Flocking Fabulous! Wine Merchant Offers Three New Vintages
The fruits of Michaela Dockery's labors are now on sale at Whole Foods Market in Germantown. Dockery, co-owner with her husband, Dee Dockery, of the upcoming Hen House Wine Bar, introduced Memphis to...
View ArticleOptic Sink
Confronting the heavy wheels running us down. Natalie Hoffmann is on unfamiliar terrain, and that's just where she likes it. It's a gray, treacherous landscape where the boundaries between human and...
View ArticleThe Peace Project Brings Meditative Music to the Mississippi
Bertram Williams and Talibah Safiya help transform Fourth Bluff Park. Until 2017, Fourth Bluff Park in Downtown Memphis hosted a Confederate monument. After the removal of the statue's last remnants,...
View ArticleResin Ability
Mathew Joseph Zachariah was told as a child that he had an allergy to plastic. As an adult, Zachariah learned his mom was allergic to plastic. Wanting to spare her son the adverse allergic reaction...
View ArticleMEMernet
A roundup of Memphis on the World Wide Web.#YouCanBeABCs The internet blew up last week on an Instagram post by Memphis cool kid @samuelw3. He and his dad grooved through the alphabet, naming a...
View ArticleBest of Memphis
Annual “Best Of” party continues to celebrate the city’s best. It was a party (kind of) on wheels (kind of) but there was no doubt all in attendance were the best of Memphis. The results of the...
View ArticleSecrets of the Saqqara Tomb: The Local Angle
In early 2019, Memphis cinematographer Ryan Earl Parker got a call from director James Tovell. "He said, 'Hey, you wanna go dig up some mummies?'" Parker, who got his start in the Indie Memphis scene,...
View ArticleToo Close to Call!
America awaits the count in battleground states. From the very beginning, it was obvious that calling the 2020 presidential election would take a while. Joe Biden was doing well enough in the nation's...
View ArticleThe Waiting is the Hardest Part
This Election Day has been a long time coming. For months, it has beckoned, a distant light at the end of the weirdly dark tunnel that has been the Year of Our Lord 2020. The past few weeks have been...
View ArticleSix COVID-19 Deaths Recorded Here in 24 Hours
New virus case numbers rose by 124 over the last 24 hours, putting the total of all positive cases in Shelby County since March at 38,476. That figure topped 35,000 only two weeks ago. Total current...
View ArticleCriminal Identified Wearing "Unique Jeans"
Learn from Joshua Beason: when you're out on a crime spree, change your clothes. Beason, 26, pleaded guilty to six charges Wednesday for a strong of robberies in June 2019. In one day last year,...
View ArticleThe Flow: Live-Streamed Music Events This Week, November 5-11
This week sees a new proliferation of live-streamed events, including a mini-festival in honor of these post-Samhain days. It's notable that Growler's streaming events continue full-throttle, this...
View ArticleOn Growing Papaya Trees from Seed in Your Yard — by Accident
Move over banana trees. Papaya trees have arrived. Susan Thompson is the proud owner of more than 100 papaya trees, some almost eight-feet-tall, in her yard in Germantown. She didn’t intentionally...
View ArticleTorchy’s Tacos Brings Tex-Mex to Town Next Year
Memphis Flyer’s Taco Week may be well in the rearview mirror, but that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to celebrate the traditional Mexican dish. But each state has its own spin on what makes for a good...
View ArticlePyramid Opens Eateries From Top to Bottom
Big Cypress Lodge has opened the new Fishbowl at the Pyramid restaurant on ground level and reopened The Lookout restaurant at the top of the Pyramid. The Fishbowl is in the former Uncle Buck’s...
View ArticleTotal Virus Cases Here Top 39,000
New virus case numbers rose by 290 over the last 24 hours, putting the total of all positive cases in Shelby County since March at 39,031. That figure topped 35,000 only two weeks ago. Total current...
View ArticleTennessee Voters Showed Up for Kanye West
Donald Trump won Tennessee, but Kanye West won its heart. With 10,256 votes for him here, Tennesseans pulled the lever for West more than voters of any other state. Minnesota had the next-highest vote...
View ArticleHampline Brewing Company Slated to Open by New Year's in Memphis
Get ready to wet your whistles. A new brewery is coming to town. Hampline Brewing Company is “on track to open by New Year’s” at 584 South Tillman Suite 1, between Broad and Summer on the same...
View ArticleFederal Judge Sides With Tennessee in Water Rights Case
Tennessee has not been stealing billions of gallons of Mississippi’s waters for years, according to an opinion issued Thursday in a legal battle over water rights here that began in 2006. The original...
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