The NBA trade deadline is fast approaching and rumors surrounding Phoenix Suns all-star forward Amare Stoudemire are rampant. Flyer Grizzlies writer Chris Herrington first reported Sunday night that the Grizzlies are among the teams in active trade discussions with Phoenix. The league’s trade deadline is Thursday, February 19th. Follow all the intrigue at our Grizzlies blog, Beyond the Arc.
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District Attorney and MPD Close Four Drug Houses
Broken pieces of sheet rock and rusty nails litter the floor inside the derelict shotgun shack at 2387 Park Avenue in Orange Mound. There’s not a piece of furniture in sight.
The abandoned home, which sits next door to the Orange Mound Development Corporation, served as a crack house until it was boarded up over the weekend in a joint effort by District Attorney Bill Gibbons’ office and the Memphis Police Department’s Blue Crush operation. …
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Take the Plunge and Celebrate the Ox This Weekend
In years past, Polar Bear Plungers have ignored icy-cold temperatures to take the annual dip into the Mississippi River. But this year’s participants lucked out with temps expected in the high 60s tomorrow. Folks will face slightly warmer waters as they plunge to raise funds for the Special Olympics. Join them or just watch while you nosh on chili from the event’s chili cook-off tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the Mud Island River Park. …
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Bad News for Bad People: RIP Lux Interior
Cramps front-thing Lux Interior died yesterday of heart failure. He was 60 … something, depending on whose dates you believe.
The last time I saw Interior was some time in the late 1990s. He was sitting in a booth at the Arcade restaurant waiting on an early afternoon breakfast and looking as though he’d just walked off the stage. His black mascara was smeared and running down his face, making his long pale face look even more corpselike beneath a shock of spiky dyed black hair. …
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Win Tickets to Legally Blonde at the Orpheum!
We’re giving away a pair of tickets each week until the week the show opens. Each week is a different drawing and each week the tickets get better! Enter as many times as you like, as often as you like. Winners will be notified by email on the morning of each drawing. Here are the […]
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Vance Fondly Remembers (maybe a bit too fondly) the WHBQties
Where, oh where, is Debbie Haggard today, I wonder?
Years ago, when I was weary of wandering the lonely halls of the Lauderdale Mansion, I cheered myself up by fiddling with the broken aerial on our only working television, and tuning in to the coolest show in town, namely Talent Party …
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Fly on the Wall
Players Club Revisited In 2006, Fly on the Wall introduced its readers to the strange case of Telly Savalas Johnson, a Memphian who shares the better part of his name with the now-deceased actor famous for playing Kojak, TV’s iconic, lollypop-licking cop. Johnson, now 24, was arrested after allegedly firing shots into a van full […]
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Cab Ad
With the recent dip in the economy, several Beale Street businesses hope to drive more customers into the area with local taxicabs. Figuratively speaking, that is. Taking a cue from NASCAR, Blues City Café, Club 152, and Blues City General Store are the first merchants to try the “AutoGlove,” a fabric cover that stretches to […]
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The Future of Print
Almost nothing has worked this year for E. W. Scripps, the parent company of The Commercial Appeal. First, however, a little perspective is in order. The CA can and does still make money, although Scripps won’t say how much or what its profit margin is at individual properties. The Scripps newspaper chain earned $58 million […]
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Circuit’s “History Boys”: Not Quite Right, Not Half Bad
I left Circuit Playhouse’s mostly entertaining production of The History Boys with a song on my lips. It wasn’t, I am sorry to say, one of the songs prominently featured in the show’s ostentatious sound design. It was a Smiths’ song, “The Queen is Dead.” …
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Kustoff to Chair Gibbons Campaign for Governor
David Kustoff, the former U.S. Attorney who along with the local F.B.I. bureau presided over the Operation Clean Sweep and Main Street Sweeper anti-corruption stings, has been named chairman of the gubernatorial campaign of his onetime opposite number and fellow Memphian, District Attorney General Bill Gibbons.
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City Plans for Parks
Looks like the city of Memphis is looking closely at its parkland.
The City Council heard from Parks Services Director Cindy Buchanan today about an upcoming city parks master plan.
“The purpose for this project is to provide recreational activities in the best fiscal manner,” she said.