About Randy Haspel’s “Rant” on playing Memphis music at Grizzlies games … FedExForum and the Memphis Grizzlies are widely recognized as having the best, most innovative in-game music in the entire league. Nathan Black and Justin Baker do an amazing job as arena DJs. This year alone in the playoffs, Memphis music legends the Bar-Kays […]
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Fly On The Wall: Awkward Superheroes and Candy
Super Awkward I really can’t show you the entire photo that a WREG reporter tweeted last week from a charity 5K. As they say on the internet, it’s just NSFW. I can, however, show you the top half of the photo and tell you just enough about what you’re not seeing to make squeamish readers […]
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Considering the Grizzlies’ Roster
There are all kinds of question marks surrounding the players on the team—from player options to restricted free agents to unguaranteed final years—and those questions will be answered sooner rather than later. More at Beyond the Arc.
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50 Shades Parody
50 Shades: The Musical!, a 50 Shades of Grey parody, at the Orpheum Wednesday.
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Hue and Cry and the Hi-Tone
To mark the Flyer‘s 25th anniversary, we’re looking back at past stories, including the coverage of the Hi-Tone’s closing and reopening that elicited a strong response.
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“To Frame – To Construct – To Occupy”
Cedar Lorca Nordbye’s installation piece “To Frame -To Construct – To Occupy” at Crosstown Arts through May 24th.
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What They Said…
About Alexandra Pusateri’s story, “Cornering the Market” … In one example, the story cites a local survey that found only 44 percent of local corner stores had fruit available for customers. Far too often, people looking from the outside at the problem of hunger fail to recognize that not getting food — often signaled by […]
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Fire Damages Two Businesses on Highland
A fire damaged two businesses — Signatures, a T-shirt shop, and Division 9 Floor Covering — on the Highland Strip Sunday afternoon. Ward Archer was in the area and snapped this picture.
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Grizzlies Lose to Thunder, 120-109
It was a downer of an ending, in that it wasn’t close, but it wasn’t because the Grizzlies weren’t fighting. More on Saturday night’s season-ending game at Beyond the Arc.
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Michael Heisley
Amid all the distasteful soap opera and horrific racism surrounding the distasteful case of now-banned L.A Clippers owner Donald Sterling, it is helpful to be reminded, by virtue of a very sad coincidental event, that some of the traditional American virtues have also been very well-represented in the National Basketball Association (NBA). That reminder came […]
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Up, Up, and Away
With the Memphis In May Beale Street Music Festival once again upon us, we take a look back to the 1999 Best of Memphis issue, which featured a staff pick on one memorable music fest appearance: “Best Performance R&B artist Lois Lane is all-woman and then some. She threw out all kinds of moxie at […]
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Fly On The Wall
Found Puppy This flyer spotted in a window on the Main Street Mall advertises a found “puppy.” The animal, which is described on the poster as being “not very friendly” and “Fe-Male,” has an awfully nice smile. We here at “Fly on the Wall” hope that s/he will be reunited with her/his human sooner rather […]