Before his performance at Riverbeat Music Festival, DJ Steve Aoki and former Florida Georgia Line singer Tyler Hubbard made some stops at Memphis hotspots to film the music video for their new song. 

With concessions curated by the chefs at Kinfolk, Hard Times Deli and Comeback Coffee, photo installations and a 40-foot screen, there’s a new club in town, and it’s all about bringing the community to the movies. 

The Chinese tile game is social, strategic and good for one’s cognitive ability. It’s also becoming increasingly popular. 

Hear the birdsong, dance under a tree. Experience Memphis Gardens founder hopes to inspire locals to love their own yards. 

A former Grizz player’s movie names its lead actor, La Chat doc premieres in France and Memphis must say goodbye to a nostalgic theater.

This week, Ruby Bridges is here for her namesake reading festival and GWAR brings shock rock (and lots of fake blood) to Minglewood.

The site was listed for sale in March, but the president of Malco Theatres said it would only be sold “if it was the right thing to do.” 

Other movies making a comeback this week are “North by Northwest,” “The Wiz” and “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” 

Germantown Performing Arts Center’s longtime executive director is stepping down effective Friday, May 30.

After a stellar performance run in New York, The Central High School jazz band came home with a first-place win. 

With 30,000 tickets scanned for the three-day music festival in Tom Lee Park, how did Riverbeat compare to its previous year? 

The Central High jazz band did it. They defeated bands from across the country — and around the world — to win the Essentially Ellington contest in New York. And, yes, there were many tears.

The owners of Union Centre changed the iconic blue dog art in late April. Only one blue dog painting remains on the building. 

“I am excited to grow creative collaborations around environmental humanities, especially care for water as our lifeblood,” Gretchen E. Henderson said.

The Central High jazz band continued to blaze through New York, advancing to the finals of the Essentially Ellington contest. Said Ollie Liddell, the band’s director: “We play with the spirt of the city, man.” 

“Runway at the Museum” at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art featured more than 50 designers from across the U.S.

A Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and a trio of R&B singers hit the Orpheum stage, hot New Orleans rappers come to the FedExForum, a plethora of gospel singers come to the Landers Center, and a satirical heavy-metal band travels to Minglewood Hall.

A pope movie returns to the big screen, GloRilla is throwing a bash and Memphians look ‘superfine' for a Met Gala party. 

This week, Memphis celebrates Tom Lee, Soul & Spirits celebrates smoked beer and Wiseacre is having the most metal pop-up shop ever.

Two concert bookers from Growlers join Minglewood Hall, precipitating changes at both venues. 

Ollie Liddell, the director of bands at Central High, wasn’t sure how his jazz band would get to the Essentially Ellington contest at Lincoln Center. Then Memphians came through for him.

Also notable, “Shadow Force,” an action thriller about an estranged couple who are former special ops soldiers who go on the run with their son, is a new release this week.

As part of the Brooks’ Memphis Art & Fashion Week, interior designer and HGTV star Carmeon Hamilton and interior designer Colin Chapman hosted a Met Gala watch party on Monday, May 5.

Something for the rain and something for flair. At a music festival where fashion meets function, here’s what attendees were wearing. 

The third day of Riverbeat Music Festival included performances from Benson Boone, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Anderson .Paak and more.

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