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December 24th, 2009
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Author: The Word on New Year’s Eve Events
by Hannah Sayle
1. Thou shalt break bread. Whether you plan on going on a wild champagne bender or you just want a nice New Year’s Eve dinner, be sure to get in a good meal. Here are some restaurants that know how to throw a dinner party: Beauty Shop has Beauty shop has a prix fix menu – $60 for 4 courses – and Gary Johns & His Mini Rat Pack Orchestra. 5:30 p.m. – until. For reservations (recommended), call 272-7111. Currents…
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In its showdown with the NCAA in the Derrick Rose case, the University of Memphis is pushing back hard. Will it pay off or just lead to more sanctions?
by John Branston
If it does nothing else, the University of Memphis appeal of its NCAA sanctions in the Derrick Rose/SAT affair has shed some light on the way the college sports cops do their job. And that may be the point of this whole exercise. Cop and miscreant are facing each other down like a couple of tough guys in a parking lot standoff. The cop is threatening to slap on additional charges. The battered miscreant is saying in so many words,…
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New Ballet Ensemble reinvents a holiday classic — and brings dance to a diverse cross-section of Memphis youth.
by Chris Davis
Late in the afternoon on the Saturday before New Ballet Ensemble is scheduled to perform its unorthodox version of The Nutcracker at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre, Katie Smythe, the company’s founding director, sweeps through the group’s spectacularly renovated Cooper-Young headquarters, rounding up dancers, musicians, and teachers and assembling them for a progress report. Once everyone has settled, Smythe steps into the center of the large, mirror-lined room and makes a series of stern pronouncements, reminding her performers that they…
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Winter Reading
by Flyer Staff
[image-1] Too Much Happiness By Alice Munro Knopf, 320 pp., $25.95 Alice Munro, acclaimed Canadian writer and recipient of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize, has delivered something dark and exquisite with her new collection of short stories, Too Much Happiness. In it, Munro continues to explore the complexities of relationships and self-awareness, all with a precision and shrewdness about the worlds she creates. Each story reads smoothly, even as it sometimes tears at something violent and disturbing. From the opening…
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City residency requirements sound good in theory, but for some, it can lead to an economic nightmare. Here’s one man’s story.
by Chris Davis
Richard Thompson needs a job. Actually, he’d like his old job back, but at the moment he’s not feeling very picky. On September 25th, less than a month after the birth of his first child, Ari Elise, Thompson was suspended from his corporate communications position at Memphis Light, Gas and Water. A week later, Thompson was terminated for failure to comply with the ordinance requiring all city employees to live within the Memphis city limits. A letter to Thompson from…
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City residency requirements sound good in theory, but for some, it can lead to an economic nightmare. Here’s one man’s story.
by Chris Davis
Richard Thompson needs a job. Actually, he’d like his old job back, but at the moment he’s not feeling very picky. On September 25th, less than a month after the birth of his first child, Ari Elise, Thompson was suspended from his corporate communications position at Memphis Light, Gas and Water. A week later, Thompson was terminated for failure to comply with the ordinance requiring all city employees to live within the Memphis city limits. A letter to Thompson from…
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Schooled in adversity and triumph, Memphis’ Jim Kyle wants to be governor.
by Jackson Baker
In 1982, as a young, ambitious Memphis lawyer getting his feet wet in politics, Jim Kyle managed the upstart but unsuccessful campaign of fellow Shelby Countian Harold Byrd in a hard-fought Democratic primary race for Congress in Tennessee’s 7th District. A year later, having won a special election for a state Senate seat on his second try, Kyle found himself assigned to a Nashville office suite whose occupants included veteran legislator Annabelle Clement O’Brien of Crossville. O’Brien was the sister…
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They make too much to get free health care, but they can’t afford to buy it. Now they’re getting organized.
by Sarah Christine Bolton
In July 8, 2007, Grant Frank spent 36 hours at the Med. It cost him $28,417.54. At 4 a.m., he woke up to what he describes as “the worst pain of my life.” He fumbled for his phone and called his father. “I’ve got to go to the hospital,” he said. Soon, he was doubled over in the stark waiting room of the Med, signing a form in which he verified his lack of health insurance and agreed to pay…
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Will new marquee players translate to on-court success?
by Chris Herrington
This year’s edition of the Memphis Grizzlies will begin the season — their ninth in Memphis — with as wide a range of possibility as any squad in franchise history. This is the result of following a third straight terrible season (24 wins) with a high-risk/high-reward summer, a controversial strategy manifested in every realm of player acquisition — draft (7′3″ project center Hasheem Thabeet with the second overall pick), trade (trouble magnet Zach Randolph, the league’s most productive journeyman), and free agency (Allen…
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Seven reasons youll like Josh Pastner more than whats-his-name
by Frank Murtaugh
There’s some irony — four letters of it — in Josh Pastner’s name. If the 32-year-old rookie coach of the Memphis Tigers represents anything, it’s certainly not the past. Over a summer that saw an ugly story (John Calipari’s departure for Kentucky) get gruesome (the NCAA’s “vacating” of the program’s 2007-08 Final Four season), Pastner hit the ground running toward this still-proud program’s future. If the Great Recession has taught us anything, it’s that crisis opens the door for opportunity.…
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