Friday August 1, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Maria Mitchell, the first professional female astronomer in the United States, was born on this day in 1818. Mitchell was raised in a Quaker community, which was one of the few groups that felt women should have equal educational opportunities as men. She had the notable discovery that sunspots are “whirling vertical cavities” and not, as thought at the time, clouds.
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Saturday August 2, 2008
Start: 2:35 pm
Start: 08/02/2008 - 14:35
End: 08/05/2008 - 14:35
Prevent a case of the holiday shopping blues, and get a head start on Santa’s wish-list. Check ou the Agricenter’s 4-day gift and jewelry show to get a lead in on the Christmas crowds and chaos. 901.757.7777 or agricenter.org
- 37 reads
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Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.” Myrna Loy would have been 103 today. She used her fame in the 1930s-40s to champion the rights of black actors and to give them dignity onscreen, rather than the stereotypes they often played at the time.
- 766 reads
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Sunday August 3, 2008
(all day)
Start: 08/02/2008 - 14:35
End: 08/05/2008 - 14:35
Prevent a case of the holiday shopping blues, and get a head start on Santa’s wish-list. Check ou the Agricenter’s 4-day gift and jewelry show to get a lead in on the Christmas crowds and chaos. 901.757.7777 or agricenter.org
- 37 reads
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Start: 2:49 pm
You know you want to cook/clean/craft like her: homemaking guru Martha Stewart turns 67 today.
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Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Martha Stewart’s birthday is today. Bake a cake entirely out of the flour you hand-milled from your personal wheat crop and decorate it with homemade buttercream frosting and fruit from your organic orchard to celebrate.
- 793 reads
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Monday August 4, 2008
(all day)
Start: 08/02/2008 - 14:35
End: 08/05/2008 - 14:35
Prevent a case of the holiday shopping blues, and get a head start on Santa’s wish-list. Check ou the Agricenter’s 4-day gift and jewelry show to get a lead in on the Christmas crowds and chaos. 901.757.7777 or agricenter.org
- 37 reads
- more info
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Today is the 52nd birthday of Meg Whitman, former President and CEO of eBay. Since resigning from eBay in March 2008, she is considering a run for Governor of California in 2010.
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Tuesday August 5, 2008
End: 2:35 pm
Start: 08/02/2008 - 14:35
End: 08/05/2008 - 14:35
Prevent a case of the holiday shopping blues, and get a head start on Santa’s wish-list. Check ou the Agricenter’s 4-day gift and jewelry show to get a lead in on the Christmas crowds and chaos. 901.757.7777 or agricenter.org
- 37 reads
- more info
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Dame Miriam Rothschild, a leading entomologist and zoologist, was born on this day in 1908. Scientifically, she was a foremost expert on fleas and was the first person to figure out the biology of how fleas jump. Socially, she campaigned for the legalization of homosexuality in the U.K. in the 1960s and was a vegetarian—she refused to wear any form of leather or fur.
- 784 reads
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Wednesday August 6, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Lucille Ball’s birthday is today…she clashed with CBS execs after they tried not to let her have a pregnancy storyline in her show. They finally caved, but still wouldn’t allow her to say “pregnant.” Throughout the episode, they had to refer to her as “expecting” instead.
- 739 reads
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Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Grandma Moses was born 148 years ago today. She started painting in her 70s after arthritis made it difficult for her to continue her art of embroidery. She went on to become one of America’s most popular folk artists and lived to the age of 101.
- 750 reads
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Saturday August 9, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Janie Porter Barrett was born on this day in 1865. She founded the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, a rehabilitation center for troubled girls which was centered on self-reliance and self-discipline. It became a model for other similar schools and was extremely successful—the majority of students found jobs and had families after leaving the facility. It became integrated in 1965 and still exists today under the name of the Barrett Learning Center.
- 788 reads
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Sunday August 10, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Mary Gove Nichols was born 198 years ago, today. She traveled the country speaking about women’s health and anatomy, but was scorned by many of her time for her belief in “free love” instead of marriage, which Nichols considered to be the “annihilation of women.” She believed that health, freedom and sexual liberation were all linked was an outspoken advocate for all three.
- 758 reads
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Monday August 11, 2008
Start: 2:58 pm
Last chance for your 9 through 17-year-old dancer to audition for the Buckman Center Ballet Program, a division of the Children’s Ballet & Dance School. Make an audition appointment at 901.921.0388 or balletchildren.com.
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Tuesday August 12, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Today would have been the 91st birthday of Gladys Bentley, a Harlem Renaissance blues singer. Openly lesbian during her early career (she dressed in tuxedos and top hats with a drag queen chorus line singing back-up and flirted with female patrons), during the McCarthy era, she put on dresses, married a man and claimed that taking female hormones had “cured” her, in order to avoid being put on trial.
- 789 reads
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Wednesday August 13, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Left-hander’s Day is today. Approximately 7-10% of the population is left-handed, and left-handed females are rarer than males. Joan of Arc, Queen Victoria, Eudora Welty, Greta Garbo and Ruth Bader Ginsberg are some of these unique, southpawed females.
- 791 reads
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Thursday August 14, 2008
Start: 3:00 pm
Hear stories on Japanese folklore, learn more about garden symbolism, and view a kimono exhibit at the Japanese Garden Candlelight tour tonight at the Memphis Botanic Garden. 901.576.4100 or memphisbotanicgarden.com
- 36 reads
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Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (often known as L.E.L.), a poet, was born on this day in 1802. While her poetry has not withstood the test of time, she was respected by her contemporaries for paving the way for other female writers. Christina G. Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were just a few of her literary admirers who wrote tributes to her.
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Friday August 15, 2008
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Electic Eye will host an opening reception for artist Amy Hutcheson tonight to present her newest collection of work, Pure Vida. The show promises to allow the viewer to see that purity and beauty exist in even the simplest items. Visit the opening, and find out for yourself. 901.276.3937 or eclectic-eye.com
- 31 reads
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Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Julia Child, former assistant in the OSS’s Secret Intelligence division and celebrity chef and author, would have been 96 today. Her legendary persona and accessible recipes made her a pop culture icon.
- 783 reads
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Saturday August 16, 2008
Start: 3:00 pm
Don’t let the kids sucker you into visiting a ton of different stores to get all they’ll want and need to make it thru this school year. Head to the Everything for Kids Sale today at Agricenter. 901.373.9990 or agricenter.org
- 35 reads
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Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Madonna turns 50 today. From “Like a Virgin” to “4 Minutes,” she manages to push the envelope on the issue of sexuality and proves to be an enormous influence to society (Kabbalah, anyone?) while putting out an endless stream of shake-your-booty tunes.
- 801 reads
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Sunday August 17, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” Mae West, stage and screen actress, who pushed the social limits on female sexuality, was born on this day in 1893.
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Monday August 18, 2008
Start: 3:12 pm
The clock is ticking on that bathing suit body. Sign up today for Energy Fitness’s 30-minute bikini boot camp. 901.523.2348 or energymemphis.com
- 33 reads
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Tuesday August 19, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Coco Chanel, the revolutionary designer who liberated women from centuries of corsets with simple, menswear inspired fashions, was born 125 years ago today. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
- 867 reads
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Saturday August 23, 2008
Start: 3:14 pm
Meet Miss America 2008, Kirsten Haglund, and hear her tell the story of her battle with anorexia at the opening of a new location of the Transformation Center for Women, a nationally accredited outpatient program that treats anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating. Call 901.831.4168 or transformationwomen.com
- 32 reads
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Tuesday August 26, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Today is Women’s Equality Day or Susan B. Anthony Day—it’s the 88th anniversary of the passing of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, allowing women the right to vote.
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Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Today is also the 73rd birthday of Geraldine Ferraro, the first and only (so far) female Vice Presidential candidate for a major political party. In 1984 Walter Mondale selected her as his running mate in the campaign against Ronald Reagan. She went on to serve as a U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Commission of Human Rights under President Clinton’s administration, and also worked on Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
- 822 reads
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Friday August 29, 2008
Start: 3:28 pm
Sample beer from around the world at the Memphis Zoo’s ‘Zoo Brew’ tonight. 901.276-WILD or memphiszoo.org
- 41 reads
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Saturday August 30, 2008
Start: 3:31 pm
Hear legendary songstress and 70’s icon Chaka Khan perform for every woman tonight at the Orpheum Theatre. 901.523.3000 or orpheum-memphis.com
- 36 reads
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