- Issue Archive for
- Sep 17-23, 2009
- Vol. 1, No. 1073
News
Style Steals:
In a recession economy, sometimes you have to break the bank.
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Flyer Flashback
To mark the Flyer's 20th anniversary, we're looking back at stories from our first two decades.
Coming Out
The Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center unveils new billboards.
Consolidation Conundrum
Suburban mayors sound off in opposition.
To the Dogs
Memphis considers area dog parks.
What They Said
Comments from memphisflyer.com
The Dalai Lama is a Feminist
During his closing remarks at the International Freedom Award ceremony in the Peabody Grand Ballroom today, His Holiness the Dalai Lama called upon women to help create a more compassionate world ...
Where's Osama?
Eight years after 9/11, the man responsible is still at large. Why?
Redbirds Win Second Game of PCL Series
Mark Hamilton belted a home run to lead off the sixth inning and the Memphis Redbirds' pitching staff held to its stellar postseason form Wednesday night, leading the home team to a 3-2 victory over the Sacramento River Cats and a 2-games-to-none lead in the best-of-five Pacific Coast League Championship Series.
Frank Murtaugh's got the details.
They Got Memphis Moving
For more than 50 years, Hosea Hill and William Foster helped hundreds of Memphis boys and girls literally run to success on high school cinder tracks, college and Olympics stadiums around the world, and later in their professional lives as doctors, police officers, and businessmen and women.
Read more in John Branston's Get Memphis Moving blog.
"For the Love of Shirley" Benefit This Weekend
Friday and Saturday night at Midtown's Hi-Tone Cafe, a large group of local musicians — including Jack O & the Tearjerkers, Impala, and Snowglobe — will band together to assist Shirley Williams, the beloved barkeep at Madison Avenue dive the Lamplighter and den mother of sorts to the Midtown cultural scene, who is struggling with medical costs after recent health problems.
Chris Herrington has the details on this — and other special weekend music events — in this week's Local Beat column. And Andria Lisle pays tribute to "Miss Shirley" and the Lamplighter on Sing All Kinds, the Flyer's pop culture blog.
Is Collierville the Fittest Community?
Restaurants, homebuilders, multiplex theaters, and big-box retailers previously beat a path to the 'burbs. Now we have big-box fitness. At this rate, it shouldn't be long before there's a workout machine for every man, woman, and child in town.
John Branston checks out Collierville's "Big Four of Fitness."
Remembering Mr. Be
Kids growing up in Memphis in the 1960s and '70s surely remember a popular show on Channel 10 called All Aboard with Mr. Be.
You don't remember it?
Read more at the Ask Vance blog.
Beyond the Arc's NBA Preview
Chris Herrington begins his annual NBA preview with a Griz- and Memphis-centric look at the rest of the league. The six-part series opens with the Atlantic Division, where former Grizzlies head coach Marc Iavaroni and former University of Memphis Tiger Chris Douglas-Roberts will toil this season. Check it out at Beyond the Arc.
Update on Wally Joe's Restaurant
Wally Joe was hoping to open his newest restaurant this fall. That's not going to happen.
Food News writer Pamela Denney has the scoop in Hungry Memphis.
Redbirds Win PCL Championship: Does Anyone Care?
Frank Murtaugh has some advice for the new proprietors of the Memphis Redbirds and an appraisal of new Tiger QB Tyler Bass.
Haagen Dazs' Vanilla Bee Does Not Suck
Politics Schmolitics. Sometimes you just need a little ice cream. Or a lot. And this kind helps save bees.
Tim McCarver Sings. Really.
Greg Akers has the story on the song stylings of one Tim McCarver.
LGBT Workplace Scores For Local Companies
Bianca Phillips has a report on how local companies scored on LGBT workplace inclusion at Memphis Gaydar.
Myron Says "Hello Dalai" and Goodbye Dignity
Mayor pro tem Myron Lowery thought it would be a good idea to use the most cliched joke ever to greet one of the world's holiest men. Bruce V. has details.
Hello Dalai II: The Holy One Returns Serve, Keeps Dignity Intact
Chris Davis filmed the mayors/Dalai Lama encounter on the river today. It starts out awwwwkward, thanks to Myron Lowery, but ends with a beatific moment -- a holy fist-bump, if you will. Watch it here.
Workin' That Style
Mary Cashiola and Justin Fox Burks have posted some new pics from the Flyer's Work It Wednesday party.
The Dalai Lama Lip Jiggle
Memphis mayor pro tem Myron Lowery might have gotten a fist bump from the Dalai Lama, but Flyer reporter Bianca Phillips has him beat: She got a lip-ring jiggle.
U of M Writer Wins Literary Peace Prize
Richard Bausch, holder of the Moss Chair of Excellence in English at the University of Memphis, has won the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction for his novel, Peace. Leonard Gill has details.
We Recommend
Music
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No Longer a Secret
Hoots & Hellmouth are at the forefront of indie-rock's back-to-nature boom.
Politics
Lighten Up, Awreddy! The Prez Fist-Bumps, and the Buddha Giggles!
Hello, Dalai! Nice to have you here and glad you speak our language!...
Still Swinging
Repeat candidate Carol Chumney bores in on front-runner A C Wharton.
Kelsey Resigns -- But, Oops, There's a Problem; Actually, He Doesn't! (Yet)
[UPDATE} Release goes out from representative's office, then is retracted.
Sports
Winning on Empty: The Redbirds Take the Crown
And the Tigers bounce back ... but for how long?
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Film
Return to Form
Steven Soderbergh gets back on track with a shaggy-dog corporate comedy.
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Film
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Opinion
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Letter From the Editor
The saga of Congressman Joe Wilson provides a primer for how social networking and the Internet have transformed not just the coverage of the news, but the making of it ...
Fixing the Fairgrounds
Politics, recession, and a vision that hasn't caught fire.
Where's Osama?
Eight years after 9/11, the U.S. has still not enacted revenge.
Books
What ... what?
C. Bard Cole: the way he sees things.
Food & Wine
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In a Stew
Christmas comes early with posole and chiles.
Special Sections
C. Bard Cole
C. Bard Cole signs This is Where My Life Went Wrong Thursday at Burke's.
opera memphis chorus
Opera Memphis presents a Chorus Cabaret Saturday.
Corn maze
While the Mid-South Corn Maze was closed Sunday due to rain, you'll get plenty of chances to visit. It's running through October 31st at the Agricenter.
musical comedy murders of 1940
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 is playing at Playhouse on the Square.
greeley myatt brooks
Greeley Myatt's "Exactly 20 Years" is all over town, including the Brooks.
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