Rick Messere unloaded three year’s worth of mostly empty paint cans and some old batteries on opening day at the Shelby County Hazardous Waste Facility Tuesday morning. He was one of about 60 county residents who took advantage of the center’s first day in business…
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Nutt Hotty-Toddied Wednesday
According to a report in Jackson, Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger, Ole Miss’ new football coach Houston Nutt received a standing ovation from fans Wednesday in Oxford.
“I feel like this place can be successful. I feel like this place can win.,” he said. “I can’t wait to tell (the players) that the way you spell fun is w-i-n.”…
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Syl Johnson Concert Monday NIght
Chicago soul man Syl Johnson will reunite with Memphis’ own Hi Rhythm section — which includes guitarist Mabon “Teenie” Hodges, bassist Leroy Hodges, organist Charles Hodges, and drummer Howard Grimes — Monday night in a special concert at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music…
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Lightman’s Excellent Cambodian Adventure
Memphis-born writer and MIT physicist Alan Lightman was the subject of a long profile in the The Boston Globe last week. The story recounts Lightman’s efforts to build a women’s college dorm in Cambodia…
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The Zoo Lights Up
The Memphis Zoo is sure to dazzle when SunTrust Zoo Lights kicks off Friday, November 23rd.
Boasting more than a million lights — including $100,000 worth of new light features and activities — visitors can tour the display on Friday and Saturday evenings through December 8th and nightly from December 14th to 23rd and December 26th to the 30th…
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Elvis is Alive Museum Comes Home!
Mississippian Andy Key has purchased the collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia displayed near St. Louis for the past 15 years as the Elvis is Alive Museum.
Key, 38, won an eBay auction held by museum owner Bill Beeny, 80. Items include documentation proving that Presley survived beyond the commonly accepted death date of August 16, 1977….
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John Daly, Literary Giant
Finally, some sweet relief for those of us still reeling from the death of Norman Mailer. Golfer John Daly is back with his second book, Golf My Own Damn Way: A Real Guy’s Guide to Chopping 10 Strokes Off Your Score….
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Elkington’s Birmingham Development Hits Delay
Beale Street developer John Elkington is facing price increases and delays in building an entertainment district in Birmingham.
Earlier this year his firm Performa Entertainment Real Estate was chosen by the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex to develop the downtown project, but economic factors, including a credit crunch, have slowed progress there. ..
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Ole Miss to Host Presidential Debate
Mark September 26, 2008 on your calendar. The non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced today that the first presidential debate will take place in Oxford, Mississippi…
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5-Year Plan Presented to Law Enforcement Consolidation Group
Saying it was just a “starting point,” County Commissioner Mike Carpenter officially presented his consolidation proposal to the law enforcement consolidation task force on Wednesday.
Carpenter’s plan suggests creating a Public Safety Commission that would guide a five-year consolidation process of the Memphis Police Department and the law enforcement duties of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. …
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Thompson to Feds: This Is No Game
Less than an hour after pleading not guilty to federal corruption charges Wednesday, former county commissioner Bruce Thompson, who is a competitive tennis player, took a few swings at the style and substance of the government’s case.
“This is not a game,” Thompson said in media appearance in attorney Leslie Ballin’s office. “This is my life. This is my freedom that is on the line here.”
That was a swipe at FBI Special Agent in Charge My Harrison who said Tuesday, “Same game, different name,” after the indictment was handed up…
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Get Surreal at Burke’s
The press release reads: “This inaugural issue contains dream stories, horror stories, monster stories, insanity, magical realism, the distorted, the peculiar, the impossible, the irrational.”
Must be the South, the surreal South, we’re talking about and as envisioned by a bunch of contributors in an anthology of short fiction and poetry called Surreal South…