Toby Sells: St. Jude will build a nearly $190 million medical tower that will be a mirror image of the seven-story, 340,000-square-foot Chili’s Care Center and will be attached to that facility. The new tower will include replacement facilities for St. Jude’s surgical department and intensive care unit. It will also house a department of [...]
From his commencement speech at the Booker T. Washington here in Memphis: Yes, you’re from South Memphis. Yes, you’ve always been underdogs. No one has handed you a thing. But that also means that whatever you accomplish in your lives, you’ll have earned it. Whatever rewards and joys you reap, you’ll appreciate them that much [...]
LZ Granderson on ESPN.com: But if you live here, you know the Grizzlies’ rallying cry of “Grit and Grind” is not just some cool marketing catchphrase to sum up its magical season. It is the autobiography of Memphis, Tenn. If you live here, you know that resilience is the sound of the blues on Beale [...]
Linsay Jones: It’s Official: Memphis is on the grid. On Tuesday morning, representatives from San Francisco-based ECOtality North America hosted a partner forum at The Peabody to welcome the Bluff City into a five-state embrace of electric vehicles and charging stations called “The EV Project.” “Electric vehicles are coming, and we want to make sure [...]
The hospital has posted a great little slideshow of how the campus has changed over the years.
This reminds me of this. Oddly, the weather is fine (albeit cold) here today. That might change overnight, though, with freezing rain and snow expected.
Just soak these in: Comparison of Windows Phone 7 handsets1 Comparison of Android handsets Comparison of iOS handsets The moral of the story? Less is sometimes more. I would have linked to Microsoft’s page, but it kept crashing my browser. Seriously. ↩
Michael Lollar: Graceland archivist Angie Marchese was cataloging receipts and other paperwork from Vernon Presley’s Graceland office about two weeks ago when she found a manila envelope with three photo negatives. “Just when you think you’ve seen everything, all of a sudden there’s something new,” said Marchese. Even though I’m a native Memphian, I’m not [...]
The Tennessean has posted over 100 photos taken around the Nashville area of record-setting floodwater. Memphis really dodged the bullet this weekend.
