AltWeeklies Wire
Crippled Nation Grows Upnew
The band changed its name to Streetside Symphony, which fits its current sound.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Streetside Symphony, The Curse
Documentary Warns of an Educational Dividenew
A visit to India and China inspired venture capitalist Bob Compton to explore what he saw as a worrisome divide between the quality and intensity of the education American students are receiving relative to students in those countries.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Two Million Minutes
Repeat Performancenew
The Memphis-based Folk Alliance settles in with its second consecutive hometown conference.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-15-2008 |
Concerts
Tags: Folk Alliance, concerts
A Rocking Returnnew
Tennessee hard-rockers Egypt Central fell through the major-label rabbit hole and lived to tell about it.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Egypt Central
See Ya, Pau!new
What does the Grizzlies' blockbuster move mean for the team's future?
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-08-2008 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
The Best Best Picture Nominees in Decadesnew
This is supposedly a bad time for movies, but scanning through the Academy Awards' back pages, I don't think there's been a stronger slate of Best Picture nominees since the mid-'70s.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-01-2008 |
Movies
Downhome Boy, Updatednew
Country star Brad Paisley is a Maxim and Field & Stream kind of guy.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
02-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Educators School Memphis in Roots-Rocknew
Year-end releases from Rob Jungklas and the Central Standards give divergent spins on roots-rock.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
01-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gully, Rob Jungklas
The Whigs: A Throwback in a Good Waynew
Athens' Whigs perfect a brand of no-frills rock that never goes out of style.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
01-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mission Control, The Whigs
Surveying Stevie Wondernew
He's become the now-underrated owner of one of modern pop's greatest discographies.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
11-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Stevie Wonder
Pretentious Ending Ruins 'The Mist'new
For a while, The Mist, adapted from a novella at the end of his '80s-era story collection Skeleton Crew, seems like it's going to be a pretty good Stephen King adaptation.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
11-30-2007 |
Reviews
Ingram Hill's Bass Player Woesnew
After completing Cold in California, the group's original bassist left the band. Then there was another guy ... he didn't last.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
11-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cold in California, Ingram Hill
Rilo Kiley Embraces Pornnew
The rampant sex talk on Under the Blacklight allows singer Jenny Lewis to flaunt the pouty sexuality that is a portion of both the band's appeal and the backlash that's followed.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
10-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rilo Kiley, Under The Blacklight
Kanye West Steps Back, but Still Risesnew
As modest artistically as it is immodest personally, Graduation still rises above most of a pretty bad year.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
10-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Kanye West, Graduation
American Can-do Spirit Stars in 'In the Shadow of the Moon' and 'The Kingdom'new
The Bush years have given American swagger a bad name, but there was a time when this quality was rooted not in cowboy-style bluster but in competence and confidence.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
10-02-2007 |
Reviews
