Jon W. Sparks
Senior Editor at Inside Memphis Business
Arts Reporter at Memphis Flyer
Senior Editor at Memphis: The City Magazine
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1 week ago |
memphismagazine.com | Jon W. Sparks
Editor's Note: Community leaders gathered at Memphis Botanic Garden on May 7th to honor this year’s CEOs of the year, honoring five business leaders who are making the best kind of impact on the Mid-South: Boo Mitchell with Royal Studios, Brett Batterson with the Orpheum Theatre Group, Laurie Powell with Alliance Healthcare Services, Dr. Stewart Burgess with the Children’s Museum of Memphis, and Ted Townsend with the Greater Memphis Chamber.
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3 weeks ago |
memphismagazine.com | Jon W. Sparks
Editor's Note: Community leaders gathered at Memphis Botanic Garden on May 7th to honor the 2025 CEOs of the Year, honoring five business leaders who are making the best kind of impact on the Mid-South: Boo Mitchell with Royal Studios, Brett Batterson with the Orpheum Theatre Group, Laurie Powell with Alliance Healthcare Services, Dr. Stewart Burgess with the Children’s Museum of Memphis, and Ted Townsend with the Greater Memphis Chamber.
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1 month ago |
memphismagazine.com | Michael Finger |Abigail Morici |Frank Murtaugh |Jon W. Sparks
For more than a decade, Memphis Magazine has celebrated a group of CEOs every year, recognizing visionaries and executives who go above and beyond to elevate their companies and their community. And every year, we gather these leaders at a sponsored awards breakfast to honor them in front of their peers and the community. The challenge is in deciding which of them should receive the honor.
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1 month ago |
memphisflyer.com | Jon W. Sparks
In a moment that left her breathless, Cecelia Wingate, a force of Memphis theater, learned she would receive the prestigious Eugart Yerian Award for lifetime achievement at the Ostrander Awards this year. The news came unexpectedly, delivered a few weeks ago by Jeff Posson outside Theatre Memphis where Wingate was heading into a rehearsal for Silent Sky. “It knocked the wind out of me,” she said.
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1 month ago |
memphismagazine.com | Jon W. Sparks
I recently conducted a survey that shows Memphis is ranked No. 1. And I want to assure you that my intentions are pure, my methodology proven, and my results guaranteed. I call it Ranking Madness, and it’s clearly (according to surveys) a function of a society that is compelled to measure and rate and sort, which is probably a defense against the evil forces of imponderables, abstractions, uncertainty, and life. All within a margin of error, naturally. Why do we so love rankings?
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