- Issue Archive for
- Feb 8-14, 2007
- Vol. 1, No. 937
News
A Family Affair
The Berenstain Bears transcend generations.
Smart City Memphis on Dumb Political Moves
"Commissioner Henri Brooks’ racial tourette syndrome, combined with Juvenile Court Judge Curtis Person’s officious predilection, have resulted in a deterioration of simple manners that has been uninterrupted by anyone on the commission calling for a more collegial environment for reasoned decisions ..."
Tennessee’s Share of the Iraq War's Costs
The National Priorities Project recently released data on what the war in Iraq is costing each state. Now they’ve taken it a step further and are have compiled what else that money — $7 billion from Tennessee, and counting — could be used to buy. ...
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Features Memphis
The annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is due out next week, and among all the exotic locales is, yes, Memphis ...
Mississippi Pelican Saved by Rescue Group
This is Bobby, an American White Pelican who was unable to fly or migrate because of an old wing injury. When his bill pouch was damaged, the Mississippi Wildlife Rehabilitation group provided him with a safe place to recover. ...
Big Elvis Party ... and You Missed It!
Hey, did you hear about the fantastic Elvis party last night? It was amazing. They had 12 Elvii, including the reigning Danish Elvis champ ...
Justin Timberlake Signs TV Deal With Verizon
A number of show-biz websites are reporting that pop superstar, actor, clothing designer, and former Millingtonian Justin Timberlake can add TV mogul to his impressive resume after signing a new partnership deal with communication giant Verizon to launch JT TV. The new network will feature movies, music and fashion programming. ...
Rappers May Lose Reason To Smile
Local lawmaker wants to ban jewelry-store grills.
Live! It's "Dick in a Box!"
On his "SexyBack" tour performance in New York Wednesday night, Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg reunited to perform "Dick in a Box" live. ...
Romeo and Juliet Run Extended
Two additional performances have been scheduled for Germantown Community Theatre’s innovative production of Romeo and Juliet on February 9th and 10th at 8 pm.
NY Times: Craig Brewer is Memphis' Fellini
From a story about Black Snake Moan music producer Scott Bomar in Sunday's New York Times: "If contemporary Memphis has found its Fellini in Craig Brewer, the young director best known for Hustle & Flow, then the film's composer, Scott Bomar, is its Nino Rota ...
Did American Idol Cut the "Fidel Castro" Look-alike?
If you watched the American Idol auditions in Memphis, you probably remember Sean Michel. He looked a bit like Fidel Castro, but actually sang surprisingly well and was sent on to Hollywood.
The trip may have been short-lived. ...
House of Mews Needs House
After 10 years in Cooper-Young, The House of Mews, that venerable feline rescue group is still looking for a new home and in other cat news ...
NY Times Says Hipsters Learning to Love Justin Timberlake
From The New York Times: "He won over the teeny-boppers long ago, but in his incarnation as a sexy-smooth crooner with a hip-hop edge, Justin Timberlake has gained some unusual fans: hipsters. ...
Black Snake Moan Releases 7-Inch
From IGN Music: In celebration of the release of Black Snake Moan, the new film from writer/director Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow), a limited 7-inch vinyl record has been pressed up.
The collectible features two songs performed by the film's star, Samuel L. Jackson. ...
Hotties 2007
Justin Timberlake isn't the only one who can bring sexy back.
For the third year in a row, in fact, we're back with 18 of the most interesting, attractive, sexy, and magnetic personalities in all of Memphis.
They pour your drinks, help you into downward-facing dog, or may even conduct a little cross-examination. And that's in their day jobs!
Tunica Queen Has Been Transformed
If you’re heading south next month to Memphis' nearby gambling mecca, you might want to check out the revamped Tunica Queen.
This 19th-century-style riverboat has undergone a major transformation ...
Samuel L. Jackson Can Play Da Blues
The video of Samuel L. Jackson singing in a juke joint from Craig Brewers' Black Snake Moan is all over the Internets, and everybody seems to love it. ...
Greening Greater Memphis is Home Run
Well over 1,000 people showed up the Greening Greater Memphis program Thursday at Memphis Botanic Gardens to hear New York parks consultant Alex Garvin and other speakers talk about bike trails, parks, and walking paths...
Ambulance Issues in Shelby County
"Sometimes you're dead if you do and dead if you don't.
"As Shelby County citizens have discovered, the split between the county's various emergency response systems has created problems that have residents clamoring for change ...
Anthrax Scare at the Federal Building
Yesterday, a federal employee at the Clifford Davis Federal Building opened an envelope containing white powder. ...
Memphis School Board Discusses Military Testing
It looks like the Memphis City Schools (MCS) board may continue to allow student information to be released to the military through Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test.
At a special MCS board staff conference meeting last night, members discussed a resolution proposed by board member Jeff Warren that would shield students’ personal information on the test from military recruiters. ...
First Response
As Germantown and Collierville prepare to opt out, will county ambulance service become more unwieldy?
Hack's Cross: The Most Dangerous Street?
Hacks Cross may be the most dangerous street in the county. According to this month’s Shelby County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) crash report, more wrecks have occurred there last month than any other area in the SCSO patrol district. ...
We Recommend
Music
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Back From the Black
After a descent into darkness, Evan Dando returns with a new version of the Lemonheads.
More Fish–Ghostface Killah
(Def Jam)
Politics
Not One, but Two Morrises for Mayor?!
We didn’t believe it either, when we first heard it, but it’s true: Bill Morris, who was mayor of Shelby County from 1978 to 1994 and ran an ill-starred race for governor of Tennessee in 1994, still has seeds to cook...
Booze Barons Drying Up Support for Shea Flinn's Sunday-Liquor Bill
State Senator Shea Flinn, trying to break new legislative ground despite owning only an interim appointment, is being undermined in his effort to legalize liquor sales on Sunday in Tennessee. The culprits? “Golden Goose” Tom Hensley and other traditional spokesmen for the booze industry on Capitol Hill.
Two More for Mayoralty
Willingham, Morris get ready to join the fray.
Law & Order, LIVE
Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson must’ve felt like he was back on the set of Law & Order last week. ...
Cohen, Other Frosh, to Bush: 'Bring Our Troops Home'
Ninth district U.S. Representative Steve Cohen is one of 21 new members of Congress who have dispatched an open letter to President Bush calling on him to adhere to the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group and to begin bringing American troops home.
There He Goes Again!: Willingham for Mayor
The old warrior's presence in the race will give it a grace note or two. Just don't expect candidates named Chumney and Morris, doing the math for an ever more crowded mayor's race, to be all that enamored of it.
Two Guides to the Local Democratic Convention
In which two intrepid local cadres tell you what, when, where, how, and (most importantly) why about the forthcoming drawing of straws (and swords) among Shelby County Democrats.
Chumney Announces: "I Want to be Mayor!"
If there was any remaining suspense about Carol Chumney’s mayoral intentions, it was laid to rest at the University of Memphis-area Holiday Inn on Central Avenue Thursday evening...
Sports
Grizzlies to Move to Las Vegas?
That's the bet that Robin Leach (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous) is pushing on his "Luxe Life" blog at the VegasPop website.
"Last minute negotiations are ongoing in a dramatic 48-hour countdown that might make Vegas history with official news of a NBA team getting approval for a move to our desert kingdom. ...
Grizzlies Top Hornets, 108-104
(AP) - Hakim Warrick scored 15 points, including six straight in a key stretch late in the fourth quarter, and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to a 108-104 victory over the New Orleans Hornets on Tuesday night.
Mike Miller scored 22 points to lead Memphis ...
Grizzlies Fall to Mavericks, 113-97
Dirk Nowitzki had 37 points and 11 rebounds and Josh Howard had 23 points to lead Dallas to a relatively trouble-free win over the Grizzlies Wednesday night ...
Memphis vs. New Orleans: Griz Lose Big; Tigers Win Bigger
The University of Memphis Tigers breezed by Tulane Saturday night, 95-51. Robert Dozier and Willie Kemp each had 13 points to lead the Tigers, who had five players in double figures and went deep into their bench rotation ...
Fixin' the Griz
The NBA’s Western Conference is, according to SI.com’s Chris Mannix, the varsity to the East’s JV. Which makes it especially hard for the conference’s bottom-feeders to close the gap with the league’s elite teams. Check out Mannix’s prescription for the Grizzlies.
Grizzlies Knock Off Wolves, 105-97
Rudy Gay provided the spark with clutch shooting and Pau Gasol had 17 rebounds as the Grizzlies rallied in the fourth quarter to force overtime, then went on to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves at FedExForum Friday night. ...
Theater
Wild at Heart
A visit to Guare's House; Circuit throws a party.
Film
Out of Step
Punk rockers who once rejected nostalgia indulge in it in scene doc American Hardcore.
Opinion
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Letter from the Editor
So I'm watching Larry King (don't ask) interview Miss USA, Tara Conner. Conner, in true reality-show fashion, is confessing that she used cocaine and marijuana ...
Painful Lesson
How city officials first created and then averted a graduation crisis.
Greening Memphis: What Does It Mean?
What next? Now that two speakers in three days have drawn larger-than-expected crowds to get fired up about "greening Memphis," what does that mean?
On Saturday, parks expert Charles Jordan of Portland, Oregon, spoke to an estimated 300 people at the Memphis College of Art ...
Is Memphis Too Timid for its Own Good?
Sometimes, it just seems that Memphis is too timid for its own good.
Too often, the people we expect to articulate and fight for a defining principle or a critical issue seem to go along to get along. ...
I'm Not Snickering
Mars, Inc. goes for a cheap laugh and bombs at the Super Bowl.
When Is It a Crime to Lie?
I once had a colleague who thought it was clever and funny to ask people, "Do your parents know you’re gay?"
The point, if you can call it that, was that you couldn’t answer this tricky question without falling for the "joke" and incriminating yourself, ha ha. ...
Books
Black Expatriates and the U.S. Civil Rights Era
Dr. Kevin Gaines will discuss "Watching the World from Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era" at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 14, in the Panhellenic Building Ballroom at the University of Memphis. The lecture is free and open to the public. ...
The Memphis "Adoption for Profit" Scandal
A new book is coming out about the adoption-for-profit scandal that rocked Memphis in the 1950s.
The notorious story of Georgia Tann is being told by New York author Barbara Raymond in a new book, The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, The Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption ...
Home Front
Surveillance: getting the picture (or not).
Food & Wine
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Date Night
Love and happiness at area restaurants
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Mr. Everything Sweet
In the kitchen with The Peabody's pastry chef Konrad Spitzbart.
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Extreme Makeover
The French/Japanese restaurant Umai opens for business.
Special Sections
Ginnifer Goodwin is Normal
From L.A. mega-gossip site Defamer.com: "Saw Ginnifer Goodwin & Chris Klein at John O' Groat's for brunch on Saturday, 1/27 around 1:30pm. She was wearing this awesome beige, wool wrap with Uggs and yoga pants ...
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