Tiger center Ivan Lopez is committed to a plan; The Grizzlies probably lead the NBA in provoking fines.
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And So On
Okay, let’s get the unavoidable out of the way first: The Return of the King, director Peter Jackson’s third and final installment of his gargantuan cinematic treatment of author J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, is a magnificent example of epic filmmaking for the post-digital age. It’s a model for the kind of loving […]
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Short Cuts
A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar Dashboard Confessional (Vagrant/TVT Records) Dashboard Confessional’s latest record –a steady pick on early critics’ year-end lists — is remarkable for its successful articulation of a justifiably maligned persona: the bright, juvenile poet who, even though he read all the right books and listened to most of the […]
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Sound Advice
A modern-day soul man who hearkens back to such down-home ’70s artists as Bill Withers and Bobby Womack, Anthony Hamilton‘s rise to soul stardom has been a long, hard climb. Hamilton first got a record deal with Uptown records a decade ago, only to see his label fold before his debut was released. He eventually […]
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City Sports
The football Tigers fall to earth with a thud; Jason Williams’ play has been key in the Grizzlies’ early success.
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Ho Ho Ho
Bad Santa is less a miracle on 34th Street than a bender at O’Hara’s Pub, which is where we first meet department-store Santa Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) drowning his sorrows and contemplating suicide before heading to the back alley to puke his guts out. Little Natalie Wood may have held out hope that […]
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Sound Advice
The Central Standards, a folk-rock duo composed of Jeff Capps and Ted Horrell, have been gigging around town for the past year or so, mixing literate originals with a record geek’s panoply of sharp cover tunes (Velvet Underground, Kinks, Stephen Malkmus, etc.). But this week they’ll step out with the release of their solid debut […]
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City Sports
Is the Tiger football jinx is dead; For college hoops’ best talent, look no further than the Memphis bench and the guys dressed in suits.
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Short Cuts
The Black Album Jay-Z (Roc-A-Fella) Jay-Z is a different kind of great rapper: Unlike Rakim or his nemesis Nas, he doesn’t boast a dense, virtuosic, jazz-like flow. He’s more like his hero Notorious B.I.G. — a charismatic talker and storyteller whose honeyed voice and relaxed, spontaneous-sounding style make listening effortless –and perhaps never more so […]
