Orpheum opens educational ‘Balcony Project’ exhibit
Outside of where the Orpheum Theatre’s Black-only balcony entrance once stood, a new educational exhibit was unveiled on Wednesday.
Outside of where the Orpheum Theatre’s Black-only balcony entrance once stood, a new educational exhibit was unveiled on Wednesday.
Most of the daylong festival is free, but tickets to Cat Powers’ concert and an after party featuring New York-based DJ Alix Brown will go on sale Friday.
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The Mempho Music Festival will be held Friday, Sept. 29 through Sunday, Oct. 1 at the Radians Amphitheater at the Memphis Botanic Garden, located at 750 Cherry Road.
After starting as a Midtown dive-bar lark two decades ago, Gonerfest turns 20, with rock bands and fans from around the world descending on Memphis for “four days of music and mayhem.”
Since its first year, the Pink Palace Crafts Fair has developed into the largest juried arts and crafts fair in the Mid-South.
The Daily Memphian’s photojournalism archives tell the story of the last half-decade in the Bluff City — the pandemic, protests, celebrations and tragedies. Here are some of the most monumental moments in the last five years in our city.
Mike McCarthy and others want to preserve the city’s music culture with more sculptures similar to the Johnny Cash image he created that stands in Cooper-Young.
The two-day event headlined by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman features a stacked guest lineup that would make any comics fan giddy.
“The festival is a melting pot where all communities come together to enjoy the diversity of the Hispanic community,” said Monica Sanchez, co-founder and artistic director of Cazateatro Theatre Group.
The underground fall-out shelter in the gated Lion’s Gate community was built in the early 1960s by Memphis radio and television pioneer Hoyt Wooten.
In his Facebook statement, Moneybagg Yo wrote that his team is looking for a different venue large enough to host the concert.
Kevin Eastman, one of the co-creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle characters 40 years ago, is the featured celebrity at this weekend’s Memphis Comic Expo.
This week brings the Mid-South Fair, the Pink Palace Crafts Fair, the Memphis Country Blues Festival and an album release party from Aktion Kat.
Part of Sound Diplomacy’s work over the next year will include an online map of the city’s “music ecosystem,” including teachers, school programs, church choirs, venues, festivals and music publishing.
Anthony’s show will focus on positive things happening in the region and ways residents can make their lives better, said Fran McRae, WREG vice president and general manager.
International award winners, Oscar hopefuls, revived cult classics and regional-interest documentaries — the Indie Memphis Film Festival will check those boxes and more when it begins its nearly weeklong run at multiple Memphis venues next month.
The cancellation follows the shooting at FedExForum during Lil Baby’s concert that left one male victim injured Sept. 7.
Amid a battle over public use of the river bluff, the Brooks Museum announced new details of a proposed open rooftop park at its planned Downtown location.
It is only in a Black space that the stories and issues of Black people, from traumas to triumphs, can truly be understood. Make sure to join them for their thoughtfully planned season 17 — you will be entertained, you will learn, and you will join the conversation.
The first two shows of a season selling out weeks before opening date is unprecedented at the Black repertory theater, according to Hattiloo founder Ekundayo Bandele.
Brooks will be the featured speaker at the MIFA annual luncheon Sept. 21, and also will speak at Rhodes College while in Memphis.
Dancers from around the country took to the stage Saturday, Sept. 16 as Collage Dance Collective hosted the Memphis Dance Festival, featuring performances from Lil Buck, Ballet Memphis, Nashville Ballet, Sole Defined of Washington, New York City Ballet, Alonzo King Lines Ballet of San Francisco, and the Grizz Girls.
“Zeke and I shared so many interests,” Drake Hall said of his late deejay partner Zeke Logan. “We both loved Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and anything good. If it was good, we played it.”
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