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Two Memphis fire stations are fostering dogs in a pilot program with Memphis Animal Services that is drawing inquiries from other fire departments and requests from other firehouses in the city. The stay at the fire stations could be two to three weeks before the dogs are transported to other cities for adoption there.
I remember the days when Germantown officials would snicker and mock the antics of the Memphis City Council.
Questions on three city charter changes will stay on the Nov. 6 ballot. Shelby County Chancellor Jim Kyle denied Thursday a legal motion by critics of the referendums to remove them from the ballot as misleading and in violation of state law.
Here is the area high school football schedule for Friday night of Week 9. All games are at 7 p.m. unless noted. (Two games were played earlier this week on Wednesday. There were no games scheduled Thursday)
FedEx will hire 3,800 people in the Memphis area for the holiday shipping season, out of 55,000 additional personnel systemwide.
Memphis is about a nine-hour drive from Kingsport, but the city’s major topics were still on the minds of Tennessee’s two top gubernatorial candidates in the second gubernatorial debate, an East Tennessee event in which they sparred a bit for the first time.
Jonathan Cole is the founder of the blog placeatthetable.net and the Memphis Cooks Facebook group. The Midtown resident (and native Memphian) is a social worker by day and a home cook who likes to cook for sustenance and for fun (noodle around on his blog and check out his upscale adaptation of the bologna cake with Ranch dressing that periodically makes the Facebook rounds). We recently caught up with him to make a batch of soup.
You know what is unfair to Brady White?
Five significant changes are taking place at Poplar Plaza, which has a history of trying new things.
It would be hard to find a community service project more in FedEx’s wheelhouse than the assembly of holiday care packages for U.S. military personnel that took over the FedEx Event Center at Shelby Farms Thursday.
Keshawn Glover remembers hearing his dad talk about field trips to Craigmont High School’s planetarium decades ago, but last week the high school senior got to experience the school’s crown jewel for himself.
Three days before Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary was gunned down in Downtown Memphis, an impromptu meeting was called.
Finally.
The Memphis Tigers released the schedule for Thursday night’s long-anticipated Memphis Madness event at FedExForum, the christening of coach Penny Hardaway’s inaugural season.
It will be the Memphis sports moment of the year. It will be a moment that summons the past and embraces the future and celebrates the return of a favorite son.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Karl Dean and Republican Bill Lee drew distinctions on the question of automatic TBI investigations into police-involved shootings in their first debate Tuesday at the University of Memphis.
Derrick Rose brought down the house with a preposterous dunk. Rapper Rick Ross canceled on his first Madness visit but made it for the next. Gary Parrish won a chicken-wing eating contest, Larry Finch returned (after he was fired) to coach an alumni game and D.J. Stephens paid tribute to one of the greatest Memphis players ever by wearing his jersey for a dunk contest. All these things happened at Memphis Madness, which is what John Calipari renamed it sometime along the way. So here’s the complete and colorful history of the event, drawn from my notes, columns, memories and newspaper archives.
There’s no mystery upstairs. Apartment dwellers will occupy the upper floors of The Citizen, the $35 million, mixed-use development being built at Midtown’s most prominent intersection.
Construction should start the first half of next year on the $51 million apartment-and-retail development fronting Broad Avenue, the developer said this month.
The Tops Bar-B-Q experience with planting palm trees at its restaurants is not ending well.
The Zadie E. Kuehl Memorial Park in Lakeland soon will expand to include a dog park on land donated by the owners of The Pet Hospitals.
Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn is piling up conservative endorsements in the race for a U.S. Senate seat while former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen is downplaying the importance of such support, possibly a strategic move to garner moderate backers.
The final dance contestant was Yuta Watanabe.
Memphis fell to the Tulane Green Wave 40-24 Friday night in a game where the Tigers were favored by two touchdowns. Head coach Mike Norvell said the performance didn’t look like the product he has gotten used to the Tigers putting on the football field.
Welcome back to The Memphis 10, the only place where you'll find Marsha Blackburn and the Oblivians hanging out together.
Ray’s Take
Randy Boyd didn’t vault into a new job as the University of Tennessee interim president without opposition Tuesday.
Former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen said during the first U.S. Senate debate Tuesday night he would not vote for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer if elected, shrugging off criticism from U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn that he would be in the liberal New Yorker’s pocket.
The Barry Jenkins-directed adaptation of the James Baldwin novel “If Beale Street Could Talk” will screen as the centerpiece presentation of this year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival.
From time to time throughout this season, The Daily Memphian will convene a quartet of our writers, veteran Grizzlies watchers all, to bat around the questions of the moment. We’re calling it Turn Four, in tribute to the play call -- translation: get Z-Bo the bleeping ball -- that Lionel Hollins or Dave Joerger would call out whenever the Grizzlies needed to settle down and get a bucket.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has appointed former Memphis City Council member Harold Collins to serve as administrator and executive director of the Shelby County Office of Re-Entry, according to a news release Tuesday.
Memphis Tiger fans held their breath as sixth-year senior linebacker Jackson Dillon was helped off the field in the second quarter during the Tigers’ 52-35 win over the South Alabama Jaguars on Saturday.
FedEx marked departures of two lions of its 45-year history on Monday with standing ovations from shareholders and high praise from company leader Frederick W. Smith.
Three-star defensive end Cole Mashburn committed to the Memphis Tigers Saturday as part of his official visit.
Not very many people have spent a month on a working ranch sleeping under the stars, feeding cowboys three meals a day as they prepared the spring herd. Germantown resident and longtime FedEx employee Steve Gibson is one of those people, cooking from a chuck wagon in an atmosphere far removed from suburbia. “I love being out there and thinking about how it once was like – what were people doing back then and what was it like to eat back then?” said Gibson. “It’s quite interesting studying U.S. history. Everything cowboys are doing now is what vaqueros, descendants from Spain, were doing back then in Mexico.
Three of the four voting systems certified by the state of Tennessee for use in elections would enable voters to get a printed copy of their choices and then complete the voting process by running that printed copy through a scanner.
The Memphis Tigers enter their Week Four matchup with South Alabama wanting to build some consistency.
LYFE Kitchen at Chisca on Main Street Downtown has closed permanently, and Memphis-based Carlisle Corp. has sold the healthful dining brand to franchisee L3 Hospitality Group in Chicago.
Ray’s Take: According to the IRS, Americans gave more than $390 billion to charity last year and people in the middle to lower income brackets gave the most. You may find this surprising, but research has actually shown that the less someone earns, the more likely they are to give their money away to help others.
Palm Springs, California. Austin, Texas. Phoenix, Arizona. Wilmington, North Carolina. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Houston, Texas. Memphis, Tennessee.
P.O. Press Public House and Provisions, a new restaurant from chef Jimmy Gentry and sommelier Chris Thorn, will open this month on the Collierville Town Square. Gentry also owns Paradox Catering and Paradox Underground. We recently caught up with him to see what led the local chef to where he is today. We found out he does a spot-on impression of his former employer Erling Jensen and shares a love of big – and many – dogs with Jensen.
Head coach Mike Norvell is searching for consistency on both sides of the ball headed into Saturday’s game against the South Alabama Jaguars.
The Memphis Tigers drove down the field to the 2-yard line in the second quarter in the loss to the Navy Midshipmen. Head coach Mike Norvell dialed up an outside zone to the left on second and 1.
Neighborhood leaders and concerned citizens met at the Carrefour shopping center on Monday, Sept. 17 to discuss a proposed mixed-use redevelopment of the property at Germantown’s western border. The outline plans from property owners Cannon, Austin and Cannon were submitted to the Germantown Planning Commission earlier this month.
Editor’s note: Part one of a four-part series. We were asked to speak to the Memphis Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) on Sept. 13. The following is part one of our remarks. We share these as we believe they are important to all of us who care about Memphis. Remarks were written by Melvin and Pearl Shaw and delivered by Pearl Shaw.
It is a heroic adventure being an innovation practitioner. To lead an organization to where it is ready to flex its culture, business model, practices and management style requires the types of talents and skills that only metaphors can describe: the hunting instincts of a lion, the fortitude of a buffalo, the wisdom of an owl and the patience of a turtle.
About 18,000 times each year, the state of Tennessee suspends the driver’s license of a Shelby County resident for failure to pay traffic fines and fees, according to data obtained by the nonprofit advocacy organization Just City. A disproportionate number of those drivers are black, making the fines a social justice issue, said Just City executive director Josh Spickler.
As the city of Memphis prepares to mark its 200th anniversary, the Chickasaw Nation is finding the story of its origins in a part of the city Native Americans left 500 years ago.
At 4:43 p.m. Thursday afternoon, Memphis assistants Josh Storms (strength and conditioning) and Sherman Morris (director of recruiting), look at each other, realize they are sitting in the wrong places, stand up and swap seats. “He has to be on my right,” said Storms, as he settles into his place in the back of the conference room. “We do this every game. I’m not saying it has an impact on the result, but I’m not saying it doesn’t, either.”
Republican state Rep. Jim Coley is seeking re-election based on his efforts to stem human trafficking and bolster the community. But his Democratic opponent, Allan Creasy, contends Coley is a no-show in District 97, which includes parts of Bartlett, Lakeland and East Memphis.
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