By Staff on September 3, 2010
By Debbie Sowell
As we welcome the runners of the Cooper-Young Festival Friday 4 Miler to our ‘hood, there is only one rule; party, party, party! Get together with your friends along the race route and cheer for the runners as you compete in our annual Light The Way contest. Start your planning now and notify [...]
Posted in CY Community News, CYCA, Events, Health | Tagged CYCA, events, midtown, volunteering
By Staff on July 1, 2010
By Aaron James
The Memphis Regional Design Center (MRDC) remains hard at work with their efforts to create a Midtown Overlay District (MOD). As you may recall from our February article, the MOD represents proposed zoning restrictions that would supersede current, more generalized, zoning requirements. The MRDC has held a number of meetings over the last [...]
Posted in CY Community News | Tagged development, midtown, MRDC
By Staff on July 1, 2010
By Susan Roakes
The City of Memphis Division of Park Services recently opened its first enclosed, off-leash dog park just minutes away from CY. The park is located at 2599 Avery, near the Memphis City School’s main administration building.
On my visits to the park I have seen many happy dogs. The park includes separate fenced in [...]
Posted in CY Community News | Tagged animals, midtown, news, pets
By Kristan on March 1, 2010
We’re on the cusp of spring weather now and it’s time to start going outside. That makes it even easier to get your needed exercise. It’s not as hard as you think.
Posted in Blog | Tagged Cooper Young, exercise, health, midtown, tips, walking
By Brad on March 1, 2010
By Leslie Thompson
Yvonne Bobo has been creating works of art in her Cooper-Young studio at Young and Blythe for the past decade, and though her name may not be known to every household in Memphis, most will at least recognize her work. Her metal sculptures and art installations appear in several local public spaces all [...]
Posted in Arts, Business, Education | Tagged arts, Business, events, midtown, video
By Kristan on March 1, 2010
By Andrew Moore
British talk-show host David Frost has become a lowbrow laughing-stock. Richard M. Nixon has just resigned the United States presidency in total disgrace over Vietnam and the Watergate scandal. Determined to resurrect his career, Frost risks everything on a series of in-depth interviews in order to extract an apology from Nixon. The cagey [...]
Posted in Arts, Business, Goings On!, Theatre | Tagged arts, Business, events, midtown
By Kristan on March 1, 2010
By Pat Bogan
As the new Playhouse on the Square has opened in the Midtown community, Circuit Playhouse has also unveiled a new name, new look, and new opportunities for innovative and emerging artists in the local Memphis area, complementing and supplementing TheatreWorks. The Evergreen Theatre, as historic as the name and the community in which [...]
Posted in Arts, Business, Theatre | Tagged arts, Business, midtown, openings
By Kristan on March 1, 2010
By Andrew Moore
Immortalized onstage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson, tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Helen, trapped in her secret world, is violent, spoiled, [...]
Posted in Arts, Business, Goings On!, Theatre | Tagged arts, Business, midtown, openings
By Patrick on January 30, 2010
Build Memphis up, not out, with a Midtown Overlay District
As an architect, I wholeheartedly embrace the evolution of our built environments—when handled properly. I would much rather see Memphis focus on infill than recklessly continue her century-old tradition of white flight and eastern sprawl. As such, I applaud the efforts of the groups working to [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged CYDC, development, midtown, MOD, MRDC, planning
By Patrick on January 29, 2010
The Salvation Army’s Kroc Center aims to unite Memphis families
By Jeffrey Bain
A family pulls into a parking lot at the Mid-South Fairgrounds and heads to a state-of-the-art, 100,000-square-foot community center. Smiling families are leaving; other smiling families are entering. Welcome to the Salvation Army’s Kroc Center of Memphis. A soccer game is in progress at [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged KROC, midtown
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