Memphis Flyer Radio

The Questions Issue! What's up with the blue statues on the V&E Greenline? Should I be worried about all the copperheads in Overton Park? We dug deep to answer questions from our readers this week. Jesse Davis talks about two new books about Mississippi. Bruce VanWyngarden reminds us Republicans are still out there loving Trump.  

Strickland's piece for a new chief of the Memphis Police Department. Eletric cars. MEMernet and more. 

MEMernet: Loki and the TVA? New protections against COVID-19 for those in jail. Porchfest heads to Cooper-Young. A long look at the ever-changing Riverside Drive. Grizzlies. And a new grocery store — South Point Grocery — heads to South Main. 

Wingin' it! Our cover this week is all about chicken wings. Frank Murtaugh talks about the University of Memphis winning the NIT and the upcoming Redbirds season. Jackson Baker talks about the name change coming for the federal courthouse Downtown. MEMernert. News. And more! 

Good news on the vaccine front. Bruce VanWyngarden talks about that Vanity Fair article that had everyone in a tizzy last week. Chris McCoy tells us about the Oxford Film Festival and 5,000 Space Aliens. Sam Cicci gets us caught up on the ever-building roster over at Memphis 901 FC. 

Chris McCoy goes behind the scenes of the new Coming 2 America film, directed by Memphis filmmaker Craig Brewer. Bruce VanWyngarden talks springs renewal and why folks should get the COVID-19 vaccine. We talk the coming mosquito season with a Shelby County Health Department official. 

Michael Donahue talks about FreSol and Papi's Tennessee Pepper Sauce. Jackson Baker describes his six-hour journey through the COVID-19 vaccination line to get to the Pipkin Building. Chris McCoy tells us about a new Netflix show — Buried by the Bernards — that is based on a Memphis family's funeral home business. In news, the Memphis City Council wants to know if any city employees were at the U.S. Capitol riot last month. A local group — Psilo — pushes the county to decriminalize psilocybin, the magic ingredient in magic mushrooms. 

20<30 (20 Under 30) is in its 12th year at the Memphis Flyer. It's our annual celebration of the city's younger people who are living and working to make Memphis a better place. Our 20<30 classes are always impressive but this year's class is a unique treasure trove of talent in industries that vary from law, politics, arts, healthcare, activism, fashion, and much more. We'll hear directly from some of our 2021 class of 20<30 in this episode. 

Clean Memphis and others have joined to reduce the city's food waste by 50 percent in 2030. Bernie Sanders sat through Memphis-made memes too many to count in MEMernet. Chris McCoy, our film and television editor tells us that the Sundance Film Festival has arrived in Memphis this year and talks about filmmaker Kentucky Audley's Memphis roots.   

A very Presidential episode of Radio Flyer. Our staff discusses Joe Biden's inauguration and what may come next in the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. News, MEMernet, and picks from our calendar.  

Flyer editor Bruce VanWyngarden talks about the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the final days of the Trump Adminstration, and magical thinking. Poltics editor Jackson Baker talks about Bob Corker's "I told you so tour," his own experience inside the Tennessee State Capitol when it came under attack by an angry mob in the 1990s, and why it took so long for so many in the GOP to get off the Trump Train. Christen Hill talks about the difference in the Capitol attack and the Black Lives Matter protests there.