After an attempt to sell the historic Midtown mansion failed, owner Ken Robison is negotiating. 

The sale price is $800,000 and includes numerous upgrades and a hint of famous DNA that still hangs in the air.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris will include a $10 million ask to restart work on a new Memphis-Shelby County Schools high school in Frayser when he presents his fiscal year 2024 budget proposal to county commissioners on Wednesday, April 26.

A meeting Tuesday between stakeholders and the Memphis Police Department resulted in an agreement on a Downtown pilot curfew program that will eventually be implemented citywide. Many program details remain unclear, including where and how MPD will detain minors.

Earlier this month, the detailed plan for the new museum was approved by the Downtown Memphis Commission’s Design Review Board.

Visitors to the renovated Tom Lee Park will have their choice of ice cream, coffee, cocktails or a “Mac Daddy” brisket macaroni and cheese as they explore the park’s new pathways, play areas and shaded pavilions. 

“Omar, in the grand scheme of things, was a young guy. I think what pushed him over the edge into the top 10 nominees was that he was so innovative and engaged around town in the community,” said a member of the Beale Street Brass Notes committee. 

“It is not safe, and it is against the law, for children to be out at midnight without an adult. As every coach will say, ‘nothing good happens after midnight,’” Memphis mayor Jim Strickland said. 

Chef Eli Townsend, formerly of Sage restaurant, is back Downtown, this time running Dos Hermanos Kitchen in the Cossitt Library. And getting there has been an adventure.

After two canceled pandemic years and a weird year at Liberty Park, Memphis in May International Festival is heading back Downtown to its longtime home at Tom Lee Park. And we’ve got your survival guide with need-to-know info for the month’s festivities.

Nine years ago this month all trolleys stopped running following a fire on the Madison line. Nine years later, the Riverfront loop and Madison Avenue line are still down. 

Cooper-Young transformed into a tiny music festival Saturday, April 15, as 100 bands played free public concerts on 40 porches for Porchfest 2023.

Each neighborhood’s event will feature local vendors and pop-up shops, local performers and temporary street and space activations. The upcoming Alcy-Ball event is set to feature 45 vendors.

Shelby County Criminal Court Division VII Judge Lee Coffee made the determination during a motion hearing Friday, April 14. 

The oldest elementary school in the Memphis-Shelby County Schools district has been given new life with a new outdoor learning space for students. 

The goal is to return 1,500 acres across from Downtown Memphis to floodplain, which naturally absorbs water from the Mississippi River and filters it before returning it to the river. 

Storyfest 2023 returns to the Halloran Centre Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15, offering an intergenerational group of Memphians the chance to convey personal stories onstage through live theater performance.

The Executives are targeting a fourth trip to the Class A state tournament after falling in quarterfinals last year.

City Council members got their first look Tuesday, April 11, at the city’s ground lease with Capstone for the commercial and multi-family frontage along Central Avenue. The council votes on the 30-year lease in two weeks.

However, it could take years for the proposed regulations, which would govern emissions of a cancer-causing chemical, to be finalized and enforced. 

“The acoustics are fantastic in the planetarium,” said MoSH’s executive director.

The long wait ends with more than 10,000 books, an upstairs performance space, digital studios for podcasts and a cafe.

Twenty-nine paper lanterns alighted over the Mississippi River around the 7:30 p.m. sunset representing each year of Nichols’ life.

Not only an alumnus, having graduated in 1977, Mike Clary will retire from being Rhodes’ longest-standing athletic director come May.

Memphis mayoral hopeful Van Turner says his Binghampton home needs work but is his residence. MLGW bills show no water usage since the house’s MLGW bill was put in Turner’s name late last year.