By Andy Meek Contributing Writer On June 19, Five for Fighting will be in Memphis as the opening act for the Goo Goo Dolls. On a recent afternoon, John Ondrasik, lead singer of the band, spoke to The Daily Helmsman via telephone. The Daily Helmsman: What do you think the special thing is about “Superman” ...
He’s here because the money isn’t. Tough fiscal times have forced the University of Memphis to invest more in part-time educators. Educators who now fill many of the teaching positions once up for grabs, due to side effects of the statewide cash shortage. He was the 1981 U of M journalism student ...
You could call his paintings slightly skewed. Louisiana artist and professor Michael Crespo is fascinated with stark contrasts. He paints fish set against cityscapes and squid floating in a sea of black. In one of his paintings, there is a large sheep wearing a wreath of red roses. The images he conjures ...
As the rumors of scandal sweep through the Catholic church, local religious leaders refuse to lose their faith. “The things that are happening in the Catholic church now prove that we’re all sinners,” said Don Bennis, a deacon at Our Lady of Sorrows in Memphis. “They prove that someone who has ...
When we don’t know where to turn, sometimes we turn on each other. That’s the message of a new report by a minority advocacy group. Attacks on minorities in the United States, it claims, particularly against Asian, Pakistani and Indian groups, increased sharply after Sept. 11. The National Asian ...
All he has to do is look at their faces. They are one of the few constants in his life now, the faces of young people who sit in school classrooms and listen patiently while he tells his story. They are mostly in kindergarten through eighth grade, unaware and underexposed to the issues he shares with ...
The first time he heard her on the phone, Michael knew there was a hole in his heart just big enough for the sweet sound of her voice. “She was such a lovely sounding woman,” said Michael Harmon, 44, a divorced engineer from Toledo, Ohio. “I knew I had hit the jackpot.” The voice belonged to ...
Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. “I’ve been thinking,” wrote Puerto Rican author Jesus Colon, “you know, sometimes one thing happens to change your life, how you look at things, how you look at yourself.” That’s the message behind “Choosing to Participate: Facing History and ...
Her voice is a velvet growl that floats over every arena she performs at. This soulful songbird with the magical voice only sings when the spirit moves her, something she hasn’t done much for the past decade. She once sang of a force stronger than nature that keeps her will alive. Like a foreigner ...
Daniel Zimmerman is a spiritual leader who doesn’t believe in religion. “All religion is a joke until you believe it,” he said in a raised voice. “Every church out there has got it all wrong.” Zimmerman runs a monastery in Arizona and for the last six years, he has been ordaining ministers ...
