Former State senator Bowers was indicted by a state Grand Jury last week for reckless driving involving a car accident in August of last year….

Public radio personalities Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Dan Gediman will be at Davis-Kidd tonight to help celebrate the 35th anniversary of WKNO-FM radio. …

John Henson, host of TVGuide Channel’s Watch This, managed to insult the entire state of Mississippi…

ABC24/CW30 are holding an American Idol-like audition to fill its traffic reporter slot for its morning news program. The slot was vacated earlier this month by Joey Hadley….

Last Wednesday marked the 39th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in Memphis.

Dr. King made his first appearance in TIME magazine 51 years ago. The single paragraph devoted to him certainly gave readers a hint of the speaking ability and personal magnetism of the young civil-rights leader….

The best part of waking up is corruption in (or at least on) your cup. Some enterprising Memphian — could it be this guy? — has turned our scandal-prone city on the bluff into a cottage industry by creating a line of coffee mugs emblazoned with some now infamous comments by embattled Memphis politicians. And let’s face it, greeting the new day with a hilarious bon mot by Edmond Ford beats the heck out of some 20-year-old Far Side cartoon.

Former Memphian and one-time Head of the Class star Dan Schneider is featured in today’s New York Times Magazine. The article is about Schneider’s success as a writer of sitcoms on the Nickelodeon channel and his upcoming series iCarly. …

Are your thoughts with Cranbeary, the Memphis Zoo’s female polar bear, who broke her leg a few months ago? You can check the progress of her recovery on a blog set up by the bear’s keepers…

Peter Braunstein, the former Women’s Wear Daily columnist accused of arson, burglary, robbery, sexual abuse, and kidnapping, was arrested in Memphis in December 2005 after he fled New York. Braunstein, who stabbed himself in the neck when approached by police, will go on trial later this month…

Dress in your trailer park best (think daisy dukes, belly shirts, and high heels) and head to TheatreWorks tonight for Emerald Theatre Company’s Sordid Lives….

Ballet Memphis began a four night run at the Joyce Theatre in New York City Tuesday. A review in the New York Times called one of the sequences “exceptional” and lauded the “imaginative grit” of founder and artistic director Dorothy Gunther Pugh. …