A former golf pro turned chef will be serving creative Mexican dishes next Monday at Cooper-Young’s Celtic Crossing.

As late as the spring of 2022, a letter was filed with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development, indicating a plan to build a Hard Rock Hotel at 326 Beale St.

Although enforcement of the state’s Adult Entertainment Act is under a temporary restraining order until June 6, organizers of this year’s Memphis Pride Festival say they’ve made some changes to the entertainment to ensure performers’ safety.

The Tigers big man, who previously thought his college career was done, looks to gain an additional year of NCAA eligibility.

A neighbor saved the Burke’s Book Store aluminum sign from demolition heap. It spent the last 16 years on her back fence, and now it’s coming back. 

A man has been detained after two 4-year-olds, a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old were killed in a fire in South Memphis. 

Germantown Middle’s principal will go back to Collierville’s school district, where she previously taught sixth grade.

A man hired by Sephora in Olive Branch has filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission saying the company unfairly dismissed him after discovering his 10-year-old criminal conviction.

John Materna, 76, died on Monday, May 29, two weeks after he was shot during a May 15 robbery while selling watermelons at Homer Street and Wayne Avenue in The Heights neighborhood.

Executive director Steve Ehrhart said he’s thrilled with the scheduling details for Memphis’ postseason college football game, which is televised by ESPN.

Another Memphis in May International Festival is in the books, and most of the Daily Memphian readers who responded to a social media poll were happy with the return to the river.

The Tigers will start the 2023 season with three straight evening games.

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At a new party this June, you can snack on McDonald’s fries while also sipping a glass of wine (or beer).

Incarnate Word coach Shane Heirman has a special relationship with Jaren Jackson Jr.’s family. He believes “this is just the beginning” for the Grizzlies big man. 

The man is charged with aggravated robbery, carjacking, two counts of aggravated assault on a first responder, employment of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony and evading arrest in auto. 

In this edition of Inked, The National Civil Rights Museum expansion gets a foundation, Tesla will expand its charging station on Park Avenue and there will be a new Starbucks on Winchester.

In a crowded mayoral race where a plurality will win, the former mayor is staking his claim to being tough-on-crime. 

“I do keep telling myself that, 100 years from now, this will be another great Calvary story in the lore.”

ALLMemphis and Memphis Black Arts Alliance announce new additions. 

Earlier this month, the FedEx ALPA Master Executive Council, the union which represents the pilots, announced its members had voted to strike if necessary to achieve a new labor agreement.

The original service zone of Downtown and New Chicago was expanded to include Presidents Island and areas of South Memphis.

Memphis Police officers were responding to a call about a carjacking of a Chevrolet Trailblazer in the 700 block of Eastern Drive. 

The new center honors the legacy of internationally known nurse theorist Margaret A. Newman, a native Memphian and UTHSC alumna and former faculty member who died in 2018.