Memphis, Mississippi play key role in new Michael B. Jordan vampire film
“Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler and actor Michael B. Jordan collaborate again in “Sinners,” where blues music and Memphis musicians play a major role.
Topic: Arts & Culture
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May 2025
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Day-by-day guide to Riverbeat
Don’t know every band on the Riverbeat lineup? Daily Memphian staffers did the cold hard research into each artist performing at the Downtown Memphis music festival.
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April 2025
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Memphis Movies This Week: Marvel tries again with ‘Thunderbolts*'
Also, comedy classic “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” returns for a 50th anniversary big screen revival at several local theaters.
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Ostrander Awards to return to the Orpheum
The annual Memphis theater awards program has overcome its financial shortfall with a fundraising drive and plans a change for this year.
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Memphis Movies This Week: Go see ‘Sinners’ on the big screen
Believe the buzz; “Sinners” demands to be seen with the best sound and image quality you can find.
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Sinners’ gets movie year going; Drive-In returns
Advance word on “Sinners,” which incorporates the contributions of many Memphis-area musicians, is very strong.
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March 2025
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Memphis Movies This Week: Jason Statham, ‘Some Like it Hot’
What were the odds English-Irish actor Steve Coogan would grace local screens twice this week? Strangely, pretty good.
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The To-Do List: Women spin, blossoms bloom and nerds unite
This week, punk rock changes a teen girl’s life at Circuit, Black-owned food trucks take over Tiger Lane and you’ve got one more chance to go back to Comeback Coffee.
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Students can experience arts free with new ‘Art for All’ culture pass
The new pass is now available at Memphis libraries and community centers. It provides elementary students and their families free access to performances and events hosted by more than 30 local arts organizations.
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Snow White’ opens Friday
After updating “The Lion King” and “The Little Mermaid” in a semi-live-action style, Disney goes back to its theatrical roots with “Snow White.”
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The To-Do List: How to celebrate St. Pat’s Day, plus daffodils and drag
This week, the owls are not what they seem at Crosstown Arts, “Whose Line is it Anyway?” hits the road and the Orpheum reveals its next Broadway lineup.
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Memphis Grizzlies program spotlights local artists
Grizzlies fans seeking fresh gear can find hoodies emblazoned with “Standing on Grizzness,” embroidered color-block hats and other custom merchandise designed by Memphis artists at select home games.
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Playhouse 2025-26 season includes ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ more
Seven musicals will be presented, including a regional premiere of “Come From Away,” the Tony Award-winning musical.
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February 2025
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The To-Do List: Mardi Gras for dogs, zydeco for people and a monster movie
This week WYXR wants folks to pull up, author Jared Sullivan talks TVA and the Metal Museum opens an airy exhibition.
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Dance Theatre of Harlem to host free community workshop
The company will take the stage at the Orpheum Theatre for a limited engagement.
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Brooks to partner with regional museums on exhibitions
Powered by a $1.65 million grant, shared exhibitions will involve Fisk University, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Birmingham Museum of Art and the Mississippi Museum of Art.
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January 2025
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New year, new concerts: Five must-sees for January
A lauded multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter comes to Germantown Performing Arts Center, two Memphis songbirds play a joint bill at Crosstown Arts and more for music in Memphis this month.
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GloRilla to perform on SNL
The Memphis rapper, whose real name is Gloria Woods, will be the musical guest on the Jan. 18 episode of “Saturday Night Live.”
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December 2024
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Herrington: My 10 best films of 2024
This year’s list gives us strippers, tennis players, boys, daughters, jurors and hundreds of beavers. Plus, there are “Special Jury (of One)” prizes.
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October 2024
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The To-Do List: Rock and bounce on Mud Island, glow at FedExForum
This week, a Día de Los Muertos parade honors the dead, a Memphis Botanic Garden festival celebrates Japan and three new art shows open at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens.
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Memphis hires DeMarcus Suggs as new ‘arts czar’
“The easiest way to explain is that for the first time in the city’s history, we’ve created what is basically an Office of Arts and Culture,” said an official involved in the hire.
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Indie Memphis announces film-fest slate, featuring ‘Nickel Boys’
One of the year’s most highly anticipated films, an adaptation of author Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel “Nickel Boys,” will be the centerpiece selection of the 27th Indie Memphis Film Festival.
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September 2024
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Megalopolis,’ ‘My Robot’
Other movies showing this week: the horror movie “Azrael,” biopic “Lee,” religious movie “Faith of Angels,” partisan documentary “Vindicating Trump” and more.
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Rhodes College hosting free French film festival
The festival is supported by a grant from Albertine Cinémathèque, which aims to bring contemporary French cinema to American campuses.
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The To-Do List: Really short plays, fancy homes and Smashing Pumpkins
This week, Memphis musicians preview AmericanaFest sets, pink wines get some love and 35 years of the Southern Heritage Classic are on display.
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