lost horizon
The Horizon is the latest "big empty" on the Memphis skyline.
Read this week's cover story to learn more.
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Windermere Offers CSA of a Different Sort
Last summer, I was at the
farmers market at the Memphis Botanic Garden standing behind a woman picking up her
CSA (community supported agriculture) share. When the farmer was scooping up okra, the woman said, very nicely, that she would pass on the okra, that she still had plenty from the previous week's share.
And that's the wrinkle with CSAs. While they're a great way to get fresh produce while supporting local farmers, what you get is what you ... and that could mean weeks upon weeks of okra or corn or whatever is ripe for the picking.
Windermere Farm is offering its first CSA this spring, and their CSA — what Windermere's Ken and Freida Lansing call a "farmers market" CSA — is of a different sort and it's particularly user-friendly.
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Andy Kaufman: I'm From Hollywood
The oddball flick,
Andy Kaufman: I'm From Hollywood, will screen at The Brooks this week.
Chris Herrington has the story.
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C-USA Tourney: Tigers to Face...
The Tigers will get a chance to avenge their February 24th loss to Houston tomorrow, when the two teams play in the quarterfinals of the Conference USA tournament in Tulsa. (The Cougars beat East Carolina this afternoon, 93-80.) NCAA scoring champ Aubrey Coleman had 34 points in the 92-75 Houston victory last month. Fellow All-CUSA honoree Elliot Williams had one of his worst games of the season, missing seven of nine shots and scoring a season-low six points. The 92 points were the most Memphis gave up in a game all season.
In the teams’ first meeting of the year — on January 23rd at FedExForum — it was the Tigers scoring 92, and Houston but 77. Coleman had 32 in that game. Roburt Sallie and Wesley Witherspoon led five tigers in double figures with 20 points each.
Memphis has won 12 straight games in C-USA tournament play, its last loss coming in the 2005 championship game against Louisville. Three of the wins in that streak have come against Houston, including a 71-59 romp in the 2007 final.
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ETAs for NY Subways
New York's subway system is getting high-tech. Or maybe just tech.
The New York subway system recently installed digital L.E.D. displays to give riders real-time info on when exactly their train or bus would reach the station or stop.
From the NYT earlier this week:
Electronic arrival-time clocks, a convenience long enjoyed by users of mass transit in London, Paris and Washington, are starting to trickle into New York City’s labyrinthine transportation network, part of a recent push to bring 21st-century technology to a system that runs very much as it did on its first day more than a century ago.
Officials at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority say the clocks will revolutionize the way New Yorkers get around, soothing the usual anxieties that come with waiting for a bus or train that might never arrive.
Though a subway tracking system and GPS-based bus timers cost millions of dollars, a potential vendor covered the cost for three pilot programs. Installation was around $20,000.
Might I suggest we figure out who the vendor is and give them a call?
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