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Hold My Beer!
If wankers are going to repopulate the Earth, I opt out. We really dodged a bullet that the upcoming holiday is St. Patrick's Day and not Cinco de Mayo. Can you imagine the chaos if we were drinking...
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Oxford Growl: Celebrating an Anniversary South of the (TN) Border
The lighting at the City Grocery down in Oxford is mercifully low. There I was with the charming Mrs. M, squinting through a romantic gloom that made even me look good, as we got into our second...
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Graham Winchester: ‘Round the Clock Rocker
Maybe there's a Memphian out there who doesn't know Graham Winchester, 31, the musical mainstay who drums for more than half a dozen bands, guides tours at Sun Studio, and has hosted a number of...
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Taxi Driver
UFOs, cab rides, and hard luck in Lee Durkee’s new novel. Forgive me because I'm going to name drop here. Two years ago, in a phone interview about her excellent novel An American Marriage, Tayari...
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Tiger Trials: Penny Hardaway's Team Still Looking for the Smoke
Penny Hardaway’s team nears the finish line of a smoky season.Let's start with the positive. The 2019-20 Memphis Tigers will post a winning record, making it 20 consecutive such seasons, an...
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Moondance Executive Chef Joel LeMay Followed in his Brother’s Footsteps
He learned a lot — about cooking and life — from his late brother. If it wasn't for his brother, Joel LeMay might not be executive chef at Moondance Grill. Growing up in New Orleans, LeMay, 27, ran...
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Producers of the Welcome to Night Vale Podcast Bring Stage Show to Memphis
The show is at Duncan-Williams Performance Hall at GPAC on Wednesday, March 18th. Welcome to Night Vale, where all conspiracy theories are true and everything is absurd. Producers of the popular...
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Artist Lawrence Matthews III to Reveal New Mural at Orange Mound Community...
The event will be held Saturday, March 14th. After three months of painting and installation, local artist Lawrence Matthews III is ready to reveal his new mural at Orange Mound Community Center's...
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Pixar’s Onward: An Animated Quest for a Missing Dad
It's strange to contemplate how Dungeons & Dragons has conquered the world. The game began in the early 1970s in a Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, hobby shop. Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, and the shop's...
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MEMernet
A roundup of Memphis on the World Wide Web. Super Day Innovators take risks. Unsatisfied with a traditional snap of an "I voted" sticker after he voted, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris went with a...
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Shelby County Commission Tackles Issues With State Legislature
The March 3rd Super Tuesday vote, with presidential preference primaries favoring Democrat Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, and nominating Joe Brown and Paul Boyd, respectively, as the Democratic...
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Coronavirus: The New Normal
"Downtown is a ghost town. We have our staff working from home, per the request of the governor, which will likely go from suggested to mandatory, shortly. Some restaurants have already started closing...
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COVID-19: SCS, Rhodes, UTHSC, U of M Suspend Classes
As concerns about the coronavirus grow, Shelby County Schools announced Thursday that schools would be closing through the end of March beginning Friday, March 13th. School officials are taking this...
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NBA Suspends Its Season
The NBA announced it has suspended its season indefinitely in the wake of a Utah Jazz player who was positively diagnosed with COVID-19. It has been reported the player is Utah Jazz All-Star center...
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Gov. Lee Declares State of Emergency Over COVID-19
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declared a state of emergency Thursday amid the threat of coronavirus.“As the number of cases rise, the responsibility that we each have rises as well,” Lee said at a Thursday...
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USL Championship Temporarily Suspends Play
Earlier today, the United Soccer League (USL) made the decision to temporarily suspend matches for a minimum of 30 days due to the coronavirus pandemic."It was very clear from our owners that the...
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Quark Theatre Provokes (Again) With New Production
Quark Theatre's new show opening Friday, March 13th, continues its mission of staging "small plays with big ideas." The regional premiere of what happens to the hope at the end of the evening tells...
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Second Case of Coronavirus Confirmed in Shelby County
A second case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Shelby County, according to the Tennessee Department of Health's website. This brings the number of total cases in Tennessee to 18. Williamson County...
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Oxford Film Festival Postponed Indefinitely Due To Coronavirus
The 2020 Oxford Film Festival, scheduled to take place March 18-22, has been postponed indefinitely due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “We have concluded that the only responsible decision is to...
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The Games Will Return
My freshman year in high school, a meningitis scare consumed my little hometown of Northfield, Vermont. Two students had contracted bacterial meningitis — scarier, deadlier than the viral strain — and...
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