Memphis Zoo opens new coffee shop
Memphis Zoo converts conference room into coffee café to expand the refreshment options for visitors.
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Memphis Zoo converts conference room into coffee café to expand the refreshment options for visitors.
The Memphis Zoo’s 37- year-old tradition, Zoo Rendezvous, returns Sept. 11 after being canceled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Our photographers grabbed some great shots of places and events around town. If you can’t be there, this is the next best thing.
On select Fridays and Saturdays through September, visitors can experience the zoo after the crowds have gone and nocturnal animals come to life.
Allowing three houses to be built in the backyards of an existing house or two would enable more than just “a handful of residents” to enjoy the “delights of living in Midtown Memphis,” the applicant states.
Paula and Raiford’s Disco is now allowed to stay open from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. and the storage sale is to create room for new experiences, Paula Raiford said.
Roar and Pour is the first big event at the Memphis Zoo since the onset of COVID.
Folks say they love to share their favorite recipes, so it’s up to us to ask for them. Start sending in your requests for recipes and I’ll do my best to get them for you.
Tickets are available for the June 4 event at Memphis Zoo. And the May 25 dinner at Dory in East Memphis will feature French wines from Michael Corso Selections.
After suspicious-looking yellow canisters arrived at a local FedEx facility, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers investigated the packages and discovered the rare turtles inside, wrapped in duct tape and packaged with socks.
Since 2010, Steve Reichling and his research team have released more than 100 juvenile Louisiana pine snakes into the longleaf pine forests of Louisiana. ‘Steve is pretty modest, but this is a huge deal,’ says a colleague.
The zoo will offer walking tours of the 44 different species of trees on the zoo grounds.
The show will air on Bloomberg TV at 2:30 p.m. April 25 and May 2.
The Memphis Zoo now has red kangaroos in its KangaZoo. The exhibit is open until Oct. 31.
The Memphis Zoo’s leader says for now he will proceed as if the parking deck won’t be needed. Meanwhile, a new parking by app program begins Monday, March 15, on Front Street by the Mud Island entrance and on Monroe Avenue in the Edge District.
A new sensory certification will help people with sensory sensitivities enjoy the Memphis Zoo.
Eric Barnes talks to Overton Park Conservancy director Tina Sullivan about the park, the future of Rust Hall, the golf course renovation and the change and development happening in the surrounding neighborhoods.
The Memphis Zoo’s first new baby of the year was an African penguin chick, born on Jan. 2.
As the Shelby County Health Department’s Dr. Bruce Randolph said yesterday, if you’re not listed as open in the latest health directive, you should be closed.
The point guard went to the Memphis Zoo, met his namesake, held a snake and got his first assist with a tiger.
The Memphis Zoo’s chief marketing officer has waited more than a year to name a baby giraffe “Ja Raffe.” It finally happened Thursday.
The University of Memphis said the tradition of having a live tiger at games “has come to an end.” It seems like the right decision, but it’s still a sad moment for Memphians.
With no clear national strategy for combating COVID-19, we’ve all sort of been rendered individual contractors in the field of public health.
Zoo visitors are paying tribute to beloved elephant Tyranza, and Memphis Zoo officials believe other members of the herd are also mourning their 56-year-old matriarch.
Tyranza, or Ty, died at 56. She was euthanized when her health began to decline dramatically, according to a news release. She held the record for the longest-lived African elephant in North America.