This week, the Hi-Tone hosts a freestyle rap battle, Alicia Keys is at FedExForum and yoga meets plant-based cheese at Crosstown Concourse.

Emerald Thai in Lakeland is one of the Memphis area’s Thai gems.

“I’m going to ask is that everyone uses sensible measures to conserve electricity where and when you can, irrespective of electrical outage,” MLGW’s McGowen said.

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Jarveon Hudspeth’s family gathered outside 201 Poplar Thursday to ask for additional information to be released about his death. 

A scheduling hearing led to two dates being labeled as the next steps in the civil suit involving Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant and a fight during a pickup basketball game.

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Fewer than 4% of people that applied received Harvard University’s 2023-2024 Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. One of those who did is a U of M professor.

An internationally known wedding band will play Growlers, two Memphis favorites play the Overton Park Shell, neo-soul and rap royalty play FedExForum, and a Texas band with a 50-year history will rock the Orpheum Theatre.

The MSCS school board discussed superintendent qualifications and additional considerations with Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates president Max McGee.

A Memphis chef’s nacho dessert was mentioned in Food Network Magazine, and a wine bar coming to Southaven has drinks on tap. 

Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming care for minors was mostly blocked Thursday, June 28, the latest in a string of decisions against anti-trans laws in at least four states.

Welcome back to On The Ballot, where we have five quick topics today, including a hot one for this hot week: Memphis Light, Gas and Water.

Hampton Hopkins most recently served as president of Carolinas College of Health Sciences in Charlotte, where he planned a relocation for the college and a $4.5 million renovation.

“Some of those people who’ve reoffended ... there’s a small percentage of those that, I guess, maybe, we need to give up on and just talk about long-term incarceration,” Mulroy said. “But I think for a lot of them, there is a chance for rehabilitation.”

MLGW needs to clear about 1,400 miles of vegetation each year to maintain its tree-trimming schedule; in the past four years combined, however, it hasn’t been able to meet that goal.

In additional Shelby County Circuit Court filings, Ja Morant’s father and additional witnesses provide further accounts of the fight that occurred between the Memphis Grizzlies star and a local high school basketball player during a pickup game last summer.

The holiday period is Thursday, June 29, to Wednesday, July 5, with the peak expected to be Friday, June 30, when more than 10,000 people are expected to pass through the checkpoint.

The Southaven Police Department has earmarked almost $92,000 in new technology equipment to help the department in its work.

Robert Dozier, who has played for four NCAA Tournament teams and around the globe, will be back to town in July to play in the Big3.

A weekend pool party in Germantown’s Oakleigh subdivision brought a mass of complaints to the suburb’s leaders and a demand that the city thwart such events.

Draper has released his first book, “The Winning Language,” hoping to help others excel in any endeavors they pursue. 

MLGW President and CEO Doug McGowen said the roughly 30,000 customers still without power Wednesday could be without power for days, as triple-digit temperatures sweep the region.

For a time, Doris Bradshaw walked miles around the neighborhood nearly every day, telling her neighbors about the toxins at the Defense Depot — arsenic, lead, mercury and a host of other chemicals — that seeped into their soil and water. Within the first year, Doris had organized a group of about 1,500 people. 

Morris participated in spring practices and was expected to battle for one of the open starting tackle positions. 

The wheel-tax hike’s approval on a 9-4 vote ends the county’s budget season with the financing in place for three landmark capital projects.

A self-service wine bar is coming to Southaven’s mixed-use development, Silo Square.