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Germantown I remember the days when Germantown officials would snicker and mock the antics of the Memphis City Council. -
State Government Chamber chairman disagrees with Harris’ request for public input on Trenary’s successor
Greater Memphis Chamber chairman Richard Smith says the organization welcomes input from local elected officials on the process of replacing its president and CEO, but the Chamber does not need to make it a public process. -
Shelby County Federal oversight over Shelby County juvenile court hangs in balance
The Shelby County Commission and Mayor Lee Harris have taken steps to show the U.S. Department of Justice there has been a change in the approach on Shelby County Juvenile Court issues. -
Memphis Tigers Football Henderson’s big day isn’t enough for Tigers to hold on against UCF
By the end of the first quarter, Memphis running back Darrell Henderson had rushed 12 times for 115 yards and a touchdown. Whatever the team’s fate Saturday against No. 10 UCF, there was not going to be any chance that second-guessers could point to the nation’s leading rusher not getting the ball enough. -
Public Safety Memphis police beef up patrols after three interstate shootings
As Memphis police call for extra patrols after three recent interstate shootings, there have been at least six other roadway shootings this year. -
Collierville Dinstuhl’s opening Collierville location just in time for holidays
Things are about to get a whole lot sweeter in Collierville as Dinstuhl’s Fine Candy Company returns to town with the opening of a new store in the Poplar Square retail center. -
Business Mindset to grind: Local podcast highlights female entrepreneurs
There is a new podcast in town that highlights entrepreneurs, specifically female business owners. Grindset, which launched Sept. 28, targets female professionals with a “mindset to grind.” -
Business Hu.Hotel Memphis blends quirky charm with heavy dose of TLC
A Downtown boutique hotel at 79 Madison, formerly known as the Madison, is on the rebound after nine months of renovations and a public relations battle royale with a pair of local artists. -
Health Care Course seeks to reignite medical students’ passion to make a difference
After a day full of classroom instruction, clinicals and homework, medical students started to fill the Church Health community room at Crosstown Concourse the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 3. -
Reviews Gary Williams does it again: Krewe of DeJavu is familiar fare
Gary Williams can cook and Memphians know it: We’ve been eating his mashup menu of Creole, soul and vegan food for 10 years now. But there have been some ups and downs – including a complete shutdown – in that time. -
City of Memphis Memphis firehouses start pilot foster dog program
Two Memphis fire stations are fostering dogs in a pilot program with Memphis Animal Services that is drawing inquiries from other fire departments and requests from other firehouses in the city. The stay at the fire stations could be two to three weeks before the dogs are transported to other cities for adoption there. -
Performing Arts PRIZM Ensemble starts workshop to help local students audition for college programs
Four years after Lecolion and Carina Washington founded PRIZM Ensemble in Memphis, the organization launched the PRIZM Music Camp & International Chamber Music Festival. In 2013, PRIZM launched its after-school mentoring program, PRIZM in the Schools, and in 2015 it began OMusic Project, which serves Orange Mound. -
Performing Arts Levitt Shell executive director stepping down after 10 years
After 10 years and 500 shows, Levitt Shell executive director Anne Pitts is stepping down. -
Real Estate Board approves 179-acre, mixed-use project at Colonial Country Club
A $300 million development plan that includes one of the city’s largest residential projects in the last 40 years received approval from a planning board on Thursday. -
Public Safety Lawsuit filed against city, police after man’s body was left in van for 49 days
Attorneys representing the family of the man whose body was left in a van for seven weeks at the Memphis Police Department impound lot have filed a wrongful-death and negligence lawsuit against the city of Memphis and police director Michael Rallings. -
Geoff Calkins Calkins: UCF obnoxious? Nah, just dumb.
You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers, about Memphis vs. UCF. -
Visual Arts The Dixon, Fogelman Galleries explore political printmaking in new exhibitions
Memphis art connoisseurs interested in the intersection of printmaking and social issues are in luck this fall. The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is presenting three exhibitions examining political printmaking. -
Chris Herrington Montgomery to Memphis
If you want to really know your country, Memphis is a good place to start. Artists such as Howlin’ Wolf and Elvis Presley brought American culture together and sent it around the world from a studio only steps from where a slave trader was celebrated in a city park. Martin Luther King Jr. marched for economic justice, climbed to the mountaintop, and was taken by an assassin’s bullet, all within a triangle separated by a couple of miles. -
Memphis Tigers Football Tigers try to treat nationally ranked UCF as simply the next game on the schedule
Just because 10th-ranked UCF is headed to town this weekend has not caused Memphis to change its focus from the normal, daily routine. Preparing for the Knights (5-0, 2-0 American Athletic Conference) involves learning from past mistakes and following a process three years in the making. -
Shelby County Some Mid-Southerners vacationing on Gulf Coast plan to ride out Hurricane Michael
Thousands of Mid-Southerners visiting the Gulf Coast on fall break have decisions to make about heading back home or riding out Hurricane Michael, which will make landfall in the Florida Panhandle within hours as a life-threatening Category 4 storm. -
Recipes In the Kitchen With: Jonathan Cole
Jonathan Cole is the founder of the blog placeatthetable.net and the Memphis Cooks Facebook group. The Midtown resident (and native Memphian) is a social worker by day and a home cook who likes to cook for sustenance and for fun (noodle around on his blog and check out his upscale adaptation of the bologna cake with Ranch dressing that periodically makes the Facebook rounds). We recently caught up with him to make a batch of soup. -
City of Memphis Bellefonte-powered MLGW pitch generates doubts, questions
The former chief operating officer of the Tennessee Valley Authority wants Memphis Light Gas and Water Division to drop TVA as its electrical power supplier in five years. -
Bartlett Thistle & Bee helps victims of human trafficking rebuild their lives through beekeeping
When most people think of bees, they may think of honey, beeswax and maybe even the cute little character on a box of Honey Nut Cheerios. Not Jordan Boss. She sees bees as a way to help those in need of therapeutic peace. Boss is executive director of Thistle & Bee, a nonprofit organization that helps women who have escaped human trafficking and prostitution. -
State Government Bredesen’s quandary gives points to Blackburn
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Congressman Marsha Blackburn must have been sitting back laughing as she pounded former Gov. Phil Bredesen for postponing his stance on the Kavanaugh nomination. -
Education Modern manufacturing inspires the next generation
Last Friday, a group of students from Bolton High School toured Competition Cams Inc., a Memphis-based manufacturer of performance camshafts and other valve train parts. At the beginning of the tour, feet were dragging and yawns were contagious, but as students moved through the production process and more machinery came into play, they began to ask questions.
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