October 2011
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10/27/11Memphis the Musical Breaks RecordsNearly 27,000 patrons saw the award-winning Broadway show Memphis during its 13-show run in October at The Orpheum Theatre. President and CEO Pat Halloran called it "a significant event" and added, "It's not every day that a Tony Award winner, bearing the name of your city, launches an international tour from your city." The production, which won a 2010 Tony Award for Best Musical,was very loosely based on the life of Memphis deejay Dewey Phillips and set on Beale Street in the 1950s. Halloran says that when performer Bryan Fenkart sang "Memphis Lives in Me," he received a four-minute ovation from the audience. The song was written by David Bryan, the Grammy-winning keyboard player and founding member of Bon Jovi. Playwright was Joe... |
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10/26/11Candlelight Gathering at Memphis Animal ServicesTwo years ago this week, the Shelby County Sheriff's Department and the ASPCA raided Memphis Animal Services, better known — ironically — as the Shelter. In addition to filth and overcrowding, investigators found ailing and injured animals, and three dogs near death from starvation. On Thursday, October 27th, at 7 p.m., a candlelight gathering, at the new MAS building at 2350 Appling, will commemorate this tragic event, It's sponsored by SOSMEMPHIS.COM (Save Our Shelter). Although the raid resulted in 16 counts of felony animal cruelty against the shelter administrator, Ernest Alexander, as well as the veterinarian and kennel supervisor, no case has appeared in court. That's right: Two years later, thanks to one continuance after another,... |
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10/19/11Don't Miss "Dyersburg" Book-Signing Thursday at The Booksellers of LaurelwoodMemphians who leave their comfort zone whenever they drive outside the Parkways have probably never thought about the life and times of Dyersburg, the town of some 17,000 in the northwest corner of Tennessee. But that’s a shame, because a 70-mile drive out Highway 51 would take them to a thriving community with a compelling history — home to one of America’s largest training facilities for B-17 bombers and one of this country’s largest cotton mills, among other accomplishments on a national and regional scale. Historian Bonnie Daws Kourvelas has captured the life and times of what has been called “the classic Southern town” in her book Dyersburg, the latest offering from Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series.... Posted at 10:54 AM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
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10/06/11STOP Whatever You Are Doing, and VOTE in the Memphis Magazine Restaurant PollOkay, you've finally discovered who serves the most mouth-watering dessert in the city. It was so incredibly good, in fact, that you're thinking of going back tomorrow for more. And more. Or maybe you've finally found that perfect spot for breakfast, with omelets to die for. Or you've decided that brand-new eatery in — oh, it could be anywhere — is absolutely the best place in town. Well, don't keep all these opinions to yourself. Eleven months of the year, we tell you about the people, places, events, and issues of Memphis. Now it's your turn to tell us a few things — more than 30 things actually — in our annual Readers Restaurant Poll. We want you to tell us the best places in town to eat, drink, and be merry. And by doing so,... Posted at 07:42 PM | Permalink | Comments: 2 |
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10/05/11Habitat Bags Grant for $20KHabitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis has won a $20,000 "Coming Back Home" grant from the Tennessee Housing Development Agency and Habitat for Humanity of Tennessee. The grant will be used to pay for new construction in Trinity Park, a local development with 38 eco-friendly homes. Under the Coming Back Home program, 45 homes will be built statewide in the next two years, serving an estimated 165 people. Each of the participating families is required to meet an interest-free mortgage payment each month. That money then goes toward helping other potential Habitat clients. To learn more about Habitat, visit www.memphishabitat.com. |
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10/03/112011 Fiction Contest Winners AnnouncedCourtney Miller Santo has been named the grand-prize winner of the 2011 Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest for her story "Wind Gap." It will be published in the magazine's June 2012 Culture Issue. Santo, who lives in Midtown with her husband, two children, and a dog, has an MFA in creative writing and teaches at the University of Memphis. Her first novel, Roots of the Olive Tree, will be published in 2012 by William Morrow. Most recently she was a semifinalist for the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and placed third in Sunstone's 2010 Brookie and D.K. Brown Fiction Contest. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Los Angeles Review and Segullah. Though she grew up in Oregon, Santo has lived most of her adult life in the South and says that instead of... Posted at 03:47 PM | Permalink | Comments: 3 |
