Restaurant Roundup
Comings, goings, changes and sad goodbyes in 2018
Restaurants opened, moved, changed hands and closed in 2018, and we said goodbye to beloved restaurateurs, too.
Adam Fuller named Memphis’ defensive coordinator
Germantown alderman named planning director in Lakeland
Germantown Alderman Forrest Owens was named Lakeland's new planning director Friday. The appointed position in another suburb does not require him to resign from his election post in Germantown
Methodist Le Bonheur to close outpatient surgery center
The Home Team: Many former Tigers athletes put down permanent roots in Memphis
Dozens of former Tiger athletes have come from as far away as Australia and South Africa on the international front and New York and Florida in the U.S. to call Memphis home.
Flu hunter’s career spent tracking down a virus
The 86-year-old scientist who linked the origin of the flu virus to migratory birds still comes to work at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to prepare for a possible pandemic should bird flu ever learn to spread among humans.
Metro
This Week in Memphis: Grizzlies media day and Tom Lee Day
Also happening this week: You can meet Shelby County Mayor Mickell Lowery, and there’s a rescheduled hearing for the MSCS takeover suit.
Shelby County Short agenda Monday as new Shelby County Commission settles in
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Business
Tim Duncan’s family history pushed him to get tested. Now he wants other Memphis men to do the same.
Duncan watched his father survive prostate cancer and saw a close friend lose his dad to it. Then came his own diagnosis in January.
Business Highland Strip’s getting a ‘high-end honky-tonk’
Business SpaceXAI offers to buy out some Southaven residents over lawsuit
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Sports
Tim Duncan’s family history pushed him to get tested. Now he wants other Memphis men to do the same.
Duncan watched his father survive prostate cancer and saw a close friend lose his dad to it. Then came his own diagnosis in January.
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Memphis Tigers Basketball Memphis basketball scrimmage foreshadows a high volume of 3-point shooting
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Food
Highland Strip’s getting a ‘high-end honky-tonk’
“Take a honky-tonk, sweep up all the sawdust, replace a couple of shots with a couple of glasses of wine, with some cool Memphis music and Western memorabilia,” said one of the three owners.
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Suburbs
What is Love? If you live in DeSoto County, it might mean home.
Residents of the little community south of Hernando don’t have a whole lotta love for all the changes coming their way, but they like the town of Love anyway.
Business SpaceXAI offers to buy out some Southaven residents over lawsuit
Arts & Culture
Hattiloo Theatre raises the curtain on city’s cultural identity for 20 years
This year’s Spirit of Memphis award recipient Ekundayo Bandele discusses how a self-described introvert went from rap battles in Brooklyn to running one the nation’s four freestanding Black theaters.
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Opinion
Herrington: Nine storylines for Grizzlies training camp and preseason
The Grizzlies will hit the Music Highway for a Nashville training camp, and head coach Tuomas Iisalo will get his first full chance to build his own thing.
Public Safety Maxey: ‘Whatever the reasons for addiction, the voices of those impacted need to be heard’
Podcasts
Sound Bites: ‘Donut’ overlook this Midtown bakery
There’s at least one treat that people say they’ve driven hours for — and even shed a few tears over — at Jacques Louise Bakery.
Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Most intriguing preseason figures
Games
Sudoku: Sept. 27
Are you ready for it? Here are today’s sudokus.