This week, hot air balloons ascend over Collierville, dragons dance at Crosstown Concourse and stars are inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

Here’s how MidtownMemphis.org is working with other groups on the Madison Avenue Improvement Project to beautify a busy Midtown street.

Giordano Dance Chicago has been touring for 60 years and is known as America’s original jazz dance company. But this month’s performances represent the first time the Orpheum Theatre Group will host the dancers. 

One of the standards of the festival season — the Cooper-Young Festival will take over the Midtown neighborhood Saturday with vendors, artists and entertainment.

Booker T. Jones grooved on “Green Onions” again, ahead of his Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction, and the Stax Museum teased a year’s worth of 20th anniversary events as past, present and future collided in Soulsville. 

“We are wanting to tell more stories about Memphis and who we are. It’s just so important that we humanize everyone,” said the director of a new production from Playhouse on the Square. 

International prize-winners and a deep array of local-interest documentaries highlight the lineup for the 25th Indie Memphis Film Festival. 

The project is the second film to be created based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir. In 1988, a TV movie version of “Elvis and Me” was released with the same title.

It all started with a waiter who saw the fence around the restaurant’s North Main Street patio as a place to display his art.

University of Memphis professor Marty Lang talks about his new book designed to help indie film producers make a living. 

The healing power of sports: Tonight fans can cheer our hometown athletes, the Memphis Redbirds. And until Sept. 19 you can sign up a child for free or almost-free tennis lessons. And if you get a chance, thank the MPD officers who helped make Let’s Finish Eliza’s Run possible.

 Artists who attend the en plein air events are encouraged to submit their work for an exhibition that will be on display in December. However, any artist can submit their artwork for consideration for the exhibit; the submission deadline is Tuesday, Nov. 1. 

The Memphis-based graphic designer joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar to talk about props, album covers, toys and more.

Area organizations are offering “safe spaces” and free admission for residents to process their thoughts.

This week, decompress with a day-long yoga fest, drink wine in the name of science and jam out to Americana music at the Lucero Family Block Party.

National Cinema Day’s $3 tickets was an affordable Labor Day Weekend treat for Memphis-area movie fans. The last time tickets were that cheap, “The Breakfast Club,” “The Color Purple” and “Risky Business” were showing on the big screen.

Overton Park Shell hosts one of Memphis’ oldest music events, the 47th annual WLOK Stone Soul picnic showcasing up-and-coming gospel artists.

There’s been a lot to celebrate this week, from the Ruby Bridges Reading Festival to high school football games all over the Shelby-Metro area, to 901 Day. And our photogs were there to capture it all.

Locals joke about interstate Alfredo sauce spill and the Tennessee Titans team up with Three 6 Mafia.

Area restaurants had $9.01 specials, venues held free performances from Memphis acts and locals supported their favorite businesses. 

“The Picture Taker,” from producer and director Phil Bertelsen, takes on the life and work of one of the foremost chroniclers of Black American life during the early and mid-20th century.

This week, The Doobie Brothers’ 50th anniversary tour stops at Live at the Garden, the Delta Fair ushers in fall (almost) at Agricenter International and Chicago DJ Ayana Contreras spins at Central Station.

Memphis’ own Pyramid is part of a nationwide brand campaign with a bit of a crunch. 

For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters —including in Memphis— as part of a newly launched “National Cinema Day” to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office.

The nonprofit is accepting submissions for a Memphis-themed tea box.