Many people would consider selling 25 million albums worldwideand earning the RIAA's Diamond Award for selling 15 million copiesof your debut CD an achievement. But Matchbox Twenty's percussionist Paul Doucette holds adifferent opinion. "We don't really feel that we're successful yet," Doucette said,in ...
Michelle Shocked's life has been full of contrast. Although raised in Gilmer, Texas, by her Mormon mother andstepfather, Shocked often spent her childhood summers with herfather, an atheist. Although she began college during the "careerist" '80s, whenmany young people picked majors solely to get jobs ...
Chris Knight sits at his kitchen table as rain pelts the groundof his 40-acre wooded oasis. "It started raining at 9 a.m.," Knight said in a telephoneinterview. "I've been loading logs this morning. I've got sometrees that have to go, so I can sell them at the log yard just 3miles up (the road)." Roughly ...
The Rudi E. Scheidt School of music will offer a new performanceensemble for all students to join in the fall. Members of the voice faculty, the choral director and directorof the school of music, Patricia Hoy created the program with funin mind. The All Campus Choir would be an outlet for any studentinterested ...
In a series of short and brutally entertaining cartoons, thecute critters of the Happy Tree Friends, Volume 1: First Bloodseries, take a lickin', and keep on gigglin'. Although they are tortured, each second, they rebound in episodeafter episode, giddier than ever before. Viewers may be reminded of ...
In 1980, University of Memphis professor David Evans was nominated for a GRAMMY. Now 20 years later he is nominated again for his album notes. However, Evans still hasn’t changed his tune. In the past, he said he felt he would not get an award and this year he said he feels the same. “I didn’t ...
For the most part, the members of Audiovent are good guys. Lead singer, Jason Boyd doesn’t eat red meat and instead of scarfing down 20 pounds of McDonalds’, like alt-rockers Phantom Planet, the band prefers to eat hale and hearty. To prove it, when asked if he could be any fruit, he said, “I’d ...
As a former professor, Leon Drouin spent most of his time in the classroom teaching, but as co-chairman of the Pink Palace Crafts Fair, he’ll be baking biscuits in an antique wood-burning stove at the Country Kitchen. “You haven’t tasted real food until you’ve eaten food from a wood burning ...
To celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month the Memphis Dance Group and FedEx will present Ballet Folklorico “Quetzalli” de Veracruz. Ballet Folklorico, founded in 1985, integrates song and dance inspired by traditional Mexican folk dances such as the Jarabes from the Mexican state of Jalisco. The ...
Not all love songs are light and cheery like Mariah Carey’s “Loverboy.” Some are morose and heavy like Antonio Carlos Jobim’s and Sting’s “How Insensitive,” where the men don’t regret mistreating their love’s until they’re gone (of course). I’ve compiled a list of songs that are ...
