Festival season is coming into full bloom and this year it begins with a flurry of beer fests.

There’s a new fish restaurant in town, and it comes with a river view. In Crosstown, the new place is all about pinball machines.

Attorneys for rape victims suing the City of Memphis presented new allegations contending that kits were indeed destroyed.

Concerns about the nuances in the state’s pot legislation caused Horn Lake officials to opt out of the sale and cultivation of marijuana. But that decision may be temporary.

Bhan Thai is up for sale, Minglewood Hall set to reopen and new 120,000-square-foot warehouse is in the works in South Memphis. 

“For most of my long life, car crashes, cancer, drowning and sudden infant death were the leading causes of death for kids – not guns.”

Wanda and Chip Washington are back at work four months after their paired kidney exchange.

Jaren Jackson Jr. led with 28 points, and Kyle Anderson provided the big shot, but the Grizzlies lost traction in OT.

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Tamra ‘Chef Tam’ Patterson goes on ‘Chopped,’ shows everyone what you do in a BLT battle and brings the win home to Memphis.

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As head coach, Miller took MAHS, which is closing its doors, to the Class AA state quarterfinals in 2021.

Should we stay or should we go? The decision still lacks a dollar figure and relies on the MLGW board agreeing to let the council’s consultant get a look at the various proposals.

This could be the last time Jackson State plays in the game.

“This is not something we have taken lightly,” said Memphis COO Doug McGowen. “The world has changed and the Loews hotel is not coming. Those are two things that have caused us to act.”

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Lucy Elementary lies in Millington. It’s one of four Memphis-Shelby County Schools campuses affected by pending legislation.

Steve Mulroy said the ethnic makeup of the Shelby County District Attorney’s office does not reflect the city. Dist. Atty. Amy Weirich disputed this, saying her office has made an effort to increase diversity. 

If the team’s recent good luck and good management hold up, then the Grizzlies’ rock-solid foundation might make “this could be our year” a realistic, recurring mantra for the next decade. 

The Grizzlies’ win over the Phoenix Suns was a shining example of why coach Taylor Jenkins’ system works. 

The decision to consolidate more than 600 of its workers into a single Downtown workspace has been years in the making and not without its setbacks. The move took more than $50 million and three years to execute. 

It will take work, but Vernard Watkins could well be the man to return Central’s boys basketball program to its 1981 and 1982 glory days.

The new Manes on Main spring beer festival — the “mane” a nod to Memphis vernacular as well as the brewery’s lion logo — will include a hair and beard contest. 

While Arlington officials extended the gas station moratorium to the end of the year, aldermen started planning for a new Town Hall campus on property purchased a month ago.

Work has started on Ciao Bella as the longtime local Italian restaurant moves to Sanderlin Centre, just around the corner from where it all began.