A line of people stretched out of the church gymnasium and into the parking lot, where the temperature rose with the sun as it climbed toward noon. A volunteer handing out suckers said, "It's an hour wait, but it's the quickest place around." Another church up the street had a line wrapped around it, ...
A string of recent visitors to my work from the Northwest all noted that while Memphis doesn't have "traffic" in the same sense that, say, San Francisco or Seattle does, the drivers are all idiots. Having heard this before, especially from those who have moved here from other places, and having lived ...
I Pity the poor studio heads. With Friends gone the way of Seinfeld, and CSI spawning copycats (even of itself), it appears that reality TV is here to stay. But every person I talk to about television programming is sick to death of reality television -- the Survivors and the Appren-tices and the Big ...
I haven't bought it yet, but I bet there is a deleted scene from the newly released Star Wars DVD where, when Luke Skywalker unmasks Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi, Anakin is played by Dick Cheney. I bet George Lucas originally had an unrepentant Vader, one who, even in his last breath, ...
I'm relieved that the three day-care workers originally charged with first-degree murder in the hyperthermia death of Amber Cody-Cox received lesser sentences. It is with great interest, however, that I watch the case of Stephen McKim, a 25-year-old youth minister whose 7-month old daughter died after ...
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." - WilliamFaulkner A friend of mine who is usually a pretty mellow guy woke me uparound 9 a.m. on September 11 shouting into the phone about howAmerica was under attack. Like most everyone reading this, I was watching the first towerburn when, unbelievably, ...
Like many fathers, Brad struggled to get his son up and readyfor school each morning. Often his frustration turned to anger, not because his son'ssluggishness made him late, but because Brad wanted to get to work30 minutes early so he could cruise porn sites on his computer. "It shows the ridiculous ...
Bob Hetherington has waited seven years for a fully functioningtheatre design lab. But even with a $50,000 private donation,Hetherington's lab was never fully built. Last fall, the lab wascut from The University of Memphis' lab support network. Every academic year, students each pay $225 for technologyaccess ...
University of Memphis seniors graduating in a few weeks have abetter chance of getting a job than those who graduated a year ago,according to job experts. The greatest number of jobs now available is in the serviceindustry, followed closely by financial and insurance services. "The job market appears ...
The former president of South Africa and a Nobel Peace Prizewinner addressed ways in which technology in education andhealthcare can be used to stabilize impoverished nations and fightthe global threat of AIDS in a symposium on campus. F. W. de Klerk addressed more than 200 people in the Holiday Innballroom ...
