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    Must-see concerts in April include Pat Benatar, Bow Wow, Soul Coughing

    Whether you want to tap into some nostalgia or discover new artists, Memphis concerts have something for you in multiple genres.

    By Elle Perry April 04, 2025
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    The To-Do List: Hot Foot Honeys, drag time travel and a bad tattoo contest

    This week, Martin Luther King Jr. is honored, a fashion legend is celebrated and a mid-century home transforms into a vintage pop-up shop.

    By Bianca Phillips, Elle Perry, Kelsey Bowen, Alys Drake April 07, 2025
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    Collaborative group shows dominate April art openings in Memphis

    April artists on view in Memphis include Dolph Smith, Colleen Couch, April Bey, Joel Parsons, Brian Jobe, Kiersten Williams, Yancy Villa, and many more.

    By Elle Perry April 08, 2025
  • Music

    The Essential Memphis Library: Stanley Booth’s ‘Rythm Oil’

    Booth, a wildly talented journalist and music critic, died in Memphis in December. Thursday, he’ll be honored at the Memphis Listening Lab. 

    By Chris Herrington April 02, 2025
  • Performing Arts

    Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Minecraft Movie,’ ‘Freaky Tales,’ more

    With “Luckiest Man in America” and “Freaky Tales,” this might be a good week at the movies for anyone nostalgic for the 1980s. 

    By Chris Herrington April 03, 2025
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    ‘Some Like It Hot,’ ‘Saint Joan’ among April theater openings

    A Broadway version of classic Marilyn Monroe film — with plenty of tap-dancing — is one of several shows opening in Memphis theaters in April.

    By Alys Drake April 01, 2025
  • Music

    Big & Rich, The Revivalists to play SmokeSlam

    Coming May 15-17 to Tom Lee Park, the festival will feature nearly 75 teams in competition, along with music, Ferris wheel rides and other entertainment.

    By Elle Perry April 02, 2025
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    Local museums, library organization brace for federal funding cuts

    Appeal letters to Memphis Library Foundation supporters have already gone out as a new executive order would eliminate the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.

    By Jane Roberts April 01, 2025
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    Tad Pierson on how the highway is his home

    Indoor Trailer Park creator and tire artist Tad Pierson’s latest installation will span along Mississippi Boulevard from E.H. Crump Boulevard to South Parkway. 

    By Eric Barnes April 18, 2025
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    Arts festival returns with a ‘town-square feel’

    The Silo Square Arts Festival will return for its second year Saturday, March 29, offering a mix of local artistry, live music and activities.

    By Brandon LaGrone II March 28, 2025
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    Civil Rights Museum opens its ‘most ambitious’ exhibition yet

    “Without Bayard Rustin, there is no ‘I Have a Dream’ at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963.”

    By Elle Perry April 01, 2025
  • Real Estate

    Malco ‘putting out feelers’ for drive-in, president says

     Malco says it will only sell if it’s “the right thing to do.”

    By Dima Amro March 31, 2025
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    The To-Do List: Bar birthdays, a Bartlett bayou bash and Black Violin

    This week, visual art and dance are on display at the U of M, MIM brings barbecue to Collierville (in March) and Sir Meatball has a dog party. 

    By Bianca Phillips, Elle Perry, Chris Herrington, Kelsey Bowen March 31, 2025
  • Music

    Multi-talented Terry Manning touched Memphis music from Stax to ZZ Top and beyond

    Manning had a more than 50-year career as a player, producer, composer and, perhaps most prominently, recording engineer.

    By Chris Herrington March 31, 2025
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    Memphis Movies This Week: Jason Statham, ‘Some Like it Hot’

    What were the odds English-Irish actor Steve Coogan would grace local screens twice this week? Strangely, pretty good.

    By Chris Herrington March 26, 2025
  • Real Estate

    Dolly Parton, a death and the West Memphis Pancho’s

    For now, the Dollywood Foundation owns the former Pancho’s site in West Memphis, but if all goes according to plan, the site will be sold this summer with the proceeds going to the Foundation.

    By Jody Callahan March 26, 2025
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    Memphis Symphony to open season with Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

    The upcoming 2025-2026 season also includes a celebration of the U.S.’ 250th birthday and a collaboration with Opera Memphis.

    By Elle Perry April 22, 2025
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    Brick-and-mortar Cafe Noir to blend literature and coffee

    The bookstore and coffee shop will open this summer at 635 Madison Ave. in the 1,960-square-foot front space within The Ugly Art Co. gallery.

    By Sophia Surrett May 21, 2025
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    The To-Do List: Women spin, blossoms bloom and nerds unite

    This week, punk rock changes a teen girl’s life at Circuit, Black-owned food trucks take over Tiger Lane and you’ve got one more chance to go back to Comeback Coffee.

    By Bianca Phillips, Elle Perry, Kelsey Bowen, Alys Drake, Chris Herrington March 20, 2025
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    Water in Brooks’ latest? A force of pleasure and pain

    The exhibit features paintings and an interactive gallery that immerses visitors in community, history, love and reflection. 

    By Elle Perry March 20, 2025
  • The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more

    How playing bridge might change your life

    Bronia Jenkins, who is the executive director of the American Contract Bridge League, joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of “The Sidebar.”

    By Eric Barnes March 19, 2025
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    Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Snow White’ opens Friday

    After updating “The Lion King” and “The Little Mermaid” in a semi-live-action style, Disney goes back to its theatrical roots with “Snow White.”

    By Chris Herrington March 18, 2025
  • Shelby County

    Students can experience arts free with new ‘Art for All’ culture pass

    The new pass is now available at Memphis libraries and community centers. It provides elementary students and their families free access to performances and events hosted by more than 30 local arts organizations.

    By Redding Jackson March 18, 2025
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    Orpheum brings Broadway smash-hit musical to Memphis for new season

    The Orpheum announced a new Broadway season, including a new musical that flips the script on Shakespeare’s tragic “Romeo & Juliet,” asking — what if Juliet didn’t die? 

    By Alys Drake March 18, 2025
  • The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more

    Shelby Farms leader on the nonprofit’s past and future

    Jen Andrews joins Eric Barnes to discuss the controversies that once hung around Shelby Farms Parks and what’s going on inside it now.

    By Eric Barnes March 17, 2025

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