The To-Do List: St. Patrick’s fun, Scorsese films and a JT album drop
This week, an old Young Avenue Deli staple gets the band back together, Scarface offers a look behind the Tiny Desk and you can read books in silence at Novel.
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March 2024
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February 2024
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The To-Do List: ‘Black Magic,’ Irish dance, old coins and blue bottles
This week, Sean Murphy performs Crosstown soundscapes, percussionist Chris Corsano plays Goner and a break-up drama plays out at Elmwood.
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August 2023
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The To-Do List: Water lanterns, Black art and LL Cool J’s hip-hop party
This week, celebrate Robert Raiford’s memory at an outdoor disco, eat your way around the globe at the Germantown International Festival and take a peek inside Ballet Memphis.
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May 2023
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From cooking to jookin’: A look at library classes around the city
There’s a lot to take advantage of at neighborhood library branches in the next few months. Here’s a look at some classes.
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Sound Bites: Talking falafel waffle and more with Eli Townsend
Eli Townsend’s new Dos Hermanos Kitchen inside the Cossitt Library is where he feels he’s meant to be, except in the winters, when he’ll be running another place in Rhode Island.
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April 2023
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Muralist writes love letters in paint and ‘a lot of sugar’
For artist Anthony Lee, the city is his muse, but his style is a compilation of his life.
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Chef Eli says Cossitt’s Dos Hermanos ‘meant to be’
Chef Eli Townsend, formerly of Sage restaurant, is back Downtown, this time running Dos Hermanos Kitchen in the Cossitt Library. And getting there has been an adventure.
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Renovated Cossitt Library reopens today
The long wait ends with more than 10,000 books, an upstairs performance space, digital studios for podcasts and a cafe.
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May 2022
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City Council final vote scheduled on expanding term limits
The Tuesday, May 24, council agenda also includes the second of three votes on a companion ballot question that would allow partisan primaries in city elections.
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June 2021
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How the library system thrived in the pandemic
Director Keenon McCloy discusses the tens of thousands of calls the Memphis Public Libraries receives gets each year that have nothing to do with books.
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Mysterious Cossitt Library painting recalls blue period for landmark
The late 1950s or early 1960s painting of the Cossitt Library surfaced last month. It was set aside during a cleanup of the Downtown landmark, and the rediscovery marks a turn in fortune with a renovated Cossitt set to reopen in the fall.
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May 2021
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Oh, snap: This week’s best photos
It’s been quite a week for Memphis Grizzlies fans as well as lovers of art and, of course, barbecue.
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Mystery painting of Cossitt Library turns up ahead of fall reopening
The painting shows the Cossitt Library shortly after or just before its 1958 renovation when the midcentury modern front of the landmark was added.
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February 2020
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Cossitt Library manager looks beyond books
After a career blending tech and ministry, Shamichael Hallman is watching over renovations for Cossitt Library, a Downtown Memphis landmark with a complicated past.
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January 2020
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Reimagining Cossitt Library
On Jan. 2, 2020, work to renovate Cossitt Library will officially begin. The project is scheduled to be finished in late September.
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March 2019
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Cossitt plans include lots of gathering spaces, arts and tech partnerships
The $5 million Cossitt Library renovation could get started later this spring, with an emphasis on spaces for gathering and creativity within the walls of the city's first library.
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Reimagining the Civic Commons representatives to gather in Memphis
Memphis, as well as Chicago, Akron and Detroit, are all participating in the three-year, $40 million Reimagining the Civic Commons initiative. Their involvement follows the initiative's pilot in Philadelphia.
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