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Music Video Monday: Heels
Today's Music Video Monday is a slap in the face. Like all musicians in Memphis, Heels has been in corona-hibernation the last two months. Without the opportunity to put their popular live act in...
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MATA CEO Talks Funding, Frustrations, and the Future
The city’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year allocates $10 million less to the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) than this year’s. In Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s proposed budget,...
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Survey Reveals Needs, Impact of COVID-19 on Local Businesses
Businesses here are concerned about revenue, cash flow, and employee well being, according to an ongoing survey conducted by the Greater Memphis Chamber. The Chamber surveyed 600 businesses across the...
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Big Cypress Lodge to Open Mississippi Terrace Outdoor Lounge
Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid’s Big Cypress Lodge announced today its 7,000-square-foot outdoor lounge —Mississippi Terrace— will open on May 22nd. Mississippi Terrace’s seating — including oversized...
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Suit Filed to Extend Tennessee Citizens’ Right to Vote by Mail
An important suit has been filed in Chancery Court in Nashville, seeking, in the words of its title page, “to expand access to vote-by-mail procedures to all registered Tennessee voters who wish to...
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Coronavirus Cases, Tests Rise Monday
New coronavirus cases in Shelby County rose by 106 from Monday to Tuesday as 1,667 tests were given. That testing put the day's positivity rate at around 6.3 percent. So far, a total of 43,906...
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Little Richard & Otis Redding: The Unsung Bond of Their Macon Roots
"When I heard Otis sing 'Lucille,' I thought it was me!" That's just one bombshell that dropped from the mouth of Little Richard six years ago, as he inducted Otis Redding into the Rock & Roll Hall...
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Elisha Gold: Making Art During Quarantine
Metal sculptor Elisha Gold’s year didn’t start off well. “l almost cut my nose off,” says Gold, 38. “Heavy metal fell on my face.” He was rearranging his studio. “I heard a noise and looked up. It hit...
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Spaceship Earth, “White Guys Solve Sexism” Lead Oxford Film Festival and...
Two Mid-South film festivals continue their online programming this week, offering diverse fare for Memphis-area audiences. Now on week three of converting their canceled March festival into a virtual...
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Former Councilman Davis, Political Pioneer and Business Leader, Dies
Fred Davis, a political pathfinder and a gentle but effective presence in Memphis affairs for more than half a century, died Tuesday at his home. In 1967, he achieved two milestones: He founded the...
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Memphis Sands is a Great Festival Beer … Even If There Aren’t Any
It was a cruel joke on the part of Mother Nature. No, not the one where we accidently import the weapons-grade fauna from East Asia — twice. I mean the wheeze where we are blessed with a perfect week...
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Be Aware of Online Predators When Children are Stuck at Home
For the past couple of months, time has seemed to stand still, as we all spend most of our time at home. In response, sexual predators have left the streets and arcades and moved to using the internet...
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Happy Dance: Online Zumba Classes with David Quarles
Class days, times, and prices vary. Enjoy a free class on Friday, May 15th. David Quarles, a jack of all trades who's well-known for his coveted IV by David jewelry line, has been teaching Zumba...
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Thinning the Herd: Americans are the Dumbest People on Earth
We Americans are about as dumb as we want to be. With 1.5 million cases of the coronavirus confirmed in the U.S. and COVID-related deaths approaching 80,000, many states began reopening certain...
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MEMernet: Jedi on Sam Cooper, Wild Bill's Juke Joint Goes Digital, and TP Signs
A roundup of Memphis on the World Wide Web.I am your father A Jedi and a Sith battled it out on the pedestrian bridge over Sam Cooper on May 4th. Images of the two unidentified warriors popped up all...
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Genre Hopping With Talibah Safiya
Talibah Safiya is feeling grateful in these days of quarantine, despite having her latest ambitions curtailed by the ongoing pandemic. The Memphis native has been performing her own songs around town...
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Netflix’s Hollywood is a Revisionist Romp Through Tinseltown History
Ryan Murphy's new series tries to capture a pivotal moment in pop culture. The period immediately after World War II was a crucial time in film history. The studio system, which had arisen over the...
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Welcome to the Machine: Fight Over Voting System Raises Issues of Integrity...
Are the citizens of Memphis and Shelby County — troubled with decades of problematic and even botched election results — really about to acquire a new, improved means of expressing their will in the...
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Time Passages
Time, time, timeSee what's become of me ...While I looked around For my possibilitiesI was so hard to please. — Paul Simon As I write this, it's (checks calendar) Tuesday, or as we call it now — day....
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New Group Wants To-Go Booze 'Forever'
Want to-go booze to last forever? Well, so does a fast-growing Facebook group that has a petition with hundreds of signatures. Drinks-To-Go-Forever in TN was launched Thursday, May 7th. It had 123...
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