Author: Smart City Memphis

Sometimes life just feels too confusing.There they were tonight, to all the world the perfect married couple, longingly looking into each other’s eyes and professing their undying love to each other – Mary Kay Letourneau...

Ouch.It was beginning to feel like a really dull weekend, so I thought I’d check the AOL City Guide to see what exciting is going on in Memphis.The recommendation under Today’s Pick: the CMA Music Festival in...

It just seems strange to me.I’ve got friends who are obsessed about their children’s safety. They give their daughters warnings about strangers, about over-familiar friends and about the risk factors for every conceivable...

Chicago is a city that does so much right.And we’re not just talking about the remarkable phenomenon that is Millennium Park. More to the point, a recent visit to the Windy City reminded us of the impact of how important it is...

Sometimes it’s easy to feel sympathy for our elected officials who, spending their lives in the hothouse that is Memphis politics, try to do something to show action, and in the end, it does just the opposite.That’s what we...

Government officials and agencies have an aversion to admitting they’ve made a mistake, but no agency is more tone deaf than the Memphis and Shelby County Industrial Development Board.Case in point. Yesterday, on the same day...

It’s always the innocent bystanders who get shot. That’s especially true in school politics, where the ultimate victims are always the students.Recently, in the latest salvo from the Shelby County School Board, Memphis City...

From the Hollywood Reporter comes this reminder of the most important asset of Memphis Music – the music being created right now – and why we need to do a better job of showcasing and supporting it. If we’re...

Yesterday, Memphis City Council and Shelby County Board of Commissioners had one of their infrequent joint meetings to discuss a bothersome issue for Memphis – the S-O-B’s. The news they got was B-A-D.In this case, we’re...

The following is the City Journal column in the May issue of Memphis magazine by Smart City Consulting’s Tom Jones:Spray painted on a New Orleans wharf warehouse near the Lower Garden District: “Next time, we vote for...