Wally Joe was hoping to open his newest restaurant this fall. That’s not going to happen.

Food News writer Pamela Denney has the scoop in Hungry Memphis.

Chris Herrington begins his annual NBA preview with a Griz- and Memphis-centric look at the rest of the league. The six-part series opens with the Atlantic Division, where former Grizzlies head coach Marc Iavaroni and former University of Memphis Tiger Chris Douglas-Roberts will toil this season. Check it out at Beyond the Arc.

Kids growing up in Memphis in the 1960s and ’70s surely remember a popular show on Channel 10 called All Aboard with Mr. Be.

You don’t remember it?

Read more at the Ask Vance blog.

Restaurants, homebuilders, multiplex theaters, and big-box retailers previously beat a path to the ‘burbs. Now we have big-box fitness. At this rate, it shouldn’t be long before there’s a workout machine for every man, woman, and child in town.

John Branston checks out Collierville’s “Big Four of Fitness.”

Friday and Saturday night at Midtown’s Hi-Tone Cafe, a large group of local musicians — including Jack O & the Tearjerkers, Impala, and Snowglobe — will band together to assist Shirley Williams, the beloved barkeep at Madison Avenue dive the Lamplighter and den mother of sorts to the Midtown cultural scene, who is struggling with medical costs after recent health problems.

Chris Herrington has the details on this — and other special weekend music events — in this week’s Local Beat column. And Andria Lisle pays tribute to “Miss Shirley” and the Lamplighter on Sing All Kinds, the Flyer’s pop culture blog.

For more than 50 years, Hosea Hill and William Foster helped hundreds of Memphis boys and girls literally run to success on high school cinder tracks, college and Olympics stadiums around the world, and later in their professional lives as doctors, police officers, and businessmen and women.

Read more in John Branston’s Get Memphis Moving blog.

Mark Hamilton belted a home run to lead off the sixth inning and the Memphis Redbirds’ pitching staff held to its stellar postseason form Wednesday night, leading the home team to a 3-2 victory over the Sacramento River Cats and a 2-games-to-none lead in the best-of-five Pacific Coast League Championship Series.

Frank Murtaugh’s got the details.