Bianca Phillips interviews Downtown Memphis Commission president Paul Morris about the city’s proposal to redevelop the historic Chisca Hotel.
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Month: July 2012
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The River City Tanlines
Join Alicja Trout and the River City Tanlines’ album release party at the Hi-Tone Saturday. J.D. Reager has an interview.
In many ways, The Dark Knight Rises is the movie of the year, and here at Sing All Kinds we seem to have a disagreement on our hands. Chris Herrington thinks The Dark Knight is the best film in the trilogy. Greg Akers finds The Dark Knight Rises to be the superior film. This week we’re hashing it out here. NOTE/WARNING: Spoilers will be flying like batarangs.
Tuesday, Herrington made a “sprawling,” “commanding,” and “entertaining” case that The Dark Knight (DK) is the best in the bunch. Wednesday, Akers wrote the War & Peace of off-the-cuff Batman blog posts in trumpeting The Dark Knight Rises (DKR). Thursday, Herrington, exhausted from battle, conceded some points and double-downed on some others. Today, Akers makes his rebut and turns out the lights in the Batcave.
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Hi Electric at the Poplar Lounge
Melodic Memphis rockers Hi Electric play the Poplar Lounge Friday. Chris Herrington has their back-story.
“Chick-fil-A is Desoto County, soccer and baseball teams, Mike Huckabee, red state, Christian.”
That from a coworker who sees the Chick fil-A imbroglio as self-segregation via fast food with the same values fault line that separates the city of Memphis from the municipalities.
So, for this person, the August 1st Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day — aka the “buycott” spurred on by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in support of Chick-fil-A company president Dan Cathy’s anti-gay/pro-family stance — and the August 2nd vote go hand-in-hand in this culture war.
And then there’s the next day, August 3rd, declared Same Sex Kiss Day.
Mark your calendars, Tiger Nation. The U of M has released the schedule for year four of the Josh Pastner era. (And the final year, it should be noted, of the Conference USA era.)
NOV 7 (or 8, depending on FedExForum availability): CBU (exhibition)
NOV 12: North Florida
NOV 17: Samford
NOV 22-24: Battle 4 Atlantis (Bahamas)
NOV 29: UT-Martin
DEC 5: Ohio
DEC 8: Austin Peay
DEC 15: Louisville
DEC 20: Lipscomb
DEC 28: Oral Roberts
DEC 30: Loyola-MD
JAN 4: at Tennessee
JAN 8 (or 9): East Carolina
JAN 12: at UAB
JAN 16: at Rice
JAN 19: Harvard
JAN 22: Tulane
JAN 26: Marshall
JAN 30: at East Carolina
FEB 2: Tulsa
FEB 6: at SMU
FEB 9: at Southern Miss
FEB 13: UCF
FEB 16: at Marshall
FEB 20: Houston
FEB 23: Southern Miss
FEB 26: at Xavier
MARCH 2: at UCF
MARCH 6: at UTEP
MARCH 9: UAB
MARCH 13-16: C-USA tournament (at Tulsa)
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Burger King’s BBQ
As a native Memphian, I couldn’t help but want to test Burger King’s summer barbecue menu to see how it held up. Unfortunately, by the time I got around to it, the Memphis BBQ pulled pork sandwich was not on the menu, so I decided to drown my disappointment with a Bacon Sundae ($2.99).
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
Chris Herrington says the new Katrina-informed indie film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, may be the most original movie of the year.
In this week’s “We Recommend” section I wrote up the opening for Tom Reed’s Black Mountain at the Wrong Again Gallery, noting that the gallery’s openings “have been marked by misunderstandings, technical glitches, outright drunkenness, and odd happenstance.”
And now, friends, it seems I’ve become a part of the lore of this cheeky gallery — it’s just a door! — having mistakenly placed it inside Marshall Arts, rather than across the street at 648 Marshall.
I found this out when artist and Wrong Again founder Greely Myatt emailed me yesterday morning.
Myatt’s reaction?
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Early Look at Big Star Doc
A couple of hundred Memphians at Studio on the Square got a sneak preview last night of Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, a documentary feature about the legendary Memphis band of the ’70s that helped relaunch the career of Alex Chilton and launch, a decade later, a whole generation of alternative-rock and post-punk bands.
A trailer for Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me:
The work-in-progress screening was sponsored by the Memphis chapter of the Recording Academy as part of an annual membership event and featured a post-screening question-and-answer session with New York-based filmmakers Drew DeNicola, Danielle McCarthy, Olivia Mori, along with the lone remaining original member of the band, Ardent Studios’ Jody Stephens.
Before the screening, DeNicola (the film’s director and editor) labeled it “a participatory event,” in which he wanted feedback from an audience that knows the band and its story well before heading back to the editing room to complete the film.