There was a small piece of Memphis in last season’s Monday Night Football broadcasts, as Bluff City resident Joe Theismann was the lead analyst for ESPN’s first season with the popular franchise. That’s gonna change, though, as a former rival of Theismann’s will enter the booth as his replacement. …
Posted inPolitics, Politics Feature
EDITORIALS: “Facing the Stadium Issue” and “An Anniversary”
While much public emphasis is still being placed on a largely amorphous proposal by Mayor Herenton for a Fairgrounds stadium, there’s a better case to be made for an on-campus facility.
Posted inFilm Features, Film/TV
Recommended Viewing
When the Space Shuttle Columbia tragically disintegrated upon re-entry in 2003, it scattered debris and body parts all across Sabine, Texas. Of Good Courage, an unsettling but ultimately inspiring hour-long film assembled by David Perry and David Wayne Brown of the Memphis-based advertising agency Conaway-Brown documents the courageous efforts of Sabine’s citizens to recover the gruesome remains of seven lost astronauts. The Memphis International Film Festival screens Of Good Courage at Malco’s Studio on the Square on Saturday, March 24th at 10 a.m.
Read more on the film festival in this week’s Flyer.
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Daughter Writes Play on Fisher Case
“Memphis, Tennessee. A house with white pillars and black maids. Country clubs and aerobic classes. Drugs and murder. A story about the new South. Tragic, comic, startling.” That’s the description of Rebecca Fisher’s autobiographical, one-woman show, The Magnificence of the Disaster, on stage now in San Francisco. Fisher’s mother, Emily, was murdered in her Central Gardens home in 1995. …
Posted inBook Features, Books
Burke’s On the Move
Burke’s Book Store is moving this week from its Poplar location to its new home in Cooper-Young. To clear the book store before its move, they have a couple of deals they want to make…
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Where’s Ophelia? Ailing Memphis Senator Among the Missing on Capitol Hill
Democrats in the state Senate have been under strength of late. Although present (at far right) during last Thursday’s gubernatorial CoverTennessee announcement, Memphis senator Ophelia Ford, pleading illness, has been largely absent from the floor this session. With senators Cooper and Wilder out with injuries, that hurts the ‘D’ column, notes the Nashville Tennessean.
Posted inMusic, Music Features
Billy Gibson in Blues Revue Magazine
Mississippi bluesman Billy Gibson talks about the music world and his band inside the pages of Blues Revue magazine. …
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Diva Workshop
Do you have no interest in being in show-biz? Could care less about being the center of attention? Do your hissy-fits fizzle rather than sizzle? Then you, my friend, should really meet “The Diva Maker” — Jason Williams of the reality show Making the Band 3, who’ll be leading a workshop this Saturday….
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New Arts Fest Set for Downtown
Rumors have been around for months that the much-beloved annual Arts in the Park, which has been held at various locations — chiefly the Botanic Garden and Overton Park — will be moving to the South Main Arts District. …
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Things That Make You Go Hmmm
Someone is bound to make the Grizzlies sweat Wednesday night. It might be the Cleveland Cavs or if might be C+C Music Factory. Or it might be both. …
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Gest To Join Simon Cowell on TV Show?
A match made in heaven? Second only to marrying Liza Minnelli?
NowMagazine.com is reporting that David Gest may be joining Simon Cowell as a judge on the British reality series The X Factor …
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African Men’s Fashion at the Brooks
The Brooks Museum of Art is celebrating the opening of the exhibit “Power Dressing: Men’s Fashion and Prestige in Africa” with a free family day this Saturday. In addition to no-charge admission to the exhibit, visitors can create their own African-inspired art and clothes and will be treated to the song-and-dance rhythms of Watoto de Afrika….