Memphis

Working in Memphis: A Documentary (Part 2)

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Film, Memphis, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive, Working in Memphis Documentary 0 Comments

Vince Johnson of the Plantation AllStars So, I promised to update you readers occasionally on the progress of the documentary film that my student Sophie Osella and I are shooting this summer about working Memphis musicians… but, to be honest, I’ve barely had a free moment to do so.  As I said in the previous…

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Not With A Bang, But A Whimper: RIP Wild Bill’s Memphis

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Memphis, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

Alas, it is with great sadness that I report that the long-anticipated but much-dreaded inevitability in my life finally came to pass. Wild Bill’s is officially closed. The doors closed without ceremony or fanfare early last month.  Like every other time before, there were a few weeks when I hoped that this was a false…

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Working In Memphis: A Documentary

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Film, Memphis, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive, Working in Memphis Documentary 0 Comments

I thought I might interrupt the 31 Day Film Challenge for a moment to update you readers on my own little adventure into film-making.  I’ve undertaken a project this summer that I’ve wanted to do for a long, long time: a documentary film about “working” Memphis musicians. For what it’s worth, all the photos in…

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I Bet You Gonna Find Some People Who Live in Memphis

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Memphis, Music, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Sports 0 Comments

Apologies in advance to my close friends and family, but the truth is that there is quite literally nothing in the world that I love more than Memphis. Thanks in part to the Grizzlies’ inspiring display of our city’s three most valuable homegrown resources– heart, grit, and grind– and in larger part thanks to the…

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2011 Year in Dr. J

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 2011 Year in Review Lists, Dr. J's Lists, Memphis, Music, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Year in Review Lists 3 Comments

Before I drop the 2011 Year in Pop Culture, which will be the last of my year-end lists, I thought I’d do one recounting my own year. 2011 began for me with a bit of a rough transition, as I was returning from a semester-long sabbatical, but things eventually smoothed out and stayed running smoothly…

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31 Days in Seuss, Day 10: My Hometown

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson 31 Dys in Suess, Memphis, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

My apologies for dropping the ball on the 31 Days in Seuss Challenge over the last week or so. I got busy and then had some internet issues at home. Anyway, I’m going to try to catch back up, starting where I left off. Here’s Day 10: MY HOMETOWNMy hometown sits on the Big Muddy…

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Segue

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Memphis, Music, RMWMTMBM Archive 1 Comment

It’s been a minute since I updated this blog. There are lots of reasons for that– I was tied up with the American Values Project (and its New York Values iteration) for a while, then the Memphis Grizzlies were in the NBA playoffs, then end-of-the-semester grading was upon me, then graduation and curriculum seminars, etc–…

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Why I Chose Memphis: Anna Marie Hartman Birkedahl

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Memphis, RMWMTMBM Archive, Why I Chose Memphis 0 Comments

Most Memphians will know our next contributor to the Why I Chose Memphis series as “Anna Marie Hartman,” the confident and beautiful anchorwoman for WMC Channel 5 News. What you may not know, however, is that when she’s not reporting on the best and worst of Memphis, she’s also a talented singer in The Burnin’…

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Why I Chose Memphis: Art Carden

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Memphis, RMWMTMBM Archive, Why I Chose Memphis 0 Comments

Next up in our series is Dr. Art Carden, my colleague in the Economics and Business Department at Rhodes College. Art is a regular contributor to the econ-blogs Division of Labour and The Ludwig von Mises Institute as well as an essayist for the online version of Forbes Magazine. I think I can say with…

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Why I Chose Memphis: Paul Haught

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Memphis, RMWMTMBM Archive, Why I Chose Memphis 0 Comments

Our next contributor in the Why I Chose Memphis series is Dr. Paul Haught, Associate Dean for the School of the Arts and Chair of the Religion and Philosophy Department at Christian Brothers University. I met Paul through mutual Midtowner friends, and for a short time was totally unaware that he was married to another…

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