- Issue Archive for
- Jul 23-29, 2009
- Vol. 1, No. 1065
News
Left Behind
As the new outer loop nears completion, will the city's residents and businesses leave for greener pastures? And what does it mean for Memphis?
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Flyer Flashback
To mark the Flyer's 20th anniversary, we're looking back at stories from our first two decades.
Talk To Me
College students collect oral histories in Hyde Park.
A Step Up
Shelby County launches scholarship and mentorship program for technical and community college students.
What They Said
Comments from memphisflyer.com
Nose for Narcotics
Memphis Police adopt rescued dogs for the K-9 unit.
Eric Holder Speaks in Memphis
John Branston says U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was "mum in Memphis."
The Best "Battle of the Sexes" Movies
My topic this week for the "Movies" bit on The Chris Vernon Show was "battle of the sexes," based on this week's #3 box-office film The Ugly Truth ...
Read Flyer film and music editor Chris Herrington's favorite BOTS films here.
Cop Dogs: Off the Streets and On Duty
A few months ago, Dixee was a homeless mutt on the streets of Olive Branch, Mississippi. Now she's a working member of the Memphis Police Department (MPD).
Bianca Phillips has the story.
Go Fish Rainbow Lake ... Sort of
The city and the zoo are looking for volunteer fish-catchers Tuesday, July 28th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The city is planning on draining and repairing Rainbow Lake sometime next week, and the zoo is setting up tanks to hold the fish of Rainbow Lake until it's fixed. ... More at In the Bluff.
Roads and Retail
In conjunction with this week's cover story on I-269, the In the Bluff blog is chockfull of maps and graphics.
In today's installment, area maps show how retail development has followed the expressway and how median income has changed by census tract.
Dinner and a Movie
Do you know where your food comes from? Do you want to know? Read more in the review of the documentary Food, Inc.
Newspaper Guild Concerned About Possible CA Press Outsourcing
After meeting with Commercial Appeal management, the Memphis Newspaper Guild has expressed concerns that a proposal to outsource the newspaper's printing to a company in Tupelo could affect up to 115 jobs, and make newspaper delivery unreliable ...
Detroit Blues
With U.S. automakers grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent years, news consumers have become rubberneckers gawking at the scene of the car crash. Too bad the accident's a 250 million-car pileup ...
Greg Akers gives Detroit a little taste of something he calls Rant.
The Cardinals' Midseason Makeover
Frank Murtaugh has some thoughts on his favorite baseball team's immediate future.
Three 6 Mafia Dishes on Food
The members of Three 6 Mafia are currently busy putting the finishing touches on their next record, scheduled to be released on November 24th. But these enthusiastic cooks and eaters took the time, via e-mail, to tell Hungry Memphis what else is on their plates ...
Sean Hannity's Foul Balls
Fox News host Sean Hannity recently did a "closer look" at presidential pitching forms. Here's why he struck out.
Memphis: That's Sprawl, Folks!
So we're sprawly ... Who cares, right?
People are allowed to live wherever they want, if they have the means, and who are we to say otherwise?
Mary Cashiola says our sprawl is subsidizing the choices of others.
Stanley Paramour Mackensie Morrison's Checkered Past
From the Orlando Sentinal: In the months after she graduated from Spruce Creek High School in 2005, McKensie Morrison was charged with cocaine possession, got married, lived without electricity and watched her husband beat a 75-year-old man with a hammer ...
Vote for the Best of Memphis
The Flyer's annual Best of Memphis ballot is online now. Click on the banner above or click here.
Real Estate
The Match
Need a real-estate agent? Get personal.
We Recommend
Music
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Graduation
Girls rock campers made good: Those Darlins' charming debut.
Politics
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
A Republican House member's win in Stanley's district could imperil GOP majority in legislature....
No Go for Strickland in Mayor's Race
Jim Strickland, the Memphis lawyer who developed a head of steam last month with his budget-cutting proposals as a city councilman and became the subject of a draft movement to run for mayor, has decided against running, the Flyer has learned....
State Senator Paul Stanley, Blackmail Victim or Self-Victimizer?
Two details stand out: (1) State Senator Paul Stanley and legislative intern McKensie Morrison seem to have had some sort of sexual relationship; and (2) explicit photographs of Morrison, apparently taken in Stanley's Nashville apartment, were used in an attempt to blackmail the Germantown legislator....
Shelby GOP Chair Calls on Stanley to Resign (UPDATE: Stanley Bows Out!)
Contending that "the time has come for this spectacle to end," Shelby County Republican chairman Lang Wiseman has called for scandal-plagued state senator Paul Stanley to resign his seat ...
Stanley Resigns Chairmanship, Admits Taking "Explicit" Pictures
The situation of Paul Stanley, the Shelby County state senator involved in a blackmail/sex scandal with his former legislative intern plumbed new depths Wednesday with the proliferation of new revelations ...
GADFLY: The Question is Race
Our most curmudgeonly pundit takes the tongue out of his cheek and wags it, quite seriously, at a recurrent problem....
County School Board's Pickler Eyeing Stanley's State Senate Seat
List of potential challengers to succeed beleaguered Germantown legislator also includes two state representatives....
A Vote of "No Confidence"
Election Commission chairman calls a mandate for optical-scan voting "insanity."
Sports
The Cardinals' Midseason Makeover
The St. Louis Cardinals used the first four months of the 2009 season to discover some characteristics about their club ...
Theater
We Recommend
Film
Food Fight
Rabble-rousing doc Food, Inc. turns stomachs en route to hearts and minds.
We Recommend
Film
Opinion
Why You're Not Great
What separates the truly exceptional players?
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Letter from the Editor
Finding hypocrisy in politics isn't difficult, but it's seldom been easier to point out than in the recent case of U.S. Army Maj. Stephen Cook ...
“Socialized Medicine”?
We shouldn't fall prey to scare tactics in the health-care debate.
Bianca Knows Best ...
... and Helps a Neighbor in Need
Books
Drama Queens
Ellen Terry and Idina Sackville: who?
Food & Wine
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With a Twist
Justin Timberlake's 901 Silver Tequila + a dash of inspiration = cocktail hour.
Special Sections
pin up
"How to Be a Pin Up Girl" Class Saturday at Nocturnal
ricky skaggs
Multiple Grammy and CMA award winner Ricky Skaggs plays The Fitz in Tunica Saturday.
american idol live
The American Idol Live Tour comes to FedExForum Sunday.
river park
Might be a good day to take a walk in the Mississippi at the River Park.
jacob lawrence
Check out The Prints of Jacob Lawrence at The Brooks.
jacob lawrence
Check out The Prints of Jacob Lawrence at The Brooks.
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