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Bailey Bigger: Confronting Traumas Through Music
What a difference a year makes. Last October, Bailey Bigger released her debut EP, Between the Pages, on Blue Tom Records (the label run by the University of Memphis), and certainly her skills as a...
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Election Commission “End-Run”: Phillips Announces Purchase of ES&S Machines...
It may be too late in the election year for an October surprise (i.e., some unexpected development that stands the pending political situation on its head), but the calendar clearly allows for a...
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The Circle Game
As I predicted would be the case last week, we still don't have a concession from President Donald Trump, who by the Associated Press' most recent accounting, lost the popular vote by more than 5...
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New Virus Case Count Recedes from Previous Day's Record
New virus case numbers rose by 192 over the last 24 hours in a return to average case counts following yesterday's record of 835 new cases reported. The new total puts the total of all positive cases...
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Memphis City Council: Smiley Requests Ethics Review of Ford After Tense Meeting
A Memphis City Council member has filed an ethics complaint against another council member for behavior displayed during Tuesday’s council meeting. Council member J.B. Smiley filed the complaint...
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Total Memphis Move: Zoo Names New Baby Giraffe for Ja Morant
A reticulated giraffe was born at the Memphis Zoo last week. In a total Memphis move, he was named to celebrate a Memphis basketball player. Ja Raffe was born last week to parents Niklas and Angela...
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St. Jude Researchers Announce Possible COVID-19 Breakthrough
Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital may have figured out how the pandemic virus kills and how to stop it. Lab research at the hospital has given St. Jude immunologists a better...
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Virus Case Count Rises by 389
New virus case numbers rose by 389 over the last 24 hours. The new total puts the total of all positive cases in Shelby County since March at 44,222. Total current active cases of the virus — the...
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The Flow: Live-Streamed Music Events This Week, November 19-25
Even as the COVID-19 numbers go up and down, the stalwart live-streaming musicians carry on with the online flow, that most prudent form of concert-going in 2020. This week brings many old favorites,...
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Health Official Offers Few Details on Expected Restrictions
A new health directive with likely (maybe?) new restrictions on bars and restaurants is expected no later than Monday, according to Shelby County Health Officer Dr. Bruce Randolph. Randolph was vague...
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WATCH: Council Member Edmund Ford Sr. Insults Martavious Jones, Gets Mic Cut...
Tuesday’s Memphis City Council meeting ended in a vulgar display of anger as one council member called another nasty names, his words are now part of an official city ethics probe. Council member...
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Advice from Midnight Sound Services: How to Tame a Hedonist
Years ago, the drummer in a band I used to play in brought over his homemade “Dreamachine,” a low-budget stroboscopic “flicker device” that can induce a sort of hypnogogic state. The drummer had cut...
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Coen Brothers Film Festival Brings Fargo, The Big Lebowski Back To Big Screen
It’s hard to overstate the impact Joel and Ethan Coen have had on American film. Beginning with 1984’s Blood Simple, the two brothers from Minneapolis were a major influence on the indie revolution of...
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Kresge Foundation Grants $1.9 Million to Local Social Justice Organizations
The Kresge Foundation has announced a $30 million suite of grants for grassroots racial and economic justice organizations in Memphis, as well as in Detroit, New Orleans, and Fresno, California. The...
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Experience the Special Effects Genius of Ray Harryhausen at the Time Warp...
The special effects extravaganzas that have dominated big-budget moviemaking over the last few decades could never have existed without Ray Harryhausen. He was a pioneer of not only stop motion...
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Flavors of the Delta at King & Union Bar Grocery
At the corner of B.B. King Blvd. & Union Ave., the site of the former TGI Friday’s now offers something that feels a little closer to home. King & Union Bar Grocery, the new restaurant...
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Tigers 56, SFA 14
The Memphis Tigers secured their annual victory over FCS competition Saturday afternoon at the Liberty Bowl with a drubbing of Stephen F. Austin. (SFA replaced UT-Martin on the U of M schedule when...
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2020-21 Tiger Hoops Preview
If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans. If the Almighty pays any attention to college basketball, He must have lost His breath by the end of the Memphis Tigers' 2019-20 season. Penny...
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Fall Surge Continues with 407 New Cases
New virus case numbers rose by 407 over the last 24 hours. The new total puts the total of all positive cases in Shelby County since March at 45,575. Total current active cases of the virus — the...
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Music Video Monday Blvck Hippie
Music Video Monday is a family affair.Blvck Hippie's newest single "Rhodes Ave" is about growing up, says frontman Josh Shaw. "I lived in a house on Rhodes Avenue for the first 8 years of my life and...
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