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2 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Shara Clark
On Monday, the Tennessee state House approved the “success sequence” bill in a 73-20 vote. The bill, which would require the state’s public schools to teach a specific life path to “success,” previously passed the Senate in a 25-5 vote and is now headed to the desk of Governor Bill Lee for signing. That life path: education, marriage, kids.
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1 month ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Shara Clark
I need to write something. It should flow from fingers to keyboard automatically, no long pauses to consider the next thought or word. It’s all there, just below the surface, beginning to bubble up. That’s how it usually works. I’ll attach to an idea, a line of poetry, an encounter, or a moment, and after a few days of simmering in the recesses of my mind, somehow unknowingly, on its own, everything comes together and spills onto the page almost effortlessly. But not lately.
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2 months ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Shara Clark
January has been a rough year, huh? United States citizens, torn apart like never before, have been inundated with a ridiculous array of presidential orders and policy changes dumped on us in an absolute whirlwind of nonsense in a matter of days. An emboldened and strange billionaire troll — who’s pulling political strings even beyond our scope of understanding — is not-so-subtly showing his true colors in front of the entire world.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
memphisflyer.com | Shara Clark
You’ll notice a couple of places in this issue where I’ve been named responsible for the “New Year, New You” cover story. That dang editor is at it again! The truth is, the Flyer has done some form of this theme for as long as I can remember for its first issue at the turn of a new year.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
memphisflyer.com | Shara Clark
I’m writing this on election day. A steady, light rain is trickling down outside my window, the pitter-pattering a calming sound. The sun shines beyond the clouds, but the blue sky is obscured. It’s both gray and bright, with a smattering of yellow and orange leaves in the foreground, ready to shed for the season. This morning, many of my Facebook friends are sharing in jest what side dishes they’ll bring to the Civil War.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
memphisflyer.com | Shara Clark
Some of you may recall from my first official editor’s letter a couple years ago, or from our “meet the team” ads with staff headshots and bios, that I name-dropped the place where I spotted a Memphis Flyer for the first time. A Desoto County (Mississippi) resident, I was still a student, with a passion for writing and sights set on a journalism degree. My other passion was music — not playing it (too impatient), but listening and dissecting.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
memphisflyer.com | Shara Clark
Support the Memphis Flyer The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned publishers of Memphis magazine. For over 30 years, The Memphis Flyer has hit the streets every Wednesday morning with a blend of serious hard news and Memphis’ best entertainment coverage.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
memphismagazine.com | Shara Clark
Until this spring, although I’m probably the clumsiest person I know, I prided myself on never having broken a bone. All my structural pieces were intact and in working order, aside from some likely weak tendons from many ankle sprains through the years.
Today, I’m turning the corner into month five of recovery from an April fall that broke the ends of both bones in my lower left leg. You may relate because of an experience of your own (I’m sorry).
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
memphisflyer.com | Shara Clark
It’s been a minute since I’ve written in this space, dear readers. Time both drags and zips by, and I hope you’ve all been well in the interim. For anyone who has followed my columns since April when I broke my foot, I’m excited to report that I’m walking again — without training wheels, so to speak. I ditched the orthopedic boot a month or so ago. I battled with and lost to the ankle brace — it was uncomfortable and none of my shoes fit over it, so it was sent to early retirement.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
memphisflyer.com | Shara Clark
Welcome to our annual Staycation issue! This year our team chose to revisit (or visit for the first time) some Memphis mainstays — the Peabody, Stax, Beale, and more — places that consistently draw tourists, and, to some degree, mark (to outsiders, at least) the major beats of our city’s pulse. In years past, we’ve highlighted lesser-known locales to encourage deeper exploration of what makes the Bluff City tick.
