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Downtown Business Owners Urge Tom Lee Park Renovation
Owners of well-known Downtown restaurants — Aldo’s Pizza Pies, The Majestic Grille, Catherine and Mary’s, and more — say they, and nearly 70 Downtown businesses fully support a renovated Tom Lee Park....
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Horn Island: The Last Show
There will be a lot of "lasts" at Memphis College of Art this coming year. This is one of them. There will be a lot of "lasts" at Memphis College of Art this coming year. The school closes for good...
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Attorneys General Plan to Curb Robocalls
Tired of robocalls blowing up your phone? So is the Tennessee Attorney General. State AG Herbert Slatery said Thursday that he and 51 other attorneys general and 12 phone companies have adopted a new...
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Best Bets: Lobster Stew at Flying Fish
I craved lobster stew for decades without ever tasting it. It’s all because of the 1957 song, “Old Cape Cod.” Patti Page sings, “If you like the taste of a lobster stew served by a window with an...
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Group Hopes to De-Criminalize Poverty
A Tennessee organization is looking for community-sourced solutions to the criminalization of poor Tennesseans. Free Hearts, an organization led by formerly incarcerated women, seeks to provide...
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Tony Isbell: Discovering The Humans
Tony Isbell is drawn to certain kinds of plays, those, he says, with natural, honest, and truthful dialogue — and relationships that are "juicy." So when Michael Detroit, executive producer at...
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Datadrums Celebrate LP Release At Shangri-La's Sweat Fest 5 on Saturday
After a Decade & A Half, Long-Standing Memphis Band Issues Its Definitive Statement."I try to read it too deeply, everything becomes absurd," intones local guitarist and singer Chuck Vicious on...
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Looking Back at the Continuum Music Festival 2019
The Continuum Music Festival has come and gone once again, leaving many reeling from over two solid days of innovative sounds. Here, we present a slideshow of some highlights, by photographers Jamie...
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Theater Honors Its Own at the Annual Ostrander Awards
It was a brilliant evening at the Ostranders for busy director Dennis Whitehead Darling. The annual theater award event sponsored by Memphis magazine and ArtsMemphis was held at the Orpheum Sunday...
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Music Video Monday: Alex da Ponte
Skate into Music Video Monday! Singer/songwriter Alex da Ponte took some time off to start a family. Now she's back with a new album This Is Ours. The first video from the album is for the song...
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Three (Early) Thoughts on Tiger Football
• How big is the Ole Miss game? The Tigers can stack up wins in September and October, but whatever chances they have of cracking the Top 25 require beating the Rebels this Saturday at the Liberty...
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Herenton Rouses Women Supporters with Promise of Victory
Willie Herenton won’t be, as Gail Floyd-Tyree called him on Saturday, “the first boss to go back in that chair.” Several others, including three-time Mayor Ed Crump (who once literally owned the name...
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U of M Moves to Brand Central Avenue as Arts Corridor
The University of Memphis is working to designate a stretch of Central Avenue as the “Central Arts Corridor.” To help brand this part of Central, between Patterson and Zach Curlin, as an arts corridor,...
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Dramatis Personae: Observations from the Ostranders
The 2019 Ostrander Awards ceremony held Sunday at the Orpheum was, as one has come to expect, packed with soigné theatre lovers in character and out, in their heads and out, cheering or consoling as...
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Group Calls for Memphians to Record, Share Stories
Have an interesting story to share with the world? Well, one New York-based organization is giving Memphians a chance to do just that, beginning next month. StoryCorps, whose mission is to “preserve...
View ArticleMemphis Pets of the Week (8/27-9/2)
Each week, the Flyer will feature adoptable dogs and cats from Memphis Animal Services. All photos are credited to Memphis Pets Alive. More pictures and more information can be found on the Memphis...
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Best Bets: Double Dog at Three Little Pigs Bar-B-Q
If you order a “hot dog” at Three Little Pigs Bar-B-Q, you’ll get the conventional wiener in a bun. But if you order a “Double Dog,” you’ll get one of my all-time favorite sandwiches. The Double Dog...
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Lounge With a View: Mississippi Terrace Opens This Fall at Pyramid
A new outdoor lounge is headed for Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid this fall that offers a one-of-a-kind view of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi Terrace will overlook the river from the third...
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New App Aims to Promote Green Living on U of M Campus
A new app created by a professor at the University of Memphis is meant to encourage green living activities on the campus and beyond. Green Fee, developed by Susan Elswick, a professor in the social...
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Tony Manard's Big Ole Band Captures A Big Small Town Called Memphis
"Getting by in Memphis...Getting high in Memphis...Getting fired in Memphis." So end the first three verses of Tony Manard's"Fool From Memphis." On the way, he name checks Wild Bill's, Joe's Liquor...
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