One more art opening this evening: at Otherlands Coffee Bar, for
paintings and drawings by Rick Ivy. If you want to have a big time and enjoy
the best view of the Mississippi River in Memphis and help out a worthy cause,
head down to the National Ornamental Metal Museum tonight for the
Thirteenth Blues on the Bluff, a fund-raiser for WEVL-FM 90, featuring
catfish, barbecue, other eats and drinks, and live music by the Reba Russell
Band, Robert Wolfman Belfour, and Joyce Cobb & Cool Heat. Tonight s Funk
Allstars Concert at the Mid-South Coliseum features SOS Band and Con Funk
Shun, Lakeside, and Stax legends the Bar-Kays. At Black Lodge Video on Cooper
tonight, there s a Joe Christ Retrospective, where the underground
filmmaker will screen some of his works, including Acid Is Groovy Kill the
Pigs and Speed Freaks with Guns. And today and tomorrow will find
T.J. Mulligan s in Cordova transformed into a beach for the 3rd Annual
Beach Reach for UCP, a fund-raiser for United Cerebral Palsy of the Mid-
South. Seven truckloads of sand and a swimming pool will be hauled to the
parking lot, where there will be a volleyball tournament, live auction, a men
s and women s bikini contest, survivor games, and live music by Dust for Life,
Rubber Soul, Chaser, Cherry Bomb, and the 5 that Framed O.J.
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