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Community

Community Cooper-Young: Lamplighter News Featured Story Lifestyle

Cooper-Young this Saturday: Porchfest 2021 and Community Yard Sale

Community Board April 16, 2021 No Comments

The Cooper-Young Community Association is excited to announce that it will host Memphis’ first Porchfest, on Saturday, April 17, 2021 from noon to 6 p.m.…

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Pinnacle Financial Partners Remains One of America’s Best Places to Work

StoryBoard News Board April 13, 2021 No Comments

Firm ranks No. 26 on the 2021 list from FORTUNE and Great Place to Work® NASHVILLE, TN, April 12, 2021 – For the fifth consecutive year, Pinnacle Financial Partners…

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Black Lives Matter Boxtown Community Featured Story Memphis History South Memphis Wayne Dowdy's Dateline Memphis

Dateline, Boxtown: Memphis, March 17, 2021

Wayne Dowdy March 18, 2021 No Comments

Your correspondent returns after witnessing a healthy community resistance A lot has happened since last I shared my thoughts with you. Insurrectionists and white supremacists…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Arts Civil Rights Movement Featured Story Memphis History Preservation

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…

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Literature

Lifestyle Non-Fiction Shorts Personal Narratives Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Mountainous inspiration from a pint-sized place

Candace Echols April 15, 2021 No Comments

By Candace Echols In one sentence—that’s all she could fit between two sobs—my little girl melted a lifetime of struggle into just a few words. …

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Black Lives Matter Book Reviews Education K-12 Literature

The Keys to a Better Life

Chapter16 Community April 9, 2021 No Comments

Photographer Andrew Feiler documents the Rosenwald Schools of the Jim Crow South By Chris Moody, for Chapter16.org While researching his book, A Better Life for Their…

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Featured Story Happenings Around Town History Shelby County Historical Commission

Introducing the Rural Heritage Trust, an active history of rural Shelby County

Mark Fleischer April 9, 2021 No Comments

With its first exhibit being unveiled Saturday, April 24, the new program honors and promotes engagement with the rich rural history of Southwest Tennessee As…

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Book Reviews History Literature

Turning Back Evil

Chapter16 Community April 9, 2021 No Comments

Hell on the Border continues the true story of a larger-than-life lawman By Michael Ray Taylor, for Chapter16.org In Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves, Sidney Thompson…

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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…

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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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Eva's SCRUMBLES Game Board StoryBoard Media Partners

Two by Two

Eva Guggenheim March 18, 2021 No Comments

Eva’s SCRUMBLES can be downloaded and printed for your scrumbled pleasure.  Can’t scrumble-up the answer? Check here next week.

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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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Arts Brooks Museum Happenings Around Town

Now Open – Brooks Outside: Ball-Nogues Studio, Pour Me Another

StoryBoard News Board April 16, 2021 No Comments

Multi-layered “monumental structure” opens this weekend on the Brooks’ plaza, thru May 2 Benjamin Ball (American, b. 1968) of Ball-Nogues Studio (BNS) in Los Angeles…

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Memphis Film Prize Returns for 2021

StoryBoard News Board April 13, 2021 No Comments

Festival Heads Online and Widens Filming Zone for Tennessee Directors The award-winning Memphis Film Prize is back for 2021. The festival hosted its official kick…

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Lifestyle

Community Cooper-Young: Lamplighter News Featured Story Lifestyle

Cooper-Young this Saturday: Porchfest 2021 and Community Yard Sale

Community Board April 16, 2021 No Comments

The Cooper-Young Community Association is excited to announce that it will host Memphis’ first Porchfest, on Saturday, April 17, 2021 from noon to 6 p.m.…

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Lifestyle Non-Fiction Shorts Personal Narratives Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Mountainous inspiration from a pint-sized place

Candace Echols April 15, 2021 No Comments

By Candace Echols In one sentence—that’s all she could fit between two sobs—my little girl melted a lifetime of struggle into just a few words. …

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Memphis Film Prize Returns for 2021

StoryBoard News Board April 13, 2021 No Comments

Festival Heads Online and Widens Filming Zone for Tennessee Directors The award-winning Memphis Film Prize is back for 2021. The festival hosted its official kick…

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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…

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Featured Story Happenings Around Town Music Features Sound Board StoryBoard Media Partners The Shell

Orion Shell Yeah! The Shell is back!

StoryBoard News Board April 14, 2021 No Comments

Benefit Concert Series is back with the North Mississippi All-Stars and Tank & the Bangas, and “Tasty Compositions” The Levitt Shell’s annual ticketed Orion Shell…

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Featured Story Music Features Music Interviews Sound Board StoryBoard 30 Podcast StoryBoard Media Partners

SB 30 Episode 64: Discussing Memphis’ vital live music scene, Part II

Sound Board March 5, 2021 No Comments

“Memphis is a city based on contradictions. And great things have happened because of cultural collisions and contradictions. And what makes it great is the fact that…

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