Novel hosts James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly online
About 200 fans are already signed up for the virtual event, but there’s space for 500, says Kat Leache, Novel’s social media and promotions coordinator.
Peggy Burch
There are 57 articles by Peggy Burch :
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August 2020
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Performing Arts Stages are dark, but performance theaters are plotting their returns
Live theater companies in Memphis endured a long exercise in improv in the second half of the 2019-20 theater season. And 2020-21 is shaping up as more of the same.
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Performing Arts Tennessee Shakespeare Co. offers literary salon online
“Classical Creativity in Isolation” will open the professional theater company’s 13th season. “I don’t care for live theaters being classified as ‘non-essential’ this year,” says TSC founder Dan McCleary.
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September 2020
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Performing Arts Memphis author gets movie deal with Netflix
Mark Greaney has written nine thrillers about his legendary assassin Court Gentry, aka 'The Gray Man.' Netflix cast Ryan Gosling in the film role.
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Performing Arts An actor resurrects three civil rights heroes
Darius Wallace has performed as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass in schools, universities, theaters and museums around the country. “He’s one of the foremost recreators of these three men that we have in the country,” says Tennessee Shakespeare Company's artistic director.
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Arts & Culture Central Gardens invites visitors on a Detour
The Midtown neighborhood, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, will offer visitors an interactive digital map of 100 homes that have been included on CGA tours from the past 20 years.
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Visual Arts The art shows must go on: Exhibitions stay on through pandemic
Memphis museums reopened slowly and carefully, and shows that were expected to leave in May are still open through Sept. 27.
Related story: Downtown art museum’s veiled design: ‘It’s exceeding our expectations’
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October 2020
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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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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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November 2020
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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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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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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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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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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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December 2020
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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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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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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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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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January 2021
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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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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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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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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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February 2021
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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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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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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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