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    Feast & Graze owner joins with cousin to open Poplar Plaza store

    They offer charcuterie boards, sandwiches, salads and healthful drinks at the new Feast & Graze X HighP Hour Wellness. Guests can grab food to go or relax and spin vinyl records while they eat.

    By Jennifer Chandler December 01, 2024
  • Midtown

    After 7 years, florist leaves Downtown space for Overton Square

    Premier Flowers’ owner said she loved being Downtown, but ongoing break-ins and vandalism coupled with constant parking issues contributed to her decision not to renew her shop’s lease this fall.

    By Aisling Mäki December 01, 2024
  • Neighborhoods

    Stitch by stitch, stroke survivor finds ‘new beginning’ in quilting

    With a steady hand and a needle and thread, Rose Wheeler taught herself patience again. 

    By Laura Testino December 03, 2024
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    Idlewild’s bell tower will glow again, this time in two-tone LED light

    The switch will be flipped Dec. 4 at the church. “From that point forward, it will be a lit beacon of our hope — of Christ’s love — from the heart of Midtown,” Rev. David Powers said.

    By Jane Roberts December 03, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    Mississippi River towns seek to fund flood-damage recovery

    Mayors along the Mississippi River have watched as intensifying rain storms and floods wreak havoc. This fall, the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative announced a new pilot program to help river towns better recover.

    By Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk November 30, 2024
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    Buckman’s biggest-ever Memphis investment is portal for innovation

    “We would like to have to be first choice for the new chemical engineers, data scientists, chemists that are coming out of the local universities,” said the company’s CEO. “We also hope to attract talent from around the country and perhaps even around the world to come to Memphis.”

    By Jane Roberts December 04, 2024
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Volunteers feed thousands in Pinch District on Thanksgiving Day

    First-time and veteran volunteers spent two days cooking and prepping enough food for more than 1,000 people during Westy’s annual mission to serve a Thanksgiving meal to Memphians in need.

    By Jody Callahan November 28, 2024
  • Neighborhoods

    Learn more about the work to improve Memphis’ public spaces

    The Reimagining the Civic Commons initiative has been funded in Memphis and nine other cities since 2016. It’s now embarking on a new round of work.

    By Eric Barnes November 27, 2024
  • Health Care

    St. Jude plans new 16-story tower Downtown

    The new tower will be at A.W. Willis Avenue and Danny Thomas Boulevard, on a site occupied by three buildings that would be demolished. 

    By Aisling Mäki December 03, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    City could ask MLGW to study cost of moving offices

    The Memphis City Council has an eye toward the future of Downtown and MLGW’s place in it.

    By Samuel Hardiman November 26, 2024
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    Small cemetery on Central has rich history

    Many have likely driven by it hundreds of times with barely a glance, but this cemetery in the heart of Memphis has stories to tell.

    By Jody Callahan December 02, 2024
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    No mean feast: Leaders join to feed community for Thanksgiving

    The city and county are banding with Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church for its MemFeast event, where volunteers will deliver food boxes to 300 families across Memphis. 

    By Julia Baker November 26, 2024
  • Real Estate

    A look inside the 100 N. Main project: What’s left and what’s to come

    Phase One of the 100 N. Main redevelopment is more than 75% complete, with plans to begin construction next year. So what exactly goes into cleaning out a 58-year-old, 38-story building?

    By Sophia Surrett November 25, 2024
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    New Annesdale owner still hosts parties, but the neighbors love him

    Noise levels at Annesdale Mansion have caused problems with the neighborhood association a while. But new owner Bill Townsend hasn’t stopped the fun. 

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    Townsend updates plans for the Luciann, the Lowenstein and the former Masonic Temple — all of which he owns

    By Jody Callahan November 25, 2024
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    Townsend has plans for the Luciann, the Lowenstein and the Masonic Temple — all of which he owns

    Preservationist Bill Townsend provides updates for the Luciann Theatre, the Lowenstein Mansion, the Pillow-McIntyre House and the former Masonic Temple.

    By Jody Callahan November 25, 2024
  • Gift Guide Arts & Culture

    Give the gift of Memphis this holiday season

    A handcrafted, Memphis-made gift or experience is so much more thoughtful than something purchased from a big-box store. Here are a few ideas for Small Business Saturday (and beyond).

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 25, 2024
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    How two Frayser schools learned ‘what it feels like to win’

    At Hawkins Mill Elementary, chronic absenteeism plummeted. And at Trezevant High, graduation rates climbed closer to the district average. Both had been among Tennessee’s bottom 5% for over a decade.

    By Laura Testino November 25, 2024
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Gallery: Christmas time in the city

    Kids and adults gathered Downtown Saturday for the Downtown Holiday Tree Lighting sponsored by the Downtown Memphis Commission. Photographer Ziggy Mack was there to capture the excitement.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 23, 2024
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Holiday spirit (and candy) brings community together in Whitehaven

    Onlookers at the Memphis Christmas Parade on Saturday talked about how the parade was a nice chance to show off their community spirit, an event to shine a positive light on the vast South Memphis area.

    By Jody Callahan November 23, 2024
  • Behind The Headlines

    Main Street Trolley unlikely to restart till next summer

    MATA’s interim CEO Bacarra Mauldin addressed the myriad problems facing the transit system, even while noting progress on some fronts.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 25, 2024
  • Public Safety

    Memphis looks to add more officers, new police branch Downtown

    The City of Memphis plans to invest additional resources Downtown — including almost 200 more cameras — to make the area safer. 

    By Samuel Hardiman November 22, 2024
  • Premium Music

    Live Nation to operate new live music venue in Crosstown

    “The new venue will be a unique addition to the city and bring even more exciting shows to Memphis,” said Grant Lyman, president of Live Nation Southeast. 

    By Sophia Surrett November 22, 2024
  • Premium Neighborhoods

    Beetlemania: Ladybugs flock to Memphis area

    Seeing clusters of ladybugs everywhere early this week? Here’s why.

    By Jane Roberts November 20, 2024
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    MSCS could add $11M to new Frayser high school

    District officials said the money is needed to keep the project on track as it recalculates next steps for the stalled Cordova high school.

    By Laura Testino November 20, 2024
  • South Memphis

    ‘Embarrassing’ blight and roadwork issues dominate One Memphis forum

    Mayor Paul Young hears of concerns regarding a road infrastructure project, as well as blight and crime, during his final One Memphis event of the year.

    By Julia Baker November 20, 2024

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