Month: April 2010

Dixie Carter Dies

Post author By Chris Davis
Post date April 10, 2010

Actress Dixie Carter, best known for her performance as Julia Sugarbaker on the TV sitcom Designing Women died today, Saturday, April 10.

Carter attended Rhodes College but took her undergraduate degree from the University of Memphis. Her career as an actress began in Memphis in 1961 when she played the role of Julie in the Front Street Theatre’s production of Carousel. She moved to New York in 1962 and found work right away. Carter made her off-Broadway debut as Perdita in Shakespeare’s A Winters Tale in 1963. She appeared as Maria Callas in the Broadway production of Terrence McNally’s Master Class in 1997. She returned to Memphis in 1993 to play Blanche in a production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire at the University of Memphis.

Carter took roles on Soap Operas in the 1970’s. Designing Women launched on CBS in 1986 and ran for seven years.

She is survived by Hal Holbrook, her husband of 26 years.

UPDATE: As several readers have pointed out both schools have been renamed since Carter attended. Rhodes was Southwestern at Memphis and the University of Memphis was Memphis State University.

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Mose Allison

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Post date April 10, 2010

Food & Drink Hungry Memphis

Filet-o-Fish Coincidence

Post author By Susan Ellis
Post date April 9, 2010

Yesterday I stopped by a Rite-Aid in East Memphis and happened upon a chest-high stack of these:

As I stood there gawking, an employee came by and said it was like the commercial. I said I was unfamiliar with the commercial and then we proceeded to press all the buttons we could reach. It was a cacophony of Filet-o-Fish.

Opinion

“Tiger Way” . . . or whatever

Post author By John Branston
Post date April 9, 2010

What’s in a name? A lot if you’re a member of the committee working on cleaning, greening, and redeveloping the old Mid-South Fairgrounds.

The committee, including representatives of the City Council, University of Memphis, AutoZone Liberty Bowl, Southern Heritage Classic, city administration, and the division of Parks and Recreation, spent 45 minutes Friday discussing what some members hoped would take only a minute or so — naming the green, grassy entranceway to the stadium from East Parkway.

Here’s how “Tiger Way” turned into No Way.

Memphis Gaydar News

MGLCC Expands Hours

Post author By Bianca Phillips
Post date April 9, 2010

The Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center expanded their weekday hours this past week. Though the center formerly opened at 6 p.m. throughout the week, it’s now open from 2 to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday.

They’ve also begun closing to the general public on weekends to allow meeting time for confidential groups, such as the Queer as Youth group and Many Men, Many Voices, a group aimed at HIV education for African American men “on the down low.”

For more information, go to MGLCC’s website.

Food & Drink Hungry Memphis

The Prettiest Apron, No Lie

Post author By Susan Ellis
Post date April 9, 2010

I spotted this Suzani apron at Magpie Lovely.

I generally don’t wear an apron and could not imagine standing over a splattering pan while wearing this beauty. But it was pointed out to me that this isn’t an apron for cooking; it’s the apron you wear at dinner parties to present the cooking you did in your other apron.