This Memphis In May, vow to do something besides than chugging beer and pigging out on barbecue. After all, isn’t this year’s festival really about honoring Spain? Start by exploring Spanish architecture…
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Be a Frynd
Now this could be interesting. Lynyrd Skynyrd and Hank Williams Jr. are holding a “Rowdy Frynd” contest to promote their current Rowdy Frynds tour. …
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Vintage Designer Sale Friday and Saturday
Dress for Success provides business wear and accessories to disadvantaged women to help them in their careers, but on Friday and Saturday, they’ll be broadening their stylish outreach…
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Calling All Hipsters-in-Training
On Saturday, Memphis Rock-n-Romp, an afternoon rock-and-roll show for kiddies and their parents — is opening its new season. …
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Local Cartoonist Up for Eisner Award
Joel Priddy, cartoonist and instructor at the Memphis College of Art, has been nominated for a Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the most prestigious in the business.
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Johnny Taylor Opening Reception Tonight at Jay Etkin
There’s an opening reception tonight at Jay Etkin Gallery for “27,” a new collection of work by local artist Johnny Taylor.
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Hampton Sides Takes on MLK
Native Memphian Hampton Sides, who wrote Ghost Soldiers, will be taking on the King assassination for his next book project. Sides is planning on writing a “big, multi-tentacled narrative” of “novelistic intrigue.” …
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Sing It, Celine and Elvis!
In case you missed it, last night on American Idol Celine Dion and Elvis Presley sang a duet — and, yes, Elvis is still dead as far as we know. We cannot vouch for Celine…
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“Other Way Round” at Studio on the Square Tonight
In Other Way Round, the feature film debut by Memphian Brian Pera, memory, identity, interpersonal connectivity, and grief are commingled to form a work that is literate and artistic. Filmed digitally (on a Canon XL2) in Memphis, West Memphis, and Hardy, Arkansas, Other Way Round invokes William Faulkner, Eastern philosophy, and the psychology of loss.
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Daly Ad Rejected by CBS
According to a story in today’s New York Times, a TV ad featuring John Daly has been rejected by CBS for being inappropriate. The ad, for the golf ball maker MaxFli, shows Daly driving a golf cart and holding what looks to be a beer.
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Darcey Steinke at Burke’s
“Seldom had there been the quiet beauty and happiness I had now,” writes novelist Darcey Steinke in her new memoir, Easter Everywhere (Bloomsbury, $24).
Steinke, who’ll be at Burke’s Book Store on Monday, was writing about the time she at the University of Mississippi on a Grisham Fellowship… .
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Nouvelle Star Contestant Takes on “Heartbreak Hotel”
Via perezhilton.com comes this video of a contestant on Nouvelle Star, France’s version of American Idol. Julien performs an English-mangling, almost unbearable “Heartbreak Hotel.” Enjoy!