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City Expects to Collect $500K from Scooter, Bike Operators Over Next Year
Memphis officials project that the city will collect about a half a million dollars from scooter and bike operators during the first year of its Shared Mobility Program. The program officially...
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Best Bets: Elvis Food: Peanut Butter N' Banana Sandwich at the Arcade
It’s time to get your Elvis on. Elvis Week - with all the tributes to the King - begins August 8th. If you want a taste of what’s to come, try one of Elvis’ favorite delicacies - a fried peanut butter...
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'Energy Democracy' Tour Wants More 'Public' in 'Public Power'
Memphis is the first stop of the “Energy Democracy” listening tour hoped to put more of the public in Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) “public power.” Tour stops will give community members chances...
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FedEx Invests Another $450M in $1.1B Hub Project
FedEx Corp. will invest an additional $450 million in its $1.1 billion Memphis Hub modernization project, according to state and company officials on Friday. The company announced the modernization...
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Thaddeus Matthews Intensifies Attack on Candidate in Homophobic Tirade
Talk show host Thaddeus Matthews ratcheted up his attack of a Memphis City Council candidate in another homophobic scree on his podcast. On his show Monday, Thaddeus Matthews targeted Davin Clemons,...
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Robert Earl Keen's Countdown to Christmas Comes to GPAC in December
As August appears and the kids brace themselves for the return to school, one thing looms large in their minds: Christmas vacation. Yes, they'll have many hours of homework, homeroom, and home games...
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Get Out of the Sun at Sunrise Memphis
Here’s a quick news bite for sun/culinary worshipers who like to dine outdoors. Thanks to the new enclosed front patio, customers now can enjoy their food and drink outside at Sunrise Memphis. The...
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Corey Strong To Challenge Cohen in the 9th District
Yes, it’s true: Steve Cohen has an opponent. The 9th District Congressman, who has knocked off a serious string of Democratic challengers since 2006, when he first emerged victorious from a...
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Music Video Monday: The Poet, Havi
Music Video Monday gonna knock you out! "Shea Butter (Heart of Darkness)" marks the MVM debut of The Poet, Havi. "I made this about a month after watching Black Panther, so I was definitely riding the...
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Clipped Wings?
The St. Louis Cardinals essentially stood pat at baseball's trade deadline. This means what you saw in July in St. Louis — and to some degree, in Memphis — is what you'll see in October should the...
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Memphis Film Prize Awards $10,000 to Brooks and Meyers'"A Night Out"
The Memphis Film Prize screened the ten finalists' films to packed houses Friday and Saturday. The winning film, announced at an awards brunch on Sunday, was A Night Out by co-directors Kevin Brooks...
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Sandwich Lovers Unite in the Memphis Sandwich Clique
Everybody likes sandwiches, right? Well, in about two weeks, more than 1,000 Memphis-area sandwiches were documented on Facebook’s Memphis Sandwich Clique group. Ryan Joseph Hopgood got the idea for a...
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'State-of-the-Art' Tennis Facility in the Works for Memphis
A new “world-class tennis facility” is coming to Memphis, the city, along with the University of Memphis and local organization Tennis Memphis announced Monday. The three entities are partnering to...
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Commercial Appeal Ownership to Change (Again)
New Media Investment Group, parent company of GateHouse Media, and Gannett, the corporation that currently owns and publishes the Memphis Commercial Appeal, have announced a merger. A New Media...
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Groups Plan Clean-up of Coliseum Ahead of Fall Events
Local grassroots organizations are calling for volunteers to help with the second Mid-South Colisuem clean-up on Saturday, August 10th. The effort, spearheaded by Clean Memphis and the Coliseum...
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Do The Right Thing Returns for 30th Anniversary Screening
What we call the indie film movement has its roots in Kubrick, Corman, and Cassavetes, but it really popped off in 1989 with a pair of films: Stephen Soderberg's Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and Spike...
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Southern Women's Art on View at the Dixon
The scope of work shows a century of creativity. Don't make the mistake of categorizing 19th- and 20th-century Southern women artists as mainly genteel painters of magnolias. Not that there's anything...
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From Continuum Fest to A Change of Tone, Crosstown Keeps It Edgy
While several cities have renovated former Sears, Roebuck & Company warehouses/retail centers, including Minneapolis, Atlanta and Boston, Memphis' own Crosstown Concourse may take the cake in...
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CHOICES Receives Grant to Support LGBTQ Health Care
CHOICES: Memphis Center for Reproductive Health is receiving a $5,000 grant to assist in its efforts to transform LGBTQ health equity in the South. CHOICES, a non-profit that offers reproductive...
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Memphis Pets of the Week (August 6-August 12)
Each week, the Flyer will feature adoptable dogs and cats from Memphis Animal Services. All photos are credited to Memphis Pets Alive. More pictures and more information can be found on the Memphis...
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