Elle Perry
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October 2018
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Music The second annual Mempho Music Festival at Shelby Farms Park was so successful that organizers say they expect to expand the event in 2019. “Memphis deserves a world-class music festival,” Mempho founder Diego Winegardner said Sunday. -
Performing Arts Levitt Shell executive director stepping down after 10 years
After 10 years and 500 shows, Levitt Shell executive director Anne Pitts is stepping down. -
Performing Arts Meet the 10-year-old Memphian touring with ‘School of Rock’
The national tour of the “School of Rock,” hits the Orpheum Theatre, starting Wednesday, Oct. 9. It is based on the film of the same name and features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. -
Visual Arts The Dixon, Fogelman Galleries explore political printmaking in new exhibitions
Memphis art connoisseurs interested in the intersection of printmaking and social issues are in luck this fall. The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is presenting three exhibitions examining political printmaking. -
Performing Arts PRIZM Ensemble starts workshop to help local students audition for college programs
Four years after Lecolion and Carina Washington founded PRIZM Ensemble in Memphis, the organization launched the PRIZM Music Camp & International Chamber Music Festival. In 2013, PRIZM launched its after-school mentoring program, PRIZM in the Schools, and in 2015 it began OMusic Project, which serves Orange Mound. -
Business Hera Health Solutions developing biodegradable drug delivery implants, starting with contraception
Hera Health Solutions started from Idicula Mathew’s senior design project at Georgia Institute of Technology. -
Business LawnTap: Startup features automated smart-lawn sensors
Imagine being in California and getting a notification on your smartphone from your lawn in Georgia informing you that your lawn there is about to be cut and asking if you accept the action. -
Business After 5 years, social networking event Undercurrent to end
After five years of social networking events in Memphis, Undercurrent is ending with its 50th meetup in December. -
Visual Arts Metalsmiths descend on Memphis for Metal Museum’s Repair Days
Typically, an object brought to the Metal Museum’s Repair Days is interesting because of the story behind it, rather than the object itself. -
Arts & Culture What could happen to Aretha Franklin’s birthplace based on Memphis precedents
A small house with boarded-up windows and a metal fence around the yard sits on Lucy Avenue off of Wellington Street. -
Music Soul music is being celebrated this weekend at 4th annual Soulsville USA Festival
With the mission of tying Memphis’ soul music history to the city’s soul music of today, the Soulsville USA Festival is returning to College Street and McLemore Avenue. -
Visual Arts Local arts groups participating in nationwide ‘For Freedoms’ initiative
Last September, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas gave Memphis College Art’s Downing Pryor Lecture. -
Performing Arts Ballet Memphis’ Fall Mix features music from Julien Baker, Unapologetic artists
Almost 20 years ago then-choreographer-in-residence Trey McIntyre created "The Memphis Suite" for Ballet Memphis. McIntyre has now remixed that work for Ballet Memphis' Fall Mix. -
Performing Arts Film directed by Memphis optometrist opening nationwide
Dr. David Evans owns Total Eye Care in East Memphis. His wife, Esther Evans, serves as practice administrator. -
Visual Arts Art will flow along the Memphis Riverfront for annual festival
Memphis’ RiverArtsFest turns 12 this year. But the festival, which will run this weekend (Oct. 27-28), will move from its usual home on South Main Street to Riverside Drive between Jefferson Avenue and Beale Street. The move is due to construction and street closures. -
Business DCA, Morris Marketing take top honors at 2018 VOX Awards
The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Memphis awarded creative communications consulting firm DCA its “Best in Show” honor during the organization’s 25th annual VOX Awards. -
Arts & Culture This Week in Books: Memphis Afrofuturism, Southern Living Party Cookbook, Battle for Bonhoeffer
Afrofuturism is more than black science fiction or simply an aesthetic, says Memphis-based author Troy L. Wiggins. -
Performing Arts Rhodes, Southwest, U of M theater programs team up for ‘NottageFest’
Last year, a graduating senior at Rhodes College was directing scenes from Lynn Nottage’s “Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine,” for her final project in the directing class.
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November 2018
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Arts & Culture Memphis groups celebrate Dia de los Muertos
Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday. The title translates into "Day of the Dead." -
Food News Vintage901 beginning ‘escapes’ with trip to White Squirrel Winery
Vintage901 guests will be journeying to Kenton for the organization’s first outing outside of the Memphis-area on Saturday, Nov. 3. -
Arts & Culture National Book Foundation honoree Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah coming to Novel
Indie bookstores love to be on the cutting edge, hoping to discover the very best and to get that best into the hands of their readers, said Nicole Yasinsky, marketing manager and sidelines buyer for Novel. -
Arts & Culture Dave Godbout’s ‘Charmaine’ wins Indie Memphis Film Festival Pitch Rally
Dave Godbout is the winner of the first Indie Memphis Film Festival Black Filmmakers Pitch Rally, as well as its $10,000 prize. -
Performing Arts Playback Memphis looking for 2019 Community Matters partners
Playback Memphis is searching for the next six nonprofit organizations to receive a performance or workshop at a significantly discounted rate. Playback Memphis then invites the chosen organizations to attend a Memphis Matters performance where they will be highlighted and featured. -
Performing Arts ‘Insecure’ showrunner Prentice Penny’s ‘Uncorked’ filming in Memphis, Paris for Netflix
Netflix has released details about the feature directorial debut of "Insecure" showrunner Prentice Penny, "Uncorked." -
Performing Arts 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival: Barry, Boots, Van Duren and the award winners
Shortly before “If Beale Street Could Talk” screened during the 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival, a video of the film’s director, Barry Jenkins, played on the screens.
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