The Tigers had a chance to pull the upset today, and played with the energy you’d expect from a team that smells a surprise for their home crowd and a national-television audience.

Read more at Tiger Blue.

There is no perfect barbecue,” said Mike Mills, three-time champ of the Memphis in May Barbecue Cooking Contest.

Hungry Memphis checks out the final day of the National Barbecue Association Conference and Trade Show.

It was a bummer when I stopped at Easy Way on Cleveland this afternoon and saw the empty parking lot, the empty shelves, and the sign that said the grocery store and produce market was permanently closed and the suggestion to visit one of their other stores in Memphis.

Read more at John Branston’s City Beat blog.

At a candlelight vigil in November, animal advocates who were gathered outside Memphis Animal Services on Tchulahoma Road chanted “Fire Alexander! Put him in jail!”

Those advocates may be getting their wish now. That is, if the authorities can locate former Memphis Animal Services director Ernie Alexander. District Attorney Bill Gibbons announced the former director’s indictment for animal cruelty charges this morning, but authorities believe he may be on the run. The Shelby County Sheriff’s office is asking for the public’s help in locating Alexander.

Haven’t you heard? Newspapers are dying. But had you invested in their parent companies last year, you would have tripled your money.

More media odds and ends at John Branston’s City Beat blog.

The “Jersey Boys” munch on barbecue while talking about music, their fans, and life on the road in “the Cadillac” of tours.

Chris Davis caught it all on video. See it yourself at Intermission Impossible.

Mary Cashiola gives six reasons to consolidate the city and county governments at In the Bluff.

The New Times, NPR … Rebecca Skloot, assistant professor in the creative writing department at the University of Memphis, is getting a lot of press for her newly released book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Leonard Gill has the details in &tcetera.

Tonight’s screening of Summer Hours at the Brooks is deliciously (and possibly deliberately) ironic — for in spite of its solid, low-key ensemble cast, the most affecting stretches of this film concern the fates and futures not of people but of displaced works of art.

Read the rest of the review here.

After 31 lead changes — read that again, 31 lead changes — the Tigers pulled away over the last four minutes to give the Blazers only their fourth loss of the season.

Read the rest at Tiger Blue.

A reader forwarded this screen capture of the weather section of The Commercial Appeal from earlier today.

The forecast calls for warmer temps: 9,999 degrees, to be exact … or almost the surface temperature of the sun.

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