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Chris Herrington, Geoff Calkins, and Don Wade launch the Daily Memphian Grizzlies Podcast by discussing the Memphis Grizzlies’ surprising start and how sustainable it may be.
The Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee has elected Rev. Phoebe Roaf as its fourth bishop. Roaf, who will be installed in a consecration service May 4, is rector at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, the oldest African-American church in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, where she has served as the parish leader since 2011. Before St. Philip’s, she was associate rector for three years at Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans. Roaf, who earned a law degree from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and clerked two years for Judge James L. Dennis, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, worked in commercial real estate before pursuing a call to serve the Episcopal Church as clergy.
The Thanksgiving turkeys are not even in the oven yet, but Memphis has already had it's first dusting of snow and residents turned out by the thousands Saturday, Nov. 17, for the annual Whitehaven Christmas Parade and to welcome Santa as he choppered in from the North Pole to visit the Pink Palace and officially open the Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees.
Rookie Jaren Jackson Jr. scored a season-high 27 points, Marc Gasol added 19 points and 15 rebounds, becoming Memphis' all-time leading rebounder, and the Grizzlies defeated the Sacramento Kings 112-104 on Friday night.
A light wintry mix of snow and sleet dusted Memphis Wednesday, Nov. 14, causing some schools to close early, a wedding party to take cover, and the city and local businesses to take precautions as winter weather conditions threatened the area on a late fall day.
Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. has announced authorization of up to $100 million in common stock repurchases by Dec. 31, 2019.
The Seam, a Memphis-based provider of agribusiness software and trading solutions, has appointed two new staff members.
Joe Ingles scored 19 points, Rudy Gobert added 15 points and 16 rebounds and the Utah Jazz won their third straight, 96-88 over the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night.
Penny Hardaway is beginning his first year as coach of the Memphis Tigers — doesn’t that still seem surreal, reading it? — and Geoff Calkins of The Daily Memphian is going to write the book.
Jerry Lee Lewis' Cafe & Honky Tonk is hosting its 83-year-old namesake for a New Year's Eve concert.
The Daily Memphian’s Commercial Real Estate seminar featured Andy Cates, CEO and president of Brokerage Services for Colliers International; Blake Pera, vice chairman for ARA Newmark Memphis Multi-Family Office; Kemp Conrad, principal for Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors; Shawn Massey, partner of the Shopping Center Group; and Chance Carlisle, COO for the Carlisle Corporation.
Memphis-based Fogelman Properties has joined with a Dallas company to buy a 268-unit apartment complex in Jacksonville, Florida.
State and local officials gathered Thursday morning in South Memphis for the ceremonial opening of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s new Allen Combined Cycle Natural Gas Plant.
Local government and business leaders have joined together to propose new changes to the economic development process, which includes a new joint venture to oversee how the Greater Memphis Chamber and the EDGE board recruit new jobs.
Bartlett incumbent Mayor Keith McDonald and Position 2 Alderwoman Emily Elliott were returned to office Tuesday with easy victories in the suburb’s municipal election.
Vaco Memphis has hired three employees for its supply chain and logistics team. Andy Gliemann and Victoria McDaniel will lead client relations and business development efforts for the division, including building and maintaining relationships with clients throughout the Mid-South. Elise Ladley will connect top talent and industry leaders with job placements at supply chain and logistics companies in the region.
Incumbent aldermen Maureen Fraser and Tom Allen were elected to new four-year terms Tuesday with easy victories in the Collierville town elections.
Five top executives from five large businesses in Memphis participated in a panel discussion Friday on the importance of building and maintaining diversity in the workplace.
Susan Hadley Maynor, vice president of economic development for the Greater Memphis Chamber, was named president of the Tennessee Economic Development Council for 2018-2019.
Memphis attorney Marvin Ballin, founder of a criminal defense law firm that includes his son, daughter and grandson, died Tuesday morning.
Memphis’ RiverArtsFest celebrated its 12th year by bringing together more than 180 artists from across the country to the street celebration on Riverside Drive. The two-day artist market and urban street market moved this year from its usual home on South Main to Riverside Drive due to construction and street closures.
About 110 FedEx volunteers gathered in Memphis Friday, Oct. 26, to package more than 3,600 hygiene kits to replenish the warehouses of Heart to Heart International following a deadly tropical storm season.
Construction will soon start on the 161-unit Avenida Watermarq at Germantown, a senior-living development for residents 55 and older.
Memphis-based Youth Villages is awarding $10 million in grants to four jurisdictions to expand services for transition-age foster youth through its YVLifeSet model.
Trustmark Corp. reported net income of $36.3 million in the third quarter of 2018, or diluted earnings per share of 54 cents, up 5.9 percent year-over-year.
The Daily Memphian's Developing Memphis seminar featured Tommy Pacello, President of the Memphis Medical District Collaborative; Paul Young, the Director of Housing and Community Development for the city of Memphis; and McLean Wilson, Principal of Kemmons Wilson Companies.
Cindy Cleveland has joined Diversified Trust, an independent comprehensive wealth management firm, as principal and chief talent officer. In that role, she is responsible for talent development and working closely with executive management in the development of internal practices that align with the firm’s strategic priorities and culture. Cleveland has more than 19 years’ experience in human resources. Prior to joining Diversified Trust, she served as vice president of talent management and leadership development at First Tennessee Bank.
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University of Tennessee Health Science Center researchers Francesca-Fang Liao, John V. Cox and Brian M. Peters recently received grants for their work.
The Crosstown Concourse renovation is one of three national winners of the 2018 preservation awards bestowed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the trust announced Monday.
New Memphis has launched its first Educators of Excellence Awards this year and announced this week the five local educators who are the inaugural 2018 honorees.
Eva Schloss, the stepsister and childhood friend of Anne Frank, will speak at the Michael D. Rose Theatre at the University of Memphis on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m.
River Inn of Harbor Town in Downtown Memphis has been named the No. 1 Hotel in the South by international travel publication Condé Nast Traveler.
Authorities were on the scene Wednesday morning after an officer-involved shooting led to the death of a man on Stage Road near the Bartlett-Memphis border.
Memphis Police Department officers chased a vehicle matching the description of the truck fleeing the scene of Phil Trenary’s slaying and took two men into custody on Friday, Sept. 28.
Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary was shot and killed Thursday, Sept. 27, on Front Street south of G.E. Patterson near Central Train Station.
Tripp Thompson has been named president of FirstBank Investment Partners, a bank investment division with offices in Tennessee and North Alabama. He succeeds president Bill Reid, who's retiring next year. Thompson comes from First Tennessee Bank, where his 31-year career included managing FTB Advisors since 1999. FirstBank's new regional headquarters will be based at the TraVure office complex in East Memphis.
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.
The Memphis Grizzlies open camp on Tuesday, and in the pre-camp tradition, players, team officials and coach J.B. Bickerstaff took turns answering questions about the season.
The holiday hiring season is in full swing in Memphis, where thousands of people work to distribute products around the nation and world.
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