Cross Words What’s the deal? No New York Times crossword puzzle, no Car Talk, no News of the Weird in your January 26th issue. The Flyer is fast becoming a mirror of its newsstand price: nothing. John Harwell Memphis I was shocked not to find the crossword puzzle in your last issue. If this feature […]
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thursday February 2 4th Annual Non-profit Expo Memphis Botanic Garden, 5:30-8 p.m. Event hosted by the civic organization MPACT Memphis to match volunteers to more than 30 nonprofit groups, including the Ronald McDonald House, Memphis in May, Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the Church Health Center, and 100 Black Men. Magic: The […]
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The Greatest Cat Power (Matador) With a dose of Memphis soul, an indie songwriter makes her old sound new again. In 2005, Chan Marshall recorded The Greatest, her seventh record as Cat Power, in town at Ardent Studios. She recruited an impressive roster of local musicians that included Mabon “Teenie” Hodges and Leroy “Flick” Hodges […]
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EDITORIALS: “Wishful Thinking,” “Coretta Scott King”
A decision looms for District 29; a great lady leaves us.
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Letters to the Editor
Control of the Court Clearly, the Supreme Court of the United States has become something that the Founding Fathers never intended. This is made clear by former 7th District congressman Ed Bryant when he said, “After Alito, we [Republicans] will need one more to ensure long-term control of the court” (Politics, January 19th issue). The […]
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thursday January 26 One Day Is Not Enough: Memphis Desegregation Through the Lens of Ernest Withers Pink Palace, 6-8 p.m. Reception for an exhibit of work by prominent local photographer Ernest Withers. This is the first of a series, which focuses on the African-American experience in Memphis. Gallery Talk Debbie Shmerler Memphis College of Art, […]
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Strokes used to sound great; now more filling. Four years after the avalanche of media hype that greeted it and the hipster-backlash tsunami that followed, you might think the Strokes’ debut Is This It would sound pretty underwhelming. But it still sounds great to me. The secret of the band’s success was that they were […]
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Letters to the Editor
Too Clever? John Branston is too clever by half regarding the process for mayoral succession in the event of a recall in his latest column (City Beat, January 12th issue), stating the following: “If you think ‘the person so designated to succeed the mayor’ is clear language, then you are not familiar with lawyers, local […]
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Getting Some Distance
Former 7th District congressman Ed Bryant, now a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, predicted Saturday that the current ethics scandal in Washington centering around disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff “is going to spread.” Speaking to attendees of the monthly Dutch Treat Luncheon at the Picadilly Restaurant in East Memphis, Bryant said, “I hear that as […]
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Tuesday January 24 Los Angeles Piano Quartet University of Memphis Harris Hall, 7:30 p.m., $30 Part of the Concerts International series, this chamber-music quartet will perform selections from Mozart, including the Sonata in G Major for violin and piano. The Taming of the Shrew The Orpheum, 7 p.m., $8-$20 Shakespeare comedy about two men after […]
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Carol Fan While I appreciate most of what Jackson Baker writes, I have to take issue with his recent comments (Politics, December 29th issue) about Carol Chumney. Regardless of whether or not she may be considering a run for mayor of Memphis, Chumney is not standing up to the mayor and the other council members […]
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friday January 13 Reelfoot Lake Eagle Festival Reelfoot Lake, www.reelfoot.com, Worth the two-hour drive north, this festival includes pontoon boat rides over the shallow Reelfoot Lake (which was created during the earthquakes of 1811 and 1812) and bus rides around the area in search of the 200 or so eagles that make this their winter […]
