08/28/26
Blog 3 Preview – Food Aid Memphis Cares, a partnership between the city, Memphis City Council, and United Way of the Mid South, is putting up to $100,000 toward food assistance for residents hit hardest by last weekend’s severe storms. “For many Memphis families, days without power also meant losing groceries they simply can’t afford…
08/28/26
Blog 2 Preview – Road Trip Ranking Add another line to the resume. A new Travel + Leisure ranking has named Memphis the best road trip destination in the entire country, putting the city ahead of far bigger metro areas on this year’s list. The ranking points to Memphis’s light traffic, easy highway access, and…
08/28/26
Blog 1 Preview – The Lorraine Memphis civil rights history is opening this year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival. “The Lorraine,” a new documentary from director Sam Pollard, has been selected as the festival’s opening night film for 2026. Pollard has spent decades building a body of work around pivotal moments in American civil rights history,…
08/21/26
Memphis is having a moment in gospel music. Lisa Knowles-Smith, 42, was the biggest winner at the 2026 Stellar Gospel Music Awards, taking home five trophies during the ceremony taped live at Charlotte’s Spectrum Center and hosted by Kirk Franklin. Four of Knowles-Smith’s wins came for her album Revival: Live in Dallas, recorded with The…
08/21/26
A former hotel on Riverdale Bend Road in Southeast Memphis is now permanent housing for more than 100 veterans, thanks to a conversion project from the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Darien Goods, a U.S. Army veteran who experienced homelessness after leaving the service in 2022, is one of the new residents. “Once you’re in survival…
08/21/26
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Memphis campus is in the middle of a major capital improvement push, with more than $600 million in projects completed, underway, or planned. Among the plans: a multi-use development at the corner of Madison and Pauline in the Medical District that would bring apartments, retail, and restaurants to…
08/21/26
Volunteers put the finishing touches this week on a new STEM center in Orange Mound, giving kids as young as elementary school age free access to engineering, robotics, and coding tools. The center, housed at Red Zone Ministries, was made possible by the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation and the Tennessee Valley Authority. “As they even…
08/14/26
Christian Brothers University has landed a $6.2 million gift from longtime supporters Bob and Paula McEniry, a commitment that will rename the university’s School of Business as the McEniry School of Business, Education and Humanities. The McEnirys, CBU Trustees Emeritus, received the university’s Top Philanthropy Honors in 2025. The gift will strengthen CBU’s MBA and…
08/14/26
The Majestic Grille is marking 20 years Downtown with a fresh look and a renewed commitment to Main Street. Owners Deni and Patrick Reilly just signed a new 10 year lease and added an Art Deco inspired sign to the space at 145 S. Main St., a building with a story as layered as Memphis…
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