- Issue Archive for
- Oct 18-24, 2007
- Vol. 1, No. 973
News
Pay For Grades
Herenton and Alexander reunite for East High School.
What You Should Know About Breast Cancer
A Q&A with Dr. Johnetta Blakely (Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology) of the West Clinic.
Fight Over Chickasaw Gardens Street-Closing to Go to Hearing
Last May, a highly publicized rape occurred on Goodwyn Street in Chickasaw Gardens. Since then, area residents have been pushing for more crime control, including closing the entrance of Goodwyn at Southern Avenue.
However, others who live in areas adjacent to Chickasaw Gardens are fighting the street closing ...
Buy David Gest's Stuff
According to a story in The Independent David Gest will be auctioning off his large collection of memorabilia. Among the items up for bid are the gold disc for the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction," sheet music signed by the Four Tops, and a pair of Beatles' sneakers...
Brooks Museum Names Interim Director
A lifelong Memphian is taking the reins, on an interim basis, of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Effective January 1, 2008, Al Lyons will oversee the daily operations of the museum while the search continues for a permanent director ...
Thaddeus-izing Content in State Government
This week's meeting in Nashville of the legislature’s Joint Study Committee on Open Government invoked a new standard for issues involving the new state ombudsman’s office. Arguing on behalf of the media's right to access govermental data, Commercial Appeal lawyer Lucien Pera used as his case in point -- yep, blogger Thaddeus Matthews.
WKNO To Host Oral History Workshop
Inspired by Ken Burns' documentary The War, WKNO, along with the Memphis Public Library & Information Center and the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, is presenting an oral history workshop on November 10th...
Oops! — The NYT Edition
Tagged as Gawker.com's "Correction of the Day" is a little slip by The New York Times in its obituary of photographer Ernest Withers, who passed away on Monday...
Columbus' Ship to Dock in Memphis
Okay, okay, so we know Columbus is, like, dead or whatever. And his ship Nina is probably long gone. But a replica of the famed vessel is set to visit Memphis ...
Campus Upd8
Following last month's homicide, U of M students demand quicker communication from the school.
Indie Memphis
Our guide to the 10th Indie Memphis Film Festival.
Team Picture:
Something Real
"Southern Comforts" and Eudora Welty to be Served at Davis-Kidd
Hungry for a little down-home flavor? Check out "Southern Comforts at Bronte," the restaurant at Davis-Kidd Booksellers this Saturday, October 27th, at 3 p.m.
The event will include Southern fare "fried green tomatoes, chicken salad, pecan pie" and a performance of Eudora Welty's classic,""Why I Live at the P.O." ...
For Better or For Worse?
Michael Moore on the receiving end of a documentary exposé.
Cowboy Jack Clement at Brooks Museum Tonight
Tonight, the Brooks Museum of Art is screening a phenomenal documentary about one of Memphis music's most influential figures. And, unless you're a true music geek, you probably don't know very much about the man.
Sam Phillips may have all of the name recognition, but he wasn't the only eccentric genius working behind the scenes at Sun Studio at the dawn of the rock-and-roll era ...
Ernest Withers Goes Home: "He Saw the World Through Our Eyes"
Mourners of Ernest Withers filled the Pentecostal Temple Institutional Church of God in Christ downtown Saturday afternoon to celebrate the home-going of the world-renowned photographer who died Monday at age 85.
Gandhi/King Peace Conference in Memphis This Week
This weekend, October 26-27, Christian Brothers University will be hosting the 2007 Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking.
Based on the theme, "Building the Beloved Community," the conference will explore nonviolent means to achieve lasting peace within ourselves, our communities, and our world ...
Elvis Collection Lost in California Fire
From the New York Daily News: Lilly Lawrence's extensive Elvis memorabilia collection -- which included a Ford Fairlane and several of his movie scripts -- was lost to the fires in Southern California. She did manage to save his Army uniform...
Goodbye Gary
Mid-South Pride president passes, but leaves legacy of helping others.
Zombified
Memphis-shot chiller I Was A Zombie for the F.B.I. is schlock for the ages.
We Recommend
Music
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Holly in Memphis
A British indie cult fave talks about her love affair with American roots music.
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Are the Pipettes the Next Big Thing?
"We are the Pipettes," sing the Pipettes by way of introduction. "If you haven't noticed yet, we're the prettiest girls you've ever met."
A prefab girl group not unlike the Shangri-La's or the Spice Girls, the Pipettes rock matching polka-dot dresses, horn-rimmed glasses, lacquered make-up, and cute nicknames (Gwenno, Rosay, and RiotBecki) as a means of repackaging prepunk sounds for post-punk audiences ...
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Jerry Lee Lewis Honored By Hall of Fame
Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the first inductees into the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame, will be the focus of its "American Music Masters" series to be held in early November. Lewis is the first living performer to be recognized in this series...
Politics
Quoth the Gadfly: Why Are We Still in Vietnam...er, Iraq?
The mantra of the Vietnam era, equally applicable to the current era, was most poignantly revealed in a song by the group known as Country Joe and the Fish. The chorus of their song "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die" included the question "And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for..." My question is: Joe, where are you now that we need you?
Straight Shooter
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander maintains his differences with the president.
POLITICS: Looking Back
On the passage from the scene of two pivotal Memphians
Looking Back: Withers and Whalum
Within the space of a week, Memphis lost two pivotal figures whose careers had meaning beyond the obvious.
Guleff's View of a ";Priceless" County Commission Move
One of the more amusing (and acerbic and on-point) critics of local-government malfeasance is Tom Guleff, a sometime candidate and fulltime activist whose Joe Citizens.com Web site is dedicated to scourging the unworthy. See Guleff's take on a county commission move to liberalize its ethics policy.
MAD AS HELL: Bush Quacks On As Democrats Turn Tail
George Bush is no lame duck. You aren't lame when you're getting your way on everything. At a press conference this week, instead of quacking like a duck, he was strutting like a peacock, and warning the world of how relevant he still is. The Decider Guy is dancing with the stars.
No Lame Duck He, Bush Quacks On as Dems Turn Tail
Sez Cheri Delbrocco: "You aren't lame when you're getting your way on everything. At a press conference this week, instead of quacking like a duck, he was strutting like a peacock, and warning the world of how relevant he still is. The Decider Guy is dancing with the stars." Cheri's Mad as Hell about it.
GADFLY: Why Are We Still in Vietnam...er, Iraq?!
The mantra of the Vietnam era, equally applicable to the current era, was most poignantly revealed in a song by the group known as Country Joe and the Fish. The chorus of their song "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die" included the question "And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for..." My question is: Joe, where are you now that we need you?
Dick Morris Hearts Huckabee
On realclearpolitics.com, former Clinton political advisor Dick Morris calls former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee the Christian right's last survivor.
When it comes to abortion, Morris points out that Mitt Romney has flip-flopped back and forth; Fred Thompson was once paid to lobby for the weakening of anti-abortion regulations, and that has left Huckabee ...
Sports
Two Memphis Golf Courses For Sale
Believe us, nothing impresses the neighbors like your very own golf course. And we're not talking Putt-Putt here.
Well, now's your chance, because not just one but two 18-hole golf courses in our area are being sold at a public auction on November 18th ...
FROM MY SEAT: Pitching a Holiday (Again)
For National Baseball Day to happen, the money-making fat cats that run the television networks will have to put aside their appetite for ad dollars in favor of a big-picture view of their most critical commodity: fans.
How FedEx Absolutely, Positively Helped Keep Calipari from Shipping Out in '06
It's one of those Now-It-Can-Be-Told stories that finally got told -- in this case to ESPN's Andy Katz, who, in a munch-down session with the U of M basketball coach on Beale St. last week, got the skinny on how the Tiger mentor almost took an offer from North Carolina State -- and why he didn't.
A Modest Proposal for a New Holiday
Why close schools, government offices, even banks(!) for a lousy baseball game? Because leisure, friends, is what Americans do. National Baseball Day would be a reminder that Americans work not to pay bills, but to play.
U of M Tops Rice, 38-35
HOUSTON (AP) -- Martin Hankins' 45-yard-touchdown pass to Maurice Jones propelled Memphis to a 38-35 win over Rice on Saturday...
Theater
Lullaby
A Midsummer Night's Dream may put you to sleep.
Film
Indie Memphis Tuesday Picks
The Indie Memphis Film Festival continues today at Malco's Studio on the Square. Our picks for the day's highlights:
Pick of the Day: For the Bible Tells Me So
Earnest documentaries about coming out are become an indie-film-fest cliche ...
Lost
Into the Wild tracks the true story of a privileged dropout.
Indie Memphis Saturday Picks
The Indie Memphis Film Festival continues today at Studio on the Square, with the festival's award winners set to be announced at 5:30 p.m. But there's plenty more happening on what might be the busiest day of the festival. Our picks for the day...
Indie Memphis Monday Picks
The Indie Memphis Film Festival continues today at Malco's Studio on the Square. Our picks from today's slate of screenings...
Indie Memphis Daily Picks: Friday
The Indie Memphis Film Festival, which runs at Malco's Studio on the Square through Thursday, October 25th, kicks off tonight with an opening-night screening of The Honeydripper, the newest film from John Sayles. Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi are slated to appear at the screenings tonight. ...
Indie Memphis Wednesday Picks
The Indie Memphis Film Festival continues today at Malco's Studio on the Square. Our picks for the day's highlights:
Pick of the Day: The Book of Noah
Imagine The Book of Noah's Paul and Noah as alternate-reality, less zany, more real-world versions of Jay and Silent Bob...
Indie Memphis Sunday Picks
The Indie Memphis Film Festival continues today at Malco's Studio on the Square. Some of the highlights...
Opinion
"Monetizing Content" at The Commercial Appeal
It started with two little words: "sponsored by."
Those words appeared in tiny type above a small Boyle Investment Company logo and a collection of short news items about commercial real estate in the Sunday business section of The Commercial Appeal two weeks ago. The column is called "Done Deals." Many readers probably paid little or no attention to the sponsorship. But the issue of sponsored news, or "monetizing content" as the CA calls it, is sending a shock wave through the newsroom at 495 Union ...
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Letter from the Editor
Idaho Republican senator Larry "Wide Stance" Craig is still trying to ride out the stormy aftermath of his arrest for soliciting sex ...
The Other Gore
Yes, he deserves the Nobel Prize; but a return to politics? Nah!
Food & Wine
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Say Cheese
For the Tanners of Bonnie Blue Farm, a retirement filled with work and goats.
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