Our photographers captured a range of emotions, from a toddler’s joy to the sorrow of firefighters grieving for one of their own. 

The awards ceremony returns Sunday, Aug. 28, following a two-year pause due to the pandemic.

“I have a career that I’m proud to say I’m making a difference when I can, and shine light when it needs to be shone,” Patrick Lantrip said.

Sports fans shared thoughts online of former Memphis Tigers athlete Emmanuel Akot’s exit, two Memphis producers celebrated going platinum and locals had a lot to say about Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert.

Memphis in May is eager to return to Tom Lee Park but cites issues with a lease and damage deposit lead to ‘uncertainty’ at its annual meeting.

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The unaudited Memphis in May annual report shows a loss as sponsorships and contributions dropped along with revenues from the record 2019 month-long event. The cost or expense of putting on the events was also up due to relocation.

The Halloran Centre will showcase the heyday of Royal Studios’ legendary musical history with the concert “The History of Royal Studios Narrated by Boo Mitchell.”

This week, view the sunset with your dog, watch 2016’s Best Picture Academy Award winner on the big screen and party hop between Grind City, Wiseacre and Hampline breweries.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools will honor late rapper Young Dolph and three other prominent district alumni at its annual Alumni Hall of Fame Gala Friday night, Aug. 26.

The upcoming festival is the first phase in a broader plan to bring regular live music to Grind City Brewing Co. 

Until recently, the building housed a Memphis Fire station and headquarters for the department.

A Nashville band with a very Memphis ethos and a keyboard player who has performed with The Rolling Stones, John Mayer and George Harrison are coming to the Germantown Performing Arts Center this fall. 

Take a trip down memory lane this week as we mark the 100th anniversary of medical care for Mid-South veterans, say goodbye to a landmark and relish the joy of old books. And folks at a local church share old-fashioned kindness with an Alabama congregation.

Through a new poetry program, Tennessee Shakespeare Company is helping “youth begin to see that they can manage conflict and that others have conflict, too.”

Memphis Grizzlies fans are weighing in on the team’s newly released 2022-2023 game schedule. 

This week, Cowboy Mouth brings roots rock to Railgarten, Black Lodge turns back time and Emerald Theatre Company tackles anti-LGBTQ sentiment with humor.

The show, based on the true life story of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, will begin production this fall in Memphis. 

Photographer Andrew Feiler traveled 25,000 miles to capture images, interviews and history connected to Rosenwald Schools, a program created in 1912 by Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington.

Perhaps few are as well-suited to be the head of Soulsville as Pat Mitchell Worley, co-host of “Beale Street Caravan,” former communications director of the Memphis Music Foundation, one-time hard rock DJ and protégé of Deanie Parker. 

The Morehouse College alumnus and former Wall Street speechwriter and communications executive served as a writer and producer on Issa Rae’s acclaimed HBO TV series “Insecure.”

Local fans can catch The Millennium Tour: Turned Up on Saturday, November 5 at the FedExForum. 

Including vintage pieces, like a dress designed by Coco Chanel, the “Sporting Fashion” exhibit also showcases information on trailblazing sportswomen such as sprinter Wilma Rudolph, equestrienne Esther Stace and pilot Hazel Ying Lee.

This week we learned that you don’t have to like golf to enjoy the FedEx St. Jude Championship. And the 1,550 volunteers who serve at the tournament exhibit a similar devotion to the team rolling and delivering burritos Downtown every week for 10 years. And we wonder if fashionista Mark Sandfoss owns any golf shirts.

Despite its smaller size and location — tucked away just inside the front doors of the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library — the bookstore strives to be “a community resource.”