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Mushroom foraging: the perfect pandemic pastime

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Tue, 9 Jun 2020 06:43:22 -0500

The first Memphis Mushroom Festival, scheduled for Oct. 1-4 in Meeman Shelby Forest, welcomes amateur and professional “mycologists,” or fungi fanatics.

Playhouse preps for comeback with 'Little Shop of Horrors'

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:00:10 -0500

A full house at Playhouse may look different than it did in the days prior to COVID-19. Executive producer Michael Detroit said a 'working plan' might be to sell every other seat.

A moviegoer's guide to the arts

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 04:00:08 -0500

With stages, theaters and galleries dark, turn to movie streaming platforms for works on the arts.

A new director takes science-history museum 'back to our roots'

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 09:39:19 -0500

Within a week of the city order to close because of the coronavirus, lesson-hungry homebound families were able to access Museum To Go, a sampler of Pink Palace artifacts, activities and movies. Kevin Thompson mobilized his gloved-and-masked education team to make museum content available in record time.

The art-less quarantine

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 04:00:13 -0500

I have missed entire seasons of music, art and drama for no good reason at all. Now that they’re closed, they’re all I can think about.

Welcome back, 'Hamilton’: Orpheum rolls out 2020-21 season

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 17:00:02 -0500

The 2020-21 Broadway Series at the Orpheum also includes “Hadestown”; Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls”; “Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville”; and “Jesus Christ Superstar” on its 50th anniversary tour.

MSO's new season, from 'La Mancha' and Aretha to 'Romeo and Juliet'

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 12:53:03 -0500

The orchestra will salute Beethoven’s 250th birthday with Symphony No. 9, perform a tribute to Aretha Franklin and revisit “Romeo and Juliet” with the help of the Tennessee Shakespeare Company.

Coronavirus daily blog, March 16: SCS extends closure to April 6

editors@dailymemphian.com ( The Daily Memphian Staff) — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 09:15:59 -0500

Confirmed cases
Tennessee	52	Shelby County	2

Tunica casinos close temporarily
Catholic Diocese of Memphis decree cancels Eucharist celebration, excuses people from mass
U of M may postpone spring graduation
Dow experiences worst day since 1987
Gov. urges all Tennessee schools to close

Coronavirus daily blog, March 17: Strickland declares state of emergency; third local case confirmed

editors@dailymemphian.com ( The Daily Memphian Staff) — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 09:13:52 -0500

The state reports the total number of confirmed cases in Tennessee is 73, and a third Shelby County case has also been reported. That individual is isolated at home and did not contract it in Shelby County.

Celebrating 100 years, Theatre Memphis gets a facelift, a land deed and a national award

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Fri, 6 Mar 2020 07:03:16 -0600

TM executive producer Debbie Litch has a hardhat in every color and goals for every week to bring the $5.7 million campaign of improvements to completion by August.

Memphis Symphony director proves serious music needn't be solemn

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:00:01 -0600

For the era of inclusion, Moody seems to have come straight out of central casting. He’s 52 but he could pass for 38. He doesn’t mind a stunt, like conducting the theme to "Jurassic Park" in a T-Rex costume."

You have an appointment at the Salon

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 04:00:00 -0600

The annual literary salon – a blend of cocktail party, theater and book club – puts Tennessee Shakespeare Company's Dan McCleary in the role of mixologist. This year’s authors are Zora Neale Hurston and Margaret Mitchell.

GPAC at 25 offers 'dizzying' lineup of national, international acts

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:00:39 -0600

The Grove at GPAC, an outdoor theater with a food pavilion, will be only the second performing arts center in the country to have a Daktronics video wall capable of simulcasting the performance inside to an outdoor audience.

Memphis literacy event draws nationally known writers

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:32:41 -0600

The last battle of the Korean War, the woman behind Winston Churchill and a Jewish family who survived the Holocaust will form the narrative thread for a lunch next month.

A tale of two bridges

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:53:43 -0600

The Mighty Lights on the I-55 Harahan Bridge went live late in 2016, and the Hernando DeSoto Bridge formed the other half of the dynamic display two years later. Now they're a pair of massive porch lights on the city's west front.

Last decade, we learned kindness is cool and food comes from farms

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Wed, 8 Jan 2020 04:00:00 -0600

In the 2010s, we saw real-size people on TV and became experts at streaming.

Going, going, until gone

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:22:44 -0600

Memphis College of Art to sell last 500 artworks starting Jan. 25.

Meals on Wheels with music: Yes, he takes requests

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 04:00:01 -0600

Volunteer MIFA driver keeps a song in his pocket.

Memphian once lived in Mister Rogers' neighborhood

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:00:01 -0600

Memphis stationer Lee Ernst recalls living on same street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the humble TV star.

Orpheum will screen ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ for a good cause

jillpiper58@gmail.com (Jill Johnson Piper) — Wed, 4 Dec 2019 11:52:08 -0600

See the classic movie at Downtown's classic theater while contributing to the Mid-South Food Bank.