- Issue Archive for
- Oct 28 - Nov 3, 2010
- Vol. 1, No. 1131
News
Routed in Change
MATA plans to study bus routes.
New Math
MCS looks at a complicated equation:Â figuring out which schools to close.
Olympic Edge
Fund-raiser offers a chance to rappel down White Station Tower.
What They Said
Comments from memphisflyer.com
The Beasts and the Bench
How the Grizzlies can make good on Michael Heisley’s playoff promise.
What are Memphis' Best Restaurants?
It's time for Memphis Magazine's annual Best Restaurant Poll. Go here to vote for your favorites!
Bill and Melinda Gates Visit MCS
Bazillionaire Bill Gates and his wife Melinda visited Memphis City Schools today. Mary Cashiola has a report.
Safe Schools?
After a rash of suicides nationwide by gay teens, locals speak out about bullying.
Tea Party = McGovern-Era Democrats?
Randy Haspel says he's seen the likes of the Tea Party before — in 1972 at the Democratic Convention.
Over-valued CEOS; Devalued Workers
Ruth Ogles Johnson says it's time to look at the disparity in wages between those who make the goods and those who manage.
"Howl": Better Than a Poetry Reading?
The life of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg is interwoven with a reading of his most famous poem, Howl, in the movie of the same name. Should you see it?
Griz Top Timberwolves, 109-89
Chris Herrington has a report on the Grizzlies' victory over Minnesota Saturday night.
Josh Pastner Speaks
Frank Murtaugh has a Q & A with Josh Pastner. The Tigers play their first exhibition game Wednesday night.
MATA Board MIA?
Mary Cashiola writes about the curious case of the MATA board. Just how many members are there these days?
Hell's Kitchen Casting Call
Are you a masochist who can cook? Well, we've got just the thing for you: a casting call for Hell's Kitchen.
We Recommend
Music
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Follow Through
The City Champs expand their sound on sophomore album The Set-Up.
Politics
How It Looks at the Finish Line
It's Election Day, and the fat lady's got out her songsheet. Meanwhile, here's ours.
Et Tu, Al? Sharpton Comes to Memphis and Adds His Thrust Against Consolidation
"I've studied it, and I'm definitely disappointed," claims National Action Network head, evoking spirit of MLK.
Memphis and the Stewart/Colbert Rally
There were some 215,000 people at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on Saturday — including at least eight sane, fearless Memphians (and not counting the Staples Singers).
Cohen, Haslam, Fincher: All Winners
Incumbents do well locally despite sea changes in the state and nation.
Why Are These Men Smiling?
Meet the new bosses. And, for better or for worse, they really aren't the old bosses, these Republicans whose revolution nobody can define, not even themselves.
Mad as Hell (Cont'd): An Election-Day Pledge for Tea Partiers
Cheri DelBrocco's been minding her own business (and mainly tweeting). But she's up to here with Tea Party sanctimony and therefore proposes a put-up-or-shut-up manifesto.
Going National
What will happen in Tuesday’s local and state elections has been happening everywhere.
Sports
Theater
We Recommend
Film
Brother’s Keeper
Conviction is a courtroom drama more focused on family than crime.
Beat Happening
Howl: Better than a poetry reading.
Opinion
10 Years After
Did the Grizzlies and NBA Now deliver?
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Letter from the Editor
GOP candidate Bill Haslam's happy glide to the Tennessee governor's mansion hit a bump last week. While addressing a meeting of the Tennessee Firearms Association, Haslam was asked: "Are you going to support legislation that's going to change the way the permit system is in this state, so that citizens have the right to bear arms and they don't have to beg the state for a permit?
Valuing the Worker
Our levels of compensation are upside down in this skewed economy.
Books
Chances Are
Two memoirs; two case studies.
Food & Wine
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On the Move
A new Circa in East Memphis; Jim’s Place East heads west.
Special Sections
griz cover story
Can the Grizzlies make the playoffs? Read this week's cover story and see.
South main trolley halloween
It will be Halloween on South Main for the October Trolley Tour Friday night. And Earnestine & Hazel's will also be scary.
Fright night on Beale
Costume contests and a parade mark Fright Night on Beale Saturday.
blind mississippi morris
Guess who plays B.B. King's Tuesday.
condi rice
Condoleezza Rice will sign copies of her memoir, Extraordinary Ordinary People, at Davis-Kidd Wednesday.
GOP wins
Republicans were all smiles today. Jackson Baker has a report on Tuesday's election.
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