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July 2026
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Ballet Memphis celebrates the past while looking to the future
Ballet Memphis holds an open house to showcase all it offers to the community. Besides dance for adults and kids, there’s Pilates and classes for Parkinson’s patients.
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Midtown residents say this tenant is disrupting the peace. Now they’re making noise.
Revving engines, blaring music, “flooring the gas.” Neighbors say the tenant renting a home on their Midtown street is repeatedly committing code violations and a potential safety concern. But, they say, little has been done to solve the problem.
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Restaurant Remix: No Comment is staying ’80s-themed but with a twist
“We know we can do oysters. We want to make sure this new menu crushes,” said the co-owner of No Comment as it transitions to a restaurant with an Indian-Italian flavor.
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June 2026
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After 27 years, The Blue Monkey is closing its doors in Midtown
“It’s been difficult for quite some time, but it just got to the point where, you know, we just really didn’t have much of a choice,” said partner and general manager Mike Johnson as the restaurant closes its first of two locations.
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March 2026
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Ask the Memphian: Is the zoo still considering adding a members entrance off North Parkway?
The Memphis Zoo is planning to turn its North Parkway property into a 300-space parking lot. Exactly who it’s for, however, remains to be seen.
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February 2026
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Ask the Memphian: Can a class of 6 CBU students help solve 2 cold-case murders? A grieving family hopes so.
Maybe, just maybe, a class at Christian Brothers University can focus attention back on the murders of Beau and Shea Grauer, two brothers killed seven months apart in two separate Midtown shootings that appear unconnected.
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December 2025
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Ashlar Hall’s restoration was ‘anything but simple’
The 129-year-old building, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, is owned by Juan Montoya, who bought it in 2016 for $59,000, according to deed records.
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September 2025
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Eat more chicken again on Union Avenue
The Chick-fil-A, which opened in 2009, closed on May 29 for renovations of the 4,400-square-foot building at 1980 Union Ave.
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July 2025
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Sound Bites: Barbecue, breakfast and reopening a beloved Midtown diner
Ryan Glosson and the husband-and-wife team of Bryant and Heather Bain join Sound Bites to talk about their experience owning and operating two restaurants in Midtown, Bain BBQ and Barksdale.
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June 2025
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Prairie Farms Dairy to close Memphis plant
The announcement said Prairie Farms will work with area manufacturers and employment agencies to support transitions.
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May 2025
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Midtown’s Fantastic Fans is closing, but the Fan Doctor will make house calls
“Once it passes into history,” said a fan, “we will have lost another unique part of what makes Midtown, Midtown.”
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Iconic blue dog paintings replaced
The owners of Union Centre changed the iconic blue dog art in late April. Only one blue dog painting remains on the building.
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Midtown TJ Mulligan’s to close with owner citing crime concerns
“The landlord and I talked about it, and it’s probably the best thing for the area to not have an establishment open after 10 p.m.,” owner Lee Adams said.
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Inked: Lindenwood to expand child care center; distribution center opens
A vacant, 6,700-square-foot medical office building in Midtown will also go to auction in June.
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April 2025
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Inked: Former Bed Bath & Beyond trades robes for liquor bottles
Plus, Midtown apartments sell for $3.1 million, and an urgent care clinic for pets is coming to the Bartlett area.
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March 2025
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Regional One CEO plans options in case state money doesn’t come through
Reginald Coopwood of Regional One Health talks on “Behind The Headlines” about alternatives for the hospital rebuild, and why the decision was made to shift the project to a new site.
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January 2025
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Plant-based body-care franchise expands into Midtown
The Soap Factory located in a shopping center at 2197 Central Ave. sells various bath, body and home products, including laundry detergent, body soaps, lotions, candles, beard oil and sinus bombs.
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Lafayette’s says party will continue but with changes
Lafayette’s Music Room plans to continue its legacy of live music in Overton Square, but with shortened hours.
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December 2024
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Railgarten ‘closed for renovation’ until spring, rep says
Concerts scheduled for this weekend at the Central Avenue event site were suddenly canceled or moved to Loflin Yard and all the events previously listed on the Railgarten website have been deleted.
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August 2024
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Trio, including two employees, buy Midtown’s Bayou Bar & Grill
The Bayou Bar & Grill has been run by Bill and Carla Baker for the past 30 years. Now the restaurant has new owners.
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July 2024
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Liberty Park $112M private development takes step forward
Further development at Liberty Park took a key step forward Tuesday: A City Council committee approved the up-to $112.5 million project that could change Midtown.
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Proposed recovery home in Midtown sparks neighbors’ concern
“In the meeting, (a neighbor) asked, ‘Are we getting violent offenders?’ (A company representative) said he’s not allowed to discuss that.”
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April 2024
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Immaculate Conception school to close this year
Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1921, the parochial school ICCS shares a campus with the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the mother church of the Diocese of Memphis.
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Whataburger eyeing former Midtown police station site
The proposed Whataburger would include a drive-thru and outdoor patio, but the original, 2022 plan for the site said no drive-thru restaurants would be allowed there without approval from the Land Use Control Board and Memphis City Council.
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