Setting records is nothing new for MySpace's favorite comedian Dane Cook. After spreading his infectious energy to live audiences across the world, and becoming a part of many twenty-something's everyday vocabulary, Cook is ready to add another skill to his resume - romantic leading man. Star of the ...
The semester may be ending, but for local band While I Breathe, I Hope the celebration is just beginning. This hard rock band is preparing for their cross-country summer tour, which officially kicks off in Memphis on May 13. Even though the group has two local gigs prior to the beginning of their summer ...
In this time of endless iPods and Internet downloads, one music fan created a Web site that caters to the music connoisseur within us all. Tim Westergren founded Pandora.com six years ago and the Web site now has access to thousands of songs, and all the tools needed to create your one-of-a-kind play ...
The music world has been blessed with several unbeatable partnerships throughout history like Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lennon and McCartney. Now The University of Memphis, along with the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, is proud to have their own dynamic duo within the opera genre. "Don Giovanni," ...
A provocative and socially relevant production opens on The University of Memphis stage this week. "The Clearing," written by Helen Edmundson, was created in an effort to prove that history often repeats itself. This repetition is not always a positive thing, according to Edmundson and the creative ...
In recent years, the country music industry has lost some of its original outlaws, like Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash. After the success of the film "Walk the Line," Cash will continue to live on and a modern-day country troubadour named Shooter Jennings carries the torch for his late father, Waylon. Waylon ...
A nationally-recognized novelist, professor and physicist will take up residence on The University of Memphis campus this afternoon, and will make himself comfortable here over the weekend. Alan Lightman, the author of "Einstein's Dreams," will participate in symposiums and luncheons during his three ...
The second release from local production company Rusted Sun Films has become the first big success story for all the volunteers involved. Although Rusted Sun's first film, "A Cowboy's Silver Lining" was a hit with Memphis residents, their new release "Divine Manipulation of the Threads" is a bigger ...
As hundreds of University of Memphis students flipped through their worn out copies of High Fidelity, anxiously waiting for Nick Hornby to take the stage, a student mumbled to his friend, "He's an enigma." For the millions of fans that have purchased the immensely popular author's books over the past ...
"Homegrown Southern Short Stories" consists of three scenes, two actresses and one unforgettable slice of the South. Voices of the South is a local theater company that focuses on bringing narrative adaptations of short stories, novels and poetry to the stage. Voices consists of seven company members, ...
