The city needs sales-tax growth at Liberty Park to pay bonds at the Memphis Sports and Events Center. To generate that tax growth, it needs hotel and apartments to become something more than hypothetical.
A road trip in a van whose passengers included a member of a powerful Memphis family aided the search for the Tigers’ 26th head football coach. They agreed on someone Ed Scott had heard speak long before Ryan Silverfield left for Arkansas.
East Memphis liquor store gives license another shot, sheriff’s deputies will train under ICE and the cobblestones are finally restored.
The Grant family name has become synonymous with homebuilding and development with a number of relatives involved for generations.
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The dispatch center was useful in September 2021, when a shooter opened fire in a Kroger, and more than $800,000 worth of improvements aim to keep it “resilient.”
The Memphis Trousers Affair: One night in 1986, a former Australian prime minister endured his worst day in the Bluff City.
Park + Cherry recently debuted a fall/winter menu, and it’s full of seasonal goodness to take the edge off winter’s chill.
Also happening this week: MSCS holds a meeting on the possible closure of Georgian Hills Elementary School.
The commission votes on a resolution that asks County Clerk Wanda Halbert to cooperate with the regular audit of county finances. Auditors say Halbert isn’t cooperating as a Dec. 31 state law nears.
It didn’t take long after the Tigers tipped off against the Cardinals inside a raucous KFC Yum! Center in a 99-73 loss for one to wonder if Penny Hardaway’s team truly recognized the magnitude of the moment.
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O’Regan Creations — whose tagline is, “We would love to feed you” — has 39 banana bread flavors (with a 40th on the way), 19 honey-butter bread flavors, several pies, monkey bread, cinnamon rolls and other baked goods.
“Whether Chanukah falls in middle or late December, this is the season when long anticipated movies are released, including the second movie installment of the iconic Broadway musical ‘Wicked.’”
The present St. Patrick Catholic Church was built in 1905 but the congregation dates back to 1866 on the same property south of FedExForum.
As far as anyone knew, the greater chestnut weevil was long gone, a victim of the same blight that has killed an estimated 4 billion chestnut trees in the U.S. in less than a century.
When Evelyn & Olive closed in 2023, after more than a decade in operation, many assumed the hiatus would be brief. Even the owner.
“We can take ten thousand steps, but that last one — the moment when the wick claims the flame as its own — is always something of a tiny mystery.”
As he’s sworn in as West Tennessee’s top federal prosecutor, Michael Dunavant touts the achievements his office has made since his return in October.
This Memphis basketball game against Louisville paled beside past glories of the rivalry that goes back to 1949, long before the current Cardinals and Tigers were born.
Mr. Football winner Kelvin Perkins is named MVP — throws two touchdown passes and runs for one in annual match at Stokes-Alston Stadium at Memphis University School.
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The owner of The Station, a proposed high-end liquor store in East Memphis, will appear before the city’s Alcohol Commission next week to ask for a permit.
Beginning late Saturday night, temperatures in Memphis will free fall.
“Growing up, many adults in school and in church impressed upon us ‘character counts.’ Today, I wonder if the messages of character, kindness and respect resonate.”