Speaking Thursday, Feb. 17, at the Frayser Exchange Club, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said the city’s chronic power outages during frequent storms is mostly about the trees that dominate the city’s landscape. Strickland says any solution to the continuing outages will be expensive.
“I built those houses,” said Henry Turley. “There’s nothing wrong with those houses that should cause the residents to have to move out.”
Trojans take away Fayette Academy’s offensive rebounding in semifinal victory.
At the noon Thursday, Feb. 17, filing deadline to get on the county primary ballot, there was only one contested Republican primary. But every incumbent Democratic official holding countywide office had challengers in the May primaries.
The Safe Community Action Plan is aiming for a reduction in violent crime and property crime over the next five years.
Douglass forward Tyler Johnson and Houston forward Anna Lee Avery as this week’s Daily Memphian basketball players of the week. The boys voting was the closest of the season.
The series will both examine “the ruthless intersection of sports, music and street culture” in Memphis.
“Everybody who knows me knows that I’m always going to mention where I’m from with everything that I do, because everything that I do is for the place that I’m from.”
A third man accused in connection with Young Dolph’s death has been released from an Indiana jail, and local authorities have issued an arrest warrant for him.
This week, Collage Dance Collective is back on stage after a two-year hiatus, artists from the University of Memphis’ student-run record label perform at Crosstown Arts, and prog-metal band Coheed and Cambria is at Graceland.
The University of Memphis will kick off the football season Sept. 3 against Mississippi State. North Texas and North Alabama are the only teams it is playing this year that were not on last year’s schedule.
Memphis muralist and painter Jamond Bullock curated the NBA team’s exhibition, which showcases artistic diversity in a variety of mediums.
The Grizzlies are ready to bring Memphis to Cleveland.
Tipton-Rosemark players end the regular season at the head of the class.
When Restaurant Iris reopens in East Memphis, expect a big, rollicking New Orleans-style place very different from the small Iris that started in Midtown.
During his visit to Memphis, President Donald Trump said that Memphis is a different place because of his Memphis Safe Task Force, praising the city’s leadership along with the Task Force while noting the declining homicide rate.
The Union Avenue landmark was demolished last Friday.
Standouts from Collierville, Lewisburg, Millington, MUS, St. Mary’s and St. George’s are up for consideration this week. Voting ends at 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 26.
Peach Cobbler Factory will open next month in the Memphis Medical District.
Collierville leaders already voted down a new Chick-fil-A, but it’s getting a second chance today.
“We should recognize the power of art as an ever-evolving representation of who we are as a city.”
“We should recognize the power of art as an ever-evolving representation of who we are as a city.”
Collierville leaders already voted down a new Chick-fil-A, but it’s getting a second chance today.
Today’s puzzle is Sam Bielich as the Medicine Man. The photo is provided by Bielich.