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In the past 1,000 issues, Flyer staffers have written plenty of words about issues that, quite frankly, just don’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
“The Girls Next Door” by Kate Leneham (July 1989)
Although the city government and the private sector had poured money into rejuvenating South Main in the mid-’80s, Leneham’s story highlights the street’s age-old prostitution problem, which just wouldn’t go away…
This week, Memphis magazine resident historian Vance Lauderdale peeks into his mailbag:
Robert Lanier of Memphis recently sent me an Associated Press newsclipping from a Washington, D.C., newspaper. The headline was “NAZI IN FULL UNIFORM ARRESTED IN MEMPHIS” and it was dated August 14, 1945….
Some 50 years ago, motorists could keep track of traffic deaths in Memphis thanks to a handy illuminated sign erected at the corner of Poplar and Highland that counted the number of fatalities throughout the year.
Well, the Fire Museum of Memphis has adopted a similar approach, with a twist…
The first hat has been thrown into the ring in the 2010 Tennessee governor’s race, and it belongs to former state Rep. and House Majority Leader Kim McMillan of Clarksville. A spokesman for Democrat McMillan said Saturday that she had filed papers to form an exploratory committee for the race.
It took the Flyer almost 20 years to produce this, our 1,000th weekly issue. By the time we crank out issue number 2,000, Memphis as we know it may be unrecognizable. At the moment, developers and promoters are still presenting grand schemes for many of our city’s landmarks: The Pyramid, Beale Street Landing, Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, the Mid-South Coliseum, the old Mid-South Fairgrounds site, and Shelby Farms.
It remains to be seen how many of these plans remain forever on the drawing boards. Not to be too pessimistic about it, but it might be instructive to look back at a few other grand illusions in our city’s past…
The Center City Commission plan to halt aggressive panhandling by hiring a security force to patrol the area began April 1st.
Even in the program’s first weeks, there already has been a noticeable change…
Joe Davis, the relentless, hair-tossing, drummer for Memphis’ notorious garage band The Guilloteens passed away on April 20th, in Dallas, Texas. He was 63.
In the mid 1960s, The Guilloteens stood out even in a fertile scene that included Flash & The Casuals, Tommy Burke & the Counts, and The Box Tops….
Kick off the weekend with the undead at the second annual Memphis Zombie Massacre, a South Main parade of Memphians decked out in fake blood and zombie costumes. Don’t know how to achieve a deathly pallor with pancake makeup? No problem. Just place an “x” on your shirt with duct tape, stroll around the South Main Trolley tour, and wait for the zombies to show up and “eat your brains” (a.k.a. zombify you with fake blood and makeup). The march steps off at 7:15 p.m. tonight in front of the New Daisy Theatre and ends at Earnestine and Hazel’s.
Or if you prefer a classier evening, head to the Germantown Community Theatre for The Underpants…
Just for Lunch is an “old-new” restaurant that opened at Chickasaw Oaks Plaza two weeks ago in the space recently vacated by Elfo’s.
“Just for Lunch came before Just Catering, but people who haven’t been in Memphis for the past 27 years might not know that,” says Ann Barnes, the force and soul behind both businesses.
A white woman, wearing a too-tight leopard print shirt and cut-off jean shorts, is loitering outside the Mystik gas station on Jackson Avenue. As a tan car pulls up and rolls down the passenger-side window, the woman leans in and mouths something to the male driver. She opens the passenger door and nonchalantly hops in.
Little did she know, the driver of the tan car was actually an undercover officer wearing a wire. When she made the offer for her sexual services, other officers were listening in and waiting to pounce…
You’ve switched to energy efficient bulbs. You bring your own reusable canvas bags to the grocery store. And the next car on your shopping list is definitely a hybrid. What more can you do? Find out at multiple Earth Day celebrations this weekend.
Begin tonight at the Green Shoe Gala at Shelby Farms Park at 6 p.m. The annual green-themed park fund-raiser features plenty of schmoozing, boozing, a full organic dinner, and a silent auction. …
Want to see a crazy geriatric running naked through a terrible storm, howling like a scalded wolf?
Sorry to those who might be expecting a YouTube link or something, but this an act you’ll have to catch live.
Okay, John Malloy, the 75-year-old actor currently interpreting Shakespeare’s King Lear in a staged reading at Rhodes College, probably won’t strip to the buff. But you’ve got to believe this grizzled stage and screen vet when he promises to leave everything on stage….
