Smart City Memphis

The following are the number of visits to local and selected media websites in July 2026 followed by average length of each visit:  

Commercial Appeal 584,749 (1:26)

Daily Memphian 369,650 ...

When I was a boy, I spent many summers with my aunt in Atlanta.  She lived in Buckhead, just up the street from an editorial writer for the Atlanta Constitution when Ralph McGill was editor.

Each summer, it made me pay attention to the courageous editorials published in that newspaper and to conclude that Ralph McGill was the greatest...

Cartoonist Bill Day never fails to prove the point that a picture – in his case, a cartoon – is worth a thousand words, Former Memphian and Commercial Appeal cartoonist, he is the recipient of numerous professional awards.  He is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism award in Cartooning which is given to cartoonists whose work reflects Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s conc...

The Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities at Rhodes College hosts a free public lecture on Thursday, October 1, 2026 by Dr. Robert Macfarlane, Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities at the Faculty of English in Cambridge.

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Much of what makes Memphis unique are intangible – its rhythm, vibe, culture.

Then, there are the uniquely tangible: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, five miles of parks on the Mississippi River that look across to a sea of green, the large urban park at Shelby Farms Park that was once a prison, and an abundance of mythic music shrines.