The Flyer — Memphis’ top alternative newspaper — turns 20 this week. Editor Tim Sampson looks back at a lost age of journalism: It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the freakin’ weirdest of times. They were fun times and they were stressful times. It was two decades ago, [...]
Gizmodo: One of our readers recently received an unsolicited package from Apple. That alone is kind of weird, but the contents were even stranger: a mix CD titled “Boom Boom Pow,” complete with smiley faces and stars drawn in Sharpie. [...] Who knows how this ended up leaving the Apple distribution center in Memphis. Maybe [...]
Memphis Rapper SIR VINCE has released “Swine Flu” — a song about H1N1 prevention. Even if rap isn’t your thing, you gotta listen to the whole thing. The second verse is my new ringtone.
The Commercial Appeal: Memphis stepped to the top of education elite today when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation offered the city schools a berth in its $500 million effort to improve U.S. teacher quality. Under a memorandum of understanding the district is asked and foundation plan to sign, the district can expect to receive [...]
From the hospital’s website: James D. Eason, M.D., program director at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute and chief of transplantation confirmed today, with the patient’s permission, that Steve Jobs received a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in partnership with the University of Tennessee in Memphis. Mr. Jobs underwent a complete transplant evaluation [...]
I usually keep away from posting about Steve Jobs’ health, but this is pretty big news, via the Wall Street Journal: Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief executive has been recovering well [...]
As a Memphis native, I found this quite interesting: Today’s weird Apple rumor has the turtle-neck exec moving to Memphis, Tennessee, of all places. The idea is that Jobs is going south to help treat his pancreatic cancer–Memphis, it turns out, is the home of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Private equity blog PEHub is citing a “well-connected business [...]
Via @danfrakes: a NCAA bracket based on the median salary of the schools’ graduates. Memphis loses in the first round of this bracket.
Forbes ranked Memphis the #2 most miserable city in the nation: Sandwiched between Stockton and Chicago is Memphis, Tenn. The home of FedEx has an incredibly high rate of violent crimes, with only Detroit faring worse. The 1,218 violent crimes per 100,000 residents is more than twice the rate in the New York City metro area. The [...]
Here’s a list of where it is, though. Memphis isn’t on the list.
