Mary J. Blige tour set to hit Memphis
The 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s concert will also include singers Ne-Yo and Mario.
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The 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s concert will also include singers Ne-Yo and Mario.
Raised by Sound Fest returns. Also, a celebrated bluegrass singer-songwriter-guitarist plays two nights and Jhene Aiko’s tour brings heavy hitters to the FedExForum.
The City of Memphis plans to invest additional resources Downtown — including almost 200 more cameras — to make the area safer.
The Memphis Grizzlies announced that two of their courts will recognize late basketball operations president Jerry West.
FedEx exec Richard Smith says this is a critical moment for Downtown Memphis — and the Grizzlies, FedExForum and Beale Street may be the key.
Pepsi finally leaves the arena and Grizz fans can now chow down on tacos from a prolific local chain — or spring for a Southern picnic package in the suites.
The City of Memphis and the Grizzlies are eyeing widespread security enhancements and changes Downtown.
The university is in the process of finalizing a two-year extension of its FedExForum lease agreement with the Grizzlies, new Tigers athletic director Ed Scott confirmed.
The Shelby County Commission approved changes to the Shelby County Private Act, which governs how Shelby County hotel-motel tax dollars are allocated.
The procedural vote follows months of negotiations that ended with a hotel-motel tax being split between Memphis Tourism and the Memphis Grizzlies.
On Tuesday, the Memphis City Council is scheduled to amend the existing budget so the city can pay the Grizzlies; the payment was not part of the budget when it passed last summer.
A crooner comes to Midtown’s Minglewood Hall, two FedExForum concert include star music acts with Memphis roots, a Black country music revue graces the Overton Park Shell and the Shell gets its first electronic-dance event.
With the passage of both bills Monday, attention can now shift to local governments receiving the needed approvals to allocate the funding.
Senate Bill 2711, sponsored by state Sen. Brent Taylor, was held during the Tennessee Senate’s session Wednesday morning.
A new deal has been struck to fund the FedExForum renovations, according to a draft agreement obtained The Daily Memphian.
A bill to complete the financing remains pending at the Tennessee General Assembly.
Sports authority board approves part of $550 million in planned renovations to FedExForum and provides a look at the upgrades the Memphis Grizzlies are planning.
The bill that would help fund FedExForum renovations by allowing Shelby County to reallocate hotel-motel tax dollars to the project cleared its first legislative hurdle on Wednesday, March 27.
With Mary Ellen Rogers unable to go for Friday’s NCAA Tournament games in Memphis, Gene Bailey puts on the stripes.
Nebraska fans packed FedExForum on Friday for the NCAA Tournament, but the program’s long run of March agony continued against Texas A&M. Top-seeded Houston cruises against Longwood in 1st round of NCAA Tournament Texas A&M overpowers Nebraska to advance in NCAA Tournament Clemson crushes New Mexico to win first NCAA Tournament game since 2018Related stories:
The eight NCAA men’s basketball teams in Memphis for the NCAA Tournament are in action today.
A man was shot at an apartment complex near FedExForum Friday morning, March 22, just hours before Memphis is set to host first-round games in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
The Cougars, the No. 1 seed in the South Region, have never won a NCAA title in the history of their program.
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution Monday that would cap the amount of hotel-motel tax funding Memphis Tourism receives, according to a resolution handed out to the media Monday, March 18.
State Sen. Brent Taylor told The Daily Memphian Monday morning that he is working on a bill allowing Shelby County to reallocate hotel-motel tax funding to cover the public financing gap for the Downtown Memphis arena’s renovations.