02/01/21
Developers have unveiled new renderings for a six-story hotel occupying an important corner for Memphis: Beale at Fourth. Developer Nick Patel of Knoxville, owner of Turkey Creek Hospitality, submitted the plans for a 145-room hotel at 380 Beale, which is the now-vacant northeast corner with Fourth. No name for the boutique hotel has been chosen,…
02/01/21
The Malco Summer Drive In will be one of the host locations for Sundance Film Festival premiering movies over six nights. Filmmakers and film lovers won’t be flocking to Utah this week for the Sundance Film Festival. Instead, some of the films will be coming to Memphis. The in-person festival was canceled this year due…
02/01/21
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis is considered a top city to live and work in as a moviemaker in 2021. “Movie-Maker Magazine” ranked the bluff city as 16th out of 25 cities across the U.S. and Canada. The cities were chosen based on surveys, research on tax incentives, recent productions, and how they are coping with the…
02/01/21
Memphis will see a lot of moving dirt these next few years. The dirt will move at rebuilt parks, historic schools turned into libraries, and, maybe, razed skyscrapers. During his state of the city speech Thursday evening, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced a $200 million spending plan intended to rehabilitate Memphis’ aged park system, change…
01/19/21
The new president of Memphis-area Realtors, Cassandra Bell-Warren, showed a house in Cordova on Sunday, the day after the home hit the market. The schedule of showings for it Sunday “were back-to-back-to-back solid. … And they are looking at offers today,” she said on Monday, Jan. 11. You might also be interested in: Memphis Apartment…
01/15/21
Organizations around Memphis are reimagining their commemoration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday around the coronavirus pandemic. The holiday, celebrated on the third Monday of January, is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service. But during a pandemic that has pushed many Americans to be in need of that service, community service…
01/04/21
Eso Tolson, aka @coolurbanhippie, says his brand — “joy, pride, Black culture, celebration” — has a lot in common with the themes of a multinational beverage company headquartered in Atlanta. The Memphis artist says that’s probably why the Coca-Cola Company chose his art as part of its New Year’s Eve message to be featured on…
12/16/20
There are no mountains in Memphis. The only rocks rest on jetties in the Mississippi River, lonesome current breaks where few people dare to venture as the river’s muddy waters ripple past endless rows of cotton, rice and soy. The city itself sits on a bluff, overlooking passing barges headed south to New Orleans, or…
12/11/20
The words are written at the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, “Memphis is the birthplace of rock and roll.” In the 1920s, it was Memphis that lured blues musicians out of the Mississippi Delta and into the saloons of Beale Street. In the 50s, it was in Memphis where the sounds of…
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