TRIBUTES By David Merrill Hiraeth is a Welsh concept of longing for home. ‘Hiraeth’ is a word which cannot be completely translated, meaning more than…
Read More Hiraeth for 901 on 9.01
Tag: Midtown
A Preview of The Central Gardens Home Tour, the Annual Revival & Walk Thru of Midtown History
NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD By Mark Fleischer In mid-1970s Memphis, after two decades of white flight when the physical center of Memphis felt closer to Poplar and…
Read More A Preview of The Central Gardens Home Tour, the Annual Revival & Walk Thru of Midtown History
Midtown, Are You On The Map?
You should be – sign up today! Just $35 for a business listing; $60 for listing and logo placement; $350 to be a neighborhood sponsor;…
Read More Midtown, Are You On The Map?
For the Wives & Girlfriends of WGC FedEx St. Jude Classic: Memphis Through the Back Door
By Candace Echols A letter to the wives and girlfriends of the golfers coming to our city for the first time. Dear First Ladies of…
Read More For the Wives & Girlfriends of WGC FedEx St. Jude Classic: Memphis Through the Back Door
A Timely Connection Kept Taylor Sherbine From Giving Up On Memphis
An Interview With Community Manager Taylor Sherbine In addition to being the Memphis “Hub of Entrepreneurship,” the physical space the nonprofit occupies in the heart of…
Read More A Timely Connection Kept Taylor Sherbine From Giving Up On Memphis
Eclectic Eye by MOSCOT: An Eyewear Collaboration
As a small business, it’s rare to come across a partnership with iconic names in your industry. When the opportunity presents itself to collaborate on…
Read More Eclectic Eye by MOSCOT: An Eyewear Collaboration
Midtown Alleys: Their Long, Functional, Hard-to-Research History
With Peter Pace and Aaron Klimek The alley. The term bring images to mind of darkness and shadows, the unknown between streets, lone figures walking…
Read More Midtown Alleys: Their Long, Functional, Hard-to-Research History
A House And A City Council At Odds With History, Part II
“We’re completely outraged…” It was the summer of 1992. For Midtowners who had quietly filed out of council chambers after a July 28 meeting at…
Read More A House And A City Council At Odds With History, Part II
1585 Central Ave: A House, And A City Council, At Odds With History, Part I
2018 marks Central Garden’s twenty-fifth year as a Historic Overlay District under the jurisdictional protections of the Memphis Landmarks Commission. For this two-part installment, we…
Read More 1585 Central Ave: A House, And A City Council, At Odds With History, Part I
Evolution Of Madison At McLean
The week of March 19, 2018, the Midtown Nursery and the old Idlewild Theater were razed to pave way for a proposed mid-city-type 5-story apartment…
Read More Evolution Of Madison At McLean