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    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      US police
      Memphis police disband unit connected to death of Tyre Nichols

      Move follows release of video that renewed criticism of US policing tactics

    • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
      The ABC of ascents, bouldering and climbing
      The Cause: ‘They’re not just joining a climbing gym – they are joining a revolution’

      A Hollywood director is on a mission to help disadvantaged communities ascend their circumstances, physically and mentally

    • Friday, 20 November, 2020
      Design
      How the Memphis movement made kitsch cool

      The Italian design group may have been ‘an exuberant cocktail of bad taste’, but its influence lives on

    • Friday, 27 December, 2019
      Interiors
      The interiors trends that made the 2010s

      From maximalism to mid-century: leading aesthetes choose the styles of the decade

    • Friday, 27 September, 2019
      HTSI
      Why now’s the time to collect Memphis design

      The irreverent design aesthetic of Ettore Sottsass’s influential 1980s collective adds colour, wit and punch to 21st-century interiors

    • Friday, 31 May, 2019
      FT SeriesCity stats: how rivals measure up
      City stats: Memphis versus Nashville

      While both Tennessee cities are musical hotbeds, their economies — and housing markets — show sharp contrasts

    • Thursday, 16 August, 2018
      ObituaryMusic
      Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, 1942-2018

      Extraordinary vocal talent whose songs epitomised black power and women’s liberation

    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2017
      Commodities
      Cattle futures trades were bull, regulator alleges

      Tennessee investment firm fined over scheme to bust position limits

    • Friday, 5 May, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Soul searching: inside Memphis’s legendary Sam Phillips studio

      Australian artist Emily Barker went to the ‘Cape Canaveral of studios’ to make her dream record

    • Friday, 7 April, 2017
      Life & Arts
      The US’s Highway 61 revisited

      As if the music wasn’t enough, the birthplace of gospel, jazz, blues and country is now a culinary smash too

    • Monday, 15 February, 2016
      US presidential election
      Gaffes threaten to turn Clinton ‘secret weapon’ into loose cannon

      Former president may be more harm than help on wife’s campaign

    • Friday, 12 February, 2016
      Life & Arts
      US property: why Memphis is no longer singing the blues

      After a steep decline in home prices, the city known for its music history is poised for substantial growth in 2016

    • Friday, 24 July, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Rosanne Cash, Union Chapel, London — review

      The singer’s pedigree, both rootsy and refined, shone through in this performance

    • Sunday, 23 November, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Frazey Ford, Cadogan Hall, London – review

      The singer and her band brought a dash of Southern soul to London

    • Wednesday, 2 April, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Justin Timberlake, O2 Arena, London – review

      Backed by a substantial band, the singer’s infectious enthusiasm carried itself to all corners of the arena

    • Tuesday, 12 November, 2013
      US & Canadian companies
      Loeb’s Third Point takes stake in FedEx
    • Friday, 28 December, 2012
      Capital markets
      Memphis message gives bonds perspective

      It is time to start shading exposures to bonds,

    • Tuesday, 11 December, 2012
      US & Canadian companies
      Emails released in FedEx charges case
    • Friday, 26 October, 2012
      Life & Arts
      Heaven and hell

      Five young practitioners name the best and worst of design

    • Friday, 19 October, 2012
      FT Magazine
      Interview: Richard Ford

      He never intended to be a writer, yet the Pulitzer prize-winning author is considered one of the American greats, ranked with William Faulkner and Raymond Carver. With his seventh novel now published, he explains to Ariel Leve how he ended up ‘doing this’

    • Wednesday, 10 October, 2012
      US & Canadian companies
      FedEx shifts focus to ground transport
    • Friday, 14 September, 2012
      FT Magazine
      William Eggleston: American epic

      After 35 years since William Eggleston’s colour works were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Mark Holborn charts the full extent of the photographer’s achievement

    • Wednesday, 23 May, 2012
      Commodities
      Allure of cotton fading fast
    • Friday, 13 April, 2012
      Life & Arts
      Expat lives: In seeds we trust

      Cary Fowler moved from Memphis to Rome – and commutes to the Arctic Circle

    • Sunday, 8 April, 2012
      Global trade
      Liverpool’s legacy strengthens cotton trade
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