Documentary highlights the history of Orange Mound. Louis Goggans has the story.
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Month: July 2013
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Is it Art or a Typo?
From FOTW’s earliest days as a slender gray column of newsprint your Fly-team has been on the lookout for the best signs in Memphis. And our definition of “best” is pretty broad.
So, there’s this from The Art Center on Union Ave.
Even more recently this next awesome message appeared on East Parkway at Madison.
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Jeff Hulett One Man Band performs at the Booksellers at Laurelwood Saturday night. Image: Christopher Reyes.
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Rainbow Riders Bike To Germantown
The Rainbow Riders, the city’s LGBT bicycle club, will take off on a 30-mile trek from Republic Coffee in Midtown to Nashoba Park in Germantown on Saturday, July 6th at 10 a.m.
The ride is open to the public, so long as you can provide your own bike and safety gear (helmets are required). The ride will follow the Shelby Farms Greenline, the Wolf River Greenline, and the Germantown Greenline.
Anyone who can’t make the full 30-mile round trip is invited to do a half-trek of 14 miles from Republic Coffee to Shelby Farms.
The Rainbow Riders will meet at Republic Coffee. The ride is expected to end at 2 p.m.
I’ll be the first to admit that Jookin isn’t unprecedented. From New Orleans’ second-line parades to old couples two-stepping at the local jook joint, it’s easy to find similarities. But, as the Gangsta Walk spread from one neighborhood to the next, what evolved in Memphis has proven to be unique, and uniquely compatible with other dance styles.
I wrote a too-short history of Jookin and Gangsta Walking for Memphis. Someday I’d like to share more from folks like Wolf, Hurricane, Little Fred, and the other OGs who broke out of the line dance and started freestyling. And I’d also like to tell stories from the days before YouTube about the folks who made all the video tapes of dancers and passed them around.
Without those guys, THIS never happens.
Anyway, just a heads up that my Jookin piece is now online. So, check it out.
And get buck, y’all.
Like sinkholes? Then you must check out the new Fly on the Wall blog.
CNN thinks Memphis’ Earnestine & Hazel’s is one of America’s best dive bars. And while most of us who live in the Bluff City can probably imagine sets of criteria that might place the ambiance-laden joint somewhat lower in the rankings even on a list of Memphis dives, it’s still a well-deserved honor.
The most interesting thing about this development, however, is the comment thread that seems to suggest that no bars on the list can be “real dive bars,” by virtue of being included on the list. (How Heisenbergian!)
Although the days have long past since one might contract syphilis from the ice cubes (to borrow an image from John Kennedy Toole), perhaps some denizens of the South Main tavern can chime in, and assure CNN’s viewers/readers that, for everything else it may or may not be, E&H is, without a doubt, a dive that reeks of heavenly burgers, and, though less literally, vintage copulation.
UPDATE: E&H is getting a lot of love this week. Thrillist.com just named the Soul Burger one of the nation’s best. Hat tip to WPTY/WLMT’s Cameron Harper (@NewsCam on your Twitter machine) for sharing.
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Vance at the Nineteenth Century Club
Vance Lauderdale offers a look inside the soon-to-be-demolished Nineteenth Century Club.
The Hussy performs Friday night at Three Angels Diner.