Divers and Sundry

Walking down South Main Street, The Daughter and I came across a fun art exhibit, various installations placed along the street. I didn...

The Cremator  -part political allegory, part horror and part black comedy- is a 1969 Czech film. It's interesting if you like this kind ...

Kiss Me, Deadly is a 1952 Mike Hammer novel by Mickey Spillane. Fun enough, if you can get past the heavy-handed sexism and the repetitive...

Making Money by Terry Pratchett is a 2007 Discworld novel, 36th in the series and 2nd of the books featuring Moist von Lipwig . I've ...

This sculpture -The Businessman, by Lon Anthony ca. 1975- is new in the Memphis Botanic Gardens sculpture garden. At least I don't re...

It's a Good Day : by Kay Starr , who lived for a while in Memphis during her early career. The second song in the video is Wheel of...

Stromboli is a 1950 joint Italian/American neo-realist film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring Ingrid Bergman and Mario Vitale. I ...

The Marienbad Elegy is a poem written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe after the refusal of his proposal of marriage. He was 72; she was 17 ....

Donnie Darko is a 2001 supernatural thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, and Patrick Swayze. ...

Red Sorghum is a 1986 novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Mo Yan . This is a violent story, with all the violence beautifully and very c...

The Debut (originally published as A Start in Life ) is the U.S. title of the 1981 novel by Anita Brookner . This was her first novel, tho...

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens held the amaryllis exhibition over much longer than they had originally planned, because the flowers are doi...

Keep My Skillet Good 'n Greasy : by the Side Street Steppers . This Memphis group has a Facebook page here .

Along the sidewalks I see them, these not quite 42s. Some look old and faded and some look freshly painted I know they are part of so...

Hail, Britannia! Six Centuries of British Art from the Berger Collection is the current major exhibition at the Dixon Gallery . From the D...