The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers April 3-9.

The city of Memphis has issued a “Create Your Space” call for ideas to occupy the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Memphis College of Art buildings in Overton Park. 

The $5 million Cossitt Library renovation could get started later this spring, with an emphasis on spaces for gathering and creativity within the walls of the city's first library.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers March 27-April 2.

For the first time Memphis in May International Festival held an open call for the 42-year-old organization’s annual fine arts poster.

Seven Memphis playwrights talk about how they got their start, their goals and their perceptions of the local industry.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers March 21-26.

Richard Halliburton, a Memphis adventure travel writer from a past era, has turned up in a new series of spy novels as himself. The author researched Halliburton's life and his journals at the Rhodes College Halliburton archives.

Aretha Franklin's Beale Street Brass Note was unveiled Sunday, one day before what would have been her 77th birthday. Her legacy was celebrated with a processional and tribute from local musicians.

The "Dear Artist" exhibition features works from the collections of Memphians like Pitt Hyde and Elliot Perry as well as the collectors' letters to the creators of the works.

The four-day Young Collectors Contemporary art fair and conference, which brings together artists, patrons, entrepreneurs, academics and writers from Memphis and around the country, is returning for its fourth year. 

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers March 15-19.

Larry Robinson and Howard Robertson, hosts of the nationally syndicated sports talk radio show focused on black voices, join SiriusXM as ambassadors of Memphis' creative potential.

Lakeland resident Savannah Brister will compete on "The Voice" this season. The 17-year-old earned a spot on John Legend's team.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers March 6-11.

Michigan-based pianist and lecturer Dr. Garik Pederson traveled to Memphis on Saturday to tell the story of a piano made specifically for recreation during World War II.

Patrons can stop in at the Powerhouse for a movie, just a cocktail or glass of wine after work, or to grab a wood-fired pizza or avocado BLT.

Three entrepreneurs devoted a year to rebuilding and remodeling the Binghampton warehouse that opened as Society Skatepark & Coffee in December. The space includes a retail store and coffee shop.

Memphis music producer, recording engineer and artist James Dukes has started a petition drive to change the name of Main Street to Mane Street. 

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers February 27 - March 2.

Would you buy tickets to a concert before you knew who is performing? Sofar Sounds, an entertainment company now in Memphis, thinks it might be the best way to fall in love with new music.

Why are original works from major African-American artists such as Kehinde Wiley, Carrie Mae Weems, and Ernie Barnes hanging in the Grizzlies locker room? Because of Elliot Perry. 

Musician Dale Watson has purchased the historic Hernando's Hideaway and has plans to reopen it in late March as a venue for local and touring roots musicians.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers February 20-26.

In a coup that would make any theater director proud, the University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance presented its latest musical, “Be More Chill,” this month, just as the production makes its Broadway debut.