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The shotgun house at Beale and Fourth has a new commitment by the city to promote W.C. Handy's music more than a century after he puts the blues on sheet music and spread the music form around the world.
The W.C. Handy House and Museum in the Beale Street entertainment district will reopen Saturday with a parade and live music.
The veteran nightclub operator who came to Memphis four years ago in a partnership to run the New Daisy theater on Beale Street says he is out of the partnership but hopes the venue can reopen soon.
Steven Adelman is accused of bouncing a $19,000 check for a show at the New Daisy Theatre, which has been closed since January.
The South's first black millionaire was remembered Tuesday, on what would have been his 180th birthday, with a Beale Street parade where the heart of his business empire once stood.
New music club will serve soul music and Southern food in a simple, brick building on Beale, just east of the entertainment district.
Members of Memphis' hip-hop community weigh in on the loss of one of the genre's local landmarks, controversial nightclub 380 Beale.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Downtown officials have confirmed that Insomnia Cookies will become part of the mix in the Beale Street entertainment district.
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.
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.
The first construction for Beale Street's Handy Park renovation will create space to house an Insomnia Cookies shop.
Revelry rolled through Downtown Memphis as the Beale Street Merchants Association hosted their 46th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday afternoon.
A yearlong series of stories will chronicle the past, present and future of Memphis as part of the city's bicentennial celebration in 2019.
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.