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It's Wednesday, and I've got a few useful bits of Memphis news for you: - If you've got some snail mail to send, you should pay for it with the brand new Danny Thomas forever stamps. They feature the smiling face of the actor and St. Jude Children…
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Day 57: It's OK. Go home. In the R.P. Tracks ladies room Memphis, Tenn. Day 58: The black thing is my dog, the blue things are my legs, and the stringed thing is my ukulele. I was sitting on the porch yesterday, desperately trying to pretend it…
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345 / 365 Kerry Peeples and Anne Smithwick are the owners of Thigh High Jeans, a Memphis-based company that recycles donated old denim into new jeans embellished with fabric panels and quotes on the thigh. You can donate your old jeans at Square…
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I keep picking the movies that make people cry. When I was at South by Southwest last year, I bawled my way through Thundersoul (a documentary about a Texas high school jazz band that showed at last year's Indie Memphis Film Festival). Last night…
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All original Ballet Memphis works, all in one night, Winter Mix is our annual signature repertory event. This season, choreographers explore different modes of storytelling with a variety of choreographic structures and aesthetics to create original works. Returning audience favorite Fingers of Your Thoughts by Julia Adam was commissioned in...
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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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Last weekend, two nice guys named Justin and Jared invaded my dining room with their recording equipment (that's their laptop , mixer and ipod - the cupcakes and cheese straws are mine). They were interviewing me for their awesome Memphis-centric…
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If you're going to complete assignment #97 in the 365 Things to Do in Memphis, you won't need a snorkel, but be warned - you might walk away with something a little like beer goggles. You're taking a dip in the frothy, pink magic that is a Diver…