- Issue Archive for
- Mar 10-15, 2006
- Vol. 1, No. 889
News
Q&A: Russ Callison
Union representative for Northwest Airlines flight attendants
THOMAS GOES TO BALTIMORE SUN
Wendi, we hardly knew you! Say hello to those Maryland crabs. (And don't be crabby yourself!)
FRIST LEADS STRAW-VOTE POLL
Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney takes a surprise second place in SRLC vote; Allen, McCain are way back.
Dive Bar
Nothing says "Olympics" like a bar in Alaska.
Pushing On
State senator Rosalind Kurita challenges the odds and the opposition in her bid for a U.S. Senate seat.
Babes and Monsters
Locally produced online comic goes to print.
Killed by Silence
Tutoring component of NCLB fails to meet its mark.
We Recommend
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We Recommend
March 9-15, 2006
Music
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Exchange Program
Memphis will send bands south for the South By Southwest Music Festival and pick up some action along the way.
Politics
Touching Down
Chattanoogan Bob Corker is the latest Senate hopeful to make an "announcement" tour.
POLITICS: The GOP Does Its Thing
Party luminaries put their best foot forward at the weekend’s SRLC meeting in Memphis.
Ultimate Mistake
The price of incompetence is high -- and getting higher.
GADFLY: It's That Time Again
The circumstances are ripe either for another terrorist attack or for the removal of the cobwebs from the terrorist warning system.
Sports
FROM MY SEAT: A Championship Brunch
Last year at this time, Darius Washington's free throw couldn't find the net in the C-USA final; this year he got to cut that net in celebration.
Theater
Fred vs.Wilma
Chris Sullivan defends the Caveman coming to the Orpheum.
Film
How We Got Here
The sober Why We Fight traces 45 years of American militarism.
Opinion
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Letter from the Editor
Thanks to Three 6 Mafia's Oscar-winning song from the Memphis-made movie Hustle & Flow, the whole world now knows how hard it is out there for a pimp ...
Elvis, ETAs, and CKXElvis, ETAs, and CKX
Whither the Elvis impersonator in the overhaul of Graceland and Elvis marketing?
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The Rant
Thank goodness for Google. I thought maybe I had dreamed this, since my dreams are so vivid I can rarely separate them from reality. So I was going to beg that one of you out there tell me if this really happened, but then the good ol' Google news search engine found it for me. I was just waking up the other morning and glanced at the television and saw a cheerleader at a basketball game being taken off the court on a stretcher. read more
VIEWPOINT: Mayor Agonistes
Willie Herenton, a true believer in his own mission, keeps on keeping the faith.
CITY BEAT: God and Mammon
Reporters don’t “get it” but not in the way Ford and Herenton think.
VIEWPOINT: Mayor Agonistes
Willie Herenton, a true believer in his own mission, keeps on keeping the faith.
Stiff Punishment
An open letter to the state of Mississippi.
Food & Wine
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