Vote Against the Haters, Volunteer to Rock, Impress Us With Your Smarts and Meet Midtown's New Main Street

Vote Against the Haters, Volunteer to Rock, Impress Us With Your Smarts and Meet Midtown's New Main Street

365 Memphians - Mo Alexander
Mo Alexander is a hilariously foul-mouthed comedian and singer of drive-by Christmas carols. Though he's based in Memphis, he tours all over the south making people laugh and calling out stupidity wherever he sees it. In other news: - Memphis has made all kinds of lists in the past year. We're dirty, we're lazy, and damn if we're not stupid, too. If you're sick of total strangers talking civic smack, here's your chance to fight back: voting is open in Travel and Leisure's annual "America's Favorite Cities" Survey (the one where all of those things are determined). Go. Vote. Do it. - The annual Delta Girls Rock Camp is looking for volunteers to help run this year's all-girl band camp. They need a few good adults to do the following: act as band managers for pre-teen and teenage girls, be home recording teachers, teach workshops and sing karaoke. Seriously. - Midtown's Madison Avenue has been the subject of a lot redevelopment talk over the last few weeks. Here's a handy guide to some of the options being presented for the street that one Commercial Appeal commenter called "the Main Street of Midtown". - If you're good at trivia (or just like staring down local landmarks), blogger Mr. Brame has a contest for you. He's taken pictures of several sections of the main library's scrolling concrete sculpture and is asking people to correctly identify the source material. There are prizes, and you shouldn't Google. You're smarter than that.

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Gigi
I've been voting up Memphis in that poll. It really gets annoying when people that have never lived or even visited Memphis trash our city. The same goes for the suburbanites that haven't been downtown in years. Some Memphians are the worst haters. I always tell them, "If you hate Memphis so much, move! Immediate improvement as you exit our beloved city."
July 8, 2011 2:49pm
cecelia
The thing that really bothers me about that Travel and Leisure survey is that nowhere on the website is it disclosed how many people actually participated in the 2010 survey. For all we know, only a handful of folks actually ranked Memphis. One can "rank" one city, two cities, or all of them. So, there can be many people grading one city and few grading another.
July 8, 2011 4:15pm
Jarrod
I'm sorry, but I just couldn't give a high score to "Driving Ability". I will defend Memphis in many areas, but that is not one of them.
July 8, 2011 6:51pm