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Farmers were already barely getting by. The coronavirus and the resulting lockdown only made it worse.

This chapter in Woodbury, Connecticut helps out the community in a variety of ways and produces maple syrup to boot.

Pizzeria Trasimeno, in the former Elemento Pizza space, will open for takeout and delivery at Crosstown Concourse on Tuesday, June 2.The restaurant will be operated by Sabine Langer, the woman behind Global Caf, also located in the Concourse. Im very passionate about Italy, Italian food, Italian culture, Italian soccer, Formula One, she said.Langer said the buildings owners approached her about taking over the space. The restaurant, with its specially ordered pizza ovens, will still

When Adolphus Busch first added rice to Budweiser in 1876, its unlikely he thought his company would become the largest end user of rice in the U.S. or that almost 150 years later, the earth would face grave environmental consequences.But, at present, his company is working with Indigo Ag the agriculture-technology startup that fights climate change through sustainable farming practices to reduce waste and curb emissions. On May 28, Indigo Ag and Anheuser-Busch announced results

Today on Music Video Week, we look at Julien Bakers brilliant decade. Along with his Music Issue cover story about Memphis musicians coping with the pandemic, Memphis Flyer music editor Alex Greene compiled a list of the twenty best Memphis albums of the 2010s.Julien Bakers 2017 Matador album Turn Out The Lightsmade the cut.Baker got her start playing pop punk in Midtown before going solo in 2014. This early video gave us a sense of her power. Alone in a cavernous parking garage, she easily fills up the space with just her guitar and voice. Notice that this video is a one-shot. Its just her and director Breezy Lucia alone and live. In 2015, directorSabyn Mayfield created this clip for Sprained Ankle, the title track for her first solo album. Around the same time, Baker was the subject of a Memphis Flyer cover story by Eileen Townsend:If VH1 ever makes a Behind the Music: Julien Baker, it will play out something like this: A small girl with a big voice grows up in the far suburbs of Memphis. She works a night shift through high school, spends her free time hanging out at the skatepark she smokes cigarettes, plays hymns at her small church, and figures out an electric guitar in her dads living room. She forms a punk band with her friends. They call themselves The Star Killers and play all-ages shows in community centers and neighborhood pool houses. She gets a girlfriend, gets into drinking, gets some dumb tattoos. Starts touring when she isnt in school. Applies herself. Makes it to state college, where she records a lonely record. The record is really good. People hear the record, share the record, and she gets signed. Whats next is history.Bakers big break came with this spectacular performance on NPRs Tiny Desk Concerts series, which turned a lot of heads. Two years later, Baker recorded her second solo record, Turn Out The Lights, at Ardent Studios. This video by directorSophia Peer was shot in Memphis with a local crew that included Breezy Lucia, who had first introduced her to the world. Baker toured extensively with Turn Out The Lights, playing to festival crowds all over the world. Here she is at last years Best Kept Secret festival in Belgium. Baker found time to join her friends Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus in Boygenius, a supergroup of women singer-songwriters. Here they are at plying for Pitchfork in Brooklyn. Bakers latest song, Tokyo, came out on SubPop last October. Shes been doing livestreams on her Instagram account during the pandemic, and you might even catch her trying out a new song. Music Video Week returns tomorrow.

Music Video Week continues with a very special episode. Photographer Jamie Harmon has put a face on Memphis COVID-19 response with his quarantine portraits. His often haunting images have made appearances on CBS News Sunday Morning and the cover of Memphis Magazine. Junior is a band from Missoula, Montana which counts Harmons sister-in-law Carolyn Keys as a member. They asked their locked-down friends to sing along to the first single from their album Warm Buildings. Editor Marshall Granger created this video for Goddamnit by combining the clips with Harmons Quarantine Portraits. It captures the mood of our time perfectly. Stay tuned for more Music Video Week

Memphis parks and rivers are waiting for you this last weekend in May.

When a lost chihuahua needed to find his way home, the whole neighborhood was happy to help.

The president of the Memphis NAACP described the force MPD used to arrest a woman Sunday morning as excessive

Rumors that social unrest might spill into suburban Memphis surfaced Sunday asthe electronic retailer Apple took steps to close its store in Germantown.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Multiple people are facing charges after a second demonstration in downtown Memphis on Saturday night. According to a Facebook post from the Memphis Police Department, this began around 11:33 p.m. while police were trying to disperse a crowd in the area of Beale Street and Main Street. Officers gave an order for the