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2 weeks ago | 
memphismagazine.com | Michael Finger
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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3 weeks ago | 
memphismagazine.com | Michael Finger
In his classic short story, “The Night the Bed Fell,” humorist James Thurber remembered “a nervous first cousin of mine,” who never went to sleep without a glass of “spirits of camphor, a powerful reviver,” by his bed. He instructed anyone nearby to guard him closely, and if he stopped breathing during his sleep, they were to dash that in his face to arouse him. (Spoiler alert: They did.)
In Thurber’s tale, this was just one of a series of misadventures his family endured on that memorable night.
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1 month ago | 
memphismagazine.com | Michael Finger
In less than a minute the boat rolled over, pitching the young woman and her fellow passengers into the river. The current was swift, the water surprisingly cold. Frantically, she kicked and splashed in a desperate effort to stay afloat.
It was no use. She had no life preserver, and her waterlogged dress twisted around her legs. When she tried to scream out, the muddy water choked her.
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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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Jan 2, 2025 | 
memphismagazine.com | Michael Finger
In 1948, Willie Mays signed his first professional baseball contract, agreeing to a monthly salary of $250 to play as a center fielder for the Birmingham Black Barons, a team owned by the operator of a Memphis funeral parlor.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
memphismagazine.com | Michael Finger
The witnesses testifying at the Civil Aeronautics Board Accident Investigation, held in Memphis on February 22, 1944, couldn’t agree on what they had heard in the skies over Arkansas 12 days earlier. A half-hour before midnight on February 10, they had looked up as American Airlines Trip 2, dubbed the Sun Country Special, flew overhead. Some reported the propeller-driven plane’s engines sounded normal. Two boys, just a few miles farther east, said the plane backfired several times.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
memphismagazine.com | Michael Finger
Editor’s Note: Every year, the national medical group Castle Connolly compiles a list of the best doctors in America. In the Memphis area, the list comprises more than 400 physicians representing 60 specialties. Here, we introduce you to one of the caregivers who have been a Top Doc time and again. For a complete list, pick up a copy of our June 2024 issue from your favorite newsstand, or — even better — subscribe.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
memphismagazine.com | Michael Finger
When Boyle Investment Company first opened its doors in 1933, local business leaders were already familiar with the family who founded the new firm. After all, J. Bayard Boyle Sr., B. Snowden Boyle, and Charles H. Boyle Jr. could trace their ancestry all the way back to Judge John Overton, one of the three men from Nashville who founded Memphis in 1819.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
memphismagazine.com | Michael Finger
Editor’s Note: Roy Harrover passed away December 12, 2016, but he left behind a body of work that may be considered unique because of the extensive range of his designs — a portfolio of homes, schools, churches, parks, and civic structures. Memphians, in fact, are often surprised to learn that one man designed such distinctive structures as Memphis International Airport, Memphis College of Art, Commerce Square, and Mud Island.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
memphismagazine.com | Michael Finger
Editor’s Note: Some might tell you that Memphis is the biggest small town in America. We would say that Memphis is a patchwork of small towns — in the form of distinctive neighborhoods — stitched closely together into the form of a city. So we’re highlighting some of the city’s best towns, if you will, by spotlighting some of our classic neighborhoods. Maybe this will remind you to revisit an area you don’t call home, or to identify more strongly with the one you do.
