Arrow Creative Continues Memphis Tradition with Holiday Bazaar!
The annual Memphis College of Art (MCA)’s Holiday Bazaar will take place this year under the direction of Arrow Creative, a community non-profit dedicated to elevating…
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Tommy Pacello: A Remembrance
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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Robert Gordon: Memphis Calling
Robert Gordon revisits his rollicking tale of a revolutionary musical city By David Wesley Williams, for Chapter16.org The title told it all, like some sci-fi…
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A Great Southern Voice
Rick Bragg returns with a collection of his short works By Susannah Felts for Chapter16.org Rick Bragg is one of the great Southern voices of…
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The Tall but True Tale of Private Homer Pease, veteran of WWII & Vietnam
For Veterans’ Day, an East Tennessee kid who served in two wars By John Mathews Normally I confine myself to compelling tales specific to Memphis…
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“The saddest case I’ve ever run across” – Imprisoned since 2012, Pamela Green found a reason to live
… there was something about the man’s posture or the way he stood between Pamela and the door that triggered the young woman’s paranoia… A…
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A Vision for the Nylon Net Building, #7 Vance
UPDATED 11/10: With a demolition permit now filed, StoryBoard joins the building’s former owner to discuss the building and imagines possible re-uses for it UPDATED:…
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De-Listed = De-Struction: Investment in the Pinch Must Utilize What’s Left of Its Past
Just one more demolition threatens the entire district – and the investments of developers eligible for tax credits waiting to improve or stabilize their properties.…
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Hi Records Brought the Music of the People to the People
By Shannon Seaton, for SoundBoard In the height of 1960’s, the beacon of Memphis Soul Music shone bright. Multiple stand-out labels cut vinyl records during…
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The Problem with Policing
In Occupied Territory, Simon Balto digs at the roots of the current turmoil over race and policing By Aram Goudsouzian for Chapter16.org Every year, the Benjamin…
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