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Performing Arts
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Performing Arts
Memphis author gets movie deal with Netflix
Mark Greaney has written nine thrillers about his legendary assassin Court Gentry, aka 'The Gray Man.' Netflix cast Ryan Gosling in the film role.
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Arts & Culture
Indie Memphis executive director to step down
Ryan Watt has held the top job at the film organization since 2015. A national search will be conducted to replace him.
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The Essential Memphis Library: Tom Cruise goes Beale Street flipping in ‘The Firm’
As a depiction of the terrain of Memphis, circa 1993, “The Firm” is notable for its trip to the now dated and decaying Mud Island River Park, arguably the most inventive use of a Memphis location in any film. Here, it’s the setting for a climactic Hitchockian chase scene.
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Performing Arts
Tennessee Shakespeare Co. offers literary salon online
“Classical Creativity in Isolation” will open the professional theater company’s 13th season. “I don’t care for live theaters being classified as ‘non-essential’ this year,” says TSC founder Dan McCleary.
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Arts & Culture
Art & Design Week aims to take Memphis’ creativity to the nation
Scheduled for Oct. 3-10, Memphis Art & Design Week will include interviews, panels, talks, virtual studio tours and online shopping.
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Music
Shop owners reimagine Record Store Day with social distancing
Record Store Day will be several days this year, with stores varying how they let people in. The pandemic has forced retailers and store reps to find creative ways to package and promote records.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing back Broadway: Orpheum prepares December return
The start of the 2020-21 season has been pushed back to December at least, and the theater has turned to inventive ways to make sure the show goes on.
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Premium Chris Herrington
The Memphis 10: Collierville Confederate markers another skirmish in struggle over Southern identity
The effort and cost it takes to pick up the litter left by these ahistorical Lost Cause organizations is a drag. I’m not here to tell Collierville what to do, but those Confederate markers will go away some day.
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Performing Arts
Stages are dark, but performance theaters are plotting their returns
Live theater companies in Memphis endured a long exercise in improv in the second half of the 2019-20 theater season. And 2020-21 is shaping up as more of the same.
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Arts & Culture
Mixer gives professionals virtual space to ‘Link Up’
Milton "Memphis" Howery's quarterly professional mixer, The Link Up, continues now as a virtual happy hour.
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The Essential Memphis Library: Big Star’s ‘#1 Record’
Named after a Memphis grocery store chain, Big Star recorded three haphazardly distributed albums over the course of just a few years, toured sporadically, got good press and had no hits. This obscurity grew over time into a considerable cult.
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Guest Column Music
August playlist: Music is essential
Buy some Memphis music, y’all. Our independent record stores are back open and doing shopping by appointment, which, honestly, is pretty cool.
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Memphis musicians continue protests in tradition of ‘message music’
Adopting Stax Records' approach to tackling Black liberation through song, several local artists responded to recent protests with lyrical activism.
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Arts & Culture
Orpheum brings back movies
The size of the historic Downtown theater makes it possible to reopen to audiences during the COVID-19 epidemic, said Orpheum president Brett Batterson.
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Arts & Culture
Malco reopens Memphis theaters, hoping people will come and movies will stay
The Memphis-based regional movie chain, with 36 locations across six states, will start reopening its indoor theaters Aug. 21, with significant physical upgrades that involve more luxurious – and reserved – seating.
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The Memphis 10: Liberty Park, Poplar Plaza and The Ravine bring potential change to city’s center
We're used to large-scale alterations underway on sites Downtown, but landscapes are also changing at some promising and high-profile properties farther East.
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Video The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more
What ArtsMemphis is doing to support Memphis artists and institutions
Elizabeth Rouse, President & CEO of ArtsMemphis, joined Eric Barnes on The Extra Podcast this week to talk about the myriad number of ways that artists are trying to connect with people during the shutdown.
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Music
Stax Music Academy uses technology to connect with students
On its 20th anniversary, the Stax Music Academy is using the break from in-person instruction to prioritize solo musicianship over live performance.
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The Essential Memphis Library: Elvis Presley’s ‘Don’t Be Cruel’/‘Hound Dog’
Elvis’ popularity may have started this week in 1956. That’s when “Hound Dog” and “Don’t Be Cruel”— constituting two sides of one 45 rpm single — reached the top of Billboard's pop singles chart.
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Music
Fans mourn Elvis in abbreviated ceremony, livestream
Elvis Week ended with an abbreviated version of the annual candlelight vigil, commemorating the death of the iconic entertainer.
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Arts & Culture
The Orpheum launches onstage golf course
Expecting to lose $2 million, due to the pandemic, The Orpheum Theatre Group launched a socially distant onstage golf course to earn money during the break from their performance schedule.
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Arts & Culture
Novel hosts James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly online
About 200 fans are already signed up for the virtual event, but there’s space for 500, says Kat Leache, Novel’s social media and promotions coordinator.
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Premium Chris Herrington
The Memphis 10: Elvis Week gets ‘modified,’ ‘immersive’ (and more)
Those who are showing up for the pandemic version of Elvis Week are getting a first look at new interactive exhibits – "Elvis Movie Match Game," "Elvis Yourself" – that will become permanent fixtures at the complex across from Graceland.
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Video The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more
How Memphis musicians are dealing with the coronavirus shutdown
This week on The Extra Podcast, Elizabeth Cawein, executive director of Music Export Memphis, joins Eric Barnes to talk about how local musicians are dealing with the coronavirus shutdown.
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