A veritable grab-bag of candidates will be vying for the District 9, Position 1 city council seat being vacated by current council chairman Scott McCormick, who is leaving to take the helm at the Plough Foundation. Among those qualifying by Thursday’s deadline to run in the November special election to replace McCormick were (clockwise from top left): Antonio “2-Shay” Parkinson (here with daughter); Kemp Conrad; Paul Schaffer; and John Willingham. But there are more, more, more….
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Get Out This Weekend: To Midtown and Beyond
If you’re Jailhouse Rocked-out by this point in Elvis Week, here are a few other suggestions for the weekend.
Midtowners shouldn’t miss the opening reception for “This Is Midtown,” a collection of photographs from the city’s edgy, artsy sector by Tommy Wilson. The show opens tonight at 7 p.m. at the newly reopened Edge Coffee House on North Watkins….
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Calling All Photographers: Images Needed for “Memphis 8.16.08”
On Saturday, August 16th, between 12:01 a.m. and 11:59 p.m., the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is asking this city’s citizens of all ages, creeds, and colors to pick up their cameras and start shooting. The goal of “Day in the Life of Memphis” is to capture images of Memphis 2008.
“Day in the Life of Memphis” is the first time the museum has made such a large call for entries…
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Literacy Council’s “Taste of Cooper-Young” Tickets On Sale
Tickets are currently on sale for “Taste of Cooper-Young,” a popular fund-raising progressive dinner to benefit the Memphis Literacy Council. The event is Thursday, August 21st. Last year’s event sold out.
“The issue for us is getting the word out — not only who we are but about the problem in Memphis. One in three people in Memphis are functionally illiterate,” explains Debra Hall of the Literacy Council. “It’s really a call to let the community know that we have a problem, because we can’t solve it if they don’t know about it.”…
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Best of Memphis: Last Day To Vote
Voting in the 2008 Best of Memphis Readers’ Poll ends tonight at 11:59 p.m.
To have your voice heard on everything from the best tapas place and favorite tattoo parlor to Memphis’ “best” failure of 2008 and the best athlete, go here.
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The Edge Coffeehouse Reopens
In August 1997, the Edge, the popular Midtown coffeehouse owned by Frank James, moved to 1913 Poplar, in a space now occupied by the Hi-Tone.
Almost a year later, customers who stood in front of the Edge’s locked doors found a Post-It note. “I’ll be back” is all that James had written.
James and the Edge (not to mention its popular signature drink the “Avalanche) are indeed back …
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Isaac Hayes Memorial Set for Monday
The family of Isaac Hayes has announced that a memorial service will be held for the late soul icon Monday at Hope Presbyterian Church from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hope Presbyterian is located at 8500 Walnut Grove Road in Cordova.
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Music Legend Isaac Hayes Dies
Isaac Hayes, the great Memphis singer/composer who helped make Stax-Volt a major record company in the ‘60s and ‘70s and whose extended oeuvres of soul and r & b hits made himself a household name for the last several decades., was pronounced dead Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East. Hayes, who had been in declining health for some time, could still electrify audiences in his
increasingly rare public appearances.
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Isaac Hayes’ Homecoming Interview With the Flyer
For the last seven years of his life, Isaac Hayes lived among his fellow Memphians as a revered musical and cultural figure. In late 2001, Flyer music editor Chris Herrington interviewed Hayes upon his return here after a six-year professional sojourn in New York.
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Memphis: A City of Losers That Produced Elvis?
We’re losers. That’s what one Brit writer decided anyway …
“By the time we got to the Zippin’ Pippin it was midnight. My guide, Mike McCarthy, had led a ghost tour of Beale Street — a thoroughfare routinely described as the birthplace of the blues — which ended at the statue of the young Elvis Presley. Then, the real tour began …”
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Grizzlies in Free Agent Pursuit
The Memphis Grizzlies are extending a contract offer to Josh Smith, a high-flying free agent forward with the Atlanta Hawks, according to reports today in both The Commercial Appeal and The Atlanta Journal Constitution.