Recently, I noticed some construction going on at the Pottery Barn Outlet at Audubon Place (near Poplar and Perkins).
I finally got close enough to see what it was over the weekend and it appears that West Elm is taking over some of that space. I don’t know if anyone else has already reported that, but … Squeeeee!
(Don’t worry, the Pottery Barn Outlet is still there.)
Scott Morris, the founder of the Church Health Center, often says this: “The best diagnosis in the world doesn’t do you any good if you can’t afford your medicine.”
To help more people afford medicine, the Church Health Center is partnering with Methodist University Hospital to open a new Outpatient Pharmacy on the hospital’s first floor.
The pharmacy currently serves Methodist outpatients and associates, but it will expand in coming months to serve Church Health Center patients, Methodist Teaching Practice patients, and then the 3,000 workers and their dependents under the Church Health Center’s MEMPHIS plan. The eventual goal is to open the pharmacy to others who lack access to affordable prescriptions.
“What we bring to the table is the ability to collect donated medications,” says Marvin Stockwell, the Church Health Center’s PR manager.
Drayle is master of the house — the plantation house in pre-Civil War Shelby County. Fran, Drayle’s wife, is mistress of the house. But it’s Lizzie, a slave, who is Drayle’s mistress, both in Tennessee and at the resort in Ohio, where Drayle takes Lizzie for three summers in the early 1850s in Dolen Perkins-Valdez’ debut novel Wench (Amistad/HarperCollins).
Here’s what the author, a native Memphian, had to say by phone from Washington, D.C., a week before she returns to her hometown to read from and sign copies of Wench at Rhodes College:
Last year, Flyer film writers Chris Herrington and Greg Akers had a back-and-forth exchange leading up to the Academy Awards broadcast. This not only let us geek-out on a cultural event we both tend to obsess over, but also gave us one last chance to sing the praises of some lesser-known films the Oscars may have overlooked.
This year, we’re back at it, and will divide our conversation into five parts, one each morning this week, leading up to Sunday’s Oscar broadcast. We start today with the screenplay categories.
Best Original Screenplay
Nominees: The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, The Messenger, A Serious Man, Up
CHRIS HERRINGTON: The Messenger seems to be the only selection here incapable of actually winning. Of the rest, my guess is that The Hurt Locker is — correctly — perceived as more of a director’s movie and the Coens’ star-free, low-box-office A Serious Man simply too obscure. So I’m betting that this comes down to Up and Inglourious Basterds. Given all those long, talky scenes, the inventiveness of re-writing WWII, and the film’s success both at the box-office and with Oscar noms, I think this is where Quentin Tarantino gets recognized. Will Win — Inglourious Basterds.
Should Win — I actually like all of these movies, but do think Inglourious Basterds was too disjointed, The Messenger perhaps a little too schematic, and wish Up hadn’t devolved into standard-issue cartoon action down the stretch. I think The Hurt Locker is the best movie of the bunch, but I think the best screenplay here comes from my old nemeses, Joel and Ethan Coen. A Serious Man might be the first Coen movie more concerned with real life than with some kind of cinematic or literary source material, and I found it to be a very serious, very personal, fascinatingly prickly, and darkly comic look at religious belief and culture (which just happens to be Jewish because they are) from the perspective of an alienated insider.
While the rest of us are grumbling over our coffee and cursing the Mondays were ever invented, well, I don’t know what Amy’s doing. But I know she’s not working.
As an esthetician at Hi Gorgeous, she has Monday’s off.
“Monday is my Sunday,” she says. “It’s my day to lounge around the house.”
This particular Monday, she donned a Hello Kitty sweater, American Apparel denim tights, a scarf from Target, and Melissa jelly flats.
“This oversize sweater is comfy and cozy, and I added the scarf for a little color,” she says.