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December 24th, 2009
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Author: by Chris Davis
Monet | Dreamstime.com I’ve always wanted a tattoo, but I’m fickle. I know for a fact that two weeks after the flaming skull with snakes coming out of its eyes is painfully scratched into the skin of my forearm I’ll wish I’d gotten the rainbow-riding Pegasus unicorn instead. That’s what makes the idea of taking a henna body-art class at the Memphis Botanic Garden so appealing. Henna is a Middle Eastern plant that produces a dark red pigment, and this…
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by Chris Davis
It’s strange, really, how E.T.A. Hoffmann’s works of speculative fiction have been redefined by composers and choreographers who’ve taken faintly macabre stories about mad inventors and seven-headed rat kings and converted them into light comedies and certifiable holiday traditions. This week, Mid-South dance fans whose appetites were whetted by recent interpretations of Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker by Ballet Memphis and New Ballet Ensemble can take in yet another story about inanimate objects coming to life when the Moscow Festival Ballet brings…
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by Susan Ellis
Robyn Mackenzie | Dreamstime.com “I consider it a journey,” Wanda Abioto says. Abioto’s journey, which she says started 25 years ago, has gone from vegetarian to vegan to living-food enthusiast. She recently founded a supper club, the Dreamery, to promote the living-food lifestyle and is holding a series of Sunday brunches at downtown’s Safari restaurant, starting December 20th. According to Abioto, the diet is about keeping food as close as possible to its “natural state.” A living-food diet is vegan…
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by Bianca Phillips
Santa Claus likely has a better sense of morality than Tiger Woods, but if jolly old St. Nick could take a few mistresses, he’d probably go for the ladies of the Memphis Belles burlesque troupe. Dressed in “sexy Santa” pin-up style costumes, the Belles will be promoting their latest DVD release, Carnivale in Burlesque, during the “Rockin’ Sleigh Winter Wonderland” event at Otherlands on Friday, December 18th. Footage for the DVD was taped at a Memphis Belles burlesque show at…
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by Bianca Phillips
Every Halloween, you shell out between $20 and $100 bucks on the perfect costume, only to wear it for one night. Well, drag that orange jumpsuit and Bernie Madoff mask out of storage because NRG Luv Productions is offering another excuse to don your Halloween disguise. Costumes are strongly encouraged at the annual “Nightmare Before Christmas” party benefiting Friends for Life and Hope House. At Café Eclectic on Saturday, December 12th, DJs Mary Jane, Steve Anne, Justin Hand, Nathan Ashby,…
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by Susan Ellis
Consider Tim Laird and Steve Hughes the Martin and Lewis of cocktails. “We play off each other, go back and forth,” Laird says. Laird is Canadian Mist Whisky’s “chief entertainment officer,” and Hughes is its “spirits scientist.” For the past three year, they’ve been traveling the country presenting “Mistology: The Science Behind the Cocktail.” They have a stop at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art on Thursday. Proceeds from the event go to the museum. “Mistology” is a mix of…
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by Bianca Phillips
Back in May, a group of local artists piled into canoes for a firsthand look at the Wolf River. Guided by members of the Wolf River Conservancy (WRC), the artists were given a tour of the river’s boardwalks, sandbars, bell-bottomed cypress trees, and native plants and wildlife. After their river experience, the artists — 70 in all — created paintings, drawings, and other works inspired by the Wolf. That artwork will be auctioned off on Saturday, December 5th, at the…
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by Susan Ellis
The forecast for this weekend calls for snow. Ditto for the next weekend and the two following. This is not an act of God, and Mother Nature has nothing to do with it either. This particular precipitation comes courtesy of Little Blizzard Fluid Concentrate, a soapy substance that will be filling the air with snowlike flakes at the Memphis Botanic Garden for “Snowy Nights in My Big Backyard.” According to Jana Gilbertson, director of marketing for the Botanic Garden, a…
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by Susan Ellis
According to Jen Andrews of the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy (SFPC), the calls inquiring about Starry Nights would start coming in every year around November. That the holiday-lights show and fund-raiser for MIFA had its last season in 1999 … well, that meant a lot of disappointed people. But no more. Starry Nights, now benefiting SFPC, once again will brighten the East Memphis skies starting November 27th. The resurrected show features some of the old favorites, such as the “Kapow…
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by Susan Ellis
Thirty years ago, Bob Collins was a fundamentalist Christian studying at a seminary when things didn’t add up. According to Collins, it was the “Thou Shalt Not Kill” commandment in the Bible that brought him up short. Not killing was fine and all, but the Bible was otherwise filled with God’s exhortations to do just that. The contradiction led Collins to quit the seminary and to ultimately become an atheist. Collins is now a computer programmer in Birmingham, Alabama, and…
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