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The Memphis mayor called for a 58-cent property tax increase today, citing declining home values and negative consumer spending.
“Conservative consumer spending means less money in sales tax,” Mayor Willie Herenton told the City Council during his fiscal year 2009 budget presentation. “Decreasing home values means less money collected in property taxes.”…
It looks like the rain is expected to, finally, let up over the weekend. And though temps are expected to drop into the 50s, that’s no excuse to stay in your boring old house. Not when there’s so much going on. Get out and do something. Here are some ideas:
Quell your hot flashes with the silly, campy Menopause the Musical at the Orpheum Friday through Sunday night. The show, which has been described as ‘The Rocky Horror Show for women”…
After years of talking about it, members of the Cooper-Young Business Association and merchants in the Cooper-Young Historic District are kicking off a monthly neighborhood “Night Out” this Thursday, April 3rd…
Midtowners mourned when Republic Coffee, located at 1999 Madison, closed about three years ago. The independently owned neighborhood coffee bar drew crowds with its coffee drinks, vegetarian and vegan food, artworks, pool tables, and broad selection of magazines.
Now owner Chris Conner is reopening Republic Coffee, sticking to the same concept in a different location. …
“Now I’m completely connected to the Hattiloo,” says Ekundayo Bandele, founder and executive producer of the Edge district’s ambitious Afro-centric playhouse.
Bandele has served as producer, director, dreamer, playwright, carpenter, custodian, and bartender. Now he can add actor to his resume. He’s taken on the role of Booth in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog.…
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 40th anniversary of his death, the Cultural Development Foundation of Memphis (CDFM) has organized a progressive dinner program called “Breaking Bread, Breaking Barriers” that encourages folks to extend dinner invitations to others from racially and religiously diverse groups. …
On Friday, March 7th, Fredric Koeppel announced that, after 20 years, he would no longer be reviewing restaurants for The Commercial Appeal.
“Twenty years is a long time to review restaurants in one city that also happens to be my hometown,” Koeppel says. “I really loved doing it, but The Commercial Appeal is restructuring some sections and I won’t be part of the Playbook team anymore.”…
Jessie L. Dotson, a convicted murderer who served 14 years in prison, has been charged with the murders of six people at a house on 722 Lester Street, including his younger brother Cecil Dotson.
“We can all rest a little easier today,” Memphis Police Department Director Larry Godwin said at a press conference Saturday afternoon.
Godwin said police are “confident” Jessie Dotson, 33, is the only killer, although the investigation remains open…
Memphis venture capitalist Bob Compton isn’t a filmmaker by trade, but a visit to India and China inspired the father of two to utilize the medium to explore what he saw as a worrisome divide between the quality and intensity of the education American students are receiving relative to students in those countries….
Compton hired journalists Chad Heeter and Adam Raney and then conceived, produced, and financed Two Million Minutes, an ambitious hour-long documentary about this divide. He’ll debut it locally with a screening Thursday, February 28th at 6 p.m., at Malco’s Paradiso theater.
Ralph Lunati, whose Platinum Plus and Tunica Cabaret were busted for live sex shows, was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday.
U.S. District Judge Samuel H. Mays accepted a plea agreement reached earlier by attorneys for Lunati and federal prosecutors. Under the agreement, Lunati, 62, could have gone to trial if Mays had rejected the proposed 18-month sentence. The maximum sentence under federal guidelines was five years….
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence recently presented “report cards” to every state, measuring their efforts to reduce gun crimes and violence, and Tennessee flunked just about every category. In fact, our state scored a 7 out of a total of 100 points….
Thinking about casting a ballot for a dead relative in Tuesday’s primary election? That wouldn’t be wise. District Attorney Bill Gibbons announced Thursday that a special “Voter Trust Task Force” will be on hand to deal with any potential voter fraud….
