The Early Word: MATA gets new wheels, and Lee Harris gets a road
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Hi, Memphis. It’s Thursday, Sept. 3, and Memphis Tigers fans will get another chance to see the renovated Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium tonight ahead of Saturday’s season opener. Coach Charles Huff is hosting a live recording of his weekly radio show there in west tower.
Protest at ICE facility: A group of local activists gathered outside the ICE facility in Mason to protest conditions on the inside.
Check out their new ride: The Memphis Area Transit Authority unveiled some shiny new buses on Wednesday.
SpaceXAI is building another data center: Will it ever stop? Yo, we don’t know.
A road by any other name: Former Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris will soon have his own honorary street, but not everyone is happy about it.
TP for everyone! A North Memphis toilet-paper manufacturer is about to be making a whole lot more of that white gold.
What to eat at Satellite: Satellite Music Hall is stepping up the concert food game.
Dining family-style: Some people have a quarter-life crisis when they turn 25; food writer Sophia Surrett had an appetizer, five plates and three pizzas.
A Gill’s gotta eat: Hunger is driving the latest phase of Germantown’s mixed-used TraVure development.
Takebacksies: Hernando’s Board of Aldermen passed a budget Tuesday night — and then un-passed it.
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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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