Also this month, two venues showcase local Americana and R&B musicians in new series and Stax Music Academy’s annual Black History Month show features Ant Clemons, Evvie McKinney and Corey Lou & DaVillage.

Memphis Botanic Garden has been invaded in the best way possible.

Collierville Balloon Festival is returning in 2025 after a one-year hiatus, but there are several changes for the September event, including where it is held.

The three-day festival was “paused” in 2024, Memphis in May officials said at the time, largely due to issues regarding the reconfigured Tom Lee Park that led to a less-than-successful 2023 installment of the event.

Bertram Williams Jr. previously played the lead in Hattiloo’s latest play, which opened Friday, Jan. 17. 

Small-town politics, founding fathers and a mystery memory loss are the topics of shows opening in Memphis in February.

The company will take the stage at the Orpheum Theatre for a limited engagement.

The last of the Oscars’ Best Picture nominees to arrive in Memphis arrive this week, playing exclusively at Ridgeway Cinema Grill.

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.

Several acts either were nominated for and/or performed at the 2025 Grammy Awards, including Khruangbin and Benson Boone.

Germantown Presbyterian’s music director will lead his final service Sunday. He’s held various positions in a 60-year career, but he said he’s always loved church music.

Memphis River Parks Partnership officials announce plans to honor Lee, who on May 8, 1925, pulled 32 survivors of a capsized steamship to shore, making five trips and working by lantern light.

Paul Chandler, the head of the Germantown Performing Arts Center, shared his thoughts on local venues on this week’s The Sidebar podcast.

The venue’s outdoor space overlooks the Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid and the Mississippi River. 

This week, Tennessee Williams’ painting are on view at Rhodes, Thomas Dambo’s Trolls are in the Garden and Dru’s Bar is hosting a Grammy’s watch party (with prizes!). 

Months after his death, the first major Memphis exhibition of South Memphis native Floyd Newsum Jr. opens at the Dixon. Plus, a Colombian artist is showing at Sheet Cake Gallery.

Twenty years ago — Jan. 29, 2005 — was perhaps the greatest day in the history of Memphis movies, with a pair of made-in-Memphis films taking the top two prizes at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.

The most notable new wide-release film opening in Memphis this week is the mysterious “Companion,” a comedy-thriller that’s gotten positive early buzz. 

Kirk Whalum was stunned to receive a call from Cheryl McNair, the widow of astronaut Ron McNair who was killed in the Challenger disaster. The favor she asked of him still affects him today.

Several suburban officials have found a way to escape the pressures of day-to-day government by taking to the stage to perform.

Hundreds made crafts, ate and danced to celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Brooks Museum on Saturday.

“Life’s a gift, open it,” says Slowdown Dry Goods founder Eli Berry, who recently released a merch line for Grammy-winning artists Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus.

For Demarcus Suggs, director of creative and cultural economy for the City of Memphis, his goal is simple: Support the arts.

Homecoming is the theme running through Bertram Williams Jr.’s life at the moment.

This week, the Memphis Farmers Market pops up, a Guinean-inspired circus stops at GPAC and a Pink Palace exhibit shows why Earth matters.