On the way to work this morning, I listened to "Les Brers in A Minor" by the Allman Brothers. It's from the album Eat a Peach, and it's the perfect length for my 10-minute commute. My mind can wander around while Duane…
Like many of you, I was sitting at home Sunday night when I heard Osama bin Laden was dead. That was the way I heard it first, via a Twitter alert on my laptop. At that point, I assumed maybe he'd just died — of cancer, a heart attack, or maybe kidney failure. A few minutes later, President Obama came on television to make a formal announcement of the al-Qaeda leader's death ...
As John Branston points out in this week's cover story, the Memphis flood of 2011 may be the most family-friendly disaster in history. My family and I were downtown Sunday for a Mother's Day lunch, and the streets were packed. You'd have thought it was Sunset Symphony day or the Fourth of July. People were everywhere — the River Walk, Harbor Town, at the foot of Beale, and even in what is left of Tom Lee Park ...