January 5, 2009

This Week

Current Issue #1036
Jan 1 - Jan 7, 2009









Blogs We Like
Ask Vance
artbutcher
At Home She Feels Like a Tourist
Back Roads of American Music
BBQthePandas.com
Beyond The Arc
The Chubby Vegetarian
The Daily Docket
The Flypaper Theory
Dining with Monkeys
Fertile Ground
Gates of Memphis
In the Bluff (the blog)
Jen-sized.net
Joe Larkins
Left Wing Cracker
Mediaverse: Memphis
memphis.cool.movies
Midtown Stomp
My Midtown Memphis
Paul Ryburn's Journal
Semi-Charmed Kat
Smart City Memphis
Stax Museum News
Theology & Geometry
Vegan Crunk

The Daily Buzz

FROM MY SEAT: A Fine Shine for '09

01/05/2009 - 09:56 am
FROM MY SEAT: A Fine Shine for '09 If you call yourself a Memphis sports fan and didn't have fun over the first weekend of 2009, you'd best get comfortable with your Wii. In a veritable three-day festival of athletics, the Bluff City set a standard unlikely to be matched over the next 51 weeks.

Griz Beat Mavericks; Rookies Shine

01/04/2009 - 09:03 pm
Griz Beat Mavericks; Rookies Shine Grizzlies rookies O.J. Mayo and Marc Gasol lead the way as the Grizzlies broke a 13-game losing streak to the Dallas Mavericks with an impressive 102-82 victory at FedExForum today.

Gasol scored 19 points in the first half before handing the baton to Mayo, who scored 18 of his team-high 21 points in the second half. Chris Herrington breaks it all down at Beyond the Arc.


Gibbons Makes It Official, Announcing for Governor

01/04/2009 - 06:41 pm
Gibbons Makes It Official, Announcing for Governor As expected, District Attorney General Bill Gibbons, reacting to weekend disclosures that former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will not run for governor in 2010, has announced his own candidacy for the office in a statement released on Sunday. Gibbons,emphasizing the issues of "crime and schools," will run in the Republican primary.



Gadfly to 'Splain the Madoff Mess on Fox Business Network

01/04/2009 - 06:09 pm
Gadfly to 'Splain the Madoff Mess on Fox Business Network Needing expert testimony to unravel the complexities involved in the $50 billion Ponzi scheme of Bernard Madoff, the Fox Business Network came (naturally) to seek advice from Flyer columnist Marty Aussenberg, a.k.a. The Gadfly, who wrote about the scandal last week. Aussenberg -- top hat, shades, and all -- will be on FBN in the 4 p.m.-5 p.m. hour Monday afternoon.

Nonagenarian Francis Neill (Father of Flyer Publisher) Dances into 2009

01/04/2009 - 05:55 pm
On New Year's Day visiting Bostonian Neill showed how it's done at the Midtown home of son Kenneth Neill. Learn more....


No Frist in Governor's Race? Then Gibbons, Maybe Norris

01/03/2009 - 02:45 pm
No Frist in Governor's Race? Then Gibbons,  Maybe Norris As word spreads this weekend that former U.S. Senator Bill Frist will not make a run for governor in 2010, the way is open for an extensive field of Republican candidates, including District Attorney General Bill Gibbons and possibly state Senator Mark Norris, to make gubernatorial announcements of candidacy.

Death Claims Two Memphis Judges

01/02/2009 - 10:31 pm
Death Claims Two Memphis Judges

The Shelby County Judiciary lost two of its longtime members Friday with the deaths of Circuit Court Judge Rita Stotts and General Sessions Criminal Court Judge Anthony Johnson.

As reported on the Fox 13 Web site Judge Stotts, a long-term survivor of breast cancer, died at Methodist Hospital. Judge Johnson died at home, apparently of a heart attack.

More details as they are available.


Buy Books and Learn to Dance This Weekend

01/02/2009 - 04:50 pm
Buy Books and Learn to Dance This Weekend

Got the post-holiday blues? Cure your ills by spending some money on yourself for a change. You can start by picking up some collectible and hard-to-find book titles at the Overton Park Antiquarian Book Fair on Saturday. The Parkview Retirement Community at 1914 Poplar is holding the annual sale from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.


Flyer Beats
Sports Beat

Fresh updates on the Grizzlies, Redbirds, and the University of Memphis from our sports columnists... Frank Murtaugh and Chris Herrington.  Go directly to Herrington's Grizzlies Blog, Beyond The Arc.



Reader Comments
RNC Hopeful Saltsman in Hot Water Over "Magic Negro" Lyric
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Letters to the Editor
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Gadfly to 'Splain the Madoff Mess on Fox Business Network
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Gadfly to 'Splain the Madoff Mess on Fox Business Network
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RNC Hopeful Saltsman in Hot Water Over "Magic Negro" Lyric
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Santa's Leftovers
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Gadfly to 'Splain the Madoff Mess on Fox Business Network
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RNC Hopeful Saltsman in Hot Water Over "Magic Negro" Lyric
watauga: Jeff, where did I misread you? You need to better explain what you mean. Have...
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Gadfly to 'Splain the Madoff Mess on Fox Business Network
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