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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
A must-read: New Florida State head coach Mike Norvell’s thank you letter to Memphis<\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Nice to see Memphis in this graphic:<\/p>\n The closest #NY6<\/a> team to each county in the United States: pic.twitter.com\/wSNCLSFXQL<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) December 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n