It’s Friday already, Memphis! Today is Nov. 15, and the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team will play Ohio tonight. Starting guards PJ Haggerty and Tyrese Hunter are a little banged up but still expected to play.

And speaking of banged up, the Memphis Grizzlies, fresh off a loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, will be playing the Golden State Warriors without injured stars Ja Morant and Desmond Bane. All of these injuries are enough to make a gal want to drink; you can skip the games and do that at the first-ever Science of Spirits event at Lichterman Nature Center. 

It was actually the Pink Palace’s Science of Beer event that inspired the first Grind City Coffee Xpo a few years back. You can start your day at this year’s Xpo on Saturday morning. That should fuel you through the grand opening of Slowdown Dry Goods’ brick-and-mortar and the Tigers football team’s final home game against UAB. 

Heck, drink enough coffee, and you might even be wired straight through the Grizzlies’ Sunday home against the Denver Nuggets. That’s when the Grizzlies will debut their snazzy, new city-edition uniforms inspired by the Memphis Sounds. If you need more weekend ideas, we’ve got you with The To-Do List. 

The City of Memphis and Shelby County have established a new Joint Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement to tackle gun violence. But that office will rely on federal funding from the White House Office of Gun Violence Protection, which exists now under the Biden administration but might not after President-elect Donald Trump takes office. On Thursday, Greg Jackson, the deputy director of the White House Office, said at least part of the federal funding should be protected because it’s tied to a federal act. But there’s precedent under the last Trump administration for undoing public safety-related efforts in Memphis.

A year ago today, Emily Hamilton was involved in a terrible car accident that broke her sternum, collar bone, and parts of her spine. She was hospitalized for two weeks and ate her Thanksgiving dinner from her lap in a hospital bed. “I felt like a prisoner to my own body,” Hamilton said. She eventually regained movement, but it was slow-going, and the once-active yogi was told she probably wouldn’t ever touch her toes again. Hamilton wasn’t here for that though; she signed up for yoga teacher training and did what movements she could. Today, she’s a yoga instructor at SANA Yoga in Memphis. And yes, she’s touching those toes again.

Plus, the Dr. Benjamin Mauck slaying case heads to grand jury, a Downtown theater fences off foot traffic and a Memphis chef is on fire.