“Illiteracy is one of the most solvable issues of our lifetime. We have the research, we have the practice, we know how to teach reading to students.”

This week, the Tennessee Triennial highlights Memphis artists, jookers battle in the Ravine and MEMFix returns with a festival in Alcy-Ball.

SunAh M. Laybourn can name multiple reasons that spurred her to organize a calendar of events in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May.

Outlaw country veteran Willie Nelson will play Southaven in October as part of his annual Outlaw Music Festival Tour and extension of his 90th birthday.

The Tennessee Triennial — a five-month art exhibition — kicked off in Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga in January. As the Triennial’s May 7 close approaches, Memphis becomes the final city to host a “highlight weekend.”

Artist Michael Roy, aka Birdcap, has 45,000 followers on Instagram and highly recognizable work, especially in Memphis, with his larger-than-life, stylized murals. 

For artist Anthony Lee, the city is his muse, but his style is a compilation of his life.

Memphis Museum of Science and History exhibit hits the right note with “Band of Brothers – CBHS: America’s Oldest High School Band.” 

Daily Memphian food writer Jennifer Biggs, along with our producer Natalie Van Gundy, joined CEO Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar, which was recorded live during WYXR’s pledge week. 

Record Store Day is an annual event celebrated by vinyl shops and music enthusiasts around the world since 2007; this year, national organizers expect more than 400 exclusive releases.

This week, shop for Memphis merch at the Choose901 spring market, celebrate Earth Day with Bodywerk DJs and rock out with Shinedown at FedExForum.

Earlier this month, the detailed plan for the new museum was approved by the Downtown Memphis Commission’s Design Review Board.

The 2023 Live at the Garden lineup includes two shows that were canceled last year.

“Omar, in the grand scheme of things, was a young guy. I think what pushed him over the edge into the top 10 nominees was that he was so innovative and engaged around town in the community,” said a member of the Beale Street Brass Notes committee. 

With $10 million in expansion and improvements, the BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove prepares for its reopening on Thursday with a concert by Better Than Ezra.

After two canceled pandemic years and a weird year at Liberty Park, Memphis in May International Festival is heading back Downtown to its longtime home at Tom Lee Park. And we’ve got your survival guide with need-to-know info for the month’s festivities.

Other scheduled acts include Lake Street Dive, Band of Horses, Tash Sultana, The War and Treaty, Devon Gilfillian and Larkin Poe.

“This opera is about empathy. It is about understanding other people’s sacrifice. It is about understanding our responsibility to them, and to each other. It is about things that we forget at our own peril, be it in war, pandemic, our family, our city, our country or the world.”

A conversation with Zoe Kahr, the Brooks Museum’s executive director, about new exhibits, live music, how her family led her into the art museums world and a future exhibit on the the Memphis College of Art.

Zach Myers, lead guitarist for multi-platinum modern rock band Shinedown and Memphis Grizzlies season-ticket holder, will leave his usual perch in section 113 and instead take the stage at FedExForum Friday, April 21, finally playing the arena he’s visited countless times in the past.

The “Unlock the Vault” event featured a peek at seldom-seen artifacts from the Memphis Museum of Science and History’s rich trove.

“With a country format moving to the 99.7 spot on the FM dial, a station that set the tone for our youth is disappearing like our hearing and our memories.”

Free concerts return to the Overton Park Shell next month, with the 2023 Orion Free Music Concert Series continuing into October.

Starting in the late 1960s, FM 100 played rock and roll, drastically out of character for what FM radio was everywhere else in the nation.

Storyfest 2023 returns to the Halloran Centre Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15, offering an intergenerational group of Memphians the chance to convey personal stories onstage through live theater performance.