Archive for February, 2007

The Guest Diva: Gay men forming sororities?

iDiva Memphis
February 28th, 2007

gayka.jpg It's a hot topic circulating online among members of historically black fraternities and sororities: What to make of gay men who have created their own "chapters" of sororities?

Several men - who are reported to be gay (and there's nothing wrong with that) - have been photographed dressed in the colors of my sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.

I was stunned to see the photos - but then concluded that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And the rituals and traditions that make me a soror, these men know nothing about. They're simply mimicking the style and grace and attitude that my sorors often do. No harm, no foul.

However, not everyone is so... tolerant.

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Arkansas’(s) apostrophe catastrophe

Blake's Blog
February 28th, 2007

It looks like some of our friends over in Little Rock might have just a little bit too much free time on their hands.

Arkansas state Rep. Steve Harrelson has filed a resolution to declare that the correct possessive form for Arkansas would be written out as "Arkansas's," not the frequently used "Arkansas'."

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I'm hoping it gets resolved soon. Then maybe lawmakers can turn their attention to less pressing issues, like maybe how to help Marion avoid being the bridesmaid again if another auto manufacturing plant comes calling.


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Finding a Medical Home

Healthy Memphis
February 28th, 2007

Have your ever thought of your doctor's office as your "medical home?"

Monday's Health & Fitness section discussed why it is just that and why it's so important to your family to find a good one.

Dr. David Jennings, an internal medicine physician who specializes in primary care as medical director of the Church Health Center in Memphis, can tell you more about it.

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GREAT newspaper today.

iDiva Memphis
February 28th, 2007

patcheer.jpgThe Diva's guide to a few treats in The CA today ...

First, of course, was the continuing saga of favoritism at MLGW, which included a juicy list of those whom the previous utility head, Herman Morris, wanted to hear from if they called. Don't miss the letters to the editor ... priceless. What would you like to say to the bigs at MLGW? Keep it clean ...

New food columnist Jennifer Chandler says that Jimmy Lewis, of the late and much-missed Squash Blossom, is resurrecting his natural foods business, as Jimmy's Market, in the old Burke's book space in November. Puh-leeze bring back those granola pancakes, too!

And my favorite picture of today was the redoubtable Pat Summitt, wearing a cheerleader skirt, urging on the guy's team against Florida. Never thought I'd see this personal idol in a flame-orange miniskirt, no matter that she's obviously in good shape. Pat, what were you thinkin'?

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Ice Cream and Fertility - Add Another Scoop

Healthy Memphis
February 28th, 2007

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This week a European medical journal brings research results likely to be welcome news to women everywhere. The finding: A diet rich in ice cream and other high-fat dairy foods may lower the risk of one type of infertility.

Yes, ice cream as in Ben & Jerry's, Baskin-Robbins and Godiva Chocolatier.

The findings come from the Nurses Health Study at the Harvard School of Public Health. They were published in the Feb. 28 issue of the journal Human Reproduction.

Researchers compared how many servings of low-fat and high-fat dairy products women in the

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Jed and Kelley’s CD Release

The Memphis Scene
February 27th, 2007

Fresh off their appearance at last weekend's Folk Alliance festival, Jed and Kelley will mark the release of their new album with a show Saturday night at the P&H Cafe. Special guests will be on hand to help them celebrate. (9 p.m.)

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The Cocktail Challenge

Posted by Fredric Koeppel
February 27th, 2007

Bad news, booze hounds, but it’s official — The New York Times said so — the capital of Cocktail Nation has migrated cocktail7.jpg from New York, specifically Manhattan, to London, where the swinging set indulges in swank Mayfair bars presided over by mixologists — and notice that we use the word nowadays without the irony of an arched eyebrow or raised fingers making invisible “quotation marks” — I say, where the mixologists tender their art in a style combining the best of British tradition with the most avant-garde of world beat concepts and ingredients.

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No fair!

The cocktail revival started in Manhattan, was nurtured and practiced fervently, obsessively on that heady island of hopes and delusions and head-bumping realities, of glitter and glamor and gore, and now to come to this state of decadence and decline? My god, it sounds like a night of watery $25 drinks and stale Goldfish crackers, doesn’t it? Like a long taxi ride with a non-English-speaking driver that starts at 4 a.m. and ends where the Boulevard of Broken Dreams empties into Brittany Spears’ underwear drawer.

But don’t despair, former Celebrity Mixologists of Manhattan — and there has to be a guild, right? A club? At least a debating society or choral group? — I have an idea.

Here I propose the names of drinks with which you may conjure the cocktails of the future. I don’t create the recipes; I merely give you the titles of the artful blends that will bring fame back to its rightful place in bars and watering holes of Manhattan, if you are clever — and visionary — enough to handle them. Here are the names; now you must let your imaginations run riot and create the cocktails that will send those Brits running for their muddling spoons and lemon zesters.

1. Sit, Boy

2. Mere Immortals

3. Absolutely, Positively One Night

4. Anger of the Modernists

5. The Dangers of Tyranny Lurk in Utopian Dreams, Yet Idealism and Decency May Survive in a Police State

6. Jane Eyre

7. The Rage of Abandonment

8. Happy Birthday, Sheryl Suzanne Crowe!

9. Self-Immolation of Developing Economies

10. Sexy Mousy

One stipulation. Please, don’t use squid ink or pickled okra, especially in the same drink.

For No. 5, apologies to separate stories in The New York Times.

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