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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October 2025
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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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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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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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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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The AM/DM podcast: Rocky Horror, Widespread Panic and Swifties
It’s another music-filled weekend in Memphis.
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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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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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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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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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The AM/DM podcast: Fire, fairs and Gonerfest this weekend
Editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips talk about some of the fun events happening this weekend on The AM/DM podcast this morning.
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The AM/DM: Commission votes to align school board terms, but it’s not a recall. Or, is it?
Today, Mary Cashiola talks with Bill Dries about the 7–5 vote, the backstory to the clash and what might happen next.
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The AM/DM podcast: A deeper dive into comments
Readers love the comments. They hate the comments. They love to hate the comments.
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The AM/DM podcast: An unlikely soccer story as Bolton rebuilds
For the first time in years, Bolton High School’s girls soccer team is back on the field — and it’s about more than the score.
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The AM/DM podcast: The first of fall and the beginning of the Greenline
In this look at the week ahead, The Daily Memphian’s Mary Cashiola and Bianca Phillips talk about two related proposals in front of the Memphis City Council and Shelby County Commission, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony and how the Shelby Farms Park Greenline started oh-so-many years ago.
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The AM/DM podcast: Football fun and a hot air balloon blast
On this morning’s episode of The AM/DM, we get into the Memphis Tigers’ last SEC football game (for a while, at least), where you can see hot air balloons take flight and why you might want to hit the Totally Rad Vintage Fest.
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The AM/DM podcast: Duck decor — a look inside the Peabody’s new digs
The Peabody Memphis — the city’s most iconic hotel — has unveiled a $19 million makeover of its guest rooms.
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The AM/DM podcast: How a new MPD position rankled the department
In the wake of Tyré Nichols’ death, the Memphis Police Department decided it had an absence of supervision in the field, and set out to fix that problem by creating a new position — the second lieutenant. But that solution caused a string of other problems.
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The AM/DM podcast: A big change coming to Landers Center
Late last month, ground was broken on the Landers Center’s $85 million expansion, which includes a unique hotel-convention center project.
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The AM/DM podcast: B.B. King and The Daily Memphian have birthdays
In this episode of The AM/DM, newsletter editor Bianca Phillips and columnist Chris Herrington talk about the week ahead, which includes The Daily Memphian’s upcoming anniversary.
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The AM/DM podcast: The ’90s are alive in Memphis this weekend
In this episode of The AM/DM, newsletter editor Bianca Phillips and digital producer Kelsey Bowen talk about the weekend ahead, which is ripe with events that hearken back to the dot-com era.
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The AM/DM podcast: Why 33 acres in Germantown could be so important
Out of all Shelby County’s municipalities, Germantown may have the least available land left to develop. But there are 33 acres of what could be prime real estate just west of the popular Saddle Creek shopping center.
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The AM/DM podcast: The fall and rise and potential fall of Shelby County’s reentry director
For more than a decade, DeAndre Brown was one of Memphis’ most visible advocates for giving people leaving prison a second chance. But now, that story has taken a dramatic turn.
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The AM/DM podcast: MSCS is looking to close schools — here’s why and why now
Interim Superintendent Roderick Richmond’s administration is expected to produce a list of schools to close or consolidate later this month, and at least one board member said there’s no need to keep kicking the can down the road.
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The AM/DM podcast: Festivals, 4-milers and hummingbirds
In this episode of The AM/DM, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips discuss the week ahead, and the week ahead signals the beginning of fall festival season.
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