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  • Memphis Italian Festival: A Family Tradition to Start Summer

  • Victory House in Court Square: WWII in Memphis

  • For the Love of Dolphins

  • East End Park: Memphis’s First Amusement Park

  • Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign at National Civil Rights Museum

  • 2022 International Blues Challenge: Hey, Hey, The Blues is All Right

  • Metal Museum Exhibition Highlights Industrial Steel as Sculpture 

  • Featured Story Personal Narrative

    Memphis Italian Festival: A Family Tradition to Start Summer

    Summer does not begin until the fence goes up around Marquette Park. Until the bocce balls roll, the gravies simmer, and the grapes are stomped.…

    Caroline Carrico May 26, 2022 2 Comments
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    Victory House in Court Square: WWII in Memphis

    On the evening of May 13, 1942, a bugler called Assembly in front of a small house in Downtown Memphis’s Court Square. The Bartlett High…

    Caroline Carrico May 24, 2022 No Comments
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    For the Love of Dolphins

    Story and images by Ken Billett Gorgeous blue-green waters shimmered in the afternoon sun. Waves, churned by outboard motors and a relentless wind, lapped against…

    Ken Billett May 23, 2022 No Comments
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    East End Park: Memphis’s First Amusement Park

    East End Park has a mythical quality about it. Where was it? When was it? Are you sure that it was in Memphis?  Was there a roller coaster there,…

    Mark Fleischer May 18, 2022 2 Comments
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  • Community Featured Story

    Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign at National Civil Rights Museum

    The Poor People’s Campaign, one of the lesser known aspects of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, is the focus of a new Smithsonian Institution traveling…

    Caroline Carrico May 17, 2022 No Comments
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Two people wearing Cooper-Young Community Farmers Garden t-shirts give each other a high five in front of a rainbow wall.
Community Featured Story

Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market: More Than a Market

Dannon Eubanks May 9, 2022 No Comments Cooper-YoungCooper-Young Community Farmers MarketMidtownVolunteer Odyssey

“There’s so much more to this than just a market” Sarah Turner, Market Manager for the CYCFM The Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market (CYCFG) is a…

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Community Featured Story Poetry

Watch and Read the Winning Tom Lee Poetry Contest Works

Caroline Carrico May 6, 2022 No Comments Memphis River Parks PartnershippoetryTom Lee

Tom Lee Poetry Contest Winners On Friday, May 6, 2022, the Memphis River Parks Partnership recognized the winners of the inaugural Tom Lee Poetry and…

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Featured Story Personal Narrative Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Becoming a Writer: Anyone Can Reclaim that Bit of Childhood

Candace Echols May 5, 2022 No Comments Candace EcholsYellow Chair ChronEchols

Anyone can be a writer. Really. We are all writing stories in our heads everyday anyway. All you must do to be a writer is…

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School bike rack at Idlewild Elementary School
Community Featured Story

School Bike Rack Solutions for Parents from Commute Options

Sylvia Crum May 5, 2022 No Comments BicyclesCommute OptionsInnovate MemphisTransportation

Memphis has several neighborhood schools with families living within a mile or two of the building. For these families, bicycling to school can be a…

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Community

Cooper-Young Garden Walk 2022: Hats on to Gardeners!

Neighborhood Board May 5, 2022 No Comments Cooper-Young

The Cooper-Young Garden Club (CYGC) has announced the location, dates, and theme for its highly anticipated 2022 Cooper-Young Garden Walk, “Hats on to Gardeners,” which…

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Arts

Playhouse on the Square Announces 2022-2023 Season

Arts Board May 2, 2022 No Comments Performing ArtsPlayhouse on the Square

The Mid-South’s Professional Theatre Company Deals a Full House for the 2022-2023 Season of Productions and Programs Circuit Playhouse, Inc., the organization that includes The…

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Memphis Labyrinths: Walking to Feel the Way I Feel

Caroline Carrico May 2, 2022 No Comments 901LabyrinthsCancer Survivors' ParkLabyrinthWellnessWorld Labyrinth Day

First Time Walking a Labyrinth I didn’t anticipate that my first trip to a labyrinth would become a race between grade schoolers, but Laura McArtor,…

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Cooper-Young Porchfest 2022: A Musical Mecca

Ken Billett April 27, 2022 No Comments Cooper-YoungFront PorchesKen BillettLive MusicPorch Fest

Words and photographs by Ken Billett Seated on the patio at Celtic Crossing, we placed our drink orders, then sat back to enjoy a warm,…

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Sound Board

Blues Great Taj Mahal to Receive Orpheum Star

Arts Board April 26, 2022 No Comments Taj MahalThe Blues FoundationThe Orpheum Theatre

Taj Mahal to Receive Star on Orpheum Sidewalk of Stars Official Installation Ceremony on May 4 The Orpheum Theatre Group and The Blues Foundation are…

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Featured Story Personal Narrative Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Grizzlies Playoffs: Sehnsucht, or Joy that Feels Like Longing

Candace Echols April 25, 2022 No Comments Candace EcholsMemphis GrizzliesYellow Chair ChronEchols

Germans have a word for those brief moments that prompt indescribable longing: Sehnsucht. Creatives point to music, art, and beauty as the spaces in which…

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