On this episode of The AM/DM, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips talk about the National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Awards and the unofficial beginning of the Tigers basketball season.

This week’s activities are heavy on seasonality, with a Monster Market, a few different takes on Oktoberfest and a 5K you can do with your dog.

Today, members of The Daily Memphian’s metro team talk about what we know, what we don’t know, how we’re tracking data and what we’ve been able to ascertain about the Memphis Safe Task Force’s time in the Bluff City so far. 

With colleges around the country facing what’s known as the enrollment cliff, it’s been a challenging time in higher education. 

Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola and food writer Ellen Chamberlain are talking about local restaurants that had to close after some sort of calamity and how they can come back from it all. 

This week marks the beginning of the Memphis Grizzlies’ pre-season, with three games at home. 

It’s another music-filled weekend in Memphis.

Collierville restaurants currently can have one parking space for every two eatery seats, at the most. But that may be changing — and it may be due to a McDonald’s. 

Seven years ago, a new startup began in Memphis to bring people local news.

Memphis’ native lizards, known as skinks, generally prefer a natural, wooded habitat, away from people. But that’s not true of other, invasive species of lizard. 

Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips talk about the week ahead, including Richard Smith joining the FedEx board and new plans for Whitehaven’s Peppertree Apartments. 

Editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips talk about some of the fun events happening this weekend on The AM/DM podcast this morning.

Today, Mary Cashiola talks with Bill Dries about the 7–5 vote, the backstory to the clash and what might happen next. 

Readers love the comments. They hate the comments. They love to hate the comments. 

For the first time in years, Bolton High School’s girls soccer team is back on the field — and it’s about more than the score.

In this look at the week ahead, The Daily Memphian’s Mary Cashiola and Bianca Phillips talk about two related proposals in front of the Memphis City Council and Shelby County Commission, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony and how the Shelby Farms Park Greenline started oh-so-many years ago. 

On this morning’s episode of The AM/DM, we get into the Memphis Tigers’ last SEC football game (for a while, at least), where you can see hot air balloons take flight and why you might want to hit the Totally Rad Vintage Fest. 

The Peabody Memphis — the city’s most iconic hotel — has unveiled a $19 million makeover of its guest rooms.

In the wake of Tyré Nichols’ death, the Memphis Police Department decided it had an absence of supervision in the field, and set out to fix that problem by creating a new position — the second lieutenant. But that solution caused a string of other problems. 

Late last month, ground was broken on the Landers Center’s $85 million expansion, which includes a unique hotel-convention center project.

In this episode of The AM/DM, newsletter editor Bianca Phillips and columnist Chris Herrington talk about the week ahead, which includes The Daily Memphian’s upcoming anniversary.

In this episode of The AM/DM, newsletter editor Bianca Phillips and digital producer Kelsey Bowen talk about the weekend ahead, which is ripe with events that hearken back to the dot-com era.

Out of all Shelby County’s municipalities, Germantown may have the least available land left to develop. But there are 33 acres of what could be prime real estate just west of the popular Saddle Creek shopping center. 

For more than a decade, DeAndre Brown was one of Memphis’ most visible advocates for giving people leaving prison a second chance. But now, that story has taken a dramatic turn.

Interim Superintendent Roderick Richmond’s administration is expected to produce a list of schools to close or consolidate later this month, and at least one board member said there’s no need to keep kicking the can down the road.