- Issue Archive for
- Oct 19-25, 2006
- Vol. 1, No. 921
News
Pumpkin Carving Safety Tips
Just in time for Halloween, local orthopedic center, the Campbell Clinic passes along some tips from the American Society for Surgery of the Hand on how to carve a pumpkin safely.
To read those tips, click on the headline.
To learn how to carve a pumpkin that looks like Elvis, go to Spookmaster.com.The Flyer's Fall Fashion Spectacular
You don't have to be a rock star to party (or dress) like one.
First Peek of Libertyland Doc
Tonight at 9 p.m., on the last evening of the Indie Memphis Film Fest, Mike McCarthy will screen Memphicentric, a mix of the local filmmaker's old and new work. Among the offering is a sneak preview of Destroy Memphis, the documentary about the effort by grassroots group Save Libertyland! to keep the amusement park open. The screening is at Muvico.
A closing night party for the film fest follows at 11:30 p.m. at Earnestine & Hazel's.
Time For A Tennessee Quake?
Okay, we’ve got good news and we’ve got bad news when it comes to the impending Tennessee earthquake. The good news is that one quake doesn’t beget another, so says Monday’s New York Times. The 6.4 quake off Peru wasn’t because of the 6.8 quake in Papua New Guinea or the 6.7 quake in Hawaii last week.
The bad news ...
Runway Debut of Timberlake's Fashion Line
"Timberlake's duds are disco-ready," according to an AP report about a fashion show for William Rast, a line of clothing Timberlake and a friend created about a year ago.
The show, the runway debut of William Rast, was held in a Hollywood nightclub...
Northwest Eyes China Route
Northwest, Continental, United, and American airlines all want to go to China.
The four airline carriers have been asking customers to ...
Where Fairway Meets Freeway
"Taj Mahal" complete; Riverside Golf course set to reopen in November.
Gest/Minnelli Reality Show on YouTube
Not long before the David Gest and Liza Minnelli marriage crumbled, they were working on a reality series for VH1.
The show never made it to air, but you can now watch the pilot on YouTube.
Infamous Memphis Censor Built Lincoln American Tower
With all the news about the Lincoln American Tower — one of four downtown buildings heavily damaged or destroyed in last week’s downtown blaze — so far nobody has mentioned the building’s most famous — some would say infamous — tenant.
Lloyd T. Binford, president of the Memphis branch of the Columbia Mutual (later Lincoln American) Insurance Company, had the gleaming white tower built in 1925 overlooking Court Square. But insurance was just his day job...
Gold Rush at Graceland
Survivor creator Mark Burnett's latest venture is an online pop-culture-trivia gameshow called Gold Rush, in which contestants vie for more than $1 million in prizes.
Today's Gold Rush episode was filmed at Graceland, and ...
Freedom, Sedarises
It was an interesting Tuesday evening at the Cannon Center. In one part, Stevie Wonder received the National Civil Rights Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Freedom Awards ceremony. In another, humorist David Sedaris read several of his essays and talked about possibly moving to Japan to quit smoking. Or try to, for the first time in his life.
And, yes, we know that’s a picture of Amy Sedaris, David's sister. David declined to tell any “Amy stories” — saying now that she was known it felt like gossip — so to the audience member who asked, we hope this offers some solace. Oh, and she has a new book out, so you can read about her yourself.
Bill Cosby at the Orpheum
Bill Cosby raises funds for the historically black liberal arts college Dillard University, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, with a show Saturday, October 21st, at the Orpheum Theater.
Herenton Calls for Payroll Tax or Alternatives
Mayor Willie Herenton challenged Memphis business leaders Monday to either support a payroll tax or come up with some other way to raise money for more police officers. ...
Q&A: Buddy Chapman
Former Memphis Police Director
Volunteer Memphis and Hands On Memphis Merge
Volunteer Memphis is a group that matches people to volunteer projects. Hands on Memphis is another group that matches people to volunteer projects. Yesterday, it was announced the two groups will merge.
Ken Hall, former excutive director of Hands on Memphis, said the merger will help the nonprofits that both groups serve.
The new group will probably not be called Hands on Memphis Volunteers. A name will be announced in the future.
Feds Bust 10 in Memphis Prostitution Ring
While Memphis was making headlines as the nation’s second most-violent city, 150 law enforcement officers from local and federal agencies were shutting down six Memphis brothels that brought in prostitutes from New York, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Mexico. ...
Juvenile Pall
Youth violence is on the rise in Shelby County.
Redding Where?
A town that pulls out all the stops doesn't have to.
Ken Jennings' Take on Memphis
Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings was in Memphis last weekend for the Southern Festival of Books. Judging from his blog entries — which refer to Elvis glasses, coleslaw, and a sexy elevator — it sounds like he had a good time.
We Recommend
Music
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Approaching the Unapproachable
Memphis cult figure Tav Falco takes a break from self-imposed exile for a rare local performance.
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The Most Surreal Justin Video EVER!
Even more so than the one for Cry Me a River. Seriously. In this, a 21-second clip from a British comedy show, Bo! in the USA, Justin gets slapped in the face with lunchmeat. And seems to enjoy it. Or at least not hate it.
View the meat-slapping after the jump.
Everyone's Playing
Esque (self-released)
Literacy is Sexy
Brooklyn U.K. (Smith Seven)
Politics
Study Shows Increase in TN Same-Sex Couples
The Williams Institute, based out of the UCLA law school, recently released the results of its study of gay, lesbian, and bisexual demographics between 2000 and 2005. One result: a 30 percent increase in the number of same-sex couples across the country. Researchers don’t see this as a huge jump in the GLB population, thinking, instead, that the increase may be due to same-sex couples feeling more comfortable about revealing their sexuality than ever before.
Corker vs. Ford: Who Won the Battle of Wilson Air?
By now, everybody knows about the heated encounter between U.S. Senate candidates Harold Ford Jr. and Bob Corker Friday on the parking lot at Wilson Air Services at the Memphis airport. There are even those who think that, as an impromptu add-on to the three formal debates between the two, the Airport Ambush affair may turn out to be the decisive encounter. We ask: Who did win the Battle of Wilson Air? And we provide some provisional answers..
Much Ado
Sometimes, regrettably, the back-story's the story; so it is with 9th District candidate Jake Ford.
Jake Ford vs. "Girl on Girl" Action. Your Call.
Wonkette.com, the occasionally funny, mostly outrageous national political Web site, has a take on which Tennessee Senatorial candidate has the "most embarrassing family member."
POLITICS: Et YouTube, Brute?
The neck-and-neck Ford-Corker race goes head-to-head, in more ways than one.
Joe Ford Jr. Responds to Threats From Jake Ford Campaign
In political circles, much talk has been has been devoted to the perplexing question of when the other major candidate named Ford would repudiate the increasingly bizarre bully-boy tactics of the Jake Ford congressional campaign. Well, finally, he has. Whoops....This denunciation comes from the former major candidate named Joe — as in Joe Ford Jr., who finished third this year in the 9th District congressional primary won by Democratic Party nominee Steve Cohen and then promptly endorsed Cohen.
VIEWPOINT: Color and Politics
Memphis' black mayor looks at the U.S. Senate race through tinted glasses.
Herenton: Ford Gets a Pass on Race
Even as the national media are conferring Noble Victim status on Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. for alleged race-based innuendoes in an RNC-sponsored TV commercial which GOP opponent Bob Corker has repudiated, Memphis mayor Willie Herenton sees Ford as getting a full pass on the racial front because of his light skin. “He can go places and do things that I can’t,” says the mayor. As for Herenton himself, who faces reelection next year, “I’m just too dark.” For other ruminations on race and the races, including a reminder of the testy relationship between Memphis’ best-known African-American office-holders, go to “Political Beat”.
Sports
Tigers Crack Top 100
Sports Illustrated doesn’t stop at 25 in their weekly Power Rankings. On this week’s chart, the University of Memphis sits precisely at 100, with their eye of the Tiger firmly on the Bulldogs of Mississippi State (98). A short winning streak might allow the U of M to catch C-USA rival Rice and break into the Top 90. Keep your fingers crossed, and check out the complete rankings at the Sports Illustrated site.
SI on Memphis Basketball
Sports Illustrated has released its forecast for the 2006-07 NBA season, and Memphis fans beware. Prospects for the Grizzlies earning their first Southwest Division title look rather grim. Read about it here.
More about Memphis hoops comes from SI.com’s Seth Davis, who was in town last week to file a report on the University of Memphis basketball team’s prospects for the 2006-07 season. He covered everything from ....
Theater
Pound of Flesh
Playwrights' Forum takes on Ezra Pound.
Fashion
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America's Next Top Model
A Jackson, Tennessee, native is conquering the runway.
Film
Photo Finish
Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima epic shows how a famous photograph kept the war effort going.
Indie Memphis Film Festival Daily Pick: Wednesday
The Indie Memphis Film Festival continues today at Muvico’s Peabody Place theatre, and the best bet might be Reel Man, a documentary about industrial and educational film archivist Skip Eisheimer, which screens at 8:30 p.m., with an appearance and demonstration by Eisheimer. To learn more about Eisheimer’s organization, A/V Geeks, see their Web site. For more information on the Indie Memphis Film Festival, see the festival Web site.
To read what one Flyer critic has to say about Eisheimer and Reel Man, click on the headline.
Indie Memphis Film Festival Daily Pick: Thursday
The Indie Memphis Film Festival concludes today at Muvico’s Peabody Place theatre, with prize-winning local documentary Nobody screening at 8:45 p.m. (See Flyer story.) But be sure to show up early for another prize-winning local film, The Importance of Being Russell, which won the festival committee’s own prize for “excellence in filmmaking” ...
Indie Memphis Award Winners
Local filmmakers Alan Spearman and Lance Murphy were the big winners over the weekend as award recipients were announced at the Indie Memphis Film Festival. The duo took home the award for Best Documentary (and its $400 cash prize) in the festival’s Hometowner Competition for their film Nobody, and followed that up by winning the Kodak Tennessee Filmmaker’s Award, which comes with $1,000 in film stock.
Opinion
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Letter from the Editor
Fisherman are known liars, but this is a true story ...
Criminal Confusion
Politics, poor communication, and distrust hamper call for 650 more cops.
Bridges, Not Walls
Walls and fences won't fix our immigration problems.
Books
Epic Proportions
Hampton Sides: on the trail of Kit Carson and the winning of the West.
John Hodgman at Square Books
John Hodgman — New York Times Magazine editor, Daily Show correspondent, Mac spokesman, and author — is coming to Oxford, Mississippi's Square Books on Saturday, October 28th at 4 p.m. to sign The Areas of My Expertise, now in paperback.
The Areas of My Expertise is a reference guide with facts that aren't always factual.
Food & Wine
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Do French Fries Make You Strong?
Seven days, two kids, and one plan to eat for free.
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Feed the Kids for Free
Kids can eat for free (or almost free) seven days a week at various area restaurants — even Hooters.
Read all about it in the Flyer.
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Chef Wally Joe Heads to The Brooks
Brushmark Restaurant at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art welcomes a new chef to oversee daily lunch operations as well as the museum’s special events. Chef Wally Joe — creator of Wally Joe’s Restaurant in Memphis and KC’s in Cleveland, Mississippi — will continue his involvement with these eateries while he and his chef de cuisine, Andre Adams, shake things up at Brooks Museum. ...
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