The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers Jan. 30 - Feb. 5.

The first documented Africans arrived in the American colonies in 1619. A Hattiloo event series is commemorating 400 years of African-American history. 

Bands and solo/duo acts from Memphis and Mississippi to the Mediterranean and all points in-between competed Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the annual International Blues Challenge on Beale. Competition continues through Saturday.

Memphis-based Americana and roots music network, DittyTV, has purchased the building next door to its Downtown office, with plans for a store. The network has more store locations planned. 

Statistically speaking, you've likely given up on your New Year's resolution. So Elizabeth Cawein of Music Export Memphis has a new one: Listen to more Memphis music in 2019 with the first of 12 playlists highlighting the best new songs by local artists.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers January 23-29.

Blues may be thought of as a genre of older performers, but during the International Blues Challenge, young blues musicians from all over the world meet in Memphis. 

Hometown rocker John Kilzer debuts a new album, the Harlem Globetrotters hit the FedExForum hardwood, the city honors MLK on Monday and more things to do in Memphis this week.

Memphis native Mark Chambers has returned to Memphis for a run of the one-man play "Tru," about writer Truman Capote. "Tru" is presented by  Cloud9Memphis, a local theater company telling the stories of those 55-and-up. 

When designer and fashion illustrator Kris Keys needed a muse for her most recent collection of womenswear, the former St. Jude patient looked deep within herself.

Two shows open Friday at CBU's Beverly & Sam Ross Gallery. "Labor" features paper work created by artist Katie Maish. "Forge, Cast, Fabricate" features the Metal Museum's staff artists and apprentices. 

Five Memphis sisters, all members of the band JCKSN Ave, are working on their debut album. Soon they are departing to L.A. to work on the project with two acclaimed producers from Memphis. 

The Memphis-based Blues Foundation has announced nominees for its 40th awards celebration. The winners, recognized for achievements in performances, recordings, songwriting and sustaining the blues, will be revealed in May.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers January 10-15.

American Institute of Graphic Arts, a professional design association, has highlighted a Memphis creative conference for strides in the gender equality of its speakers.

A group of more than 100 creatives representing the African-American arts community in Memphis gathered Saturday to recreate an iconic 1958 photograph. Dubbed “A Great Day in Orange Mound,” the location was a very deliberate backdrop for both the photo and a co-working space The CLTV will soon be opening.

Elvis turns 84, Willie Nelson brings friends to town, and "If Beale Street Could Talk" takes the screen as we run down some of our favorite things happening in Memphis this week. 

The re-christened “Crosstown Arts Theater’’ will host a Sonic Youth film and Q&A with the band’s drummer.

The Crosstown Arts Theater and South Main Artspace Lofts both opened this year. Besides being spaces built with artists in mind, the spaces also have something else in common – the projects were designed by Memphis architecture firm Looney Ricks Kiss.

Gwendolyn Clemons and her son Davin have a lot in common.

The Memphis music community is launching an initiative called Year for Memphis Music to align and amplify local projects being created, says Visible Music College president Ken Steorts.

When members of the local Venezuelan alliance Venezolanos en Memphis learn of a fellow countryperson arriving in Memphis, often with nothing, they provide everything from clothing and mattresses to referrals for housing support.

Graceland has released the schedule of events celebrating what would have been Elvis Presley’s 84th birthday next week.

According to 2018 TNReady test scores almost 80 percent of Shelby County Schools' third-graders are not proficient in reading. Read901, convened by Literacy Mid-South, is working to get 90 percent of third-graders reading at grade level by 2025.

Founded in 2015, The Collective (CLTV) has a three-part mission: empowering black artists, using their creative expression to elevate the black community and using the first two parts to shift the culture in Memphis.