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our 1350th issue 01.08.15 cover story p. 16 Over the holiday break, my family and I watched a lot movies on television. Well, sometimes, I watched; other times, I was just in the room reading or scanning the internet on my laptop.

This was the case when my wife was watching The Notebook, though I did watch whenever Rachel McAdams was on-screen. (Wowzah.) It’s a weepy love story that follows a couple from first infatuation to old age and death. One of the big plot twists is that the mother of the young heroine intercepts 365 letters (one a day, for a year) from her daughter’s would-be suitor in an attempt to stop their affair.

It made me think about how ludicrous such a plot device would be today. The young lovers would have exchanged 365 texts in the first week of their separation. Their Facebook friends would know all the details. There would be romantic Instagram pictures of the places they’d been.

A mother has no power over two 20-somethings’ ability to communicate with each other in 2015. We are all — or most of us, anyway — part of the human hive now.

Nearly every day, I wish a happy birthday to someone, sometimes to a person I haven’t seen in years. It’s not because I’m a thoughtful, conscientious friend to hundreds of people; it’s because Facebook helpfully reminds me whose birthday it is each morning.

This, I think, is a good thing. Sure, some of the birthday wishes are somewhat pro forma, but who doesn’t like to be remembered on their birthday? It’s an easy way to be kind.

Social media pulls us together in odd and sometimes delightful ways. I was sitting at a club bar listening to music a couple weeks ago, and I realized the fellow next to me was a Facebook friend I’d never really met in person. We have lots of mutual friends, and I enjoy his wit on Twitter and Facebook, and we’d exchanged pleasantries online. I may have even wished him happy birthday. Who knows?

“How’s it going, Dave?” I said.

“Hey, great, Bruce. How are you?” he replied, not missing a beat. Instant recognition, and an ensuing conversation that flowed as smoothly as beer into a glass. At some level, we already knew each other, news & opinion though not “in real life.” This, too, is a good leTTeRS - 4 thing, I think.

THe Fly-By - 6 As a new year begins, I find myself TRuTH Be TOlD - 11 hopeful — perhaps naively so — that POlITIcS - 12 these sorts of social connections will eDITORIAl - 14 help us bridge our differences — in age, VIeWPOINT - 15 race, gender, politics. Becoming social Cover Story - “New year. New you.” media “friends” is the new version of exby Flyer Staff - 16 changing business cards, except we have steppin’ out the opportunity to continue to commuWe RecOMMeND - 24 nicate, to read each others’ opinions, to MuSIc - 26 see who has a sense of humor, to learn AFTeR DARk - 28 who has an off-putting ego, to find out cAleNDAR OF eVeNTS - 33 who’s a sucker for foolish memes, who’s FOOD - 38 an undiscovered writer.

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About Chris Shaw’s “Interview With HiTone’s New Owner” ...

Just please keep it weird. If that place starts stinking of patchouli, I’m gonna be ticked.

Devron About Bruce VanWyngarden’s column, “A Merry Little Christmas” …

Humbug! Given the assumption that this incident should inform us of something, I wonder if “Christmas spirit” prevailing is any less fantastic than Jesus incognito.

An equally valid lesson, irrespective of religion, might be: Be mindful of avoiding proximity to idiots. The best outcome is inconvenience, and the worst is incalculable. In a pinch, use kindness to regain distance.

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You acted like a gentleman in spite of the circumstances. Your mother should be very proud! You showed us all how to be gracious as well as merciful.

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Gentlemanly pretty much sums it up. I can’t believe you’re still single.

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About the Flyer’s editorial on possible compromises in Nashville …

I wouldn’t get too optimistic about Republicans in the state legislature wanting to compromise on anything but health care. They are just adjusting to political reality. They realize voters would tend to remember if several hospitals in the state were allowed to go belly up because of some crazy ideology, and the business leaders mentioned were probably large donors to the state GOP. Rusty

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every year on health care and food assistance programs, then we need to start investing more of that money into sustainable projects that are nearly free, or can pay for themselves over time.

Community farms would boost every local economy in this country.

I don’t think it makes sense that we pay farmers to not grow certain crops while children go hungry. Farmers should be paid for their surpluses instead. Until we meet the needs of our own people, we are a poor example to the world.

This is how we put people back to work: a New Deal that will allow all young people to build the food system in this country, block by block, just like we built up the roads and bridges during the Great Depression. It is our most pressing need. Any initial costs would be made up after harvests and sales in the first year.

It will change our society when there is a local food system for every person. The people will eat, and no one will go hungry. It will free up everyone to live in social harmony when our basic needs are met.

Garrett Collins About Toby Sells’ story “More Details Emerge on Ikea Memphis Deal” …

I am ecstatic about an Ikea closer to me than Dallas! I will be traveling to Memphis and, thus, staying in a hotel and probably eating in Memphis while I do my shopping there. A lot of us will.

It’s not just for people in Memphis. It’s for all of us who currently would have to travel six hours to get to an Ikea.

Nancy Hutchens I’m excited about the new Ikea store.

When I first heard about it, I thought it was going to be a factory. But I like having the store here even more. It shows that my hometown is really coming up. And, goodness knows, we need those jobs, because they offer real salaries.

Vanessa McVay About Les Smith’s column, “The Council and the Mayor” ...

The city council should not be eligible for any city benefits — no city insurance and no city retirement.

Private employers don’t pay benefits to part-time employees. At the risk of being a cynic, my opinion is that it was no coincidence that Wanda Halbert’s proposal will include most councilmen in the retirement program.

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What the Fox? A FOX-13 news story misleadingly slugged “Memphians Support, Criticize Ban On Hoodies” found reporter Greg Coy questioning Memphians about a piece of Oklahoma legislation that, if passed, would ban the public wearing of hooded sweatshirts in the Panhandle State. The segment produced exactly zero supporters, because it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that when hoodies are outlawed, only law-abiding citizens will have constitutionally protected hoodies made of guns.

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NeWs trailer December 28th was a dark day for Memphis, according to the lead story on the WMC-TV website, which trumped the tragic news, “Trailer Stolen in Shelby County.”

It’s true. According to WMC, the trailer had been missing for a week already, but deputies of the Shelby County Sheriff ’s Office were on the lookout and armed with an understanding that the uniquely designed hand rails and ramp should make the trailer “easy to response,” whatever that means.

Commenters on the story provided valuable insight with questions like, “Where’s the live crew?” and “Has an Amber Alert been issued yet?”

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NevereNdiNg elvis File this one under “Ew!” As Elvis Presley’s birthday week is being celebrated in Memphis, your Fly Team would be remiss if we didn’t report that an Ohio man is still attempting to sell what he alleges to be a 49-year-old sample of the King’s pubic hair.

“All you Elvis collectors, lookie here. I have a real pubic hair from Elvis Presley plucked by my ex-wife Billie Jean Flurt from Elvis crotch in 1965. I hate to part with it. But it can be yours for Christmas for $5,000.00. Comes with letter of authenticity signed by Colonel Parker. I guarantee its real!”

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Updates came late last year to stories we followed in 2014.

Here’s an update on some of the stories that we began covering in 2014 and will continue to follow in the New Year.

• Overflow parking for the Memphis Zoo will continue on the Greensward at Overton Park for a period that could stretch until 2019.

Memphis Mayor A C Wharton said while his “clear preference” was not to use the space for parking, the experience of this past summer made it clear to him that the Greensward “will be an important relief for zoo parking until such time as a viable alternative is realized.”

The news came in a letter from Wharton to Tina Sullivan, Overton Park Conservancy executive director, on Wednesday, December 31st. The sentiment is a complete departure from a Wharton letter in May that said the city was committed to eliminating Greensward parking by the end of 2014.

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Naomi Van Tol and Stacey Greenberg protest Greensward parking.

“We were very surprised and disappointed to receive this letter from the city a few hours ago,” read a Facebook post from Get Off Our Lawn, a group organized to fight Greensward parking. “The fight for a car-free Greensward continues.” continued on page 8

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By Chris Shaw

Improvements are coming to Audubon Park.

East Memphis’ Audubon Park will get a much-needed makeover over the next few years, with new amenities coming to the 373-acre area of sprawling trees and walking trails that runs between Southern and Park Avenues.

Those improvements include paving of the Park Avenue entrance and parking areas, new benches and trash receptacles, new trail markers on the walking trail, new water fountains, three new picnic tables, and the removal of the dilapidated pavilion on the west side of the park. There will also be a new playground and additional trees planted around the park.

By fiscal year 2019, the city projects it will spend about $1.4 million on improvements to Audubon Park, and those will be paid for through general obligation bonds.

The maintenance barn at Audubon Park’s public golf course, The Links at Audubon, will also eventually be torn down, and a new maintenance barn will be constructed. That is accounted for in a separate area of the parks department budget. That project is expected to cost around $61,200 and will also be covered through general obligation bonds.

There are also plans to repair and repave golf cart paths at Audubon and the Fox Meadows Golf Course. Those plans are lumped together in the budget and will cost around $572,400 funded from general obligation bonds. The city expects those projects to have a positive effect on the city’s operating budget since “capital improvements to the golf courses should increase rounds and reduce the burden on the operating budget,”

according to a report from the parks department.

Audubon Park is one of 30 citymanaged recreational areas receiving upgrades this year, thanks to the Park Audubon Park Rehab Program started by the City of Memphis Division of Parks and Neighborhoods. Those other areas include the Memphis Pink Palace Museum’s Planetarium, the Wolf River Greenway, Denver Park, and the football fields on American Way. The work on Audubon Park began last September, and the park will remain open while the renovations take place. City of Memphis Division of Parks and Neighborhoods spokeswoman Toni Holmon-Turner said that Audubon Park was chosen for the Park Rehab Program for two reasons.

“There are 30 parks within our park system that will receive updates and rehab,” Holmon-Turner said. “These parks were chosen based on the condition of amenities and the distribution of improvement funds across the city.

Audubon Park is a heavily used park and many of the amenities are worn.”

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It could be the perfect set for a horror film.

A rustic old lodge cabin is situated along a steep bluff deep in the woods. Its tan paint and natural wood is chipping away. Some of its windows are cracked or busted out. The lodge is surrounded by smaller cabins, which are also falling into disrepair. A few of them have literally crumbled into the autumn-leaf-covered earth, with only their roofs and parts of windows sticking out of the ground.

That’s the scene at the Mississippi River Group Camp at Meeman-Shelby Forest. The group camp, which was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s, has been closed to campers for about 12 years, and since then, no maintenance has been done to preserve the cabins.

But one local man is trying to raise awareness about the historical significance of the campsite, and he’s hoping some environmental or preservation groups will step in and offer to help the state fund the campsite’s repair.

“It’s not just important because it’s old or because Depression-era guys built it by hand. It’s also the political and social history. It’s from a time when politicians were bolder and had a vision of wanting to help people,” said Lance Blevins, who has been speaking out about the site as of late, in the hopes of stirring up interest.

The Mississippi River Group Camp is one of many such campsites constructed by out-of-work men in the 1930s, thanks to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s CCC program under the New Deal.

“They called it ‘three hots and a flop’ because they were out of work, and they got three hot meals and a place to sleep,” Blevins said. “My granddad worked for them when he was out of work. He worked for $1 a day building roads, and they kept 75 cents of his dollar to send back to his family.”

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Historic group campsite at Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park sits crumbling and abandoned.

Each CCC camp ground across the country was built with a similar set-up — central dining hall, first aid cabin, lodge cabins, bunk cabins, and a swimming pool.

Because the campsite was constructed in the 1930s, the stones used for the dining hall and lodge cabin fireplaces were cut by hand. The bunk beds, which still sit in many of the abandoned cabins, are made of solid oak.

When contacted about the site, Eric Ward, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, said the state is currently exploring options to save some of the dilapidated structures, but he said no decisions had been made yet.

In St. Louis, a group of volunteers, including members of the local Sierra Club, convinced the state of Missouri to begin restoration on their CCC campsite in 2012.

“Tennessee State Parks is always open to conversations with people or groups who may be interested in preserving historical sites, especially those that exist on state park properties,” Ward said.

Old black-and-white photos in the Tennessee State Archives show the campsite (and the pool, which was built a few years after the cabins) bustling with life.

The cabins were grouped into separate areas for men and women and were often used by scouts and church groups. An old National Park Service newsletter from May 1939 said the Shelby Forest campsite was getting

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“Zoo” continued from page 6 Going forward, Wharton wants zoo and park stakeholders to work together to develop a viable plan for parking that does not include the Greensward.

He called Overton Park a “great treasure” and called the zoo a “tremendous asset.” Wharton wrote, “The city will allow parking on the Greensward, as may be absolutely essential to zoo operations, until a plan is implemented, [or] Jan. 1, 2019, whichever comes first.”

• Special parking permits will be issued to some residents who live around the Overton Square entertainment district but not as many as originally thought.

The move to start a special parking permit program there surfaced in April.

Residents complained to Memphis City Council Chairman Jim Strickland that Overton Square visitors were blocking their driveways and alleys with their cars and sometimes even parking in their yards.

The program was approved by the council in August. Petitions were sent to neighbors in the proposed new parking district, an area bound by Cox Street on the east, Morrison Street on the west, Union Avenue on the south, and Jefferson 8 Avenue on the north. A section of Lee Place North was also included.

If at least 75 percents of residents on the individual streets approve permit

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the most of use out of 12 camps that were compared at the time.

Allison Hancock, who helps organize an annual womens-only camping retreat called Daughters of the Moon, was among the last group of campers to use the site before it closed in the early 2000s.

“By the time we started having events there, the place was already run down,” Hancock said. “The main hall was in good shape, but the cabins that were still standing had big holes in the screens and places where the floors were falling in.”

Today, Hancock’s group and many others that once held their events at the Mississippi River Group Camp use the cabins at nearby Piersol Group Camp, also in Shelby Forest. Those cabins were built in 1978, and Ward confirmed that the state performs regular maintenance on that site.

But Blevins is holding out hope that the Mississippi River Group Camp will see new life again someday.

“Bike riders want to extend a greenline from Memphis to Shelby Forest. I can envision a day when Shelby Forest is connected by a greenline to Shelby Farms,” Blevins said. “It seems a shame to let the hard work of the CCCs rot away when it is sitting in such a great spot.”

parking for their street, they would be placed in the special parking district and permits would be issued to them.

In all, only 10 permits will be issued to residents on a section of Monroe Avenue between Cooper and Cox. The council approved those permits on an unannounced agenda item during its last meeting of 2014.

“Basically, [Restaurant] Iris agreed to pay for half of the first-year of permits for 10 permitees who live on the street,” said councilmember Kemp Conrad. “The neighbors … and Iris have agreed to basically split the north side of Monroe in the middle of the street.”

• The moratorium on forcing residents to fix their sidewalks was extended in late December.

City officials began enforcing a long-standing rule last year to make homeowners either fix their sidewalks or be hauled into Environmental Court.

The council passed a two-month moratorium on the enforcement of the rule in May. Once that expired, a six-month moratorium was approved.

The council approved its latest moratorium to last either six months or until the Wharton administration officials could propose a viable alternative. City engineer John Cameron said he and his office are working on the project and should present an alternative to the council in the first two months of 2015.

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Advocates push to save the Mid-South Coliseum from demolition.

Coliseum were created as sister structures. [Out of] the $233 million that gets dumped over there, a small fraction can be used to save the building.”

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the public would have a chance to be consulted and say, ‘This is what we think we want in the Crosstown neighborhood.’”

Advocates of saving the Coliseum have started a petition that, as of press time, has more than 2,600 signatures. They’re aiming for 3,000 by January 10th.

“The next administration is going to scrap whatever someone else did and create the new thing,” McCarthy said. “There’s never going to be any permanency. Things are always in flux, but the Coliseum can be a historical anchor for anything that occurs over there. The Liberty Bowl and the

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The long-vacant arena that once hosted the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, and other noteworthy musical acts may face demolition if the MidSouth Fairgrounds is granted Tourism Development Zone (TDZ) status.

Mike McCarthy, a local filmmaker, has become a vocal advocate for the Mid-South Coliseum, and he helped establish a Facebook group devoted to saving the historic 10,085-seat arena.

McCarthy has a soft spot for the Coliseum, as they share a birthday.

“The Mid-South Coliseum was built to have longevity, not to exist within the lifespan of one person,” McCarthy said. “The infrastructure of the building is sound. It’s a unique structure that speaks to Memphis history.”

In December, the Shelby County Commision put off any action on considering possible TDZ status for the Mid-South Fairgrounds at the request of Mayor A C Wharton. They’re expected to take the issue up again this month. If granted, TDZ status would use excess sales tax from businesses in Cooper-Young, Overton Square, and other areas within the three-mile zone to repay bonds used to fund construction of athletic fields, retail space, a hotel and residential units on the Fairgrounds property.

One of the hurdles to saving the Coliseum has long been the cost to get the building into compliance with the American Disabilities Act, but some proponents of saving the Coliseum have expressed doubt over previous studies projecting the costs for retrofitting.

Another hurdle is FedExForum’s non-compete clause that does not allow another 5,000-seat venue to compete with the Grizzlies arena. That was an issue when the Coliseum began operating at a loss in the early 2000s.

This has raised questions for folks like McCarthy, who wonder how much tax revenue has been lost due to the noncompete clause.

Marvin Stockwell, who works for the Church Health Center (CHC), is close to the effort as well. He said the renovation of the Sears Crosstown building, where the CHC is moving its operations soon, should be a testament to what the city could do with salvageable structures.

“The public has not had a chance to weigh in on what they’d like to see happen at the Fairgrounds,” Stockwell said. “I’ve spent a lot of my time over the past two years thinking about the renovated Crosstown building. You want to talk about a process that invited multiple ways of public input, such that

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Logan Meeks didn’t get the chance to ring in the New Year with his family and friends. Instead, he was more than 8,000 miles away hiking Tanzania’s 19,341-foot Mount Kilimanjaro.

Meeks has been hiking recreationally for nearly two decades, but climbing Mount Kilimanjaro was his most challenging adventure thus far. More than that, it was a way for him to raise funds and awareness for the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, for which Meeks serves as the advisory board chair.

Prior to embarking on the hike, Meeks created a Fundly page with the goal of raising $19,341— a dollar for each foot of the hike.

So far, he’s raised more than $8,000.

“To make it to the top and to promote the Hooks Institute at the same time just seemed Logan Meeks like a win-win,” Meeks said. “There are a lot of things the Hooks Institute does that I don’t think people really [know or] appreciate. Its programs help people, regardless of race or socioeconomic status, to really participate in life fully here in Memphis in a number of causes.”

The fund-raising campaign ends on January 10th. The money raised will go toward funding various programs offered by the Hooks Institute to help teach, study, and promote civil rights and social change.

From December 30th to January 5th, Meeks hiked Mount Kilimanjaro — the highest peak in Africa and the tallest freestanding mountain in the world. He was paired with a team of hikers from across the globe, along with tour guides.

Each day typically began around 6 a.m., but the number of miles hiked was determined by the weather. A daily diet of rice, beans, and several liters of water kept Meeks nourished during the challenging journey. Each night, he and his group slept in tents at designated campsites as they advanced up the mountain.

“It really becomes difficult to sleep on the mountain,” Meeks said. “Your body is used to having gravity accelerate your blood flow, and as you hike to the top, your blood flow minimizes. Therefore, you’re not getting as much oxygen, so when you sleep, your heart rate naturally declines.”

The temperatures on Mount Kilimanjaro change drastically the higher a person climbs. Mount Kilimanjaro has five major ecological zones, each of which is subject to a corresponding decrease in rainfall, temperature, and wildlife as the altitude increases.

Meeks was able to endure the mountain’s extreme climate changes by continually adding layers of clothing during the hike.

“When you start out, you could be hiking in shorts and a T-shirt; the temperatures around base are probably 60 to 70 degrees,” Meeks said. “Once you get to about 15,000 feet, it’s a glacier. And everything above that level is frozen.”

To prepare for the hike, Meeks walked on treadmills and hiked throughout Shelby Forest and Shelby Farms. However, one thing he was unable to prepare for was Kilimanjaro’s altitude.

“One in three climbers don’t make it to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro because of altitude sickness,” Meeks said. “You have to be very slow and very diligent when you get to certain altitude levels.”

Over the course of five days, Meeks hiked very slowly to the mountain’s summit. By that point his body had become acclimated to the area’s weather conditions, so it only took him two days to travel back down.

Aside from his involvement with the Ben Hooks Institute, Meeks is also a partner and vice president of A2H, an architectural, engineering, and planning firm based in Lakeland.

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“When you start out, you could be hiking in shorts and a T-shirt; the temperatures around the base are probably 60 to 70 degrees. Once you get to about 15,000 feet, it’s a glacier. And everything above that level is frozen.”

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If It Makes You Happy … indulgent. Would it be the first step on the road to slovenly loserville?

My “aha” moment came in a most 21st-century way: via Pinterest, where the inspirational quotes serve as a lazy woman’s version of Sunday mornings with Joel Osteen or Oprah’s “Live Your Best Life” tent meetings.

On this particular saying, there was no attribution. It wasn’t plastered over a treacly blue-sky background. Just seven words in a typewriter font: Do more of what makes you happy.

It was permission to make a new to-do list with just one item. I would do less of what I thought it was that adults did — tasks that were usually mundane and joyless. Instead, I would spend my time and energy with people I enjoy and on experiences that feed my soul.

Following this one rule meant that I knitted more. Nothing fancy, but my hands like the rhythm and the immediate (although poorly shaped and usually unwearable) results. I perfected a pound cake. I put years of childhood piano lessons to use and played classical music (poorly). I took my mother to Montreal and splurged on floor seats to a Cirque du Soleil show.

Sometimes being happy costs money, like when I went hiking in the Amazon with my cousin, my brother, and his girlfriend. But more often than not, happiness is free, such as karaoke night at my parents’ house. Listening to my Jamaicanborn mother belt out the “Banana Boat Song” — it doesn’t get much better (or funnier) than that.

Or a recent afternoon with my darling niece. She’s in the pretend-play phase, which means she serves dinner in an overturned tambourine with a maracaturned-spoon. On this day, we were playing bedtime. A book was my pillow, and she neglected to give me a blanket, but she told me “Sweet dreams!” as we settled onto the carpet.

Not 30 seconds later, my niece touched me on my shoulder to wake me. I opened my eyes. Her smiling face was just inches from mine. “Good morning, sunshine!” she said in her sweet, singsong voice.

Before she dished oatmeal from a stacking toy cup, my niece asked, “Auntie Wendi, do you need a bib?”

That is happiness.

So for 2015, I have just one resolution: Do even more of what makes me happy.

Wendi C. Thomas is a columnist, journalist, and founder of Common Ground: Conversations on Race, Communities in Action.

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I had one resolution for 2014: Do more of what makes you happy.

Beautiful in its simplicity, this resolution was at least 10 years in the making.

The problem: I was addicted to doing, accomplishing, achieving. My drug of choice: to-do lists. They were a tangible way to show progress — and I was a list addict.

Lists for work were on legal notepads: Call sources for a story; write 300 words by 2 p.m. Lists for home were written in blue ink on sheets of plain printer paper folded in half. I have been known to stop in the middle of wrangling a fitted sheet into submission to add “fold laundry” to the list, simply for the thrill of crossing it off later.

There’s psychology behind the (false) sense of control obsessive list makers derive from sifting their world into bulleted items. And there’s an entire personal productivity industry such as David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” system or one of my favorites, the pomodoro technique of timed productivity sessions.

In my 30s, I took the obsession to a new level, with lists of goals that, once accomplished, would signal my arrival in responsible adulthood. Or so I thought.

On my list of “30 things to do before you turn 31”: Read one of the great classics each month (I started — and stopped — with Anna Karenina); purge the attic of 20-year-old newspaper clips from my days as a cub cops reporter in Indianapolis; master several new dishes to wow dinner guests.

But each year, when my birthday rolled around, I could only cross out a few goals. The rest were recycled for the next year, but as I approached 40, the list had no power to motivate. Instead, the sight of the lists was depressing. I saw it as a testament of my inability to GROW THE HELL UP AND DO MATURE GROWN PEOPLE STUFF. And then, everything changed with the birth of my (first and only) niece two and a half years ago. I didn’t know you could love someone so completely that it terrified you. Suddenly I wanted nothing more than to spend hours playing peeka-boo or letting her do stuff her mother wouldn’t, like liberate Kleenex from the tissue box, one by one.

What I wanted to do and what I thought I had to do were in constant conflict. Adding “perform Itsy Bitsy Spider ad nauseum” to my fastidious list felt

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The Breakfast Boner Regardless of how some current situations come out — Mayor A C Wharton’s public endorsement of higher salaries for city employees or his “settlement” of the city’s debt to Shelby County Schools (SCS) or, for that matter, his early-bird announcement of IKEA’s coming to Memphis — Wharton’s credibility and his standing with his city council are at serious risk.

Beyond that, while all of the foregoing matters may have constituted an immediate political plus for the mayor as the 2015 city election season gets under way, his political situation could be gravely threatened if any or all of them go south.

The IKEA outcome, for better or for worse, would be shared with other public officials and with the city/county Economic Development Growth Engine (EDGE) board.

And the chief impediments to what would appear to be a done deal are the valid questions of whether a) EDGE decides to engage in its first-ever payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) arrangement with a purely retail enterprise; and b) whether state guidelines permit as much. The odds are that “yes” is the answer to both questions.

Score one for the mayor, especially if the whole IKEA/H&M/Trader Joe’s new-business package pans out.

Mayor Wharton at the prayer breakfast

The other two circumstances are different: While there is at least a theoretical prospect of concurrence on the pay-raise matter by some council members, the majority are surely inclined to say no, especially in light of the well-known budget dilemma that caused such agonizing cuts in employee benefits in recent months. Not only does the mayor’s suggestion, made during his remarks at Councilman Myron Lowery’s New Year’s Day prayer breakfast, not bear logical muster, it also seems to put the council, already bruised and tattered, on the spot one more time.

So, for that matter, has Wharton’s announcement last month of an agreement with SCS Superintendent Dorsey Hopson (and an eagerly compliant SCS board) of a $43 million payout in settlement of the city’s court-ordered liability of $57 million in maintenance-of-effort funding, owed from 2008. But sentiment is building on the council that Wharton did indeed undermine ongoing mediation efforts with SCS, as charged by Councilman Shea Flinn, who was involved in the mediation process.

Flinn and others promptly complained that Wharton’s arbitrary effort sacrificed what many on the council believe is a substantial financial counter-claim. And they pointedly reminded the mayor that, while he had authority over lawsuits involving the city, he would have to come to the council for approval of the financial package.

Even as this state of affairs was settling into focus, an unexpected disruption further jostled the equilibrium of the mayoral race. This one, like the mayor’s pay-raise suggestion, took place at Lowery’s New Year’s Day event at the Airport Hotel.

This was the 24th and latest version of the annual New Year’s Prayer Breakfasts, which Lowery began on January 1, 1992 (coincident with the inauguration of former Mayor Willie Herenton as the first elected black chief executive in Memphis history).

As is his annual wont, Lowery, this year’s council

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Lowery’s awkward New Year’s Day endorsement could hurt, rather than help, Wharton’s reelection chances.

politics chairman-designate, was closing out the breakfast with some parting words, in the wake of speeches by other political figures — Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell and Wharton, and 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen — interspersed with songs, sermonettes, and prayers by various lay and clerical folks.

Lowery’s prayer breakfasts have often been occasions for collectively thinking out loud and taking stock regarding political directions, and even for the launching of useful initiatives by one or more of those taking part.

The breakfasts are, in that sense, traditional events for the larger community, though let us be clear: They are fund-raising events, and there is definitely a self-serving side to them.

Lowery told his council colleague and chairmanship predecessor Jim Strickland, who was getting ready to take his leave well before the end of the breakfast, not to go, that if he did he would miss some “nice things” Lowery had to say about him.

When the time came for Lowery to conclude the event, he did indeed have some compliments for Strickland, who had dutifully stayed around. In fact, Lowery made a point of asking his colleague, a persistent critic of Wharton whose hopes of running for the city’s premier office himself have been well known (and well underway) for years, to stand.

“He’s done a great job as chairman during a very difficult year,” said Lowery, amid other words of praise.

“I like him. He’s got the potential to be a future mayor of Memphis.” Hmmm, the crowd had to be wondering, what was coming? An endorsement? Even Strickland, who was reasonably sure that Lowery, himself a 2009 loser to Wharton, was committed to supporting the mayor’s

reelection, found himself wondering.

After all: He’s got the potential to be a future mayor of Memphis. “But not just yet,” Lowery said, suddenly undercutting the premise he himself had raised. There is no way to describe what came next as anything other than setting his council colleague up for a fall. The mortified Strickland, still standing and the focus of everyone’s gaze, would surely see it that way.

“I have to be honest,” Lowery was saying. “I’m with the mayor. … He’s controversial. He may not do everything right all the time. But his heart’s in the right place, and he’s done a good job.”

Lowery then began, with Strickland still standing there, a full-fledged endorsement of Wharton: “I know a lot of people,” Lowery kept saying, and what else was this meant to be but the boast of a kingmaker?

Strickland, meanwhile, had had enough. Lowery was still going strong when his understandably offended colleague pointedly began to walk. Intercepted midway by a reporter on his passage out, Strickland shook his head and said, in amazement as much as in anger, “He asked me to stick around to hear that!”

Lowery now has an ambivalent status with his fellow council members. A highly chameleon-like figure, emotionally and issue-wise, he is politically ambidextrous enough to have positioned himself on the council as a conciliatory figure, a maker of compromises between factions and, for that matter, across the occasional racial divide. For that, and for his experience, gained from nearly six full council terms, he has been able to maintain a fair degree of confidence from his peers — enough to have earned repeated elections as council chair, most recently for the year to come.

But there is such a thing as, metaphorically, throwing your weight around, and Lowery’s New Year’s Day gaffe seemed to numerous colleagues and other onlookers to be just that. That was especially so at a time when Lowery has made known his hopes of promoting his son, Mickell Lowery, to succeed him on the council, perhaps as early as this year. For the record, the younger Lowery, a management consultant, shared moderating duties with his father at this year’s prayer breakfast and was arguably the abler and certainly the more discreet of the two.

That Lowery, at a time when at least two of his council colleagues, Strickland and Harold Collins, have openly nursed serious ambitions for mayor, publicly proclaimed his endorsement of Wharton’s reelection — at a putatively neutral “prayer breakfast” — was bizarre enough. That he did so while having contender Strickland stand at full attention was widely regarded as outrageous — no matter the praise he had heaped on his colleague (which seemed patronizing in the after-taste) and no matter the sorry-if-Ioffended-you non-apology apology he reportedly made to Strickland later.

Though no one on the council has said much publicly, there is definite sentiment among Lowery’s colleagues to call him to account on his fidelity to a mayor who is increasingly in disfavor with the council (and whom, ironically, Lowery himself, then serving as interim mayor, opposed in the 2009 special election that followed Mayor Herenton’s retirement). There has even been an exploratory balloon or two regarding the prospect of reconsidering the chairmanship.

And, whatever his intent, the one definite result of Lowery’s New Year’s Day gaffe has been to make the prospects for contesting Wharton’s reelection more likely.

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Attentive readers will have noticed that the current issue of the Flyer is devoted to variations on that annual chestnut, the New Year’s resolution. Our staffers have searched their souls (and reserves of will power) to provide examples of this eternal urge to be made new and better than ever (and to expunge undesirable habits) purely through determined actions of one’s own.

If we take a few liberties with the notion, we can also find instances of such a resolve in affairs of state, where it is sorely needed. Lamar Alexander, the recently reelected senior U.S. senator from Tennessee, has become the new chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Alexander, as an old governmental hand (now in his third six-year Senate term, (with a lengthy spell as Governor of Tennessee and a shorter one as U.S. Secretary of Education behind him) seems bent, not on creating new habits, but on recreating old ones of across-thepolitical-aisle collaboration with members of the other major party.

As governor, especially, Alexander was able to pioneer significant reforms in public education, but only with the advice and consent (and votes) of supportive Democrats, who then constituted a majority in the Tennessee legislature. Not only is Alexander capable of doing good in his own right, he is potentially a resource for President Obama to learn from. The Democratic president has had precious little luck so far in getting congressional Republicans to even consider working with him.

Alexander can perhaps give both the president and his stiffer-necked GOP colleagues pointers for getting along

with each other. (Yes, we know this has a Pollyanna sound to it, but so do all New Year’s resolutions.)

Tennessee’s other Republican senator, Bob Corker, who has ascended to the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is also well placed to effect some useful collaboration, and he has been known to proclaim (and practice) the utility of constructive bipartisanship in the past. So far, though, he hasn’t tipped his hand on meeting Democrats halfway on any of the several foreign policy issues now pending.

Closer to home, we have the case of Governor Bill Haslam, another Republican who in crucial ways of late has attempted to cross the political divide. The governor’s decision to participate in Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (even if disguised within a plan called Insure Tennessee) is long overdue but welcome all the same. We suspect he’ll have more trouble convincing his fellow Republicans to go along than he will with the legislature’s dwindling number of Democrats, who will have their own opportunity to demonstrate government rather than partisanship.

In any case, both in Nashville and in Washington, the two power capitals that influence our destinies the most, we see evidence, however modest and tentative, of a genuine desire to change. Wishful thinking or not, that would certainly make for a Happ(ier) New Year! So let us hope.

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Fight or Lose The Democratic Party cannot take young voters for granted.

It is up to Congress to address the cancerous distrust that young people and minorities harbor for the criminal justice system.

Congressional Democrats gave those voters little reason to go to the polls in 2014. No one on Capitol Hill was standing up for their agenda. As a result, exit polls from this year’s midterms gave Democrats only an 11-percentage-point edge over Republicans among 18 to 29 year olds and a mere 3-point edge among 30 to 44 year olds.

Basically, the Democrats’ lead over Republicans among young voters was cut in half in 2014. And among 18 and 19 year olds, turnout dropped from 19 percent in 2012 to 13 percent in the midterms, a loss of about 14 million voters.

The exit polls also showed a fivepercentage-point jump in young voters who self-identify as Republicans — 31 percent this year as compared to 26 percent in 2012. The big question for the coming Congress is whether the House Democrats will get off the floor and fight for the interests of young voters.

Juan Williams is a Fox News political analyst and is the author of Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965.

This article first appeared in The Hill.

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Congressional Democrats, wounded by the November midterms, are failing to capture the political energy of the youth movement that has sprung up in the wake of recent incidents in Ferguson, Missouri, Cleveland, Ohio, and New York City. President Obama has met with young activists in the White House. He has gone on television to endorse peaceful protests and has spoken of his personal discontent with the “deep unfairness” in how the grand jury process can be manipulated by prosecutors to favor police. But the president, even the first black president, can only do so much.

It is up to Congress to address the cancerous distrust that young people and minorities harbor for the criminal justice system. Only Congress can bring the nation’s attention to high alert with public hearings and legislation to repair a broken judicial structure.

The Congressional Black Caucus has called for hearings on the shooting death of Michael Brown. But it will be up to the House Republican majority to call the hearings and set the agenda.

Speaker John Boehner and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers have said they are “absolutely” open to hearings on the death of Eric Garner, a New York man choked by police as he was arrested for selling cigarettes. Boehner told reporters the deaths of Brown and Garner are “serious tragedies.”

But Boehner’s base voters — older, white Southern conservatives in particular — are reflexively quick to defend all police and are therefore likely to resist him if he allows hearings to take place. Unyielding pressure from House Democrats will be needed to force the Speaker’s hand.

The same dynamic is also now coming into play around Obamacare.

The incoming Republican majority on Capitol Hill is looking for ways to dismantle the law. It is clear who will get hurt if that happens. Before the Affordable Care Act took effect, 28 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 lacked health insurance, as did 10 percent of children under 18. Those young Americans are looking to the Democrats to replicate the fury of the Tea Party caucus on the far right and become loud, unabashed advocates for the success of national health care.

President Obama can talk about the success of Obamacare, specifically the 25 percent drop in the total number of Americans without insurance. He can veto efforts to defund and repeal the health-

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New Year.

New You. January 8-14, 2015

34 ways to reinvent yourself and change your outlook on life for 2015.

We here at the Memphis Flyer are not know-it-alls, but that’s never stopped us from giving advice. And in our first issue of the new year, it’s become something of an annual tradition for our staff to offer suggestions to you for ways to enhance and revitalize yourselves as we begin another lap around the calendar. So, without further ado, advice from us to you. Ignore at your peril.

Salsa!

Edgar Mendez will transform you from a couch-tuber who sits around watching Dancing with the Stars into a smooth dance-floor operator in just a few short lessons.

Need inspiration? Go down to the Rumba Room, Mendez’s club on South Main, on Saturday night and find your groove by watching men and women of every 16 stripe, hue, size, shape, and ethnic variation spin and swirl and move their hips to the rhythms of salsa, bachata,

merengue, etc. At 9:30 p.m., there are free lessons, which, along with a couple of Rumba Room mojitos, can help get you loosened up and well on your way to finding your inner salsero. — Bruce VanWyngarden

Volunteer at a Theater

Admit it. You’ve always dreamed of having your big moment in the spotlight. Sure, you tell all your pals who hate musicals that you hate musicals too, but you’ve already got orchestra-seat tickets to Kinky Boots and secretly belt out “I’m Still Here” like Yvonne De Carlo whenever you’re sure nobody’s paying attention.

Unfortunately, your brilliant stage career was sidetracked early in life because you were born tone deaf, with two left feet.

Never fear. Having no talent whatsoever in no way precludes you from being a star in Memphis’ ever-

expanding theater community. A star volunteer, that is. From the Orpheum downtown to Germantown Community Theatre on Forest Hill-Irene, volunteers work both in the front of the house and backstage. Every theater uses volunteers differently, but almost every day in Memphis there are opportunities to stage-manage, run lights and sound, set props, sew costumes, and hand out programs. Even if you weren’t cut out for the spotlight, with all the theaters in Memphis, there are still a lot of opportunities to at least operate a spotlight.

— Chris Davis

Juice!

Resolve to start each morning (or at least a few mornings each week) with a tall glass of veggie and fruit juice.

Not the commercial, sugary, bottled kind but fresh, homemade juice made using a juicer. Don’t have a

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juicer? Stop by Cosmic Coconut or Whole Foods and get your juice fix there. Or order juices from the Memphisbased Raw Girls vegan food delivery service. Juicing is a great way to fill your body with concentrated vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Go for a full-on juice cleanse if you’d like, but it’s also just fine to enjoy a juice as part of your balanced breakfast. — Bianca Philips

You explain your New Year’s resolutions over beer, wine, cocktails, and, or course, the champagne toast at midnight.

Then you wake up on New Year’s Day — the very first day of your brand-new promise to yourself — with a booming, gritty, inescapable, hangdog hangover.

Google “healthy hangover” and you’ll find “miracle” foods like quinoa, spinach, and cayenne pepper. You’ll also

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A New Uke

Are you feeling insufficiently musical? That’s sad. Let’s fix this immediately by enrolling you in group ukulele lessons taught by Misti Rae Holton at Amurica. Release your inner Don Ho. And mo’. They make bass ukes now, which is totally insane. Pick up a ukulele at any of the local instrument stores. Search for “group ukulele lessons” on Facebook to sign up. Learn music with new pals in a cool place. — Joe Boone

Nothing is foolproof to a truly talented fool.

Lower the Bar

So you say you can’t keep your New Year’s resolutions.

Every year you make up a list of stuff to do: Quit drinking turpentine; eat only vegan animals; free yourself from the tyranny of pants. But before the Super Bowl, you’re back to guzzling turpentine and wearing trousers. Why not lower the bar? Instead of listing specific things that you need to improve, adopt a vague slogan, like “Try to do better,” and then declare victory.

For example, a few years ago, my “resolution” was to Get My Shit Together. About March, I arbitrarily declared my shit to be together and then went on with my pathetic life. This year, I’m going to “Take Care of Business.” I foresee great success. — Chris McCoy

Do It Now: The Book

If you’ve ever thought about it, now’s the time. Now. Not later. Set a goal for starting, managing, and completing a book-length manuscript this year. What book? C’mon, you probably have one in mind. Or several. Pick one, be it fiction, nonfiction, or just whatever. Work some time into your normal schedule, somewhere from an hour to three hours a day, when you sit at the computer and don’t browse, check your email, go shopping for stuff, or upload your selfies. Write. Period. And according to a rational goal of so many words (or chapters) at such-and-such a rate. Then see what you have a year from now.

— Jackson Baker

find “miracle” beverages like tomato juice, tea, coconut water, and, of course, regular old water water. You’ll also find things to do like exercise (no joke), have sex, or hit the local sauna.

Many medical practitioners (and your mother, college roommate, boss, boyfriend, mailman, and Instagram follower) believe hangovers are linked to hydration. Over the holidays, I tried the recommended 1:1 ratio. That is, one alcoholic drink to one glass of water. I drank less alcohol (maybe because I was in the bathroom all night) and did, indeed, feel better the next day, lots better. To simplify, drink water as you drink alcohol and you’ll feel better.

But if you must get drunk one night and have stuff to do the next day, Atlas Men’s Health will hook you up … to an IV … for hydration therapy. The Midtown “casual clinic” says the therapy can “bring about a quicker recovery period.” — Toby Sells

Be a Mentor

Showing an at-risk kid that you’re concerned about their well-being and future could have a life-changing effect. Studies show that mentoring a young person can significantly increase their chances of completing school,

Breathe as deeply as you can.

Exhale as slowly as you can. Do it until you find your center.

pursuing a career, and staying away from crime. Various agencies offer mentoring opportunities in Memphis including Youth Villages, the Boys and Girls Club, Memphis Athletic Ministries, and the Grizzlies’ TEAM UP initiative. Use your spare time to make a difference in someone’s life. — Louis Goggans

Vote

Did you vote in the 2014 midterm elections? Only 36.4 percent of eligible voters did last year, down from 61.6 percent in 2008. Voter suppression is real. For the past six years, those who do not believe in government have been monkey-wrenching the lawmaking process on the national level to convince the people who showed up to the polls in 2008 with hope in their hearts to not bother any more. The demoralization campaign has been quite successful, and the party that pretends to believe government is evil is proceeding to use government regulation to restrict women’s reproductive choices and sell off public assets to the highest bidder.

We’re voting for mayor and city council in Memphis on October 8th this year, and if you want things to change for the better in this city (however you define that) you should educate yourself, get off your duff, and cast a ballot. — CM

Get Your Music On

Memphis is, as we say, “blessed” with everything you need to upgrade your listening experience. You can buy a turntable at Halford Loudspeakers’ showroom and listening salon in Cooper-Young or from George Merrill’s Analog Emporium out in Cordova. Records? Millions of them: Audiomania, Shangri-La, and Goner Records are open for business. Vinyl has fewer military uses today, and new pressings are better than they ever were. Feeling creative? Make your own record: Get Jeff Powell to run your master lacquer and press the fool thing out at the newly christened Memphis Record Pressing. That’s a better-sounding you! — JBoone

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Drink More Water

Reaching past that soda or brew for a bottle of water when you open the fridge brings several health benefits.

According to fitness and health website greatist.com, drinking water regularly can help aid weight loss, strengthen the kidneys, prevent constipation and headaches, and lessen the chances of developing certain cancers. — LG

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New Year. New You. continued from page 17 Plant a Tree

There’s no shortage of bad news for humans who want civilization to continue on earth for a little while longer: Greenhouse gas emissions are rising again after plateauing during the recent recession, and 2014 is looking like it will tie or exceed 1998 as the hottest year on record. But there is also some good news to be had on the climate front: Solar and wind power have reached price parity with coal in many states, which means cleaner, renewable energy supplies for the grid are going to be a reality sooner than many had predicted. Another speck of good news is the recovery of the world’s forests.

Brazil and Costa Rica, for example, have gotten their deforestation problems under control, and tree cover in the United States There is has rebounded to a level no time. not seen since World There War I. So if you want to are only take direct action and clocks. suck some CO2 out of Be here. the air, plant a tree. It’s a practical symbol of Now. your commitment to the future. — CM

Go Somewhere

That’s it. Just go. To the City of Light. To the Palace of the Doge. To Wrigley Field. Or if you’re truly adventurous, to the immortal George’s Majestic Lounge honky-tonk in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Pick out a place you’ve always wanted to go to but never have. We’re talking about a year’s worth of time to do it, so you’ve got time to lay away the right kind of cash and calendar space and make your reservations. Once you do it this year and do it right, you may find that you’ve developed an addiction to travel that requires at least annual satisfaction. That’s a good thing, not a bad thing. — JBaker

January 8-14, 2015

Treat each day as your last. One day, you will be right.

Get Crafty with Beer

If you’ve been intimidated by all the new brews available, here’s a place to start: Walk into a growler shop or a brewery tasting room and say, “Hello, I’d like to try a new beer but I don’t know what to try.

Can you help me?” They love to hear this.

They’ll likely ask you what you drink now. Tell them you drink Bud Light, wine, vodka/Red Bull, or whatever. They want to know what you like already so they can recommend a beer that you’ll like. Many places around town will let you sample their stuff before you make up your mind.

Speaking of your mind, keep it open. Don’t worry if you get a pint, six pack, or a growler of something you just don’t like. It’s going to happen. But don’t let that dismay you from new beers altogether. Drinking 18 beer is tough work, but with a little determination, it’ll pay off. — TS

Purge Your Facebook Friends

Chop wood.

Carry water.

Open heart.

Do you really need to be friends with that stoner dude who sat next to you in high school English class and copied your answers?

Ditch him. And get rid of any family members whose political beliefs just irritate you. Isn’t dealing with them at Christmas enough? And ditch all those people who still send annoying invites to play Candy Crush or Texas Hold ’Em. And 86 anyone who still “pokes” you. Would you be friends with someone who pokes you in real life? Didn’t think so. — BP

Try a New Restaurant

Memphis is globally known for its barbecue, but there’s much more the Bluff City has to offer. From Mexican to French-Creole to down-home Southern cooking (and everything in between), there’s a restaurant for everybody.

Instead of routinely hitting your usual spots, read reviews, look around, check the Flyer dining listings, and diversify your restaurant selections this year. — LG

Explore Memphis

Make a list of all the places you’ve taken out-of-town relatives when they visit, and then set a goal to visit those places, sans relatives. How many times have you driven past Graceland and thought, Man, it’s been years since I’ve been in there? Be a tourist in your own city. Visit the Crystal Shrine Grotto. Eat at the Arcade. Take a tour of the Stax Museum. Check out the changes at the National Civil Rights Museum. — BP

And with so many tree-lined streets and sidewalks and an expanding bike-lane system, there’s never been a better time to explore your own backyard. Think of the exercise as a fringe benefit. — CD

Host a House Concert

Looking for motivation to attack that tottering heap of dishes in the sink? How about 10 or 20 pals coming over with potluckery in arms to hear some live music? House concerts are a grievously under-traveled road to the good times. Find an up-and-coming artist whose game is good enough to keep the neighbors dancing, or at least listening. All of the idiotic volume levels and unwashed sorts clamoring for drinks and attention are a thing of the past. You call the shots. And if somebody there has a good time and likes your idea, you have a decent chance of being invited to something cool soon thereafter.

Masterfully played. — JBoone

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving isn’t for you.

Get Political!

Stop crabbing about the rascals you want to throw out every time there’s an election and become one of the rascals. They say the grass really is greener on the other side. It may not be grass, exactly, but you’ll definitely be in the way of some green if you get elected. I kid. If you do run for something, your motives should be pure. But you will need some start-up cash (i.e., fund-raising) to do it right. And some good helpers. And, yeah, a network — be it a political party or some other well-established group of people with a track record. And, really, you should have run on that track yourself a few times, trying to help get some other rascal into office. It may take a few years or a few elections to develop the right connections, but you can get started this year. — JBaker A clear conscience is often the sign of a bad memory.

Hit the Street

You want to know something that would make Memphis streets safer? More pedestrians. People who walk and bike get to know their neighbors and their neighborhood more intimately than those who treat all points between their homes and their destinations as flyover country.

The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.

Stop It!

Stop with the ridiculous Memphis/Nashville rivalry thing, okay? I mean, it’s probably okay to tease “Music City” about its adequate barbecue, and its bro-Country, and the fact that the state capital’s collective IQ plummets every single time the legislature convenes for business.

And yes, they probably deserve a rib tickling for all those downtown Elvis statues and for Kenny Chesney’s muscle shirts, and for providing a safe, affirming environment for mullet-users well into the 21st century. But engaging in a Twitter war every time Memphis gets an Ikea and Nashville doesn’t is just silly. — CD

Push It Real Good

By which, I mean eat right, exercise, and otherwise work yourself into a fine lather. No, you won’t get to be Arnold Schwarzenegger (for which, thank your lucky stars). But you can be fit and healthy, at least in a way relative to your age and station. Everything is relative, but if you can find your own God-given center and keep it tuned, you won’t be running second to anybody else, living or dead. There are scads of good gyms out there now; if you can’t find one that fits your means, you’re just not paying attention.

As for running, the world is your track. — JBaker

Put Your Phone Away at Restaurants

Don’t be that guy who goes through the entire meal with his face buried in his phone. It’s rude, especially if you’re only dining with one other person. Your dinner date is left with no choice but to bury their face in their phone, too, since you’re too busy checking your Twitter feed to take part in normal dinner conversation. If you need to Instagram your meal or photograph it for Yelp later, fine. Take your pic, then put your phone in your purse or pocket. — BP

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“Sometimes, when you live with people, you know them better than you care to, that’s all.” So says John Lithgow’s Ben to Alfred Molina’s George in Love Is Strange, co-written and directed by Memphis filmmaker Ira Sachs. Ben and George have been a couple for 39 years. They are now, finally, newlyweds, but their happiness is cut short when old bigotries emerge, and a lost job results in the couple also losing the Manhattan apartment they’ve shared for 20 years. Forced to live apart, depending on the kindness of old friends and family, the line is whispered regretfully over the telephone, in the dark, and functions as a kind of one-sentence summary for this and every other film Sachs has ever made. The irony, of course, and one of the many things that makes the love Sachs examines in his 2014 film so very strange, is how much we can miss those same people when they aren’t around anymore.

Those who missed their opportunity to see Love Is Strange on the big screen in September can catch it in a one-night screening at the Brooks on Thursday, January 8th, at 7 p.m.

Love Is Strange runs just under two hours but covers a lot of ground. It’s a film about aging, coming of age, friends, family, the melancholy side of Chopin, and the cold, hard facts of New York real estate. It’s a study in awkwardness and a real showcase for veteran actors Lithgow and Molina.

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THURSDAY January 8

FRIDAY January 9

Tintypes Theatre Memphis, 7:30 p.m., $30 Return engagement of this musical tour of American life from the turn of the 20th century through World War I.

Spanish Flair Cooking Class L’Ecole Culinaire, 6-9 p.m., $95 Students will learn how to prepare tapas and paella. The class includes a three-course meal and Spanish wine.

“Incognito” Memphis Botanic Garden, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Opening day of this annual exhibit presented by Artists’ Link, featuring 100 works by area artists done “incognito” and unsigned. On January 30th, there will be the Art Gala, featuring a silent auction of the works. Artists will sign the works at the gala. Tickets are $35 for the gala. Information and tickets: memphisbotanicgarden.com/ incognito.

“A Tribute to Jan Singer, Glass Artist” Ross Gallery, Christian Brothers University, 5:30-7:45 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibit of glassworks by Jan Singer.

Also opening at Ross Gallery is “Forge, Cast, Fabricate,” works by the Metal Museum’s staff and apprentices.

A return engagment for Tintypes at Theatre Memphis.

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Jerry & Terry Lynn David Lusk Gallery, 6-8 p.m.

Opening reception for new works of Southern scenes by Jerry and Terry Lynn, best known for their collaborative works under the name Twin. This is the first time the Lynns will show their individual works.

“Earthbound Treasures” Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibit of paintings by Tiffany Myers Foss and pottery by Katie Dann.

Memphis International Auto Show Memphis Cook Convention Center, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., $7 Expo featuring hundreds of the latest makes and models of cars.

And Humbled He Stood Evergreen Theatre, 7 p.m., $13-$18 A couple struggles with faith and other issues related to their fellow members of the Worship Center.

Birth Week

By Chris Davis It’s officially known as Elvis Week, that hot 10-day stretch in August, when music fans from around the world descend on Whitehaven to commemorate the 1977 passing of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock-and-Roll. If you’re from around here, however, you probably call it “Death Week.” That, of course, would make this second week of January “Birth Week,” and although there’s nothing quite like the candlelight vigil on tap, there are plenty of Elvis-related things to do in Memphis this week as well. Birth Week events range from cake and coffee at Graceland and an auction of rare Presley memorabilia to a special Elvis-themed double-feature at the Orpheum.

Elvis was born 80 years ago this month, on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi. This week’s celebration of the blessed event officially kicks off with a birthday cake cutting at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday on Graceland’s north lawn. At 10:30 a.m., fans will be treated to complimentary cake and coffee at the Chrome Grille in Graceland Plaza. Later that evening, at 7 p.m. at Graceland’s Archive Studio, serious music collectors can bid on some very special souvenirs like Elvis’ first acetate recording featuring “My Happiness” and “That’s When Your Heartache Begins.”

Few of Elvis’ 33 feature films contain as many iconic scenes per reel as Jailhouse Rock and Viva Las Vegas, both of which are being given the big-screen treatment at the Orpheum, Friday, January 9th, starting at 7 p.m.

Birth Week concludes with a special Elvis-themed pops performance by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, January 10th, at 7:30 p.m.

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Memphis Area Modern Quilt Guild Open House Sew Memphis (688 S. Cox), 1-4 p.m.

Open house hosted by the Memphis Area Modern Quilt Guild. Event includes an exhibition of quilts as well as a discussion of modern quilts. Guests can also try block piecing and motion quilting.

Feeding Memphis Release Party Sweet Grass, 6 p.m., $100 Release party for the new book Feeding Memphis by Michael Glasgow. The evening includes a three-course dinner by chef Ryan Trimm, and guests will receive a signed copy of the book.

“Bof! le Mix!” Gallery Ten Ninety One, 7-10 p.m.

Opening reception for this “introspective” collection of works by painter and stained glass artist Keith Rash.

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So Not Done

Alexis Grace charts a new course with Kiddo.

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have a lot of stuff coming up,” Alexis Grace says.

She’s not kidding. This month, Grace will release Kiddo, her first EP of original music since her run at American Idol in 2009, when she was the 11th finalist in the competitive-singing television juggernaut. If she seems like she has been fired from a cannon, it would make sense.

In the past year, she got married and made the switch from mass-market entertainment phenomenon to the hectic world of an indie music artist. Grace was set on this trajectory since birth.

“I’ve been singing since I came out of my mother’s womb,” Grace says. “I’ve been loud ever since. It all really started when I was in elementary school. I went to a private Christian school, so I wasn’t doing Guys & Dolls and stuff. There were the Christian musicals, which were hilarious.

I don’t even know who writes them. But I got into them anyway, because they had music and you could sing. That’s what I wanted to do. That got the bug in me. I told my mom I wanted to go to Overton because I knew it was the music school.

When I did that, it was one of the best choices ever. Seriously.”

Grace credits her time at Overton High School’s Creative and Performing Arts program for her ability to succeed in music.

“I had an amazing teacher,” Grace says.

“He was smart in so many ways. He taught us theory and the fundamentals of music in a smart way. Even if you aren’t a good singer, it’s very good knowledge to have.

He was very encouraging and realistic.

You should take this seriously and do it well. Don’t half do it. If you’re passionate

about it, don’t fake it. It definitely inspired me. I was like, ‘Well, hell yeah, this is what I’ve been wanting to do for years.”

Then Grace set her sights on the University of Memphis. The birth of a daughter at that time found her back in the fold of her family, especially her father, Randy Middleton, a bassist who had played for Ann Peebles, among others. The logical thing to do was keep playing music. “[I’m] a total Memphis girl,” Grace says.

“I was always surrounded by music in my family. My father was a professional musician. He never stopped me from doing what I want to do. You’d think a musician would be like, ‘Don’t go into music. It’s a terrible thing to go into.’ He told me it was, but he was like, ‘You can still do it.’ It was such a great experience. First you get to hang out with your dad and talk about music. You get to hear all of the crazy hippie stories from days of old. But it was my first time being in a band: practicing, rehearsing, playing in clubs.

Grace credits her Aunt Lala for the idea that set her on her road to notoriety.

“It really wasn’t my decision either. It was my aunt’s decision. She called me up and said, ‘They are auditioning.’”

What came next was the adventure of a lifetime. American Idol winners have met a range of fates. Some, like Kelly Clarkson, have turned the opportunity into stardom.

Others, like Taylor Hicks, have found themselves in contractual limbo after they did not see eye-to-eye with the show’s producers and entertainment-industry attorneys.

“If you make it into the top 10, you have a different deal,” says Grace, who finished 11th in the shows eighth season.

“But I was 11. If you win, you better be a megastar, because it’s going to be hard

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for you to be marketed as a Top-40 act.

That’s what they want. They’re not there to market indie artists. So, once I got off the show, the only thing I had to worry about was the exclusivity thing until the show ended, which would have been in May. I couldn’t really do a lot until the show ended. I was a free agent.”

But Grace will always marvel at the home-town response to her success.

“It was so amazing, Grace says. “That’s just how Memphis is. You see it with everything that happens here. It’s a small town, but it’s a city too. When we get something like that, like with the Grizzlies, people get so crazy, and they connect.

Memphis loves to have a reason to connect with one another. They do it so well, when they have a reason. It is wild. I don’t know how big it was. To me it was a big deal because people in your town are talking about you … like the news stations, because that had never happened before.”

Grace spent time touring, which is where she met her husband, Thomas Bergstig, of the Swedish band Jeerk.

They met at a show in Branson and were married in March of last year. Bergstig and bandmate Nikke Karlsson produced Kiddo, Grace’s new five-song EP. They recorded tracks in Memphis and in Gothenburg, Sweden. In Memphis, Heather Trussell played violin.

The new songs occupy an interesting space. There are commercial aspects to the sound, and the arrangements do all of the smart stuff: stop-times, instruments entering and exiting, crescendo. However slickly produced the songs may be, this record manages to avoid the cliché that haunts our state’s capital. You are not alone if you assumed this record would

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reflect the overproduced groupthink of a contemporary Nashville record. It does not. It’s interesting to think of Sweden and Branson, Missouri, in the same thought.

But Kiddo combines the tightness of serious, contemporary musical professionalism with the more traditionally aesthetic sounds of European instrumental music.

“Will You Miss Me” opens with an ethereal set of harmonies that materialize like an aurora borealis before a taut acoustic band introduces an earthy dimension.

Grace wrote the song for her father, who passed away last summer.

“I wasn’t intending on writing this song for the EP at all,” Grace says. “It just kind of happened. I just felt like it was so appropriate. Knowing that we had such a musical past. He was such a cool person, too. I felt like he had such a cool life. That definitely inspired me, and it’s one of my favorite songs on the album. I wrote it with my dad inspiring me, but really it’s a song a lot of people could relate to. Not to be deep or anything, but it’s more about how are you going to make your mark on the world after you’re gone.”

The video for her first single, “I’m So Done,” will debut on January 12th. On January 17th, Grace will perform at Playhouse on the Square. Her band includes drummer James Sexton and Playhouse actresses Claire D. Kolheim and Carla McDonald singing background vocals. Kiddo will be available on iTunes and Spotify on January 20th.

After a rollercoaster 2014, Grace looks back on a year for the books and on the challenges of the year ahead.

“It’s been a lot of work, but I’m really excited,” Grace says. “It’s obvious that this is what we should be doing.”

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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.

B.B. King’s Blues Club 147 BEALE - 524-KING

B.B. King All Stars Thursdays, 7 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays, 9 p.m., and Mondays, 7:30 p.m.; The Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Preston Shannon Sundays, 7 p.m. and Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.; Memphis Jones Mondays, 5 p.m.; Blake Ryan Trio Tuesdays, 5 p.m.; King Beez Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.

Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar 159 BEALE

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

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE - 529-0007

Singa Bromfield Friday, Jan. 9, 9 p.m.

Itta Bena 145 BEALE - 578-3031

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE - 521-1851

David Bowen Thursday, Jan. 8, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sunday, Jan. 11, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

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

Don Valentine Thursday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m.-midnight and Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Crush Friday, Jan. 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Delta Project Saturday, Jan. 10, 8 p.m.midnight; Sonny Mack and the Mack 2 Band Sundays, Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Sundays, Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE - 528-0150

McDaniel Band Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 8-10, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Little Boys Blue Monday, Jan. 12, 7-11 p.m.; Brandon Santini Band Tuesday-Wednesday, Jan. 13-14, 7-11 p.m.

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

Memphis Bluesmaster Thursday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m.-midnight;

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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

Roxi Love Thursday, Jan. 8, 7-11 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; The 901 Blues Band Friday, Jan. 9, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Crush Saturday, Jan. 10, 7-11 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris with Crush Band Saturday, Jan. 10, 7-11 p.m.

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

Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.; Shufflegrit Friday, Jan. 9, 10 p.m.-1 a.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.; Reggae Sundays featuring Ras Empress and more Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight.

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

A Tribute to Elvis: Birthday Celebration Saturday, Jan. 10, 7:30-10 p.m.

Double J’s Smokehouse & Saloon 124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 335-0251

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

Grawemeyer’s 520 S. MAIN - 526-6751

414 South Main 414 S. MAIN

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

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

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.

Plantation All Stars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Delta Project Friday, Jan. 9, 8 p.m.midnight; Darren Jay and The Delta Souls Saturday, Jan. 10, 8 p.m.-midnight and Sunday, Jan. 11, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Sundays, Mondays, 8 p.m.midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and Wednesday, Jan. 14, 8 p.m.midnight.

Brennan Villines Thursdays, 6:30 p.m.; John Lane Williamson Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. and Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Fridays, 6 p.m.; Evan Farris Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.2:30 p.m. and 4:30-10 p.m. and Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.;

Wally Wright Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

Purple Haze Nightclub

The Green Beetle

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.

325 S. MAIN - 527-7337

The Po Boys Friday, Jan. 9, 8-11 p.m.

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

The Chaulkies Sunday, Jan. 11, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Kudzu’s 603 MONROE - 525-4924

Bob and Susie Salley Friday, Jan. 9; River City Breakdown Saturday, Jan. 10; Open Mic Mondays; Blues Jam Tuesdays.

Memphis Sounds Lounge 22 N. THIRD - 590-4049

Grown Folk’s Music 7:30 p.m.

140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN - 523-0020

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Spindini 383 S. MAIN - 578-2767

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

Onix Restaurant & Jazz Lounge 412 S. MAIN - 552-4609

Smooth R&B Thursdays, Fridays, 8:30 p.m.; Jazz Fridays, Saturdays, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Paulette’s 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.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER - 272-0830

Marcella & Her Lovers Friday, Jan. 9; DJ Zac of Goner Records Saturday, Jan. 10.

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY - 272-1538

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.

The Phoenix

Dan McGuinness Pub

1015 s. Cooper - 338-5223

4698 spottsWood 761-3711

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Memphis Songwriters Association second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9 p.m.

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

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Strano Sicilian Kitchen

2809 kirBy pkWy. - 759-0593

Evergreen Presbyterian Church

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

948 s. Cooper - 552-7122

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

Wild Bill’s

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

613 University - 274-3740

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

Candy Fox at LaFayette’s You might not know that Alexis Grace and Patrick Dodd are not the only Memphians to make a run on American Idol. Candace Ashir, perhaps better known as Candy Fox, plays at Lafayette’s Music Room on Wednesday, January 14th. Ashir is a White Station graduate who went to Boston College in 2002. While there, an actress friend urged her to make an audition video.

“I wasn’t even sure what the purpose of the contest was,” Ashir says.

“It turned out to be that if you won this Boston “Idol” contest, you got an automatic slot to try out for American Idol in New York. Some people camp out all night. I didn’t have to do that because I won this contest with the video.

We drove from Boston to New York and stayed in my friend’s 400-square-foot condo. I auditioned for American Idol and made it through three rounds.

The third round is when you sing for Paul, Randy, and Simon. So I did that, and I made it out to L.A. There were 100 of us, so I made the top 100. It was the year that Ruben Studdard won. It was his year. The very first day, I got cut with 49 other awesome, amazing singers and musicians. I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’”

Fortunately a communications degree from Boston College led to jobs with archer>malmo PR and then FedEx’s corporate communications department, where she works now. After Boston, she sang, recorded, and toured with FreeSol and went solo in 2006, releasing Soul Stir. Ashir wants to record again, but her current focus is on her mother, Brenda, who was diagnosed with leukemia.

“She is my biggest supporter. She’s at every Candy Fox show, selling CDs and promoting the heck out of the brand. I have to shout her out.” — Joe Boone Candy Fox plays Lafayette’s Music Room on Wednesday, January 14th, at 7 p.m.

Boscos Squared

Camy’s

Cooper Walker Place

2120 Madison - 432-2222

3 s. Barksdale - 725-1667

1015 s. Cooper 303-990-3999

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

The Buccaneer 1368 Monroe - 278-0909

Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Richard James and Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.

Live Music Fridays.

Celtic Crossing 903 s. Cooper - 274-5151

Chris Johnson Thursdays, 10 p.m.; DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Eggroll Saturdays, 10 p.m.; The Reel McCoy Sundays, 11 a.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 5 p.m.; The Candy Company Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Bluezday Thursday hosted by Abdul Wahid Mostafa Thursdays; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays.

The Cove 2559 Broad - 730-0719

Jazz with Jeremy & Ed Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, Jan. 9, 10 p.m.; Martini Madness Saturdays, 5-8 p.m.;

Hi-Tone

1580 vollintine - 207-3975

Soul Survivors FridaysSundays, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.; The Soul Connection Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

412-414 n. Cleveland 278-tone

Opposite Box with Agori Tribe Saturday, Jan. 10, 1011:45 p.m.; Generationals with ELEL Tuesday, Jan. 13, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 Madison - 726-4372

Lamar Sorrento’s Group Sunday, Jan. 11, 4-7 p.m.; Soul Shockers Sunday, Jan. 11, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

The Midtown Crossing Grill 394 Watkins - 443-0502

Karaoke Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Sazerac first and third Fridays, 8 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 Madison 866-609-1744

XLM, Gold Coast, Flirting, and Sincerity Saturday, Jan. 10, 8 p.m.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 s. Cooper - 278-4994

Buckles and Boots, Kris Acklen, and Ruthie Shaffer Friday, Jan. 9, 8-11 p.m.; Bryan Hayes and The Retrievers, Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay Saturday, Jan. 10, 8-11 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 Madison - 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; New Wave Rebellion Saturday, Jan. 10; Open Mic with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

El Toro Loco

University of Memphis Juicy Jim’s Pizzeria 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 663 s. HigHland - 729-6960

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

Ubee’s 521 s. HigHland - 323-0900

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.

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

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 poplar - 682-7729

Memphis Jazz Scientists Sunday, Jan. 11, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Mortimer’s 590 n. perkins - 761-9321

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

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 kirBy - 755-2481

Mystery Machine Saturday, Jan. 10, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

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

The Windjammer Restaurant

University of Memphis, Harris Concert Hall

786 e. BrookHaven CirCle 683-9044

inside tHe rUdi e. sCHeidt sCHool of MUsiC - 678-5400

Elizabeth Moak Friday, Jan. 9, 7:30 p.m.

East Memphis Booksellers Bistro tHe Booksellers at laUrelWood, 387 perkins ext.

374-0881

Julianne Thomas Duo Saturday, Jan. 10.

Karaoke ongoing.

Poplar/I-240 Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUinCe - 682-2300

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplthret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Harrison and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and The Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule January 8 - 14 continued from page 29 Owen Brennan’s 6150 PoPlar - 761-0990

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

Summer/Berclair Maria’s Restaurant 6439 Summer - 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

Bartlett

Collierville

Hadley’s Pub

Huey’s Collierville

2779 Whitten - 266-5006

2130 W. PoPlar - 854-4455

Scott and Vanessa Sudbury Thursday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m.midnight; The Brian Johnson Band Friday, Jan. 9, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Full Circle Saturday, Jan. 10, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Sunday, Jan. 11, 5:309:30 p.m.

Ghost Town Trio Sunday, Jan. 11, 4-7 p.m.; Jamie Baker and the VIPs Sunday, Jan. 11, 8-11:30 p.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s 64

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Fitz Casino & Hotel

2821 n. houSton levee 377-9997

4202 hackS croSS 757-1423

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

Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova 8071 trinity - 756-4480

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

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

Live Entertainment ThursdaysSundays, Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

Mesquite Chop House

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill

3165 ForeSt hill-irene 249-5661

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

6565 toWne center, Southaven, mS - 662-536-2200

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

Ground Zero

The Other Place Bar & Grill

Out with the Old!

4148 WaleS - 373-0155

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

Zero blueS alley, clarkSDale, mS - 662-621-9009

Eric Heatherly Friday, Jan. 9, 9 p.m.; Kent Burnside Blues Band Saturday, Jan. 10, 9 p.m.; Tas Cru Wednesday, Jan. 14, 8 p.m.

Hollywood Casino 1150 caSino StriP reSort, tunica, mS - 662-357-7700

South Memphis

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

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

Whitehaven/ Airport BeRatus 1482 e. Shelby Dr. 922-8839

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

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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 4381 elviS PreSley 332-4159

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

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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

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.

5709 raleiGh-laGranGe 386-7222

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

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 benjeStoWn 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

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Frayser/Millington

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill

6560 hWy 51 n. - 872-0567

847 exocet - 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Cordova 1771 n. GermantoWn PkWy. 754-3885

Memphis All Stars Sunday, Jan. 11, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Loose Goose Bar & Grill 8014 club center 343-0860

East Memphis Trio every fourth Friday; DJ Tree Saturdays.

SkiMo’s 1166 n. houSton levee, Suite 107 - 756-5055

Live Music Fridays, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

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Haystack Bar & Grill Karaoke Nights at The Stack Thursdays-Fridays, Sundays, and Wednesdays, 7 p.m.1 a.m.; The Rants Band Saturday, Jan. 10, 8 p.m.; Reverend Edge Band Saturday, Jan. 10, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WincheSter - 624-8911

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, Jan. 11, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FarminGton - 318-3034

Jeffrey and The Pacemakers Sunday, Jan. 11, 8-11:30 p.m.

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

Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.; Half Step Down Fridays, 7-10 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing.

Huey’s Southaven 7090 malco, Southaven, mS 662-349-7097

Afterglow Sunday, Jan. 11, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Main Street Pizza 1800 main, Southaven, mS 662-253-8451

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

Mesquite Chop House 5960 GetWell, Southaven, mS - 662-890-2467

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

Tunica Roadhouse 1107 caSino center Dr., tunica, mS - 662-363-4900

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Wadford’s Grill & Bar 474 church, Southaven, mS - 662-510-5861

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

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 cela - 382-1576

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

The Crossing Bar & Grill 7281 hackS croSS, olive branch, mS - 662-893-6242

Karaoke with Buddha Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Acoustic Show Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

Dan McGuinness 3964 GooDman, Southaven, mS - 662-890-7611

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

West Memphis Southland Park Gaming & Racing 1550 n. inGram, WeSt memPhiS, ar - 800-467-6182

DJ Crumbz Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Club Night Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Boot Scootin’ Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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The Evergreen Theatre

And Humbled He Stood, drama about a couple grounded in their faith but challenged with their issues and those of others who have been tormented by abuse within the congregation.

Sunday matinee, 2 p.m. www.theatreworksmemphis. org. $13-$18. Fri.-Sun., Jan. 9-11.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

New Discovery Christian Church

Auditions for The Odd Couple, female version of the play.

Visit website for details. www.kudzuplayers.com.

Sat., Jan. 10, 10 a.m.

961 VINSON, heRNANdO, mS.

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.

66 S. COOPeR (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

Tintypes, set between the turn of the 20th century and the onset of World War I, this musical journey takes the audience through an exciting and tumultuous period of American history. www.theatrememphis.org. $30. Thurs.-Sun. Through Jan. 18.

630 PeRKINS eXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

We Live Here, a black couple from New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward wins a house in a white neighborhood.

They soon begin to worry that their “dream come true” may be too good to be true. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $22-$35. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Jan. 25.

2085 mONROe (274-7139).

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David Lusk Gallery

Opening reception for “Brothers Keeper,” exhibition of new work by Jerry and Terry Lynn. Fri., Jan. 9, 68 p.m. www.davidluskgallery. com. Through Jan. 31.

4540 POPLAR (767-3800).

Eclectic Eye

Opening reception for “Pathways,” exhibition of paintings by Tom Stem. www.eclectic-eye.com. Fri., Jan. 9, 6-8 p.m.

242 S. COOPeR (276-3937).

Gallery Ten Ninety One

Opening reception for “Bof! le Mix!,” exhibition of paintings

by Keith Rash. www.wkno.org.

Sat., Jan. 10, 7-10 p.m.

WKNO STUdIO, 7151 CheRRY FARmS (458-2521).

Ross Gallery

Opening reception for “Forge, Cast, Fabricate: Artists from the Metal Museum,” exhibition of work by the museum’s apprentices and staff. www.cbu.edu/gallery.

Fri., Jan. 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Opening reception for “A Tribute to Jan Singer, Glass Artist,” exhibition of glass art

Hidden Universe at Pink Palace’s IMAX Theater

by Jan Singer. Fri., Jan. 9, 5:307:45 p.m.

ChRISTIAN BROTheRS UNIVeRSITY, PLOUGh LIBRARY, 650 e. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).

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Memphis Area Modern Quilt Guild Open House

Exhibition and discussion of modern quilts. Guests invited to try motion quilting and improvisational block piecing.

Sun., Jan. 11, 1-4 p.m.

SeW memPhIS, 688 S. COX (244-6224).

Memphis Magazine Fiction Awards Contest

For rules and further details, see website. $10 entry fee per story. Through Feb. 1.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, See WeBSITe FOR mORe INFORmATION, WWW.memPhISmAGAZINe.COm.

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Art Museum at the University of Memphis

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

142 COmmUNICATION & FINe ARTS BUILdING (678-2224).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

“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

“Earthbound Treasures,” exhibition of new works

by Tiffany Myers Foss and pottery by Katie Dann. www.buckmanartscenter.com.

Jan. 9-Feb. 13.

60 N. PeRKINS eXT. (537-1483).

David Lusk Gallery

“Brothers Keeper,” exhibition of new work

by Jerry and Terry Lynn. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Through Jan. 31.

4540 POPLAR (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Nothing Is For Ever Last,” exhibition of collage works by Lester Julian Merriweather. www.dixon.org. Jan. 11March 29.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Pathways,” exhibition of paintings by Tom Stem. www. eclectic-eye.com. Jan. 9March 4.

Victorian Era,” exhibition of rare examples with a particular focus on those with colorful chromolithographic printing and lacy die-cut details. Through March 8.

“In Print,” exhibition of prints by Federico Castellón.

Through Jan. 9.

“William Wegman: Video Works: 1970-1974,” exhibition of imaginative short video works. Through Jan. 10.

Recent Photography Acquisitions, exhibition of photographs acquired between 2006 and 2012 includes many images that have not been previously exhibited. Through Jan. 11.

“Soulful Creatures,” exhibition featuring 69 works of Egyptian art related to the ceremonial use of animal mummification.

Through Jan. 18.

“Looking at Women,” exhibition of images of women appearing in a variety of roles: goddess, harlot, mother, or femme fatale. Through Feb. 22.

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

242 S. COOPeR (276-3937).

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Gallery Ten Ninety One

Metal Museum

“Bof! le Mix!,” exhibition of paintings by Keith Rash. www. wkno.org. Through Jan. 30.

WKNO STUdIO, 7151 CheRRY FARmS (458-2521).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Incognito,” exhibition of anonymous works by 100 of Memphis’ finest artists. Gala and auction will be held Jan. 30. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Jan. 8-30.

750 CheRRY (636-4100).

“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. www. metalmuseum.org. Through March 1.

374 meTAL mUSeUm dR. (774-6380).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

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Painted Planet

Gallery Artists on View, exhibition by gallery artists.

Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11:45 a.m.-6 p.m.

MAKE ART BEFORE SCREENING CURRENT OFFERINGS IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA.

Ross Gallery

Brinson’s

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).

Sue Layman Designs

“Conclusion of Delusion,” exhibition of original oil paintings by Sue Layman Lightman. Saturdays, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

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

Talbot Heirs

Edge Art, exhibition of works by Debra Edge. www.talbotheirs.com.

Through Jan. 30.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

TOPS Gallery

ART

Join us for a wintery evening celebration of one of our favorite “soulful creatures,” the red fox. You’ll design your own fox mask using felt, glue, and paper mache mask forms. Take a break from art-making to stroll through the exhibition Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies from Ancient Egypt, on view through January 18.

FILM

Fantastic Mr. Fox

January 8-14, 2015

Wes Anderson | 2009 | USA | 87 minutes $16 / $10 BROOKS MEMBERS & STUDENTS / FREE WITH VIP FILM PASS / WINE AND ART-MAKING SUPPLIES INCLUDED.

“Voice of the Turtle,” exhibition of work by Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin, Peter Bowman, Jim Buchman, Guy Church, William Eggleston, John Fahey, John McIntire, Johnathan Payne, and Terri Phillips. www.topsgallery. com. Through Feb. 8.

400 S. FRONT.

African Dance For Wellness

Promoting wellness for the mind, body, and soul. $15.

Thursdays, Sundays, 2-4 p.m., and 6:30-8 p.m.

AWANATA HEALING ARTS CENTER, 3624 AUSTIN PEAY (570-9080).

Cafe Eclectic

Improv Comedy Show, www.wiseguysimprov.com.

Second Saturday of every month, 8 p.m.

603 N. MCLEAN (725-1718).

Flirt Nightclub

Trippin on Thursday, hosted

by K-97 Funny Man Prescott.

Thursdays, 6 p.m.

3659 S. MENDENHALL (485-1119).

Auditorium sound system provided by Ninth Wave Audio/Video Design, generously sponsored by The Jeniam Foundation and Decorative Arts Trust

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

341 MADISON (524-0104).

The Broom Closet

Open Mic Nite with Rootz, join local artists for an evening of spoken word, creative performances, and music. www. thebroomclosetmemphis. com. $5. Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.

Minglewood Hall

W. Kamau Bell feauturing Zach Sherwin and Josh McLane. www.minglewoodhall.com. $18. Fri., Jan. 9, 6 p.m.

1555 MADISON (866-609-1744).

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2015 Motor Trend

Check out the latest in automotive technology featuring new cars, trucks, sport utility vehicles, alternative fuel vehicles and more. Fri.-Mon., Jan. 9-12.

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

Bridal Rhapsody Extravaganza

Featuring wedding professionals, vendors, prizes, and more. $12. Sat., Jan. 10, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sun., Jan. 11, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

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

Gun & Knife Show

The HUB

$10. Sat., Jan. 10, 9 a.m.5 p.m., and Sun., Jan. 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

515 E.H. CRUMP.

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

3307 PARK (443-5692).

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

Java Cabana

Open Mic Nite. www.javacabanacoffeehouse. com. Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

B o o kS i g n i n g S

Booksigning by Darrell Uselton and David Yawn Authors discuss and sign Spiritual Networking: Father Don Mowery and Youth Service. Tues., Jan. 13, 6:30 p.m.

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

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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.

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

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1532 MADISON (726-0906).

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

MOVIE

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

1015 S. COOPER (725-0054).

“Forge, Cast, Fabricate: Artists from the Metal Museum,” exhibition of works by Metal Museum apprentices and staff.

Jan. 9-Feb. 12.

“A Tribute to Jan Singer, Glass Artist,” exhibition of glass art

by Jan Singer. www.cbu.edu/ gallery. Jan. 11-Feb. 12.

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Amaryllis Tours

Garden docents will be available in the Canale Conservatory to guide visitors through amaryllis exhibition and answer questions. Free with admission. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

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

Old Forest Hike

Walking tour of the region’s only urban old-growth forest.

Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

Tours at Two

Join a Dixon docent or member of the curatorial staff on a tour of the current exhibitions. Free for members. $5 nonmembers.

Sundays, Tuesdays, 2-3 p.m.

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

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Hattiloo Black Film Festival

African-American films either made in Memphis or produced by a current Memphis resident. Fri.-Sun., Jan. 9-11.

HATTILOO THEATRE, 37 S. COOPER (502-3486), WWW.HATTILOO.ORG.

Italian Winterfest

Featuring Italian cuisine and traditional Italian tableside music by Tony Barrasso and dancing to DJ Michael Spano, benefiting Ave Maria Home and the Catholic Education Scholarship Fund. $45. Sun., Jan. 11.

RACQUET CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 5111 SANDERLIN (765-4400), WWW.AVEMARIAHOME.ORG.

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Hoop Church

Family-friendly drum circle and flow jam. Come drum, dance, hula hoop, and play.

Pay what you can. Sun., Jan. 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

CO-MOTION STUDIO, 416 N. CLEVELAND (316-7733), WWW.COMOTIONMEMPHIS.COM.

The Harlem Globetrotters

$41-$285. Sat., Jan. 10, 3 p.m.

FEDEXFORUM, 200 S. THIRD (TICKETS, 888-HOOP), WWW.FORUMMEMPHIS.COM.

Sunrise Yoga

Yoga class with Peggy Reisser.

Free for members, $5 nonmembers, all levels welcome.

Wednesdays, 6:15-7:15 a.m.

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

Tai Chi

Classes held near Woodland Discovery Playground. $8.

Wednesdays, 3 p.m.

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

Newcomers and beginners welcome. Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.

QUAN AM MONASTERY, 3500 GOODLETT (679-4528).

C a l e n da r: ja n ua ry 8 - 1 4 Youth Theatre School Winter 2015

Classes for children ages 5-7, 7-11, and 12-17. For more information and registration, visit website. $135-$200. Saturdays. Through Feb. 28.

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

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“Snowball Gala”

Featuring recorded DJ ballroom music, chair and snowball dances, and entertainment. Bring a snack to share. $7 members, $10 nonmembers.

Sat., Jan. 10, 7-10 p.m.

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

“60 Years of Elvis”

Exhibit of rare artifacts as part of the VIP tour experience. Through Feb. 28.

GRACELAND, 3734 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322), WWW.GRACELAND.COM.

Amaryllis Exhibition

Enjoy rare varieties of amaryllis at the Winter Wonder exhibition in the Canale Conservatory. Through March 1.

Midsouth Witches Meetup

Socialize, make new friends, talk about important topics, and wear witchy finest. Snacks and drinks are available. Free. Thurs., Jan. 8, 7-9 p.m.

THE BROOM CLOSET, 3307 PARK (443-5692), WWW. THEBROOMCLOSET.COM.

Board Gaming Group

Play new and fun games. Second Saturday of every month, noon-6 p.m.

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

PYRO’S FIRE FRESH PIZZA, 2035 UNION (208 8857).

Antarctica Revisited Challenges

Employers screen, recruit, and hire qualified candidates. Positions in sales, health care, technology, and more. Tues., Jan. 13, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Pink Palace Manager of Education Alex Eilers is going to Antarctica this winter to study Weddell Seals. Join in on special challenges at the museum. Ongoing.

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.ANTARCTICAREVISITED.COM.

Who’s Hiring Memphis Career Fair

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (729-9469), WWW.WHOSHIRINGMEMPHIS.COM.

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“A Tribute to Jan Singer” at CBU’s Ross Gallery Yoga with Deborah Elam

Pre-registration requested. No class on Jan. 19 in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Day Jr. Free. Mondays, 6-7 p.m. Through Jan. 26.

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

Zumba

Thursdays, 6:30 a.m., and Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

BRIDGES, 477 N. FIFTH ST.

M e e ti n g s

Read in Peace: The Elmwood Cemetery Book Club Meet in the Lord’s Chapel and discuss this first book by Alexis Coe, Alice + Freda: A Murder in Memphis. Wed., Jan. 14, 10 a.m.

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

Kids

Children’s Tour for “Soulful Creatures”

Featuring an interactive play table of ancient Egypt and an X-ray viewing screen where kids can look at various animal X-rays. $7. Through Jan. 18.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Chinese New Year Art Contest

Creation Station

Drop-in art-making activity for children and their grown-ups. Free with museum admission.

Second Saturday of every month, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6225), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

HackNight

After-school program for ages 10+ that jumps head-first into science, technology, and design.

Emphasis on web and game design. Free.

Thursdays, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

APRIL WOODS APARTMENTS COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTER, 262 CHELSEA (300-2796), WWW.LEARN43.ME/ HACKNIGHT/.

Kaleidoscope Club

For ages 5-9, this after-school club is colorful, inspiring, and always in motion. Meant to spark creativity and critical thinking with weekly projects. Wednesdays, 4-5 p.m.

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

Kids Night Out, Parents Night Off!

Fun-filled night for kids including movie, popcorn, crafts, group games, jumping, and fun. $20/1st child, $15/siblings. Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.

ABA DEVELOPMENT, 7953 STAGE HILLS (634-8005), WWW.ABADEVELOPMENT.ORG.

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BELZ MUSEUM OF ASIAN AND JUDAIC ART, 119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS), WWW.BELZMUSEUM.ORG.

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Open to Shelby County students in grades K-12.

Learn about the Chinese culture by creating a work of art, depicting a goat and Chinese cultural symbolism. See website for details. Through Jan. 23.

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C a l e n da r: ja n ua ry 8 - 1 4 Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market

www.cycfarmersmarket.org. Saturdays, 8 a.m.1 p.m.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (278-6786).

Farmers Market

Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

CHURCH HEALTH CENTER WELLNESS, 1115 UNION (761-1278), WWW.CHURCHHEALTHCENTER.ORG.

Memphis Farmers Market Saturdays, 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

MEMPHIS FARMERS MARKET, PAVILION OF CENTRAL STATION, S. FRONT & G.E. PATTERSON, WWW.MEMPHISFARMERSMARKET.ORG.

Spanish Flare Cooking Class

Love Is Strange

L’ECOLE CULINAIRE, 1245 N. GERMANTOWN (314-264-1812), WWW.LECOLE.EDU.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Cooking classes designed for the at-home chef with instructors providing students with handson training using up-to-date techniques. $95. Fri., Jan. 9, 6-9 p.m.

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Hidden Universe 3D

Experience stunning high-definition 3D images of celestial structures in deep space. $9. Jan. 10Nov. 13.

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

After nearly four decades together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in Lower Manhattan. $9. Thurs., Jan. 8, 7-8:45 p.m.

Listen Up Philip

An independent comedy and literary look at the triumph of reality over the human spirit. Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his sure-to-succeed second novel. $9. Sun., Jan. 11, 2 p.m.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

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Wise Trek

Program for park users ages 50+ providing participants with healthy lifestyle tips, recreational opportunities, fitness programs, and social events. $5. Saturdays, 8 a.m.

PARKING LOT WHERE MULLINS STATION CROSSES THE RAILROAD TRACKS, SHELBY FARMS PARK, WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

“Wonders of the Universe”

Tour through the current night skies showing constellations and related classical stories of mythology with historical notes and seasonal astronomical events. $4.50. Through Feb. 28.

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

H o l i day EvE n ts

The Auction at Graceland

Elvis Presley’s 80th birthday celebration includes a live auction of 67 lots of Elvis artifacts offered from third-party collectors. Thurs., Jan. 8, 7 p.m.

GRACELAND, 3734 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322), WWW.GRACELAND.COM.

Double Feature Screening of Jailhouse Rock and Viva Las Vegas

An evening with Elvis in two of his best roles for a birthday celebration. Fri., Jan. 9, 7 p.m.

Celebrate the King’s birthday with various celebratory events. For event information and listings, visit website. Thur.-Sat., Jan. 7-10.

GRACELAND, 3734 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322), WWW.GRACELAND.COM.

Recycle Your Christmas Tree

Mention Memphis Botanic Garden when dropping off a tree and $2 will be donated to the garden. Through Jan. 10.

THE YARD, 1735 THOMAS (833-9273), WWW.THEYARDMEMPHIS.COM.

Fo o d & d r i n k EvE n ts

Bluegrass Brunch

Brunch with live entertainment. Saturdays, Sundays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

TAMP & TAP, 122 GAYOSO (207-1053), WWW.TAMPANDTAP.COM.

Book Release Dinner

Ticket purchase includes a signed copy of Feeding Memphis by Michael Glasgow and three-course dinner by Chef Ryan Trimm. $100.

Mon., Jan. 12, 6 p.m.

SWEET GRASS, 937 S. COOPER (278-0278), WWW.FEEDINGMEMPHISBOOK.COM.

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THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

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Belly Acres

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A Day at the Races Now open: Red Rocker and Belly Acres.

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re you ready to rock?”

That’s the first thing they’ll ask you at Sammy Hagar’s Red Rocker Bar & Grill, the new sports bar inside Southland Park. Here, the servers aren’t servers; they’re rock stars. And you know what, friend?

You’re a rock star, too.

The new restaurant was developed as part of a $38 million expansion at Southland that includes a new building, new additional parking, and 500 new slot machines.

According to management, that brings the grand total to 1,950 — the most in the area.

As for Red Rocker, it is open, spacious and well-lit, with tall ceilings. Red is everywhere — an obvious nod to Hagar, aka the Red Rocker, who’s best known for his hit “I Can’t Drive 55.” There are 55 flat-screen TVs, too, including a screen at every booth.

“During football season,” says Southland marketing manager Marshall Robertson, “there’s days where you got 10 games going on at one time. And if you come here, you can watch every single one of them.”

When it comes to food, Red Rocker offers its own take

on classic pub grub, including finger-licking barbecue nachos ($7.99) and a burger called the Three Meat Box ($11.99), which is slathered with a tasty sweet onion jam. I also enjoyed the meatloaf cupcake ($12.99), a savory treat with an “icing” of garlic mashed potatoes.

“Something we’ve always hung our hat on,” Robertson says, “is the fact that we’re a close, convenient option. If you live downtown, you can be here in 10 minutes. So why not give us a try and come stop in for lunch?”

Red Rocker Bar & Grill, 1550 N. Ingram, West Memphis, AR (800-467-6182) southlandpark.com So far, press coverage of Belly Acres — the new farmto-table burger joint in Overton Square — has tended to focus on the zany décor, which, admittedly, is hard to miss. There’s a bright-red tractor inside the front door and a big yellow crop duster hanging from the ceiling.

“We figure, instead of bringing the farm to your table,” says owner Ben McLean, “we’ll bring your table to the farm.”

But the real story here isn’t the family atmosphere — it’s the menu. As an example, let’s take the Early Riser,

a bacon cheeseburger served with a fried egg between waffles. The beef is fresh, thick, and juicy, and for good reason: Nearly all of the ingredients come from within a day’s drive of Memphis.

The beef is grass-fed, from Joyce Farms in WinstonSalem, North Carolina. The Bibb lettuce is from Tanimura & Antle Farm in Livingston, Tennessee. And the fried egg is sourced by Bring It Food Hub, right here in Memphis.

Here’s the kicker. The whole thing, including housemade chips and a drink, will run you $15 — the same price you’d pay at so-called premium fast-casual burger joints. Only at Belly Acres, the food is tastier, it’s local, and they’ll bring it to your table.

“We’re a place for families who want to feed their kids responsibly,” McLean says. “Or really, anybody who wants a really good, grass-fed burger.”

It’s an audacious plan, but if it works, you might soon be seeing a lot more of Belly Acres. Over the next five years, depending on the success of the Overton Square restaurant, McLean says he plans to open 15 more like it across the Southeast.

Belly Acres, 2102 Trimble (529-7017) bellyacres901.com

Our menu features fresh homemade corn tortillas, tamale bowls, tacos al pastor, and much more.

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film review By Chris McCoy

Final Battle

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hobbit trilogy winds down with The Battle of the Five Armies.

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here’s The Hobbit that is, and The Hobbit that might have been. Let’s talk about the latter first.

Far back in the mists of time (read: the mid-1990s), Peter Jackson and his screenwriter/producer/significant other Fran Walsh wanted to do a film trilogy based on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien. Their original plan logically started with The Hobbit and condensed the events of the three Lord of the Rings novels into the remaining two films. But getting the fantasy movies financed was an uphill battle, so they cut costs by excising the “short” prequel of The Hobbit and pitching only the two darker and more action-packed Lord of the Rings movies. But when an exec at New Line finally saw the light, he wanted three movies, all based on The Lord of the Rings. Jackson agreed and made history with his now-classic fantasy trilogy, which culminated with 2003’s Return of the King winning 11 Academy Awards.

Naturally, New Line wanted more and set about an epic quest to bring The Hobbit to the screen and thus earn another dragon’s hoard’s worth of gold. They partnered with MGM, who then promptly went bankrupt, to make two movies out of the book that established Middle Earth.

Jackson, Walsh, and screenwriter Philippa Boyens were back, and they brought in Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) to direct. The actual book Tolkien wrote is much lighter in tone than The Lord of the Rings books and is the shortest of the four volumes. But the chance to make a single, tight adaptation of The Hobbit had passed, and so Boyens and company brought in some material from Tolkien’s notes, short stories, and

appendices to flesh out the story. But after years of delay, del Toro reluctantly moved on, and a recaptialized MGM demanded three movies to ensure steady cash flow as it emerged from bankruptcy. Professor Tolkien’s pastoral fantasy about dwarves who loved to sing, dragons who loved gold, and a pathologically honest hobbit burglar was now budgeted just shy of half a billion dollars.

Which brings us to The Hobbit that is. Boyens and Jackson worked from the two-movie plan they had developed with del Toro to expand the material even further and, with 2012’s The Unexpected Journey and 2013’s The Desolation of Smaug, have now crafted three financially successful films. But were they artistically successful?

The short answer is no; the long answer is yes with a but. There are shots, scenes, and whole sequences of The Battle of the Five Armies that are as riveting and beautiful as anything in Jackson’s oeuvre. When the elf Legolas (Orlando Bloom) tries to cross a bridge made from a fallen, crumbling tower while dwarven king Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) fights the orc champion Azog at the top of a frozen waterfall, it is a virtuoso display of action movie choreography worthy of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Martin Freeman does an excellent job of holding down the trilogy’s center as Bilbo Baggins, and Armitage brings a stately, tragic air to Thorin, the penniless dwarf who risked it all to reconquer his rightful throne as King under the Mountain from the dragon Smaug, only to lose

his soul in the process.

As a work of epic fantasy to be binge-watched on HD flatscreens over a weekend, The Hobbit will hold its own against Game of Thrones, provided you’re not just in it for the HBO series’ extensive nudity. But as a filmgoing experience in its own right, The Battle of the Five Armies is erratic and unsatisfying. The opening sequence, where Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans) confronts the dragon Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) as Laketown burns around him should be edge-of-your-seat thrilling.

But even a dyed-in-the-wool fanboy like me, who first read The Hobbit when my age was still counted in single digits, had trouble working out who was who and why I should care until the old guard of Cate Blanchett’s Galadriel, Ian McKellan’s Gandalf, and Christopher Lee’s Saruman slip on their Rings of Power and mix it up with Sauron on the top of a mountain. But even that incredible scene isn’t part of Tolkien’s book, and it’s the plague of additional subplots that keeps the entire trilogy from achieving greatness. There’s a great movie buried in the almost eight hours of The Hobbit trilogy, and I’m sure Jackson, Walsh, and Boyens, know it. But as the dwarf Balin (Ken Stott) says, “Don’t underestimate the evil of gold.”

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January 8-14, 2015

The Art of the Con

Amy Adams as Margaret Keane in Big Eyes

Big Eyes looks into the story of one of history’s weirdest art scandals.

You’ve seen the work of Walter Keane: kitchsy paintings of doe-eyed children staring plaintively out from pastelcolored canvases. Your grandmother probably had one in her kitchen or rumpus room, while the print of Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy was in the formal living room. Keane sold millions of paintings, prints, postcards, and anything else that could hold an image in the ’50s and ’60s and counted Andy Warhol as an admirer. And he was a complete fraud.

Big Eyes is the story of Margaret Keane, Walter’s wife, played by Amy Adams. The film opens just as she has left her first husband and struck out to make her artistic fortune in San Francisco with her daughter Jane in tow.

40 She struggles as a single mother, making ends meet by painting babies and storks on cribs for a furniture maker,

until she meets Walter (Christoph Waltz) while the two are selling paintings to tourists in Golden Gate Park. She is immediately smitten with the worldly artist, who had attended art school in Paris, while she is so hopelessly naive that she asks her girlfriend DeAnn (Krysten Ritter) the difference between espresso and reefer. When Jane’s father sues for custody, Margaret hastily accepts Walter’s marriage proposals.

At first, things go great. Walter’s got a lucrative career in commercial real estate that allows Margaret to stay home with Jane and paint. After being spurned by a pretentious art gallery owner (Jason Schwartzman),

Walter hangs his and Margaret’s paintings in a rowdy jazz club, where they are soon noticed by the hep cats.

Margaret’s sometimes haunting portraits of children with unnaturally large eyes start selling better than Walter’s conventional French landscapes, and so one day when a buyer mistakes Margaret’s work for Walter’s, he doesn’t bother to correct her. From there, the deception grows.

Walter is a great self-promoter and natural entrepreneur, and he finds Margaret’s proto-anime girls easy to sell.

Since women can’t be taken seriously in 1956 America, and the money is rolling in, Margaret tacitly agrees to the deception. But lying to the world, and the fact that a man

film review is getting credit for her work, slowly eats away at her.

Tim Burton, who is usually seen twisting reality into new shapes, re-teams with screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who wrote Ed Wood, the 1993 biopic of the “worst director in history� that many consider to be the filmmaker’s best work. Like all of Burton’s work, Big Eyes is meticulously designed, but here it is in the service of transporting the viewer into the mind of a real person in the real 1950s. The colors are vibrant, reflecting the inner worlds of the people who inhabit the lovingly crafted midcentury modern houses. Adams, who was fantastic in last year’s American Hustle, inhabits Margaret fully. You can see it in her eyes when she agrees to go along with something she knows isn’t right, but she knows the other choices

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Big Eyes works because it gets the fundamentals of acting, directing, and screenwriting right. As in music, individual genius is great, but there’s just no substitute for a band with good chemistry.

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Sigh, sigh, SIGH. I remember writing on this page not so long ago that I usually handle another person’s death pretty stoically, knowing that it’s just a natural part of life and that it’s going to happen to us all

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Price, because I knew the world would never be the same without her. It was really an odd and painful feeling.

And now, a few weeks after the passing of Ardent Studios founder John Fry, it’s a testament to him that so many others around the world still can’t seem to accept the loss. So much has been written about John in the past few weeks and shared on social media, and so many beautiful memories and thoughts about him have been included in donations made to organizations in his memory. The themes are universal: John was kind, talented, humble, the voice of reason, and, more than anything, someone who was always giving to others, sharing his knowledge and time, and always giving others credit and encouragement. All of that couldn’t be truer.

I don’t know that I can add much more than what has already been expressed, except that John was a dear friend and a massive supporter of the Soulsville Foundation (where I work) and a member of our board of directors. For those who don’t know, the Soulsville Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Stax Music Academy, and the Soulsville Charter School. His past relationship with Stax Records is well documented, and John’s Ardent Studios was a sister studio of sorts to Stax back in its heyday, with many of the Stax artists recording at Ardent when the Stax studios were booked up, and for other reasons. And John loved the Stax Museum and loved bringing musicians, and producers, and others there to give them his unique tour.

Soulsville Foundation CEO Calvin Stovall said, “John served on our board of directors for many years and played an integral role in the Soulsville Foundation.

He was emphatically committed to everything Stax — the music, the kids, and the Memphis community. His presence and contributions to our organization will be sorely missed. A couple of weeks ago, I had the fortunate opportunity to have John himself give me a tour of Ardent Studios. It was truly one of the most memorable learning Huey Lewis with John Fry of Ardent Studios experiences I’ve ever had. I’ll never forget it.”

Stax Museum Director Lisa Allen added: “I can’t imagine that anyone else has given a personal tour of the museum more times than John Fry. He was passionate about sharing the history of our music and making sure that current musicians from around the world experienced Soulsville. John became more than a music icon and board member to me; he transformed into a friend. He understood both my professional and personal struggles. Often he would email me with simple words of encouragement that meant more to me than I could ever express.”

But as much as he loved the museum, John probably loved our young people more than anything. It didn’t matter if it was Huey Lewis, or other high-profile artists recording at Ardent, or an up-and-coming young band from Belgium he brought for a tour, he didn’t bring anyone into the museum until he explained what goes on with the young people at the Stax Music Academy and the Soulsville Charter School. He would proudly reel off details about the students’ rate of improvement in mathematics and explain how studying music helped them achieve that. And this started long before he joined our board of directors.

Another thing I loved about John was his very dry sense of humor and how hilariously cantankerous he could be at times.

One of his pet peeves was getting caught up in an email thread about something usually pretty mundane, like a meeting date and time, and everyone chiming in by replying to all in the thread, thereby leaving dozens of messages in his email inbox. Drove him nuts. I laughed out loud at my desk so many times when he finally couldn’t take it anymore and relayed his feeling about that to everyone. In one of the last such threads, which involved lots of people congratulating each other on something that had gone really well, he finally conceded and wrote, “Okay, if everyone is going to keep ‘replying all’ in this, then Bravo Zulu! If you know what that means you’re way cool. If not, search it on Google.”

Bravo Zulu is, of course, an old navy signal for “job well done.” Bravo Zulu, John. You’ll be missed.

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