saturday December 31 The Wizard of Oz Playhouse on the Square, 6 p.m., Saturday, December 31st $20 for children, $35 for adults AutoZone Liberty Bowl Football Classic Liberty Bowl Stadium, noon (tickets, 795-9095) Annual New Year’s day football game. This year, it’s Tulsa versus Fresno State. Dave Matthews Tribute Band, Dog Hair, and The Jon […]
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Thursday December 15 Dragon Tales Live DeSoto Civic Center, 7 p.m., $15-$30 The gang from the PBS series Dragon Tales are all set to enjoy a concert in Dragon Land, but there’s no music. Emmy and her brother Max go on a mission to find the missing music. Runs through Sunday. Booksigning by Robert Hicks […]
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Thursday December 8 Women as Peacemakers VECA offices, 1680 Jackson, 6 p.m. Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, The Women’s Action Coalition, and the Vollintine-Evergreen Community Association host this event focusing on the role of women in bringing order to war-torn countries such as Rwanda, Israel/Palestine, and Liberia. Friday December 9 Memphis Symphony Orchestra Holiday Concert […]
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POLITICS: Party Time
This is the time of year when people in the political world both kick back and kick in.
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Nagin Comes, Sees, Conquers
The New Orleans mayor finds a home away from home at Memphis “town hall” meeting.
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We Recommend: 11-24-05
Thursday November 24 Thanksgiving Meal at Grill 83 Grill 83 in the Madison Hotel, 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m., $31-$38 Grill 83’s holiday menu includes a choice of free-range turkey with cornbread dressing, roasted Chilean sea bass on shrimp risotto, and herb-rubbed rack of lamb for the entrée and pumpkin cheesecake, bananas Foster, and chocolate mousse for […]
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The Stealth Issue
Nothing has underscored the problems of conducting public business so vividly as the ongoing fiasco of the Shelby County Commission’s attempts to deal with the medical malpractice issue. As we noted two weeks ago, the commission had just passed almost without debate a resolution urging the state legislature to approve significant caps on “non-economic” malpractice […]
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We Recommend: 11-10-05
Thursday November 10 Artist lecture Memphis College of Art, 6 p.m. An Irish artist by way of London, Anita McKeown was in Memphis earlier this year to collect the sounds and sights of the city. Invited by the UrbanArt Commission and sponsored by a Bravo grant, she called the project Memphis45s, and she called on […]
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We Recommend: 11-03-05
Thursday November 3 Lecture by Philip Pearlstein Memphis College of Art, 7 p.m. Two big doings at the Memphis College of Art this week as part of the school’s visiting-artist series: If it’s realism you want, see and hear master of contemporary figurative painting Philip Pearlstein, who’s lecturing in Callicott Auditorium on Thursday at 7 […]
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WHAT’S ON THE BLOG?
NEW: Excerpt’s from Scooter Libby’s Hot and Heavy Sex Book! What doth it all mean? We explain. PLUS: Fresh evidence (from official sources!) that the 2004 election was stolen!; Two Dirges for Tennessee; What did Harold Ford Jr. say, when did he say it, and what the hell did he mean by it?And more on the new Flyer blog, Let It Fly. (See above.)
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Listening Log
Sings Out Noise Choir (self-released) I’ve never been much for instrumental rock music, but as an Afropop devotee, the variation on the form presented by this five-song, 13-minute debut is close to my ideal: rhythmic and percussive, with bracing guitar lines and no indulgent solos — groove music twisted askew. Play it as background noise, […]
