BOOBS

BOOBS

• by Chris Davis

Wealth Index

By one unofficial index, the Memphis economy is thriving.

• by John Branston

Leaving Alaska

Cultures clash as a fishing season ends.

• by Paul Gerald

City Reporter

Rodent-control program points to larger funding issue, and other news.

• by Flyer Staff

FROM MY SEAT

NEW BEGINNING...OR ENDING? I'm not as good as John Calipari at whistling through the graveyard. Maybe it's the worry wart in me, perhaps the skeptical (cynical?) journalist. But at the dawn of the 2003-04 University of Memphis basketball season, I can't help but tremble at the thought of what our Tigers' Conference USA may look like a few short years from now. Louisville, Cincinnati, Marquette, DePaul, and South Florida are going to the Big East, while Tulsa, Rice, SMU, Marshall, and Central Florida will join C-USA. By every measure imaginable, Memphis winds up on the losing end of this exchange. (A quick litmus test for measuring the impact of a college athletic program: name the cities that are home to Marshall and Central Florida.) You're looking at a conference schedule where the highlights would be . . . Southern Miss and Saint Louis. (Or maybe not. The Billikens have been invited to join the Atlantic 10, along with Charlotte.)

• by Frank Murtaugh

"Tennstud" & "Bama Booster"

A story of football, money, justice, and revenge.

• by John Branston

Behind Closed Doors

A new book offers the scoop on sex in the South.

• by Bianca Phillips

JAMIESON, ONLY GOP HOPEFUL, OUT OF RACE FOR 89

Apparently, the old phrase "tantamount to election"-- which in antique times applied to all local Democratic primary contests-- can be taken out of mothballs and applied to the forthcoming special election to succeed Carol Chumney in District 89 of the state House of Representatives.

• by Jackson Baker

GRIZZLIES STOP LAKERS, 105-95

The Memphis Grizzlies snapped their three-game losing streak by taking advantage of some sloppy L.A. Laker play and by playing a well-rounded game themselves. And, yes, Kobe got booed. He also got cheered.

• by Cheri DelBrocco

OF MICE AND MEN

OF MICE AND MEN

• by Chris Davis

CITY BEAT

WEALTH INDEX From all the publicity about the loss of manufacturing jobs, layoffs, dire government budget deficits, and the need for tax incentives and other forms of corporate welfare, you might think former executives are out on the street selling apples.

• by John Branston

MAD AS HELL

COLOR OF CHOICE I am blue. According to the ubiquitous map of Election 2000, I am a blue voter living in the land of red. Not just basic red--- Crimson red. Blood red. Southern red. To put it mildly, things politically are looking dismal for Democrats living below the Mason-Dixon. Democratic Southern discomfort is at an all time high. But is it?

• by Cheri DelBrocco

Doctor My Eyes

When good eyelids go bad.

• by Walter Jowers

HOW IT LOOKS

• by Bruce Plante

HOW IT LOOKS

IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN: A READER RESPONDS

"...Fundamentally, the entire premise if flawed. In his article, Mr. Weathers contends that the same scenarios and circumstances that doomed the Soviets in Afghanistan will doom the United States in Iraq. The fundamental problem with his argument is that if that is true, why didn't it work out that way when the United States invaded Afghanistan?..."

• by Cheri DelBrocco

Short Cuts

Room on Fire?: The Strokes' flame extinguished.

CHUMNEY HAS THE CROWD TO HERSELF

Maybe George Flinn was better off staying away from Saturday's Dutch Treat Luncheon to concentrate, as he said, on the last day of early voting in his city council runoff contest with Carol Chumney. And maybe, if he'd been at the luncheon, Flinn could have provided some obstacle to Chumney's bonding with the attendees-- the kind of political conservatives who would normally be counted in the Republican physician/businessman's camp. On point Number Two, we'll never know. On point Number One, we'll presumably find out next Thursday, when voters in the city's 5th District will decide the issue between Flinn and State Representative Chumney. WITH RESPONSE FROM SHELBY COUNTY GOP CHAIRMAN KEMP CONRAD

• by Jackson Baker

Poles Apart

Two presidents came, saw, and conquered -- but with different audiences.

• by Jackson Baker

GRIZ HEAR SOUR NOTE FROM JAZZ

SALT LAKE CITY -- Andrei Kirilenko scored 25 points Saturday night as the Utah Jazz remained unbeaten at home with a 96-89 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies.

• by Cheri DelBrocco

The Numbers Game

Will they all add up, finally, for Univerisity of Memphis football?

• by Kenneth Neill

Good Times, Bad Times

Our Own Voice responds to war; Lend Me a Tenor is strangely flat.

• by Chris Davis

Be Afraid

The return of Alien.

• by Bo List

Wrong Quagmire

It's not Vietnam that we should remember when we look at Iraq.

• by Ed Weathers

Lessons of the Weekend

Lessons of the Weekend

• by Editorial

Postscript

Flyer readers respond.

• by Flyer Readers

The Wright Stuff

Mr. Kaufmann builds his dream house.

• by Leonard Gill