In today’s The AM/DM, Mary Cashiola and Bianca Phillips talk about the weekend events they’re excited about, including a Labubu meetup, another sing-a-long and the local production of one of Cashiola’s favorite Broadway shows. 

Two big musicals and a compilation of new works based on a familiar nursery rhyme open on stages across Memphis this month. 

On The To-Do List this week are the Memphis Chicken and Beer Fest and an Unapologetic anniversary. Plus, Like Really Creative is doing, like, a lot this week.

Parting is such sweet sorrow, unless it is from an old ticketing system.

An organizer said he hopes that Memphis will continue to host the awards yearly and potentially serve as a future replacement for the BET Hip Hop Awards, which were suspended.

Fewer than two weeks after Elvis Presley died, three would-be grave robbers tried to take his body from Forest Hill Cemetery. 

More than half the songs have never been released in the U.S.

Taylor Swift played at Beale Street’s Itta Bena in 2007 and helped generate a special bond between a father and a daughter. 

Lee directs Denzel Washington in a remake of a classic Japanese drama. Coen Brothers' cult comedy is at the Pink Palace.

After its run is completed in Memphis, a Hattiloo production will travel 85 miles northeast. 

In what a former Memphis police chief laughingly calls a “goat rodeo from the word go,” three bumbling crooks hatched a harebrained scheme to steal the body of Elvis Presley two weeks after his death. It didn’t go very well.

Whitlock, who grew up in Millington and got his start at Stax Records, will forever be known as a member of Derek and the Dominoes.

One hundred years after being ravaged by timber extraction and poor farming practices, Meeman-Shelby Forest is considered one of the great success stories of forest restorations east of the Mississippi River.

It’s a chance not only to spotlight the creative voices shaping the future of style but honor the zest you can only get in the Bluff City.

With Chad Weekley’s new Listening Lab role comes the opportunity for collaboration, where someone in town to play Central Station could do a Q&A or workshops at the Listening Lab. 

“I want everybody to come through dressed as if they’re the artists. It’s a festival ... a block party.”

Editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips discuss Elvis tribute artists, giant slip-and-slides and the new Jeff Buckley documentary. 

This week, Elvis Week begins and a Jeff Buckley documentary screens.

Here’s your guide to Elvis Week events in Memphis, including Graceland tours, Elvis Presley tribute artists, and the somber Candlelight Vigil. 

“I love the fact that we’re giving another opportunity for kids to not only see something different. Because it’s different from television. It’s different from their cellphones. It’s different from all these technology-based entertainment.”

In May, attendees of the Stage & Sketch figure-drawing class drew wrestlers as graphic designer and illustrator Shelda Edwards called out poses.

“It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,” a new feature-length documentary about Buckley’s life and music, will be released Friday, Aug. 8, where it will begin a full, exclusive engagement at Malco’s Ridgeway Cinema Grill.

Julian Bolton, an attorney who also mentored younger politicians in the community after leaving the County Commission in 2006, died Monday. He was 75.

For someone who has spent their entire working life in show business in one capacity or another, Jon Hornyak has avoided the limelight. Until now. 

Greg Desrosiers Jr. has three songs on Apple Music and Spotify. Most of his music is unreleased, but he shares his catalog with teammates.