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Bar Ware Will Open Downtown July 12th
Guests got a sneak peek of Bar Ware and JuiceBrothers at a preview party, which was held July 10th at 276 South Front. Both businesses will open to the public on July 12th. Founder Libby Wunderlich...
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TBI Says No
The agency is against cannabis legalization. According to WREG, assistant Tennessee Bureau of Investigation director T.J. Jordan said last week the agency is "adamantly against" any cannabis...
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Blast Off: NASA Photo Exhibit at Edge Alley
Exhibition coincides with 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. Ryan Adams loves to hear what people say when they view his NASA photographs, which range from images of the moon's surface to a rare color...
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Farewell, Clean Power; Trump’s EPA Plan Will Make Pollution Worse
Last week, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) regulation to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP). But the replacement rule will be...
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Why Should I Care? New Chilton Film is in the Works
Back in 1982, a young Memphian and his friend were planning a trip to New Orleans when an acquaintance asked for a ride. He was a musician, a one-time hitmaker in fact, who was now set on starting a...
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Champions! The USWNT Deserves Equal Pay for Equal Play
Women deserve pay equal to their male counterparts in every circumstance and on all stages. There is no reasoning, no logic, and no basis to support why women, doing the same job as men — and in some...
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3rd & Court Now Open
Hotel Indigo restaurant offers diner-style menu. On the wall of the newly opened 3rd & Court, near Court Square Downtown, is a cluster of throwback recipes serving as wallpaper. The recipes call...
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Plan Panned
City council members side with Whitehaven neighbors against dump proposal. Citing "rats as big as cats" and a "horrendous stench," Whitehaven neighbors successfully urged Memphis City Council members...
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MEMernet
A round-up of Memphis on the World Wide Web.Soul Fish locked and loaded Facebook: "Why is everyone in this restaurant packing heat?"'Absolute Trash' An epic rant posted to Facebook recently sought to...
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Burger Time! Taste-Testing 10 Great Memphis Burgers
From sophisticated to downright greasy — burgers for everybody! Did you have a hamburger on the Fourth of July? Of course you did. You're no dummy. Maybe it was a little burnt from the grill. Piled...
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From Akira to DBZ: Anime Blues Con
The event features cosplay contests, gaming tournaments, marketplace, and more. Cosplayers, gamers, and anime/manga fans unite! The ninth annual Anime Blues Con provides a fun, three-day conference...
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Women's Theatre Festival of Memphis Returns
The fesival aims to show the evolution and revolution of women. For more than a decade, Ruby O'Gray, executive producer and co-founder of the Women's Theatre Festival of Memphis (WTFM) and an...
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Mayor Lee Harris’ Recent Actions Cause a Stir
Even as most local attention begins to focus on the ongoing city election campaigns, including a multi-candidate race for Memphis mayor, another mayor, namely Lee Harris of Shelby County, is suddenly...
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“Ignorance is Strength”
The temperature in Fairbanks, Alaska, hit 90 degrees this week, an all-time record. Sea ice levels have shrunk to historic lows in Antarctica, Greenland, and elsewhere. Land-based glaciers around the...
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CannaBeat: Cohen Pushes Record Expungement in Cannabis Hearing
A federal House panel considered national cannabis policy in a hearing Tuesday, one that was indicative of a growing support of legalization in Congress, according to one group. The hearing, before...
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Hamilton in Memphis: A Call to Arms
Hamilton opens at the Orpheum this weekHamilton bounced into the national consciousness four years ago, first Off-Broadway in February 2015, and at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre the following...
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Detained Journalist to be Released on Bond
The Memphis journalist who was arrested during an immigration protest last year, and later taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is being released on bond, according to...
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Haslam Says No to Senate Race; Kustoff Says Maybe
If not Bill Haslam, then who? Hmmm, says David Kustoff. How about me? That was the clear meta-message of a press release from the 8th District Republican congressman Thursday in the wake of former...
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Super Low Releases Self-Titled Debut at B-Side
Bluff City fans of melodic pop songs with jangly guitars, ear-worm hooks, and layers of piano, strings, and piano have new reason to rejoice: Memphis-based Super Low will release their self-titled...
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Literature-Themed Cafe Planned for Vacant Madison Building
A new literature-themed dessert lounge is in the works for a three-story building on Madison. The 1928 Downtown structure at 111 Madison, currently vacant, will be transformed into Cafe Lit, described...
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