Residents of Bartlett, Cooper-Young, East Memphis and Germantown share the inspiration behind their Halloween house decor.

Residents from neighborhoods across the city expressed their opinions about crime and public safety during a series of conversations in this summer.

The 1,300-square-foot Memphis restaurant, 706 S. Mendenhall, will include a covered patio when it opens in late February or March. 

The Memphis Escape Rooms owners are back with a brand-new creative endeavor.

Memphian Kaylyn Webster viewed art at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens as a child. A year after graduating college, her solo exhibition opens at the museum.

The 901 Hot Pot & Korean BBQ opened in March in Bartlett and is ready for an expansion. Plus, a second location in East Memphis is in the works.

Memphis Police Department officers are looking for a suspect following a robbery of a Wells Fargo branch in East Memphis.

The Mempho Music Festival will be held Friday, Sept. 29 through Sunday, Oct. 1 at the Radians Amphitheater at the Memphis Botanic Garden, located at 750 Cherry Road. 

Since its first year, the Pink Palace Crafts Fair has developed into the largest juried arts and crafts fair in the Mid-South.

Shannon Weston said her son’s food allergy spurred the family to open a “clean food” restaurant in Colorado. When her son enrolled in Rhodes College, Vibe Foods came to Memphis, too.

The development will be called Mid-City Memphis, referring to the site’s location at the “geographic and population center” of the city, according to the letter of intent filed. 

“Perch is like my own little personal Cheers,” said restaurant owner and longtime caterer Ragan Oglesby-Phillips.

Community members came out to watch the spectacle before the Southern Heritage Classic, at which Tennessee State University will play the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

Shawarma comes in many dishes. The most important thing is that it’s meat-roasted on a spinning skewer and sliced right off the spit to order.

After seven years successfully running a spa in Germantown, Aja Freeman, 27, has expanded by opening a second Aja’s Spa location in Memphis’ University District. 

Buster’s Liquors & Wines will open its second location in the Ridgeway Trace Shopping Center on Poplar Avenue.

Buster’s Butcher, adjacent to but separate from its parent, Buster’s Liquors & Wines in the University Center shopping complex, is a 2,200-square-foot playground for carnivorous cooks.

Barry Lichterman recalls days as a child spent exploring the area that is now the Lichterman Nature Center, and a new addition to the center aims to give other children the same opportunity.

In Shelby County, 1,120 total sales were recorded for July compared to last July’s 1,819 units — a 38.4% decrease. The average sales price was $292,978, an 11% increase from $263,922.

A popular Memphis coffee shop is opening its second location — and it will give fans of Shelby Farms a way to order from anywhere in the park. 

The Lisieux Community’s drop-in center, which offers hot showers, warm meals, clean clothes and a safe place for rest for a while, is at risk of closing its doors after a series of costly repairs.

Owner Rick Spell, who opened the location in October 2019, has long planned to renovate the site, but the pandemic halted those plans.

“It’s gotten to be such a big deal where we’re going to put it that we’ve decided to put it somewhere else,” said Joe Lowery, market general manager for owner Northstar Memorial Group.

The new location at 734 Mt. Moriah Road is across from Gus’s Fried Chicken and along the same stretch as The Urban Gardener, Gibson’s Donuts and Garibaldi’s Pizza.