Mayo Man Not OJ Mayo. This time we’re talking mayonnaise in Memphis sports. Some rando was seen at a Memphis Redbirds game last week eating mayonnaise with a spoon from a huge jug. The Redbirds Twitter kept an eye on him through the innings. It was unclear who the guy was or where he got […]
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Big Spain The Toronto Raptors’ NBA title win last week had a uniquely Memphis flavor. USA! Consider this gem posted to the Memphis subreddit last week: Them Yungins This Facebook post on a news story about changing “Forrest Ave.” to “Forest Ave.”: “Next: Replace the ‘Young Ave.’ sign in Cooper-Young from honoring a local KKK […]
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The Brandon Webber Case: Work To Be Done
As noted elsewhere in this issue, the major local news of late has focused on the tragic death in Frayser of young Brandon Webber at the hands of U.S. Marshals, followed by an immediate and widespread community reaction to the presence of law enforcement officers dispatched to the scene for crowd control. The fact that […]
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Beale Street Music Festival 2019: Friday
GATES OPEN AT 5 P.M. Terminix stage … Dirty Heads 6:20 p.m. CHVRCHES 7:50 p.m. Dave Matthews Band 9:30 p.m. FedEx Stage … Ravyn Lenae 6 p.m. BlocBoy JB 7:20 p.m. Lil Dicky 8:35 p.m. Khalid 10:15 p.m. Khalid Bud Light Stage … Saving Abel 5:45 p.m. In This Moment 7:10 p.m. Good Charlotte 8:50 […]
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Beale Street Music Festival 2019: Saturday
GATES OPEN AT 1 P.M. Terminix stage … Anthony Russo 2:10 p.m. Everlast 3:45 p.m. Simple Plan 5:20 p.m. Big Boi 7 p.m. Trippie Redd 8:40 p.m. G-Eazy 10:25 p.m. G-Eazy FedEx Stage … Liz Brasher 2:30 p.m. The Suffers 4 p.m. Riley Green 5:35 p.m. Moon Taxi 7:10 p.m. Rainbow Kitten Surprise 8:50 p.m. […]
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Beale Street Music Festival 2019: Sunday
GATES OPEN AT 1 P.M. Terminix stage … Fast Cash Boyz 2:30 p.m. NLE Choppa 3:30 p.m. Madison Beer 4:50 p.m. Moneybagg Yo 6:20 p.m. 6Lack 7:50 p.m. Cardi B 9:20 p.m. Cardi B FedEx Stage … Healy 2 p.m. Everclear 3:20 p.m. Rodrigo Y Gabriela 4:55 p.m. Flogging Molly 6:30 p.m. Lord Huron 8:10 […]
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Spring “Blessings” from Our Lawmakers
Spring has come, if you can call it that, what with the more-than-occasional nippy morning, the on-again, off-again temperatures that have been confusing dogwoods’ attempts to blossom, and the sporadic rainy torrents that somehow still feel more wintry than not. Even so, let us count our current seasonal blessings. The document that presumably contains the […]
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Fly on the Wall 1572
Bell Ringers April Fools Day is a minefield for news content creators. It’s fun to report on all the pranks, but easy to fall for them too. Memphis Made Brewing Co. sent out a now-infamous fake-news release declaring an “unofficial,” downright unholy partnership: “Memphis Made Brewing Co. is blending its flagship amber ale with the […]
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TN GOP Legislators Propose Another Voter Suppression Measure
Those readers of even moderate faculties of memory will recall a pair of legal set-tos last year pitting the Shelby County Election Commission against plaintiffs who were charging either disproportionate voting processes favoring suburbanites or outright voter suppression. Both issues were decided in favor of the plaintiffs, against suppression, and for the maximum possible enabling […]
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No Backing Down. Release the Mueller Report.
Yes, we are dismayed, but not for the reasons you might think. We are not troubled by any imagined derelictions of the mainstream media or by any presumed credulousness on its part or by any putative conspiracy, in tandem with the Democratic Party, to mislead the nation about a fictitious involvement of Donald Trump, his […]
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Grind-N-Shine: Ghost River Brewing’s New Eye-Opener
Ghost River Brewing has always produced great beers that are exemplars of a certain style. But for a seasonal release they wanted to think a little outside the box — or can. To do that, they looked inward to Memphis as inspiration for their Grind-N-Shine Coffee Cream Ale. “Grind-N-Shine is not our first coffee beer,” […]
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Trump Lite: Governor Bill Lee’s State of the State Address
So what to make of our newly elected governor’s State of the State message, delivered Monday night? Governor Lee The case could be made that it was Trumpism, put forth via good manners and a likeable disposition. What else could be made of Lee’s “unapologetic” vow to propagate the doctrine of “American exceptionalism?” Or his […]