Mushroom foraging: the perfect pandemic pastime
The first Memphis Mushroom Festival, scheduled for Oct. 1-4 in Meeman Shelby Forest, welcomes amateur and professional “mycologists,” or fungi fanatics.
Jill Johnson Piper
Freelance Reporter
Jill Johnson Piper is a second generation newspaper writer with roots in Memphis and Arkansas. She earned a B.A. in English from Rhodes College. Her work appears in Rhodes Today and Memphis magazine, as well as The Daily Memphian.
There are 38 articles by Jill Johnson Piper :
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June 2020
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Spirit of Memphis
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April 2020
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Performing ArtsPlayhouse preps for comeback with ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
A full house at Playhouse may look different than it did in the days prior to COVID-19. Executive producer Michael Detroit said a 'working plan' might be to sell every other seat.
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Arts & CultureA moviegoer’s guide to the arts
With stages, theaters and galleries dark, turn to movie streaming platforms for works on the arts.
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Arts & CultureA new director takes science-history museum ‘back to our roots’
Within a week of the city order to close because of the coronavirus, lesson-hungry homebound families were able to access Museum To Go, a sampler of Pink Palace artifacts, activities and movies. Kevin Thompson mobilized his gloved-and-masked education team to make museum content available in record time.
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March 2020
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Opinion
Guest ColumnistsThe art-less quarantine
I have missed entire seasons of music, art and drama for no good reason at all. Now that they’re closed, they’re all I can think about.
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Arts & Culture Welcome back, ‘Hamilton’: Orpheum rolls out 2020-21 season
The 2020-21 Broadway Series at the Orpheum also includes “Hadestown”; Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls”; “Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville”; and “Jesus Christ Superstar” on its 50th anniversary tour.
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Music MSO’s new season, from ‘La Mancha’ and Aretha to ‘Romeo and Juliet’
The orchestra will salute Beethoven’s 250th birthday with Symphony No. 9, perform a tribute to Aretha Franklin and revisit “Romeo and Juliet” with the help of the Tennessee Shakespeare Company.
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BusinessCoronavirus daily blog, March 16: SCS extends closure to April 6
Confirmed cases Tennessee52 Shelby County2 - Tunica casinos close temporarily
- Catholic Diocese of Memphis decree cancels Eucharist celebration, excuses people from mass
- U of M may postpone spring graduation
- Dow experiences worst day since 1987
- Gov. urges all Tennessee schools to close
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CoronavirusCoronavirus daily blog, March 17: Strickland declares state of emergency; third local case confirmed
The state reports the total number of confirmed cases in Tennessee is 73, and a third Shelby County case has also been reported. That individual is isolated at home and did not contract it in Shelby County.
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Performing Arts Celebrating 100 years, Theatre Memphis gets a facelift, a land deed and a national award
TM executive producer Debbie Litch has a hardhat in every color and goals for every week to bring the $5.7 million campaign of improvements to completion by August.
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February 2020
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MusicMemphis Symphony director proves serious music needn’t be solemn
For the era of inclusion, Moody seems to have come straight out of central casting. He’s 52 but he could pass for 38. He doesn’t mind a stunt, like conducting the theme to "Jurassic Park" in a T-Rex costume."
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Performing Arts You have an appointment at the Salon
The annual literary salon – a blend of cocktail party, theater and book club – puts Tennessee Shakespeare Company's Dan McCleary in the role of mixologist. This year’s authors are Zora Neale Hurston and Margaret Mitchell.
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Arts & Culture GPAC at 25 offers ‘dizzying’ lineup of national, international acts
The Grove at GPAC, an outdoor theater with a food pavilion, will be only the second performing arts center in the country to have a Daktronics video wall capable of simulcasting the performance inside to an outdoor audience.
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January 2020
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Performing Arts Memphis literacy event draws nationally known writers
The last battle of the Korean War, the woman behind Winston Churchill and a Jewish family who survived the Holocaust will form the narrative thread for a lunch next month.
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Arts & Culture A tale of two bridges
The Mighty Lights on the I-55 Harahan Bridge went live late in 2016, and the Hernando DeSoto Bridge formed the other half of the dynamic display two years later. Now they're a pair of massive porch lights on the city's west front.
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Guest Columnists Last decade, we learned kindness is cool and food comes from farms
In the 2010s, we saw real-size people on TV and became experts at streaming.
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December 2019
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Visual Arts Going, going, until gone
Memphis College of Art to sell last 500 artworks starting Jan. 25.
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Food Meals on Wheels with music: Yes, he takes requests
Volunteer MIFA driver keeps a song in his pocket.
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Arts & CultureMemphian once lived in Mister Rogers’ neighborhood
Memphis stationer Lee Ernst recalls living on same street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the humble TV star.
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Arts & Culture Orpheum will screen ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ for a good cause
See the classic movie at Downtown's classic theater while contributing to the Mid-South Food Bank.
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Music‘Messiah’ soprano for hire: Mary Wilson loves to tell Handel’s old, old story
“Audiences aren’t paying to hear me read the phone book,” Wilson says. “It’s about telling a story. That’s really important to me.”
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November 2019
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Performing Arts At 17, ‘Nut Remix’ still tells Tchaikovsky the news
New Ballet' "Nut Remix" resets the story of the "Nutcracker" ballet on Beale Street, and mixes in a little Booker T. & the MG's and Duke Ellington with the familiar Tchaikovsky music. This year's performances are Nov. 15-17 at the Cannon Center.
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Arts & Culture Memphis that almost wasn’t
"Memphis Reborn," a new book about Memphis in the 1880s, begins with the city "at its absolute low point."
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Performing Arts Camp SAY caters to students who stutter
“If there had been a Camp SAY in the ‘60s, that would have been a lifesaver for me,” says Vince Vawter, novelist and fluency advocate.
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October 2019
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Bartlett Erin A. Craig’s ‘sense of eerie horror’ hooks Hollywood
Erin A. Craig is 'over the moon' about selling the rights to her scary YA novel "House of Salt and Sorrows."
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