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Arts & Culture
Gwendolyn Clemons and her son Davin have a lot in common. -
Arts & Culture
2019 will be a ‘Year for Memphis Music’
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. -
Arts & Culture
Venezolanos en Memphis, cellists organize string donation drive
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. -
Arts & Culture
Graceland releases Elvis birthday celebration schedule
Graceland has released the schedule of events celebrating what would have been Elvis Presley’s 84th birthday next week. -
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Novel, Literacy Mid-South team up for children
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. -
Arts & Culture
The CLTV finds home in Orange Mound
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. -
Business Community Foundation awards $200,000 to 19 organizations
Local organizations getting funds for technology enhancements, personnel training through Coummnuity Foundation grants.
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Arts & Culture
Memphian Alice Faye Duncan’s newest book focuses on Gwendolyn Brooks
Macmillan published Alice Faye Duncan’s first children’s book in 1995. Sterling Children’s Books will release Duncan’s latest, “A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks” on Jan. 1. Duncan will host a virtual book signing where she will read Brooks’ poems from the book, as well as discuss her significance in American literature. -
Music
Sam & Dave win Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Sam & Dave, the gospel-tinged soul duo who recorded a series of hits at Memphis’ Stax Records in the mid-1960s, is being honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Recording Academy. -
Arts & Culture
Memphian Skyy Blair wins nationwide competition from BET and Issa Rae’s ColorCreative
Memphis author, screenwriter and playwright April “Skyy” Blair decided 2018 would be her “year of yes,” a leap of faith to start saying yes to things she normally would not consider. -
Arts & Culture
The Weekly Memphian: Elf, Drew and Ellie Holcomb, Starlito and Eric Gales
The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers December 19-23. -
Arts & Culture
‘Roma,’ ‘The Favourite’ named 2018’s best films by Southeastern Film Critics
Fifty-six voters from nine Southern states named “Roma,” director Alfonso Cuaron’s autobiographically influenced return to his native Mexico, the best film of 2018 in annual voting of the Southeastern Film Critics Association. -
Neighborhoods
Aretha Franklin birthplace case continued in environmental court
Shelby County Environmental Court Judge Patrick Dandridge heard a status update about Aretha Franklin’s birthplace on Dec. 12. -
Arts & Culture
New program places working artists in Memphis preschools
Fifty Shelby County Schools pre-kindergarten teachers and administrators began professional development workshops in early childhood visual arts curricula, art center management strategies and the connections between visual arts, literacy and early childhood development in late September. -
Suburbs
Germantown Performing Arts Center to welcome guests in spring 2020
The Grove at GPAC should host visitors in the spring of 2020 after the Germantown Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a $5 million contract last week – the final approval needed before construction begins. -
Performing Arts
Local magician reviving magic in Memphis
A local magician is working to bring back the art of magic to the Memphis area. Jeff Day, who specializes in a Victorian style of magic, performs across the Mid-South for a wide range of audiences. -
Arts & Culture
How Feldman’s time in Memphis prepped the incoming National Gallery of Art director
Earlier this week Kaywin Feldman was named the first female director of the National Gallery of Art in the museum’s 77-year history – and nobody in Memphis was surprised. -
Performing Arts
Lil Buck talks transition to film
While Charles “Lil Buck” Riley rehearsed for this year’s edition of "Nut ReMix" at New Ballet Ensemble & School on Monday afternoon, a crew of two filmed him for an upcoming television dance docuseries. -
Arts & Culture
Former Brooks director to head National Gallery of Art
Kaywin Feldman, who served as director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from 1999 to 2007, has been named director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. -
Arts & Culture
How a Swiss ballet company founder became ‘Nut ReMix’ Snow Queen
The Snow Queen in New Ballet Ensemble & School’s 2018 performances of “Nut ReMix” comes all the way from Zurich. But how she came to perform with the group actually begins in Italy. -
Arts & Culture
The Weekly Memphian: Mannheim Steamroller, Big Freedia, Amurican Hiatus, Time-Warp Drive-in
The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This week's list covers Dec. 12-17. -
Suburbs
Madonna Learning Center play provides spirit, warmth of the holiday season
For many people, the holidays are not complete without attending the annual Christmas play presented by the students of Madonna Learning Center in Germantown. -
Music
An introduction to contemporary Memphis Americana
“Ain’t gonna take no mess.” -
Suburbs
At Tennessee Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare is for everyone
Growing up, Dan McCleary, founder of Memphis' Tennessee Shakespeare Company, was exposed to Shakespeare in the way many students are today — in its written form. -
Music
Latest Acoustic Sunday Live features Bobby Rush, benefits Protect Our Aquifer
Bobby Rush is playing a Memphis benefit concert in a little more than a week’s time. The beneficiary of the concert: a nonprofit with the mission to create an entity that will monitor and manage the Memphis Sand Aquifer in Shelby County. The aquifer is the source of Memphis’ drinking water.
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