Until recently, the building housed a Memphis Fire station and headquarters for the department.

A Nashville band with a very Memphis ethos and a keyboard player who has performed with The Rolling Stones, John Mayer and George Harrison are coming to the Germantown Performing Arts Center this fall. 

Take a trip down memory lane this week as we mark the 100th anniversary of medical care for Mid-South veterans, say goodbye to a landmark and relish the joy of old books. And folks at a local church share old-fashioned kindness with an Alabama congregation.

Through a new poetry program, Tennessee Shakespeare Company is helping “youth begin to see that they can manage conflict and that others have conflict, too.”

Memphis Grizzlies fans are weighing in on the team’s newly released 2022-2023 game schedule. 

This week, Cowboy Mouth brings roots rock to Railgarten, Black Lodge turns back time and Emerald Theatre Company tackles anti-LGBTQ sentiment with humor.

The show, based on the true life story of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, will begin production this fall in Memphis. 

Photographer Andrew Feiler traveled 25,000 miles to capture images, interviews and history connected to Rosenwald Schools, a program created in 1912 by Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington.

Perhaps few are as well-suited to be the head of Soulsville as Pat Mitchell Worley, co-host of “Beale Street Caravan,” former communications director of the Memphis Music Foundation, one-time hard rock DJ and protégé of Deanie Parker. 

The Morehouse College alumnus and former Wall Street speechwriter and communications executive served as a writer and producer on Issa Rae’s acclaimed HBO TV series “Insecure.”

Local fans can catch The Millennium Tour: Turned Up on Saturday, November 5 at the FedExForum. 

Including vintage pieces, like a dress designed by Coco Chanel, the “Sporting Fashion” exhibit also showcases information on trailblazing sportswomen such as sprinter Wilma Rudolph, equestrienne Esther Stace and pilot Hazel Ying Lee.

This week we learned that you don’t have to like golf to enjoy the FedEx St. Jude Championship. And the 1,550 volunteers who serve at the tournament exhibit a similar devotion to the team rolling and delivering burritos Downtown every week for 10 years. And we wonder if fashionista Mark Sandfoss owns any golf shirts.

Despite its smaller size and location — tucked away just inside the front doors of the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library — the bookstore strives to be “a community resource.”

This update by playwright Aaron Sorkin is, by some measures, the most successful American play in Broadway history and the very rare stage play — as opposed to stage musical — to be a major commercial hit. 

MoSH theater manager Tom Hardy says while Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” may not be a very well-known film, seeing the drama on the big screen will be a transformative experience for viewers.

This week, travel back to 1987 with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey at Malco Theatres, watch a woman swallow swords at Lafayette’s Music Room and catch the highest-grossing American play in Broadway history at the Orpheum Theatre.

Shangri-La Records is bringing back its popular summer event, with an impressive line-up and a pandemic-sized backlog of record deals. 

“You Can’t Say That: Memphis Mane Edition” is similar to Taboo. 

“I think the museum field has been going through this long, kind of traumatic, transition from being a place that was for a very small group of people, by a very small group of people, to a place that is very much a civic asset for a city,” said incoming Memphis Brooks Museum of Art executive director Zoe Kahr. 

“The Voice” runner-up has been on the road for most of the year, touring alongside Vince Gill. 

Lady A, which was scheduled to perform at Live at the Garden later this month, has postponed its tour. 

Scheduled events for the 45th commemoration of Elvis Presley’s death include screenings of “Elvis” as well as performances from some younger musicians. 

“If that person says, ‘I like your outfit’ or stares or the car that drives by honks, it’s going to be a fun night,” said Mark Sandfoss, a zoologist with a flair for fashion.

Artist Ephraim Urevbu has bought a building on Jackson Avenue that he plans to renovate into an art incubator, studio space and a restaurant — with the larger goal of creating an art community.