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There are two kinds of people: people who grab whatever coffee they can find on the run and gulp it like it was their life force…and people who act like they're in a coffee commercial, savoring every sip and admiring every curl of steam. Update:…
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I went to St. Jude this morning to see the start of the annual Memphis to Peoria, Ill. run. Despite the heat, tons of St. Jude and ALSAC employees were outside, cheering on the runners with homemade signs. Signs like this one: While "Go, runners…
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"Shaolin Soul Selections" is the Wu-Tang Clan's love letter to the Stax archives. The RZA has collected a handful of his favorite Stax songs and put them into a compliation called "Shaolin Soul". While I was hoping it was new RZA tracks, the…
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Congratulations to " Memphis the Musical"! The show is racking up awards and nominations. "Memphis" is nominated for nine Tony awards (including best musical). The show also won Drama Desk awards for best musical, best music and best orchestration…
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Every few days, I spend a considerable amount of time scrolling through Cute Overload, oohing and aww-ing over videos of adorable animals, especially the ones of cats. There are surprised cats, cats trapped in boxes, and, in my recent favorite,…
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In case you missed it: there's a big red ball coming to Memphis next week. Why, you ask? Why not, I say! Photograph: Tom Martin ©RedBall Project Artist Kurt Perschke has taken his 250-pound inflated red ball all over the world (think Abu Dhabi,…
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(Editor’s note: I’m on a quest to catalog all of the places in the Memphis area with historical markers in an occasional feature called “On This Date, Something Happened".) A brand new historical marker has been planted in Soulsville. It's outside…
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I had a ton of fun planning this week's show. I had a ton of new music (including a record of American pop songs recorded in French), I found a brand new PSA (the kidney stone belt - love!), and I had a random stranger call the show and ask...
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Tigers Football has a been a wild ride the past few years, and t here's no better time than now to complete assignment #243 in the 365 Things to Do in Memphis list: go to a University of Memphis football game. Photo credit: Andrea Zucker / Memphis…