Soul food restaurant Alcenia’s needs your help. Due to convention center construction, access to the restaurant is blocked in all but one direction, owner B.J. Chester-Tamayo posted. Access to the restaurant from Front Street and from northbound on Main are completely blocked, she said. Those are the directions most of the tourists will come from, and it is killing her business. She has been told the closures will continue into 2020.
You can get there by taking Jackson (first street north of I-40) west-bound from either Second or B.B. King Blvd. Please, if you get a chance, go by there and support this longtime Downtown business. Redevelopment plans indicate The Pinch will enter a boom period in a few years, and it would be a shame if one of the neighborhood’s pioneering restaurants of modern times didn’t survive to take part in that prosperity.
Sage will have a watch party for Saturday’s 2 PM Memphis Tigers vs. Tennessee basketball game. Ken Mack will be the special host and the musical experience will be curated by Big Sue and DJ Alpha Whiskey.
A must-read: New Florida State head coach Mike Norvell’s thank you letter to Memphis
Memphis 901 FC has announced its second of three Fan Forums, this one coming to Cooper-Young. It will be at Celtic Crossing on Thursday, December 19, with program starting at 7:30 PM. Tim Howard, Craig Unger, and Tim Mulqueen will be there to answer questions and lay out the team’s plans for 2020.
Nice to see Memphis in this graphic:
The closest #NY6 team to each county in the United States: pic.twitter.com/wSNCLSFXQL
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) December 10, 2019
The Memphis Symphony Orchestra brings Magic of Memphis Holiday Spectacular to the Cannon Center the evening of Saturday, December 21 and the afternoon of Sunday, December 22.
You can pick up a Christmas Every Day/Mongo for Mayor ’86 button on eBay.
The reign of the King could come to an end. Jerry Lawler will put his career on the line next month as he faces Arkansas Heavyweight Champion Matt Riviera in a title vs. career match. If he wins, Lawler will not be the oldest wrestler to ever hold a championship; Pat Patterson had a very brief run with the WWE 24/7 Championship recently, and The Fabulous Moolah held the WWE Women’s Championship in her 70s.
Momma’s, “the diner & dive off I-55,” is now hiring all positions: managers, bartenders, servers, cooks, and dishwashers. This is one of the Aldo family of restaurants, a great company to work for. Apply in person at 855 Kentucky (at the corner of Crump) between 2 and 4 in the afternoon.
Ballet Memphis’ Nutcracker begins a 4-day run at the Orpheum tomorrow.
The Blue Suede Brigade will offer a free tour of Beale Street at 11:45 AM today. Learn about the street all the way from its 1841 beginning to plans for the future.
That’s it for today. Back tomorrow with more.