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Good morning, Memphis! ☀️

First things first: Happy National Chicken and Waffles Day, the one holiday where breakfast and dinner agree to share a plate. That's fitting, because this week a lunch spot gets a nighttime alter ego.

Here's what’s going on around the 901:

  • 💀 Marigolds, mariachis and a march down Main.

  • 🍸 Hard Times Deli has a nighttime twin, and it's throwing a party.

  • 🏈 The Tigers wear pink on national TV.

  • 🎺 A GRAMMY-nominated horn hits a small room in Crosstown.

  • 👻 Trivia time: one Orpheum seat is never sold. Guess who's sitting in it.

Let's get into it.

Events

💀 Día de Muertos Parade Marches Down Main Street Saturday

The Día de Muertos Parade & Festival is Saturday, Oct. 24. The parade starts at 11 a.m. at Court Square Park and heads south down Main Street. The festival runs noon to 3 p.m. at the Orpheum's Halloran Centre. It's free.

  • 🎶 Free show. GRAMMY-winning bilingual duo 123 Andrés plays at noon. Mariachi Guadalajara, Aztec dancers and the U of M Marimba Ensemble perform too.

  • 🌼 Ofrendas and eats. Expect community altars, face painting, art-making and food trucks, including barbecue tacos and gelato. Cazateatro, the Memphis Art Museum and the Orpheum put it on.

Register and get the details here.

Food & Drink

🍸 Gussied Up Throws Its Grand Opening Saturday in the Edge District

Photo: Daily Memphian

Gussied Up, a new bar and restaurant at 655 Marshall Ave., is throwing a grand opening celebration this Saturday, Oct. 24. It's in the same building as Hard Times Deli and shares its kitchen.

  • 🌗 Lunch by day, bar by night. Co-owner Harrison Downing calls it the "nighttime alter ego" of Hard Times. Hours are limited for now, so check before you go.

  • 🌭 Snack attack. The menu has cheeseburgers, corndogs made with Home Place Pastures hot dogs, and a bowl of gummy bears. Yes, really. Look up for the Pizza Hut-inspired chandeliers.

Read more here.

Sports

🏈 Tigers Go Pink vs. East Carolina Thursday on ESPN2

The Memphis Tigers host East Carolina on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 6:30 p.m. at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium. The game airs on ESPN2.

  • 🎗️ Think pink. It's the third year of the Breast Cancer Awareness and Health Care Appreciation game with the DeAngelo Williams Foundation. The Tigers legend started it to honor his mom and four aunts, who all died of breast cancer.

  • 📺 SportsCenter on Tiger Lane. ESPN's SportsCenter on Campus goes live from Tiger Lane from 4 to 4:30 p.m. The Tigers (5-2) want to bounce back after a loss at Tulane. ECU is 3-3.

Get tickets here.

Music

🎺 Memphis Jazz Orchestra Brings Terell Stafford to Crosstown Friday

Memphis Jazz Orchestra

The Memphis Jazz Orchestra plays with trumpeter Terell Stafford on Friday, Oct. 23, in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

  • 🎷 Big horn, small room. Stafford is a GRAMMY-nominated bandleader. He runs the jazz program at Temple University. Jazz great McCoy Tyner called him "one of the great players of our time."

  • 🎟️ Cheaper early. Tickets are $25 in advance (plus fees) or $35 at the door.

Get tickets here.

Daily Picks

🗞️ Other News Around the 901

🗳️ Ballot buddy. Early voting runs through Thursday, Oct. 29. Most of the 26 sites are open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday. Our Election Guide explains every race in plain English.

🏡 Germantown, 2050. Thrive Germantown 2050 logged more than 5,700 contacts with residents. Top worries were speeding, crime, housing and schools. A draft plan comes back to the public in June 2027.

🍎 Teacher's pet project. Denise Wilson, a 5th-grade math teacher at Winchester Elementary, is a top-10 finalist for Kleenex Heroes of the Classroom. She runs the school's food pantry. The winner gets $10,000 plus $5,000 for the school. Vote by Thursday morning here.

🥾 Trail boss. Bartlett just honored Dale "Greybeard" Sanders with his own day. At 91, he hiked the whole Appalachian Trail again to win back his record as the oldest to do it. It took 358 days and 71 falls. Read more here.

🧇 Waffle we do today? It's National Chicken and Waffles Day. The combo goes back more than 150 years. In Memphis, Waffle Mania on Winchester Road has made it its whole thing. Read more about the day here.

👻 Boo-k a room. Atlas Obscura picked 12 haunted hotels for a spooky getaway. The closest to us is the 1886 Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. See the list here.

🎓 Intern-ship shape. The City of Memphis is giving Rhodes College a $40,000 grant to place students in internships at local nonprofits. LeMoyne-Owen College got a matching $40,000. See the contracts here.

🖼️ Hot art. The Dixon's Hot Off the Wall art sale runs today through Sunday, with work from about 60 artists. It's free to shop. The 21+ Art on Fire party is Saturday, 7 to 11 p.m. ($95, or $75 for members).

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Trivia

👻 Tuesday Trivia

Saturday's Día de Muertos festival wraps up at the Orpheum's Halloran Centre. Next door, the Orpheum has a ghost story of its own. Vote to see if you're right.

The Orpheum's famous ghost, Mary, is said to have a favorite seat that's never sold. Which one?

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Out and About

🌙 Tonight in the 901

Trivia, karaoke, live music and more happening tonight around the Memphis metro.

Downtown

Midtown

East Memphis

Cordova, Bartlett & Lakeland

Germantown & Collierville

  • 🎶 Music bingo, kids eat free at The Half Shell (Germantown), 6:30pm

  • 🎶 Singo (music bingo) at Rotolo's (Collierville), 7pm

Millington

DeSoto

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