The To-Do List: MSO connects music and the civil rights movement
An “Orchestra Unplugged” concert includes a performance of “The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.”
An “Orchestra Unplugged” concert includes a performance of “The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.”
Four years after the removal of the monument for Confederate Army Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a statue of Ida B. Wells will stand in Memphis for the first time.
First-place winner gets $750; essay will be adapted for a character in the Soul of the City cemetery tour in October.
It’s been quite a week for Memphis Grizzlies fans as well as lovers of art and, of course, barbecue.
A mainstay of Memphis’ live music scene for years, Los Psychosis hadn’t recorded professionally until last year, when the album “Rock and Roll Dreams” was made.
A gritty block of Summer Avenue is now the scene for a public art installation that is highly unusual for several reasons.
Though the theater major will be discontinued, the Rhodes Theatre Guild will still be active, according to the college’s vice president of academic affairs.
While 51 pieces from local high school students will hang in the airport, six were given special recognition. The 14th annual High School Visual Arts and Photography Competition is part of Memphis International Airport’s Art in the Airport program.
Memphis’ smaller stages are ready filling up.
Ida B. Wells’ words and actions put to shame efforts by state legislatures today – including ours in Tennessee – to ban the teaching of systemic racism and its detrimental impact on people of color.
How does an organization like The Levitt Shell — which was founded to offer as many as 50 free concerts a year — adapt to COVID?
Venues for live performance – the Orpheum, the Levitt Shell, the Landers Center – say audiences are eager for a return to shows.
Rhodes’ vice president for academic affairs cited a lack of interest among students for the decision to end its academic major in theater.
Artists Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum will turn one of The Ravine’s 60-foot-tall silos into public art. The artist for the linear park’s second silo has not been announced yet.
Once we can get to Whataburger on a short drive from Memphis to Southaven, it might go the way of Coors beer.
Collage Dance Collective, which opened its new $11 million studio on Broad Avenue in Binghampton mid-pandemic, received a $150,000 grant for its capital campaign from First Horizon.
After a year-long programming hiatus, an Orange Mound-based art organization is back.
The painting shows the Cossitt Library shortly after or just before its 1958 renovation when the midcentury modern front of the landmark was added.
Since 2010, Steve Reichling and his research team have released more than 100 juvenile Louisiana pine snakes into the longleaf pine forests of Louisiana. ‘Steve is pretty modest, but this is a huge deal,’ says a colleague.
It’s been a big week on the Mississippi River, but The Daily Memphian photographers also managed to snap at other spots around town.
Though it is generally held in the fall, the Bluff City Fair is coming back early this year.
Elizabeth Rouse of ArtsMemphis joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.
Since the Cooper-Young Garden Walk started in 2016, the number of stops on the tour has quadrupled. “People keep upping their game,” says event founder Kim Halyak.
The pictures in “Through Darkness,” on view at the Museum of Science & History - Pink Palace, document locations that served as stops along the Underground Railroad.
The 2006 sculpture honoring Tom Lee’s 1925 rescue of 32 people from the Mississippi River is a prominent part of plans to remake the popular park. But the fate of a 1954 monument that refers to Lee as a “very worthy Negro” is uncertain.