Encore owner Jose Gutierrez is looking for recipes — not for his restaurant but for a cookbook he’s working on ….
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Pirates 3 a Wash?
Planning on topping off your Memorial Day weekend by seeing Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End? You might want to read the Flyer‘s review before you board this ship….
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U of M’s West Wants 5-Year Rule
University of Memphis football coach Tommy West has advocated five years of eligibility for Division I-A football players. (This would, in West’s view, alleviate some of the roster restraints due to injuries, red-shirting, and the 12-game schedule.) The NCAA rules committee seems ready to address the matter. Read more about it here.
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HIllary Clinton Will Not “Take You There”
Americans have no soul.
We make this conclusion from the results of Hillary Clinton’s campaign-song contest. Clinton had asked people to choose one of 9 songs — among them a Stax hit — that she should use as her campaign-theme song. Round one is over…
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Undead Invade Memphis
Tonight at 6:45 p.m. sharp, in front of the Old Daisy Theater, zombies will appear among the denizens of Beale and begin a slow, inexorable march through downtown Memphis…
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David Banner in New Batman Movie?
Will area rapper David Banner join Heath Ledger as a baddie in the latest Batman movie?…
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Kid Stuff
Voices of the South’s second annual Children’s Theater Festival gets underway tonight at 7 p.m. at Rhodes College with a pajama party and a performance of Eric Slangerup’s Dirt Boy. A bedtime story will be read by the author and milk and cookies are on the menu. …
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Praying on the Right Side of the Brain
Sybil MacBeth, a mathematics instructor and wife of the Reverend Andrew MacBeth, rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in downtown Memphis, has an innovative approach to praying. In her new book, Praying in Color she discusses “drawing a new path to God.” She means it, literally: It’s called doodling….
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Panda = Profits
Memphis Zoo officials have confirmed that the panda Ya Ya is pregnant after being artificially inseminated several months ago. That’s tremendous news — not only because these endangered animals are notoriously hard to breed in captivity, but because if all goes well, a baby panda would bring in thousands of visitors. …
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City Offers Money for Homicide Tips
The city of Memphis has established a $100,000 reward fund to encourage individuals to come clean with information about certain homicide cases. …
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Braunstein Convicted
On Wednesday, a jury found Peter Braunstein guilty of the Halloween 2005 attack on a young ex-colleague. Braunstein fled New York after the incident and was arrested in Memphis two months later. …
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Ophelia Ford Accused of Assault in Nashville
A Nashville cab driver says state senator Ophelia Ford assaulted him in his vehicle this week, according to a Metropolitan Nashville Police Department report obtained by the Flyer. …