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Shelby County Schools, Mental Health, and Funding
Shelby County Schools, Childhood Trauma, and Mental Health Support Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced last month a proposal to create a trust fund for mental health support for K-12 students. Upon...
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Mesquite Chop House Closes Germantown Location
Mesquite Chop House has closed its Germantown location at the corner of Poplar Pike and Forest Hill Irene. Other locations –– Downtown and in Mississippi –– will remain open. Germantown employees will...
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Lawmaker Pauses Bill to Strip Local Groundwater Control
A bill that would have threatened local protection for the Memphis Sand Aquifer has been delayed for this legislative session. The bill was filed by two West Tennessee Republicans, Sen. Delores...
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Best Bets: Ameripolitan Burger at Hernando's Hide-A-Way
Whole lotta hamburger going on at Hernando's Hide-A-Way. I'm talking about the Ameripolitan burger. You get a lot of meat with this burger. It's named after Hide-A-Way owner Dale Watson's Ameripolitan...
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Huey's Turns 50
Huey’s celebrates a milestone, remembers Thomas Boggs, plans block party. Lauren Robinson, Huey's co-owner, president, and CEO, is also the daughter of Thomas Boggs — the Memphis man who made Huey's...
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Slide on In: A Visit to the Downtown Slider Inn
The beloved Midtown bar gets a second location Downtown. When it comes to building restaurants that are the embodiment of a guy in a baseball cap with a rescue dog, no one does it better than Aldo...
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Tiger Hoops: How UM Basketball History Has Shaped Us
When you step into the Pink Palace Museum, you're surrounded by the stuff of history: Native American tools, Civil War rifles, a reconstructed Piggly Wiggly, a sign from 1968 proclaiming I AM A MAN....
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Chef Dorje Meta Moves from Cooking to Tattooing
Chef-turned-tattoo artist Dorje Meta on his trade-off of pots to tatts. Dorje Meta wears his white chef's jacket bearing his name to work. But instead of using his hands to put together a culinary...
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Stone Crush: New Collection of Modern Memphis Soul Released
"I knew from the beginning that you were the one for me," are the first words heard on "Stone Crush on You," the opening and title track of the new collection Stone Crush: Memphis Modern Soul...
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Dixon Hosts Women in the Arts Event
This event honoring women in local arts is set for Friday and Saturday, March 6th-7th. Dixon Gallery and Gardens has partnered with Theatre Memphis to honor women who have contributed to the local...
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Dogs on Parade: Mardi Growl at Overton Park Saturday
The event features a dog costume contest, a crawfish boil, and a dog parade through the woods. Overton Park Conservancy and one of its partners, Hollywood Feed, hosts its inaugural Mardi Growl event...
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The Return of Larry Finch
Larry Finch played his last game for the Memphis State Tigers 22 days after my fourth birthday. But if you looked at the current issue of Memphis magazine — and you can get over the Lester Quinones...
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MEMernet: Lemon for Sale, Worst Place to Sh*t
A roundup of Memphis on the World Wide Web.Lemon Want to buy a guaranteed "lemon edition" 2020 Lemon? Head on over to the Memphis section of Facebook Marketplace. Facebook user Drakkor Washington has...
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Meddlesome Wins Bracket Challenge. Plus, News on Brews from All Over Town
Meddlesome Brewing Company's West Coast IPA — 201 Hoplar — is the best craft beer in Memphis, according to the 530 voters in the Memphis Flyer's 2020 Beer Bracket Challenge, sponsored by our fine...
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Stupid and Dangerous
I remember it like it was yesterday — the morning of my 16th birthday! As I came down the stairs from my bedroom, my father grinned at me and said, "You're legal to drive now, son! Here are the keys...
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During the 2018 governor's race in Tennessee, the leading candidates were thought to be Diane Black, the ultra-conservative Congresswoman from the state's Sixth District, and Randy Boyd, the affable...
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Grudge Match: Leatherwood vs. Mills
Tom Leatherwood, the Republican state representative in House District 99, was greatly relieved on Tuesday of this week. He had just relocated in a temporary hotel after damage from the tornado that...
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Beatdown in Brooklyn
The Memphis Grizzlies have won three straight games — beating the Lakers by 17 last Saturday, and thumping their last two opponents by 39 points each. On Monday, Memphis defeated the Atlanta Hawks...
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Guitar Legend Marc Ribot Coming to The Green Room
Guitarist Marc Ribot has worked with everybody. He started out in the early 70s in the garage band scene in his native New Jersey. He studied classical guitar and composition with his mentor Frantz...
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Former SS Nazi Guard Deported by Memphis Judge
A Tennessee resident who was a former Nazi SS guard during WWII has been sent back to Germany by a U.S. immigration judge in Memphis. U.S. Immigration Judge Rebecca Holt ruled that Friedrich Karl...
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