Victoria Penny and Benjamin Ballard (Photos: Michael Donahue)

โ€œWe Saw Youโ€ returns to its roots this week. The longtime Memphis Flyer column at one time featured photos of people taken on the street instead of just numerous photos of people attending the same event.

โ€œWe Saw Youโ€ will now include โ€” every so often, but not every week โ€”shots of people taken here, there, and everywhere.

So, if you see a man with big bushy hair and horn-rimmed glasses stick a camera in your face and hand you a business card that shows half of his face, it might be somebody who is โ€œseeing you.โ€ Donโ€™t worry. Heโ€™ll ask if he can take your photo before he actually takes it. The photos go on @flyerdonahue on Instagram. Some of the pictures will appear in this column.

Photo locations in this weekโ€™s column include Gibsonโ€™s Donuts; Pete & Samโ€™s; Reneeโ€™s Sandwich Shop; Clippers & Shears Barber Lounge; Hueyโ€™s Downtown; a Vesta Home Show Hidden Creek groundbreaking event for the 2025 Fall Vesta Home Show, which will be November 8th through 30th; and Woofstock, a benefit show for Team Memphis Rescue. Woofstock was held August 30th at Wiseacre Brewing Company headquarters.

Michael Donahue began his career in 1975 at the now-defunct Memphis Press-Scimitar and moved to The Commercial Appeal in 1984, where he wrote about food and dining, music, and covered social events until...