Red Bull Dance Your Style debuts in Memphis
With impromptu choreography and no pre-chosen music, talent from Louisiana and Memphis competed Sunday using styles of jookin’, krumping, locking, popping and more with the audience serving as judges.
‘I went home for Mom’s 97th birthday — and the end of her grand, generous life’
“I drove back home to Buffalo to celebrate my mother’s 97th birthday. Instead, I was there as she died. It was the end of a grand and generous life.”
901 FC falls in San Antonio
But the Memphis soccer team remains in fourth and final playoff spot despite losing for the first time in nearly a month.
Penny Hardaway wants nine- or 10-man rotation; who makes the cut?
Hardaway says the toughest guys who play the right way will be the players who make that rotation. Here are some options.
Blooming business: Weekly service delivers flowers to your door
Flowers, which come from owner Eva Brewer’s garden in Millington, arrive in arrangements of gold, pink, red, purple and white zinnias, marigolds, cosmos and hollyhocks.
Professional rugby debuts in Memphis
Premier Rugby Sevens hosted the all-day tournament.
Desmond Bane, De’Anthony Melton are ‘X-factors’ for Grizzlies
Desmond Bane and De’Anthony Melton are off to tremendous starts this preseason, which will complicate Taylor Jenkins’ decision on a starter.
The Tigers have lost their edge and their way
Memphis doesn’t have time on its side, with Navy just four days away. Related stories: Tigers' fight undone by turnovers, missed kicks in loss to Tulsa
Event planners make COVID concerns a priority
For gatherings such as the Collage Dance Collective grand opening, and the National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Awards, keeping guests safe is paramount.
Metro
This Week in Memphis: It’s Elvis Week and golf week
Also happening this week: Ikea Way could get a new name, and Hattiloo opens new spaces.
Premium Arlington Incumbent school board candidates see challenges amid state policy concerns
Premium City of Memphis Ask the Memphian: When and why did Memphis install trolley lines?
Premium Health Care UTHSC reports vindicate controversial professor
Shelby County Newly elected commissioners will watch as outgoing board tackles school budget, jail plans
Business
‘We don’t have a healthcare problem. What we have is a funding and a payment problem.’
Local healthcare leaders and residents say care is challenging amid Medicaid cuts and changes to TennCare and the Affordable Care Act.
Premium Health Care UTHSC reports vindicate controversial professor
Premium Real Estate Former Cascades developer owes millions in unpaid loans, documents show
Premium Spirit of Memphis Surgical oncologist Dr. Martin Fleming takes after his father. And his son takes after him.
Business SpaceXAI sues contractor, alleges overbilling and fraud
Sports
Hill: NCAA rules will change story for Memphis football’s next Anthony Miller or Calvin Austin — and maybe the next Charles Huff
The NCAA’s roster limits axed one of college sports’ most compelling traditions: the opportunity for homegrown talent to grind their way from a nobody to a star.
Premium Geoff Calkins Calkins: Memphis needs more gang members. (The spandex kind.)
Golf Memphis golf tournament field set with almost 70 teeing off at TPC Southwind
Premium Sports Redbirds Recap: Memphis salvages series split with Sunday win over Nashville
High School Sports Former St. Benedict standout promoted to the majors
Food
Here’s the dill: Boss Lady Pickles gets a chance at Cordelia’s
Boss Lady Pickles is a participant in the Greater Memphis Chamber’s new Shelf Ready program, which pairs local small businesses with local grocers.
Premium Collierville At Bazaar in Collierville, a taste test is only the beginning
Suburbs
Incumbent school board candidates see challenges amid state policy concerns
With new four-year terms secured, several suburban school board members are focusing on the future of the municipal districts and hoping for fewer demands from the state.
Premium Real Estate Former Cascades developer owes millions in unpaid loans, documents show
Arts & Culture
Metal Museum’s Rust Hall design blends old and new
When the Metal Museum’s Rust Hall reopens in September, it will blend a deep local history with plenty of new features and uses.
Visual Arts Wall-to-wall art: Murals flow along both sides of North Memphis flood barrier
Opinion
Calkins: Memphis needs more gang members. (The spandex kind.)
Collierville Alderman Charles Hall touched a nerve recently when he called cyclists “the spandex gang.” Hall says he didn’t mean anything by it. But Geoff Calkins says Memphis — and the world — would be a better place if it adopted the principles of the spandex gang.
Premium Memphis Tigers Football Hill: NCAA rules will change story for Memphis football’s next Anthony Miller or Calvin Austin — and maybe the next Charles Huff
Podcasts
Outgoing mayor Lee Harris said state oversight will make Mickell Lowery’s job harder
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris talks about his eight years as mayor on “Behind The Headlines” and the challenges facing his successor, Mayor-elect Mickell Lowery.
The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more Pat Mitchell Worley on the legacy of Stax in Memphis
Games
Daily Jigsaw: ‘Suffs’ spotlights Memphis suffrage
Today’s puzzle features the bust of Mary Church Terrell, a Memphis suffrage movement activist and daughter of Robert Reed Church, said to be the South’s first Black millionaire. The photo was taken by Jonathan Mintz.