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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Mel's Edge

Posted on Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:23 PM

In Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson gets to act the emotions he's drawn to again and again, from Mad Max down to Signs: rage, grief, existential haunt. And, as before, his movie's plot advocates a violent cleansing, a ritual purification bathed in blood. Ain't that America?

Read the rest of the review here.

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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Tigers Lose to Gonzaga, 66-58

Posted on Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:23 PM

The Tigers had a chance to pull the upset today, and played with the energy you’d expect from a team that smells a surprise for their home crowd and a national-television audience.

Read more at Tiger Blue.

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Her Man's In...

Posted by Flyer Staff on Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:01 PM

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A supporter of Willie Herenton for Congress sports a T-shirt indicating that a congressional race is on for real in the 9th District. See Jackson Baker's take on the ex-mayor's kick-off event in Political Beat.

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Forget Tea. This Is the Barbecue Conference

Posted on Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM

There is no perfect barbecue," said Mike Mills, three-time champ of the Memphis in May Barbecue Cooking Contest.

Hungry Memphis checks out the final day of the National Barbecue Association Conference and Trade Show.

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Friday, February 5, 2010

The Easy Way? Not on Cleveland

Posted on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:48 PM

It was a bummer when I stopped at Easy Way on Cleveland this afternoon and saw the empty parking lot, the empty shelves, and the sign that said the grocery store and produce market was permanently closed and the suggestion to visit one of their other stores in Memphis.

Read more at John Branston's City Beat blog.

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Former Animal Shelter Director Indicted

Posted on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM

At a candlelight vigil in November, animal advocates who were gathered outside Memphis Animal Services on Tchulahoma Road chanted “Fire Alexander! Put him in jail!”
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Those advocates may be getting their wish now. That is, if the authorities can locate former Memphis Animal Services director Ernie Alexander. District Attorney Bill Gibbons announced the former director’s indictment for animal cruelty charges this morning, but authorities believe he may be on the run. The Shelby County Sheriff’s office is asking for the public’s help in locating Alexander.

Two other shelter employees — former shelter supervisor Tina Quattlebaum and vet Angela Middleton — were also indicted on aggravated animal cruelty charges. Both turned themselves in to police on Thursday and were released on bond.

Alexander, who was hired in March 2008 to fill the long-vacant director position, was let go after an investigation in November found inadequate administrative oversight, a lack of documentation on paperwork, and missing paperwork.

That investigation also found dogs starving to death, as well as dogs diagnosed with rabies placed in cages with healthy dogs.

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The Greatest Investment of 2009

Posted on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:29 AM

Haven't you heard? Newspapers are dying. But had you invested in their parent companies last year, you would have tripled your money.

More media odds and ends at John Branston's City Beat blog.

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Jersey Boys Rendezvous

Posted on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:01 AM

The "Jersey Boys" munch on barbecue while talking about music, their fans, and life on the road in "the Cadillac" of tours.

Chris Davis caught it all on video. See it yourself at Intermission Impossible.

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Considering Consolidation

Posted on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:54 AM

Mary Cashiola gives six reasons to consolidate the city and county governments at In the Bluff.

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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Rebecca Skloot: She's Everywhere

Posted on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:04 PM

The New Times, NPR ... Rebecca Skloot, assistant professor in the creative writing department at the University of Memphis, is getting a lot of press for her newly released book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Leonard Gill has the details in &tcetera.

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Time for "Summer Hours"

Posted on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:47 AM

Tonight's screening of Summer Hours at the Brooks is deliciously (and possibly deliberately) ironic — for in spite of its solid, low-key ensemble cast, the most affecting stretches of this film concern the fates and futures not of people but of displaced works of art.

Read the rest of the review here.

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Tigers Top UAB, 85-75

Posted on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:31 AM

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You Mean There's a Fogy Side to the Gadfly??!!

Posted by Flyer Staff on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:29 AM

That's "fogy," not "foggy," although... Anyhow, you can judge for yourself.

A sample: "As I watched the Grammy Awards the other night...I was, once again, struck by how vastly superior my generation's music was to what passes for music these days...."

Uh oh. Go here (Politics Beat Blog) to read the rest.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

We're on Fire!

Posted on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:17 PM

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A reader forwarded this screen capture of the weather section of The Commercial Appeal from earlier today.

The forecast calls for warmer temps: 9,999 degrees, to be exact ... or almost the surface temperature of the sun.

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Blind Sided

Posted on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:05 AM

At Sing All Kinds, the Best Picture Oscar nominees and a reassessment of The Blind Side.

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