Conaway: Right there in the parking lot
Despicable behavior isn’t new, people at their worst doing what they do because they can. What’s new is the lack of national outrage, the shrugging of our national shoulders, a coast-to-coast “so what.”
Dan Conaway
Columnist
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
There are 347 articles by Dan Conaway :
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February 2019
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January 2019
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Dan Conaway Conaway: Life is a song
On the 50-mile drive over to Brownsville, Marsha Thompson told us a story. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: The Ogle of us
Historian Jimmy Ogle has an encyclopedic knowledge of Memphis – and he generously shares it with anyone he thinks might want to know. As he prepares to move closer to family, he's leaving us with what he calls his "bicentennial gift": a farewell storytelling series.
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Dan Conaway Conaway: An unforgettable itinerary
Mike Lupfer wore many hats: University of Memphis professor, leader, world traveler – and most of all, friend.
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Dan Conaway Conaway: Something wild. Something beautiful.
CLAIMING OUR ISLAND. I said I’d start the year with a couple of ideas. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: World-Class Idea
“OF OUTSTANDING UNIVERSAL VALUE.” I thought I’d start this year – our bicentennial year – with a couple of ideas. Seems like a good time for new ideas, and some reminders that this place is special – even if so many of us have forgotten that. It was, in fact, special long before any of us arrived.
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December 2018
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Dan Conaway Conaway: Jud Strunk made me cry
A DAISY A DAY. A couple of weeks ago, a friend made a request for one of my former columns – like a song request. That’s only appropriate since it was a column about a song, and I think an appropriate column for the end of a year, and particular ends and particular memories for each of us. So this one is for you, Dick. And for me. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: My Christmas Story
CHRISTMAS TIME. Every Christmas I tell this story, and in the telling Christmas comes home. This year, I’m telling it in memory of my big brother, Frank. His pub – or as they say in England, his local – is central to the story. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: The soluble problem
Every day in the U.S. there are 10 accidental drownings – 3,500 a year – and it’s the second-leading cause of death among children 1 to 14.
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Dan Conaway Conaway: Our other riverfront
OUR FORGOTTEN TENNESSEE. Ray Skinner called me the other day and told me a story. He has a bunch of them.
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November 2018
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Dan Conaway Conaway: Gravy. Maybe.
LET’S SEE IF WE’VE GOT GRAVY. I’ve been part of the breakfast cooking team at my church for decades, and for the first 20 years or so I stood next to Dr. Fred Sage. Fred did sausage gravy. I did eggs, 72 at a time. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: Ginkgoes and thanks
LOOK FOR THE WONDER. REPEAT. Every year, no matter what. And it’s happened again. Despite it all. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: Just imagine
I’m feeling better, thanks. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: There’ll be another train
I’m taking a breath. The election is over, and however you may feel about the outcome, the sun has managed to come up the last three days regardless. My back hurt before, during, and after the voting, and nobody running helped me get my socks on in the morning. The person who does that got my vote a long time ago, although she may be looking for another candidate. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: You’re being insulted
If you’re not mad, you’re not paying attention.
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October 2018
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Dan Conaway Sounds of note
I was having a pint in the Eagle when I heard them. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: The women. Still.
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Dan Conaway Conaway: Not No, But Hell No
We, my friends, are being had – and we should have none of it. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: It all depends on your point of view
Coming from Arkansas, it looks like Oz.
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September 2018
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Dan Conaway Conaway: How can a place so warm and soulful in so many ways be so cold and soulless
Thursday night, Memphis took a bullet. -
Dan Conaway Conaway: Memphis is one of a kind
Really unique is really not. Memphis is. -
Dan Conaway Memphasis: All Funked Up
(This was my first column some 400-plus columns ago. I was looking for a word that most aptly describes Memphis. Just one word …)
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