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  • 2021 most moving Spirit of Memphis

    Jeepers, creepers! Jeep club gets health care workers to job

    Band of Jeeps are on the road nearly 24-7, donating time, gas to keep Mid-South health care workers moving in the cold. 

    By Jane Roberts December 27, 2021
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    Memphians hit the ‘slopes’

    And there’s no plane ticket needed to reach this snowy destination.

    By Patrick Lantrip March 08, 2021
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    The short life and long legacy of Memphis Mardi Gras

    For a while, the good times rolled when Memphis had its own Mardi Gras. Then Yellow Fever happened. This year, as the pandemic takes a toll on Fat Tuesday, we look at 1870s images that recall a citywide celebration.

    By Bill Dries February 22, 2021
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    Geoff Calkins: Love in the time of COVID

    When David Porter and Kontji Anthony proclaimed their love on Facebook, it proved what we already should have known. Love doesn’t stop for a pandemic. Here are seven Valentine’s Day stories that will remind you of the wonder and durability of love. 

    By Geoff Calkins February 14, 2021
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    Have an ice day — images from Memphis’ winter weather

    Memphians woke up this morning to freezing rain and icy conditions. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff February 11, 2021
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    Vaccine volunteers talk about why and what they do

    Skills of all kinds are needed, and experts say volunteers will be needed for months and months.

    By Jane Roberts February 08, 2021
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    Calkins: Alex Lomax deserves to lead Memphis back to the NCAA Tournament

    Alex Lomax said it would be a “dream come true” to lead Memphis back to the NCAA tournament. Against ECU, he kept that dream alive through sheer force of will.

    By Geoff Calkins February 08, 2021
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    Whitehaven welcomes vaccine site with relief, gratitude

    The Shelby County Health Department partnered with Southwest Tennessee Community College to begin administering first doses of the Pfizer vaccine Friday at the school’s Whitehaven center at 1234 Finley Road.

    By Omer Yusuf February 08, 2021
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    Future-Everything gives Memphis’ electronic music scene a push

    ‘Nostalgia drives tourism, but Memphis is making new moves now — it’s time to move on from Elvis,’ says Brady Tackett, who makes music as Night Park.

    By Ezra Wheeler February 08, 2021
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    New retail center may conjure spirit of the hip Bitter Lemon

    The commercial lot on the east end of Poplar Viaduct may now be empty, but it’s full of memories for the new owner. Ray Gill of Gill Properties is looking for a way to pay homage to The Bitter Lemon, a hip teenage coffee house that operated there in the 1960s.

    By Tom Bailey February 04, 2021
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    Creativity and innovation founded Phillip Ashley Chocolates, then saved it

    Phillip Ashley Rix literally had a dream that he would be a chocolatier, so then he made it happen. More than 10 years later, Oprah gave her seal of approval and sales skyrocketed.

    By Jennifer Biggs February 08, 2021
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    Phillip Ashley Chocolates has ridden a rollercoaster of a pandemic

    The going got tough in 2019 and 2020 started with promise followed by disappointment. Then a pivot, a plan, a little luck and well, Oprah, made things happen. But success comes with a cost, too.

    By Jennifer Biggs February 02, 2021
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    Hampline Brewing gave three principals a way to cope with COVID

    Hampline Brewing had reinvent early in COVID, before it even opened, and it gave the principals a way to get through the pandemic. It wasn’t just a new business for them; it became a passion project.

    By Jennifer Biggs February 08, 2021
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    Confidence pays off for president of Memphis Area Association of Realtors

    Cassandra Bell-Warren credits her mother and grandmother for the self-confidence and curiosity that has helped her experience the world she never saw from her childhood home in South Memphis. 

    By Tom Bailey February 01, 2021
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    In memoriam: Ode to the olive boat captain

    On John Simmons’ last visit, Carnival Memphis presented him their highest honor. That’s particularly interesting since John was instrumental in founding Curbi, the Carnival society named for those who stood on the curb and watched the Carnival parades go by.

    By Dan Conaway January 31, 2021
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    Born to be wild

    After being laid off from her writing job, Sami Harvey used her newfound free time to rack up the 200 hours of training need to become a certified rehabilitator and open her own nonprofit, Out of the Woods Wildlife Rescue & Rehab. 

    By Patrick Lantrip January 31, 2021
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    Jerry C. Johnson’s legacy: Many games won, but many more men were made

    Former players tell stories of the renowned LeMoyne-Owen basketball coach and his ways of teaching.

    By John Varlas February 01, 2021
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    Calkins: Rob Fischer has thought hard about killing himself. Now he wants to help others who feel lost

    Rob Fischer is the warm, cheerful sideline reporter for the Grizzlies TV broadcasts. He also suffers from suicidal depression. He’s telling his story because he thinks it may help. 

    By Geoff Calkins February 08, 2021
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    Dr. Simone, former St. Jude director, dies at 85

    Dr. Joseph V. Simone, a clinician who helped lead the first curative treatment for childhood leukemia, died Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, at the age of 85.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 28, 2021
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    Engineer Harvey Marcom helped shape Memphis

    Engineer Harvey Marcom worked behind the scenes, but he played a big role for nearly six decades in forming the built environment of the Memphis area. The president of The Reaves Firm died on Saturday, Jan. 23.

    By Tom Bailey January 26, 2021
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    Plans for old Melrose School excite neighbors

    Melrose School has been an anchor in Orange Mound for 83 years and will soon have a second life.

    By Linda A. Moore January 24, 2021
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    Vaccine gives hope to ICU nurse and her mother

    Toni Woods feels safer after second dose, but she knows her patients and her mother still need her to keep working, avoid risk.

    By David Waters January 15, 2021
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    Reports of Molly’s death are greatly exaggerated

    Claims on social media that Molly’s La Casita is closed and for sale are wrong. It’s temporarily closed but will reopen when it’s not ‘crazy out there,’ owner says.

    By Jennifer Biggs January 09, 2021
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    Herrington: Elvis & Nixon oddity adds bonus to annual birthday celebration

    An exhibit that opened recently marks the half-century anniversary of one of American culture’s more colorful and peculiar moments. 

    By Chris Herrington January 11, 2021
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    Calkins: An 8-year-old St. Jude kid with a lesson for these times

    Jonah McCoy, 8, is a patient at St. Jude. He could teach us a thing or two. 

    By Geoff Calkins January 08, 2021

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