Election Day in Memphis: where to vote, a free choir night, and a rainy-evening plan

Hey Memphis 👋 It's Tuesday, and it's Election Day. Cloudy, windy and warm, up to 77, and it stays dry until mid-afternoon. Storms roll in around 3 or 4, peak this evening and could drop 1 to 2 inches tonight. Vote before the afternoon if you can, and keep tonight's plans indoors. Everything below has a roof.

University of Memphis University Singers — Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center, 3800 Central Ave., 7 PM, free. U of M's flagship choir sings an evening concert. Claim a free ticket at checkout, and you're in out of the rain. Details

Club de lectura: Monstrilio — Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Farnsworth Education Building, 4339 Park Ave., 6–7 PM, free. The Dixon's Spanish-language book club meets on Gerardo Sámano Córdova's novel. It's the first Tuesday of every month, and the museum lends copies. Details

The Mystic — The Green Room at Crosstown Arts, 1350 Concourse Ave., 6–7 PM, free. A first-Tuesday hour of music, story and silence, built around different beliefs sharing one room. Details

Crosstown Arts fall exhibitions — The Galleries at Crosstown Arts, Concourse Suite 280, 11 AM–8 PM, free. Corinne Jones' Fugitive Signals and a Carl Moore retrospective, open till 8 on weeknights. Pair them with The Mystic and dinner on the Concourse. Details

Science Café: house finches and wildlife disease — Abe Goodman Golf Clubhouse, Overton Park, 5:30–6:30 PM, $5. A U of M biologist on how a poultry bacterium jumped to house finches, and what 30 years of tracking it taught scientists. Details

Jazz Age Art Night — Germantown Community Library, 6:30–7:30 PM, free. Local students show their Roaring Twenties artwork, made for the town's Big Read on The Great Gatsby. Drop in, no sign-up. Details

Trivia at Newby's — Newby's, 539 S. Highland St., 7–9 PM, free. Free weekly team trivia on Highland, if you'd rather spend the evening answering questions than refreshing results. Details

👶 With the kids

Tennessee Tuesdays — Memphis Zoo, opens 9 AM, free for Tennessee residents, reserve ahead. Free zoo admission every Tuesday, up to six people per reservation. Go this morning, before the rain. Details

Long Live the King! Chess Club — Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 3030 Poplar Ave., 6–7:30 PM, free, all ages. Free chess lessons in the library lobby. Beginners learn, and the regulars play. Details

Polls are open 7 AM to 7 PM today, and you vote at your own assigned precinct, not an early-voting site. The Election Commission's lookup has your polling place and your districts. Bring a photo ID: a Tennessee driver license or U.S. passport works even if it's expired, but college IDs and out-of-state licenses don't. (via Shelby County Election Commission)

What's on the ballot: everyone in Shelby County votes for Governor and U.S. Senate. Depending on your address, you'll also see U.S. House, state Senate and state House races, plus three state constitutional amendments. Memphis voters get three City Charter questions, and Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown, Lakeland and Millington have city races. The official sample ballot shows the whole thing. (via Shelby County Election Commission)

Driving downtown? Union Avenue is down to fewer lanes near 480 Union while MLGW fixes a water leak. The center turn lane and the left lanes both ways closed Oct. 29, and the repair is expected to take about a week. (via MLGW)

$5 Pint Night at Wiseacre HQ — Wiseacre's downtown HQ taproom, 4–9 PM. Select pints are $5 tonight, a good place to wait out the storm after you vote. Details

Meddlesome Meandering 0.5K — Meddlesome Brewing, Cordova, Saturday, Nov. 7, 4 PM. Today's the last day to sign up at $30; it's $40 after that. Four food vendors, two post-"race" beers and a best-costume prize, for the Memphis Blues Society. Details

Indie Memphis Film Festival — Halloran Centre and Malco Powerhouse, Thursday, Nov. 5, through Sunday, Nov. 8, films $15, opening and closing nights $20, passes $140. The 28th festival opens Thursday with The Lorraine at 6:30 at the Halloran, and passholders head to Old Dominick for the party after. Details

Stray Cats — the Orpheum, Sunday, Nov. 15, 7:30 PM, $41.35–$162.75. On sale now. Details

A rainy-night question: where do you go when Memphis weather turns? Your go-to indoor spot, a bar with a good window or a place the kids can burn off energy. Reply, and the best ones run in a rainy-day roundup.

The tip line never closes — a pop-up, a band, a Tuesday-night find we missed. No gatekeeping — send it to hey@heymemphis.co.

That's it for today — see you tomorrow at 6.

— Josh