Tony award-winning play, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, is playing at Playhouse on the Square through September 6th.
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Roller Derby
The Honky Tonk Stomp roller derby event Saturday and Sunday
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Make It Count
“The census will document what’s going on in our country,” says Wayne Hatcher, census regional director. “It’s not the same country it was 10 or 20 years ago.”
Read more about the upcoming census count in Mary Cashiola’s In the Bluff column.
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Just One Minute
Can you get fit exercising one minute a day?
John Branston takes the time to explain in the GET MEMPHIS MOVING blog.
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A’blogging We Will Go
Good stuff in the staff blogs today: an Adam Sandler Movies List in Sing All Kinds; an Orpheum sneak-peek at Intermission Impossible; a possible post office closing from In The Bluff; legal troubles in City Beat; and a whole lot more.
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They Live Among Us
Spotted on a post around the corner from the Flyer offices is this Obama/Joker Socialist poster that’s been freaking people out on the West Coast.
We noticed it first on Monday — before it got rained on — in its full-color glory.
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Myron Lowery’s Rough Start
They’re former colleagues, but on Tuesday they were chippy, suspicious, abrupt, overly courteous, uncompromising, and not quite sure what to call Myron Lowery.
Read more about the interim mayor’s day with the City Council at John Branston’s City Beat: The Blog.
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Bianca Knows Best
Dear Bianca, I have a three-year-old son, and unlike most boys his age, he’s a little delicate. He’d rather play with dolls and host tea parties than play in the dirt. My best friend has a four-year-old son, and he’s all boy — toy cars, water guns, you name it. He’s also a little, um, […]
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Blog Blog Blog
From the Flyer‘s blogs: a preview of the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival in SING ALL KINDS; a cocktail that never was in HUNGRY MEMPHIS; what John Branston did for his summer vacation in GET MEMPHIS MOVING; and confusion in the wake of Herenton’s departure in POLITICS BEAT. Check ’em out here.
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Billy Lee Riley, RIP
Guitars at half mast, please. Billy Lee Riley, the Sun Studio rockabilly artist who recorded atomic age classics such as “Flying Saucers Rock and Roll” and “Red Hot” is dead. Chris Davis pays tribute.
Posted inIntermission Impossible, Theater
Ostrander Nominees
On Sunday, August 30 the Memphis Theater Community will celebrate the best of the 2008-’09 season and raise a toast to actor/director, and recently retired University of Memphis theater professor Joanna “Josie” Helming when she receives the Eugart Yerian Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 26th annual Ostrander Awards. Helming was recruited to do her […]