Multiple news sources are now reporting that New York Senator Hillary Clinton has communicated to supporters definite plans to close down her presidential campaign on Friday and concede the Democratic nomination to rival Barack Obama, whom she will endorse.
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Win Tickets to see Robert Plant and Alison Krauss THIS TUESDAY
Win tickets to see Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at Mud Island Amphitheater on July 8th!
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Stax Play “Ride On” Previews This Weekend
“Memphis didn’t have a professional football team or a professional basketball team [in the ’70s],” says freelance writer-turned-playwright Tony Jones chomping down on a footlong chili slaw dog from Al’s Tasty Burger on Crump. “What Memphis had was Stax records.”
Jones recalls the days when the Tasty Burger was located on McLemore near Stax records, and when the studio musicians would come into his mother’s beauty shop to bum enough change for one of Al’s slaw-and-baked-bean-slathered franks. These are the kinds of memories Jones shares in his play Ride On: How Stax Records Influenced our Dreams, which previews Sunday at Southwest Tennessee Community College….
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Filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai’s Trip through Americana Imagery
The corner of South Main and G.E. Patterson has to be one of the most filmed locations in the country outside of New York and Los Angeles. For the past 20 years or so, many films have been shot in Memphis, and it seems like they all end up at this intersection, especially within the doors of the Arcade restaurant. From Elvis ghost stories in Mystery Train to a pre-tragedy family milkshake break in 21 Grams to a bizarrely boisterous celebration of its perfectly respectably chili in Elizabethtown, the Arcade has become a movie star.
It can seem a little silly sometimes that in a city full of promising locations, this one intersection is so ubiquitous. That the great Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai chose to set a third of his American debut, My Blueberry Nights, in Memphis and the action takes place entirely in and around the Arcade and kitty-corner bar Earnestine & Hazel’s seems overly predictable.
Instead, My Blueberry Nights becomes something like the location’s apotheosis….
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Who’s Your Favorite?
The Ford family has a long and tumultuous history in Memphis politics. They’ve done a lot of good things and they’ve done some things that weren’t so good. Which led us to ask the question:
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Update on Chick-Fil-A and The Cumberland Presbyterian Center
After receiving numerous phone calls and emails from concerned Memphians, representatives for Chick-Fil-A flew in from Atlanta earlier this month to meet with Memphis Heritage, Inc. to discuss possibilities for adaptive reuse of the Cumberland Presbyterian Center on Union…
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Don’t Do BBQ? Here Are Some Alternatives
Swarms of Memphian are packing Tom Lee Park this weekend for the annual meat fest (otherwise known as the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest). It’s not a pretty sight if you’re not a fan of crowds or general drunken debauchery. Here are a few more options.
Get your barbecue fix without fighting the crowds at the Animal Protection Association’s Memphis in May Barbecue Party. Held in a location far, far away from downtown…
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Memphis Barbecue Network Forms
In late August 2007, Memphis In May sent out a letter explaining that in order to focus its resources on recruiting teams from around the world for its World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, the organization would no longer be sanctioning the 40 or so smaller barbecue contests across the country.
The announcement caused some concern among volunteers who had worked as barbecue contest representatives, and shortly after receiving the news, they formed the Memphis Barbecue Network. …
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“Spunk” Closes Sunday at Hattiloo
Bringing the Hattiloo Theatre’s auspicious second season to a strong close is Spunk, a lyrical adaptation of three Zora Neal Hurston short stories.
Hurston was a controversial figure during the Harlem Renaissance, and some reasons for the controversy are apparent in Spunk…
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“It Was A Near Run Thing”
The following remarks were given by Frederick W. Smith at University of Memphis graduation on May 3, 2008 at FedEx Forum. Smith, the founder and chairman of Memphis-based FedEx Corporation, received an honorary Doctorate of Letters.
“Let me thank my wife and mother who are in the audience. And let me thank the members of the FedEx team. It is really their efforts and their achievements that resulted in this recognition today…
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Memphis’ Holder to Become Chief Justice of State Supreme Court
State Supreme Court Justice Janice Holder of Memphis will
become Chief Justice of the Court, the first woman to hold the position. Holder’s elevation comes via a vote by her
colleagues on the Court in tandem with the retirement this week of Justice
William M. Barker of Chattanooga, who had been serving as Chief Justice.
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Mississippi Politics Get Dirty … Real Dirty
Good grief. Things are getting nasty in the race for Congress in Northern Mississippi. Check out Republican Greg Davis’ latest ad, in which he accuses opponent Travis Childers of embracing that Godless, America-hatin’ Barack Obama.