From major touring bands headed to Elvis’ house to emerging Memphis groups, the fall concert calendar has some intriguing options for risk-taking rock fans. 

Twenty brass legends, including Chicago’s Lee Loughnane. will join Robert Moody, music director of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, for the “Cancer Blows” benefit concert Sept. 24 at the Cannon Center.

Memphis is awash in dramatic examples of adaptive reuse, from a Downtown shopping mall turned corporate headquarters to a Sears warehouse building turned “vertical urban village” to even a Pyramid-shaped arena turned world’s biggest bait shop. But Mud Island and the Mid-South Coliseum have proved trickier for rebirth. 

Arthur Flowers — the native South Memphian, novelist, Syracuse professor emeritus, and self-proclaimed High Hoodoo of Memphis — is coming home this week to perform at the Stax Museum.

Hulsey Britt and Frankey Anderson approached Kenneth Wayne Alexander with a proposition: to curate a combined art space, restaurant, and entertainment venue dedicated to Black culture and Black excellence.

With an interest in music dating to her early childhood days, Priya Vani hs expanded her talents and is featured on a new music series called Arlington Jams.

The Collierville Balloon Festival soared into Shelby County for the second time, Sept. 17-18, 2022, with early morning ascensions, and an afternoon-evening carnival.

Three nights of costumed walking tours, Oct. 6-8, pay tribute to the songwriters, producers, composers and singers buried in Memphis’ oldest cemetery.

After weeks of violence, community members gather at the Cooper-Young Festival Saturday, Sept. 17, to celebrate “our diversity and beauty and our rich culture.”

Patrick Lantrip snapped a slew of pictures to capture what may be the final Southern Heritage Classic matchup for Jackson State and Tennessee State. Take a look and select your favorite.

Crumpy’s Hot Wings celebrates 31 years, The Rock gives a toast to Memphis and rapper GloRilla gets nominated for a BET Award. 

Through the project, the Memphis Medical District Collaborative is on a mission to “add some vibrancy” to the area.

In a city that is mostly recognized for its gritty rap scene, Timothy “Lukah” Love is restoring balance. 

Booker T. Jones and Priscilla Presley were among eight new inductees to the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

For two shows, Pete Pranica will transform into Mark Twain. Call him Big Twain, maybe? It’s all for the benefit of the Tennessee Shakespeare Company. And it’s just the latest evidence that Pranica is a great Memphian. 

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.