By Bob Mehr Tonight, a collection of citizens from Como, Miss., will travel to Memphis to take the stage of the Levitt Shell at Overton Park, to perform an evening of a cappella gospel music.

By Linda A Moore After only a few steps into the old-growth forest at Overton Park, Tom Heineke stops at a tulip poplar. It's old, possibly 100 to 175 years. But he can't be sure without further study.

The Memphis Zoo took a public relations punch when it felled 139 trees a few months ago to make way for the new $13.5 million Teton Trek exhibit on the zoo's eastern edge. There's no question it's considered one of the top zoos in the country.

By Linda A Moore The battle for what's best for the old-growth forest at Overton Park moved to City Hall on Tuesday as a representative from a citizen's advocacy group made a pitch for more oversight.

There are good reasons federal law requires an environmental impact statement to be compiled and the public to be given adequate opportunity to comment before major federal actions affecting the environment are undertaken.