ESPN, the arbiter of all things sports, has an opinion in the person of writer David Duffey. His “Bottom 10” column celebrates the badness of the worst 10 teams in college football each week. This week, he names Memphis the 7th worst …
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Kurt Tops Elvis
It looks like Courtney Love and Co. earned more in the past 12 months from Kurt Cobain’s estate than CKX did from Elvis’. Forbes sixth annual list of top-earning celebrities was released this month, with Kurt Cobain topping the charts. …
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Dating, Pre-Internet: Trial and Errors
“The Internet has brought with it much joy and heartache since Al Gore single-handedly created it (and recently, when Mark Foley apparently often used it single-handedly as well). …”
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John Schneider Movie Premiere
On Friday, October 27th at Cineplanet 16 in Atoka, Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider will premiere Collier & Co, a movie he wrote, directed, and starred in.
The premiere is part of …
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Scary Stuff
Warren Community Church in Somerville is set to open its Judgment House today. A religious alternative to haunted houses…
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Gold Rush at Graceland
Survivor creator Mark Burnett’s latest venture is an online pop-culture-trivia gameshow called Gold Rush, in which contestants vie for more than $1 million in prizes.
Today’s Gold Rush episode was filmed at Graceland, and …
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Herenton: Ford Gets a Pass on Race
Even as the national media are conferring Noble Victim status on Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. for alleged race-based innuendoes in an RNC-sponsored TV commercial which GOP opponent Bob Corker has repudiated, Memphis mayor Willie Herenton sees Ford as getting a full pass on the racial front because of his light skin. “He can go places and do things that I can’t,” says the mayor. As for Herenton himself, who faces reelection next year, “I’m just too dark.” For other ruminations on race and the races, including a reminder of the testy relationship between Memphis’ best-known African-American office-holders, go to “Political Beat”.
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SI on Memphis Basketball
Sports Illustrated has released its forecast for the 2006-07 NBA season, and Memphis fans beware. Prospects for the Grizzlies earning their first Southwest Division title look rather grim. Read about it here.
More about Memphis hoops comes from SI.com’s Seth Davis, who was in town last week to file a report on the University of Memphis basketball team’s prospects for the 2006-07 season. He covered everything from ….
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Feed the Kids for Free
Kids can eat for free (or almost free) seven days a week at various area restaurants — even Hooters.
Read all about it in the Flyer.
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Infamous Memphis Censor Built Lincoln American Tower
With all the news about the Lincoln American Tower — one of four downtown buildings heavily damaged or destroyed in last week’s downtown blaze — so far nobody has mentioned the building’s most famous — some would say infamous — tenant.
Lloyd T. Binford, president of the Memphis branch of the Columbia Mutual (later Lincoln American) Insurance Company, had the gleaming white tower built in 1925 overlooking Court Square. But insurance was just his day job…
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John Hodgman at Square Books
John Hodgman — New York Times Magazine editor, Daily Show correspondent, Mac spokesman, and author — is coming to Oxford, Mississippi’s Square Books on Saturday, October 28th at 4 p.m. to sign The Areas of My Expertise, now in paperback.
The Areas of My Expertise is a reference guide with facts that aren’t always factual.
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Bill Cosby at the Orpheum
Bill Cosby raises funds for the historically black liberal arts college Dillard University, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, with a show Saturday, October 21st, at the Orpheum Theater.