As Memphians gear up for spring, Lichterman Nature Center will host a festival-style plant sale April 14 and 15 featuring more than 6,000 plants across 200 different plant species.

Because of the NBA playoff scheduling, R&B star Lizzo’s date with Memphis will get a new one. 

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A festival with the aim of providing career-building opportunities for Memphis artists, creatives and entrepreneurs is back for its second year.

An upcoming fundraiser for Room in the Inn aims to help support the group’s mission to help homeless people.

“The acoustics are fantastic in the planetarium,” said MoSH’s executive director.

From a memorial for the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and more, here are some of the best pictures from this week. 

The five remaining performances by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra range from the Sunset Symphony to “Brahms: A People’s Requiem.”

This week, Amy Dang blends South Asian sounds with contemporary pop, sci-fi fans gather at Midtown Con 2 and the Harlem Globetrotters bring basketball back to FedExForum. 

This week, Marc Cohn and Shawn Colvin are walking in Memphis (er, well, Germantown), MoSH offers a look behind the scenes and Wiseacre hosts a weird beer festival.

This week: Spring cleaning, berried treasure (pun intended) and some “childhood joy” at the Brooks Museum. 

An exhibition of detailed and luminously colored paintings in the Renaissance style that has “taken the art world by storm” is now on display at the Brooks. 

“That’s what this festival can really highlight: the healing power of the arts, and the significant impact the U of M arts program has on this city to impact change,” said Ryan Fisher, interim dean at the University of Memphis College of Communication and Fine Arts.

This week, learn who’s not buried at Elmwood, see Van Duren at the Halloran and honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. on the 55th anniversary of his death. 

The InHEIRitance Project has spent the past nine months creating a play in Memphis alongside local artists. The group has conducted more than 30 play-devising sessions with 800 Memphians of all ages.

“I want you to come to the museum to meet old friends for coffee on the roof garden, where you’ll also encounter beautiful sculpture,” said the museum’s executive director. “I want art to spill out onto your path as you walk, bike, or run past the museum.”

A Memphis artist will combine music and poetry at Green Room, an East Atlanta rapper will hit Minglewood Hall’s stage, a songstress will bring neo-soul to the Orpheum and two record-breaking bands will rock out the FedExForum. 

“Exodus: Recreation,” which was produced by the InHEIRitance Project and will be performed in Memphis March 31-April 3, incorporated the input of 800 people and two dozen local organizations.

Strom was born in Chicago but moved to Memphis when she was five years old. She founded Facing History in 1976 after piloting a Holocaust curriculum in her eighth-grade humanities classroom in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Attorney Mitch McDeere of John Grisham’s “The Firm,” will soon be back in action — and back in trouble.

The new season debuts Oct. 10 with “Funny Girl” and continues with new-to-Memphis musicals and classic favorites.

More than a dozen members of Central High’s class of 1959 chronicle their up-close and personal views of the historic events of their generation.

As hundreds of Memphians covered the ground around Brooks Museum of Art for Chalkfest 2023, local artists recreated works from the museum’s collection.

This week we’re all about places: A Midtown Mansion, Bartlett Recreation Center, a Wolfchase-area restaurant, of course, FedExForum.

Women of Achievement has been recognizing female heroism in Memphis since 1985.

Melvin Purdy named the Memphis hot wing restaurant equivalent of some the NBA’s best point guards. Plus, a Southaven native creates music for Amazon’s “Swarm” series.