Rudy landed another big name for his upcoming charity basketball game at the DeSoto Civic Center. Chris Herrington has more.
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Month: November 2011
“This is about staying focused on what makes a coffee-table book enjoyable,” Neil White says of Memphians (from White’s company, Nautilus Publishing, out of Taylor, Mississippi).
White, who is also the book’s creative director, is referring to his coffee-table-sized book of prominent (and some not so prominent but certainly memorable) Memphians who’ve made their mark in the city and across the country and the globe.
“We are strictly people,” White says about the idea behind Memphians, which is first and foremost a picture book with accompanying text from a team of contributing writers. “Other coffee-table books have focused on the corporations, the architecture, the scenery of a region.
“We’ve tried to find people who have done something no one else in the world has done. Memphis may not have the beauty of Lake Tahoe or the economy of Atlanta, but in spite of that — or maybe because of it — Memphians are amazing.”
Memphis rapper Don Trip’s two-year journey from quietly released homemade YouTube to MTV is complete. The new version of Trip’s “Letter to My Son” single, featuring a sung hook from superstar Cee Lo Green, is out, available for purchase on iTunes, and now with a video that recently debuted on MTV Jams:
More on Trip here.
Randall Kenan — author of the novel A Visitation of Spirits, a short story collection called Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), a biography for young-adult readers on the life of James Baldwin, and the book of essays The Fire This Time — is coming to town and back to the University of Memphis, where he’s served as a visiting professor of creative writing.
He’ll be the closing writer in this fall’s River City Writers Series at the University of Memphis on Monday, November 7th, and Tuesday, November 8th. Kenan’s reading and booksigning on Monday is inside the University Center Theater (Room 145) at 8 p.m. On Tuesday, an interview with the school’s MFA students is in Patterson Hall (Room 456) at 10:30 a.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
Questions? Email creativewriting@memphis.edu or holladay@memphis.edu. Or call 678-4692.
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Raccoons on Meth!
Tim Sampson rambles on about Baby Lisa, meth-heads, raccoons, and all kinds of other stuff.
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More on Voter IDs
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Look What’s Bleu
Read about the new Bleu downtown and more in this week’s food news.
Small business owners looking to do business with the city of Memphis will have a chance to get their feet in the proverbial door next Thursday, Nov. 10th at the “Promoting Growth” Business Expo.
Hosted by the city’s Office of Contract Compliance, the expo will give business owners a chance to meet with the city’s key decision makers in Community Enhancement, Engineering, Executive, Finance, Fire, Housing and Community Development, Human Resources, General Services, Information Services, Legal, Park Services, Police Services, Public Services, and Public Works.
The free event will be held at City Hall (125 N. Main) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, call the Contract Compliance office at 636-6210 or email jovce.douqlas@memphistn.gov.
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C-USA Picks: Week 10
LAST WEEK: 6-0
SEASON: 58-14
THURSDAY
Tulsa at UCF
SATURDAY
Southern Miss at East Carolina
Houston at UAB
UTEP at Rice
Tulane at SMU
A couple weeks ago, at just about the time that the Fuel food truck was heading downtown, some coworkers and I were headed to Midtown for the restaurant. (Stacey’s right, btw: the walnut loaf sandwich is excellent.)
Yesterday, however, I decided to try the food truck, which was parked at Second and Madison. I found a plum space right in front of McEwen’s on Monroe. But, by the time, I turned the corner, the truck was gone. So, back to McEwen’s …
