The current building in Overton Park will continue to be known as the Brooks Museum of Art while it’s still occupied, but the name of the new Downtown location will be more Memphis-focused. 

Memphis Light, Gas and Water officials said an equipment failure impacted a “large portion” of Downtown Sunday morning, Oct. 8.

In the bright Saturday sun and cool fall breeze, a local nonprofit held its annual paint festival for the public to come out to support.

Paul Young was named the head of the DMC in early 2021, emerging from a pool of 30 applicants. Now, two-and-a-half years later, the DMC will once again be looking for a new leader. 

More than three-fourths of those who participated in an email survey said they want to move Memphis in May’s annual barbecue contest to Liberty Park.

An ongoing renovation of the historic church was paused Thursday, Sept. 28, for a look at new stained-glass images of the city’s turmoil in the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike.

Outside of where the Orpheum Theatre’s Black-only balcony entrance once stood, a new educational exhibit was unveiled on Wednesday.

Sgt. Louis Brownlee, a public information officer with MPD, said no foul play is suspected. 

Yes, pickleball is coming to Beale Street. And to FedExForum after that. It’s brought to you by two Memphians who started Pickleball 901 on the theory that — as one of them put it — “pickleball’s a beast.”

J. Ivy has written and performed a new piece about Tom Lee to mark the opening of the redesigned riverfront park named in Lee’s honor. The work is the first in a series commissioned by the Mellon Foundation.

The developer expects 18 months of architectural work before breaking ground. The renovated building could also include up to 260 multifamily units and hotel space. 

Amid a battle over public use of the river bluff, the Brooks Museum announced new details of a proposed open rooftop park at its planned Downtown location.

The event space is available for use, but finishing touches — including an air wall, artwork and drapery — will be added by Oct. 1.

The new location, a 30,000-square-foot space at 107 S. Main St., will feature four concepts. Each concept will be a smaller type of restaurant.

The scene at the center of Tom Lee Park this first week has felt like different types of Memphians — different ages and races, but even more so people from different neighborhoods and economic status — sharing free, open space, in a way that’s too rare. 

A missing-person report for Tamia Taylor, 21, was filed Sunday, Sept. 10, the day after she disappeared after celebrating her birthday with friends on the Island Queen Booze Cruise.

In addition to bringing back its “Ultimate Weekend Brunch” on Sundays, The Majestic Grille is also debuting Sunday Roast as it reopens for service seven days of the week. 

A partnership between Downtown Memphis Commission and Women’s Business Center South, the program provides emerging retail entrepreneurs with access to vacant storefronts on Main Street, where they can test their market strategies and contribute to the city’s retail ecosystem. 

Memphis Light, Gas and Water said a failure at Substation 3 caused the outage, and there are multiple crews trying trying to restore power.

The development project would add 150 new hotel rooms Downtown and provide on-site parking at a nearby facility.

After a five-year rollout plan that highlighted a well-documented demolition and a $61 million renovation, Memphis’ signature public park makes its return.

Nearly three years after work began on the $62 million redesign, the Downtown Memphis space along the Mississippi River will have a formal opening Saturday, Sept. 2. Here’s what to expect.

Chancellor Melanie Taylor-Jefferson proposed halting construction on the new Brooks Museum of Art Downtown, contingent on Friends for Our Riverfront posting a bond that would cover the cost of stopping construction.

Located at 276 S. Front St., the “fast casual” restaurant will include a bar with eight seats, a full patio with six tables and a Lego-built hive in the window.