Country royalty mourns Johnny, June, and Vivian with an angry, lively, personal testament. Rosanne Cash’s recording career began back in 1979 and can be neatly divided into halves — fairly conventional, hit-making Nashville princess (1979 to 1989) giving way to literate, reclusive New York City singer-songwriter (1990 to the present). The bright dividing line of […]
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thursday February 23 “Pink Globalization” Lecture by Christine Yano FedEx Institute of Technology, 7 p.m. University of Hawaii anthropology professor Christine Yano discusses the growing popularity of Japanese kawaii (cute), explaining why, for instance, the adorable Hello Kitty brand is such a ferocious marketing tiger. The Princely Players Elder Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $10-$20 […]
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Letters to the Editor
Thanks Thanks for running Andria Lisle’s comprehensive and insightful look at the various African-American photo exhibits showing around Memphis (February 16th issue). A more fitting tribute to Black History Month would be hard to imagine. Nice work. Joseph Jacobsen Memphis We’re Not So Bad While New Orleans has many challenges ahead, I think there’s a […]
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BAD NEWS FOR HERENTON ON TWO FRONTS
Election Commission gives Matthews go-ahead on recall petitions; unions meet to plot common negotiating strategy.
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POLITICS: Before the Freeze
Winter weather didn’t curtail every weekend event.
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Letters to the Editor
Hotties Thank you for the perspicacious choice of Tiger Book Store’s Chloe Nikodem for your list of hotties (February 9th issue). She’s the best thing to happen to Memphis advertising since the Watson gal got disqualified for not actually living here. Chloe — who shares her name with my daughter — gets my rah-rah on. […]
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thursday February 16 Ed Polcer and His Jazz All Stars The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 7 p.m., $15-$25 Cornetist Ed Polcer, a former member of the Benny Goodman Sextet, has been active on the jazz circuit for more than three decades. Backed by his band of all-stars — Tom Fischer on clarinet and tenor sax, […]
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Record Reviews
From a Compound Eye Robert Pollard (Merge Records) Indie elder ditches the drunks, finds focus. I think it’s a safe bet that Guided By Voices mastermind Robert Pollard will never put out a genuinely poor record. Not even from the confines of a nursing home — and he will be putting out records from the […]
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WHAT’S ON THE BLOG?
What DO those Islamic cartoons look like? Wanna see? PLUS: Ford on Fabricating at Funerals; The Love-Pat from State-of-the-Union night(Yeah, you know what we’re talking about), The Tower of Terror! And other unmissable new stuff. Up above at Let It Fly
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Letters to the Editor
Father Tim? I love Tim Sampson and I want to have his baby! (Okay, I’m lying about the baby part.) But I think Sampson has been one of the most entertaining writers in Memphis for years. (Many of your readers may not realize just what an integral part Sampson played in the start-up of the […]
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thursday February 9 Opening Reception for Danny Broadway Memphis Botanic Garden, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Reception for this exhibit of vibrant paintings by local artist Danny Broadway. This show is in honor of Black History Month. Artist Studio Visit Studio of Terri Jones and Greely Myatt, location given upon registration, 6-7 p.m., free to Delta Axis members, […]
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Record Reviews
Indie-pop princess gets less adventurous on country-soul solo debut but still shines. “Indie-pop princess” probably doesn’t sound like a promising source for a first-rate country-soul album, a feat that demands vocal chops at least as much as a handle on the concept. But singers who fit that description don’t usually have a voice like Jenny […]
