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Sing All Kinds We Recommend

“Duck” Walk Down Beale to Honor Stax Legend Donald Dunn

The life of Booker T. & the MGs bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn — a key figure in Memphis music history and one of the rock and soul’s signature sidemen — will be celebrated tomorrow, Wednesday, May 23rd, with a funeral procession on Beale Street.

Dunn died at the age of 70 on May 13th while touring in Tokyo. Following a private ceremony earlier in the day, the Stax sound cornerstone will be honored with a public funeral procession on Beale. Friends and fans have made plans to form a second line to follow the procession and will meet at Fourth and Beale at 4:30 p.m.

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Food & Drink Hungry Memphis

The Cottage

Last week, I stopped by the Cottage for a late lunch. While I was more than a little tempted to get breakfast (served all day!), I went for the vegetable plate ($8.50 with drink).

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News

MBQ Wins Gold

The Flyer’s sister pub, MBQ won a gold medal for excellence at this year’s City & Regional Magazine awards.

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Style Sessions We Recommend

NKOTB Bike Basket Liner

My lovely co-worker Bianca — who, you’ll remember, introduced me to magnetic nail polish — led the charge last week for our company’s participation in Bike-to-Work Day. (We won third place! We got a plaque! Read all about it here!)

While this was certainly a feather in our company cap, nothing could eclipse Bianca’s joy when she received her New Kids On The Block bike basket liner bag from Salvaged Stitch on Etsy. Having just procured a wire basket for her adorable mint green cruiser, Bianca was thrilled to find a liner bag with handles for easy transport and a theme her 10-year-old self would be proud to peddle around.

Dannys looking out for his eco-friendly, sustainable-living dream girl.

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    Danny’s looking out for his eco-friendly, sustainable-living dream girl.

Salvaged Stitch has a lot of other NKOTB gear, including some things — tube tops, dresses, halter top and short sets — we wouldn’t recommend for anyone but the most die-hard fans. But Bianca counts herself as one of those fans, so we gave her the go-ahead to get an entirely NKOTB-themed wardrobe.

And now, here’s my favorite anecdote about Bianca and NKOTB: In the fourth grade, she gave a copy of NKOTB’s “Please Don’t Go Girl” (on cassette tape, of course) to her best friend who was moving away.

She’s got a cool bike basket liner and a heart of gold, this one.

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Sing All Kinds We Recommend

Revolve Guitars and Music Opens in Bartlett

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Earlier this year, local guitar player/collector and entrepreneur Geoff Albert quit his upper-level management job at a certain local music-retail superstore to fulfill a personal dream: owning his own musical instrument store. That dream became a reality in early April, when Albert opened Revolve Guitars and Music at 5238 Stage Rd. in Bartlett.

Albert spoke to the Memphis Flyer this week about opening the store and his career in the music industry.

Flyer: How did you get into music and the music business originally?

Albert: I have always been into guitar. I studied classical guitar in college and got a degree in music theory from the University of Memphis back in the 90s. I then went to grad school for a while for music history. At the time I was also working in a record store and was digging that, and left grad school to pursue it. I spent 18 years in that business with the last 7 years in multi-store management with stores all over the place.

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Sports Tiger Blue

Tiger Trivia Tuesday

What is the highest win total for the Tiger basketball program over the first three years of a decade? (Let’s define the first year of the Eighties as 1979-80. First year of the Nineties as 1989-90. And so on.)

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News

Bicycle Basket Liner Blast From the Past

Flyer staffer Bianca Phillips has a brand new bag. Hannah Sayle has more on Style Sessions.

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Soulsville Charter School’s First Grads are College Bound

One hundred percent of the first high school graduating class of Soulsville Charter School have been accepted to college. Those students are graduating on Thursday, May 24th. Bianca Phillips has the story.

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The Eads School Bus Tragedy

Check out the Eads School Bus Tragedy and other bits of eccentric Memphis history at Vance Lauderdale’s “Ask Vance” blog.

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Art Exhibit M

RiverArtsFest 2012 Poster Unveiling

Jeni Stallings has been announced as the Fine Arts Poster Artist for this year’s RiverArtsFest. A native of Jonesboro, Arkansas, Stallings received her BFA in painting from the Memphis College of Art as valedictorian in 1996 and works as a practicing artist in Atlanta, Georgia. Her art has been shown at New York University, Asheville, Atlanta, Boston, Santa Fe, and of course, Memphis, and is included in the collection of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, where Stallings interned during her junior year at MCA.

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She is represented in Memphis by L Ross Gallery, which will host the poster unveiling this coming Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. Signed and numbered RiverArtsFest 2012 Fine Arts Posters will be available for purchase.

Visual art has been the hallmark of the festival’s defining image each year since its inception, derived from the original work of an artist with close ties to the Memphis arts community. Previous poster designers include such celebrated locals as Dolph Smith, John Robinette, and George Hunt.