The AM/DM podcast: Local restaurants and the task force landscape
Restaurants — especially local restaurants — can find themselves in a precarious position when politics come into play, whether restaurateurs want them to or not.
Mary Cashiola
News Editor
Mary Cashiola has been a Memphis journalist for nearly two decades, beginning her career covering city government and local neighborhoods at the Memphis Flyer before being hired by Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s administration.
She was also the managing editor of the Memphis Business Journal, which was named one of the top 10 Best Designed Newspapers in the world by the Society of News Design while she was there.
There are 633 articles by Mary Cashiola :
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: Cedric Coward makes it easy to be a fan
Sometimes the best way to get a hint of the future is to look into the past. And, today, we did a little bit of just that.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: Spooky szn is here
Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola and reporter Jody Callahan talk about all the things that go bump in the night. Because everyone loves a ghost story, right?
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Opinion Can you hear us now? Daily Memphian adds audio features
In recent weeks, we’ve added more audio capabilities to our site.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: Hoops, our favorite holidays and a veto vote?
Today, on The AM/DM podcast, newsletter editor Bianca Phillips and editorial director Mary Cashiola help prepare you for the next seven days.
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Podcasts The AM/DM: A new approach to potholes
On today’s episode, The Daily Memphian’s Samuel Hardiman joins editorial director Mary Cashiola to discuss a new program for maintaining city streets.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: Raves, wimpy kids and romantic comedies
This week’s fun is perhaps heavy on the heebie jeebies, given the proximity to Halloween.
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The To-Do List Party like a vampire at Cameo and watch ‘Frankenstein’ come to life
This week, meditate with a Buddhist monk at Crosstown, view Mexican art at the University of Memphis and hoist a stein in Overton Square.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: Can’t carry a tune? Get a karaoke room
In a city known for music — where legends are born and blues once filled the streets — there will soon be a new place to sing.
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Memphis Tigers Basketball The AM/DM podcast: In our Calipari era
Sixteen years ago, University of Memphis basketball coach John Calipari left Memphis for the University of Kentucky, leaving a lot of memories in his wake.
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The AM/DM The AM/DM podcast: Food, culture and building community
On this special episode of The AM/DM, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips are joined by Sarah Leach, The Daily Memphian’s director of fundraising and development, to talk about this week’s events.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: The birds and the bees, tigers and chimpanzees
To help animals reproduce — and species thrive — staffers at the Memphis Zoo study poop, freeze sperm at -196 degrees, and even help endangered species reproduce long after their deaths.
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Germantown The AM/DM podcast: Germantown mayor’s job could get bigger
Germantown will soon ask its residents a big question: Should mayor become a full-time job?
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Business The AM/DM podcast: A liquor store without liquor
The Station is open, but the East Memphis liquor store isn’t serving everything it wanted to.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: What’s happening this week
On this episode of The AM/DM, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips talk about the National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Awards and the unofficial beginning of the Tigers basketball season.
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Food The AM/DM: Restaurant catastrophes
Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola and food writer Ellen Chamberlain are talking about local restaurants that had to close after some sort of calamity and how they can come back from it all.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: Monsters, beer and a mutt strut
This week’s activities are heavy on seasonality, with a Monster Market, a few different takes on Oktoberfest and a 5K you can do with your dog.
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Metro The AM/DM podcast: Navigating and reporting on the National Guard
Today, members of The Daily Memphian’s metro team talk about what we know, what we don’t know, how we’re tracking data and what we’ve been able to ascertain about the Memphis Safe Task Force’s time in the Bluff City so far.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: How local universities are weathering the enrollment cliff
With colleges around the country facing what’s known as the enrollment cliff, it’s been a challenging time in higher education.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: PILOTs and Grizzlies’ preseason
This week marks the beginning of the Memphis Grizzlies’ pre-season, with three games at home.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: Rocky Horror, Widespread Panic and Swifties
It’s another music-filled weekend in Memphis.
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Collierville The AM/DM: Famous for its drive-thrus, McDonald’s asks Collierville for more parking
Collierville restaurants currently can have one parking space for every two eatery seats, at the most. But that may be changing — and it may be due to a McDonald’s.
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Podcasts The AM/DM: Seven years and counting of the DM
Seven years ago, a new startup began in Memphis to bring people local news.
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September 2025
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: You wanted to know about lizards; Ask the Memphian delivered
Memphis’ native lizards, known as skinks, generally prefer a natural, wooded habitat, away from people. But that’s not true of other, invasive species of lizard.
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Podcasts The AM/DM podcast: New FedEx board member, Peppertree in news this week
Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips talk about the week ahead, including Richard Smith joining the FedEx board and new plans for Whitehaven’s Peppertree Apartments.
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