Memphis Black Restaurant Week: Mahogany Memphis
The restaurant inside Chickasaw Oaks mall serves familiar dishes with a flair personalized by owners Carlee McCullough and VeVe Yates.
Peggy Burch
There are 57 articles by Peggy Burch :
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March 2021
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Reviews Memphis Black Restaurant Week: SugaShack
There’s a new spot for classic Southern comfort food on Beale.
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Food News Memphis native takes a turn on Food Network’s ‘Chopped’
Desmond Robinson says just appearing on ‘Chopped’ was a big win: “The response has been so overwhelming, from congratulations to business inquiries. It’s going to take me months to go through these messages.’
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Food News Memphis native Chef D. Arthur competes on ‘Chopped’
Desmond Robinson, who graduated from the University of Memphis, is known professionally as Chef D. Arthur. His “Chopped” competition is titled “Meat Fight: Bison!”
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Reviews New Eats: Hustle & Dough
Sourdough bread is the star at this South Main bakery and cafe, but an egg sandwich with milk bread is well worth trying. The lobby of the Arrive Memphis hotel provides the appealing backdrop.
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February 2021
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Food News Soup Sunday gets a makeover for a pandemic year
This year, instead of lasting three hours on one day at FedExForum, the annual event to benefit Youth Villages will be held over two days, Feb. 27-28, at 20 restaurants.
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Arts & Culture Birds can use your help: ‘It takes a lot of energy to fly’
Packed snow and ice seal off major food sources for birds. ‘For these species that winter with us, setting seeds out is a real kindness to help them get through,’ says Julie Markham.
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Food News The Majority rules now in the City Tasting Box lineup
Through Black History Month, the local company City Tasting Tours offers an artisanal food box called The Majority, with items from seven Memphis businesses.
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Music Black History Month events go virtual at Civil Rights Museum, Stax, Hattiloo
The National Civil Rights Museum will host a virtual panel Feb. 5 with editors and contributors to the new book “Four Hundred Souls.”
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Reviews New Eats: Slim & Husky’s Pizza Beeria
A Nashville export gets a warm welcome in Memphis. A stainless steel screen that dominates the counter at the restaurant on Union delivers the message: Pizza Rules Everything Around Me.
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January 2021
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Food NewsNew Eats: City Silo in Saddle Creek
Fans of the Sanderlin Centre’s City Silo won’t have to adapt to the new spot in Saddle Creek. The menu is intact and the environment is just as simple and light.
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Performing Arts Local leaders get parts in ‘Say It Loud’ at Hattiloo Theatre
In a free, virtual series, actors will perform speeches by Booker T. Washington, Shirley Chisholm, Dick Gregory and John Lewis. They’ll be introduced by Shelby County Commission members present and past and a Rhodes College professor, among others.
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Music Records by ‘Mr. Music of Memphis’ back in circulation
Berl Olswanger died in 1981, and now his daughter is working with Big Round Records to bring out digital releases of three of his records from the 1950s and ’60s.
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Spirit of Memphis Memphis artist’s design debuts on Times Square Jumbotron
Eso Tolson’s work is part of Coca-Cola’s “New Year, New Hope” campaign being introduced on New Year’s Eve.
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December 2020
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Spirit of Memphis Hattiloo gives COVID frontline workers a voice
The theater company based in Overton Square worked with Regional One to create “From the Frontlines of COVID-19,” a series that gives a virtual stage to some of the health care providers who are getting us through a crisis.
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Visual Arts At 78, a Memphis sculptor sees his work headed to museums
Works by Luther Hampton, who graduated from the Memphis Academy of Arts in 1973, will go to three museums, including Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art and Tennessee State Museum.
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Performing Arts Coming to a screen near you: ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet
Ballet Memphis produced an hour-long film of the classic holiday ballet, which will be offered free on the company’s website. The New Ballet Ensemble and Children’s Ballet Theater will screen films of their “Nutcracker” performances at Malco Summer Drive-in.
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Performing Arts Theaters deliver ‘A Christmas Carol’ and holiday shows to your living room
We’re not just going to be home for the holidays, but also homebound by COVID-19. Still you’ll be able to see “A Christmas Carol” performed by Memphis actors and other seasonal shows.
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November 2020
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Visual Arts A star in the global art world recalls Memphis childhood in a painting
A painting donated by Memphis-born artist Derek Fordjour drew a $410,000 bid to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Performing Arts Shakespeare Co. takes on Louisa May Alcott and Charles Dickens
In November and December, 19th century literary classics will be the focus on the TSC stage. Shows will also be simulcast for online ticket holders.
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Music Orpheum’s Mighty Wurlitzer gets an encore
After a $500,000 restoration, the Orpheum’s organ is “better than it was in 1928.” The theater will offer a free concert by organists Tony Thomas and Vincent Astor on Nov. 19.
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Visual Arts Handwritten, illuminated ‘Saint John’s Bible’ on display at Dixon
Currently, 68 pages from the seven volumes of the illuminated Bible, with contemporary artworks that illustrate the verses, glow in carefully lit exhibition galleries at the Dixon.
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Arts & Culture Footprint expands for Botanic Garden’s Holiday Wonders
Tickets are on sale now for Holiday Wonders, Nov. 27 to Dec. 27, which combines light shows in the garden’s outdoor spaces with way stations for visitors to try roasting marshmallows and sipping tea, cocoa and holiday spirits.
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October 2020
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Arts & Culture Hundreds of Master Gardeners in Memphis are ready to give you advice
‘We’re not gardening gods, just people who enjoy it and have killed more plants than you have,’ says nine-year Master Gardener veteran Tom Rieman.
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Visual Arts ‘We’re kind of like the Rolling Stones’
David Lusk Gallery is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month with a show of work by seven artists who were in the gallery’s 1995 opening show and remain there today.
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