Andrew Caldwell talks to Mike Lee about plans for the High Cotton Brewing Company.
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Tim’s 2 Cents
In this week’s Rant, Tim Sampson has some campaign advice for Barack Obama.
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Beale Street Music Fest Guide
The Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival kicks off Friday. For a full schedule, artists profiles, and more, check out the Flyer‘s Music Fest Guide.
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Friendship
Heartsong Church and the Memphis Islamic Center are planning an eight-acre Friendship Park on their two parcels of land located directly across the street from one another. The two four-acre parcels would be connected with a tunnel running underneath Humphreys Boulevard.
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Lucero X 2
Lucero performs Thursday at Minglewood Hall as part of the Symphony’s Opus One series and again Sunday at the Hi-Tone.
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The New Whole Foods
Whole Foods announced signing leases today for new stores in cities that include Brooklyn, Toronto, and … Memphis. Susan Ellis reports on that “new” store.
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Grammar Time
Leonard Gill talks to University of Memphis journalism professor Joe Hayden about his new book The Little Grammar Book: First Aid for Writers.
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Grizzlies Beat Clippers, 105-98
After Game 1’s collapse, the Grizzlies returned to the Forum hungry. Chris Herrington has the story.
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The New Old Blues
In this week’s Music Issue: Three younger artists making blues vital by reclaiming the genre’s eclectic roots.
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Mark Norris, Orwellian
Written in the bleak postwar year of 1948, George Orwell’s novel 1984 prophesied a time when government manipulators would so corrupt the language that even basic terms like “war” and “peace” or “love” and “hate” would lose their distinctions and come to be interchangeable. Words could mean their opposites in the dystopian future that Orwell […]
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Rockin’ On The River
With emerging stars of rap, rock, and blues sharing stages with giants of jazz, blues, and soul, Memphis in May’s Beale Street Music Festival is primed for another stellar year. The festival has become one of the largest music festivals in the country, routinely drawing more than 150,000 fans to the banks of the Big […]
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The Longleaf Angle
The Chesapeake Energy story is getting a lot of attention. John Branston looks at the Memphis angle, involving Longleaf Partners Fund and managers Staley Cates and Mason Hawkins.
