The Early Word: xAI crosses the border, TV talker is Memphis-bound
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Mornin’ Memphis, it’s Friday, June 20. We’re this close to the weekend it’s officially the first day of summer.
After being rained out earlier this month, the 50th anniversary Mid-South Pride celebration has been rescheduled for Saturday, starting at noon on Fourth and Beale. Former Shelby County Commissioner Sidney Chism holds his annual political picnic on Saturday. You learn about both events at This Week in Memphis.
xAI in Mississippi: The Daily Memphian has observed dozens of natural gas turbines and energy equipment stockpiled in a field at 2979 Stateline Road West in Southaven, a mile south of xAI’s Colossus 2 site.
Outside the loop: The Agri-Education Center, a 200-acre campus in DeSoto County, opened Thursday, completing a 50-year journey from idea to reality.
Craving attention, and getting it: A cable television bloviator who went on an unnecessary, attention-seeking tangent about Memphis has now accepted an invitation to come to town.
Pictionary and pilsners?: Local board-game bar Board to Beers, with a library of 3,000-plus games, is set to open a new location in Poplar Plaza, one that will triple the bar’s size.
Talking Tigers: Parth Upadhyaya and John Martin run a two-man game on five key questions facing the University of Memphis men’s basketball team next season.
We’re not draft experts but we play them in a podcast: The NBA draft is less than a week away. In this week’s Grizzlies podcast, we debate top candidates for all of the Grizzlies’ three picks.
Sunset sounds: Where and when to catch some live jazz in the Home of the Blues? How about this Sunday, with the seasonal/monthly Sunset Jazz at Court Square.
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Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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