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Volunteer Memphis is a group that matches people to volunteer projects. Hands on Memphis is another group that matches people to volunteer projects. Yesterday, it was announced the two groups will merge.
Ken Hall, former excutive director of Hands on Memphis, said the merger will help the nonprofits that both groups serve.
The new group will probably not be called Hands on Memphis Volunteers. A name will be announced in the future.
Tonight at 9 p.m., on the last evening of the Indie Memphis Film Fest, Mike McCarthy will screen Memphicentric, a mix of the local filmmaker’s old and new work. Among the offering is a sneak preview of Destroy Memphis, the documentary about the effort by grassroots group Save Libertyland! to keep the amusement park open. The screening is at Muvico.
A closing night party for the film fest follows at 11:30 p.m. at Earnestine & Hazel’s.
Northwest, Continental, United, and American airlines all want to go to China.
The four airline carriers have been asking customers to …
Sports Illustrated doesn’t stop at 25 in their weekly Power Rankings. On this week’s chart, the University of Memphis sits precisely at 100, with their eye of the Tiger firmly on the Bulldogs of Mississippi State (98). A short winning streak might allow the U of M to catch C-USA rival Rice and break into the Top 90. Keep your fingers crossed, and check out the complete rankings at the Sports Illustrated site.
“Timberlake’s duds are disco-ready,” according to an AP report about a fashion show for William Rast, a line of clothing Timberlake and a friend created about a year ago.
The show, the runway debut of William Rast, was held in a Hollywood nightclub…
Just in time for Halloween, local orthopedic center, the Campbell Clinic passes along some tips from the American Society for Surgery of the Hand on how to carve a pumpkin safely.
To read those tips, click on the headline.
To learn how to carve a pumpkin that looks like Elvis, go to Spookmaster.com.
Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings was in Memphis last weekend for the Southern Festival of Books. Judging from his blog entries — which refer to Elvis glasses, coleslaw, and a sexy elevator — it sounds like he had a good time.
The Indie Memphis Film Festival continues today at Muvico’s Peabody Place theatre, and the best bet might be Reel Man, a documentary about industrial and educational film archivist Skip Eisheimer, which screens at 8:30 p.m., with an appearance and demonstration by Eisheimer. To learn more about Eisheimer’s organization, A/V Geeks, see their Web site. For more information on the Indie Memphis Film Festival, see the festival Web site.
To read what one Flyer critic has to say about Eisheimer and Reel Man, click on the headline.
Not long before the David Gest and Liza Minnelli marriage crumbled, they were working on a reality series for VH1.
The show never made it to air, but you can now watch the pilot on YouTube.
It was an interesting Tuesday evening at the Cannon Center. In one part, Stevie Wonder received the National Civil Rights Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Freedom Awards ceremony. In another, humorist David Sedaris read several of his essays and talked about possibly moving to Japan to quit smoking. Or try to, for the first time in his life.
And, yes, we know that’s a picture of Amy Sedaris, David’s sister. David declined to tell any “Amy stories” — saying now that she was known it felt like gossip — so to the audience member who asked, we hope this offers some solace. Oh, and she has a new book out, so you can read about her yourself.
Every October, the Major League Baseball playoffs offer up a surprising hero or three. From Don Larsen to Edgar Renteria, the game’s biggest stage is often stolen by the supporting player you’d least expect. Such was the case last Friday night when — in the Big Apple, no less — So Taguchi drilled a game-winning home run off the Mets’ dominant closer, Billy Wagner. Read ESPN.com’s Jayson Stark’s take on the heroics of this former Memphis Redbird.
Last week, while looking something up about Bookstar, we happened upon Urinals.net, a site dedicated to urinals around the world. Bookstar’s pink urinal is featured, as well as several others in the area.
