Tuyen Le hosts dinner fund-raiser for Vietnam monastery Sunday at Saigon Le.
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D. Canale’s New Downtown Distillery
Canale announced today it is opening a distillery for Old Dominick Whiskey in Memphis. Greg Akers has the story.
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Tara Skelley Launches Dilettante Collection
Sophorn Kuoy catches up with fashion designer Tara Skelley of Dilettante Collection.
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Q & A with Ashley Coffield
President & CEO of Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region discusses the broader implications of the recent Supreme Court ruling on birth control and other legal matters regarding women’s reproductive health.
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Review of Obvious Child
Addison Engelking reviews Obvious Child, a low-key, gender-flipping rom-com.
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On the Grizzlies and the Draft
The players selected during last night’s draft could potentially tell a story about how the Grizzlies are going to spend the rest of the summer tweaking their roster. More at Beyond the Arc.
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Buying a Buzz, Legally
Jon W. Sparks explores the high frontier of legal pot buying in Colorado. Dude.
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What They Said …
Greg Cravens About a letter to the editor on gun control … “Was that a gun?” My girlfriend asked, shortly after midnight one Friday evening. “No. Probably not,” I said. It could have been a gun, but it could have been firecrackers. It could have been a dumpster slamming against a garbage truck. The three staccato reports following […]
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Time Warp Drive-In’s Hell on Wheels
Automotive and film technology came of age at roughly the same time, and cars have always been a particular source of fascination for filmmakers. When the first drive-in movie theater opened in New Jersey in 1933, it was the beginning of a potent and inevitable synergy between two of America’s favorite cultural forces. Movies sold […]
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Letter From the Editor
A few years back, at a party, I found myself in conversation with a young African-American attorney who’d just moved to Memphis from Atlanta. She was charming, chatty, and direct. At one point, I asked her, “What’s the biggest difference between Memphis and Atlanta?” …
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Q&A with Ben Fink
New York-based photographer Ben Fink was born in Baltimore but describes himself as a “young transplant” to Memphis. He went to junior high and high school in the area; he attended the Memphis College of Art and the University of Memphis, where he studied painting and graphic design. Fink began taking pictures of food in […]