A roundup of Memphis on the World Wide Web. Super Day Innovators take risks. Unsatisfied with a traditional snap of an “I voted” sticker after he voted, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris went with a thumbs up before he voted during Super Tuesday last week. Thanks?! Shelby County Trustee Regina Morrison Newman posted to Facebook […]
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Bill Lee’s Surprise
During the 2018 governor’s race in Tennessee, the leading candidates were thought to be Diane Black, the ultra-conservative Congresswoman from the state’s Sixth District, and Randy Boyd, the affable social engineer and idea man behind many of then-Governor Bill Haslam’s governmental innovations. Black had no trouble presenting herself as the right-wing politician and outright Trumpian […]
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MEMernet: Sweetgrass Smash, Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan
Sweetgrass Smash Details are fuzzy, but it’s clear that something definitely happened at Sweetgrass in Cooper-Young on Saturday, according to a post by Brad Gilmer on Nextdoor. The restaurant did not post anything formal about the incident online. Nextdoor users had questions and theories. “Looks as if a vehicle would have come in at a […]
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MEMernet: Standing Brooms, Kind Strangers, and an MLGW Valentine
Swept up The entire internet was swept away (don’t judge me) by a viral tweet that had folks all over standing their brooms upright. The tweet said that NASA claimed a day last week was the only day of the year brooms would stand on their own because of gravitational pull. Our very own editor, […]
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MEMernet: ‘I Hit People with Coffee Pots,’ Fox13’s Darrell Greene’s in Time-Out
“I hit people with coffee pots” Nextdoor user Larry Sides unleashed this amazing, blazing chaos in a post last week titled, “Joe woods response to my post.” “I never threatened you but if you did call the police he will you all be out here Tuesday I threatened you want time I said I was […]
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MEMernet: Un-Vanity Plate, Memphis Marketplace, and Tweet of the Week
Un-vanity Plate Posted to Facebook by Robert Rowan True Words Posted to Facebook by Jimmy Randall New Biz Plan Posted to Facebook by Ben Fant Tweet of the Week Bill Lee’s obsession with a few rural counties would be fine except about 1 in 6 Tennesseans live in Shelby County. Posted to Twitter by @mandersonville
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Arithmetic Don’t Lie
Former President Bill Clinton is considered to have given former President Barack Obama a serious boost toward re-election at the Democratic National Convention of 2012. That was by means of an elongated address, both eloquent and something of a vamp, in which Clinton, among other things, credited his fellow Democrat with possessing a sagacity, one […]
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MEMernet: Dragon Ball-Griz, NST, and I-40 Traffic
Dragon Ball-Griz Head over to Poshmark, the online consignment store, for the Grizzlies/Dragon Ball Z mash-up you never knew you needed. Posted to Poshmark by coolmoe919 It’s the way to go Posted to Reddit by u/madotsukiiii It really is Posted to Reddit by u/lunarmaidmemphis
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MEMernet: Kristin on Cue, Alexa’s Memphis Forecast, and Sen. Raumesh Akbari
“Violet, Violet!” The Orpheum’s Kristin Bennett had a bubble-blowing contest with Zakiya Baptiste (who plays the gum-chewing champion Violet Beauregarde in the Broadway production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory now at the Orpheum) on her web show “Kristin on Cue” last week. Baptiste admitted she chews so much gum during the performances her jaw […]
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Best Doctors
The Flyer has partnered with Best Doctors, Inc. to provide this list of best physicians in the Memphis/Shelby County area. Doctors cannot pay to be on the list. Of course, no list is definitive, and if your physician is not included, it does not reflect negatively on his or her abilities. Any survey, no matter […]
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MEMernet: Rib Rewind, Tweet of the Week, Little Nuke
Rib Rewind The Rendezvous took us back to the present last week with a rib-laced re-creation photo. Three Navy football players tried the restaurant in 1981, in town for a game against Ohio State. The same guys booked flights to Memphis for last month’s Navy/Kansas State Liberty Bowl game and had those ribs again. Posted […]