This weekend ups the ante on music — all kinds — in a music town. 

Classic hip-hop group De La Soul will no longer play the 2026 Mempho Music Festival, festival organizers announced.

For Memphis’ early 2000s’ film scene, Commercial Appeal writer John Beifuss was perhaps the right person at the right time, benefiting from local activity and helping spur it.

The award-winning comedy that reimagines Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks before her husband’s assassination will stop in Memphis. 

Mempho Music Festival returns to Memphis this weekend with three days of live music at Radians Amphitheater, featuring a lineup that brings together electronic music, rock, blues, hip-hop, reggae and funk.

Pick your horror, so to speak, this weekend, both starring former Best Actress Oscar winners. 

The soul and funk band founded by Memphian Maurice White will be making a stop in the area on its 2027 tour.

Admission for the festival is free.

Noah Israel, 21, won Beat Garden’s songwriting contest. Judges for the final round included James Fauntleroy and Felly the Voice.

Felicia Pride’s talk is a little more than a week after her “A Different World” sequel series debuted on Netflix. It’s currently the platform’s most-watched TV show. 

The National Civil Rights Museum honored four leaders at its 35th Freedom Award ceremony, amid calls to protect historical truth and civil liberties from ongoing rollbacks.

This week, the Mid-South Fair opens in Southaven, and there’s a vegan fest at the Pink Palace.

Memphis native Ira Sachs will attend the festival, as will actor Seth Green and Memphis production designer Vivian Gray from “Obsession.”

Choose your fighter, celebrity movie-opening edition.

According to the Shell’s website, the concert was sold out.

This Holidays in Memphis guide covers where to pick pumpkins and all you need to know about corn mazes, haunted attractions, spooky movies and more Halloween fun.

The winning artwork will appear on the 2027-28 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp. Sadly, no readers met Geoff Calkins' challenge to predict the winner.

This year’s Spirit of Memphis award recipient Ekundayo Bandele discusses how a self-described introvert went from rap battles in Brooklyn to running one the nation’s four freestanding Black theaters.

During several counts each spring and summer, volunteers check on the health of the state’s butterfly population — “a proxy for everything.” 

October concerts in the Memphis area include Lakecia Benjamin, The Avett Brothers, Amy Grant, Brittney Spencer, Bryson Tiller, Hayley Williams, and Morris Day and the Time and The S.O.S. Band.

The Cooper‑Young record store’s annual festival returns to Wiseacre and the Overton Park Shell with a surge of late‑night shows.

If you have trouble finding something to do in Memphis these days, well, we don’t know what to say.

The Federal Duck Stamp Contest is taking place in Memphis on Thursday and Friday. Pick the winner, and Geoff Calkins will buy you lunch.

On its grand opening day, the new Memphis Art Museum will have four site-specific installations.

Also screening this week, “Psycho” and “Breathless” provide a film education that budding Memphis cinephiles should really take advantage of.