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Tributes: Tommy Pacello

Tom Jones November 18, 2020 No Comments Medical District CollaborativeTom JonesTommy Pacello

Editor’s Note: My thoughts echo what Tom Jones so eloquently says here, that some deaths make the world stop. Like many in Memphis, I knew…

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Rev. Steve Montgomery Died Today And The Universe Quaked

Tom Jones July 31, 2020 No Comments Idlewild PresbyterianIdlewild Presbyterian ChurchReverend Steve Montgomery

By Tom Jones, Smart City Memphis There are some people whose deaths make me feel that the universe is quaking. Rev. Steve Montgomery, who died this…

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The Rippling Effects Of COVID-19

Tom Jones March 23, 2020 No Comments COVID-19Smart City MemphisTom Jones

EDITORIAL By Smart City Memphis COVID-19 has turned Memphis and Shelby County into a place we barely recognize. All of us will deal with its…

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Arts Happenings Around Town Hospitality & Tourism Pink Palace Museum

Fossil Fest coming March 27th and 28th to the Pink Palace Museum of Science & History

Mark Fleischer March 5, 2021 No Comments

Dinosaurs, Fossils, Beer and Food By Bill Walsh, for the Pink Palace Family of Museums It’s not every day you have the chance to dig…

Community Featured Story History Memphis Heritage Keystone Memphis History Midtown Overton Park Planning & Urbanism Preservation Witnesses To History

Your Memphis Memories: ‘It’s Too Late To Tinker’ With Expressway Route

Preservation Board February 26, 2021 No Comments

Feature image from the Memphis Press-Scimitar editorial page on March 7, 1968, three years before the Supreme Court decision (Memphis Public Library) The focal point…

Neighborhoods

Featured Story Historic Preservation Historical Perspectives History Memphis History Midtown Overton Park Vollintine-Evergreen Witnesses To History

‘It’s Too Late to Tinker’ With Expressway Route

Mark Fleischer March 2, 2021 No Comments

In the year of its 50th anniversary, a look back at the headlines, development and lingering aftermath of the epic, 1971 Citizens to Preserve Overton…

Community Featured Story History Memphis Heritage Keystone Memphis History Midtown Overton Park Planning & Urbanism Preservation Witnesses To History

Your Memphis Memories: ‘It’s Too Late To Tinker’ With Expressway Route

Preservation Board February 26, 2021 No Comments

Feature image from the Memphis Press-Scimitar editorial page on March 7, 1968, three years before the Supreme Court decision (Memphis Public Library) The focal point…

Planning & Urbanism

Community Featured Story History Memphis Heritage Keystone Memphis History Midtown Overton Park Planning & Urbanism Preservation Witnesses To History

Your Memphis Memories: ‘It’s Too Late To Tinker’ With Expressway Route

Preservation Board February 26, 2021 No Comments

Feature image from the Memphis Press-Scimitar editorial page on March 7, 1968, three years before the Supreme Court decision (Memphis Public Library) The focal point…

East Memphis Featured Story Highland Heights Historic Preservation Planning & Urbanism Planning Board Renovations - Reuse and Restoration

Reimagining the Highland Heights United Methodist Church: The Heights CDC now accepting design proposals

Dane Forlines February 18, 2021 No Comments

Design proposals due by Friday, February 26, 2020 Standing at the northwest corner of Summer & Highland is the former Highland Heights United Methodist Church…

Preservation

Community Featured Story History Memphis Heritage Keystone Memphis History Midtown Overton Park Planning & Urbanism Preservation Witnesses To History

Your Memphis Memories: ‘It’s Too Late To Tinker’ With Expressway Route

Preservation Board February 26, 2021 No Comments

Feature image from the Memphis Press-Scimitar editorial page on March 7, 1968, three years before the Supreme Court decision (Memphis Public Library) The focal point…

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The story of the windows: Call for artists to depict the Clayborn’s 1968 story in stained glass

Preservation Board February 3, 2021 No Comments

The Clayborn Temple is set to interview artists to depict historic 1968 Sanitation Strike in the temple’s stained glass – Info session Feb. 8, sketches…

Literature

Lifestyle Literature Personal Narratives Yellow Chair ChronEchols

The laughter we can’t live without

Candace Echols March 5, 2021 No Comments

By Candace Echols Last week, I had the opportunity to drop into the lives of three people and interview them for another publication. When I…

Book Reviews Books Literature Sound Board

A Spiritual Quest

Chapter16 Community March 3, 2021 No Comments

Victor L. Wooten’s second book celebrates music as a living entity By Jack Rentfro, for Chapter16.org Renowned bassist Victor L. Wooten has played in many…

History

Featured Story Historic Preservation Historical Perspectives History Memphis History Midtown Overton Park Vollintine-Evergreen Witnesses To History

‘It’s Too Late to Tinker’ With Expressway Route

Mark Fleischer March 2, 2021 No Comments

In the year of its 50th anniversary, a look back at the headlines, development and lingering aftermath of the epic, 1971 Citizens to Preserve Overton…

Community Featured Story History Memphis Heritage Keystone Memphis History Midtown Overton Park Planning & Urbanism Preservation Witnesses To History

Your Memphis Memories: ‘It’s Too Late To Tinker’ With Expressway Route

Preservation Board February 26, 2021 No Comments

Feature image from the Memphis Press-Scimitar editorial page on March 7, 1968, three years before the Supreme Court decision (Memphis Public Library) The focal point…

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COVID Relief COVID-19 Op Ed Opinion

Consider the Mid-South Coliseum as another Covid vaccination site

StoryBoard News Board January 29, 2021 No Comments

Marvin Stockwell’s op-ed for The Daily Memphian advocates for the historic venue to be used a drive-thru vaccination site “Vaccinations are not keeping pace with…

Essays Featured Story Lifestyle Literature Opinion Personal Narratives Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Turning down the noise and slowing down time in search of something called wisdom

Candace Echols January 9, 2021 1 Comment

StoryBoard debuts the Yellow Chair ChronEchols By Candace Echols Sometimes, news images have the odd effect of making me feel young and old at the…

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Here Lies The Virus

Eva Guggenheim July 17, 2020 No Comments

Eva’s SCRUMBLES can be downloaded and printed for your scrumbled pleasure.  Can’t scrumble-up the answer? All your answers can be found here.

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Bagpipe Player Wanted

Eva Guggenheim June 11, 2020 No Comments

Eva’s SCRUMBLES can be downloaded and printed for your scrumbled pleasure. Scrumbling for answers? They can be found here.

Arts

Arts Happenings Around Town Hospitality & Tourism Pink Palace Museum

Fossil Fest coming March 27th and 28th to the Pink Palace Museum of Science & History

Mark Fleischer March 5, 2021 No Comments

Dinosaurs, Fossils, Beer and Food By Bill Walsh, for the Pink Palace Family of Museums It’s not every day you have the chance to dig…

Arts Brooks Museum Happenings Around Town

Brooks’ Virtual Chalkfest is back for 2021, set for March 13-20

Arts Board February 26, 2021 No Comments

Art kits now available, prizes announced The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art’s most popular springtime event, Chalkfest, is back for another year of virtual fun…

Lifestyle

Lifestyle Literature Personal Narratives Yellow Chair ChronEchols

The laughter we can’t live without

Candace Echols March 5, 2021 No Comments

By Candace Echols Last week, I had the opportunity to drop into the lives of three people and interview them for another publication. When I…

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Unforseen fissures from a fractured year

Candace Echols February 26, 2021 No Comments

“Brief, awkward exchanges reveal we differ on thoughts about pandemic life. It’s unsettling.” By Candace Echols Recognizing my old friends’ faces when I see them…

Film Board

Film Board Happenings Around Town Pink Palace Museum

‘Jaws’ and Dinosaurs on the Giant Screen: Pink Palace Museum Theater and Planetarium to Reopen July 21

Bill Walsh July 15, 2020 No Comments

Limited seating and COVID-19 protocols part of reopening The Pink Palace Museum announces the reopening of the CTI Giant Screen Theater and AutoZone Dome Planetarium…

Film Board Op Ed Opinion

BLUFF CITY LAW – A Look Back

Austin McLellan November 26, 2019 No Comments

No grit, no grind, no hustle, no flow. OP-ED CORNER By Austin McLellan Like everyone else in these parts, I was excited when NBC’s Bluff City…

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Book Reviews Books Literature Sound Board

A Spiritual Quest

Chapter16 Community March 3, 2021 No Comments

Victor L. Wooten’s second book celebrates music as a living entity By Jack Rentfro, for Chapter16.org Renowned bassist Victor L. Wooten has played in many…

Music Features Sound Board StoryBoard Media Partners

New music: Pain, anxiety, and love, with old-school four-track mentality

Sound Board February 26, 2021 No Comments

By Jacob Church After Christmas, I got my old cassette four-track from my parents’ house. I’d been writing songs during the pandemic, and I thought…

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