
Bruce VanWyngarden
Senior Editor and Columnist at Memphis Flyer
Memphis Flyer senior editor/columnist; author “Everything That’s True”; “Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the 1960s"; music, humor, all things Memphis.
Articles
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2 days ago |
memphismagazine.com | Bruce VanWyngarden
“I did a lot of manual labor — construction and whatnot — after high school. Then I worked at AutoZone, where the older guys had me replacing a lot of headlights and batteries.
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1 week ago |
memphisflyer.com | Bruce VanWyngarden
Sometimes I just get so tired of social media — tired of trying to have a reasonable discussion with someone who quotes Tulsi Gabbard unironically, tired of having to change “relevant comments” to “all comments” on every Facebook post, tired of seeing AI-created articles and pictures designed to get me to scroll endlessly (“21 Boomer Skills You Don’t Need Anymore”), tired of endless, intrusive “reels” designed to tweak my apparent algorithmic interests — guitar, chess, French, fly-fishing, etc.
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2 weeks ago |
memphisflyer.com | Bruce VanWyngarden
“Revised National Parks Web Page Describes Harriet Tubman as Human Trafficker.”That was the headline of an email I got a few days ago. I opened it immediately, thinking surely it was a joke. And I was right. The email was from The Onion, a satirical publication that’s been around since 1988 and that is somehow still alive and kicking and sending out funny material in 2025. You have to admire their spunk. Satire can’t be easy these days.
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2 weeks ago |
memphismagazine.com | Bruce VanWyngarden
When Jenna Abu-Khraybeh talks about growing up in the Bluff City, her face brightens with the memories. “I remember my mom taking us to Grizzlies games,” she says, “and afterward, we’d wait outside Earnestine & Hazel’s with the doorman while my mom went in to get us soul burgers. “I’m first-generation,” she says. “My dad is from Lebanon and my mom is from Canada. They both migrated here and met in Memphis and I had this lovely upbringing of diversity.
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3 weeks ago |
memphisflyer.com | Bruce VanWyngarden
In Nashville last week, Tennessee State Highway Patrol troopers conducted around 500 traffic stops in a sweep coordinated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in order to find undocumented immigrants. The troopers made 12 arrests and detained more than 100 people for “reasons related to immigration.”How do you conduct 500 traffic stops designed to detain undocumented immigrants? One can only assume the troopers looked for brown people and pulled them over.
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