The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers January 23-29.

The Memphis Grizzlies saw their losing streak continue as a late call thwarted a last-minute comeback and hopes for a win.

With their franchise future in doubt, Marc Gasol and Mike Conley led the Grizzlies to a 106-103 home win over the Indiana Pacers, breaking a season-long eight-game losing streak.

Retail operations within the Local Seed Co. umbrella is helping the Memphis agricultural firm build its customer base.

Court documents show the city of Memphis has been removed as a defendant from a civil suit filed by the mother of 19-year-old Darrius Stewart, who was killed in an officer-involved shooting in 2015. But the police officer who killed Stewart remains a defendant in the suit. 

The start of a Memphis Public Libraries lecture series on the city's bicentennial draws a standing-room-only crowd, while the Memphis Pink Palace museum prepares for a March opening of its own bicentennial exhibit.

A year after the state House of Representatives pulled $250,000 from Memphis' bicentennial celebration as retribution for the removal of Confederate monuments, local legislators are hoping the body is moving in a new direction.

From the first possession of the game, when UCF’s 7-foot-6 center Tacko Fall fumbled a pass around his ankles and that turnover became a fast-break layup for Memphis, the Tigers were in charge. They rolled to a 77-57 victory Sunday afternoon at FedExForum and remained a perfect 4-0 at home in American Athletic Conference play.

Mike Conley had 22 points and 11 assists, Jaren Jackson Jr. added 20 and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Indiana Pacers 106-103 Saturday night to end an eight-game losing streak.

Stonebridge Golf Course is to be sold on the courthouse steps after owners defaulted on their loan. 

The Memphis Grizzlies have put their chips on the table for a team rebuild, leaving fans to recall happier days and wonder about the future.

The rhetoric of the city's four elected representatives in Washington reflected their parties. But one voted with the other side on the last vote before President Trump announced Friday the end of the federal government shutdown.

Violent crimes – murders, rapes, aggravated assaults and robberies – dropped in Memphis and Shelby County in 2018, according to data released by the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission Friday. 

The owner of Germantown and Collierville Commissary fed federal workers affected by the government shutdown while planning for the opening of the Collierville location next month. 

Fred’s Inc. has received $156.1 million in cash plus $20.6 million for inventory as part of an asset purchase deal that has been completed with Walgreens.

Developers watch with interest what may become of the 180-acre Germantown Country Club, which they say would be a prime location for a well-planned, high-end residential development. 

A dozen local organizations rallied Saturday at Clayborn Temple in a follow up to last weekend’s Memphis Women’s March that focused on influencing the broad ideological course of state and federal government past the 2018 midterm elections.

In this week's Mailbag: Lots of questions on Mike Conley and Marc Gasol trades, the future of the front office, how to build around Jaren Jackson Jr., and more. 

Memphis lost to Temple Thursday night, 85-76, in a game that demonstrated that old basketball truism: You won’t win many games when you shoot 4.3 percent from deep.

Whitehaven creates its own energy in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream with Whitehaven Black Restaurant Week.

A second vote on Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris' proposal for a new Juvenile Justice and Education Center is expected to take place at the next Shelby County Commission meeting Monday. 

Economic and Community Development commissioner contends the state has enough resources on hand to make the Memphis Regional Megasite in Haywood County "shovel-ready."

A Memphis mechanical contractors association has filed a federal lawsuit seeking $500,000 in compensatory damages from Shelby County, claiming reverse discrimination.

Buddy Hield scored 26 points, De'Aaron Fox added 22, including a key 19-footer in the final minute, and the Sacramento Kings held off the Memphis Grizzlies 99-96 Friday night.

Penny Schwinn is scheduled to take the reins Feb. 4 of Tennessee’s education department, where she’ll oversee 600 full-time employees and work on new Gov. Bill Lee’s agenda for public education.