Memphis Flyer

New Health Directive Loosens Key Restaurant Restrictions

Shelby County can go back to the bar and stay until midnight at (mostly) packed restaurants.

By Toby Sells

Daily Virus Case Count Lowest Since May

New virus case numbers rose by 84 over the last 24 hours. The figure hasn't been that low since mid-May. The figure has not been in the double digits since late May. The new cases put the total of all positive cases in Shelby County since March at 86,606.

By Toby Sells

Winter Weather Closes All Vaccine Sites Until Saturday

Severe winter weather has closed all Shelby County COVID-19 vaccination sites.

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New Health Directive Loosens Key Restaurant Restrictions

Shelby County can go back to the bar and stay until midnight at (mostly) packed restaurants.

By Toby Sells

Local Leaders on Vote to Remove Bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest

By Christen Hill

Daily Virus Case Count Lowest Since May

New virus case numbers rose by 84 over the last 24 hours. The figure hasn't been that low since mid-May. The figure has not been in the double digits since late May. The new cases put the total of all positive cases in Shelby County since March at 86,606.

By Toby Sells

Grizzlies Fall to Lakers 115-105

The Memphis Grizzlies embarked on a two-game road trip Friday night, facing off against the reigning NBA champions, the Los Angeles LeBron James Lakers.

By Aimee Stiegemeyer

Barrage Of Threes Helps Grizzlies Maul Hornets

Wednesday night, the Memphis Grizzlies wanted to avoid a five-game losing streak.

By Sharon Brown

A Heart Story

This is a sports column, so let’s start with this: The best athlete I know over the age of 50 happens to be my wife.

By Frank Murtaugh | 1 Comment

Raymond Hill: Remembering Clarksdale’s Unsung Reed Man

"Blow your horn, Raymond!

by Alex Greene

Music Educator Willie Garfield Honored in Yamaha's "40 Under 40" Awards

Throughout this pandemic, music educators across the country have stepped up their game, hoping to keep a flame for the arts burning in students' hearts. Jason Sleppy, band director in Mason, Ohio, secured the use of a stadium so his students could have an end-of-year performance; Jennifer Antonetti, a music teacher in Topeka, created an app to help music educators; Eric Jimenez, assistant band director at Prairie View A&M University in Texas, launched a podcast about urban music education; and Michael Gamon, director of the Center for Creative Arts at the Harrisburg Academy in Pennsylvania, created a role-playing game to engage his violin students.

By Alex Greene

The Flow: Live-Streamed Music Events This Week, February 11-17

Valentine's Day may be a quiet affair for most folks this weekend, but that doesn't mean that music can't be part of the equation.

By Alex Greene

SCEC To Sue County Commission Over Voting Machine Turndown

In a memorable showdown last year between Shelby County Election Administrator Linda Phillips and the Shelby County Commission, the possibility of litigation between the Shelby County Election Commission and the Shelby County Commission over the purchase of new voting machines was first floated.

By Jackson Baker | 1 Comment

State of the State: Two Parties, Two Views

On Friday, three days before Republican Governor Bill Lee's State of the State address, Tennessee's Democratic legislators launched their own idea of the state's political agenda, and, though the General Assembly's Democratic contingent is a tugboat compared to the GOP majority's ship of state, the tone of Senate Democratic caucus chair Raumesh Akbari's remarks was that of "Pull up the Drawbridge."

by Jackson Baker

‘Bogus Ballots’ to Exist No More, Orders Judge

Remember the sample ballots you always saw at election time purporting to be “endorsements” of a group of candidates by this or that “Democratic” organization? We may have seen the last of them, at last.

By Jackson Baker

Raised by Sound: Crosstown Brewing’s Latest is Worth a Listen

One thing that I've always liked about Crosstown Brewing is the straightforward simplicity of its beer.

by Richard Murff

Grits Any Way You Want Them at Sugar Grits

Sugar Grits is slated to get its beer and liquor license at the end of February.

by Michael Donahue

Consumer Alert: Testing the Polar Vortex Beer Fridge

Voting has begun for the Memphis Flyer's 2021 Beer Bracket Challenge.

By Toby Sells

The Signup Genius

Have you met the Signup Genius?

by Bruce VanWyngarden

Kooks vs. Conservatives: The GOP Fights for Its Future

They used to pay me to fight with Representative Liz Cheney on live TV.

by Juan Williams

The Tabloid Party

Remember "supermarket tabloids"?

by Bruce VanWyngarden | 1 Comment

Saving Black Lodge: "City Full of Good People" Rescuing Memphis' Film and Music Mecca

Black Lodge Video started out as an independent video store in Cooper-Young in the late 1990s.

By Chris McCoy

Judas and the Black Messiah Writes History with Lightning

In 2014, I had the privilege of helping Pritchard Smith and J.B. Horrell with their documentary The Invaders.

by Chris McCoy

Music Video Monday: Rev. Neil Down

It's no day at the beach on Music Video Monday.

By Chris McCoy