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OUr 1357th / issUe 02.26.15 / cOver stOry p.16 When i moved here from Pittsburgh in the early 1990s, my son, who was 11 at the time, was a hockey player. he worshipped Mario lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins. he’d even been to a Stanley cup finals game. his greatest fear about moving South was that he wouldn’t be able to play hockey.

So i asked around, and it turned out, there was a local youth hockey league. at the group’s pre-season organizational meeting, when they learned we were from Pittsburgh, they asked if i could skate. “a little,” i said. Then they asked if i knew the rules of hockey. “yes,” i said, “pretty much.” “good,” they said. “you’re a coach.” and so, for the next three years, i spent many nights and afternoons in the Mid-South coliseum, coaching the “red team.” We took the “big ice” whenever we could get it. The only other rink in town was at the Mall of Memphis, where spectators carried shopping bags and munched fast food and wondered out loud what the hell them kids were up to.

So, for what it’s worth, the coliseum used to be a great spot for at least one “youth sport” — which is the foundation around which the city’s proposed Tourism development Zone (TdZ) is being spun. But, as Toby Sells’ cover story makes clear, the place has been mothballed since 2006 and, depending on whose numbers you believe, it will take many millions to bring it back to viability. in the meantime, the local youth hockey program has moved to Southaven, along with most of the concerts that would logically work well at the old 11,000-seat venue. now, a growing movement to stop the destruction of the coliseum is running smack-dab into the city’s plan to reinvent the Fairgrounds. Both sides have work to do before the issue is decided. as others have pointed out in these pages, the city is asking taxpayers to trust the city to be able to “develop” the Fairgrounds without putting all the cards on the table. We don’t know who or what might move in. a hotel? What kind of hotel? youth sports? really? The competition in that market is fierce. retail? Big box? Bounews & opinion tique? Fast food? There are lots of loose leTTerS - 4 parts in play.

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by Toby Sells - 16 on the other hand, opposition is building steppin’ out to the TdZ plan, in general, and to the We recoMMend - 20 destruction of the coliseum, in particular.

MuSic - 22 Maybe a compromise can be concocted. aFTer dark - 24 Maybe not. But it would behoove the city TheaTer - 28 not to ignore the will of a determined bunch calendar oF eVenTS - 30 of citizens. There’s a reason that i-40 doesn’t Food - 36 run through the middle of overton Park.

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About Chris Davis’ webpost, “Ole Miss Student Gored by Spanish Bull” ...

Ole Miss student: “How can we top UT’s Butt-Chugging event?” Mr. Milley: “Watch This!”

Charley Eppes With all due respect to Mr. Milley, I’d rather grow old telling my grandkids about the time I survived a goring by a raging bull in Spain, as opposed to hearing bumblin’ Joe Biden publicly refer to me as his “old butt buddy” and having to explain that gaffe for the rest of my life.

Mr. Milley, it could be worse, a lot worse. Glad you lived to tell the tale, sir.

Nightcrawler I agree, Nightcrawler. That young man should definitely blame Obama for this.

Especially when he gets home and has honest American doctor bills, unlike the time he will spend in Spain being treated with godless free socialized medicine.

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About Wendi C. Thomas’ column, “Good Jobs Lost” …

I feel bad for this lady, but there’s a question Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region www.plannedparenthood.org/memphis that I kept asking myself while reading this article that wasn’t addressed. Why is she still living in Memphis if she can’t find a job here with her high skill set?

FLYER_quarter_MCMW.indd 1 8/18/14 12:42 PM If I were to lose my job here, it’s possible I couldn’t find another locally because my skills are specialized. But I’m pretty sure I could find a similar job elsewhere if I were willing to move. There are reasons I probably wouldn’t move, but they have nothing to do with economics or the disappearance Mondays, 4pM, aerial Kid Class of middle-class jobs.

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Has anyone looked into the cost of relocating, especially with children in school close to graduating? With the constant cuts to NIH funding, there are not as many jobs available anywhere for people with this skill set. Age discrimination is also a factor once you pass age 45, so for those of you in that age group, be prepared.

Been There All of Wendi’s columns should be turned into epic novels so she can answer any possible question a grumpy old man could dream up. They obviously are incapable of making assumptions based on reason and need Wendi to spoon feed them the answers to every scenario.

Nobody About Joe Boone’s cover story, “All About That Uptown Funk” …

What an inspiring story about great people doing great, creative things in Memphis. Thanks for giving us the story behind the hit.

Leelo Nice article supporting Memphis art.

However, if you really want to support Memphis arts and artists, you should know (and care enough) to give credit to the artist who painted that fabulous door you so proudly sport on your cover. It would have been nice to have mentioned one of Memphis’ true art treasures, Lamar Sorrento, who is known (and collected) by art lovers worldwide and also a darn good musician.

Friends of Lamar say, “Not Cool.”

Fontaine About Toby Sells’ story, “Council Gets First Look at MATA Trolley Plan” …

It is critical for the small business owners on Main Street that a viable transportation option is in place AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The cold/rainy weather makes foot traffic draw to a stand-still, so without some alternative, we all stand to lose.

Main Street Business Owner Councilmembers Flinn and Collins don’t sound serious about one of the top tourist attractions Memphis has. They don’t think an enormous amount of money should be spent to rectify a problem or reinvest into the system? That’s the problem that caused the issue to begin with.

Memphis has to get leaders serious about upgrading this system and even replacing the aged trolleys with modern LRVs like you see in the new Atlanta Streetcar project that just opened. Until we get that kind of leadership on council, we’ll be a second-rate city.

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Some BullS&!t Talk about taking the bull by the horns. The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports that 20-year-old Ole Miss student Benjamin Milley was gored by a fighting bull during the Carnaval del Toro festival in Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain. Milley’s surgeon was quoted as saying that the injury wasn’t the worst he’d ever seen, but the largest he’d ever had to operate on. It took three hours to “repair damage to thighs, sphincter, and back muscles.” Ow.

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WmC-monkeyS Joe Birch’s lede would have sounded perfectly natural coming out of the mouth of Kent Brockman, who anchors the Springfield News on The Simpsons. “It started out as an investigation into a dangerous icy prank at Southaven High School,” Birch said in all seriousness. “But it ended with the pranksters tracking down WMC News 5 and taunting us all day on social media.” Birch then pitched to reporter Michael Clark, who reported that teenagers had dumped buckets of water in their school parking lot hoping that it might turn to ice resulting in another snow day for Southaven students. Clark also reported that the young aqua-vandals promised him an interview but didn’t show up.

Instead, the teens rode around town behind the WMC van that was out looking for them, taking phone videos and uploading them to YouTube. #haShtaghaShtag Fly on the Wall hates that we missed this February 9th event because nothing says “healthy lifestyle” like visiting a Subway — in a jail. But the best thing about this promotion is the improbably long hashtag: #ShelbyCountyGovernmentPromoting HealthyLifestyles.

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Blueprint for Safety initiative serves as a comprehensive response to domestic violence.

Kamekio Lewis still remembers the night her former boyfriend chased after her with a knife as she ran barefoot through a neighborhood. When she slipped and fell, she was captured, dragged through the nearby woods by her hair, and brutally beaten.

“He took me to an abandoned house,” Lewis recalled.

“My mom ended up finding me some kind of way the next day. Charges were filed: kidnapping [and] assault. I ended up having to be hospitalized. I had a concussion.”

Lewis’ abusive relationship lasted more than two years before she escaped by entering the army. She hasn’t looked back since.

A new comprehensive response to domestic violence, called the Blueprint for Safety, has been launched to aid people in situations like Lewis’. The initiative is intended to assist victims from the time they experience domestic violence and contact a 911 operator through law enforcement’s response and the offender’s prosecution.

Lewis’ story of domestic abuse is all too common.

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There were 247,069 reports of domestic violence offenses made to the Tennessee Incident Based Reporting System (TIBRS) program from 2011 to 2013.

More than 70 percent of victims were women. Across the nation, one in four women is projected to report domestic abuse at some point in their lives. Domestic violence typically involves physical, emotional, verbal, economic, and/or sexual abuse by one person against their spouse or partner.

Last Thursday, Shelby County’s Blueprint for Safety initiative was introduced during a news conference at the Urban Child Institute. Members of city and county government, local law enforcement, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District’s office, Shelby County District Attorney General’s office, General Sessions Division 10, and the Family Safety Center will collectively implement the program.

The initiative seeks to enhance services provided by 911 dispatchers, law enforcement, and victim/witness services to domestic violence victims. It will also

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By Bianca Phillips

Memphis United demands more power for Civilian Law Enforcement Review Board.

The Civilian Law Enforcement Review Board (CLERB), the independent board that investigates complaints about police officers, was reinstated last June after years of being inactive. But an audit of the board by the Memphis United Coalition found that the board hasn’t reviewed a single case since then.

Part of the reason for the inactivity of the board is its lack of power, according to CLERB Chairman Rev. Ralph White. Now Memphis United has drawn up a list of demands for how CLERB should be operated and what sort of power it should have.

“Right now, we simply don’t have enough power on the board to get police officers to come to hearings.

We do need a bit more power and authority.” — Rev. Ralph White The group addressed those demands in the public comment period of last week’s Memphis City Council meeting, and they plan to work with council members soon to draft a full ordinance increasing CLERB’s power.

“An audit revealed several systemic flaws that limited the ability of the board to function efficiently,” said Paul Garner of Memphis United. “That includes CLERB not having the power to subpoena records or the power to

require cooperation of witnesses from the Memphis Police Department.”

When a civilian has a complaint about excessive use of force by a police officer, illegal search, police harassment, poor customer service by police, property damage by police, or police following incorrect procedures, they’re supposed to first file a complaint with the Memphis Police Department’s (MPD) Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB). If they’re unhappy with the bureau’s findings, they can then appeal their complaint to CLERB. Memphis United is suggesting that the Memphis City Council give CLERB subpoena power to gain access to police witnesses and documents, the ability to make policy recommendations to the MPD, the ability to investigate complaints concurrently with the IAB, and enough funding to conduct independent investigations into complaints of police misconduct.

“We had a private investigator at one time, and they cut that from the budget,” said White, who served on the last incarnation of the board as well.

CLERB was established in 1994 after 68-year-old Jesse Bogand was shot by police in Orange Mound. At the time, the board was intended to investigate, hear cases, and recommend action on findings of police misconduct.

But since police officers were not required to cooperate and because the board didn’t have the power to subpoena documents, CLERB lacked teeth.

The board was eventually dismantled, but it was

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reinstated in 2014 after a few volunteers at the Manna House, a gathering place for the city’s homeless, attempted to appeal a complaint to CLERB, only to find the board had been inactive for years. The Memphis City Council voted to appoint new members to the board in June 2014, and they also voted to allow Memphis United to host public forums to gain input on how to improve the board.

White said the new board hasn’t heard cases yet because they simply don’t have much power. They’re hoping the council adopts the suggestions of Memphis United.

“We want to make sure we put some of those suggestions in place before we start hearing cases,” White said. “Right now, we simply don’t have enough power on the board to get police officers to come to hearings. We do need a bit more power and authority.”

White said, although the board wants more power, they also want the MPD to know that they’re not in place to oppose the lawful work of the department.

“We want to make sure they understand that we’re not working against them,” White said. “We just want to make sure we have a functional police department that is working for the betterment of the people.”

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strengthen the rehabilitative efforts provided to offenders by the county’s domestic violence court.

The Blueprint for Safety is being funded by a $300,000 federal grant administered through the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office on Violence Against Women (OVM).

“The Blueprint for Safety is an approach to domestic violence cases that “The whole point coordinates agency responses around the of the [Blueprint shared goals of safety and justice,” said for Safety] is to make Bea Hanson, principal deputy director of OVM. “It closes the gaps between what sure that victims of violent crime need from the we’re keeping criminal justice system and the way in victims safe and which the system is currently responding.

The whole point of the Blueprint is to holding offenders make sure that we’re keeping victims safe accountable.” and holding offenders accountable.”

— Bea Hanson Memphis is the fourth city to adopt the DOJ’s Blueprint for Safety model. The initiative is already being implemented in St. Paul and Duluth, Minnesota, as well as New Orleans, Louisiana.

Although it was revealed during the news conference that around 8,000 domestic violence cases occur in the Memphis area annually, the offense appears to be on the decline. According to Operation: Safe Community data, reported cases of domestic violence have decreased more than 16 percent locally since 2011.

The Family Safety Center has been connecting victims of domestic violence with civil, criminal, health, and social services since 2012.

Olliette Murry-Drobot, executive director of Family Safety Center, said the nonprofit would play a central role in helping fully implement and sustain the Blueprint for Safety initiative. “[We] work closest with victims and have direct knowledge of the impact that the criminal justice system has in the lives of victims,” MurryDrobot said. “Our tasks are to keep the criminal justice system focused on the experiences of victims and to ensure that their responses keep those experiences at the center of what they do.”

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Owners of Crosstown Brewing Company

Memphians who braved the heavy rain last Saturday for the groundbreaking of Crosstown Concourse got their first taste of beer from Will Goodwin and Clark Ortkiese.

The two behind the proposed Crosstown Brewing Company served samples of a nut brown ale and an IPA at the event. And they’re hoping to be serving more beer in the Crosstown neighborhood in about year or more when they establish their brewery either inside Crosstown Concourse (the new name for Sears Crosstown) or somewhere else in the neighborhood.

They’re currently in talks with the Crosstown Development Team about available space. And while the location remains up in the air, the two friends are determined to move forward with their plans to establish the city’s fifth craft brewery. — Bianca Phillips Flyer: What inspired you to open a breWery?

Ortkiese: I live in [the] Evergreen [Historic District], so if you’re standing in my backyard, you’re looking up at the [Crosstown Concourse] tower. Will and I have been homebrewing together in my backyard, and when we’re sitting there looking at the tower, we’ve been like, Man, we should really put a brewery in there.

Brewers Association. Clark is the president, and I’m the vice-president.

Ortkiese: We’re immersed in beer culture.

That’s our lives. That’s all we talk about. We eat, sleep, and drink it. It’s all the books we read. It’s all the magazines we read. It’s what we text each other about. It’s all day, every day — beer, beer, beer.

Goodwin: We entered a Bourbon Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stout in the Tennessee State Fair last year and came away with the gold. is that something you might breW at CrosstoWn breWing Company?

Goodwin: That would be a candidate for some kind of special release. Because of the process and the time associated with a beer like that, it wouldn’t be a mainstream beer.

Would your breWery be more foCused on ClassiC or experimental beers?

Ortkiese: I’d think we’ll have a little bit of both. There are some people who want to drink the same thing over and over again. And there are a lot of people who never want to drink the same thing twice, and there’s plenty of room to make both of those groups happy.

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Goodwin: Combined, we’ve got about 11 years of brewing behind us. We’re both certified judges with the Beer Judge Certification Program. That gives us an expertise on beer styles. We’re both active members of the Memphis Home

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Goodwin: There’s a lot of permitting that has to be done, so our hands are tied on the timing. Brewing equipment is notoriously slow to be shipped. So we’re looking at middle-

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Will you have a taproom?

Goodwin: We’ll be a production brewery first and foremost. We have plans to have a canning line and maybe do some large format bottles and, of course, kegs for the restaurants and bars in town. We’ll have a taproom, but we will have limited hours.

What Will a breWery bring to the CrosstoWn neighborhood?

Ortkiese: It’s really a neighborhood that could use a little identity and something to get behind, and nothing brings people together like sharing a beer.

Goodwin: Think about “Untapped” at the Tennessee Brewery last year. That was really something that people could get behind and rally together and really enjoy each other in a unique space. We think Crosstown has a lot of similar characteristics. People can rally behind revitalizing this community and this neighborhood.

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Leadership Memphis acquires Volunteer Mid-South, plans to bolster volunteerism.

Each week, a reported 21,000 people rely on the nonprofit.

Like the Food Bank, the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County receives assistance from volunteers.

Locals help with building maintenance, walking dogs, cat socialization, administrative work, and arranging and orchestrating fund-raising events.

“We really couldn’t do everything

without the help of our volunteers,” said Linda Larrabee, volunteer manager at the Humane Society. “We probably have 250 volunteers at any given time.

We run strictly on donations from the community. We’re limited in our staff.

They help us get our animals adopted, keep our building cleaned, and provide foster homes to animals. They really are invaluable to us.”

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contributed approximately 40,000 hours of services to the Food Bank.

“Our volunteers are vital to what we do,” said Paula Rushing, manager of volunteer services at the Food Bank. “We have a very limited staff. We could not do this work without our volunteers.”

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More than 316,000 Memphians volunteered throughout the community in 2013, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service.

And now, following a merger, the leading local organization in connecting volunteers with nonprofits is hoping to bolster those numbers by making volunteerism even easier.

Leadership Memphis announced earlier this month that it acquired Volunteer Mid-South, an organization that has connected people to volunteer opportunities over the past 40 years.

The acquisition has provided the nonprofit with a new name: Volunteer Memphis. And a facelift is soon to follow.

Leadership Memphis CEO David Williams said the acquisition would bring forth an expansion of Volunteer MidSouth’s Corporate Volunteer Council (CVC), a group of business and corporate representatives who promote community volunteerism. The new venture will also provide specialized training for volunteer management and connect people, via the internet, to volunteer opportunities best suitable for their interests.

“I think the impact [of acquiring Volunteer Mid-South is] going to be profound in terms of advocacy and awareness for volunteers,” Williams said.

“We hope to create an easier way for people to connect and engage with their community through volunteerism, but also through volunteer leadership. Ask any nonprofit that relies on volunteers to help fulfill its mission, and they would be able to say how much those volunteers mean to them and the difference that they make in the community.”

Leadership Memphis is presently meeting with stakeholders, CVC members, and nonprofits to establish stronger methods to increase recruitment of organizations that rely heavily on volunteers for sustainability.

Leadership Memphis plans to assign a full-time director to Volunteer Memphis

by March. Additional staff will be provided sometime thereafter.

By acquiring Volunteer Mid-South, Leadership Memphis has now become the local affiliate for Points of Light. The international volunteer movement serves as a hub to connect people globally to opportunities offered by nonprofits within their communities. Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush established Points of Light in 1990.

At the Mid-South Food Bank, volunteers help stock shelves in the organization’s Agency Mart, fill backpacks with meals for children, prepare and serve meals in the Kids Café, and assist with administrative duties.

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The project, spearheaded by Clean Line Energy, is currently undergoing a federal environmental impact statement review by the U.S. Department of Energy. A public meeting was held earlier this month to gather comments, but the public has until March 19th to provide comments at www.plainsandeasterneis.com.

The environmental impact statement identifies the proposed route for the transmission line. Since the route will cut through individual property owners’ land, Clean Line Energy is seeking comment on the route. In most areas, the final easement of the transmission line will be between 150 to 200 feet wide.

Because of the right-of-way needs for the project, the Plains and Eastern Clean Line has stirred up some opposition from landowners, especially in Arkansas. But Max Schilstone, the director of business development for Clean Line Energy Partners, touted wind energy’s affordable cost and eco-friendliness.

“The actual cost of generating wind energy has dropped dramatically,” Schilstone said. “As utilities such as [the Tennessee Valley Authority] look to broaden their assets and are seeking other ways they can provide affordable energy to their customers, they look at all resources. Wind energy is one of those components that has now become very affordable and one that has garnered a lot of attention. It’s clean [and] it doesn’t have emissions.”

Scott Banbury, the conservation programs coordinator for the Sierra Club’s Tennessee chapter, said the 4,000 megawatts of power that is proposed to be generated by the wind energy project could be the answer the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is looking for as the authority updates its Integrated Resource Plan, which addresses energy needs over the next 10 to 15 years. The TVA provides the power that MLGW sells to Memphis residents. The wind energy will be going through the TVA grid and can be sold by the TVA. “We believe [the TVA’s] plan needs to be met by renewable energy sources,” Banbury said. “The Sierra Club is encouraging [TVA] to make commitments to buy that power, rather than wheeling it through to other utilities.”

“The reason Western Tennessee was chosen is because TVA has one of their largest connection points that can accommodate the size of the project we’re developing,” Schilstone said. “The project is a large infrastructure opportunity, even though it is a small footprint of a right-of-way.”

The project will also offer hundreds of jobs to Memphis-area residents, according to Schilstone.

“One of the big aspects of the project is to ensure we drive as much job opportunity to the local community as much as we can,” he said.

If everything goes according to plan, construction to build the wind structures can begin as early as 2016. Delivery of wind power could begin by 2018.

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Before I completely assume the role of Oscar the Grouch, let me tell you why it’s going to be hard to leave Memphis. Where else in this country are you going to find a city with such rich history and an open appreciation of it? We are a city that embraces both champs and chumps. We are a city with an unmatched musical heritage that could be enhanced if we encouraged and fostered new artists to make their careers blossom here, as others have before. We are a city that plays as hard as we work and does both without apologies to anyone. We are a city that mercilessly lampoons stupidity and loudly cries foul against perceived bigotry and racism, while still able to reach out with genuine compassion to our own or to strangers in need.

As I said, we still have a couple of years left in the “City of Good Abode.”

In that time, as a reporter, I’ll continue to try to do stories that inspire us, enrage us, and expose the human condition, and in the process hopefully make a difference. I am very blessed to have the twin swords of television and print media to accomplish those goals. Our ties to Memphis will always be eternal. Then again, who knows? I hear the mosquitos grow pretty big in Belize. If so, that could be a big one on the con side.

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running for mayor and city council positions offer little hope of changing the status quo. The leadership vacuum we’ve suffered from continues to create a huge “sucking” sound of desperation.

Crime continues to be a problem; poverty remains a stifling detriment to our city’s growth potential; and the gap between the haves and the havenots cripples any vision of attaining the “One Memphis” philosophy our feel-good mayor once espoused. As for challengers, I’ve heard nothing but criticism for the incumbent, but little in the way of concrete solutions advanced by any of them. Granted the economic picture is somewhat brighter, except it will take years to develop an educated workforce that’ll benefit from any influx of higher playing businesses.

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This is not a threat.

It is more a cry, a lament for a city I have come to embrace for more than 30 years.

Consider this a pre-farewell to Memphis, but with a few caveats thrown in.

My wife and I made a decision a few months back to earnestly begin preparations to leave Memphis and retire to the country of Belize. It’s not like it’s going to happen for a couple of years, because of our job commitments, but this May we’re doing a scouting trip to see firsthand if this is truly where we want to spend what’s left of our “golden years.” The prospect of leaving my sons, her daughter, and our grandchildren comes with natural trepidations. But, then when you weigh the alternatives based on what we’ve seen and what we project will be the future for us in a city with a myriad of problems and few solutions, it only seems to make our choice clearer.

Sometimes making hard decisions can be as simple as getting out a pen and paper and listing the pros and cons, in this case, for either staying or leaving.

What if we stay? There’s the great probability we will be paying increased city property taxes, based on a proposed refinancing plan advanced by Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s administration.

The “scoop and toss” refinance strategy of dealing with the city’s mounting debt, if passed by the city council, most assuredly will hang like an albatross around the necks of taxpayers for the rest of this decade. To refinance $134 million in debt and borrow another $75 million to keep us solvent can only lead to higher taxes and cuts in services.

The apparent tacit approval of this plan by the same state comptroller who rattled our cages about “kicking the can down the road” when it came to addressing outstanding pension debt just last year, should be viewed as both curious and alarming. This is completely aside from Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell’s straightforward assessment that unless Insure Tennessee is resurrected in some fashion, county property taxes might have to cover the possible $70 million shortfall Regional One might face as it’s forced to deal with unreimbursed indigent-care costs. Do we want to stay around for all that to happen?

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Spring Training Mike Williams’ announcement highlights increased preliminary activity among actual and potential candidates for mayor.

It’s still a little less than two months — April 17th, to be exact — before candidates for city offices can even pull a qualifying petition from the Election Commission. And it’s nearly five months after that until the November 3rd election itself — seven month total.

For emphasis, let’s put that last figure in Arabic numerals: 7 months before Memphis voters can finish signaling their intentions on city offices — encompassing the lengthy span from now, when major league baseball teams are beginning spring training, to a date when the World Series is likely to still be happening.

And yet the roster is rapidly filling up for the most important race on this year’s election calendar — that for Memphis mayor. With the formal announcement of candidacy on Monday of this week by Memphis Police Association President Mike Williams, the number of wellknown names still expected to be on the mayoral ballot has shrunk to two — City Councilman Harold Collins, who appointed an exploratory committee last fall and former Memphis School Board member and New Olivet Baptist church pastor Kenneth Whalum Jr. Whalum is forthright about his own plans, which to a great extent are based on an understanding with Williams,

whose views on city matters overlap with his own. It boils down to this: “If Mike follows through and picks up a petition when the time comes and files, I won’t run,” says Whalum. “If he doesn’t, it’s 100-percent certain that I will.”

Already declared, besides Williams, are incumbent Mayor A C Wharton, City Councilman Jim Strickland, former County Commission Chairman James Harvey, current commission Chairman Justin Ford, and former University of Memphis basketball player Detric Golden.

And, while Ford, who has commission business to attend to, has not yet finished stockpiling his artillery, and Harvey has not yet begun to fight, the others are already doing battle. Strickland is speaking lots and firing away at Wharton on an almost daily basis via Facebook and Twitter; Williams and his supporters are active on the same social media; and the mayor is playing his bully pulpit for all it’s worth, materializing in numerous speech appearances and press conference formats that allow him to do double duty as city official and candidate for reelection.

And Golden, who has yet to demonstrate what his political base is, is turning up at public events, including those held by other candidates, and for well over a year has been conspicuous by driving around town in a car that is tricked-out with signs advertising his candidacy.

The mayoral-campaign activity so far is a form of spring training, and, like its baseball equivalent, it is a way

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of working the kinks out, finding a groove, and getting the jump on the competition. For that reason, Collins and Whalum won’t be able to procrastinate much longer on revealing their own intentions, and an announcement from one or both of them may well beat this issue to the printer.

There’s another reason why time is of the essence: money, which is a finite resource, especially here in hardpressed Memphis, and won’t stretch far enough to cover every candidate’s needs. In a certain sense, it’s a matter of first come, first served, and the most accomplished self-servers so far are Wharton and Strickland. Both of them have been at it for a while — with receipts through January 15th showing a campaign balance for Wharton of $201,088 and for Strickland of $181,595.

The others have some catching up to do.

• As one of the first commenters to the Flyer’s online coverage of the event said, “A very sad day, indeed, for the Shelby County Democratic Party in more ways than one.”

The event in question was the forced resignation on Saturday of Shelby County Democratic Party Chairman Bryan Carson, well-liked in his own right and the son of the widely admired Gale Jones Carson, a former local party chair herself and the longtime secretary of the state Democratic Party.

In a nutshell, the younger Carson had, on the fateful

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Whalum onWilliams: “If Mike follows through, I won’t run.

If he doesn’t, I will.”

There were two immediate issues: The first was a disclosure statement that had been overdue since October 28th. Carson would hurriedly prepare one and submit it, such as it was, to the bureau on Wednesday, February 18th, the same day as his second meeting with the party steering committee and their vote of no confidence.

The other issue was even more troubling. It concerned an ad hoc audit, prepared at the request of the steering committee by Diane Cambron, wife of David Cambron, the local party’s first vice chair, and Dick Klenz, longtime president of the Germantown Democratic Club — both with unimpeachable reputations for fair-mindedness.

The audit showed that, since last September, Carson had made 63 withdrawals from the party’s bank account, in an amount totaling $8,437.89, and could produce no receipts for what he contended had been cash payments on behalf of the party. Even allowing for figures submitted in what Carson called a “self audit” (again, unaccompanied by receipts and made difficult to trace by virtue of the chairman’s having arbitrarily switched the party banking account), there seemed to be an amount of $6,091.16, which the Cambron-Klenz audit referred to as “unsubstantiated.”

Carson maintained in all three meetings with party committees that he had done nothing wrong and that the apparent discrepancies were the result of an overload of activity during the 2014 campaign year, coupled with the fact that he had been

Vice Chair David Cambron) through the party’s scheduled March caucus-convention rounds that are scheduled to produce a new executive committee and chairman on March 28th.

Vice Chair Cambron has been named acting chair, and he announced that one of his first acts would be to open a new party banking account this week, so as to provide a revised and reliable financing accounting from the ground up.

Beyond that, there has been no word from anyone speaking for the party to take further action or pursue legal remedies and no apparent appetite for doing so.

Various online commenters on the matter have made a point of noting that

the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office has issued a warrant of “theft over $500” against Axl David, former treasurer of the Young Republicans in that Middle Tennessee county, for what Sheriff Robert Arnold called “several discrepancies in the management of Club funds.” But no one has demonstrated any analogy between that situation and the one in Shelby County.

Bryan Carson, meanwhile, apparently still intends to seek the open District 7 City Council seat in this year’s city election. In January, he finished one vote behind Berlin Boyd in a council vote to name an interim District 7 councilman to succeed Lee Harris, who had resigned to assume his new duties as a state Senator.

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Saturday, faced a no-holds-barred interrogation into his oversight of party finances by the party’s executive committee — 76 strong, at peak, with roughly 50 on hand for the occasion, which was closed to the press and public. Saturday’s meeting followed two prior closed-door meetings with Carson last week by the party’s smaller 11-member steering committee, the second of which had resulted in a unanimous vote of “no confidence.”

All three meetings had been called out of a sense of crisis that developed from Carson’s repeated failure either to address party members’ concerns about the state of party finances or to deal satisfactorily with ominous promptings for an accounting from the Tennessee Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance. The bureau had already levied three $500 fines on the local party for late or incomplete submissions of financial disclosure statements and threatened another of $10,000, along with a showdown meeting in Nashville in March.

compelled, he said, to try to function as his own party treasurer.

That last was another fact that confounded committee members, who had thought that party member Jonathan Lewis was functioning as party treasurer.

It turned out during the week’s discussions that Lewis had shied away from the service and had not registered with the state after being given a glimpse by Carson into the actual state of party finances.

In any case, the predominant mood of the party executive committee on Saturday was to reject Carson’s explanations, as well as his expressed wish to maintain at least a titular hold on the office of chairman (while handing over actual control to first

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to a country that U.S. officialdom had always withheld recognition from.

During Nixon’s early prominence, he was as a scourge of what he and other Cold Warriors scorned as “Red China,” and it was only from that well-established position that he could so dramatically change positions and tilt for a change in policy.

So we come to the current controversy over a decision by the Republican leader of the House of Representatives to issue an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and to do so not only without consulting Democratic President Barack Obama but to make sure the president knew nothing of the invitation in advance.

Who better to come to grips with the matter than our own 9th District congressman, Steve Cohen, who, in a public statement, identifies himself as both “a supporter of the state of Israel and a Jewish American.” His views on the Netanyahu matter derive from an undeniable sincerity.

Cohen has declared that he will not attend Netanyahu’s speech before Congress. He noted the insult to Obama and the breach of precedent involved in the invitation by Boehner. He pointed out that the Israeli prime minister is a candidate in forthcoming elections in his own country, and that Netanyahu has improperly used video footage of previous speeches before Congress in his electoral campaigns, making the United States government an involuntary campaign supporter by proxy.

Cohen then noted the uses to which the Netanyahu visit will likely be put: “The Speaker’s invitation to Prime Minister Netanyahu is political gamesmanship and it is a very dangerous game. The prime

minister’s use of the U.S. House chamber as a stage to argue against the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, which is currently being negotiated among Iran and the P5+1 — the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, is reckless.

“While Americans and members of Congress may disagree on anything, even foreign policy, providing a forum of such immense prestige and power to the leader of another country who is opposing our nation’s foreign policy is beyond the pale.

It endangers the negotiations, insults the good faith of the other nations involved in the negotiations, and emboldens Iran who may well view this schism in our government as an opportunity for advantage.

While we can disagree with our president, we as a nation should be as one on our foreign policy and any disagreements should be presented in a respectful, appropriate and time-honored manner.”

Cohen concludes: “[M]y support of Israel has not wavered but I believe that this speech at this time and brought forth in this manner is dangerous to Israel as well as inappropriate. Nothing should come between our two nations. The actions of the Speaker and the Prime Minister have caused a breach between Democrats in Congress and Israel as well as the administrations of the United States and Israel. My lack of attendance does not mean I will not be aware of the content of the speech nor does it mean I won’t follow the commentary both pro and con, but I will not be part of the spectacle.”

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and empower them to do those things that need to be done, like organizing, registering voters, and preparing a plan to ensure all voters have legal IDs. We are stuck with the voter photo-ID law for the immediate future, and we need to have a plan in place to accommodate it.

The chair will need to be a good speaker, one who is not afraid of speaking in one-on-one situations or with mediumto-large groups. The new chair needs to have a plan to train campaign workers and candidates and to weed out those who are only running because they need a job — the type of candidate that gets Democrats beat every four years.

The new chair needs to see that people who want to associate with the party for the sole purpose of making money off of it and its candidates are kept far away; they are cancers on our party, and that includes

The chair will need to put together a great team, and then delegate and empower them to do things like organizing, registering voters, and preparing a plan to ensure all voters have legal IDs. sample-ballot makers.

The chair also needs to get good people on the standing committees of the party, especially including non-executivecommittee members of those committees.

The chair needs to find people who will volunteer their time to learn about the party and work to make it more effective.

If you’re looking to get paid, go join the Republicans; the Koch brothers have plenty of money.

The biggest task for the new chair and executive committee, after cleaning up, will be to recruit candidates who understand and know the positions that they seek. We need people who have experience in the offices for which they run and can evoke confidence in their competence. “Vote for Me Because I am the Democrat” is more done than a two-hour steak. It has not worked.

The new chair and committee will have their work cut out for them. If you lean Democrat, please come out on March 14th at 9 a.m. to First Baptist Church-Broad and get involved. We need you, and want you to help this party to be what it can be.

Steve Steffens is proprietor of the “Left Wing Cracker” blog and a member of the Shelby County Democratic Party executive committee.

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The Shelby County Democratic Party (SCDP), on whose executive committee (EC) I serve, has experienced a bad run over the past couple of years, culminating in the resignation of Chair Bryan Carson on Saturday, February 21st. This was due to problems with the party’s financial reports and undocumented deposits, and more importantly, undocumented withdrawals.

Beginning on March 14th with ward and precinct caucuses, to be followed on March 28th with the SCDP convention, the party will be reorganized, as this happens every two years. There will be new leadership, and a newer, smaller executive committee of 29 people from 14 State House Districts.

While I, a veteran of two different stints on the EC, will be leaving, we need new people from every area of Shelby County to get involved. If you lean Democrat, please show up. We need you.

People look at the demographics of Shelby County and mistakenly assume that it should be overwhelmingly Democratic. They would be wrong.

Due to the hollowing out of Democratic strongholds like South Memphis, North Memphis, Frayser, and Hickory Hill by departed middle-class African Americans (who are far more likely to vote than their working and poverty-class brethren), the idea that Whitehaven can ensure Democratic victory after victory has been proven wrong.

The Democratic Party must, without leaving its ideals of equality behind, attract people of all races, creeds, and colors from every area of this county. That really hasn’t happened in a long time, except for Congressman Steve Cohen, and Mayor A C Wharton, during his time as Shelby County mayor. We have not developed a bench of strong candidates, as seen in our clobbering by the GOP in every county election in recent memory. We have to be as competitive in Cordova as North Memphis; in Collierville as South Memphis. We need to be strong enough to compete anywhere in Shelby County.

As for the incoming chair (and we won’t know who that is until they are elected by the new executive committee after the March 28th convention), this person needs to be a lot of things. In order to regain the trust of Shelby County Democrats and independent voters, the new chair will need to be able to raise money, a more daunting task since the older generation of well-to-do Democratic businessmen have died off.

The chair will need to be able to put together a great team, and then delegate

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choes from my boot heels clicked thinly off the asphalt and bricks outside the Mid-South Coliseum.

I paused and looked way up to its domed roof before I walked in. Driving up Southern Avenue was the closest I’d ever been to the building before. My only real fascination with it now was story research. I had no idea why anyone would want to save the Coliseum — or tear it down. I had no idea I’d find the answers to both questions under the big dome.

The service entrance was open on the east side. It was the large, roll-up gate where 18-wheelers would load in lights and sound gear for concerts. I stepped forward and my foot falls were muffled as I passed through the tunnel and into the still air and massive darkness of the Coliseum’s dome.

A shaft of light from the door exposed three or four white semi-truck trailers parked close to the center of the floor. They sat under the old scoreboard, which was analog but still big by today’s standards.

I knew the trailers housed the pieces of the old Memphis Grand Carousel, now destined for the Children’s Museum of Memphis. But what made me pause was how easily the Coliseum swallowed those huge truck trailers.

I touched base with the city official who had let us all in — a television news crew, a video production team, reporters 16 and a photographer from The Commercial Appeal, and me. The official said to just go

and look at whatever I wanted, a golden permission slip.

Crumbles of loose black material (that looked like dirt but weren’t dirt) were scattered over the floor, but the place wasn’t as much dirty as it was cluttered. Stacks of chairs; rolls of chain link fence; paisley couch cushions stacked on pallets; a giant red “M” peeking out of a crate. Kyle Veazey, the CA’s politics team leader, told me it was the old “Memphis” sign from the now-demolished Lone Star concrete plant downtown.

Tiles were missing from the once-white ceiling. It reminded me somehow of the incomplete Death Star from Return of the Jedi. Nails and bits of metal clinked away from my boots as I walked. I clicked on my phone’s flashlight.

Outdoor light shone through on the west side of the floor. The concourse looked like it had been just closed the night before.

With a broom and a mop, the place would be ready for guests. Several office windows were shattered, vandalized. Fluorescent light bulbs stuck out of the tops of trash cans. The entrance doors had been broken and boarded up.

On the second level, rows and rows of empty seats sat folded. I unfolded one and sat down. Veazey laughed and reminded me how dusty and/or moldy I’d be. I jumped up, thinking of the decade of mold on my back and the slow death that was sure to follow. But even in the brief time

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I sat in the chair, I could imagine seeing a show or a graduation there.

The day before I’d seen a photo of the Beatles playing the Coliseum. I mentally overlaid the image where I thought it should go. I mentally replayed the YouTube video of Jerry Lawler’s and Terry Funk’s “empty arena” wrestling match in 1981. I imagined David Copperfield making 13 audience members disappear in his 2001 “Tornado of Fire” television special. And then I thought about the last show, in 2006 and how the final sounds at the Coliseum were the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s heavy metal Christmas music.

I remembered another internet picture of Cher and her then-husband Gregg Allman walking from a Coliseum dressing room. I wanted to see those dressing rooms. A single fluorescent bulb flickered and buzzed down a long dusty hallway, like something out of a creepy video game. A boiler somewhere knocked and moaned, right out of Scooby-Doo. I saw a flash to my right and found CA photographer, Mike Brown, shooting in the only dressing room with any light.

I poked my head into a team dressing room down the hall. It had a king-sized mattress and a weathered copy of Vibe

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magazine that asked: “Is Mase for real?”

Then I spotted a concession stand with an open door. A dried up bag of nacho cheese.

A stack of Bud Light cups from three logos ago. And a menu board: Large Coke = $3.

Draft beer = $4. Nachos = $3. Polish dog = $3. Underneath the prices and the logos, someone used the letters to write “EAT SHIT THANKS” I understood why people want to save the Coliseum. It’s huge, it doesn’t seem to be in terrible shape, and there are a lot of great memories in there. But its size seems to equal the behemoth effort it would take to bring it back to life and actually make a go of a successful business inside.

But it’s a place big enough for dreamers, and the Coliseum is the center of a dream for a cadre of Memphians who believe that the place where so much of the city’s music, sports, and entertainment history happened should be preserved.

Robert Lipscomb, the city’s director of Housing and Community Development, also has a dream for the Fairgrounds, and the Coliseum doesn’t belong in it.

No one knows yet what will happen when those dreams collide.

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February 26-March 4, 2015

The Mid-South Coliseum should be saved, not just because it holds a lot of history, but also because there’s a good potential use for the building that speaks to the city’s brands in music, wrestling, and basketball.

That’s the vision of members of the newly formed Coliseum Coalition, a group that has organized a grassroots but sophisticated movement to save the building and ensure public input is heard on any plan to redevelop the Fairgrounds.

The group (and general sentiment against the proposed youth sports complex at the Fairgrounds) is growing. The Save the Mid-South Coliseum Facebook group has swelled to 3,540 members in a few weeks. The official Mid-South Coliseum Facebook page has more than 11,000 likes.

“We think it would be shortsighted to

raze the Coliseum to pursue what we think is a fairly poorly thought-through plan that might leave tax payers on the hook and might leave Midtown with something it doesn’t want,” said coalition member Marvin Stockwell. “For that, we’re going to sacrifice a place that contains not only so much history — music history, especially, which is Memphis’ strongest brand — but basketball for sure. Before we had the Grizzlies, we had the Tigers. And then wrestling, I mean [Jerry] Lawler fought Andy Kaufman there. It’s not just the memories, it’s the possibility.”

Stockwell, and Coalition members Mike McCarthy and Jordan Danelz, gathered last week to talk about the Coliseum at CooperYoung’s Java Cabana, a stone’s throw from 18 18 the building they’re trying to protect.

The three wanted to clear up a few

Old tickets to Coliseum events

things from recent media reports: their efforts are not fueled entirely by nostalgia, they’re not fighting progress at the Fairgrounds, but it is true they don’t have a clear idea of what the Coliseum should be or even could be.

What they do believe is that the building should be saved. They point to the success of revitalization projects such as the Chisca Hotel, the Sears Crosstown building, the Tennessee Brewery, and Broad Avenue. They say that government

leaders should listen to the community, especially those who would be neighbors to the proposed youth sports complex for the next 30 years of the proposed Tourist Development Zone (TDZ).

Memphis is missing out on major opportunities by keeping the Coliseum closed, McCarthy said, noting that his daughter recently saw Jack White at Snowden Grove in Southaven, Mississippi.

“We live right over there on Nelson,” McCarthy said. “I could’ve just walked over there with her to the Coliseum to see the show and every bit of tax money — or money, period — that was spent could’ve been generated inside Midtown. The Coliseum could be the largest tax generator in Midtown, given the opportunity.”

The big snag there is the non-compete clause in FedExForum’s contract with

the city of Memphis. The clause says an “important element of the success of the Arena Complex is to limit direct competition” from the Coliseum or the Pyramid. It mandates any show with more than 5,000 seats is the sole property of the Forum.

The Coliseum has more than 11,000 seats. Coalition members are still analyzing the language of the non-compete. Does it affect only new places, or renovated places, or both? But it’s a huge question that hampers the way forward for any new idea the group may have for the Coliseum.

“That’s why you’re at a disadvantage when you try to say what it could become,” Stockwell said. “That’s an unbelievably huge variable that’s going to make you go one way or another.”

But ideas are there for the Coliseum, and they keep coming: A rock-and-roll museum. A brewery. Give it to the University of Memphis Tigers. A music venue.

An ice skating rink. A basketball museum.

A soundstage for local film and television production. A wrestling museum. A rehearsal hall for touring acts.

A city report puts the price tag at about $32.8 million to bring the Coliseum back to working order. The largest chunk of the money ($8.6 million) would be spent just to get it current with the Americans with Disabilities Act. But McCarthy doesn’t trust the figure.

“If the Liberty Bowl was saved for what [former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton] said was going to be $50 million, which turned out to be $9 million, then the Coliseum can be saved for probably $9 million or $10 million as well,” McCarthy said. “That’s not just pulling a figure out of the air. That’s based on the Liberty Bowl, which was built at the same time with the same reinforced steel and concrete and everything else.”

Danelz said the youth sports complex idea (at the heart of the current Fairgrounds redevelopment plan) has failed in numerous cities across the country. He said the current process has not been transparent and criticized Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s plan to get the TDZ first and divulge a more detailed plan later.

“They’re saying, don’t worry about it; let’s get that money and then we’ll figure out what we’re doing,” Danelz said. “In what Business 101 class can you say, ‘Let’s get a loan and then figure out a business plan’? Would you pass that class?

“Yet, here you have the highest power in our city government saying exactly that for $220 million. They have nothing on the table to show us — no blueprints, no private partners, nothing.”

Wharton and Lipscomb have seemingly

hit the pause button on the project for now and the Coalition members said it’s a welcome sign. They hope to have planning sessions with community members, conversations with Lipscomb about the Fairgrounds plan, and some pre-vitalization events (a la Brewery Untapped or New Face for an Old Broad) to bring people to the Coliseum and get them dreaming about its potential.

“If you went to Orange Mound, Belt Line, Edwin Circle, Cooper Young, you would be sorely pressed to find any citizen of Memphis who wants to tear down the Coliseum,” McCarthy said. “This is all coming from the top down. We’re better than that.”

TEAR IT DOWN

The Mid-South Coliseum should be razed because it’s too costly to renovate and it doesn’t fit in with future development plans at the Fairgrounds.

That’s according to city officials who believe the Coliseum has to go in order to move forward on the proposed Tourism Development Zone retail and youth sports complex at the Fairgrounds. It’s a point that does not seem to delight to Robert Lipscomb, the city’s director of Housing and Community Development, but he’s repeated that the demolition is an integral part of making the Fairgrounds a sports and retail tourist destination.

Back in 2009, O.T. Marshall Architects said it would cost about $29.5 million to fix the Coliseum. They looked at everything from drywall and kitchen equipment to plumbing and sprinklers.

A year later, O.T. Marshall revised the figure to about $32.8 million. They said the building would have to be brought up to Americans with Disabilities Act standards ($8.6 million), get seismic structural updates ($5 million), get a new roof ($550,000), new flooring ($2 million), and general code updates in mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and fire protection and alarms ($9 million).

Code Solutions Group LLC analyzed code issues inside the Coliseum in 2009.

They found that the layout of the building creates a “dangerous condition in the event of an emergency.” A plan to fix the problem would require 168 sections of hand rails, dozens of new stair steps, replacing the ceilings inside the arena and in the concourse, more than a dozen new bathrooms, adding a new lighting system, adding a sprinkler system, and more. The report noted that the building is a “landmark” but questioned if the costs of upgrades to the Coliseum would better serve Memphis than a new building.

“If a dedicated performing arts venue,

Pictures of what ’s left inside the Coliseum.

seating 8,000 to 12,000 people is needed, then a new building with a full working stage, fly gallery, proscenium protection, good acoustics, theatrical lighting, and adequate exit capacity for the designed seating, and with full sprinkler protection might be the right answer,” said the 2009 report. “While the Coliseum is a unique building, there is physically no way a 1960s multi-functional facility could be redesigned to provide this type of venue.”

During the final three years of its active life, the Coliseum lost more than $880,000, according to city documents. In 2006, it was on course to lose at least $300,000.

So, city leaders looked closely at the Coliseum. In 2006, they were hoping to attract new events such as hockey, soccer, or arena football, but only if the tenants could work within the terms of the FedExForum’s non-compete clause.

They considered new federal tax credits to keep the Coliseum going. They considered the pros and cons of demolishing it or even building a new structure. In the

end, the Coliseum was mothballed. It’s now used primarily as storage for truck trailers containing the Memphis Grand Carousel.

Lipscomb said the building has been in “full shut-down” since around 2006, meaning limited utilities and no heating or cooling. He told the Memphis City Council earlier this month that he has been in talks with the Coliseum Coalition and will continue to talk with them about efforts to save the building.

“I don’t have a dog in the fight one way or another,” Lipscomb said. “I just want to make sure that whatever we construct — either the renovation of the Coliseum or a new building — satisfies the needs for our future.”

To Lipscomb, that future includes getting into the youth and amateur sports business. It’s the cornerstone of his plan for the redevelopment of the Fairgrounds that also includes, a hotel, retail shops, and restaurants.

“Youth sports” include indoor activities such as basketball, volleyball, cheerlead-

ing, gymnastics, track, and more. Those sports require what Lipscomb calls a multi-purpose building — one that can be transformed inside to accommodate all the different sports, and “the Coliseum is not feasible as a multi-purpose building.”

Kevin Kane, president of the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, concurred. “If you want a first-class indoor youth sports complex, you cannot physically do that inside the Coliseum,” Kane told council members. “I’m not an architect, but I can tell you, you can’t do it. Even if you gut it out, you can’t make the Coliseum where you can have six or seven basketball courts in there. There’s no way.”

Kane’s comments came after a question from councilmember Harold Collins, who said he envisioned a new building that could be used for youth sports and then changed to house concerts and even large high school graduations. Kane told him youth sports is one thing, “but if you want an arena, maybe you should figure out a way to fix the Mid-South Coliseum.”

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Other council members questioned Lipscomb on the viability of the youth sports market. He pointed to a letter he said he got from Amateur Athletic Union President Dr. Roger Goudy that Lipscomb said it read, basically, “if you build it, they will come.”

“I know a lot of people have been critical [of the youth sports idea] but there’s a big market for that, still,” Lipscomb said. “So we have a great opportunity for that.

“Some people will say we missed the boat on that. They’ll say, Memphis is not positioned to be a youth and recreation sports team and amateur athletics city. So, I think this letter dispels that myth.”

But the Coliseum still stands. City officials have taken a step back and invited the Urban Land Institute to have a look at their plans and the Fairgrounds, to determine if the two are a match.

Council members also made it clear to Lipscomb earlier this month that any development at the Fairgrounds will first need the council’s approval.

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Spectacle-laden physical theater has found a regular home at the Germantown Performing Arts Center (GPAC). This season, audiences have been treated to performances by Los Angeles-based dance innovators Diavolo, who work at the intersection of art and architecture, and by genredefining pioneers like Mummenschanz. This week, GPAC showcases another cornerstone troupe of modern physical theater, when Japan’s world-famous Kodo drummers unveil the Mystery of their One Earth tour.

The Kodo drummers have a long and influential history. The group, based on Sado Island, Japan, 177 miles from Tokyo, was touring the world before hot-ticket percussion shows like Stomp and Blue Man Group were ever a thing. It was 1980 when Kodo adopted a puzzlebox name that means both “heartbeat” and “children of the drum.” But the troupe’s roots stretch back decades, and the drum and dance traditions have evolved over centuries.

Kodo is sensory overload. Ritual, song, dance, athleticism, illusion, and puppetry figure into almost every aspect of the performance. Tiny drums and cymbals buzz like thousands of insects while kettles weighing up to a ton are pounded with clubs the size of baseball bats. Amid the din, enormous lions and demons shudder to life. Snakes and dragons awaken and uncoil. Dancers cut through the darkness illuminated by the glowing orbs attached to their heads.

In his artist’s statement, Kodo Director Tamasaburo Bando says he’s created this piece with the idea that theatergoers would experience a “mood of mystery” and leave with a “sense of purification.”

February 26-March 4, 2015

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“Celebrating the Fine Art of Children ’s Book Illustrations” at Memphis College of Art. Calendar, p. 30

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THURSDAY February 26

FRIDAY February 27

The Great Flood Germantown Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m.

A screening of the film The Great Flood, about the 1927 Mississippi River flood. The screening will be accompanied by a live performance of the film’s music by Bill Frisell.

Lecture by Susie Ganch Memphis College of Art, 7 p.m.

Lecture by Susie Ganch, whose sculptures are featured in the current “Tributaries” exhibit at the Metal Museum.

On Friday, 5-7 p.m., there will be a closing reception for both “All That Glitters” and “Tributaries: Susie Ganch” at the Metal Museum.

Peace, Love, Soulsville: The Art of Healing Minglewood Hall, 7:30 p.m., $10 A Black History Month event with music, dancing, drama, and more.

Terri Phillips Lecture Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, 6-7 p.m.

Artist Terri Phillips talks about her exhibition “Roxanne’s Rescue,” in which she recreates a formative moment in her life.

Opening reception for “Roxanne’s Rescue” is Friday, 6-8 p.m., at Clough-Hanson.

6th Annual Brew Movement Against Multiple Sclerosis Memphis Pink Palace Museum, 7-10 p.m., $40 Annual benefit for the Mid-South Chapter of the MS Society featuring craft beers and home brews for sampling as well as live music and a silent auction. #MemphisLivesMatter National Civil Rights Museum, 5:30-8 p.m.

A panel discussion on protests, the media, and the community featuring Madeline Taylor, executive director of the Memphis chapter of the NAACP, Karanja Ajanaku, editor of The TriState Defender, Tammy Phillips, news director of WMC-TV, and others.

4th Annual Season Starter Party The Cotton Museum of Memphis, 5-7 p.m., $45 Annual party celebrating the new cotton planting season, with food, beer, and live music by Big Barton.

Spillit Story Slam Amurica World Headquarters, 6:30 p.m., $10 Storytellers try to out-spin each other during this competition.

Tonight’s theme is “busted.”

The third annual Condomonium

Condom Fashion

By Bianca Phillips

When artists Erin King and Mary Allison Cates got their box of 400 condoms from Choices to use in designing a dress for Condomonium, they envisioned peacock feathers.

And so for three weeks, they set about flattening, spray-painting, hand-glittering, and bejeweling the prophylactics to create hundreds of “feathers” for an evening gown to be modeled at the third annual Condomonium event on Saturday at Playhouse on the Square. Theirs is one of 16 gowns and dresses created with condoms by local designers for the event.

The event is a fund-raiser for Choices Memphis Center for Reproductive Health, and proceeds will support the center’s reproductive health education program and patient assistance fund.

At the event, models display the condom dresses. Attendees are given five wrapped condoms when they arrive, and each condom counts as one vote. Each model has a bucket, and the attendees place condoms in the buckets for their favorite dresses.

Besides the main event fashion show, there will also be a burlesque show and a flashdance to Salt-NPepa’s “Let’s Talk About Sex.” Artists will be selling condom jewelry and accessories — earrings, bracelets, bowties. And there’s a “naughty bits bake sale” (think vagina cupcakes and boobie truffles).

“In Shelby County, the rates for STIs [sexually transmitted infections] and teen pregnancy are both very high. Condom use is one of the most-effective, most well-researched, and proven ways to address that,” said Katy McLeod Leopard, director of community partnerships for Choices. “Not only is this a fundraiser for Choices, it’s also a great way to get people touching condoms and laughing at them.

We want to normalize condoms and condom use.”

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Booksigning by Kirsten and Christopher Shockey The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 2 p.m.

Kirsten and Christopher Shockey sign and discuss their book Fermented Vegetables: Creative Recipes for Fermenting 64 Vegetables & Herbs in Krauts, Kimchis, Brined Pickles, Chutneys, Relishes & Pastes.

Noir Fashion Show and Soiree Jack Robinson Gallery, 4:3011 p.m., $25-$50 A Black History Month event showcasing black-owned beauty and fashion businesses.

Booksigning by David Joy The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 6:30 p.m.

David Joy signs and discusses his novel Where All Light Tends to Go, about the cruel, meth-filled life of a North Carolina teenager.

Arturo Sandoval Germantown Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $35-$75 A concert by Cuban-born jazz performer Arturo Sandoval, who plays the piano and trumpet, drums, and sings.

Baby Hold On to Me Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 7 p.m., $40-$70 Eddie Levert performs songs inspired by Gerald Levert.

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Melissa Anderson Sweazy’s short film Department of Signs and Magical Interventions premieres at the Oxford Film Festival this weekend. Film, p. 39

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emphis In May has finally announced the artists playing the 2015 Beale Street Music Festival, unleashing an all-star lineup that’s packed with pop acts, classic rockers, and everything in between. The “song of the day” hints that Beale Street Music Fest was posting on its Facebook page already gave some of the mystery away - it’s been common knowledge for weeks that St. Vincent, The Flaming Lips, and Paramore were probably playing - but the annual music fest did save some of the best acts for today’s announcement, including the overall headliner Lenny Kravitz. Other surprises include The Pixies, Flogging Molly, and local outlaw country act Dead Soldiers.

Here’s the complete list of performers at this year’s Beale Street Music Fest: FRIDAY, MAY 1st: Lenny Kravitz, The Flaming Lips, Five Finger Death Punch, Pixies, Ryan Adams, Breaking Benjamin, Awolnation, Slash, Jenny Lewis, In This Moment, Spin Doctors, Myslovitz, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Alejandro Escovedo, Ira Walker, Preston Shannon, Butch Mudbone, Terry “Harmonica” Bean.

SATURDAY, MAY 2nd: The Avett Brothers, Paramore, John Fogerty, Band of Horses, Bleachers, Wale, Flogging Molly, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Lindsey Stirling, G-Eazy, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Lecrae, Soul Asylum, Kim Simmons and Savoy Brown, Ana Popovic, Matthew Curry, Copeland, The Vespers, Dead Soldiers, Kenny Brown Band, Kelley Hunt, Leo Bud Welch, Terry “Big T” Williams.

SUNDAY, MAY 3rd: Ed Sheeran, Wilco, Cage The Elephant, Hozier, St. Vincent, Rise Against, Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Of Mice and Men, Kaiser Chiefs, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, Shovels and Rope, Elle King, Bettye Lavette, Star and Micey, Prosevere, Tinsley Ellis, Will Tucker, Myslovitz, Indigenous, Jarekus Singleton, Blind Mississippi Morris, Deak Harp-N-Lee Williams.

While the specific stage times are still to be announced, we’ve picked 10 bands that are a must see at this year’s Beale

Lenny Kravitz, Ed Sheeran, The Pixies and more are playing this year’s Beale Street Music Fest.

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Street Music Fest. Here they are, in no particular order: John Fogerty The legendary king of the bayou should never be missed. Even the most casual fans will immediately recognize Fogerty as the voice behind legendary classic rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, but the California native has also had an impressive solo career behind the Grammynominated song “Change in the Weather,” among other songs that convey his classic sound. This will be Fogerty’s first Memphis concert in 30 years.

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic Do you really need to be told to catch George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic live? I sincerely hope not. Catch this set on Saturday and stay funked up all weekend long.

St. Vincent Anytime a Grammy Award-winning guitarist comes through town you should make plans to be there. St. Vincent has become a household name behind the tireless work ethic of founder Annie Clark, who’s toured with everyone from the Black Keys to Death Cab for Cutie before blasting off to superstardom.

Lenny Kravitz The headliner of Beale Street Music Festival needs no introduction. He’s a platinum-selling artist and one of the best guitar shredders of his generation.

Recently, Kravitz has ventured into acting (appearing in The Hunger Games trilogy and The Butler), but rest assured he’s got what it takes to leave Beale Street Music Fest in awe on Friday night.

Slash Is there anyone in the world cooler than Slash? He designed costumes for David Bowie, partied hard with Charlie Sheen, and melted faces with Guns N’ Roses.

That’s a pretty solid resume. Slash has now gone solo, with a raucous band called The Conspirators backing him up. Don’t miss this one.

The Pixies Alternative rock superstars The Pixies lead the pack of ’90s nostalgia at Beale Street Music Fest, along with the Spin Doctors and Soul Asylum. Most people remember the Pixies for the epic “Where is my mind” scene in Fight Club, but the band from Boston has been cranking out infectious alternative rock for nearly 30 years.

Leo Bud Welch Age is nothing but a number - just ask 82-year-old guitarist Leo Bud Welch.

Welch apparently once missed an audition to join B.B. King’s band because he didn’t have the bus fare, but he’s done all right since then, touring the states and Europe many times over with his sparkle-covered guitar. The Mississippi legend plays Saturday at Beale Street Music Fest.

Dead Soldiers Sure they are a Memphis band, but Dead Soldiers should definitely be shown some local love when they play on Saturday.

Since forming a few years ago, the Dead Soldiers have rivaled Lucero as the best local alternative country band in town.

Made up of members of old Memphis metal bands, Dead Soldiers put on an entertaining live show fueled by Tennessee whiskey and good times, both of which should be on hand all weekend long.

G-Eazy Formally of the “Bay Boyz,” G-Eazy is a Northern California hip-hop artist who was chosen to open for Drake after going viral on sites like Myspace and YouTube.

G-Eazy has also played Warped Tour and released the critically acclaimed album These Things Happen last summer. The “James Dean of Rap” plays Saturday.

Diarrhea Planet Winner of the best band name of Beale Street Music Fest, Diarrhea Planet (DP) pack a punch with their live show that includes four electric guitarists. Hailing from Nashville, DP had a monster 2014, which included being named the best live act of the year by Paste Magazine. Musically, they fall somewhere in between pop-punk and indie rock, with enough on-stage energy to get the crowd moving no matter when they are billed.

Beale Street Music Fest tickets are on sale now at all Ticketmaster locations or www. memphisinmay.org/bsmf-tickets. Three-day passes are $95; single-day tickets are $40.

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There’s good news. That Chris Shaw guy, the one who actually goes to shows and has even heard of the band you’re prattling on about, is going to take over as music editor.

He earned the job fair and square: paid the most cash and completed the Flyer music petty-crime obstacle course in record time and with record spoils. You’re in good hands. Shaw has been on the front lines of making records and touring. We haven’t written much about his band ExCult, because only the music editor can write about his or her own band.

Shaw will do a good job. Or the editor will take him on a “boat ride.” I’m just glad to get out of here alive. But before I go, I want to give you some advice. Everybody likes advice.

I was recently told that some musicians have said they don’t know how to get into the Flyer. This is my Edward Snowden moment. You are about to find out the long-held secret of having your band get covered by this illustrious newspaper. Contrary to popular belief, the Flyer music desk is not a giant throne from which we look down and deny you coverage. I asked for that, but was told no. Here’s how it works: Be good at music or be interesting: This inescapable reality has escaped a lot of people. Beautiful sounds have been pulling decent people’s lives off-course since the days of Odysseus. Too many people hear those sounds and set off on ill-advised forays into a hyper-competitive world that offers low rewards. This is hard work. Even when you are really good, those who can pay won’t value your talents. You have two options: either be great at music or become some sort of spectacle that people will pay to see.

You can learn the scales, or you can bite the chicken. Your call.

Make a record: Recording music forces us to think about music. The benefits of organizing and arranging become immediately apparent.

So many over-soloed live-music nightmares could have been avoided if people had thought of their performance in terms of the threeminute limit. Being aware of how you

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Chris Gales noon-8 p.m.; Karaoke ongoing, 8:30 p.m.

Alfred’s 197 BEALE - 525-3711

Rock the Stage Karaoke Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m.; Dreaming in Colour Saturday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Sunday, March 1, 6 p.m.; Memphis Music Monday first Monday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

B.B. King’s Blues Club

Itta Bena

147 BEALE - 524-KING

145 BEALE 578-3031

B.B. King All Stars Thursdays, 7 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays, 9 p.m., and Mondays, 8 p.m.; The Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. and Sundays, 2 p.m.; Preston Shannon Sundays, 7 p.m. and Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.; King Beez Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill 341-345 BEALE - 577-1089

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE - 526-3637

February 26-March 4, 2015

Hard Rock Cafe

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.1 a.m., Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., and TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Jim Wilson Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; DJ J2 Fridays, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.-5 a.m.; Kevin and Bethany Paige Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.2 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

126 BEALE 529-0007

Susan Marshall Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

Jerry Lee Lewis Cafe & Honky Tonk

168 BEALE - 576-2220

Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Crush Friday, Feb. 27, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Memphis Snake Doctors Saturday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sonny Mack and the Mack 2 Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE - 528-0150

Gracie Curran and the High Falutin’ Band Thursday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Friday-Saturday, Feb. 27-28, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

310 BEALE - 654-5171

The Jason James Trio FridaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Joey Trites and the Memphis Flash Saturdays, 3-7 p.m. and Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE - 521-1851

David Bowen Thursday, Feb. 26, 5:30-9:30 p.m. and Fridays-Saturdays, 6:3010:30 p.m.

Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, 8 p.m., FridaySaturday, Feb. 27-28, 9 p.m., and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Mondays, 7 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

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

Memphis Bluesmaster Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.midnight; Plantation All Stars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Saturday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.-midnight and Tuesdays-Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE - 522-9596

Barbara Blue Thursdays-Fridays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 59 p.m., Sundays, 4-9 p.m., and Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m.; Dueling Pianos Thursdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays-Saturdays, 9 p.m., Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Wet Willie’s 209 BEALE - 578-5650

Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Roxi Love Friday, Feb. 27, 7-11 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Blues Band Saturday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.midnight.

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

Marmalade Restaurant & Lounge

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN 525-1515

153 G.E. PATTERSON 522-8800

First Tennessee Masterworks series featuring Memphis Symphony Orchestra Saturday, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m.

Center for Southern Folklore Hall

Double J’s Smokehouse & Saloon

Neo Soul and R&B Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.; Smooth Jazz Fridays, 8-11 p.m.; Old School R&B Saturdays, 8-11 p.m.

Low Society Saturday, Feb. 28, 8-11 p.m.

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 335-0251

Grawemeyer’s

414 S. MAIN

520 S. MAIN - 526-6751

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE - 417-8435

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON - 572-1813

Live Music Fridays.

Brinson’s 341 MADISON - 524-0104

Melting Pot: Artist Showcase Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

22 N. THIRD - 590-4049

Grown Folk’s Music 7:30 p.m.

Onix Restaurant & Jazz Lounge

414 South Main

Blind Bear Speakeasy

Memphis Sounds Lounge

119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE - 525-3655

Live Music Thursdays, 711 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

“The $1 Jump Off ” featuring live hip-hop and R&B Saturdays, 8 p.m.

The Prime Cut Band with Vicki Newsum last Friday of every month, 9 p.m.-midnight.

Evan Farris Fridays, 6-10 p.m., Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 6-10 p.m., and Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND - 527-2700

412 S. MAIN - 552-4609

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

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

The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP - 744-2225

Old School Blues & Jazz Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.

The Ori Naftaly Band Sunday, March 1, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Purple Haze Nightclub

Kudzu’s

DJ dance music ongoing, 10 p.m.

140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

603 MONROE - 525-4924

Bob and Susie Salley Friday, Feb. 27; Clay Markley, Ego Slip and Kink Ador Saturday, Feb. 28; Open Mic Mondays; Blues Jam Tuesdays.

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Rumba Room

Camy’s

Java Cabana

303 S. Main - 523-0020

3 S. barkSdale - 725-1667

2170 yoUng - 272-7210

100 Peabody Place 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Spindini 383 S. Main - 578-2767

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. cooPer - 272-0830

The Maitre D’s with the Sheiks Friday, Feb. 27; DJ Buck Wilders and the Hook Up Saturday, Feb. 28; Early show featuring Amy LaVere and Will Sexton Wednesday, March 4, 6-9 p.m.

WhiteChapel at the hi-tone Knoxville’s premiere “Death Core” band comes to the Hi-Tone this weekend, so get your corpse paint and metal studs ready. For those not in the know, “Death Core” is some sort of ugly hybrid of heavy metal, combining influences from both the Death Metal and Hardcore factions of heavy music. Whitechapel are one of the torchbearers of the genre, and the band was a headliner on the Scion Rock Fest that was held downtown two years ago (Handy Park is still recovering). While all this death stuff might seem frivolous to more traditional music fans, Whitechapel aren’t just shredding and screaming into the dark. The band has produced five studio albums, and their 2010 album A New Era of Corruption debuted at number 43 on the Billboard Hot 200 Chart. Whitechapel has been signed to premier extreme music label Metal Blade since 2008, an entity that’s been cranking out records since the early ’80s for bands like Slayer, Corrosion of Conformity, King Diamond, and other interesting acts your mother probably wouldn’t want you listening to.

Local acts on Saturday’s bill include What We Do In Secret (WWDIS), a band that may or may not be referencing the seminal Germs track “What We Do Is Secret.” What We Do In Secret call their brand of music “inspirational hardcore” (are all these sub-genres getting confusing yet?), which means they deliver a positive message, even if you can’t understand exactly what the vocalist is saying. WWDIS released The Migration late last year, and the band has been playing regional dates in support of the EP. The onslaught begins at 7 p.m. Consider this your official warning.

— Chris Shaw Whitechapel, What We Do In Secret, Our Dearly Departed, Foreign War, and Arturia at the Hi-Tone Café Saturday, February 28th at 7 p.m. $15

Celtic Crossing 903 S. cooPer - 274-5151

DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

The Cove 2559 broad - 730-0719

Jazz with Jeremy & Ed Thursdays, 9 p.m.; StereoJoe Friday, Feb. 27, 10 p.m.; Hope Clayburn and the Soul Scrimmage Saturday, Feb. 28, 10 p.m.; Open Jam Sundays, 6 p.m.; Open Mic with Justin White Mondays, 6-10 p.m.; Copper & Kings party Monday, March 2, 8-11 p.m.; Juke Joint Blues Jam Tuesday, March 3, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MadiSon - 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Bhan Thai

Evergreen Presbyterian Church

1324 Peabody - 272-1538

613 UniverSity - 274-3740

Two Peace Saturdays, 710:30 p.m.; Loveland Duren Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

Blue Monkey 2012 MadiSon - 272-blUe

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Reemus Bodeemus Friday, Feb. 27, 10:30 p.m.; The Subtractions Saturday, Feb. 28, 10:30 p.m.

Boscos Squared 2120 MadiSon - 432-2222

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

The Buccaneer 1368 Monroe - 278-0909

Dave Cousar, John Paul Keith, Daniel McKee, and more Thursday, Feb. 26, 10 p.m.; Admiral Longhorn Saturday, Feb. 28, 3 p.m.; Yamille and Troy Saturday, Feb. 28, 5-7 p.m.; Gimp Teeth with Nots and RPLD GHSTS Saturday, Feb. 28, 9 p.m.; Liquid Teens, DRGN King, and Mafondas Sunday, March 1, 10 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Richard James and Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.

First Tuesdays at 4 Concert Series: Music of Samuel Barber featuring Rhodes College music faculty first Tuesday of every month, 4 p.m.

Hi-Tone 412-414 n. cleveland 278-tone

Ana Sia, Ellie Herring and Gutta Kick Thursday, Feb. 26, 10 p.m.; In the small room: Dan Tedesco Friday, Feb. 27, 9 p.m.; Karaoke Underground with Dave Norwood and the Family Ghost Friday, Feb. 27, 911:45 p.m.; Whitechapel, What We Do In Secret, Our Dearly Departed, and Atruria Saturday, Feb. 28, 6 p.m.; In the small room: Avon Dale Saturday, Feb. 28, 8-11:45 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MadiSon - 726-4372

Dreaming in Colour Sunday, March 1, 4-7 p.m.; Dikki Du and the Zydeco Krewe Sunday, March 1, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Zeke Johnson Friday, Feb. 27, 8-10 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MadiSon - 207-5097

Roman/Green Thursday, Feb. 26, 6 p.m.; Ruby Velle and the Soulphonics Friday, Feb. 27, 10 p.m.; Chris Johnson/Landon Moore Saturday, Feb. 28, 6:30 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Saturday, Feb. 28, 10 p.m.

Lindenwood Christian Church 2400 Union - 458-8506

The Underground Rally: Move Friday, Feb. 27, 7-9 p.m.; “Wing and a Prayer” Sundays, 9:45 a.m.

The Midtown Crossing Grill 394 WatkinS - 443-0502

Karaoke Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Sazerac Every other Friday.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MadiSon 866-609-1744

Big K.R.I.T. Friday, Feb. 27, 9 p.m.; The PC Band Friday, Feb. 27, 9 p.m.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. cooPer - 278-4994

Kris Acklen Band, Jeff Cimski, and Idle & Wild Friday, Feb. 27, 8-11 p.m.; Buckles & Boots, Brandy Zdan, and Jeff Hulett Saturday, Feb. 28, 8-11 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MadiSon - 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; The Gloryholes Saturday, Feb. 28; Open Mic with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.

The Phoenix 1015 S. cooPer - 338-5223

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.

Rockhouse Live Midtown 2586 PoPlar

Dance Loud Tuesday, March 3, 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m.

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Dance and Salsa Night Fridays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Saturday Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.

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Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

521 S. HigHland - 323-0900

Strano Sicilian Kitchen 948 S. Cooper - 552-7122

Davy Ray Bennett Sundays, Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 Vollintine - 207-3975

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

Young Avenue Deli 2119 Young - 278-0034

Blues + Brews: An Evening with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Friday, Feb. 27, 9 p.m.

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

551 S. MendenHall 762-8200

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

University of Memphis, Harris Concert Hall inSide tHe rudi e. SCHeidt SCHool of MuSiC 678-5400

University of Memphis Symphonic Band and University Band Thursday, Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.; John Whitener Friday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m.; University of Memphis Opera Sunday, March 1, 3 p.m.; Jazz Week Wednesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m.

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill 5101 Sanderlin - 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Harding Academy 1100 CHerrY - 767-4063

“Longing for Glory” a Broadway concert Saturday, Feb. 28, 7-9 p.m.

East Memphis University of Memphis

Dan McGuinness Pub

Juicy Jim’s Pizzeria

Open Mic Night with Frankie Hollie Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Acoustic with Charvey Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

551 S. HigHland - 435-6243

L.G.B.T. Sunset Sundays Sundays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; “Toke Up Tuesdays” Open Mic & Hookah Nite Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Wet Wednesdays Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe

Huey’s Poplar 4872 poplar - 682-7729

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, March 1, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

4698 SpottSwood 761-3711

Mortimer’s 590 n. perKinS - 761-9321

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplthret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Backstage Pass Saturday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.; The Hidden Jewels of Jazz featuring Nick Black, Azure McCall, Brennan Villine, Will Graves and more Sunday, March 1, 711 p.m.; Eddie Harrison and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Owen Brennan’s tHe regalia, 6150 poplar 761-0990

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

Summer/Berclair Maria’s Restaurant

T.J. Mulligan’s

The Other Place Bar & Grill

1817 KirbY - 755-2481

The Windjammer Restaurant

663 S. HigHland - 729-6960

Live DJ Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QuinCe - 682-2300

6439 SuMMer - 356-2324

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

Karaoke and dance music with DJ Funn Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

Starbucks 7945 winCHeSter - 751-2345

Van Duren Thursdays, 6:308:30 p.m.

El Toro Loco 2809 KirbY pKwY. - 759-0593

Poplar/I-240

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

Whitehaven/ Airport BeRatus 1482 e. SHelbY dr.

922-8839

Laidback Mondays featuring Live Music and Karaoke Mondays, 7 p.m.

Club Superior 1459 elViS preSleY 503-5544

Old School and Blues Fridays, 7 p.m.; Hottest Track Show with various artists Sundays, 6 p.m.

Hawaiian Isle Bar and Grill 1542 elViS preSleY 569-3217

Happy Hour with live DJ Thursdays, Mondays-Wednesdays, 4-6 p.m.

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

4148 waleS - 373-0155

Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.1 a.m. and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

4381 elViS preSleY 332-4159

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

786 e. brooKHaVen CirCle 683-9044

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

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

Bartlett Old Whitten Tavern 2800 wHitten - 379-1965

Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Karaoke with Ricky Mack Mondays, 10 p.m.1 a.m.; Open Mic with Susie and Bob Salley Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

RockHouse Live 5709 raleigH-lagrange 386-7222

Karaoke with Ricky Mac Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Mondays Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

7677 Farmington 318-3034

The Chaulkies Sunday, March 1, 8-11:30 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica

Ground Zero

J.R.’s Bar & Grill

Zero Blues alley, clarksdale, ms - 662-621-9009

4788 BetHel, olive BrancH, ms - 662-890-5612

Backwoods Bar & Grill

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

25485 Hwy 315 east, sardis, ms - 662-487-2202

First Choice Catering

Graham Road Band Saturday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Collierville

Dan McGuinness 3964 goodman, soutHaven, ms - 662-890-7611

Huey’s Collierville

5905 scott Boulevard, Horn lake, ms 662-342-2559

Dancing For Our Stars Thursday, Feb. 26, 6-10:30 p.m.

2130 w. PoPlar - 854-4455

Soul Shockers Sunday, March 1, 8-11:30 p.m.

LaLa Thursday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m.; Ori Naftaly Band Friday, Feb. 27, 9 p.m.; Rock Night with Chad Wesley Band Saturday, Feb. 28, 9 p.m.; Bill “Howl N Madd” Perry Wednesday, March 4, 8 p.m.

Cordova

Gary Wayne and The Mainstreet Band Saturdays, 9 p.m.midnight.

West TN Youth Chorus/ West TN Children’s Chorus Sundays, Mondays.

Mesquite Chop House 5960 getwell, soutHaven, ms - 662-890-2467

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill

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

847 exocet - 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Tunica Roadhouse

Huey’s Cordova

1107 casino center drive, tunica, ms - 662-363-4900

1771 n. germantown Pkwy.

754-3885

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

The Memphis All-Stars Sunday, March 1, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Wadford’s Grill & Bar 474 cHurcH, soutHaven, ms - 662-510-5861

Loose Goose Bar & Grill 8014 cluB center 343-0860

DJ Tree Saturdays.

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8071 trinity - 756-4480

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Chris and Justin Thursday, Feb. 26; Bonfire Orchestra Friday, Feb. 27; Southern Edition Saturday, Feb. 28; The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Haystack Bar & Grill Karaoke Nights at The Stack Thursdays-Fridays, Sundays, and Wednesdays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.; The Rants Band Saturday, Feb. 28, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 exeter - 751-7500

Kodo — Drummers of Japan Thursday, Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.; Jazz in the Box: Shelly Berg Friday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m.; Arturo Sandoval Saturday, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m.; First Tennessee Masterworks series featuring Memphis Symphony Orchestra Sunday, March 1, 2:30 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 wincHester - 624-8911

The Fabulous Steelers Sunday, March 1, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Raleigh Mugs Pub

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

6560 Hwy 51 n. - 872-0567

662DJ, Karaoke/Open Mic Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

4396 raleigH-lagrange 372-3556

Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Frayser/Millington

Kevin Gates: #IDGT Tour Tuesday, March 3, 9 p.m.; Greensky Bluegrass with Rayland Baxter Wednesday, March 4, 7 p.m.

Main Street Pizza

1017 sanga

2821 n. Houston levee 377-9997

Lyric Theatre 1006 van Buren, oxFord, ms - 662-234-5333

1800 main, soutHaven, ms 662-253-8451

Cordova Community Center

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Full Effect Band Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m.-midnight.

2951 cela - 382-1576

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

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Ice Bar & Grill 4202 Hacks cross 757-1423

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

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Grill 1686 main, soutHaven, ms 662-470-6549

Fitz Casino & Hotel

Hollywood Casino

711 lucky ln., tunica, ms 800-766-5825

1150 casino striP resort, tunica, ms - 662-357-7700

Live Entertainment Thursdays-Sundays, Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

Mesquite Chop House

Live Music Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Fridays, Saturdays, and Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

3165 Forest Hill-irene 249-5661

Club Emotions 2.0

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill

143 BrickHouse dr., slayden, ms - 662-551-1522

6565 towne center, soutHaven, ms - 662-536-2200

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

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar 9087 PoPlar - 755-0092

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nce upon a time I described Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen as a “bad play.” Having gone back for a second serving, I’m comfortable standing by that initial pronouncement, with one allowance. When you submit to the script’s unreality and meet Frayn’s difficult material on its own terms, this “bad play” can make for a fine night at the theater. Thankfully, Theatre Memphis’ straightforward take on the atomic ghost story doesn’t force ideas as big as all of space into a vessel as unworthy as parlor drama.

And maybe it’s a “bad play” because, relatively speaking, it’s not really a play at all. There’s no conventional protagonist here, and the conflict changes with every pass at an uncertain story with no beginning, middle, or end.

Copenhagen is set in no actual place at no particular time. The characters — physicists Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr and Bohr’s wife Margrethe — admit to being dead, though it’s probably more correct to describe them as being “unalive.” The author’s aim here is to project the simulated image of three historical figures across time and space to catalog possible outcomes of a 1941 meeting at the onset of a global nuclear arms race. At times, it resembles a WWII-era thriller, but Copenhagen is a genuinely experimental, steadfastly inconclusive, and demanding theatrical exercise.

Theatre Memphis’ revival — like good scientific process — requires some patience. It rewards that patience with smart performances by Jason Spitzer, Gregory Alexander, and Mary Buchignani. Director Stephen Huff’s clear, unfussy take on complicated material reflects the spirit of Bohr, the pioneering physicist who expressed complex ideas using practical examples and plain language. To that end, this Copenhagen is still probably more literal than it might be. The staging never takes full, fantastic advantage of the show’s determined anti-realism. But when the actors cook, it’s the atomic bomb.

Scenic and lighting designer Daniel Kopera has imagined a space that expresses space — and time. Three unremarkable black chairs sit in a pitch-black environment. Formulas and wave signs are scribbled in white (painted) chalk on the floor. The next dimension is made apparent when similar formulas are projected across actors inhabiting the void — actors who live, love, and hate on each

other a little, in the imaginary skeleton of a rotting universe. An uncomfortable time was had by all.

That’s a good thing, if you ask me.

Through March 1st Copenhagen

Few local productions of Macbeth have really wrestled with the play’s supernatural side or attempted to empower the show’s unapologetically demonic side with all the tropes of modern horror.

Although there’s probably a nobler intention underpinning the University of Memphis’ current production of Shakespeare’s Scottish slasher play, it is most successful in its ability to evoke the viral paranoia and apocalyptic tone of ghastly contemporary cinema. It does so using dense recorded soundscapes and group performance pieces with sexual and sadistic overtones.

There are no witches here, only a malevolent group force with many body parts, speaking with many voices and various intentions, none of them pure. This force physically injects evil into Macbeth and swarms all around his hellspawn wife like devil-gnats.

Mixing post-industrial scenic design with blossoms, boughs, and costume profiles plucked from feudal Japan, director Jung Han Kim has built a sensual feast that’s exhilarating but inconsistent. Presentational acting styles may leave some audience members longing for more coherent storytelling and emotional content.

The one real problem I have with Kim’s Macbeth — which really is quite an achievement overall — is that it ends with a whimper rather than a bang. So much sound and fury has been built into the show’s quietest moments that it has nowhere to go. The last battles, for all their choreography, are pastoral compared to the sleepwalking scene. And Macbeth’s head on the pike is accidentally comical.

I get the sense from past work that Kim — a director to watch — isn’t especially interested in traditional linear narrative. I also get the sense that this Macbeth might have been more fully realized without all those words getting in the way.

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Clough-Hanson Gallery

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Artist reception for “Roxanne’s Rescue,” exhibition of work using a range of materials by Terri Phillips. www.rhodes. edu. Fri., Feb. 27, 6-8 p.m.

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

TheatreKids in Footloose, a musical adaptation of the 1984 movie blockbuster. www. bpacc.org. $8. Thurs.-Sat., Feb. 26-28, 7 p.m., and Sun., March 1, 2:30 p.m.

RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3442).

Metal Museum

Closing reception for “Tributaries: Susie Ganch” and “All That Glitters,” join Susie Ganch and the curatorial team for questions and conversation about her exhibition. www.metalmuseum.org. Fri., Feb. 27, 5-7 p.m.

3663 APPLING (385-6440).

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

Baby Hold On To Memphis, musical inspired by the life of Gerald Levert, American soul singer, songwriter, and producer. www.memphistravel. com. $29.75-$54.75. Sun., March 1, 7 p.m.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Rhodes College, Buckman Hall

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (525-1515).

Circuit Playhouse

Assassins, a (shooting) gallery of American assassins who have attempted to kill American presidents including John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme. www. playhouseonthesqare.org. $22-$35. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Through March 22.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Evangelical Christian School

Shrek the Musical, family show guaranteed to make you laugh.

(870-1339), www.ecseagles. com. $10-$15. Thurs.-Sat., 7-9:30 p.m. Through Feb. 28.

7600 MACON (754-7217).

The Evergreen Theatre

The Pulpit Is Not A Playground, despite her sincere efforts and desires to be a good God-fearing Christian, Naomi is met with oppositions from none other than her own church family. www. theatreworksmemphis.org. $10. Fri., Sat., 7 p.m. Through March 1.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

McCoy Theatre

The Good Woman of Setzuan, a “working girl” living a meager existence shows charity to gods who reward her, and she is soon elevated out of poverty. This reward, however, does not come without a test. www.rhodes.edu. $10. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., March 1, 2 p.m. Through March 7.

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

Minglewood Hall

“Peace, Love, Soulsville: The Art of Healing,” a journey of music, politics, funk, and grit with young Memphians trailblazing the path of the neo civil rights movement. www.minglewoodhall.com. $5-$10. Fri., Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m.

1555 MADISON (866-609-1744).

New Chicago Community Development Center The Black Theatre Museum, experience black heritage and culture and watch it come alive in four galleries filled with theater. Open during the day for groups by appointment only; closed on Sunday. (5023486), www.hattiloo.org. Free.

Through March 7, 4:30-7 p.m.

David LaFevor’s photo exhibit “Cuban Détente” at Rhodes College The Orpheum

The Lion King, visually stunning, technically astounding with a musical score like no other. www.orpheum-memphis. com. $34. Through March 1.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square Call to artists for “NewWorks@TheWorks” competition, writers have an opportunity to submit new scripts for competition. For more information, guidelines, and rules, visit website. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $15. Through May 30.

Theatre Memphis

Copenhagen, play based on a meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. www.theatrememphis.org. $25. Sun., 2 p.m., Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m.

Through March 1.

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Playback Memphis “Memphis Matters,” audience volunteers share personal stories of their lives in Memphis, then watch as actors interpret the story through experimental theater, movement, and improvised live music. www.playbackmemphis.org. $15. Fri.-Sat., Feb. 27-28, 7:30-9 p.m.

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

University of Memphis

Macbeth, directed by thirdyear MFA candidate Jung Han Kim, this production aims to shift and broaden the expectations of what Shakespeare’s classic can be. www.memphis. edu/theatre. $20. Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m. Through Feb. 28.

THEATRE AND COMMUNICATION BUILDING, STUDIO THEATRE, 3745 CENTRAL.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

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On The Boards: Work by Memphis Architects, selection of digital and hand-drawn renderings featuring work currently in the design phase from AIA Memphis architectural member firms. www.aiamemphis.org. Last Friday of every month, 6 p.m.

Opening reception for “Cuban Détente,” exhibition of photographs by David LaFevor. www.rhodes.edu. Mon., March 2, 4:15 p.m.

ROOM 110.

Wings Gallery

Artist reception for “Color My World,” exhibiton of work by Memphis quilters benefiting Wings Cancer Foundation. www.wingscancerfoundation. org. Fri., Feb. 27, 5:30-7 p.m.

WEST CLINIC, 100 N. HUMPHREYS (322-2984).

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“30 in 30”

Original paintings of shelter dogs — one a day for 30 days — will be posted for sale on www. samanthasherry.com. Proceeds will benefit the Tunica Humane Society. Through Feb. 28.

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Art Trolley Tour

Tour the local galleries and shops on South Main. Free trolley rides. Last Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN.

Call to Artists: “Belongings”

Artists are invited to participate by purchasing any object of inspiration from the Cleveland Street Flea Market to transform into (or use as inspiration for) a new work of art. Through March 24.

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

Faith Evans Ruch Music Video Release Party Celebrate the release of Rock Me Slow with a music video premiere party. $5. Fri., Feb. 27, 7-11 p.m.

SIGNAL FLOW PR, 502 S. MAIN (268-9038).

Lecture for “Tributaries: Susie Ganch”

Artist will speak about her sculptural practice as a part of an ongoing lecture series in partnership with Memphis College of Art. Thurs., Feb. 26, 7 p.m.

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

Story Reading and Craft Construction for “The Original Art 20142015: Celebrating the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration” MCA will partner with the Memphis Public Library and Artistree/Wood & Strings Theatre to create interactive events for children. Sat., Feb. 28, 2 p.m.

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

Young Artists Market: Memphis Talented Black Artists

Featuring Moziah Bridges, owner of Mo’s Bows, various artist exhibits, jewelry, handicrafts, candles, gift items, and more. $10. Sat., Feb. 28.

SLAVEHAVEN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MUSEUM, 826 N. SECOND (527-3427), WWW.HERITAGETOURS.COM.

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Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

32nd Annual Juried Student Exhibition, www.amum. memphis.edu. Through Feb. 28.

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

Ongoing.

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

ANF Architects

“The Collective,” exhibition of work by Jimpsie Ayres, Valerie Berlin Edwards, Anne Davey, Carol DeForest, Gwen English, Mary Norman, Peggy McKnight, Jeanne Seagle, Carol Sams Schreiber, and Lisa Tribo. www.anfa.com. Ongoing.

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

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

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“Horn Island: Paint & Metal,” exhibition of new works by Richard Prillaman and Bill Nelson. www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through April 7.

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Nothing Is For Ever Last,” exhibition of collage works by Lester Julian Merriweather.

Through March 29.

“Hail, Britannia! Six Centuries of British Art from the Berger Collection,” exhibition of 50 paintings from the medieval period to the 21st century by luminaries such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Anthony van Dyck, and others. www.dixon.org.

Through April 19.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Pathways,” exhibition of paintings by Tom Stem. www.eclectic-eye.com.

Through March 4.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

Art Education Alumni Juried Exhibition, through March 6.

James Luna, exhibition of contemporary Native American art. www.memphis.edu/ art. Through March 6.

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“Memphis Soul,” exhibition of original oil paintings

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Through Feb. 28.

2760 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY., SUITE 112 (257-1212).

“Return to the Academy,” exhibition of work by MCA printmaking students Elizabeth Escamilla, Margaret Davis, Heather Coleman, Alexandria Bell, Lyman Anderson, Slade Bishop, and Davila and Eszter Sziksz. www.mca. edu. Through Feb. 28.

690 ADAMS.

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Plot Lines,” exhibition of recent encaustic paintings and works on paper by Mary Long. Through March 2.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

“Paradise Found,” exhibition of layered and luminous botanical abstractions, a combination of oil, wax, graphite, and china markers by Chuck Johnson. www.lrossgallery. com. Through Feb. 28.

“Collected Fragments,” exhibition of works by Rachel Grant. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Feb. 28.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

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Memphis Botanic Garden Artists’ Link Exhibit, www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

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“Exploration in Imagination,” exhibition of mixedmedia works by Elayna Scott, inspired by nature and her travels. Ongoing, 4-11 p.m.

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314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

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Cossitt Library

“The Truth,” exhibition of photos, certificates, and personal artifacts depicting the life of Sammy Davis Jr. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Through Feb. 28.

Assassins, about political assassins at Circuit Playhouse

33 S. FRONT (415-2766).

Crosstown Arts Gallery

“Public/Art/ists: Part I,” exhibition and programming series sharing the studio work of artists who have made contributions to Memphis’ urban landscape. www.crosstownarts.org. Through Feb. 28.

422 N. CLEVELAND.

David Lusk Gallery

Mary Sims, exhibition of monumental narrative paintings based on Bible stories.

Through March 13.

Tyler Hildebrand, exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and film work. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through March 14.

4540 POPLAR (767-3800).

Gallery Ten Ninety One

“Memphis Through the Looking Glass,” exhibition featuring gouache on board works by Mollie Riggs, acrylic paintings by Carol Robison, and stained-glass art by Cindy Sharpe of Carved Designs. Through Feb. 27.

Works by Ron Lace, exhibition of works in acrylic, oil, watercolor, and mixed media. www.wkno.org. March 1-30.

WKNO STUDIO, 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Germantown Performing Arts Center

“View from the Train,” exhibition of sculptures by Roy Tamboli and paintings by Carol Buchman. www.gpacweb.com. Through Feb. 28.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Mid-South Scholastic Art Awards, exhibition of winning art work by students in grades 7-12 from 500 schools in the Mid-South area.

Through March 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

“Greetings of Love: Printed Valentines from the Late Victorian Era,” exhibition of rare examples with a particular focus on those with colorful chromolithographic printing and lacy die-cut details.

Through March 8.

“Discover Me: Exploring Identity Through Art Therapy,” exhibition of the creative exploration and self-discovery by participants in the art therapy access program at South Park Elementary School. Through March 15.

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“Roxanne’s Rescue,” exhibition of works using a range of materials by Terri Phillips. www.rhodes.edu.

Feb. 27-March 28.

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by Bob Adelman, George Ballis, Bob Fitch, Bob Fletcher, Matt Herron, David Prince, Herbert Randall, Maria Varela, and Tamio Wakayama.

Through May 10.

“Cats and Quotes,” exhibition featuring felines in paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and prints paired with famous quotes about felines from a variety of periods. www.brooksmuseum.org.

Through Jan. 3, 2016.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“The Original Art 2014-2015: Celebrating the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration,” exhibition from the Society of Illustrators in New York.

Through March 16.

“Excuse Me...,” exhibition of paintings by Jed Jackson. www.mca.edu. Through March 27.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Memphis Jewish Community Center

The Tennessee Craft-Southwest Chapter Exhibit, participating artists will collaborate with a fellow artist who works in a different media and together they submit a piece for the show. www.jccmemphis. org. Ongoing.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

“All That Glitters,” exhibition reflecting the diversity of the museum’s permanent collection divided into three sections showcasing pieces made of gold, silver, and copper. Through March 1.

“Tributaries: Susie Ganch,” exhibition of jewelry with suspended precious stones and enameled copper in intricate webs of silver and steel.

Through March 1.

“Iron and Gold,” exhibition of work by Karin Jones, Ben Dory, and Rob Jackson whose work combines the delicate and the sturdy. www.metalmuseum.org. Through April 19.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Painted Planet

Gallery Artists on View, exhibition by gallery artists.

(338-5223), Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11:45 a.m.-6 p.m.

1015 S. COOPER (725-0054).

Playhouse on the Square

“Episodes,” exhibition of paintings by Mike Coulson. Through Feb. 28.

“One of a Kind,” exhibition of works by Lewis Feibelman.

Through March 1.

“Perdido,” exhibition of paintings and drawings by Wesley Ortiz. www.mca.edu. Through March 1.

Dale Anderson, exhibition of photography featuring a wide range of work from architecture to abstracts. wwww.playhouseonthesquare.org. Through March 3.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Sue Layman Designs

“Conclusion of Delusion,” exhibition of original oil paintings by Sue Layman Lightman.

Wednesdays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

125 G.E. PATTERSON (409-7870).

Talbot Heirs

Edge Art, exhibition and private showing of works by Debra Edge. www.talbotheirs. com. Through March 31.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

“Cuban Détente,” exhibition of photographs by David LaFevor. www.rhodes.edu. March 2-31.

ROOM 110.

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Bartlett Art Association, exhibition of work by Sheila Bentley, Jeanie Box, Gene Callaway, Carol Caughey, Nancy Crossett, Rita Datillo, Lynda Davison, Becky Deaux, Sandra Horton, Lyle, Becky Ross McRae, and others. www.cbu.edu/gallery.

Through March 26.

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

Scottish Rite

“Investigations,” exhibition of sculpture works by Jeff Mickey and Jean Flint. www.masoniccontemporary.org. Through March 14.

“Peace, Love, Soulsville: The Art of Healing” at Minglewood Hall Friday Shady Grove Presbyterian Church

“Next Thing’s Next,” exhibition of portraiture by Paul Miller. www.shadygrovepres.org.

Through Feb. 28.

5530 SHADY GROVE (683-7329).

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“Soul: Memphis’ Original Sound,” exhibition of photography by Thom Gilbert. www.soulsvillefoundation.org.

Through June 13.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

University of Memphis Opera

Students in the opera department present scenes from The Elixir of Love, The Coronation of Poppea, Hansel and Gretel, Die Fledermaus, Der Rosenkavalier, The Most Happy Fella, Sweeney Todd, and The Merry Widow. Free. Sun., March 1, 3 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, HARRIS CONCERT HALL, INSIDE THE RUDI E. SCHEIDT SCHOOL OF MUSIC (678-5400), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU.

Memphis Knights Big Band at the Garden

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

Shrine Tea Dance

Featuring Noble Sounds Orchestra and the Bankers.

Semi-formal attire. BYOB. Includes popcorn and soft drinks. $10. First Sunday of every month, 2-6 p.m.

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Hosted by Julie Wheeler.

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Day to Dance for Health

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

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Spillit Story Slam: Busted, evening of true stories. Drop your name in the bucket, 10 people will get six minutes to tell their true “busted”themed story. Winner goes on to Grand Slam in November. (289-6276), www.crosstownarts.com. $10.

Fri., Feb. 27, 6:30 p.m.

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

Sundays, 5 p.m.

Melting Pot: Artist Showcase, open mic night hosted by Darius “Phatmak” Clayton. $5. Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

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Clough-Hanson Gallery

Reading “Roxanne’s Rescue,” poets Caki Wilkinson and Beth Ann Fennelly respond to Terri Phillips’ exhibition, “Roxanne’s Rescue.” www.rhodes.edu. Free. Wed., March 4, 6-7:30 p.m.

RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3442).

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LoveSpeaks, Fridays, 11 p.m.-2 a.m.

515 E.H. CRUMP.

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Open Mic Nite, www. javacabanacoffeehouse.com.

Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

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Poetry Slam, Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

394 WATKINS (443-0502).

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Booksigning by Jeffrey Stayton

Author reads and signs This Side of the River. Thurs., Feb. 26, 5:30-7 p.m.

BURKE’S BOOK STORE, 936 S. COOPER (278-7484), WWW.BURKESBOOKS.COM.

Booksigning by Kristen and Christopher Shockey

Authors discuss and sign Fermented Vegetables. Sat., Feb. 28, 2 p.m.

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

Booksigning for David Joy

Author discusses and signs Where All Light Tends to Go. Tues., March 3, 6:30 p.m.

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Forum inviting Memphians to ask questions and gain insight on how we can move our city forward and strengthen interactions with (and within) the black community. Free.

Fri., Feb. 27, 5:30-8 p.m.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), MEMPHISLIVESMATTER.EVENTBRITE.COM.

Hippeastrum: The Perfect Bulb by Dr. Allan Meerow

Covers amaryllis hybrids and species. Free. Sat., Feb. 28, 10:30 a.m.

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Lenten Preaching Series

Featuring daily inspiration from world-class preachers whose perspectives will challenge and motivate in the journey toward Easter.

Tuesdays-Fridays, noon12:45 p.m. Through March 28.

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Munch & Learn Lectures

Bring a brown bag lunch; sodas and water will be supplied. Listen to lectures on art by various speakers. Free for members, $5 nonmembers. Noon-1 p.m.

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“Step Out of Your Story (and Into Healing)” Free. Sat., Feb. 28, 10 a.m.

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

Terri Phillips Lecture: “Roxanne’s Rescue”

Phillips speaks about her new exhibition, “Roxanne’s Rescue,” in which she recalls and reconstructs a formative moment in her life. Free.

Thurs., Feb. 26, 6-7 p.m.

CLOUGH-HANSON GALLERY, RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3442).

Worldwide Religions: Pantheism

John Madsen, local artisan behind the Dylan Blue line of jewelry and aura painter, will speak about Pantheism, how it has shaped his life, and his definition of Pantheism and spirituality. Free. Sat., Feb. 28, 6-8 p.m.

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Mid-South Farm and Gin Show Fri.-Sat., Feb. 27-28.

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (576-1200), WWW.MEMPHISTRAVEL.COM.

Get healthy by participating in dance demonstrations of jazz, tap, ballet, middle eastern, and line dancing. Includes a fashion show, health screenings, giveaways, and hands-on CPR instruction. Free. Sat., Feb. 28, noon-3 p.m.

SOUTHLAND MALL, 1215 SOUTHLAND MALL (516-3580), WWW.MLH.ORG.

St. Jude Barrel of Hope Fri.-Sun., Feb. 27-Mar. 1.

SHELBY FARMS SHOWPLACE ARENA, 7777 WALNUT GROVE RD. #9 (756-7433), WWW.DIAMONDLPRODUCTIONSLLC.COM.

Summit Bracket Racing Series Bracket racing places a premium on consistency of performance of the driver and car rather than on raw speed. Sun., March 1, 9 a.m.5 p.m.

MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, 5500 VICTORY LN. (969-7223), WWW.RACEMIR.COM.

Test N Tune

Open to all makes and models of cars, bikes, or trucks to run in the quarter-mile.

Vehicles must pass a tech inspection and racers must have a valid driver’s license. $10-$20. Sat., Feb. 28, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Celebrate winter with campfires, songs, stories, a craft, and outdoor fun featuring hot dogs, cider, s’mores, and activities for the family. $12 members, $15 nonmembers.

Fri., Feb. 27, 6-8 p.m.

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

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The Hidden Jewels of Jazz featuring Nick Black, Azure McCall, Brennan Villine, Will Graves, and more

Helping the Dapper Dan Society in its mission to end “Emotional, Financial, and Physical” fatherlessness in Memphis. $20. Sun., March 1, 7-11 p.m.

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Celebrate the beginning of a successful new planting season featuring food, bottomless beer, live music from Big Barton, door prizes, and bales of fun. Fri., Feb. 27, 5-10 p.m.

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Condom fashion show featuring custom apparel by local artists and fashion designers. Awards are given to the top three designers, which are voted on by guests. Pay your age + $5. Sat., Feb. 28, 7-10 p.m.

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (726-4656), WWW.MEMPHISCHOICES.ORG.

Dance For Charity (DFC)

Enjoy stand-up comedian Rajiv Satyal at his first show in the Mid-south and dance nonstop to Bollywood music by a professional DJ. $90. Sat., Feb. 28, 6-11 p.m.

WOODLAND HILLS BALLROOM, 10000 WOODLAND HILLS (754-2000), WWW.AAICTRUST.ORG.

Hands of Hope Auction Party

Benefiting The Exchange Club Family Center. $100. Sat., Feb. 28, 7 p.m.

Lenten Preaching Series and Waffle Shop

The most unique lunch experience in Memphis featuring some of the same recipes from 1928.

Benefiting outreach ministries of organizations throughout Memphis. Featuring guest speakers. $3-$10. Tuesdays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 5:15-7 p.m. Through March 27.

CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 102 N. SECOND (525-6602), WWW.CALVARYMEMPHIS.ORG/LENTENPREACHING.

Mumbo Gumbo Cook-off Contest

Live music and all the gumbo you can eat benefiting DeSoto Art Council’s Art for Autism program. Sun., March 1, 10 a.m.

THE FILLIN STATION, 4840 VENTURE DR., SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-510-5423), WWW.FILLINSTATIONGRILLE.COM.

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Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle

Scholar-led film viewing and panel discussion program. Freedom Riders at National Civil Rights Museum, led by Dr. Aram Goudsouzian. Thurs., Feb. 26, 6-8 p.m.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.CIVILRIGHTSMUSEUM.ORG.

Faith in Film Series

Movies meant to open a discussion of faith, the culture of our time, and cultivate fellowship of searching hearts and minds. Snacks will be provided. Thurs., Feb. 26, 6:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

The Great Flood

A film by Bill Morrison about the Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the ensuing transformation of American society, culture, and music. Music performed live by Bill Frisell. $25, $15 students. Thurs., Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.

RHODES COLLEGE, MCCALLUM BALLROOM OF THE BRYAN CAMPUS LIFE CENTER, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3470), WWW.RHODES.EDU.

The Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival

Visit website for more information and show times. $5 members, $7 nonmembers. Through March 1.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG.

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

Noir Fashion Show & Soiree III

Fashion show and soiree to promote and showcase black-owned beauty and fashion businesses. $25-$50. Sun., March 1, 4:30-11 p.m.

JACK ROBINSON PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY, 44 HULING (647-6610).

“Roxanne’s Rescue,” work by Terri Phillips opens Friday at Clough-Hanson Gallery Rock the Ribbon

Dance the night away to benefit the MemphisMidSouth Affiliate of Susan G. Komen. Featuring Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster, appetizers, and complimentary beer and wine. $40. Sat., Feb. 28, 7 p.m.-midnight.

THE GREAT HALL AND CONFERENCE CENTER, 1900 S. GERMANTOWN (757-8686), KOMENMEMPHIS.ORG.

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ROYAL STUDIO, 1320 WILLIE MITCHELL BLVD. (578-2787), CULINARY.ARTSMEMPHIS.ORG/DINNERS/TASTE-YOURSOUL.

6th Annual Brew Movement Against Multiple Sclerosis

Enjoy great beers, food, and live music to benefit the Midsouth Chapter of the MS Society and spread awareness about Multiple Sclerosis. $40.

Fri., Feb. 27, 7-10 p.m.

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

Breakfast with the President

Meet the new museum president and hear her views on the museum and how she is making an impact on its mission and the community. Free for members, $10 nonmembers. Sat., Feb. 28, 8-10 a.m.

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

Celebration for Ronald McDonald House Charities

Sampling of signature dishes and cocktails.

Thurs., Feb. 26, 6-9 p.m.

FOX AND HOUND ENGLISH PUB & GRILL, 847 EXOCET (624-9060).

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One-of-kind culinary experience. Chefs Brown Burch, Erik Proveaux, Angus Brown, and Heather Ries will deliver a meal to the beat of the South. $300 per person. Thurs., Feb. 26, 6-9:30 p.m.

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A Look at Lentils The ingredient, the plant, and the sustainable agriculture movement that bears its name.

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entils are a humble ingredient that appear in many earthy foods. Not the fancy dishes that tap dance around the table, but simple, nourishing foods like Indian dal or hippy mush — the kind of food that feeds villages. It turns out that lentils come from a plant that has a similarly beneficial impact on the land where it grows and on the communities that cultivate it.

During the height of the 1980s farm crisis, four Montana farmers joined forces in a hunt for alternatives to the commodity agriculture system that was destroying their land and communities. The soil was losing its fertility, thanks to the predominant industrial agriculture practices in the region. Droughts were becoming more frequent, which exacerbated the soil’s issues. Farmers were going broke, crushed between rising prices for inputs and lower prices at market.

The four friends were determined to farm their way out of this mess and began by exploring various crops that would add fertility to the soil. One, a lentil named Indianhead, was bred as a cover crop, intended to be plowed into the soil to add nitrogen. But when plants make nitrogen, reasoned David Oien, one of the four founders of the Lentil Underground movement, what they’re really making is nitrogen-rich protein.

“Indianheads were cheap,” Liz Carlisle writes in Lentil Underground, a book about Oien and his movement. “They were great for his soil. And since they were bred to make nitrogen, they were 24 percent protein. Why not add them to the cattle ration? Or for that matter, why not try some himself?”

The Indianheads were delicious, and Oien began eating copious amounts, though it was a while before he admitted to his neighbors that he was eating his soil-

building crop.

Oien and his friends, founded a company, Timeless, to market what they grew.

The name came from a meeting that went way into the night, and nobody knew what time it was.

Twenty-five years in, the Lentil Underground includes a widening base of organic farmers that grow for Timeless, including old hippies, young environmentalists, gun-loving rednecks, conservative Christians, Libertarians, the state’s organic certification inspector, and Montana’s Democratic Senator Jon Tester. The personalities and “against all odds” tension of the book makes for a fun read that’s as much about ecology and economics as it is lentil farming.

In addition to being an agricultural and social movement, the Lentil Underground is also a political movement. While working for Montana lentil farmer and Senator Tester, Carlisle first learned of the Lentil

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Underground. Members of the Lentil Underground weren’t shy about calling their senator with ideas, especially since their senator is a lentil grower.

Thanks in part to their efforts, the recent Farm Bill contains a pilot program called the Pulse School Pilot provision — Pulse being the plant family of which lentils are members. The Pulse School Pilot provision funds the purchase of $10 million in lentils and other pulse legumes.

Lentils are such a nutritional powerhouse that USDA classifies them as both a plant and a protein. And those highprotein Indianheads? They are still being grown, marketed as Black Beluga Lentils, and are popular with high-end chefs.

Many other varieties of lentils, in a rainbow of colors, also bear the Timeless label, as does the Black Kabuli Chickpea, which functions ecologically like a lentil (and makes a striking hummus, Carlisle says).

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A key step to this recipe, Carlisle said, is to “...let the onions, water, and berbere enjoy each other’s company for a few minutes.”

Add a minced onion to a pan with enough water to cover it. Add your choice of spice. While Carlisle usually uses berbere, sometimes she uses Indian dal spices, sometimes curry powder, sometimes plain cumin.

Simmer the onion, spice, and water for 30 minutes.

Then add olive oil, garlic, and salt. After another 5 minutes, add lentils, and more water or stock as the lentils start to swell.

I was surprised that she added the lentils dry, without soaking or cooking them first.

Most red and yellow lentils are decorticated, she explained, which means the outer skin has been removed. The Timeless Petite Crimsons that she uses cook in 5-10 minutes.

Keep adding water or stock as the lentils swell, and cook until they are done to your desired tenderness.

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These legumes are grown in rotation with grain and oilseed crops and sometimes a pasture phase. The oilseed phase could be flax or sunflower or safflower. The grain phase could be one of several heritage grains like Farro or Purple Prairie Barley, marketed by Timeless. Other heritage grains, like Kamut and Spelt, are bought by the friendly competition, Montana Flour and Grains.

Legumes are able to build their legendary proteins and thus supply the plant with in-house fertilizer, thanks to a symbiotic relationship between the plant’s roots and a type of soil bacteria. This trans-species cooperative effort that goes down below the lentil plants is a metaphor for the entire Lentil Underground movement. And the more I learn about it, the more I feel the urge to eat some lentils.

There are no recipes in the book, alas, but the companion book is in the works: Pulse of the Earth, by Claudia Krevat.

Carlisle explained her default Ethiopian-style lentil recipe to me. It’s a recipe that she never tires of. I’ve cooked it twice, and I’m hooked.

It uses red lentils and Ethiopian berbere spice mix, and results in a dish called messer wot, aka spicy lentils.

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Signs and Sounds Townsend, Lindsey Roberts, and Darius Wallace, to keep tabs on the dreams of a young woman played by Brandi Gist.

Sweazy’s screenplay won several screenwriting awards including the Grand Prize at the Vail Film Festival in 2012. “Part of the prize was a staged reading of the screenplay, and then afterwards people said to me, ‘You really should direct this!’

But I didn’t have the first clue how to do it,” says Sweazy. “And that’s why I did my first short [2013’s John’s Farm], to learn on that one to get enough experience to The Sound and the Fury tackle Department of Signs.”

Another award-winning film with local ties is OzLand by Mississippi filmmaker Michael Williams. The post-apocalyptic story about a pair of refugees wandering a parched world who latch onto The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to help interpret their world, recently won Best Feature and Best Cinematography at the Magnolia Film Festival. “It’s really beautiful,” says Addington.

“I think we programmed one of Michael’s films when he was a student, and we’ve been programming him pretty consistently over the years. We’re glad he finally came The Department of Signs and out with a feature. He’s really talented.”

Magical Interventions Robert Allen Parker’s short music documentary, Jim Dickinson: The Man Behind the Console, coming off a successful screening at last year’s Indie Memphis, uses vintage clips to profile the legendary Memphis music this dragonfly seemed to be an answer to a question figure whose production genius made some of the city’s I had. I asked for a sign from above to make sure I indelible sounds. Addison says that’s just one of several was on the right track, then started seeing an actual films in the festival by and about Mississippians. dragonfly. And then I thought, ‘What if there actually The 2015 Oxford Film Festival runs from Thursday, was a place that was responsible for these signs, either February 26th to Sunday, March 1st at the Malco Oxford confirming them and allowing your request or denyCommons, with the traditional Lyric Theatre awards ing your request. What if I followed somebody who ceremony on Saturday, February 28th at 9 pm. worked in this bureaucracy, and what if they were really bad at their job?’”

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he Oxford Film Festival marks its 12th year of bringing fresh new films to Mississippi. This year marks the end of an era. “It’s the last year for us four volunteer directors,” says Development Director Melanie Addington, who, along with Executive Director Molly Fergusson, Operations Director Michelle Emanuel, and Hospitality Director Diala Chaney, has been integral in starting and growing the festival. An advisory committee will be searching for new leadership for the festival, with a decision expected to be announced soon. “I’ll be involved in some way, whether it’s making a film or volunteering as an usher,” Addington says. “But it’s time to hand it off for fresh, new ideas.”

Appropriately, this year’s opening night feature is The Sound and the Fury, an adaptation of the acclaimed 1929 novel by Oxford’s favorite son William Faulkner.

James Franco both directs and stars as Benjy Compson in this tale of fallen Southern aristocracy and gothic tragedy.

Actor Tim Blake Nelson, who plays Jason Compson III, will be on hand for the Thursday screening. Addington says one of the highlights of the film is the performance by Brady Permenter, a 10-year-old Misssissippian who plays Young Quentin Compson. “He’s amazing. This is going to be the start of a long career for him.”

The festival’s most anticipated film is a short from Memphis director Melissa Anderson Sweazy, The Department of Signs and Magical Interventions. A screenwriter who worked in Hollywood for several years before returning to Memphis, Sweazy says the film has been a long time in the making: “It was inspired by a dream I had, many years ago, that prominently featured a dragonfly. In waking life, things that happened in the dream started happening.

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Hollywood Creepshow David Cronenberg takes on Hollywood with Maps to the Stars.

Among a certain kind of cinephile, director David Cronenberg is a legend. He cut his teeth in the grindhouse 1970s, creating a string of low-budget horror films that revolved around truly disturbing themes: the melding of flesh and machine; the medical terror of your body betraying you; and the

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Classic-era Cronenberg began with 1979’s The Brood, a psychedelic horror show in which children turn murderously against each other and their parents. The 1980s for Cronenberg were particularly fruitful, with the head-exploding telepath horror Scanners; the sick TV parody Videodrome; the Stephen King adaptation The Dead Zone; and the definitive example of the body horror genre, his 1986 remake of The Fly. In the 1990s, he made a movie out of the unfilmable William S. Burroughs drug memoir Naked Lunch and the similarly challenging J. G. Ballard adaptation Crash. In the 21st century, he has collaborated with Viggo Mortensen for crime thrillers A History of Violence and Eastern Promises. And now, at age 71, he has turned his dark lens toward Hollywood with Maps to the Stars.

The film begins with Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), a mousy, slightly gothy, young woman arriving in Hollywood, as many young women do, on a bus.

The first person she meets is Jerome (Robert Pattinson), a limo driver who takes her to a vacant lot in the Hollywood Hills where she says the home of child star Benjie Weiss (Evan Bird) burned down.

Agatha gives off some pretty creepy stalker vibes — especially when she claims to be internet friends with Carrie Fisher — but the real creepshow starts when we meet Benjie, an entitled Hollywood brat, who is contemptuously meeting with a dying young fan. Benjie’s last film Bad Babysitter, he tells her, made $780 million worldwide, and his mother Christina (Olivia Williams), is negotiating his part in the sequel.

Meanwhile, Benjie’s dad, Dr. Stafford Weiss (John Cusack), a celebrity masseuse/therapist/guru, is treating Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore), a wildly insecure actress who believes the only way to save her career is to get a part in a remake of a movie that her abusive late mother starred in. It turns out that Agatha did, in fact, know Carrie Fisher, and when Havana runs into the actress (who plays herself) outside a swanky shop on Rodeo Drive, Agatha gets a job as Havana’s personal assistant.

Everyone in Maps to the Stars has a secret or two. In the case of the Weiss family, they have several, each more bizarre and shocking than the next.

Agatha, a paranoid schizophrenic who carries visible scars on her face and arms from a fire she may have set when she was a kid, is the most sympathetic character in the film.

Wasikowska plays her with mix of trembling vulnerability and wonder.

Everyone else is a complete, selfabsorbed creep. As you might expect from someone who just won the Oscar for Best Actress, Moore is the best of the bunch, nailing scenes where she shows barely disguised glee when a horrible accident befalls a professional rival. Cusack is also well-cast as the charlatan Dr. Phil figure.

The problem with Maps to the Stars is not in its stars, but in its script. Penned by screenwriter and novelist Bruce Wagner, it’s morbid and muddled. As with all Cronenberg movies, there are striking moments, but taken as a whole, Maps to the Stars seems to have lost its way.

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You don’t need to know much about Breaking Bad to enjoy Better Call Saul, AMC’s new spinoff series.

I know this because I like what I’ve seen of Better Call Saul even though I’ve never seen a full episode of Breaking Bad. (Oops.) Aside from a handful of random scenes and some unavoidable background knowledge about the Walter White story, I don’t know what I’m supposed to know. But I also don’t know what to expect, and that’s a refreshing way to approach a budding pop culture phenomenon.

But perhaps my ignorance is strength.

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without hunting for Easter eggs or suffering from those involuntary “the book was better”-type comparisons.

Three episodes in, Better Call Saul resembles Breaking Bad in that it’s a crisply plotted, unexpectedly humorous and potentially grim story about a man who’s lost at sea and sailing into darkness, because it’s either that or abandon ship. This time, though, shady lawyer Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) is on deck. But he’s been both literally and figuratively pushed around by so many people so far that it’s more accurate to say he’s lashed to the mast instead of at the helm. Jimmy, of course, later becomes the ambulance-chasing attorney Saul Goodman that gives the show its title; its central mystery is when and how that rebirth occurs.

Some clues have already emerged.

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The same question lingers after the third episode’s opening flashback, a prison visit between Jimmy (now an orange-jumpsuited inmate) and his older brother Chuck (Michael McKean), a powerful attorney who we recognize from the show’s present day as a housebound paranoiac who’s taken to wearing a “space blanket” and keeping his perishable food in an icebox.

Those two scenes effectively set the borders of Better Call Saul’s universe, but I wouldn’t be surprised if additional temporal hijinks were in store. The spaces Saul tends to find himself in are either so large (the New Mexico desert; Chuck’s darkened mansion; several anonymous roadside pay phones) that he threatens to dissolve into the air like a bad odor, or so small (the courthouse men’s room; his office in the back of a Vietnamese salon; his own car) that he rubs up against unsavory characters who reek of bad intentions and pure craziness.

The best scenes in Better Call Saul let Jimmy gab his way out of a jam, and it’s a joy to watch the scowling, whinyvoiced Odenkirk use his hands and his comb-over to animate his tall tales.

It’s like he’s trying to conjure a plasma ball with every new speculation.

Jimmy’s great at making strange connections that allow him to leap from one dangerous perch to the next: he’s loquacious and folksy enough to lecture a pair of skater hustlers about his old days as “Slippin’ Jimmy” the Chicago scam artist, but he’s compassionate enough to try and do the right thing whenever he can, even if that means using a “sex robot” voice on the phone. The whole doing-goodin-a-messed-up-world mantle fits him more comfortably than his oversized suits, but his actions — and that Cinnabon future awaiting him — beg the biggest question of all: How long can such compromised morality last?

Whatever happens, I hope it doesn’t involve another machine gun popping out of the trunk of a car.

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fledgling presidential campaign and made some stunningly ugly accusations about the president. Just so there’s no question about context, here’s the full quote: “I do not believe — and I know this is a horrible thing to say — but I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up, and I was brought up through love of country.”

Considering the room was filled with right-wing business executives and conservative media whores, the statement about who Obama loves has a ring of truth to it. But never in history has a president been questioned about his love of country. When Rudy’s ignorant opinion was roundly criticized as stone-cold racism, he was forced to backtrack in a damage control appearance on Fox & Friends. But he only trumpeted his lack of self-awareness saying, “Some people thought [the comment] was racist. I thought that was a joke since he was brought up, by the way, by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, and most of this he learned from white people.” Well, Rudy, that’s mighty white of you to say.

This sinks Rudy to the bottom of the extremist scum-bucket with Glenn Beck, who famously said, “This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” When did the GOP adopt the Ku Klux Klan’s playbook? And to think this fool ran for president until he was sliced and diced by Joe Biden who said Rudy only needed three things to make a sentence: “a noun, a verb, and 9/11.” Rudy recently made race-baiting comments concerning Ferguson, Missouri, and accused Obama of smearing the NYPD after the choke-hold murder of Eric Garner. And yet, the GOP still respects his judgment. Remember Bernie Kerik? He was the commissioner of the NYPD during the 9/11 attacks and was subsequently recommended by Giuliani to President “Dubya” as the head of the Department of Homeland Security. His nomination was withdrawn when it was discovered that he employed an illegal-immigrant nanny, took “escorts” for love trysts in an apartment overlooking Ground Zero ostensibly reserved for first responders, and lied under oath about how a civil servant making $30,000 a year could afford $255,000 in home renovations. This was Rudy’s right-hand man who, after a three-year stint in prison, is searching for a job as a counter-terrorism expert. Even conservative firebrand Darrell Issa said that Rudy never got the dust from 9/11 out of his Rudy Giuliani lungs. More than one doctor publicly speculated that Rudy was showing symptoms of Asperger syndrome.

Which brings us to Governor Walker, the unlettered executive. Walker is so spineless, he may as well be a Democrat.

When asked if he agreed with the former mayor’s malicious remarks, Walker said, “I’m not going to comment on what the president thinks or not … I tell you I love America. … I think we should talk about the ways in which we love this country.”

Answering a question from the Washington Post about the president’s faith, Walker said, “I don’t know” if Obama is a Christian. “I’ve actually never talked about it or I haven’t read about that,” adding, “At the end of the day, God is in control.” A spokeswoman for the governor immediately followed up with a press release emphasizing, “Of course, the governor thinks the President is a Christian.”

Wasn’t there something in the Constitution about religious tests for public office? It doesn’t really matter. A recent Pew Poll found that 34 percent of Republicans believe the president is a Muslim.

Walker’s recent trip to London was a bust when he said he would “punt” on a question regarding evolution, sending the British press into spasms of laughter. Sooner or later, Walker will have to take a stand on something other than union busting or doing the bidding of his telephone pal, David Koch.

Now that Fox News has declared that “the Holy War is here,” and ISIS is burning captives alive, who cares about useless prattle over the president’s patriotism or whether he sufficiently loves America enough to suit the Tea Party? Giuliani has been accused

by Republican operators of being a draft dodger with six separate deferments from the Vietnam War, yet he is a major critic of Obama’s foreign policy and a cheerleader for wars that involve other people’s children. Rudy recently publicly gushed with praise over Vladimir Putin’s decisive leadership. Governor Walker, after surviving a recall election, leaves the state of Wisconsin with a $283 million budget shortfall, due to the $541 million he doled out in tax cuts. He is a failed and delusional governor who thinks heavy Republican donors can elect him president.

Why do we continue to give these irrelevant hatemongers a platform from which to spew their divisive garbage? In truth, it’s not the president, but the Republican Party that doesn’t love America. If they did, they wouldn’t have been sitting on their asses obstructing progress for six years while praying for America to fail.

Randy Haspel writes the “Recycled Hippies” blog, where a version of this column first appeared.

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