The Memphis Flyer’s cover story this week is where to find great pizza in Memphis. Among the Downtown pizzas profiled:
- P.R.E.A.M. from Slim & Husky’s – white sauce, spinach, pepperoni, Italian sausage, mushrooms, red onions on a thin crust
- Grandma’s Pizza from Little Italy – sauce, mozzarella patches, pick your toppings
- Farm Daddy from Silly Goose – garlic cream sauce, chicken, scallions, mushrooms, smoked bacon, mozzarella, Parmesan
- Thud Butt from Little Bettie’s Pizza Kitchen inside Wiseacre Downtown – mortadella, black pepper honey, pistachio stracciatella, homemade cheesy mayo
If you have no idea what stracciatella is – as I did not – Wikipedia to the rescue.
WHAAAAATTTTT?????? The school lunchroom pizza at Max’s Sports Bar – the VERY same one you ate as a 7th-grader – didn’t make the list?
DJ Mylon will spin the tunes at Blind Bear this Saturday from 10 PM to 2 AM.
5:39 AM: A train, probably Amtrak’s City of New Orleans, just rolled through my neighborhood. “i bet my friend Tawanda is saying, ‘there goes old toot toot right now,'” I thought. Down here, the train is our rooster.
Ready for some pre-season soccer action? Memphis 901 FC takes on the Memphis Tigers at 9:45 AM Saturday at the Billy J. Murphy Athletic Complex.
The Shamrock Shake is back on McDonald’s menu.
New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson says the Grizzlies are the best trash talkers in the league.
The NBA is back in full swing tonight, the All-Star break now over. The Memphis Grizzlies travel to Philadelphia to take on the 76ers. The game will be nationally televised on TNT at 6:30.
Penny’s Memphis Tigers hit the road tonight too. They tip off at Wichita State at 6:00, nationally televised on ESPN2.
The Tigers are looking a little better in Joe Lunardi’s ESPN Bracketology. Memphis has moved up to the first team listed in First Four Byes and is a projected 9 seed.
Two Downtown book clubs have sprung up in one month. A few days ago I told you about the Boozy Bear Book Club which will meet at Blind Bear for the first time tonight. But now, Soul & Spirits, the brewery on the far end of North Main, will do a book club the first Friday of every month – so, March 3 – in their Low Tones room from 5 to 7 PM. This club is a little different in that they don’t tell you what to read. They’ll merely provide a quiet space to read whatever book you’re working on, drink a great craft beer, and talk to other book lovers.
Memphis Parks & Recreation is looking to fill hundreds of summer jobs and is taking applications today. Kids ass young as 15 can apply and adults can too.
Today is National Chili Day.
Dancing with the Stars on tour is at the Orpheum tonight. Tickets are $49.50-$125.
Sam Angel Original Arts on the ground floor of 10 S. Main will hold a visual abstraction art opening exhibit Friday from 4 to 8.
Action News 5 looks at The African Place in Uptown in its latest 5 Star Story.
There’s a blizzard warning for parts of Los Angeles County today. No I’m not kidding.
Grizzly Bear Blues: The vision with Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr. is materializing
Ivanka and her husband have been subpoenaed in the investigation of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
It’s possible I may not do a blog post tomorrow morning, because I’d like to stay out a bit late and catch Joey Barrett at Blind Bear. If not tomorrow, I’ll be back Saturday with more news.