Elle Perry
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October 2018
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Business 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 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. -
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. -
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 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. -
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. -
Music Founder: 2019 Mempho Music Fest will be at least three days, double the stages
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. -
Music Year two of Mempho adds Shelby Farms camping; Beck, Janelle Monae, Nas among performers
The idea of Mempho Music Festival stems from a bike ride founder Diego Winegardner took with friends a couple of summers ago on the Shelby Farms Greenline to Shelby Farms Park itself. -
Metro Explore Bike Share, My City Rides team up
Explore Bike Share, the nonprofit bike-share program which gives Memphians and tourists access to bikes, rolled out its first bike in May. My City Rides, the nonprofit that leases scooters to Memphians who need transportation for work, rolled out its first scooter late this spring. -
Performing Arts Tina Turner musical, written by Memphis-native Katori Hall, heading to Broadway
A musical about Nutbush-native Tina Turner, written by Memphis-native Katori Hall, will head to Broadway in fall 2019. -
Visual Arts Film directed by Memphis optometrist, starring Grey’s Anatomy actors, premieres
A film directed by a Memphis optometrist, shot in Memphis and Santa Clarita, California, and that stars several actors from “Grey’s Anatomy,” had its Memphis red-carpet premiere on Oct. 2 at the Orpheum Theatre. The movie will be in theaters nationwide on Oct. 26. -
Music Halloran Centre kicking off Whalum’s Kafe Kirk series
Last month, Memphian and Grammy-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum received a note on the Beale Street Brass Note Walk of Fame. -
Performing Arts GPAC, Indian Community Foundation for Greater Memphis partner for shows
Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan, Indian folk-music performers, are bringing their vocals, poetry, dancing and acrobats to the Germantown Performing Arts Center on Friday, Oct. 5. -
Health Care Study shows for many women, chemo not needed for breast cancer
Genomic testing can done based on a 21-gene profile to classify breast cancer patients into categories of low risk, intermediate risk or high risk. And based on that profile, doctors determine whether or not the patient would benefit from chemotherapy.
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September 2018
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Music Tai Murray featured at Memphis Symphony Orchestra opening weekend
Acclaimed violinist Tai Murray will be featured at the Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s opening weekend concerts for its 2018-19 season Sept. 29-30. -
Music St. Jude, ALSAC employees in bands team up for ‘Moonlighting for the Cure’
Seven bands will come together Saturday night for a concert at Lafayette’s Music Room benefitting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. -
Performing Arts 30 Days of Opera, McCleave Project extend Opera Memphis’ reach
The end of September is approaching rapidly, but there are still several opportunities to catch an Opera Memphis 30 Days of Opera performance. -
Business Three Memphis natives bring their Nashville bar to local landmark
In about a month’s time, three native Memphians plan to open a version of their upscale Nashville bar in the former Raiford’s Hollywood Disco on Vance Avenue. -
Visual Arts Stax Museum, Crosstown Arts partner for ‘Give a Damn! Music + Activism at Stax Records’
The main artifact for a new exhibition at Crosstown Arts is Isaac Hayes' 14-foot-long, custom-made, red velvet office desk complete with white Formica top. Previously, the desk had been in storage for more than a year, after the Stax Museum of American Soul Music recovered it from the owner of East Nashville vintage boutique, The Hip Zipper. -
Performing Arts ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ among 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival lineup
The Barry Jenkins-directed adaptation of the James Baldwin novel “If Beale Street Could Talk” will screen as the centerpiece presentation of this year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival. -
Business Please Assist Me uses tech to tackle work-life balance problem
Work-life balance is the reason Stephanie Cummings started a tech-enabled personal assistance service, Please Assist Me. -
Business Ole Miss grads create technology to make maintenance requests easier
Amber Hayes and Marterrious McClain decided to begin their startup, SecondKeys, in Memphis for two main reasons. -
Performing Arts Ballet Memphis joins three-year, national project
Ballet Memphis has been chosen to participate in a national, three-year partnership program designed to “support the advancement of racial equity in professional ballet companies.” -
East Memphis Fashion entrepreneur Ashley Dean-Parson’s ‘glamtique’ offers one-stop shopping
With her “glamtique” Ashley Dean-Parson has flipped the concept of boutique on its head. “A lot of times, being a full-figured woman, we would go into a store that we would really, really love and they wouldn’t have a plus-size section or if they did, it was really, really small,” she said. “So, I took that same concept and did it here and did the reverse.” -
Midtown MIFA celebrates jubilee year
Since its founding by church and community leaders on Sept. 15, 1968, the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association has spawned a number of organizations and has grown into one of the most important nonprofits in the Mid-South. In fiscal 2018, which ran from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, MIFA served more than half a million meals to more than 3,600 seniors; helped more 3,500 families with utility, rent and mortgage assistance; distributed more than 11,000 food vouchers; connected more than 250 families with permanent, stable housing; and screened more than 7,000 calls through a 24-hour homeless hotline.
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