Huitlacoche is a Mexican delicacy, and it’s absolutely delicious. It’s also a black mold that grows on corn, but don’t let that stop you.

During the Hamilton Eye Institute’s 52nd annual Alumni/Residents’ Day on Friday, June 9, the school’s ophthalmologists will get to see something new.

Big River’s founder pivoted from live music promotions to the market during the pandemic. Now, in a post-pandemic world, he’s singing a new song. 

“This project will be one of the largest African American-led real-estate projects in the city’s history since the days of Robert R. Church,” the local developer wrote in the team’s PILOT application. 

Built in 1965, the building includes 400 parking spaces in a four-story garage and 156,342 square feet of leasable office space in the 10 floors above.

“I like to feed hungry people,” said chef Ryan Meeks. “When they taste something delicious, and it gives them a wiggle, that brings me happiness.”

According to a Memphis Police Department information officer, at 5:35 p.m. officers found three juveniles with gunshot wounds in the 3000 block of Douglass Avenue. 

Lee and a group of around 30 elected officials, TDOT employees and construction workers stood near the Crump Boulevard overpass, which is where a new roundabout is being built. The project has been talked about in some shape or another for more than 20 years. 

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The multi-year project includes the construction of a new roundabout and is designed to allow I-55 traffic to avoid the “cloverleaf” at Crump. 

Halbert has talked of opening a new clerk’s office on Riverdale Road since late last year. The “soft opening” means the office won’t be fully staffed.

The field for Memphis is a contrast in terms of how the candidates are pacing themselves. The trick is not let rivals determine how you run. Meanwhile, lots of petitions in the mayor’s race and council races are out but few are filed at this point.

Ethylene oxide, or EtO, has been on the community’s radar since the Environmental Protection Agency identified a Florida Street business as one of 23 high-risk polluters. 

Hours after Federal Judge Thomas L. Parker called Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act, more commonly referred to as the drag ban, unconstitutional, floats carrying flamboyantly dressed passengers roll down Beale.

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The Downtown Memphis Commission kicked off its free beginners’ bike class series in the Raymond James parking lot, starting with the basics. 

If approved, it would become the sixth TacoNGanas location, with trucks in Cordova, Midtown and East Memphis. 

Memphis Lift broke ground on an expansion of a resource center honoring North Memphis resident Brenda Rogers. Rogers was affectionately known as the “Cake Lady” for baking homemade cakes for friends and family.

The stadium will be the first turf football field for the Memphis-Shelby Police Athletic League, with $500,000 in funding in place toward goal of $8 million.

The number of available lifeguards has dropped, forcing organizations like Memphis Parks and YMCA to “be creative” with their public swimming pool schedules. 

Esco Restaurant & Tapas is scheduled to open this year on the ground floor of the 200 S. Second parking garage at 156 Lt. George Lee Ave.

As late as the spring of 2022, a letter was filed with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development, indicating a plan to build a Hard Rock Hotel at 326 Beale St.

“The astonishing thing about this campaign is that the first $100 million was raised without a rendering or a clear visual of what the new museum will look like.”

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A neighbor saved the Burke’s Book Store aluminum sign from demolition heap. It spent the last 16 years on her back fence, and now it’s coming back. 

John Materna, 76, died on Monday, May 29, two weeks after he was shot during a May 15 robbery while selling watermelons at Homer Street and Wayne Avenue in The Heights neighborhood.

“I do keep telling myself that, 100 years from now, this will be another great Calvary story in the lore.”

The City of Memphis pushed back the opening of its public pools a week this summer, partly due to a nationwide lifeguard shortage.