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Live Professional Theatre Returns to the Mid-South with a World Premiere

Playhouse on the Square, in partnership with super sponsor Dr. Thomas Ratliff, and generous grants from The Jeniam Foundation, ArtsMemphis, and the Tennessee Arts Commission,…

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Michael B. Conway June 18, 2021 No Comments Forrest Statue Michael B Conway Nathan Bedford Forrest

By Michael B. Conway A pyramid of cannonballs beneath a naked flagpole, as bees drink Coca Cola from a green glass bottle stem, Salvation Army…

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Peace, Love, and Doodles

Candace Echols June 11, 2021 No Comments Candace Echols Dogs Faith Yellow Chair ChronEchols

“Is that a sheep-a-doodle?” The question came from an older gentleman, kindness behind his eyes. In past seasons of life, had I been asked such…

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Happy Birthday, Spiderman

Ken Billett June 4, 2021 No Comments cancer Ken Billett metastatic melanoma Time Capsules

Great fortunes in my treatment for stage IV metastatic melanoma By Ken Billett Seated in a waiting area just outside the Radiology department, a man…

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Notes from the second row: The grit n’ poetry of Grizzlies basketball

Candace Echols June 2, 2021 No Comments Fedex Forum Grindhouse Grit n Grind Ja Morant Memphis Grizzlies The Grizz

The Grizzlies season may be over, but the poetry will go on By Candace Echols People prioritize things. My husband and I love a good…

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Arriving and leaving, it wasn’t his dream

Mark Scott May 28, 2021 No Comments Binghampton Binghamton Caritas Village Mark Scott Onie Johns

By Mark Allen Scott The first week of May has always been important in our household. It’s a birthday of sorts. Actually, two birthdays. Both…

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Birthday Week: May 17

Ken Billett May 28, 2021 No Comments Ken Billett Time Capsules

May Seventeenth By Ken Billett The metal slug lies in a small slot inside my wooden lap desk—the kind of old item you might find…

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The Spaces Between People

Chapter16 Community May 28, 2021 No Comments Burke's Books Chapter16 Corey Mesler Maria Browning

Corey Mesler shares a few thoughts on antiheroes, privacy, and prolificity By Maria Browning, for Chapter16.org The titular protagonist of Corey Mesler’s latest novel, The Diminishment…

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SB 30 Episode 66: Writing historical fiction, with Memphis author Susan Cushman

StoryBoard News Board May 26, 2021 No Comments Civil Rights Movement Ole Miss Ole Miss Eight Susan Cushman Writing

Her new novel John and Mary Margaret captures important chapters in Mid-South civil rights history “My characters meet at Ole Miss, when there were very…