In 2016, the Memphis Fire Department responded to approximately 130,000 calls requesting emergency services and 25,000 of those calls were classified as non-emergency. Those non-emergency calls take up time and could cost lives. Key Memphis partners came together in early June to revamp how Memphis accesses emergency services.

An innovation grant awarded to Opera Memphis will fund a new program, The McCleave Project. Beginning in fall of 2017, Opera Memphis will undertake a number of initiatives organized around the legacy of African-American soprano Madame McCleave. Through facilitated community conversations, performances, and the creation of a McCleave Fellowship for singers, directors and coaches of color, Opera Memphis seeks to begin a conversation about how best to serve communities of color and other parts of the Mid-South.

After 20 years at its current location at 2097 Madison Avenue in Overton Square in Midtown, Golden India restaurant plans to move to a larger space at 20 N. Cooper St., just to the north of the new Opera Memphis headquarters that is under construction.

Built to be hidden parts of the city, alleys are reimagined by developers and artists as places to show off Memphis' creativity. 

Special confidentiality protections afforded to juveniles can make cases opaque and allow injustice to fester. Two Memphis-based filmmakers are sharing narratives of people affected by the juvenile justice system in an effort to inspire policy change. 

After nearly 50 years at its current location at 1657 Wells Station Road in the Berclair neighborhood, Jerry’s Sno Cones will expand and open a new location in Cordova this fall followed by a third and possible fourth location in still-to-be-determined parts of town.

It could be getting crowded near the Overton Park Gateway as another residential developer enters the mix.