In this audio slideshow, Trilogy tattoo artist Nathan Parten explains his motivation for getting into the business, as well as a few weird designs people have asked him to do over the years.
By Melissa Wray In this audio slideshow, Trilogy tattoo artist Nathan Parten explains his motivation for getting into the business, as well as a few weird designs people have asked him to do over the years.
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By Grant Milner
Justin Fuente is in the middle of putting together his third recruiting class at the University of Memphis. So far the Tigers have eight players committed for the class of 2014, none of which are from the junior college ranks. However, over the last two classes, Memphis has taken 14 JUCO players. Of course, Fuente didn’t have many options based on the roster he was handed in December of 2011. “We didn’t have any choice when we first got here,” Fuente said. “In order to fill out a football team, we had to go to junior college. We’ve filled it with some good players. Antonio Foster has been a two-year starter for us, Anthony Brown has been a two-year starter and a very good player, so we’ll never wholesale the junior college ranks. But I think it is important that we do a good job and make sure that we evaluate everything we can in those areas and see if we can help our team. We’re not going to wholesale it, but we will continue to recruit the junior college ranks.” The Tigers have had one of the strangest schedules in college football, playing just seven games in the first nine weeks, including a Wednesday night battle with Cincinnati last week. Despite the season ending late, Fuente believes that the schedule has actually helped them overall with recruiting. By Natalie Cole Counting down, “a five, a six, a five, six, seven, eight...,” signifying the beginning of each new move, Keenan Diggs, vice president and dance instructor, along with his co-instructor, former Memphis swing dance leader, Josephine Edwards, lead the group through step by step instruction during Monday night's swing dance class. Flying under the radar, The University of Memphis Swing Dance club has been in action for at least 10 years. The club stems from the interest of the dance from a native Californian, Jaredan, who gave it life and continues to develop it into what it is today. Jaredan, who attended the U of M, kept the legacy going by passing the reins on until it reached Josephine Edwards, who still co-teaches classes at the U of M lessons as well as the Memphis dance organization, The Red Hot Lindy Hop.
By Margot Pera
GrowMemphis, a philanthropic project of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center aimed at helping poverty afflicted communities turn vacant lots into community gardens, is trying to educate Memphians of every socio-economic class by hosting a special screening of the film, “A Place At The Table.” The film discusses general problems about poverty across the country and how it is affecting people’s access to nutritious foods. The film will also talk about the problems that could result from cutting Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Programs (S.N.A.P.), more commonly known as welfare. “People have a misconception of the ‘welfare queen’—a single African American woman who abuses the system through receiving governmental aid,” said Carole Coulter, food policy coordinator at GrowMemphis. “That simply isn’t true. Most of the people that benefit from welfare programs are children and the elderly.” Christopher Peterson, executive director of GrowMemphis, said in Memphis a significant portion of welfare recipients live in Collierville. Suburban food stamps are not talked about that much because of the stigma associated with it. “Even if someone goes to a food pantry to receive donations, the majority of it is processed and lacks sufficient nutrition,” Coulter said. By Kylcye Bolden
Next month, a decision will be made about the fate of the building on the corner of Southern and Highland. Each of the remaining businesses in the building have made plans to change locations or close shop to pursue other endeavors. Looking back, owners of Whatever Novelty Shop, Southern Meat Market and Sharri’s Discount Art Supply are questioning why there was so little communication from the landlord once the decision was made to sell the property. The lack of communication has become a bigger issue since nothing has been finalized with McDonald's. The two other businesses that used to occupy the property, Super Submarine Sandwich Shop and Safeway Wholesale & Supply, have moved to a new locations. The sandwich shop, passionately called the Chinese Sub Shop by Memphians, is now at 3316 Summer Ave. Safeway Wholesale & Supply relocated less than a block away. Pending the decisions made at the city council meeting on Dec. 17, both moves could be proven to have been made vainly. By Matthew Schwartz
Ricky Kirby, a junior marketing major from Dyersburg, Tenn., currently serves as the Student Government President on the University of Memphis campus. Kirby has served as president since mid-April and has taken part in many projects benefiting the university. The McDonald’s project, Highland strip renovation, and the future of the U of M bookstore are just a few things Kirby has had a hand in. “The University District is here because of the University,” Kirby said. Kirby has been involved in many organizations on campus throughout his three-year tenure at the U of M. By Jasmine Deener
With over 300 students and faculty in attendance, the University of Memphis made its way into The Guinness Book of World Records for having the largest amount of people doing sit-ups in one place for one minute. Gathered on the Alumni Mall, outside the University Center, participants joined in on a special edition of Midday Moves. As people came through the entrance, they were given a plot number, as in burial plot which told them where to lie. Members of the Alumni Association and the Student Ambassador Board were dressed up in costumes and masks as the theme was "Dying to be Healthy." “One of our coordinators who works with the Student Ambassadors Board said let’s do something cool, let’s get people out, let's break a world record… and now it has turned into a Halloween extravaganza,” said Holly Snyder, the Assistant Director for the university’s Alumni Association.
Brother Juniper’s restaurant housed at 3519 Walker Ave., just steps from the University of Memphis’s main campus, plans to open a second location in the Forrest Hill Irene Road/ Poplar Avenue area as early as spring of 2014.
The restaurant, which is run on the principles of food, family, community and church, is owned and operated by Jonathan Koplin, his wife Pauline, daughter Sarah and son Patrick. The nationally recognized Memphis breakfast joint wants to take the current restaurant structure “another step” with the new site, Jonathan said. “It would be a restaurant, bakery, coffee roasting—might do some training out there again,” he said. The “training” is a reference to a nonprofit program Brother Juniper’s started in 2000 called Juniper Bakery, which taught at-risk youth how to make artisan breads. Jonathan said the program lasted three or four years, before they passed it along to another organization. Community service is and always has been at the forefront of the Brother Juniper’s business model. By Hassan Allawi Bhui is planning to produce his first album in February next year. The house in which he grew up, the place were his mother rests, and the Mississippi River, are places that inspire him. |