There are 20 article(s) tagged Cossitt Library:

• November 2024

  • Dorothy Walk sat firmly in Cossitt Library and changed the city

    She was arrested numerous times for participating in sit-ins, starting in March 1960 when she and others demanded access to library books.

    By Jane Roberts November 18, 2024

• July 2024

  • Memphis River Parks, contractor still fighting over 2020 wire fraud

    A nearly $400,000 scam has a local construction firm and the Memphis River Parks Partnership embroiled in a yearslong legal dispute. 

    By Samuel Hardiman July 29, 2024

• May 2024

  • AAPI Heritage Month Memphis returns with food tour, art exhibitions

    An Asian restaurant food tour, a Laotian happy hour and dinner, a night market and two art exhibitions are on the calendar for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Memphis.

    By Elle Perry May 01, 2024

• March 2024

  • The To-Do List: St. Patrick’s fun, Scorsese films and a JT album drop

    This week, an old Young Avenue Deli staple gets the band back together, Scarface offers a look behind the Tiny Desk and you can read books in silence at Novel. 

    By Bianca Phillips, Holly Whitfield, Chris Herrington, Kelsey Bowen, Elle Perry, Alys Drake March 14, 2024

• February 2024

  • The To-Do List: ‘Black Magic,’ Irish dance, old coins and blue bottles

    This week, Sean Murphy performs Crosstown soundscapes, percussionist Chris Corsano plays Goner and a break-up drama plays out at Elmwood.

    By Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Elle Perry, Holly Whitfield, Alys Drake, Christopher Wright, Kelsey Bowen February 23, 2024

• August 2023

  • The To-Do List: Water lanterns, Black art and LL Cool J’s hip-hop party

    This week, celebrate Robert Raiford’s memory at an outdoor disco, eat your way around the globe at the Germantown International Festival and take a peek inside Ballet Memphis.

    By Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Elle Perry, Kelsey Bowen, Rashod Cobb August 18, 2023

• May 2023

  • From cooking to jookin’: A look at library classes around the city

    There’s a lot to take advantage of at neighborhood library branches in the next few months. Here’s a look at some classes.

    By Jada Ojii May 29, 2023

  • Sound Bites: Talking falafel waffle and more with Eli Townsend

    Eli Townsend’s new Dos Hermanos Kitchen inside the Cossitt Library is where he feels he’s meant to be, except in the winters, when he’ll be running another place in Rhode Island.

    By Jennifer Biggs May 13, 2023

• April 2023

  • Muralist writes love letters in paint and ‘a lot of sugar’

    For artist Anthony Lee, the city is his muse, but his style is a compilation of his life.

    By Jane Roberts April 24, 2023

  • Chef Eli says Cossitt’s Dos Hermanos ‘meant to be’

    Chef Eli Townsend, formerly of Sage restaurant, is back Downtown, this time running Dos Hermanos Kitchen in the Cossitt Library. And getting there has been an adventure.

    By Jennifer Biggs April 19, 2023

  • Renovated Cossitt Library reopens today

    The long wait ends with more than 10,000 books, an upstairs performance space, digital studios for podcasts and a cafe.

    By Bill Dries April 11, 2023

• May 2022

  • City Council final vote scheduled on expanding term limits

    The Tuesday, May 24, council agenda also includes the second of three votes on a companion ballot question that would allow partisan primaries in city elections.

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    County property tax rate set, but budgeting goes on

    By Bill Dries May 24, 2022

• June 2021

  • How the library system thrived in the pandemic

    Director Keenon McCloy discusses the tens of thousands of calls the Memphis Public Libraries receives gets each year that have nothing to do with books. 

    By Eric Barnes June 10, 2021

  • Mysterious Cossitt Library painting recalls blue period for landmark

    The late 1950s or early 1960s painting of the Cossitt Library surfaced last month. It was set aside during a cleanup of the Downtown landmark, and the rediscovery marks a turn in fortune with a renovated Cossitt set to reopen in the fall.

    By Bill Dries June 09, 2021

• May 2021

  • Oh, snap: This week’s best photos

    It’s been quite a week for Memphis Grizzlies fans as well as lovers of art and, of course, barbecue.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 26, 2021

  • Mystery painting of Cossitt Library turns up ahead of fall reopening

    The painting shows the Cossitt Library shortly after or just before its 1958 renovation when the midcentury modern front of the landmark was added. 

    By Bill Dries May 17, 2021

• February 2020

  • Cossitt Library manager looks beyond books

    After a career blending tech and ministry, Shamichael Hallman is watching over renovations for Cossitt Library, a Downtown Memphis landmark with a complicated past.

    By Jared Boyd February 21, 2020

• January 2020

  • Reimagining Cossitt Library

    On Jan. 2, 2020, work to renovate Cossitt Library will officially begin. The project is scheduled to be finished in late September.

    By Shamichael Hallman January 02, 2020

• March 2019

  • Cossitt plans include lots of gathering spaces, arts and tech partnerships

    The $5 million Cossitt Library renovation could get started later this spring, with an emphasis on spaces for gathering and creativity within the walls of the city's first library.

    By Bill Dries March 28, 2019

  • Reimagining the Civic Commons representatives to gather in Memphis

    Memphis, as well as Chicago, Akron and Detroit, are all participating in the three-year, $40 million Reimagining the Civic Commons initiative. Their involvement follows the initiative's pilot in Philadelphia. 

    By Elle Perry March 25, 2019