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    Memphis dancer headlines new Netflix series

    Charles “Lil Buck” Riley is one of the subjects of a Netflix dance documentary series that debuts Friday, Oct. 23.

    By Elle Perry February 28, 2023
  • Visual Arts

    A viewer’s guide to the 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival

    The Indie Memphis Film Festival will go “Online & Outdoors” Oct. 21-29 as it reinvents itself this fall because of the pandemic.

    By Chris Herrington October 22, 2020
  • Arts & Culture

    Hundreds of Master Gardeners in Memphis are ready to give you advice

    ‘We’re not gardening gods, just people who enjoy it and have killed more plants than you have,’ says nine-year Master Gardener veteran Tom Rieman.

    By Peggy Burch October 17, 2020
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    Boyd: From ‘Faithfully Memphis’ to ‘3 Black Chicks,’ a music station makes time to talk

    WYXR was launched on Oct. 5 with a one-time, hours-long musical marathon.

    By Jared Boyd October 16, 2020
  • Podcast The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more

    Pat Mitchell-Worley on Memphis music, how music can empower youths and a band called Saliva

    Pat Mitchell-Worley, the executive director of Stax Music Academy and host of Beale Street Caravan, joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

    By Eric Barnes October 14, 2020
  • Visual Arts

    Indie Memphis adds high-profile screenings

    “One Night in Miami,” the directorial debut of Oscar-winning actress Regina King, will be the Memphis festival’s “Closing Night” feature, screening at the Malco Summer Drive-In Oct. 29.

    By Chris Herrington October 14, 2020
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Hi-Tone reopens in its third location, to uncertain future

    Hi-Tone stages have hosted innumerable local record-release shows and been at least a partial home for signature Memphis events.

    By Chris Herrington October 12, 2020
  • Premium Music

    The Essential Memphis Library: The Replacements’ ‘Pleased to Meet Me’

    Recorded at Midtown’s Ardent Studios in late 1986 and early 1987, the Replacements’ “Pleased to Meet Me” is a fusion of the Minneapolis’ band’s ramshackle, often poetic post-punk with soul-honed Memphis studio sensibilities. 

    By Chris Herrington September 03, 2024
  • Visual Arts

    ‘We’re kind of like the Rolling Stones’

    David Lusk Gallery is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month with a show of work by seven artists who were in the gallery’s 1995 opening show and remain there today.

    By Peggy Burch October 09, 2020
  • Podcast The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more

    Robby Grant of WYXR on his life as a musician

    Daily Memphian CEO Eric Barnes talks with musician and the executive director of WYXR about music, his career and the new radio station in The Extra podcast.

    By Eric Barnes October 08, 2020
  • Arts & Culture

    National Civil Rights Museum hosts Smithsonian ‘Green Book’ exhibit

    “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” a new exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services, begins its public life at the Lorraine Motel, which is one of a shrinking number of “Green Book” locales still in existence. 

    By Chris Herrington October 05, 2020
  • Music

    ‘At WYXR, Memphis is our format’

    The vision for the new era of the radio station is to truly, purely and honestly represent Memphis and its surrounding area. 

    By Jared Boyd October 05, 2020
  • Premium Visual Arts

    Artist Christopher Reyes’ ‘BVOE’ is an immersive eruption of creativity, and maybe a preview of coming attractions

    Reyes’ collaborated with more than 20 other Memphis artists to create the astounding “BVOE Quadrant 360” on the edges of Downtown Memphis. The multimedia artist launched and operated the late, lamented “Live From Memphis.”

    By Chris Herrington October 03, 2020
  • Premium Chris Herrington

    The Memphis 10: Best craft beer names, Barrett on the bench and more

    Craft beer naming is an art, or at least an, um, craft, and one that the growing number of Memphis breweries take with proper seriousness. In honor of the Virtual Memphis Beer Festival, we take a spin through local brewery websites to ponder beer names present and past. 

    By Chris Herrington October 01, 2020
  • Visual Arts

    A documentary preserves memories of Coach Jerry C. Johnson and LOC’s 1975 national title

    Memphis director Morreco Coleman’s “1st Forgotten Champions,” about the life of legendary LOC coach Jerry C. Johnson and his Division III national title team, is part of the International Black Film Festival, available for online viewing Oct. 1. 

    By Don Wade September 30, 2020
  • Arts & Culture

    From ‘Junt Land’ to Oprah: Talking with Memphis’ Munirah Safiyah Jones

    The animated series creator talks about how she came to work with OWN and what it was like directing voice actors by Zoom. 

    By Elle Perry September 30, 2020
  • Arts & Culture

    Memphian developed animated series for OWN

    Parts one and two debuted on Tuesday.

    By Elle Perry October 02, 2020
  • Premium Arts & Culture

    The Essential Memphis Library: Ira Sachs’ Sundance-winning ‘Forty Shades of Blue’

    “Forty Shades of Blue” hit theaters 15 years ago today, and it is now among the many examples of films not currently available on any streaming platform. But if you’re lucky enough to find a way to see it, you’ll encounter a very good move.

    By Chris Herrington September 04, 2024
  • Visual Arts

    Drive-in throwbacks, emerging filmmakers highlight 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival slate

    The Indie Memphis Film Festival offers a scaled-back and scattered outdoors pandemic edition this year. 

    By Chris Herrington September 25, 2020
  • Premium Music

    The Memphis 10: Rolling Stone’s top Memphis albums, and the ones they missed

    Memphis doesn’t loom quite as large on this list as it does in pop music history writ-large, or larger. 

    By Chris Herrington September 24, 2020
  • Music

    GonerFest aims to shift festival atmosphere online

    GonerFest, the internationally known purveyor of one of Memphis’ most famous exports, rock music, takes a step beyond livestreaming to replicate the intangibles that make each year’s event feel like a meeting place.

    By Jared Boyd September 24, 2020
  • Music

    September playlist: An Americana mix

    As a fan at a virtual concert, you always have the best seat in the house, the bathrooms are clean and close, and the drinks are strong and really cheap.

    By Elizabeth Cawein September 19, 2020
  • Music

    Gospel collection proves ‘The Last Shall Be First’

    Though initially regarded as the second-tier of talent in a stable of gospel acts led by record producer and DJ Juan Shipp, acts of the JCR Records label are enjoying a revival with the help of a new vinyl reissue.

    By Jared Boyd September 19, 2020
  • Arts & Culture

    Iris Orchestra to begin 2020-21 season virtually

    Iris plans to resume its traditional format of a solo artist performing alongside the orchestra in the spring.

    By Elle Perry September 18, 2020
  • Visual Arts

    The art shows must go on: Exhibitions stay on through pandemic

    Memphis museums reopened slowly and carefully, and shows that were expected to leave in May are still open through Sept. 27.

    Related story: Downtown art museum’s veiled design: ‘It’s exceeding our expectations’

    By Peggy Burch September 18, 2020

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