The Early Word: Midtown’s Viet Hoa expands, and the Blue Monkey shrinks
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Living the dream: The owners of Midtown’s Viet Hoa market are finally fulfilling a longheld family dream.
Calling it quits: Blue Monkey Midtown is closing after 27 years.
What to do with AI money: Here’s what a local advisory board wants to do with $3.3 million in xAI tax revenue.
On the Market: A long-closed butcher shop in Smokey City will be replaced with a new mixed-use development.
Anti-AI: Hernando’s Hide-A-Way says it won’t share any AI-created art.
Word of mouth: Business is booming at this hidden East Memphis deli.
Inside football: Minor-league football returned to the city Saturday.
How not to die: A Memphis firefighter has developed an AI app that he hopes will help people lead healthier lives.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Four local teens know.
Ransom notes: Longtime, former ABC24 news anchor Richard Ransom has just launched a new business.
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Bianca Phillips
Bianca Phillips is a Northeast Arkansas native and longtime Memphian who’s worked in local journalism and PR for more than 20 years. In her days as a reporter, she covered everything from local government and crime to LGBTQ issues and the arts. She’s the author of “Cookin Crunk: Eatin’ Vegan in the Dirty South,” a cookbook of vegan Southern recipes.
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