If you walk through the door of 430 N. Cleveland, past work boots, hard hats and blueprints for Crosstown Concourse, you will find a back room filled with screens. Crosstown Arts’ digital lab is a computer lab open to the public until it relocates into the Concourse building next spring.

Representative for Memphis’ 91st district, Raumesh Akbari, says that progress and hope lay in common interests, such as criminal justice reform, between those on both sides of the aisle.

The Kresge Foundation is broadening its philanthropic efforts with the December launch of a new grant program and Memphis-only web portal for civic and nonprofit organizations that support low-income Memphians.

Memphis has a reputation for growing its own music talent from Elvis to Justin Timberlake. Attracted to that history, a new crop of imported musicians bring innovation to the Memphis sound. 

The momentum behind the “Save the Greensward” protests could find positive outlet in a handful of new initiatives to get communities engaged in maintaining greenspaces.