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If you’ve got a short story on hand, you’re interested in possibly winning $1,000 for it, and you’d like to see it published in the pages of Memphis magazine, go to Memphismagazine.com. for details on the magazine’s annual fiction contest. But make it snappy. You’ve got until August 1st to enter.
Authors must live within 150 miles of Memphis, but stories do not have to have a Memphis or Southern theme.
MEMPHIS BAR ASSOCIATION 2006 JUDICIAL QUALIFICATION POLL The Memphis Bar Association released the results of its Judicial Qualification Poll on Friday, July 14, 2006, for the candidates in contested judicial elections on the August 3 ballot. The poll was sent to 3,025 attorneys in Memphis and Shelby County, including both members and non-members of the […]
On Wednesday, there will be a screening of The Damnedest, Finest Ruins, a documentary about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The screening will be followed by a discussion by the filmmaker James Dalessandro and experts on the New Madrid fault line. They’ll talk about the threat of earthquake and how to be prepared. The event will be in the City Council chamber in City Hall, starting at 6:30 p.m.
The City Council parks committee discussed Tuesday where the Grand Carousel — once a mainstay of the now-defunct Libertyland — should be located. The Riverfront Development Corporation wouldn’t mind seeing it on Mud Island. Other people have suggested moving it to the zoo, but the zoo already has a carousel. City attorney Sara Hall told council members the city is still trying to find a site where it would add value and interest.
Which got us thinking: Where would be the perfect place for the carousel? Near Winchester and the Statue of Liberation? On the Main Street Mall? Right where it is?
Let us know — email the Flyer — and we’ll run the best ideas in the paper.
1 Voters will be confronted with as many as 150 different choices when they step into the booths for the August 3rd election. And just to make it more confusing: The county will be using brand-new electronic voting machines, which voters have never seen before. If you don’t vote early, you might want to bring […]
Out on DVD today is Edison Force, the thriller starring Justin Timberlake as a news reporter. While this was supposed to be Timberlake’s first major splash on the big screen, the film, which also stars Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman, was never released to theaters.
The City Council parks committee discussed Tuesday where the Grand Carousel — once a mainstay of the now-defunct Libertyland — should be located. The Riverfront Development Corporation wouldn’t mind seeing it on Mud Island. Other people have suggested moving it to the zoo, but the zoo already has a carousel. City attorney Sara Hall told council members the city is still trying to find a site where it would add value and interest.
Which got us thinking: Where would be the perfect place for the carousel? Near Winchester and the Statue of Liberation? On the Main Street Mall? Right where it is?
Let us know — email the Flyer — and we’ll run the best ideas in the paper.
Last week, Memphian Jimi Jamison announced that he has left the band Survivor (“High on You”) over creative and business differences. Jamison joined the band in 1984, but for the past decade and a half, the relationship has been complicated. Robin McAuley, of the McAuley Schenker Group, will replace him.
The City Council parks committee discussed Tuesday where the Grand Carousel — once a mainstay of the now-defunct Libertyland — should be located. The Riverfront Development Corporation wouldn’t mind seeing it on Mud Island. Other people have suggested moving it to the zoo, but the zoo already has a carousel. City attorney Sara Hall told council members the city is still trying to find a site where it would add value and interest.
Which got us thinking: Where would be the perfect place for the carousel? Near Winchester and the Statue of Liberation? On the Main Street Mall? Right where it is?
Let us know — email the Flyer — and we’ll run the best ideas in the paper.
Starting this week, Winchester Park (otherwise known as “Intown”) will be the focus of a charrette by the 2006 Knight Program in Community Building, which is based out of the University of Miami school of architecture. A charrette is a collaborative undertaking that calls upon ordinary members from a community to work alongside professional designers to brainstorm, share, debate, and at last create a workable plan for further public observation and revision. It’s being held July 17-22 at St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral downtown.
One day after signing with the team, Grizzlies rookie Rudy Gay made his NBA debut with the Grizzlies’ summer league team in Los Angeles yesterday, scoring 21 points in 24 minutes to help the Grizzlies to a 121-117 overtime win over the Dallas Mavericks’ summer squad. For links to how the young Grizzlies have faired this summer and other news, notes, and analysis, see Beyond the Arc, the Flyer’s Grizzlies blog.
Mahmoud Mawaad, the University of Memphis student whose unusual interest in pilot gear attracted the attention of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, was sentenced Friday to 13 months in prison on fraud charges.
Mawaad was indicted on federal charges on September 29, 2005 and plead guilty on June 5, 2006. He used a fraudulent social security number to open a checking account and enter school. He also had an expired immigration visa.
Federal prosecutors took a special interest in Mawaad because he ordered several items from Sportys USA, a pilot equipment and training material distributor. Mawaad was not a licensed pilot, but ordered information on “how to talk like a pilot” and the layout of Memphis International Airport.
Read previous coverage of the case in the Flyer.
