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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Five significant changes are taking place at Poplar Plaza, which has a history of trying new things. Poplar Plaza was the first shopping center in the city – and arguably in the nation – designed to accommodate customers who arrive by auto.

The University of Memphis planned – and even promoted – this Saturday’s game against No. 10 UCF as a white-out event.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) is reviewing bids received Friday, Oct. 5, for the first section of Lamar Avenue’s long-awaited upgrade in southeast Shelby County.

A group of 50 protesters and a few dissenters outside the Peabody Place office building Downtown Monday evening played out the ongoing national debate over the Senate confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And it came with a brief tug of war over a megaphone at the rally organized by Ama Ehrmann that drew leaders of the Indivisible Memphis organization.

Coming from Arkansas, it looks like Oz.

You know what is unfair to Brady White?

Memphis’ homicide rate was the third highest among the country’s 50 largest cities last year, according to the FBI’s latest data. In 2017, there were 181 homicides in Memphis, 28 deaths per 100,000 people in the city, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting statistics released last month.

UCF quarterback McKenzie Milton has the Memphis defense preparing for the extraordinary going into this Saturday’s matchup at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. 

Jack Dyson was an iconic figure at Memphis’ most iconic restaurant, a 48-year veteran of the Rendezvous, the waiter to big shots and celebrities who took it all in stride.

Every once in a while, you just have to go through the ol’ notebook to touch on things that happened over the week, observations that weren’t big enough for a story or clear up some misstatements.

Nabbing a $10 deal at a Mexican restaurant for lunch doesn’t take much effort – go to just about any place in town. But Steak Monterrey at Las Margaritas in Cordova is heads above your typical tacos and tamales with rice and beans.

Mid South Prep Academy started in Memphis as an effort to give local youths a second chance at reaching college. Their schedule includes a mix of prep schools and junior colleges. Mid South Prep CEO Eric “Cowboy” Robinson once ran the most successful AAU program in the Memphis area, and is now taking on the task of expanding the prep school scene in the Mid-South.

Keshawn Glover remembers hearing his dad talk about field trips to Craigmont High School’s planetarium decades ago, but last week the high school senior got to experience the school’s crown jewel for himself.

One by one, police dashboard cameras malfunctioned that chilly night in Chicago.

The second annual Mempho Music Festival at Shelby Farms Park was so successful that organizers say they expect to expand the event in 2019. “Memphis deserves a world-class music festival,” Mempho founder Diego Winegardner said Sunday. 

During the decade-long Mike Conley and Marc Gasol era, a dearth of three-point shooting elsewhere on the roster has consistently plagued the Grizzlies. Only once in this stretch have the Grizzlies finished in the Top 20 in three-point attempts and only twice in three-point percentage, never higher than 17th on the accuracy front.

Darrell Henderson took the handoff, headed left, and what happened next was pure wizardry.

A night after relying on veterans for a home preseason win, the Memphis Grizzlies yielded to their youth.

The Memphis Tigers bounced back Saturday night from an uncharacteristic performance last week against the Tulane Green Wave 

The 73-mile Big River Levee Trail that runs between West Memphis and Marianna, Arkansas, is open to bikers and hikers for the month of October, the St. Francis Levee Board announced this week.