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Starring: | Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright |
Director: | M. Night Shyamalan |
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Rental release: | 29 Oct 2001 |
Main languages: | English |
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@BIGSPORTSWRITER, our mysterious masked Twitter hero, got to thinking about the state of sports discusison last night, particularly how people can't just debate, they have to WIN. It began when he was talking about watching Ken Griffey Jr. and Andruw Jones play and bemoaning the sudden descent of AJ's career. People reacted with their usual aggression and vitriol, and then Mr. Sports Journo went contemplative, and then I spent a few minutes copying, pasting, and lightly editing said contemplations. For your reading and thinking pleasure:
Knowing somebody's VORP and win shares isn't the same as seeing them play. And not because "seeing them play" means I know more. It doesn't. Often it means I know or knew less. It simply means that I can sit in a room and tell you what it was like to watch somebody play. No finality, no punctuation. Just stories.
Good lord—I mean, if you don't love sports for the stories, what the hell are you watching for? What the hell are you following me for? Sports dialogue can be just that, dialogue. A mutual trading of ideas. I'm not here to declare victory over any of you. That's not fun.
I don't know when it got like this. And I don't mean twitter—I mean talking sports. I'm not sure when the win/loss columns shifted from the box scores to the bars and water coolers. When it became more important to be right about a topic, or feel like you bested somebody than just talking it out.
I can remember seeing Around the Horn for the first time, and seeing actual points being given and taken away during conversation. And thinking to myself, Holy hell. They


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come on guys it says 1777 in the trailer xD thats the revolution not civil war and nick has a point templars dont pick a side they go where they can to earn money and corrupt be american army or the british cant wait to hunt and skin some wolfs hell yeah!
I like the fact that you guys can't tell the difference between Revolutionary War And Civil War Lol!!! I'm amazed Jeff didn't point that out and he's a Proffessor!
The US Army is the one that started Skinning Native scalps to sell another asshole white person.
My brother and I have always said that the Assassin's wear the most conspicuous attire.
But, I've come to see it as artistic licence.
You look that way because it looks cool. Nuff said.
my theory you can change clothes. or at least you need to change aspects of your character.
ie if your in a heavily populated settlement your going to wear more workmens attire like vests and petty coats. in small villages you wear trappers attire (might be what they are showing you) also this is a musket time, pistols crude sniper rifles, shotguns and grenades.
with the theme of untamed unstable america, i would like to see you interact with wolves, bears, and even set up traps. not like RDR but as means of carrying out assassinations ie, covering an assassination to make it look like a hunting trip gone bad.
Washington is a templar, I call it.
p.s. There will be buildings. Boston and New York. And Nick was right. The templars will likely have infiltrated both sides.
I love the hooded trademark look. It's not like everyone has seen assassin's dressed like that. And typically, the ones who start to associate the hood with an assassin are soon killed. A lot of assassin's in the lore do not use the hood either. Think of AC2 (mario, machiavelli, etc...) It's true he might stick out blending with a bunch of redcoaks, but I'm still able to suspend belief on this really minor issue. There are tons of video game and television characters who wear the same thing over and over even when it might not make sense.
I really hope that horses play a bigger role in this one due to the large distances between settlements or as Korey said fighting from the back of one with a bow,arrow and tomahawk would be very cool.
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By Gary K. Johnson
A record number of fans attended games at the 638 NCAA football-sponsoring schools this past year, including home games, neutral-site games and postseason contests. The total of 49,699,419 surpasses the previous high set last year. NCAA football has experienced record-breaking years in five of the last six seasons.
See detailed 2011 college football attendance figures across all three divisions here (PDF).
Although overall attendance was up, the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision saw a decline from its record numbers of 2010. The FBS had its fourth-highest total ever with 37,411,795 fans for an average of 46,074 per game, which was down 544 fans a game from the previous year.
However, the Football Championship Subdivision and Division II set records to more than make up for the drop in the FBS. The FCS totaled 6,407,059 fans to break a record set in 1994. Division II had 3,035,696 spectators to break its mark set in 2007. With 2,381,454 fans, Division III recorded his second-highest total ever and the most since its record-breaking year of 1978.
1. Michigan..........112,179
2. Ohio St...........105,231
3. Alabama..........101,821
4. Penn St..........101,427
5. Texas..........100,524
6. Tennessee..........94,642
8. Georgia..........92,613
9. Florida.........89,061
10. Texas A&M ..........87,183
Michigan's 112,179 fans per game over eight home contests set an all-time mark for individual schools. The Wolverines broke their own record of 111,825 set in 2010. It was Michigan's 14th straight attendance title.
Four other programs also topped the 100,000 mark – Ohio State at 105,231, Alabama at 101,821, Penn State at 101,427, and Texas at 100,524. This was the fifth straight year that Big Ten Conference teams held the top three spots.
Despite that, though, the Southeastern Conference was the best Division I league draw for the 14th straight year. SEC schools claimed six of the top 11 spots.
Gary K. Johnson is an associate director of statistics for the NCAA.


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The Carolina Theatre in Greensboro was built for Saenger-Publix and opened on October 31, 1927. At the time it was the largest theater in the state with seating for 2,200. It was also one of their most expensive to build, costing over half a million dollars. Saenger advertised the new movie palace as "The Showplace of the Carolinas".
It was designed by architect James M. Workman in a Greek Revival style for the exterior, and inside an Italian Renaissance style. The striking facade resembled an ancient Greek temple, complete with Ionic columns supporting a pediment. The terra-cotta decorating the facade was polychrome, in brilliant colors.
The walls of the lobbies, foyers and halls were faced in sandstone, while the floors with inlaid multi-colored marble tiles. In the main lobby, the ceiling was painted to resemble a twilight sky, in shades of blue and pink. The mezzanine and lounge areas featured travertine marble on their walls, as well as rows of dark green marble Corinthian columns, capped with gilded capitols. The lounges featured a women's powder room and men's smoking room, all as luxurious as in any major city's movie palace of the era, with attendants, plush chairs and sofas and golden fixtures.
The auditorium, decorated in Italian Renaissance and neoclassical flourishes, could seat over 1,300 on the orchestra floor, and another 900 in the balconies. On the side walls, rows of Corinthian columns and Roman statuary stretched from the balconies in the rear to the towering proscenium arch, dramatically lit, and sparkling with gilding. The auditorium ceiling featured an oval shaped dome, from which hung a massive European crystal chandelier.
The ornately decorated proscenium arch featured a mural by Herman Herschauer of rows of dancing maidens. Rising 90 feet high, and 35 deep, the Carolina's stage was one of the largest in the South when it opened, able to accommodate the most elaborate of stage revues or vaudeville acts (which were both a staple in its early years, along with the occasional opera or circus, in addition to movies.)
After falling into disrepair and decline after Saenger gave up the Carolina, the theater was fortunately spectacularly restored to nearly its original condition by its current owners, the United Arts Council of Greensboro, giving present-day movie palace fans a chance to experience what it was like to see a motion picture on a huge silver screen, and live acts on its stage, amidst the opulent 20s decor.
The Carolina was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, along with a large portion of downtown Greensboro.
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I have called this theatre's box office manager and hope to receive a tour this winter. This theatre is just around the corner from the famous Woolworth sit-in of the 60's which is another stop while in Greensboro.
Brian: Thank you so much for your reply to me via CT. Now everyone knows about your organ. We, at Cinema Treasures are so very pleased to know that you have your theatre pipe organ as so many theatre have lost their pipe organs for various reasons. And a special thank you to the Piedmont Theatre Organ Society for maintaining a musical treasure.
A former longtime CT member posted here in 2005 about the Robert-Morton organ and it raised my curiosity…until now. I hope to visit the Carolina Theatre and see a performance with organ music. A recent visit to Greensboro this past Sunday allowed me to take some exterior photos prior to the US Figure Skating Championships finale.
Here is an ATOS link to the organ page…you can follow the links to hear the organ and see the plans and interior pics of the Carolina.
This opened on October 31st, 1927. I posted the grand opening ad in the photo section for this theatre.
Are the interior photos on the theatreorgans site of the Carolina/Greensboro?
Chuck: Thanks. I was at the Carolina years back, but wasn't able to see that interior.
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"To Infinity and Beyond", gosh I can't tell you how many times I've heard that over the years! My son, Caden was obsessed with Toy Story and when he saw that they are bringing back Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D, well he was beside himself. He had a Buzz Lightyear costume for Halloween a few years ago and wore it everyday for a year until it practically fell off him.
To be honest I'm kind of looking forward to it too. My husband and I loved the Toy Story films! I know a lot of parents that saw the movie with their children and liked it as much as they did. Just seeing all the different toys that we used to play with as a kids was cool enough for me. I laughed throughout the whole movie!
The 3D movie will only run in theaters for 2 weeks at two different times. The first is October 2, 2009 and the second is February 12, 2010. Both of these are in preparation for the release of TOY STORY 3 in Digital 3D on June 18, 2010. Wow, we definitely can't wait for that one to come out!
Disney Pixar did such an amazing job with Toy Story!! Even though it's a computer animated movie, the characters are brought to life with their own funny and quirky personalities. Of course the two main characters are Woody, the cowboy and Buzz Lightyear, the space ranger. Here are a few other great characters that you couldn't help but fall in love with.
- Mr. Potato Head
- Jessie (cowgirl)
- Hamm (the piggy bank)
- Bo Peep
- Rex (T-Rex)
- Slinky Dog
I even loved the army men in the beginning of the movie as they completed their covert mission of parachuting downstairs to find out what toy Andy got for his birthday. The whole movie was a blast!
This year Toy Story costumes are going to be all the rage with children and adults alike with the 3D movies coming out. Oh did I forget to mention that since adults love the movie so much they also love the costumes as well. What a great idea for a couple costume – Buzz Lightyear and Woody OR Woody and Jessie. They're perfect and sure to win you first place in any Halloween costume contest!


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The Soul of Memphis
Despite setbacks, the Mississippi River city has held onto its rollicking blues joints, smokin' barbecue and welcoming, can-do spirit
- By Jamie Katz
- Photographs by Lucian Perkins
- Smithsonian magazine, May 2010, Subscribe
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Through his films and writings—which include a biography of Muddy Waters and It Came From Memphis, a captivating study of the Bluff City's racial and musical gestalt during the pivotal Sun-to-Stax era—Robert Gordon, 49, has become a beacon of Memphis culture.
I met Gordon for lunch one day at Willie Moore's soul food place on South Third Street, which, he pointed out, is the continuation of Highway 61, the fabled blues road that slices through the Mississippi Delta from New Orleans to Memphis. "All roads in the Delta lead to 61, and 61 leads to Memphis," Gordon said. "The way the moon creates tidal flows, the Delta creates social patterns in Memphis."
We drove around Soulsville, USA, the predominantly black section where Aretha Franklin and several other important music figures came from. Gordon turned down South Lauderdale to show me the studios of Hi Records, the label best known for recording Al Green, who still performs. The street has been renamed Willie Mitchell Boulevard, after the late musician and producer who was to Hi Records what Sam Phillips was to Sun. There's common ground there, Gordon suggested. "I think that what runs through much of the stuff in Memphis that has become famed elsewhere is a sense of individuality and of independence, establishing an aesthetic without being concerned about what national or popular trends are," Gordon said.
Just a few blocks farther along we approached the Stax Museum and the adjoining Stax Music Academy, where teenagers enjoy first-class facilities and instruction. I met some of the students and teachers the next evening; it's impossible not to be moved by the spirit of optimism they embody and their proud (but also fun-loving) manner. The hope is that the new Stax complex, which opened in 2002, will anchor a turnaround in this historically impoverished community.
"I like the whole message of what's happened to Delta culture, that it's gained respect," Gordon said. "It didn't yield to pressures, it maintained its own identity, and ultimately, the world came to it, instead of it going to the world. And I feel like you can read that in the buildings and streets and history and people and happenstance exchanges—all of that."
"Put your hands together for Ms. Nickki, all the way from Holly Springs, Mississippi!" the emcee yelled to a packed house. It was Saturday night at Wild Bill's, a juke joint wedged next to a grocery store on Vollintine Avenue. The drummer was laying down a heavy backbeat, accompanied by a fat bass line. Wild Bill's house band, the Memphis Soul Survivors, includes sidemen who have backed B.B. King, Al Green—everybody—and the groove is irresistible. Then Ms. Nickki, a big-voiced singer with charm to spare, stepped to the mike.
As it happened, the club's founder, "Wild Bill" Storey, had died earlier that week and had been laid to rest at the veterans' cemetery in Germantown just the day before. "I almost didn't come. I cried my eyes out," Ms. Nickki said tenderly.
They say there are two very good times to sing the blues—when you're feeling bad, and when you're feeling good. Sometimes they overlap, like the sacred and the profane. So Ms. Nickki decided to show up. "Y'all came to the best doggone blues joint this side of the moon!" she declared, reaching deep and belting out one impassioned verse after another in Wild Bill's honor. She turned up the heat with a B.B. King blues: "Rock me baby, rock me all night long / I want you to rock me—like my back ain't got no bone."
Wild Bill's is a long narrow space with red walls and ceiling fans and a tiny bar and kitchen in the back. People were drinking 40-ounce beers in plastic cups at communal tables, laughing and carrying on, black and white, all ages. Fourteen dancers crammed into a space big enough for eight, right up where the band was playing. From a corner table in the back, under a bulletin board festooned with hundreds of snapshots, three smartly dressed young women spontaneously launched into a backup vocal riff borrowed from an old Ray Charles hit—"Night 'n' day...[two beats]...Night 'n' day"—spurring on both the band and the dancers. The Raelettes would have been proud.
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I live in Kentucky and my husband and I have best friends in Florida. We are always looking for places to visit and meet together outside our home states. Thanks to the new series Memphis Beat, on TNT starring Jason Lee, we became interested in visiting Memphis. We found this article by the Smithsonian online and now have decided that this is going to be one very great time!
I am not discouraged by the Haters, as I was also warned heavily about crime in New York City, but have come to love it and have been there many times. You can always look for the bad in anyplace if you're a pessimist and a bit antisocial.
Thanks for the article, we now have lots to do. My husband and his friend are both musicians and will love the museums.
Posted by Kathy Potter on August 20,2010 | 11:48 AM
Grew up and lived in Memphis for over 50 years. Everyone was in a garage band. Clubs resided in every alley way. Allman Bothers and such played in venues that seated only 1000. Ask Bonnie Rate, ask The Band, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello—They went to Memphis to learn about music. And why? Because Memphis is music! Memphis (for many good and bad reason) has been slow to change. Because of conflict, disagreement, and lack of funds, the area has retained a unique urban setting. Maybe because there is no other place like it or maybe because it's home, I fail to see the success of other metropolises without Memphis's ongoing pulse of music.
Posted by Marianne on July 8,2010 | 09:07 AM
Memphis is sooo indie that the hipsters haven't discovered it yet. I'm from there, now live in AZ and miss it dearly! Sure, it has its issues, but it also has its cheerleaders and people who are working hard to see it rise to the status is truly deserves. Great article, kudos SMITHSONIAN!
Posted by Candice Curtis on June 24,2010 | 11:06 PM
Many thanks to readers for your thoughtful comments.
An important update to the article, which I mostly researched before the Great Recession: Michael Powell's recent piece in the New York Times—"Blacks in Memphis Lose Decades of Economic Gains"—at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/business/economy/31memphis.html.
Posted by Jamie Katz on June 14,2010 | 12:00 AM
For the past 20 years, I have been visiting my daughter for 2-wk periods, 2x per year in Memphis. For the first couple years, I spent much of my time hitting all the tourist and historical highlights, which are almost all within 30 minutes of anywhere in the metro area. Now, I would much rather go to grandkids' soccer games, school events, and Scout ceremonies, where my grand-daughter is the token white child in the group. The teachers, coaches, and leaders have extended true southern hospitality to me and have accepted me as part of their extended family. I have learned that the Memphis Black community has the same aspirations and goals in life as the white Scandinavians do in my native Minnesota. I think the politics are no more corrupt than any other same size city. Memphis must have something going for it or there would not be so many movies based on life there and other great institutions founded by notables. Someday I may have to make Memphis my home when I am unable to live alone. I'd have moved there by now except that I don't like driving on black ice - more dangerous than anything else I've encountered. As cities go, I'd pick Memphis over all others I've visited or lived in, with the exception of one very far south suburban area of Minneapolis, MN. It was nice to read the positive article about my almost adopted home on the Smithsonian website.
Posted by Boneita on June 2,2010 | 08:49 PM
Nice, Fair article. It pains me to see all these negative things about our fair city. It's like I tell my children, most of the crime occurs between people who already know each other, so watch who you hang out with." That aside, I agree that we have done a fairly good job of "giving props" to the past but now need to look more to our future, as Turley has done. Our politics are corrupt, our crime rate too high, our summers too humid and there is no where else I would rather live. Memphis, love it----or go somewhere you do love.
Posted by Peggy Wise on May 13,2010 | 03:58 PM
Memphis is where I was born and raised. I left as a young adult and 10 years later returned to raise my children here. To all those that speak badly of her, you have choices. I love her and choose happily to live here as no where I have lived from Louisiana, to Massachusetts to Indiana is perfect. Every community has its issues and troubles, our nation as a whole does. But in Memphis, we keep it real and talk it out and work on it and yes... we have soul! I choose Memphis! Love the article, thank you Smithsonian!
Posted by Lisa Moore on May 10,2010 | 11:51 PM
3 Cheers for Chris Reyes.
Posted by Ryan on May 7,2010 | 08:29 PM
Great article!
I love Memphis. If you start a conversation with someone you have never met, chances are you know at least 5 people in common. It's home.
Hey "Trying to Get Out of Town", Do you need help packing?
Posted by Sarah S on May 7,2010 | 10:44 AM
A fair, balanced article - kudos to the author. I grew up in Memphis, traveled after I left and kept finding myself flying back home. What can I say; the roots run deep.
As far as I'm concerned, Memphis is a musical tapestry that is passed around by family. We might have problems - all cities do. However, we take the tapestry and add to it. From a rich history and legacy, with a couple of fresh ingredients, we constantly pass it around to others that want to add to it.
I have a loft in a building next to Cotton Row and a family home in the 'burbs. We go to the Redbirds, the Zoo and the parks. I enjoy the fantasticly-talented - and often free - musicians that play everyone in town on the weekends and enjoy a fairly comfortable lifestyle.
Again, thanks for shining your light on us for a bit ... come back and visit anytime.
Posted by Chris Murphy on May 5,2010 | 11:06 PM
Thank you for the great article on Memphis. We moved here in 2002 and live in the downtown area. We were brought here by the Navy (to NSA Millington) and moved away for one year before returning for good. When asked what Elvis missed about Memphis when he was in the Army, he stated, "everything." That about sums up what we missed as well. Memphis is a wonderful place to be. The downtown area is becoming more robust and it is a fun place to live, enjoy world class restaurants, and shop. There is a Farmer's Market, too! It is small enough to maneuver around and is really a small town in many respects. Certainly Memphis has problems like most cities do. But there is a positive spirit here that will keep people moving forward -- to a better, cleaner, nicer Memphis!
I encourage anyone to come here for a visit or come here to live. Thanks for the article and the photos, too.
Posted by Betsy Bird on May 4,2010 | 11:18 AM
Mailed the following letter to Mayor Wharton and Commercial Appeal - The May 2010 Smithsonian Magazine article "The Soul of Memphis" by Jamie Katz offers a nine-page capsule history of Memphis including political, music and culinary topics in a positive and thoughtful manner. It is the first really upbeat picture (warts and all) to corral our mixed and basically total feelings. Most well-known personalities, places and events are presented in a flowing style of connections that have contributed to our reputation in the past and present as "the city of good abode". We not only need to commend Ms Katz for her insightful evaluation of Memphis as a whole entity but thank her for seeing beyond the headlines and into our "soul". This reminds me of the movie star that extolled upon receiving the Oscar award: "You really like me, You really like me." We might use a version of this thought to create a new Memphis slogan: "You'll really like us."
Posted by Mary Louise Nazor on May 3,2010 | 01:04 PM
Loved the article, was in the Corps and stationed at the Naval Air Station in Millington for years, several different times and have seen unbelievable changes in the city. I have lived there more than 12 years in total, although I no longer do, I love the city and the haters are WRONG. This is a fabulous city, real, authentic, friendly, and tons of fun. A quality life style can be maintained here despite the crime. Plenty to do, lots of recreation and many different kinds of BBQ (for THAT hater).
I graduated from Christian Brothers, worked all over the city, lived north, south, downtown and the east. Like most cities, there are places one should be alert and wary and there are others that are just a natural blast. I've stayed in Harbor Town and think it is one of the best New Urbanist developments in the country.
Again, like any city, there is room for improvement, and hopefully with a new mayor and some CHANGE, the city will get better. A good start might be PAYING the cost of the U-Hauls for those haters who wish to leave !
Posted by Bill Dozier on April 29,2010 | 01:42 PM
I got so work up defending Memphis against the haters I forgot to say... Nice Article! Thanks from a Memphis believer.
Posted by Christopher Reyes on April 28,2010 | 08:51 PM
Memphis has its own honest personality and it's real. I would not live here if it wasn't. Turley sold me my first home when I was 20 something. He knew I couldn't afford what he was asking for the entire building so he sold me a portion at a fraction of the cost. He didn't have to do it, he did it because he wanted to see young people downtown again. He practically gave it to me, a stranger. When I moved downtown in 88, it was a ghost town and now it's growing faster than I even want it to. I run my business with people I love from my loft in the smack middle of downtown. We dispense positive Memphis stories. We don't do it because we have to, we do it because we love Memphis. That's why Turley sold me this place for cheap. It's the people that make this city great.
So if you don't love Memphis, get the hell out. Memphis is not perfect. It is however, authentic, funky and beautiful. I am glad that Memphis is not an LA or Atlanta and I am especially happy that it is not a Nashvagas. Uggh am I glad about that! If people in the rest of Tennessee don't like us, it's because we are the cool kids. The one's with personality.
Posted by Christopher Reyes on April 28,2010 | 08:40 PM
I was born and raised in Memphis and love this city. There is just something about it. There are a lot of folks in Memphis who are devoted to it. There also seem to be quite a few haters who spend every minute of every day trying to put it down. It doesn't bother me b/c I feel sorry for them. Anyways, if you come to Memphis with an open mind you will enjoy it.
Posted by MemphisBlue on April 28,2010 | 07:36 PM
"Shake the haters," our former mayor Willie Herenton often said. Willie is a hot mess, but he has a point. The haters aren't contributing to the city, so shake 'em. I'll chip in for their U-Hauls.
Memphis itself can be a hot mess, but it's a real live gritty place full of amazing people. Unlike certain other cities elsewhere in this state, Memphis is not gleaming white and sanitized. That may scare the haters, but plenty of us love it that way.
Posted by David Mabury on April 27,2010 | 02:38 PM
As another mostly lifelong Memphian who has recently returned after time away, I second what Cynthia said. Memphis is one of the only truly authentic towns in the South, New Orleans being one of the other ones.
The amazing thing is just how much goes on here that, even if you're plugged into the city, or you think you area anyway, you can completely miss if you're not paying attention.
Posted by Evan Hurst on April 23,2010 | 05:24 PM
Nice article, but bad, sucky, and very dangerous city according to local and FBI current stats, and one of the most MISERABLE cities in the US according to a brand new Forbes assessment. Anybody traveling there should be aware of the facts about how bad Memphis, TN is, and if you're thinking about moving there or accepting a transfer to this miserable place, do yourself a favor and your family a favor and don't do it, unless you have no choice in the matter for your career, then do your time quickly and get the hell out. I know, I lived there, and still visit ! and the place is one of the most racist, backward cities in the United States as well (black and white racism). And for godsake, how much darn BBQ can you consume or want to consume ?? Turley is just another greedy, self-aggrandizing developer who has 'front run' just about every project he has been involved in the city of Memphis- he has only lined his own pockets first-
Don't buy the hype about Memphis, TN - the place isn't a Seattle, Atlanta, Charlotte, Tampa Bay, or even Nashville. It's a city steeped in recalitrant Mississippi-like intellects, tradition and attitudes. Heck, even people in Knoxville, TN , Nashville, TN shun the place.
Just save your time- go anywhere else !
Posted by wiesenheimer on April 22,2010 | 02:23 PM
Wow. What an authentic portrayal of an authentic city. I have lived here most of my life and teach a crash course on Memphis called "Memphis 101." It is amazing how similar your story covers what we teach: Memphis is resilient and real, easy but tough, free-spirited and with a boot-strapa mentality. What you see - and feel - are what you get when you come to Memphis. It can grow on you like kudzu in the summertime.
Posted by Cynthia Ham on April 21,2010 | 04:47 PM
Turley forgot to tell the author about the corrupt politicians and the weak prosecution of the enormous number of violent crimes that Memphis is so well known for. He's made a fortune with Belz and others by twisting the politicians' arms. Most Memphians want out of the city. Maybe some of your readers can move here!
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This week, Washingtonians have been taking a tour, country by country, through Europe's video art scene. "In the Loop: Contemporary Video Art from the European Union," a survey of some of the best contemporary video art to come out of the EU's 27 member states since 2007, has made stops at the Phillips Collection and the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. Tomorrow, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is hosting.
The European Union Cultural Counselors held a competition to select the films shown. Each country was invited to submit three short videos (around five minutes or under) to a jury of judges from the participating museums. Naturally, the museums chose videos with themes that align with their own interests and missions. The National Portrait Gallery, for example, favored films about portraiture and identity, whereas the Phillips Collection focused on aesthetics and the American University Museum on social and political issues.
SNEAK PEEK – National Portrait Gallery's screenings, Saturday, June 12, 2 PM:
Austria: People Who Like Bonnie Tyler by Susanne Jirkuff – This film is a tribute to 1980s power-balladeer Bonnie Tyler set to her own hit song, "Total Eclipse of the Heart."
Belgium: All Together Now by Hans Op de Beeck – A tragicomedy, All Together Now is a quick portrait of three groups of people—gathered after a funeral, another at a wedding reception and the third at a fancy birthday celebration—with the commonality being that they are all at a table, sharing a meal.
Cyprus: The Calm by Yioula Hadjigeorgia – Video artist Yioula Hadjigeorgia struggles to free herself from a heavy overcoat, its pockets full of sand. The performance is meant to represent a society losing its communal identity.
Germany: Sorry Curator by Annette Hollywood – Another one-woman show, Sorry Curator is a hip-hop face-off between artist and curator. (Artist Annette Hollywood plays both parts.)
Greece: About 6′ by Katerina Zacharopoulou – In this video, the artist carries on in a dialogue with another version of herself, with which she struggles to coexist.
Malta: My Friends Call Me Ado by Patrick J. Fenech – This film is a portrait of an illegal immigrant and peace-loving musician who made his way, by boat, from Burkina Faso to Malta.
Spain: Metropolis by Sergio Belinchon – Metropolis is a portrait not of a person but of a place—the modern city. The film explores the stage-like quality of the urban landscape, as people—the actors—move about it.
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Now who *doesn't* love Bonnie Tyler?!?! I would rather see a video of "People Who *Look* Like Bonnie Tyler!"
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First prize-winner in the European Music for Youth Competition, Gemma Rosefield made her international concerto debut at the age of sixteen, giving a televised performance of Saint-Saënss Cello Concerto No 1 with the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She went on to win numerous prizes and awards, including several at the Royal Academy of Music, the coveted Gold Medal on leaving the Royal Northern College of Music, and the Maurice Ravel Premier Prix in France.
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Both are students at the Choreographic Institute of North Carolina in Southern Pines. For six years, they have been studying under the direction of Diana Turner-Forte, the institute's artistic director. The classical ballet dance school provides training to students using the curriculum of the Royal Academy of Dance.
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My work as a wildlife writer often takes me to the Amazon and the African grasslands. I tell friends back home they don't really need to travel to see wildlife: the insects and other weird little creatures in our own backyards are at least as interesting as any elephant. But I can tell they don't much believe me. So I was curious to see what would turn up one weekend last summer at a BioBlitz in Hartford, Connecticut, a nearby city not generally known for unusual life-forms.
A BioBlitz is an event in which dozens of scientists fan out across some unlikely habitat, hell-bent on recording every species they can find, dead or alive, in a 24-hour period. The scientists launching themselves into Hartford's 695-acre Keney Park at 3 p.m. that Friday were armed with spotting scopes, sweep nets, pit traps, scalpels and fish stunners. They were prepared to dance like butterflies, sing like chickadees or do almost anything else this scavenger hunt required. One collector was seeking someone to donate bait for his dung beetle trap. Another was erecting what looked like a device for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers.
It consisted of a big galvanized-steel funnel mounted on a tripod, and it was actually meant to extract animals from soil samples. With a coffee can, a slight, white-bearded man named Carl Rettenmeyer cut out a disk of grassy soil and leaf litter "about the size of a quarter-pounder, with lettuce." This sample would sit overnight on a screen in mid-funnel, with an electric light overhead to make things uncomfortable, and a killing jar below to collect whatever came creeping out.
By Saturday afternoon, the "quarter-pounder" of lawn alone would yield 23 separate species, and 89 individual animals, including mites, thrips and an awful lot of springtails, "little bitty things smaller than the head of a pin." The springtails run around with their tails tucked under their abdomens, spring-loaded so that, in case of danger, they can execute a "we-outta-here" backflip, six inches into the air. It is a skill two-legged city-dwellers can only envy.
"The area of the sample is 11.044639 square inches," Rettenmeyer said. "Now multiply that by..." Then he came up with his best estimate: that there are 50 million individuals in just the top inch of soil in an ordinary acre here, and 35 billion animals in Keney Park — nearly six for every man, woman and child on earth.
"People are hearing that word 'biodiversity,' but they think it's in the rain forest," said Ellen Censky, director of the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History at the University of Connecticut. "The BioBlitz is a way of letting them know there's a lot of biodiversity right here."
It's also a lark, the closest most scientists will ever get to a varsity sport. Censky is a wry, enterprising sort who once proposed a museum exhibit that consisted of a dead elephant in a room full of flesh-eating dermestid beetles. It didn't happen (some nitpicky problem with ventilation), but it showed a certain flair for ecological entertainment.
BioBlitzes have become regular events around the country since the first one took place four years ago in Washington, D.C. Censky's team was hoping to top the record of 1,905 species found in a 1998 biodiversity survey around Walden Pond, outside Boston. She had assembled her roster with a coach's eye for covering all positions, from fish-squeezers to bat-grabbers. She was piling on entomologists with a knack for quickly identifying obscure insects. She had specialty teams, too, including an algae expert and a parasitologist.
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Hi, I am planning a bioblitz for Jordanelle State Park in Utah in June of 2010. I am wondering if you have outline info about how you planned the event or anything else that might help me make this a success,
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