THE KING IS DEAD (AGAIN)

THE KING IS DEAD (AGAIN)

• by Chris Davis

Down Here

In the crawl spaces and up in the attics -- the trouble with Southern construction.

• by Walter Jowers

A SMART START

Since getting a $650,000 grant from Le Bonheur Health Services, Inc., the Early Childhood Collaborative Alliance (ECCA) is on its way to attacking the root causes that affect the well being of young children.

• by Chris Przybyszewski

TURN TO THE LEFT

TURN TO THE LEFT

• by Chris Davis

A HAPPY ENDING

Morgan learned that Erica had been dating an older man and might be staying with him and several other adults in a Tipton County home. Morgan reported Erica to the police department for vagrancy and told officers that she might be staying in the Tipton County home. Police were dispatched to the home several times but were unable to find Erica.

• by Chris Przybyszewski

BEAUTY TIPS

BEAUTY TIPS

• by Chris Davis

FROM MY SEAT

MOODY BLUES (AND GRAYS) The 2002-03 Tiger basketball team is going to be hard to recognize and a longshot, at best, for the NCAA tournament...[A]s the roster continues to take on the personality of its helmsman, continues to become the team John Calipari wants to coach and likes to coach, another question is dangling out there. Is it a team Tiger fans will want to watch?

• by Frank Murtaugh

TRANSLATION: MEMPHIS

SPARE CHANGE or THE ART OF THE SCROUNGE Amidst a plethora of panhandlers, men and women who followed me through my daily routine regularly, I admit that I may have become somewhat hardened. It's kind of hard not to be, unless you're the genetic hybrid of a human and an ATM.

• by Jenn Hall

City Reporter

Proposal could change Shelby Farms into Shelby Park, plus other news.

• by Flyer Staff

CITY BEAT: Stranger than Fiction

STRANGER THAN FICTION What we have so far is a heavyweight championship fight (not recognized by some boxing associations) being held in Memphis after being turned down by Las Vegas and New York, pre-staged at two Tunica casinos, promoted by novices from Nashville, and financed by, among others, a Dyersburg businessman convicted of bank fraud 15 years ago. All that plus Mike Tyson, who is so unpredictable that there is talk of holding separate weigh-ins for the fighters lest there be another brawl.

• by John Branston

HOW IT LOOKS

• by Bruce Plante

MEAT THE COACH

MEAT THE COACH

• by Chris Davis

Gimme Shelter

Two women bring the fight against pet overpopulation to Shelby Farms.

• by Mary Cashiola

Stranger Than Fiction

The Tyson/Lewis fight gets curiouser and curiouser.

• by John Branston

JERRY WEST MEETS MEMPHIS

Damn, it really is Jerry West. In The Peabody. In Memphis. What next? Mark McGwire to the Redbirds for a comeback? Gordie Howe to coach the River Kings?

• by Chris Przybyszewski

POLITICS: Shameless Meddling

Shameless Meddling: Both 4th District congressman Van Hilleary, the presumed Republican front-runner for governor , and ex-Nashville mayor Phil Bredesen, regarded as a prohibitive favorite among the Democrats, have done their best -which is to say, their worst- to prevent the Tennessee legislature from dealing with a state fiscal crisis that is on the edge of disaster.

• by Jackson Baker

Happy Earth Day

The gathering brings together environmental and New Age activists of every stripe.

• by Andrew Wilkins

OTHER PEOPLE'S PROBLEMS: Night Moves

NIGHT MOVES I have a strong suspicion that if you were going to cheat on your wife, you wouldn't have to ask me. You'd just do it and hope there wasn't any evidence (certainly not a letter asking for adultery advice) to bust you. So maybe you're looking for me to talk you out of it. I'm not sure I can do that, but I'll try my best.

• by Mary Cashiola

Short Cuts

Medeski, Martin & Wood map out the new urban jazz.

The Air War

Being "fustest with the mostest" may involve lavish use of the broadcast media.

• by Jackson Baker

'RISE ABOVE IT,' BREDESEN SAYS OF 'REPEAL' REMARK

Acknowledging after a talk to supporters at Beale Street's Rum Boogie Cafe that some resentment might exist on the part of House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh and other legislative proponents of an income-tax solution, Bredesen (shown getting Ben Hooks' endorsement here two weeks ago) said, "They should just rise above it. They're 132 strong, and I'm just one of 17-- Van Hilleary and I are just two of 17-- candidates for governor. It should just make them more determined to try harder. They should know that candidates are going to say what they're going to say, and thats all there is to it."

• by Jackson Baker

Bluff City?

Does the Grizzlies' brain trust know what it's doing?

• by Chris Przybyszewski

MEMPHIS SPORTS SCENE

ALL SORTS OF STUFF E.G.:...So the Commercial Appeal says that NBA legend Jerry West will be a Griz next year, and ESPN.com says (as did Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley at the ROY press conference) that the deal is not nearly done. Here's to hoping that the CA's potential jumping the gun won't spook West, a known advocate of secrecy on deals not yet finished....

• by Chris Przybyszewski

The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being

Circuit unleashes a powerful indictment of racism with Spinning Into Butter.

• by Chris Davis

Bondage

Friends to the end in Last Orders and Murder By Numbers.