The To-Do List: Memphis Black history through photos, film and music
This week, get into the holiday spirit with drag, take a tour of fall foliage and drink while you shop.
Elle Perry
Arts and Culture Editor
There are 1236 articles by Elle Perry :
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November 2022
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Downtown has a field day, and Bigfoot stomps in one last time
This week, The PRLVG plays a free happy hour show, Visible Music College students drum for 24 hours and coffee lovers perk up at the Grind City Coffee Xpo.
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October 2022
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Dancing vampires, brewing witches and the ‘Evil Dead’
This week offers Halloween happenings galore; plus, the Buckman Arts Center turns 25 and Rick Springfield plays Graceland on “General Hospital” fan weekend.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Watch movies, buy art, honor your dead
This week, metalsmiths repair your broken stuff, brewers descend on Cooper-Young and Chicago comes to Memphis.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: ‘Stranger Things’ with lasers and the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul
This week, festivals offer gourmet food and hundreds of wines and beers, Geoff Calkins moderates a sports talk and PRIZM Ensemble plays the works of Amanzi Arnett.
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September 2022
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Giant bubbles, spooky films and Lil Buck
This week, the Fogelman Galleries feature a frankd robinson retrospective, Mempho returns with Widespread Panic and metal meets mariachi at the Halloran Centre.
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Education Meet The Daily Memphian’s fall 2022 interns
Judaea Driscoll, a student at Southwest Tennessee Community College, and Joshua Carlucci, who’s in graduate school at the University of Memphis, are our fall 2022 journalism interns.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Beer, fit, film and fall fests galore
This week, hot air balloons ascend over Collierville, dragons dance at Crosstown Concourse and stars are inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: A Classic game, a weenie race and Backstreet’s back
This week, decompress with a day-long yoga fest, drink wine in the name of science and jam out to Americana music at the Lucero Family Block Party.
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Make Me a Memphian: Rocking and rolling where rock was born
From Beale Street to Overton Square and Cooper-Young, Memphis’ music, dance and theater scenes are alive and well.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Soul at the Shell, storytelling at Tone and ways to get down in the M-town
This week, The Doobie Brothers’ 50th anniversary tour stops at Live at the Garden, the Delta Fair ushers in fall (almost) at Agricenter International and Chicago DJ Ayana Contreras spins at Central Station.
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August 2022
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: ‘Soul queen’ King, ‘Moonlight,’ and the Golden Age of Magic
This week, view the sunset with your dog, watch 2016’s Best Picture Academy Award winner on the big screen and party hop between Grind City, Wiseacre and Hampline breweries.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: A ‘solid gold’ party, a beautiful birthday and Elvis everywhere
This week, hear music by Bruno Mars (but with lasers) and G. Love (as in Special Sauce), dust off your boots for the “Gay Ole Opry,” and celebrate 10 years in the garden.
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July 2022
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Summer booze, South Main and a fest for Black and brown filmmakers
This week, see cult classics from John Waters and David Lynch, explore an interactive art exhibition made from guitar cords and microphones and take a trip to Southern Decadence at MOSH.
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Arts & Culture New festival targets aspiring, established filmmakers
A Memphis-based film editor has created a festival that is Black, education-based and sheds light on roles in the entertainment industry that aren’t just actor or director.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Black metalworkers, Blvck Hippie and a dream weekend for music fans
This week, Theatre Memphis honors Priscilla Presley with a black-tie gala, a Tops Gallery group exhibition explores “metafiguration” and the Time Warp Drive-in will take you way back to Fantasia and Neverland.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Masked celebrities on stage, aliens on the big screen and ‘slicing’
This week, see artist Jamond Bullock’s new mural while you slice the pool at Gooch Park, get a glimpse into artist Tangela’s “Splendid Mind” at Crosstown Arts and catch the world premiere of “Shanktown” at TheatreWorks.
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June 2022
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Watch the sky get lit, view the sunset and make a splash
This week, Regina Bradley talks Southern hip-hop, a two-day music fest raises funds to help those struggling with addiction and Backbeat Tours drives you around town for beer and pizza.
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Music Everything ‘scaled up’ for second Juneteenth gala, festival
Orange Mound’s Tone is hosting a Juneteenth gala that calls for dress in “Afrofuturistic black tie.”
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: The scoop on an ice cream party, a tasty fundraiser and Steely Dan
This week, drink craft cocktails to benefit Literacy Mid-South, see contemporary art in a not-so-contemporary Victorian Village home and check out two shows — one free and one not — by Durand Jones & The Indications.
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Metro Meet The Daily Memphian’s summer 2022 intern cohort
“It’s very exciting to have so many young journalists working in the newsroom,” said Eric Barnes, Daily Memphian CEO. “So many of our staff members — myself included — were once interns. To give back this way and support the future of journalism has always been part of The Daily Memphian’s vision.”
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Rainbows and zombies on Beale, plus music on the river
This week, Theatre Memphis closes out its season with “Ragtime,” High Cotton Brewing hosts a beer mile and a Memphis native author celebrates her book release with a skate party.
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May 2022
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Arts & Culture Memphis native ‘skates’ back into town with debut YA novel
Young Black love and joy are the themes of writer Kelis Rowe’s debut novel but Memphis readers will also recognize a lot of settings in the story, as well.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Tour CY gardens, eat baklava and drink whiskey with dogs in wind suits
This week, the Tilt-a-Whirl will be spinning at the Bluff City Fair, the mimosas will be bottomless in Court Square and you can learn how to save your seat (literally).
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: The Who’s on first; Collage Dance presents second tribute to Brazil
This week, Ballet Memphis presents a pay-what-you-can performance, the Raleigh Library celebrates cookbooks and Memphis in May triathletes swim, bike and run through Shelby Farms Park.
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