Work resumes for SugaShack music club on Beale
New music club will serve soul music and Southern food in a simple, brick building on Beale, just east of the entertainment district.
Topic: Beale Street
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June 2019
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Hip-hop community responds to loss of local landmark
Members of Memphis' hip-hop community weigh in on the loss of one of the genre's local landmarks, controversial nightclub 380 Beale.
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Budget votes breeze through City Council, Beale Street cover charge extended
The City Council stuck with a compromise 4% pay raise for police and firefighters and kept the city property tax rate at $3.19, but also extended a controversial cover charge for Beale Street on summer weekends.
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City Council could finalize 2019-2020 budget Tuesday
Two council members expressed concerns last week about the Strickland administration's "brilliant at the basics" philosophy, but that probably won't affect votes on a 4% raise for police and firefighters.
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May 2019
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A Memphis Music Road Map: The Early Years
This year is Memphis' bicentennial, but while there's been Memphis music as long as there's been a Memphis, you can't listen back 200 years. As a result, our three-part Memphis Music Road Map is a de facto centennial (and a little more) of sound. We tell a story of Memphis music's evolution one song at a time, from early blues and the Beale Street sound to the golden age of Sun and Stax and on to the contemporary styles of rock and rap. This first part follows the trail from W.C. Handy to the dawn of World War II.
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Downtown board cuts Beale Street hotel developer’s requested PILOT extension
A Downtown Memphis Commission board was not willing to let the developer of a Beale Street boutique hotel delay paying an increased payment-in-lieu-of-taxes to see if he could negotiate with the partners behind Union Row.
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Approval for The Clipper will expand Downtown’s core of skyscrapers
The planning board grants an exception to allow The Clipper hotel and office towers to be up to 275 feet tall, three times the existing limit near FedExForum and Beale Street.
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Beale Street $5 cover to return for rest of May
A city council decision to return to a Beale Street cover charge for the remainder of May reignited a long-running debate. It follows two crowd "surges" and a shooting after two sold-out nights at the nearby Beale Street Music Festival last weekend.
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April 2019
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Downtown officials confirm Insomnia Cookies is coming to Beale
Downtown officials have confirmed that Insomnia Cookies will become part of the mix in the Beale Street entertainment district.
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Closed Handy House at center of Beale contract talks
The Downtown Memphis Commission is negotiating with the tour company it forced out of the W.C. Handy House in February, while the musician's family continues to push for changes after years of complaints the property is being ignored.
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March 2019
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Beale Street Brass Note will honor Memphis-born Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin's Beale Street Brass Note was unveiled Sunday, one day before what would have been her 77th birthday. Her legacy was celebrated with a processional and tribute from local musicians.
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Handy Park renovation on Beale may start with Insomnia Cookies
The first construction for Beale Street's Handy Park renovation will create space to house an Insomnia Cookies shop.
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St. Patrick’s Day Parade rolls through Beale Street
Revelry rolled through Downtown Memphis as the Beale Street Merchants Association hosted their 46th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday afternoon.
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Memphis @ 200
A yearlong series of stories will chronicle the past, present and future of Memphis as part of the city's bicentennial celebration in 2019.
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January 2019
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On the scene at the International Blues Challenge
Bands and solo/duo acts from Memphis and Mississippi to the Mediterranean and all points in-between competed Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the annual International Blues Challenge on Beale. Competition continues through Saturday.
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December 2018
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Shelby County putting final touches on legislative agenda
Allowing sports betting on Beale Street and better implementation of the state’s standardized TNReady test are two of the Shelby County Commission's latest requests to the Tennessee General Assembly. -
GALLERY: Memphis holiday parade rings in season
The 2018 Memphis Holiday Parade on Beale Street in Downtown Memphis may have been delayed due to the late-running St. Jude Memphis Marathon on Saturday, Dec. 1, but it didn't deter thousands of Memphians from lining up to watch dancers, bands, floats, motorcycles and Santa usher in the holiday season.
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November 2018
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Opinions still buzzing over neon Beale Street archways
The Beale Street archway signs are loved by some and hated by some, but with nearly 1 million impressions in six months, there’s no debate. They work. For the past six months, Chris Porter, the local graphic designer who created the winning submission, has been keeping track of how many times the archways appeared in an online video or were posted to social media.
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September 2018
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City ready to re-institute Beale Street Bucks cover charge for security
The first weekend the Downtown Memphis Commission and Memphis Police Department considered reinstituting a cover charge on Beale Street did not occur. -
The Memphis 10 (Summer Edition): Aretha’s house, the ACLU trial, Craig Brewer’s movie, and more
Welcome to The Memphis 10, which, starting this Thursday, will be a (mostly) weekly collection of observations – commentary, criticism, news, links, songs, etc. – on the week in Memphis.
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