With new ‘BVO,’ artist Chris Reyes aims to bring ‘immersive entertainment’ to former Mud Island museum

Quark Theatre is known for thoughtful and provocative shows that challenge the audience. But one thing the company has not done is a musical. 

The Metal Museum is moving to make jewelry — and the artists who create it — a larger part of the collection and museum community.

While Shop Mucho inside Primas Bakery + Boutique will close next month, RM Petit Cakes, the artisan dessert shop that shares the building, will remain open for business. 

This week, the Metal Museum displays bracelets from the past 70-plus years, The Bluff City Liars bring improv to TheatreWorks and you can drink martinis for a good cause.

In June, Memphis theaters will perform a familiar fairy tale, a slick con-man’s life story, a Dolly Parton musical and more.

Kelly English and musician/producer IMAKEMADBEATS discuss the new late night party that’s added this year to Le Bon Appetit and English shares his own childhood hospital story.

The Memphis-based company begins its 2024-2025 season with the return of its free Memphis Dance Festival Saturday, Sept. 21 — which is also National Dance Day. 

The portable bookstore will have pop-ups through the rest of the year as the owners prepare to open a brick-and-mortar shop in Memphis.

This year’s event featured carnival rides for the kids, an Italian cooking demo, an indoor game of cornhole, and 901 Goats for families to view, along with 46 cooking teams competing in a variety of Italian food cuisine competitions. 

About 3,000 people participated in the Beale Street event, with floats and marchers representing 110 local groups including businesses, performing arts organizations and nonprofits. 

Lamonte Cunningham, owner of ER Entertainment, is launching The Source 104.1 FM, a Southern soul and R & B format station, Saturday, June 1, hoping to give new talent a boost.

David Dennis was a Freedom Rider in 1961 and jailed at Parchman.

This week, zombies take over the big screen at Crosstown Theater, happy hours (with a view) are back at the Metal Museum and Memphis Made hosts a pinewood derby for grown-ups.

Mid-South Pride, Tri-State Black Pride and other organizations will host a variety of events to celebrate Pride Month in Memphis. 

Photographer Karen Pulfer Focht captures photos of Memphis Symphony Orchestra at Overton Park Shell.

A celebrated saxophonist has a release show for his first album in five years at The Green Room, a Gen-Z jazz phenom comes to the Cannon Center, R&B stalwarts grace the Orpheum stage and more.

Through Aug. 15, each two-hour floral arranging workshop features a different florist and theme. 

If a Navy bassoonist stationed in Hawaii busts up his bassoon or a tuba player stationed in Seattle dents her tuba, where do you imagine those instruments end up?

The owner of Southern Grooves studio discusses how he started working at Sun Studio as a teenager then became a producer of musicians ranging from Jason Isbell to the Mountain Goats to Margo Price and more.

The summer concert series features eight dates from mid-June to late-September at the A. Keith McDonald Pavilion at W.J. Freeman Park.

Artist and curator Najee Strickland said he wants attendees to leave with a sense of what Memphis represents, through art, and what Memphis means to the artists involved.

This week, Memphis in May ends its run with a run, “P-Valley” actor Bertram Williams Jr. hosts a party and Lionel Richie joins Earth, Wind & Fire at FedExForum.