The Arts Beat: Connect with the arts, even if you’re iced in
Whether it’s snow, sleet, ice or all of the above, there are plenty of ways to bring the arts into your home this snowpocalypse.
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February 2026
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Arts Beat: Satisfying our craving for crafting
The Bluff City has a taste for zine-making parties, vision-board groups, flash-tattoo embroidery classes and beyond.
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Calkins: Jaren Jackson had to be traded. Because it’s time for the Grizzlies to start again.
The Grizzlies stunned the city by dealing Jaren Jackson Jr. Yes, it’s disappointing. But it’s time to start fresh.
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The Early Word: JJJ is traded away; Green wants snow plan for side streets
Local pre-K is OK for now, Musk is one step closer to AI in space and Arlington preps for its second liquor store.
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Herrington: Analyzing the JJJ deal — and what’s next for the Grizzlies
Chris Herrington wades into the Jaren Jackson Jr. trade, explains what happened Tuesday and what it means and what it suggests.
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Collierville looking at mixed-use for former Gus’s site
The project would replace the historic home that Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken once operated. The mixed-use development would offer a residential ownership option above retail and office space.
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Grizzlies 25: Mike Miller’s jump shot was one version of basketball beauty
Mike Miller averaged 14 points off the bench for the 49-win 2005-2006 Grizzlies, winning the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award, one of only five Grizzlies to receive one of the NBA’s major annual awards.
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Lakeland ‘renames’ its middle school for next school year
The Lakeland School System resurrected an old name for its new middle school.
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Arlington passes first readings of beer and liquor ordinances
The ordinance changes include allowing one more liquor store in the town.
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Memphis paid $2.2M for Liberty Park consultants — and it’s still an empty lot
The city needs sales-tax growth at Liberty Park to pay bonds at the Memphis Sports and Events Center. To generate that tax growth, it needs hotel and apartments to become something more than hypothetical.
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The Early Word: State money goes Downtown, and Ford pleads guilty
New Taylor bill targets legal immigrants, Calvary Church sheds light on painful past and the Grizzlies finally get a home win.
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Memphis caterer delivers all the way to Holly Springs — due to weather
As winter storms left parts of north Mississippi isolated, a Memphis caterer partnered with a disaster relief group to deliver meals to those who needed them.
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Edmund Ford Jr. pleads guilty to tax evasion
Ford will resign from his position on the Shelby County Board of Commissioners and will never again run for elected office.
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How Jerri Green plans to breathe life back into one of the nation’s oldest public defender offices
Shelby County’s new interim chief public defender doesn’t plan on sweeping changes to the historic office. But she does have some ideas.
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After latest excruciating loss, Hardaway looks at Tigers’ record: ‘We have a lot of fight left in us’
Memphis Tigers coach Penny Hardaway keeps the faith despite 11 losses so far this season.
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Herrington: Ty Jerome’s return, GG Jackson’s reemergence and Mike Conley nearing the end
As we finally arrive at the NBA’s trade deadline week, let’s survey a few pressing Grizzlies topics.
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The Early Word: The meltdown begins; Jerri Green refreshes the PD’s office
Tigers lose a heartbreaker, Grizzlies fans win free nuggets and we recount a 1920s Memphis murder case that reads like film noir.
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Ask the Memphian: What was The Gray Hat Mystery?
A slain businessman, known as the “Hot Tamale King.” A young, fedora-wearing detective. And a tantalizing clue: a gray felt hat, left near the scene of the crime.
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With savory hand pies, Whisks of Doom whips up a different type of bakery
Founder Allie Trotter said Whisks of Doom was never meant to fit into traditional bakery culture, which she describes as too “cotton candy” for her taste.
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Could Bartlett get rid of its property tax?
Bartlett Alderman David Reaves wants the suburb to look into eliminating property taxes, but others wonder how the suburb would make up the lost revenue.
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Calkins: After a year of triumph, death and music, the Central High jazz band plays on
Well, darn. The Central High band won’t be going back to New York this year to defend its title in the Essentially Ellington jazz contest. But after a year of triumph and tragedy, that won’t stop director Ollie Liddell from teaching “with (his) hair on fire.”
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Germantown seeks artist with tunnel vision for Greenway mural
The pedestrian tunnel mural will kick off Germantown’s Greenway art project.
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Cedric Coward’s balancing act: Grizzlies rookie accepts mental, physical challenges of NBA schedule
Cedric Coward has faced both physical and mental challenges during his rookie season. The NBA Rising Star has held it together with personal balance.
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Bailey: Germantown’s public art is money well spent
Germantown is adding to its Public Arts Master Plan, and while some may not agree with the approach, it provides another aspect to a well-rounded community.
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Hardaway says the Tigers ‘gave one away’ against Tulane
Winning the rebounding battle, shooting more free throws than the Green Wave and having more second-chance points still wasn’t enough for Memphis to find the late-season stride it desperately needs.
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