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Legendary Memphis punk band, The Klitz, played to a packed Automatic Slim's Saturday night.  The crowd included quite a following and a film crew for a movie and documentary being made about the band. 

The band got off to a somewhat fumbling, off-key start but built momentum into a rhythmic frenzy.  Their dedicated fans danced, excited to see the all-girl band performing again. 

When asked about the re-emergence, a self-proclaimed biggest fan replied, "Oh God.  Yes!  I love it.  I hope they never stop!"

Violet Mulroney, Entertainment Reporter

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Local activist Rosalie Downs has a monkey on her back, and it's blue.  Have you seen him?  Of course you haven't.

Ever since the Downtown Blue Monkey tragically burned down, and then the owners didn't deliver on their promise to rebuild bigger and better, Downs has been staked out at the Front Street site.

"I'm just waiting," says Downs.  "Waiting and urging those that run the Blue Monkey organization to do what's right for our community."

Since the loss of what was known as the "Cheers of South Main," a community has been rocked and forced to go without a contemporarily quaint watering hole where everyone knows their name.

"Brick by brick and cork by cork, my citizens," says Downs.  "I will stand here until we have our Monkey back."

George ... of the Blue Monkey told memphisLimelight, "We'll open when we open." Just as we thought, George.  Just as we thought.

So it seems that despite the despondency of Downs and the community-at-large, the owners of The Blue Monkey are, in fact, delivering on their promise, and The Monkey will open exactly as scheduled, perpetually two months from now.

Penny Lane, Investigative Reporter

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