doing any complex thinking. Still, we are all standing on the shoulders of that simple, common brilliance.

The best innovations also address a need. Which is why Ben Garrett took a horse trailer and fashioned a food truck for beer. Well, that isn’t exactly what Barnwall Event Co. did, but the genius of the thing really sings when you call it that.

Ben’s wife, Paige, told me that her husband is always coming up with ideas — “some of them good.” Ben noticed that retrofitting horse trailers for various purposes is fairly common in European countries. Specifically, it was seeing a rolling gin bar called the Gin Tin that sparked the idea for Garrett. What he saw was a gleaming mobile bar, fully stocked and ready to be parked wherever you want to go. Needless to say, this was one of Garrett’s good ideas.

Paige and Ben scoured Craigslist and found a welder in Millington named Doug Peel to kit the thing out with lines, sinks, a sound system, and a 42-inch TV. As a horse trailer, it still retains a certain roll-in-

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Claustrophobia Don’t Breathe sets off all the trigger warnings.

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udging from this year’s crop of horror films, Americans must be longing for escape from something. I would say three films is officially a trend, and the three best horror movies of 2016 are all about being trapped in a claustrophobic space with someone — perhaps several someones — up to no good. First we were locked in a bomb shelter with John Goodman in 10 Cloverfield Lane, then neo-Nazi Captain Picard wanted to burn down our punk rock party in Green Room, and now we’re trapped in a house with a psychotic blind man in Don’t Breathe.

To be fair, the three “heroes” in Fede Alvarez’s new horror film pretty much deserve what’s coming to them. Rocky (Jane Levy), Money (Daniel Zovatto), and Alex (Dylan Minnette) are a trio of burglars, kind of like a Detroit version of The Bling Ring, enabled by Alex’s access to keys and info from his father’s security service. Alvarez, an Uruguayan filmmaker whose last project was a remake of Sam Raimi’s classic Evil Dead, concentrates on building sympathy for Rocky, who lives in an abusive situation with her alcoholic mother and longs to buy her and her little sister passage to California. After a lessthan-successful job, they learn of a sure thing: the last inhabited house in a dying neighborhood, where a blind Gulf War veteran (nameless, but played by Stephen Lang) is believed to be sitting on a huge stash of cash from an insurance settlement.

After a little persuading, Alex agrees to help with one last job.

From the slavering Rottweiler guarding the house to the four locks on every door, the signs are that there’s something worth guarding in this home, a relic of Detroit’s

better days. Once they’re inside, our sneak thieves discover that the Blind Man is hiding more than just a stack of bills.

Alvarez’s greatest strength lies in his eye for moody photography. He uses strategically placed light sources to paint Rocky and the Blind Man in chiaroscuro tones. When Alex and Rocky are trapped in a darkened basement, Alvarez uses the opportunity to crank the image contrast down as low as it will go, evoking claustrophobic feelings with only vague, moving gray shapes. He is also a master of timing, getting a lot of mileage out of opening doors at the perfect moment.

Don’t Breathe can best be described as a series of steadily escalating variations on a theme. From being trapped in a ventilation duct with a rabid dog to slowly inching across broken glass, Alvarez is evoking the feeling of wanting to flee, but seeing your options for escape slowly dwindling. The effect is chilling enough to overcome a lateJustice Smith (left) dips Herizen F. Guardiola in The Get Down.

Dylan Minnette (left) and Stephen Lang in Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe film flurry of false endings and the occasional disbelief-killing logical stretch. You may find the feeling of getting squeezed strikes an unexpectedly familiar chord.

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The Head Scratcher Not sure what’s going on with The Get Down, but it’s pretty fun.

As I watched The Get Down, I felt the slow realization that I don’t think Baz Luhrmann understands how narrative works.

Over the course of his 26-year film career, from the slick exploitation of Strictly Ballroom to his wildly overblown take on The Great Gatsby, he’s certainly proven he knows how to create spectacle. The Get Down is a vision of the birth of hip-hop as Olympian myth. Empowered by a free-spending Netflix, Luhrmann seems to have been encouraged to go more fully Luhrmann-esque than ever before. In his hands, the Brooklyn of 1977 is a hallucinatory war zone populated by characters of operatic breadth. The cast are all relative newcomers, led by Justice Smith as Zeke, a young poet whom we meet on the edge of becoming a proto-MC. His love interest is a singer named Mylene (Herizen F. Guardiola), and his mentor is a mysterious DJ named Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore), and together they set out to conquer the world through tight flow and sick beats.

TV REVIEW By Chris McCoy Or something like that. It’s really hard to fathom what is going on, plot-wise, at any given moment. Luhrmann seems incapable of concentrating on a storyline for more than three or four shots — and that’s only if there’s some kind of interesting movement taking place that he can track in some outrageous Dutch angle.

He treats emotion the same way he treats color, splashing it across the screen for garish effect. Take his use of the great Giancarlo Esposito as Mylene’s father, the puritanical Pastor Ramon. Here’s an actor with superhuman control to spin a tapestry of conflicting emotion on his face, but Luhrmann sets him on one speed — “righteous rage.”

Lurhmann’s not using his actors to their full potential, but the same can’t be said of his production designer and cinematographers. The Get Down is one

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It’s this manic inventiveness that’s always been the attraction to the director’s fans, and it’s here in spades. It might not be so much that the director doesn’t understand how to construct a narrative as he just doesn’t care. There’s no recognizable human psychology, but often The Get Down reads like one of the best longform music video projects since Thriller.

Letting the beautiful dancing people, the bumping soundtrack, and the hot-shot construction wash over is a pretty pleasant use of an hour or so, even if its lack of clear story renders it emotionally flat.

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My husband, a longtime and therefore long-suffering Chicago Cubs fan, turned 30-something a few weeks ago. Since I believe all sports fans deserve to experience in person what it feels like to root for a winner, we jetted off (found a cheapish flight on Southwest) to the Windy City for a celebratory mid-week series at Wrigley Field.

Our plush, luxury penthouse (minimalist AirBnB studio) in the Lincoln Park neighborhood offered convenient access to everything we needed. It was about a 30-minute walk from the stadium, where the Cubs handled — nay, humiliated — the Brewers for four straight games (this part is true). We checked off most of the standard to-do list items in a surprisingly brief amount of time: hot dog with peppers, radioactive-green relish, and tomatoes; a cheese and sauce casserole the locals call “deep dish pizza;” selfies in front of Cloud Gate (the famous “bean” sculpture in Millennium Park); and a retail hike on the Magnificent Mile.

Comparing Memphis to other cities will either harsh your buzz or make you homesick, so I’ve trained myself to push those thoughts to the back of my mind. It’s an especially bad idea in a city three times bigger, in another region, with a different climate.

But some things are just too obvious not to notice, which is why sometime during day two I realized I had not seen any parking lots. I saw some parking spaces, mostly tucked behind buildings. I saw parking garages, and parked cars, but none of the asphalt seas that line the streets of our fine city. And everybody appeared to be okay with it! People were walking and biking and waiting for the bus and acting as if they didn’t even notice, much less care, that the places they were going to didn’t have a space for every single individual to park his or her own vehicle right outside. Can you even imagine such a place?

We took a late flight back into Memphis International. As I steered my janky old rolling suitcase through the sliding doors, my first view of “home” was of a mostly empty parking lot.

Since then, parking lots are all I see. I read somewhere last week that Memphis’ landmass is three times the size of Detroit’s, and I’m convinced most of that consists of parking lots. Downtown and East Memphis are covered in concrete. Germantown Parkway and Winchester Road are just parking lots with names.

With the exception of Tiger Lane, which doesn’t count, they’re all hideous.

Overlay districts by design ensure communities have a consistent look and feel that meet the needs of their stakeholders. In other words, they make neighborhoods look like neighborhoods. Midtown’s streets, especially Union Avenue, have benefited from the Midtown Overlay District since it passed six years ago. How about an overlay district for the whole city that dictates that we’re all set on parking?

Memphis’ sprawl problem was not news to me. But experiencing real density firsthand illuminated for me the fact that our city was planned with cars in mind, not people. One could argue it wasn’t planned at all and could present some compelling evidence to support that view, but that’s a topic for another day. It’s as if someone noticed the population leaking eastward and said, “Let’s just pave over all the gaps and hope no one notices.” Or perhaps “Let’s make sure they have a place to park if they ever decide to come back.”

If we pave it, they will come?

One takeaway from the protracted battle over the Overton Park Greensward is that “convenient” off-street parking ranks a little too high on a lot of people’s priority lists. We saw more of this backwards thinking earlier this summer, when a real estate developer brazenly asserted to the Downtown Memphis Commission that a lack of parking on Front Street was hindering the area’s growth. I’m not sure how anyone who’s visited South Main in the past few years can say that with a straight face, but I guess a person will say anything when trying to get a project approved.

Here’s an idea I hope catches on with public and private developers: Trust people to figure out what to do if they can’t find off-street parking. If people are really as put out by walking a couple of blocks as some would have us believe, we’ll never be able to compete as a city.

Please build stuff, but no more parking lots. Better yet, build stuff on top of the parking lots that already blanket the city.

Parking? We’ll find a spot.

Jen Clarke is an unapologetic Memphian and digital marketing specialist.

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