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  • Premium Food News

    Food Files: Rock’n Dough in FedExForum, Waffle House in Cordova

    Uncle Red’s, previously Red Bones, will leave Carolina Watershed to open its first brick-and-mortar location. Plus, Rock’n Dough opens in the FedEx Forum, and Captain D’s is coming to Summer Avenue.

    By Sophia Surrett January 26, 2024
  • Arts & Culture

    Tyler Perry films on Beale Street for Netflix project ‘Joe’s College Road Trip’

    Linn Sitler, Memphis and Shelby County Film/TV Commissioner, said that Tyler Perry and his team were in Memphis on Tuesday for a one-day local shoot, employing 20-25 local crew members and roughly 200 extras.

    By Chris Herrington January 26, 2024
  • Health Care

    Free dental clinic will provide as much as $2M in care in two days

    The post-storm water situation in Memphis has cleared up just in time for Mid-South Mission of Mercy, a free two-day dental clinic slated for Jan. 26 and 27 at Bellevue Baptist Church.

    By Aisling Mäki January 26, 2024
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    Two Memphis sites could be added to National Register of Historic Places

    An Italianate home in South Memphis and an early middle-class housing complex in Midtown have been nominated for the National Register of Historic Places.

    By Kambui Bomani January 26, 2024
  • Downtown

    Downtown Chick-fil-A and ALSAC/St. Jude parking garage approved

    A 2,500-space parking garage will be built in the eastern part of the St. Jude campus, and the Chick-fil-A Downtown is one step closer to construction.

    By Sophia Surrett January 24, 2024
  • Education

    Kirby High School dismissed early due to burst pipe

    Students were dismissed at 10:30 a.m., according to the school district.

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    Area schools to open Tuesday as snow, ice melt

    By Kambui Bomani January 23, 2024
  • Premium Financial Services

    Memphis-area bank to pay nearly $2M to settle redlining accusations

    The U.S. Department of Justice complaint alleges that from 2015 to at least 2020, Patriot avoided providing mortgage services to majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods and discouraged people seeking credit in them from obtaining home loans.

    By Aisling Mäki January 21, 2024
  • Health Care

    Senior-living with resort-like amenities coming to East Memphis

    When completed this summer, the Avaline at River Oaks will have 90 assisted-living and 24 memory-care apartments managed by Claiborne Senior Living.

    By Sophia Surrett January 21, 2024
  • Premium Downtown

    Biscuits and Jams second location opening Downtown

    The latest location of popular Bartlett restaurant has the potential to bring the restaurant to hotels across the U.S. 

    By Christin Yates January 21, 2024
  • Behind The Headlines

    Northside Square developers take on barriers to affordable housing

    Roshun Austin and Archie Willis III of the Klondike Partners development group talked on “Behind The Headlines” about the financial hoops the adaptive reuse of Northside High School has had to jump through.

    By Bill Dries January 20, 2024
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: The Tigers lost and the fans stayed home. But that wasn’t the worst part.

    On a cold and miserable night — a night when fans were urged to stay home — the Tigers blew a 20-point lead to lose to South Florida. And then Penny Hardaway hinted at ominous chemistry issues within the team. 

     

    By Geoff Calkins January 19, 2024
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    $10 Deal: A mini chicken dum biryani that’s not small at all

    And then there’s the stuffed mirchi bajji, which are battered and fried green chilis — and they still have their seeds inside. 

    By Joshua Carlucci January 18, 2024
  • Premium Food News

    Feast & Graze’s owner to operate Brooks Museum cafe

    The Brooks Museum recently terminated its relationship with its previous cafe operator, Loaf, after an unsanctioned fundraising event for a Palestinian relief fund.

    By Christin Yates January 18, 2024
  • Food News

    Mexican and Guatemalan bakery coming to East Memphis

    San Marcos Bakery, a pan-dulce and sweet-bread bakery, will be located at 4600 Quince Road in the Colonial Plaza Shopping Center.

    By Sophia Surrett January 16, 2024
  • Premium Business

    Sissy’s Log Cabin moves into the former Rafferty’s spot

    Three generations of the Jones family have worked for Sissy’s Log Cabin, a family-owned-and-operated jewelry business born more than 50 years ago inside an actual log cabin in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. 

    By Aisling Mäki January 16, 2024
  • City of Memphis

    Cause of fire at Poplar Avenue and Highland Street Hop-In found

    The Hop-In convenience store at South Highland Street and Poplar Avenue was engulfed in flames Monday, Jan. 15.

    By Julia Baker January 16, 2024
  • Metro

    How clean is the upper Mississippi River? Report finds improvement but emerging threats

    The upper Mississippi River is getting saltier but concentrations of most metals have decreased. 

    By Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk January 15, 2024
  • Premium Spirit of Memphis

    Rutgers University builds pipeline to Memphis

    Former Memphian Antonio D. Tillis is bringing Hamilton and Westwood students to the elite New Jersey school where he now serves as chancellor as “his way of giving back.” 

    By Jane Roberts February 07, 2024
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Panel focuses on a passion of Martin Luther King: Hard work

    In honor of Martin Luther King’s heart for working people such as the sanitation workers in Memphis, the Intersection of Race and Sports panel focused on economic power in Memphis.

    By Kambui Bomani January 14, 2024
  • Music

    Midtown is getting a Jamaican restaurant and bar

    JamRack will open at 150 N. Avalon St., formerly Wimpy’s Burger and Fries, and specialize in authentic Jamaican cuisine.

    By Sophia Surrett January 14, 2024
  • Health Care

    Memphis facility to make gene-editing treatment for sickle cell

    Boston-based Charles River Laboratories manufactures clinical and commercial cell and gene-modified cell therapies at its Shelby Drive facility. 

    By Aisling Mäki January 14, 2024
  • Premium Spirit of Memphis

    One of Orange Mound’s own finds space for kids in his neighborhood

    Fueled by a desire help children fulfill their educational potential as well as developing a relationship with God, Howard Eddings willed the Opportunity Zone into existence.

    By Jane Roberts January 14, 2024
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Volunteers help restore Raleigh section of Wolf River Greenway

    “We’re turning a toxic dumpsite off of Highland Road into a beautiful, forested area for the community to enjoy.”

    By Kambui Bomani January 13, 2024
  • The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more

    Remembering Edge Alley and the joy of great spaces

    Tim Barker talks about Edge Alley and the incredible stresses and successes that led him to close the restaurant — even as that decision has completely ruined Eric Barnes’ life.

    By Eric Barnes January 14, 2024
  • Premium Food News

    Food Files: Midtown loses beignet shop, gets sweet Mardi Gras deals

    Mo’Bay Beignet Co., Hog Wild East, BedRock Eats & Sweets are closing. The Ginger’s Bread & Co. will have exclusive carnival season offers, and a new Guthrie’s Chicken is coming to Whitehaven.

    By Sophia Surrett January 12, 2024

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