Clothes by the headlining designer of this year’s Memphis Art & Fashion Week have been seen on Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, and K-pop group BLACKPINK.

What to do when you reserved no plans for Valentine’s Day. Plus, Memphis musicians and music lovers curate a playlist to set the mood. 

There were 22.1 million vinyl records sold in the first half of 2025 alone, according to a Recording Industry Association of America report.

In this week’s To-Do List, see new works from Ballet Memphis, swap seeds at Lichterman Nature Center and eat free king cake at Moxy. 

As Indie Memphis bounces back from a year without its signature film festival, the group’s new co-executive director, Alicia George, joins Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of “The Sidebar” to talk about the organization’s future.

Here’s a selection of art exhibitions happening in the greater Memphis area this month.

Local screens fill up with everything from Oscar heavyweight “Sentimental Value” to the new “Wuthering Heights,” sci‑fi comedies, fresh horror, and special showings of “Zappa,” “Grease” and a 40th‑anniversary “Pretty in Pink.”

“Feral live sets” or jazz and soul? A “sonic memoir” or folk concert meets theater? February brings plenty of concerts to Memphis stages, with a range of sounds. 

The Memphis Museums of Science and History’s former leader Kevin Thompson resigned at the end of 2025. 

Hattiloo Theatre will bring Black theater companies from Norway, Nigeria and South Africa to Memphis for two-week residencies.

For the third year in a row, the owners of Fat Tuesday Memphis and Esco Memphis restaurants brought back their Mardi Gras in Memphis celebration.

The Giant Rats — and their devotion to Sherlock Holmes — live on, more than 50 years after the local fan club was founded.

Memphis’ showcase event will be Feb. 25 at Lafayette’s Music Room, leading up to the big finale of Tennessee Songwriters Week at The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville.

Memphis had quite the showing at this year’s Grammy Awards.

The festival is expected to span much of the South Main district, with films being screened at Malco’s Powerhouse Cinema and the Orpheum’s Halloran Centre, while Central Station and other venues in the area will host parties and other festival events.

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In this week’s To-Do List, eat ice cream for breakfast, party like Edgar Allan Poe and get campy at CMOM.

The festival will be held in Downtown’s South Main Arts District, with the selected films being shown in Malco’s Powerhouse Cinema as well as the Orpheum’s Halloran Centre.

Stranded on a South Pacific island with Rachel McAdams? Be careful what you wish for in Sam Raimi’s “Send Help.”

The Bluff City has a taste for zine-making parties, vision-board groups, flash-tattoo embroidery classes and beyond.

In this week’s To-Do List, a new Pink Palace exhibit explores the science and culture of food. And Urban Earth hosts a workshop on air plants.

The pedestrian tunnel mural will kick off Germantown’s Greenway art project. 

Well, darn. The Central High band won’t be going back to New York this year to defend its title in the Essentially Ellington jazz contest. But after a year of triumph and tragedy, that won’t stop director Ollie Liddell from teaching “with (his) hair on fire.”

Wade-Gayles, a graduate of the LeMoyne College, died Tuesday, Jan. 27, in Atlanta. An educator, activist and author, she penned a memoir about growing up in the old Foote Homes public-housing development.

Five major-category Oscar nominees that have been available on local screens during the storm will stick around next week. This week also welcomes a couple of new Oscar nominees to town.