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Don’t Mess With Texas

Sarah says she felt obligated to get some cowboy boots, what with being from Texas and all.

She got these at … one guess … Buffalo Exchange, a thrift store I’m thinking might be worth a visit to Austin.

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I know it’s a little late for scarves (these photos were taken during a colder part of spring called, um, winter), but this is one of American Apparel’s circle scarves.

The coat, from Free People, has a great half-length sleeve that I love with the layering.

“I wish the inside was visible,” Sarah says, “because it is blue silk with a gray unicorn on it.”

(In that case, I wish the inside was visible, too!)

Underneath, she is wearing a pair of patterned tights from Target, a pair of jean shorts that she made out of her dad’s old jeans, and a striped shirt from the DAV on Summer.

“Stripes are so fun to wear and this shirt is perfect because it is so classic,” Sarah says. “It fits into so many different styles from nautical to grunge.”

I love the way this could be a summer outfit very easily, just ditch the tights and outwear and trade the boots for the pair of sandals Sarah wore earlier in the week.

I also love the way Sarah layers layers on top of layers. It’s hip and it can be so helpful in those weather transition weeks, when the morning is one season and the afternoon is completely another.

Thanks again to this week’s Fashion Plate Sarah Knowles, and to whoever the wonderful person was who took her picture.

Have a candidate for Fashion Week? Email me at cashiola@memphisflyer.com.

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Sports Tiger Blue

Tiger Trivia Tuesday

We’re starting something new here at Tiger Blue. Each Tuesday, we’ll post a trivia question on Memphis Tiger sports. Primarily men’s basketball and football, but now and then we’ll dig a little deeper. The objective: fine-tune the already sharpened knowledge of U of M sports history throughout Tiger Nation.

The answer (or a confirmation of the correct response) will be posted the following Thursday.

Today’s TTT question:

Among former Tigers, which five players have played the most games in the NBA? Bonus points for listing the players in order of games played. (One hint: number-five on the list played in 467 games.)

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Roller Skating on WKNO’s “Southern Routes”!

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On the April edition of WKNO’s fine program, Southern Routes, I journey back to the glory days of Skateland, Skatehaven, Rainbow Lake, and many of the other roller-skating palaces that were hugely popular with Memphians in the early to mid-1900s.

Not to give too much away, but back in those days, there was a whole lot more to roller-skating than just strapping on some skates and rolling around a wooden track. Rinks put on pageants, plays, races — even full-scale weddings. And skating wasn’t just for ma, pa, teens, and the little kiddies. They made special skates for dogs, monkeys, and even BEARS.

The show will even feature rare photos of me (such as the one here), taken in my younger days, when I was a veritable Flash at rinks around the Mid-South. Why, it took servants almost a day just to polish all the trophies I earned. Or were those bowling trophies? I can’t remember, since the Lauderdales were pretty much good at everything.

Tune into Southern Routes or you’ll be very sorry (and so will I). The show will air Thursday, April 8th at 8 p.m., and then it will repeat on Saturday, April 10 at 2:30 p.m., and again on Sunday, April 11 at 12 noon. It also airs on WKNO-2 Saturday, April 10 at 9 p.m., so I really don’t want to hear any pitiful excuses about, “Uh, I missed it.”

And I’ll be quite candid with you. Either watch the show, and admire the hard work done by my WKNO pals Kip Cole and Bonnie Kourvelas, or face the dire prospect of being cut out of my will. It’s that simple.

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Griz

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Come to Your Census!

Memphis lags behind the country in returning census forms. This is a bad idea.

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Memphis Gaydar News

Bridges McRae Trial Ongoing

The federal trial for Bridges McRae, the former Memphis Police officer charged with violating the civil rights of transgender woman Duanna Johnson, began this morning. The trial was originally scheduled for January, but it was postponed for reasons that are unclear.

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  • Bridges McRae

In February 2008, McRae and officer James Swain were caught on video brutally beating Johnson in the lobby of the Shelby County Correction Center. The 18-minute video has no audio, but Johnson claimed McRae assaulted her after she refused to respond to homophobic slurs of “he/she” and “faggot.” Read the Flyer‘s story about the beating here.

In an unrelated incident, Johnson was killed in North Memphis in November 2008.

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News

Down for the Count

[Ed. note: This is a guest blog from Flyer intern Natalie Mayo.]

April 1st might be April Fool’s day, but last week’s rally to support the 2010 Census was no joke.

During the 2000 U.S. Census, roughly 200,000 Shelby Countians were uncounted. Because every 100 residents not counted means a loss of $1 million over the next 10 years, local leaders spent so-called “Census Day” making sure Shelby County was down for the count.

“It is our city’s obligation to participate,” Shelby County mayor Joe Ford said at the rally on the Main Street Mall. “We cannot move forward until we mail our Census forms back.”

By Census Day, only 44 percent of Memphians had participated. Nationally, that number was at 54 percent.

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Food & Drink Hungry Memphis

Baggage

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On the back of this bag of Cedar’s Spinach Wraps are “3 Steps to Wrapping Success!”

I want wrapping success, really I do, but that illustration …

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The Zoo’s Expensive Free Day Problem

John Branston has some thoughts on how the Memphis Zoo might avoid future “free day” fiascos.

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Opinion

The Zoo’s “Free” Problem

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The Memphis Zoo got a hard lesson last week in the cost of “free day.”

So many people showed up that the zoo and Overton Park had to be closed for a while. There were traffic jams, fights, and gunshots.

The zoo administration has come up with some possible remedies including no free days during March (and spring break for city schools) and a requirement that kids up to 16 years old have an adult chaperon. But this will put a burden on the zoo staff (“let me see your IDs, all five of you, and which one is the chaperon, and who came with who?”) and it ignores the problem of zoo overcrowding and neighborhood encroachment the other 11 months of the year.

There’s another idea that might work. Make free day dollar day.