The To-Do List: Puppies on the plaza, fairy tales on stage, rock ‘n’ roll on film
This week, Stax kicks off a summer dance series in Handy Park, flowers meet art at the Dixon and Memphis Made rolls out the hops.
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Arts & Culture Harbor Town familiar setting in Memphis author’s anticipated thriller
Memphian Sara Koffi’s debut novel has been burning up the “most anticipated” and “best” thriller lists.
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Arts & Culture Your guide to Earth Day in Memphis
Memphians can clean up parks and trails, party with pollinators, try goat yoga, and do arts and crafts.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: 4/20 music, a Swiftie Saturday and ballet on the big stage
This week, 1990s hip-hop group Arrested Development headlines Africa in April, Shelby Farms Park gets a head start on Earth Day and music is back on Cooper-Young porches.
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Music Peabody Hotel 2024 rooftop parties kick off
New bands performing this season are Fleetwood Mac tribute band Landslide on April 25, Grit & Grind Music Machine on May 30 and Memphis Soul Remedy on July 18.
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Arts & Culture ‘Memphis 2024’ showcases the breadth of the city’s visual scene
Julie Pierotti, the Dixon’s Martha R. Robinson Curator, said that the show is a cross-section of art currently being made in the region.
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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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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 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 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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May 2024
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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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: 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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