By Tamara Albea
There are many journalists who tend to move on from their life as a writer to explore other career passions. Some even go on to venture towards social issues as Mrs. Deborah Clubb, a former writer and editor for The Commercial Appeal, did with hers.

She sees a link between the two paths.

“Both gather information to understand an issue and deliver the message and its solutions. I have a passion for women’s issues and writing,” Clubb says, “Maybe I’m fortunate to have two.”

Clubb sees herself as being fortunate realizing not everyone has the opportunity to live out all of their career choices, or even the opportunity to live out just one.

by David Wayne Brown

Maybe the City of Memphis won't force Amtrak to rewrite the content on its route websites after all.

The city has announced an agreement to fix the gaping sinkhole that has closed Central Station and forced thousands of passengers to disembark and board buses for part of their trips. It would seem the mayor one day told his staff, “we’ve got to fix that thing.”

movie review by Courtney Meyers

In homage to the 1960’s TV comedy about a bumbling, fumbling yet somehow effective Cold War spy, Get Smart, starring Steve Carell (The Office) as Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada) as Agent 99, bring family fun and humor to this throw-back but not throw-away spy comedy. With the original creators, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry consulting on the project, Get Smart pays tribute to the television series with gadgets like the Cone-of-Silence and rotary shoe-phone, but uses modern settings and costumes for this Bond farce.

movie review by David Brown

The French suspense movie Roman de Gare plays — it could be said, plays magically — with one’s emotions. But not the ones you might expect.
Most American movie-goers, I’d wager, will watch and at first their trained expectations of sudden death and/or mayhem will be triggered.
But then, gradually and elegantly, deeper emotions are elicited as veteran French director Claude Lelouch deals up twist after twist, and below the surface feelings, and it is this smart elicitation that makes the film a joy.