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MEMernet: Dammit Gannet, Kroger’s Dill?, Las Toxicas?

Posted to Facebook in the Tiger Nation group

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Dammit Gannet

Most by now expect small errors in The Commercial Appeal, knowing how much of it is produced out of Memphis. But when the paper got the University of Memphis sports mascot wrong in a headline … there were strong feelings.  

Kroger’s Dill?

Posted to Facebook by Kroger

Kroger made a big dill about National Pickle Day last week, enough so that some worried their social media had been hacked. 

Las Toxicas?

Posted to Google by Hector Gomez

For the second time this year, Memphis Reddit users wondered just what in the heck happens inside the Las Toxicas … bar? club? restaurant? … on Summer at I-240.

Some of the answers included a “Hooteras” (a “Mexican-style Hooters place,” according to u/LadPro), a dance hall, strip club, bar, and a “thinly veiled brothel,” said u/alex32593. 

A Google video (above) from March apparently shows the Las Toxicas dance floor in full swing. In it, patrons two-step respectfully to ranchera.

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MEMernet: Real MEMernet, Redbirds Update, Moneybagg

Posted to Reddit by u/GrowMemphisAgency

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Real MEMernet

Wouldn’t it be cool to drive around Memphis in a video game? That’s just what Cory Owens has been working to do. His MemphisMETAs project is a “Digital Twin” of the city. Driving and walking around the virtual model is just the beginning. Owens imagines users buying virtual properties, hosting virtual events, and more.  

Redbirds Update 

Posted to Facebook by Memphis Redbirds

Turns out the “something big” teased by the Memphis Redbirds on Facebook last week was, indeed, an exhibition match with the St. Louis Cardinals in March. 

Moneybagg

Posted to YouTube by @saydattv

A new YouTube Short from @saydattv shows “Moneybagg Yo feeding the streets of Memphis.” Moneybagg played a sold-out show at FedExForum last weekend on Rod Wave’s Last Lap tour. The show included a surprise appearance by GloRilla.  

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MEMernet: Memphis Redbirds, Board to Beers, and ‘Slideshow’

Posted to Facebook by Memphis Redbirds

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Memphis Redbirds 

The Memphis Redbirds teased on Facebook last weekend that “something big is coming.” The post’s image had big, vague shadows cast on the field. Guesses in the comments included a Cardinals game here in March, Deck the Diamond, aliens, price increases, a winning season, and more.

Board to Beers

Posted to GoFundMe by board to Beers

The MEMernet — like the internet everywhere — got a little tense last week. Board game bar Board to Beers launched a GoFundMe to move into a new space in Poplar Plaza. The owners said three air-conditioning units ($10,000 each, the owners said) have been stolen and replaced by them at their Chickasaw Crossing location.  

Some Memphis subreddit users blasted the move, like u/memphisthrowaway9876 who said, “Make more money or realize your business model isn’t working out.” On Facebook, owners cast shame on “hateful” comments and asked, “What have you done for your city?” 

‘Slideshow’

YouTube by SRT JD

Meet the folks who leave those tire tracks all over the city in a YouTube video called “I WENT TO THE MOST DANGEROUS SLIDESHOW IN MEMPHIS!” by YouTuber SRT JD. 

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MEMernet: Huey’s, Abandoned, and Oak Court

Posted to Facebook by Jada Renee

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Huey’s

Jada Renee’s now-deleted post about Huey’s on a first date tipped off what was a whole week of debate about the restaurant and first dates in Memphis. See this story by Kailynn Johnson for all the details. 

Posted to Facebook by Huey’s

Huey’s owned it all with a great and subtle response, BTW. 

Abandoned

Posted to YouTube by Mayday.Aerial

Click yourself over to YouTube to watch some amazing drone footage of the abandoned Memphis International Raceway. The race track closed in 2022 amid rumors of a land purchase for a new warehouse. But Mayday.Aerial’s video from last week shows that little has been done on the site, aside from vandalism. 

Oak Court

Posted to Reddit by u/etherian1

Memphis Reddit user u/etherian1 alerted the community to “that one door at Oak Court that leads to a secret courtyard paradise” with a video that was just way more amazing than it needed to be.

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MEMernet: Bold, Comic Con-Tastic, and Bowl Bound

Posted to X by Memphis Football

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Bowl Bound

The University of Memphis Tiger football team qualified for a bowl game this year (for the 11th year in a row) after its win over North Texas last weekend. #gtg

Bold

Posted to X by @GetRight3200

A perfect companion to our cannabis cover, MrDoRight brazenly displayed his nuggy wares over on X last week. “Look at this shit,” he croons in a looped video. Prices ran from $650 for a half pound down to $40 for a quarter. 

Respect the hustle but hocking the green (and illegal) gold so publicly seems a risky business. 

Comic Con-Tastic

Posted to X by Memphis Public Libraries

“#ComicCon2024 was a SMASHING SUCCESS!” Memphis Public Libraries said on X over the weekend. “Be sure to check out our photos and videos from the fun!”

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MEMernet: Drone Home, Taraoke?, and Reddit Round Up 

Posted to Facebook by Reggie Corker

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Drone Home

Go find Reggie Corker’s amazing drone Reel of Downtown Memphis and Tom Lee Park. Perfect for a little MEMernet zen and a bit of perspective on our city. 

Taraoke? 

Posted to Facebook by Barbie’s Bar

Barbie’s Bar was slated to host Memphis’ first-ever Taraoke event this week, blending karaoke and tarot readings. 

“Do you like to sing?” asks the event page. “Do you identify as your zodiac sign? Free karaoke and tarot. The zodiac team that does best will win prizes.” The events are set for Wednesdays in October. 

Reddit Round-Up

Posted to Reddit by u/auralcavalcade

Friendly Redditors named an imaginary Memphis Major League Baseball team (Memphis Junts, and Manes, for example), recommended Acre as a wedding venue, looked to open a chapter of a lock picking group, and sought help seasoning a wok, re-homing a kitten, and sourcing two-liter bottles of Diet Sundrop. They also reimagined the Pyramid as a huge mech fighter (see above).    

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MEMernet: Preaching Politics, MonoNeon Gold

Posted to YouTube by World Overcomers Church

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Preaching Politics

Federal law says churches could lose their tax-exempt status if they preach politics from the pulpit. That didn’t stop Alton R. Williams from unleashing a sermon called “Seeing the Election Through God’s Eyes” last week. 

In it, Williams painted Kamala Harris (and mispronounced her first name like Trump does) as a socialist, said the government is coming for people’s guns, that one political party (wink, wink) is letting immigrants in (including from the Middle East, which is “nothing but terrorists”), that “they” are setting the stage for a race war between Black and brown people, with abortion “they’ll kill a baby in a minute,” and just so much more.  

Maybe he mentioned Donald Trump over the hour-long sermon. We just couldn’t hang around that long to find out. But the “Why Trump?” section of the church’s website will tell you all you need to know. 

Any cops out there enforcing the Johnson Amendment? 

MonoNeon Gold

Posted to Facebook by Mononeon

MonoNeon gave Trump his unique treatment a couple of weeks ago and it’s simply amazing. The Memphis musician overdubs viral video clips with his bass. For example, Trump’s debate screed about immigrants eating pets transforms into a funky R&B thing with soaring background vocals. 

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MEMernet: Never Forget, Truth, and Doughty/Duck Dunn

Posted to Facebook by James Dukes

Truth

James Dukes (IMAKEMADBEATS) spoke the truth last week after threats shut down several Memphis-area schools.

“Sending our kids to school should not be like this,” Dukes said on Facebook. 

Never Forget

Originally posted to Twitter by Ryan Poe/Reposted to Facebook by Myrlon Lowery

The MEMernet remembered that 15 years ago, then-acting Memphis Mayor Myron Lowery fist-bumped the Dalai Lama and said, “Hello, Dalai!”

Doughty/Duck Dunn

Posted to Facebook by Mike Doughy

Memphis transplant Mike Doughty reunited with his band Soul Coughing recently for a tour. He found a little Memphis backstage in California. 

“Thank you to The Fillmore in [San Francisco] for providing Soul Coughing, as per the backstage rider, an original painting of Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn,” Doughty wrote on Facebook. 

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Best of Memphis 2024: Party Pics

Photos: Steve Roberts, Header Photo: MD Kawsar | Dreamstime.com

We came. We saw. We partied. That’s right: Last Wednesday, the Flyer held its annual Best of Memphis party at Railgarten, welcoming friends, family, and plenty of BOM winners to celebrate with us. Partygoers enjoyed cocktails and beer, feasted upon sliders and nachos, and danced to live music from Salo Pallini. Some even got to meet the one and only Michael Donahue. 

We thank all of our readers who nominated and voted this year, and give our congratulations to the 2024 BOM winners. Special thanks go to our sponsors for the evening: 1776 Men’s Grooming Parlor; Orion Federal Credit Union; Memphis Light, Gas and Water; Choate’s Air Conditioning, Heating And Plumbing; and Southland Casino Hotel. Now, please go on and enjoy our photographs from the evening, and never let the party die!

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MEMernet: MF’in Podcast, Weird Elon, and Propers

Posted to YouTube by Memphis Flyer

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MF’in Podcast

We have a video podcast! Wait. Does that make it just a talk show? Either way, we’ve been working on a new weekly … thing. It’s not polished up yet but head over to our YouTube channel for an early look. 

Weird Elon

Posted to YouTube my Elon Musk

Memphis businessman Elon Musk tweeted something just so weird last week, earning him millions of ughs and boos from every corner of the internet. 

Underground, indie singer/songwriter Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president with a picture of her cat (iykyk). This prompted Memphis businessman Elon Musk to tweet, “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.” 

Propers


Posted to Reddit by u/AlfofMelmac

Reddit user AlfofMelmac gave propers where they were due last week with a post titled, “Good job, MLGW!” The remnants of Hurricane Francine blustered through Memphis last week and the Redditor was “pleasantly surprised to see that there weren’t a whole lot of lights out on my commute, and not a ton of outages compared to prior big storms!”