If Tennessee’s restrictive new abortion law passes, legal challenges could move to the Supreme Court
Mississippi now has the most restrictive abortion law in the nation.
On March 21, one month after the bill was cleared in both the House and the Senate, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed the bill that will outlaw most abortions at about six to eight weeks, or as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be heard.
Recycling situation at the University of Memphis: microcosm of nationwide problem
People walking on the University of Memphis campus between the Meeman journalism department and the Tiger Den dining hall could not help but to notice the large green recycling bin with a sign that reads “Cardboard only.”
Despite the semester being well underway, it looked like the bin has not been emptied in weeks: cardboard boxes of all sizes overflowed from the top, and more recyclable pilled next to it.
Aldo’s Pizza Pie brings New York Style pizzeria to Memphis
Aldo Dean had a clear vision when he opened the first pizza restaurant in Downtown Memphis six years ago: Open a New York style pizzeria with an open kitchen.
There was only one problem: He did not know one thing about making pizza.
*I was part of a group a reporter that covered restaurants on Cooper Street*
The Tigers wrap up a record-breaking season
The women’s golf team made history last week as the Tigers finished third overall at the 2019 American Athletic Conference Championship; their best performance since joining the AAC in 2013.
The selection show for the NCAA Regionals will take place on April 24, and coach Beth Harrelson said senior Michaela Fletcher is expected to represent the university.
Memphis’ fifth generation candy maker
The Dinstuhl family opened Dinstuhl’s Fine Candies Company on Main Street, downtown Memphis, in 1902.
Since then, they relocated and opened other stores in the city, but the way the family makes their candies never changed.
Country Gardens Nursery trades pumpkins for Christmas trees
After a busy fall season at the nursery, Country Gardens begins a big shift toward Christmas.
Soon, over 4,000 Christmas trees of all sizes will be cut and brought in for sale.
The Tigers speak on the mental aspect of golf
As she walked toward her ball located in the middle of the fairway, she noticed how green the grass is here.
She set her bag down and listened to the birds hiding in the high trees.
Julia Matzat, a sophomore on the women’s golf team, looked at the white pin located in the middle of the green. She was about 100 yards away from the hole.
Spaghetti, family and everything that makes it tradition
I always thought that spaghetti, basically spaghetti sauce on any kind of pasta, was an Italian dish that trickled down to the French Canadian, Quebecois, culture due to immigration in the 19th century.
Poorer families in Quebec used pasta as a bed for anything. They threw in a large pot the fresh produces and meat they had at the time, added some seasoning, most likely salt and pepper, and let it simmer on the stove.
U of M. radio manager remembers Martin Luther King Jr.’s marches in Memphis
During the 1968 sanitation strikes in Memphis and the Civil Right era, Malvin Massey Jr. was a 12th grader at Hamilton High School.
Massey attended Hamilton Hight School and though the school itself was not involved in the Civil Rights movement, students rallied together marching for the same goal, Civil Rights. Massey said he and other students walked out of school to support Martin Luther King’s first march in Memphis on March 28, 1968.
Getting corny for the cause
University of Memphis student-athletes and Greeks participated in the second annual cornhole tournament organized by The DeAngelo Williams Foundation Saturday at Tiger Lane.
Over 100 pairs joined the “Throwin’ for a Cure Cornhole Tournament” during which the funds raised were used in the “We are Warriors” campaign to provide 53 mammograms for women in the Memphis area.
Catherine Levasseur 