You’ve probably heard of the Downtown Memphis Commission’s Open on Main initiative. The DMC gives small retail businesses the chance to have a storefront on or near Main Street, with rent covered for a period of time. Well, there’s a new incentive program called Table Ready, designed to provide similar help for restaurants.
Boycott Coffee on Madison in the Commonwealth Building appears to be back open to the public. For a while they were only doing corporate delivery orders.
Ja Morant is listed as doubtful for the Grizzlies’ Game 4 today vs. OKC (2:30 PM, TNT). The Grizzlies’ prospects of winning are also on the doubtful list.
Round 4 of the NFL draft begins today and Shedeur Sanders is still available.
Today is National Static Cling Day.
Tonight is Soul Babies Songwriter Series at South Main Sounds. Featuring Gerald Morgan Jr. and D’Vonna Taylor.
There will be monster movies and discussion today 1-4 PM at A. Schwab on Beale.
Jeff Hulett plays the front porch of South Point Grocery noon to 2 today.
I wonder if Neptune Street which runs by Elmwood Cemetery was named for Neptune the planet… it was a newly discovered planet at the time the street grid in that area was laid out. In the 1850s that neighborhood was considered a suburb to the extent Eads, Oakland, and Piperton are today.
One of the games you can rent (or play for free if a member) at Memphis Chess Club is called Happy Salmon. I feel as though my life is incomplete because I’ve never played it.
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