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    Awards, performances, even brunch: The People’s Hip Hop weekend is here

    An organizer said he hopes that Memphis will continue to host the awards yearly and potentially serve as a future replacement for the BET Hip Hop Awards, which were suspended.

    By Joseph Mangin August 14, 2025
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    The AM/DM podcast: How a potential grave robbery led to Graceland’s Candlelight Vigil

    Fewer than two weeks after Elvis Presley died, three would-be grave robbers tried to take his body from Forest Hill Cemetery. 

    By Mary Cashiola August 14, 2025
  • Music

    Photo Gallery: Fans gather to listen to new Elvis album with 89 unreleased tracks

    More than half the songs have never been released in the U.S.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff August 13, 2025
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    Before ‘Eras,’ before ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ Taylor Swift played on Beale Street. But only 10 people were there to hear it.

    Taylor Swift played at Beale Street’s Itta Bena in 2007 and helped generate a special bond between a father and a daughter. 

    By Drew Hill August 13, 2025
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    Memphis Movies This Week: Spike Lee remakes a master, ‘Big Lebowski’ on the biggest screen

    Lee directs Denzel Washington in a remake of a classic Japanese drama. Coen Brothers' cult comedy is at the Pink Palace.

    By Chris Herrington August 16, 2025
  • Performing Arts

    Hattiloo will bring ‘Jubilee’ to Jackson, Tennessee

    After its run is completed in Memphis, a Hattiloo production will travel 85 miles northeast. 

    By Elle Perry August 11, 2025
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    Ask the Memphian: Did someone really try to steal Elvis’ body?

    In what a former Memphis police chief laughingly calls a “goat rodeo from the word go,” three bumbling crooks hatched a harebrained scheme to steal the body of Elvis Presley two weeks after his death. It didn’t go very well.

    By Jody Callahan September 30, 2025
  • Music

    Memphis-born Bobby Whitlock of Derek and the Dominos fame dies

    Whitlock, who grew up in Millington and got his start at Stax Records, will forever be known as a member of Derek and the Dominoes.

    By Jody Callahan August 10, 2025
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    A ‘great find’ — at Meeman-Shelby Forest, discover rare plants, turkeys and tranquility

    One hundred years after being ravaged by timber extraction and poor farming practices, Meeman-Shelby Forest is considered one of the great success stories of forest restorations east of the Mississippi River.

    By Jane Schneider August 11, 2025
  • Arts & Culture

    New fashion week puts Memphis culture on the runway

    It’s a chance not only to spotlight the creative voices shaping the future of style but honor the zest you can only get in the Bluff City.

    By Kelsey Bowen August 11, 2025
  • Music

    Memphis Listening Lab taps Central Station music curator as director

    With Chad Weekley’s new Listening Lab role comes the opportunity for collaboration, where someone in town to play Central Station could do a Q&A or workshops at the Listening Lab. 

    By Elle Perry August 08, 2025
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    Arts Beat: A party that invites Memphians to be ‘unapologetically themselves’

    “I want everybody to come through dressed as if they’re the artists. It’s a festival ... a block party.”

    By Elle Perry August 08, 2025
  • Arts & Culture

    The AM/DM podcast: Fun to make you feel like a kid again

    Editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips discuss Elvis tribute artists, giant slip-and-slides and the new Jeff Buckley documentary. 

    By Mary Cashiola August 08, 2025
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    Book fair and recess for adults, speed dating for artists and a luau for dogs

    This week, Elvis Week begins and a Jeff Buckley documentary screens.

    By Bianca Phillips, Elle Perry, Kelsey Bowen, Chris Herrington August 08, 2025
  • Music

    Here’s what you need to know for Elvis Week 2025

    Here’s your guide to Elvis Week events in Memphis, including Graceland tours, Elvis Presley tribute artists, and the somber Candlelight Vigil. 

    By Joseph Mangin August 11, 2025
  • Performing Arts

    Puppet theater to take the stage at local parks

    “I love the fact that we’re giving another opportunity for kids to not only see something different. Because it’s different from television. It’s different from their cellphones. It’s different from all these technology-based entertainment.”

    By Elle Perry August 08, 2025
  • Visual Arts

    Figure drawing at the Dixon features costumed performers

    In May, attendees of the Stage & Sketch figure-drawing class drew wrestlers as graphic designer and illustrator Shelda Edwards called out poses.

    By Elle Perry August 05, 2025
  • Arts & Culture

    Memphis Movies This Week: Jeff Buckley doc arrives

    “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,” a new feature-length documentary about Buckley’s life and music, will be released Friday, Aug. 8, where it will begin a full, exclusive engagement at Malco’s Ridgeway Cinema Grill.

    By Chris Herrington August 09, 2025
  • Shelby County

    Long-serving county commissioner who had a passion for theater dies

    Julian Bolton, an attorney who also mentored younger politicians in the community after leaving the County Commission in 2006, died Monday. He was 75.

    By Jody Callahan August 05, 2025
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    ‘Not just a career ... a legacy’ — Hornyak retiring after 30+ years with Recording Academy

    For someone who has spent their entire working life in show business in one capacity or another, Jon Hornyak has avoided the limelight. Until now. 

    By Mark Jordan August 06, 2025
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    Self-made music stirs Memphis running back, Tigers teammates

    Greg Desrosiers Jr. has three songs on Apple Music and Spotify. Most of his music is unreleased, but he shares his catalog with teammates.

    By Frank Bonner II August 04, 2025
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Man who helped save Overton Park Shell dies

    John Larkin was a tireless advocate for the Overton Park Shell, and if not for him and those like him, the Shell might have been torn down and replaced by a parking lot years ago.

    By Jody Callahan August 04, 2025
  • Music

    From K. Michelle to Teddy Swims, August’s must-see concerts in Memphis

    Concert opportunities abound in August, so much so that the must-see concerts story this month includes the usual five concerts, as well as two festivals worth your time.

    By Elle Perry August 04, 2025
  • The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more

    Overton Park looks ahead to new parkland — and less parking

    Kaci Murley remembers well the fights about the future of the Greensward.

    By Eric Barnes August 04, 2025
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    Arts Beat: ‘Cosmic Produce’ a homecoming for Kansas-based artist

    Overton High grad Sean Nash’s show at Tops Gallery at Madison Avenue Park in Downtown Memphis has origins in the Kansas City International Airport.

    By Elle Perry August 04, 2025

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