• Issue Archive for
  • Feb 15-21, 2001
  • Vol. 1, No. 626

News

  • Q & A WITH WILLIAM B. DUNAVANT

    On the eve of the Kroger St. Jude tennis tournament at the Racquet Club, the man who started it all looks back.
  • THOMPSON'S PULLOUT: THE AFTERMATH

    On Friday, Day Two of the Great Thompson bombshell, rumors were beginning to race about, the thrust of them being that two current residents of the Potomac shores-- gentlemen named George W. Bush and Bill Frist-- played a large part in dissuading Tennessee's senior senator from trying to take up residence on the shores of the Cumberland, as governor.
  • BEHIND THE SHRINKING APPEAL

    Noticeably absent Sunday in a Commercial Appeal story about the daily decreasing the size of its pages was a disclosure about the potential millions of dollars in paper costs the newspaper stands to save after the switch.
  • TWELVE YEARS ON

    Your favorite alternative newspaper celebrates a birthday this week.
  • RAP PROTEST HITS NARAS

    A Germantown woman prominent in Republican affairs, Cherrie Holden, has decided to publicly resign from the 32-member Board of Governors of the local chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
  • Jock Talk

    Competition heats up in the world of sports talk radio. By Dennis Freeland.
  • NO GOVERNOR'S RACE FOR THOMPSON

    In an announcement Thursday that was a shocker, not so much because of what it said, but when it was said-- suddenly and without advance notice-- U.S. Senator Fred Thompson took himself out of the 2002 governor's race.
  • CITY REPORTER

    Another week, another county lawsuit, and other news.
  • FLYER SCOOP: BUSH TO VISIT TN NEXT WEEK

    The Memphis Flyer has learned that President George W. Bush will be visiting Tennessee next week as part of the campaign to lobby the Congress-- and the nation-- for his education plan.

    The president will visit Townsend Elementary School in Blount County next Wednesday and, sources say, will be making a major new policy statement on education.

We Recommend

Politics

  • Big Fred's Decision

    Jackson Baker on Senator Fred Thompson's plans for 2002.

Sports

  • Q & A: XFL PRESIDENT BASIL V. DeVITO

    An exclusive interview with XFL president Basil V. DeVito Jr., who was in Memphis to watch the Maniax play the San Francisco Demons Saturday night at the Liberty Bowl.
  • REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK

    Some quotes and observations about sports talk radio that didn't make it into this week's cover story.
  • BEARCATS WIN THRILLER

    Kenny Satterfield hit a basket in the last second of the game leding the Cincinnati Bearcats to a 66-65 victory over the University of Memphis Thursday night in The Pyramid.

Film

  • AN ARTIST'S LIFE

    Julian Schnabel s Before Night Falls is a biopic of a marginalized artist.

Opinion

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