Formerly the retail manager of the Stax Museum and the Cat’s Music store in Midtown, Steve Walker recently moved to Seattle after spending nearly all of his adult life in Memphis. His recent accomplishments include finally learning the difference between “Grande” and “Venti” at Starbucks, adjusting to drivers who actually use turn signals and slow [...]
From The Memphis Flyer Memphians will be able to receive a history lesson on the past, present, and future of the Bluff City on Thursday, March 22nd at the Benjamin Hooks Library. The Leadership Academy will host “Memphis 101” from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in meeting room C of the library. Attendees of the history [...]
Duty of the Hour, a film on the late Benjamin L. Hooks, will explore the long, complex, and difficult history of race in America and highlight how our nation was, and can be, transformed by committed visionaries, like Hooks. Through interviews, archival film footage, and period photographs, the documentary examines Hooks’s rise from the streets [...]
Wiley Henry is a senior account services specialist with The Carter Malone Group. He spent more than 25 years as a journalist. He is also an established artist, whose works are in public and private collections across the country, and a professional photographer as well. He spends his spare time reading and writing. A new [...]
Pat Mitchell, Director of Development and Communications, has sent along the 2011 Annual Report for the Memphis Music Foundation, and there’s no question it’s been a busy, rewarding year for her and her colleagues. The Music Foundation is the city’s leading public/private partnership working to support musicians, to expand the music industry, and to [...]
Loeb Properties wants your help to make Overton Square a unique place for Memphians to gather. They’re seeking your thoughts on what you value and hope to see at the newly developed Overton Square. Please take the time to answer the 10 questions in this survey and sign up at the end to receive Overton [...]
Memphis jazz artist Jamille “Jam” Hunter She goes by the name Jam. In a bit of forshadowing, friends gave her the name in middle school long before she knew music would be her calling. A self-described “neo-jazz” singer, Jam is poised to emerge on the increasingly volcanic contemporary jazz scene. This weekend she will release her debut [...]
The Pinch, a great national literary magazine published by the University of Memphis English Department, is celebrating its Spring issue April 6 at Askew Nixon Ferguson Architecture Firm, 1500 Union, from 7 until 10 p.m. The celebration of the spring issue will feature readings by Darren Jackson, Stu Dearnley, and Steve Adams, and in addition, [...]
This report summarizes the results of a special February 28 brainstorming session organized by Leadership Academy to provide Memphis Mayor A C Wharton with the advice and recommendations of millennials as he begins his new four-year term in office. Millennials’ Memphis Insights About the future OVERALL CONCLUSIONS There was an overriding theme about the need [...]
Ken Kimble serves as Director of Development for the Wolf River Conservancy, a Memphis non-profit land trust dedicated to the protection and enhancement of the Wolf River. Through his wandering both paddling and backpacking, he has developed into an adventure filmmaker, photographer and writer. When not searching for Bigfoot, he’s at home in Midtown, cooking [...]
