Category: Memphis

Central: The Best BBQ in Memphis⇢

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Larry Olmsted at USA Today:

With a big bustling outdoor deck along namesake Central Avenue, smoke everywhere, and a constant flow of people in and out of the main part of the restaurant, Central BBQ looks more like a Florida beach bar at spring break than your typical Southern barbecue joint. On busy days this is exacerbated by outdoor coolers filled with ice and beer, and maybe a whole hog in the portable smoker alongside the restaurant (the main industrial smoker, half in, half out of the building, is going around the clock). The staff, dressed in tie-dyed T-shirts, are more evocative of Ben & Jerry’s than other venerable Memphis smoke palaces. Central has a youthful vibe about it, and because it is a place to linger over beers and enjoy the good weather, it is popular with college students.

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University of Memphis Slashes School Paper Funding⇢

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Jody Callahan at The Commercial Appeal:

Backers of the University of Memphis’s student newspaper, The Daily Helmsman, are alleging the publication suffered a sharp cut in funding because of its controversial coverage of the campus.

A seven-member committee voted this spring to slash funding for the Helmsman by a third. Whether that action violated the First Amendment as several allege may be a matter for the courts; the claim is rejected by U of M administrators.

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City of Memphis Launches App⇢

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Bianca Phillips at the Memphis Flyer:

The app is not only free for users to download, it was also free to the city. Ashley Mooney of local Geospace LLC, the app’s creator, offered to create and run the app for free after he was stuck in traffic on Highway 51 during the 2011 flood. He said, at the time, that he wished there was some way to access city information, such as announcements about street closures, in app form. A few months later, Wharton was a guest on the Drake & Zeke radio show on Rock 103, and Mooney called in with an offer to create the app. The city followed up with Mooney and the app was born.

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University of Memphis Launches ‘Social Commerce’ Minor

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Dr. Marla Stafford:

This fall the University of Memphis will launch a degree minor in social commerce through the Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management in the Fogelman College of Business & Economics. Using core and emerging social technologies built on established marketing and communications principles, students will learn how to engage consumers effectively through technology-centric channels.

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“We developed this minor because so many businesses of all sizes and from different industries were looking for help in the area of social media,” said Dr. Marla Royne Stafford, First Tennessee Professor of Marketing and chair of the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management. “By developing a minor, we are able to create a program that covers a unique set of skills that can be utilized in a wide range of businesses. We believe that this minor will prepare students for effectively utilizing social media in their careers.”

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