I just don t know. Check out the new pub quiz at Dan McGuinness Pub.
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monday, july 23rd
I just don t know. Go to the Big S Lounge and eat your heart out.
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SPEAKING OF ISAAC HAYES . . .
The man who gave us Shaft has been lobbying for France to end its discrimination against fringe religions like Hayes own Church of Scientology. And he s right to do so. Even fantastic money-making schemes cooked up by a second-tier science fiction writer can be a legitimate religion if enough people believe in it. Why, […]
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COALS TO NEWCASTLE
That bad mutha-[censored] himself, the sexy Scientologist and soul man number one, Mr. Isaac Hayes, is opening a restaurant in Peabody Place downtown. The new eatery is a partnership between Hayes and not Corky s, Cozy Corner, Neely s, Interstate, Payne s, the Rendezvous, or any other local purveyor of our city s prized delicacy […]
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saturday, july 21st
One more art opening this evening: at Otherlands Coffee Bar, for paintings and drawings by Rick Ivy. If you want to have a big time and enjoy the best view of the Mississippi River in Memphis and help out a worthy cause, head down to the National Ornamental Metal Museum tonight for the Thirteenth Blues […]
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COALS TO NEWCASTLE
That bad mutha-[censored] himself, the sexy Scientologist and soul man number one, Mr. Isaac Hayes, is opening a restaurant in Peabody Place downtown. The new eatery is a partnership between Hayes and not Corky s, Cozy Corner, Neely s, Interstate, Payne s, the Rendezvous, or any other local purveyor of our city s prized delicacy […]
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PEOPLE REALLY DO READ FREE WEEKLIES
That was the headline for the Summer 2001 issue of Proofsheet, the journal of the Southeastern Advertising Publisher s Association, and, boy, are we relieved to hear it. It seems that Elaine A. Mueller, publisher of The Town Tooter, took advantage of Free Paper Week (March 18-24), which we didn t even know existed, to […]
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thursday, july 19th
Tonight, if you d like to eat dinner and see a little art, there s a July Wine Dinner at Melange, featuring hors d oeuvres and a gallery viewing across the street at Cooper-Young Gallery, then dinner back over at the restaurant with summer foods and wines. Reba Russell is playing tonight at Black Diamond. […]
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Short Cuts
Rooty, Basement Jaxx (Astralwerks) Discovery, Daft Punk (Virgin) Though the age of Dylan and the Beatles still seems to hold sway over pop music consciousness — the Bard’s 60th birthday and the Beatles’ shamefully useless Anthology repackaging have gotten more respectful attention than anything else music-related this year — you could make a compelling case […]
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DROOL
Revolver was once — briefly — a slender but fairly reputable music rag. Now it s 100 percent devoted to head-banging, devil-shouting, goat-exploding heavy-frikkin -metal. In the most recent issue a column titled At the Strip Club focuses on Memphian and Saliva frontman Josey Scott and his relationship with the nice girls at Platinum Plus. […]
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DROOL
Revolver was once — briefly — a slender but fairly reputable music rag. Now it s 100 percent devoted to head-banging, devil-shouting, goat-exploding heavy-frikkin -metal. In the most recent issue a column titled At the Strip Club focuses on Memphian and Saliva frontman Josey Scott and his relationship with the nice girls at Platinum Plus. […]