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Arts Beat: Craig Brewer’s Snoop Dogg biopic and more Memphis ‘Lilo & Stitch’ connections
Plus, Memphis director Suzannah Herbert’s film takes 2025 Tribeca Festival’s Best Documentary Feature award.
Elle Perry
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June 2025
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Music This ‘club’ has house DJs, coffee and vintage vendors
On City & State’s patio Saturday, June 21, attendees of the first Morning After Club listened to DJs spin house music while they thumbed through racks from vintage vendors.
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The Arts BeatArts Beat: Main Street’s street performance program is back
Visitors to Memphis’ Main Street Mall can expect to see performances from singers, musicians, jugglers, magicians, dancers and other street performers.
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The To-Do List This weekend brings outlaws, an Irish birthday and summer Shell shows
This week, Memphis Listening Lab turns four, art pairs with wine at the Brooks and there’s ballroom dancing on the Bluff.
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Music ‘Abbott Elementary’ star slated for new Memphis block party event
A group of DJs, including actor, comedian and rapper Zack Fox, is putting the soul in summer solstice at Grind City Brewing.
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Arts & CultureWhere things stand with Memphis museum projects
Construction on the Memphis Art Museum, what the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art will become when it moves Downtown, has continued. So has construction on the Metal Museum’s location in the Memphis College of Art building.
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MusicArts Beat: Memphis musicians on TV
In recent weeks, Memphis musicians including Valerie June, Gloria “GloRilla” Woods, and Kia Shine have made TV appearances, both as music performers and as actors.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: HoochieCon, Project Pat, Brewfest and summer solstice fun
This week, Juneteenth events continue, the rained-out Mid-South Pride parade has a new date and Lukah releases a new album — with lasers.
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Arts & Culture Here’s a guide to Memphis Juneteenth events 2025
This year’s Memphis Juneteenth events include concerts, festivals, parades, film screenings, dance, theater and spoken word.
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Metro Meet The Daily Memphian’s summer 2025 interns
Meet Sarai Bennett and Joseph Mangin. Both interns will work on general news assignments.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Black Pride, dog yoga and what to do for Bonnaroo FOMO
This week, Juneteenth gets started early, the BoDeans are at the Shell and the Memphis Social Bicycle Club races — in drag.
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Music Gonerfest announces lineup for 22nd edition
The Cooper-Young record label and record store will bring its fest to Wiseacre Brewery on Broad Avenue for three days, with the final day at the Overton Park Shell.
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Visual Arts Ladders take flight at latest Dixon exhibition
Visitors to the Dixon Gallery & Gardens can venture inside a fantastical world for free until Sunday, June 29.
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The Arts BeatArts Beat: Is Thursday the new Tuesday for movies in Memphis?
Despite Tuesdays reigning supreme as a day for discounts, another choice day for moviegoing is emerging in Memphis.
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The Arts BeatArts Beat: Novel shares summer reading list with a local twist
The devil’s in the Bluff City in at least two of the novels on this book list — a Memphis-set family drama and a “Southern noir’ full of “madcappery.”
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Music Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and more coming to Memphis stages in June
Third Eye Blind, Ashanti, Ja Rule and other artists are also scheduled to perform. Here’s a roundup of concerts coming to the Memphis area in June.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Pride is on Beale, and ‘weird music’ is at Crosstown
This week, Juneteenth kicks off early, Just City gives us a reason to laugh and you can sip booze in a bookshop for a good cause.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Slowdown Cinema, dragon boats and Cooper-Young cats
This week, watch a ghost movie at Elmwood, meet Chris Parnell at Comic Con and eat all the pasta at Memphis Italian Festival.
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Visual Arts Memphis art scene heats up with Southern summers, swamp studies
As temperatures rise, June comes with new art exhibitions across Memphis that explore the Ghost River, blend Southern culture with iconic Japanese imagery and highlight metal artistry.
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The Arts BeatArts Beat: Stax honors Chicago soul DJ with new digital archive
Bob Abrahamian’s collecting journey began with him wanting to learn about soul samples of hip-hop records.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Garden secrets, water lanterns and Miranda Lambert
This week, read in the Ravine with Cafe Noir, and try vegan dishes paired with music at Alex Wong’s Permission Party.
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Music Memphis featured in new Steve Aoki music video
Before his performance at Riverbeat Music Festival, DJ Steve Aoki and former Florida Georgia Line singer Tyler Hubbard made some stops at Memphis hotspots to film the music video for their new song.
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The To-Do ListThe To-Do List: SmokeSlam, Cosmic Carnival and Bill & Ted’s last adventure
This week, Ruby Bridges is here for her namesake reading festival and GWAR brings shock rock (and lots of fake blood) to Minglewood.
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The Arts BeatArts Beat: Meagan Good to star in Jarnell Stokes film; La Chat doc premieres in France
A former Grizz player’s movie names its lead actor, La Chat doc premieres in France and Memphis must say goodbye to a nostalgic theater.
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Real Estate Goodbye, drive-In: Summer Avenue theater closes
The site was listed for sale in March, but the president of Malco Theatres said it would only be sold “if it was the right thing to do.”
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