Neighbors of the park generally supported the new playground and picnic pavilion planned, but voiced concerns about a rendering from earlier this month that appeared to show the park’s lake as part of the golf course expansion. The city’s parks director says the rendering wasn’t accurate.

Gordon Food Service opens in Midtown on Thursday and it’s a new kind of grocery for Memphis, a wholesale and retail combination complete with a big produce section and a deli.

A mix of beginner and intermediate yoga fans gathered for “Freedom of The Soul,” a unique healing experience to benefit Grace House of Memphis. 

Athletes will tackle the 70.3 miles of competition, and motorists in Cordova could be affected by lane closures and delays.

Comic book lovers and fantasy fans are descending on Agricenter International this weekend as the Memphis Comic Expo returns after an absence.

In 2003, no shelter in Memphis took in homeless families, let alone a struggling mom or dad with teenage sons. Sister Maureen founded the Dorothy Day House so families asking for help wouldn’t be split up.

Olive House Mediterranean Grocery is a large, well-stocked and spic-and-span market, the latest addition to The Lake District, and it offers hot food to-go.

The Memphis Fire Department said they are looking for a 21-year-old woman named Catilena “Delina” Collier. She is described as a white female with colorful hair. 

Gloria “GloRilla” Woods visited her former high school, MLK Prep, to surprise students with a musical performance and a donation.

Ms. B is Bonnie Harris, who worked at the Chinese Sub Shop for 25 years, has portions large enough to make sure nobody goes away hungry. 

The fire department is looking for a suspect named Delana Collier, who also goes by the name “DC.” 

Memphis is awash in dramatic examples of adaptive reuse, from a Downtown shopping mall turned corporate headquarters to a Sears warehouse building turned “vertical urban village” to even a Pyramid-shaped arena turned world’s biggest bait shop. But Mud Island and the Mid-South Coliseum have proved trickier for rebirth. 

Arthur Flowers — the native South Memphian, novelist, Syracuse professor emeritus, and self-proclaimed High Hoodoo of Memphis — is coming home this week to perform at the Stax Museum.

Since June, the MFD has responded to eight different fires in a neighborhood on the eastern side of Coro Lake. 

The owner of Paula & Raiford’s Disco in Downtown Memphis was charged with misdemeanor assault Thursday, Sept. 15, according to Shelby County Criminal Justice records.

During its 20 years, more than 687,000 patients have visited The Eye Center at the Southern College of Optometry, and 10,000 have received for free or assisted eye health and vision care made possible through private grants and donations.

Hulsey Britt and Frankey Anderson approached Kenneth Wayne Alexander with a proposition: to curate a combined art space, restaurant, and entertainment venue dedicated to Black culture and Black excellence.

The Institute for Public Service Reporting found that, between August 2020 and February 2021, the height of the pandemic, local governments auctioned off nearly 1,700 tax-delinquent properties, about a fourth of which seem to be owner-occupied homes. 

After weeks of violence, community members gather at the Cooper-Young Festival Saturday, Sept. 17, to celebrate “our diversity and beauty and our rich culture.”

Developers Joseph Lewis and Tony Kuhn plan to begin $3.2 million restoration this fall. 

Through the project, the Memphis Medical District Collaborative is on a mission to “add some vibrancy” to the area.

In a city that is mostly recognized for its gritty rap scene, Timothy “Lukah” Love is restoring balance. 

The Carlisle name follows a $1.5 million donation by the developers to the $62 million Tom Lee Park redesign. It honors the late Gene Carlisle, the family patriarch who called the One Beale real estate “the best piece of dirt in Memphis.”

Here’s how MidtownMemphis.org is working with other groups on the Madison Avenue Improvement Project to beautify a busy Midtown street.

Uptown’s Malone Park Commons sought the special grant after rising construction costs increased the budget, according to staff reports.