The Early Word: House lizards, business cats and river gators! Oh, my!
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Happy fall, y’all! It’s Monday, Sept. 22, and that means its finally appropriate to order a pumpkin spice latte. If you ordered a PSL right after Starbucks rolled them out in mid-summer, well, you do you, but ...
Anywho, the Shelby County Commission might need their fancy coffee drinks today as they consider two resolutions related to the upcoming National Guard deployment in Memphis.
Nooo, pig sooie: Some Arkansas Razorbacks fans probably left Memphis in tears on Saturday.
Guard and governor’s race: Opinions on whether or not the National Guard should be deployed in Memphis are divided along party lines.
Browns still behind bars: Suspended Shelby County Office of Re-Entry Director DeAndre Brown and his wife are in jail nearly a month after they were indicted.
It’s a lizard invasion! Think you’ve noticed more lizards around your house in recent years? Home Depot may be to blame.
Business purr-nters: Memphis is home to lots of working cats, and reporter Aisling Mäki introduces us to a few of them.
Whatever floats your goat: The Daily Memphian’s Ellen Chamberlain recommends you try the goat at a Downtown Caribbean restaurant.
Get ready for ‘four days of music and mayhem’: Gonerfest 22 starts Thursday in a brand-new location — or, well, two new locations.
Happy fall, y’all! It’s Monday, Sept. 22, and that means its finally appropriate to order a pumpkin spice latte. If you ordered a PSL right after Starbucks rolled them out in mid-summer, well, you do you, but ...
Anywho, the Shelby County Commission might need their fancy coffee drinks today as they consider two resolutions related to the upcoming National Guard deployment in Memphis.
Nooo, pig sooie: Some Arkansas Razorbacks fans probably left Memphis in tears on Saturday.
Guard and governor’s race: Opinions on whether or not the National Guard should be deployed in Memphis are divided along party lines.
Browns still behind bars: Suspended Shelby County Office of Re-Entry Director DeAndre Brown and his wife are in jail nearly a month after they were indicted.
It’s a lizard invasion! Think you’ve noticed more lizards around your house in recent years? Home Depot may be to blame.
Business purr-nters: Memphis is home to lots of working cats, and reporter Aisling Mäki introduces us to a few of them.
Whatever floats your goat: The Daily Memphian’s Ellen Chamberlain recommends you try the goat at a Downtown Caribbean restaurant.
Get ready for ‘four days of music and mayhem’: Gonerfest 22 starts Thursday in a brand-new location — or, well, two new locations.
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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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