Also happening this week: The Memphis City Council will deal with November ballot referendums, and Ja Morant has a birthday.

Given how much music the city has produced, it’s not much of a surprise that the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll punches well above its weight as a music subject.

The mausoleum at Forest Hill Cemetery where Elvis Presley was interred shortly after he died in 1977 opens again to the public this month after being closed for the last seven years. 

For the month of August, Feast & Graze is doing a Sunday brunch pop-up at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. It’s everything you’d want in brunch, except the eggs. 

Four species of Asian carp have firmly established a home in the Mississippi River basin, and experts say they are here to stay. But one way to get the carp population under control seems relatively simple — eat them.

At age 20, Frankie Dakin became a Millington alderman in 2012. Now he takes the reins as Millington city manager, after working for Shelby County government.

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The 13% turnout for the combination of state and federal primaries and county general elections was the lowest in Shelby County since 2004. 

Bane and the district supplied thousands of backpacks, and the Grizzlies guard shared his thoughts on the team’s offseason. 

Collierville remembers the athlete whose achievements ranged from being named SEC Basketball Player of the Year and WNBA All-Star to bringing home Olympic gold, speaking at the Library of Congress, and a successful college coaching career.

The Halloween retailer will open two seasonal stores in the Memphis metro area in August. 

The Memphis theater group will present a series of free performances around Memphis and West Tennessee this fall. It will also host plays and other theatrical events at its newly renovated Tabor Stage throughout the year. 

The former MUS standout was in contention for a medal until the ninth of the ten events in the decathlon.