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East Memphis
The Na-Jack Market at 1457 National St., which takes its name from its location sandwiched between National and Jackson Avenue near where they converge, may look like just another convenience store – a place to grab a drink and a snack, some cigarettes, maybe a lottery ticket – but once, somewhere between where the stacks of unrefrigerated sodas and the storeroom are now, music history was made here. -
East Memphis
The state’s only dual-language program grows with Memphis’ Latino population
It’s lunchtime at Treadwell Elementary and the school’s new optional program coordinator, Darlene May, is heading to the cafeteria. Along the way, she’s met by a dozen students shouting, “Hola!” through beaming smiles. -
Real Estate
ErinWay Shopping Center to undergo renovation
A shopping center in the heart of East Memphis will soon undergo a renovation. -
East Memphis
Fashion entrepreneur Ashley Dean-Parson’s ‘glamtique’ offers one-stop shopping
With her “glamtique” Ashley Dean-Parson has flipped the concept of boutique on its head. “A lot of times, being a full-figured woman, we would go into a store that we would really, really love and they wouldn’t have a plus-size section or if they did, it was really, really small,” she said. “So, I took that same concept and did it here and did the reverse.” -
Reviews
Pete & Sam’s still serves up the favorites, but it does it better
Pete & Sam’s celebrates its 70th anniversary this year in a spiffed up restaurant, thanks to the Bomarito brothers taking on local investor partners and a late 2017 fire that caused the place to close for almost five months for cleaning and updating.
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