If you were to get up early and try your talents at being a sports team’s announcer, the Memphis Grizzlies are holding open auditions for the “Voice of the Grizzlies” for all home games this morning at The Pyramid at 10 a.m. Later, there’s an opening reception at Memphis College of Art for “Horn Island […]
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friday, 24
Two art-openings tonight: at Rhodes College’s Clough-Hanson Gallery, for an exhibition of works by Amanda McKnight, Solomon Livingston, Jenean Morrison, and Gable Martin; and at the Buckman Center, for works by Leigh O’Rourke. Also opening tonight is Art at Playhouse on the Square. If you want to wish Miss Cordelia Turley a happy 90th birthday […]
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Short Cuts
Overdub Davíd Garza (Lava/Atlantic) On his first two albums, Texas singer-songwriter Davíd Garza played a brand of caffeinated, highly danceable pop music built on infectious Latin rhythms and intelligent, heartfelt lyrics. But on his third album, 1995’s Blind Hips In Motion, he opted for a drastically different sound that relied on lots of production quirks […]
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wednesday, august 22
Bruce Barham is performing muligenre music from over three decades tonight at the P&H Cafe. And Ol’ Yeller and Tyler Keith & The Preacher’s Kids are at Young Avenue Deli. And now I must go. As always, I really don’t care what you do this week, because I don’t even know you and unless you […]
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POOR FRED
A blue Christmas may very well be on the way for FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith. With profits down significantly, Smith’s annual bonus was a meager $940,827, a full 10 percent off last year’s $1.05 million. Fly on the Wall will be hosting a food drive to aid Smith’s beleagured family in their time […]
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KREATURE COMFORTS
A recent Elvis-related article in London’s Sunday Telegraph quoted Kreature Comfort: The Lowlife Guide to Memphis, a tool for alternative tourists published by Shangri La records. The article cites the guide’s claim that a trip to Memphis offers tourists both the best and the worst in vacation opportunities, saying, “You could hit a jamming Keith […]
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tuesday, august 21
I have but seven words for tonight: Your guess is as good as mine….One would think one could rake in a little extra cash by helping some of you out with a little publicity, but such is not the case. The band Big Ass Truck did send me a cake one time with their name […]
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monday, August 20
I have but one word for tonight: Melange. Yes, it’s still out of hand there in the M Bar on Monday nights with deejays RickStylus and Sean OD. — T.S.
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KREATURE COMFORTS
A recent Elvis-related article in London’s Sunday Telegraph quoted Kreature Comfort: The Lowlife Guide to Memphis, a tool for alternative tourists published by Shangri La records. The article cites the guide’s claim that a trip to Memphis offers tourists both the best and the worst in vacation opportunities, saying, “You could hit a jamming Keith […]
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SIM MEMPHIS
The hottest trend in the art world today appears to be the emulation of video games. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is displaying a 1997 work by artist Miltos Manetas in which Tomb Raider‘s curvey heroine Laura Croft dies in a number of gruesome ways. Phoenix-based artist John Haddock has likewise jumped on […]
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sunday, august 19
I have but two words for tonight: Denise LaSalle. Yes, the R&B superstar is at Club 152 on Beale St. —T.S.
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saturday, August 18
While I really haven’t kept up with things this year, tonight is the grand finale of the Images of Elvis impersonator contest at the Holiday Inn Select, so I suppose this is the night the winner will be named at Today’s 19th Annual Elvis Presley International 5K Run and Fun Walk — a fund-raiser for […]