Go Out! Fun events this week

Angela Davis is one of the "revolutionary" black activists featured in long-lost footage in "The Black Power Mixtape 1965-1975."

FRIDAY

Rockett remembered

A pair of memorial concerts remember late Memphian and local music fan Doug Rockett , who died in June from complications of diabetes. Tonight, Rockett's friend Mike Watt -- the legendary leader of the Minutemen and fIREHOSE, and latter-day member of The Stooges -- gathers with fellow musicians at the Buccaneer for a freewheeling concert event. On Saturday, Memphis rock eclectics Neighborhood Texture Jam make a rare appearance along with Trainwreck's Linda Heck at 9 p.m. at the Hi-Tone Café in memory of Rockett, with proceeds going to benefit the Church Health Center.

10 p.m. Buccaneer, 1368 Monroe. Call (901) 278-0909. The Hi-Tone is at 1913 Poplar; cover is $7. For more information, call (901) 278-8663.

Don Perry

Eclectic Memphis rockers Neighborhood Texture Jam make a rare appearance on Saturday at the Hi-Tone Café in one of a pair of memorial concerts for late local music fan Doug Rockett.

"Exile: Photographs by Alpha Newberry" at Joysmith Gallery follows the controversy in South Korea over the construction of a new naval base.

Good vibes

With the dawn of electricity came a revolutionary new medical device designed to help cure women of an ailment known as "hysteria." What was that invention? You'll have to check out Sarah Ruhl's critically acclaimed drama, "In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play," running through Feb. 5 at Circuit Playhouse. Dave Landis directs this show about a doctor who introduces his patients -- and his wife -- to the technological marvel.

8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 5 at Circuit Playhouse, 51 S. Cooper. All opening weekend tickets are $20. Call (901) 726-4656.

Trouble in S. Korea

A reception celebrates the opening of the exhibition "Exile: Photographs by Alpha Newberry" at Joysmith Gallery. The images detail major figures of civil disobedience in South Korea, where a national controversy has erupted over the construction of a naval base in a small farming and fishing village.

Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Newberry's work will be on view from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, 5:30-9 p.m. Jan. 20 and 27, and 3-7 p.m. Jan. 21 and 28. Joysmith Gallery, 46 Huling is in the South Main Arts District. Call (901) 543-0505.

Gales force

Memphis blues guitar ace Eric Gales and his band take the stage of Minglewood Hall's 1884 Lounge in an 18-and-over show that also features the Patrick Dodd Trio. Tickets are available at the door.

Show time is 9 p.m.; tickets are $10. 1884 Lounge at Minglewood Hall, 1555 Madison. For more information, go to or call (901) 312-6058.

SATURDAY

Second 'skin'

Memphis, you failed to keep "The Skin I Live In" -- the latest movie from acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar -- in town for more than a few days when it opened theatrically Nov. 18. Now, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art gives you another chance to see this horror-influenced sex-revenge-romance hybrid about a demented genius surgeon (Antonio Banderas) and his most beautiful patient (Elena Anaya).

2 p.m. Tickets: $8, or $6 for museum members. Visit brooksmuseum.org.

Keith solo

Memphis roots songsmith John Paul Keith plays a rare acoustic show, part of a songwriter's circle at Otherlands. Joining Keith will be his frequent collaborator Mark Stuart and Arkansas singer Jim Mize.

Cover is $5. Show time is 8 p.m. Otherlands, 641 S. Cooper. For more information, go to otherlandscoffeebar.com, or call (901) 278-4994.

Dream fest

In the lead-up to Monday's observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, CLE Management presents "I Have A Dream Fest" at Sky Grille. The event features more than 30 young hip-hop and R&B performers paying tribute to the legacy of Dr. King, including rappers Knowledge Nick and Jason Da Hater and neo-soul singer Tonya Dyson.

Doors open at 9 p.m. Sky Grille, 668 Union. Admission: $10 at the door. For more information, call (901) 736-0724, or e-mail clemanagement@yahoo.com.

King David

Country outlaw David Allan Coe comes to Downtown's New Daisy Theatre for a concert. The legendary singer-songwriter, whose songs have been covered by everyone from Tanya Tucker to Kid Rock, performs tunes off his latest release, 2010's DAC's Back, as well as classics like "Take This Job and Shove It" and "Would you Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)."

Doors open at 7 p.m. New Daisy, 330 Beale. Tickets are $20, and are available at the box office, at ticketweb.com or (866) 468-7630.

SUNDAY

You go, Girl

San Antonio rockers Girl in a Coma play the Hi-Tone Café. Led by sisters and Nina and Phanie Diaz, the group has made fans out of folks like Joan Jett (who signed the group to her Blackheart Records label) and Morrissey (who tapped the band as an opening act). The group released its fourth full-length album, Exits & All the Rest, last year. Local act The Rough Hearts open.

Doors open at 9 p.m.; cover is $8. Hi-Tone, 1913 Poplar. For more information, go to hitonememphis.com, or call (901) 278-8663.

THURSDAY

Black and proud

Shot by Swedish journalists, long-lost footage of Angela Davis (featured in a jailhouse interview), Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver and other "revolutionary" black activists has been rescued, restored and "mixed" into a new documentary, "The Black Power Mixtape 1965-1975." According to the Austin Chronicle, the film gives a "freshly human face to an American era too often depicted only in iconic terms."

7 p.m. Thursday, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Tickets: $8, or $6 for museum members. Visit brooksmuseum.org.

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