Arts & Culture
The Giant Rats live on
The Giant Rats — and their devotion to Sherlock Holmes — live on, more than 50 years after the local fan club was founded.
Jody Callahan
Jody Callahan graduated with degrees in journalism and economics from what is now known as the University of Memphis. He has covered news in Memphis for more than 25 years.
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February 2026
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Arts & CultureAn appendectomy, a baseball to the neck and a cruel note: Not everyone loves Valentine’s Day
Some folks love Valentine’s Day and all the hoopla that accompanies it. This story isn’t about those people. This story is about the folks who had terrible, awful, no-good Valentine’s Days.
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Ask the MemphianAsk the Memphian: When will the repaving of I-240 be completed?
By the end of 2027, almost all of the Interstate 240 loop around the city should be repaved, state road officials said.
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Arts & Culture Valentine’s Day speed date: Rush to romance or browsing for buddies?
More than 100 people gathered Saturday at Novel bookstore’s speed-dating event. Some came looking for love. Others hoped to meet fellow bibliophiles.
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Real EstateCheers at last: The Station opens following court battles and delays
The Station, a new East Memphis liquor store beset by controversy, finally fully opened Tuesday with a selection of more than 20,000 types of liquor, wine and beer.
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NeighborhoodsTsunami helped Cooper-Young become a dining hot spot
Chef Ben Smith opened Tsunami in 1998, helping Cooper-Young transition from “a downtrodden backwater for failing businesses.”
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Downtown Repairs to water main break Downtown could last through weekend
MLGW urges people to avoid Fourth Street and Pontotoc Avenue.
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Ask the MemphianAsk the Memphian: Can a class of 6 CBU students help solve 2 cold-case murders? A grieving family hopes so.
Maybe, just maybe, a class at Christian Brothers University can focus attention back on the murders of Beau and Shea Grauer, two brothers killed seven months apart in two separate Midtown shootings that appear unconnected.
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Education CBU to partner with Purdue for graduate engineering programs
This will be at least the second partnership CBU has signed with another school to provide new classes, all with an eye to increasing enrollment.
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Spirit of Memphis ‘We decided to do something’ about rundown cemetery
Volunteers have taken on the task of cleaning up the 10-acre graveyard. Among the estimated 3,400 graves at Mt. Carmel Cemetery is that of Memphis hero Tom Lee.
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Midtown Incident with visitor leads to damage at Memphis Zoo bonobo exhibit
The bonobo habitat will be closed while repairs are being made. A window broke after one of the great apes reacted to taunting from a visitor.
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March 2026
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Education Three-time spelling champ is heading back to D.C. bee
Sixty children competed Saturday for the right to represent Shelby County in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The victor was a Farmington Elementary student. Again.
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Sports It’s baseball, sort of. Banana Ball takes Memphis by storm.
Baseball purists may sniff at Banana Ball, but as a packed AutoZone Park showed Saturday night, the wacky version of the national pastime has its devoted fans.
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Health Care Company with two Memphis offices hit in suspected Iran-based cyberattack
A medical technology company has been hit with a “global outage” cyberattack possibly initiated by Iranian hackers.
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BusinessBuster’s owner, others file new lawsuit seeking to shut down The Station
Buster’s owner and others have filed a new lawsuit seeking to shut down The Station, the new high-end liquor store that opened Feb. 17 in East Memphis after a battle that has lasted more than a year.
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Public Safety Wing Guru owner gets diversion but must repay more than $335,000
Billy Richmond founded the Wing Guru eateries in 2016.
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Food News Jittery from java? That’s that Grind City Coffee Xpo.
The love of coffee lured an estimated 700 people to the Grind City Coffee Xpo at Crosstown Concourse, but come bedtime, they may regret the extra caffeine.
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Metro Heavy winds, thunderstorms expected Sunday night
The National Weather Service warns of severe weather starting around 5 p.m. Sunday. The forecast includes damaging winds with a secondary threat of hail, and possible tornadoes.
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Metro Memphis escapes severe wind damage, but freezing temps are on the way
About 9,600 MLGW customers were without power late Sunday night, but Memphis dodged severe wind damage. Freezing temperatures are on the way and will last through Tuesday.
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Health CareCritics urge caution before biting off nearly $1 billion Regional One project
Does Shelby County need a new hospital? And if so, how will it be financed? Skeptics raise questions.
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Health CareDoes Memphis need a new Regional One hospital? For some, the answer is a resounding yes.
In the first of a two-part series on the future of Regional One Health, advocates for a new facility say it is desperately needed to replace the aging campus in the Memphis Medical District.
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Health CareMost of UTHSC occupational therapy faculty resign amid abuse allegations
Five of the seven members of UTHSC’s occupational therapy faculty resign, allegedly over school’s handling of a professor accused of mistreating students.
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EducationUTHSC looking for new faculty to stem resignations after abuse allegations
The staff members’ departures will leave just two occupational-therapy faculty remaining, including the faculty member accused of mistreatment.
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BusinessTV merger means 1 group will control 3 of Memphis’ 5 stations, worrying some
The deal would create a company that owns 265 television stations in 44 states and the District of Columbia, most of them local affiliates of ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. Included in that tally are three Memphis stations: WREG, WATN and WLMT.
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Ask the MemphianAsk the Memphian: Why do TV stations interrupt shows like the Oscars for weather coverage?
Many watched the Academy Awards earlier this month spent much of their night watching weathermen on the TV.
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