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. 

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.

The 87-year-old musician honed his craft at South Memphis’ Club Paradise, a pivotal venue in “The Birth of Soul Music.”

Road recklessness has been notable for more than a year, the rise perhaps coinciding with pandemic shutdowns. But it doesn’t seem to be diminishing, even as COVID restrictions ease.

Baseball cards are becoming as hard to find as Lysol and hand sanitizer in the pandemic’s early days. A search at the old stores can lead to frustration.

The Memphis musician’s blend of hip-hop and R&B finds nationwide airplay. ‘I grew up on Memphis music and I just try to compact all of those influences into one thing,’ he says.

Interior designer Leslie Murphy of Murphy Maude Interiors has launched a new brand called Mable Originals — a textiles company that creates original wallpapers, pillows, bedding and more.

The zoo will offer walking tours of the 44 different species of trees on the zoo grounds. 

The annual Juneteenth celebration is moving from Robert R. Church Park to Health Sciences Park, held on the grounds where Nathan Bedford Forrest’s statue once stood.

When she took over as executive producer, Theatre Memphis was full of debt with no endowment. Now the theater is in the black, full of hope, with an endowment, and a major capital campaign nearing completion.