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Feature Story LevittShell

From the high school radio station to the main stage

 With nearly two years of broadcasting experience under her belt, Poole served as one of the inaugural Levitt Shell Next Generation apprentices, a program under the Memphis Music Initiative umbrella.  

Shelby County approves four referendums


Development News PizzaRev

PizzaRev enters the Memphis market with three stores

A build-your-own pizza chain is looking to take a bite out of the Memphis market. 

Development News A 70-year old deli reopens for business.

Historic New Chicago deli set to reopen

The property has sat vacant since the early 2000s and is one of the few options for prepared food in the New Chicago neighborhood.

Feature Story Millington

Millington looks to solar-powered future

Millington’s future will be shaped by vibrant projects that include a new retail center, solar farm and flood mitigation effort that will bring a while new outdoors feel to the North Shelby County city.

Feature Story Carpenter Art Garden

VIDEO: Carpenter Art Garden engages Binghampton

The Carpenter Art Garden is a colorful pocket of education, community and play in Binghampton. 

Feature Story Carpenter Art Garden 1

Hugs come with opportunity at Carpenter Art Garden

The Carpenter Art Garden provides opportunities for Binghampton children where everything is centered on the wonder and possibilities of artistic expression.

Innovation & Job News An exhibit hosted in partnership with the University of Memphis' 1886 Memphis Massacre Symposium.

Orange Mound Gallery models equitable development through arts

As redevelopments populate the Memphis map, some organizations like the Orange Mound Gallery look to more equitable ways to bring economic and social improvements to commercially disinvested areas.

Feature Story The longstanding bowling alley will be razed to make way for a Planet Fitness facility.

Imperial Bowling Lanes ends its 60-year reign on Summer Avenue

With a sit-down restaurant, childcare and an in-house television studio, Imperial Bowling Lanes resembled a glittery casino more than a Summer Avenue local business. 

Innovation & Job News Marlon Foster, founder of Knowledge Quest

Community centers in South Memphis, New Chicago garner $60,000 in grants

Three Sisters Deli, Knowledge Quest and Social Spuds Resource Center received forgivable loans to support their neighborhood businesses. 

Innovation & Job News The DMC has turned a vacant storefront into a rotating gallery and event space called The 101.

No longer vacant, South Main storefront is a host to pop-up shops

The ground floor of 101 S. Main has been a candy shop, a cat café and an art gallery—over the course of a few weeks.

Feature Story Members of the PRIZM Chamber Orchestra play as a string quartet during a meet and greet at Orange Mound Gallery on November 3. (From left to right: Chala Yancy, violin; Tami Hughes, violin; Derek Menchan, cello; and Dana Kelley, viola.

New chamber orchestra works to reflect the city's diversity

Memphis' latest chamber orchestra is 31 members strong, and most of the musicians are people of color. 

Feature Story The former Sears distribution center will open as a mixed-use building in spring 2017.

Concourse Check-In: From 'impossible' to 'catalyst'

Crosstown Concourse has been hailed as one of the city's most complicated projects. With a renovation cost of $200 million, the project's visionaries, contractors, architects and aids speak about how the renovation grew from a Recession-era impossibility to a national gem.

Feature Story OAM Network

Podcast production studio amplifies Memphis' passions

Based out of the Crosstown neighborhood, the OAM Network produces and broadcasts local podcast shows.