Memphis College of Art endures the challenges of an extraordinarily long "teach-out" to give its last students a chance to graduate. 

U of M professor taps student to help him with set design for 2020 presidential primary debate this week in Houston.

The home of the blues was also home to mezzo-soprano Vera Little, a pioneering artist with a commanding voice who was the first African American singer to perform for a pope.

Actress, model and Memphian Cybill Shepherd was honored in her hometown on Sept. 5, when she was inducted into The Peabody Hotel's Duck Walk Hall of Fame.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers Sept. 5-12.

For the second year, Memphis hosted a Diner en Blanc, an event where guests clad in white meet at various locations around the city to board buses that take them to an undisclosed destination.

Some choice selections from Memphis' lesser known songbooks in recognition of 901 Day. Let it be a legend to help you map out your own Memphis musical treasure hunt. 

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers Aug. 29-Sept. 5. 

Instead of waiting for people to come to the opera house, 30 Days takes opera to festivals, libraries, restaurants and parks. “Having an opera singer 10 feet from you is like being on a roller coaster or in a windstorm,” says Opera Memphis' director Ned Canty.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers August 22-28.

Dazed shoppers are still redrawing their internal maps of Target Central after a massive makeover. Here’s our advice: Picture an egg inside a rectangle, with clothes in the big oval in the middle and high-demand seasonal items in the corners. 

The University of Memphis is branding its segment of Central Avenue — from Patterson to Zach Curlin — as the Central Avenue Arts Corridor.

The Memphis Chapter of the American Guild of Organists hosted Pedals, Pipes and Pizza, an event to raise interest among a new generation of potential pipe organists.

The Tennessee Shakespeare Company received a $20,000 grant to take the Bard's works to juveniles in the Shelby County justice system. "William Shakespeare and his plays are for everyone," says the company's founder.

Memphis Tourism's I Love Memphis Blog is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a party at Railgarten.

Forty-two years after Elvis' death, fans from around the world gathered at Graceland for the annual Candlelight Vigil.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers Aug. 15-21.

Memphis in May looked forward, to honoring Ghana in 2020, and back, to record-setting revenues and economic impact last May, during an annual meeting Wednesday.

As the Battle of the Bulge 75th anniversary approaches, a Memphis veteran recalls the ingenious technique soldiers used to keep their socks dry in the snow and ice. 

The shotgun house at Beale and Fourth has a new commitment by the city to promote W.C. Handy's music more than a century after he puts the blues on sheet music and spread the music form around the world. 

The scale of images on the art walk in four historic Downtown alleys invites selfies. “We expect to lose some of our crowd as people stop and Instagram the murals,” said Penelope Huston of the Downtown Memphis Commission.

The Cooper-Young Festival has announced the music lineup for its 2019 event set for September 14.

The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers Aug. 8-14. 

The upscale consignment sale has both a popular and almost cult following. Stock Exchange is Les Passees’ largest fundraiser and displays some 60,000 items on any given day of its seven-week run.

An interview with 'Charged' author Emily Bazelon about her decision to focus on the Memphis case of Noura Jackson in her book and on the wider issues of prosecutors and mass incarceration.