Where can you go today and hear Kenny Wayne Shepherd in concert, watch a cow being milked and stuff yourself with everything from barbecue bologna to funnel cakes? Only at the Mid-South Fair, of course. The 146th annual Mid-South Fair begins its 10-day run Thursday with a special discounted admission ...
To most people around her, Robyn Nickell had it all: a husband, three children, a real estate license and a great newspaper job. But Nickell still felt incomplete. So at age 46, she returned to school for an undergraduate degree in art education. “With my family’s encouragement, I finally listened ...
The unassuming young man with the darkly tanned girlfriend looks like any other typical 17-year-old you might see at the mall. A backwards baseball cap covers his longish blond hair and his jeans are loose and baggy. He is wearing a dark sweatshirt with a band logo, ZMB, subtly printed on the front. What ...
Fall slipped quietly into Memphis this past Saturday. But even though the leaves on the trees haven't started to change, one of the first signs that summer is officially gone arrived last Thursday. Any night through this coming Sunday if you travel about two miles west from campus on Southern, on your ...
University of Memphis junior Mia Heaston was named the 2001 Miss Mid-South Fair Saturday, the first African-American to win the title. Heaston, a 19-year-old broadcast journalism major, was chosen from a field of 10 contestants in a competition that judged them on the basis of an interview and on their ...
