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    Girls Night Out: A Memphis guide to Galentine’s Day

    Whether it’s a Galentine’s Day get-together or just a girls night out, here are local spots to hit with your female friends.

    By Christin Yates February 12, 2024
  • Performing Arts

    Pat Halloran, the man who made the Orpheum a Broadway stop, dies

    “He was a doer of doers. And he just got things done, and he did it with an amazing amount of personality,” said Kevin Kane, president and CEO of Memphis Tourism.

    By Jane Roberts February 09, 2024
  • The To-Do List

    The To-Do List: Mardi Gras, Valentine’s and a T. rex named Sue

    This week, a Black History Month exhibition opens at Arrow, the Brooks Museum celebrates Lunar New Year and Elvis tribute artists invade Graceland.

    By Bianca Phillips, Holly Whitfield, Kelsey Bowen, Chris Herrington, Christopher Wright, Alys Drake February 08, 2024
  • Music

    Fresh off Grammy wins, Jason Isbell stops at Rhodes

    “Music is what we have in common with strangers,” said Jason Isbell, now six-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, to a near standing-room-only crowd at Rhodes College.

    By Christopher Wright February 07, 2024
  • Arts & Culture

    Single? Partnered? Memphis artists have you covered for V-Day

    Singles, couples and friends have multiple options for Valentine’s Day festivities in Memphis this year. They include an all-women DJ dance party, artist markets, a dating game, dance classes — even a 5K.

    By Kambui Bomani February 13, 2024
  • Arts & Culture

    Withers Gallery joins Civil Rights Trail, Beale Street’s future explored

    The archive of 60 years of Ernest Withers’ photographs joins the national set of historic places as the Beale Street entertainment district marks 10 years of operation and management by the Downtown Memphis Commission.

    By Bill Dries February 06, 2024
  • Music

    Memphians Deanie Parker, Robert Gordon, Julien Baker win big at Grammys

    In other Memphis-related moments at the Grammys, Mid-South blues great Bobby Rush won Best Traditional Blues Album for “All My Love for You.”

    By Chris Herrington February 05, 2024
  • Arts & Culture

    Program highlights Memphis Black history

    A program designed to commemorate Memphis Black History opened this weekend at the Museum of Science and History.

    By Kambui Bomani February 05, 2024
  • Arts & Culture

    Vernon Davis, Vivica A. Fox movie set to film in Memphis

    The film is the first screenplay from a native Memphian and a former member of the Grizzlies. 

    By Mary Cashiola February 02, 2024
  • Music

    5 must-see shows for February 2024

    In February, a genre-shifting vocalist comes to the Germantown Performing Arts Center with new material, a wind ensemble explores atmospheric modernity at Crosstown Arts’ Green Room, an indie-folk veteran comes to the cozy Comeback Coffee cafe and an R&B super-show will bring the party to the Landers Center.

    By Christopher Wright February 02, 2024
  • The To-Do List

    The To-Do List: Les Mis, Lunar lion dances and a Superb Owl field day

    This week, “Confederates” at Hattiloo explores racial and gender bias, singer-songwriter Jason Isbell speaks at Rhodes and adults get play time at CMOM.

    By Elle Perry, Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Kelsey Bowen, Holly Whitfield, Alys Drake February 02, 2024
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    ‘Les Misérables’, ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ take the stage in Memphis in February

    Theatergoers will “hear the people sing” this month, as “Les Mis” returns to the Orpheum, two companies perform different Tennessee Williams plays and “The Squirrels” have an existential crisis on stage, in full-length squirrel costumes.

    By Alys Drake February 01, 2024
  • Premium Music

    60 years after passing audition, Stax’s Deanie Parker is double Grammy nominee

    After a career that shifted into marketing, publicity and non-profit management, this moment has brought Deanie Parker full circle, back to her beginnings as a singer and a songwriter. 

    By Chris Herrington February 01, 2024
  • Arts & Culture

    Cazateatro, Arrow Creative host Black History Month events

    Memphis organizations feature a variety of experiences for attendees to witness, learn from and enjoy in honor of Black History Month. 

    By Kambui Bomani February 01, 2024
  • Performing Arts

    Soulful awards brunch caps five-day festival honoring Black dance

    The International Association of Blacks in Dance ended its 34th annual conference with its “The Soul Must Dance” Gospel Performance and Scholarship Awards Brunch.

    By Kambui Bomani January 29, 2024
  • Premium Arts & Culture

    After this Memphis writer discovered her heritage, she turned it into a story

    “1666: A Novel” is Lora Chilton’s nod to her father’s people and the devastation they suffered from the colonizers in Virginia.

    By Jane Roberts January 28, 2024
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Ambitious new collection aims to capture breadth of ‘Memphis Blues’

    This 534-song, 20-CD collection stitches a rich tapestry of a mostly lost Memphis, mapping the city, naming the infamous and celebrating the food. 

    By Chris Herrington February 05, 2024
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Veterans find healing through ‘the magic of writing a song’

    Chattanooga-based Freedom Sings USA and the Department of Veteran Affairs presented a two-day music therapy event at the Lt. Col. Luke Weathers Jr. VA Medical Center at 1030 Jefferson Ave.

    By Kambui Bomani January 27, 2024
  • Visual Arts

    Birdcap’s first Memphis solo exhibition a ‘full circle moment’

    Michael Roy, who started his arts career geared towards “serious abstract paint(ing),” says a Memphis College of Art professor told him “(your) hand wants to be a cartoonist.” 

    By Christopher Wright January 29, 2024
  • Premium Visual Arts

    Brooks, Dixon highlight work of local teens in new exhibitions

    The Scholastic Art Awards are “like the art-kid championship game” said Brooks director of education, Kathy Dumlao. 

    By Sarah Dassinger January 29, 2024
  • The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more

    The importance of public art in Memphis

    Lakeisha Edwards, leader of the Urban Art Commission, joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar to talk about the ways public art not only beautifies a neighborhood but also about how it impacts the people living there.

    By Eric Barnes February 06, 2024
  • Arts & Culture

    Tyler Perry films on Beale Street for Netflix project ‘Joe’s College Road Trip’

    Linn Sitler, Memphis and Shelby County Film/TV Commissioner, said that Tyler Perry and his team were in Memphis on Tuesday for a one-day local shoot, employing 20-25 local crew members and roughly 200 extras.

    By Chris Herrington January 26, 2024
  • The To-Do List

    The To-Do List: Victorian valentines, ‘The Vous’ and a Gene Wilder tribute

    This week, Mystic Krewe kicks off Mardi Gras season, and snow day cancellations at Sheet Cake, the Brooks Museum, Playhouse on the Square and Theatre Memphis get a re-do.

    By Bianca Phillips, Alys Drake, Kelsey Bowen, Elle Perry, Kambui Bomani January 25, 2024
  • Music

    ‘I could see tears in his eyes,’ Justin Timberlake fan says

    A winner of the lottery for free tickets to the Orpheum concert said the hometown singer’s “focus was on us, the people of Memphis.”

    By Kambui Bomani January 21, 2024
  • The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more

    Cyrena Wages on music, songwriting and her debut album

    Cyrena Wages is nothing if not honest. Honest about her music, her career and herself. It shows on her debut album, Vanity Project, and in the conversation Eric Barnes had with her on this week’s Sidebar.

    By Eric Barnes January 20, 2024

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