Jerry Lawler gets a street, a free Monday at the Civil Rights Museum, and eighty-eight degrees

Hey Memphis 👋 It's Monday. Partly sunny and 88, with a fair chance of storms before one and again overnight — and after last week's run of 99s and a heat index flirting with 110, eighty-eight reads like an apology. Take an umbrella you may not need.

☀️ Today in Memphis

Every single thing on this list is free, which is not something we get to write most days.

Electronics and Electricity Seminar — Whitehaven Library, 4120 Mill Branch Rd., 10 AM–12 PM, free. Joseph Oliver and a rotating bench of skilled tradespeople run this one weekly, and it is genuinely hands-on: you work on the thing, you don't watch a slideshow about the thing. Teens welcome alongside the adults, no sign-up. Details

Gardening and Preserving — North Library, 1192 Vollintine Ave., 1:30–3 PM, free. A hands-on workshop on putting up fresh vegetables, which is the half of gardening nobody teaches you until everything ripens in the same week. Walk in. Details

Jamming Group — International Harvester Clubhouse, 4523 Canada Rd., Lakeland, 2–4 PM, free. All acoustic, instruments and voices, every Monday afternoon out in Lakeland. It's not a concert and nobody's on a stage — it's a room of people playing, and you can be one of them. Details

Free Period Mondays — National Civil Rights Museum, 450 Mulberry St., 3–6 PM, free for Tennessee residents with a state ID. One ID covers an adult and up to five kids, every Monday from three until the doors close at six. If you have lived here twenty years and somehow still never gone, this is the afternoon. Details

Board Games, Bad Movies & Beer Bust — Hi Tone, 412 N. Cleveland St., small room downstairs, 6 PM, free. A rock club that hands its Mondays over to board games and deliberately bad movies, at no cover. Downstairs is 21-and-up every night of the week. Details

👶 With the kids

PreK Readiness — Bartlett Library, 5884 Stage Rd., 10:30–11:30 AM, free. An hour of getting-ready-for-school play on a suburb library calendar that almost nobody outside Bartlett ever reads. Details

Marble Run! — Randolph Library, 3752 Given Ave., 4–5 PM, free, ages 5 to 12. Kids team up and build a working marble run out of LEGO and cardboard, and the best part of the whole arrangement is that the mess stays at the library. Details

Bead Beginnings — Germantown Community Library, 1925 Exeter Rd., 5–6 PM, free, ages 3 to 5. Open-ended beading with a grown-up, and it opens a full week the library has handed over to beads — a different bead program every day through Friday. Registration is required, so call ahead at (901) 757-7323. Details

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📰 The Rundown

A stretch of Homer Street is now Jerry Lawler Street. Hundreds turned out Thursday afternoon in front of Treadwell Middle School — the walk Lawler made every day as a student back when it was Treadwell High — and Mayor Paul Young spoke. The King's own advice to the crowd: "If you have your mind set on something, stay strapped down and go until you win it all." The Council passed the resolution back in June. (via FOX13 Memphis)

The corner of Castalia and Lamar got a new name Saturday too, and this one has been fifty years in the making. Carolyn Goodwin Willett has led the Magnolia-Castalia Community Association for decades, co-founded the Kiddie Kollege Childcare Center with her mother Florine Hinds in 1994, and was one of the 109 students arrested in the 1969 sit-in at Memphis State. Council Chairwoman Swearengen-Washington called it "a permanent and visible testament to a legacy built not in moments, but over a lifetime of faithful service." (via Action News 5)

The University of Memphis cuts the ribbon tomorrow on Victory Park, a four-floor, 500-bed apartment-style hall on the Park Avenue Campus, out by the softball complex and the new soccer stadium. It's aimed at upperclassmen, nursing students and athletes, and it went up through a partnership with a national student-housing developer. (via Action News 5) · The hall

🍽️ Food & Drink

A dentist is building a piano bar on Poplar, and he named it after his mother. Patsy Ruth's Piano Bar and Cabaret is going into 4,500 square feet at 2855 Poplar — 150 seats, a real stage, a dressing room, small plates and a full bar. Stuart Williams is planning an Emerging Artist series, an Alternative Comedy series and a Jazz and Blues series, and his pitch is exactly as broad as it sounds: "Whether it's the music of Frank Sinatra, Disney, Broadway, Jazz…we will showcase an upscale venue that has something for everyone." He's aiming at November. (via WhatNow Memphis)

🎟️ Looking Ahead

"Weird Al" Yankovic is coming to Southaven — the Bigger & Weirder tour lands at the Landers Center Saturday, September 26 at 8 PM. Tickets through Ticketmaster; the venue doesn't publish a price on its own page. Details

Orchestra Noir brings the 2000s back to the Orpheum — Friday, September 25. It's an all-Black orchestra playing hip-hop and R&B from the era, which is a very different night out than the words "orchestra" and "Orpheum" usually add up to. Details

And mark the Mid-South Fair — October 1 through 11 at the Landers Center. Not to be confused with the Delta Fair, which runs a month earlier at the Agricenter. Yes, we get two. Details

🏡 Community Corner

Two Memphis streets got new names in the space of three days. One for a wrestler, one for a woman who spent fifty years holding a neighborhood together. So: whose name would you put on a street sign? Hit reply and tell us who, and where — we'll run the best of them.

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

— Josh