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MeMphis, New York
Memphis the Musical has ended its
Tony-winning Broadway run after
1,196 shows. But there’s still a little
Memphis on the Great White Way.
Last week, Cybill Shepherd made her
Broadway debut in Gore Vidal’s The
Best Man. She has received positive reviews in the role of Alice, the wife of a
politician played by John Larroquette,
who, according to TalkingBroadway.
com, she’s learning a lot about. “John’s
been marvelous to me. We share a
bathroom backstage, so we’ve gotten to
know each other very well,” she says.
Broad
Look
Last weekend,
Broad Avenue
reinvented itself
with “A New
Face for an Old
Broad.” Has the
historic street
turned a corner?
Listed
Forbes has listed three of Memphis’
higher-education institutions in the top
20 percent in the nation from the students’ point of view: Christian Brothers
University, University of Memphis, and
Rhodes College. So, if you’re keeping
track of your magazine lists, that means
Memphis is populated by obese, lazy,
sad, yet relatively sober criminals who
think they’re really smart. But it’s a
great place to retire.
BrokeN eNgLish
Last week, a Sharpie art tombstone for
the First Amendment went missing
when city officials evicted Occupy
Memphis from Civic Center Plaza. It
has since been found — broken.
M
etalsmith Jerry
Couillard calls the old
days on Broad Avenue
“a little adventure.”
“I couldn’t go outside much, I’ll tell you
that,” Couillard says. “It was frightening,
but that’s why I came here, because it was a
low-rent district.”
The gregarious metalsmith moved his
metal shop to Broad Avenue 16 years
ago. He looks the way you might expect a
blacksmith to look — stout with a thick,
coarse beard — and he lives in the top half
of his building. The forge where he and his
staff create metal furniture and specialty
projects occupies the first floor.
Initially, he rented the building, but
Clockwise from bottom left: building owner Jo Buehler; metalsmith Jerry when it went up for tax auction, “I didn’t
Couillard; plus scenes from the recent “A New Face for an Old Broad,” a want to move my junk,” he says, “so I
weekend of events sponsored by the Historic Broad Business Association,
Livable Memphis, and the Memphis Regional Design Center
FaMiLY VaLues
Tennessee’s David Fowler is pushing
back against a “biased” media machine
that had the audacity to print what he
wrote instead of what he intended. In a
sternly worded letter to The Tennessean,
the Family Action Council president
complained that the “obvious point”
of his recent Facebook status update “is
that government can foster and create
dependence on government.” What he
wrote about government aid and the
people who receive it: “Do Not Feed
the Animals.”
We R e c o m m e n d : C u l t u r e , N e w s + R e v i e w s
Build a Better Broad
About “Moving Equality Forward Fundraiser”:
“As a Democrat, I wish the gays wouldn’t
attach their agenda to my party. They
have caused the Democratic Party to lose
big-time in the South. If the Democrats
sloughed off the radical gay agenda, then we
could start making inroads into the South
again.” — Tyler Sutton
Edited by Bianca Phillips
Questions, Answers + Attitude
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ci tY r e p o r te r By Bianca Phillips
Still Occupying
Occupy Memphis makes plans to stick around
despite their recent eviction.
This tent was among several torn down by city crews
two weeks ago.
The area across from City Hall that housed the Occupy Memphis
encampment for nearly 10 months is now unoccupied.
But even though the tents and handmade posters calling for an
end to corporate greed are gone, thanks to a surprise eviction from
city officials two Fridays ago, members of the last remaining Occupy encampment on public property aren’t giving up.
Eleven people from Occupy Memphis gathered at Civic Center
Plaza, in the place that once housed about 20 of their tents, for
the weekly General Assembly meeting on Sunday night to discuss
what’s next for the local arm of the national movement that has
attempted to shed light on the disproportionate distribution of
wealth in America.
The Memphis group, which had camped on the plaza since
last October, was evicted on August 10th in the wee hours of the
morning by Mayor A C Wharton’s administration, claiming the
campsite had become unsanitary and people were bathing and
urinating in the public fountains.
“None of us were bathing there. I took people to my house to
bathe,” said Alicia Rumbarger, who has a home in Bartlett.
Terry Carrico, who has camped at Occupy since it began in
Memphis, said it’s possible some homeless people who were not
part of the Occupy camp were using the fountains as bathrooms.
But he said no one from the camp had done that.
At the General Assembly, members discussed ways to stay relevant and active despite losing the home base on the plaza. Carrico
said the group will be occupying corners at intersections for smaller
protests against corporate greed and other issues.
“With us taking our signs to the street corners, we’re going to
get a lot more exposure than we had down here,” said Joe Walker,
an Arkansas farmer and Occupier, at Sunday’s meeting.
The General Assembly meetings, which have been a staple of
the movement since it began, will continue every Sunday at Civic
Center Plaza at 6 p.m. However, the group voted to meet at the
Edge Coffeehouse in Cooper-Young when the weather is bad.
Also on Occupy’s agenda for the future: a First Amendment
demonstration outside the Cecil B. Humphreys School of Law on
Friday, August 24th, at 11:30 a.m., a plan to reach out and align
their efforts with local groups fighting for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
About “The Ritz Maneuver” and the proposal
for a county sale tax:
“Looks like Mike the RINO is proud to be
the new leader of the CC8, who are doing
more to drive a massive wedge between
urban and suburban interests than Dr.
Herenton ever dreamed of. While citizens
of Germantown (I’m one) only want local
control over neighborhood schools, Mike
Ritz and his cronies appear to revel in complete alienation of the suburbs in every way
possible. And interestingly enough, in this
instance anyway, he’s screwing Memphis
as well. Someone needs to pull his chain
before the damage becomes permanent.”
— staythirstymyfriends
About “Letter from the Editor” and the Romney/Ryan ballot:
“These men are two peas in a pod. Both are
frauds, and the only hope they have of winning is that they can disenfranchise enough
Democratic voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
and Florida so that election results are questionable, thus leaving it up to the Supreme
Court to pick the president again.” — cd
continued on page 10
GREG CRAVENS
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The vacant, historic James Lee House may soon see new life.
The James Lee House, an
to the city in the 1920s to establish
8,100-square-foot vacant mansion
the Memphis Academy of Arts (now
looming over the corner of Adams
the Memphis College of Art).
and Orleans, is run-down and
When the art school migrated to
rumored to be haunted. But it may
Overton Park in 1959, the home
be restored and made habitable in the
was left vacant and has been ever
upcoming months.
since.
José Velázquez and his wife
The proposed bed-and-breakfast
Jennifer have been working to secure
at the Lee House would include
the blighted structure since April of
five suites that range in price from
last year in the hopes of transforming
$170 to $320 per night. A gourmet
it into a bed-and-breakfast.
breakfast, evening wine reception,
In late 2010, the Memphis City
private parking, and wireless
Council asked the Center City
internet service would also be
Development Corporation to find a
included.
developer to restore the city-owned
The couple plans to name four
James Lee House, located in historic
of the suites after the families that
James Lee House: future
Victorian Village. The Velázquez’s
have owned the house in its 164-year
bed-and-breakfast?
proposal to restore the house as a bedhistory: the Lee Suite ($320), the
and-breakfast was chosen.
Goyer Suite ($250), the Harsson Suite ($290), and the
The renovation costs are estimated at $2 million.
Velázquez Suite ($280). The fifth suite would be called
Determined to make their plan a reality, the couple sold
Isabel Studio, after the Velázquez’s daughter. The couple
their house, invested their life savings, and obtained the
would reside on the third floor.
rest of the funding from private contributors.
“These are going to be really large suites with antiques,
Last Friday, about 70 people attended a brief
beautiful beds, and all that. It’s going to be a unique
presentation on the proposed bed-and-breakfast
experience,” said Scott Blake, executive director of
renovation, as well as a tour of the historic house.
Victorian Village, Inc. “It’s like an upscale hotel, but you
Velázquez said he and his wife became interested in
get a different, intimate environment. You go down for
owning their own bed-and-breakfast after spending nights breakfast, and you meet people from all over the world.”
at several of them during their honeymoon decades earlier.
Earlier this year, a proposal was presented to the
“We just fell in love with the concept. They’re private,
city council to transfer the title of the property to the
cozy, unique, historic places that allow you to really
Velázquezes, which would allow them to renovate the
experience life as it was in a nice setting,” Velázquez said.
historic house.
“The [James Lee] house allows us to do those things. It has
A city council committe voted Tuesday to approve the
the space, the character, just the feel for people who really
sale of the house, and the full council was also scheduled
like the bed-and-breakfast.”
to vote on the sale. The full council’s vote was not
Built in the mid-1800s, the James Lee House was
available at press time.
owned by several families including William Harsson,
If approved, it may take up to a year for the bed-andCharles Wesley Goyer, and James Lee before being gifted
breakfast to open.
s p ot L i g h t By Elizabeth Cooper
A Wedge or a Club?
A few months ago, the black community found itself at the intersection of the marriage equality debate as President Barack Obama
and the NAACP endorsed same-sex marriage and the Coalition of
African American Pastors (CAAP) rapidly responded by denouncing the president’s stance.
The Rev. William Owens, a native Memphian and the leader
of the CAAP, said marriage equality is not a civil rights issue. He
accused the president of disgracing the civil rights movement.
Owens’ comments enlivened a response from Clergy Defending the Rights of All, a Memphis-based group of religious leaders,
which held a press conference at the Memphis Gay & Lesbian
Community Center (MGLCC) last Thursday.
An African-American gay minister of the pro-equality organization Operation Rebirth in Chicago has scheduled a pro-equality
rally for September 7th in Memphis.
“I think it’s ridiculous that black people would stand up and cosign discrimination against anyone considering our history in this
country,” said Tuan Ingram, the gay minister behind Operation
Rebirth. “It’s a case of the oppressed becoming the oppressor.”
Members of Clergy Defending the Rights of All at the
Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center
Ingram will journey from Chicago to meet with other lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, and black community leaders in Memphis to protest the CAAP’s anti-gay stance and rally for equality.
When Ingram received no reply after extending an invitation to
Owens to meet with him and other leaders of local gay-affirming
black churches, he began planning the September rally [Owens did
not reply to a Flyer request for an interview]. Ingram wanted to discuss with Owens a variety of issues affecting the African-American
community.
“Equality has never hurt any community,” Ingram said. “I have
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What They Said
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“Occupy” continued from page 8
“Wedge” continued from page 8
and transgender equality, and a weekly newsletter.
Rumbarger is organizing a yard sale of Occupy camp supplies to raise money for printing costs.
The national Occupy movement often took criticism for
not being cohesive or having a solid plan of action. But at
least successful grassroots movements were born out of the
Memphis Occupy group’s organizing efforts — the homeless
advocacy group, H.O.P.E. (Homeless Organizing for Power
and Equality), and the Memphis Bus Rider’s Union, which
attempts to raise the level of service and dignity in the city’s
public transit system.
Now, Rumbarger says the group plans to throw its support
behind existing groups.
“With the elections coming up and the voter suppression
issues going on, we thought we’d throw our weight in with
some other groups that have already got something going on
so we don’t have to reinvent the wheel,” Rumbarger said.
Although Occupy members were sad to see their campsite
go, they’re trying to make the best of the situation.
“Now we can take our message to different parts of the
city and not keep it centralized downtown,” Carrico said.
“Since we’re not there anymore, we can reach out to different
neighborhoods and do volunteer work and really get our name
out there.”
heard no response, which lets me know [Owens] is uninterested in the real issues plaguing our community, like voter
suppression, police brutality, drugs and violence, lack of
education, and high unemployment.”
Will Batts, the director of MGLCC, had a similar message at the Clergy Defending the Rights of All press conference last Thursday: “There are a lot of important issues for
us to deal with in this city, and we need to move on.”
Ingram said he believes the conservatively funded National Organization for Marriage (NOM), for which Owens
serves as the liaison to black churches, is funding CAAP to
suppress the African-American voting base.
According to a confidential NOM report obtained by
the Human Rights Campaign, “The strategic goal of this
project [NOM] is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks
— two key Democratic constituencies.”
“That memo was from four years ago, and we’ve
apologized for it,” NOM president Brian Brown said. “We
aren’t the ones who want to split the Democratic vote. The
Democratic party’s acceptance of gay marriage is splitting
the vote.”
Ingram said he looks forward to meeting and working
with the Clergy Defending the Rights of All and any other
local groups working for social equality.
Also appearing weekly:
Letter from
the editor
Learning To Fly
By Chris Davis
By Mary Cashiola
Some people “stage” houses. On Broad Avenue, they’re staging the whole street.
For “A New Face for an Old Broad,” the street will be striped with protected bike lanes and pedestrian crosswalks, the vacant storefronts filled with businesses and eateries, and an empty parking lot turned into a skatepark.
“We’re trying to give the street a facelift,” says Pat Brown, co-owner of Broad’s T Clifton Art Gallery.
Beginning in the 1900s, Broad Avenue was a main street for the area, with a barbershop, a bank, and a dry-goods store. In more recent
times, however, the street has been home to empty storefronts and biker gangs before transitioning to today’s burgeoning arts district.
In an effort to entice entrepreneurs to Broad and show just how, ahem, broad the possibilities are, they’re filling up those empty spaces
with all sorts of enterprises.
The Peddler, Outdoors, Inc., and the Brooks and Pink Palace museums, among others, will be doing pop-up shops. There also will
be exercise classes, a kids’ bike parade, a climbing wall, and 20 musical performances. Food vendors will include Fratelli’s, Three Angels
Diner, Broadway Pizza, Caritas Village, the Crepe Maker, Republic Coffee, and DejaVu.
“It all started as a way to showcase what the Broad Avenue Arts District can look like a few years down the road,” Brown says. “It’s a
snapshot of the future.”
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Lindsey Roberts pulls on a ragged, paint-stained pair of sneakers in a color that’s difficult to identify. “These are my [Peter] Pan
shoes,” she says, pulling the laces tight. “I’ve worn these shoes for Pan every year I’ve done it.”
Onstage at Playhouse on the Square, where Peter Pan opens this weekend, technicians are working with harnesses and wires,
preparing to teach the young actors playing Wendy, Michael, and John how to fly.
Roberts (pictured on the left with her “co-Pan” Laura Stracko) started playing Peter Pan in 1999, sharing the role with Playhouse regular Courtney Oliver. But lately, she hasn’t been seeing too much of J.M. Barrie’s boy who won’t grow up. Playhouse
shelved the popular Christmas show in 2006, before the construction of a new theater that would allow Peter Pan to fly like
never before.
“I found out I was pregnant,” Roberts says, remembering the last flight in her Pan shoes and anticipating her next. “I felt
like it would be different as a parent. I thought it would affect me more in my relationship with the Lost Boys. But it actually has done more to help me understand Wendy’s importance as a mother figure. [It helps me understand] why I’m trying to
convince her with all of my heart, using every trick I have, to come back to Neverland with me: ‘Look, I’ve got this really great
island where it’s winter, spring, summer, and fall all at the same time. And also I can fly.’”
Roberts, whose strong dancer’s body and angular elfin features make her such a natural, stands and stretches and makes her
way to the stage to help with the harnesses. For the first time on a Playhouse stage, actors can spin in their harnesses. They can
move in directions they’ve never moved before, and it’s clear that Roberts is as anxious to take to the sky as the kids are. “Oh
my gosh, it’s so different. It’s so awesome,” she says.
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editorial
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 opens in theaters on
Friday. Film, p. 51
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Gingerbread Dream
Memphis Botanic Garden Atrium,
9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Opening day of Gingerbread Dreams,
a gingerbread village with buildings
inspired by Gaudi and Dr. Seuss (!) and
created by architect John Pruett. The
buildings have been “leased” to local
businesses, with funds going to Camp
Good Grief. Through December 31st.
Holiday Bazaar
Memphis College of Art, 6-9 p.m.
Now in its 61st year, this bazaar offers
one-of-a-kind items made by MCA’s
students, staff, and alumni. Among
those participating in this year’s bazaar
are Remy Miller, Fred Burton, and
Dolph Smith. Continues Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
“Sugar, Sex and Poison:
Shocking Plant Secrets”
The Dixon Gallery and Gardens,
6:30 p.m., $5
A lecture by William Cullina on the
wily ways of plants in pollination and
defense. Proceeds go to the Phoebe
Cook Lecture Series Fund.
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Memphis Potters’ Guild Annual
Holiday Show & Sale
Memphis Botanic Garden, 5-8 p.m.
Don’t put away you wallet yet … This
huge annual show and sale features
the work of members of the Memphis
Potters’ Guild — including decorative and functional pieces. Through
Sunday, November 21st.
The Memphis Potters’ Guild Holiday Show & Sale (including work by
Mary Lou Egger, above) runs November 19th-21st. Calendar, p. 38
The Punch Brothers play the Germantown Performing Arts Centre on Saturday, November 20th.
Calendar, p. 41
s a t u r d ay N o v e m b e r 2 0
Beale Street Snuggie Pub Crawl
Registration: Kooky Canuck,
6 p.m., $10
You must be 21 and wearing a snuggie to participate in this annual pub
crawl, benefiting Amelia’s Voice.
There will be bingo along the stops
on Beale as well as prizes for best male
and female snuggies and best group
snuggie. To purchase tickets, go to
ameliasvoice.org.
Graceland Holiday Lights
Graceland, 6 p.m.
The annual “flipping of the switch” to
turn on the elaborate holiday lights
display on the grounds of the mansion. Doing the honors this year is
American Idol winner Lee DeWyze.
“The Farnsworth Invention”
Poplar Pike Playhouse, 8 p.m., $18
Poplar Pike Playhouse presents this
drama by Aaron Sorkin about the
invention of television.
Harvest Party
Earnestine & Hazel’s, 8 p.m., $75
Annual fund-raiser for the Cotton
Museum of Memphis. There will be
live music, a silent auction, and an
open bar.
Sierra Club Outing
Meet at Union and Riverside
Trolley Stop, 10 a.m.
A three-mile walk along the Bluffwalk
and Riverwalk with members of the
Sierra Club Chickasaw Group. No
pets allowed. For more information,
e-mail z4cmv@juno.com or call
274-0524.
Punch Brothers
Germantown Performing Arts Centre,
8 p.m., $25-$35
Bluegrass/indie band Punch Brothers
featuring Chris Thile perform tonight
in support of their latest album,
Antifogmatic.
“Fiesta!”
Cannon Center for the Performing Arts,
8 p.m., $15-$78
The Memphis Symphony Orchestra
performs a salute to Spain during
this concert. On the program: Ravel’s
Alborada del gracioso and Chabriers’
Espana. Encore performance Sunday
at 2:30 p.m. at the Germantown
Performing Arts Centre.
Enchanged Forest Festival of Trees
Pink Palace Museum,
9 a.m.-5 p.m., $5
Opening day for annual holiday
display benefiting Le Bonheur
Children’s Medical Center. Includes
the Gingerbread Village, Penguin
Pond, and the Festival of Trees.
There’s also pictures with Santa.
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Calendar of Events: June 28 - July 4
Independence Day Atop the Madison:
all about the fireworks
politics
mUsic
politics By Jackson Baker
Hanging in There
music By Chris Davis
The Creation
Democratic chairman Chip Forrester hopes to survive his party’s debacle.
Th e aTe r
Circuit Playhouse
Tuna Does Vegas, for
more information, call
726-4656 or visit www.
playhouseonthesquare.org.
Through July 8.
51 S. COOPER (725-0776).
Landers Center
(DeSoto Civic Center)
Annie Get Your Gun, DeSoto
Family Theatre presents this
classic musical about the best
female sharpshooter who ever
lived. For more information,
call 662-280-6546. Through
July 1.
4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN,
MISSISSIPPI (662-280-9120).
The Evergreen Theatre
Inner City South Presents:
The Stage Play, an evening
of suspense, seduction, and
scandal. For more information,
visit www.innercitysouth.com.
Fri.-Sat., June 29-30.
1705 POPLAR.
First Assembly of God
Celebrate America, patriotic
celebration and musical.
Featuring guest speaker Mayor
A C Wharton. For more
information, call 843-8600 or
visit www.famemphis.net. Free.
Sun., July 1, 10:30 a.m.
8650 WALNUT GROVE (843-8600).
Germantown
Community Theatre
Sleeping Beauty, presenting
the Disney classic. For more
information, call 937-3021.
Through June 30.
3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE
(754-2680).
New Moon
Theatre Company
Vanities, New Moon Theatre
presents this bittersweet
comedy by Jack Heifner.
For more information, call
newmoontheatre.org.
Through July 1.
AT THEATREWORKS, 2085 MONROE
(484-3467).
Playhouse on the
Square
Xanadu, musical based on
the cult classic film about
a struggling artist’s plan to
create a roller disco. For
more information, call
playhouseonthesquare.org.
June 29-July 22.
66 S. COOPER (726-4656).
Theatre Memphis
No, No, Nanette, for
more information, visit
www.theatrememphis.org.
Through July 1.
630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).
OTh e r arT
happe n i n g s
Acrylic and Oil
Painting Classes
All-levels class by artist Kay
Spruill. Call 452-8424 for
more information. Thursdays,
11 a.m.-2 p.m., and Sundays,
1-4 p.m.
STUDIO ELEVEN, 792 S. GRAHAM
(452-8424).
Advanced Metal Clay
Workshop
683-8446 (dreamcasters@
comcast.net). $50 per session.
Mondays, 7-9:30 p.m.
HOME OF MILDRED S. SCHIFF,
CALL FOR LOCATION (683-8446).
All Levels Adult
Watercolor Class
For more information, contact
Bernadette Grantham at 7676234. $65 for five sessions.
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
HOBBY LOBBY COLLIERVILLE,
950 W. POPLAR.
“Art On D’Edge”
a rT O pe n i n g s
National
Ornamental
Metal Museum
Reception for “Tributaries:
Marlene True.” Opening
includes a lecture by the artist.
Fri., June 29,
5:30-7 p.m.
Use various still-life objects to
create and photograph your
own art display. In conjunction
with South Main Trolley Tour.
521-0054. Fri., June 29,
6-9 p.m.
D’EDGE ART & UNIQUE TREASURES,
550 S. MAIN (521-0054).
374 METAL MUSEUM DR.
(774-6380).
Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number,
a brief description, and photos
— two weeks in advance —
to Hannah Sayle at sayle@memphisflyer.com or
P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101.
Art Open Late
at the Brooks
The museum stays open until
8 p.m. for tours, artist talks,
films, musical performances,
activities, and more each
Thursday night.
MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART,
1934 POPLAR (544-6226).
Art Trolley Tour
Tour the local galleries and
shops on South Main. Free
trolley rides. Last Friday of
every month, 6-9 p.m.
SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC ARTS
DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN.
Back Gallery Sale
at T Clifton
Featuring gently worn art
at reduced prices. For more
information, visit www.
tcliftonart.com or call
323-2787. Through June 30.
T CLIFTON ART GALLERY,
2571 BROAD (323-2787).
Beginner and Advanced
Beginner Adult
Watercolor Class
For more information, contact
Bernadette Grantham at 7676234. $65 for five sessions.
Mondays, 1-3 p.m.
HOBBY LOBBY GERMANTOWN,
1991 EXETER.
Call for Entries:
Artist-in-Residence at
the Metal Museum
Residencies include foundry,
conservation/small metals, and
blacksmith positions. For more
information on the program or
the application requirements,
contact Leila Hamdan at
774-6380 (leila@
metalmuseum.org). Ongoing.
First Annual Highpoint
Summer Art Event
Painting and Glass
Mosaics Class
Five in One Presents:
Social Club
WINGER BOWMAN STUDIO,
Head to Johnwood at
Highpoint Terrace for booths
with paintings, mosaics,
jewelry, clothing, and more
(wingerbowman@aol.com).
Free. Sat., June 30, 9 a.m.2 p.m.
Artists and non-artists have
the opportunity to experiment
with materials, learn art and
craft techniques, and walk away
with something they created.
Each session features a different
project (alaskeycastle@gmail.
com). Mondays, 6-10 p.m.
FIVE IN ONE, 423 N. WATKINS
(MICHAEL@FIVEINONE.ORG).
“Healing Heart”
Workshop
Adults dealing with grief,
loss, stress, or illness learn to
heal through art. For more
information, visit www.
heartforartstudio.com (donna@
heartforartstudio.com). $25.
Saturdays, 9-11 a.m.
HEART FOR ART STUDIO,
Introduction to Acrylics
Instruction by John Helms.
$27 plus supplies. Tuesday,
6-8 p.m., Wednesday, 2-4 p.m.
MICHAEL’S WINCHESTER,
7931 WINCHESTER ( 751-0720).
Open Studio Painting
Pick a painting online and
reserve a studio time. $30
(includes supplies). MondaysSaturdays, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
HEART FOR ART STUDIO,
CALL FOR LOCATION (605-8057),
WWW.HEARTFORARTSTUDIO.COM/.
Materials provided. No
experience necessary. For more
information, call 327-2869
(wingerbowman@aol.com).
$30 adults, $20 children.
Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m., and
Saturdays, 1-4 p.m.
Pattern and Collage
Workshop with
Kerrie Rogers
Students will tone and texture
papers with watercolors and
acrylic for collage. Materials
will be provided, but students
are encouraged to bring
their own materials as well
(flickerstreet@gmail.com).
$100 per workshop. Sat., June
30, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
FLICKER STREET STUDIO,
74 FLICKER (767-2999).
lvis Presley was fully ascendant when
photographer Roger Marshutz took
his iconic picture at the Tupelo
Homecoming show, September 26,
1956. His single that paired “Don’t Be
Cruel” and “Hound Dog” dominated
the summer charts and the film Love Me Tender was
already in production. In crisp black and white, Marshutz
captured a sweaty, glowing Presley, mic cradled in one
hand, reaching out with the other to touch his fans — like
God in Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam. This electric
moment of real contact between a hometown boy from
the wrong side of the tracks and his ecstatic, loving fans
becomes especially potent in light of the isolation and
detachment that defined Presley’s later life.
The city of Tupelo, Mississippi, commemorated this
frozen moment on August 9th with the unveiling of a
seven-foot bronze statue created by Mississippi sculptor
William Beckwith and modeled after the Marshutz
photograph. It was also inspired, in part, by the fevered
imagination of Memphis comic-book artist, musician,
and filmmaker Mike McCarthy and his obsessive drive to
recreate and rearrange the missing and difficult pieces of his
personal history.
“The 1956 Homecoming concert may be the single
most important rock-and-roll event,” says McCarthy, a
Tupelo native who’s spent a lot of time looking at available
photographs from the show, searching for familiar faces in
the crowd. The couple that adopted him are there. So is his
biological mother.
The Brooks Museum of Art commemorates the
35th anniversary of Presley’s death by screening a pair of
McCarthy’s films: Native Son, a personalized documentary
about the making of Beckwith’s bronze sculpture, and
Tupelove, a 15-minute short created for the Tupelo
Convention and Visitors’ Bureau featuring Corey Parker,
Amy LaVere, and the voice of Presley’s original drummer,
D.J. Fontana. Tupelove recreates the look and texture
of Teenage Tupelo, the campy, semi-autobiographical
sexploitation feature McCarthy shot 18 years ago.
“I wanted Tupelove to end with the characters reaching
out toward this idea that wasn’t there,” McCarthy says. “I
Bill Beckwith
Mike McCarthy
thought it would be a great idea for Tupelo to have a statue
of Elvis in the Marshutz pose, and I pitched the idea before
I was even finished writing the script.”
McCarthy took the idea to Sean Johnston at the Tupelo
CVB, who brought it before the city.
“And it took off like crazy,” says McCarthy, regretting
only that major public works take time and that he had to
come up with an alternative ending for his film.
It’s been 18 years since McCarthy and collaborator
Darin Ipema maxed out their personal credit cards to the
tune of $12,000 to make Teenage Tupelo, a mashup of
revisionist Elvis mythology and McCarthy’s own imagined
birth story.
In 1995, when Teenage Tupelo screened at the Hoka, a
single-screen movie theater and health-food restaurant in
Oxford, Mississippi, McCarthy met his older biological
brother. When Tupelove screened at the Oxford Film
Festival last year, he met the rest of his biological siblings.
“Every time I create an Elvis-themed movie, I have
another Tupelo-themed family encounter,” McCarthy says.
“This time I hit the mother lode so to speak.”
In September, scouting locations, McCarthy found his
mother. He knocked on her door with an 18”x 24” framed
photo of Elvis reaching down into the crowd in Tupelo.
It wasn’t a perfect reunion, but, after some small talk, she
identified herself in the photograph.
“It sounds good, but let’s see how it looks,” McCarthy
says of a story that’s still unfolding and a film — Native
Son — that won’t be completed until the day before its
screening at the Brooks. He’s more certain about the future
of the Elvis statue.
“It’s just like Elvis,” McCarthy says. “Everybody can see
it. Everybody can enjoy it. Everybody can relate to it. And
it will drive traffic to Tupelo from Memphis.”
Tupelore: Tupelove and Native Son
Brooks Museum of Art
Thursday, August 16th • 7 p.m., $8
“Previously he had a
small role as Forrester in
… Goodbye, Mr. Chips.”
No, that modestly
abridged line from the
Wikipedia website is
unrelated to anything
happening in Tennessee
politics. It actually comes from an online bio of
the English actor William Moseley, and Chip
Forrester, the longtime Nashville activist who
has chaired the Tennessee Democratic Party for
the last two years, is doing his best these days
to make sure he doesn’t have to say goodbye
and can keep his current role for at least the
next two years.
“I’ve got unfinished business in several areas
where the party can make progress,” Forrester
declared after attending Monday’s memorial service for
the late Memphis state representative Ulysses Jones at
Hope Presbyterian Church on Walnut Grove.
Forrester was one of many representatives of
Tennessee’s political and governmental communities
on hand to help honor the fallen firefighter/legislator,
who died unexpectedly last week, apparently of
Chip Forrester facing the press
complications resulting from pneumonia.
And though he, too, was here to pay tribute to
Jones, “a spectacular man, who was larger than life,”
Forrester also availed himself of the opportunity to
touch base with potential supporters of his reelection
On g Oi n g a rT
Art Museum of the
University of Memphis
(AMUM)
“Africa: Art of a Continent,”
permanent exhibition of
African art from the Martha
and Robert Fogelman
collection. Ongoing.
142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS
BUILDING (678-2224).
Benjamin L. Hooks
Central Library
“From Canvas to Silk,”
exhibition of work by Rollin
Kocsis. Through June 28.
3030 POPLAR (415-2700).
Film review & listinGs
NATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL
MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR.
( 774-6380).
fIlm revIew By Chris Herrington
the rant
Biding Time
th e rant By Tim Sampson
Food news &
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The new Harry Potter film feels like an endless prologue for next year’s finale.
Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson
snazzy sequence in which the film morphs into something
like a WWII spy thriller, as the core trio, in disguise,
infiltrate the now totalitarian-controlled Ministry of
Magic, which gifts us with a return of the twinkling,
pink-clad Imelda Staunton as chipper fascist Dolores
Umbridge. Here, the film has some fun with totalitarian
imagery — an enormous statue declaring “Magic is
Might,” examples of anti-mudblood propaganda, etc. And
a later visit to the home of much-missed classmate Luna
Lovegood (Evanna Lynch) introduces us to the concept of
dirigible plums, while an unexpected animated detour is
terrifically realized.
nice, expensive restaurant and, instead of ordering something fancy
and delicious, just tell the waiter to have the chef send out some Mexican rat stew
made of Mexican rat babies. Then I could write something from experience on Tennessee representative Curry Todd’s
f o o d f e at u r e B y S t a c e y G r e e n b e r g
Made Good
What began as bar talk ends with Jack Magoo’s.
Y
ou know those two guys at the bar always jawing about what they’d
do differently if they owned a bar? Well, they made good.
At the New Face for an Old Broad event in November 2010,
the Broad Avenue Business Association staged the old Town &
Country Locksmith building as a restaurant space in the hopes
that someone would see the potential for a real restaurant. Bryan
Plunk and Jim Shannon were those someones.
The longtime drinking buddies had been planning to open
“their” bar for more than 10 years. When they first hatched the
idea, they called Shannon’s brother to share the news and solicit
a name. “Jack Magoo’s,” he replied, and that was that.
Plunk thought Midtown needed a sports bar or, rather, his
sports bar. “I looked in Cooper-Young and downtown, but after
spending some time at Three Angels and the Cove, I thought
Broad Avenue was the perfect spot,” Plunk says. “I finally said to
Jim that if he was ready, then we should just do it.”
They spent about six months renovating the 100-year-old
building and opened last September. Inside, you will find a
downstairs bar and an upstairs bar. (Upstairs is known to get a
little rowdier.) There are 26 TVs and three more are on the way.
Football and basketball are the big draws, but patrons can watch
anything they want — from wrestling to softball to the Tour
de France. Plunk is excited about the Olympics and plans to
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But mostly this first half of the series
finale is a dutiful, too-grim procession
of plot points, packed with so many
MacGuffins — Hitchock’s word for
objects that drive the plot — that nonfanatics are sure to become confused
trying to keep up with why and how all
these things matter.
More than any previous Potter film,
this one feels directed toward devotees
rather than casual fans — those who
care deeply about the story arc rather
than the happy diversions provided by
magical business and colorful supporting
characters. The brilliant crop of veteran
British actors are present again but aren’t
put to much use here, as the film spends
long, depopulated stretches with just its leads. Even
Harry’s love interest Ginny (Bonnie Wright), who will
presumably figure prominently in next year’s finale, barely
registers.
The film’s episodic journey structure, vast “outdoors”
settings, and diminutive CGI creatures evoke the Lord
of the Rings trilogy, which it nearly matches in bloat.
Ultimately, The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 feels like a twoand-a-half-hour prologue for next year’s finale.
I want so badly to take a machine gun into a really
Plunk
(left) and
Shannon
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n six films in nine years, the
Harry Potter series was the
rare film franchise that grew
and improved. With Alfonso
Cuaron’s unusually organic third
film, The Prisoner of Azkaban, as
something of a visual anomaly, the series
really found its footing with the past two
entries — The Order of the Phoenix and
The Half-Blood Prince — both directed by
British television veteran David Yates.
Yates returns for the series’ two-part
Deathly Hallows finale, but in part one the
progress stalls.
As the film opens, the good wizard
Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) is dead,
the bad guys have taken over the Ministry
of Magic, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) — now deemed
“Undesirable No. 1” — and his cohorts are in hiding,
and evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has gathered his
minions to plot the final demise of “chosen one” Harry.
One of the chief pleasures of the series has been
watching the lead actors — Radcliffe, Emma Watson (as
Hermione), and Rupert Grint (as Ron) — grow up on
screen, and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 pushes this trio
into more adult territory, with violence begetting real
blood and with intimations of sex. But, in this slowest,
darkest, moodiest film in the series, these developments
don’t feel as revelatory as you’d hope.
With the beloved Hogwarts School totally absent as a
setting, the series’ sense of play is mostly MIA. There’s a
bid.
And, come Tuesday, he was on the road
to Chattanooga. “I intend to be in every area
of Tennessee in the next few weeks,” said
Forrester, who maintained a similar peripatetic
presence in the run-up to his first election as
chairman two years ago by the party’s executive
committee, when he upset Nashville lawyer
Charles Robert Bone, the favored candidate
of the Democratic Party establishment.
Forrester’s victory then owed much to
support at the grassroots level which allowed
him to overcome strong support given Bone by
Governor Phil Bredesen and four of the state’s
then reigning Democratic congressmen — all
but Steve Cohen of Memphis, who stayed
neutral.
Three of those congressmen are now gone,
either via retirement or through defeat in this month’s
election, which gave Tennessee Republicans a 7-2
advantage in congressional seats and absolute control of
both houses of the state legislature.
But the same GOP tsunami which may have
thinned the ranks of his former party opponents is also
an obstacle to Forrester’s reelection effort. Will Cheek
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Bill Beckwith By todd Nichols; Mike Mccarthy By roBiN tucker
How Mike McCarthy’s Teenage Tupelo brought Elvis back to Mississippi.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Opening Friday, November 19th
Multiple locations
Facebook page.
Yep, he’s at it again. The man from Collierville who thinks it’s wise for people to tote their loaded guns into crowded restaurants that serve alcohol has
now compared the infants of immigrants to rats — I assume because he thinks there are too many of them and they carry diseases like rats, but I’m not
100 percent sure of that. Actually, he was talking about pregnant illegal immigrants, so he may have meant that these women are like rats. I’m not sure
about that either, because when he said it the other day it didn’t make all that much sense. If I heard correctly, he said, “We can go out there and multiply
them like rats,” so he could have meant that Republican conservative white men could go out and have sex with a lot of immigrant women to create a
lot more babies who, at least according to the U.S. Constitution, would be citizens of the United States. But, you know, that’s just the Constitution, that
document the Sarah Palins of the world are out to protect at any cost. God knows they sure do yammer about it on and on, whether they’ve actually read
it or not.
So let’s change the Constitution. Sounds to me like it’s out of date, what with all these “illegal aliens” bustin’ across our Amurkin borders night and day
and threatening the existence our forefathers created for us by massacring the Native Americans who so brazenly claimed this sea-to-shining-sea land to be
theirs (what nerve!) and then by using stolen African human
beings to cultivate it and make it so nice for everyone else
and pave the way for elections like the one Todd just won.
I think one of the greatest freedoms this brought
about is the right for Amurkins to post anything
they like on their Facebook pages. Take Todd (please,
some other state, take him!), for example. He lists the
Tennessee Tenth Amendment Center as one of his
“Likes and Interests.” Ever one to want to gain more
knowledge about such things, I clicked right
over to it, only to find this post from just a day
or two ago:
“Soon they will be bending us over to give us
a thorough cavity search. After that it will be all
cavities … And after that … There will be one or
two who may stand up and scream. And for ‘them,’
one or two, even ten will be very easy to quash and
‘eliminate’ ... Yet, I am still here, still hoping; hoping that
somehow I’ll get to see that number in the tens of thousands
and beyond, and that’s the only hope I see to stop our expedited
degradation process. They say it always starts with one. Well, here I
am, willing to be one. How about you?”
Good heavens. What is up with Todd and his Facebook page
and his “Interests and Likes” and all of this text about “thorough
cavity searches” and “screaming,” not to mention “thorough
cavity searches” and “elimination”? I certainly hope that I am
missing something somewhere that helps tie all this together.
And I certainly hope that Todd is not calling for the thorough
cavity search of every pregnant immigrant who might have a rat
for a baby because she didn’t take her loaded gun into a Chuck
E. Cheese’s and thereby try to live the Amurkin dream like all
these aliens need to do in order to fit into Collierville society.
He would never do that, would he? I hope not, because, you
know, he’s not real big on apologizing just to please those damn
politically correct freaks who think it’s just fine and dandy for
immigrant pregnant women to have rat babies in Tennessee and
then steal the precious health-care resources from the law-abiding
citizens who really need to have said resources because they are
multiplying humans. They just don’t get it, do they?
I think the Nazis had it right when they made those
informational films about the Jews, such as The Eternal Jew, in
which they compared the Jews to rats. They didn’t worry about
the silly politically correct people either. You didn’t see any
damn amendment in their stuff about Jewish babies being born
to German Nazi citizens, did you? Nope. They had it under
control. As they did when they took their loaded weapons into
Jewish restaurants. I think Curry Todd might just be on the
right track.
fIlm revIew By Jackson Baker
Star-laden docudrama relives recent history.
Sponsorship & Special Associations
Fair Game, which is based on the story of outed CIA
agent Valerie Plame (played here by Naomi Watts), is
not the first Iraq-related movie to address the subject of
how the Bush administration may have manipulated a
grieving country into an unwarranted invasion. Among
several others, Green Zone, starring Matt Damon
and released just this past spring, did that and did it
adequately — taking as its subject the sham claims put
forth for Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent weapons of
mass destruction.
That thriller was directed by Paul Greengrass, the
auteur responsible for the last two Bourne Trilogy films,
The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, as well
as United 93, which chronicled the gallant struggle and
demise of the passengers aboard the only hijacked plane
prevented from reaching its destination on 9/11.
It may be appropriate, then, that Fair Game, which
continues the debunking of the administration’s case
for war, was directed by Doug Liman, who made the
first of the Bourne sagas, The Bourne Identity — a film
possessing the same flawless urgency as Greengrass’ two
follow-ups. And something more.
Just as The Bourne Identity found time to explore
the chemistry between its hero and a significant other,
Fair Game is more than a suspense movie, more even
than the quasi-documentary and propaganda tract
which any self-respecting drama about the Iraq fiasco is
obliged to be.
Most of those who will end up seeing Fair Game
(and, regrettably, there may not be many; every Iraqbased film so far has been a box-office bust) already
have a conception, albeit a stereotyped one, of Joseph
Wilson (played here by Sean Penn), the former ambassador whose New York Times op-ed debunked some
administration claims about Iraq’s nuclear program,
and Plame, Wilson’s wife and a CIA handler whose
cover was willfully and vengefully blown.
“It pays the rent,” Plame shrugs to Wilson early on,
and that throwaway line about her vocation illuminates
both her businesslike dedication to the job and the
preeminence she owns in the Wilson household. It is
one of several character touches that broaden our sense
of Wilson’s motivation for going public and forms the
basis for the serious domestic tension that develops
between the two — even as they both become foils in a
gripping public drama. Watts and Penn are both superb
as imperfect flesh-and-blood survivors.
And yes, the advance publicity is correct. The film
does not shy from naming names. Bush adviser Karl
Rove (Adam LeFevre) and Cheney point man Scooter
Libby (David Andrews) both get their just desserts as
villains of the piece, with Andrews’ Libby, especially,
almost Hitchcockian in his exposition of what sinister
is, Beltway-style.
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(3 v) 2.2 in x 9.25 in
3/16 Page Horizontal
1/8 Page Vertical
1/8 Page Horizontal
1/16 Page Square
(3 h) 6.95 in x 2.95 in
(2 v) 2.2 in x 6.1 in
(2 h) 4.575 in x 2.95 in
(1 v) 2.2 in x 2.95 in
Digital Art Specs
Specs for Sending Ads Electronically
The Memphis Flyer is produced digitally. Supplied ads must be a digital
file either on disk or sent via e-mail.
Electronic Files will only be accepted in PDF Format
Acrobat PDF must be grayscale or composite CMYK (RGB and
spot color will not process correctly), no less than 300 dpi, and all
fonts must be embedded. To ensure no problems occur with fonts
defaulting, please convert all type to outlines before creating your PDF
when working in native applications such as Illustrator or InDesign. If
there are any problems with the file, you will be contacted and will be
required to send a revised version or the ad will not run.
E-mail Ads to: flyart@memphisflyer.com
Please include your company name and the Memphis Flyer issue run
date in the file name or e-mail text. If the file is larger than 2MB,
we ask that the file be uploaded to our ad submission website:
memphisflyerads.com.
Ads to be Created or Altered
Acceptable formats are InDesign CS, Photoshop CS, and Illustrator CS
We cannot accept Quark, PageMaker, Publisher, Word, or
PowerPoint documents.
All images and logos provided must be 300 dpi. Taking a 72 dpi image
and increasing its resolution makes the image pixilated and blurry. If
specific fonts are requested, they must be provided. If they are not, we
will make every effort to use similar fonts, but they will be replaced
by our own. The advertising production staff of the Memphis Flyer is
available to assist advertisers in ad production from initial concept to
finished ad. Ads to be built or modified will be allowed 3 proofs.
Media
We accept files on CD (Macintosh-formatted).
Deadlines
The Memphis Flyer publishes weekly on Thursdays. Space reservation
and ad copy must be received Wednesday by 11am (CT), eight days
prior to publication. Digital artwork will be accepted until Friday at
noon (CT), six days prior to publication.
MemphisFlyer.com
Extend your reach to the Memphis Flyer’s active online audience!
Memphisflyer.com is a destination site for Memphians and visitors alike: thousands of our readers are online daily reading our paper
content, our online-only content, our comprehensive entertainment and restaurant listings, online giveaways, and much more.
728x90
160x600
Run of Site
Ad Placements
• 728x90
• 300x250
• 160x600
all pages of memphisflyer.com.
$10 cpm, purchase includes all sizes.
300x250
Ad space
980x35
Ad space
980x200
Static Pencilbar
980x35
all pages of memphisflyer.com.
$750 per week.
Sliding Pencilbar
980x35 (expands into expandable 980x200)
homepage-only of memphisflyer.com.
$1000 per week
Online Advertising Rates
+ Digital Network Partners
We offer highly specialized digital ad targeting in the Memphis DMA and beyond. We can place your ads on national
top 100 sites and offer you category, behavioral, and demographic targeting.
$1500/month minimum purchase with cpm’s of $3-$6.
180x50
180x50
160x600
160x600
ad Space
ad Space
+ Mobile Ad Unit
300x50 all mobile pages
$450 per month, includes 20k ROS
memphisﬂyer.com impressions,
limited availability.
The Fine Print
Acceptable ad formats are GIF (animated or static) and JPG. Image
resolution should be 72 pixels per inch and RGB color. Maximum file size
is 1MB. All ads should link to a URL to be provided by client. Video ad file
types may include: asf, asx, avi, divx, dv, dvx, m4v, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpg,
qt, wmv, 3g2, 3gp, 3ivx and 3vx, and we also support others not listed, ask
your account rep for more details. Art and design services are available.
+ Email Marketing
Ad Placements
24k+ opt-in email list, mail Tues-Wed-Thu
position 1: 160x600 $210 per insertion
position 2: 180x50 $150 per insertion
+ Special Opportunities
on Memphisflyer.com
We offer unique and custom digital sponsorship
opportunities to fit your business needs.
A Word From Our Advertisers.
Laurie Stark
“I have advertised solely with the Memphis Flyer for over 10 years. The paper alone has helped my business
grow tremendously. I’ve had people approach me numerous times saying that they see
my picture EVERYWHERE, and I only advertise with the Flyer. So I KNOW it works!”
Laurie Stark, realtor, hobson realtors
• 24 Years of Experience
• Life Member of the Multi
Million Dollar Club
• From Downtown to
Germantown
• Call me for your Real
Estate Needs
5384 Poplar Ave., Suite 250, Memphis, TN 38119
(901)761-1622 • Cell (901)486-1464
12to 6
ALLEY
OPEN
TO THE
PUBLIC
7 3 M O N R O E AV E D O W N T O W N M E M P H I S 9 0 1 . 2 7 5 . 8 7 5 2
12:30
5:30
to
“I trust the Memphis Flyer for my weekly print advertising needs. They have
the readership that I’m trying to attract, and their customer service is above par. I have
LIVE
MUSIC
found that by changing my ads weekly, and by being creative as the Flyer allows, people actually
look forward to seeing our newest copy. The Flyer has been a solid force behind driving our sales
and allowing us to offer a consistent message to the demographic we want to entertain.”
Year Anniversary
ALLEY
PA R T Y
Aldo DeMartino, owner, Bardog tavern
“Since 1974, Outdoors Inc., has specialized in outfitting human-powered recreation —
custom-fit bicycles, trail running, kayaking, rock climbing, skiing, and snowboarding. Our
customers are smart, physically active and recognize exceptional quality and expertise. We
carry top lines like The North Face, Patagonia, and Arcteryx. The Memphis Flyer has
always reached our customer base quite effectively — that is why we have stayed
with the Flyer for the past 20 years.”
Joe Royer, president,outdoors inc.
Property: Horseshoe Tunica
Project: BV - Entertainment
Job#: 46893.1 4:01 PM
Show: 10/4/10 Ship: 10/4/10 Insert: 10/7/10
Vendor: Memphis Flyer
dMax:
Trim: 9.35" x 12.4"
Live: 8.85" x 11.9"
VO: ~ x ~
Bleed: non
Final Mats: PDF File
Artist: Michelle Rev: 1
Desc.: Memphis Flyer 9.35" x 12.4"
“It continues to amaze me — the loyalty of the Memphis Flyer readers. Everywhere I go, I
see people reading and discussing what’s going on. The Memphis Flyer is the source for
what’s going on in Memphis! We value our partnership and look forward to many many
more years.”
All Show Proceeds Go To
The Better Life Foundation!
MEMPHIS flyer READERS voted Horseshoe® Tunica
Jocelyn Agnellini Allison
director of marketing
horseshoe, harrah’s and tunica roadhouse casinos
#1 in the Best Casino category. Horseshoe knows Gambling – Memphians
know quality.
Dress code enforced. No tank tops or baggy jeans, no torn pants, cutoffs or offensive shirts. House has the right to deny entry. Must be 21 years or older to enter Bluesville ® and/or gamble.
Know When To Stop Before You Start.® Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700. ©2010, Harrah’s License Company, LLC. All rights reserved.
V2_46893.1_9.35x12.4_4c_Ad.indd 1
10/4/10 6:57 PM
“Personally, I always pick up the Memphis Flyer and read it from page to page to know what’s
going on around town. Professionally, the Memphis Flyer is one of the most cost
effective advertising vehicles I use for my clients. It always produces results and is very
affordable. The ads that I have placed in the Memphis Flyer have been very successful in
reaching my clients’ goals.”
Downtown Memphis
doesn’t end at the river.
It begins there.
ELEVATE YOUR VISIT.
Lisa Hawkins, media manager, red deluxe
Whether you’re on a canoe, kayak, bike or on foot, Mud Island River Park is perfect for your next
excursion. Start with a monorail ride. Experience the history of the Mississippi River Museum. Take
the family on a Riverwalk. Or explore it all.
125 North Front Street Memphis, TN 38103 I 901-576-7241 • 800-507-6507
Brought to you by the Riverfront Development Corporation.
Bringing families to
the river for 30 years.
www.mudisland.com
www.mudisland.com

2013 Media Kit

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