Elle Perry
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November 2018
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Food News Vintage901 guests will be journeying to Kenton for the organization’s first outing outside of the Memphis-area on Saturday, Nov. 3. -
Arts & Culture Memphis groups celebrate Dia de los Muertos
Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday. The title translates into "Day of the Dead."
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October 2018
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Performing Arts Rhodes, Southwest, U of M theater programs team up for ‘NottageFest’
Last year, a graduating senior at Rhodes College was directing scenes from Lynn Nottage’s “Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine,” for her final project in the directing class. -
Arts & Culture This Week in Books: Memphis Afrofuturism, Southern Living Party Cookbook, Battle for Bonhoeffer
Afrofuturism is more than black science fiction or simply an aesthetic, says Memphis-based author Troy L. Wiggins. -
Business DCA, Morris Marketing take top honors at 2018 VOX Awards
The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Memphis awarded creative communications consulting firm DCA its “Best in Show” honor during the organization’s 25th annual VOX Awards. -
Visual Arts Art will flow along the Memphis Riverfront for annual festival
Memphis’ RiverArtsFest turns 12 this year. But the festival, which will run this weekend (Oct. 27-28), will move from its usual home on South Main Street to Riverside Drive between Jefferson Avenue and Beale Street. The move is due to construction and street closures. -
Performing Arts Film directed by Memphis optometrist opening nationwide
Dr. David Evans owns Total Eye Care in East Memphis. His wife, Esther Evans, serves as practice administrator. -
Performing Arts Ballet Memphis’ Fall Mix features music from Julien Baker, Unapologetic artists
Almost 20 years ago then-choreographer-in-residence Trey McIntyre created "The Memphis Suite" for Ballet Memphis. McIntyre has now remixed that work for Ballet Memphis' Fall Mix. -
Visual Arts Local arts groups participating in nationwide ‘For Freedoms’ initiative
Last September, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas gave Memphis College Art’s Downing Pryor Lecture. -
Music Soul music is being celebrated this weekend at 4th annual Soulsville USA Festival
With the mission of tying Memphis’ soul music history to the city’s soul music of today, the Soulsville USA Festival is returning to College Street and McLemore Avenue. -
Arts & Culture What could happen to Aretha Franklin’s birthplace based on Memphis precedents
A small house with boarded-up windows and a metal fence around the yard sits on Lucy Avenue off of Wellington Street. -
Visual Arts Metalsmiths descend on Memphis for Metal Museum’s Repair Days
Typically, an object brought to the Metal Museum’s Repair Days is interesting because of the story behind it, rather than the object itself. -
Business After 5 years, social networking event Undercurrent to end
After five years of social networking events in Memphis, Undercurrent is ending with its 50th meetup in December. -
Business LawnTap: Startup features automated smart-lawn sensors
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.
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