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Posted inEditorial, Opinion
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
Never has that old saw been so relevant as it is to the ongoing effort to save the Regional Medical Center at Memphis from financial collapse. Despite vigorous efforts by Med administrators and Shelby County legislators from both parties to shore up state aid for the beleaguered institution, the cost-cutting administration of Governor Phil Bredesen […]
Posted inFilm Features, Film/TV
So Happy Together
Attention, all movie fans who thought that Kathy Bates’ harrowing hot-tub scene in About Schmidt was too tame: Have I got a movie for you. It’s called The In-Laws, a remake of the 1979 comedy with Peter Falk as a secret agent whose son is marrying nervous dentist Alan Arkin’s daughter. I have not seen […]
Posted inMusic, Record Reviews
Short Cuts
Summer Sun Yo La Tengo (Matador) Summer Sun may be the most understated album of a not exactly showy career, this nominal guitar band hiding that instrument in a mix of percussion, bass, and synthesizer whose gentle communicativeness mirrors the tone of co-leaders and marrieds-for-life Ira Kaplan’s and Georgia Hubley’s murmured sing-speak vocals. There are […]
Posted inSports, Sports Feature
Sound Advice
In 1993, then (and still largely) unknown Mary Lou Lord released what I still insist is one of the dozen or so best singles of the ’90s with a little 7-inch for Olympia indie Kill Rock Stars. The sweetly verbose originals “Some Jingle Jangle Morning (When I’m Straight)” and “Western Union Desperate” consciously evoked Dylan […]
Posted inMusic, Record Reviews
Short Cuts
Rules of Travel Rosanne Cash (Capitol) For the past 20 years, Rosanne Cash has earned a reputation as a classic singer-songwriter, displaying great courage and feistiness in exploring relationships in song. In what seems to be a classic female pattern, Cash lost her singing voice in 1998, when she began work on this, her 10th […]
Posted inMusic, Music Features
Sound Advice
Though best known now for penning five songs off Norah Jones’ Come Away with Me, including the smash, Grammy Song of the Year “Don’t Know Why,” Jesse Harris is no jazz cat as a performer. Instead, Harris and his band, The Ferdinandos, offer tuneful modern rock in the vein of the Wallflowers or John Mayer, […]
Posted inWe Recommend, We Recommend
wednesday, 7
MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART FIRST WEDNESDAYS. Enjoy evening gallery hours, Brushmark dinner, and special programs every first Wednesday of the month. May: “A Night of Seoul,” featuring Korean art demonstrations, performances by Seoul’s Korea House, guest Korean chefs in the Brushmark, and anunveiling of an original sculpture by NamJ une Paik for the Dunavant […]
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tuesday, 6
MEMPHIS GIRLS CHOIR SPRING CONCERT. Featuring sacred, folk, and Broadway music. Church of the Holy Communion. 4645 Walnut Grove Rd., 7:30 p.m.
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monday, 5
THE PINK RIBBON OPEN. The LPGA Pro-Am event raises money for breast cancer research, education, and treatment. Ridgeway Country Club, 9800 Poplar Aven. 8 a.m.
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sunday, 4
Okay, so maybe on Friday night you missed the up-and-coming Kelley Hurt or Booker T & the MG’s or old Joe Cocker or Big Star or Wilco or…the list is long. And on Saturday you didn’t make it 3 Doors Down to catch Stevie Winwood and Jerry or that dynamic new guy Cory Branan or […]