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  • DeSoto parks seeking publics ideas on 2013-14 projects

    June 18, 2013 - Patricia Davis (left) and cousin Victoria Davis take their steeds on a pleasure ride from their nearby homes through Eudora Park. The park is one of several overseen by the DeSoto Recreational District Commission. During the commission's Tuesday meeting, system director Larry Jarrett reported that over $300,000 would be available this fall in federal funding through the ...

  • Mid-South Memories June 19

    Charles Nicholas/The Commercial Appeal files Three family men among the Memphis Chicks get together with their offspring on June 19, 1954. There’s outfielder Ralph Rowe on the left with 7-year-old Mannie; Stan Jok (center) the third baseman, showing son Donne, 5, how to hold a bat with Stanley Jr., 6, looking on; catcher Hal Keller with a threesome of Hal Jr., 5, Joann, 3, and the baby, ...

  • Soul-stirring music at Stax

    Baye Slappy sings Otis Redding’s ';The Dock of the Bay'; with the Stax Music Academy Alumni Band in Studio A as part of National Black Music ...

  • Memphis police officer charged with DUI

    Memphis police officer Kobena Cash, 38, has been arrested after he was pulled over Sunday on charges he was driving under the influence, ran a stop sign, was driving with tags that expired in 2011 and that he refused to submit to a field sobriety ...

  • Kids cook pizzas make ice cream sandwiches

    Children make ice cream sandwiches during the "Kids in the Kitchen" class at Singleton Community Center in Bartlett Tuesday evening. Lauren Basham, 8, (middle) grabs a scoop of ice cream to finish creating an ice cream sandwich as her sister, Caeley Basham (left), 6, and Drew Hollomon, 8, look on during their "Kids in the Kitchen" class at Singleton Community Center in ...


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Movie Review

Ocean's Eleven

Steven Soderbergh's retro-funk update of the original Rat Pack movie Ocean's Eleven is a vivacious, quirky, throwaway crime-comedy about the seemingly impossible heist of $160 million from three of Las Vegas' biggest casinos. It's everything the 1960 original wanted to be while avoiding the sloppiness that was inherent to a project completely subverted to the whim of Frank Sinatra, Dean Ma ... ...

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  • Memphians try to help break record for largest simultaneous swim lesson

    Allan Barrow helps his daughter Allana Barrow,5, and his son Youssef Barrow, 2, during the Worlds Largest Simultaneous Swim Lesson in Memphis, Tenn. at Bickford Aquatic Center June 18, 2013. Allan Barrow helps his daughter Allana Barrow,5, and his son Youssef Barrow, 2, during the Worlds Largest Simultaneous Swim Lesson in Memphis, Tenn. at Bickford Aquatic Center June 18, ...

  • DeSoto Briefs Southaven mayor steps down a few days early

    Southaven Mayor Davis is stepping down a few days early Southaven Mayor Greg Davis' term does not end until next month, but he announced at Tuesday's aldermen meeting that he is resigning from the job he has held for 16 years a little early. Davis said he will step down as mayor effective June 28 and pass the reins over to Darren Musselwhite, who defeated him in the June 4 ...

  • Former deputy director at the CIA signs book in Memphis tells of fight against terrorism

    Philip Mudd, former CIA deputy director of counterterrorism, will talk and hold a book signing at 6 p.m. Thursday at Laurelwood Booksellers for his new book, ';Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al ...

  • Civil rights museum in Memphis to update public on renovation

    The National Civil Rights Museum will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday as a preview of the $27 million renovation underway on the 22-year-old main museum building, which is tentatively scheduled to reopen in ...

  • Memphis Shelby teachers in states massive Common Core training

    Aaron Turner/ Special to the Commercial Appeal Common Core coach Raven Hawes (right) a mathematics teacher of iZone Schools, goes over different topics with her fellow teachers during the Common Core State Standards Initiative at Ridgeway High School June 18, 2013 in Memphis, Tenn. All of the teachers in this particular class where 5th grade mathematics teachers. Students, teachers face ...

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