Memphis Movies This Week: ‘A Real Pain’ and a Hannibal Lecter double-dip
The big activity in local theaters this week is the annual Indie Memphis Film Festival, but those screenings aren’t your only options.
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December 2024
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Calkins: He’s the pastor who survived the Harvest plane crash. A story of gratitude and grief.
Kennon Vaughan has been told that the insurance company’s survivability expert concluded there was a zero percent chance anyone could have survived the plane crash. But he did. Here’s how he makes sense of his story.
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Stitch by stitch, stroke survivor finds ‘new beginning’ in quilting
With a steady hand and a needle and thread, Rose Wheeler taught herself patience again.
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Courtside change: How a mentorship program uses hoops for hope
A Louisiana-based pastor changed the lives of 17 kids with tickets to a New Orleans Pelicans game. Now, he’s looking to do the same in Memphis.
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Jazz workshop teaches more than music
The Memphis Jazz Workshop instructs young cats (jazz artists) in the fundamentals of a hip musical genre that has a long, but little-known history in the home of blues and rock ‘n’ roll.
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November 2024
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Volunteers feed thousands in Pinch District on Thanksgiving Day
First-time and veteran volunteers spent two days cooking and prepping enough food for more than 1,000 people during Westy’s annual mission to serve a Thanksgiving meal to Memphians in need.
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Five must-see Memphis concerts for November (including Justin Timberlake)
This month, a classic rap group comes to Minglewood Hall, a rap star with a meteoric rise hits the FedExForum stage, a 7-decade musician comes to the Orpheum Theatre and a pop star returns home.
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Grind City Coffee Xpo returns with new ingredient
You might know about brewing coffee, but this year, you can learn about cooking with it, too.
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$10 Deal: Mocktails and lion’s mane at Memphis Whistle
Memphis Whistle is a cocktail bar where standard pub fare is spun on its head.
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Gun-rights groups sue City of Memphis
Two groups want to stop the city from enforcing the nonbinding gun-control measures voters approved during a referendum last week.
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Thanksgiving to-go: A guide to cooked turkeys and prepared sides
Let someone else do the cooking for Thanksgiving this year.
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Indie Memphis returns — a viewer’s guide
The 27th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival starts Thursday with potential sleeper hits, films of local interest and movies you may not see anywhere else.
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Grizzlies’ Cam Spencer invested in changing the game for veterans with PTSD
Cam Spencer is starting a foundation and investing in a company conducting clinical research to show the possible benefits of cold-water immersion on veterans with PTSD.
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Friends remember slain musician with the sly grin
Friends remember Blake Rhea for his “loud” smile and an easygoing nature that made him a favorite to all who knew him.
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The Pie Folks has closed
Memphians seeking the well-known Slap Yo Mama chocolate pie or the Good Googa Mooga pecan pie for Thanksgiving this year will have to look elsewhere.
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Super fan believes Tina Turner was simply the best
The admirer who traveled from Atlanta was part of the crowd on Beale Street as a brass note honoring West Tennessee native Tina Turner was unveiled. Two others are also set for the Walk of Fame: author Robert Gordon and the late pianist Berl Olswanger.
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Recipe Exchange: The Lobbyist’s Corn Mash with Roasted Squash and Bacon Jus
Chef Jimmy Gentry’s famous Corn Mash is a bowl of decadently creamy stone-ground grits topped with roasted squash and drizzled with a bacon jus. Here’s how you can make it at home.
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$10 Deal: Crazy Noodle, but it’s not the soup
Crazy Noodle has been a well-loved beacon of gochujang-laden delights for more than a decade. But it’s the $10 Deal’s job to highlight something unexpected, even if it’s lurking in plain sight.
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Calkins: Derek Clenin was ‘one of a kind.’ A story about rivalry, friendship, life and death.
Twenty-two years ago, Derek Clenin blocked an extra point to lift MUS over CBHS. Clenin died Oct. 8. Now, the quarterback of that CBHS team, Carter Giovannetti, plans to run the St. Jude Marathon in his friend and rival’s name.
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Calkins: Gene Brady is gone. The world needs more Gene Bradys.
Gene Brady, 89, died in a single-car wreck last week. Maybe you didn’t know him. But if you’re lucky, you’ve known people like him. We could use more of them today.
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Anora’ arrives, a ‘Snail’ tale moves ‘forwards’
A version of the “beauty and the billionaire” fairy tale, “Anora” won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival this summer and is now being touted as a top contender for a much more mainstream prize: The Oscar.
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Tulsa company to potentially invest $238M in Memphis
A leading manufacturer of air conditioning and heating equipment is looking to create almost 300 jobs in Memphis.
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October 2024
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Memphis Monster Con brings the horror to the fans
Billy Redden, famous as Banjo Boy in “Deliverance,” is one of many horror stars coming to the Memphis Monster Con next month.
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Here,’ ‘Haxan’ and ‘Godzilla’ returns
“Godzilla Minus One” works as action and drama, as monster-movie and as a metaphor for the nuclear anxiety of postwar Japan. It’s just a terrific movie, according to Chris Herrington.
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What to watch in Memphis’ preseason exhibition against Alabama
A little less than two weeks after a preseason exhibition loss to top-10 UNC, the Tigers have one final dress rehearsal — and yet another tough test — before they tip off the 2024-25 season next month.
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