Romeo Dallaire, a U.N. commander in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, will speak tonight as part of Facing History and Ourselves Community Conversations.

To get more information on the talk, go here.

A generous 2003 Ferrari Enzo owner has donated the $1 million auto to be auctioned off during St. Jude‘s lavish Runway for Life gala Friday night in Beverly Hills.

The car goes up to 217 mph, and only 399 of the 2003 model were manufactured and sold. Another car was made and given to Pope John Paul II.

Bidding opens at a measly $875,000.

This just in: The Tennessee Governmental Prayer Alliance is being launched on Wednesday in all 95 counties of Tennessee. According to its press release the TGPA “works to build a canopy of prayer over our governmental leaders in our state and nation.”

The TGPA is an offshoot of the National Governmental Prayer Alliance, which led a prayer to get George W. Bush elected president in 2000.

According to Biodiesel Magazine’s Web site, Milagro Biofuels of Memphis produced its first biodiesel Monday in an old cotton oil mill.

Milagro is waiting for samples sent to the EPA to be certified and expects to begin selling its product by the end of September. Oddly enough, Harold Ford, Jr., the congressman currently running for U.S. Senate, filmed part of his campaign commercial at the new biodiesel facility. But, in the interest of maturity and environmentalism, we’ll refrain from making a gas joke. This time.

“How do you think stripping dwarf sisters would be any different from any other strippers? Would you be compassionate and automatically believe their lives had been an epic struggle to hurdle social barriers and overcome massive obstacles not faced by average sized people? Or would you just assume they’d been in a tree trunk making cookies, or in a polar igloo packing Santa’s sled?”

From a story by the always-interesting former Memphian/writer/actor/dwarf Eugene Pidgeon, writing in the New Haven Advocate about a dwarf strip act called Little Sisters.

Read the rest here.

J-Tim returns to Memphis to perform for a Good Morning America segment Friday morning on Beale St between Second and Third St. Timberlake is expected to perform a three-song set sometime between 7 and 8 a.m. There is no ticketing (it’s a street, people) so of course it’s first-come, first-served on vantage points, but come early because organizers expect upwards of 10,000 to attend. For details on where you should park and info on local media coverage (in case you don’t feel like showing up), go here.

We know you’re out there. Cybill Shepherd fans that just can’t resist acquiring mementos of Memphis’ golden girl. If you’re in the market, Ebay’s got 10 Shepherd collectibles for sale online this week. Like an autographed copy of her Rolling Stone cover from the 1980s (bidding starts at $24.99) and a vintage photo from her 1971 breakthrough film, “The Last Picture Show.” To see more, go here.

The Tennessee Baptist Convention will be held this November at Bellevue Baptist Church. The day before the convention begins, there will be a pastors’ conference, which is dedicated to late Bellevue leader Adrian Rogers. From the Web site: “[Rogers} was a consistent example of a great soul winner, committed pastor, and a friend to pastors of churches large and small. This magnificent edifice in which we meet today stands in honor and to the glory of God the Father and the Lord Jesus, but also as a glimpse of the visionary leadership Adrian Rogers gave to this great body of believers.”

At least one Baptist blogger has a problem with this. Read about it here.