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Merry Christmas, Baby: HEELS Xmas Variety Show
“It’s got that ‘we’re putting on a show’ feel,” says Memphis comedian and drummer/vocalist for Memphis band HEELS, Josh McLane, of the Hi Tone’s small room. It's the site for HEELS’ upcoming Christmas...
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Music Video Monday on Thursday: The Pop Ritual
It's Thursday, but Music Video Monday has a world premiere from The Pop Ritual. MVM was double booked this week, which is a good thing because it means there's a lot of music videos being produced in...
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Stumbling Santa, Jingle Bell Ball, Emmanuel Meal
Everyone got to be Santa for a night at the Porter-Leath Stumbling Santa Pub Crawl. But some people opted to be elves or reindeer. About 3,500 people attended this year’s event, which was held...
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Amid Second Half Woes, Grizzlies Fall to Thunder 126-122
The Grizzlies' loss to Oklahoma City Wednesday night was easily the most frustrating loss of the season, and unfortunately, it overshadowed the best game of Brandon Clarke’s young NBA career. Props to...
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Record Number to Travel in Tennessee, Nationwide This Holiday
A record number of Tennesseans are expected to travel this holiday season. The auto group AAA predicts that 2.76 million Tennesseans will travel this year between Saturday, December 21st and...
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
So many thoughts. Where to begin? How about a sports metaphor: There’s playing to win, then there’s playing not to lose. There’s a subtle, but significant, difference between the two approaches....
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Bloomberg in Memphis: A Good Start
He came, he was seen, and, if he didn’t conquer ight away, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, whose widely seen TV advertising had already given him a good head start on the attention of Memphians, may...
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No Cool Points: Grizzlies Fall to Cleveland 114-107
The NBA is a game of runs and repeatedly throughout this season, the Grizzlies have run out of runs after establishing a double-digit lead. The Cleveland Cavaliers were too much for the Grizzlies to...
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#11 Tigers 77, Jackson State 49
For the first time in more than five weeks, the Memphis Tigers took the floor for a game that wouldn't be analyzed primarily for who is not playing. A certain star freshman was absent for an eighth...
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Frank's Faves (Part I)
A countdown of the ten most memorable sporting events I attended in 2019. 10) Redbirds 4, Omaha 0 (August 24) — No team in the Pacific Coast League played better baseball over the last six weeks of...
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Spurs Wallop Grizzlies, 145-115
Monday, it just wasn’t the Grizzlies' night. Efficient shooting from the Spurs was too much for Memphis to overcome, as the Spurs trounced the home team, 145–115. In the first quarter, the Spurs shot...
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Momentum for All
It's been said that Memphis has momentum. And parts of Memphis do have momentum. The city's Downtown and center core could pose as any hustling and bustling city on the rise. There you'll find...
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Party Like It’s 2020: Our NYE Guide
Party like it’s NYE with our guide to the get-down spots. It's been 20 years since 1999 — and 37 years since Prince released his end-of-the-world party album 1999 in 1982 — but we're still going to...
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The Year in Film
Amid all the turmoil, 2019 turned out to be a stellar year at the movies. The year 2019 will go down in history as a watershed. Avengers: Endgame made $357 million on its opening weekend, which was...
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Four Points: A Look Back at the Year in Local Politics
The 2019 City Election: Though turnout statistics remained meager for the quadrennial Memphis municipal election, there was some spirited competition between a triad of candidates at the head of an...
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2020 Vision
Future reflections: a look into the new year. There's no turning back now. The decade's in the rearview, and our eyes are set on what's to come in 2020 — in politics, sports, film, music, and more....
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The Radio Broadcast Brings its Mario Kart 64 U.S. Tour to Hi Tone
The Houston-based electronic duo performs Sunday, December 29th. Houston-based electronic duo The Radio Broadcast brings its Mario Kart 64 U.S. Tour to the Hi Tone Sunday, December 29th. The...
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Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park's First Day Hike Festival is January 1st
First Day Hike Festival, Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park Anyone with resolutions of starting off the new year with a more active and healthy lifestyle may be interested in attending Meeman-Shelby...
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A Dozen Delights: 12 Great Memphis Albums from 2019
Aquarian Blood — A Love that Leads to War (Goner) Written and sung by the couple J.B. and Laurel Horrell, whose dark observations and wry commentary are surrounded with acoustic ostinatos, subtle...
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Wrap it Up: A Roundup of 2019 Food News Tidbits
A doggie bag of 2019 food news items. This was the year of seafood, South Main, and comeback stories, with old favorites like Fino's and Zinnie's making triumphant returns. Here are a few items of...
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