As some businesses have come and gone, Broad Avenue continues to reinvent itself, with Saturday’s Art Walk as a chance to celebrate the street’s past while helping ensure its future.

This week, Collage Dance Collective opens its 17th season, the Broad Avenue Art Walk returns and “Monty Python’s Spamalot” opens at the Orpheum.

Oscar-winning British actresses in high-concept new films. It’s an accidental theme of sorts at the movies this week. 

More than 550 arts funders from across the country are in Memphis this week for a national conference examining how investments into local artists and organizations can strengthen communities.

Memphis game designer Reuben Brunson debuts his second concept, a new, fast-paced card game called Litter Box, which he thinks may just be a big hit.

In Brownsville, a towering metal conglomeration that looks vaguely like a power station can be seen to the west, where it looms over the local grocery store and roadside motel. 

Playhouse on the Square held its annual clothing and prop sale Saturday. Shoppers included the owner of a new costume shop at the site of the old Mr. Lincoln’s in Overton Square.

“What if we made a concerted effort to welcome LGBTQ families from across the country? It’s an opportunity worth pursuing, particularly as Memphis faces challenges to some of its traditional tourism draws.”

One is a musical based on the real jam session at Sun Records, while another play, pre-dating the COVID pandemic, explores vaccination debates at a school.

Memphis will take center stage this holiday season in the Oprah Winfrey Network’s new dance-driven movie “Tapping into Christmas.”

The Downtown Memphis Commission said more than 12,000 tickets were reserved for the inaugural festival.

This week, the Tambourine Bash is back with a new name, Cooper-Young Beerfest takes over the Midtown Autowerks lot and a music show lasts six hours with no breaks.

Attendees might bring yoga mats or sleeping bags as they listen to hours of nonstop music from various artists. 

It’s an unusual week at the movies in Memphis, with at least a dozen new titles and the two most notable, both super-sized biographical documentaries.

The LOChella Music Festival and Tailgate is open to the public and will feature student performers and food trucks on Oct. 24.

Local haunts are hosting DJ nights, costume contests and even a hearse giveaway for adults. And there’s plenty of chances for the kiddos to stock up on candy all month long. 

Memphis and Jackson-area students unveiled a five-panel exhibit at a federal courthouse exploring the 1963 Supreme Court case Watson v. City of Memphis and its role in desegregation.

Local acts Degenerate Breakfast and Zoë Dominguez brought incredible energy to the Mempho Music Festival stage on Friday as attendees braved the dust for a great day of live music.

Tony Isbell stars in and directs Will Eno’s 75-minute monologue at TheatreWorks at the Evergreen, and Germantown Community Theatre sets Louisa May Alcott’s story inside Jo March’s attic.

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

This week, there’s a theater fest for kids, Opera Memphis celebrates 70 years and Modest Mouse “floats on” over to Satellite Music Hall.

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

Billboard magazine has highlighted two college music programs in Memphis, each with its own unique approach to music industry education.

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.