Musicians will perform live at The Grove at GPAC on Thursday nights through April. The concerts are free, and cocktails and snacks will be available to purchase.

“The Brews Every Which Way” pays tribute to the 1960 blues collaboration between Peter “Memphis Slim” Chatman and Willie Dixon.

The two-day event is a thank-you to supporters of Black Lodge’s Indiegogo campaign, which reached its financial goal before it was set to end. 

The concerts on a stage surrounded by “hundreds of candles,” will be limited capacity and socially distanced, with food trucks and bars available.

1980s Orange Mound is the new series’ setting.

A mix of Black women music-makers from Memphis, past and present, honors both February’s Black History Month celebration and Women’s History Month in March. 

Rev. Juan Shipp of D-Vine Spirituals introduced King to the head of Bible & Tire Recording Co., and she soon found herself back in front of a studio microphone: ‘It was pure magic, almost like her voice had been frozen in time,’ said the producer.

Viewers of a recent commercial might have found themselves moving to music created by Memphians. 

Leah Fox-Greenberg has a deep history with both preservation work and nonprofit organizations. She will start her job as chief executive of Memphis Heritage in April.

Graceland, Live at the Garden and Levitt Shell are planning for 2021 concerts after 2020 shut everything down.

Sheree Renée Thomas was named editor of the venerable Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and she’s one of the authors included in “Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda,” which comes out March 9.

Holly Jansen Fulkerson started work as executive director of Memphis Heritage in January 2020, and resigned on Thursday, March 4.

Minglewood Plaza owner Richard Roberts also is looking for someone to manage Minglewood Hall concert venue. Other businesses inside Minglewood Plaza continue to operate.

Knox Shelton, who has been executive director of Literacy Mid-South since 2016, will take over the lead role at Indie Memphis.

With available, clean drinking water an increasingly precious commodity, Memphis’ supply is perhaps the city’s most important asset. We did nothing to earn it. But it’s on us to preserve and manage it. 

Desmond Robinson says just appearing on ‘Chopped’ was a big win: “The response has been so overwhelming, from congratulations to business inquiries. It’s going to take me months to go through these messages.’

A new sensory certification will help people with sensory sensitivities enjoy the Memphis Zoo.

Desmond Robinson, who graduated from the University of Memphis, is known professionally as Chef D. Arthur. His “Chopped” competition is titled “Meat Fight: Bison!”

Memphis comic LaToya Tennille finds humor in her hometown and in her own life. If that translates to making the “big-time,” great. If it doesn’t, well, maybe she’s cleared a path for somebody else. 

Jordan Dodson, who performs as Jordan Occasionally, wrote the song “Don’t Shoot,” which became an unofficial anthem of the widespread Black Lives Matter protests in Memphis in 2020.

“It’s a moment I will never be able to duplicate,” the director says of the movie’s Amazon debut. ‘Think about it, man. Millions of people around the globe are going to be watching “Coming 2 America” all at the same time.’ 

The gallery resonated deeply with what we’re experiencing right now, outside the walls, in real time.

‘Nomadland’ and ‘Minari’ are both currently showing in Memphis theaters, ‘Minari’ exclusively at Malco’s Ridgeway Cinema Grill and ‘Nomadland’ currently showing at multiple theaters. 

Packed snow and ice seal off major food sources for birds. ‘For these species that winter with us, setting seeds out is a real kindness to help them get through,’ says Julie Markham.