Photographer Brad Vest captured the 2024 Candlelight Vigil, the annual cornerstone event for Elvis Week, at Graceland on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. 

Sun Studio, 706 Union Ave., hosted panels and musical performances Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s song “That’s All Right.” Photographer Ziggy Mack was there.

Four affordable homes planned for a vacant lot in Orange Mound are part of the drive in the city’s competition between owned and rented single-family homes.

Developer Chance Carlisle addressed concerns about parking for The Cooper, a new mixed-used project in Cooper-Young.

The renovation of the Legacy Building and the adjacent Founders Park will provide an opportunity to tell the post-1968 story, according to the museum’s chief marketing and development officer. 

The annual Midtown festival has announced its music lineup and event plans for 2024.

The Bayou Bar & Grill has been run by Bill and Carla Baker for the past 30 years. Now the restaurant has new owners.

“We ... didn’t want to see an outside developer come in, tear it down and just (build some) white brick condos,” one of the new owners said.

There are 400 or so members of the Memphis Area Beekeepers Association who devote time to hundreds of thousands of honeybees that live across the city.

The meeting hosted by MLGW alongside Memphis City Council member Pearl Walker came after months of community worry about the project, which promises to add the electrical equivalent of several thousand homes to the utility’s distribution system. 

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Environmental activists have raised concerns about emissions from the site as well as impact on the region’s drinking water. 

The Land Use Control Board sided with a recommendation to reject the landfill’s expansion in Frayser, a relief for the advocates who opposed it. But the landfill’s owners will now seek approval from the City Council.

Tony Ludlow started a Marine Corps boot camp-themed workout class in 1999. The boot camp still meets today at Christ Church Memphis near Laurelwood. 

Several key returnees on both sides of the ball have the Fairley Bulldogs poised to take one step further.

Two Downtown restaurants are closing, and a Midtown ice cream shop is moving down the street.

Aug. 16 marks 47 years since the death of Elvis Presley. Elvis Week 2024 offers fans from near and far a number of ways to commemorate his legacy.

“Let me just call it out. The money’s at South Hollywood,” said Commissioner Miska Clay Bibbs, in an apparent reference to the school board district offices at 160 S. Hollywood St. 

Kelvin Perkins, star defender Charles Sullins and several new faces look to keep the Jaguars in Class 5A title contention.

Liberty Park, formerly known as the Mid-South Fairgrounds, could see a broad transformation in the coming years with $112.5 million in private development now cleared for takeoff.

Meanwhile, Mud Island’s River Terrace restaurant has a new tenant and the I-55 construction near the set of three bridges will include a pedestrian path.

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Memphis-Shelby County Schools welcomed more than 100,000 students back to classrooms for the first day of the 2024-25 school year.

Clay Bailey goes down memory lane in a golf cart, celebrating a number of courses that have disappeared from the local landscape.

“Not enough of us understand or respect what Memphis truly is. The Mississippi River is a confluence of 10 to 12 rivers that become one. Memphis is a confluence of cultures. Rich and poor. City and country. Religious and secular. Black and white.”

The mausoleum at Forest Hill Cemetery where Elvis Presley was interred shortly after he died in 1977 opens again to the public this month after being closed for the last seven years. 

Bane and the district supplied thousands of backpacks, and the Grizzlies guard shared his thoughts on the team’s offseason.