This year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Indie Memphis Film Festival. To commemorate this milestone, we need your help in preparing a list of the greatest films ever screened at Indie Memphis. Go to this survey and tell us your favorite movies you’ve seen at Indie Memphis over the years. You can name [...]
Kaleidoscope Kitchen will soon train minority food entrepreneurs in Binghampton thanks to a new, $200,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation. The kitchen will give them access to commercial kitchen facilities and small business training. The program will also offer minority entrepreneur-provided catering services and host an annual Kaleidoscope Food Festival. The grant will be administered through [...]
The junior of Tennessee’s two high-profile U.S. Senators, Bob Corker, resolved the long-running suspense about his 2018 intentions on Tuesday with a formal announcement that he will not be seeking reelection. The Senator’s announcement made no reference to any alternative political plans for the future, though there has been a good deal of conjecture over [...]
If records - or VHS tapes - hadn’t been invented the members of Geist might not be making beautiful music together. Something about the spirit of the performers they heard or viewed back in the day connected with the guys. And, literally, changed their lives. “One of the first things that got me into guitar [...]
Good news, taco and torta fans, Maciel's is shooting to reopen by end of next week, Friday or Saturday. The restaurant has been closed since a fire in July. A fire in the building at 45 S. Main collapsed the ceiling in the restaurant on Saturday, July 15th. A least two fund-raisers were held for [...]
Biscuits, pancakes, MF sausage links, eggs all ways — all the good stuff was at this year's BreakFest. Frank Chin captured it for us. And the winners are ... Breakfast Sweets: Squeal Street Too Breakfast Sandwich: Squeal Street Omelet: Squeal Street Bacon Dish: Squeal Street Anything Goes (grand prize): Masters of Breakfast Best Bloody Mary: [...]
Emmanuel McKinney's a certifiable natural resource — a smart, unaffected actor with incredible range. And, not to sound too much like Howard Cosell though it may be more fun to read the last half of this sentence in his voice, every single time I think this young actor may have finally met his match he [...]
The city, in partnership with the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) is kicking off the Memphis 3.0 transit vision planning process. Working with transit consultant group, Jarrett Walker + Associates, the city will engage in conversations with the community to determine what they value in public transit and what they hope for the future of [...]
A Period of Transition is an underrated Van Morrison record, but the 2017–18 Grizzlies are about to test whether it also works as a framework for a basketball season. At yesterday’s Media Day, there was no greater theme (outside of the unavoidable intersection of politics and pro sports) than the Grizzlies’ new faces and new [...]
Inflatable doll Lover ungrateful I blew up your body But you blew my mind — "In Every Dream Home a Heartache," Roxy Music "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" — It's gotta be one of the best moments in pop music, doesn't it? After 3-minutes and 5-seconds of suspenseful, droning, horror-show organ overlaid with a [...]