The To-Do List: Crafts, drafts, records and vintage treasures
This week, get a taste of Filipino culture at the Agricenter, get weird at a Gwar show and celebrate Juneteenth with festivals, galas, spades and more.
Elle Perry
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June 2024
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Dierks Bentley, Doogie Howser’s mom and free park parties
This week, the Metal Museum displays bracelets from the past 70-plus years, The Bluff City Liars bring improv to TheatreWorks and you can drink martinis for a good cause.
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MusicOwner of popular Oxford music store plans Memphis book pop-ups
The portable bookstore will have pop-ups through the rest of the year as the owners prepare to open a brick-and-mortar shop in Memphis.
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Performing Arts Collage Dance bringing ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ ballet back
The Memphis-based company begins its 2024-2025 season with the return of its free Memphis Dance Festival Saturday, Sept. 21 — which is also National Dance Day.
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May 2024
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Arts & Culture Memphis-area florists bring flower power to Botanic Garden
Through Aug. 15, each two-hour floral arranging workshop features a different florist and theme.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Pasta! Pride! Beyoncé! Hot Girl Summer!
This week, zombies take over the big screen at Crosstown Theater, happy hours (with a view) are back at the Metal Museum and Memphis Made hosts a pinewood derby for grown-ups.
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Visual Arts Tennessee Triennial will include events at seven Memphis sites this weekend
The Tennessee Triennial — a five-month art exhibition — kicked off in Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga in January. As the Triennial’s May 7 close approaches, Memphis becomes the final city to host a “highlight weekend.”
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Music Five must-see Memphis concerts for June
A celebrated saxophonist has a release show for his first album in five years at The Green Room, a Gen-Z jazz phenom comes to the Cannon Center, R&B stalwarts grace the Orpheum stage and more.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Art openings, free outdoor music and a Playa Fly party
This week, Memphis in May ends its run with a run, “P-Valley” actor Bertram Williams Jr. hosts a party and Lionel Richie joins Earth, Wind & Fire at FedExForum.
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Visual Arts Memphis slang and underrated artists highlighted at Crosstown shows
Artist and curator Najee Strickland said he wants attendees to leave with a sense of what Memphis represents, through art, and what Memphis means to the artists involved.
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Music Here’s who is playing the 2024 Mempho Music Festival
The lineup includes Queens of the Stone Age, The Roots, Sublime with Rome, Marcus King, Charles Wesley Godwin, Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors and Digable Planets.
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Visual Arts Artists explore legacy and homemaking through new exhibit
The 2024 AAPI Month Memphis exhibition is expanded in both duration and its mission from the 2023 iteration.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies open applications for third season of 191 Collabs
Through the program, the Memphis Grizzlies collaborate with local designers and creators on official Grizzlies merchandise, which is sold at FedExForum during select games.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Garden walk, fantasy films and the tea on Mr. Bridgerton
This week, vegan cheese meets wine at Crosstown, a new arts fest comes to Uptown and the City of Memphis turns 205.
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Performing Arts Opera Memphis sets ‘La Bohème’ on Beale Street in 1915
The Metropolitan Opera tenor who stars as Rodolfo believes “La Bohème' serves as an archetype for modern TV sitcoms that also center around six friends. Like “Living Single.”
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Dance with David Quarles and sing along with Simien
This week, new art exhibitions feature work by Erin Harmon, Kong Wee Pang and Iwona Rhodes. Plus, Kevin Ford’s Tops Gallery show gets one last hurrah.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Crystals, chalk art, crawfish and cafe au lait
This week, see Brittany Howard and Kingfish in Oxford, eat breakfast for dinner for a cause and get all the free stuff at Strangewaze Wednesdaze.
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MusicMeet Memphis ‘goth-folk’ singer Rachel Maxann
Memphis singer and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Maxann, is member of the Black Opry, and also works as a therapist.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Food truck fests, river beats and what to do for Cinco de Mayo
This week, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra plays “Star Wars” tunes, Overton Park hosts a discussion on snakes and the Listening Lab celebrates a blues great’s 90th birthday.
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Music Five must-see shows in Memphis for May
A crooner comes to Midtown’s Minglewood Hall, two FedExForum concert include star music acts with Memphis roots, a Black country music revue graces the Overton Park Shell and the Shell gets its first electronic-dance event.
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Arts & Culture AAPI Heritage Month Memphis returns with food tour, art exhibitions
An Asian restaurant food tour, a Laotian happy hour and dinner, a night market and two art exhibitions are on the calendar for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Memphis.
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April 2024
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Music Buckman season includes Fisk Jubilee Singers, Joan Osborne, Sporkful podcast
The Buckman Arts Center’s 27th season includes renowned singers, Japanese drumming, a fusion of live painting and music, contemporary dance and a live food podcast taping.
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Performing Arts Americana star Allison Russell opens for Hozier in Southaven
Since her last Memphis-area show 18 months ago, the multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter has won a Grammy Award, headlined an international tour and hosted a fundraising concert with Jason Isbell.
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Music Memphis Botanic Garden reveals 2024 Live at the Garden lineup
The 2024 Live at the Garden lineup includes lauded rock and country acts.
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Performing Arts Overton Park Shell concerts include Black Opry, Bar-Kays, Bodywerk
Shows include Cyrena Wages, Aaron James, MonoNeon, Talibah Safiya with MadameFraankie, Blvck Hippie and Lukah with Hope Clayburn & The Fire Salamander.
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